skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Click the "Security" link on that very page.

https://squareup.com/help/en-us/article/5144-square-cash-sec...

If you use an app, they sign the mails. If you use regular e-mail, you have to confirm the transfer, which means simply spoofing a mail from you won't work.
Without a usable example of your work, I imagine finding opportunities will be difficult.

If I were you, I'd put some serious time into your GitHub profile and get one or two apps out in the App Store.
Several others might agree with you, but the fact remains LinkedIn security missed (or ignored) a legitimate issue and released the new feature. Surely that should define whether a reward is justified
Is there any viable case FOR dst? The concept is archaic and insane
So just b/c Google's $4.4 billion dollar bid lost to Microsoft & Apple's combined $4.5 billion bid, MS and Apple now have the right to extort Google?

Does anyone else see what's wrong with this picture?
/bin/anothergreatidea < '$$$' > ~/Desktop/Trash 2> /dev/null
Ask HN: What to do with invoices on a side project?
I want to start a SaaS side project, and of course accept payments.

Do I have to give my clients a proforma invoice or something similar for their accountancy?

Should I create a LLC or something similar?

Thank you.
I wonder - have any of you who run large projects which are sensitive to time changes ever have to deal with DST? I ran a MMORPG, which had specific events at certain times of the day, on certain days of the week. Now imagine:

North America observes DST two weeks before Europe. DST ends for Australia two weeks before North America (time goes the other way). China does not observe DST. I won't even bother to get into the other countries.

Even disregarding the other issues that DST created (and trust me, there were lots), just syncing up players for events was a giant hassle. Yes, people should theoretically research and know how their time works, but expecting users to sync your events to their time without missing one or two is naive ignorance. Even with mitigations, my staff and I basically spent every DST start/end dealing with a plethora of IRs to the degree of, "why did you change the time?"

I would not miss DST at all.

(We did standardized time quite early on, and did announce in server-time)
Disclaimer: I am not a STEM guy so don't go calling me an elitist.

This might seem like a callous view but I think it's better to invest money on helping the scientist caste (wherever they might have been born) than to simply cure a bunch of random people. In the movie Elysium (2013), they send magic machines to help the masses, which achieves nothing since they are just as poor as before but a bit healthier. I left the movie theater feeling depressed and angry.

What we need is real technological progress. If we could for example synthesize objects or food easily à la Star Trek, we would solve poverty and inequality more efficiently than thousands of years of social programs.

Consider the fact that Isaac Newton's scientific output was worth more than 99% of the work of every other intellectual in the world in the past few centuries leading up to his birth. What's even more amazing is that Newton spent only a tiny fraction of his time doing actual science; he was obsessed with mysticism and other pseudo-scientific doctrines. So giving a billion dollars to the next Newton will be many order of magnitudes smarter than spending that same billion curing laborers. However, it's not politically correct, so I doubt it will be feasible.
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You've got it the wrong way: with his billions and fame, he is more likely to be honest and to mock others. People will listen to him and respect no matter what he says.
> “As a priority? It’s a joke.”

Those words from Gates irk me somewhat. He seems to have the attitude that he's so obviously right we shouldn't even be having the discussion. That is something I very strongly disagree with.

I'm not adopting a contrarian position for the sake of it. I'm adopting the position that we need to open our minds and think deeply about problems without letting emotions cloud our judgment of what is important. I conceded from the start that I could be wrong, Gates has obviously spent a great deal more mental energy thinking about this problem than I ever will. Still, it's a discussion worth having, and the answer, whatever it turns out to be, is not obvious.
I find this a really good argument for it: how are you supposed to know if you call somebody in the middle of the night, if it's noon where you are, and the hour is the same?
By having different time-zones, you need to look it up, but then you have an intuitive way of judging which stage of the day they are perceiving.
He actually said "priorities" and "to a certain extent" so he is not all that contrarian nor intellectually dishonest; plus you are the one using offensive wording in your comment.
While I find it kind of obscene that ISPs (and many many other businesses) make lots of cash in Africa (third world in general) rolling out connectivity, while seemingly giving little back, which of course could help with malaria (and many other issues), I do wonder if it will blow back on the west in the form of the mass of Africans suddenly knowing how the other half live as it were. As a result, demanding more of what the west have, knowing how the west profits while they suffer. Im sure they do know to an extent, but this might prove it, or make it fantastically clear. Heh, kinda like their Snowden. They suspected, but access to real data will prove it.

Another barely considered idea that has just floated in to my head is the idea that some how, say via UN treaty, rich countries and or corporations should be prevented from profiting in third world countries while certain defined baselines of quality of life are below a certain standard. So, for example, you cant profit from internet connectivity until health and education standards are at a certain defined level. Or, perhaps if companies do, then a percentage of their profit must be spent in that country addressing the various issues.

OK, I have zero idea how you define that in to law or treaty, especially with out some gits working out how to circumvent it, but as an ideal to work to?
Trains (at least long distance) in Russia still run on Moscow time.
So why does he have to trash everyone else's priorities then?

Given that his charity is the 800lb gorilla in the world of charities I think his attitude is pretty damaging. That's more of a problem with the concentration of so much power in his foundation than with his opinions. The only "charity" larger than his is the IKEA holding company and it doesn't do anywhere near as much actual charitable work.

When you dominate the market for charitable works the way the Gates Foundation does, you can easily smother alternative approaches -- even if that is not your intention. In a system with one dominant "buyer" of charitable work, it is easy to consume all of the non-money resources (people, equipment, governmental coordination, etc) available to all charities.
Oops, I mis-parsed your comment at first.

I thought you meant....

"it was extremely painful for me to watch [myself from outside my own body]."

What disturbed me most was the prolonged length of the event.
Yes, but who gets the better time spots? People are already pissed that time zones are based on England's time, how angry do you think they will be when they get some illogical time zone while the anglo-saxons get to keep the am in the morning and the pm in the actual afternoon?
"Sympathy for Mr Vengeance" (2002, South Korea)
That is not appropriate. I do NOT want to have to go to work at 7am, and neither do many people I know.
Quinine is not the best antimalarial drug out there nowadays, and is certainly not a good choice if you have lots of money to invest in malaria treatment in impoverished regions of the world.

Investing in this tonic water startup for that purpose would be pointless and counter-productive.

Also it's rather inappropriate to be shilling it in a serious discussion about responsible philanthropy.
First step: Get an app in the App Store.

Next, start talking with local business owners by calling them and asking for 15 minutes of their time. Explain how an app can make them money. This can easily lead to starting at $100/hr or $4,000/week. It worked for me.
Some technology does uplift the poor, but not always, and not all technologies.

Baloons giving internet access to people, doesn't seem to have an obvious uplifting effect on the poor? Could you explain how that will happen?
It's extremely unlikely someone will discover a JavaScript bug that provides access to the interpreter running in other tabs. Regardless, if someone has gained control of your webmail tab, they have control of the whole browser. At that point, there's no need to play around with Square Cash e-mail tricks, the malware author can steal credit and debit cards, bank account numbers and other valuable data directly. That's the "gotcha"; if you've already broken into a bank's vault, you don't go back to the tellers and try to make withdrawals with fake IDs.
I cringe aswell when I see such videos but they're for media attention not to people very well informed like yourself. They do no harm to you except for cringing for a few seconds. On the other hand these kind of videos appeal to sheeple on an emotional level.
I found this to largely be a cultural thing with the Japanese. Japanese are extremely proud of their work and to mention ANY kind of mistake or improvement is tantamount to insulting their mother. Of course there are exceptions but this is the general attitude they bring to work.
His exact words were a bit different than the article and you are assuming:

"Google started out saying they were going to do a broad set of things. They hired Larry Brilliant, and they got fantastic publicity. And then they shut it all down. Now they're just doing their core thing. Fine. But the actors who just do their core thing are not going to uplift the poor,"
Well, and I find it sad that link #4 takes you to an article that, among other things, says:

Science continues to show us complexity that defies chance explanations, and speaks eloquently of the Creator's hand.
You are complecting two problems: 1) When does the other person sleep. 2) What does his watch show.

Making 2) easier does not change anything with regard to 1).
Eve Online solved that by having an in-game clock which is always set to UTC, then all in-game events are announced in Eve time (sometimes with GMT / PST / etc in brackets); I've not seen anyone complain about the time zones there (though I only hang out in player channels, I don't see the official support tracker :P)
The pills.
I agree wholeheartedly with a lot of what you are saying. As I talked to many many people this year about funding and strategy for Twicsy I came to the conclusion that Twicsy needs to start funneling the pictures into topical verticals. I think this would help for 3 reasons:

1. It would increase engagement with users. I think they would finally understand how Twicsy could be an interesting daily destination because they could just focus on their topics of interest.

2. It would allow us to more easily control the content quality and guard against porn, which would hopefully get us back into the good graces of top tier advertisers, and allow us to target said advertising more easily. For popular verticals we could do direct ad sales which would be >100x more lucrative than the crap we serve now.

3. I think it would facilitate media partnerships. I don't want to go into too much detail here, but I think that if number 1 holds true that we could land partners for popular verticals.

The problems are that I basically ran out of time and money to be able to execute on this. I need money for a complete redesign to shift the focus to the topical verticals, and I need more time to execute on the back end tech to fill these verticals (maybe 2 months). I didn't need a ton of money, but even in this "easy time to raise money" I was unable to find an investor. I think the biggest reason for this is that I don't have a well rounded team in place, so part of this year I spent looking for a partner to focus on the business side. I was hoping I would meet someone that saw the potential as I did and believed we were right on the verge of something big. But I never found that person.

On repeat visits, yes the number of people that visit us just once is quite high. 5.8 million of the past 7.6 million visits were just one-timers. But there were over 350k people that visited us 9 or more times last month. And there were over 35k people that visited us 201 or more times. So that gives me reason to believe there are some real Twicsy fans out there! And, as I repeatedly say, we are succeeding despite the glaring drawbacks and problems with the site. Imagine if it wasn't such a piece of crap!
It's an egg-and-chicken problem then; you cannot manage the "available health resources" if those are nonexistent, so having those is a priority and that is more similar to what the BMGF is already doing.
It doesn't change the sleep patterns, but would you say it does not make a difference in judging at which hours other people sleep?
There should be a link here to a piece/rant from last year (or at least it made the rounds then, on here as well, I think), I think, where someone passionately, and quite convincingly, defended daylight saving time.

I searched, but I can't find it at the moment. Does anyone else remember what I'm referring to?
There is more than enough money and resources to go around. It isn't a supply problem. We have heaps of everything. So being able to synthesise it wouldn't change that fact.

The problem is we suck at distributing it. We have a system that allows the super rich (and thus super poor) to exist.

If we could magically create any object we like, the rich/powerful would make sure they had a monopoly on that technology so they could maintain their richness/power. There is a great talk given by G.A Cohen against capitalism that illustrates this point wonderfully[1]

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yA9WPQeow9c [Video]

EDIT:

Sorry just saw your strange reference to Newton as well. You are saying technological advancement is more important than people, and we should prioritise advancement over people... why? Why should we advance technology for technologies sake?
> I didn't see it that way, but the reality distortion field that he lived in left him with no question that he had the coolest job ever. There didn't appear to be any awareness in his reality that perhaps I intentionally didn't apply to the NSA, nor would I accept an offer from the NSA if one was given.

I have seen some g-men and they perfectly fit this. The g-men that tried to recruit me also went for the same route, trying to sell the mission as something super mysteriously cool only a few select even know about. Thats the lure. Like a cult.
I use it all the time when doing stuff on the server(s). Log in with ssh, start tmux, and then do whatever. If the ssh session dies, when I reconnect I can keep going. You can leave tasks going (say a long find command, or sorting out log files, or du or whatever, so that you can come back later and keep going.

In terms of use, it's pretty similar to a tiling wm, just in the terminal, that works over ssh as a session, that you can share between people, or screens. So you can open the same set of windows on multiple computers simultaniously.

Say have a raspberry pi with an el cheapo monitor up above your desk, monitoring something, then log in with your workstation, do stuff, and leave it going, still being monitored on the pi the whole time.

Session sharing with colleagues works well as well.
I'm having a lot of fun with this. I'll submit something soon. You swallow all exceptions and make the robot guard instead. This is nice, but it makes it hard to develop, because you can't see what went wrong. Here's a way you can modify it to have your exception and eat it too:

from http://docs.python.org/2/library/traceback.html#traceback-ex...

In game.py, at the top, put

import sys, traceback

and around line 285, replace this:

except Exception:
next_action = ['guard']

with this:

except Exception:
print "The robot at (%s, %s) raised an exception:" % robot.location
print '-'*60
traceback.print_exc(file=sys.stdout)
print '-'*60
next_action = ['guard']

That makes your robot a lot easier to debug. Awesome game, have you thought about putting it on github so people can submit patches?
Yes but you are an Internet god and nobody has heard of me :)

But, I am happy to be considered your cuz, even if it's the one you always beat up and lock in the shed.
Basically they will develop a thin Bitcoin client that implements the Coinjoin proposal?
"but I think in the absence of the word "some" then it's a valid inference to conclude the writer meant "only""

The first two years of critical thinking were dedicated to trying to drive that type of logic out of our head. "Six Jars Have Jelly" in no way implies they don't also have peanut butter, it simply makes explicit that six jars have Jelly. "The rest have peanut butter" doesn't imply the rest don't have jelly, it simply makes explicit there are at least two jars with Peanut Butter. That entire sentence would have been perfectly applied to 8 jars of peanut butter/jelly. By suggesting it does not, you are setting in place logical frameworks in a child's head that become very difficult to remove - even if it's clear they are invalid frameworks.

When you say, "I also think the majority would have no problem making those inferences" - you are just making my point - the Majority of people come to conclusions that are in no way supported by the text, and, even worse, when you point out their error, they instead suggest an inference has been made in the text, when it very clearly has not.

"Some of the Apples in the barrel" in no way suggests not all of the Apples are rotten. "A few people in the crowd acted out against the police" doesn't imply they didn't all act against the police, etc...

The person whose test was uploaded is a six year old who is doing their level best to come up with the "right" answer. In ten years, they are they same type of student, who, in a chemistry exam, when provided with the question, "What particle in an atom has the least negative charge" will answer, "Electron".
So Edvard has the same password as 206 other people and you can get there email adresses. It should not be that hard to get the password.
Then I would have 50 ideas that I don't have time or money to execute on :)
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Interesting idea. Now you just need to make sure that the mining doesn't affect the performance of your game. Plus maybe people will complain that the computer fan is too noisy when running the game. Of course being a game makes that easier a tiny bit.
Ah yes, the beloved security question.
Does Java 8 Still Need LINQ? Or is it Better than LINQ?
What difference does it make ? It's just a mindset.
>Sorry just saw your strange reference to Newton as well. >You are saying technological advancement is more important >than people, and we should prioritise advancement over people...
>why? Why should we advance technology for technologies sake?

That's not what I said at all. On the contrary, I'm saying that if you want to help people technological progress will be vastly more efficient than anything else, and particularly aid programs. I don't care about progress for its own sake, nobody does. I'm saying that some people are objectively more valuable than others in the long term and that we should help them instead of helping huge numbers of less productive people. A single great invention could save all those people better than any amount of aid money.
> It’s easy to write a program that will do this automatically without any human input. What if the plane is changing altitude? The problem becomes slightly harder, but not too hard. It’s just a matter of figuring out how far to plan in advance.

This reminds me to some extent of Basic Mechanisms in Fire Control Computers [1]. The whole thing is worth watching, but the link will take you to the point that I was reminded of.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1i-dnAH9Y4#t=612
The performance of the web views doesn't have to catch up, it just needs to be adequate. Just like on the desktop browsers still deliver a much weaker experience than native apps, but almost nobody is releasing new desktop apps anymore.
On average less than 10 cents.
The fonts are looking nice and sharp for me:

http://s24.postimg.org/n94n4dred/fonts.png

I fetch freetype via CVS from xenocara tree:

cvs co xenocara/lib/freetype

Apply the subpixel patch (the Adobe CFF stuff is already default in -current):

http://dpaste.com/hold/1438578/

And use the following `~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf`:

http://dpaste.com/hold/1438579/

You might also want to delete `/etc/fonts/conf.d/30-lucida-aliases.conf`.
Mildly off topic but:

I've never been a fan of password hints, but I'll admit it had never occurred to me that they could be used this way. This is yet another reason to use an algorithm like bcrypt that will generate different hashes for the same password.

I'm also amazed people put such obvious password hints, and some even had their exact password as the hint.
Note that internet does not necessarily help education. Most people waste their time on the internet, including most of us on HN.
You can have as much info available to you as you want, if you go in the wrong direction or take no real action then it will all be for naught.
RIAA and BPI Use “Pirated” Code on Their Websites
Because I have 2 kids and I can't afford to work for no salary anymore! And the site needs a redesign.
An antbot attachment that causes mosquitos to stop flying, so they are easy to kill on the ground. I am working on having the antbot also kill the mosquitos without being piloted.
Why are they more valuable? You are saying they are more valuable because they provide more technological advancement.

I guess my question is: Why are you trying to measure the 'value' of one (or many) human lives? Why are we not all equal?
Making the world a better place isnt limited to one thing at a time. So everyone can work on issues that are most important to him and thats great!
Florian Müller is not an independent voice. He was/is a consultant for Microsoft and Oracle. Also he was wrong in his predictions when Oracle sued Google and I hope he wrong now too.

Too bad that Groklaw had to shut down in August. We still need a reasonable voice on the other side.
E-mail has always been responsive: use plain text. Keep your images and your fancy graphical jibberjabber on the www and out of my mailbox. Kthxbai.
Very nice use of password hints.

Userwise salted hashes would defeat this attack though.
the newer virtual texturing stuff is much more interesting

http://s09.idav.ucdavis.edu/talks/05-JP_id_Tech_5_Challenges...

edit:

http://mrelusive.com/publications/presentations/2012_siggrap...
PocketGamer has a bit more info on this:

http://www.pocketgamer.biz/r/PG.Biz/Full+Indie+UK+news/featu...
And you did it!
Could you accept that these assumption are frequently made incorrectly?

Let us say I went shopping, and I know that I purchased eight jars of sandwich spread. I know that six of the jars had a mixed peanut butter/jelly stuff that you can squeeze out, and I remember the other two had peanut butter in a glass jar, but I can't remember if they were mixed or not, and I say, of those eight jars, "Six of the jars had jelly, the rest had peanut butter" - because that's all I was certain of - that somebody then inferring that the six jars did NOT have peanut butter, and that the other two jars did NOT have jelly -would be wrong in doing so?

It's entirely possible that the question was poorly put together, and the answers provided were not sufficient to correctly answer the question.

Test makers aren't all perfect beings - as clearly demonstrated by this test.