skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those scripts are typically very short. They'll either download completely or not at all. And if they do abort short then what are the chances that it's going to do it in exactly the wrong place? And then you have to manage to kill the wrong process to start the aborted script.

Statistically a cosmic ray flips a few bits in your RAM every year. Theoretically those bit flips could transform a benign program into a malicious one, and I'm sure that's happened to somebody somewhere sometime.

But it's very unlikely to happen to you tomorrow. You could use ECC RAM to prevent this from happening, but how many people do that?
You have to pay taxes of 48% for everything above 52k€ salary. If you earn 60k€, you have to "only" approx pay 30% taxes.
I'd love metadata to be added to more kinds of purchases, by debit card for example, beyond just the name of the retailer - it'd create such a wealth of valuable data that one could do so many interesting things with.
> The more competent workers will want to rewrite everything

That's at odds with describing them as "competent".
Serious question: What exactly is objectionable about the "smiley face" diagram? Except for that tiny face, it seems to be a totally innocent network diagram that shows how Google's private network connects to the public internet. I understand the implication is that the NSA is tapping connections between Google's data centers, but there's nothing in the diagram itself that supports this claim. I'd like to know what about it made those two Google-related engineers "explode in profanity".

http://www.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_404h/2010-2019/Washin...
Could you share your experiences, for example how many files do you have on the server? I have read[0] that Seafile struggles with larger amounts of files and I was hoping to use it as a drop-in NAS replacement for businesses.

[0] http://blog.patshead.com/2013/06/self-hosted-cloud-storage-c...
I wonder if those figures are based on a round trip from the insurers, because it's official per the fix-it czar that their getting bad 834 EDI transactions is the site's #1 problem.

The "Experian doing a credit check" has popped up again. What gives?

"Direct enrollment (signing up directly on an insurer's website) is not working for any issuers."

I wonder exactly what this means. We know the federal site is intertwingled with the state ones, but I think we would have heard if nobody was able to sign up for Obamacare compliant insurance, especially with the millions who have gotten and are getting notice their old coverage was not grandfathered.
In Arch yaourt asks you to inspect the PKGBUILD and INSTALL scripts.
You need to really think about 3. Asking someone to sign in using facebook or twitter is much more than the physical action of tapping twice. you're asking for something emotional, their personal data. It would help others and myself if you posted what your app does. i would only use those as a form of login signup if your app absolutely depends on it - Tinder is a great example of this.
Even the way they (we?) handle non integer scale factors is clever -- pixel doubling and then downscaling, rather than upscaling directly.
Comcast donating to defeat the mayor who is bringing gigabit fiber to Seattle
The experienced know better. Beginners are exactly the people who you should not be teaching poor habits too.
I'm logged in (non-dev account) and not seeing the purchase link. I wonder why they made so few. Seems ridiculous that they'd sell out within a couple hours.
Not to be an ass, I don't know much about their approaches and Php (APC in particular)... But wouldn't enabling caching sort of defeat a portion of the test?

Wouldn't it just be better to compare caches/caching mechanisms?
Microbe computers
It's a really poor hash function. The only possible values are: 0,3,6,10,13,17,19. You can quickly see that only 7 distinct values are possible because of the initial $number % 7.
Quite a few people can hear 20kHz. I can still clearly hear 18.5kHz (or what my laptop's speakers emit when I feed a 18.5kHz sine) and 19-20kHz gives me headaches.
Right. In this case we're assuming the people hired are very experienced developers, who understand systems integration and large scale projects like this.
I think it would be easy for the device to detect the ambient temperature, and/or your body temperature, and warn you if you are getting too hot.
Oooh, cursing. That's one way to show your larger than average wiener size in HN, isn't it? ;)

I am not sure I said they were equivalent-- they are two sizes of evil.

Besides, "stealing" is a relative term, and the government does not consider what it is doing as stealing.
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What if you've fallen asleep?
Realize that it's probably just not the US government that has this type of access.
90% of people do not want better quality internet? I think even in our technophobic culture, people want to be able to watch videos of cats with greater speed and reliability.
Mysterious barge linked to Google, possible floating data center?
I thought super pacs made this completely legal?
It's not bad. Just that the criteria for "better" app store/market should not be based on that, which many people tend to do. We're not looking at the same kind of population. Of course, that still means a developer would want to develop preferably for the app store just because of the money involved.
Irrelevant!.
Thank you for speaking up. After the second comment I thought I was the only one that thought this was madness.
For comparison I currently have 3 Koran 27" screens (traveling, don't recall the brand.) 1 was broken on arrival and the seller replaced. 1 started having problem 8 months in, sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't. In total I've had one of them for 14 months and 2 for about 12 months.

When you factor in really needing to use monitor arms it probably doesn't make sense. But they look great.
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I don't think I would have laughed audibly otherwise.
According to the Kitkat developer notes, the Nexus 5 has a built-in pedometer: http://developer.android.com/about/versions/kitkat.html#44-s...

(That is, it has built-in pedometer sensors - not sure if it also ships with a pedometer app.)
Interesting way of looking at things, but the math is WAY off -- you've confused "passengers per flight" with "passengers per year".
Also, realize that the -entire- ecosystem that we have now is probably insecure and will probably be insecure for the foreseeable future.
Thanks! I'll have a look at it
Closed Senate committee passes bill that cements bulk NSA record collection
that's what he said...
Wow. So what did you think? (I heard the album a year or so after it came out. Curious how it sounds to someone today.)
Have three keys.

Key one: Sanitized image. Turn this in immediately.

Key two: Image with something that someone may consider embarassing, such as a few GB's of gay porn. Turn this in with great reluctance.

Key three: Actual design documents, etc. Do not turn this in.
No, they don't make it legal for people or entities that could not otherwise give to candidates to give to candidates.

People/entities can donate to Super PACs that cannot donate to candidates, but that's because Super PACs -- or "independent-expenditure only committees" -- are not controlled by and do not coordinate with candidates
"piping to a shell" is _impossible_ to inspect. The author is making that point himself:

> running arbitrary commands on your machine that could change based on user agent to trick you

Without even considering MitM, that running signed executables kind of mitigates.

Anyway, the point of the author is the failing mode.
I've recently seen more and more ads on pages in Chrome. Just a few days ago, I got fed up and switched to Firefox (with Ad Block Plus installed), and boy am I glad that I did. There are a few places where I feel it's a little slower, and it occasionally frustrates me with links that are close together as it doesn't have the zoom that Chrome does when you hit a link that's sufficiently close to another link as to be ambiguous. But the lack of ads more than makes up for those shortcomings. I've come to realize that I just cannot live without ad blocking any more.

And yes, I do realize that advertising pays for many of the services that I use. It's just that the advertising arms race always makes it more and more intrusive until it's unbearable; I just cannot put up with them. Those services that I value and which offer a subscription plan instead of ads I subscribe to (like LWN). Sadly there's not a lot of content that you can actually choose to pay for rather than receiving via ads, so I just use an ad blocker and move on.
Ok so maybe it's possible to send audio and receive it via a MacBook Pro. However, how much data could that low bandwidth signal carry? I'm even more curious how randomly transmitting "evil bits" this way could spontaneously infect a PC at the lowest levels. Something just doesn't add up here.
Australia Said to Play Part in N.S.A. Effort
No. If your morals change because you're scared, they aren't morals are they! Laws should stem from values, not your worst fears. We shouldn't trade freedom for security, and especially not phony security.
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We are running several .NET tests on Windows. Some are using SQL Server as their database, too. See: http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r7&hw=i7...
Not to make light of the situation, but that sketched smiley face does work well as a meme/icon for the NSA's hubris in all this.

Also makes for a subtly humorous t-shirt... http://teespring.com/nsaface

Happy to share the vector source if anyone's interested.
I don't like to see HN devolve into a political debate, so I'm reluctant to reply here. However, I'm passionate about this.

1. I'm a business student. I'm founding a company. I'm not opposed to corporations either. Just their involvement in politics.

2. Michael Moore and Sean Penn are individuals, not corporations. I support the right of the Koch brothers to speak out, though I don't much like what they have to say. I don't support the right of their corporation to pay to be heard on political matters.

3. It's paid advertising that I'm opposed to; corporations can make documentaries all day long if they want to, it's paying to have people watch them that I have a problem with.

4. Newspapers can blatantly support political parties and candidates. People choose to read them if they wish; they don't find them embedded in other content as paid advertising.

EDIT: in response to the below, see my post above (GP).
Again, here is the counter-point of the author

> This might be unlikely, but the results of this happening, even once, could be catastrophic.

Also, you don't have to kill any process, that was a PoC by the author. The scenario is a connection drop.
Ugh. Yeah. Tried to redo ;-)
Fine. So this:

wget -O - https://example.com/install.sh | sudo sh

Turns into this:

wget -O install.sh https://example.com/install.sh && sudo sh ./install.sh

Big deal.

EDIT: Changed protocol to https for FiloSottile.
awesome, in the classical sense of the word. Something that evokes awe.

awwwwwwwww.
I don't like Rails, however....Bitch please -_-.
Why don't the journalists release everything they have?
Go 1.2 Release Candidate 3 Released
Chris Hadfield ejected from movie theatre for loudly heckling Gravity
Also, no-one still mentioned the fact that not doing it over HTTPS with a client that checks certificates (you would be surprised at how many tools get this wrong, sometimes or always) is a complete code execution MitM vulnerability.

It is like giving away all the security built everywhere else and yelling "YOLO".
Now that is so 2008!
If you think like that about jokes, you'll have a hard time laughing at most of them.
"https://", please. Really, please.

EDIT: Thanks <3
Finished developing complex things in my project, now it's time to enjoy beer while watching tv series
Okay. So we write the check to IBM to improve/license Watson for all of Medicare to use. If doctor's won't accept the payments available, automate what we can, and provide more training to nurses to enable them to fill in.

Yes, I'm advocating for the replacement of doctors in the vast majority of cases. They're like college professors who spend most of their time doing research, while the TAs (Nurses in this case) do all the heavy lifting. Empower the nurses, replace the doctors.
I just read the word "microsoft" and instantly kill my tab.
Can I store metadata on a subscription? I actually am planning on one dollar subscriptions with a quantity equal to the sum of all monthly subscription fees just so that Stripe will do the bookkeeping etc for me. Since it says max ten key I might dump a lot in one key as JSON including a list of the actual subscribed plans.

What I really want is multiple plan subscriptions per customer e.g. one $15/month server and 2 $7 per month servers. Obviously I can just do that as metered but it seems like a lot more code and testing and something I could easily screw up. So having multiple plans subscribed per customer would be nice.
If you're working on an existing project, you get involved with something more complex right away, and get in touch with other experienced and driven people - and such connection can lead to a good job opportunities as well.

Speaking of your own thing - if there are other people interested in it and actually using it, maybe sticking to it would be a good idea, too.
A while ago I made a Twitter bot (https://twitter.com/HereHaveAKitty) with a friend. We used the face.com API to detect sad faces in photos in tweets (as well as ASCII emoticons) and reply with a photo of a kitten. It lasted about as long as yours before being suspended. We tried again (https://twitter.com/KittenDelivery) but that too was shut down.
In other words, a Morlock. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morlock
Ask HN: Is Twitter massively cleaning up accounts?
I know is embarrassing but Venezuelan president is accusing Twitter to delete followers from pro-government accounts. I was just curious if Twitter was actually deleting inactive accounts or something like that.
I was surprised by the startup nature of the thing -- investors, lawyers, etc.

The money laundering part seems obvious, since that happens with most criminal enterprises. But the business services around it really are analogous to legitimate operations.
FAA Ruling Unlocks 14.46 Billion Minutes Of Mobile Device Time
can not find the source code. Link?

nevermind. here it is: https://gist.github.com/abeppu/6958565
Woah, wat? Who's dropping $20,000 for a monitor in pathology? Are these Leica branded to go with their new Aperio scanners? I work with some of the researchers who helped aperio develop get their first studies. let me tell you, they aren't using $20k monitors.
Would it make sense to mitigate this by creating a (even smaller) bootstrap script that itself downloads the "real" script and checks e.g. the SHA256 hash of the downloaded file before executing?
Do you think it will continue to be this simple to get a Blue Card? I currently live in the US but Europe is "the dream" for my wife and I. We just don't move now because my wife is going to college here, so we want to wait for her to graduate first. But we fear by the time she graduates (probably 2 years from now), it won't be so easy to get to Europe anymore.
It's almost as insecure as running a binary installer downloaded over HTTP, which of course is something no one would ever do.
Google Hangouts on iPhone is voip, and there are plenty of other voip apps you could use instead so you don't have to use the cellular minutes.
Did anyone else get a Google internal link for "Chrome DevTools" that gives you an internal Google login page?

https://devsite.googleplex.com/chrome-developer-tools/docs/r...

I clicked on that link and got a page that says "moma: inside google. Single Sign On" and asks for a Google login, password, and OTP. It also appears to display a random image; I wonder if that random image is used as part of the authentication process, perhaps as an authenticator that this is a valid Google login page (perhaps something you can verify with your OTP device).
Crumble the workforce? HAH

Here's the bitch of the situation, and the part that most who think like you do not understand -- the people that you're hoping will "come to their senses", if they take the oaths they signed seriously (and they signed oaths, the breaking of which are punishible by imprisonment) -- are not allowed to possess (ie, read, since that would involve having a copy of the document on the device being used to read it, even if only temporarily) the documents driving "this big PR outrage", because even though those documents are out in public, they are not automatically declassified.
It's exactly as insecure as running an unsigned binary installer downloaded over HTTP (without checking checksums), which no one should ever do.

(Because the authors should offer it over HTTPS, sign it, provide some checksum or ship it through some package manager that knows better, if they can't secure the process themselves)
I have a feeling it is less about ASP.NET/C# improving and more likely their tests improving. Baseline perf has not went up much in years.
I've always thought the dell ultrasharp monitors were very good quality, but the latest batch this summer has changed that.

10 out of 14 monitors in 3 batches so far appear to have what looks like dirty water spots between the lcd and the backlight. Some but some are bigger than sunflower seeds and quite obvious, with up to six of these scattered across the displays.

Beware the dell premium panel Guarantee, its very particularly about what it actually covers, which is just pixels stuck on, not all panel defects, let alone the time spent on replacement monitors that can be worse than that original ones.
php-raw performed quite well.
> I have some reservations about EFF

As a recurring donor, I'm interested to hear what you don't like about them.

As for protecting security researchers, I suspect the gov't is more interested in (and likely to harass) Applebaum et al than you guys.
This is weirdly Orwellian.

If doing nothing is a 'positive action', than the words 'positive action' have no meaning. If think you mean to say that the effect doing nothing is to support the status quo, and morally equivalent to positive action supporting the the status quo, I still disagree, but you're on firmer ground.

Apart from that, all you need to do is thematically replace privacy rights & surveillance with class struggle & worldwide revolution and this is pure Bolshevism.
I was upset when my N1 didn't get the Android 4 release. Apparently, the whole Nexus thing means you are first in line to get updates when they come out (as opposed to carrier phones which frequently get updates several months after they are released, and may never get updates), but that only lasts for about two years.
Is it food? How energy drink companies tapped taxpayers
Yep. They're very explicit in their literature about not using your device running on Straight Talk as a hotspot (tethering). It's clear enough that you don't even have to read the fine print to know it is the case. I think they print it in large letters somewhere but I can't remember.
Perhaps a solution to this problem is for the NSA to provide "opt-in" well-known collection points for everyone. If only a small amount of metadata is what they use, then the massive copy everything on the wires approach is not needed.
Private companies and even individuals could choose to submit some activities that comprise useful metadata for storage and analysis. Those they choose to not opt-in would simply not have a data-stream piped to the well-known collection points. Maybe some variant of this approach?
If we still don't trust them (and likely won't for some time), we work collectively to do what the PandoDaily piece suggested which is use valley power to push for more effective oversight. In lieu of that, perhaps we have a collective checkbook pay for a counter-surveillance org to watch the watchers.
Fair enough, and thanks for all the info. I've never directly recruited, but I've heard the 15% touted by my ex-employers. Certainly for headhunters 30% is more normal. To me as a employee though I don't care what the rate is, it's a negotiation between the recruiter and the employer.
That's exactly how I feel. I'm absolutely overjoyed that I can buy a phenomenal phone--every bit the equal of an iPhone 5S (in my opinion)--for a fraction of the price. And my wife goes through phones so quickly that she's always in need of a new one. But since she's so hard on her phones, she always gets my hand-me-downs. It's a great system. I get the latest and greatest (like the Nexus 5) because I take good care of my electronics, and she still gets a darn good phone (in this case my Nexus 4)...which she'll beat to death in the next 12 months...just in time for me to get the Nexus 6 and pass along my lightly-used Nexus 5. Perfect!
Newb question here - Did you use Rails as your backend? How does it fit into your stack as an iOS app? Are you using something like RubyMotion? Just curious...
What's wrong with rails data update?
Hands On With The Nexus 5 And Android 4.4 KitKat
The "tech Surge" will be no doubt meet resistance by the "Talebug" terrorists. This war will not be won in our lifetime (or the lifetime of this thread at any rate).
Thanks for the input and thanks for checking it out. I am doing a poor job explaining the core product feature on the website.

People on Reddit create throwaway account for anything they want to disassociate themselves from (controversial stance on politics, science, religion etc). Dmtri has ability to post anonymously whether you are signed up or not. When you are signed up you can either post revealing your username or post anonymously.

4chan is very situational and temporal. Dmtri is not like that. Content stays on the site.
these things are bad ass. Going to buy one asap
The reality is that these systems were made possible by scale-out hardware architectures and open-source software solutions. It's plug-n-play and developers don't have to know where content is coming from.

Those parsers googlers wrote for the "white" FISA-based datasets probably also work on the "black" datasets from cable-taps.

Contributed to open-source? Your software is probably running at Ft. Meade too. Are you proud of that?
More specifically, getting a warrant from something other than an automatic warrant dispenser.
Nexus 4 came in 8GB and 16GB.
Wow. That was a pretty stark example of what not to do when checking for integer overflow, and what not to do when reporting a bug.
Yes, true. The role of humanities is not as hard-cut as I probably sound in my previous comment. It is indeed a virtue to be able to self-judge. I suppose one can say that humanities is now a mature field which has hit its natural plateau, kind of like classical thermodynamics.
That web PXE boot is pretty cool though. Don't try it at home, do it at a friend's house.
^ We've got a growth hacker over here.

Have you tried this tactic before? It sounds like it would be potentially very effective.
I agree with you. Thinking back about how I started, I only started really getting into programming in university. However, my main motivation back then was to make video games. In my early teens, I learned the basics of HTML and JS to do weird things on the web and that completely fascinated me. So I think you're right that the formalized education stuff shouldn't be taught directly. In fact, I wonder if it should even be taught at all at such an early stage. It sorta kills the fun of discovery how to do things with code.
In light of recent hacking events, you should back up your websites
< who would have been sentenced to 124 years in prison

This is a number floated as possible years of time, but it is not what he 'would have been' sentenced. We don't know because he decided to turn snitch.