skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After a year of threats, first suit is filed over hated “scanner patents”
The Red Book: The SysSec Roadmap for Systems Security Research
Is it a bad idea for me to ask what startup he created?
Russel Brand is right. There's no point in voting as there's no actual representation. Political establishment serves the money. More money today than ever before.

Like with commercials, people are fooled into the electoral system and how their votes make a difference. Look at the US 2008 election. "Yes, we can" and all that. What did change fundamentally?

A problem (or, perhaps, an opportunity) with Russel Brand's message is that the only way to make voting count is to start a revolution. Today's intermingled system of politics and big money will not subside on its own.
Well not stupid per-se, since the result's the same. But it would provide less information to the reader.
Bitcoin phishing attempt
Minimalist Typographic Posters of Famous Scientists’ Names
Serving Fonts for Firefox with Fastly
It's perfectly written, and I don't know if that's a testament to Rob's ability as a creative writer, or to how much time he's spent engulfed in a startup culture where this sort of behaviour is far closer to the realm of possibility than one might imagine or (arguably) hope.
Disabling Analytics and AdSense is very easy - just enable DNT on your browser. We haven't found any acceptable alternatives, although building our own analytics software[1] is on the roadmap.

[1] https://github.com/MediaCrush/MediaCrush/issues/118
It's the one that's people. Except he only read the book.
Another great checklist to consider when reading articles:
Warning Signs in Experimental Design and Interpretation : http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html (found the link on HN a while back)
> What if you decide to migrate to a different db at a later time?

Then chances are your VARCHAR will not work anyway because while VARCHAR exists everywhere its semantics and limitations change from one DB to the next (Postgres's VARCHAR holds text, its limit is expressed in codepoints and it holds ~1GB of data, Oracle and SQL Server's are bytes and have significantly lower upper bounds (8000 bytes IIRC))
I would normally make better points and comments on articles like this, but all I have left to say on this is: What a bunch of utter cunts.
This is spam sounds like the dodgy adds you see on the high numbered TV channels late at night Do Not Want
For what it counts, I am also from Sweden and I completely agree with you (not that I have a choice not to...).
I was going to suggest you gather some like-minded people and run for office, but then I read "live in an area that has had an unbroken chain of conservative MPs for the last 400 years" and realized it doesn't work that way in your country :( .

At least in my country, several representatives are elected by region, so small parties can get representatives - I voted for the smallest represented party in my country, and I was even on the ballot myself :) and my representative got in - he can't do much though, but at least he makes his voice heard.

I wonder if a smart hacker can get himself elected - maybe Alexis Ohanian in the U.S. would care to run? (no idea about his political views though)
Automated bot actually makes sense for a first or maybe even second message. Things would become even more interesting if girls would write their own bots too. Someone should build an API for that.
Well what if neither of you were contract-hired freelancers? What if you were employees? or founders of your own companies? That kinda chucks contract-law out the window. So how will you ensure people aren't using your company's logo as their own? Remember, it isn't necessary that the company would be willing to change their design/logo just because you are using it too. This discussion extends to design too. Nobody minds using someone else's design if it's good enough.
Good for you! Very nice to hear and be bold!
China, Bitcoin and the EM transfer problem
Verduisterende rolgordijnen houden je energierekening laag
Arguably a hacker would value a phishing E-Mail landing in a "trusted" folder more than I would want to pay when sending legitimate mails...

Of course, this proposal doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell, so arguing about it is equally pointless and I'm just too bored not to comment...
As far as I understand, sending amounts smaller than the dust cutoff does not violate the network protocol. The difficulty is in finding miners who are using software that deviates from version 0.8.2 by not performing this check, and will include the micro transaction in blocks they mine. I'm only 85% confident about this though.
Malheur: Automatic Analysis of Malware Behavior
Still, if they make everyone happy, both the person finding the bug and the company, I don't see why they would be a problem.
So shadowplay is a way to record your screen without you noticing a slow-down in the computer.

That Nvidia installed that without asking may actually be a rather worrying thing.
Oh and you might not mind it, but some people might. The law should provide them protection. The choice to press charges or not should be Yours. There SHOULD be a choice.

Btw, since we are discussing copyrights as a whole, this reminds me of the oatmeal incident. Other sites just picking up his comics and using them to get traffic (and thus diverting traffic what would have been potentially his) is completely wrong. It is depriving him of his hard earned money via those visitors. Now shouldn't the Law help him get what is rightfully his?

I think i understand where you are coming from, these things should never hinder creative process. And you are right. But copyrights exist fundamentally to guard against plagiarism. Not to say "i thought of this first! you can't think of it now!", but yes, sadly in recent times IP has come to that...
Microsoft Wants to Sell You an Anti-Google Mug
People who need to transmit messages will not pay for it, because they can send email for free - in order for a spam-solution to be useful, you need cooperation from a critical mass of recipients that they will not accept or send "old free email" anymore.
It's pretty nice, save for the 'k'.
No, because hypothetically we just did a mark&sweep garbage collection.

The FDA/DEA/etc do all sorts of things - failing to regulate antibiotics, preventing women from purchasing birth control without a doctor's permission, sending people to jail for possessing herbs, etc. If we nuke it all and recreate the important bits, it's a great way to eliminate everything we don't need.
Pakistani Blogger Cuts Herself in protest
Sweden's handling of sex workers gets a lot less scrutiny than it really ought to. In particular, while it's technically true that they don't criminalise the actual prostitutes (unless they're migrants who aren't legally allowed to work in the country), Sweden criminalizes everyone around them. For instance, there's an explicit provision requring landlords to evict any tenants whom they have reason to believe are having sex for money in the leased property and making it a criminal offense for them not to do so.
Great points. Certainly aware of the open source nature, and ability to clone and run an instance, but for some organisations that's not really an option — they need a turnkey solution that has a somewhat inelastic dollar value and the ability to outsource all of the administration rather bringing another project in-house. That or they don't even have the technical human capital to support even rudimentary development work (there are TONS of Small to Medium Enterprise that would fit this bill).

I think your idea of private instances might be something worth exploring. It allows you to stick to your word, and the essence of the product while still finding another way to monetise.

Of course, if none of that seems interesting and you'd rather leave that problem for someone else to address than that's totally fine too. I only suggest it to you as you're already looking at the solution from a technical standpoint, and validated the need (based on traffic and use), indicating there is a market there to be serviced.
Github accounts compromised in brute force attack
This is a great read. The OpenCV part hit a bit too close to home though: I was stuck for a minute trying to think how he managed to segment faces well enough to compute ratios (not just as a rectangle or a blob) given all of the possible conditions/perspectives of the photos.
I see what you mean, but at the moment, I don't have any way of making money of the "advertised" products.

The intention is to document the process of monetization, nothing more.
Hey.... I like it.

Might try for a bit.
Let's not forget that the Economist has the privilege of sending journalists to Bilderberg meetings (a secretive lobby attended yearly by heads of industry and government) then not reporting on proceedings.
As long as the limits are actually generous and based on actual user studies. So many horror stories about varchar(1000)s in places such as medical reports where it can be a matter of live and death that the users can include everything they think is relevant, without awkward abbreviated language that's easily misunderstood...
Thank you for the kind words, I'll try to do my best.
When mine arrives, I'll actually have a reason to play with my Arduino again! :)
Worth noting: The 2nd highest karma HN user got his start doing exactly what the author is doing. Documenting, from day one, the creation of his software business.

Had he not, the rest of us would have had a much harder time building our own businesses. So please try not to discourage others from doing the same thing.
It's great to be optimistic about this as well, because humans will find a way.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibacterial#Alternatives

The alternative section is the largest section in wikipedia. Also, as more people die (sadly) more money and time will go into these alternatives.

I think you miss one point about doom and gloom; people can sometimes build something better in the ashes of failure. Looking into antibiotics, this seems inevitable anyway...

So we might as well create many, many effective alternatives as we shift towards living in a world where they are necessary.
You can run Java applications and secure them from the web. Just disable Java applets from your browser (most have an option in the browser itself; those that don't will have extensions to do the same - like you would to block Flash plugins)
Are we there yet with AI? Maybe some kind of adaptative strategy would help online dating. Each robot (M/F) should 1. read, 2. evaluate, 3. stop/continue.

Question: how many messages iteratactions we need to have a 90% confidence of a good face to face date for both?
there are some chinese android phones going at $35. they should fit quite nicely with this project for permanent projects.

in the longer term, there are already microcontrollers that contains Bluetooth who run arduino, so I believe this project will become only software.
Firstly the public use cases are cool and could be really useful; my criticisms are with home use. My TV doesn't have USB ports for a start and the current setup I have is a 10m HDMI cable that is long enough to connect to my laptop on the sofa, it cost about $15 and is hassle-free.
I realize this is nitpicky, but it seems obnoxious to call these[1] "candlesticks" when it would make much more sense to call the page box plots[2]. Wouldn't it?

[1] http://bokeh.pydata.org/plot_gallery/candlestick.html

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_plot
New concept design gives M&M’s a fresh brand facelift
The M&M’s packaging has become a candy icon. This is priceless marketing for the company but that paper pouch package design is becoming increasingly outdated with each passing moment. New York designer Alyssa Phillips has offered up a brand and package redesign for the famous chocolates.
Holy crap, and as a cousin post just pointed out, it's the Soylent guy.

He's neither punching up nor down, but in: the optimal direction to punch.
"you'll be able to host your media losslessly and easily on MediaCrush until the end of time"

"What's the upload limit? A very generous 25 MB!"

For real? Nice.
You made an interesting point about ad-funded projects. Thank you for that.

Unfortunately, I'm not aware of any way to create SaaS with my existing projects and I would have to come up with something brand new. (The closest to that model Bonobo Git Server won't have a chance against Github)
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=rob+rhinehart+startup
This could be due to evolutionary adaption: for most of human history, prioritising information about "impending doom" over that of good news is a better survival strategy because, however pleasurable the good news, the impending doom could kill you. This might not be a effective strategy now, when sources of doom are often outside individual control, but we still do it.

Wikipedia has a page on "Negativity Bias" [1], which focusses on differential recall of positive and negative memories and is therefore not quite what you describe. The explanations section is also a bit light on facts.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negativity_bias
It's massive. Also, the 100 year timescale helps...

Regardless of what you think about Microsoft, you have to say, Gates isn't messing around with some vanity project. The man has come to play.
Disney's new rendering technique could usher in a new era of animation
you bet! i was automatically thinking about how did he manage to get sufficiently good resolution, how did he cope with lighting/background changes, and so on....
How can any bitcoin miner be that naive?

As you can see for now none fell for that (assuming they have one address for all "investments"): https://blockchain.info/address/18PyfH1AqV2DbEweh6USf1HYg7D9...
Oh, so 80% of "winner" startups are won't fail. Good to know.

But what about formally hot startups that didn't go anywhere. Take Friendster as an example...
My main problem with proportional fonts is not alignment (I don't really do that beyond the indentation) but symbols. Most proportional symbols, especially thin ones like dots, colons or the vertical 'or' bar, get too packed in between letters and can be hard to see. Since reading code with precision and ease is the most important trait I ask of my programming fonts, proportional fonts are out. But I'm open to suggestions about one that works.
> If you know JS fairly well, you're able to understand nearly everything under the hood if you want to.

Your definition of "under the hood" is somewhat questionable. Yes, you can understand everything down to the JS layer which is basically the first step below the visible UI, but the full stack on which the JS runtime rests is of a dizzying height, and each one of its layers has performance implications.

> If you have CLR/JVM in addition, this just brings more problems to the table, especially when you have to deal with much more languages which do not "compile" to JS or when you have to deal with proprietary APIs/Libraries.

What problems, more precisely? What's the difference between compiling C++ to JS and compiling C++ for an open VM?
Vertalab - our approach and story
For some people Emacs acts like a maelstrom for everything you do on a computer. In the beginning you use it to code in one language, then in another language, then you use it for (La)TeX, then you use it as an organizer, then you use it to read your mail, then your RSS feeds, then you embed it into text-fields in your web browser...

At some point everything that does not act like Emacs feels annoying and uncooperative. That justifies the learning curve easily.
For really reals. We're considering bumping it up to 50 MB, too.
I think you just came up with one, although it may be more social-media-research instead of SaaS.
PHP File Upload Tutorial (part 2)
I still use space based alignment a fair bit, though it can be faf. What would be really nice is for a code editor to support some sort of elastic tab-stop so I can tell it that some things should stay aligned and have it do any extra work needed. I'm not sure how that could be made low-/zero-effort easy from a UI PoV though, but it would work just as well with proportional fonts too.
I also got this email and noticed it's from a bogus mail server:

Received-SPF: softfail (google.com: domain of transitioning noreply@bitcoin.org does not designate 62.149.157.234 as permitted sender)

Wonder why Google's spam filtering didn't catch it...
That's the thing, the initial steps sound like exactly what a hacker would look at. And we're so busy furrowing our brows to follow the technology that we don't realise the ridiculousness of what he's doing until there's a robot attending the date. He's basically played a trick on our left brain.
Malicious PDF Analysis Evasion Techniques
Pay Tuition with Bitcoin
You Have Been Warned - Examples of Mind Blowing Illustrations
Sexy Bindhu arranged photoshoot for showing exclusive her front parts 
Sexy Bindhu arranged photoshoot for showing exclusive her front parts
Nonexistent compile times and easier debugging, plus all the other generic reasons you may (or may not) have to choose JavaScript as a programming language.
I would be left feeling quite sorry and embarrassed for the partner in the case that they were actually a warm body. They would essentially be interviewing to play the submissive within a hegemony.
I'm German and I feel this article fails to grasp the atmosphere around here. The country is certainly not one giant brothel. Growing up here, brothels have the same aura as sex shops, sex kinos, and whatever other sex industry places exist. In fact, many times they're joints offering multiple services. Yes, they can be seedy (especially in "big" cities around the train station area), but if you look hard enough you can find them in pretty much every larger town. They're by the road side, or even as is the case in my home town, smack in the middle of the shopping district. It's not like there are prostitutes standing around everywhere, for the most part they are just large hotel-like buildings that look a bit like clubs.

In fact, from outside presentation, it's easy in some cases to mistake a bordello for a girlie bar, a private nudist club, a massage parlor, a swinger club, or whatever. When I was working on our startup, we were selling some of our old displays once and a middle aged business woman came in to buy them. We got talking and she told us she was running a brothel. Being a business ourselves, we quickly exchanged stories and experiences that sounded very similar (we were a software startup that had nothing to do with sex). The gist of it was for me, that looking into this somewhat alien world, these brothels are just normal small businesses. I'm sure there are brutal mafia-owned exploitation joints in this country, but the average urban brothel seems to be more like a mom and pop shop. The article claims that only 44 sex workers took advantage of social benefits, but that simply cannot be the whole story. This brothel owner I talked with told me that while the girls register with other occupation names officially, every single one of them was getting a normal wage, with taxes and everything.

From where I'm standing, the fact that it's not illegal helps a lot of people with no discernible downside.

Are there appalling slave labor shops based on human trafficking? I'm sure they exist, but they are illegal. I'm also sure those do not make up the vast majority of brothels in Germany. As for the rest, it's difficult to make a convincing argument that the country would be a better place for anyone if they would be driven underground.

Anecdotally I do get the feeling that prostitutes as a profession are mainly serving an older generation though, so I'm not sure if they remain economically viable anyway.
I was going to post the same thing, have always like the idea of hashcash and surprised it hasnt recieved greater usage specifically for things like captchas although in the case it would be a reverse captcha :)

edit

Could potentially be used a a form of ddos mitigation if the browser was required to design a tiny bit of hash cash for each request, although I haven't really thought through all the details.
I don't know where Brunch Bros is but I sure want to eat there now.

http://www.horriblelogos.com/brunch-bros/
<opinion>

I'd prefer the JVM/CLR-Stacks fading away alltogether. An exhaustive Toolchain like Java has + a fairly superior IDE like Visual Studio, both targeted especially for the JS-Stack, and everyone wins.

If there is enough desire, every possible language can be ported over to the JS-stack. For me it's contra-productive to have too much languages to choose from.

</opinion>
You admit that the problem is real and serious, but then ask what is the point of raising the issue, and accuse the author of sensationalism? Really?

Read the last three paragraphs of the article. The point of it and book (which was published almost three years ago) is to raise awareness of the issue. We are so close to the edge here that "scaring the bejesus" out of people might now be worth a try, since nothing else seems to be changing our behaviour?
That looks really cool. I'm working on tranSMART (
http://www.transmartfoundation.org/site/scientistsclinicians
) - a tool for connecting phenotypical and genetical data, perhaps it would make sense to integrate the two. Drop me a mail on j.hudecek at nki.nl. Oh and if you could find a spot for me in the private beta, that would be sweet.
Nah: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candlestick_chart
not a single demo works for me ... white blank screen. Using Firefox
Plus, as variables get added and renamed, the resulting realignment of tokens modifies lines unrelated to those changes, leading to messy diffs which degrade the effectiveness of most version control tools.
New OSX/Crisis or Business Cards Gone Wild
Playstation 4 production costs: $381
Responsive design vs. adaptive delivery: Which one’s right for you?
Holy shit that's insane! I would report this pattern first the UPS upper brass and then, promptly, to the better business bureau.
I'd say the biggest impact is that it encourages a behavior that a lot of people people tend to show anyways: If we find a bug, most of us are inclined to report it, not abuse it. I'd assume that a lot of people tend not to report bugs when they have the feeling that it only costs them time for no benefit. Now, with a bug bounty you're shifting the equation towards the desired outcome: Taking an hour of your time to write a bug report can actually pay off for you, even if only one in five bugs get the minimum reward. Granted, you could sell a critical exploit for much more money, but most humans are intrinsically biased to do "the right thing" and by rewarding people for doing the right thing and making that reward public, you're reinforcing that bias.

It's still a cheap way to get bug reports, but I don't think it's about replacing QA. It's about creating a climate where bugs missed by QA have an increased likelyhood to end up on your desk since no QA could ever find all bugs.
Python PEP 3156 - Asynchronous IO Support (AKA Tulip) accepted
An impressive collection of php utility classes
Replacing Tmux with dtach + dvtm
If you read the comments at the guardian, there are many well reasoned arguments. Some points include
- parallels to war on drugs (a failure)
- separating forced vs voluntary workers
- ability to report crimes where it's legal
- provides an opportunity/income for some to better themselves

One of my ex girlfriends became a prostitute. It's one example only. She loved (and supposedly still loves) sex. She was never for long term commitment. She is financially doing well. She featured in a documentary on the industry, and she provides counseling for abused women.

Very insightful posters. Glad to see common sense prevail, rather than the usual gender war (emotive) arguments.

Thanks for the link.
It's only marginally cheaper than an Apple TV.
This is just a first step, and I applaud the effort. Death to cables!
Um, they specifically state that review scores are liable to be changed, and in fact I think that it is much better that they do.

I guess we'll just have to have differing opinions here :)