skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm responsible for information security at one of the other startups listed on BugSheet. As a heads-up, you're going to want to ask bugcrowd.com to remove your company from their list [1], also. We saw a pretty steep increase in the number of daily reports when first listed (4-5/day to >30/day) and it appears someone recently added your company to their site.

I'll also echo what droopybuns stated - creating templates that can address preliminary communication (duplicates, request more info, accept, etc.) will greatly reduce the amount of time you feel as though you are wasting. Some people I know tend to ignore the crazy ones but I generally prefer the "kill them with kindness" approach. One email explaining that you do appreciate the time they spent trying to help secure your site can do a lot to prevent harassment and potential bad press.

Best of luck - responsible disclosure programs are never fun for the person sifting through the reports but once in a while they do expose actual vulnerabilities and on those days, I'm happy we do it.

[1] https://bugcrowd.com/list-of-bug-bounty-programs
Is that all there is to it?
It's funny how he rants about OSX not being cool anymore and too constricting. Seemed like it is geared towards consumers. An OS that is more made for profit than for usage etc.

And then ending the piece by stating he uses Windows 8 now. I would be interested to learn how that one with it's nonsensical tile fest is not first and foremost consumer oriented. I like to learn how their latest "me too" approach with their Metro side "App Store" is not geared towards making profits instead of usage.

In essence he throws away a *NIX system with a user friendly UI in favor of Microsofts latest attempt to stuff a unified OS down people's throats. You'd think they got enough evidence by now that a unified OS does not make sense when the systems it runs on are inherently different. You don't see car makers put motorcycle handlebars into their new cars instead of a steering wheel, do you? You know, for that nice "unified user experience".
Apologies. I definitely got the wrong idea. Generally no one does ad hoc queries to prod, even when in trouble. It's all, "sync to offline DB, check it out there".
India's UID(Aadhar) plans to hire CIA VC arm funded MongoDB
I was looking forward to this very happy ending.
As a native speaker of a geographically confined language, I've come to the conclusion that a small language can be a prison. Here, in the small corner of the world where I just happened to be born, I understand everything. Every nuance, every idiom, even speech with a heavy regional accent.

As soon as I move 100 miles in any direction, this clarity disappears. Despite my decent grasp of English, I miss things. It is like my verbal IQ is lower, and I have become hard of hearing. I don't understand slang, and regional accents are difficult to make out. Every mispronunciation or malapropism is a risk of ridicule or misunderstanding.

Linguistic diversity may seem nice in theory, but not for the sake of performing a of quaint tribal dance for tourist dollars. It is simply undeniably more useful to be a native speaker of a major language. I'm trying to raise my kids as native speakers of English, to prevent them from being trapped the way their old man was. As far as I'm concerned, minority languages are better off going the way of Latin or Etruscan.
It's a shame Apple are a US company, since the US is nearly the only country with this problem.
The approach by Jolla and FirefoxOS guys is actually quite brilliant. How to get into markets where it's relatively cheap to make a new android phone but anything else requires very expensive contracts with the manufacturers?

Solution: Just use the android drivers directly. In my Jolla phone there is the good 'ol android /system/lib/. As an example the libGLESv2.so (the OpenGL ES 2.0 library) in /usr/lib/ simply opens the counterpart in /system/lib with android_dlsym and calls the equivalent functions (and in case of floating point arguments moves them to int registers). And what's the overhead of this? 9 instructions and 2 loads (for the function pointer). So it's essentially completely free.

Same approach applies to rest of the system. They just take the core of the android and run on top of that with just the bionic -> glibc layer on top. Brilliant.

The actual lib can be found at: https://github.com/libhybris/libhybris

That means they can basically just walk to some SOC vendor (like they did to Qualcomm) and say "I want to buy a mid range Android SOC" and they have everything ready.
Don't live/eat/sleep in close proximity to fowl pens.
They lamented that they could not find a phone for my elderly grandmother

Check out Doro (www.doro.com/). Quoting from the top of their website:

"Doro is a Swedish company developing telecom products specially adapted to the growing worldwide population of seniors."
It's impressive to see how many runtimes Clojure has already been ported to.

I'm starting to get my hopes up for a world where a Clojure FRP core drives apps in a host of target languages.
Yep, I'm changing it to equation.io as soon as I get the new one working.
I can't agree with this either. Practical engineering is not pure mathematics, and once systems get complex enough, even if they are man-designed and not given from nature, there is often no other way than to use "reverse engineering" or in other words use empirical methods to understand some behaviour or fix a problem.

In fact, one of the most important skills to learn for prospective computer programmers is rigorous design of experiments to confirm or deny a given thesis about some aspect of a given system. When you are dealing with a virtual machine on top of an operating system, communicating over a network through tcp/ip with another virtual machine, there are millions of lines of source code involved, not to mention potential hardware issues, how can anyone be expected to understand all of it? Even if some of this complexity is accidental, as soon as we get rid of it we will just build more sophisticated systems, so people will regardless have to know how to deal with systems that do not fit in ones head all at once and where you can't always just reason your way out.
I'm confused about whether/how you disagree with me. In case it wasn't clear, I'm generally in favor of private enterprise being in charge of things; I'm trying to rein in my "government is stoopid!" instincts a bit :).

Generally, it seems stupidity of an organization scales with the number of people therein, private or not. Even corporations let horrible products persist if they don't hear enough whining. Government just has some extra features that make it bad at projects like this.
Yes, nothing to do with prime numbers. SHA-2 uses some constants. A lot of cryptography needs constants for various reasons. There is always some concern that the creator chose specific constants that weaken or give them a backdoor to the crypto scheme. To reduce this concern, they often choose constants from some simple mathematical basis, perhaps the numbers '1234567890', or digits of pi, etc. In SHA-2's case, they used the first 32 bits of the fractional parts of the square roots of the first n primes.

The numbers they use are not primes, nor are primes useful in any way for attacking SHA. The algorithm still has nothing to do with prime numbers.
Disagree completely:

1. Materials are cheap, how much did the roommate spend?

2. Laziness in code and physical is exactly the same psychological fuel: being bored doing always the same annoying task (eg remove the things to make room for the pizzas) is a strong incentive to find a hack to avoid the bore (add a contraption on the side of the table).

A former colleague was a great hacker, and he also did his own rollerblades, and built a part of his house.

I am some kind of software hacker too (daylong in python internals) and I did fix a car with a stone, I did elevated bed on two shelves, and currently I'm transforming a dead pot plant root into a nice piece of arte povera.

Another way for software and physical world hacking to be similar: in both cases, many people believe it to be hard, are afraid or somewhat restrained, but nearly all it takes is to just say to oneself "it's easy, let's try". While there are a few people with a brain that is no fit for fiddling with computers or screwdrivers, most of them who think they can't do it just never tried.
Koalas bellow with unique voice organ
PC shipments to see 'most severe yearly fall on record'
Took the words out of my mouth. It's mostly puff pieces nowadays.
What about your question?
There is an enormous market for a good dumb phone

I just ordered an Nokia 515 off ebay. Hopefully it will be what I'm looking for.
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Very cool.

But did he extend your bed to make you happy, or to score those free extra parts?

I suppose I will have to go to my grave never knowing for sure.

Although it looks like your bed is a little saggy, right in the lumbar...
Nice website, very informative
Launching a product when you see a trend means you’re already late
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20Go/unlimited talk/sms for 20€. Iliad/Free is cutting LTE prices in France.
Why not simply readjust the food price so that I don't have to go through the trouble of stopping to calculate 15%?
Your way didn't require you remove the sheets and remake the bed. Your way wins.
Unicode Consortium is such an odd organization. Why is a snowman in the symbol table when the universal On/Off symbol isn't? What about the USB symbol?
Sorry to nitpick but elective doesn't mean optional or frivolous, it just means planned in advance. I know this because I have some coming up.
I couldn't agree more. I'm not saying intelligence is reserved for accepted professions; Joyce was a genius just as surely as Einstein. I'm saying that our attempts to measure indicators of intelligence are based on outdated notions of what intelligence is. We shouldn't be looking for prodigies and mental agility: that brings us nothing. Being able to do a Sudoku in your head is meaningless. It's certainly a mental talent, but what is it compared to what Einstein contributed? Can you imagine a world where they said, "Sure, Einstein was smart, but John Smith was smarter -- he could do a Sudoku in two minutes!" When we say someone is smart because of their IQ score, we're saying almost exactly that.

Any definition of great intelligence or genius would have to include its output, its product. (If you're the only person in the world, are you beautiful? If you have the greatest mind but you only use it to take IQ tests, are you smart?)

You can be a genius in any endeavor, in any field, but never on paper.
regular maintenance helps with reliability because we do a lot of work proactively with power, hvac, switches, etc. which reduces likelihood of failure. Being able to perform maintenance in general is generally good for the stability of our system.

-Brian
That would have been last flu season, which is about as recent as evaluations of flu surveillance systems get.

Also, I saw a presentation given at an infectious disease conference...less than a month ago. Google Flu Trends appears to really break down at small spatial scales, like a single city. Unfortunately, Google is also super opaque about how it works, so it's hard to tune.
That's not at all the problem.

What about navigating TFRs? Class B airspace? What about failures of the rotors whilst flying over heavily populated areas? Will these things be equipped with TCAS to avoid oncoming traffic? What happens if the path-finding algorithm to get from Amazon's warehouse to your house goes batshit insane and flies it in the approach path to LAX? Who files the flight plan for each of these things?

To quote Steve Yegge, "people will die... if it's YOU... you're going to be really pissed off." [0]

[0] http://steve-yegge.blogspot.co.uk/2009/04/have-you-ever-lega...
It should be noted that transmissibility and virulence (your chance of dying) aren't particularly correlated, if at all, so while you don't want to get this, there's nothing yet to suggest wide-scale person to person transmission.

Indeed, there's some evidence to suggest avian strains of influenza (vs. pig strains) have a little bit of a disadvantage when it comes to kicking off pandemics.

Also, early mortality estimates are super unstable.
Not to pee in your Xmas punch, but this -

@font-face {
font-family: Arial Unicode MS;
font-style: normal;
font-weight: normal;
src: url(http://unicodesnowmanforyou.com/ARIALUN0.eot);
}

most certainly violates Microsoft's font EULA.
Because "comments are hosted by disqus" is just not acceptable for every blog, and every project. And if you already store comments in a database, you might as well store the entry itself.

And if you do that, you might as well build a real blog with an editor integrated. And the ability to upload images. And the ability to edit entries and comments on the blog itself. Oh, and having comments, ping- and trackbacks in the database, how about using a bayesian spamfilter?

And no, this is not a massive CMS.
Witness in “no-fly” trial finds she’s on “no-fly” list too
The guys at Scalr were working on some benchmarking AFAIK. It's not up yet but I expect it will be soon-ish. http://blog.scalr.com/
The US is one of the cheapest places to eat, so maybe tipping is the correct way to go.

Especially compared to Australia.
Snowman is in table because of weather (like ☂ and some other symbols). I would like to understand what cats and dogs are doing in unicode: 😾 😸 🐶 (I kind of like that Mac OS X is using images for these)
Apple buys social media analytics firm Topsy Labs
Camera takes 3D photos in the dark
Someone isn't getting their deposit back.
Roger, sorry to hear this. Can you ping me at bgold at google.com so I can make sure you are getting the right help? Thanks!
Sony sells more than 2.1 million PS4s
Can someone explain why this is interesting? I must be missing something.
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I try to respond to recruiters, but have come to the conclusion that they cannot help me. The fact that I am talking to a recruiter means that the job is under someone I don't know personally. I literally can not do anything more career wise to improve the job I could get without personal connections.
I know that's the historical wisdom but we are working very and investing heavily to make sure that isn't true in general, and specifically for Cloud Platform. We've scaled our support team dramatically to support the influx of paid support with GA and are working hand-in-hand with lots of customers everyday. It's obviously never perfect, but I can assure you it's important to us and we are doing everything we can to make the experience with support as good as we can.

-Brian
This is good. Hope the momentum continues into the next year too. Well done, Sony.
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/75vt6/unicode_s...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji
Have you ever smelled a chicken? That is good advice regardless.
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>Being in Hong Kong and having lived through the SARS era, I'm happy when someone brings us back to reality and doesn't play the OMG-we'll-all-gonna-die scenario.

I couldn't agree more. Even SARS, concerning as it was when its pathology was unknown, was associated with fewer deaths in Hong Kong than influenza during the same year.
Their response is directly proportional to the customer's Klout score.
Same here.

Utterly lame. Anyone got a copy of it?
Let's pollute the global namespace!
The World's Greatest Traveler: A 1988 Mercedes That Has Been to 172 Countries
Buzzfeed in a Box
How to order Prestashop Features by name
uh, I think you missed my point. The reason that you get your background checked so thoroughly is because you're going to be a target of the bad guy's humint (so that he can use your access to cryptosystems for sigint), so the good guys vet you first to find the skeletons in your closet. This is most definately offensive humint.
The Unicode Consortium added most of the commonly supported emoji (picture-characters: http://wap2.jp/emoji/imode/?act=list) from Japanese cell phones to the list of glyphs Unicode supports. As a result, if something was socially important enough to make it into early generations of featurephones in Japan back in the day, it is now in Unicode.

Cats/dogs made the cut, along with a bunch of characters which are a bit more esoteric by Western standards, such as a pictograph representing hot springs or the silhouette of Mt. Fuji. Many American programmers of my acquaintance believe U+1F4A9 (pile of poo) got grandfathered in at the same time, but they are historically mistaken. Japanese phones didn't have the pile of poo until much later.
For the same reasons why Star Wars, hacking using UTF-7 or mysterious J in e-mails from Outlook...
Acoustic modems were obsolete by 1980.

Smartmodems of the 1980s didn't use sound to transmit data, they modulated an electrical signal directly on the line. They were silent (except during call set up, but that was just a "Monster Rancher" to confirm set up was proceeding in the normal way)

Telephone handsets used data to transmit sound.
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As the other poster alluded to, this is no longer a rule for domestic flights inside the US now that 100% of bags are screened.

It still applies to international flights (presumably for customs reasons).
I would guess it's at least possible, but not sure if it would be practical.

The first (duplex, it seems in satellite it still makes sense to offer simplex data) modem I found was this: http://www.globalstar.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_i....

Of course there is no price, and I find it mildly scary that the US sales contact is listed as "USA/Government", not just USA.

This thing has a 20-pin header which they claim includes data connections, but there is no pin-out. There is a PDF (http://www.globalstar.com/en/docs/gsp1720/GSP-1720%20Sell%20...) but it's more of a brochure and doesn't provide a lot of detail.

The bandwidth for data over satellite modems is low enough (10s of kilobits/second) so I guess it seems reasonable to do over GPIO, though.
> Torture can only possibly get useful information if the person you're torturing HAS that information. Of course that can work -- no one doubts that.

You are wrong. For many people it is an item of faith that torture cannot produce useful information. In my opinion, these people are generally overattached to the principle that good results come from (morally) good acts, and evil acts necessarily produce bad results.
If it’s important to you, treat it as such
The challenge is to do that is that there is no "Pythonic" way of manipulating the DOM. When we were building a similar translator we included a way to interact with JQuery through a js object (i.e. js.document.addEventListener) -- but it still required the user to think about and understand javascript.
If we had flying cars with chainsaws at each corner, I'd agree.
I had pretty serious musical training that lasted for a few years. Anyways, my teachers were crazy imaginative. They would also build stuff from what looked like scraps - insulated and strengthened jacks, book shelves, studio monitor stands, etc, etc.

I wonder what makes them tick like this!
Yeah, if I were a snowman in Arabia I'd be pretty meh too.
My brother is very much the same. He's about to turn 14 and can make anything, out of almost anything. Both of my Grandfathers shared the same aptitude for this.

As a developer I feel I can apply these skills, but to code, whereas they're physically able to see an object or an end result.

I wish I could!
I prefer http://☃.net/
Interesting. Shows OK in Firefox on Linux. Shows as a rectangle in Chrome on my Samsung Android phone with Chrome, and completely blank in the built-in browser on the same phone. I wonder why they're handling fonts so differently when in theory the font should be downloading.
Thanks for the advice. I noticed bugcrowd has a mailing list with 4100 researchers that get notified when a new site is posted, so I hope it is not too late...
...and even that can be used as an operator in Scala.
What's the biggest weakness of websites posted on Criticue.com?
As Criticue is reaching towards 5000 users, I thought it would be useful to draw upon the thousands of reviews in our database and create a series of articles about typical problems real-word startup websites have.

The first article is about the visual hierarchy. It's probably a tad too long (with the subsequent articles I plan to fit within 500 words). But yes, it has pictures in it. :)

Here's the link:

http://blog.criticue.com/2013/12/03/visual-hierarchy-give-your-product-a-chance-to-sell/

Please do share your feedback. Thank you.
Thanks for the link, I re-read it with much pleasure.
http://chrisjean.com/2009/02/06/mystery-of-the-email-j-final...

Pisses me off to no end that even my Outlook 2010 can't get that right in the subject heading preview.
Well one interesting thing to consider is that Unicode could be abused to glue together weird and obscure symbols into the shape of words in English so you'll have a link that looks sort of like YourBankName.com but is actually x--213idsauaaslkda.com or some such.
the scala insight (the part on the right) JR took (~8 months part time) https://github.com/jedesah/scala-codesheet-api

we built the architecture + frontend in (~4 month part time)