skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's one of the main reasons we say Rust and Go aren't in the same space (and that is not a knock against Go, their choices made a lot of sense for their domain).
Perhaps, but it may be more narrow than that: Microsoft is backing Oracle because they think that any obstruction to Google momentum is good, and that copyright on APIs is either good, neutral, or bad but not bad enough to outweigh the benefit of the problems losing this case would cause Google in the short term.
As a student of philosophy of language I love/hate this debate. I'll say this, I feel badly for people who think the creator gets to control the pronunciation. Hopefully the prescriptivists will learn language evolves irregardless of whether we want it to. Whenever you think you have firm rules, you will find they will change momentarily. Let me know if you spot what I snuck in there.
i think if this kind of thing is inevitable, then it should be the case that this kind of information should be completely public to all, not just to governments. similar to what David Brin argues (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Transparent_Society)
A new one, somewhat related to exceptions:

"If you don't know what to do, just return null and pretend like nothing happened! This way you can put all the blame on the caller. Your code effectively becomes flawless!"
And therein lies the the big difference. I can opt out of Google's tracking in a number of ways. Secret tracking from the NSA? I will likely not even know it is happening, and if I do, opting out is likely to be slightly more difficult. This, of course, does not even touch upon what that tracking data may then be used for.
Is this really a valid point still? Surely two million is a drop in the bucket in the group of Facebook users accessing via OS X or Windows.
Anyone doing embedded code that is pretty close to the metal will have to avoid using malloc. I also write C code for embedded devices and also haven't use malloc for the past 15 years.
The median application is submitted about 2 days before the deadline.

It seems misleading to consider multiple applications, since we're talking here about the time between applying and getting money or a no.
Google Search for Android can now show results from inside third-party apps
I do something similar, but I then hash the result and use that as the password. That way, if someone gets hold of a couple of passwords, it's harder to derive the "core'.
If nothing else, we can rest our hat on that.
FTA: The NSA does not target Americans’ location data by design, but the agency acquires a substantial amount of information on the whereabouts of domestic cellphones “incidentally,” a legal term that connotes a foreseeable but not deliberate result.

So the US focused program was cancelled, but the overseas program is still in play, exactly within their mandate.
Ev Williams Tackles Medium’s Identity Crisis
As a fun project, I have created web interface to Usenet with standard 3 panes like Thunderbird. It is free and without ads, has around 15,000 newsgroups, can be used without creating an account.

http://www.newswebreader.com
it's gone now ;)
Thanks for pointing out this exception. Exception shouldn't be outputted...
As for nmap, it is missing from the database, and will be added. If you spot any other missing command later, feel free to use the 'give feedback' button.
Extensive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6789905
it is called doctrine of Total/Global (like in the Globe of the planet Earth) Awareness. Started somewhen 20+ years ago in Pentagon and now has been adapted from military into anti-terrorism [which incidentally covers _everything_]
China's 1st Moon Rover Launches On Lunar Journey
The new bar is so imposing compared to the rest of the interface.
I find this "think mathematically" concept you invoke to be a bit fuzzy. Even geniuses (not me, but I've met some) can be caught out by novel constructions if they haven't had time to consider them carefully. Much mathematical sophistication consists of adding to "the pile of techniques". If a student has too shallow a pile, the goal of educators should be to pile on more. If we suspect the research under discussion represents something real and not simply a series of methodology blunders, then it points to an improvement that educators could make. It's likely that basic dimensional analysis is not a complete answer, but I suspect that an admonition to "think mathematically" is not even wrong.
That's a great point. I suppose the problem that I see here is that schools often present problems as always having a solution, even when there's none to be found.
Things were better, then.

Yeah we had to contend with flash sites and low bandwidth, and didn't have slick css3 and backnode.js but the web was more fun in those days.
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Share a Folder containing magnet hash files. All of The Pirate Bay hash files is ~90MB.

At least until someone incorporates the data into the blockchain.
10 points to Gryffindor!
If you don't mind paying a small annual fee, Lastpass is a very nice tool for automated password management across devices.
>Better food, more people, more bars, cheaper housing.

As somebody from Dallas I almost started trying to argue with you but what nobody from Dallas or Houston like to admit, they are pretty much the same city.
You client didn't give you bad advice at all. Retain counsel and file a lawsuit if you must.

This is exactly why the judicial system exits -- as alternative to shooting up your enemy's village for example.
The ADP -- a payroll service -- passwords (which, interestingly, aren't in the headline), are probably the ones that, despite being smallest in number, offer the most opportunity for direct financial disruption.
Very cool indeed!
Did anyone else read that and think of that scene in Enemy of the State? It's eerily equivalent.

"Treadstone! Ahh yes, Treadstone. Treadstone was a pilot project to <blah blah blah>. It's all but decomissioned at this point."
> I think you're underestimating the havoc that a group of well-trained individuals armed with knives could cause in the middle of a transcontinental flight even with a locked, reinforced cabin door.

Of course they can do a lot of damage. But they don't have to be on a plane for that. They can do a lot of damage on the street. The big question is: can they take control of the plane and use it as a weapon?

Nowadays, passengers know that hijacking means likely death. That knife won't stop everybody.
I got pwned by adobe too. Luckily password there was one of my "weak" ones, and I do not use it anywhere of importance.
I really strongly believe that APIs should not be copyrightable, and I say this as someone who has spent literally years of my life and creative energy designing APIs.

I think designing APIs is an art, and I think it is creative. But ultimately I think APIs are much more like protocols, file formats, or languages than they are like fixed works. Copyright API documentation all you like, but the day that people can control who is allowed to speak a language that they invented is the day that you cede control of everything to incumbents.

What if SCO could really have sued IBM on the basis that they owned the actual APIs to UNIX? What if you couldn't actually say "#define ENOENT 1" in your own project without violating SCO's copyrights?
Previous submission:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6420701
Okay fair enough. No I don't know. It's just what I heard. From what I have understood in the limited knowledge I have of X11, it seems to have no true full screen support, unnecessary layering due to it's legacy client-server architecture and ugly hacks.

Clearly you're passionate about X11 and I would like to hear why it is not antiquated.
And choose what as the universal language? I assume, lest it might seem like there is a conflict of interest, that you are thinking of some language you don't speak? Thank you for showing the way in this sacrifice everyone must make.
I... hated it.

I don't get it exactly what problem this new bar is solving.

A let down is that will be out of place in some layouts. StackExchange got beautiful layouts, like unix.stackexchange.com or cooking.stackexchange.com. A big black bar up there will break the perfectness of those.
I had an unexpected login attempt from Vietnam in this past week. Google blocked it automatically - though it was successful, correctly used password.

I wonder if connected..
Communicate Authentically
You've got me thinking about how I store passwords. I have in the past done:

~ $ echo -n "mypassword" | base64
bXlwYXNzd29yZA==

How would one combine the above with md5? on OS X is it `md5 -s <string>`

So basically base64 'mypassword', then md5 the base64 result.
More data, less fire for the Internet Archive in 2014
The Double does NOT keel over that easily. I've crash tested it many, many times.
Wanna know which videogames are trending on Twitter?
> You can even still use a cell phone, if you want - just buy a prepaid mobile with cash.

Actually this is exactly the kind of thing this data would sniff out. It would capture whichever cell towers you interact with (home, work, etc) and paired with data from your friends & their call logs could easily pinpoint who you are. Kind of amazing from an analytical standpoint but pretty scary for privacy.
the NSA’s FASCIA repository

Fascists gonna fash.
Ask HN: Review my startup, ziptango.com
Hello,

After several months of sleepless nights, today I am finally able to launch my startup in limited beta.

https://www.ziptango.com

facebook.com/ziptango

plus.google.com/+ziptango

Ziptango is a peer-to-peer marketplace for personal courier that connect travelers and service buyers to deliver items around the world. Travelers would earn money while traveling by carrying buyers' goods while service buyers would get their items faster, safer, and cheaper.

Ziptango is founded to improve shipping by eliminate borders in e-commerce industry. Ziptango intends to broaden e-commerce peer-to-peer seller market without significant investment in logistics. This can be achieved with sellers mailing their item to the travelers (usually local), travelers inspect goods are in as described condition, then the travelers carry the item to the service buyers destination.

Ziptango seeks to improve shipping time and further extend shipping location reach.

Currently the site is in limited beta (invite only).

If you want an invite, please email me at contact@ziptango.com

I appreciate all critiques and inputs to improve the site.

Thank you.
Director of the open source technology centre at Microsoft Tom Hanrahan said the Community Promise allows projects like Mono to fully support its technology. “The type of action Oracle is taking against Google over Java is not going to happen,” Hanrahan said.

Microsoft’s Community Promise has made the .Net runtime and C# specifications available to Miguel de Icaza and the Mono project developers.

“If a .Net port to Android was through Mono it would fall under that agreement,” he said.

http://www.techworld.com.au/article/358564/microsoft_won_t_s...

More at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono_(software)
Because none of you seem to be reading anything outside your own little threadwars:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6847940

"Steam is included in the Linux Mint 16 repositories and you shouldn't have issues installing it from the package manager. Or you can always "apt-get install steam". Like most Linux applications, you are better off installing the application from the package manager instead of from the upstream website."

now stop spreading FUD.
It's public temporarily as Amazon reviews for an associates app. Deeply alpha, but looking for feedback. Rankings are updated every hour.
That's a good procedure, a few weeks ago I'd have deemed you paranoid but obviously there is no practical limit to paranoia anymore ;)

However, the hashing step makes it impractical for me on different devices in certain situations. I don't want to rely on browser extensions or apps either. So I'm changing my passwords to the output of an algorithm I can do in my head now.
Treadstone is from The Bourne Identity isn't it?
Give The Gift Of Education To A Child This Christmas
While children are sure to receive an overwhelming amount of toys and cute clothing, consider giving an interactive, and customizable educational video instead.
Front-end, AngularJS Software Engineer to Help Invent a New Category of Software

> https://www.angularjobs.com/posts/481-front-end-angularjs-so...

Palo Alto Senior Developer Needed to Build Team and Lead Development

> https://www.angularjobs.com/posts/473-palo-alto-senior-devel...

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> https://www.angularjobs.com/posts/472-build-an-interactive-t...

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> https://www.angularjobs.com/posts/380-solve-problems-with-an...

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> https://www.angularjobs.com/posts/426-lead-front-end-develop...

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> https://www.angularjobs.com/posts/422-senior-lead-developer-...
Yeah, I'm downloading the leak and trying to check if I can deduce whether it was the common I-don't-care password I think it was. A couple other people had used the same password, but the hints didn't help me.

http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/45413/how-do-i-d...
Ask HN: using tweets from happy users on website?
So I'm working on a product and I'm getting lots of enthusiastic tweets. I've seen products embedding tweets as advertising on their websites, what's the etiquette around this? You can't really ask for permission, and tweets are all public anyway - is it kosher to just grab them and use them?
Samson wasn't exactly a role model.
I honestly didn't see the 2011 on it, in fact I had to look very carefully around the page after someone mentioned it.
Yes; but it's equivalent to taking the Red Pill. Beforehand, you live in one of the most powerful and richest countries that ever was, a beacon of hope and freedom to the rest of the world. Afterwards you live in a country in which the government seems increasingly disconnected from human needs, sends robot assassins to bomb civilians half a world away and watches everyone with a myopically panoptic and punitive gaze.

Oh, and your closest allies will be marginalized, smelly and opinionated; and on the lam.
If you don't want people to view something on the public web, don't post it there.

This page design is infinitely better than the other one, also linked on the HN front page. Seems like you get a choice. Hooray for freedom!
Or comparable to above,

git reset --hard <previous commit's hash>

and afterward you may have to

git push --force

...to overwrite the changes in the blessed/central/public/shared repo.
Visits to porn sites tracked by hundreds of companies
I would be very surprised if that is not a rubric that was provided by an adult (whether teacher or otherwise.) Certainly, I saw this type of thing more than once when I was in school, and this was before the predominance of frequent high-stakes standardized testing on which school funding decisions were based, which increase the incentive for schools to narrowly prepare students to do well on the kinds of problems likely to appear on the tests.
>And that Google isn't limited by the Constitution

I'm pretty sure it is...
I wonder what the codename is for the program that enforces martial law?
Anyone know what adobe's password requirements were? I don't know which password I used there: Adobe forced me to change it without letting me test the old one.
Article makes no sense to me. He is just advocating for RESTful architecture in API design, which hardly matches the controversialist tone. At the same time it completely ignores anything but the simplest read-only API with a 1:1 mapping to public resources. It's like trying to make an argument about aircraft design whilst referencing a bicycle.
Python decorators finally demystified
They did a few things differently. Because their thrust was relatively limited, they made several short burns at perigee to raise their apogee in successive stages. Essentially, it was more efficient to fire their engine several times very close to perigee in 5-10 minute bursts, than make one long 30 minute burn.

Secondly, there was never any stage where they circularized their orbit, as one would do with a Hohmann. Rather, they kept burning at perigee until they escaped earth. Picture a an ellipse growing more and more eccentric until it becomes open at one end.

Also note that they never burned at apogee. The point wasn't to raise apogee so they could escape at apogee, but to increase velocity at perigee until they could reach escape velocity with a 20 minute burn on their last orbit.

http://www.isro.org/mars/mission-profile.aspx
Absolutely, I agree. No group, every ruling structure benefits from the ignorance of the masses. I was replying under the impression you are arguing against the need for everyone to be properly educated (in the sense of high level of literacy, critical thinking, reasoning etc. all the things PISA is supposedly designed to measure). I apologise if that impression was wrong. It's true that I was a little confused by your post and the one you were replying to, mostly because of no fault of yours or the parent's but because I'm not entirely sure what the percentages of "highest scientific performance" that the article is referring to mean.
One benefit they bring up is the site switcher, which is much nicer than the old drop down they had. I have a question for people who participate on multiple sites: do you need a separate account on each site? All I can recall is that it was indeed the case in the past, but there was mumblings about them making the system better for multiple site accounts. After a quick search, questions like this [0] make me think it still isn't the case that there is a universal account.

The real reason I ask is because I was bummed when they removed the ability to filter by top questions per week or per month [1]. The justification given in the response is fair enough, but I have never understood why, as a comment there points out, they also removed the ability to manually filter by ?tab=(active|hot|week|month). The cynic in my thinks this was mainly to drive people to signup for the weekly emails. The problem I have with that is I just want to hit some sites once a month and see the top questions, some once a week, etc. For example, I have no need to read the physics or mathematics communities very often, but would love to read the top questions once a month.

So, it seems like the option is still there when you are signed in, but I have never wanted to sign up an account for each site. Is my understanding of their accounts system wrong?

[0] http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/195849/how-can-i-ful...

[1] http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/180850/hot-and-week-...
Awesome site!

I'm no mathematician, but my gut tells me that advancing mathematics is not the clinical, uninspired, technical process that the "mathematician" stereotype implies. Instead, it seems to be fueled as much by creativity, imagination and mental flexibility as any purely artistic endeavor. Like art, it also requires significant discipline to master its technical underpinnings, is a gamble that pays off in years (if ever), and produces works that have the power to completely alter human understanding.

So it's a bummer it has not developed a rebellious and disruptive image, the way pop art careers have. As a result, the field is not benefited by creative, motivated youth with ambitions of changing the world. One can only hope improvements in math education (more conceptual techniques, higher teacher pay, less corporate influence, etc) can make it more accessible and catalyze an eventual change in its perception.
I know there was an SF Music Hack Day: http://sf.musichackday.org/2013/index.php?page=Main+page
The age of this DNA reinforces just how much of what we value today about "what makes us human" (creativity, intelligence, language, etc.) has lots to do with the knowledge accumulated via our culture, and relatively little to do with genetic differences.

Whenever someone talks about how smart we are genetically, ask yourself if this is the kind of smart we were 10,000+ years ago.
Oracle has a reliance on uncopyrightable APIs. If these copyrights were enforced, they would would have to radically change their SQL semantics to avoid infringing "copyrighted" APIs from prior SQL databases.

They have also taken APIs from free software and written proprietary implementations. They would need to release entire huge projects under GPL.
It's not the only difference.

Other differences that come to mind: Google has yet to kill people with drones or send people to torture prisons in Egypt.
ADP is horrible, but their website can't change financial details (it only shows paystubs and tax forms). You can kinda change things through ADP FlexDirect, but all direct deposit enrollment is done elsewhere.

The ADP employee site hasn't changed in the past ten years and still uses basic auth. It's horrible. And freaky. When you login to your new company account, it shows all paystubs from your past employers too. [With the implication of your current payroll department being able to see how much you were getting paid at all your previous jobs since it's the same account?]
That or shipping the versions used is usually the way it goes on windows. Take a look at a lot of the games on steam, and many of them will carry an OpenAL dll with them.
Citation needed on the 20% of the population of the US that doesn't use the internet. Is there even 20% of the US population outside of 100 miles from the shore?

Also, you can't use a cellphone without them knowing who you are with high certainty. It only takes 3 points of location data to identify a person the vast majority of the time[1]. Using a cell phone that you paid for with cash is insufficient.

[1] http://www.livescience.com/28353-anonymous-phone-data-not-an...
I don't think so. OpenJDK's GPL has a "classpath exception", that does not require apps using the API to be GPL.
SO Answer To: RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags
Are there any "cheap inputs" in Singapore any more? I remember going to Singapore when it was transitioning from low-cost to high-value manufacturing. Now finance is bigger than all manufacturing put together in Singapore, and electronics manufacturing in Singapore in heavily into high-value items like chip foundries that don't depend on cheap inputs.
Honestly, I think that what you are discussing is the most basic of analytical thinking, and transcends mathematics.
That Adobe got hacked isn't your fault - that you chose a weak password and reused it, is.

Showing a few more numbers might help more people realize that their passwords aren't actually unique, creative or safe. The data that came out of the Adobe hack is pretty interesting, and the results are much more tangible than "oh no, pwned!".

Something like:

"Your password was used by 8290 people.

Furthermore, 2615 persons gave a plain text hint as to what the password might be."
I am now numb to these revelations, as I suspect are most of the technology community. The only thing that will make the rest of the general populace wake up is if someone on TV says they are vehemently opposed to it. Someone who has trotted out the, "I have nothing to hide, so I am not worried." I believe the only way this will happen is if Edward Snowden specifically targeted one of those people and created a file of some seriously embarrassing (or, better yet, incriminating) private business that will be released. I seriously hope that he has verifiable proof that Glenn Beck is having cocaine-fueled sex parties with Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Joe Liebermann, Diane Feinstein and the corpse of Strom Thurmond.

That, or something to keep football from being televised on Sunday.

Please, Edward. Tell me there is something up your sleeve that will get people to realize that this is actually a really fucking big thing and that it needs to stop right away.