skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the parent's folder limit access to a certain user or group there aren't security problems and may be exactly what you need.

for example, if you work with other people and you have a command to generate thumbnails from the shell, you may have a layout like this one

chmod user group path
2770 www-data devs /srv/www
2777 foo devs /srv/www/site/thumbnails/

/srv/www/site/thumbnails may be accessed only by people in the 'devs' or 'www-data' group ('foo' can read it only if he's in the group 'devs'). The obvious alternative would be to set that directory as owned by 'www-data', but you need root access to do that (unless you put everybody in group 'www-data', but then everyone can access every site). This way every user in the group 'devs' can make directories usable by both his teammates and the webserver, without having root power or being in group www-data. Have more than one team? Use different groups for each team.
And since people communicate successfully all the time through speech ...

Yes, but. Much speech is filled with hedge words, convoluted phrases, and I'm-still-not-sure-what-point-I-am-making discourse. That stuff needs to go.

There's a fair amount of writing that comes across as if it were literally transcribed from an off-the-cuff spoken exposition, and it is distracting.

In casual speaking it's OK to say, "At this point in time", or, "Let me explain", or, "due to the fact", but if you're taking the time to write you can take the time cut the filler as well.

I much prefer a conversational tone in writing but it works best with some careful editing.
With money the government prints for that purpose. Yes, I know. Some will claim that's a hidden tax, but then, some people will run around yelling "Keynes!" and claiming we come out ahead anyhow, so, shrug. Politicians will certainly claim this is a "free" education, so I'll just settle on that definition of "free" as good enough for this hypothetical thing that will never happen anyhow.
If all antibacterials were harsh chemicals like hydrogen peroxide that might be true. But check out multidrug efflux pumps, and things like triclosan.
In other words "Our customers may conclude that we offer a poor value for money and decide to stop buying our product."
Good article. It reminds me of the stories Wozniak would tell about his chip reduction techniques back when microchips were really expensive.
Like Chris Matthews, he has a tendency to talk too much and over his guests, but he's pretty bright and has solid progressive cred. The guy I really enjoy is Steve Kornacki, who fills in sometimes.
Anyone wants to get paid, but not everyone has the chance at the very beginning.
Apple: Think different
This scares the crap out of me. There are some really shady people in my industry and I'm sure they wouldn't think twice about launching a negative SEO campaign against me. I wish Google and Matt Cutts would address this for real.
The message delivered is not just to EMC, but to the technology industry as a whole. While it might not hurt EMC if RSA sales drop, I'm willing to bet there are companies that would be seriously hurt if the public perception among their customers is that you're in bed with the NSA.
can you elaborate on search relevance?

is it mostly natural language processing? matching keyword queries to document corpus
From what I've seen, this whole brouhaha has done more damage to the reputation of elliptic curves than it did to the RSA algorithm.
>>would Apple just steal his idea (NOT implementation)

I think the App was more about the implementation than the idea. He created extremely efficient implementation of jpeg compression with 50000 lines of C++ code as far as I remember from the dev's blog. So Apple is obviously more interested in the guy than anything else.
There is a not negligible chance you would have died as a child, or even an adult, from any number of diseases that used to be far more widespread. Certainly it's likely at least one person you know would have.

Modern sanitary practices have saved literally millions of people. Not hand washing alone perhaps, but it is a significant factor.

Humans now live in populations of millions of other people that are constantly in close contact with each other, and people travel more and faster than ever before all across the globe. Be thankful we haven't had more plagues.
I'm sure it is. Still doesn't address reasons I can't migrate to 3.3, though (those being CentOS6 defaults, lack of packages, cost/benefit ratio too high for migrating).
As I said, there is a rare need for anonymity, and it should exist -- on the 'anonymous net'. Anonymity is abused far more often than used.
That was first question:

Have there been any studies on the bacterial resistance impact of EtOH gels? Natural selection will find a way to prevent cell membranes from being dissolved. Nature is a great hacker.
Interesting read. Note the "Google Confidential and Proprietary" at the bottom of most of the slides. I wonder if the author just forgot to remove the notice when the slides were made public.
This is the part that caught my attention:

> We noticed a few cavities around the edges of the impeller filled with some sort of epoxy (on both sides). We suspect it's for fine-tuned balancing, to keep the fan running smooth and quiet.

Apple is balancing the fans they put in the computers. What other manufacturer would do that? I love Apple's little details.
They said they weren't going to fix everything with Py3.
Search relevance loosely refers to whether a query returns relevant results. There are different ways of measuring this, none of which is really bulletproof.
Whether it's technically better or not is usually not in question. It's whether it's compellingly better to the point of outweighing the migration cost. For most of the community it still seems the answer is no.
You missed my point again. The semantic line of argument is pointless. Favor and bribery are interchangeable because my argument holds for either case.

Your insinuation is still baseless.
Historical interest: Amiga BOOPSI. Not saying it was perfect, but it certainly existed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BOOPSI
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Aros/Developer/Docs/Libraries/I...
Does anybody know an iOS equivalent?
If you get on the wrong team it may not go well. What will happen is that your managers and people you work with will pretend you are 22 and treat you like a 22 year old undergrad student.

If on the other hand you are brought on specifically as a grad student info science intern working in a info science team, things may go better for you.
Whether a search engine presents "the most relevant results" is a subjective determination that can only be made with certainty on a per-user basis.

I'm confident in this assertion because people have, at various times, claimed that other search engines provide them more relevant results, yet for me, those search engines almost always failed to even match Google, and never exceeded it.

This was also the case pre-Google -- e.g. lots of people swore by AltaVista, but I almost never used it, because it never seemed to work well for me. I actually remained primarily a WebCrawler user for quite a while, right up until settling into Google in the 1999~2000 timeframe.

I don't want to be limited to search engines that provide what some bureaucrat has decided are the most relevant and/or neutral results. I want to be able to choose the search engine that provides the most relevant results for me, and I have seen no evidence that what's relevant for one person is necessarily relevant for everyone else.
You might like to try Outline in the Mac App Store - It now allows you to edit OneNote notebooks and syncs via Skydrive, Box, Dropbox etc.
The test for infringement in Europe requires that a "substantial" part be copied however.

Such samples [as in the OP video] IMO aren't substantial but I think the contrary point can be argued well as "if it's not substantial why copy it / it must be substantial to warrant reuse (with or without modification)"?
will linux run on these things? what's linux support for the new connectors they have?
The reason regular soaps works is because it removes surface oil and dirt from your hands, which the bacteria binds to. So the bacteria gets mechanically removed from your hands and goes down the drain. And this is very effective.

Antibacterial and antibiotic soaps do something extra of a chemical nature that acts on the bacteria to kill it.
You should also paste the five conditions for completeness:

1. any assistance by that person was provided pursuant to an order of the court established under section 103(a) directing such assistance;

2. any assistance by that person was provided pursuant to a certification in writing under section 2511(2)(a)(ii)(B) or 2709(b) of title 18, United States Code;

3. any assistance by that person was provided pursuant to a directive under section 102(a)(4), 105B(e), as added by section 2 of the Protect America Act of 2007 (Public Law 110–55), or 702(h) directing such assistance;

4. in the case of a covered civil action, the assistance alleged to have been provided by the electronic communication service provider was—

A) in connection with an intelligence activity involving communications that was—

i) authorized by the President during the period beginning on September 11, 2001, and ending on January 17, 2007; and

ii) designed to detect or prevent a terrorist attack, or activities in preparation for a terrorist attack, against the United States; and

B) the subject of a written request or directive, or a series of written requests or directives, from the Attorney General or the head of an element of the intelligence community (or the deputy of such person) to the electronic communication service provider indicating that the activity was—

i) authorized by the President; and

ii) determined to be lawful; or

5. the person did not provide the alleged assistance.
Individually that's not much gold. Anyone able to estimate how much, and what it would cost at today's gold prices?

One bendit of having that there is that people really want gold, and so those machines are going to get a thorough teardown at end of life, which should help with reclaiming and recycling all the other stuff.
X is an investor, therefore X must be directly persuaded by Y investor?

That's not any evidence that RG specifically had a direct line to Cutts, and that this actually influenced the outcome. Again, we're talking about someone who penalized Chrome. I don't know of any greater conflict of interest than your employer.

In an argument about someone's motivations, I am inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt in the context of their past behavior.
> CentOS6 defaults

I've always considered it bad to use the RH provided python for development.
How come antibacterial soap is sold freely while antibiotic drugs are only available with prescription? If they both create resistant bacteria, both should be under similar regulations.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSUXXzN26zg
Why is a buyout like this reason for celebration and congratulations? I understand that the developers received money; but now they no longer own their IP, and can no longer decide the future path for their software.

I say this as someone who was contacted by a VC firm recently. They were interested in investing, but their assumption was that we wanted to grow and "exit". When I asked for clarification on what "exit" meant, I was told that it means to sell the company. I was confused as to why someone would want to sell something they spent so many years creating.

(That said, I think in this case their tech will genuinely improve Apple's software. And maybe they get to continue doing passionate work at Apple. It just feels like they are no longer in control.)
NSA statement does not deny 'spying' on members of Congress
Im not sure what you mean, of course any leaking fluid from the source is going to have much higher levels of concentration before it becomes diluted.
s/children/tulips/ would be the same argument
Thanks for the followup. That's a good point about it not being in the guidelines while referring to reddit actually is. I was referring to something I thought was in the rules about comments adding to the conversation but I don't see it there now.

I still don't think links fit the style of this site but in the future I'll probably just downvote and let the numbers speak for themselves.
Why speculate? There is plenty of research that verifies that triclosan resistance occurs.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/16922622/

http://ec.europa.eu/health/scientific_committees/opinions_la...

http://m.jac.oxfordjournals.org/content/46/1/11.long
Tribe faces extinction as poaching and tourism threaten their survival
I did a mini-startup of this type (crowdsourced gamification of p90x-style workouts, delivered via ipad) and presented it to Beachbody. They had no idea what to do with it, and in hindsight that makes sense; their business model is to sell products into the MLM model, not to support fitness with technology.
This! Exactly this. The stupid decision to use ascii as the default codec (and to disobey the system locale while doing so!), combined with silent Unicode coercion, doomed Python 2 to a lifetime of i18n pain. Just changing those two behaviors would have provided a much more evolutionary path forward without opening the Python 2 to 3 chasm.
Thanks for pointing this out. The site isn't quite ready for prime time yet as I'm still trying to figure out how to market this tool.
It looks more to me that there's some problem with the background polling mechanism in the app, as implied by solution #1. Presumably something in the mouse event handler does something that prods the polling code into life, perhaps because something somewhere is trying to update the list of things on screen in order to handle hovering. Kind of hard to say without looking at the code, though...

(The Windows message queue is actually fairly straightforward, and if you read the documentation then it's simpler still. The somewhat magical WM_PAINT message is a bit ugly, but aside from that it's actually quite difficult to get things massively wrong. Which is probably why this sort of freakish bug is rather rare.)
Diving into frontend vs. backend is very common and in my experience, a successful strategy. But within reason. To use your example, your backend developers should be able to code an HTML table.
How did this ad perform?
Of course it will, and will also reduce expectation of service industry tips so it's deserved rather than a given.
Reflowing stuff in an baking oven seems to be an increasingly common method of fixing electronics. Hell, my friend reflowed an RF dongle for TI Chronos watch with a heat gun the other day.
Fair use isn't mutually exclusive with commercial use in the US though in practice there doesn't seem to be much scope for overlap.

Also free-gratis isn't co-terminous with non-commercial as - for example - giving away a competing product is a commercial activity. Also moral rights can arguably be harmed by sampling ... and then you've got parody exceptions ... it's nuance all the way down.
Of course they technically can. Most voting systems have major security flaws.
If I signed the contract, I said I would refrain of disparagement. If I was subsequently critical of the firm and the company thought it rose to disparagement, it becomes a legal issue.
One reason is that it taxes consumption, not income, so the poor and middle class are hit the hardest because they spend a larger percentage of their income on food, clothes, etc.
"an ISP who can do the BGP announcements for you"

This might be a list worth compiling: ISP's that will announce IPv4 address blocks for residential customers.
Branding this as a boycott implies that this is an expression of protest, that this is a moral issue. I agree that it is, but a lot of people don't. The morality of the NSA, and of cooperating with the NSA, is a matter of national debate.

However, it is not a matter of debate that the RSA backdoor of BSAFE was and is not open merely to the NSA. It is an objective fact that anyone can take advantage of a backdoor like this. As such, even if you think that the NSA is right, even if you think that cooperating with the NSA is correct, this is not the way to do it.

It might make business sense to do business with a security company that cooperates with the NSA. It does not make business sense to do business with a security company which is proven to produce vulnerable software.

Whether or not it's an ethical problem is subjective. The fact that it's a business problem is objective.

This comment misses the mark:

> Also, it can probably be argued that trying to secure your systems against a targeted intrusion from the NSA using technical means is pointless and a waste of money

The BSAFE backdoor does not simply make companies vulnerable to targeted intrusion from the NSA. It makes every technology which uses Dual EC_DRBG vulnerable to any hacker who knows how to use the vulnerability. This is a pseudorandom number generator, which means that it affects almost every primitive cryptographic operation.

A company which would introduce such a vulnerability for the NSA may or may not be an ethical company, but it certainly is not a company qualified to provide security.

EDIT: It looks like I messed up my understanding of the way in which Dual_EC_DRBG was broken. See the responses to my post for details.
say one types 'sex' into a search engine

from that query how does one know user's true intent? Is he looking for a wikipedia article? is he looking to hook up? is he looking for porn? is he referring to the gender? is he just bored and trolling?

since google's reach is part of our lives, wouldn't they have a very good idea based on your previous history, what you clicked on, what search results you clicked on, what you typed in google chrome.

couldn't microsoft have pulled off the same thing?
Here's a similar, but more in-depth, video on making "Smack my Bitch Up" from The Prodigy. My mind was blown when it shows how "Bulls on Parade" was sampled :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU5Dn-WaElI
No organization on the planet has done more to get end-to-end strong crypto, as free as is feasible from the influence of certificate authorities, into the hands of as many people as Google has. Google is the Internet's leading deployer and evangelist of forward secrecy and the pathbreaking pioneer in identity pinning.
I think you underestimate how much rich people loathe being in the same place as the poor. You also have a bias that higher performers go to private schools....
True, but are there any decent repos for installing python3? Even with 2.7 I generally have to build it myself. I loathe having to use RH5 and RH6 due to how old they seem.

Edit:

Python 3 may see more adoption if they provided .rpms and .debs directly. When you have to install python on 100s or 1000s of machines, doing them one by one is simply impractical.
Can somebody explain function annotations for me?

spam = None
bacon = 42

def monty(a:spam, b:bacon) -> "different":
pass

What's the point of this? It also seems like super ugly syntax to me, not pythonic. It looks like Ruby! Yuck.
Wearing nitrile gloves where possible might help since it's hard to be sure the grease, solvent and/or detergents you're using aren't toxic or carcinogenic. Both my grandfather and father had the same benign bladder cancer by being exposed to the same compound. It's also a whole lot faster to clean up, because some substances stain the skin for days and cleaning them requires vigorous dermabrasion. That irritation alone is bound to cause other issues.
>@classmethod and @staticmethod are somewhat important language features

And strings aren't? Whatever, I understand that there are tradeoffs and to people that only use Python, the aesthetic blemishes tend to matter less. To people that use it in the context of other languages, it sticks out like a bad paint job or a prominent stain. This, and many more opinions than I could express succinctly, are on the reddit thread for GVR's post.

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/79h9y/guido_van...

@redditrasberry: To make a bad analogy, it's like a stain on your carpet in your front hallway. If you live with it for long enough you won't even see it any more. But to visitors coming to your house it's the most obvious thing. And it's particularly noticeable because the rest of Python is so nice - it's like I'm visiting an art gallery and everything is beautiful and pristine, but there on the carpet at the entrance is this huge stain that nobody has ever cleaned up.
Can you link the originals?
My resolution: A new programming language each week
What Was Our Most Common Sharing Habit in 2013?
Do you think it really matters that a hypothetical future group of rulers might conceivably make decisions that actually benefit the people, when the current ones clearly don't?

Here we are, in 2014, and under these specific circumstances. Reality matters, hypotheticals don't.
Quite easily, too, I'm sure.
Since you feel there are other alternatives, do you know of any hardware tokens that haven't been influenced by the NSA?

A device with a broken usage model (USB or writable SmartCard interface) isn't acceptable since it defeats the entire purpose of using it in the first place.
You're right. I thought there was something in there about how comments should add to the conversation but I don't see it there now. I must have been mistaken.
Running power drops, especially when we're already running Ethernet out to the little gizmos anyways, is annoying in our environment. More to go wrong and the like. :)
Browse through the OwnCloud release notes. Almost every version has fixes for XSS and remote code execution. Fixes are great but the developers seem to be making the same mistakes over and over again. It is just too easy to do that in PHP.
It's typically used either for additional documentation or for type inference (like for IDEs, static analysis). Only the fact that you can annotate parameters/return types is implemented. This was basically done to see how annotations would evolve in community use.

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3107/#use-cases

>> Despite yet more discussion, it was decided not to standardize a mechanism for annotation interoperability. Standardizing interoperability conventions at this point would be premature. We would rather let these conventions develop organically, based on real-world usage and necessity, than try to force all users into some contrived scheme.
> Yep, if we are going to have private prisons, they really need to pay on the basis of capacity and not actual inmate counts. That provides a direct incentive to keep inmate count down.

Woah, interesting concept, I had never even thought of that. That in mind, I am very opposed to private prisons for reasons found scattered throughout this thread.
I've lost a child (in a hospital, too), and I don't find this hurtful at all. This crazy overreaction since someone, somewhere, somehow, might be offended is just silly.
Well, the research studies only tell you:

Raising a very little bit of the minimum wage reduces a very little bit of poverty in the short run, without discussing any negative impacts to the society (in the short run or in the long run).

It is very different from "raising the minimum wage reduces poverty".
It's hard to write libraries in both versions.

At the moment, Python 2 may be more productive, because it's got more libraries.

But the way things are going, Python 3 will soon reach parity, and eventually take over. If that happens, it was no longer a smart choice to go Python 2 for a new project. I'm not saying you should port old code anytime in the next few years (unless it's a library). But it's probably worth thinking about whether or not new projects should use Python 3.
You don't even need crypto knowledge to do that - most e-voting systems are susceptible to far easier attacks.