skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So my paranoia has finally taken over. My first read through and I only take in these features:

* I presume all this infra is used for more than just ffmpeg so why this software specifically? Im conscious its included in everthing from web browsers to games. If this was an attack vector, its a BIG vector.
* 1121 (or whatever it was) is a curious number to make a post about. Why not at the 1k mark or 1250?
* Explicitly calling out use of an unpriv user to a readership likely already well versed in basic security practices but notorious for casually ignoring on personal machines

Google, blink twice if theyve got ya tied up in some legal requirement that you cant disclose.
The Howard-Vitter coder only works for binary alphabet (0/1).
Same of Q-Coder :

"The Q-Coder is a new form of adaptive binary arithmetic coding"
>> What protection against non-halting?

The transaction fee is determined based on the number of computational steps in the contract. My understanding is that, if the contract has not halted by the time the transaction fee has been "spent", then the transaction is rejected.
1) DDG doesn't have local results
meh

2) DDG doesn't have recent news
Don't you love it when searching google with keywords vital to your business' placement in the results, a few News headlines show up, pushing you from 4 down to 8 or 9?

Me neither, if I want news, I'll go to the BBC, NY Times, etc.

3) DDG does not have the coverage to answer a narrow technical question
valid use case, yes

4) What DDG does have is plain old search results
Yes! Remember in the early days when Google was just that? I do. Google has become something else in the meantime, and organic search results are not at the top of their priority list (read: advertising is, they spam my gmail account pretty much daily with advice on how I can reactivate the adwords campaigns that I suspended, how, if I call now, a Google rep. will advise me [try to upsell me in everyway possible] on how to get the most out of my campaigns, and so on).

Google rules the search engine landscape (basically a monopoly); that's not a great situation as we (site owners, admins, etc.) are all completely beholden to a single corporation and are forced to play by their rules whether we agree with them or not.
I keep finding rumors the movie will be released in the US in a few months, but nothing concrete.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2058107/releaseinfo
Or:

There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, those who don't, and those who didn't expect this joke to be in base three.
The underlying principle has been given a name by philosophers and political scientists. Its called "Negative Right".

Taken from wikipedia:

Negative rights are permissions not to do things,
or entitlements to be left alone. Often the distinction
is invoked by libertarians who think of a negative right
as an entitlement to "non-interference" such as a
right against being assaulted.

Rights considered negative rights may include civil and
political rights such as freedom of speech, private property,
freedom from violent crime, freedom of worship, habeas corpus,
a fair trial, and freedom from slavery.

for more, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_and_positive_rights
The problem is I find myself reverting to the !g more often and often. I really like the DDG approach and tried really hard to use it exclusively. But I'd say that in 30-40% of searches it doesn't cut it and google does a better job (even though I'm not logged in to it - if that even matters?). And once you know better results are only a couple of keystrokes away it's hard to not do it :[
Using clojure data syntax instead of SGML-like syntax doesn’t make the language any more or less “declarative”. Assuming you use the same features in your templates, the clojure version is precisely as declarative as whatever other template language.

However, if you use the clojurescript version [or in standard React, the javascript- or coffeescript-looking version], then you suddenly have a bunch of potential extra features which in some cases are invaluable. (Or you can deliberately ignore those if you prefer.)

When you say “declarative” I think you might really just mean “familiar for html experts”. But most html expert should be able to learn the new syntax quite easily, since the relevant parts are less verbose than html, quite regular and straightforward, and semantically equivalent.

If you feel like putting your templates in separate files from your logic, or writing them using an SGML-like syntax, that’s pretty trivial to do in any of these environments.
What is the value of code that can cause revolutions, sway financial markets, and spread P2P information across the world instantly? How can any analyst know when there's no comp? Answer: they can't. I'd sell the hell out of $TWTR right now because the analysts are going to fill the news cycle with negetivity and the smart money is slobbering over short potential. Once it finds a bottom however, I'd double down on it and get ready to wake up daily to a green ticker.
I'd suggest learning Android straight up. Java Android is a crippled version of Java IMO. If you want to learn Java specifically learn up to generics. That's all you really need.
You can make things quickly using base Android without knowing much about Java.
There was a time when they also tried to get someone who phone screened the candidate to be the lunch host. This way interview candidates would eat with someone they'd already talked with, and had already submitted positive feedback.
A Visible Gender Gap at 71 elite VC Firms [SLIDESHOW]
yeah I came to the same conclusion, except lines 327/328 confuse me a little bit, as to whether the fee goes to the miner in this case, since on 328 (regular termination) it says so explicitly, but on 327 (exhaustion) it doesn't specify.
Original title was:

Source Code in TV and Films: There's
a bug in AirWolf's code ...

As you say, better than the generic title now.

I can understand why the moderators change a lot of the titles, I really can. And I can understand that it's potentially too time consuming to vet every single title that gets submitted, and hence it kind of needs to be automatic. But I really can't help thinking that on a forum called "Hacker News" there would be some kind of hack that says: Hang on, this is clearly adding something to the original title - maybe it's reasonable to allow that.
Flip a coin forever: are you guaranteed eventually to get equal heads and tails?
A service known for letting you announce your location ... now knows your location even when you haven't announced it.
Maybe Murnat Kurnaz can come back to America in 50 years and make friends with his former torturers, too. And then a movie.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/opinion/sunday/notes-from-...
Is there a decent estimate of what proportion of the TX state budget comes from oil & gas? One number I can find is that oil & gas direct extraction taxes amount to 15% of the state budget ($7 billion out of $47 billion). But that's a lower bound, since the oil & gas sector also generates considerable additional tax revenue, through corporate income taxes, sales taxes, hotel taxes, etc.

Besides good fortune, though, TX did make two good oil & gas decisions that CA didn't, one on purpose and one accidentally: #1, on purpose, to actually have an oil & gas severance tax, like Alaska and Wyoming, but unlike California, which foolishly levies no tax on extraction; and #2, accidentally, to keep some large oil reserves publicly owned, and put them in the hands of the University of Texas system (accidentally because UT was given huge tracts of ranch land before it was known there was oil on it).
My brother and sister walked 325km from Ban Pong to Sangkhla Buri along what exists of this very railway. It was in memory of a POW my brother met at our church who worked on the railway during his time in the war.

My sister wrote a book about the experience called Norn Lup? A Journey Of Railways, Roads, & Wats. http://intrepid-girl.com/blog/writing/buy-the-book-norn-lup-...

And my brother made a documentary http://www.lukenowell.com/projects/lukenowell/thailandtrek/

Hope people don't mind these plugs but they both add value to the story behind this railway and the people who worked on it against their will.

You can read about their expedition here http://www.deathrailwaywalk.com/
Many investment terms do not allow investment in other assets without permission of the board.
Note that they were apparently doing very fancy image processing, not just pushing bytes; that does make things more difficult/expensive.
I'm guessing that, if the transaction is rejected, then no fees are awarded -- I could be wrong though.
What's embarrassing is that this self-righteous, guilt-tripped social justice douchebag is a BDFL of Django. I wouldn't be surprised if some current or potential Django users or contributors get sick of his jihad and turn to to a different developer community.
Seems like we should be focusing more attention on the Department of Justice. They were the ones really pressing the ridiculous charges. MIT definitely shares some blame, but the DoJ is where we really need to see some reform.
Heartbeat - Android task manager & live wallpaper
Easy Loop Progress-meter in Python
I once read about Baumol's cost disease and couldn't remember the name - thank you so much!
maybe it's just me and wikipedia.
It is a common method to monetize software development by the use of exclusion, and threaten ones customer with lawsuits if they don't comply.

Is such abuse the most effective way to reach financially success? Maybe. Does it matter?
Doesn't "easier" just mean that it is is less difficult to acquire such a job?
Memory Ownership and Lifetimes in Rust
Bootstrapping it with the existing team would cost about 1.5 million a year by my extremely rough estimate. So you'd have to make $30 per user per year. Facebook's ARPU is about $6 per year (much higher in the US though).

If you make as much in ad revenue as Facebook, each of your 7000 paying customers would have to foot a yearly bill of $171 to keep the service going (but that number would go down as you grow).

So I think you're right. Bootstrapping it at this point is probably unrealistic. You may need like 10 times the number of users for it to be a viable business.

Thanks for sharing your data!
Ask HN: Is dropbox still down for you?
I still cannot connect to Dropbox with clients, and logging into Dropbox.com results in a 500 error. Anybody else seeing this?
Why not just wear sunglasses?
Free speech is also a value held by many people, including much of the Wikimedia community, separate from the formal enumerations and guarantees that limit government oppression.

You can't really call yourself a reliable friend of 'free speech' if your only concern is government censorship. Other forms of power and retaliation also suppress valuable speech.
It appears the Germans are pissed as well: https://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=110230
Riot.js demo
I don't know what you are doing in real conditions but i am for sure not only running everything in my RAM (that'd be great, i wouldn't even need a harddisk anymore). The benchmark needs to be revised to account for the VM caching or it's just useless. Or rename it to "benchmark of memory access and caching algorithms".
yeah, I'm thinking that if that is the case, it would allow you to create a "spike" contract, a highly funded contract designed to use a lot of miner resources until it inevitably fails. then you could send out transactions to this contract which would cause it to execute and fuck with all the other miners, where you just ignore it because you know it will fail. Maybe the cost for computation makes this unreasonable though, I don't really have a sense of the cost of computation .
February 11th: The Day We Fight Back Against NSA Surveillance
The problem with the post I made is that a whole swath of different assumptions can be made around the ideas surrounding it. It's definitely "easier" to get one of those jobs but it's harder to physically do them ....and they literally hurt after awhile. I can't imagine too much physical hurt coming from programming compared to heavy lifting or picking lettuce etc. So their is a bit of a yin/yang with regard to the assumption of what the word 'easier' means in this context. Yes they are easier to get, but they are harder to physically do and they can hurt (of course maybe if you're in really good shape this is not the case).
Target says data breach up to 110 mn customers
FYI, none of the things you mentioned is (in itself) something that a company can (legally) choose to factor into their hiring decision.

This is true, but it is something that you can factor into your employment decision. That is, deciding whether or not you want to be employed by a certain company.
Can you elaborate why UTF-8 makes things harder? Is it because 1-byte no longer means one character? So, something like calculating a string's length is also tricky. Is that it?

Also, where can I read about the general direction the string manipulation API is going to take?
You are paid according to how difficult it is to replace you.
The thing is, those languages do exist since C does.

But the OSs created with them weren't as fancy as UNIX was at the time, or used hardware more costly than the PDP-11.
> Without IP, what stops people incorporating GPL code in their closed source proprietary products?

You can do this even with IP... if you're building SaaS instead of shrinkwrap, due to the GPL's most relevant restrictions here all hinging on the act of distribution of the actual software.
MIT has quite the number of subdomains.

I myself found that a server I managed had been exploited via Roundcube a few years ago and saw that the domain http://esi.mit.edu/, running on Drupal or something then, had been hacked by the same people (tracked back the source via the Apache HTTP logs, came from a Drupal instance that had been hacked) - links to bad websites could be found hidden in the source code to presumably improve their Google ranking. I notified ESI and they took it down.

I can't imagine that with the number of subdomains MIT has that this could have been all that difficult or noteworthy.
I would think it would be a lot more useful if you could charge it from your phone itself. Pebble's battery is 130 mAh[1], so (unless I'm mistaken) you could charge it using 9% of an iPhone 5s' 1560 mAh battery[2]. If the charger had USB passthrough you could charge both at once.

Of course, then you'd be carrying an extra cable, but that might fit with those in Pebble's target demographic (in a bag along with your tablet/laptop and such)

[1]: http://appadvice.com/appnn/2013/03/the-pebble-watch-is-impos...

[2]: http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iPhone+5s+Teardown/17383/
Problem is demand is increasing at a far greater rate than the supply. In fact, I think this is -- among several other factors -- one of the primary causes of this migration.

The money an individual or a family has to spend is limited. For most, the rent is their single biggest expense: the less one makes, the more one has to give up (in terms of money that would go to savings, basic necessities, or food/entertainment) to live in a more desirable place.

Given that income distributions even with some amount of redistribution will still follow a power curve, it is quite possible that certain highly desirable areas -- themselves on a power curve of desirability -- might see great population growth, but -- on the whole -- the movement would not be to those areas. That is, unless, the supply of housing in those ares can keep up with the demand.
The dark side of the moon is turquoise, say astronomers
Dont quite see why none of that can't apply to books.

Books can easily be inaccurate and emotive, if not more so. Authors are not bound by, what you very amusingly call, "journalistic ethics" at all. Then, it seems to me that, in general, that there is something about books which makes people arrogant and judgemental. And yes, there are plenty of examples of propaganda books.
Just a question, why is pg in person supposed to care about equality and what happens if he loses the fight? Do you have prison sentences or civil excommunication about that?
Why I've Already Deleted Jelly
Physical work: We have the technology which can create more powerful machines that are way more powerful than human muscles.

Mental work: AI field is trying to do same as we have done already for physical work part BUT it is still not there and even if reach a certain stage there will always be need for "humans mental power".
I currently have the Galaxy S3 and if their add-ons are any indication of their new OS quality, then this will be the end of Samsung. It's absolutely horrendous.
Arithmetic coding, one of the early victims of software patents.
Those 5% are written in Assembly anyway. C does not expose SIMD, non portable compiler specific extensions do.

For the remaining 95% of the code, since 1978 one could use Modula-2, Ada, Pascal dialects, SafeC and many other system programming languages.

Back in the early 80's, C compilers were as crap as any other system programming languages when generating code for home computers.
Such negativity in this thread. Do we all love to hate someone who is working hard on their startup just because they are jerks[1]? Even if the CEO is a jerk, they have a nicely designed product with a seemingly noble goal, with a talented pool of people working behind the scenes, working towards their objectives.

Sure, they have their bad moments (pun intended), being caught uploading users' address books, spamming user's friends with invites and perhaps paying for downloads. No one's perfect and some of us sometimes do try to stretch things a little to see how far we can go. Don't we?

I remember the joy I felt when they released Path 2.0 and I chanced upon it. The cover photos, pulling down the timeline to see more of the cover photo, the smooth springly animation they use for the actions button, the gorgeous sign up screens. Most of these concepts have been utilized in some form in other apps now. These people create good work.

We should be rooting for them, not cursing them.

PS: Just a fan of the work behind it, not friends with anyone involved in the company. Just someone exercising a little bit of common sense and empathy.
PSS: and to those who want to know, just look at their app in the various app stores and you would already know how much they charge for stickers and subscription. No need to predict or guess.

[1] Seem to be a jerk, according to a single interview. And according to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7039043 and write-ups else where, PG seems to be sexist (and racist?). Do we just take things people say as the whole truth, at face value?
cogen.mit.edu again?

This is the same domain that Anonymous hacked last year.
Kindle Vending Machine Shows How Amazon Could Take Over the World
Ask HN: Which services are built using MITM (e.g. LinkedIn Intro)?
I've seen a couple of services recently which achieve their goals by intercepting communication between a browser/app and a third party server, and altering/inserting content. For example:<p>- LinkedIn Intro sits between your IMAP4 client (mail app) and your provider's mail server<p>- amberExpess sits between your web browser and the web server of one of the supported stores<p>Which other interesting services are built using a similar technique?
So, who owns the Internet?
While I'm yet to read the article, I wanted to note down that companies like Amazon, Google and the like are enormously huge and nobody needs anybody in these places. Thus do I want to be in small companies where I can be an important piece of a team.
> society of mass (30%+) unemployment in the future

basic income?
You know there are a lot of people earning living by writing texts? Doesn't make them liars.
I'm not saying it can't apply to books. I'm saying that the prevalence of bullshit is
much greater in documentary films, making them in general a bad source of information.

Of course I agree that there are many examples of propaganda, emotive and inaccurate books.

Journalistic ethics do exist in print media, but the point is taken that they don't apply in many situations.
Eff.org blacked out today in memory of Aaron Swartz
do yourselves a favor and don't read the comments on the site
Only woked in 3 companies in 7 years but on the field, women in IT benefit a lot from positive discrimination. In fact they're promoted to managing jobs much sooner after they ask than men as far as I saw examples. Sexism is much more of a problem in the food industry and so on, so I would recommend IT jobs to girls if they want a great career with few hassles.

In fact I recommend IT jobs to everyone. The social inabilities that goes with programming is a repellent for everyone, but c'mon, we get to travel everywhere in the world, sit all day and watch gmail all the time. There couldn't be a more luxury job.

So a problem is, articles about sexism don't match the observations I've made on the field.

Edit: Added the last sentence and figures about my experience.
> Society is a bunch of people gathering together because they are happier that way.

How is that? You're born in a given society (country) and usually you never change societies, so there's no choice involved.
Multicopter meets monster truck: The AT Transformer roadable VTOL aircraft
I think a general theme in life is that planning (and being able to do the work required of it) gets rewarded much more than how much effort is required to do something.

A few more examples of the phenomena:

* Trying to do something physical as an overweight and unfit person vs. someone who has already gotten into shape.

* Finding a job when you have a strong professional network vs. finding a job when you don't.

* Performing some computer operation multiple times manually vs. using/maintaining a script that was already written.

In all of the above cases, you're going to put in more work in the situation that required less planning while getting rewarded less.
Logging any SQL statements on sensitive info is pretty easy, and honestly I wish it was malpractice not to do so.
New prog. language based on java (recruitment)
Adam Curtis is a prime example of what he is complaining about. Sure, he gives you things to think about, but he is fast and loose with said facts, and uses quick cuts, stock footage, and emotional music to try and sway opinion.
I'd bet more on a literature major from Harvard winning out over a CS major from University of Phoenix.

But that's not because of the great value of Harvard's teaching; it's because of what the two of them did in high school that got one into Harvard and the other into UP. It's not as though the two of started out equivalent at time of graduation but the benefit of $160,000 worth of Marxist post-whatever hogwash training turned the Harvard kid into a real-world champion. After being the kind of person who could fight his way into Harvard to begin with, then spending four years socially integrating with the children of the rich, smart, and powerful, then getting to walk away with a Harvard diploma and his contacts list, he could have majored in Sustainable Shoe Repair and he'd be no less prepared for success than with most non-STEM majors.

But for the kids who aren't qualified for entry into an elite university, what they major in (at least for a terminal degree) will matter more.

Indeed, the abundance of liberal arts majors is probably an indicator of a quality institution.

Well, yes, it's an indication that the more prestigious the institution, the less what they learn in class matters.
Do startups at a similar stage usually measure things as diligently as Everpix seem to have done?

If they kept an eye on of all this on a monthly or weekly basis while they were still running would they have been doing too much or too little?

I've worked with some organisations that are reluctant to invest in this level of analysis. Some of them might even now say "It didn't help Everpix to spend time on that stuff."