skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm wondering how you will be able to with the numerous ways of CSRF protection implementations.
Yeah, not exactly sure this is newsworthy. He's not even reporting a bug, just responding to one.

Keep being alive Dr. Knuth.
It's peculiar compared to the United States, where there are pretty much no squatters rights in most cities.
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> One of my fondest memories working with Tcl was in the EDA industry. Thanks to its legacy, Tcl/Tk enjoys widespread usage in the entire workflow - from logic design to sign-off

Those of us actually using EDA tools are not necessarily so fond of Tcl. Not me anyhow. Tcl is awkward to debug, and its everything-is-string semantics make programming an exercise in quoting. Just when I think I understand the scoping, I screw it up.

> Despite its odd syntax

Tcl's syntax is one thing that I actually do like about the language. It's odd, yes, but it's simple and clean.

> Tcl is one of the rare examples of a functional programming language actively used in the industry (I'm looking at you Lisp).

Cadence actually uses a real Lisp in some of their tools; they call it Skill. Skill is, in fact, a joy to code in; and I greatly prefer it to Tcl. They also have a lexically scoped version called Skill+, which I've never got to use.

> wishing that something like Python would replace [Tcl]

Python, yes! Or Scheme. Or even Perl. I don't know Lua, but have always imagined it to be better than Tcl and it seems to occupy a similar niche. But no one even talks about Tcl getting replaced.
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I met with a company in 2011 that was using Vignette, and was considering creating their own CMS. I said something like, "I know that the really old version used to work on Tcl, but I assume that you're long past that."

I was met with blank, embarrassed stares, until the manager finally said, "Um, we're actually still using that ancient version built on Tcl."

So far as I know, they're still using it -- they never upgraded, switched, or developed an alternative. I'm not sure if that speaks to the company's ability to absorb pain, or to the excellent, long-term software engineering that went into that version of Vignette.
No. This site isn't about UX or innovation, it's about tech start ups. It's a constant reminder that something can be successful even if it was written in a LISP dialect and has a bunch of UX misses as long as the core idea is valid and the product usable enough.

I've used a bunch of HN skins that were supposedly better designed, but none of them stuck. Apparently it's just plain unnecessary for HN to be better.
Checking the Source SDK Project
You mean cypher text. Plain text is clear text is unencrypted.
Tokyo just became more real on Google Maps with new 3D imagery
Squatting is not the problem. Vandalism, or criminal damage, is the problem.
Zooming in on London, Piccadilly Circus (the no. 1 photo location in London according to this site) and found that the no.7 location here is 'Alex's Amazing Test Location of Greatness'

I wonder what this is and if anyone else has found similar spots anywhere else?
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Cyclomatic complexity is linearly correlated with LOC [pdf]
most of the pictures reflect tourism density, US has less than one fifth of the yearly tourists of europe.
> In which case, it matters little if you use metric or not...

Well, you still will measure things, most cooks will do a stint in the pastry kitchen, plus in the higher end restaurants a lot of pastry techniques transfer over to the savoury side (ie. a lot of what we think of as "molecular gastronomy").

While metric vs imperial doesn't matter for accuracy (whereas weight is more accurate than volume if you're measuring anything that's not liquid, and even with liquids it's easier to measure volume incorrectly), metric is just easier.
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John Dobson, amateur astronomer & designer of the Dobsonian telescope, has died
Blame the service, not the users.
I would put Tcl on the list of languages to learn just because it is one very different and it can be used to build some cool projects (the web server).
I believe IE6 is the definition of broken.
Surely even the North Korean Government won't object to a USB drive full of kitten pictures. Or are they sending an unrepresentative sample of the internet? :)
Isn't a lot of France fairly rural and with a low population density - the distribution of pictures in Europe seems to match population density fairly closely:

http://kids.britannica.com/comptons/art-143547/Population-de...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7069013
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How about no country limits? Eh?
That's really the only thing I wonder too now, else I will cancel directly too
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FWIW, I think this is the law being referred to as "closing in 2012 the loophole that allows squatting"

"Offence of Squatting in a Residential Building" https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm...
I'm guessing they make most of their money from the ads - and appreciate the extra they get from paying subscribers enough that it's worth giving them a few extra benefits over the ad removal.
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A rare instance where compiled code is actually slower than before "compilation".
These machines seem like excellent candidates for running Linux with a light desktop environment. If the owners will not spend money on software that's Windows-specific (chances are they'll need modern browsers and Microsoft doesn't offer one for XP), why install Windows on them?
>Simply because it's 'insulting'?

Because he makes a lot of bold/insulting claims and then fails to give one argument most of the time. When he does provide an argument it's very often nonsense (like with his analogy of someone being asked to calculate MAD).

>Should you not be far more concerned if it's true?

I am. I am also concerned about discrediting scientists without providing reasons. Creationism, anti-vaccination and climate change denial are all based on people not trusting scientists and following guys who just tell them scienc is nonsense. Taleb is very close to that line.

> What does it say about you that you are posting angry vitriolic comments online because someone called out scientists misusing statistical tools but that you are not as alarmed that such a thing could be happening?

He didn't call out anybody. He just threw plain insults without reasons. When you call out someone you say what is wrong with what they are doing, like this:
"Hey, bankers, it's unfair that you make huge bets and don't pay out when you lose!",
"Hey, investing firms, it's stupid that you treat a lucky few as celebrities while you can't have any confidence in their performance".
Here is didn't called out people. He just asserted they are using one of the most used mathematical tools incorrectly, that it's because confusion in naming and that it should be disposed of. He didn't give one example of mistakes happening because of it.
Now, people who follow him and believe that he is some kind of authority may start distrusting science or academia (as he is actively hostile vs both) exactly the same way anti-vaccination people do: just because some celebrity told them so.
There is value in calling people like him out on their nonsense.
Seems odd, even with the interesting conditions (no hot water or no electricity in some rooms), that with demand allegedly so high the "rents" are still so low.
Belgian tech startup releases cheap Linux module
That is a very dangerous way to think.

Cultural exchange is the key way to breaking down barriers, the more they learn about us and vis-versa the quicker things will change.
> I have LTE in my area so I may be an exception, but I was listening to Spotify in my car for over an hour yesterday without any WiFi connectivity.

I have a 50MB limit. And the stupid app doesn't let me differentiate between playing offline and playing only when I have wifi, so if wifi is turned on on my mobile and also the 3G (which I might have on because I want to browse some websites when I'm outside my home or going somewhere), and the wifi doesn't work for some reason, Spotify will happily leech off my data plan with me being none the wiser.
The attacker obfuscated "base64_decode" part but not "eval". It's not the first time I see base64_decode() being more the focus of attention than eval, I don't know where it originates from.

Also, if cron infected the PHP files I wonder what infected the crontab. :\
I don't follow. The VPN provider will still have to insist on limits, because the telco will insist on limits. It's not like Facebook is automatically unlimited, it's just limited to what Facebook is willing to pay for its users. It becomes Facebook's problem to understand data usage by its users and its apps and to pay accordingly (or not pay, and let the data start counting once the user is past the 'Facebook limit.')

Therefore, a VPN provider will be in the same position. So instead of paying AT&T for your data plan, you're basically paying the VPN people for your data plan plus privacy from AT&T.
Unreacheable, talk about irony.
> ...apparently SGI destroyed Cray’s old software archives before spinning them off again in the late 90′s.

Why would anyone do this?
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The marked locations in high-res areas like cities are based on both most popular wikipedia articles and most popular foursquare locations in the intense area. Quite likely Alex's place is one of these highly popular foursquare locations.
As far as I know, Fed prints around $80 billion since 2012 and does it today. All this money does not just sit somewhere, but is being "invested" to "stimulate the economy". Sources are listed here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_easing

Then, you ignored the fact that existing Fed policy made possible murder of 1 million people over several years at a cost of $6 million per person. There were no taxpayers or private investors who'd save that much money to invest in a large scale murder operation. It was all possible because of Fed, legal tender laws and tons of regulations that make sure people have to accept USD as money. I think it is important to understand that to see the power that the Fed has and how much lives are affected by that power. It just gives the proper context.
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"Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom of things."

So I think we all read that and think we want to be a bit more like Don Knuth, eh?

I've met Dr Knuth a couple of times. He's a lovely man, rather modest and just a little nervous. There are some in the industry I've met who know of their infamy and carry it less well.

Last time I spoke to Don, he was stood on a low/wide window ledge of Manchester (UK) Town Hall watching the Olympic flame make it's arrival there in the Spring of 2012.

We were both attending a conference held there in honour of Alan Turing's 100th birthday. Also in the room were Fred Brooks, Vint Cerf, Tony Hoare, Samuel Klein and various other amazing names from computer science and a few other names of note who aren't quite so "classic" yet (David Ferrucci of IBM Watson project, Gary Kasparov, etc.).

This is the first and last time I will ever name drop, and I swear I have no idea how I ended up in that room with that company. But it was pretty cool.

And Don did not fall out of the window, and I was relieved I did not witness same. That would have scarred me for life.

Anyway, he's got the right idea. We should all be more like Don.
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I don't get the presidential part. Lots of statements about response time being better, then the guy with nearly double the load time won the election? Not that I'm arguing against page speed, just found that odd in the info graphic..

Also, it wouldn't hurt to perfect your load times! http://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=h... 54/100 mobile & 77/100 desktop when I tested it
JSF to become action based framework?
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> A single core 1.5GHz Pentium 4, with 512MB of RAM, running XP delivers all of the same features that Windows 7 delivers with a quad-core 3GHz iCore7 and 8GB or RAM.
A Pentium 2 running at 300MHZ, with 64MB of RAM, running Windows NT 4, delivers all of the same features that Windows XP delivers with a beefy 1.5Ghz Pentium 4 with 512MB of RAM.

At some point old technology will be refreshed. How far do you want to go with this?
Millions of people who will continue to not care what OS they are running.
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Ask HN: How do I get better at delegating?
I'm pretty good at writing software (in my mid-30s). Since I was a kid, I wanted to go into a leadership role. Even though I'm in my mid 30s, I am considered an exceptional individual contributor. No management experience except interns. On my most recent project, I explicitly tried to delegate tasks to other devs (not as proficient as myself). I kept helping to the point where I did most of the design/code myself. I recognize that this is holding me back. Any other mid-career techies having the same issues? Should I just give up my dream of being a leader and settle for what I've got now or can I make the change to management?
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:blog.s...
What happened to "A compromised machine can never be trusted again"?
> Alternatively, I think many Linux distros work better than XP will come August 2015.

I know you probably live on another planet, but, here on Earth, I've been using Linux and BSD since before Windows Vista was launched and I can tell you it has always worked much better than Windows on the same hardware. I'll give you I am not an idiot and I will not pick hardware that is not supported under Linux because the manufacturer doesn't want it to be, but, so far, my experience has been very nice.

Every once and then I use Windows - I've been assigned Windows computers on several occasions - and I always notice how convoluted, absolutely illogical and inconsistent an operating environment it is, with scars that lead back to its predecessor, that half-assed copy of CP/M. It's only suitable for human consumption because humans have been subjected to it since the early 90's and have adapted to it. Any human who has been freed from this torment will resent deeply having it forced upon them again.
I've just left my current mobile phone provider (Vodafone) because of the continual problems with their website. Throughout the call to request my PAC (unlock) code every employee I spoke with didn't believe me when I said that I wanted to leave because of their site. I was offered increasingly more desperate financial 'offers' without acknowledgement of my actual complaint. Some big business' still don't relate web performance with user happiness - disappointing.
Presumably PHP itself, no? Assuming it was running with a few too many permissions, or even under root...
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Only for residential properties, unfortunately.

Still, it's a start and there are indications that the government is taking the problem seriously. Last year, MPs were asked to provide evidence of the scale and impact of squatting in commercial premises in their constituencies, which provided an opportunity for constituents to highlight the problems caused by squatters.
No. In case of burglary, the victim looses its possession. In the case of squatting, the possession is still theirs. It is only the status of the property that changes from "vacant" to "in use". Note that the change of status is temporary and reversible (as opposed to burglary).
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tcl was one of the first "respectable" languages i used (having learned basic, some java, and bash/awk scripting). i still dislike it for its wonkiness, but i did use it towards the end to learn some FP paradigms. (tcl, it turns out, is big in network device testing. ugh.)

let's hope the next 25 years don't ever contain tcl's breakout year.
Connectivity problems for sure.
I'm not sure your link is relevant to him as he said he does not want to see too much his colleagues so he can see more his family and his friends. Therefore, he is not alone.
A government shouldn't be in the business of telling people or corporations how to use their property.
Not really related but any update on releasing the HN code again?

[the current release is pretty old: https://github.com/wting/hackernews]
Also the ability to play whichever songs or albums you want which is more like owning the albums (or maybe more like being able to listen to whatever you want in a record store that you live and work in) rather than hoping songs/artists you like come up on shuffle.
Too bad you can't eat a CD.
thanks. this is a good resource :) I've explored most of these courses on Coursera over the last year before finally deciding to go to grad school. For me, the biggest factor was motivation (in terms of actually doing the assignments and projects), networking, and getting internship opportunities. However, I still am using the coursera lectures as a supplement to my courses and it helps a lot.

Regardless of any path you take, these are very exciting times to be in computing sciences. All the best to everyone and keep upgrading your skills and knowledge :)
Loved this from the announcement:

In other words, Tcl as a language is what would happen if Lisp and csh met at a party, got way too drunk, hooked up, got pregnant, and kept drinking throughout the pregnancy.

When I was using it (early 1990's) I really appreciated that Tcl provided C coders with an easy way to create a scripting environment for your libraries. And with Tk you could get a GUI running pretty quickly as well. The structure of the source code was also very neat and well managed making it easy to understand and extend.

In many ways I see Lua as the spiritual successor to Tcl; neatly designed for embedding and extension.
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My friend is in one of these in North London - they say it's great, although it is sharing. Sharing with about thirty others, but in their wing or flat there's about five. It does appear that most properties have shared space, so you get a bedroom but have to share the bathroom and living spaces.
I'd expect the old insecure joomla install was the original source of the infection, the cron was just there to automatically re-infect it without the attacker needing to run the same remote exploit repeatedly
The OP is saying "the loss of up to two disks", maybe a hard drive failure?
This bit from the article linked baffled me:

"The housing situation in London is shocking. Young people, students and people who are low paid just cannot get places to live.

"Rather than going for that legal framework, we should be looking at ways where the owners of those buildings are encouraged to enter in to short term agreements that people will leave as soon as they need the building.

Does she realise that she's advocating the creation of formalised (temporary) slums? These are office buildings, in no way fitted out for residential use.
Ouya doesn't lock you into a contract, so the prices aren't really comparable. HDMI connections on phones are a lot slower than dedicted screens due to buffer copying - MHL 3.0 is supposed to fix that. Do the cheap USB pens have comparable graphics, USB expandability, and look as good as the Ouya? :)
A properly secured property, where you make sure all windows are repaired and doors and windows are locked, is basically safe from squatters

A common tactic is to do it in two passes. First one dude comes along, smashes in the locks and walks away. Then a couple of night later a second group of dudes come along and find the house unlocked and 'legally' move in. So you basically have to have security people check your buildings at least once a night.
Just the time you spend not working and making backups, doing the upgrade and dealing with the various historical artifacts it leaves behind will end up costing more than the license.

The last time I upgraded my Fedora box (with fedup) I spent most of the duration working uninterrupted, then had the upgrade perform itself over lunch. The last time I did it on Ubuntu, I worked throughout the process, only having to stop for the reboot required to switch between major kernel versions. Minor kernel changes happen without rebooting.
Seems like a reaction to the launch of Beats Music next week. Beats won't have a free service so Spotify seems to bolstering there's so that free customers have less of a reason to switch and they have more time to try to convert them to paying subscribers.
Do you realize that Spotify would be happy with your money if they had the licenses from the Majors? It's not up to them. Same for Deezer by the way, it's not available either in tons of countries such as Peru where I used to live.
> It's painfully bloated compared to 10 years+ ago.

You can always install fvwm and boot into it. If you are so inclined, even CDE is open source these days.
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"your typical squatter is simply a criminal scumbag"

I know quite a few people who've lived in squats from time to time over the years, and they're generally lovely people.

So, you know, we can all have an opinion.
Tcl spread further than you think, if you think computing begins and ends at websites. I shake my head sadly when I see guys running around reinventing badly all the things Tcl did well. Node.js being one of the most egregious examples, but there are others, Enaml, Lua, the vast tomes written on Ruby deployment when it's trivial in Tcl...
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No the Cray OS would have preceded UNICOS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray_Operating_System

Also some customers developed their own operating systems.

Note that systems like this also required a separate management computer to boot the mainframe and load the OS.
AFAIK, the Spotify desktop app throttles the amount of upload so that it shouldn't disturb the user (or at least, it used to do that). If it used up all my upload bandwidth, I would consider that a bug and file a report.
Don't give up on your dreams they are precious.Why don't you join a kickass start up and focus on creating stuff & managing very small teams - may be 1 or 2 developers?
I haven't been excited about my career in a while but I am getting more and more excited about data science. I have a new desire to learn and to actually finish my masters degree.

Thanks for putting these resources together.
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Misleading title. I was assuming that the article would be about backdoors to crond, not that an exploit script gets reinstalled via regular user cronjobs.
I'm sure it has been asked many times before, but I'd love to hear the latest thinking... Why in 2013 is HN still running on bespoke hardware and software? If a startup came to you with this sort of legacy thinking you'd laugh them out of the room.
may i ask where are the machines hosted? is that on AWS? if not, why don't you move to a more reliable hosting, like AWS?
Based on the twitter status feed they were doing some planned maintenance (moving to a new server) but had to migrate back to the old one due to performance issues with the new one.

Sounds like they then had to move to the new server again as the old one was failing and they're now working on the performance issues.

Source: https://twitter.com/hnstatus
Surely you mean "fame" and not "infamy".