skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Demonstrated SQL injection to a colleague on the live website. Bringing a sample URL up into the address bar, I explain, "You see, that ASP script takes the value of ?urlparameter and updates the record - but what if I modify urlparameter so that instead of 1, it is... (types) semicolon dash dash DROP TABLE usermaster (presses enter)"

"Shit. Well, as I have just demonstrated, it becomes possible to wipe out a million user login credentials at the touch of a button. So now we'll be needing to restore that from the backups which we don't have." Luckily, and ONLY BY CHANCE, I happened to have a copy of that table exported for other reasons from a few days back.

Lessons learned: Never press enter.
Well, Eric Topol[1] argues that evidence-based medicine, coupled with copious amounts of data and better tools, will allow treatments to be much more individualized, not less.

[1] http://www.scripps.edu/research/faculty/topol

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2013/04/topol_on_the_cr.htm...

http://www.amazon.com/Creative-Destruction-Medicine-Digital-...
It’s All About The Tastemakers: How To Become An Influencer In Your Industry
A relative of mine earns around 16k. Family of 3.
The result was that he wasn't covered for earning less than 19k.

They gave no tax credits(discounts) whatsoever and took him directly to buy plans for paying the full amount.

There is medicaid but not every state is accepting new people.
There is no way you can leave a juicy line like that at the end and not expect me to ask for the story!
In my experience cafes are usually happy for you to stay for hours if they are quiet. I've never tried in a busy cafe, because spending hours in a busy cafe doesn't appeal to me.
They have also eaten large Motorola losses for quite a few quarters now. So it's not just the purchase price that is on the cost side.
Give it a few years. Paralyzing fear of death sinks in at age 32.5.
But in food and beverages, best of breed is never, can never, should never be at scale.

But at scale it is far, far easier to guarantee quality and consistency of product, and to gain the experience needed to achieve best-of-breed products.

Unless you are implying that the imperfections in the production process are part of the artisanality?
Give HN: I have an idea but I am already doing something else.....
I have an idea for an "Adult Social Networking" concept, say Friends With Benefits. I have a great domain name.

I am already working on something else that is totally where I want to be.

So who wants the idea and domain name?

No, I am not just going to give it away to the first person. I am going to e-mail interview for it as well as ask some technical questions about your background.

So e-mail is in my profile. Please allow me adequate time to respond.
Next year, Microsoft will buy Lenovo for $22 billion.

It will nicely round out Microsoft's already expansive Xbox+Surface+Lumia hardware division with a full range of PCs and x86 servers.

Perhaps more pressingly, the deal will also ensure that the only growing PC maker stays in Microsoft's camp and abandons its flirtations with Android...

The last remains of Motorola Mobility will be dissolved into the MS division that was formerly Nokia Mobile Devices, completing a surreal cycle of acquisitions.
I love it! I registered one of the domains with Namecheap for 5 years. Hope you get some commission from it.
Oh, well, if it's in SV and NYC, then it's clearly ready for the rest of us!
Enough is enough with the Facebook app
Lenovo is getting 2,000 patents, not 10,000.

http://investor.google.com/releases/2014/0129.html
Why would converting deliquefication terminals make sense? By the time we convert them, wouldn't you expect technology transfer of fracking to have spread internationally (AND be much cheaper), making exporting less economically feasible?
I await the shit storm when a public figures medical records are mined by the media divulging something controversial.
I wish I didn't know the stomach-plunge feeling of realizing you've done this
I think most billionaires are not scientists and don't realize that life extension is any more possible than magic.

Once some steps toward life extension start happening without billionaire's help, and start to become part of popular culture, then billionaires will realize it's a thing.

Also, inertia. You probably strive to live a similar lifestyle as your parents and your friends, rather than (for example) selling your possessions and spending your life backpacking the world, even if the latter might rationally be a better option if it occured to you.
oh man. the idempotent queue thing reminds me of the time i was working for a very-early-stage startup, and we'd managed to persuade an exec from a pretty big company to sign up for a trial. our ceo got a very angry call the next morning; the guy had woken up to 300 email messages because our queue had hiccuped and, yeah, not idempotent.
> even the poorest people here have access to (not very healthy) food

I saw just a story yesterday (?) on I think KPIX news of a family bringing in less than $1700 a month (living in San Jose mind you) and they filmed her going to the food bank. Her grocery bags were filled with fresh produce! I thought that was pretty neat.

Maybe staged for the cameras or a lucky break.
that shouldn't be a screw up, but a fire's baptism for your company's infrastructure
Really weird. I wonder if they have seen it.
Thank you, your description does make Goldman Sachs sound to me like a boiler room operation to identify marks (or muppets if you prefer), who can be sold doomed products in order to make money for GS and their real customers (people like Paulson). I can't imagine why anyone does business with such sharks unless they have to, and it does sound like it could be legislated against. I'll have a read of the documents so I understand it better though.
Guessing that's in response to this thread instead?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7144369
In my experience, a lot of the indie espresso places do espresso-based drinks at a lower price than at Starbucks, but at a much higher quality.

Starbucks doesn't seem to have a problem finding people to pay Starbucks-level prices...
The problem is not with the concepts of SBM and EBM but with the fact that they are not understood and applied well by doctors, and often just translate into not being able to think beyond 'results' handed down from the establishment.
Blacklight Power Demo Report
Damnit, I used plenty of moto G's for android development they were great mainly because you could actually buy unlike Nexus constant shortages. Lenovo like most Chinese corps not friendly to open source I imagine they will replace fastboot with some crippled proprietary junk, and be unfriendly to kernel mods
What I fail to understand in many of these arguments regarding income inequality, is why inequality matters?

Personally, I think the argument shouldn't be focused on how much the top 1% have, but rather on how well (or currently not well) the bottom 20% are living. If everybody has effective health care, abundant availability of healthy food, access to knowledge and the ability to be a productive member of society who doesn't have to work more than 40 hours a week in order to struggle to survive, who cares if the top guy earns 10000x more.

Do we need to demonize the top 1% in order to motivate us to help the bottom 20-50%?
Yeah, this "not wanting to share" mindset of hipsters is probably the most repulsive thing about them to me.
This comment on the post summarizes well

>> Nicolas Charbonnier

Moto total cost $12.5B to Goog in 2011:
- $3.2B Moto's 2011 cash
- $2.4B Moto's 2011 deferred tax assets
- $2.35B Moto's Set-top-box business sold in 2012
- $75M Moto's factories business sold in 2013 (incl 7K factory employees)
- $2.91B Moto's Mobility business sold in 2014

Thus Moto's remaining assets including patents, buildings
(in Chicago and elsewhere), probably a good part of the
12K employees cost Goog $1.56B

Doing that, Goog may have well protected and guided the
Android ecosystem along in the past couple years.﻿
The worst one I ever heard about was while I was at a potato processing plant in Idaho where they make McDonald's hashbrowns.

After the potatoes are peeled and washed they are run through a pipe with blades to slice the potatoes into french fries. These blades are sharpened with lasers and are insanely sharp because they need to cut a lot of potatoes before being changed.

One day they were shutdown and it was time to change the blades. The lady doing the change placed the new blades on the table and bumped the table when she turned to grab a wrench from her toolbox. The new blades started to fall and she instinctively reached out to grab them to prevent them from falling to the floor.

She ended up not grabbing anything because the blades sliced her fingers clean off. They took her to the hospital and due to the blades extreme sharpness, the cut was so clean reattachment was a pretty easy procedure. I don't know if she had any long-term negative effects from the incident.

Safety is important, be aware of your surroundings and don't instinctively grab things you shouldn't be touching in the first place.
> Burning the gas as waste contributes CO2 to the
> atmosphere, but burning the gas for productive
> reasons still produces that same CO2.

True, but if has to be burned, it may as well be productive. Moreover, if it's burned unproductively now, then presumably there is other productive CO2 being released now as well (unless we start accepting black-outs). There could be as much as two units of CO2 being released now, versus a single unit of CO2 otherwise. So that's more CO2 over a short time-scale.

There are time-scales over which releasing CO2 is more or less harmful; I don't pretend to know the critical ones. However, it seems self evident that if that rate of release can be slowed, then its consequences will be less harmful, even if the total amount of CO2 released by T_{infinity} is exactly the same.
I love these topics.

~ 2007, working in a large bioinformatics group with our own very powerful cluster, mainly used for protein folding. Example job: fold every protein from a predicted coding region in a given genome. I was mostly doing graph analysis on metabolic and genetic networks though, and writing everything in Perl.

I had a research deadline coming up in a month, but I was also about to go on a hunting trip and be incommunicado for two weeks. I had to kick off a large job (about 75,000 total tasks) but I figured spread over our 8,000 node cluster it would be okay (GPFS storage, set up for us by IBM). I kicked off the jobs as I walked out the door for the woods.

Except I had been doing all my testing of those jobs locally, and my Perl environment was configured slightly differently on the cluster, so while I was running through billions of iterations on each node I was writing the same warning to STDOUT, over and over. It filled up the disks everywhere and caused an epic I/O traffic jam that crashed every single long-running protein folding job. The disk space issues caused some interesting edge cases and it was basically a few days before the cluster would function properly and not lose data or crash jobs. The best part was that I was totally unreachable and thus no one could vent their ire, causing me to return happy and well-rested to an overworked office brimming with fermented ill-will. And I didn't get my own calculations done either, causing me to miss a deadline.

Lessons learned:

1) PRODUCTION != DEVELOPMENT ever ever ever ever
2) Big jobs should be proceeded by small but qualitatively identical test jobs
3) Don't launch any multi-day builds on a Friday
4) Know what your resource consumption will mean for your colleagues in the best and worst cases
5) Make sure any bad code you've written has been aired out before you go on vacation
6) Don't use Perl when what you really needed was Hadoop
We just recently reviewed the Therac-25 case study as my organization is working towards ISO 13485 certification. I wonder whether the OP's organization was using ISO development practices.
> Doesn't hurt me if they can reproduce it on a mass scale.

But they can't, because we're talking about production lots that are on the order of a few hundred pounds of coffee, That doesn't scale far (a busy cafe will burn through 15lbs a day easily, plus wastage, retail bags, etc)
Physics Library for JavaScript
Not exactly licensing terms but page 3 of the price list states that extracts subject to an annual fee will continue to be charged that fee until it is certified that all hard and soft copies of the data have been destroyed.

Other than that I'm guessing they will enforce some pretty draconian restrictions on publishing and sharing the data since doing so would undermine their ability to sell the data.
HDMI (v1.4) alone is capable of providing power to the Chromecast, pin 18 is specced for +5V/50ma.

Not every TV/monitor supports this since there aren't that many devices out in the field that utilize HDMI power, but if your TV does provide power over the HDMI port then the Chromecast can get everything it needs just from the HDMI port.
The fact that they're really focused on small business largely deflates the whole "younger users aren't using Facebook" argument. Brand advertisers target younger users more so than small business advertisers. I think ultimately it's a bad thing for Facebook that larger advertisers won't be able to reach younger users through their platform, but in the short-term it won't matter; they're waay more focused on SMBs.
Opportunity here for the motivated - the prices seem high, so arbitrage the price by reselling the data at lower prices to multiple buyers.

Bonus: you could set up a system where a person's data gets cheaper as more people query it!

(Not for me thanks.)
Yes, there are big data opportunities, and yes, they're already being done! companies do (regularly) get contracted to provide analysis of the data, however they have to stay within a strict set of data protection rules, and are highly accountable.
Interesting, Google really really really doesn't want to be in the physical goods business, and yet they are buying robot companies. This is the first time I believe a large 'service' company is struggling with businesses in the "goods" side of the economy, we have seen many companies like IBM who started out all 'goods' and have been moving into all 'services'. Pretty good win for China as well.
"Do you know what they call 'alternative medicine' that's been proved to work? Medicine."

(from http://www.altairiv.net/Storm.html)
I live down the street from one in BK and it is always packed. There is also another 3 other "local" brands within a few blocks that also have very good coffee. I'm not quite sure that BB will harm the local market unless they somehow magically sprout a gazillion stores like Starbucks. Even though they are all relatively close to one another, you usually go to the one that is on your frequent walking path, and walking 5 extra blocks in 10F wind chill might dissuade you from going out of your way :)

edit: typo
I think every new hire at Subway does this. They did in my tenure there. I did it more than once...
California regulator seeks to shut down 'learn to code' bootcamps
The Lessons I've Learned from Rocky
Well, good for them, but I hope it doesn't ruin the product the same way Hershey's ruined Scharffen Berger chocolate.
technically, it is pretty simple and effective.

If several people would claim independent invention, it is obviously a statement about obviousness. So the patent would already be invalid under the current law.

Now, since everyone involved in patents, they don't want to interpret the law that way. So there is a non-written agreement that no one will go that route. and that is idiotic.
How the web makes a real life Breaking Bad possible--and legal.
Designing your own narcotics online isn’t just easy—it can be legal too. How do we know? We did it.
3rd Flu Death Reported in SF
Who packs their cell phone in a box when moving???
Heh, mostly off topic: I just bought the book "Anonymizing Health Data"[0]. No significance to the article, just amused at the timing. Looks like this is going to be a problem domain moving forward with my career.

[0] http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920029229.do
I was really hoping they'd be using the Nest acquisition to get some more hardware design talent on the Motorola team, but now I'm just baffled...
Many many many years ago, I wanted to use Mathematica, but I didn't like the language (just the algebra system, plotting, etc).

I wrote a python bridge, which was actually pretty cool. It's probably the neatest, cleanest, most CS-y code I've written (it converted Python objects to Mathematica objects over MathLink. It integrated with Numeric Python.

https://code.google.com/p/pymathematic/source/browse/trunk/e...
Will data be made available outside the NHS?* (PDF)
[england.nhs.uk] http://goo.gl/CxqFVa

* FAQ 39.
Netsol tries to force 4,625% price hike for domain protection
Mentioning the term "first to market" was unfortunate, but the key phrase in that sentence was "network effects", and Windows, Office, and Facebook all great examples of the advantage of network effects.
Yup, same here. Either that or a Moto Nexus. I really like the way their newest phones look.
I think you can be pretty sure that no company will buy Lenovo. Not only because it's big and expensive but because it's a chinese company. It's one of chinas gateways into the western market. The government won't let someone buy Lenovo, for sure. If someone buys a company it will be Lenovo, increasing its portfolio and pushing into US and european markets.
the first step into creating an open source knowledge engine

I'm working on this too, but I'm tackling it from the non-math side (ie, NLP+Knowledge Graph).

one of the most challenging technical problems we faced was free-form input

Yes, it's a horrible problem(!) I'm using Quepy[1] (which in turn uses NLTK), and it does a decent job. It's still not automatically general purpose (you need to write code to map classes of queries), but it can handle questions like "Who directed The Social Network"[2].

The other thing is that W|A has trillions of data points and what I am only allowed to describe as the beginnings of a semantic network for inferring relations between them. It was a vastly overcomplicated system that was difficult to work with, so I am quite confident that some day there will be an open-source alternative that anyone can contribute to.

This is interesting to me (for obvious reasons).

Can you expand on what made it so complicated (I assume beyond the standard RDF-style inference engines)?

[1] http://quepy.machinalis.com/

[2] http://quepy.machinalis.com/#Who%20directed%20The%20Social%2...?
It's just 3 options from the top of my head. Attribution, Non Commercial, No Derivatives. And then any combination of those. I find them very easy to understand, especially compared to some custom licenses I have seen where I have to think hard if I can manage to abide the terms.
Correct me if I am wrong, but this is just guides provided by Github. I think it would be great if we could fork a guide and create our own.
Still feeling my way around in the new job, I was fiddling with a backup script, got distracted, turned back, and dropped the production database. Two minutes later "Hey, is the website down"? Then I look at the prompt...

I run around like a headless chicken trying to find who knows the right backup to use and so forth, and I can't figure out why everyone is so calm and collected about it. Production was down/shit, I hope I still have a job. Turns out we had no active clients at the time - no-one was accessing the site. We'd finished one run and were in 'dead time' before the next. My next project involved implementing coloured prompts and I no longer leave production ssh sessions lying around when I've finished with them.

My CTO still has me listed as "database [vacri]" in his phone...
You got the whole coffee thing ass-backwards.

It doesn't matter if it's "artisanal". What only matters is if it tastes good. But if it tastes good because it's artisanal, then it's certainly a problem. Though not with Blue Bottle, but you and your snobbery. How the f#ck getting great coffee in more places is "bad for all of us". Do you actually read what you type?

> But in food and beverages, best of breed is never, can never, should never be at scale.

Of course, it can! Just look at wines, look at cheeses, look a damn puy lentils. Look at caviar. You are just making shit up.
Blue Bottle's secret to success is great PR and a lighter roast than most of their competitors which results in a milder, sweeter cup of coffee. Otherwise they buy their green coffee from the same sources and use the same equipment and techniques (however they were an early cold brew adopter). And I think their service is subpar - slow and not particularly friendly - but people put up with it.

$26 million seems like a lot but perhaps this is enough to build a brand/business around. Both Starbucks and Peets had similar origins and are now worth $55 billion and $1 billion, respectively. And it always helps when your product is addictive.
Good point. The Chinese market is all about political approval and you're expected to bend over backwards for them. But then again... Google has pretty much burned that bridge pulling out of China.
whoa! sign me up! I wanna develop something with this speed
Snapdragon COM powers wearable and mini-PC
Posting this here is like bringing a bottle of bourbon to an AA meeting.
Wikileaks clone for Ukrainians
This is an awesome, simple idea. There's something to be said about simplicity. I wish I had an idea like that!
Causes of Justinian's Plague and Black Death revealed
I worry about patents. Can Google ensure they will never be used for aggression prior to selling it?
Better article: http://investor.google.com/releases/2014/0129.html

Assuming that google keeps the majority of/important patents then they basically bought the patents for $4.74 billion. They sold the "set top" division for $2.35 billion and now they're selling the mobility division for $2.91 billion. They also kept about $3 billion in cash that Motorolla was holding when they bought them for $13 billion.

That's not even counting whatever tax incentives they get from these deals. So all in all, it isn't as bad of a deal as it looks like on the surface (in fact I assume it is what Google was planning from the beginning).
"You are a racist"

Really? You are accusing me of thinking I am superior based on genetics (which is essentially what racism is), because I made a cultural observation which you don't agree with?

I don't like the culture in the United States' Deep South, so I guess I'm a racist for that too. I don't like Saudi Arabian culture either, again I'm racist, right?

If you don't like me ascribing things that are personal to an entire culture, then have at it. But to infer that its based on race is absurd. One of my main mentors in my career is a man who came to this country from India. I have immense respect for him, and according to you he falls into the "elitist" category due to his withering criticism of Indian culture. I'm sure that because he was born to a Dalit family you would call him biased. I think he just gets it.

I love how when a person of Indian descent disagrees with you, you label him an "elitist."

No True Scotsman. Look it up.

By the way, the diplomat who got arrested here deserved it. She should have done what everyone else in America who can't afford a live-in servant does. Don't have a fucking live-in servant. Wash your own damn dishes like the rest of us do.