skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The downvotes are no surprise. It's illegal so say anything negative about them, didn't you know?

Personally, I agree with you. I've had some experience of them, and was shocked by the general level of inexperience (they build web sites, with virtually no enterprise experience), the unwavering and dogmatic commitment to agile and open source (don't misunderstand me - both are good things but there are times where it just! doesn't! make! sense!), and the lack of security understanding.

UK government security in general has always been compliance-oriented. Want to run a system at a particular sensitivity level? Implement this checklist of controls. Security should be risk-based, and that doesn't happen. Not even at gov.uk.

Some of their exemplar projects have been running since 2011 and still aren't complete. But they're being heralded as poster-children of agile. So spin isn't limited to Whitehall...

The team is talented, without a doubt. It would be nice to see it mature.
Is it backlit display? That would be infuriating at night.

From the sounds of things the Tesla's UI design is abysmal.
Fiverr seems to be facing Outage due to Server Issues
> Currently we are working on the admin interface

What? Why is there no mention of the live markdown preview. That's what ghost is.

Don't tell me how you've written a database layer, and I can have access to the stupid ghost themes marketplace. I really don't care remotely about that; wordpress has themes. And it talks to a database.

Tell me how you've got an amazing markdown php library with a websocket connection that streams live updates, or even better, how you've made that into a component you can drop into any php website.

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Yes, that's typically how it works -- at some point, the concrete syntax tree has to be converted to abstract syntax.

I wouldn't call it jumping through hoops though. Rather, for me, it's a natural consequence of separation of concerns. I try to build parsers that only know about concrete syntax. A later pass over the CST is responsible for building the AST, which prevents coupling of the parser to the abstract syntax.

YMMV. There's more than one way to skin this cat.
They have also blocked in Germany the streaming of Norwegian Pirate Party General Assembly: http://piratetimes.net/gema-is-blocking-the-live-stream-of-t...
Tungsten carbide and uranium cement have been postulated. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_weapon#Orbital_bombardme... Interestingly, these are not prohibited by any treaties. The US Air Force estimated a 1-foot (.3 meter) diameter tungsten pole would impact ~Mach 10. It would weight 9 tons and have the same destructive force as 7.5 tons of dynamite, but it would only take 15 minutes to get anywhere in the world and there would be no ICBM launch warning. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_bombardment#Project_Th...
That people are uneducated/ignorant of technology?
Good luck fixing that one!

Taking advantage of people who don't understand is still unethical, even if you say "oh well that's the problem of education."
+1 for dwm. It's <2k lines, so it's easy to modify, and it's really simple, so it's easy to get started with.
The problem is already there. Install Wordpress, buy a beautiful theme and try to configure it. You would be frustrated after 5 minutes…
I'm thinking he never changed the actual flight info, he just manually "photoshopped" the data on the ticket. Even with the barcodes, many airports and lounges do not actually check the barcodes, they just visually verify the info.

There was a story a few years back when Delta and some others started doing boarding by zones. People were doing online checking, saving their printable ticket as a PDF or whatever, and editing that file to change the "Zone 4" text/image to "Zone 1", and then getting early boarding.

If you travel with any regularity you soon realize that all these special checks and verifications are pretty weak. Even when you are in a place that DOES use the barcode reader to pull the data, it wouldn't be that hard to hack the barcode. The reader devices appear to be non-networked, so they are just scanning a code and displaying text. I haven't personally tried it, but that kind of "encryption", if there is any, is pretty easy to reverse engineer. You can have multiple data samples (tickets), and you know at least some of the key info contained within (passenger name, flight info, etc.) and you can experiment endlessly until you figure it out.
If Swiss authorities conclude that the screen is, in fact, illegal to operate in its current configuration, it is probably only a matter of a quick software update to cars that are located in Switzerland.

In fact, the car's computer system could use the GPS to determine whether it is in Switzerland or not and modify the touchscreen settings accordingly.
I can't remember the last guest opinion piece I read which put the bio line at the top. It's almost always the author's name up front, then the bio at the bottom. Here's one from the Times just this morning:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/04/opinion/dont-ask-your-doct...
Using Thunderbird is not a solution. If Google or any of the other services had their own client that properly integrated with back-end services like key exchange, key signing, etc. you would not have to understand and implement identity verification yourself.

You are setting up some straw men for demolition. As Skype showed, before it was nerfed, there is no need for a client interface, especially a mobile client interface not to support security that is so easy that it is equivalent to an unsecured product.
Microsoft LogParser is not only an established utility, it's extremely fast, too.
I don't see anything but a message thanking me. Even on mobile, no video whatsoever. Why's that?
Satellites in LEO, probably, albeit at enormously wasteful expense compared to, say, an SM-3, or some other sort of anti-satellite missile. (Ships with the Aegis guided missile system mount SM-3s, and they've been successfully tested against satellites in low orbit.)

I haven't time at the moment to check, but I'd assume GPS and GLONASS birds are in geostationary orbit (or whatever they call that now), which would complicate matters significantly. I imagine the Air Force probably has some sort of weapon in mind for such cases, but I wouldn't begin to know how to guess what that is, except presumably a big rocket, whose payload is a small rocket, whose payload in turn is a tiny warhead with some very precise attitude jets.

NASA never wanted a "space truck". Ever see 2001: A Space Odyssey? NASA wanted something along the lines of the spaceplane/station/moonbase system depicted in the first act; the Space Shuttle program was all they could sell to Congress, largely thanks to the efforts of now-deceased then-Senator William Proxmire. (If you've ever heard a science-fiction fan curse that name and wondered why, now you know; if you want the full story, read the book whose URL I just edited into my prior comment.)

And, yes, "its [sic] easy to point the conspiracy theory finger when the military is involved." It's easy to do a lot of things, which is not the same as saying those things are sensible or worth doing; ignorance, especially of the trivially addressable sort, is no excuse for foolishness.
I don't think the OP implied it had anything to do with race. I maybe wrong.
Office Space references always a nice touch!
I've been on Facebook for 9 years (apparently) and this actually did a pretty amazing job picking out the most important moments from my life over that period of time. It actually managed to jerk a tear from my eye as well but it cheated by showing a picture of my mom who passed away last year. YMMV, obviously, but for people who have been diligent about providing Facebook with curated content from their lives this will most likely hit home for them.
An interview with founder of Medisafe – an app that kills meds non-adherence
Yes, they did:

"""Saulet has long history of misconduct, with approximately 120 allegations against him and 21 cases of sustained misconduct (more than any other officer in the department). The sheriff's letter says that Saulet repeatedly was told to improve interactions with the public, and provided with remarkable investments of coaching and counseling. Saulet underwent three performance-improvement plans, two training sessions, and two multi-visit sessions with a social psychologist, coaching sessions with supervisors, and 80 hours of time off without pay."""
Orbital based weapons aren't really an advantage, as it turns out. A weapon in orbit has to wait until it's over the target before it can attack, which could be a long wait. It also has all of the problems of putting anything in orbit, maintenance, station keeping, longevity, etc. In contrast, a weapon designed to fly through space on a ballistic trajectory can be much simpler and cheaper. Moreover, because they start on the Earth ICBMs can always hit their targets within a single sub-orbital hop, they don't have to wait for attack windows to line up.
>>If you have patience, perhaps for a doomsday weapon or strategic deterrent, you don't need wings, giant engines, or much of a parachute. Its obviously a sensor platform not a weapon.

Thank you. The other thing is; everything that goes up must come down. With the X-37 you have control of WHERE it comes down, and less exclusively, when. So much less risk of your tech falling into enemy hands.
> It is interesting your example about Matlab. Did you design it with vectorisation in mind?

Sure did. I've been using MATLAB since before it had a JIT. In fact, for the Julia code I didn't even devectorize which would play to its relative strengths. I also didn't have to pull out a profiler for all of this, it just happened with the first stab at it.

>Since right now I'm finishing up stuff it wouldn't make sense to re-write all my Matlab processing routines into Julia.

No need to, just do what I did and pick one function that's called in a tight loop and try testing that. If you don't find the performance that you'd like, post a code example on the julia-users mailing list (under the Community link on the website). Folks will either help you to 1) improve your code with Julia's design in mind, or 2) use your code as a test case to improve Julia itself. The community is very helpful.

A peek at the performance tips section in the manual is a good idea. Don't forget to wrap your code in a function for testing, and to "warm up" your code (= give the JIT a chance) before calling the @time macro on your function. Good luck!
In the article it says he rescheduled his ticket more than 300 times so he might have just always moved it a day or two and basically flew every day... ;)
"Surely there must be a better way for users to be directed to legitimate sources of the music they seek instead of illegal ones, a way that preserves the integrity and genius of Google’s search algorithm but also protects the rights of creators and the businesses that invest in them."

There may be, RIAA. Are YOU going to pay for it?

Perhaps the better solution for Google would be to simply blackhole all searches for RIAA artists. After all, wouldn't want anything illegal sneaking through...
Why? Don't think of Microsoft as it is now, think of it as it was 22 years ago.
You probably use services running on Microsoft-based platforms all the time if you e.g. have a bank account, use commercial airports, have insurance of any form, etc. Those big numbers you're waving away represent real, significant businesses.
An ironically childish and vapid response.
> There is the tacit assumption that silicon-based AI tech is somehow superior to our own carbon-based 'tech' and will displace it.

I doubt it's superior or will replace carbon-based tech (no quotes here; biology is but nanotechnology that was not made by us), but there are two particular improvements introducing human-designed technology could bring:

- electrical signals in the brain run at 200Hz; minds could in principle work much faster, were they made of something different

- human-designed technology is easier to modify, reprogram and adapt (mostly becasue we built it, so we know how to do it); the idea is that a mind built with it could be made to be able to rewrite/rebuild itself, with luck launching into recursive improvement loop, where a mind redesigns itself to be better, which then goes on to improve itself more, etc.
My Argentinian TA once said "if I have an accent and you have an accent, we might have a problem." That said, all my coworkers are Chinese (many have never been to the states or outside of china) and I don't have a problem with anyone's accent (they can barely understand my Chinese though).
> You must not work in the corporate world.

That's an interesting assumption.

> Microsoft has a massive foothold in enterprise

There is nothing in my comment to suggest otherwise.

On a meta note, I've been getting these "corrections" a lot here on HN lately, I'm just not sure why that's happening. Am I just too sensitive? Should I be more explicit in my comments? I'm not being touchy, I'd really like to know.

> I do hope the changing of the guard will help microsoft to build better products that integrate with OS's beside windows.

Agreed, it would be great if they aimed for integration as a more general goal too.
Heavy furniture is always a challenge to move
Indeed. Enterprise is where Microsoft has the most traction, and benefits most inertia and lock-in. It faces competition from SaaS companies, but that's an unavoidable transition Microsoft will have to make.
The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “These are the regulations for the Passover meal: No foreigner may eat it. Any slave you have bought may eat it after you have circumcised him"

-Exodus 12:43-44

Jews held slaves and are thus the beneficiaries of slavery. Using your mindset, Jews must be maligned as an entire people for all eternity for the past sins of slavery. Isn't that mindset just another name for defamation, though? If antisemitism is a danger to the Jewish people - requiring the countervailing of an "Anti Defamation League" - why wouldn't tarring all American Anglos as the beneficiaries of slavery be a similar danger to America's founding stock? Why is defamation bad for some and good for others?
This is a huge issue. A good friend of mine runs a webshop that builds custom CMS', marketing websites, shopping portals, and occasionally pretty sophisticated apps for clients. I've talked to him a lot about his industry and PHP dominates because of hosting.

Not only are all the shared hosts really affordable and set up to support PHP, but many larger clients have already invested in their "own" hosting setups, either co-located or with local firms.

He's said there are agencies in his industry that have switched to RoR or Django but that from his perspective a part of their model is the built-in acceptance that the tech will cause friction because of hosting, offset by the offer to host it for a fee...
IRC, check it out!
I haven't watched the videos since I'm at work, but last I heard he was retiring once the new CEO was named. Has that changed?
So, air fresheners then.
> I'd suggest fiddling with Julia if you have some time

This is my biggest problem with Julia. I'd love to tinker with Julia, port some code over, especially some slow Python code, but it's hard to do trying to shove papers out the door and knowing it'll be days/weeks before I'm up to speed, and that there's libraries I may have to reimplement (probably poorly, what with being a scientist rather than a programmer).
:) I spent hours making that screenshot
>You might have to wait hours, or even days for that to happen.

Unless they proclaim that it is unhackable...then you'd better bring a stopwatch.
That is really a good point. I haven't written any markdown parser in PHP. There are several Markdown parsers written in JavaScript. I use one of them. Ospari don’t need any web socket connection. The posts are parsed and auto saved as you type and you have a live preview like Ghost.
I use TCC from these guys (jpsoft.com). It used to be called 4NT and before that 4DOS. Basically it's a superset of cmd.exe (a super-dooper-set these days) and lets you do pretty much anything you can do with shells like bash.

If you're from a Unix background, you're probably better off running bash from Cygwin, but if you're a Windows guy, TCC is a great shell.

It's the first thing I install on a Windows machine.
ICE Unlock introduces fingerprint scans to Android
Record revenue and profits indicate otherwise
Programming with On-Line Graphics – Bert Sutherland's Thesis – 1966
I agree. I do a lot of wordpress work, and many of the people doing that have no idea what the command line looks like. I don't fault them for it-- that's just what their jobs/business have so far demanded of them.

And while I have setup VPSs for my own projects and they seem to do okay, I've never had to be responsible for a machine that serves other people, and I don't know if I want to be the only guy who has access to a machine that other people rely on to do their business: there are a world of unknown unknowns there, and if I can offload that liability its probably the wiser move.
Every link discussion site needs the ability to merge multiple links under one heading. This has been bugging me for years.
we're actually working on an IRC bridge.

always interested in this position though. it's far more feature rich than IRC, in our opinion a better experience.
Probably related to who is or was CEO of Adobe Moto. Anyways, correlation is not causation, or in this case, not even meaningful. It was a racist statement.
Why are people defending artificially depressed wages? What planet are you from?
> 3) 1-based indexing. Seriously, wtf? / insert an arbitrary Dijkstra joke here */

There are arguments in favor of 1-based indexing, especially given one of Julia's target replacement languages is R.
Complaining about the usage of "hacking" is also very tired.
Even if you assume I didn't know that (which is somewhat audacious of you), this sounds exactly like IBM. Which was my point, and I'm not waving anything away. I guess there's nothing wrong with being another IBM per se, on the other hand they wouldn't have had to change CEOs if they were all that satisfied with their general trajectory.
Bad generalization. There's plenty of developers in general that know nothing of devops and server setup and maintenance. I put it on par with frontend developers who don't know how to slice up a PSD.
Wouldn't it be easier to port some of Ghost's themes over to WordPress instead of building a whole new blogging platform???

You could even raise funds for that! But I just don't see Ospari going anywhere - the concept is not novel in anyway and there's also a PHP based blogging platform that already dominates a lot of the internet.

Also, Ghost is open source no? I can't find any source files for Ospari...

Node.js + javascript is doing to PHP what PHP did to Pearl in some ways. I see more people pushing that in my circles now than PHP - granted there's a lot of selection bias happening.

Why not build this in Go? I'm sure plenty of people would get excited about that.

[EDIT] If the "key feature" is live previews of markdown, why not fork WordPress and build that feature into it? I'm sure a lot of people would love that - or maybe you can do it as a plugin (I don't know WordPress well enough)??

I just feel like there's a lot of "Not Invented Here" happening with your project, which can be typical of engineering minds. Please focus your talents on something truly novel!
It works for greenwashing as a marketing technique as you suspect, but the energy cost of lighting alone exceeds the energy you can produce by leg power, to say nothing of HVAC for the facility and water heater for the showers.

This is why we burn coal and uranium instead of forced prison labor to generate electricity on exercise bikes. I'm glad of that.
That is experimentation. Experimentation is a necessity and is a cornerstone of a good design. Don't you agree?
Satya Nadella, Microsoft's New CEO is Shy and Humble
One Year Into the Life of a Bootstrapped Startup
I don't know, but unfortunately I am very skeptical of NGOs, and charities

It looks like 80% of the money goes for "management" and the rest goes to the actual people in need. Not to mention the contracted "fundraisers" that are paid poorly. (I have nothing against the fundraisers per se, they're usually college kids trying to make some money)
No violet either, can't get violet out of a mix of red, green and blue. (True violet, the stuff that is after blue on the spectrum).

"Magenta (often called pink)"

- Aaaaargh. What next, "purple"? Please.
PillPack Raises $4M in Bid to Become Top Mail-Order Pharmacy
Similarly, some people who have undergone eye surgery and lose part of the eye that filters it, are able to see ultra-violet light. It's theorized that this happened to Monet, and accounts for his painting of some flowers differently post cataract surgery.

I think it'd be wonderful to experience this, temporarily at least!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphakia
Mind-Blowing Google Products
You probably just got a whole load of crash reports from me, most of the time I get just a "Searching for connection..." message [1] but it also won't stay running for more than a few seconds.

[1] http://drp.mk/i/BMzz
UX frustration while driving a car and using Google Maps
> thereafter, rather than be accountable, you attempted to recast events in a light more favorable to you

Rationalizations suck when you're in cognitive dissonance mode.
Another interesting story in the comments of that article:
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/02/hacking_airli...
The standard reply "don't feed the troll" would be applicable here. I am surprised that this type of comment shows up in HN.

However, hate Facebook or love Facebook, it does provide some social gluing at various levels. I mean, when my parents see pictures of their grandchildren playing on Facebook, their faces light up and smile. This type of interaction is valuable for my parents. I know that they are other ways of doing this, but this works at some level.

For me, happy 10th birthday Facebook!
Any word on either a. an android client or b. an API to make an android client with?
ΠΩΣ ΝΑ ΓΡΑΨΕΤΕ ΕΝΑ ΑΠΙΣΤΕΥΤΟ ΑΡΘΡΟ
Hack Into A Visitors Decision Making Process To Explode Conversion Rates
I am not a fan of public unions either, but this is a cheap shot at them and it hurts the ability to have a discussion about unions. Unions have what is called 'duty of fair representation' - which requires them to defend their members. If the union failed to defend him here he could sue the union claiming it has failed to fulfill its statutory duty to represent the employee in that dispute. If they got to pick which cases to defend, the whole point of having union reps/arbitration/mediation would go out the window.

More reading: http://www.flra.gov/Guidance_duty%20of%20fair%20representati...
It's a good choice because he will probably nurture the successful part of Microsoft that he spent he career nurturing. Microsoft will make a lot of money for decades to come.

It's a less than great choice because Microsoft's approach to finding The Next Big Consumer-oriented Thing has been wasteful, yet too conservative. Too conservative in terms of looking beyond Windows and PCs, but too lavish in spending on attempts that flop. Maybe Nadella will be more careful about splashing out lots of money building too many Surface RTs. But that's only half the problem.
Show HN: My First [video] iPhone Application Development Tutorial
I think the benefit is that a lot of people are proficient with SQL and are not very proficient with awk. I think whether it will be faster or not depends on how complex your query/queries are relative to the amount of data that you need to import.
Yes it is open source and it is free for personal and for commercial use, but we have not released it yet.
The ebook is available for a free download!
Sanjay Jha was Motorola's CEO until the Motorola Mobility division was acquired by Google. Shantanu Narayen is Adobe's CEO.

I see a clear pattern here.

I'm open to other possible interpretations.