skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't actually care about the original bug much. It happens.

That Apple's internal code review/static analysis/etc. doesn't exist is a bigger problem, but still not a showstopper.

That Apple's incident response and prioritization is horrible is the reason. Look what they did with the dev center over the summer. Various past bugs.
Literally everything Google has done/changed in the last 5? years has been terrible. It's actually fairly amazing how many mistakes they are making.

Search? More adverts, non-PC results lowered in priority, 'piracy' results lowered, etc.

Gmail? Luckily hasn't changed much so it's still pretty great, but the stuff they have changed is bad: eg, advert tabs.

Google Reader? Dead.

Google Talk? Dead, replaced with terrible Hangouts.

Google+. Don't need to comment here.

Android? Less and less open with more functionality moving into 'cloud services' to try and lock out competition/forking.

Google Glass? Nice idea but not practical because the implementation is still bad.

I'm sure there are more mistakes I'm forgetting. Anybody know of anything Google has actually done right in the last 5 years? Maybe Google Fibre if you're part of the 0.0000001% of the world who can get it.
Surely this would be facemail, not voicemail. :)
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Not a plug for Nikon, but their version of this concept is far superior IMO:

http://www.nikon.com/about/feelnikon/universcale/
For such a young and not yet completely stable language, I think there's actually quite a lot of active projects, especially pertaining to gamedev. Here are some:

http://rust-ci.org/projects/
I like the idea.

But I believe, and that's my very own personal opinion, that showing short sentences instead of words helps much more to understand the content of the reading instead of trying to glue together meaningless words one by one, attaching the new isolated word to the previous and next word imposes a heavy burden in your brain.

Here is an example of what I mean:

* words in braces are red *

Our [goal] here at Spritz
is to [share]
our [spritzing] technologies
with the [world].
To [do] that,
we [created]
the [PoweredbySpritz™] program
that [facilitates]
the [development]
of [applications]
using [Spritz] technologies.
An entire host of [tools]
have been [created],
including [SDKs] and [APIs]
for [Android], [iOS],
and [Javascript]
to help [developers]
implement [spritzing]
[inside] of their
[applications] and [websites].

The eye follows the red word which has a heavier importance in the sentence, so prepositions and articles are not ignored but appended to the cognitive path.

* Btw, I don't believe in patents, so even if I build on your idea, I could care less about patenting it. So fuck spritz. If anybody wants to develop it further more, go ahead, step on my shoulders, as I've stepped on giants before me too.
Is "towing it to port" really something that is that easy to do? These are big ships that are probably not easy to make disappear. Also, without hostages, using armed forces to take the ship back would probably be a lot easier.

Finally, depending on the cargo and location, I would imagine selling off the cargo would be a simple matter.
The vulnerability didn't affect Chrome and Firefox, or my brew-upgraded curl. I wasn't too worried.
However, your post was phrased in a way that implied that this was a sub-optimal solution. Could you expand on your reasoning?

What works in other countries does not necessarily work in the U.S. We tend to have low population density and, as a culture, much more strongly value our independence.

Just one concrete example: A three bedroom apartment may come with one or two assigned parking spaces. If three unrelated adults live there and each has their own car, at least one of them will have to routinely park in "guest" parking. Further, in some places, it is quite hard to arrange this at all. The leases are generally intended for a family, subletting may not be acceptable, etc.

In many other countries, living without a car, walking and using public transit, etc. are far more feasible.

There are other issues, I am just trying to come up with something concrete to give as an example of why this does not readily translate from your country to mine. They don't have the same infrastructure, culture, etc. So the same living arrangement in two different places is not necessarily equal in quality of life.
It's like everybody calling any application "app" because Apple did so.
This is so cool, and I love that Rust is being so heavily driven by the pragmatic needs of an ambitious project like this. As a systems guy, Rust is the most excited I've been about a new language in years.
>> You know, you could just learn how science works.

> Your condescension is hilarious.

When one seen someone assume a correlation has a meaning not proven in the evidence, it's not condescension, it's charity.

> What you are not getting is that the correlation stands on its own.

Yes, as does the causal relationship between puddles and rain in advance of an attempt to offer an explanation: puddles predict rainfall.

> but it is an additional matter of interpretation to make any causal claims, or claim external or internal validity.

Yes, and now that you're reduced to making my points for me, we're done.
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BTW one of the more popular renders in the film industry is called "Arnold" and it is named after Schwarzenegger. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_(software)

Examples of usage here: https://www.solidangle.com/
The fact nobody is looking does not make it right.
Why I Oppose H.R. 1123, The "Cell Phone Unlocking" Bill
Government didn't want to sell, but the current talk with Microsoft is explicitly about Orange keeping majority ownership but finding an international partner.

Source in french: http://www.lemonde.fr/technologies/article/2014/02/25/orange...
An early and retrogasmic infinity narrative from 1977 is Charles & Ray Eames' POWERS OF 10 -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38ti9BJiyvs
Damn, I was close… :-)

http://i.imgur.com/vKnXhJ8.png
King files to abandon 'candy' trademark in the U.S.
> There aren't many resources for it at the moment even though it is at version 0.9. I would think that a language nearing "1.0"

FWIW the language is only nearning 1.0 in that 0.9 > 0.8. 0.9 is by no means the final pre-1.0 release.
I'm very much looking forward to pg's new essays. His pre-YC essays cover a pretty wide spectrum of topics and they were quite influential on me when I read them while still in school.

His essays from the last few years are almost exclusively about startups and I think they're a must-read resource. IMO, they contain pretty much all the ideas that make up YC and going through the program will mostly reinforce these ideas in a very effective way, rather than teach some new secret.

There's much to be said about technology and its impact on society, so I hope we'll see some great new material.
Aw darn I accidentally wrote cancer instead of HIV, and i know why you wouldn't call them liars, but please watch the part at 9:15 and try not to laugh your ass off, this equipment they "invented" is the ADE651 bomb detector scam. hope I've clarified why I'm calling them liars, also, ahram.org is government run and is equivalent to Fox news, don't take it seriously !
The Internet is fucked
can we all agree to stop using the term "hack" like this?
You want to design on iOS? Hire an engineer familiar with UIKit

Mac OS? Appkit

Web? JS,CSS & HTML.

Etc etc.

Basically only hire designers that can write their design. A .PSD isn't much value to you.

Then again I'm getting more annoyed by so called UX experts or PSD-designers as time goes.

Now, I am sure Brett who I'm quoting doesn't agree with me, but:

"…these brilliant designers could not make real things. They could only suggest. They would draw mockups in Photoshop… the designers could not produce anything that they could ship as-is. Instead, they were dependent on engineers to translate their ideas into lines of text. Even at Apple, a designer aristocracy like no other, there was always a subtle undercurrent of helplessness, and the timidity and hesitation that comes from not being self-reliant. It’s fashionable to rationalize this helplessness with talk of “complementary skill-sets” and other such bullshit. But the truth is: An author can write a book. A musician can compose a song, a [sic] animator can compose a short, a painter can compose a painting."
Yes, it is a substantial generalization, or perhaps a sentence not carefully crafted to withstand nitpicking.

In my job I do the very thing you describe. That said, I'm spending a lot more of my day preparing for the more likely risks, rather than the ones I can just dream up. I doubt many people here are posting from their bomb shelters full of emergency food and water rations, antibiotics, radiation treatments, either.

My point is that I could forgive the first lapse. Fool me once, and so on. But Mt. Gox had their precarious position quite expensively demonstrated to them. A competent management team would have made security and fraud management their top priority nearly 3 years ago when they were last caught with their pants down. It's hard to see them as victims in this because they were so negligent in their responsibilities to their customers.
Official Statement from Vault of Satoshi on Mt. Gox
It's pretty common for food and drink products. I believe Coke and Pepsi are (in)famous for doing this. They basically rent the shelf space in grocery stores and then maintain the stocking of it so they fully control the presentation.
Not really. Wolfram Alpha is a pretty recent addition to the Wolfram product lineup, and Mathematica/"Wolfram Language" was very popular in academia before that. There wasn't even a direct way to access Alpha from Mathematica until Mathematica 9 (or maybe 8, I forget) and even now it's not a very commonly used feature. The Alpha API call limits (1000 per day for a professional license) pretty much prevent you from doing any serious work with Alpha.
Luvit = Lua + libUV + jIT
Is there a way to denote certain fields as required (on the back-end -- not talking about "required" attribute or js on the front-end)?
It's free (for now), identical to Whatsapp (drop in replacement), but most importantly, its not owned by Facebook. I'm really, really, really tired of major companies (Facebook, Google, etc) fucking up messaging (Hangouts anyone?).

I emailed everyone in my Whatsapp contact list, asked them to switch. It only took 48 hours. Already uninstalled Whatsapp from my phone.
Should be the command for accepting a line of input from the user
You make an excellent point about social convention, and I completely agree. However, one important thing to note is that SW is not involved with core Mathematica development, he does research and remotely manages his company. He suggests high level features that are then implemented by the kernel team (which I was on). One incredibly annoying aspect of this bureaucratic development process is that you never know when your kernel project will get killed by someone higher up the food chain. Obviously, this happens at many companies, but when it happens as often as it did when I was there, you see key employees leaving a lot more often than you do elsewhere.

It's worth pointing out that the architecture of Mathematica was designed by Stephen, and in my experience with other large software projects, it is by far the most elegant and well-designed. Reading the original code base gives every developer a great appreciation for the genius of Stephen Wolfram, who is a completely self-taught computer scientist. So he definitely deserves credit for what the language is today, because if he hadn't planned that far ahead and realized the need for a general purpose computing platform, the pace at which the Mathematica team can add new features would not be nearly as fast.
How 26 People implemented a Distributed Genetic Algorithm in 3h – Scala and Akka
I think is this a neat concept. Unfortunately it'll probably lead to unskippable, unblockable advertisements that you won't realize you've read until its too late.

But you can develop a lot of cool lightweight tools since it's something you could implement fairly easily on your own if the API becomes tainted.
I bet they did occasionally check. And leaving it at, "Hm, that's weird. Oh well!" was where it went from problem to disaster.
Reddit's new live-reporting feature
This Woman Invented a Way to Run 30 Lab Tests on Only One Drop of Blood
Netflix has paid to have Comcast connect to their CDN, open connect. The way it works is you either host their hardware or you peer with them and they host it themselves. It is probably the second option, direct connections to netflix's network.
You hope it's not accurate :D
"However, they struggle to organize cleaning, keys, change of linens etc."

Sounds like something that YC backed homejoy could get involved in solving. That's my keiretsu of the day. [1]

https://www.homejoy.com/about

[1] http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1998/...
It would probably have been found by someone looking for the ages of rocks. In which case: probably sifted out of buckets of earth, looking for signs of extreme age. Seems like it's from a known-interesting area, which would attract that kind of crowd.
Isn't everything on Earth as old? It's all the same material that was there when the Earth formed, except for a few meteoroids that dropped on it later during its lifetime.
What would the omlette be in this analogy?
Hi. I developed the website. I had the idea on the 19th of this month, then registered and developed the website on the 20th in an hour or so.
Yes, it can be spammed with unreal values, but right now the values getting in seem quite real and the more people use it, the more accurate it gets. The spammers values are easily discarded based on weighted averages and if they differ too much they are not considered. At the end the user btc/usd average amount should be quite accurate.

edit: just to specify, I didn't planned that mtgox would halt trading and delete the website. It was meant to see out of curiosity how much is blocked in there with the withdrawals not being processed and fiat withdrawals taking months.
> How do these pirates actually unload cargo?

During my around-the-world solo sail (http://arachnoid.com/sailbook), I saw and heard any number of pirate stories. For example, in the Strait of Malacca, pirates will show up after dark in two wooden boats (no radar signature) with a rope slung between them. They stretch the rope across the bow of a passing freighter, which puts a wooden boat on each side of the ship, dragged along with it. Then they climb aboard, break the seals of some cargo containers, steal some electronics or something else easy to to carry off, climb back down into their boats and release the rope.

Perfectly simple, low-tech, and because of the small size of modern cargo ship crews, likely to escape the attention of the crew.
I don't think you're following the entire path of this comment tree. I realize all and agree with most of those things you said, but they're not immediately relevant. I was responding to dethstar's comment, which indicated that "some people" don't think the lives of people should be taken even if they're attempting to pirate a ship.

You seem to recognize that force (and I assume you mean potentially deadly force) should be used against pirates, which is also my view. Dethstar claims that some people dispute this view.
> These are big ships that are probably not easy to make disappear.

The ship itself is often the drop location for ransoms; piracy doesn't generally require hiding the ship.

> Also, without hostages, using armed forces to take the ship back would probably be a lot easier.

This is a significant point.
Much better design. But really lacks on objects on the large scales and the automatic pop-ups make the thing almost unbearable to explore.
Seth Knows Best
My official diagnosis is "atypical cystic fibrosis."

My diagnosis is very recognized. But I have also been told "people like you don't get well" by a specialist. So the choices I have made to get well in defiance of that are not recognized as legitimate choices. Thus I didn't bother to argue with my landlord and I accepted that taking care of myself likely would lead to eviction. It took 18 months but it did lead to eviction.
You still need a minimal amount of testing and release packing. 4 days for an OS update is pretty good response time IMHO, and I thank the Apple engineers that probably worked their asses off to get this mess sorted out.

What this doesn't excuse is disclosing the iOS bug before all fixes are ready. THAT was the major scrweup.
I was inquiring specifically about lutusp's comment:

> I heard any number of accounts of cargo vessels being boarded by pirates late at night, to steal cargo and slip away undetected by the skeleton crew that shipping operators prefer.
I agree with most, if not all of this.

However, my takeaway (what I learned) was the graph at the bottom. Ask hard question if someone ranks as mediocre for 8 quarters.

This is counter-intuitive, as most people are, by mathematical necessity, average within a standard deviation or two. Thus, shouldn't we expect our talent curves to be a bell curve?

But, mediocre to me might not be mediocre to you. If I have someone with enormous attention to detail but this position need a high degree of creativity and experimentation, that person might perform as mediocre. But you may have a position that needs that attention to detail. We can both shuffle our directs and change our team ratings from 3(out of 5) each, to 4 or more (where 4 is better).

I don't know how much I buy it, yet, but it is at least important to think about. To be clear, I don't buy into every company stating "we only hire rock stars" - we know that is statistically impossible, and so that gives me pause in regards to this advice.

Let's face it; it is a big risk these days to let somebody go that is performing okay, in the hopes of finding a great hire. Right now on the front page we have this article advocating letting people go, and another article warning how difficult it is to find and hire people. There is a bit of dissonance between the two, I find.
Hi and great question.
First we don't limit ourselves in the long run to just one platform and our solution can work on all vacation rental platforms with not much to change.
The reason we are holding back is that there is a big enough space for growth on Airbnb only at this tie and it's better to focus on the user experience than on expansion at this stage.

Secondly we believe in Airbnb and we only encourage more people to join their platform. To give some numbers - 30% of our users are new to Airbnb completely. So we feel Airbnb will have warm approach to Superhost rather than alienate us.
I would have thought ditching HTML, the box model, CSS and JavaScript to be a more important objective that should come sooner than this. Or another way to put this would be: Wouldn't development efficiency/simplicity be more important than running the current junk in parallel?
This isn't just about UPS. This is about Trello, and Basecamp, GitHub, and email.
See my comment above for the answer -- there are a number of low-tech ways to board and loot a cargo ship.
Gold as in Au does not need any third party. Certificates... that is another thing.
Servo inherits asm.js support from SpiderMonkey.
769 meg for me.
I cant believe they don't even mention the SSL bug in this. That's just insulting.
It likely would be boot2servo!
Statement on Mt. Gox
Apple has also changed the behavior of the power button on notebooks. Previously, pressing the button made the Mac instantly go to sleep. Now, just pressing it doesn't do anything. You can still hold the power button for 3 seconds to get the usual "Are you sure you want to shut down your computer now?" dialog box.

Awesome for those of us using FileVault who have to enter their login password each time they wake up their computer.
You mean like vim development
I completely disagree with your assessment of the two choices. Releasing an immediate security update independent of 10.9.2 was the only reasonable course of action. Holding off on a significant patch for days just because it doesn't suit your release schedule for unrelated stuff is ridiculous.
"rebuilding the entire world wide web" is one of the few projects that I'd imagine is _more_ difficult than "write a new web browser from scratch."
I certainly don't mean to justify theft of any magnitude, but is this honestly even a big concern relative to the amount of cargo on these ships? It doesn't seem like it would be a problem large enough to significantly impact the decision whether to use drone ships.
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Were the thefts you heard about from container ships like this one?: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b7/Eleonora_...
The same atoms, but in different combinations and configurations. What's newsworthy here is that this chunk of atoms has been in the same configuration for 4.4 billion years, and that the configuration can tell us something about the history of earth.
I wonder if their hope is everything transitions to something like iOS before this is falsified in a widespread way on OSX in public.

In corporate settings with desktop management, Macs are actually a huge pain to deal with; Windows maybe starts from crappier defaults but there's a much more mature industry around locking it down.
Girls trying to pick up guys. Very funny
I’m aware there’s an update, now. Who knew that earlier today?

You probably also missed the first sentence of my comment, “aware that there are multiple, different teams responsible for each”, and that my commentary was on the PR perception of making your first announcement of the day “Hey, better ways to serve you ads”, and specifically -not- “they could have pushed this out faster had they moved a documentation team to security”.
An update's available for 10.8. I didn't verify the issue before upgrading.

Edit: I did check with Imperial Violet and gotofail.com, and the issue is not there after the update.
Not a question but a suggestion.

At this type of pricing (1% - seems very inexpensive) you should be selling into larger property owners. Such as condo associations where you pitch it as a controlled way for the association to make money and set boundaries on a practice that is probably going to happen anyway. And keep an eye on things and report back.

So in other words you lock up larger buildings and then come pre-introduced to the owners of individual condos as the suggested source of making all this work. And figure in a way for the condo association to offset expenses and thereby lower their monthly fees to owners.

What you need to get started on this is a few test cases which can vouch for the benefits to the building as a whole.
Well the sooner we start the better. ;)
Nope, I disagree. Microsoft releases emergency hotfixes within about 24 hours usually, if a security vuln is critical enough. And this one is definitely extremely critical.
This changed back when 10.9 was released:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5869
*>> A closer beacon can give you worse signal than the one which is far.

Well, the calibration helps quite a bit.

I'm not 100% on-board with the triangulation either.

But for proximity (with the calibration), I think it is repeatable to within inches.
We like Homejoy and we use their service with some of our customers.
The problem is that this isn't a complete solution and even though it is the sexy part it's not even the most time consuming.
I don't think a simple 10.9.1.1 (10.9.1 which was already tested, plus JUST the one-line SecureTransport fix) would have required >24h testing.

It was their decision to put the fix in 10.9.2 which is the problem. I agree rushing 10.9.2 would have been bad.
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