skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there something like this for German-style board (and card) gamers, as a way for them to meet up for games? That would be really interesting and useful.
The patch doesn't need to be reverse engineered to discover that - the documentation alone and a quick test is enough.

The unknown factor which makes rlu's comment so ignorant, is that we don't know whether the vulnerability is already known and being exploited.

If so, then not delaying the iOS patch is the correct call.
> I'm still flummoxed that people keep thinking I'm part of the Global Banking Conspiracy

You know as well as any of us that criticism of your Bitcoin tirades (in general and in this thread) does not come from people who think this.
Plug -- I maintain a Chrome extension that does exactly that: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-play-lastfm...
Just looked up all your references. Thank you for pointing me in the right direction.
Not Blackberry the phone but Blackberry the company and it's real time operating system QNX.

QNX is an excellent RTOS and is already used in cars, appliances, machinery, and industry. QNX also has a serious R&D initiative for cars.

So it's no surprise that Ford is considering it. There's off the shelf products that Ford could purchase and drop into a dash tomorrow.
Ubuntu Gnome is that choice now http://ubuntugnome.org/
Hidden talents from the underground
Have a look at that
Alcohol companies in the UK have a sleazy reputation - marketin to under 18s; creating Vertical Drinking Establishments; selling alcohol at below cost; etc.

Any public health measures are rigorously campaigned against.

The all-party parliamentary beer group receives funding from the alcohol trade. http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmallparty/regis...

(What's the largest uk appg?)
Is YC still doing 'no idea' applications?
Absolutely, and given that Gell-Mann was corresponding in 1978 with editors at the OED, it's likely that said English teacher (if she had an ounce of self-respect (I speak as a teacher myself)) would have had at least a relatively recent dictionary in her possession, and would have found quark in it. Still, kudos to her for at least caring enough to ask the science teacher.
It's strange how so many people bag on rails and say its generators are useless but so many other techs have spent years trying to replicate that style of app development.

I enjoy using generators btw.
I think the QNX purchase by BlackBerry was a very wise move. I have been hoping they could hang on long enough to leverage it in the market again. It is a really nice product with a lot of potential. This is good to see.
> I'm not sure why we only consider that this manuscript is either a hoax or a forgotten language.

Because researchers have spent years studying it and have come to the conclusion that those are the two most likely scenarios. I'm sure they considered and eliminated others.
Ha I did this once with Outlook except I changed the icon and the shortcut name to Half Life 3 Beta. People on my friends list were freak. Ing. OUT
How not to write a book
How can you know which strains contain more cannabidiol?
Seeing how this will be a thread filled with witty jokes and Telegram fans, may I ask what Telegram their deal is? They do not intend to generate revenue yet put so much effort in marketing, securing and even payouts to breaches. Why? What is the cause? I might be one of these tinfoil hatters to some, but isn't this fishy? Why spend millions of dollars on yet-another-chatapp which can literally be replaced within days when a brand new app with some edgy feature gets out.

Why? What is Telegram their deal?
Not true, try for (;;) ; in gcc / clang
One of the key tenets of Warren Buffett's theory of investment value is based around "moats" - businesses that can't easily be replicated. It's impressive how large WhatsApp has grown but it might be more remarkable how quickly another service can grow in its place. Barriers to entry are continuously falling in mobile and tech in general.
The problem with education is that it always has a different take on a subject to what personally fascinates you about the subject. Subjects that might have floated your boat personally for many years will be taught differently to what you expect, killing your interest in a subject.

There is an adage about teaching - if you cannot do then teach, if you cannot teach then teach Geography. If we take Geography as an example, you might think of geography as being about places on a map, be able to name all U.S. state capitals and know where Dhaka is and Dakar isn't. Then, in a geography class, you might find that knowing where anywhere is does not matter in the least. 'How flood plains are formed', 'how a volcano works' will be what is taught, without any mention at all of physical places.

The geography example is an example of how expectations of a subject can be wrong at the basic school level, you can live with a mis-match of expectations in geography syllabus, however, go to university and it is another kettle of fish. You might think politics would be a useful thing to study, be passionate about the subject and be knowledgeable about current affairs. Again, none of that would matter.

Computer science is another area of concern. You might be good at programming and be up to date with whatever is on HN. Yet, at university you might get taught languages and methodologies that are a world away. There might actually be reasons why the university teach what they teach that are not readily apparent. The military might have some link up that means that stuff that matters to designing jet fighters gets taught. Clearly none of it - 'ADA' - for instance - might have no relevance in the real world.

Returning to your subject of maths, in the real world you are doing pretty well if you have problems that require secondary school stuff - trigonometry, calculating prices with tax, differential equations. Actually you could probably go a long way on getting a man on the moon with secondary school maths, yet there is a whole world of maths beyond that. Triple integrations, anyone? Even if you do find a real world use - electronics with Gauss's theorem - there aren't many uses for that real world use. It is all too convenient for maths to be taught in such a way that it is abstract and not practical, e.g. teaching a program to do it for you, or working on a large dataset in a computationally efficient way. Even reading the data in is not something that would be taught. It is a bit like how you can do a degree in electronics and never touch a soldering iron or know how to fix a fuse.

So my suggestion is to not head off to university so hastily. Work somewhere for a little while then go to university because you know why you are going. You can actually learn useful stuff at university rather than go there to just get a bit of paper.
Wow. I assumed he was corrupt like most autocrats, but the scale is impressive. Some of it is chilling: http://varlamov.me/2014/mechzigorie/image-22-02-14-01-50.jpg
Sounds like a terrific way to show leadership.
These accu-hires are getting out of control. (a little bit of quick math says that each employee was worth a bit less than 300 million dollars to Facebook.
Apparently it's a form of methamphetamine
Well, do you want to play new songs or be a rock star? "Being" a rock star isn't all about jamming new tunes.

Understanding what your goals are actually about, instead of idealizing them is just as important to figure out where to best put your efforts. Even after you "make it", it doesn't mean there's still isn't drudgery involved.

A little meta, but HN sometimes almost veers into the "get rich quick" thinking, where somebody works for a month or two to assemble a picture sharing app or something, then expects to sell for a billion and wear unbuttoned oxford shirts and angel invest from their beachfront house in Hawaii for the rest of their life.

There's hard work in everything and even when you "make it", there's still hard work involved.
They are silly because the NSA obviously already had all the back doors they wanted. Nothing to do with Facebook.
What is it even supposed to convey? It seems that often advertising and marketing forget that they are supposed to, you know, communicate something to someone.
Neat. I've been using an ERLite for the past ~6 months. It does its job, but I'm not super excited by it. I find the Vyatta interface to be a little annoying (most enterprise network gear I've worked with just copied Cisco's CLI exactly, Vyatta is just different enough to be surprising).

I'm thinking about swapping it out for a Mirabox[1] I have laying around. Its an ARMv7 with dual Gigabit interfaces and 1GB of memory. With the 3.14 kernel the SoC is quite well supported. Now if only I could run pfSense on it.

[1] https://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/p-58-mirabox-develop...
It's like the origin story of Knight Rider TV show car Kitt.
Why would you do anything at all? What makes you think it is any business of yours? Rather than tell you to mind your own business, I would love to understand why you think it is something you should act upon?

Also, I hope I never work with you.
Not a php dev. You get asset compression and scss compilation natively from php? That would be pretty amazing!
Obamacare Spurring A New Generation Of Healthcare Startups
Guys responsible for several computer security certifications get owned
or, you know, use debian.
10 HTML5 APIs Worth Looking Into
for messaging, there may be a rule similar to moore's for transistors;

... every 18 months a new messaging platform will be the go-to place.
To be fair: If we're talking 'replace WhatsApp', the 'had security issues' point is - well - comparable. Competitive? :)

I stay with xmpp.
If all methods of updating need SSL, and SSL is broken, then there's no real way to securely ship a patch.
Well if you're super high-tech, I don't see why you couldn't go to Israel. Israel is like the R&D department of major countries/companies in the world right now.

As per your comment, you could launch your startup from absolutely anywhere these days. You could position your cloud in Texas for your big US base, register a US subsidiary, etc.

Personally though, Russia seems like a great place to launch an internet security startup. The stigma of Russians being great hackers can already draw in a couple of decent-sized clients.

If you're working on anything or would like to link up to build something, we should talk. I've always wanted to build a decentralized remote micro "beyond borders" company.
Looks like the result of a bad merge
I've been using Whatsapp for at least 2 years and this is the first outage that I recall. Might as well be a sudden influx of users.

Although, knowing Zuckerberg, I equally accept all the "conspiracy" explanations in the thread :)
So how do you explain the success of Chromebooks, besides it's cheap price of 200-250$?
The SurfaceBook I'm suggesting would be in that price range too, just running a WinRT + IE system rather than Chrome only.
2412581 use it everyday with my wife and a couple holdout geeks.
Yup, totally true. Introversion != shyness.
It's always sunny outside - a 1 minute reflection

Seriously though how can you start generalizing / assuming about working as a professional programmer when you're not even 1 year into your first job?

Try your best to change things, but don't try your best for too long till you burn out and are miserable. Some programming jobs are there just to separate the wheat from the chaff.
It is a trend, exactly that. Because all major news outlets in the Netherlands are reporting on the Whatsapp downtime, they try to add some perspective with the Facebook buy and poke Telegram. This results in people checking out Telegram as the new trendy thing. Let us say 4/10 contacts use Telegram now. Why bother if 60% of your interaction is still on Whatsapp? Unless everybody switches it will just be a novelty app.
I think this is key, and it's important to understand that the self-discipline you are required to learn to excel in school and university is a large part of the reason you're there in the first place. It's not just about learning what's being taught, or even 'learning to learn', it's about conditioning your brain to function while withholding rewards for significant amounts of time.

I can spend hours and days programming incredibly boring, repetitive code, because the end result is valuable. Teaching your brain to understand this is the struggle the OP faces.

BTW especially with maths, teachers mostly fail at providing any context above 'learn this rule, so you can apply a slightly more advanced version of it next year'. There is a huge amount of context and thought around the mathematics that's being taught, but little effort ever goes into expounding it. If you're struggling with maths in particular, try reading up on some of the history of the topics to find out why they were invented, and what problems they solve. It brings an incredibly richness to what can be a fairly dry, abstract subject.
This is what's wrong with so much php out in the world I encounter on moonlighting gigs. Everyone crams it all into index.php

Maybe you were joking, but to call editing an index.php file a scaffold is scary (although highly profitable for me!)
Nice. Does PC-lint give a lot of false negatives and positives as well?
Use ctrl-c only if you never want to be able to use a count with an insert command, e.g. 10a=<Esc> .
Yeah, the real use case for a site like this is for guilds, and ESPECIALLY teamspeak/voip support.

I imagine if this site offered guild support, websites, and free voip, it'd have an easier time gaining traction.
Legal Community Disturbed About Spying on Privileged Communications
Why not just make Windows free for noncorporate useres?
Maybe Whatsapp can't handle the massive 'remove account' requests? :-)
I feel incredibly blessed that I never had to do any of this. I enjoyed computer programming. I learned to do all the stuff because it was fun. Learned to read and write files, learned to sort, learned to write languages, etc etc.

All of it was almost always in pursuit of some goal. I want to create ABC I needed to learn about DEF. etc.. Very little of it was just learning for the sake of learning.

I can't remember ever doing a boring thing related to programming off the top of my head. I can remember automating repetitive things but even that was fun.

I remember working lots of overtime but I don't remember disliking the work.

I don't know what to take from that. I've kind of assumed it's been the same for all the programmers I respect. I see them code as a hobby just like me. I assume they keep doing because they love it.

Maybe if you don't love it you're doing the wrong thing? Maybe if you don't love anything then your advice is true?
You Might Be Using Your Mouse Wrong
Hack SF is happening now
There is these: http://leafo.net/scssphp/
Can't say I'm surprised

The reason I'm in 1.8.5 is because I upgraded to Mavericks, but one of their updates forced me to recover from Time Machine (which wasn't as smooth as I expected)
So let's do some back of the envelope math

Colorado: 5,268,367 people (2013 est.)

Pot Tax Revenues: $98 million

That's $18.60 per person.

Assuming demand is constant across the U.S. (which is probably not true, but let's go with it)

U.S. population: 317,580,230 (current est.)

That's $5,906,992,278 in tax revenues for the entire country.

2014 is expected to be even bigger.

So what could the nation do with $6 billion+ extra dollars every single year?

Of course even a basic analysis of the situation shows that the money earned/saved is far greater than this: reduced need for enforcement, reduced prison requirements, reduced etc.

The U.S. spends about $74 billion per year on just prisons. What if we could reduce that number by 1/3rd? I wouldn't mind an addition $25 billion/year sloshing around in more productive uses (in addition to the $6b/year in sales tax).

I'm sure there's some more detailed analysis on what the actual numbers might look like, but I'm guessing nationwide, it's something nearing $100 billion/year of money that might be repurposed for things that aren't stupid.
> The defendants, LI FANG WEI (a/k/a KARL LEE, a/k/a PATRIC, a/k/a SUNNY BAI, a/k/a K. LEE a/k/a KL, a/k/a DAVID LI, a/k/a F.W. LI) and LIMMT ECONOMIC AND TRADE COMPANY, LTD., (a/k/a LIMMT (DALIAN FTZ) METALLURGY AND MINERALS CO., LTD., a/k/a LIMMT (DALIAN FTZ) MINMETALS AND METALLURGY CO., LTD., a/k/a LIMMT (DALIAN FTZ) METALLURGY AND MINERALS CO., LTD., a/k/a ANSI METALLURGY INDUSTRY CO. LTD., a/k/a BLUE SKY INDUSTRY CORPORATION, a/k/a SC (DALIAN) INDUSTRY & TRADE CO., LTD., a/k/a SINO METALLURGY AND MINMETALS INDUSTRY CO., LTD., a/k/a SUMMIT INDUSTRY CORPORATION, a/k/a LIAONING INDUSTRY & TRADE CO., LTD., a/k/a WEALTHY OCEAN ENTERPRISES LTD.) (LIMMT) were indicted on charges of falsifying business records and conspiracy. [0]

[0]: http://www.iranwatch.org/library/government/united-states/st...
Should websites be required to publicly disclose their password strategy?
That's not the verified account. Might as well be a bot, as far as everyone is concerned.
This will be my first time applying. Both very excited and very nervous.
cue outsourcing all the low wage jobs to subcontractors in 3...2...1
Six times? Really? At some point it becomes pathetic, you know. Though portrayed as, yc isn't some sort of holy grail you have to touch before death. But six times, man, that must have been three years at least? Props for not giving up. Still pathetic though.
This is true, sadly.
Is it just me, or is the "Request for Startups"[1] page in serious need of updating?

For example, are "Things Built on Twitter"[2] and "iPad Applications"[3] still a valid way to build a $XX billion company in today's world?

[1] http://ycombinator.com/rfs.html

[2] http://ycombinator.com/rfs3.html

[3] http://ycombinator.com/rfs6.html
We (Lollipuff, W13) released our entire application along with the short video [1]. I personally think that looking at a few sample applications is/was super helpful.

I also share SandersAK's opinion: just writing a YC application will force you to think about the "right things" for your business. It's a worthy exercise in its own right.

[1] https://www.lollipuff.com/blog/102/lollipuffs-ycombinator-ex...

EDIT: Awww! I just saw our old MVP screenshots on that blog post. Lollipuff has come a long way since then...
The thing that would make sense would be to base it off the academic staff's salaries. But I suppose the idea of a college with decent working conditions for the faculty would be too utopian.
apparently not that difficult of a job, since i could literarily replace them with as shell script, as the joke goes.
On my Ubuntu 13.10 I have what runn1ng describes, one menu item that just contains help. Everything else is in the gear.
"The No. 1 thing we look for is general cognitive ability, and it’s not I.Q. It’s learning ability. It’s the ability to process on the fly."

I do not understand.
It would be interesting if that was the problem

For example, the "remove account" is not as efficient (for example, there's extra locking performed), and since removals are thought to be rare nobody bothered with its performance.
Do you know if it can drive the interfaces at anything near gigabit? That seems to be a problem with a lot of ARM chipsets.
I believe that right now every American citizen should write "Blue Sky" in every possible field on their bank forms when setting a transfer. This is lunacy and incompetence at the highest level.
Viber has also been steadily growing along side WhatsApp. I think they had around 200M users last summer. A great thing they have that was not in WhatsApp is free VoIP calling.
I looked at his git profile, I recognised the name: Yusuke Endoh - multiple IOCCC winner. Here is one of my favourites:

http://www.ioccc.org/2012/endoh1/hint.html
GitHub RCE by Environment variable injection Bug Bounty writeup
base-band? There is no wireless.
Hah, I guess it could be construed as pathetic. But we never looked at YC as the gatekeeper to whether we worked on our projects.

The best thing about startups is you don't need YC to make it happen. You need to work on something you and others find valuable that you're willing to work your ass off for.

Maybe others get in on their first try, and are clearly more able, capable, or validated than me, but that's not really how I gauge why I do things. Neither is getting rejected.

I'm the first to admit that I'm not nearly the smartest person to ever apply to YC. Hell I'm probably one of the dumbest. But there's no reason not to apply. The only downside is getting the rejection letter (and the free mixpanel credits). The upside, at least so far in my experience, has been well worth it.
Oh it's not just ford having problems with that MS software. I've had enough Fords as rental cars to know that that software is utter garbage. Putting that in the cars had nothing to do with actual users. It's obviously a case of Microsoft offering Ford a good deal for doing it.
Any specific reason why not Telegram?
Yglesias is simply pointing out a dynamic which he feels may be under-appreciated: the impact of cannabis sales on the purchase and consumption of other intoxicants. He isn't saying it will go one way or another, but merely drawing attention to this dynamic and its potential implications.

A lot of useful information follows the format of "X may affect Y in one way or another, and we need to be cognizant of how these potential interactions could impact relevant issues." Your dismissal of Yglesias conjecture as useless is, in my opinion, missing the point. Just because we don't yet have data on a specific measure doesn't mean we can't discuss why that measure is significant and worth our attention.
They will have a phone
That's some powerful drugs.
"open"

(Though it doesn't make no sense, and I personally find the illustration more cute than offensive, it was probably a poor choice.)
> Supply is pretty low because the only companies who have licenses are medical marijuana companies that already had a license, more companies will become licensed soon.

It's also a high risk business. You might invest millions on growing a crop only for the Federal administration to change policies in a few years and come in and blowtorch your crop.
World Wealth Calculator
Outside of implementing the notifications this offers nothing for me that the original one, from James Fator, doesn't already do. I dislike the table display and the attempt at making the appearance be more Cocoa-esque in favor of the Google web design. You might also want to think of changing the app name and icon also as it is misleading.
"Blue sky" is a weather condition in which there are no clouds in the sky.

/sarcasm
You've been using WA for 2 years and haven't noticed any issues? You obviously haven't been using it much. Regularly whatsapp has short issues where messages will not go through, this is just a particularly long one.
Higher end strains, as found in dispensaries, are often bred for the desired balance of components, so you can just ask your vendor at the counter.

I don't know how well-tested these strains are (aside from, "puff... yeah, man, that's awesome"), but there has always been a desire in the medical marijuana market for selection based on this data which I'm sure carries over, so I suspect that now that it is legal in a couple of places, we'll begin to see Consumer Reports style testing. Hell, maybe even the Consumers Union, themselves, will get on the case.
> studies of marijuana smokers haven't found any conclusive evidence of greatly increased cancer risk

There is epidemiological evidence that marijuana smoking is associated with lung cancer. "Greatly" is subjective so I can't really comment on that.
why not cut out the middle man and just apply straight to the NSA?