skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice but can't beat the original QClockTwo http://www.qlocktwo.com/info.php?lang=en !
Absolutely. Presumably you're just reacting to the gotofail media flap. A little googling would clarify things for you.

There are multiple million+ node android botnets, most devices are vulnerable to year old exploits, and there is a thriving market for remote control malware. Basically the same situation that existed on Windows in the bad old days.
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For what it's worth that marketing message assumes you are already in production with someone else and transacting actively: "I do understand you may feel as though you are all set in this area" Rather than win your entire business away they want you to start using them for some payments. If they thought you were actively looking to add a PG for the first time (ie somehow knew you'd just signed up for Stripe) it would be different messaging. So I think you may have signed up with them in the past a ways back and they think of you as an already processing site with a gateway.
> when no actual risk exists

Now who's over-stating their case? 0% risk?
people have interview/test anxiety, so I agree that one test isn't enough to evaluate
- Alfred

- MacVim/Vim

- CodeKit
It's noteworthy that you actually have the option of upgrading, several years after you purchased your device.
I think stars in Github are the same, kind of votes for librairies.

I really like the responsiveness of the interface, it makes it really fast and easy to search and vote.
Does iOS have WebGL yet? (I feel like I should make one of those Yes/No answer websites on this topic.)
Guild – Pipelinable actors for python
Blog post on a pipelinable actor system for python. Allows latebound outbound actor methods as well as inbound, allowing you to do things like build pipelines of actors. Very much a work in progress. Comments welcome.
Is there any cause for concern about toxic chemicals being released into an oven that you use to cook food?
Bitcoin is not a currency
Looks like they grabbed all one and two character names, plus a little over 600 others: http://pastebin.com/gnLGmvXu
I'm gonna call fake on this one.
Nothing special,

- Sublime

- Fish Shell

- An array of browsers
[video] Having Fun with WebGL
Steve Souders Now At Fastly
Could it be possible to cache the version list locally and then just update it incrementally, e.g. via Git?
Wouldn't this save both download time (for us), and bandwidth (for RubyGems)?
Does iOS have WebGL? Yes. Does Safari have WebGL? No.

It's available in the iAd platform but manually disabled elsewhere - you can enable it on jailbroken devices though. Infuriating. Also infuriating is Apple's lack of support for WebRTC. I've learned not to expect much from them in terms of mobile web any more.
That's what I was thinking.. Found the JS file, Googled for AddTerminalShell to no avail. Didn't know if anyone else could recognize it or if it was custom.

Thanks for the help, though!
Does the iPhone have audible notifications of missed calls yet, which phones had in the '90s?

How can they be so stupid: http://goldmanosi.blogspot.com/2012/06/will-apple-ever-fix-i...
The only bug I've seen is that the device would restart itself on occasion. There was a critical bug right when iOS7 came out where if you tapped define in mail or notes, it would completely freeze the app. Seems to be fixed now.

Then again, I wouldn't say I'm a heavy user. I mainly use it to check on my mail, read some news, etc.
Just to be clear, this is when one of your contacts who formerly had an iPhone but switched (to an android in your case), it still tries to send via iMessage and silently fails? Yeah, that one sucks, I sent a message to my brother in law congratulating him on his engagement and he never got it. I found out awhile later he'd changed away from iPhone :-/ Annoying. And then trying to change my phone to actually send him SMS instead ... I'm still not sure it's working right.
You definitely need to have some kind of counter for how many times someone has reached 2048, and out of how many games played.
An impressive example of the senior developer route is David Maynard of Box.com:

"Sometimes I have to leave a company when I get promoted to the stage when I can’t code anymore"

(http://www.fastcolabs.com/3007250/open-company/boxs-65-year-...)
Several weeks ago when baseimage-docker was released (from the article "Your Docker image might be broken without you knowing it", http://phusion.github.io/baseimage-docker/), many people pointed out that it shouldn't use SSH, but lxc-attach instead. I pointed out that Docker might not use LXC in the future, but people insisted on lxc-attach.

Now, Docker is no longer LXC only. I guess the use of SSH - as a means to login to the container for one-off debugging, inspection and administrative work - is still justified.
An iPhone app is capable of sitting in the background tracking your location with battery draining GPS, too.
IIRC there was a recent story abou this technique. It seems it's too effective at times, causing liver problems as too much cancerous tissue is killed at once.
> I'm sorry, security?

He might be referring to:

- iOS's track record on vulnerabilities in comparison to Android.

- Apple's track record of virtually no malware appearing in the App Store.

- How hard it's been for the community to devise a series of exploits to jailbreak iOS with each new release.

- iOS's nice privacy controls that are lacking on Android (App Ops is not official, convenient, or even present in the latest Android releases. And sure there's third party things, but those are 3rd party, and half of them are from China). Privacy controls in Android counter Google's bottom line.

- iOS's app permissions model in comparison to the awful current capabilities and culture around broad app permissions in Android (although Google is reacting to this well with improvements in the pipeline). For an awakening view of this, watch what information of yours the Facebook app can get ahold of in Android as opposed to on iOS.
It does, and the tag works as per the beta.
iOS is the only mobile OS that has multipath TCP built-in AFAIK. They introduced that only half-year after MPTCP got standardized. I think that's a valid feature for being "advanced".

And yes you can enable that by installing custom kernel modules. But I think hacking is out of scope here.
I have an iPad Mini 2nd gen...and Safari has never crashed on me and I use it all the time. Maybe that bug is hard to hit.
And they still don't audibly tell you that you missed a call several minutes ago.
Oh hey, that's pretty nice! I'm a big fan of how the functional languages I've gone further than dabbling in are very pushy about covering all cases for pattern matches (basically switch on steroids), even if sometimes the correct answer is to just throw in a catch-all.

Mostly because it forces you upfront to make sure you're considering every case, and it looks like those warnings ought to give me the same kind of nagging with C and enums.
Where? I'm logged in, and the download link in the dev center sends me to the XCode page, which then sends me to the app store, which still has the old version of XCode. (This will probably get sorted out in a few hours - the store did have the never version of the command line tools.)
The Ultimate Guide to Getting Started with the Play Framework
GNU Awk has TCP/IP support
> Bit level CRC-32 checksum validation, absolutely. (Which is actually probably marginal for the file sizes concerned, but that's the standard everyone uses.)

In the digital preservation community, the standard is at least MD-5 / SHA-1 and most people are moving to SHA-256/512. With a CRC-32 check you're likely to get false-negatives for modern data volumes and there are disturbing reports of CRC failures at higher than expected rates[1] which suggest that the best answer is using multiple, cryptographic hashes particularly since the computation has effectively been free for a least a decade except on unusually CPU-starved storage hosts.

1. I don't recall the paper but I believe it was a followup to http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2000/conf/paper/sigco...
Ah, now it all makes sense.
Hello from Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia on /r/Bitcoin
Biggest one that I've seen is apps regularly acting like I lost my internet connection. Hasn't been fixable without killing and relaunching them.

I forget exactly which, but I think I've seen it in Apple apps too. Mail maybe?
Mitchell, firstly, I love you. You're an amazing guy, and you're creating something of great value in the world. I really appreciate you.

OK, so now the constructive criticism: Can you explain the apparent obsession with bringing everything great into vagrant core? I know that core leverages the same plugin architecture that everything else does, but I just can't understand why you privilege "official" plugins above others. Not to mention the fact the it shifts the burden of maintainership onto core developers such as yourself.

(This criticism is coming from someone who in the past has spent a long time working with Drupal, and who has always been disappointed with how that community insists on pulling everything into core, under the guise of "shepherding". As I see it, those pieces then move more slowly and are less likely to see a large maintainer-base who take ownership.)

<3

EDIT: Holy jeez, Vagrant Cloud is awesome.
Damn... Nice job. Did you use any particular strategy? Obviously the random "birth" of new tiles adds an element of luck to winning, but I'm sure you must have used some technique!
Alternatives to NFS on Linux...oh god you just made me a happy happy bunny.

Just read the rsync part, I think I love you guys now.
The docker driver system is an abstraction that could make docker truly cross-platform, correct? Are we going to start seeing a Docker that can deploy containers on MacOS X/Windows soon, on bare metal, without a virtualization environment?
> Seems like lots of programmers despise advertising. It is an example of irrational religious behaviour, the very thing they claim to oppose.

What is irrational or religious about despising attempts designed to obfuscate meaning? Good advertising would communicate clearly. If you can find programmers that also despise non-deceptive advertising you might be onto something.
"most advanced mobile OS" an os where you can't choose the default application to open your mail or files and where you have to double click home button and tap to go back to the app you were before. I'm sorry but apple lost the "most advanced mobile os" battle time ago.
I'm in my 50's and still do what I've done since my 20's then as a hobby and since 30's for pay.

The older people where I work? Yeah not sure, management mostly I think. Some older people still program where I'm at.

My dad taught himself programming as a hobby in his 60's.

Why is this ever even a question anyway, no one asks what happens to people in their 50's who craft furniture, drive trucks, carry on scientific experiments, climb mountains, etc. Do what you like.
The Evolution of a Business: Pivoting and Relaunching at Living for Monday
3D-printed exoskeleton helps paralysed users walk again
A previous employer had significant failure rates until they realized that the LTO tapes were being flipped sideways at some point during storage: simply failing to keep them flat pushed total tape failures well into double-digit rates over a year!
When everyone says your tech idea is impossible, here’s what you do
I am a young, tenured, female engineering professor. AMA
I don't suppose you and your wife would consider moving up to NYC, right? The start-up scene here is thriving, and developers on the market are beyond scarce -- more like non-existent, it seems. It's an excellent market in which to find a start-up that is doing something interesting and is starved for developers.
Only navigation apps are allowed to do that.
Upvote for the completely off-topic reason of having written one of the most amazingly useful tools I have ever touched.
Right click -> Inspect element (in FF / Chrome)? All sorts of ways to "cheat" there, but not sure what that would accomplish.
There is a pull request underway which allows injecting new processes into an existing container using the public Docker API. That could be implemented by lxc-attach in the lxc driver, and by calling setns(2) natively in libcontainer.

That should offer a robust alternative to ssh.
Well, I'm not thinking about a startup, but open source projects. You could have said the same thing about any of the commercial unix vendors in the early 90s -- they had a 15 year head start, hundreds of programmers, etc. And look where we are now. What could things look like in 20 years?
Easy as, the pilots are required to turn the transponder off as soon as they land, so planes on the ground don't show up on radar.
Luckily for me, iOS 7.1 fixed Safari on my iPad Air. I haven't had a crash since I updated to the beta months ago, while I was crashing daily on 7.0.
You don't put metal in the science oven.
I do not think it is him.
Yes, it's definitely a first step in that direction :)
Great. With only having to tap the screen to answer the phone, how many calls am I going to accidentally answer that I didn't want to by just pulling the phone out of my pocket?
Whole-heartedly agree with this post. I will be 58 this year, and have been a developer for the last 20 years, after having been in academia for the first part of my career. As you say, the key is to never stop learning.
Love the idea. Not sure how the editor should work. It says select a path, but when I select a path, nothing happens.
>So basically it was a plea to the next generation of the "next big thing" to think about doing security in a way that actually secures information.

So basically, another entity ready to be co-opted by its aligning self interests with the State?

It's like we never collectively learned anything from the cyhperpunks:

"They think they can always find someone to protect them. No, you can't. You've got to protect yourself."

Society doesn't want to hear that… The same society that wants to elect people to solve their problems time and time again… and you know what? Maybe what society gets is what it deserves time and time again… but it doesn't seem to stop individuals that do achieve what they seek, despite it all, and at the end of the day that's what it always seems to come down to, and the steps snowden took to even conduct the interview (that is intolerable to listen to for the echo) is a prime example.
There is a tool called nsenter which is part of util-linux which can be used to enter the namespace of another PID. You can find the manpage here: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/nsenter.1.html

This can be used for docker, lxc, libvirt-lxc or nspawn.
That is great to hear. Will it also be available as a 'docker' subcommand? The unavailability of such a subcommand is a minor pain right now.
a) Safari is extremely crash happy for me.

b) I have itunes rental downloads stuck in a quasi state where I can neither finish the download nor can I delete the download.
that also really depends on what kind of gigs you get.

for example here in the DC area there are lots of independent contractors that have steady multi-year contracts. as long as you're not total dead weight you do the hourly thing for a long time. many years. It's more rare to find those folks that go from solo gigs to having other subcontractors going through them too. That's when all your points become really important. But you can be solo and not have to deal with a lot of that stuff you mention.
That only works for the Docker backends that are based on Linux namespaces. What about backends like OpenVZ or FreeBSD jails? Even if I limit the scope to Linux namespaces, for arbitrary shell commands to work properly, I have to know exactly which namespaces Docker use, which may be version-specific or configuration-specific.
"For me, the mechanics of budgeting are easy but the psychology of riding the business cycle is difficult." Running a bakery is effectively like consulting except it pays worse.
Starting a Bakery isn't courageous ... it's foolhardy.

Sometimes it pays to be foolhardy (lord knows I have been several times), but painting the picture that all of us who may be dissatisfied with our current mid-level careers as technologists would be successful if we just had the courage to abandon a decade and a half of training and effort to chase something new, that's disingenuous.
Yea, http://NerdyData.com offers an API for real-time webcrawling. They can find out each day who adds/removes certain codes. It's really interesting, I was part of their initial beta test program - cool stuff!
Seriously. Manually mute your mic. This applies to everybody who uses hangouts or conferences with anything, ever.
That's just the tip of the iceberg. Android offers:

1) Generally much easier rooting/access to bootloader/custom ROM installation than iOS.
2) Install custom keyboards, home launchers, icon sets
3) Change default web browsers, caller, messaging apps to third-party alternatives
4) Full access to filesystem
5) Fully customisable homescreen widgets
6) Full sharing intents system
6) Generally more "computery" interface - downloads displayed in notifications pane for example.

And of course you have the advantage of a choice of a range of devices with much larger screens than an iPhone.

It's just a shame that the Android UX experience is so chaotic. A consequence of Google never really seeming to settle on a single UI vision beyond "different enough from iOS to avoid legal action."
> Unless of course if this isn't about age or sex. I'm female and not getting any younger by the way. But I still don't buy the bull others try to sell.

You're rebutting a straw man.

> No startup is a sure thing. Younger people are less risk averse.

Again, a moot point. If an employee is applying to work for a startup, they're acknowledging the risk. The risk, by the way, is negligible for employees.

> It's not that a company wants people who will take risks it's that older people want more of a sure thing. They walk in and expect a salary which matches their years of experience, while most places hiring have no use for their experience.

This is a contrived example. Furthermore, it doesn't make sense. By a "sure thing" do you mean salary vs. equity? I can assure you most young engineers also value salary.

> Their experience would add no value to their business, and so hiring a younger person who does not demand such a high salary is a better option.

What are you basing this on? It reads like a caricature.

> Clearly if they believe that hiring older people is such a good move they should be able to make a lot of money.

I already addressed this. If you're intent on repeating your original claim, we'll just have to agree to disagree.
Three of the four aircraft hijacked as part of the 9/11 attacks had their transponders turned off:

> Controllers track airliners such as the four aircraft hijacked on 9/11 primarily by watching the data from a signal emitted by each aircraft's transponder equipment. Those four planes, like all aircraft traveling above 10,000 feet, were required to emit a unique transponder signal while in flight.

> On 9/11, the terrorists turned off the transponders on three of the four hijacked aircraft. With its transponder off, it is possible, though more difficult, to track an aircraft by its primary radar returns. But unlike transponder data, primary radar returns do not show the aircraft's identity and altitude. Controllers at centers rely so heavily on transponder signals that they usually do not display primary radar returns on their radar scopes. But they can change the configuration of their scopes so they can see primary radar returns. They did this on 9/11 when the transponder signals for three of the aircraft disappeared.

[1] http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/911Report_Ch1.htm
She is also raising money to research a new method of oil spill response:

https://experiment.com/projects/can-naturally-occurring-soap...
Kickstarter accepts money via Amazon Payments for projects based in the US.
It sounds like they changed the UX entirely.

Sure, that's not the same as solving the technical problem of "when to stop listening". But it's solving the user problem of "it doesn't know when to stop listening". And it's not some explicit additional button you have to press to override any default behavior. It's implicit in the new method.

Unless the former UX is still around and this is an additional, optional, pattern. But that seems ... not very Apple-like.
No this is a feature. Big profiles (larger than 519 bytes) are chunked into multiple key-value entries in the blockchain. The "head" chunk has a next pointer to the next chunk and so on. The head chunk's key is the username, in the "u/" namespace. We didn't want to polute the u/ namespace with follow on chunks, so we just decided to go with "i/", but really the next pointer can go to any key in the KV you want.
Monday's productivity: obliterated.
Your Glacier comparisons should include the fact that Glacier is an actively managed service with very high durability[1] – if you're buying external USB drives, you need at least two drives simply to avoid single-device failures and that's before you get to geographic separation and the software + staffing to provide regular active testing for bit-rot, not to mention some sort of software scheme to prevent data from being altered after it's been written (malware, human error, etc.)

You can definitely beat AWS on price but there's a non-trivial up front investment required unless you're comfortable skimping on the operational benefits.

1. http://aws.amazon.com/glacier/ promises 99.999999999%
You are very carefully, rationally, and objectively
taking the article at face value; I'm not granting
that the article deserves to be taken at face value.
One reason is, the article is from the NYT which has
burned me too often in the past. Another reason is
that this thread did a really good job showing some of
the severe rational weaknesses in the article -- the
writing and thought here were much better than from the
NYT.

So, I reject that the article from tbe NYT was just
an effort at rationalism and information. That hypothesis
rejected, I look for another explanation -- the NYT is
trying to jerk me around. Do I have solid proof? No,
but doing some beautiful rationalism in the face of
some low grade rationalism from the NYT begins to look
like here at HN we are being manipulated and are being
foolish.
Cause Kickstarter uses Amazon to process payments.
Does anyone knows enough about the stylometry to judge if letters to editors and a letter to a local government can really be compared to a white paper? It seems to me that in tones, style and vocabulary, these are very different format which would not yield good result.

Has the expert actually ever tried his technique to infer the author of a white paper based on sample of correspondence?
By supporting people who play the game and play it with vigor, we're not only supporting but strengthening the mechanisms on which the game is based.

Every single one of the organizations which helped in the lobbying effort all have an incentive to preserve the problem to which they themselves are the solution (credit: Clay Shirky). Lobbyists and every organization described in this story are all trying to preserve all the problems with our current system. Without those problems, they'd all be out of a job tomorrow.

The fact that there is tons of money made playing this game gives all the big players incentive to hire the services of every institution and individual that makes a living off this game.

I'm all for Ackman doing something noble, but the profit motive is only serving to strengthen all the institutions that we should be trying to dismantle in favor of a more informed populace with better means to participate directly.

If I had to choose better the existence of a scummy enterprise like Herbalife and a totally screwed up lobbying system, I would definitely choose keeping around Herbalife as the lesser of two evils.

If only Ackman had some way to hold a short position on the power institutions running Washington D.C.