skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is not the case. Team with a dedicated Unix devops engineer and a windows dev consultant, all other are skilled unix devs. We have been debugging like beasts and we are probably and realistically one of the best technical teams in the country. We ran everything on Mono 3.0, which we was chosen for specific reasons and weare very aware that is a 1.5yrs old distro. The last specific problem would maybe be sorted upgrading to last release (we don't know) but we already know that new issues would rise as the pattern keeps being the same.
What matters is upholding the abiding principle (precious in a free society) that people can hold divergent views on such topics as politics, religion, and society

There is a wide gap of difference between holding a specific political view, and being a part of an administration that pushed and enacted a specific political agenda that did actual harm to our country/world.
Why are Boosted Boards ($1995) at a 6 mile range and E-Go ($700) at a 15 (Edit: 18!) mile range?

With the huge price difference I would expect just the opposite.

Edit: http://e-go.com/feature-1 apparently E-Go has a 18.6 mile range when not in winter (< 50 degrees F) temperatures.
It's "dataviz", bro. Not data science.
Nope, we didn't go that far. Never got in touch with the mono team but indeed it's worth to try and i'll speak about this with the team tomorrow morning. :)
Hey I'd just like to tell you that your site is an awesome resource and was useful to me as a student when I was talking my OO design courses. As someone with a gamedev hobby background your site made learning about patterns much easier for me. I will be sure to buy the book when it comes out. Thanks for putting in the hard work and making it available.
I mostly agree, but I want to give props to Dan Grossman's Programming Languages course on Coursera. It's the only Coursera course I was actually able to see through (out of 6 or so over the last couple years), and I learned quite a bit.
Yep! We call it a Design Sprint, influenced by GV's approach: http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/23/inside-a-google-ventures-de...
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It is amazing that this company succeeded. One would have expected that the comic book store owners would have effectively resisted but DC wanted something in place for the iPad launch and it just started the ball rolling down hill.

Haven't been to a comic book store since the Android app came out.
I don't think he was impugning SSH's security record at all: just the perceived abuse of the protocol.

The entire quote, in context:

10) Biggest problem with Unix - by akaina

Recently on the Google Labs Aptitude Test there was a question: "What's broken with Unix? How would you fix it?"

What would you have put?

Pike:

Ken Thompson and I started Plan 9 as an answer to that question. The major things we saw wrong with Unix when we started talking about what would become Plan 9, back around 1985, all stemmed from the appearance of a network. As a stand-alone system, Unix was pretty good. But when you networked Unix machines together, you got a network of stand-alone systems instead of a seamless, integrated networked system. Instead of one big file system, one user community, one secure setup uniting your network of machines, you had a hodgepodge of workarounds to Unix's fundamental design decision that each machine is self-sufficient.

Nothing's really changed today. The workarounds have become smoother and some of the things we can do with networks of Unix machines are pretty impressive, but when ssh is the foundation of your security architecture, you know things aren't working as they should.
Would it be very hard to do this for a sample of all the stations world wide? The US centered view is kind of odd considering the subject matter.
Can wordpress be coaxed into performing outbound requests? Pingbacks and the like? Next-level malicious spam comments forcing WP into heartbleeding outbound, even if the wordpress install itself never had SSL?
Would you apply this standard for encouraging suffering to your local pizza place? Your neighbors? Your kid's teachers? They're probably the political actors over which you have the most leverage.
If you don't use it, you lose it...
Embroidermodder: open source embroidery software
The people who are probably shitting right now are the local comic shops and Diamond Distributors.

Comixology, whether due to temperament or just due to size and leverage, was playing fairly nice with the existing comics ecosystem. Now, they're owned by a middleman that makes Diamond look positively cute by comparison, and one with a fairly explicit goal of crushing all local shops of all types.
A friend of mine in the UK just got a violation email from google too, in the ad realm. Same ambiguity, lack of description, ad identifier, ANYTHING that could say "why" the violation even happened in the first place.

Google's contact details? Post, mail. "POST?! Did we go back in time or something?!" was his response.

Is this the future? Where Google, Amazon, Square (payments processor), et al. provide no personal support, no way to reasonably and honestly correct our own behavior?
Well, I think it's because mobile web is still a huge opportunity, and mobile website rendering still leaves a lot to be desired. If they deliver a simple-to-use framework that enables a superior UX on phones (looks like it, though we still need to see more), then that's naturally going to be very interesting to a startup/entrepreneurial crowd like hacker news. I've been following them since the periodic table example and am still eager to see it fully open up.

I also totally dig meteor as a huge step-up in how to build web applications. I think they solve a big problem that most people are still working on (react also looks interesting)... not having to duplicate your business logic and rendering code. I think that's a huge benefit to getting things done quickly. Plus you get real-time rendering of data changes in your app, largely for free.

So I wouldn't call these genericX.js libraries. I think they are enabling new opportunities and are worth the interest they're generating.
Treehouse vs. Codecademy: Non-Technical Founders Can Learn How To Code
Thanks for posting that, is a damn good read.
Not an economist, but my understanding is that that is why central banks adjust interest rates - to encourage people to spend their cash now or even borrow more (decreasing rates) or to hang on to it (increasing rates).
It literally says "How start", but does not literally say "how to start". "How start" could also be "How [would it] start". Don't let MSNBC do your thinking for you!

>Arming and supporting the Kurds to conduct instigating attacks or incursions is just one way.

Then it would have said something like: "Kurds provoke", not "Saddam attacks". In any event, we wouldn't have stepped in just based on a Kurd attack. The response would still be dependent upon Saddam.
Servo: Designing and Implementing a Parallel Browser
Why not the other direction? I think Comixology has a bigger backing, so they could merge their stuff to Comixology. This might be similar to how they run IMDB or Zappos.
ime, it's much harder to write, understand, test, and debug #include soup
Mattermark (YC S12) is hiring a front end developer
Maybe I'm not understanding what it means to be a board member, but did they hire her, or did she buy enough shares to have a direct say in the company's future?

Also, does it follow that having a former government official on the board gives you an "in" with the current administration?
Awesome, thanks for sharing that! Do you guys include the engineering team as well?
Oh yeah, I think the current model is that it gets stuck in an electron somehow. But since it preserves the quantum state, it's still usable for quantum crypto and quantum computing.
That's not a criticism of OpenSSH itself, but of the way Unix systems hadn't progressed from being a set of standalone systems to one networked system. The mention of SSH is not as a criticism of the protocol or OpenSSH. It's a criticism of the Unix world's lack of progress in moving towards what Pike sees as a better way of building large systems.
The Indie Tech Manifesto
As I see it, the real advantage is it's ability to go up hills. However being limited to a 10% grade isn't great; I would have to plan my routes carefully to stay under that at all times.
"1) guaranteeing termination and 2) guaranteeing you return "no" on every incorrectly typed program are incompatible"

You do need more bandwidth. Trivial counterexample (for any reasonable inference of the semantics of the source code of this made-up language):

define isCorrectlyTyped( program P)
as
return "no".

Of course, a practical version would have to have the function return "yes" on more valid programs :-)

By the way: compilers for languages such as Java and C# do something similar: they reject all programs that may use a variable before a value is assigned to it, at the price of rejecting some programs that properly assign a value to each variable before use on the grounds that the compiler cannot prove it. Typically, the language specification describes exactly how smart compilers can be (or rather, how stupid compilers must be) when checking this, to ensure that all compilers agree about what programs are valid.
Do you really believe that that's what she'll do now that she works for Dropbox?

Let's try a similar but different example to see how this works in practice. The SEC enforces laws on Wall St. There's a revolving door between Wall St firms and the SEC. Do you believe this leads to better enforcement?
Thanks for clarifying. I was wondering about Redis because it doesn't replace cached contents when there's no memory left, like Memcached.
"I realized that the feeling of making progress is just as important as making actual progress."

Yeah...no.
What you're saying doesn't change the point that someone who promoted mass surveillance is now a director of a data storage and security company. These are directly opposite ideals.
I can imagine a world where they're more than just fungible-

They could even be literally the same object. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universe
The bigger deal to me is having a completely portable format that I can just copy and paste between any number of editors and services without worrying about formatting. Doing that in Word? Not so much.

You definitely don't need a markdown specific editor, but I don't see a problem with using one if it makes writing md more efficient.
Patched, but still vulnerable... how come?
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OSv – the operating system designed for the cloud
I haven't found this. Because I can still see a calendar that shows all the days I hit my goal, my motivation doesn't suddenly evaporate if I miss a day. One of the keys I think is setting goals that you can't fail at. So rather than "go to gym" which is a hard habit to form, you could start with "do 10 pushups". Eventually once the habit has formed you can step it up, but it's far more valuable to win/succeed every day than it is to accomplish lots on one day then laps for 5.

EDIT: for example here are my current widgets for the My Chains app on android: https://db.tt/pYRrrPZs you'll notice they're pretty quick and easy, but there are quite a few of them. This gives me a tremendous sense of achievement and progress which has been invaluable in the quest to form better habits.
That's not related to the previous post. He's talking about code, Rob Pike is talking about protocol.
The volatility of Bitcoin's exchange rate far out ways the ten percent discount.
It's not 42 pounds, like an Altered board? This is, in fact, a main selling point directly on the page...
This article was published a long time ago and I not sure a pure HTML version exists. However I can ask Steve later today when I see him.
Become a Glass Explorer on April 15th
That's how it is in the spying world. You spy on everyone, including your allies. The caveat is that if you get caught, your ally gets to raise a public stink.

This being said, having a spymaster that previously worked towards questionable goals (on a scale rarely before seen) as your new director of a data storage company? Not a good idea.
Revolving doors that's all. Remember Colin Powell? He's on the board of Bloom Energy. Slowly Silicon Valley is infiltrated by ex-politicians and cabinet members.
Why is it so noble and healthy to be a workaholic if you are a Software Engineer?
It can be coaxed into performing outbound requests, whether it is related to this specific issue I wouldn't know.

http://blog.sucuri.net/2014/03/more-than-162000-wordpress-si...

They are pretty good at staying on top of WP related vulnerabilities.
Non-techies have no concept of what you are talking about unless they've been burnt before. 64k's a big figure to get taught that lesson though.
Sexy hvac product commercial
I'd buy it! lol
I would argue that something that is the underlying component of e-commerce, privacy, and security for the majority of Internet activity should probably be audited.
That is a much better articulated argument, thank you. I'm happy to say I agree that your retort's point is valid.
As I've mentioned elsewhere, heartbleed combined with bulk data collection means all your historic communications can be read unless your provider was using Perfect Forward Secrecy.

I don't think this aspect is getting as much publicity as it should.
The reference implementation is the code that ended up in OpenSSL.

It was actully included in OpenSSL before the RFC was published.

Both the RFC and the code were written by the same person (who denies planting the bug intentionally).
Is it the raw, original weather station data, or the data the NOAA has been "adjusting" over and over to make the past cooler?
I said nothing of the sort.

What I said was free speech and the First Amendment aren't the same thing.

Are you claiming that they are? If you are, we can have a debate. If not, there's no issue here to debate.
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A little context next time, please.

Link is to a video of Firefox OS running on a Nexus 4.
Stunnel has been around doing this job for quite some time as well
You say you don't think this is a solution, but you don't say why.

If HTML's limited expressiveness is your gripe, I'd say React has already alleviated that for us. Components can be named very expressively, and your tree structure ends up reading very well. Really, HTML becomes the compile-to language.

Web components could step in and help this further, and there's no reason they couldn't be used within React to make even the output HTML more semantic.
Eich's issue was irrelevant to the Mozilla product line

Rice's issue (about data, not the others) is directly related to the core of Dropbox's product.
When they introduced ORCFile, I was kind of hoping that the next iteration would be the URUKFile.
AFAIK this is based on raw, original weather station data.
I lost most money on stock trading actually. But it was back 2009-2011. I could have bought a new Lexus paid in cash with it. It has been haunting me for years since.

Then I started a cheap jewelry retail website. I did small and invested only $800 for inventory. The site ran on Magento and cheap PHP hosting like $7/mo. I got literally zero sales after 8 months. I went down San Fran Piers and saw they were selling same thing for cheap. Doh! I gave up the business and put away all inventory, which wasn't much. However, the time spent on taking photos and upload hundreds of $2 products was all wasted. It's plain stupid.
That's rough. I bet there are a lot of sloppy wordpress installs that never bother patch the heartbleed thing "since they're not using SSL".

e: "sloppily maintained", if you will
From the page:

"Armed with this refined dataset, we computed the historical range of low and high temperatures for each station for each month of the year. We then compared each station's daily temperatures to its corresponding monthly distribution. If one or both of these measurements fell in the bottom or top 2% on a given day, we labeled it an "anomaly" according to the typology above."
They probably patched their public-facing web servers, but not their internal link-fetching app servers.
I would have also liked it if, when I navigated to a new 'slide', that it scrolled the annotation back up to the top.
Yeah, I've been looking at PredictionIO. I'll happily contribute. I'll reach out to you guys.
You're equating

A. a campaign donation

and

B. starting an unjust war that killed hundreds of thousands and destroyed a society
Is it waterproof? Almost all electric boards aren't, which doesn't make them something you cannot rely on. It could be sunny when you go out and raining on the way back for example.
I think your system leads to a happier, healthier you, since you're doing what you like. I don't know about John, but I'd code every day, because I actually enjoy coding. I have the feeling it applies to him as well.

It's the same with writers who write every day, no matter how little, to get into the rhythm and to constantly improve.

Also, doing something every day, doesn't imply neglecting other parts of your life. It just means constantly giving to something you care about.
Seinfeld did not invent this "don't break the chain" method and even called it "dumb" [1].

1. http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1ujvrg/jerry_seinfeld_...
This essay[1] made a deep impression on me and I rationalize not working if I don't have a long chunk of time available to work on my side projects.

[1]http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html

Will need to change my attitude and get more done. Good piece.
I think you are misunderstanding that most Comic Book Store Owners are also fans, and are always eager to get the most ways to access content out there. Also, Comixology (currently at least) has their Comics Retailer platform (ie https://isotope.comicretailer.com/ for my shop in SF, Isotope) that allows these shops to make some (admittedly less) money per issue with no inventory, no pre-ordering and no liability for unsold comics.
Their public-facing servers (that receive requests) were patched but not the code that made outbound HTTP requests.
Restaurant Googles the Names of all Patrons
Here's a more readable HTML version from back when I first came across this: http://web.archive.org/web/20111008014250/http://blognewcomb...
There is an irony in accusing someone else of hyperbole, but demanding that the literal interpretation of their terms be used.
Cyber Dust: Every spoken word isn’t recorded. Why should your texts be?
Thanks a lot for the feedback ! At the moment, this game is just a side project I like to work on during the weekends, so right now the game doesn't go further than that, but I intend to improve it.

Right now I'm focused on improving the graphics and the instructions, but after that I'll work on adding some fun stuff to the game. Maybe some kind of multiplayer could be nice, or other things taking advantage of the gravity aspects.

Anyway, thanks for playing, and if you have suggestions, feel free to contact me at the mail given at the bottom of the page, I'd be really happy to take them into account.
Theoretically no, the database we used contains weather station data from all over the world. However during our analysis we found that the quality of data from international stations was a lot more varied - as measured by many factors such as geographical distribution of stations, regularity of measurements and number of implausible outliers. I would still like to come back to this eventually & try to iron out as many of those issues as possible - but for the scope of this project it was much easier to just use US data as it is extremely well-curated.
If you don't want to expose your client to a third-party, you can download the pacemaker[1] (Python 2/3) tester locally and test that way.

[1] https://github.com/Lekensteyn/pacemaker
Would clean up of the OpenSSL code be accepted? I mean just from a quick glance at the fragments that have been posted, the first thing that would need to be done would be to get rid of all the ifdefs, i.e. decide on a canonical value for each of the flags in question; would this be accepted, or would the existing stakeholders respond with a list of reasons why they are committed to keeping the status quo?
umm, yaml?
Yes. The IRS and FinCEN are sister agencies, so the pronouncements of one agency have little effect on the other. In this case, for IRS (i.e., tax) purposes, bitcoin is property. For FinCEN purposes, bitcoin is a "virtual currency" which results in many but not all of the same rules that apply to persons dealing in real currencies.
Crowdfunding Lures Investors Seeking Stock Over Goggles
"Antagonizing the tech worker"
HEINS – I/O-Hardware for the Internet of Things
A few things you should demand from APIs
So, basically, the patch wasn't tested. This whole thing is getting more and more embarrassing.
Ask HN: Accelerator advice
My cofounder and I have applied to a few accelerators for product that has a two-sided market. In terms of BFS, one in particular seems to like our team but not really our product. They are offering us 25k for <8% equity + AWS credits etc.

They want us to make some significant changes, that we don't agree with but are otherwise willing to let us join. We are both broke college students and the cash and support would be super helpful but I'm concerned they don't seem to really understand our product. Can anyone offer us some advice?
I use an app called goalstreaks.

Far more minimalist. Just a calendar and mark, but I can set reminders and view my overall progress.
The PTS Authority (mentioned in the article) has announced that it will not take any action against ISPs who decide not to retain data at this time.
You can add any additional files to the repo. In the browser upload the file size is limited to 10MB.
Ask him about that twenty bucks he still owes me.
A French labor agreement bans work emails after 6 PM
Cached version at http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:/...

This makes me think of Brazil's "Marco Civil da Internet", which is on its way to the senate and if approved without changes will require ISPs to retain customer data for up to 12 months. Hopefully this EU Supreme Court decision will influence the removal of that requirement from the draft before it passes.
I noticed Jottacloud on the Drop Dropbox thread and gave it a try. I've been running it on Windows for the last couple of hours with a copy of the files I used to keep at Dropbox and the only difference I noticed so far is how Jottacloud uses around 25% (~16Mb) of the RAM Dropbox was using before (~64Mb). Can't say it makes any difference on my MacBook Air.
So when NetCraft's report [0] shows 17% of servers out there appear to be vulnerable, that's just for one direction ... internal servers using HTTP in the other direction might not get patched immediately since they're "not vulnerable". Sheesh.

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[0] http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2014/04/08/half-a-million-...
Show HN: TruckPlease – Moving sucks, so we decided to make it easier
Thanks for the write up! Was very interesting to see of the use of jsmpeg.

As for why socket.io doesn't support binary, I'm guessing because it might be difficult to support that over some of the fallback transports. (That appears to be the reason in SockJS as well)
OpenSSL vulnerable to timing attack?
Thank you!

> As someone with a gamedev hobby background your site made learning about patterns much easier for me.

This is really reassuring to hear. One of my hopes with the book was that framing architecture in terms of games (which are graphically and conceptually very concrete) would make it easier to understand the more abstract concepts it's about.