skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Need help recovering stolen URL from Steam
Last year my wife bought AOE IIHD we played it a lot, all of the sudden she wasn't able to login so we tried a reset password, the link never came I opened a ticket with Steam Support they said they couldn't find the account I provided them with the steam account name + original password a photo ID + CC info used for the purchase, they are still unable to find her account months after. After a simple Google search I've found that her account was hacked by finding her login info on a Russian forum http://zhyk.ru/forum/showthread.php?p=4751137<p>What will it take for her to get her account and games back

https://support.steampowered.com/view.php?ticketref=1113-QPHM-1167
> 1. It now has a lot more attention focused on it, so it will get more scrutiny.

I think we tried that with openssl already.
> Are each of these dependencies really small on average? Or is there some big cascade of dependencies? Or is there a particular framework that's to blame?

All of that, really. For better or worse, scores of gems have dependencies. Rails and a few popular others add large dependencies that cascade to other dependencies at that — some large, some not. It's extremely rare to run into quality gems with very few if any dependencies. (Sequel comes to mind, and that's just about the only 1st-class gem I can think of in pure Ruby.)
I like to think that your brain was just prioritizing more important concepts :)

Sounds like an awesome idea - I look forward to seeing which projects get selected.
> Why is that news??

It's not exactly news but it's nice to see it broken down in a cohesive way.

> Because the article assumes or implies the conclusion that there are a huge number of vulnerable Rails apps.

I think the article quite clearly indicates where all data points came from (Hakiri Facets) and then analyzes them. There is a post scriptum at the end that encourages readers to not evaluate their or any other projects based on the number of CVE vulnerabilities and goes into detail why it's not always a great idea.
That's an interesting use case, but the only time you're actually using Google Hangouts is when you're already in a conversation with someone, so I imagine that's not where most people would go when they want to schedule a call with someone.

When I think about scheduling, I immediately think about Google Calendar or Google+ Events, because that's where I would go to schedule any sort of event (with a video call or otherwise). Both of those places support adding a Hangouts video chat to an event.
wow. Read the article. Sounded like this CEO was actually coming to terms with the ramifications of firing someone, rather than acting exasperated that someone acted this way after being fired.

This story is pandering to outrage where there is none to be had.
Fsk - do you think this is what happened here to me? "If I write the spec for free, I know he'll then just shop the spec around on freelance sites, and I wasted my time"
That's only for the Professional Membership trial. Select the Freelancer Membership. Since the Freelancer Membership is free, they do not ask for any payment information.

That gives you free "5 minute rentals", which are designed to let you decide if you want to actually rent a given article. If you decide to rent some articles, and so need to pay for that, you'll then have to give payment information, of course.

The rentals are for 30 days, and are sold in packs of 5 rentals for $20. Yes, free would be better, but compared to the alternative of paying $20-40 per article to buy single article access from major journals, DeepDyve looks like a great bargain for the researcher who does not have access to a university library.
Even if it was that vocal minority that stopped Real Names, there were a lot of problems ahead for Google had they continued to enforce it.

Take the EU for instance. It might well be possible that, given Google's dominating position in the search and advertising markets, it is illegal in the EU for Google to _force_ people to give up an essential part of their online privacy. (Using your dominating position to force others to forego their rights.)

Usually, the EU takes some time before it gears into action, but if found at fault, the EU will make a company change its ways. So maybe somebody at Google caught the "bad vibes" coming out of Europe and decided it wasn't worth it.
When you express what SPS is doing as "making solar 3 times more land-efficient" it looks kind of crazy. Maybe dump the billions of dollars that would be needed for launching just one of these into squeezing another percentage point out of all new solar cells.
It's not that they should try to be Reddit -- it's that they should try something different. Big companies attack other big companies all time time, and it almost never works when the attack is head-on at the point of the competitor's greatest strength (things like Android are the exception, not the rule). The best way to attack a competitor is with a product that doesn't initially even look like a competitive offering.
Google I/O 2013, but I'm not sure how long the whitelisting has been going. Yeah; results is a Rainforest thing; we send you an email with basic overview of your test results (pass / fail), but for detail you need to use the app to get the failures, screenshots, notes, etc.
As context for future readers, the submitted HN title was the same as the actual title of the article: "Occultist Father of Rocketry 'Written Out' of NASA'S History". Definitely link-bait, although unedited primary-source link-bait.

(dang: Leaving notes when changing titles is great, thanks!)
anyone know what software Stripe is using for their blog?
"you to get to get to your results"
They could have saved some time by trying to reproduce the bug while running `vim -u NONE`.

The first thing I do when I encounter a problem in vim is to run it a) without plugins, b) without my .vimrc, and c) with neither plugins nor rc.
> most of the work aren't compensated financially and conglomerates make most of the profit.

The "conglomerates make most of the profit" applies to most every content industry, music, movies, even fine art. Most of the money is made in controlling distribution. A few percentage points of the very top artists make crap loads. The other 99.x% is poorly compensated and routinely exploited.
The HTML5 version was using CSS, not canvas or WebGL.

Sadly, Unity still can't "export" to html and requires the user to install a plugin for web, which is not available for linux.
We're using site/blog.rb, pretty much the last thing I wrote that's still in production at Stripe...
fail, thanks - will fix
Agreed - what Stripe is doing here is inspiring. Here is something along the same vein launched last week => https://assemblymade.com/sabbaticals
Is that really possible? I've wanted to do that before and looked into Twilio but it's basically number spoofing and would make spamming people far too easy.

If you've found a way, I'd love to hear it
can't believe i missed the whitelisting feature.

do you have screenshots of the failures/notes. I'd like to see what a sample rainforest results email looks like.
If they did this, I would want them to branch out Amazon Payments to be a PayPal competitor. I would switch in a heartbeat. PayPal has incredibly high fees and unfortunately, is a necessary evil for me. I'm uncomfortable leaving any amount of money sitting with them.
> It's also unacceptable to wait 2 days to get what I order.

Holy crap you need a reality check.
Facebook Acquires Moves, a Fitness Tracking App
You're not crazy but I'm not sure to see the added value over a normal "company builder" (where the fund comes up with the idea). Are you sure the idea/market opportunity was the most interesting thing about those failed startups in the first place? They might have raised money for other reasons (team, momentum) which are now gone.
"In order to raise rates, the US would probably have to either confiscate a lot of assets (which would harm its international status as the cleanest dirty shirt), raise taxes, raise retirement ages, implement means testing on medicare + social security, and cut military pensions/VA expenses. There is no real solution that does not involve provoking some sort of major crisis, so it is much easier for everyone to keep the carnival going as long as possible until something snaps internationally. The federal government can't afford even a slight rise in rates without having an immediate cash flow crisis."

They could demand immediate taxes(30 years retroactive) on all those offshore banks that slick corporations and rich boys like to hide money. If the
banks hesitate; send in the the Boys. It might be the first
honest war we have had in awhile? Oh yea, and immediately
default on the Chinese debt. Wow--I sound like my father?
I am ashamed of wealthy Americans who skip out on taxes though. They like to blame the poor, but it's the guy's who
don't get a regular check who hide money. I remember this
Harris dude who bragged about his Caymen Island trips in the
80's.
I was referring to the data internal sharing, rather than the apps staying individual.

It would be easy to keep it working standalone while still allowing it to automatically integrate itself with facebook (whether you like it or not) if you are logged in to that in the same browser session.

Though I suppose anyone genuinely bothered by that (rather than just sounding off) won't be using facebook at all anyway.
I use IFTTT to send myself multiple text messages a day, to which I respond and log the results in a Google Doc spreadsheet. Each month I blast past the 100 message limit. I've asked IFTTT to let me pay them for more messages but they said no.
Why are you asking here? If Valve (Steam) can't find the account, then the hackers took it over, did whatever they did with it and most likely then deleted it. You might check the credit card associated with the account to see if any other games were bought from that account. They could have been purchased and transferred to another account. As for recovering the one you had? Forget it and start a new one.
None which I can share here right now; you should sign up and try it though.
I like G+ for the photo back-up from my Android phone. In fact, that seems to be the killer feature. I wonder what will happen to G+ if Facebook adds a similar feature.

The stream is interesting if you add enough people and organizations, but I find I can go for days or weeks without checking it. I know some people spend all day on G+, but it's unclear to me why.

Between FB, G+, Twitter, LinkedIn, and a host of other comment boards and social network wannabes, it seems to me this market is absolutely flooded, and sooner or later, social network fatigue has got to set in and cause people to seek something that's more nimble.

Maybe there's an opportunity here for some kind of meta-network that ties together several of these sites. I would like that. A single stream, one login, see all your texts, photos, and updates at a glance. Then you can drill deeper into the particular social network if you care to take the time.
Sunken ship discovery in SF Bay revives memories of xenophobia
The number of people every year who are so incapacitated that they can't dial 911 yet are just capacitated enough to find the red emergency button on their home screen (after entering their unlock password) can be approximated as zero. And if you have one of those "emergency call bypass" features for your lock screen...well, you're already done.
Deploy Rails Applications Using Docker
or Einstein
I see general concept and specific implementation as being on a spectrum. If an invention is sufficiently novel/nonobvious, I believe the inventor is entitled to a patent on the general concept. However, if the invention is an incremental advance, or in a crowded field, the inventor should only be entitled to a patent on the narrower invention that is actually new, and usually this is going to be a specific implementation.

This is not to say that a patent application should not describe the invention in detail. The law requires that the patent application describe the invention in sufficient detail that one of skill in the art would be able to practice/implement the invention without "undue experimentation." This feels like the right standard to me. I believe that a software patent application that provides a functional description of the invention, even without code showing a specific implementation, that would allow a skilled programmer to implement the invention, should suffice. Whether that invention is novel/nonobvious is a separate question. The broad idea may or may not be. A narrow aspect of the idea may or may not be. You don't need actual code to figure this out.
I thought this meant that Stripe was retreating from open-sourcing internally-developed software.

A potentially better title is "Stripe offering open-source retreat for select software developers".
I'd chalk it up to the geek tinkering mindset. Geeks like to tinker, and Neo-Paganism and other non-mainstream religions provide a nice framework for experimenting with your own set of religious beliefs.
Is this an accredited university? I dropped out of school in 2007 (quite luckily I might add) and have been itching to go back. This sounds like it'd work really well for me.
Well we could focus on ones that had those issues, but you're right, there isn't much more value-add than a traditional company build, and I suppose I'm not very well informed about those funds
The article does indeed seem to use "project managers" and "managers of engineers" as if the terms mean the same thing.
It'd be nice to see an example at the end. Does the page itself even use the ratio for the headings?
You could write your own traffic RSS feed and use that as a trigger.
Putin calls the Internet a "CIA project"
Use Twilio, and have a stub of code inject your responses into your Google Docs spreadsheet. 1 penny per text message they receive for you, $1/month for the number.

Here, just found this blog post via the googles:

https://www.twilio.com/blog/2012/11/connecting-twilio-sms-to...

https://github.com/jpf/TwilioSheet
Man, the Amazon subcontracted and watched down to the second with no room for human discretion warehouse worker stories are bone chilling.
App Engine and Heartbleed
I'm interested to know where ideas like this originate within the company. Outreach like this is great for their brand within the dev world, though this may be more altruistic than CTF (semi-recruitment tool). There's no question that both initiatives are clever enough to make one wonder how they come to life internally. Love the idea(s)!
Ask HN: What's the future of front-end development?
I'm curious to know what people think since front-end development is all over the map lately.

You have CSS3 which is handling a lot of design work (gradients, embedded type, drop shadows) and now you have server sided JS frameworks that has always been the back-end, database realm.

I really have no idea as a front-end developer what technologies I'll be working with or what my role will entail in even a few years, let alone 5. I'm wondering where people think we're headed.
2 Weeks back on HN -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7572809
Exciting prospect. How about DataScript for your app state + tx-listen/om-sync mirroring transactions? Might require wrapping the datascript/transact! call, and I haven't thought about reading from the cliente. Maybe as simple as lazily mirroring datascript/q calls and filling those back into the DataScript map.
You are unable to spoof SMS numbers. Twilio has documentation on this if you'd like more info (experience: I tried, so I could SMS birthday messages to my contacts without remembering, but having it look like it came from me).
I'm curious : anyone here remembers google defining its strategy as an "hypercube" ? I'm pretty sure i read about that a looong time ago, but i can't find any article about it now.
As a child, I would go to the library and bring home stacks of books on UFOs, magic, cryptozoology, and the like. I am always amused by the fact that so many of my colleagues in software development were just like me and claim to have had similar interests. Maybe a coincidence but I think there is definitely an underlying interest in arcane subjects.
Interesting concept. I'm curious to hear how you tune the decision to display vs. not display the popup.

For instance I was disappointed that trying to leave the site the first time didn't pop up your product to try to convert me. Seemed like you should be trying your own product on your own site. I went back to test it a 2nd time though and did get the popup when I was trying to leave. 3rd time through I didn't receive the popup.
I work for a company that regularly acquires smaller companies who all thought using 10/8 was a good idea. Merging N of these networks is a disaster.
Wow, and just this week, I installed Pushbullet to handle getting notifications from IFTTT to my Android phone. Oh well, I will continue to use Pushbullet, and this is still good news.
I thought I saw one of these under this Bing for Schools "earn a surface" page, second pic down, but I could be wrong and it might just be a ref design from someone:

https://www.bing.com/explore/rewardsforschools

Mirror:

http://imgur.com/lANCUd8
Bringing QuickLook to the Web
Why did Facebook acquire Moves?
Instead of a blanket filter for political (and other) terms, why not create a way to check if certain terms already exist on the front page and only apply penalties to posts that include these terms if the topic is already being discussed on the front page. This way when big political news happens you can still talk about it without it taking over the front page.
The old server crumbled due to unexpected popularity. The new one should be a bit more stable. Thanks for helping!
I heard an interesting quote from former POTUS Bush 43' when he was asked about the current situation in the Ukraine. He said when he spoke with Putin when he was in offie, Putin always saw everything that happened in the world as either as an advantage to Russia or an advantage to the US.

It struck me since it seemed to be a rather one dimensional thought process for a guy who seems to be quite intelligent.
One thing that would limit feature creep would have the TLS WG maintain a POSIX reference library implementation, standard library compatibility interface (header file) and a comprehensive test suite. Because once the maintenance of that hits the people making suggestions and decisions, priorities will adjusted. (It still takes work to do the right thing regardless, but at least there would be a baseline, and behavior across implementations would be more comparable.)

Also, accelerate the sunset of older specs so that deployed code will have to stay more current to even function, rather than interop'ing with old code that will never be patched.
I'm betting that at some point in the near future, you're going to see housing developments built on top of a distribution center.

It makes sense. A big DC could use the same robots that pack shipments to deliver goods direct to your door. One-hour delivery.

If they did this, then you could also get into renting items instead of purchasing them. Do you really need that big screen TV? Or could you just rent something a couple Saturdays each month? I could easily see a future where you're out by the pool and decide to have a party. Speaking a few commands into your smart phone, when you get home a couple hours later you have all sorts of things purchased/rented/installed and ready to go.

10 years out, maybe?
Well, I just picked a random Unix I've heard of, I don't know a lot about it.
Heh, I'll need to put in a character limit. Thanks for the input!
African Ebola outbreak shows no sign of slowing
Patch analysis of latest Microsoft Office vulnerability (CVE-2014-1761)
Major Events API Updates for Orchestrate
dudes ex-KGB, so it kind of makes sense that that's how he sees the world
You never cease to amaze :D
Check out David Cummings blog, based in Atlanta-- bootstrapped Pardot, sold to ExactTarget> http://davidcummings.org/about/
Seconded. Secrets of the Temple by Greider is pretty accessible (if biased, as they all are).

http://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Temple-Federal-Reserve-Country...

Also, the EconTalk podcasts are awesome: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/money/

E.g.

- David Laidler on Money (http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2013/09/david_laidler_o.htm...)

- Sumner on Money, Business Cycles, and Monetary Policy (http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2013/03/sumner_on_money_1.h...)

- White on Hayek and Money (http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2010/02/larry_white_on.html)

- etc.
And it's different from borrowing hundreds of thousands of dollars that can't be discharged in bankruptcy how?
Microsoft Surface is amazing. Only MS would simplify development of this platform.
You should link to that comment so we can all see the context and judge for ourselves. :)

(sidenote: I'm very happy about all the attention SSL related stuff is getting. Just like Snowden said, encryption is our best defense against whoever and all the SSL stuff is the most commonly used encryption out there. Don't know what to do about dis-honest CAs though...).

EDIT: tptacek is probably right that this is drama and my sidenote should probably be the main comment
Yeah, most supermarkets in medium cities and larger offer drive services.

I don't have a car however, so I have been looking at orders delivered to my door, and the offer is still rather poor. I'm in Lille, and even though it's a rather large city only Monoprix and Auchan offer that. Even not considering the shipping and handling charges Monoprix is already more expensive than all the other supermarkets, and Auchan online has very few products offered, to the point of being completely unsuitable as my main groceries source.

The few first orders to Monoprix bear large discounts though (which actually made the end price cheaper than what I would have paid in the nearby "real" supermarket) so I tried their service, and I am very pleased with it, to the point where I'm almost ready to use them more often even if they're more expensive.

Groceries get delivered to my door the day after, at the hour I choose, this looks like the future to me.

Many large cities in France also have a local fruits and vegetable delivery company (usually with mostly organic and/or local products).

Well, anyway, what I want to say is that I'm very pleased with the recent development of these services. I can finally skip spending hours in a supermarket every week and hauling back my things by bike or public transport.
It would be nice if there was a 'log' or 'about' page for each submission to show editorial changes and other administrative data. Often it would be easier to make sense of earlier comments if the full history of moderator changes was accessible.

If desired, this page could also be used as an out-of-channel means for the moderator to tell the submitter why the changes were made, or why the submission was killed. It could also serve as a page linking to discussion of earlier (or substantially similar) submissions.
Apple, Google agree to settle antitrust lawsuit over hiring deals-filing
State of Photo Sharing 2014
By removing vibrant people and bizarre stories from scientific history you are doing science a disservice by deterring the smartest, creative people, many of whole are quirky, from the sterile, close-minded politicized world of science.

The less white-washing the better. We need to know our heros were crazy just like us.
Agreed. One more factual error is mentioning Tesla as a Croatian immigrant, but actually he was born in then Austrian Empire (which today is Croatia). His parents were Serbian.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla
Reading this actually makes me hope that Facebook gets their wifi-beaming balloons up and running quickly. I'd like to support Comcast as little as humanly possible.
Putin is a KGB project, so he would know. :)
Layoffs at LightSail Energy, Khosla-Funded Compressed-Air Energy Storage Startup