skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have another anecdote for you. My mom, a 79 year-old retired tourist agency owner and occasional tour guide had a Windows machine. When I gave up on fighting viruses on her Windows XP machine, I moved her to a Mac running OS9. Then I set her up with an Ubuntu box.

She does her upgrades through the GUI (after the machine prompts her), runs mostly Firefox, imports her photos into Shotwell, shares them with her friends (on e-mail - she doesn't like Facebook), writes letters (and mail the printed copies) and seems generally comfortable with that.

She moved from Gnome 2 to Unity without thinking twice. She prefers Unity.
Mapbox Foundations
Yahoo gives up on Do Not Track
Consider WaPo's chief readership: people interested in domestic/foreign policy probably living in the DMV area and associated with the federal government.

Among those types, what Snowden did was considered, at BEST, a warranted discussion but highly unprofessional and a breach of trust. (whether you agree with that or not, but that represents their core interests in serving the federal government)
But there it is with Hearbleed in the same cnet article so it must be serious. So serious. Wow.
I'm a huge fan of my Sony MDR-V6's - I'd love to do a comparison test between the V6's and the 7506's some time.

How do audiophiles get a chance to do this? I've never seen a "headphone store" on a street corner.
I have a door to the right of me, so when the recording started, I had that exact sensation. "The door! ... oh, wait..." Amazing how powerful sound is as a trigger of urgent emotions and responses.
SpaceX is doing rather well with regard to cost efficiency. And they're not asking for special treatment, just for the opportunity to bid.
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By splitting in two, Foursquare joins Facebook, Google, and Dropbox
> but that test certainly doesn't prove that break-in is a myth, either

It's impossible to prove a negative. The test was: "is there evidence for headphone output changing over time" and there was not enough evidence to show this by the author's own admission.

Given the ocean of audiophile bullshit out there, it's not unreasonable to take the default position of assuming a claim is bullshit until there is substantial evidence to the contrary.
Yes, politicians in the West are often unpopular too. So what? How does that disprove the claim?
I don't think job posts are allowed
A vulnerability that wasn’t (An SMT solver example)
Of course Clapper isn't going to be punished. Holder was held in contempt of Congress for stonewalling on Fast and Furious, but since pursuit of his punishment would require action from an Obama political appointee, nothing will happen.

No one went to jail for the Wall Street fiasco.

No one was fired for being wrong about WMDs in Iraq.

We still don't know anything about Benghazi while some poor sap who published a video rots in jail as a scapegoat... no one will suffer consequences.

No one in this administration will cooperate in determining the origins, extent, and details of the IRS attack on conservative political groups.

The list of government protecting its own goes on forever.

Why is anyone surprised that things are the same for this particular scandal? Particularly with this administration that gets a lot of political cover from the press?
I agree what I said was more simple than the full reality, but even San Francisco has a lot of space that is zoned purely one or the other:

http://www.sf-planning.org/index.aspx?page=1569

I also agree that some people like living next to hotels, but some don't. And in the case of apartment buildings, it's not so much "next to a hotel" as "in a partial hotel".

So I think my broad point, that zoning regulations aren't some sort of pointlessly Orwellian government regulation, and are in fact rooted in reasonable preferences of residents, still stands.
Bear in mind another point - believing Snowden needs to stand trial doesn't necessarily presume a belief that he's guilty, or should be punished, either. Americans also tend to believe the justice system works as advertised.
The flow does not originate at your site. Your site did not create the redirect URI that is being passed to Google / Twitter in your example.

The URL is generated by a malicious party. The URL constructed (1) sends the user to Google / Twitter for authentication, (2) includes a return URL of your open redirector, and (3) has your open redirect send you on to an evil site.
OneDrive for Business is really just sharepoint. Sharepoint has always done this.
> it goes right off the end of my screen.

It's caused by the non-breaking spaces (Unicode character U+00A0) in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7685599

A CSS workaround to read this page:

.comment {
display: block;
max-width: 800px;
}
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From the Q&A:

> Covert Redirect is based on vulnerability Open Redirect. An open redirect is an application that takes a parameter and redirects a user to the parameter value without any validation (OWASP). So Covert Redirect is an applicaiton that takes a paramter and redirects a user to the parameter value with improper validation. Usually this is the of result of overconfidence of its partnership.

Seems like a known flaw in OAuth2.
Hoods blockage up is a comparatively common event in rally races. I've read that many teams specifically design the hood to leave a large gap if it flips up, thus allowing the driver to continue down the stage. This happened to a top driver at the latest Sno*Drift rally here in the US, and the video is pretty fun to watch.

http://youtu.be/c3fkwl2we14?t=7m18s
People with mental health problems are much more likely to be the victims of violence rather than the perpetrators of violence.
I had just a bit of fun with it [1] but it's easy to see that no more that a few bits per frame can be accurately encoded this way.

[1]: http://jsfiddle.net/zenojevski/EHh3Q/4/
Son, It’s Time We Talk About Where Startups Come From.
oh I thought I had seen some, lemme go delete it then :)
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This is a good explanation and I would love to share it but the poor spelling and grammar makes it un-shareable.
Reminds me of the geocities bootstrap theme[0]. I'm surprised they don't have a scrolling marquee!

[0]: http://code.divshot.com/geo-bootstrap/
Hi Mike. I call it out specifically because crimes against children are a particular category of crime that deserves special attention from the community. Sextorting a business man with a picture of him having an affair and other $CRIMES 'should' be handled differently than the predator who drives a young teen to suicide or gets them to take pictures of their younger siblings, or face humiliation on a social network.

In the former (businessman example), a social network has a 'right' to refuse law enforcement and notify the user. In the latter example, it's my belief (which I understand isn't popular here!) that the network has a civic 'duty' not to inform the user and to assist how they can - as many of them do right now. My question has more to do with asking if social networks will examine the background of the $CRIME before notifying the user.

Phone companies recognize this distinction and, for example, will provide an emergency ping location when a child is in danger before any paper work is submitted, requiring in good faith that it will follow within 24 hours. If the following paperwork is not in order, they lose the ability to do that again.

It's a wonderful thing that the average HN reader doesn't have to deal with these issues, and disappointing honestly that real questions from someone who does are heavily downvoted. But hey, it's fine not to agree with my view.
Two awesome stories.

We dealt with the 286 when I was at Mark Williams. They had done the compiler that Intel was using and reselling at the time. When the 286 came out, they were concerned about performance, what with the goofy segment registers and all the various memory models (compact, small, medium, large). The wanted us to guarantee that the performance of the compiled code would be equal to or better than the 8086. Naturally we resisted.

So you must know Ron Lachman.

Oh, also at Mark Williams, the year before I started with them they demonstrated Coherent (v7 unix-alike) on a vanilla IBM PC without any memory protection hardware. Later also done on the Atari ST.
Fleeing the consequences of his actions is akin to ducking after disagreeing with an irrational person. Right or wrong, they're about to hit you. You don't have to stand there and take it.

If he had faced the consequences of his actions, he wouldn't be around right now to continue this discussion.
SYN/ACK DDoS Attacks
Extending Bootstrap
Also: if you're a game developer, and Zenimax offers you a job, and you know this is how they treat people people who've moved on, you might consider taking a different role.
Kickstarter late May for open source software to use your 3D Printer wirelessly
I thought OP was implying that he had dirt on anyone who would try to reprimand him. Everyone hesitates in a surveillance state.
Snowden is an All American Hero.

People are quick to go down the rabbit hole and say he's a "traitor" because he fled to Russia... these are the same people who are all caught up in our Presidentially Manufactured Political-Beef with Russia in Ukraine.

Snowden is in Russia because it is the only country in this world that would stand up to the USA and say "no" to deportation requests.

We witnessed just how far USA is willing to strong-arm the international community -- even going so far to force-ground a Presidential Plane from Bolivia and then search his plane. -- That is outrageous.

Snowden should be brought back to the USA -- after a full Presidential Pardon, and then made into the first in-house US Spy Agency Watch Dog - reporting only to the American People, and the President.
Yeah, pretty bad. It's quite bad. I try to do any compilation on my desktop machine or one a remote machine.

Mine is a 2013 edition (MLK / 2nd edt) w/ Core i5 3rd gen (I think).
Most important is this line which demonstrates not only does the attacker need to social engineer a user, it has to be done via a vulnerable website:

> The patch of this vulnerability is easier said than done. If all the third-party applications strictly adhere to using a whitelist. Then there would be no room for attacks. However, in the real world, a large number of third-party applications do not do this due to various reasons.

Facebook, etc aren't insecure directly, their 3rd party partners are for not implementing a URL whitelist. This website chose to bury that fact. This explains why Facebook is aware of the issue and did not address it.
And that's why equal temperament was invented - so different instruments can play together.
I presume your customer's websites don't end with ".io" and they are actual profitable businesses?
Let's see a famed IP lawyer that would disagree with the premise of the article.

Attack the contents, if you can.

There are several lawyers that I know of right here in this thread and I don't see anybody contradicting the advice.
I was actually at the conference talk this guy gave about the subject last week and was talking to him about it the night before. If anyone has questions I can attempt to answer them.

Also interesting to think about is if these devices are getting hacking and people are blaming it on malfunctions.
It is the comment that starts with "From the research paper:". It has non-breaking spaces instead of regular spaces, perhaps due to copy paste.
Holder was not prosecuted further because Obama clamped down with Executive Privilege -- preventing any further inquiry (but also basically admitting something wrong was going on)
Lambda expression and method overloading ambiguity doubts
Thanks, I manually fixed that comment.
They've been in business 6 years. I'm arguing that these methods are sustainable, so yes, them sustaining them is a good hint that it's sustainable.

I also prefer to ship high-quality software to customers. And from everything they've said, so do they. Your (unsubstantiated) claim appears to be that longer feedback loops (with particular supporting practices) result in net higher quality than shorter ones (with particular supporting practices). I don't think that's true, and places like Wealthfront and Etsy are good counterexamples.
The article doesn't mention that when this game is played with American children (using pieces of candy instead of money) they usually offer the least amount of candy and accept whatever's offered, say, a 9-1 split. This is seen as "rational" by both sides, because the giver should give as little as possible and the receiver should be happy to have something rather than nothing.

This behavior changes as people grow up. As teenagers, people generally won't accept a split worse than 70/30, which implies that it's worth it to lose out on the 30 in order to send a message to the stingy giver. Also, men are more likely to engage in this sort of justice-driven behavior than women, which is all considered economically irrational. But when the stakes get very high they tend to outweigh people's ethical notions of fairness.
I actually think I've got some spare MX-4 from my recent PC build. I think I'll take your advice over the weekend. Thanks for your help!
> OK multi-crate Bier runs maybe an exception, as another has written

You can generally have drinks delivered for little to no surcharge and probably cheaper than specifically renting a car. Plus you don’t have to carry them upstairs :)
Were any issues logged, or these problems otherwise addressed, in the ten+ months since this was posted?

I wasn't able to find anything with some quick searches but hopefully others on this thread are more familiar with these projects.
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Moodle Course Design Best Practices
Also,

> To quote John Grado: "All mechanical things need break-in."

Really? How many slices of bread should I go through to make sure the pop-up mechanism in my toaster is solid before making my bespoke artisanal toast? How long should I run my oscillating fan before allowing moving air to touch my delicate skin? Should I limit myself to only stapling two pages until my stapler is properly adjusted?

Sarcasm aside, even very complicated pieces of equipment like combustion engines don't require break-in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Break-in_%28mechanical_run-in%...
Most modern crypto is all but banned by Fedora's (really Redhat's) packaging policies. They only recently agreed to enable ECDSA in OpenSSL, and even then, only with NIST curves. There's a lot of other very shady overrides and limitations they impose on crytpo packages too, and any questions about them are invariably met with a chorus of "we are not at liberty to comment" from some lawyer type. NSA clearly have them by the balls.
Common Problems with Demo Day Pitches
Adobe is moving towards subscription-based cloud apps.
Ask HN: Do I need to be careful clicking on links from the NEW page?
When I'm browsing I tend to be cautious about clicking on links, but when I come to HN my guard goes down, especially for links on the front page. Do I need to be careful about links on the New page?
Funny. My friends recommended this exact use case for the app. What he said was, make the artwork look like rotating vinyls and keep the functionality the same except add cross-fader (which is extremely hard).
+1 Sony MDR-7506

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My alternative graphical notation:

http://www.cwi.nl/~tromp/cl/diagrams.html

(also linked to at the bottom of the article)

Example: predecessor function on Church numerals:

┬──────────
┼─────┬────
┼─────┼─┬──
│ ──┬─┼ ┼ ┬
│ ┬─┼─┼ │ │
│ │ ├─┘ │ │
│ ├─┘ │ │
└─┤ │ │
└─────┤ │
└─┘
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“I knew this was going to be a huge app. I knew it because my sister liked it before it even existed.”

Must be wonderful to have a validated idea fall in your lap like that!
Please. Look at what's happening in the Ukraine. Can you see the US invading Mexico or Canada and keeping the territory because our President was a megalomaniac?

Even when we do invade somewhere to take out someone like UBL, Saddam Hussein, or Noriega; when we're done we clean up, rebuild some infrastructure, and leave.

No other nation on earth in history has restricted the wars it fights in such a principled way, rather than using them as excuses to just take more territory.
> I had always assumed that for everyone except those with something to lose (e.g. politicians, bureaucrats) that Snowden 's actions were seen in high regard.

I imagine this is entirely a function of your social circle. The polls conducted this year have been marginally in favor of his prosecution: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commentary_on_Edward_Snowden's_.... It's a deeply divisive issue for Americans, though it breaks along the usual lines (age, etc).

My dad, for example, who is very liberal on most things, is no fan of Snowden. Especially among the older generation who grew up during the Cold War, nothing Snowden revealed rises to the level of invasiveness that would be cause for alarm.

Most of the people I know simply do not care about surveillance. They're in the ideological majority, they don't have controversial opinions, and they (rightly) believe the government has no interest in using the fruits surveillance against them. They certainly don't sympathize with the ideas of hypothetical political dissidents that might be hypothetically suppressed using surveillance.
I don't see how this is 'breaking news', pretty sure oauth has many known issues similar. This is nothing at all like heartbleed.
I thought this was always the plan... Why pay a foreign (and not so friendly) country when a private company can do it cheaper, faster and better (and you have much more influence over it)?
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Norway's Wonderloop app raises $200,000 – What do you think of it´s potential?
To add on, some attorneys spend their whole lives tearing apart people who lie. Unless you are professional psychopath, you are completely outclassed here.
This is only a vulnerability if you have an "open redirect" somewhere on your domain.

Do you have any URLs that look like this?

yourdomain.com/track-outbound-click.php?url=http://www.evilsite.com/

That's an open redirect, and can be used by an attacker to work around the domain whitelist.

Open redirects are bad news for a bunch of other reasons. The solution is to always guard them with an additional signed parameter derived from the URL and a secret.
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...and conversion of HN into 4chan is complete
Java is fast enough now to compete with C++ in some categories of software traditionally viewed as "high performance" e.g. web-servers or database systems. Applications running like "turtle on anything short of server-class hardware" is a result of bad-coding, not Java itself.
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The purpose of Asm.js is to only touch JS with a 10-feet pole.

Node.js is just an implementation of the Reactor pattern with some package management.

Google are smart people, they understand that dynamic weakly typed language is a dead end, hence Dart for client and Go for server.
Turn coffee into code faster with this iOS cheat sheet
> Every national government in the civilized world needs an intelligence-gathering agency that can operate with some degree of operational secrecy.

> I think Congress is unsure about how to proceed on this issue because not all members of Congress are of one mind about what is best for the country in administration of NSA.

> The other reason I don't believe this HN hivemind theory of politics is that I by no means assume that everyone in politics lacks personal integrity.

None of these points should be controversial, but oh well.