skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because a kid can write a working trojan that escapes AV detection? (Two very young studends I know did, POC took less than 50 loc in AHK. That included a plausible "installer" as well as auto update feature).
Weird. This article was originally written by me on Russian IT-resource habrahabr, here: http://habrahabr.ru/post/221667/. I don't see any link to it. Guys from kukuruku leaves only url on github, which shows it is my work. I'm not a fan of copyright or something, no blame on them. I would not mind if they attach a url to original article though. I was going to translate the article but now I leave it.

I study STM/HTM for my university work now, and this article is some kind of overview of technology.
Quite right, it'd be a terrible spy agency with those restrictions. I have no issue with warranted investigations, or prosecuting people doing bad things.

I'm arguing that broad, warrantless surveillance is a horrible, chilling thing to be doing. The fact that everyone is doing it doesn't make me feel better.
Cool - I think this feature is available directly with the service that is downloadable from the F-Script homepage:

"The F-Script Anywhere injection service, developed by Silvio H. Ferreira, lets you easily inject a whole F-Script environment in any running Cocoa application, providing F-Script Anywhere-like functionality…"

http://www.fscript.org/download/download.htm

F-Script is pretty amazing, and was a great tool for helping me to learn Cocoa in particular.
How many times did they have work-stopping outages before CC?
Pinterest makes literally no money today. Facebook made a billion dollars in profit this quarter. Who, exactly, has the "highly uncertain financial future"?
There's a related video from a March, 1997 lecture, in which Postman discusses the questions. Though I agree with much of what he says, I also feel he suffered from a bit of failure of imagination in conceiving of what the possible utility of information might be.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlrv7DIHllE

Two bits, both in the Q&A, particularly stand out.

First: the observation that as the hoi polloi are told they need to acquire technical skills, the ruling class retains its power by learning how to speak and write effectively.

Second:

"I feel very strongly about this: what is distracting us from solving some of the problems that you mention is a kind of a world view that's being promoted now by computer technology, that the main reason we have problems in the world is that we have insufficient information. If only we could get more information, easier to access, and get it faster, then we can solve this problem, or any of the others you mention. And I think this is an awesome conceit, and a terrible mis-judgement. Look, if there are children starving anyplace, it's not because we have insufficient information. if there's crime rampant in the streets in New York, Detroit, and Chicago, it's not because we have insufficient information. If the ozone layer is being depleted and the rainforest is disappearing, it's not because we have insufficient information. And if you can't get along with your own relatives, it's not because you have insufficient information. But we have come to believe that that is the source of all the misery and pain in the world. If only we had more information. And I think that that is a complete distraction. That is what Bill Gates wants us to believe....

"We solved this problem already. How to get more information to more people. Fast. And in diverse forms. We solved it. Congratulations! It was great!

"But we caused another problem. Information glut, information meaninglessness, information incoherence. We're are flooded in information. We are drowning in information. Talk to an educator and ask well, what do we have to do in schools? I know the problem: they don't have enough information. So, we've got a new set of problems here in education and the social life. What do we have to know to learn what to do in a culture that is saturated in information?..

"This truly has never happened before, because prior to the early 19th century, every culture suffered from information scarcity. It was beginning in the 1840s, humanity addressed this problem: how to get more information to more people, fast, and in diverse forms.... And then from the 1840s right into this century ... and by the way, there were far more technological changes in the 19th century than there have been in the 20th ... beginning then and right into our own century, we addressed the problem of how to get more information."
Maybe a mathematician can explain whether this "trick" works or not? Intuitively, I can't see that knowing whether the M&M demand was filled makes it more probable that the other demands are filled.

Say you have a pile with five black or white marbles. You want them all to be black. So you check that the first marble in the pile is black (ie no brown m&m:s). Is it now more probable that the other four marbles also are black?

Because you are just checking one specific marble instead of sampling a number of randomly chosen marbles (which of course would increase the probability), I don't see how it can work.
This all seems sensible until Adobe revokes your license and you lose all money you invested so far and access to the work you produced. There should be consumer protection laws for these cases. When you pirate software, everything works smoothly (unless you catch some trojan), but if you are a paying customer, all kinds of unpleasant and artificial problems are thrown at you.
"A supply of tea with milk and sugar would be nice. If it is tea I
really like, I like it without milk and sugar. With milk and sugar,
any kind of tea is fine. I always bring tea bags with me, so if we
use my tea bags, I will certainly like that tea without milk or sugar.

If I am quite sleepy, I would like two cans or small bottles of
non-diet Pepsi. (I dislike the taste of coke, and of all diet soda;
also, there is an international boycott of the Coca Cola company for
killing union organizers in Colombia and Guatemala; see
killercoke.org.) However, if I am not very sleepy, I won't want
Pepsi, because it is better if I don't drink so much sugar."

Eccentric.
You know, I just read this again. I first read it in a ridiculing context (“Parrots? Really?”) and didn’t think much to put it out of that context, but looking at it now I have to say my view on it has changed.

I think it’s pretty alright, actually.

Some of his demands have to do with his strong ethical views on software, and while I don’t agree completely with him on this, I certainly can respect him for being uncompromising on that.

He frequently emphasises the need to communicate. Decisions that affect both him and the host have to be decided together. He also shows quite some willingness to find alternate solutions if his preferred solution is somehow not possible, but emphasises the need to communicate about those changes.

All the rest may be slightly quirky, but it’s all not especially hard to do with some care and attention. Hey, he doesn’t even want super-accomodating hospitality.

(Also, hotel internet is the worst. Good on him for insisting that be properly checked. He needs it to work, after all.)
The second weird thing is that I compile an article from the English sources and translated them on Russian. Kukuruku folks translated them back to English, probably losing a bunch of meaning.
Tea and Pepsi is eccentric?
>Bank security systems are designed and administered by people of the same calibre who design and administer many startups, including crypto-currency products.

Then why is it that I have frequently run across banks requiring a maximum 6- or 8-character password, and have never run across a startup -- Bitcoin or not -- with such poor security requirements?
Companies never "have anyone's back." They exist to generate revenue; this isn't intrinsically bad. However, this should preclude any form of blind trust.
A lot of the answers here address the symptoms, rather than the root cause. I believe the source of these kinds of problems is that we focus too little on teaching kids to be builders.

I specifically avoid words like "science", "engineering", or "entrepreneurship" because I do not want to be dragged into a debate about why artists and writers are needed, too. They are needed, too. But I prefer the word "builders" — people, who are taught that value comes from building, and that is something you can always do yourself. You do not need a "job" with someone telling you what and how to build.

Note that there is an attitude problem in many young unemployed people: many seem to think that getting some kind of education entitles them to something. What's worse, if that "something" (job, money) doesn't appear, many are helpless and turn into a spiral of self-loathing and depression.

In the longer term this will become even more of a problem, as we automate more and more mundane tasks. The number of jobs that require no thinking will not grow. On the other hand, the possibilities for making a living using all kinds of building skills are growing fast.

I believe we should make more effort to teach kids to build, and use their own initiative. And I use the word "build" very loosely — you can build furniture, electronics gadgets, web sites, artsy jewelry, anything. Whatever you build will help your self-esteem, put thoughts on the right track (growing/extending/building rather than self-loathing, moving up rather than down), help you meet new people, give you new possibilities.
To be fair, their aims were lophty even if their methods were crude.
Add to that that 11% of house owners in the UK now own more than one house.

One of the "problems" in the UK rental market is that the Duke of Westminster is one of Britain's most propertied landlord.

And then you read things like this :

> A Freedom of Information request by the New Statesman to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) reveals that the largest landowners received millions of pounds in taxpayer subsidy last year. The Duke of Westminster, a multibillionaire, was paid £748,716 for his ownership of Grosvenor Farms, the Earl of Plymouth £675,085, the Duke of Buccleuch £260,273, the Duke of Devonshire £251,729 and the Duke of Atholl £231,188 for his Blair Castle estate. It was also a lucrative year for the Windsors. The Queen received £415,817 for the Royal Farms and £314,811 for the Duchy of Lancaster, while Prince Charles was paid £127,868 for the Duchy of Cornwall. Similarly well-remunerated was Saudi Arabia’s Prince Bandar bin Sultan, who received £273,905 for his 2,000-acre Glympton Estate in Oxfordshire, allegedly purchased with proceeds of the 1985 al-Yamamah arms deal between Britain and Saudi Arabia. The largest individual UK beneficiary is Sir Richard Sutton, who was paid £1.7m for his Settled Estates, the 6,500-acre property near Newbury that he inherited with his baron­etcy in 1981, despite net assets of £136.5m.

http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/politics/2012/09/how-we...
I'd rather want putitbacktogether.com.

Disassembling something I can usually figure out easily, but putting it back together is not that straight forward.
I heard a rumour of technical specification including some of the jokier RFCs to check that people were really reading them...

http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1149.txt
The immediate thing that this particular sophisticated user misses is the ability to not have to buy a Mac to run it :)

Looks like great software, but there's no Windows version I can see.
I have long argued that we need a redistribution of leisure.
I personally lost a little over 9 months salary. The missus was not pleased :-)

To be honest, the entire gambit rested on the results of the Greek election [1]. If Tsiparis (Syriza) had of won then everyone who shorted would have made a killing as they pledged to cease any repayments.

Exit polls had them possibly winning at 7pm with the possibility lessened by 05.% at 8pm. As it happened, the result was 26.9% to Syrizas and the winners (ND/DISY) with 29.7%; the markets already started climbing that evening and within a few days the majority of short positions were untenable incurring substantial losses.

Most media outlets agreed that a Tsiparis win would have resulted in a Greece exit from the Eurozone with the currency plummeting. Foreign Affairs stated that ...the election determined whether Greece would exit the eurozone and decide the fate of the entire postwar European project. [2]

The entire issue came down to just 170,475 votes (>2% of the voting population).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_legislative_election,_Jun...

[2]http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/137710/stathis-n-kaly...
And it would not matter if he/she could, because there is no good way to tell what the best funds are in prospect.
Really cool. Those who are interested in a similar project should also check out Super Debugger.

https://github.com/Shopify/superdb

It uses F-Script but, as I understand it, uses its own debugging environment rather than tying into lldb.
Because it's not like marbles. It's not a math thing.

It's more like a canary in the coal mine. If the canary dies, you should check on the air quality. If they went through the trouble of removing the brown m&ms you have a fairly strong indicator they actually read the document in the first place. And a strong indicator they have a good attention to detail.
Because of a difference in the URL -- this one has one "s" extra... ;-)
Exactly and the analogy with the utilities is bad for another reason too.

It makes sense for the utilities to be centralized generating electricity for every house separately is inefficient and has only become recently viable with solar panels. Where possible people tend to switch to that for independence or a combination of both.

Getting water to every house in a city is impossible without it being centralized.

SAAS on the other hand is not necessary. We can do the same thing without requiring constant connectivity or by building and app that requires connectivity only when absolutely necessary for it to work.

However we can't ask for rent if it's not a service. I for one avoid all SAAS like the plague.

I don't mind one time payments hey if i get enough value from the product I wouldn't mind the option of donating extra however monthly payments make me look twice at how much value I'm getting or if i can get it from a product that requires a one time payment instead.
I wonder why wouldn't be possible to use some kind of passive method for tremor cancellation, like a miniature version of a steadicam. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steadicam
Wow! I didn't even realise it was still possible to buy Adobe products the old-school way.

This is extremely good news.
I just realized what this is. He wrote a manual for operating himself.
For professionals working in design there Is no real alternative to Photoshop.
Do Ants Need Geometry to Find an Efficient Route?
Can you please describe the exact steps where the behaviour was inconsistent. We can always file a radar.
Ahahaha, funny thing.. In Italy people go crazy for titles :-)

ps. I'm only half Italian though.
Well, you know that the admonition about buying a parrot is in there because it happened at least once. Nobody thinks up that case in advance.

Overall the rider seems pretty reasonable for someone who travels so much and asks so little for doing so.
:) Its a bit surreal.
Thank you for your Feedback :) Would i get in trouble, when i use this in the future?

My experience is not so high on C.
Agreed. It might be quirky, but I many of the things he lists here must be things he has experienced (like people buying parrots because they heard he likes parrots) and doesn't want happening again.
If you're happy using software you don't have a license for, why not grab CS6 off of the your favorite torrent site.

People bitch and bitch about DRM (and god knows I do as well), but as soon as a company tries to release software without any licensing hoops or other checks, people jump all over it and shout "Hey everybody, this company isn't going out of their way stop me from using their software, it must be free!!!!" Just because you can download and run some piece of software from a companies website doesn't mean you have a license to freely use it.
Fast-Paced Multiplayer
Which banks specifically secure online data only using a 6 character password?

Most banks, if not all, have BSI ISO27001 security certification and are accredited and administered by the pinnacle companies of the security industry.

For comparison; HN has a multitude of threads listing the outrageous security practices of many crypto-currency related companies, some beyond start-up.

You seem to think banking security is simply a bunch of guys in suits simply having a crack with a copy of ZoneAlarm and Kaspersky. Classic them v us ideas with a touch of Dunning-Kruger thrown in.
>Being able to survive on your own, rather than living in your parent's basement, gives dignity

>It has worked great for Western European and Scandinavian countries.

Has it? According to a report by the UN, it would appear the median age by which half of young people have left their parental home is 26 for males and 24 for females [1].

In some areas of Western Europe, unemployment is as high as 25% [2] and is particularly affecting young people.

So could you please quantify your statement that it has worked great for Western European and Scandinavian countries?

[1]http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/expertpapers/2...

[2]http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-08-02/spain-suffer-least-...
Yeah, bit of a silent hero; would not have expected that.
> I never cease to be amazed at the creativity of piracy apologists in coming up with new scenarios where piracy is the only solution.

It doesn't need to be the only solution. It simply needs to be the most economically viable solution to the consumer.

Joe Bloggs is an Englishman. He likes high-quality US television imports - Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, House of Cards, True Detective. He wants to obtain them for his viewing pleasure.

His options:

1. Go old school. pay £100-£150 for all the box-sets.

2. Go new school. Pay £7/month for Netflix (BB, HoC). Pay £30+ a month for Sky TV subscription with Sky Atlantic for the others. Plus £x, plus £y for everything else he needs - not even to mention movies, which are very inconsistent across streaming services. (I fear that we Limeys get less out of our Netflix subscriptions than you.)

3. Go illegal. Spend an upfront cost of time, electricity, bandwidth and risk of malware apocalypse/getting caught to get all this stuff on his hard drive.

Forget the morality of the issue. Never mind the legality: if Joe is a driver, it's a statistical near certainty that he speeds; if he doesn't take drugs, it's not because they're illegal. It's simple economics. If three is cheaper - in terms of time plus risk plus money - he will do number three.

As long as The Pirate Bay offers real advantages over legal services - principally, beyond the monetary price, everything you could possibly want is there in one place - then people will choose it. And just as it's unrealistic to expect media conglomerates to share the EFF's view of DRM, so it's unrealistic to expect media consumers to put up with the enormous inconveniences for the sake of some mythical starving artist grubbing away at the bottom of the Hollywood food chain.
Can Spritz ever make it to a Kindle?
I love what Spritz is doing with speed-reading, never thought I could hit 500 words a minute but it somehow seems ok using this new tool. Can they ever port it to Kindle or eBook formats though? Seems the emphasis is on iOS apps :-(
To be honest I have no idea what homoiconic means.

I think it means that everything is the same, ie whether a function in the case of functional languages like Haskell, or an object in languages like Smalltalk.
We can have reasonable confidence in that assessment in hindsight. At the time, I would have been unwilling to gamble my net worth against the possibility of some unforeseen event causing a spike in the value of the pound. It was a non-zero risk.
Why HotSwap wasn’t good enough in 2001…and still isn’t today
For the non-server edition apparently, but that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about practicalities of doing it.
It is important to ask -- what on earth could this be for?

SpaceX achieved orbital flight on that amount of capital...
You can tell it's been built up over many years, in response to real world problems. It's basically a stallman FAQ.
Lego Visual Calendar
The most advanced countries over the last 20 years have worse internet speeds and policies than financially distress nations without many resources. Irony at work?
Added to my wishlist. I'll wait for the reviews to come out. I like books, but so many business books have little actionable advice.
> "I'm not charged for using my own money"
You are, you just don't know it because it isn't apparent. In fact, they want to make it appear that you're making money for spending money! Ultimately, it doesn't matter who bears the additional cost of using credit/debit cards, it results in higher prices for everyone and since credit card agencies prohibit differential pricing, it punishes people who pay cash.

Bitcoin still has a long long way to go and won't replace the existing system anytime soon, but definitely watch out for retailers who already provide a steep discount for using Bitcoin. That will be a good first step.
Their whole business model fundamentally depends on extracting as much personal data as possible from their users. Though there is some solace in the fact that their motive is at least known.
The question every mega software startup should try very hard to answer...
...but the whole thing break down as soon as distinct teams are taking care of catering and checking the venues floor's mechanical load specs, so using this indicator only makes sense as long as the venues (and the teams working in them) are sufficiently small.

Nowadays the "big shows" employ teams of dozens of guys travelling and dozens of helpers employed locally, it would be severely negligent if checking of basic requirements would only be done only on the basis if the catering guys met the random demand for colour-sorted sweets.
Two lifestyle changes our society has to make
Adobe's actions and disclaimer on the downloads is interesting - they seem to be using vague legal language, e.g. using "may not" instead of "must not", deleting posts on its forum that claim using those downloads without a license is illegal, etc. To me it looks like they're just trying to discourage it somewhat officially; given their rather lax stance on piracy, they probably believe it's better that someone uses unlicensed CS2 than something non-Adobe.
Exactly; so deliberately using a word with a double meaning is counterproductive there.
I'm a single sample point.

In three years I have gone from unemployment with zero experience and pay in engineering to £21k per annum. I did this by doing part-time courses in Autocad and then the same in Manufacturing Engineering, doing a year of minimum wage to pay for the first year of courses.

But I share the fears and doubts of the poorly skilled individuals. With no experience of the workplace or what it takes to be a decent employee that gets somewhere.

Being unemployed is depressing and you have to be mentally strong to survive it. Making chances for yourself is much easier said than done.
OsmAnd+ works great offline ;)
Wow. He goes into so much detail - nothing is left to chance. I wish I was as good at him at covering every possible scenario.
I made a bandwidth 'monitor' using my Pi and two tachometers using the GPIO port and monitoring the gateway.

So just make something you think would be cool!

Raspian is not really any different from other distros tbh.