skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are absolutely responses beyond "it will be fixed as soon as we can".

For clients of network services, it can be useful to know details about the scope of the outage (when did it start? who is affected? are there workarounds?). Yes, during the initial investigation there is often little to say, but even just opening up a communications channel signals to your clients that you take the outage seriously. Once a root cause has been identified, it is often possible to provide an ETA on the fix, which may take hours. Again, being able to say simply "it will be fixed in N hours" and delivering on that statement shows your clients that you know what you are doing.

Three days of outage of a externally-facing service with no communication shows that it's still amateur hour at Apple as far as network services are concerned. Full disclosure: I work for another tech company that specializes in network services, among other things.
What I’ve learned in my first year as a college dropout
This has nothing to do with privacy either. The information is still there, just that google isn't supposed to include the information in a search result.
A whole fleet of gremlins: Looking more carefully at Tol’s twice-corrected paper
This question has been asked, and answered, in every Soylent thread.

Here is one manufacturer. http://abbottnutrition.com/brands/abbott-brands
The problem is that this kind of work is very isolating, and from the article it seems that he really needs human interactions.
I know this outs me as a cloistered american, but my mental narrative of WWII is woefully bereft of accounts outside of the US Britain, and Germany. The thought of your Pop Pop slogging through the countryside towards Berlin gave me goosebumps. Where is that movie, i ask you.

Thanks.
I visited an Australian Google office for a tour. After my observation about obvious majority of men (white, asian) in cafeteria I was told a joke that there are more Peters than women in software development.
I agree. Books are so 20th century. I prefer going after things that are the same color.
Hunger and malnutrition are not in the past. Soylent won't help those, but the World Food Programme has extensive schemes to supply fortified foods.

http://wfp.org/our-work

http://wfp.org/hunger
Plastic SCM is targeting Perforce users who want to go to a distributed model.
I'm Steve, and I'm a healthy eater and cheapskate.

From 2002 to 2005 I researched nutrition and supplements _a lot_. Long story short, what's cheap, healthy, "pleasurable" (non-sexually), and fast/easy to make? Vegetables, whole-wheat bread or brown rice (pasta), an assortment of nuts, a protein shake (protein powder, milk, flax seed powder, spinach, and blueberries), and vitamins/supplements (multivitamin, fish oil, others I take for brain health/performance).

Works great! And when I eat out (again non-sexually) I have chicken breast, turkey, or fish.
I would highly encourage you to record another interview!
I'd be interssted to see how many people will chose Soylent over fast food. Many people on HN have said they would. I suspect most people wouldn't.
Don't mix absolute hours of work with the ratio of hours of work relative to hours of retirement. The parent comment tried to argue that the former is decreasing because the latter is decreasing which is false. You point that the latter is decreasing and say "at least somenthing is decreasing, yay" but that is not relevant for what I and the parent comment argues about.
Nothing wrong with a (real) fedora...
Monitorização e Ordenamento das Zonas Costeiras em Conferência da OE
Have you seen FunCaptcha? It's a visual CAPTCHA that has really thought about how to stay secure. It's got solid testimonials from peeps who know the tech side well. It's also super easy to complete.
The current version of writefully might not work, as when the writefully process accepts a web hook from github, it does a pull into a directory to sync the data. Heroku doesn't allow you to do things like that.

We are thinking of a way to make it possible on heroku though.
It's worth pointing out that it's possible to get below absolute zero: http://www.mpg.de/6776082/negative_absolute_temperature

It's a bit of a definitional thing; once you get that cold measuring how fast atomes move is less useful than looking at enthalpy and entropy and the way atoms give or receive energy.

from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_zero

> It is commonly thought of as the lowest temperature possible, but it is not the lowest enthalpy state possible
The Adam's apple is actually really easy--google "tracheal shave." The visible bump is just cartilage; shaving it down is an outpatient surgery, and the scar is virtually invisible after a couple of months.

But yeah, I also thought of transgender applications. Hmm... I'm not sure if the logistics work if we're getting the bodies from head-trauma victims. For one thing, they'll probably go to saving lives first. Even if there's no immediate need and the body won't keep, can you imagine that conversation? "Yes, we have an eligible female body on ice and waiting for you. Be at the hospital in an hour, and plan to spend the next year or four in recovery. Hope you've got really great insurance."

But if we get to the point where donor bodies can be cloned from the patient's DNA and grown in vitro, it should be feasible to flip that one chromosome. That would be a hell of a thing.
I fed my brother Ensure through a tube in his nose for 2 months before an intestinal surgery. The doctors considered it as good of a meal replacement as any for that amount of time.
More like unimpressed by the product before having tried it. He could have written most of that review before he had even received the product in the mail.
I'd rather just drop this. I don't see any point in escalating the discussion when we're all on the same page regarding relations between the two projects.

Sharing my thoughts on language design as it relates to other languages seems to be doing more harm than good, so I'll stop.
Very true. About 2 years ago I forced myself to learn to cook and it has paid off immensely. I know enjoy it very much, and find cooking a healthy delicious meal to be a quick and painless affair.
Haskell beginner. This looks like a very good thing. Step 2 would be having a tutorial that wasn't a university course. :)
They're essentially identical. Mercurial just has slightly easier to understand syntax and and a cultural bias against rebasing.
I can attest, as a RubyMotion early adopter, the product and especially the customer service make the $200 entry point and $100 service renewal well worth it.

If excellent customer reviews and a real money-back guarantee don't convince you, then I'm not sure a free trial will either.
Online work solves the problem of not having something to do, but in some sense, going on YouTube also solves that problem.

In my opinion, the value of work for someone like Jaime mostly revolves around the perception of independence (I can take the bus by myself) and the social interactions (having co-workers), and online work doesn't fulfill these as well. That Jamie has something to do and that there is useful economic output is a nice-to-have, and likely a subsidized one at that. I would not be surprised if, for example, Jamie's companions cost more ("contribute more to GDP", if you will) than Jamie earns in wages.
Well, great. A 1300-page book available for under $15 plus international shipping... or as an audiobook, 66 hours long ( but free shipping!) for... $70?

Something has gone deeply wrong in the market here. If only there were some way to convey three and a half pounds of information across the ocean in less than a month and for a reasonable price. :(

Ironically, it seems to be easy to buy an ebook of cliffs notes to this one.
In addition to this very-real technical issue, there is also another thing those of us used to dealing with technical topics need to keep in mind: Snowden is not talking (specifically) to us.

Snowden, along with Greenwald/etc, are trying to explain the complex brave new world of encryption, data mining, network sniffing, exploits such as MitM, and such to a non-technical audience that makes up most of the world. Worse - it's a crash-course trying to cram what should have been a public discussion gradually happening over the last couple decades into a few short newspaper articles, interviews, and pages torn out of .ppt files.

It is a truly rare thing to see someone even attempt such a herculean task. So it's perfectly understandable if he fudges some of the minor technical details - especially when the target audience won't understand them.

He was obviously trying to get people to understand that just because you clicked some software-controlled button and saw the backlight+screen turn off ("phone==OFF" to a lot of people), the NSA could still be using it. He could have instead used that time to trying explain what stuff like soft-power, firmware, and baseband mean, but all that would have done is make people tune out and ignore the real message.

Most people don't need a lesson in embedded systems, radio, and internetworking. What they do need to understand that there's a massive power-play going on that could become something particularly nasty if left alone, and they need to understand that some of the products and services they've been sold might really be working for someone else.
I agree that cooking at home is often easier than you might expect, but when comparing cooking at home vs. mixing a drink or ordering from a waiter there's a clear difference on the "effort and time" scales we are talking about.
Actually, the license is good forever. The $100 is for updates and support.
Do it. Just do it. If you don't, you'll regret it when you can't anymore. All of my grandparents have passed away, and I missed out on so many stories; one of my biggest regrets in life.
I prefer major certificate authorities. Symantec, Thawte, RapidSSL, GeoTrust, AlphaSSL, Comodo etc are some of the finest CAs in all over the world. from the price view you can find pocket pleasing price at www.ssl2buy.com
Five Super Successful Tech Pivots
Show HN : Who Let the bird out? Sprite Kit Game
It matters because large numbers of people are denied opportunities based on discrimination. They can be denied by direct bias (e.g., 'we don't hire women because we think they are lousy engineers'; or 'women won't fit in our boys' club workplace') or indirect (e.g., discrimination causes more poverty for black families, and impoverished students perform poorly for a number of reasons; edit: or a student does not want to be the only woman/latino/black/etc. in every class for the next four years).

It is unjust for the people discriminated against and bad for our society: Our workforce loses valuable talent, and, from what I've read, diversity in the workplace is widely believed to improve performance (due to a wider number of perspectives and experiences).
Yes, 'There is a lot we don't understand about how food and human nutrition works' pretty much sums it up.

Worth noting that in some reports, multivitamin preparations have been associated with adverse health outcomes. Popping pills of whatever kind can be dicey.
You'd have a mutiny on your hands if you tried to force all the troops to consume soylent. In no other endeavour is morale more important than the military. These people carry automatic rifles all the time.
You already submitted this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7811542
I'm skeptical too, but the point I'm making here isn't about if Soylent meets these criteria but what the intent behind the design is. I think laying out these criteria show why Soylent's use-cases, at least in theory, are orthogonal to those of other ways of consuming food. (Hence arguments about how Soylent can never replace those things is a just tautology and not a real argument.)
> Anyone running truecrypt already has truecrypt, right?

I frequently reformat my boot volumes—but I've had a .tc file laying around on an external HD since forever, with my websites' X.509 private keys and such inside.

I'm probably going to do exactly as this announcement says: download the export-only binary, create a loop-mounted LUKS volume, and migrate everything over.
There's a movie released in 2001, called Enemy at the Gates, but it's kind of cheesy. But since you asked, it qualifies as the ever-so-rare Hollywood movie about a WWII scenario, involving a Russian protagonist, as told from a Soviet perspective.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0215750/

It's the only English-language movie I can think of that fits those criteria.
you are all doing it wrong... we use phantomjs on its own. and run the test code in it. so its analogous to loading the target page, and then running your code/test in a browser dev console. you take care of concurrency and retries in your preferred shell. this also allows things like integration with Makefiles, etc.

using it inside node is just masochism.
Well aware of this! But once you have a distro with suitable kernel, again, why would you need a board-specific community?
If non-Jewish White people are underrepresented among successful tech founders, does that not represent an upstream issue?

If that is the case, then yes.

But I suspect that even if you remove the white Jewish cohort from the white group then whites (and especially white males) would still be overrepresented amongst founders.

I don't see the overrepresentation of a minority group as a problem at all. Like you said: Good on them.
After the flaw found by Yan zhu, it is sure that wordpress will work in the direction of encryption for cookies.https://twitter.com/nacin/status/469639682012495872
MTNL,India's Broadband provider started injecting iframes in webpages with ads.
I'm curious why in slide 37 he says to structure your JS code and then in slide 38 he apparently prefers the 'new setup' to the 'current setup'. I am curious why he considers one 'structured' and the other 'unstructured'.
Of all the places to force new perspective onto yourself the workplace just seems like an odd choice to me. If I want to experience different cultures a corporate office is probably the absolute worst place I can think of to do so.
Yes but people are not really aware of the already present severe privacy implications Facebook has. They are suppressing or downplaying it like overweight people are pushing aside such thoughts while eating.
Every now and then when a new story or feature pops up that highlights that craziness, there is an outcry and nothing happens.
Same for overweight people. It is just human to set aside the reality.
I love these stories about the old computer hacks - especially stories featuring Bell Labs and Ken Thompson :)
Tor Books president: removing ebook DRM didn't hurt sales or increase piracy
We don't even know the truth about something as engrained in the health-conscious public as omega-3 fats.

http://www.nutraingredients.com/Research/Omega-3s-have-no-be...
I was not talking about hunger. I specifically said "mass starvation". Don't tell me there has not been any progress since the 80s, because there certainly was a lot happening since then and it's very rare to hear about mass starvation these days (except when they are created by conflicts).
My point was that the lack of -r doesn't really change anything; even with -r, it would still only delete initrd.img and similar, which would take until the next reboot to notice.
Your reasoning for not wanting the history saved makes perfect sense. It's making that decision for someone else's account that I don't really understand. Oh well, I guess we disagree, and you have the comfort of not being an imbecile. Cheers.
(err. Actually this means there is no evidence for my point one way or another. Too late to delete though.)
No, it won't, because you keep your workstation backed up. You do keep a backup, right?
Not for the troops, for the detainees.
How is it unfair to hire what you perceive as the best candidate to work at your company? Something that's actually unfair would be disqualifying a better candidate purely because of his skin color/gender.

Also, just to emphasis what others have already replied to you; Whites are actually underrepresented at Google relative to the ratios seen in the rest of the workforce.
Privacy Policy vs. Terms of Use
Your numbers add up to 112%. I'm also a little concerned that you can't think of something shittier than 61% white when it comes to diversity.
How does one live frugally when rent is sometimes 60-70% of your income? Plus taxes in California are comparable to those in Quebec, but health care isn't covered.
The low proportion of Asian sales workers at Cisco is interesting.
>>This is about Apple simply sucking really hard at anything related to the web
>>Like having the #1 app and music stores? I'd like to suck like that!

How do you access the app and music store from the web?
If it's not too long you could try a (electric) cargobike to get groceries etc. :)

But yes, cars are necessary sometimes. We need a solution for people who only need a car a couple of times a month or less. A fleet of self driving cars you can rent perhaps? Like a taxi service without the driver.
Fighting Fire with Fire
John Kerry tells fugitive Edward Snowden to 'man up'
The more the people's lives are dominated by the religious, the less innovation there is. We only need to look at the Islamic countries to see evidence of this.
Out of curiosity, wouldn't the open-source TrueCrypt be better than the closed BitLocker? (assuming, of course, that TrueCrypt was not already compromised)
Probably the closest modern-day equivalent San Francisco has is Frank Chu, well-known protestor of 12 Galaxies fame. San Francisco still cherishes it's eccentrics.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Chu
That is interesting, but not nearly so much as the piece--it's long, and worth reading in its entirety.
I remember it feeling like a bigger deal reading about it at the time, but as you say, you're just throwing away half of the stretching, reducing attack cost by half.
The most interesting detail from this article is the part where he says exactly all the things you would expect an NSA shill to say on a blog, if, hypothetically, an NSA shill kept a blog.
Could you elaborate on the countermeasures taken? The takeaway seems to be: 1. rate limit the "verify you email" requests, and 2. have enough entropy for the activation codes.

Another possibility is also not to log the user in after successful activation (i.e., mark the email as active, but don't give access to the account), but I've never seen anyone behaving like this.

Moreover, sensitive operations, like changing settings or deleting the account, should be password-protected (so that, even if logged in, the attacker couldn't damage too much).

Anything else that I'm missing?
Yup. Just like personZ.
I was wondering: That page on SourceForge with the warning wasn't put up only yesterday, was it? Because, I could've sworn I came across that page several days ago (or even more) and when I saw people talk about the page allegedly being a hoax yesterday, I couldn't help but wonder why it was discovered all of a sudden only yesterday and not before.
Apple Now Makes Apps For Other Mobile Platforms
That would be my opinion, but then I'd probably bet everything I own on BitLocker containing a backdoor of some sort.
So what's the (Windows compatible and open source) software to transition systems to?
I also never understood this. Why ask about race if race is supposed not to matter?
"Why do you need to control/audit all work done locally rather than what is pushed to your main git repository, and how can you realistically enforce that with any tool?"
Football is a monoculture - it doesn't matter what your race is when it comes to deciding whether to pass or rush. Services for the general public to use - from search to self-driven cars - does need to account for multicultural environments.
>People in developing nations can eat for an entire week or more on $3.

I live in a third world country and I buy from the market at really low prices. At first this $3 figure seemed off the mark, but upon further consideration it's true, you could live on that much for a while at market prices.

But it means a couple of bowls of rice and a small quantity of nutrient-unknown vegetables, with a few bites of some D-grade, fatty bony meat to live on less than $0.50 a day of food. Obviously, this is going to lead to malnourishment and an early death if they can't supplement with something else.

Lots of people keep small farm animals for an easy boost. A neighbor of mine had a 2-year old dog that started to eat her own chickens. After trying to correct the dog's behavior, it didn't work, so they killed the dog, cooked it and offered me some (I didn't bite, but it was considerate of them.)

Perspective.
Though there is mention of the "startup visa" in the article, which applies to people from non-NAFTA countries as well. Though not sure how it works for hiring talent.
RealCrypt
Wondering if this would be useful for 3D level editing/navigating - or simply for our model browser... hmm...
http://www.osnews.com/story/27416/The_second_operating_syste...

Here's a link I had buried in my bookmarks from last November, that discussed this issue.

If accurate, it suggests the problem is not just bad code quality in the baseband processor being remotely exploitable. This article suggests it's basically a monoculture because everybody just buys the same "hardware part" because actually implementing it on your own is (very) hard. Once you add in all the FCC compliance issues, it's practically impossible.

Oh, and it suggests you may not need to bother with flashing the firmware as mschuster91 suggested. It trusts the cell-tower implicitly. Nevermind fancy stuff like "passwords" - just tell the phone to auto-answer because it accepts Hayes modem commands directly.
I want this but for that backer tiers you are now competing with other forms of green commuter transportation. (e.g. high performance bicycles, electric scooters, etc.)

The price for being an early adopter I guess.
There are pros and cons to both closed source and open source. Open source is nice because the community can audit the code and see for themselves, but closed-source is nice because a company generally has the resources to maintain and build software correctly.

Both of these are hypothetical, however. We've seen tons of vulnerabilities from both. IMHO Open Source works a lot better on paper but once projects get very large auditing them is really hard...which definitely cuts down on the amount of eyes looking at them.
Maybe my screen is set too bright, but the 100% white bleeds into the purple. It might be better to use a 90 or 80% white for less bleeding if going with a darker purple-like background.
That is nonsense. The TrueCrypt developers turned over code and assisted in the initial audit. iSEC found no serious issues.

Granted they only evaluated the bootloader under the first contract, but if you were going to slip in a backdoor or if a serious crypto bypass would be possible it would have likely been there.
Gates has never supported a basic income.

He and Buffett both however support increasing the earned income tax credit instead of raising minimum wage.
"Race"? In France it is forbidden to ask or record the religion or color of skin. Thus, it is forbidden to make statistics about it. Of course it is not the same about people with a handicap.
Burnout maybe? How long is the average work week?
Yes it does, but if you are building something that works perfectly only using websockets (e.g. a command-line utility), why would you use engine.io?

You can tell engine.io to only use websockets, but what's the point if you can use websockets directly and have the same API?
How Frank Lloyd Wright Tried to Solve the City
Wow, a 70 year old engineer?!
If anyone is interested in a good film about a young man with Down Syndrome and how he gets on in life (work and love), check out the Spanish film Yo Tambien (Me Too). Here's the trailer, with subs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3CfN3Rrvi4