skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Malwarebytes: With Anti-Exploit, we'll stop the worst attacks on PCs
No, we haven't done a lot of testing of these apps on Android, we've been really focussed on testing them on Firefox OS up to now. BTW, which version of Firefox are you using? Bug fixes are coming in pretty fast lately, I'd recommend using Firefox Aurora for Android.
That's kind of rude. I just asked an honest question.
Massive 'ocean' discovered towards Earth's core
Worried about giving away the keys to kingdom, Bustamante wouldn't go into further detail on how Anti-Exploit works.

Big red flag for me here. If their success is dependent on obfuscation, then it will surely be short-lived.
Have you ever changed the configuration of an NFS mount point in chef, puppet, or cfengine, after the NFS mount point got wedged?

They all fail in various ways (either fail to change the mountpoint, hang forever, or leave the state in some unspecified condition).
It's OK. Maintaining a HackerRankX is just a subset of your ability to Google.

Anyway, I'd submit that's the real threat here... this sort of thing is easy to game, and you are talking about the group of people most capable of gaming even the smartest AI algorithm... The top end of the "leaderboards" is going to be a list of cheaters pretty quickly.
The Noun Project: Free (public domain or CC license) vector icons
Australian Hair Salon to Launch Crowd Funded Bitcoin IPO
Works fine for me. What browser are you using?
Having lived up north in t'UK, I would say some peoples bodies have evolved in interesting ways. Drunken fights seem common here, and seems evolution has provided enough protection.

Also, evolution seems to have made them quite supple, evidenced with the "T'Northern Yoga", which is basically the awkward body poses they pull off when passed out drunk in the Town Square.
If I were building a giant battery factory, I would also encourage others to make electric cars.
Brazil vs. Croatia Live Win Probability – World Cup
They purposely leave it vague. Developers might list their favorite language, PMs might list their favorite diagraming tool, salespeople might list a CRM, etc.
Does there exist such a patent license with no security holes? I would imagine that it would read, “License will be revoked if you 1) Sue me for patent infringement. 2) Sell a patent to a company that sues me for patent infringement (like Intellectual Ventures does). 3) Sponsor the development of a patent, and the owner of the patent sues me for patent infringement. 4) Contract with a patent pool that sues me for patent infringement. 5) Sue my partners or customers for patent infringement (like Apple vs. Google’s partners)...” and so on ad infinitum.
I'm not sure what you mean by non housing cost. Food and going to the movies is right 25% more in NYC then Seattle. Wa doesn't have income tax either. Yes hosting in Seattle is going up. But it is no where near NYC rates
What browser are you using? I'm running Debian and it looks fine in Iceweasel.
You are correct. "All Our Patent Are Belong To You" is a reference to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_your_base_are_belong_to_us

FYI, in correct English the sentence would read, "All of our patents belong to you."
I agree, "Crypto 1" was excellent! On Coursera's website, in the upcoming section, it says that "Crypto 2" starts in 3 months. I hope that's true!
This seems like a relatively low impact security problem. I can't recall the last time I used a package manager to get a package's source.

(Usually when I want the source it's because I'm compiling a package from source, and I get the tarball from the project's website)
The cert validates for me on firefox on windows as well as iceweasel on debian.

I don't think debian is any less secure than other OSs.
No lesser a power? The only way this possibly makes sense is if we restrict our investigation to economic power. And as I said above when you have to restrict the assessment to one category you are no longer talking about major/great powers. That being said economic power is one component of being a "great/major power" and I have no problem saying Brazil is definitely neck and neck with Russia when it comes to economic indicators. When you consider military and diplomatic might it is no contest.

The nice thing is we have two quick and easy litmus tests for diplomatic and military power: season tickets to the security council and nuclear weapons. Things do not get any better if you dig a little deeper. Russia easily doubles Brazilian military spending and has battle tested forces. Speaking of forces Russia has six times the number of active duty personnel. On the diplomatic front I am at a loss for anything that Brazil has been involved in that comes close to Russia's participation in talks with Iran and North Korea.
Show HN: hubot package for World Cup
Either he's feigning ignorance over why anybody would be the slightest bit empathetic toward the death of Eric Meyer's daughter or he's too much of a robot to actually understand.

You can make an argument that HN must be 100 percent on-topic, at all times, and that it doesn't belong here. But you can also argue that we are all humans and we can just accept it once in a while, even here.

To jump to the conclusion that it's all just for show, and nobody will actually take any sort of real action is pure cynicism. People have actually been affected by this, in ways that are certainly small in comparison to the the way the Meyer family has been. The most visible gestures might not accomplish much, but many people are actually donating money to charities that have a very real impact.
I wonder if this will spur WikiSpeed (an open source car group) to also support an electric engine module?

http://wikispeed.org/
I'm sorry, but you can't blame a talented operations guy (among the most talented in our industry -- he led the Pixar IPO) for Twitter's failure to innovate and grow. Especially when you factor in the constant absence of the guy who is supposed to be in charge of product, who spends more of his time tending to his overhyped payments company.

The lack of a transformational acquisition probably didn't make him very happy either, as it's hard to see how Twitter's current product mix moves the needle in any meaningful capacity.

Twitter's loss.
Well that's a lot more reasonable - but it seems like they should just hold off on publishing the thing till they finish editing it. The system seems a bit sloppy
It's easy to publish a NPM package. First, create package.json by googling "package.json cheatsheet". Then type npm publish and you're done.
Interesting article, but better for reddit than hackernews
Why wouldn't they get all their ducks in a row before the announcement, though?
Do you really think BSL3 is enough for pandemic flu strains?

My only experience was in 1977 at, say, BSL minus 2 or so ^_^ (e.g. mouth pipetted non-pathogenic E. Coli K-12, something that horrified a friend a decade later), but reviewing the Wikipedia entry the threshold for going from 3 to the rare and expensive 4 is said to be treatablity. It think it's a stretch to say pandemic flu is "treatable"....
I'm scared this will mean rampant cheating. What's to prevent an early-stage startup from masquerading as a hack and getting a "fast-tracked" interview?

I know this is a problem for most hackathons, but the stakes seem significantly higher here.
I'm a developer at CircleCI, and from my perspective at least this is one of the most exciting features we've released in a while. We're really excited to be able to support Docker on our platform and to make it that much easier for people to test and deploy their code :)
The problem with most IRC software is that they're not always online. The usual solution is irssi, which is what I've used for the last 6 years.
Wait, the same HP that tossed aside PalmOS? The same HP that gave us HP-UX? Wait stop, I am laughing too much, the coffee shot out of my nose.

Glad to see you pushing the memristor, but really, have any of the board actually, like, you know, used an HP laptop recently? Mine waa awesome as a backup oven, the overheating at last useful, but otherwise?
Let's say a manufacturer goes all in on the deal with Tesla and he brings out a superior car to Tesla (let's say Audi for example)...

Then people who want to choose an electric car, will think about Audi and Tesla.

It's not Tesla that is trying to get in the game, he's already in it... But are they willing to roll your dice against Tesla by competing him on popularity of products and joining him on aggressively providing fuel stations (hell, you can name it Audi Fuel Zone, if you want).

You could break out a huge market in no time, it wouldn't be bad to team up with Tesla to break open the market.. Although i wouldn't like to be Mercedes (for example), produce a electric car and say to my clients: hey, you can tank at a Audi Fuel Zone or we don't have an electric fuel stations compatible with our technology :)

None the less, electric cars are coming.
What do they actually say? Seattle rarely freezes. But it doesn't really warm up either. In winter highs will be in upper 30s lower 40s. In the summer it can hit mid 80s. It tasks way less than "they" say. But it is gray a lot. It will be overcast for most of the winter and that actually bothers a lot of people. One difference between Seattle and other places. Other places a storm comes in dumps a bunch of rain or snow, then leaves and it is sunny. Not so in Seattle. Storm comes in synod some reason and then the clouds stay around. Still a very beautiful place to live.
> What's interesting is that Wellburtrin is dopamine reuptake inhibitor while Ritalin and Adderall stimulate (or mimic; I can't find a decent reference right now) the production of dopamine.

Both Ritalin and Adderall are dopamine reuptake inhibitors. I believe that Adderall also stimulates the production of dopamine, in addition to the reuptake inhibition.
OK, that makes more sense. For the record I'm not at all concerned about the climate changing (although I'm very interested in conservation and efficiency in general).
Additionally it seems that an electric car is not actually going to emit less whatever than one of these wonderful new four-cylinders unless/until we make like France and build out more nuclear infrastructure.

Still, Tesla is doing a lot of good by leading the way towards technologies that could bring much improved living conditions, especially in places like Beijing and Los Angeles.
They are all ops/s.
Good suggestion to avoid PKCS v1.5; sadly PGP requires it: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4880#section-13.1
In my case against Ben Mezrich, Judge Collings cited WikiAnswers (wiki.answers.com) to define the term non-fiction. Except that he cited a page on WikiAnswers that was off by one character from the page he intended to cite. I didn't know this, and assumed he'd just made everything up, since nothing matched what he quoted. It took me over a year--after appealing based in part on his error--to accidentally realize that the link was bad.

He still refuses to admit that he made any sort of mistake.

I filed a Motion for Reconsideration, which you can find here:

http://www.plainsite.org/dockets/download.html?id=34312001&z...

Other judges refuse to cite wiki citations at all. When I brought the issue to the attention of the First Circuit as misconduct, they dismissed it, carefully refusing to use the word "wiki" in their public Orders because that might admit that judges cite wikis whenever they feel like it. I appealed; they refused to use "wiki" in the Order once again. Instead, they refer to an "on-line source."

http://www.ca1.uscourts.gov/sites/ca1/files/01-13-90016.O.pd...
http://www.ca1.uscourts.gov/sites/ca1/files/01-13-90016.J.pd...

Wiki citations can be edited by anyone, including adverse parties, during or after proceedings, presenting the exact same problem as silent edits in opinions after they have already been issued. Whenever there is a better source they should never be cited. The behavior of Judge Collings, the First Circuit, and the Supreme Court does not inspire much confidence in the Courts.
No one of significance will honor the Do-Not-Track setting.
Isn't someone going by the handle "rubyn00bie" criticizing an article with "call me maybe" in the title as being juvenile something akin to the pot calling the kettle black?
Not everything scales the same. I suspect that heavyweight boxers, for example, can hurt each other a lot more than featherweight boxers.
>you can take advantage of the fact that the client code is serveable from the same server that has access to the app's data.

But you really shouldn't.
Something I was always curious about since I first found out about this trick: Why did the book not contain some error correcting codes at the bottom of each page to simplify the scanning process? Would it have somehow lessened the legal protection of Zimmerman's free speech?
I actually moved to Anguilla for the same reason -- outside the USA, I could sit in a room next to a Dutch (non-US) citizen, and I could write/publish (to the Internet, accessible to at least 50 people) an academic paper describing an algorithm. He could download it, implement it in Java, publish it, and I could look over it and give comments. Thus, complying with ITAR.

(This was for anonymous electronic cash, in a better system than bitcoin, invented in the 1980s; there were also RSA patent and Chaum patent considerations at the time, which were also not valid outside the US, and ML/etc. reasons why non-US providers were more likely to adopt it. We ended up getting fucked when a different political party got elected on the island and residence visas were pulled (we'd supported the other one), and then the e-gold federal indictment/prosecution/etc. (they were an investor). Also, living on a Caribbean island is not actually as much fun as you'd think.)
To play a devil's advocate, I want to answer this directly as answered.

Available information indicates that NSA used various coercion tactics to ensure cooperation from various companies and that it has the methods to ensure hardware modifications in its own interests.

So the damage to NSA from improving security too much is less than damage to my ability to use the computing device I have paid for as an actual computing device.

Of course we should also consider smaller threats.

But the better the platform is locked down, the less limitations there ae for advertiser-friendly platform design, which makes people expect a lot of permissions requested by applications, so phishing and trojans become easier.

The problem here is about the effects of scale: it is hard to produce just a few thousands phones with good specs.
I think later versions did.
Not just battery technology, but also successfully pushing the electrification of transport against the entire car industry. Even if batteries would suddenly stop improving and remain forever on today's level, switching all cars to Model S equivalents would still have, in my opinion, tremendous impact on both climate change and upcoming fuel crisis.
My dad often said, "Fits like a fist in an eye". So he was right or wrong depending on your point of view.
Thanks for sharing the slides (and techpeace for the links to the video).

A question I have though is given that we (those of us who collectively don't identify ourselves as security rocket-surgeons) are always advised to stick with the high-level stuff and to stay away from stuff like AES (ref. slide 16), which nobody does anyway, then why is no mention ever made of established and known protocols? Examples like

- Needham-Schroeder (fixed version), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Needham-Schroeder_protocol

- Otway-Rees, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otway%E2%80%93Rees_protocol

have proven to be really useful. Yes, there's a metric ton of work involved in implementing something like this, but going through it once is amazing practice for getting it right in future (that, at least, is my experience).

Why is it that we talk about symmetric and asymmetric encryption, but never go as far as the protocols that provide real context for their uses?
But if they do enforce the patents, wouldn't that destroy the good will that the company enjoys with the public?
Not necessarily, unless they also got patents on their innovations.
Why?

Consider that on projects where the domain problem is simple yet the user requirements are complex, it may make more sense to optimize speed of development of the client.

a webmail client would be a great example of this. The server side is really a small problem, excepting for performance. However, getting the client right is why people still use gmail.
Really fun to play. My only comment is that when the song starts playing, the answers to choose from get animated in, and the timer is down at least 10% by the time the last option is clickable.
I find the language regarding synchronously durable writes to be confusing. Writing to the filesystem and invoking fsync every 10 seconds is not synchronously durable. You still send a response before the data hits non-volatile media. In my mind that would make the MongoDB, Couchbase, and Cassandra behaviors roughly equivalent barring differences in the frequency with which data is synced.

Writing to the filesystem (without syncing) is a few hairs better than buffering in application memory, but then you are at the mercy of the filesystem blocking your party for a few hundred millis while it naval gazes at random. Not a huge deal for most workloads because you can still get great latency at 99 and 99.9, but beyond that it's a problem.

Not standardizing on a specific set of commit log behavior (sync vs async, fsync frequency) is pretty egregious for benchmarking anything with a log.

It's not clear from the blog post which direction you went in, relaxing durability in Cassandra or increasing durability in the others. I had to go to github to figure out that you switched to synchronous commits all around. That begs the question, were there other tunables necessary to make synchronous durability perform well? I know in some databases you can set how long the database will wait to group commit in terms of # of transactions and time.

Having a working group commit implementation is of course very important.
I am a bit confused about your post. How old are you? How have you managed to live without learning that people do stuff like this - they wear little coloured ribbons or wristbands or etc. when someone dies people will talk about how clever / nice / awesome etc (even if they weren't).

While I agree with you (I don't know him; I didn't know her; I don't care that she's dead; I see zero point in concentrating more on her death than on any of the many thousands of other deaths; etc etc) I do know that posting questions like your will just annoy or distress people and also will not serve any point.

So I tend to bite my tongue when things like this suggestion come up. People want to tinker with a CSS value? Sure, go ahead. People want to attach special meaning to that? Yep, fine. People want to link to and discuss best modern research for the illness that she died from, with links to funding for research or Watsi funding for other existing patients? Brilliant, I might even donate.

But I've learnt to hide my real feelings - the neuro-typicals have kicked them out of me over the years.
Great post Fiona! I wrote a similar post ~3 years ago here: http://mysqltalk.wordpress.com/2011/11/27/challenge-accessib... which turned into GAAD, Global Accessibility Awareness Day, a few months later. http://globalaccessibilityawarenessday.org/

I could never have imagined how huge the movement can grow, and I hope you help us celebrate it next year.
All of his posts about Jepsen related stuff are prefixed with that phrase. It's a reference to the song "Call Me Maybe" by Carly Rae Jepsen... because his testing tool is CALLED Jepson. Some of his other posts also have prefixes, indicating it's part of a series, like "Clojure from the ground up:"
One would also have clauses to ensure that the products/devices produced under license would not be designed for lock-in and be compatible with electric cars from other companies.
Help for World Cup referees, and it comes in a can
I wonder what happened to their prior plans to destroy the iPad.
A year from now the people who turned their avatars purple today won't remember the hash tag or what it was for. This isn't about one kid dying, or many kids dying. It's about a bunch of people frantically acting to hide their sense of impotence.
> Boxing was developed specifically to get around the many problems with punching: protecting the hands from being broken, and developing defensive strategies to avoid blows from even padded fists.

Perhaps that's true, but isn't it also true that fisticuffs were a "natural" way for impromptu humans fights? I highly doubt that boxing was the first invention of fighting by standing up and punching the other person. It seems more likely that human already tended to fight that way when genuinely angry at each other, and as people began to be interested in fighting prowess, the protective rules of boxing were developed to allow experts to fight for longer.

And, like in any discussion regarding evolution, it's important to point out that phrases like "if hands were for punching" are dangerously close to being deceptive because of the implied attribution of purpose to the evolutionary process.
He said that punches driving facial evolution was fine as a hypothesis, it just needs evidence and he hasn't seen any.

His characterization of this as a just-so story, glib and light on evidence, doesn't just accurately describe this one specific claim; there are dozens or hundreds more just like it. On any given day, you can probably find an equally vacuous story about evolutionary psychology in some newspaper. It's a lame excuse for science.
My personal lifestyle, since I don't have kids (hate them), only really work on tech stuff or closely aligned hobbies like tearing down electronics or photography of electronics, travel only for conferences or to investigate potential work, etc., means that as a consultant virtually all of my outgoing expenditures tend to be fully deductible business expenses. I can buy a new HSM or 10GE NIC or something to figure out how it works as a business expense; that makes it ultimately 50% the cost of paying business/corp tax and then personal income tax and then buying it. This is all fully legal.

Being a 1099 consultant is a bit worse; I've always done the "product company which does a lot of client services as well, and usually with multiple principals" -- which solves the PSC-fucking-of-professionals issue. I think if you're smart you can get a lot of this benefit from 1099.

OTOH, a lot of people don't consider living in a government provided trailer, in hotels, etc. and eating on per diem/DFACs/with clients, only going on trips because there's a client engagement or conference, etc. to be a net win vs. ~30% income tax.

(I am not an attorney; I am not your attorney. I am not an accountant. This is not legal, professional, or financial advice.)
Feedbin: https://feedbin.com

There's a small fee, but it's been absolutely worth every penny. The guy's been able to upgrade servers with demand and spend time on improving the interface (particularly for mobile). There are also third-party apps compatible with it, but I haven't found any of them to be as good as the mobile web interface.

It hasn't been perfect (there've been occasional glitches, mostly involving UI slowness), but problems get corrected quickly and the app has continually improved since I signed up, shortly after Reader died. I've been overwhelmingly delighted with it.

As for app vs. service, I've found services useful for keeping everything painlessly synched across devices and computers. It would depend on your feed-reading habits.
If you're up for it, try riverpy: https://github.com/edavis/riverpy

Here's a demo: http://river-demo.ericdavis.org/

The README is a bit out of date now, but it all works. I've been using it as my sole RSS reader for the past few months now.