skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not compared to the possibly in-house developed object-oriented event-driven C framework for async communication:

http://www.securityweek.com/kaspersky-lab-duqu-framework-lik...

"“It is possible that its authors used an in-house framework to generate intermediary C code, or they used another completely different programming language,” Soumenkov explained.

For reference, Stuxnet was written entirely in Microsoft Visual C++.

The Kaspersky researchers say certain “slices” of code in the Payload DLL may have been initially compiled in separate object files before being linked in a single DLL, but the slice in question is different. “This slice is different from others, because it was not compiled from C++ sources. It contains no references to any standard or user-written C++ functions.”

But there a few things the researchers do know about the mystery code: It’s object-oriented and event driven, and performs its own set of related activities ideal for network applications.

The highly event driven architecture points to code which was designed to be used in variety of conditions, including asynchronous commutations."

For the reference, New York Times, June 2012:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/01/world/middleeast/obama-ord...

"Eventually the beacon would have to “phone home” — literally send a message back to the headquarters of the National Security Agency"
"Who am i"

You are the user

Lol
> There is more than enough food in the world. Starvation happens because of infrastructure and economics, not insufficient yields. Norman Borlaug's green revolution would have happened with or without GMOs.

Norman Borlaug's green revolution did happen without GMOs - it was all about breeding (e.g for shorter stems) and intensification of nutrient inputs.

While food distribution is a major problem, it's simply not true that food supply is not also a problem. It is entirely unfeasible for all the food in the world to be efficiently distributed to everyone who needs food from the places it is currently grown in the time we have available before peak population. Food supply is a limiting factor. Enabling people to grow more food close to where they live will save lives. This is why we (plant geneticists) continue trying to raise yields.

Try telling a starving family in (Indonesia|Tanzania|Bangladesh) that the problem isn't their pathetic rice crop yield, it's that Americans are throwing away cheeseburgers. We can feed a lot of those people with better agricultural technology.

> My main criticism of GMOs isn't the genetic alterations themselves, but the way they enable excessive pesticide use, IP law abuses, and monoculture.

GMOs don't enable any of those things. Monoculture is a route to efficient food production - it was around long before GMOs. We have it because it was the path of least resistance to massive scale food production.

Total amount of pesticides might be increased in some cases with GMOs (though in many it is reduced), but the important thing is that current GMOs enable us to use much, much less harmful pesticides. Glyphosate is probably the safest herbicide the world has ever seen. Some of the alternatives are just terrifyingly harmful.

IP law is certainly used by some seed companies, but I'd argue it's generally not abused to anywhere near the level it is by tech companies. If you read the court documents from Monsanto cases they are almost always reasonable and subsequently misrepresented by activists.
what is the most profitable platform ? iOS?
Bayhem
How in the world do you justify the effort of swapping schools to get out of learning the times tables?
> It's not about the GMOs themselves but if you can grow the same/a sufficient amount of food without using pesticides at all, then why even bother with GMOs?

But you can't. For example, organic farming uses much more pesticide and herbicide than the same GMO crops do. There is a persistent myth that organic doesn't use herbicides and pesticides but it is not in any way true and never has been. But +1 to the marketing department for implanting that persistent idea in the mind of the general public.
The Daily Mail constantly referring to them as "frankenstein-foods" did a good job in Britain. Even credible newspapers like the Independent had a "GM Watch" section pointing to as many negative studies as possible.
The problem with such a filter is it will be perceived as inefficient and broken by those evaluating it if it denies an officer the authority to arrest someone he's already detained or determined to be worthy of arrest.

It will be another system which grants permission at the whims of the department, one that absolves individual officers of blame, punishment and consequences for bias and abuse they'll continue to revel in.
There's a reasonably high chance that you will need to replace the tires fairly soon after buying a used car (which is how I read it working). That's most of that $500.
This is why I love Ruby. It's got all the built-in language features that allow one to perform this sort of abstraction, and a large-enough user base so that powerful ideas like this will eventually be implemented. I couldn't imagine anything like this existing in even Python.
Reminds me of the controversial Cadillac commercial: "Other countries: they work, they stroll home, they stop by the cafe, ... They take August off. Off. Why aren't you like that? Why aren't we like that? "

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGJSI48gkFc

Now, I'm not endorsing this viewpoint---nor am I american---I'm just pointing out that there is a subset of Americans to whom this is a legitimate viewpoint (and that group is large enough that this is a legitimately viable advertisement appealing to their values and life choices).

And despite some folks' collective horror at this commercial (it was mildly---and intentionally, I would guess--- controversial), this is how most of my friend group (and me) live our lives. Sure we would never drive a Cadillac, but we mostly just spend all our time working. I can't think of a single friend who didn't blink at upending their entire life and moving to a new city just for an incremental career move. And it's super strange to my few European friends who value taking August off. Off.

I can sympathize with people who want that level of comfort and vacation. But then I notice my own decisions: I could easily have studied and lived in Europe (and I still could), and yet I have chosen not to. Mostly because of work.
Show HN: 2048 with move evaluation, autoplay and taking back moves
Yeah I actually have an outlier that has negative depreciation. Got it used for 26k with 44k miles. 6 Months later my insurance company informed me that they had to put my car value closer to 32k due to replacement costs and that this may go up over my ownership of the car.
Thats pretty impressive! I mean its a BBS with more than 1.5 million registered users, for gods sake. Also there is some creative ASCII art in there, go check it out.
Tips For Crafting A Strong Password That Really Pops
relevant: "Relational Inference for Wikiﬁcation", Xiao Cheng Dan Roth, UI-UC

http://cogcomp.cs.illinois.edu/papers/ChengRo13.pdf
Our Daughter Isn't a selfish brat; your son just hasn't read atlas shrugged
Worth every penny. I find it staggering that so many people make cost the biggest factor in their choice of ISP. The last two years of being an Andrews and Arnold customer have been my happiest with an ISP.
I got to 4th grade before I was finally forced to learn my times tables through 9x9.
We auto provision full blown Google Apps for Business accounts on your domain's behalf. You fully control the account as a super admin under the blanket of our reseller account which affords us the privilege of being able to auto provision (albeit a very difficult task to fully automate). Does that make sense?

We've considered a much simpler webmail alternative but are fans ourselves of the Google Apps product suite. It gives you so much more functionality than email alone and I don't know what I'd do without Google Docs and Calendar these days. Still open to alternatives as we expand, but for the interim it's Google Apps only.
The thing I found interesting about the chart is that it's not 100% reflective along the diagonal. The 7x8 error rate is different from 8x7.
You should just move to zsh that does this natively and in a clean manner.
Hey, great looking theme, and it love the attention to detail, but I noticed it's Bootstrap 2x and the site I was going to put it on is bootstrap 3x at the moment.

Any plans/progress porting this or rewriting it root bootstrap 3x, or should I build anything I want this one as 2x?
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Yup, one password that they need to use to login, along with the email address that you've whitelisted for them. So its possible that someone could guess the password and their email address to get unauthorized access. I've debated a lot on this one and from the many parents I spoke to, this seemed to be a good middle ground between having some security and keeping it simple for family members to use.

The links in the emails have a special link that unique to each subscribers. These links at the moment do not expire but thats something I'm changing soon. All the images in the emails expire after a week.

I wrote a blog post on how I handle security on the app: http://blog.getbabydigest.com/post/88405261016/privacy-and-s...
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You Would Rather Endure Electric Shocks Than Sit Alone With Your Thoughts
Looking for such information pretty much guarantees she won't.
"13-25% difference."

Where do you get those numbers from? Anecdotally in my experience, organic crop yields are well under half of those from conventional crops. Often organic crops are left in the field to rot because there's so little there that it'd cost more to harvest the field than could be gained selling the crop.

In our area, organic cropland is typically left fallow 1 year in 3 to control weeds, so there's an automatic 33% yield loss before any other factors.
I think the only way people would be comfortable is if you use strong one-way encryption, meaning you yourself cannot decrypt a user's data. But to enable trust, and being a startup, you would have to have your code reviewed by a reliable third party or open-sourced for public review. Google gets away with it because they have built a brand with a reputation that some people trust enough with their data (I don't personally, but enough do). A much easier path is to create a version that works locally with no external communication. Both options would be ideal, but perhaps more work than you care to take on. No matter how it pans out it will be a great learning experience.
Thanks, I was wondering.
We use the analogy it's like Show & Tell from Kindergarten but it's a Show & Tell for new products. It puts the emphasis just as much on the creator, as it does on what you're sharing, and you can link to demos.
Hahaha "sign up for Quora with the gmail address in question" - I see what you did there.
I think the design is really great
The main difference, if I understand what you're asking, is consent. As an example, I'll use myself. I currently live in a sort of "shared" property. We have private components (houses), and shared components (facilities, gardens, pool, etc) in between that we all have access to. We all consent to paying a monthly levy so that maintenance and communal things are taken care of. This includes insurance for damage to our property, and all sorts of stuff. We also have a set of rules that we all agree on, and vote on periodically, etc. Not much unlike a state. The main difference being I can just up and move to a different one if I don't really like this one. As someone who's also emigrated a few times, I'll let you know that it's not as easy as they claim.

No one assumed, or coerced us in to this agreement. We as sound-minded individuals consented to it. We weren't automatically put into such an agreement by virtue of being born on this land.

Would you call it theft if I went and mowed your lawn (without you asking), and then had your employer deduct my fee/charge for doing so from your paycheck?

Also, take care when discussing this topic. Libertarianism is a bit different to anarcho-capitalism. Libertarians generally feel that we still need government to do basic things such as enforce "laws" and provide state protection. Not ideal, but for a lot of people, it's a starting point into attempting to devise a perfectly moral system founded on sound first-principles.
I think it's because it loses less excess energy to the environment, thereby making it more efficient than heating the water directly.
Analyzing Apple ads to death
Well done! I was working on a similar thing but will check this out instead.

I saw that you are planning on providing examples. It would be very nice with an example of a rails app with the angular app integrated.
Your mention of anchors reminds me of Lucky Numbers:

http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~elf/abacus/feynman.html

Aka Feynman vs the abacus.
Singletons in Swift
I asked how to make a grilled cheese sandwich and it gave me some business from stackoverflow. Is this just supposed to be for techie type questions?
Meh, it looks pretty average.
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Thanks, looks like there's an error in the guest view from a recent update, should have the updated soon. As to the looping you are referring to, that one is stumping me at the moment as none of us here are able to get that behavior to happen. Still digging...

Edit: Okay, the bug with clicking on things not working is fixed, still haven't been able to reproduce this looping issue.
This is a fantastic tool, really well implemented. Will definitely be following along how this develops in the future.
Hospital operating margins are decent. They are stuck in the same trap as higher ed. Immense investments in tangentially related infrastructure.
I wish there was something like this in Spain. Huge opportunity for someone who knows what they are doing in that area I would say.
St. Kitts & Nevis Citizenship by Investment Program
New Glasses that work with or without Google Glass
Actually figured out an answer on my own -- the handy thing I was looking for was W (wait, I think) to skip to the next available unit.
Hey, thanks! We tried to support 10.8 but there's a lot of features that wasn't supported by the OS, like native notifications, iCloud etc. :/
May I add: Thanks to kevin, kogir and anonymous! :)
Yes, I read it, and I stand by what I said. The article explains a set of rules used to filter a set of information out of another set, but it does not support claims about what is done with that set of information.

There is a lot of insinuation, but no example of any individual user of Tor or reader of Linux Journal, etc. being monitored or tracked simply for doing so.
Twitter is having a field day with this.

https://twitter.com/alex/status/484797396967124992
Been there, tried that:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6253835
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6253403

Trust me, it's worse on most devices. On the Android devices I tested comments often get compressed to two or three characters per line.
Would I be wrong to gather that they also built an in house map reduce implementation? What year is this code from? Most of the other documents have been from 2007-2009, when did Google first implement map reduce?
They are doing some things. They sponsor some startup events, and try to get people to use Windows Azure (which is actually quite nice) to compete with AWS (also Seattle). However, I think the reputation of Microsoft as the "Big Evil" is pretty hard for them to overcome. I think people tend to roll their eyes at them when they try to get into the startup space.

That being said, the other giant here, Amazon, seems to be doing just fine with their reputation.

Employees from both companies are common in the startup land here, having jumped ship to go on their own.
Same situation, still don't know them.. 6*8? Calculator! Now chuck calculus and stats at me, easy. Guess my brain just doesn't like arithmetic.. The start of school was annoying, however late highschool was OK when they stopped asking you infront of the whole class.

Never learned division either.. In any form.

Auckland, New Zealand public schools.
Worked with a friend and his family's privately owned SMB to monetize an additional revenue stream. Spent 6 months part time and used a bunch of social currency to get a Fortune-100 company on board as a paying customer for MVP.

Asked to signed a contract as a consultant so they could "properly compensate me" -- trusted and signed and got kicked out the next day + had a gag order in the agreement so I couldn't talk publically about it.

Lost a friend and learned a big life lesson there. The project floundered after that; it was my heart's desire to make it work even if I wasn't there, but they just shuttered it without letting me know. I emailed them to give me some peace and closure by at least letting me know why they did what they did but never got a response. I still see this "friend" due to a common-ish social circle.

Bad things happen some times -- I haven't lost the ability to trust and have faith in people; my opinion of lawyers and contracts that protect me have increased though.
I'm interested in an internship at Numenta. Can I ask you a few questions about it, if you don't mind? Either here or via an email?
From "How much does an elephant wiegh?" on Answers.com:

Less than your mum
Yes, all containers are backwards compatible, pretty much to the first version.

In general backwards compatibility is a big deal in the Docker project - breaking changes are taken very seriously and we try to avoid them as much as humanly possible. That applies to the container image format, Dockerfile format, remote API and command-line interface. It's also important to preserve portability across drivers. For example different storage drivers (aufs, btrfs, devicemapper etc) don't affect the format of the images they produce.
So is this one of those "Expedia for restaurants" things? What do you do with unsold reservations? And will you be buying up all the best times by "front running" people who are looking to eat? :)
I propose we have an "Ask me" to follow reddit's great success with such posts.
This is really cool. Have you guys considered Heroku integration? One-click generation + deployment could be a really slick MVP tool (although I worry about how it would affect client expectations were they to ever find out about it. :)
I'm not sure how fond I am of the frame design, it has a sort of flair to it that makes it look strange.
Yes, it's on our list to fix this, probably by just exempting Show HN posts from the url-less penalty.
"I've never seen or heard a credible source claim they were harmful to human health."

Which says a lot about the media you read.
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Thanks, I think my initial comment was a bit misguided and the feedback here has definitely made me reconsider my preconceptions.

However, it should be noted that Macs make for amazing Windows machines.
On Chromebooks
Bit of a repost but this quote from Bruce is new:

"And, since Cory said it, I do not believe that this came from the Snowden documents. I also don't believe the TAO catalog came from the Snowden documents. I think there's a second leaker out there."

Seems like an important new detail.
I always just prime factorize and then repeatedly multiply. So 7 * 8 becomes 7 * 2 * 2 * 2 becomes 14 * 2 * 2 becomes 28 * 2 becomes 56.
Personal anecdote - <2% of visitors that play a preview ever click on a buy link on http://wonderwheel.fm

It's something I built for myself and I didn't expect to make anything, but it's still been entertaining to have the expectation confirmed.

The site has seen some okay traffic but hasn't made enough to buy me a half of Tennent's.
The ultimate challenge: Mihály Csíkszentmihályi.
Glyphosate is one of the safest pesticides on the market, and is considerably safer than some of the so-called "organic" alternatives.
Great idea. Will sure read more on your site later on, but one thing that struck me is "Pyramid applications are built using a model-view-controller architecture." There is a note in pyramids design defenses which says they do not consider pyramid to be a mvc: http://docs.pylonsproject.org/projects/pyramid/en/1.3-branch...
A market for recorded performances is about 100 years old. It is a novelty in human culture as well as commerce. Cartels controlling this market are an even more recent and dubious "innovation."

Expecting them to have lifespan and protection of the property under one's house, or to even be analogous to that property, is delusional.
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It's impossible for an English speaker to pronounce my last name, whether they heard it before or not. Heck, I can't even pronounce it myself without falling back into German speech mode.

But what's more important: it really doesn't matter to me how you pronounce it. Do people care about it that much?
My name is Thomson, and I've set up the following aliases for my gmail (in decreasing order of traffic): thompson, thomas, tom, thom (my dad's name). I get an e-mail at least twice a week.
Yeah this doesn't seem to be done very often. I'm trying to encourage the behavior though because I often see that courts are easily confused by technical issues that are well understood by the community.

This may or may not be such a case, but is calming your code is flawless under penalty of perjury an honest mistake?
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I have a different problem, my name Jensen generally gets said correctly but people looking at the spelling of my name get it wrong (Jenson / Jason) quite frequently.

This is primarily an issue with new contacts / acquaintances which I'm sure looks poorly on both of us, especially when this gets sent to other people on job searches etc.
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This looks pretty neat. Looking forward to you getting the disabled features ironed out.

Some notes:

* Project generation with most of the features and a couple models is taking a really long time. I'm sure it's a background job, and I could walk away if I wanted to, but it'd be nice to know that the system would email me to let me know when it was done

* Sometimes UI widgets flicker when switching between sections. I'm guessing a lot of those styles are being added with Javascript, not CSS? You might consider switching to a CSS framework that gives you a good look and feel, but doesn't have to call some JS function to apply styles.

* The auto-capitalization on model names, and auto-lowercasization (?) on field names, was a nice touch, and made me feel happy about the product.

* It would be really cool if users could write and submit plugins / hooks. I'd be interested in background jobs that weren't DelayedJob, and deployments that weren't Heroku, for instance.

* I'm guessing that "public repos only" is a temporary feature, because GitHub doesn't have a way to authorize an app to write only to certain private repos, correct? Because most of my work is on private repos, and I can't see my organization using something like this without the ability to create projects (even scaffolds) privately

* A feature for Vagrant would be nice :-)

I'll be watching this! We've currently got several people switching from ColdFusion to Rails; they're good programmers, but they don't know the ecosystem or the conventions. This gives them a really good starting place. Thanks for sharing.

Edit: Also, this is the first time I've seen app/views/elements/, and I'm kinda pissed I haven't thought of using a different directory for partial layouts before. Now I've got some app/views/layouts/ directories to clean up...
It worked for me. It read like obvious fiction as far as to what I know about the NSA and the last couple of administrations.
Now everything gets a "Show HN" tag ;)