skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What would you need to start a business?
I'm curious to know what YOU would need in order to start a business? Ex. Have 10k in savings in order to start a business, have 6 months in savings in order to quit job and start the business, have VC funding, etc... I'm curious to hear all your answers :-)
Email autoconfiguration with automx on Debian/Ubuntu
This is awesome, I need to check this out in detail. Do you have good elastic beanstalk integration?
I haven't seen any indication that FinFisher is using deliberate backdoors from MS; from the article it sounds like it's just installing your typical spyware via exploits in things like PDF and XLS files.

But as wslh points out, the assertion that metro's sandbox makes things more secure isn't accurate. I can't get to the dropbox page either, so I'm not sure whether it's saying "FinFisher isn't able to eavesdrop on metro for technical reasons" or "FinFisher can't eavesdrop on metro because they haven't implemented that yet."

Either way, isn't this a separate issue from any surveillance access Microsoft is providing? One is local spyware grabbing your communications on your computer, and the other Microsoft grabbing the data as it goes through the Skype servers. I know Microsoft has that capability for text chats [1], and I assume it's the same deal for audio streams.

Making the Skype client less vulnerable is no more closing law enforcement access than if Apple they fixed a vulnerability in Mail.app while continuing to hand out your iCloud emails to law enforcement agencies.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/05/think-your-skype-mes...
An interesting point. Then there's the question of whether people who research their potential funding sources to such a level are more or less likely to be good investments. That's a lot less clear than in the Van Halen case - here, I see plenty of arguments in both directions.
Uber already had an ability to split fares with people you know, assuming there's only one pickup for all of you. I don't think Lyft had that.

These new announcements are about splitting with strangers, matched on their end. It's much more interesting than fare split with friends.
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Walter White was a greedy asshole in a fictional story.

Sasha Shulgin was a true hacker with a great heart in real life.
How to check for this vulnerability in your app:

> npm install -g nsp
> nsp audit-package // Run in the same dir as your package.json

This will also report any other vulnerabilities, in addition to the "qs" vulnerability.
You ought to take a look at jpeg-archive: https://github.com/danielgtaylor/jpeg-archive (the bbcq-like is similar to jpegmini's weighting).
I think that kind of thing demonstrates less that Valley hackers act like teenagers, and more that hacker culture is more open/informal than the typical rigid tech corporation.
Crap. I wish i didn't read the HN comments page now. I read the first sentence of the article and immediately thought "you could bin on a log scale".

To be clear this isn't an area i'd consider myself all that knowledgeable. Coming up with a useful idea was an achievement.

So as i read through, comparing each proposed solution to mine, i decided i quite liked mine. Then i see that last proposal is my first idea. Great!

So over i wander to the HN comments and see that this is a common approach, i didn't just come up with a nice neat solution, i probably learned it, forgot it, and regurgitated it from my subconscious.

That sure doesn't feel as nice as the sparkly feeling i had just 3 minutes ago...
25,000 * 500 = 12.5 million euros. According to this [0] article, that would take 9.28 hours for Facebook to earn back. I don't think one lawsuit this size every 10 hours is viable. There needs to be a bigger force to make people consider moving away from Facebook.

Also, the image [1] in the article is hilarious.

[0] http://www.thewire.com/technology/2014/08/lets-calculate-how...

[1] http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/76780000/jpg/_76780123...
Yes, optimise is the wrong word. I meant optimise away really, but that's still not quite right. The WebP authors are actually working on improving chroma subsampling, because VP8 limits WebP to 2x2.
2.34M people are still paying AOL 20 bucks a month
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Does their new welcome page look broken/ugly to anyone else? I'm wondering if it's just on my end; scroll down past the initial tick.

https://foursquare.com/download#welcome
This question intrigued me, so did some research and started designing "future-proof" business plans and brands that people can use right away.

It's still a work in progress, but it's here if anyone wants a look: http://startjumper.com.
"...Over the weekend they turned pizza, energy drinks, and APIs into 123 projects..."

The work that comes out of such hackathons are impressive. However, I can't help but think they work against us as we try to steer software development into greater respectability. Do doctors get together to have "heal-o-thons" with a scoreboard counter of how many cigarettes they went through for the event?

The celebration of caffeine driven cultures and work environments that feel like kids-at-summer-camp give those outside of the profession the impression that this is "normal".

Bah, humbug. Maybe I'm just getting older and put a higher priority on work environment and habits that lead to a healthier life-style.
It may be like living in Gilliam's Brazil, but we do actually have fairly good protections against this that can usually be used to break out of the bureaucratic nightmare:

(this should be obvious, but just to be sure: IANAL)

Send them a letter where you give them 1 month to resolve the problem, providing full documentation that you are divorced and point that as such the information is incorrect, and that under the Data Protection Act they are legally obliged to ensure incorrect personal information about you is amended or deleted. If you have past correspondence with them where they acknowledge the information is incorrect, then provide copies.

Inform them that if the matter is not resolved, or they have contacted you to agree on how to resolve it, within 30 days, you will file a formal complaint with the Information Commissioner (ico.org.uk).

Provide the same notification to the bank (ensure it is addressed to the legal department).

The credit scoring agencies has a legal obligation under the Data Protection Act to ensure personal information is correct. This applies to all organizations subject to EU data protection rules (which is pretty much everyone with very limited exceptions). That the data comes from a third party is not an excuse if you have provided documentation that the information is wrong. (it may be reasonable that they refer you there first, but if you have tried to get the bank to fix it, and they've not, then it is not reasonable for them to continue to insist).

Ultimately, if even the ICO can not get them to budge, go to a lawyer. Failure to rectify this information is blatant violation of the principles of the Data Protection Act, and you can get a court order to have the information corrected, and in some cases even require that they contact every recipient of the flawed information.

In your case this is important. If either one of you goes bankrupt e.g. you risk the other ones credit score being ruined for about a decade. But frankly, in most cases a threat about a complaint to the ICO ought to be enough. If you've written a letter and complained to ICO, and they fail to correct the information, then a court case will be a walk in the park.

Also note that in certain circumstances you may be due damages incurred as a result of the incorrect information.

See: http://ico.org.uk/for_organisations/data_protection/the_guid...

A last consideration: The Data Protection Act also provides you with some means of insisting that certain types of decisions are not taken automatically, or to have automated decisions reconsidered. This provides you a fallback if e.g. you are often refused credit based on automated scoring based on the flawed data. You can notify the bank in advance in writing that you do not consent to automated decision making, and providing documentation of the divorce, or you can demand a manual reconsideration afterwards (and provide the same documentation).
Yelp's ratings, reviews, recommendations, and tips aren't very good for food, bars, and things to do. I've always found Foursquare's to be much higher quality.
Cool project but sublime text is not free software and a nag screen isn't exactly fun to see quite often especially for kids.
You could pretty much eliminate all mcdonalds staff already with a vending machine that has a conveyor belt that runs under a heating element(like they do at quiznos), and sprays some condiments on a bun. All you'd need then is someone to replenish the vending machine.

So artificial intelligence isn't even necessary.
“Nobody” Can’t Hold a Copyright, Which Means Sometimes, Nobody Holds a Copyright
By that reasoning, if the photographer had "set up the shot" for a murder machine instead of a camera, the monkey who inadvertently pressed the button would be the murderer (or suicide victim if it was a "selfie").
Asymmetry of power does not necessitate asymmetry of privacy.
Or stash for that matter.
I would put my money on this. Back in the early days of social games my company did the same thing - got wind of a Zynga announcement, pre-empt it in the press, and work like hell to get it out. The next two weeks are going to be busy at Uber.
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I wish Lyft would drop the mustache for the balloon in all their branding!
Then a months worth of pay, given cash in hand to the partner, or given to a charity in the name of the partner, should be an equivalent signal.

Once again, I question the utility of screening based on this, even screening out on the basis of "not giving a diamond ring".
> I think, there will be a great depression, when even creativism becomes boring.

The entertainment industry has never been so big and it doesn't stop growing, so I guess the trend hints at the opposite. Electronic games weren't a thing 30 years ago, online games weren't a thing 10 years ago, both are now big industries.

I bet more in technology introducing new medias (e.g. Oculus) and aiding on better / cheaper / faster content creation than completely automating creative work.
Microsoft Offers Chinese Factory Workers a Lumia Phone to Quit
Yeah, it really bothers me. Part of it feels like a betrayal to the users - whom, without them, the company would have never gotten to a position where it could be acquired. It's just get bought, shut down, "thank you for being a part of our adventure"[0].

[0] For a somewhat snarky take on this, http://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/
Probably not. From my experience bicycles and small motorcycles will not trigger the sensor on the induction loop.
Also if you want to be taken serious you shouldn't be advising people to use a trial version for free without paying.

I guess you can legally say you're trying it out for any amount of time but it's still unethical.
Lyft Plus is more or less a novelty and doesn't match UberXL in terms of availability. In Seattle you can get an UberXL very easily while Lyft Plus is nowhere to be found.
Getting rid of the nag screen is explained here: https://johnlewis.ie/how-to-make-seabios-the-default-on-your...

Since this _totally_ undermines the security concept, some dis-assembly is required (open the case, turn a screw, close the case), which is described in the chromeos developer documentation
Something I find interesting about this is that it weakens the notion of the app being a relatively pure marketplace connecting a driver to a rider. The more that these features emerge, the more complex the relationships, and the more prominent the role of Lyft/Uber/Sidecar as more than a "mere" broker.

I wonder how much we're going to see things go full circle, and have a more employee-like relationship between drivers and these services (see also the "guaranteed wage" that these services have been offering to some drivers at peak hours).
Hate progressive jpegs. Always sit there and squint for a second with Google images till a second later when hi-res pops-in. Just let it render and I'll take the 4% efficiency hit.
CircleCI has great caching support for gems, etc (we've had this for about 2 years, so it's really mature). I suspect it might need to be tweaked to support docker use cases a bit better, so can you try it out and let us know?
Great find, looks like this has already been patched in node-restify v2.8.1.
Last year's round of financing was primarily a loan from Silver Lake. Loans (venture loans), on a company/asset that hasn't got genuine revenues is really expensive, both the interests, and size – I'm assuming it's an interest accruing loan (no way can FourSquare pay cash interests). This scenario should be eating everyone's returns.

The post definitely comes across as a 'Hey, look at us!', the new logo, new apps, is also a sign that FourSquare wants to transmit the message of 'We are still alive and doing 'cool' stuff', but my understanding is that they are trying not to appear stale, which to me they are. I don't think the top line operational metrics are doing that well. I think all parties are trying to save the day with some type of 0.8x-1x cash invested sale price. I even think that is ambitious. Do startups that are doing well market themselves as 'The New Twitter', 'The New Facebook', 'The New Google', no – something isn't working. Time will tell.
You can expand the product for customers, or expand the product to reach new customers. We need to do both, of course, but we are prioritizing the former right now.
Perhaps, though I have my doubts for many of them in the short term. Especially gaming: I'm a big fan of what Canvas and WebGL are doing and where things are going, but we're still not there.

Regardless, the parent comment was talking about buying Chromebooks today, and today there are still many people and companies that rely on desktop only software.
Recent thread:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8096461
What does "good" integration mean to you?
You got to be kidding me. Most of these people clearly don't know they're paying, I can't even feel sorry for them, pure laziness.
The article is arguing that it's legitimate to be concerned about who the organizers are, their motives and their tactics. The only silly question is asking whether there are "outside force" organizers, because that's always true for every movement and protest (regardless of whether the organizers want to operate secretly or openly).

It also argues (in this and other points) that it's very difficult to ascertain what the "best interests" of the majority are, and whether there is a cohesive majority at all. For example, it argues that within many anti-war movements there are subgroups with different opinions on tactics and even end goals.

IMO, the problem with the Tea Party (which I'm less familiar with) and some so-called "spontaneus and apolitical" movements in my own country, is precisely that they claim to be apolitical, spontaneus (as if ordinary working people one day woke up and decided to start a movement) and outside the political establishment, when in fact the ringleaders and organizers are often the same old politicians operating less openly. They seek the legitimacy they cannot get through votes by pretending it's not them who are organizing the movement/protest, but "the people", and that they just merely support it.
better ask this on quora or tripadvisor?
The claim of the uploader:
"This file is in the public domain, because as the work of a non-human animal, it has no human author in whom copyright is vested."

So he doesn't claim that the photo is "Owned by Monkey".

On the other hand I do not think that he is right. I'm not a lawyer and I'm not too familiar with copyright laws but it's simply not only the work of a "non-human animal" (I'm yet to see a "human animal").
(disclosure: I'm an Intel employee)

I love the C720. My dad got me one for xmas, and himself. I used crouton to install Ubuntu, but like your approach better. I work on the Intel XDK team and am pushing the C720 as a great development machine since we provide cloud based builds for hybrid apps. You should look into the XDK for Code Starter https://software.intel.com/en-us/html5/tools
> This is a way to unify all these abstractions so that you can write a single map/filter/concat transform once, and use it in many different ways.

I don't understand why these things aren't all unified in the first place, it's just function composition we're talking about here right?

Edit: I mean it's clearly not just simple function composition, but I don't understand why not

(def xform (comp (map inc) (filter even?))) ; xform is a transducer
(defn xform [aseq] (->> aseq (map inc) (filter even?))) ; xform is a fn

Why do these have to be different things? Why is there a need for machinery to do what fn composition is supposed to do?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Range_Acoustic_Device

http://science.howstuffworks.com/lrad.htm/printable
No problem whatsoever on my similarly speced MBPr.
Sometimes developers need to collaborate and sometimes they need quiet isolation. Individual developers have preferences too. (Sometimes I like a bustle around me. It keeps me from zoning out.) This false dichotomy of exclusively committing to one or the other is foolish.

With notebook computers and mobile phones, there is no reason to chain an employee to their desk. A software company could have areas with open tables and school desks designated for a particular working environment. It would require some sound proofed rooms meant for demos and discussions, and at least one large area you could call "The Library" where talking is met with a chorus of angry shushing.

This is just an idea that’s been rattling around my head so I am sure there are points to work out in implementation, but I doubt it would cost significantly more or hurt productivity any worse than open office plans.
Japan Tops the Cloud Readiness Index
mozjpeg has such a bug opened too: https://github.com/mozilla/mozjpeg/issues/8

This isn't exactly new ground beign covered here, nor is it tied to one image format, so I wish people would be a little less NIH-y sometimes...
i like lyft much better but I wonder why are not evaluated like uber is from investor's perspective
Fair, I only saw that Uberpool was not available for me (Android, NYC), not that it was coming out in beta so soon.
From Wikipedia:

>FinFisher can be covertly installed on targets' computers by exploiting security lapses in the update procedures of non-suspect software

Also, see: http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/11/21/surveillance-company-...

So, apparently, no - just that most targets are running at least one application that downloads updates on an insecure channel. Because general-purpose OSes don't isolate applications from each other like, say, iOS, it would only take one neglected utility performing a software update over plain HTTP to be able to turn MITM into remote code execution with access to your entire computer.

If you are an ISP, you can of course commit MITM of HTTP traffic on any of your customers trivially.

The WSJ also shows a screenshot of a faked "download the latest version of flash player" screen, presumably on a non-HTTPs site. If your ISP is also a trusted CA (which I believe is not rare) they could also be MITMing HTTPs traffic as well.

It would seem that if you and all of the software you run uses HTTPs all the time and if your OS enforces code-signing so that, i.e., only Apple can patch iTunes, you're pretty much immune. A VPN might provide some defense, but the ISP with which your VPN terminates could be ordered to perform/allow the same kind of MITM attack with the same result.

Interestingly, this sort of attack featured heavily in the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series, except that she and her friends (lacking control of ISPs) would actually go to people's houses while they were out and wire MITMing devices into their cable/DSL connections. Having administrator-level access to an ISP would obviate the need for field operations, hence the NSA's infamous "I hunt sysadmins."
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Putting the Open Internet Transparency Rule to the Test
I don't know about connected to the internet, but it would nice to have more built in sensors in an oven/stove. They have digital thermometers, but it would be nice to get a total IR/temperature profile of what's inside. Maybe some basic computer vision programs. Something like 'looks like your bread is done and its temperature is correct, we'll turn the over down automatically unless you issue an override'. Perhaps even better would be a smart microwave that detects temperature unevenness with some IR setup and adjusts it's internal plate/heating mechanism to compensate.

I guess the internety aspect would be, people could upload ideal cooking/completion settings to achieve certain results. Or it could let you start food up as you are approaching home, but this would lead to some food borne pathogen issues, so it's probably not a good plan.

Though really this might be a bit excessive.
My point was that - since information magnifies power - symmetrically discarding privacy does not grant symmetric power but strengthens those already in a position of power (able to use the information more effectively). This is an important dynamic that needs to be part of the analysis. I wouldn't say it necessitates anything in particular.
the software out there might be crap, but I can tell you it is not going to be replaced on an enterprise level with tablet devices. you are definitely right there are a ton of industries that are going to be totally shut out by what is going on but until then I don't see graphic designers and dozens of other industries using tablets to do their job.
This reminds me of a tactic Zappo used on its new call center staff – at the end of the training camp, each employee was offered some sum of money (somewhere between $1,000 and $3,000 I think) to quit on the spot. The reasoning being that Zappos would be better off without anybody who would rather have a few thousand bucks than work there. The goal was to have low performers self-identify themselves (whether or not you agree that taking this offer predicts low performance).

In this situation, Microsoft has announced that layoffs will be coming soon anyway, and presumably they want to get rid of the low performers. How do you identify which are the poor performers for something as commoditized as factory workers? Offer them a phone if they quit – the poor performers probably can identify THEMSELVES as poor performers, and so they see their termination as imminent anyway. So they'll take a free phone if they can get it. The people who think they're doing a good job won't take the offer.

Maybe these techniques are based on faulty assumptions about human nature, but they are logical.
I know sorry my irony wasnt that explicit I guess. Really I dont see how making it hard and expensive to become a CA intermediary helps security at all, it just means we have to trust those that have money and power, rarely the best idea.
This is definitely good news for ruby!
If you vote for a certain candidate, that's a sign that you believe he's going to act a certain way in office. And unless you know him personally, that can only be based on what he said on the campaign trail. So the fact that you voted for him shows that you at least trusted him to do what he said he would do.
I'm a post-doc at a university. I asked around at conferences, and emailed people whose work I liked. I'd be surprised if the process is very HPC-specific; you'd be trying to make scientific job-hunting more efficient. But please do that if you can :D
These are both fair points, and we'd like to offer free Sublime Text licenses to recipients of our laptops, I just haven't had time yet to explore the best way to make that happen. Once Atom has a competent Linux version, we'll likely switch to installing that instead, as it's open source but still very friendly for novice developers.