skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
here is the link https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/qilang/yL2Eps2cnwY
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No update out for Ubuntu Server 14.04 yet.

/edit: the Red Hat blog has a good overview https://securityblog.redhat.com/2014/09/24/bash-specially-cr...
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Well if your child is convinced enough to use trello, it would be an achievement in itself.
Maybe I should rephrase. Is this mission a scientific achievement? It could be a economics/accounting/marketing/HR/logistics achievement, but what is new scientifically?
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Careful there. Read about Netflix:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/theyec/2011/12/28/5-business-les...
I would consider 2 percent a huge number, yes. I'd also expect Apple to do refunds for those 2 percent, both in the sense that I'd demand it if it were my phone, and that historically they've done things like that.

But we still need to know the number. Has anything so far suggested it might be as high as 2 percent?
There are many banks where this isn't the case and you should never pay for a checking account, regardless of how much money you have coming in every month. I even have a Wells Fargo (canonical "big bank" example) checking account that has been sitting with $16.09 for the past 6 months.

Do not pay for a checking account, ever. If your bank is charging you a fee for your account, call them and say "I can get a free checking account at X competitor, I am going to switch to them unless you can match that."

Hell, Charles Schwab offers a free checking account and will refund ALL ATM fees every month.
By way of comparison, the US bank that I work for (Capital One) offers checking accounts that have no monthly fees, no minimum balances, and even pay interest.

HOWEVER, they will not offer them to all customers. Customers who have a sufficiently poor credit rating (we consider various factors) or other issues such as a history of writing bad checks or of engaging in bank fraud will be rejected for a normal checking account. The costs and risks of supporting such customers exceed the potential benefits.

(NOTE: I am not privy to the details of the actual underwriting criteria, nor would I be authorized to disclose them if I DID know them. But if we reject someone for a banking product based on credit information we are required by law to let them know what information led to that decision.)

[Edit:]

Oh yes, and I forgot one of the more important reasons why you can't get one of our accounts. Because you are an "illegal alien" (anyone without a legitimate tax id). That constraint will also affect Walmart's new offering. Solving the problem of the "unbanked" in the US is much harder than you might think. But this new offering by Walmart will help.
Even with the 16x growth that you're assuming, the population density of Liberia would only be 33% higher than New Jersey.
I'm basically a mirror of your experience and age but in a different technical area, out of interest where are you planning on getting the contracting customers/clients from? contacts that you've made over the years?
Its been a bad time for FOSS/Linux systems. Heartbleed, the occasional priv escalation, apt-get, bash, etc. Or whatever the hell happened at TrueCrypt. Or the recent AOSP browser bug in Android that probably won't be patched by any OEM/Carrier. These are all pretty serious issues. Not to mention the endless wave of malware targeting Windows systems, especially the evil cryptolocker ransomware.

I really do think heartbleed was a wake-up call for some people and a lot of extra auditing is being done, perhaps with some healthy paranoia fueled by the recent NSA allegations. Software, in general, imo, is pretty insecure. The exploits, bugs, etc are out there and if you'll find them if you look hard enough. Considering software is always being updated, that also means news bugs and security issues.

As a sysadmin, I've just seen too often how the sausage is made. I have zero illusions about security. There are just too many avenues to compromise, be it via software or via plain-jane social engineering. I think one day in the future we (or our children) are going to look back at the age of viruses and buffer overflows and wonder how the hell we managed to get by, the same way I look at cars from the 50s-60s that suffered from things like vapor lock, were incredibly unsafe, and other issues that really don't exist today.
What “technical” concerns do I have with systemd?
Some people take their phones on a run.
Capital One 360 (formerly ING Direct) also offers free checking and savings. I have not used my associated checking account in approximately 8 years of being a customer and I've never been charged a fee.
I'm not sure about the overdraft charges, but they did require the default for debit cards to "deny" a charge if it would result in an overdraft. So I won't overdraft my account by accident if, for example, I try to buy a $2 drink before my paycheck clears. (Happened once...)
It allows arbitrary code execution if an attacker can modify environment variables through other software.

Most webservers put certain HTTP headers in environment variables. I can certainly see the how this could be exploited.
> I don't really understand why current accounts in the US cost $12-8/month. It isn't like "checking accounts" in the US have much better interest rates. So they're likely double-dipping (getting $ off of the spread AND fees).

That 12-8/mo is typically a fee for not having an average minimum balance, or not having direct deposits in a given month.

I think it's their attempt to recoup the management overhead of having the account vs. the interest they earn on it.
Funny that I just wrote about how I was considering killing a startup I started: https://medium.com/@piotr/i-failed-82b9469977ac?source=lates...

Probably the best way to know how to build a successful one is knowing how to build one that won't fail!
There are still plenty of US financial institutions that offer free checking accounts. They often charge ridiculous fees for things like overdrafts. But Credit Unions tend to be slightly better than banks. I have been using Simple.com in addition to my local Credit Union account for over a year now and I'm very satisfied.
that's a really cheap ad hominem. Your argumentation is horrible.
> People literally spend all their time doing this, if there was free money to be made someone would be making it:)

I used to think this, then I worked on a trading system in an investment bank. Don't underestimate how quickly and easily you can learn and exceed people who should know what they're doing, given sufficient motivation.
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It sounds to me like the costs of continuing to deal with this person, along with the almost certain failure of the venture, makes "I just want to get rid of the whole project" equal "I never want to have any dealings with the person again".

Better to have a clean and total separation and get on with his life vs. striving to have some fraction of nothing at a continuing time and energy cost (well, till the person gives up on the venture).

ADDED: As oddevan puts it elsewhere in this discussion, he was "paid in sanity".
> The problem with "languages for those who can" is that they get relegated to pet projects, because real teams need code that everyone can understand, not just the "rock stars".

> I actually hope that Rust does not become that kind of a language. I think it has a lot going for it, but I do agree that it's a pretty dense language, and that will cause problems in uptake for real projects.

Many of those real projects can't use anything easier than Rust. Sure, using a GC for everything is easier, allowing memory safety violations is easier, and allowing data races is easier (for some definition of "easy"). But for many projects, like browser engines, kernels, games, etc. neither of these are an option. In other words, avoiding new concepts comes at a price. The concepts in Rust aren't there for no reason; they're there because they're solving real problems.

(Incidentally, I don't think that "simpler" is the right term; I think there's a lot of confusion between "simple" and "easy".)
Indeed. But, then, I give credit to most HNers for having the ability to read beyond the obvious and understand the real question being asked, and the real issue at hand. Those who engage in higher thinking often assume that the obvious is a given, and that the real matter must lie elsewhere. They would therefore be unlikely to commit, say, the faux pas of restating the obvious as a conclusion.

Thankfully, many HNers are able to engage in such higher thinking. There is a small percentage, however, who generally seem very nearly oblivious. But, they typically announce themselves through their misguided, yet uncannily self-assured comments.
This feels like pie-in-the-sky sort of thinking. Sure, you can make certain kinds of decision making processes illegal, but it doesn't change the hearts and minds of the people making those decisions. As has been said here already, this only pushes those processes out of the public eye and into the private space. Those who would discriminate on illegal grounds will always be able to manufacture plausible deniability, which the posted article clearly demonstrates.

We'd all like to think we're better. That's what leads us down the path of legislating out way out of prejudice. It's not a solution. To me, the article suggests an alternative way to fight it: information. Forget equal opportunity, affirmative action, whatever label you want to put on it. Publishing the data, putting a name with the prejudice on display for everyone to see, is the proper fight. Then the people who profit from the prejudice, and those who participate in the system, can be pressured to change. Failing that, society can marginalize them.
Are you referring to this apt-get vulnerability or another one: https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2014/msg00... ?
The real problem with check-cashing places are payday loans. Low-cost checking accounts from Walmart won't stop those.
Would you care to share how did you overcome the network effect when starting OpenRent?
The key to success is to not give a shit about others and only care for yourself.
Walking away as the bad guy but gaining profit from it is much better than being the good guy.
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I recently had a horrible experience getting a home mortgage, and when invited to leave feedback I did so - politely, but sparing no feelings.

In response, I received a form-letter generic apology with a stamped signature. The numeric code at the very bottom of the letter (and the fact that it didn't address any specific issue I'd raised) gave it away, though I had to squint to determine that the signature wasn't legit.

I don't know which bothers me more: the fact that they didn't actually care enough to write a genuine response, or that the get enough disgruntled customers that they have a standard apology letter ready to go.
I think the bigger screen of a 6 and the promise of Apple Pay provides enough additional value over the 5. I don't find the 5s as compelling an upgrade, and would rather spend $90 on a battery instead of hundreds on a 5S (the battery is really only complaint I have about my 5).
Ask HN: Want to work on open-source, don't know where to start. Advice?
Alternative theories are fine but this doesn't explain any of the observations that have led us to believe black holes exist in the first place. If black holes don't exist, what exactly is Saggitarius A* then? The stars at the center of our galaxy are orbiting something invisible and truly massive (about 4 million solar masses.)
Damn, the US tax form will be annoying.
I´ll be sure to tell you my experience when i go through it all :) Thanks!
you're just paying attention. There have been some interesting ones the last year or two but this is really a trickle compared to early through mid 2000s
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> Just my opinion. I'm not a businessman.

It shows :) No offense, but this is an engineer's mindset. Great for building products; terrible for selling them.

A businessperson's mindset is "if they don't understand their value proposition well enough to explain it to me, their product likely isn't any better than the competition and they know it." Better still, by explaining your value proposition in terms of a prospective client's problems, you are showing them that 1) you understand their problems 2) your product addresses their problems and 3) that you are committed to a long-term, mutually beneficial business relationship, not just a sale.

OP's link is a great example of good business communication. It's obvious that many of the flaws are due to the anonymization; I've written these e-mails before and the main goal is building a business relationship based on trust. If you have built a relationship with your customer, you get a little bit of leeway to badmouth the competition if it's relevant.
I've noticed the dead give away for those is that they come with a "Pre-sorted Standard" stamp instead of the first class postage that most personal mail uses.
http://www.cvedetails.com/browse-by-date.php

Its not like each year is an increase.. but it seems this year has had more major giant remote ones then in the past
True. I should have said that a case will only help if it's structural. Most of them are not.
My thoughts exactly. Here I was, complaining that it's hard to get an affordable apartment in my city, and they live in teeny tiny rooms in Europe!
The bad guy? At that point you could have given her an hour to turn up with a briefcase full of cash or it's rm -rf time, and you still would have been the good guy IMO.

Note: this is not legal advice.
I find the user experience on the new site to be much worse than the new site. When I'm reading an article I really don't care about navigating to the rest of the site. I have a small widescreen laptop, which means that the fixed headers at the top give me less room to read the article. I don't need gobs of white space to read the news article in print, so why is white space so important on the web that navigation has to be hidden in one of those awful hamburger buttons? The text is harder to read because it has lower contrast. The new comment system is totally unusable. I don't really appreciate large, useless images interrupting the flow of the article. And I don't need Javascript to read a newspaper article (the site loads like a pig with Javascript) because I'm going to be navigating to a different page when I read another article. It's faster to just open the home page and open each article in a new tab (with JS disabled).
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What about stamps though? Real letters from real people have stamps that are glued on in an odd position; junk mail (or any automated mail) has the postage directly printed on the envelope.

It's certainly possible to automate the sticking of stamps, but won't all those operations needed to "look real" increase the cost of junk mail in unsustainable proportions? Which is the point of course, from the receiver/victim point of view...
I dont believe it is over...more so we must adapt to the last stage. Information technology has largely become interchangeable with the term "technology", since it has become so wide spread. However, this has created an opportunity and a predicament. With all this data generated...now what? We have a connected world, medical grade devices and senors on our body and a super computer in our pocket...yet people continue to make photo and messaging apps. Partly because some want, and others perhaps don't know what to do. When analyzing these kinds of questions, I try to remember we are building for people. People use the technology. People have wants and needs. Having a frame work for these helps alot. I use Maslow's hierarchy of human needs as a general use case. That perhaps we are at a point of actualization. Where we have fulfilled all the required parts of pyramid before it. I hope this is the case, because this is when true innovation will begin. Areas like education, healthcare and finance would be prime in this case. Just a thought :)
That's local mail, not internet mail. Technically you're talking about a local mailbox, not an email address.
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Thanks for providing some "hard data" and backing it up with references!

It always irks me when people make such armchair-social-economist claims (which IMO, are ultimately only populism driven).

As to ISRO: you've made me feel proud to be an Indian! Ad Astra!!!
Oh damn:

curl -H 'User-Agent: () { :;}; echo; echo vulnerable to CVE-2014-6271' <shell script CGI URL>

Tested and working against a shell script CGI.
It's no longer hipster. It's mainstream.

Although what are the new hipster languages now?
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That was a proactive move that turned out quite well for them. They saw that the consumer PC business was going to shrink significantly over the next 10 years, so they sold off while the price was still high.

I don't think anyone in their right mind is second guessing IBM's decision to get out of the PC business. In hindsight, it was a great move executed with perfect timing.
That's an unfortunate attitude that I would encourage you to drop. Any reasonably sharp, motivated person can learn anything.

Am I a business guy who learned to code? An engineer who learned business? I have degrees in both and have taken jobs in both fields. Or am I just someone who took an interest in these things and learned as much as I could about both of them?
Let's get rid of systemd, before it's too late
Whoa. I tried this, ran pacaur -Suy and .. it's patched.

Arch was fast.
Thanks! Feel free to let me know which details you'd like to see featured if you want.
As for now I'm definitely planning to adding some more stats for each webhost as well as writing more reports comparing YoY changes.
You would make a business decision based on the tone of an email?
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It is a very good thing that Debian and Ubuntu use /bin/dash for /bin/sh by default, since /bin/sh is implicitly invoked all over the place (e.g. by system(3)). Distros which use /bin/bash for /bin/sh are gonna have a bad time.

Edit: not implying that Debian and Ubuntu aren't affected too, just that the impact there will be lessened.
Has the redhat patch been pushed through centos yet?
I _hope_ that when they write 'FTP' they actually mean '(FTP or) SFTP'. Alas, that's no always true.
CGI has always been an accident waiting to happen, but hardly anybody uses it anymore anyway, and even more rarely in a manner that invokes bash, of all things.

I fail to see how "HTTP requests" generically are a vector, and its "Here is a sample" statement is not a link and is followed by... nothing.

This article tells me nothing useful other than "don't allow untrusted data into your environment", which we've all known for 20 years.
The MBA student sounds like she's a complete and total sociopath who is very skilled at manipulating, using, and discarding people. I've worked for someone like this before, and it probably took years off my life. I'm older and wiser now, hopefully :)

If she wants to be successful, she should get herself hired at a large corporation. Perfect environment for someone like her.
I've just skimmed that article, but I seem to remember Netflix attempted to force the price hike on current users. I would always grandfather existing users, keeping them at their current price. Hell, I've still got people paying just $10 / month from when I first launched.
That's odd. I typed it in and nothing happened.
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Ive been looking into Watson's new application to analytics etc. How would that compare to say Mathimatica or the Wolfram Language/Data Science Platform?
Windows and Mac, but no Linux support for their desktop software :(
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could you use this to run ChromiumTestShell.apk on windows for testing android chrome rendering?

[1] http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser-con...
What is this mysterious, anti-Facebook, social network?
I don't care that people are trying to part me from my money. Often I'm trying to get rid of it. {EDIT: whenever you buy anything you're trying to get rid of that bit of money. This is true for poor people as well.}

The hate for (some) marketers comes from the fact that some of them are fucking scum with bizarre feelings of entitlement.

"When those other companies do it then yes I guess it is spam but trust us you really want to read our unsolicited email".
Under a typical founder vesting arrangement, he wouldn't have gotten anything anyhow. That's why they do that - to keep people from walking away with significant equity after a brief time working on the project.

It doesn't sound like that was the arrangement, but it should have been.
We have over 15k landlords, and let a property on average in less than a week - so yes, I think it works pretty well. :-)

The more people using our platform, the better it gets, so really we just need to work on our marketing - starting with making sure people understand our concept from the word go. Would you mind explaining why you thought there was a charge, and what pages helped you understand the business better?
I'm sure I read that a couple of 6 users had experienced this too?
This already happened with Google TV and various online video services. The original plan was to offer a service exaclty like this.
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FreeBSD appears to be affected.
Show HN: Orbit an Icebergs replacement coming soon
I don't know if this is the right audience for an icebergs replacement but if you have heard www.icebergs.com got bought out by pinterest. A good designer friend of mine was pretty pissed off because he loved icebergs, so we decided to create a replacement/clone.

We are still in very early alpha development and should have an invite-only private beta in the next few weeks, in the meantime, I put up a landing page at http://www.orbitapp.io/ to find interested early adopters and beta testers.

I know the landing page is very basic but we are looking for specific people (existing icebergs users that want to move their data to an alternative platform).

Questions:
1 - what do you think of this strategy?
2 - where would be a good place to promote the landing page?
3 - how do i find existing icebergs users?

PS: I am not trying to harvest emails and if I spam you, you can spam me back at eibrahim at gmail :)
UK current accounts are free, but I don't think they're accessible to all. Like the US, I think if you don't have enough credit history (or poor history) it's difficult to get an account.
Only 2% would almost certainly be tens of thousands so I'd agree.

But right now this doesn't feel like this is tens of thousands.

On the other hand it is early days.
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Can't afford it?

Put it on Youtube for free.

If your product is not on sale, you have no excuses.
I was disappointed too, but it was basically "screw off" money. At face value, it doesn't seem like the developer needed to do anything, but I could see it being something along the line of "here's what I've done so far, and in return for me giving this to you, you never talk to me again." The developer is paid in sanity, and while it seems like a bum deal from the outside, I could see myself doing something similar in order to get out of a toxic situation.
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