skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the absence of anything real and tangible where every company is trying to trick people into giving them free data so that they can go and sell it to the highest bidder you most definitely have to run your company like a cult. Otherwise people will see the whole thing for what it is and we can't have any of that.

Also, the weird narrative of extremes that is prevalent in the startup ecosystem is not helpful. Rockstars, ninjas, fanatics, cultists, revolutionaries, etc. does not make for any kind of persuasive argument. Even that article points out at the end it's more about making a mutually agreeable arrangement between the employer and employee more than anything else but that doesn't really make for a compelling headline when phrased in such reasonable terms.
The drought could get much worse than disrupting home irrigation. Depending on how bad it gets, the price of water could rise and force people out, leaving them with no choice but to leave. I don't know what that would look like or how it would affect households already economically strained with limited capacity to move, but I doubt it will be a good situation.

The disruption to California's ability to produce food will also affect people outside of the state, raising prices.

There's probably water around to import if the price is right if it came to that, so I think it just becomes a question of market forces and how the drought will impact California's economy and the country. I don't think many people are going to die of thirst, although that is a real possibility for immigrants who cross the border illegally who may encounter less water because of the drought.
We will probably get another DP tomorrow as it has been two weeks now since the previous DP
Unless you don't want to.

If your point is "you don't need a why", allow me to say it's a very weak point, because then you don't need a why to suicide either. You don't need a why to anything really.

Also: because you say so?
I always come back to air traffic. Did patterns change significantly in the last few years? I could swear the weather here in MI changed a bit after delta bought northwest and made Detroit a non-hub. But that's just anecdotal. Does anyone study weather pattern correlation with air traffic routes?
Don't forget to change your PATH so brew-installed things come before other things.

Brew installs bash at `/usr/local/bin/`.
The Oakland Museum's Gallery of California Natural Sciences has some great installations highlighting California's water management and usage. I was taken aback by how much of California's total rainfall is captured and diverted for human consumption. It's well worth a visit to learn about all the infrastructure California already has for managing water and coping with draught, and how severe this draught must be to overcome those safeguards.
I'd rather keep my kid in and teach him to code.
We appreciate the bug report, we will look into this for our next app release.

Let us know if we're missing any keyboard shortcuts that would be useful to you! My favorite one that got added recently (and as a result is currently undocumented) is using alt+shift+up/down arrows to move items around.
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Even with safe MDMA, the risk of possession carries a far greater weight in a lot of the country than something like weed. So people tend to take more risks, and thus the price is higher. If you could somehow subvert this cost by buying in bulk through a trusted vendor on the Internet, you stand to make some money for your troubles. This is, in my opinion, the most likely reason why SR has large quantities of MDMA and LSD.
CEO of URX here- thanks for your excitement Steve! We're definitely big fans of the app you built!

Currently we list out the availability of apps in our index by company and not by operating system; we’ll look into providing more detailed information.

Regarding IMDb: while the site index may be accessible and their app does have deep links, IMDb has not publicly exposed their deep link structure via meta tags. Currently, we're only indexing sites with these tags, but that will change shortly.
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Wow are you ever overthinking. You don't need to credit HN.
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Sanctions don't count. When people are dying sanctions don't count.
This is either late or on time, but its still quite interesting to see the GPU industry move into what I believe is a yet unexplored market segment. Moving forward, it seems GPUs will be used less and less for their traditional graphical purposes, and more and more for deep learning applications.
US Courts OK Cisco Helping China Detain Religious Minorities
That's a very binary take on gender.
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that's okay, I'm only male with a probability of 0.01. Hint: I'm male.
You both raise fair points. I do think the community is typically construed that way, and it's probably accurate to say that a lot of the older Waterfall devs would be a part of that community (or C/C++).
@rcarrigan87 Thanks! I spent 6 years doing this at Gunderson for lots of successful startups. Passing Word documents around is a terrible process--it's manual editing, manual file system updates, manual redlines, manual emails and project management, repeated every time something changes. Though legal advice can't be automated (and we certainly don't provide legal advice), these other things can :)

Though we don't have them yet, I'd love to automate many of the pieces of LLC conversions.
True, as would the TV. But we could still do all of that easily for under a grand which is still insane.
If your point is that suicide is a reasonable response to life not meeting your expectations, I find that equally weak. You're in charge of your expectations. You can change them, or let go of them altogether.
> Disclosure was on the 24th, today is the 29th. The patch had to be developed in-between (released on the 26th I think?).

> 3-5 days is pretty decent ...

According to the timestamps on the GNU ftp site for bash, the first patch was released 2014-09-24 10:24 (unknown timezone).

Slackware had their first upgrade file-set out at Wed, 24 Sep 2014 16:37:00 -0700 (PDT) (for six different versions, in both i386 and x86_64 variants).

The second patch is timestamped 26-Sep-2014 17:02 on the GNU ftp site. Slackware's second upgrade file-set was out Thu, 25 Sep 2014 13:38:49 -0700 (PDT) (again with twelve different packages). [no idea why there is time travel here, likely the datestamp on the ftp site was subsequently updated for some reason]

The final patch is timestamped 27-Sep-2014 22:38 on the GNU site, and Slackware had out their third upgrade file-sets at Mon, 29 Sep 2014 12:33:36 -0700 (PDT).

Without knowing the FSF's timezone, we can only make estimates, but, for the first patch: same day, second patch: unknown, the time travel effect prevents making any estimates, third patch: about a day and a half.

And other distro's had patches out even earlier than Slackware, so, no, 3-5 days is _not_ pretty decent, it is actually downright poor.
So why don't you change your expectation of me not expecting anything out of life?

You're in charge of your expectations, leave mine alone!
The Newton had 31-bit integers for the same exact reason. This resulted in the biggest Newton bug in its history: the Year 2010 bug. Like early Macs, the Newton's epoch was January 1, 1904. Times were represented with ints. 1904 + 2^31 seconds = 2010, at which point all sorts of things started failing.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Newton+year+2010+bug
This is big news. Chrome OS now has the potential to destroy Windows.

It will soon run a large range of Android apps, and a good virtualization solution would mean that business applications could be written for Linux and run on any platform that runs Chrome.

If I was Microsoft I'd be very worried right now.
There are professional labs offering free testing in The Netherlands, Spain and other European countries.
You don't need to credit HN.

It was polite to ask, however. Usually I say "Hat tip to Hacker News for the link" or "Hat tip to [screen name of user] for the link" as I post something I first see here to one of my other social networks. But I only do that if the other social network includes thoughtful people who would be good participants here.
Thanks for noticing this! It's fixed now.
Why does piping commands in to bash from the internet take on a magical security significance for people who run software they haven't audited literally all the time?
An aside: Some group was pretending to be Code for Hong Kong and was spreading a fake messaging app. http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1594667/fake-occu...

You can read about a tear down of the fake app at https://code4hk.hackpad.com/Fake-Code4HK-Mobile-App-HQXXrylI...
The reason for this is that those kinds of software require lots of money to pay developers to work on them full time, because they aren't straightforward applications of the sort of thing you'd get in an engineering/computer science education.

Recent years have suggested that "software as a service" is the only way to get this money due to rampant piracy. If the free software community doesn't like this state of affairs, they need to step up their game.
I dont post much on Facebook (almost nothing anywhere else), but a few times I see somebody post an article on a topic i read about on HN and I'll reply with a link to the discussion saying, "I also saw this on Hacker News". I think linking to the discussion gives plenty of credit and provides readers with excellent content from the community here.
In addition to adding more services and content types accessible through Moo.do, we would like to add more ways to view that content.

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Vulnerable to what? The the environment variable problem? I was talking about program argument parsing. os.system("ls %s" % foo) != subrocess.call(["ls",foo])
A lot of the businesses on that site would be perfect for Plants Map. We haven't launched business profiles yet but we are interviewing several this week to see what they want.
Anyone interested in managing water should read the book Living with Water Scarcity (free pdf here http://livingwithwaterscarcity.com/)
> And while a shared clipboard app is a great improvement, I would prefer this in the OS itself.

Wait ... you want a mobile device clipboard feature to communicate with a laptop, but be integrated in the OS? Which OS -- the device, or the laptop?

> Use the normal copy feature, and Cmd+V has that thing on my laptop.

Any laptop? Without any setup or permissions?

People who write programs can get pretty close to what you want, but not quite as you describe it.
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I have no expectations. Yours seem to lead to a great deal of suffering for yourself, that's why I'm curious as to why you cling to them so fiercely. As you say, you need a good reason to continue doing something. You should stop, e.g. living, if you're not getting anything out of it. If having your expectations is not benefiting you, why not stop having them?
They flaunt it for other rich people to see. They don't care about the rest.
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No one abandoned Ukraine -- there's still a proxy war brewing there, between NATO and Russia. One might argue that it would be better for Ukraine if it was actually "abandoned".

Between Russian "volunteers" and neo-nazis with EU/NATO support, I predict the ones loosing are "most everyone else".
>> This is a fairly common approach with dynamically typed languages.

That makes sense. The performance penalty might be incremental compared to the overhead of dynamic typing.
Unfortunately inside of AWS there is no other solution than to rely on DNS to update the list of IP that resolve from an address (even ELB does that). Route53 has health-checks that can update the list automatically. Uptime is entirely dependent on the TTL of those records and if the clients respects that TTL.

Complementary to that it's also possible to assign reserved IPs to machines so that at least the set of IP is always the same even if the hosts get rotated. Assigning IPs to hosts is not instantaneous either and depends on an API call. Also IPs are tied to a specific region.

In a real datacenter other options are possible like sharing IP addresses between multiple devices and having lower-latency failover. These aren't perfect either and have different failure scenarios.
I find any build automation tool to be a hassle. Tools like Gulp and Grunt remind me strongly of Visual Studio and C++, something I hope not to have to see on my screen.

I find using system calls to be much easier. Node.js has a really powerful API that most people seem not to want to use, rather then want someone to write a plugin to do their tasks for them. I understand being lazy is good in programming but build plugin is just overengineering in my limited experience.
What are these reasonably performant implementations? Have you tried them with a billion edges?

Also, if your data store is "fast in practice" but has worst cases that are PSPACE-complete, how do you prevent worst-case queries from DOSing it?
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> /bin/bash is on literally every machine I ever touch. Did you miss the operative phrase?

You intended that subjunctive clause to apply to all the sentences, an intent I missed. My mistake. :)

This may soon become a tempest in a teapot, as patched Bash versions are now appearing. I just patched all my machines.
Don't forget the folks who rent. It looks like the national average is 35% and California can be up to 50% in areas (hard to tell if the statistics are by person or by household).

Landlords have no incentives to install toilets and appliances that use less water (or electricity), and every incentive to go cheap (which will also be less frugal). They don't incur any of the running costs. And since it is private property they can't be forced into doing anything. Tenants rarely have rights to install more efficient ones either.
> Yours seem to lead to a great deal of suffering for yourself

I'm not the one suffering over whether anyone else would expect anything out of life or not. I particularly enjoy life, so you are wrong even about that. Too.

But I understand anyone not enjoying life wanting to end it.

> If having your expectations is not benefiting you, why not stop having them?

My body expects air. My body expecting air is not benefiting it underwater. Your conclusion is my body should stop expecting air underwater.

Your logic baffles me.
Looking for the Facebook of the pot industry
AT&T's congestion magically disappears when it’s signing up new customers
So, Open Garden has an eco-system of mesh-networking that is a Walled Garden?
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10 Mind-Boggling Paradoxes
One question, does it just use Bluetooth? Or is there something else?
In what sense "more efficient"? There is nothing that says that just because some people have become better at making money the market as a whole is working better.
The thing with Gulp is that it can just be a simple wrapper to your node system calls. I use it just as a task runner to lessc files together, or run a browserify script, etc. It also really takes some pain away from piping data to different handlers.
Why Peak-Oil Predictions Haven't Come True
While the author may be perceived as anti-capitalist this is actually a very good read. These topics are critical for understanding how your costs add up, who pays them, and where the margins come from. I am surprised it didn't get more votes.

The author's claim is that labor costs are being pushed down, suppressed and hidden from public view. Yet if we examine a time series Chinese labor costs, the price inflation over the past 13 years is phenomenal: http://imgur.com/rkEOiPj Even if workers are not being compensated the full amount they are owed, the competition for labor means they are being paid a great deal more (3x-8x) than they would have been paid in 2001. If we accounted for inflation, it isn't as much but still there.

I strongly agree with the hidden & unpaid value of environmental pollution.

The author also should mention the hidden value captured by China's artificially low interest rates and other government expenditures. I also did not notice anything about confiscation of land.

Plenty of problems with a supply chain involving countries where citizens have minimal to no rights. Certainly it should be a concern for Apple and other companies as China re-balances (today's Hong Kong protests perhaps just a tremor of what is to come.)
PROBABILITY FEMALE: 0.003
PROBABILITY MALE: 0.999

Errr, so it's out of 1.002?
Maybe if you're playing a 30FPS "cinematic experience."

Meanwhile, the hardcore PC FPS gamers with 120hz+ monitors running the game at 2x displayable framerate can't even tolerate the latency from enabling vsync.
There are nuclear treaties that prevent stationing and mobility of NATO troops and armaments in the Baltic, Ukraine isn't even a member of NATO, and they are getting far more than mere sanctions - intelligence, equipment, financial aid, strategic advice, political and global media support to name a few.

NATO can't just abandon nuclear treaties. And trust that, as it controls 90% of the pipeline of oil between Russia and Europe and that because the conflict arose during highly contented offers for Ukraine to join the EU, that NATO is doing everything it can.
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PortableApps looks interesting. That said, I can't see using it with applications such as SolidWorks, CAMWorks, Xilinx FPGA tools, Altera FPGA tools, MicroSIM, various compilers, various FEA tools, Altium Designer, etc. In other words, I am talking about some major engineering applications that would probably do very poorly (if they even work) with such an environment.

As a business you would be risking all kinds of possible nightmare scenarios with compatibility, maintainability and general support issues.

The real solution has to be OS-based. Which is unlikely to happen.
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Don't Be a Tech Sucker
I don't use Linux, so I can't say for sure, but I've read that Linux DHCP cilents often call out to bash, so you should definitely upgrade if you ever connect your computer to untrusted networks (which you almost certainly do if it's a laptop and you're not paranoid)

You should upgrade regardless, though, since bash is so ubiquitous that it's hard to be sure you're not vulnerable in some esoteric way.
Sure. Just be careful you're not ratholing. I'm a hiring manager who's unusually bearish about the value of resumes, but even before I was: they were the least important part of our screening process.

A good cover letter is much more important than a resume.
Most likely nothing. You probably aren't running a web server that shells out to do CGI or something else. Macs don't use shell to do their network config. Those are the 2 biggies in the Linux world right now.

Basically to be vulnerable requires 2 components:

1. You have to be able to get some remote user specified stuff into a environment variable.

2. You have to invoke /bin/sh (calls to system(3)[1] do this, as well as actual shell scripts).

If you just have a non-server mac, there's no huge rush--no one has identified an actual stock service/daemon that is susceptible to the vulnerability.

[1] "man 3 system"
hard to think there couldn't be negatives to this...some thing s we don't totally understand yet

would harm anything that eats them, possibly reducing diseases would lead to over population of certain species as well
For some reason, when I try to load the page, all the slides flash past, and I'm left with just the image of the author at the end.

Edit: On Mac Chrome 37.0.2062.124, for what that's worth.
If history teach us much, the scarcity will spark innovation in water efficiency.
Most of the US has been pretty lax when it comes to water usage.

Perhaps large scale desalination efficiency will be found, or atmospheric moisture extraction will take off.

Imagine if you could get some order of magnitude improvements on these technologies..

Consider reversing the flow of water now: pump from ocean, back up the land, and let each consumer desalinate on premise?
Your body doesn't expect air. Expecting something is a function of consciousness. Your body doesn't expect air any more than an engine expects gasoline. So no, that's not my conclusion unless you grossly misuse the word "expect".

You can't change your body's need for oxygen. You can change the way you think.
I just don't see it working with some of the engineering applications I mentioned in another reply. Too risky as a business to muck with such tools as they can bite you hard when you least expect it. I am afraid the answer has to come from Microsoft.
I really do not see how telemetry is same as feedback. One is proactive constant monitoring with automatic data collection and second is reactive report submission that asks every time before sending report.
sadly this will update bash on 10.9.5 only. Im on 10.9.3 because the last mac I updated to that version caused it to kernel panic whenever I connected an external monitor.

Mavericks is apple's Windows Vista