skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Shellshock: How do I know if my server is compromised?
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(master) $ echo $BASH_VERSION
4.3.27(1)-release

(master) $ ./bashcheck
Not vulnerable to CVE-2014-6271 (original shellshock)
Not vulnerable to CVE-2014-7169 (taviso bug)
./bashcheck: line 18: 7675 Segmentation fault: 11 bash -c "true $(printf '<<EOF %.0s' {1..79})" 2> /dev/null
Vulnerable to CVE-2014-7186 (redir_stack bug)
Test for CVE-2014-7187 not reliable without address sanitizer
Variable function parser inactive, likely safe from unknown parser bugs

It seems as though there is no patch that fixes CVE-2014-7186 yet?
> Almost every programming language uses 64-bit integers on typical modern Intel machines.

That's not true. Most implementations which use a GC and/or are dynamically typed will have less than 64bit integers.
Was anyone else wondering what actual protocol FireChat uses (answer: bluetooth), and found it strange that the article only mentioned it once, and not at the beginning?
Hipster social network Ello set to up the ante for Facebook
Ugh, sour grapes from the utilities.

Surely cashing in and taking a cut of the 'net meter' money for maintaining the infrastructure to allow selling electricity back to the grid would allow profitability to be maintained?
I had a quick web search.

http://imgur.com/POrxEqv

Google, Duck Duck Go, Bing, Blekko, etc etc: you really need to start delisting the fuckers who pollute search results with made up shit. How is this possibly useful to your users? Companies who want to cram their URL in front of me at every opportunity should pay to place it in ads.

(I don't use an ad blocker. I even click relevant ads, although I've never bought anything from one yet.)
I don't see it as a real problem. Copyright internationalization is mostly pushed by the USA. If USA itself decides to reform copyright, everybody else will jump on the bandwagon.

Of course, it's the money. It would be interesting seeing copyright rents by country.

Marijuana legalization is the very same story. Other countries wouldn't do it, fearing the wrath of USA. But now USA states are opening that mellon.
These test the presence of substances; they don't test the absence of toxins.
http://www.dfg.ca.gov/wildlife/nongame/nuis_exo/ferret/ferre...

EDIT:
http://www.dfg.ca.gov/wildlife/nongame/nuis_exo/ferret/ferre...

"Recent Proposed Legislation Regarding Ferrets

For many years, ferret owners and enthusiasts have been lobbying for a change in California law to allow importation and ownership of ferrets for pet purposes. Assembly Bill AB 2497 (Goldsmith) was introduced in 1994; Senate Bill SB 55 (Kopp) was introduced in 1995; AB 363 (Goldsmith) was introduced in 1997; and Assembly Bill AB 854 (Cunneen) was introduced in 1999. all failed passage. "

"1. Ferrets may bite or scratch children, as well as adults.

2. Ferrets also carry rabies, and there is no proper vaccine against the rabies which attacks it.

3. Ferrets can also threaten native wildlife. "

Source: https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100517033547A...
Understanding Material Design Part II: Authentic Motion
Most Lisp implementations use tag bits.

The Symbolics does support it in hardware, though.
> Run ptipython (prompt_toolkit - IPython), to get a nice interactive shell with all the power that IPython has to offer, like magic functions and shell integration.

In fact, you can run it with IPython too.
Of course the author is going to bash WiFi and Bluetooth - they're promoting the only tech they use, 433Mhz radio.
But what about Bluetooth LE ? It's already present in all modern smartphones (iPhone 4s+, all Android flagships from 2013+), works great, the connection lag is less than the 2sec advertised for RF in the article, and was built for the IoT.

The IoT has been struggling to break the surface for a while now, and it's not just the ability to attach a communication and control device to your door lock. It's also your WiFi-enabled TV, sound system, or even thermostat. The IoT is evolving, growing, and doesn't need "saving". Of course the Apple will help, but not for the reasons the author thinks. The real helping hand is coming from iOS 8 and it's Home Kit, bringing a standardized (and user-friendly) way of connecting everything to your phone.
Using OpenStreetMap to map the Syria conflict: interview with deSyracuse
To be fair, restrictions on tobacco products are well supported by the majority of, at the very least non-smokers, voters in most Western countries. You don't see massive demonstrations or petitions to reinstate the right to smoke in office, restaurant, public place, etc. In some case, it might be more dubious, but for tobacco consumption I think the trend is pretty clear.
Ah the beauty of the "free" market...

Funny how the market needn't be regulated when it comes to controls, consumer rights and the such, but suddenly when the fat cats are losing their cash cow, we are in dire need of some regulatory intervention.
CSS tips and tricks #9-Display vs. visibility
But i suppose the physical aspect of quitting smoking is the worst after 2-3 days. The mental aspect is always there, because other people smoke (or you used to smoke in the car or when you had any stress).

It doesn't seem logical to me that it's harder after 3 weeks then after 2-3 days, because i went from a pack a day to 0 cigarettes a day (instead of slowly reducing nicotine)

Sidenote: I'm actually from Belgium ;-)
As if, at that level, the air bangs against itself """like""" a solid ?
Is this brap noise like "cavitation" you get from propellors in water?
For me personally, the challenge UI frameworks like Bootstrap solve is the pure UI. That is, which borders, shadows and spacings to use and such stuff. A thin layer on top of the actual APIs like Mozilla Brick does not seem too useful to me - why bother adding a third party component if it merely wraps the functionality of HTML/CSS? (Although I must admit I haven't used Brick yet.)
(author here.)

The idea is indeed that ``ptpython`` could become the terminal front-end for IPython.

The only thing on which ``prompt_toolkit`` is focussing, is reading input from stdin and returning it to the application. IPython is a very powerful execution environment, but the current command line interface which uses GNU readline lacks decent multiline editing and syntax highlighting.

There is a proof of concept of what the integration could look like: https://github.com/jonathanslenders/python-prompt-toolkit/bl...
But in the end it would be nice to have this as a part of IPython itself.
Well this is a private institution so I am little less concerned about its spending habits. For some college students might decide not to fork over the money. But for U of Chicago probably not as their "..undergraduate admission rate of 8.4% is among the country's most selective universities" (wikipedia) They will get people to pay for a while to come.

That being said the board of regents for state U. seem to be a chummy affair with those who sit on them appointed by the governor (at least in my state). I don't have a great deal of faith in individual board members to rock the boat and risk giving up the prestige of sitting on the board of a large university.
Tim Berners-Lee says freedom of Internet under threat
How SEO Works in a Content Marketing Framework
That text needs an update. There's no mention of Android and Symbian is all but dead.
>Internet of Things

I don't know why but this phrase makes me irrationally mad, more so than other buzzword terms. Almost as mad as when a TV/webseries is referred to as belonging to the "slice-of-life" genre.
Immensely wealthy tobacco companies pay people to spread misinformation.

Do you have links to reputable sources?
This looks neat, would be great to get it working with django-extensions so we can have the nice ./manage.py shell_plus using it if available.
People have provided some good links, but I suspect more Rails apps run on it than you might suspect. I run a few of mine on it. It performs more than well enough until you have tens of people attempting simultaneous writes (or doing crazy stuff like logging or message queuing through SQLite), which perhaps 90%+ of webapps don't need to do anyway. More time is spent rendering the view than grabbing the data in most cases.
> So, before we get rid of governments and their ludicrously concentrated power, why don't we look at the elephant in the room first: corporations and their even more ludicrously concentrated power?

Hey, Marx is back !

Instead of looking at the wrong elephant, i.e. the one actually selling products that people want, I'd say you better attack the one that's 1) taxing you to death for subpar services 2) force-feeding their education to your kids (brainwashing) 3) getting away with mismanagement of public resources (politician immunity) 4) able to resort to violent actions should you not respect them (take your possessions, imprison you, or worse). 5) can make you go to war and die. For free.

Yeah, sure, Corporations are SUPER Evil. Except that they are actually composed of normal people like you and me, while the people in power in Governments are certainly from a far more selected class that you can never hope to reach. But believe what you want.
The entire point of the thread was to discuss unpopular viewpoints. Apparently I won, because instead of intelligent discourse I just got down-voted.
Usually so libertarian here, so where did that go?
We have that: https://github.com/django-extensions/django-extensions/commi...

(Not yet on Pypi, we we'll get there.)
science reporting at its worst. contrary to the claim in the title, there is no evidence that plain packs CAUSED a decline in smoking.
It's supposed to do less harm, which actually means nothing as manufacturers are making it addictive.
That is just BS. Power companies are expected to absorb all negative externalities, such as keeping 1:1 power plant on hot standby, or adding more power lines to handle peaks. They have a right to complain!

What I find way more disturbing is tax on off-grid solar panels on roof tops. Already happening in Spain and other south european countries.
> IMO the majority of latency problems are not caused by the limits of physics

If you look at network QoS research in the past 20 years, you'll see that a lot of people do care. It's just not an easy problem to solve.
E.g. iOS lets me use: Objective C, Swift, C#, F#, Java, Scala. All compiling to lower-level code that is either native to platform or native to the language.

Web lets me use: only JavaScript (that is written manually or transpiled).

Yes I will have to pay extra for some solutions, but I don't mind doing this as opposed to using language that I hate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem
The whole point of "evergreen browsers" is that the version number doesn't matter.
Budget overrun or estimation deficit (2012)
The reasons to ban smoking are

i) to prevent harm to the smoker

ii) to prevent harm to people around the smoker

Banning smoking in all public places may push smokers to smoke more at home or in the car, where their children are.

Since children are already severely affected by smoking we need to be careful to avoid anything that increases the amount of smoke around them.
Utafitini from Kenya out to compete with the big boys.
http://curl.io/
In Spain the conglomerate of big energy companies is so scared that recently they lobbied the government in order to cut R&D funds for solar companies and pushed for the introduction of a law that basically says: "If you install solar panels at home and you don't pay us a tax, then you'll get a fine up to €30 Million (~$40M)"...

http://www.thelocal.es/20130821/spanish-solar-law-hits-inter...
need ello code
I've been wanting something like this for semi-private image shares as Imgur's URLs aren't very random; but Transfer has a similar security problem; it looks like the URLs need to be longer as a prerequisite to being un-crawlable. I hope you'll consider it.
Your statement seems to be incorrect:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q919bQOThvM
Anecdotally, many smokers also support continued regulations on tobacco products. Tobacco companies have very little sympathy in the zeitgeist.
Yes. I would like the laws I live under to be debated and enacted under a transparent democratic process, not a process that makes major changes to the society I live in via a series of secret negotiations and deals made by faceless and unaccountable men and women who weren't democratically elected.

Does that answer your question?
Wait, nicotine is already addictive. And there is a strong psychological addiction.

How can they make it more addictive?
> on my TODO list is a feature for "taking notes about users".

This may be useful: http://hci.stanford.edu/publications/2009/infoscraps/note154...

Once you have a whitelist/blacklist, you can filter HN via Algolia to see all stories where at least N interesting people have commented, almost a Twitter "follow" for HN.

I wish for an augmented browser, where an analysis app is linked to the browser by an extension. The extension sends URLs and text to the local analysis app, which could generate a hotkeyed overlay report within the page.
You can create a social networking app in 2014 with not a single standout feature and it will get users?

And here was me thinking that to be successful now you needed a somewhat original idea or a flawless execution, shows what I know I guess.
How is this "Google-only", and how are they completely violating web standards?

Also, what exactly makes Chrome the "neoMSIE"?
All interesting ideas. Thanks for the link!
I don't believe there are known health reasons not to use an e-cigarette. It's a relatively new phenomenon though and hasn't been around long enough for us to study all possible long term effects.

There are, however, plenty of social reasons, depending on the local culture.

Not everybody necessarily realises that e-cigarettes are harmless to them and get upset when you use one around them, for example. Or people have had unpleasant experiences with aggressive e-cigarette consumers using them in public places like a restaurant or a train and getting uppity when asked to stop.

Another social stigma is that e-cigarette users tend to wax lyrical about them and, and I say that as an ex-user, not be very pleasant conversationalists, at least in the first few weeks after the discovery. I have seen people in social occasions actively avoid e-cigarette users (me!) for fear of being dragged into yet another lecture about vaping.
well there is the filename in there, so you could give your files really long names
logically, sell-back price should be wholesale, not retail.

though not sure it would actually help, and is there a wholesale market that shows the fair market price?
actually selling products that people want

Selling products a minority of people want, products that the vast majority do not want their children consuming or seeing as glamourous in any way.

The fact that some people want a product does not create a moral right to that product, and does not mean it is wrong for a government to enforce laws restricting and prohibiting those products.
it's reasonable to argue that the grid should be maintained, but these articles never provide any detailed insight into what those costs actually are. Surely the best solution is to maintain and/or upgrade the grid infrastructure to support a future focused on distributed generation as well as consumption?
So many buzzwords. I stopped reading at the point where he claimed that NFC would become more important than WiFi and Bluetooth combined.
Nicotine isn't a good idea for people at risk of blood clots; or people having surgery.
I recall being thrilled to be able to see STS-124 in May 2008, only because the previous launch had been delayed, and the new date coincided with our holiday. Among other things it was taking up parts to fix a toilet on the ISS!

I remember also being struck by not only how loud it was, but also how bright. It's something that photos or video just can't capture.
I like in the little example animation, hello.txt is uploaded and a url is returned, but then a completely different url is used to get the hello.txt back.
When the world started switching to LED-based traffic lights, cold places suddenly discovered that there was a problem: they would get covered in snow. Turns out that the old incandescent ones had a solution to this problem in giving off heat. As trivial as it is once you think about it, it was a problem that we didn't even realize we had solved.

I always use this as an example of how bad we are at predicting the outcome of our actions. It's why small iterations make so much sense. For running your company and for anything.

Eradicating mosquitoes might seem harmless in any way we can think of (even though the article gives good examples of why it probably isn't), but even so, such a massive change in the eco-system is bound to have a bunch of really severe consequences that we hadn't foreseen.
Blinded by Coffee
An RFC might be useful to define the file format as a general purpose data-set format.

"MIME type application/my-example is defined as a resource conforming to RFCxxxx with the following tables..."

The basic data-set RFC could leave out the internal locking and transaction support, leaving "must be zero" placeholders.
Maybe I am just doing something wrong, but ptipython does not autocomplete anything I import.
I can't stand the eye-shut adherence to the "iPhone" in this article. What is so enabling in the iPhone 6 that isn't in other smartphones, heck even iPhone 5?
You are still free to buy them, but you're no longer able to make these things attractive to young impressionable teenagers, who once hooked cannot stop.

I personally feel that it is a fair balance.
(author here)

I noticed. You're not doing it wrong. It's a bug and it will be fixed asap.
Well, let's see if we can figure it out.

The most comprehensive report on this to date seems to be http://www.iisd.org/gsi/sites/default/files/relative_energy_... (pdf). It both supports your point and contradicts your conclusion, noting for example, "Readers should exercise caution when comparing one energy type's subsidy estimate with another...", and, "Whether to reform a given subsidy is not necessarily indicated by its total or per-unit magnitude alone."

That said, they estimate a 1.7c/kWh subsidy for nuclear, a 5c/kWh subsidy for renewables (excluding hydroelectricity), a 5.1c/kWh for biofuels, and a 0.8c/kWh subsidy for fossil fuels. They allow for a lot of room in their estimates, with cautions all over the place that hard numbers really aren't readily available, and so on, but let's say that's within an order of magnitude of correct.

So far, there's a solid argument that alternative energy developments are only being propped up by governments, which I assume is your position.

But! There's a catch. Their estimates are based on a single year of energy production -- 2007.

The average wind turbine has a life expectancy of around twenty years (http://www.windmeasurementinternational.com/wind-turbines/om...). The average solar panel has a life expectancy of maybe 25 or 30 years (http://energyinformative.org/lifespan-solar-panels/). The average barrel of oil has a life expectancy of a single combustion engine or oil product.

If we could do something simple like apply a 1/20 multiplier to the subsidy given per kWh for renewables -- and I really have no idea if that's honest or not, since their paper is not as comprehensive when it comes to their sources and calculations -- but if that were possible, then renewables are actually receiving a smaller subsidy per kWh than fossil fuels, produced over the lifetime of the energy product.

But, y'know, this is all really far afield from the original argument to begin with.

It is inarguable that fossil fuels are getting more expensive and should be expected to continue to get more expensive. You yourself rang the alarm over expensive energy in another comment. And we can probably at least agree that cheap energy fueled the industrial age. So, what if it were possible to eventually make energy even cheaper, if we invest in its development now?

Is that really such a terrible idea, investing in the future?

Actually, you don't have to answer that. I guess the label "green" fits me as well as any other label you'd like to use, so I'm de facto wrong about everything anyway.
Selling products a minority of people want

Actually, even in that minority, they only want the product because of the addictive substance nicotine. Most of the minority want to quit using the product, but find it very hard to do so. The rest just have a death wish :-)
There is a very good reason why utilities have a problem with solar and wind.

The reason is that they are expected to run the grid reliably and solar and wind are in no way contributing to that end.

Solar and wind are causing major issues in distribution networks, because when you have massive unscheduled energy spikes from wind and sun, that energy has to go somewhere.

I am disappointed by the article, which is trying to portray the utilities as villains, which they may be - but in this case it is a legitimate concern.

I am also disappointed by the comments in this thread. I would expect "hackers" to be better educated about electricity and power generation.
Pro Evo
No, because if a company has deceptive pricing we discuss it online and then move to a company that doesn't. Like I've already left Uber for unethical way they were reported to have 'competed' with lyft.

If they were creating monopolistic barriers, or it was a hard industry for a competitor to enter, absolutely. This is not the case here.
You cant have 1:1 ratio, because as producer you just dump energy onto the utilities, but they cannot just dump it onto you.

Only way 1:1 ratio would work is utilities could dump their spikes onto you and then you would have to buy expensive equipment to prevent your home bursting into flames the first day.

We need to cut down on our fossil fuel reliance, but solar and wind are helping in no way (yet).
Court cases are ultimately decided based on the law which, as you know, is created and enacted on via a parliament or congress of elected politicians. Yes, even case law. Unless you think that a court can rule outside the law?
We're making TV better for kids – what do you think?
> The fact that some people want a product does not create a moral right to that product,

Where is the moral right coming from ? That's purely philosophical and I certainly do not want the government (which is no more no less than the dictature of the majority) to tell me what's right or wrong when it comes to what I consume.

And if you don't want your children to buy cigarettes, don't give them money, or better, educate them. It works quite well, but I guess in your reasoning you expect the education to come from the government instead of the parents?
Giving it a go with most of my friends and I'd say the success rate was definitely below .5, and it was pretty sure about it.

What seems odd is that the "test tool" allows you to tweet whether it's wrong or right. Why not just have it make a call to your API or something to tell you directly, so you can look at the profiles and figure out what's gone wrong?
No that is not logical at all, please read my other comments in this thread for explanation.
0.4% from solar is helping by 0.4%. That's 1/250th less burning of fossil fuels than if it wasn't there.
MVC in Unity3d
You beautiful person.
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Do you have any plans to support international dates (or an option to define how dates are parsed, @MM.DD vs @DD.MM)?

@01.10 is parsed as January 10th but shold be October 1st
which gets even worse as @30.09 is recognized as September 30th