skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's holding me back is:

- doesn't natively interoperate with my keychain (and by extension iCloud Keychain). This is a huge win for using Safari on both my laptop and my iPhone.

- scrolling is still — after years of waiting — not up to par on OS X. No rubber band or proper inertial scrolling.
How to Perform 20% Better by Doing Less Work
More experienced beekeepers start shedding gear. Some only go in with a veil.

That said, some also go in without a veil. This is _not_ a good idea. There was a very experienced (25+ years) beekeeper who told a story at the PA State meeting how he nearly died after knocking over a beehive.
> The vulnerability centres around users' ability to place custom Javascript and Flash content into their listings pages.

Wait, what? Is that true? If so, how could anybody think that allowing the user to place custom Javascript in their listing pages is a good idea in this day and age?
An options contract or an insurance policy can be re-sold to another party without anyone needing specialized "service-like" knowledge. Generally you can classify something as a product if it can be re-sold without a specialist being involved.

You can't really re-sell a web developer.
the potential to breach computer security through unauthorized access

never mind code, it covers everything from soldering irons to telephones
Could you pls explore browser benchmarks being single threaded? I mean, when I use Chrome or Firefox on Android isn't the browsing experience implemented as multi-threaded (e.g. when I have the 8-core S5)?
I feel like this article is a bit one sided. It doesn't ever state NJ's case against the students and draws strong parallels to Aaron Swartz (a hero to many people). A lot of the time these parallels seem to be weak, the student who did this is an MIT student who built a piece of software at a hackathon, this has almost nothing to do with Aaron Swartz's situation except it involves a young programmer and MIT.
UPDATE 3 :

I H A V E A C C E S S

THANK YOU TO EVERYONE FOR YOUR HELP

JUST A REMINDER - Microsoft if one of my all time favorite companies, and slips like these happen in protocols and large organisations, I hope I was able to highlight the problem and hopefully it will be fixed soon.

Thanks again everyone!!!
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Yeah, this would be all very well and good if Apple started shipping phones with larger batteries. The fact that battery life per mAh (may be) better on iOS than Android means nothing if Apple keeps on rejecting larger batteries in favour of thinness.

I know a lot of people would much prefer a slightly thicker iPhone 6 (that didn't require the camera to protrude, for one) if it meant a larger battery.
NJ has successfully sued companies that created bitcoin botnets in the past. This is clearly not the same thing, but I guess it's enough to make a court grant a subpoena.

http://www.wired.com/2013/11/e-sports/
Build your Smart Home for 50 bucks
I am 17 year scientist from Podgorica(capital of Montenegro).Passion for science in early ages(6-7 years), give my father.I am employed at Simes Engineering for 1 year and 8 months.Have passed ECDL,CCNA,MCSA(studying for CCNP).Idea to make system like Home Automation for 50 bucks,I came up because before 3 months I was working on Home Automation system that cost up 7.000-8.000$.And then I was thinking to make system like that much cheaper.My goal was that, to make system like Home Automation available to everyone.
You can connect windmills or solar panels.Also have integrated sensors, so if it rains it can easily programmed to shut down shutters.It have also small home weather station(it can measure from temperature, speed and direction of air to solar radiation).If it to high it automatically sends SMS that solar radiation is high and that is not good to going out.Also support IP cameras.You can integrate 7-8(how much do you want) IP or ordinary cameras and from remote location follow you home or apartment.
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I would be grateful for your support.
It helps that the product is really great, too.
It's possible to confuse or crash IDA Pro, Ollydbg, and Cheat Engine? If one tool won't work, just switch to another.
This is a good advertisement for Puppet as a configuration engine. Set up a box, get it talking to the puppetmaster, tell the puppetmaster you've got a dev box (which implies all that IDE and DB stuff) sit back and wait and it just works.
Because, as I said earlier, "you're going to feel it." If your tabs are allocating in the same process address space as each other, accessing your current tab's data is likely to cause swapping. The key point is that electrolysis and chromium-based browsers can page inactive tabs "without affecting performance of the current tab."
> This time the money is largely coming from private equity and there's not a lot of splashy IPOs happening.

This is an amusing statement in light of the fact that the largest IPO in history (Alibaba) took place last week.
In the big picture, sandboxing may actually help memory consumption in the long run. When a tab close, a process close, and the OS ensure that all memory for that process is freed as well.
>>>>In the same way, Gurley said, too much cash in the startup economy means weaker companies can survive without having to generate cash for themselves.

Isn't this how business should work? Weaker companies lose and the stronger companies win? Those with good business plans, good marketing strategies and a solid product should be able to weather a crash.

Also, those companies that actively plan for a crash usually do much better. Saving money, having a plan B in place and assuming its going to happen is a lot smarter than simply believing we're not in some kind of bubble and then losing everything when the market eventually corrects itself.
Taking Advantage of Google's Services to Obfuscate Spammers Phishy URLs
How to Give Up the I-Word, Pt. 1
your viewpoint is the correct one. wealthy people who share their material things are not showing off, they're being generous. it's a liability to share your real estate and vehicles.

it takes a real bitter person to resent someone for sharing. yeah sure i can theoretically empathize with that viewpoint but it just feels wrong. it's just pedestrian, petty human hatred.
But people will always have to be careful about who they're negotiating with and what information they're revealing. You can't engineer that away. And it can't get much simpler than looking for a SSL lock and matching a string.
Assuming you still have good relationships with your customer base-- call each one individually. Explain that you are leaving the company and appreciate the business you did together.

Ask them two questions 1) Do they have any unmet needs for other products or services? 2) Might they be able to refer you to any friends or old colleagues who could use your help with sales/service/operations?

Do this and you will not only expand your network, but likely uncover several 'hidden opportunities'.
The purchasing of this product presents a high risk of potential thought-crime.
There exists a continuum of SaaS sales strategies. One end of the spectrum is high-touch sales, which is Oracle's "We send you a sales guy, a supporting engineer, a bunch of Powerpoints, and enough steak and wine to feed a European wedding reception, and afterwards you pay us several million dollars" model. The other end of the spectrum is low-touch sales, where the website/email/product/onboarding tour does the heavy lifting and contact between the customer and the company is, to a greater or lesser degree, seen as a bug to be fixed in a later version.

An entire constellation of decisions about one's company/customers/product/pricing/business model/etc gets determined instantly when you pick your point on this continuum. (Or, equivalently, you get placed on the continuum basically instantly when you make most consequential decisions about a SaaS company/product/etc.)

The reason this article is on this blog is that there is a playbook for high-touch SaaS businesses which is amenable to venture funding and that is not exactly true for low-touch businesses. (There exist a handful of exceptions, but people consider B2B high-touch sales to be a solved problem.) Additionally, and more directly responsive to your question, there exists at least one popular and widely listened to corporate voice who quite literally wrote a bestselling book which might as well be subtitled Low-Touch Sales Mean You Don't Have To Take Dirty VC Money.

(Cards on table: My business is mostly on the low-touch end of the spectrum but I work with people all over it. There exists a shedload of money to be made in software and a variety of ways to make it effectively at the traditional points on the spectrum and at emerging points besides.)
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A universe smaller than the observable
Sparked: The dance between human and machine never looked quite like this
Hopefully we can standardize to USB type C soon. Reversibility should make it so much easier than the current Micro-USB.
http://www.extremetech.com/computing/187882-reversible-usb-t...
The Left vs. the Climate
We certainly have a microphone. There is such a richness in the sounds a colony produces. Our minimal sensing package also contains temperature and humidity sensing. We're shooting for collecting a labeled data set this coming season to see what we can pull out of the information we collect.
This was all done with Ableton live 9 on Surface Pro 3. I did use some field recordings and a few micro samples from Bill Evan's album, Moonbeams.
If you'd like to see an emoji other than the thumbs up, send me a note at brett@hall-inc.com to get in our beta.
> Let's be frank. I don't need you. So if I see you being mugged/raped/beaten, should I just go on my merry way or should I help you?

Yes... you should unless is someone that you care enough to risk abandon every loved one that you have by dying for a stranger.

I'm an extremelly pragmatic a-hole when we are speaking about eco-nonsense.

We will not change on time. We will destroy the planet. This is fine as we are, acording to Darwin, the current fittest animal in the planet.

So... what's the worst that can happen? We will be extincted by ourselves (carring several "not-good-enough-for-evolution" species with us... but, they weren't good enough so, who cares?)... and this my friend, is also fine.

And to close... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NL8HP1WzbDk

"The Planet is fine... we are fd" :)
The SFO Bar Association has a lawyer referral service> http://www.sfbar.org/lawyerreferrals/

It might make sense to speak with 2-3 guys, find one you think is a good match for your situation.
If interested in the subject, I'd suggest to have a look also at DAA - Direct Anonymous Attestation [1]. It's probably one of the most advanced protocols related to ZKP, part of the Trusted Computing Group specs, there are several newer versions on pairing-based crypto, there are implementations both software and hardware... in short, it's quite an interesting protocol.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Anonymous_Attestation
Awearness wristband
Same here. Gandi is an interesting solution.
I don't see deprecating fstab as a bad thing, if it's possible. Less static configuration is pretty much universally good. It's also pretty much zero burden on systemd to maintain fstab compatibility indefinitely.

However, I was asking for specifics. Accomplished how, exactly?

udev can generate an event and run a shellscript or something when devices become available, but... then what? What processes the event and ensures correct behaviour for dependent services?
Are there any positions in the industry where this is part of the average work day? It seems awesome and I really want to get into it.
Looking forward to experimenting with procedural geometry with this.
Counterexample: C code from the late 1980s is routinely useful. Ex: I still use the timer code from MIT Athena.

I'm not saying that makes C a reasonable choice. C is durable in the same sense that period costume films tend to age well.
The author is (apparently) an expert in his field (the law). He is not an expert in our field (technology, broadly speaking), and certainly not an expert in my field (security, broadly speaking).

He wrote a post based on legal considerations and upon his domain knowledge. One of the interesting things about domain knowledge, or, more to the point, lack thereof, is that without any, one cannot know the exact extent of one's ignorance of other domains.

I am not going to go so far as to assert the author was heretofore unfamiliar with the concept of a zero-day exploit, though it seems likely, but I would suggest that the author is now at least notionally familiar with the concept - and has written quite a good, clear follow-up article devoid of our jargon (which is easily among the worst of the several domains I've been exposed to over the years) indicating exactly and precisely why he reconsidered his position.

THIS IS HOW KNOWLEDGE WORKS. Forgive the caps, but they are appropriate in this case. If we waited for everyone to know everything we think relevant before they wrote anything at all, all we would have written would be recipes. And pornography.

A domain expert wrote a reasoned piece based on their domain knowledge. Others helpfully directed that expert to domains relevant to the piece. The domain expert then (quite speedily, I think) absorbed just enough of that domain's knowledge to draw and state reasonable conclusions.

This is also how the law works, which is why it is so maddeningly slow sometimes.

Editorial or "meta" notes: I upvoted because I don't believe in downvoting (I often upvote downvoted comments for this reason) - but I believe you were downvoted because you were lazy and chose to post ad hominem comments without due consideration.
It's hard to say with CCD being so large and varied. One thing we know is that beehives exposed to certain pesticides [1] are much more likely to collapse.

[1] http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/study-streng...
Hm, is it that good??? I've read only 2 NS novels and really loved them (Cryptonomicon & SnowCrash).
They use calendars where the only month is September.
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iOS 7.1.x PDF exploit – CVE-2014-4377
> It doesn't ever state NJ's case against the students

That's because NJ literally doesn't have a case against the students -- there have been no charges filed. This is an unconstitutional fishing expedition that I suspect is intended to intimidate and create an atmosphere of fear, not just among Bitcoiners but all tinkerers and hackers (in the MIT/HN sense of the word).
Curious: What do you mean by interesting?
It is never entirely obvious where this kind of user/row level security should be placed. Personally I don't like using frameworks with complicated authorisation systems that I don't understand. I don't think it makes sense to use that kind of system for a hand written SQL heavy project which is what this API is undoubtly aimed at.

I would rather integrate user validation into normal queries, or have it handeled at the edge with an application firewall along with other kinds of input validation.

You could always do something like this...

INSERT INTO test
select %(inputdata)
where %(cookie) = hmac(%(userid), 'serverkey','sha256' )
and char_length(%(inputdata)) < 1000
That's a good point.

Perhaps the author never heard of them (in which case: I want a rock like that!), or more likely, didn't play them and did not want to speak from hearsay, or even more likely, simply didn't afford a thought to them while in the middle of their rant-typing-spree.

I'd grant them that Bioshock shares many of the elements that are praised about System Shock 2. Bioshock Infinite sounds like a great example of sequel gone wrong on the aspects the article's author dislikes.
Thanks for the info. So I guess high end devices may lag but it's a fixed overhead.
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Hah, the scene with Ellison is great; good to know he was just as cantankerous in his youth as his old age.
That's pretty interesting. I'll have to look at that more
The puzzling thing here is that I read the tool as something the user chose to install on his PC so that instead of seeing a bunch of ads, it would remove those ads and mine bitcoins using background processes.

Not sure how they can say they gained "unauthorized access" if the users were willfully installing this on their PC's. I could certainly see a cyber thief using this to run a botnet to mine BTC, but the MIT guys already said it wasn't really ready for prime time. Again, not sure how this makes this software so dangerous.
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As far as I can tell they're not having problems with XSS. The listing description is actually an iframe served from a different domain with no access to anything on the eBay website. This appears to be a straightforward phishing attack.
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This is one of the only good things I've ever seen on this site.
Thanks for listening to my site everyone. It's crazy that 3+ years after launch it's still finding new listeners every day! Feel free to @ me on twitter with any questions (@idontlikewords)
Great article! Worth reading as it gives ideas how to not become flat with products
CEO Dorsey Says Square Will Accept Bitcoin
The "Welcome" page is nothing of the sort. It should be called a "Logo Page". It doesn't welcome me or start an interaction in any way.

It's by 2 comedians, so maybe I am missing a joke. Possibly I am just overly grumpy: This push to minimalism has gone way too far.
> They took advantage of the fact that the AXE allows new software to be installed without rebooting the system, an important feature when any interruption would disconnect phone calls, lose text messages, and render emergency services unreachable. To let an AXE exchange run continuously for decades, as many of them do, Ericsson's software uses several techniques for handling failures and upgrading an exchange's software without suspending its operation. These techniques allow the direct patching of code loaded in the central processor, in effect altering the operating system on the fly.

Since the is an Ericsson switch my first thought was that they describing Erlang's hot code swapping being used here.

Can anyone confirm if this is the case?

If so that's a pretty big testament to the robustness of Erlang that it can allow switches to run for decades at a time and update themselves on the fly!

I really should be doing more with Erlang!
I think the privacy component is also important (somehow hidden in "without unveiling his secret", but not so clear imo). When Alice proves her knowledge to Bob, no external party would "believe in the proof", as A & B might have colluded.
I'm not trolling; I'm pointing out the fault(s) in your logic. Perhaps it is a "possibility", but it doesn't exist today, and better options are available, so why would I use an inferior implementation? Because it more closely coincides with my world view?

No, I need to get software written that runs well. Now, if my requirement is to run on N different platforms (where N > 1) then I will have to look at OpenGL. If it's not a requirement then I won't waste my time. You're comments reek of ideology and completely lack practicality. You make assumptions about a complex subject which smarter people than you or I have spent years working on and come to different conclusions.
I've been thinking about this recently. When I was young, video games were a complete mystery to me. Every game, no matter how generic, was a joy to play, because I simply didn't know what to expect at the end of every screen. Strange worlds with unknown rules unraveled before me, whether in dungeons of Prince of Persia, the labyrinths of Jill of the Jungle, or the space stations of Duke Nukem 3D.

Over time, this joy faded in the games I played. I can intuitively feel why this is the case: whenever I start playing a new game, I already know most of the rules, or at least I can figure them out from the first few levels. Floating things? Oh, just a Flying Enemy Trope. Glowing box in the corner? Health Kit Trope. Where does that door go? Nope, just a Door Decoration Trope. And don't even talk to me about the Crate Trope. What's more, you can immediately figure out how a game is going to play just by looking at the first level. It's rare nowadays that I play a shooter which doesn't solely involve moving forward, shooting bad guys, and collecting powerups. I can play the game in my mind almost from the get-go, and I get bored.

A few months ago, I started playing a Japanese indie metroidvania game called La-Mulana (HD). As a game, it's rather obtuse: you'd be very hard-pressed to complete it without a walkthrough, as many of the later levels require figuring out the answers to obscure, poorly-translated riddles. But for the first time in probably a decade, I was completely sucked in. There was a true sense of mystery to this game. None of the tropes I was familiar with made sense here. Doorways to new areas kept opening up. Every decoration on the walls could be analyzed with your hand scanner. Items with no apparent purpose were scattered all over the ruins. Every obstacle was bespoke, not a generic "find the keycard" equivalent puzzle.

For 20 hours straight, I could not get my hands off this game. It was exhilarating.

And thinking back to the games I used to play as a kid, I'm starting to think that maybe they really did have a bit more magic than games do today. Take Duke Nukem 3D. You never knew what you'd find in a given level. An inconspicuous wall could hide a joke or easter egg. A vertical vent could contain a secret weapon. A manhole could lead to a secret level. Every area had something new, be it an interactive element, monster, weapon, or setpiece. (Remember how effective the mouse and mirror scenes were in the original Prince of Persia?)

In those old games, there was always something new around the corner. You never knew what to expect, and the sense of mystery compelled you to explore until the closing credits.

While I do think that childhood ignorance and obsessiveness made games feel a lot more interesting, I also agree with the author that something is missing in modern games. I was starting to expect that I would never again be consumed by a game, and then along came this tiny indie title to blow away my expectations. And now I see games like The Witness have a whiff of that same feeling.

I'm really looking forward to getting sucked into games again.
This was really soothing until SFPD started talking about a nasty Truck/Motorcycle accident. They dropped the line "The rider is still down", and now I'm switching to ambient by itself.

Nice site though. This is actually pretty soothing as long as it's typical, nearly-undecipherable police chatter.
It was common before facebook, and at this point businesses are built on it.
This is a really cool way around the limitations of iOS. When Facebook added thumbs up to Messenger for android it was awesome so I imagine that Hall is trying to emulate that for business.
One thing I've learned is that the sales process is a continuum. Things that work well in multi-million dollar deals are totally inappropriate in sub 5k deals. The trick is getting the right amount of "touch" for the right types of deals. One way to do this is to segment the salesforce. From there, you can attack different sized opportunities with different levels of engagement and investigation.

Freemium represents this process taken to one logical extreme where you have zero-touch and rely on marketing from the web site and pure virality. Next up might be limited email marketing/sales. Then phone, then phone and outside sales.

At the very high end, you are talking about regional field sales as well as face-to-face visits with your companies leadership up to an including the CEO.
If you think too much money is bad, wait till you see what not enough money looks like.