skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
hopefully anonymous just means that they don't want their identity known, not that he doesn't know. It would be good to get more clarification though.
The basic business model of a restaurant is repeat food sales. But some criminals are opportunists who are not worried about repeatability; they heavily discount the future in the face of a sufficiently attractive short-term payoff.
Had to look twice to convince myself this wasn't The Onion
Marc Andreessen on Burn Rates: “Startups Will VAPORIZE”
I think there's a missing "'nt" in the previous comment.
> You have to pay hospital out of your pocket?

Surgery for cardiac arrest is far more expensive than $5000. The cost of such a surgery (without insurance) is easily over $100K and if you said "it was $1M" people would be like "that's a little high" rather than "impossible!"

This must be for incidental costs incurred or for recovery not covered by insurance. (Like: Some insurances might only cover physical therapy twice a week. They probably cite some study saying that is sufficient for recovery. But other people might argue more frequent sessions are better, so this money could cover the more frequent sessions.)
There is a link to a "software" page that has a github link:

https://github.com/joschabach/micropsi2

As for general AI being "promised" in the 1960s - I think that's being a bit harsh.

Real general AI has been a bit like fusion power for the last 40 years or so - it always seems to be 20 years away or so, but actually I think that in both cases real, if slow, progress is being made and we will eventually get there. Taking a "show me the code" approach to something as complex and understanding what intelligence really is, and then trying to capture that in a software system is perhaps underestimating the complexity of the underlying problems just a bit.
New Research Brings Gravity and Quantum Mechanics into Harmony
It's illegal (one of the missions of US Secret Service is to ensure that there are no other currencies used in the US, and they have cracked down e.g. on Las Vegas casino tokens being used in surrounding restaurants to pay for drinks).
Actually I just tried on an app that runs on Gunicorn and does a Popen with shell=True, and it is vulnerable. A simple curl -A '() { :;}; touch /tmp/owned' did create the file on the server.
He said he found the bug after reflecting on an earlier bug he found in Bash a few months ago.

The majority of the article seems to be focusing on the effects after it was found, but I would've liked more info on what lead him to discover the bug; was he reading Bash source code looking for vulnerabilities, or something more mundane? My current hypothesis is trying to debug a shell script that put '() {' in an environment variable followed by some commands.
George Gascón is not someone given to 'power tantrums'. On the contrary, he has a reputation for booth coolheadedness and very high ethical standards. I think you should read up on him before throwing stereotypes around.
I have not suggested they were sufficient to justify a policy, nor does the reference to Justinian appear to have done so.

A long historical precedent is however sufficient to explain it's modern day existence, which is what happened here.

You appear to have an uncanny ability to read far more into messages than what were intended.
>Somebody who has not enough funds will not be treated?

They'll be treated, they'll just have to file for bankruptcy.
It often takes leaving SV to understand what you're saying here.
Good find.

Interestingly, the Shorthand (TM) homepage has noticeable scroll jank near the bottom on my 2012 Macbook Air (Chrome), whereas the BBC site scrolls smoothly as far as I read (part 2/3 I think).

The BBC have done an exceptional job for my platform. :)
(For us) Docker is not about security or scalability but about (good enough) isolation, separation of concerns and reproducability. Let me elaborate.

* Isolation: Docker enables us to pack any software and let it run with close to none side effects. Different versions of packages, libs and gems needed by apps don't interfere. It's like bundler but for all kind of dependencies not only gems.

* Separation of concerns: For our operations it doesn't matter what's inside a Docker container. We have mid sized Ruby web apps, small Go demons, NGINX with Lua support compiled in, legacy PHP apps neatly packed in Docker containers. They have a well defined interface:

The build script which consistently sums up dependencies and the build process.
`docker run` wrappers which clearly state the interface of the running container like exposed ports and mounted volumes.

* Reproducability: We are able to run the same containers in development, staging and production. A dozen containers will easily run on a developers laptop.

As a side effect the Docker architecture makes us think harder about app architecture like which services are stateless and which are not and for what reason.

The fact that containers share a kernel and thus are not 100% isolated or reproducable as with virtualization hasn't been an issue for us (so far).

There are still issues and features we're missing. For example private Docker repos are PITA and building instead of pulling from a repo means you might get fooled by the build cache. And we'd love to have build in support (or at least a common standard or best practices) for orchestration. But all together for our needs it's already pretty useful.
VHP issues diktat not to allow Muslims at garba venue
Scientist drinks billion-year-old water: “It tastes terrible”
Stood – A Laptop Stand Made of Wood
There are a lot of comments below stating mod_php is just as vulnerable as mod_cgi. This is NOT the case, mod_php is unaffected by shellshock.

Edit: Just to be clear, even using system / exec etc is not affected as the environment variables are not passed along to the sub process by the apache sapi.
Patents have existed since the 1400's and areas that have patent systems have general out-innovated areas without them.

Has the direction of causality been established here? Maybe areas with more innovation sprout wannabe monopolists who manage to lobby their governments to create patent protections.
Personally I just don't understand why everyone worries so much about all these surveillance announcements.

People contribute with personal data to help increase the security of a nation. I don't consider that as an act of spying from government, I call that "Crowd Funding" from the people, for global security.

But well, I'm an optimist and I assume there are doing this for the right reasons.
It's unlikely many consumer routers would be running Bash. They'd more likely have Busybox with the bog standard Bourne Shell. And same goes for most other embedded Linux devices too.

Though I'm not suggesting that one shouldn't check their own devices to be safe rather than sure.
The "problem" with vi is that you'll outgrow it very fast. People tend to work around this by installing a dozen of plugins but I think you should use Emacs for that.

I'm quite proficient in both editors and while I resort to Emacs for 95% of my coding (and mail, and notes, and agenda, and...) sometimes nothing beats the simplicity of firing up vi for a quick edit in a remote server.

Using vanilla vi with a minimal to non existent .vimrc can be liberating.
Interesting article.
Now that I think of it, how comes that in all the (known) universe we have ice or ice blocks (such as comets)? Where from does it originates?
I have some truly old (disk) images going back to around 2003. I've looked through them and found nothing.

What freaks me out though is that these systems were vulnerable. All this time; it was right there. Its like finding out you just drove from LA to NYC with nothing but a single loose lug nut on your left front tire.
Ask HN: Fastest development gig that earned you some money
This is what sometimes gets missed in the UNIX vs other OSes security discussions.

If no MAC system is in place and a user facing process gets owned, it will get free pass to $HOME and lots of other user accessible areas, where lots of juicy information are already available.

Additionally, downloading and running additionally scripts via the exploit path is quite easy. Who needs root afterwards....

On the systems UNIX/Windows I use all of them have MAC enforced, even if it might be a pain to configure sometimes.
The proper way to ban something is to set minimum standards of performance that the thing could never meet.
One of the fastest was creating a Google Place for someone ... I copied the Twitter page from the husband and added it to their Google Place site. I also notified the daughters boyfriend to delete the drinking pics from FourSquare (they appeared on their Foursquare business)

I did have to wait a month for the code of Google (they send it by postcard), but it only took me about 2 hours or so. I asked for 160€, they have 1300 pageviews in 8 days (and no website).
He has medicare advantage plus according to his comments on his personal site -- so his care + rehab was covered. He talks a lot about billable work though, I have a feeling this is more for personal expenses and making it so he doesn't feel like he always needs to work and he can work until its not enjoyable and then relax and recoup.
I hope it turns out a good implementation since there is a lot of C++ code out there and I do not know C++. But I can comprehend Lisp.
HFT in my backyard – II
Where is a good place to learn about this style of OO?
Is there a real debate? Literally every other highly-developed nation in the world does not have this problem.

A significant portion of HN are US-based software engineers or related. That probably means significant amounts of disposable income and some possibility of changing this.

We should help this guy, but we should also be donating to political candidates not afraid to tackle this problem.

We should be as loud as possible about how as a country, we have failed to create an environment where people can exert their right to a modicum of healthcare access without first having to lose everything they own (through bankruptcy or otherwise). Look at these cases straight-on and acknowledge that this is an absolute disgrace.
Are you sure? That's not what I heard, but I could be wrong.
Force Network Diagram of Relationships in the Middle East
Top Notch Realtors in Charleston
There are plenty of LED lamps that can be dimmed. They are more expensive than non-dimmable LEDs, but they work fine.
As long as we haven't figured out and implemented a way to align economical and ecological sense, your suggestion is a non-starter.
And I'd like to thank Gentoo developers for the usual very fast response they had towards this security advisory.

The moment I saw the news here, I ran to update my stuff -- the patch was already there, marked stable in the official gentoo repositories.

My impression is that they're following very closely the progression of this event and the relevant GLSA entries are being updated without any noticeable delays.

Thanks for running the show guys, you're true professionals!

Here's the relevant Gentoo Linux Security Advisory (GLSA) link: http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201409-10.xml
Also, whatever the rated voltage for your power, don't assume it will be exact, and different voltage can be very noticeable on bulb lifetime. If bulbs keep popping it may be worth checking the voltage of your electricity supply. Ours is nearly 10% higher than it should be...
AFAIK, those USD accounts are actually opened at a US subsidiary of the foreign bank. Only US banks can get support of the US banking system (electronic transfers, overnight interest rates, loans). While you could run a USD bank abroad, it would have to be a mostly cash-only operation...
Factor in the energy cost of making CFL/LED bulbs (including the additional electronics and mining the required material and all the shipping it requires) and the energy costs of dealing with the toxic waste they contains, and now this doesn't seem as much like a sensible move.

When you compare retail prices and actual lifetime you notice that the new bulbs are significantly more expensive than the now banned traditional ones while having overrated life expectancies and now you understand that the manufacturers are getting more money and faster, suddenly this overpriced incompetence has a feel of greenwashing followed by an aftertaste of lobbying
As a counterpoint, there are some places (like this one) where more water than you can want just falls from the sky.

The water here is cheap no matter how many people are connected. If it weren't, you'd just dig a modest hole in the ground and suck out what you need.
Number one cause of bankrupty in USA, land of the free fans!
Haha. We are not going to consume LESS energy in the future, unless you want to live in poor conditions. The working assumption is how do we create more, cheaper and in a cleaner way. There's a bunch of papers out there on how energy consumption and level of life are closely related.
Hi! I'm the creator of this Laptop Stand, for any questions i'll be here to answer them!
> Politics [...] are off-topic according to the guidelines

Most submissions about politics are off-topic according to the guidelines. Nothing in the guidelines says that comments about politics are off-topic.
This. I'm glad there are still sensible people out there on HN.
Your competitors won't exist if your basic patents are broad enough to deny them access to the market.
Looks like 14.10 is patched now
I don't think you're being that provocative. I think you should change teenagers to dreamers, and random things to whatever was funded last week by the other VC.

People who are convinced they have an idea for a billon dollar startup idea(no matter how unrealistic) are far more willing to sign lopsided deals, and destroy themselves trying to make it happen. They are so tunnel vision that they just refuse to acknowledge what a 90% failure rate means.
cheap lights:
http://hackaday.com/2011/03/08/soda-bottle-skylights/
http://www.juggaar.com/2013/08/bottle-roof-lighting-green-en...
Inside Apple’s Testing Labs
Personally it always felt off that the SELinux approach to something like, say, binding to low ports, was to allow something to run as root to bind to that low port, then control access to that role so it couldn't do other root things. See http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/SELinux/Tutorials/Managing_netwo...

I'd rather a simpler, file and user based approach. I know that's not role based, but since the `myapp` user matches 1:1 with the role of my app, it seems reasonable:

chown /proc/ports/tcp/80 myapp

Yes, that file doesn't exist yet, it's a proposal. Yes this breaks the `all-or-nothing` approach to root special privileges. But `all-or-nothing` is broken, and SELinux just seems to be working around it.

Off-topic: 'avc denied' is still one of the worst error messages in Unix. Nobody cares/knows that the access vector cache is part of SELinux. Making it 'SELinux denies' would have made people a lot happier with the system and lost Google a small amount of search engine revenue.
No. I only have data for things the WAF blocked.
I went from RubyMine to emacs, for working with rails / coffeescript projects. Having an editor I could trivially extend was key; M-x eval-region (I have it bound to a shortcut) dramatically lowers the barrier to altering functionality.

I'll only use an IDE for languages that rely heavily on code completion, and have good support for it through static typing and libraries that include symbol tables. In practice, that means Java and C#.
On the upside, they got thoroughly smacked down, and I learned something interesting about Genesis today :)
I think the brouhaha over Mandreel vs Emscripten glosses over a deeper issue, which is, the vast majority of Web apps aren't C++ compiled to asmjs, and performance on asmjs is not going to be a good proxy for general web performance.

"Real apps" using idiomatic JS should be used as benchmarks, and those apps should approximate apps in widespread deployment. For example, how fast can a reactjs re-render for a complex page run?
> The industry is clearly in decline by every accepted measure

Feel free to find data showing "clear decline". I'm saying I'm not convinced. It's about as much in decline as anything else that's needed in every life : cars, fridges, stoves... PCs are now commodities, what's the big news ? This means low profit margins, and this means low renewal cycles too except for niche uses. Yet we aren't going to see the sales drop by 50% anytime soon.
Long term, you can have one of these things:

* A high quality site, with interesting, possibly spirited, but civil discussions about various topics.

* Politics.

Your call.
Very interesting thanks! I started outlining/working on a similar docker orchestration too a couple weeks ago here: https://github.com/pnegahdar/sporedock
This is possibly the most misleading headline I have ever seen anywhere. It's not the headline of the linked article, it doesn't resemble the headline in the linked article, and it makes a ridiculous claim about a central issue in modern physics.

The linked article discusses a hypothesis that is contradicted by much observational evidence for the existence of black holes. The hypothesis deserves a hearing, but it's merely someone's pet theory that has no evidentiary support (a requirement for something to be called science).

To extrapolate this hypothesis, this speculation, to the claim that quantum and relativity theories have been brought "into harmony" is embarrassingly ignorant of the most basic physical principles.
UNDER THE MICROSCOPE – What Are Acai Berries?
Scheduled Productivity
Another way to find the culprit is using vim' built-in profiler:

run :profile start filename, then :profile func * Then do the slow thing, and close vim. This will write your profile data to filename.
best way to blow out a lightbulb used to be to flick the switches on and off many times really quickly . Used to accidentally do this as a kid while horsing around.
Activision, EA, Sega and more win in lip sync patent dispute
Awesome! That's exactly something i was looking for!
I understand where your coming from but "injustices were once done" is a pretty terrible reason for aid. If you go back far enough every group has committed some atrocity on another, Europe on most of the world for instance (also 2 generations ago)
Regarding "blub" I already told you that this is unlikely given the amount of dialog and work Owens has done in the language so far.

He is one of the few people who has written in depth about the language (not tutorials)

If you didn't like my attempt to make sense of your non-sequitor about programming languages, you should perhaps reconsider your approach to commenting / writing.

In any case, his post is to be understood as a "current feelings about Swift" after writing code and blog articles about different features in Swift, starting with this one http://owensd.io/2014/06/09/swift-future-for-app-developers....

Just saying that he is pulling opinions out of the blue ("not really interested in any kind of deep analysis") is blatantly false, as his other articles IN THAT BLOG amply demonstrates.
What the Apple Watch means for the future of wearable tech
Imagine if we gave this sort of power to a 1960s government. It would be very effective for identifying and convicting homosexuals and communists.

Those specific groups are safer today, but humans as a species haven't changed. We will almost certainly abuse that power against some other marginalized group, whether we mean to or not.

Moreover, this sort of thing has historically been abused for the suppression of dissent. For example, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO
JSONPath and webhooks
and serviceable only by apple, hopefully investing the servicing cost into buying a brand new gizmo instead which comes with a brand new battery.
> Amazing how much thought goes into something as simple as a URL.

As a rule, a great deal of thought should go into any website's URL structure. It's one of the most painful and costly things to change later, especially if search traffic is significant for the site.
This strategy (using behavioural economics for good) seems to be referred to as "nudge", after the book:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nudge_(book)

There are savings accounts structured as lotteries which have been shown to shift expenditure from lotteries to savings:

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2014/09/cra...
This is why I am against including ad-block as a default. People who don't install AdBlock (mostly don't know how, or can't be bothered) play an important role. Adblocking should be an opt-in.
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I use the vim plugin ("IdeaVim") in JetBrains PHPStorm & PyCharm.
"You may not think about politics, but politics think about you."
I second this. Decompiling java to bytecode is not only easy, but not very hard to read with a bit of experience. It's like reading normal java code but slightly more concise haha. However, I can understand the developer's concern. I think the best way to go about is to put in copyright notices and some sort of license on it. Then, go for the lawsuit if you really need/want to.
Yes, the title of the article is kind of shitty, and obvious. All elements in the solar systems (except those being formed in the sun's core) are older than the sun, probably the result of the explosion of some much older stars.

But what the article is really trying to say, is that it's "normal" that our solar system has (this much) water.

> If our solar system’s formation was typical, cosmically speaking, then the findings imply that interstellar ices are in healthy supply for all up-and-coming planetary systems. And since all life we know of depends on water, that news improves the odds that other planetary systems have what it takes to support life.
We had one with barely $7,000 of spending per month, but it might be because I already had my foot in the door with a previous account that brought them about $40,000/month.
Came out during the Bush years...deja vu.

His ideas on copyright in that book were quite interesting as well.
Bought as a gift, I'm on my third purchase. Simple and smart design. I no longer take it off from my laptop. Great!
Thanks for the info.

As I never used it, besides the usual magazine reviews in the old days, as such I thought it was strong on that area as well.
It's not a gender faux-pas now either in 99% of the world.
Here you just have insurance for this. You get 80% of your salary while you can't work.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8365158
How a one-man startup from India got into Y Combinator Summer Batch of 2014
>Regarding "blub" I already told you that this is unlikely given the amount of dialog and work Owens has done in the language so far. He is one of the few people who has written in depth about the language (not tutorials)

Well, if said post is anything to go by, that's not saying much...
"With Vim I had defined a keybinding that selected the last pasted text. It was useful when you wanted to reformat or indent text that you've pasted from somewhere. At the moment I've been unable to reproduce this in Emacs."

- in non-evil-mode at least, C-x C-x will reselect what you last pasted if you haven't moved. What really happens is that when you paste, the "mark" is set there (equivalent to doing C-SPC), and C-x C-x will switch point (your cursor) and the mark.

However, if you want a function that works even after you've moved around a bit you could do e.g.

(defadvice yank (around advice-yank-set-vars activate)
(setq yank-last-start (point))
ad-do-it
(setq yank-last-end (point)))

(global-set-key (kbd "C-c C-y")
(defun select-last-yank ()
(interactive)
(push-mark yank-last-start)
(goto-char yank-last-end)
(activate-mark)))

although this'll fail if you've inserted text before the yanked text (I suppose you could do it more correctly by setting text-properties, but that's getting rather advanced)
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