skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you are a paying CloudFlare customer using Drupal please make sure you have the WAF ruleset for Drupal enabled (https://blog.cloudflare.com/automatic-protection-for-common-...) as we rolled out automatic protection against this when it was announced.
Actually it would be:

topng < /dev/screen > foo.png
> Can anyone confirm what is driving this larger screen war?

A lot of people use them as portable web and game devices first, phones second - the big screen is more of an advantage when you think about it that way around as it saves people carrying around both a phone and a tablet. Many people (like myself and presumably you) don't think that way around, and want a smartphone in a smaller form, but I think we are less likely than that other market segment to buy a new phone every year which is skewing the market away from our preferred direction.

I need to replace my Lumia 920 (after many drops I've finally manage to crack part of the screen, and the flash stopped working a short while ago) and the size thing is annoying. The 920 itself is already bigger than I'd prefer and all the current models with the really good camera are even bigger (you can still get the 925, I might have to go with that unless someone can recommend a ~4.5"-or-smaller device, Android or Windows, with camera capabilities similar or better?).
Yeah, they did say that, but what [google|insert corporation name here] say and what they do are two entirely different things.
The USPS is in the Constitution. And it must be run by the Government.

Unless we want to amend to remove it from service, having it deliver votes is a perfectly fine use of an excellent service the public benefits from daily.

Actually, Oregon elections can be 100 percent verified. Every single ballot is available for recount activities, which can be done manually, under court and multiple party supervision.

Audits are performed and the stats on these and margins of error are well understood. We do use electronic counting, and where those do not match audit records, work is performed until they do.

There isn't a fully transparent electronic system, without also personally identifying voters to their votes.

I realize you guys do it differently. That's fine. In the US, we do not link voters to votes and we have strong reasons for that.

Frankly, I've always maintained e-votes are possible to do in a trustworthy way if we surrender anonymity.

I don't see that happening in the US. So long as that is true, we really do need to record voter intent in such a way that it can be used directly for the tally and reviewed under the public eye.

Which means e-voting is not trustworthy in the US. VBM is trustworthy, and it delivers very high and consistent turnout rates too.

That's another difference. You guys use mandatory voting. We don't. I personally wouldn't mind if we did, but we don't.

E-voting really hasn't done us any good on turnout as the machines, placement, performance, record keeping and a host of other factors make it a bigger mess than ballots currently are.

VBM sidesteps nearly all of those problems nicely. Every year, another district or another state picks it up because it works.
I use it all the time on Linux 17 Cinnamon. It ocasionally has an issue when capturing an area: the rectangle overlay showing the selection gets captured too, altering the colors. I get around this by just taking a new shot.
Awesome! Hadn't considered another cloud, but 30 gigs is a bargain... Sign up was a bit confusing though
Cheers, gogojo, and enjoy your free space! Pls share a few more details what you found confusing?
Skeptical view of 20% time:

http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2011-12-19/
It appears to be a pretty serious issue. The SQL injection alone is bad but the ability to run basically any PHP code through callbacks makes the problem that much worse.
No confirmation after I registered
Ask HN: What was the startup that got customers with failed payments back?
I remember seeing it here. I am looking for a service that mailed customers on my startup's behalf after they have failed to make the payment on time and has stopped using my startup.
The campaign cost is a separate issue.

The US has a very grave money in politics problem. We've got movements in place to check those problems, and if they are successful, the campaign cost will be just fine.

Here in Oregon, there are efforts to help people vote. Lots of different efforts, some funded, some not. Voting is not hard, and the vast majority of voters simply vote.

The nice thing about having it distributed over time is it eliminates caging efforts, challenges, and all sorts of fuckery at polling places.

I voted both ways here and have observed turnout consistently improved over polls.
no it's not :)
The most shocking thing in that article is that the US-wide suicide rate for 15-19 year olds has increased by 11% in a year.

When your kids are killing themselves in increasing numbers... you have to wonder if your society is really as healthy and wonderful as you like to think it is.
> Full SQL injection, which results in total control and code execution of Website.

Well that doesn't sound good. Drupal.org itself is still running[1] on the unpatched version 7.3.1 which sends a message of how likely sites are to be updated.

[1] https://www.drupal.org/CHANGELOG.txt
Sharing your personal experience isn't patronising. Telling the world you're shocked at how hard people make it out to be based purely on your single personal experience IS patronising.

You're right, of course people have been having kids and working single "the beginning of time", but that doesn't change whether or not they find it hard, does it? Playing "who's got it worse" top trumps only serves to alienate those who ARE struggling at a time when they most need support.

And I wasn't offended, for the record.
does not work on 7.12
>> "I think the point was that seatbelt laws are relatively unoffensive and yet they still restrict rights, not necessarily that they're unjustified."

Is this an American thing? How can anyone think a law requiring seatbelts is restricting your rights. I also get the impression from comments in this thread that there are people who don't want to wear them. Why?
It has yet to be culled. Presumably after gedit is removed.
Desktop applications with Node.js
Why Dell Is Failing; Countdown to the PC Apocalypse
http://oli.me.uk/2013/06/29/equipping-vim-for-javascript/
7 Java tools you should know
Replace Excel VBA with Python
Data on the Ebola outbreak in West-Africa
Energy drinks may pose danger to public health, researchers warn
I am working from Greece, working remotely, my daily rate is approximately 200euro per day (before taxes), 4 days per week (it depends a bit as I am getting paid in dollars), working 9 hours per day (one hour is "paid" break).

5 years of experience as a rails developer, 8 years of experience as a web developer (full stack as I have helped on the server and our app is on angular).

To be honest, I enjoy the team and the company I am working on, even if I believe I could find a better salary. Btw my salary is about 4 times more than the average salary in Greece.
Just FYI - as far as I understand it, the "double Irish" works because in the US you are tax-resident if you incorporate in the US, while in Ireland you are tax-resident if you do business in Ireland

So if you incorporate in Ireland but do your business in the US you are tax-resident nowhere, and naturally corporations exploit this
Ahhh IRIX.

Best computing experience I've ever had. R.I.P. SGI.
Worth mentioning: Petrel, one of the first frameworks to appear ( https://github.com/AirSage/Petrel ). Worked well for us, few tricks inside, but importantly our code was concise and clear
I feel like Hacker News has become home of the "security exploit du jour." There have always been new exploits being found daily, what's changed is the severity and wide reaching nature of said exploits.

You might ask, when will we learn? Well, the truth is making secure systems is incredibly hard work and often comes at the price of flexibility/usability/programmer productivity. We know how to do it, it's just not easy to incorporate.
Drupal 7 SA-CORE-2014-005 SQL Injection Protection
> It has been suggested that most of the actual inventing was performed by Szilárd, with Einstein merely acting as a consultant and helping with the patent-related paperwork.[1]

Plausible, since he had the experience.
Isn't the size of your arm/hand coupled to the size of your pocket? After all a pocket that can't fit a hand isn't a pocket.
>I found these slides rather shallow

Really? I thought they were enticing. This is a slideshow promoting a book, so I'm not expecting great insights or data, but rather an overview of what subjects the book is touching on. Most of those ideas are very abstract, and I think they did a great job of visualizing them. I like this slide for example: http://de.slideshare.net/ericschmidt76/how-google-works-fina... And from the book I would now expect there to be one chapter about how to implement a culture where everybody feels intitled to raise their opion and submit new ideas.

>Who knew!

From my limited work experience I would say companies still make the same mistakes, and haven't catched up on a lot of very very obvious ideas...
Play God, and control these smart home engineers hamster cage office
But funny enough, there is no fixed number of cabs in London now.
We tried to solve the open source revenue equation
This is "ZOMG take action immediately" bad.

- Exploitable by anyone able to access the site

- No mitigation

- Remote code execution

- Stealthy

- Exploits are in the wild
You don't make much sense. You disagree with me "in every regard" and yet you agree with Ken who made an almost identical point to my own.

Microsoft defined the business model of the web browser market as it exists today. I.e. free, widely and easily available, and bundled with the OS. This has not changed. The court cannot prevent free market economics, but they tried to.

Yes Microsoft made Netscape go bust. But Netscape were weak and short sighted. They were like squashing an ant.
SQL injection alone is often enough to get you RCE if your MySQL account has FILE permissions enabled (often true). Something like `SELECT "<?php eval($_GET['x'])" INTO OUTFILE /srv/www/backdoor.php`.
There was a post about Zoho just yesterday, a company which always focused in sustainability and revenue and did very well. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8456398)
According to Google the average men waist size in the us is 38.
How much is it? It's astonishing that people bother to pirate iOS games when they hardly cost anything in the first place.
I absolutely love how the author linked the standards XKCD (http://xkcd.com/927), then goes to say "In our next chapter, we’ll look at how this approach actually helps build an image metadata standard.".

Oh, the irony.
In NYC, it is primarily a safety/quality of live issue, and a housing issue.

1. The problem with what you are saying about weeding out unsafe listings is that pretty much any listing in a non-doorman building where there isn't someone in the apartment to oversee the guests is going to be unsafe and reduce the quality of life for the other residents, and those types of listings account for most of the illegal rentals. Essentially, you have a parade of people with keys to the building who don't live there, who are on vacation and don't really care how they effect the people around them.

2. It is taking a critical source of semi-affordable housing off the market: apartments in non-doorman, low-rise buildings. Renters can't compete with Airbnb on price, so more and more are getting snatched up to be run as hotels, increasing competition and driving prices up for everyone else.

I think the solution is almost exactly what the NY AG is pursuing: attempting to aggressively go after people renting apartments as illegal hotels so that it is no longer desirable to do operate them. Continue to allow people to "share" their homes by renting out a room or a couch, but restrict the "entire home" rentals to people who own their property and can legally do it.
Strong Bad.
But it is not the argument one usually hears from probihitionists...
I wonder if Reddit can, at this stage, have big hairy ambitions for what they might still become.

Thinking back about 8 or 10 years when "social networks" and online communities were becoming something obviously substantial there were a lot of excited ideas about what they would become. Ning's idea of basically extending forums and creating lots of online communities seemed attractive. When they're first taking on online communities are exciting. But, they seem to age. It's almost like being in the same conversation forever.

What can Reddit still accomplish?
IMHO this is the direct result of conflating arrays/list and hashes/dictionaries into a single thing on the programming language level.

Sure, careful programming would have avoided that, but if the two concept were fundamentally different types, this bug would be impossible.
Is that for server-client or fat client applications? For the latter, Java today offers the WebView class (part of JavaFX) that's simply an integrated Webkit browser. You can build your UI for HTML5 and easily hookup with the main Java program. I wrote a brief overview last year, along with other options for fat client HTML5 frontends: http://news.kynosarges.org/2013/12/29/webview-the-other-java...
Given that HTML is probably the worst UI framework that ever existed, that doesn't say much. However, WPF is so far ahead of every other UI framework I used (WinForms, Swing, Qt, Android, MFC) that its descent into maintenance mode is a bit sad. Also that no one bothers to look at what WPF did right when starting new UI toolkits and frameworks and we get more stuff that awkward and clunky to develop for that looks like all other UI APIs from the 90s.
Drupal.org is patched and has been for weeks.
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The argument I'm familiar with for corporate taxation is that it is the cost for limited liability and being its own legal entity.

You can just eliminate the corporate in the middle, and have all the profits, expenses and liabilities directly assigned to share holders. But no one wants the liabilities part. Dropping corporate tax is therefore "something" (limited liability) "for nothing".
Maybe the trick is that the reactor design is either cheap enough to be disposable, or just lasts enough to run a submarine for a few months (not necessarily in an economical fashion, but with other desirable advantages) and have it replaced like a car battery.
I'm a physicist (semiconductor lasers), now doing tech support, it's a big change for me, but so far it's been great
The problem is that all the names of parameters in every header file suddenly become enshrined as part of the API. You end up having to remove the names from all the system header files or first standardise their names. Otherwise, you'll quickly find code starts appearing that assumes the names as they are on Linux will then not build on BSD, Solaris etc.
If you're looking for a discussion of running economics-style experiments on MTurk (as well as some advice on keeping online experiments internally valid):
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1591202
Acast: Audio on Demand Platform Launches – Set to Revolutionise Podcasting
Described as the Spotify for podcasting, Acast is the latest Swedish innovation to land in the UK

Acast, a curated, multidimensional and social platform for audio on demand (AoD) and podcasts has today launched in the UK.

Thanks to patent-pending technology that integrates audio episodes with supporting content such as photos, videos, music and web links, Acast is the first app that allows users to discover podcasts through friends and recommendations and experience them in a new, layered way.

Acast also features the capability for users to share audio ‘moments’ on other social media channels by selecting a particular portion of a programme and capturing it as a shareable audio clip.

Created by award-winning Swedish tech entrepreneurs, Måns Ulvestam[i] and Karl Rosander[ii] and developed by members of the team involved in Spotify, Acast launched in Sweden earlier this year and to date has 500,000 unique users and 20 million streams.

Acast is not only set to revolutionise audio on demand for listeners. For the first time podcasters have a means to enhance their shows through providing supporting rich content, and can monetise their creative endeavours through Acast’s ad-supporting platform.

The ‘drag and drop’ function of the ‘Acast create’ tool allows podcast makers to place content, such as images, music, videos and web links within their podcasts, and also gives them the opportunity to place adverts with clean breaks during the podcast episode.

This marks the first time advertisers have been able to advertise dynamically and monetise podcasts in a non-editorial or sponsored format.

Log on to www.acast.com to experience the difference. Or find the app at Appstore for iPhone and Google Play for Android

Watch the video on Acast for mobile phone: http://vimeo.com/108875451
IAP transfers fine - iCloud may be another matter.
I've cited pyramids as an example of what collaborative work can lead to. Of course it's not like slavery, but there's a lot of grinding going on even at Google, they just call it "passion for work".
> But the attorney general’s report says rentals in three areas in Manhattan — Lower East Side/Chinatown, Chelsea/Hell’s Kitchen and Greenwich Village/SoHo — accounted for 40 percent of private stay revenue, or $187 million.

This surprised me not at all. I live in the Lower East Side and see an almost non-stop parade of groups of tourists with suitcases waiting to get let into apartments here. I know friends-of-friends who have four or five apartments that they rent out for this purpose.

People who operate these illegal hotels are attracted to neighborhoods like LES/EV/Chinatown, aside from them being trendy, is because there are a lot of non-doorman buildings that have relatively inexpensive rent. Unfortunately, those buildings are a critical source of semi-affordable housing in Manhattan, and more and more of it is getting snatched up by hoteliers.

I'm glad that NY is not taking the same approach as SF. People should absolutely be allowed to rent out a room or a couch, but the illegal full-time, full-apartment listings are terrible for residents who aren't aspiring hoteliers.
Good to know. I shall bear this and you in mind when January rolls around...
Tubber – real proximity messaging
Would really appreciate any feedback on our app. It is on the app store(iOS) and available for download.

- You can set a radius and speak to anyone within the radius.
- You can be anon or use your real identity.
- You do not have to sign up.

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Haha, people may go inzane here...
You can get a professional admin template from ThemeForest for few bucks (usually $20 for admin templates).

http://themeforest.net/category/site-templates/admin-templat...

(note: I put my refferal in the url)
The only usable 3D graphics that could compete with graphic workstations, were provided by a company that specialized in supporting specific graphic cards.

The company had a name starting by Xi something and I think the cards were still those that you had to pair a 2D with a 3D card.
>free himself after accumulating enough of it

If you don't think enslavement to a particular person is worse than working now, you need a reality check.
Could this problem be solved by quoting parameters ? I believe PDO has quoting capabilities when it comes to query parameters in prepared statements.i.e. one can state this parameters is a string , or an integer ....
Easy-express: Sockets.IO, SSL, Sessions, FileServer and MongoDB in 60 Seconds
After examining 288 corporations that where consistently profitable every year for 5 years. On average they "paid an effective federal income tax rate of just 19.4 percent." Which is close to the "15.9 percent" you linked.

However, "Twenty-six of the corporations, including Boeing, General Electric, Priceline.com and Verizon, paid no federal income tax at all over the five year period. A third of the corporations (93) paid an effective
tax rate of less than ten percent over that period."

The point is with such high variability in tax rate's companies spend a lot of time looking for ways to avoid paying taxes vs. building better products etc.

PS: Yea, just like the articles you linked this is also biased but the numbers are not made up. http://www.ctj.org/corporatetaxdodgers/sorrystateofcorptaxes...
Also, code is CASE SENSITIVE.
Classic GTA titles, certainly.
Using Async and Await to Update the UI Thread Part 2
There are two: BeStunning.net and ChurnBuster.io. I use CB, though integration is only half complete. I know both guys and they're "good people" in Chicago parlance -- would recommend either. (They have slightly different takes on the problem/solution.)
For a good screenshot utility with a gui, there's xfce4-screenshooter from the xfce desktop suite. It's the bees knees, has the possibility to capture the system cursor (a feature the maim readme was complaining about) and a fine region capturing.
Learn to Code, Get Hired
ruby and perl web frameworks have had similar problems when receiving data it could be an array or a hash or a string and people assumed it was string but in the other cases it would cause sql injection or weird behaviour.
For those who don't want to do a full core update, you can apply a one line patch by the looks of it.

http://www.reddit.com/r/drupal/comments/2jbuiz/drupal_732_fi...
Thanks for sharing that, and concerning the remote part would you recommend any particular sites to find remote jobs? Thx
>Part of the risks of energy drinks are due to their high levels of caffeine. Energy drinks can be drunk quickly, unlike hot coffee, and as a result they are more likely to cause caffeine intoxication.

Imo this shows that caffeine is a drug, and more dangerous than most people (even here) know.
I quit drinking caffeinated coffee regularly for 2 months now, and only once in a blue moon when I have a long day ahead.
I feel better, I sleep better. And when I'm not as awake as I'd like, I know to fix my sleeping, and not cover it up with coffee.
Yeah, this is really a difficult thing to make work.

If it succeeds, it will be huge, but the odds are always against any chicken-and-egg service like that.
Entrepreneurship Does Not Equal Financing
PixyLike online proofing galleries get a UI update
You are right that the choice should depend on what gets the job done best and not on what we would like the team to pick up. I assumed all the AWS SDKs were at par when it came to helping us do what we want done.
Your characterization of the response as inept overlooks what actually was done.

The very existence of the CDC is step 1, and the "outbreak" in the US has so far been limited to 1 single person as far as I can tell. Prevention of spread from that single person looks likely to be 100% effective, due principally to the preparedness of all those involved, from the CDC to the hospital to the airline.

Keep calm and carry on. Don't panic everyone into instituting a whole raft of expensive and ineffective TSA-like measures.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/an-epidemic-o...
Don’t segregate innovation: 3 ways to make it work
Best pages are 13 and 25.
VIDEO: The Internet Sleeps – In Some Parts of the World
Beware the Gomal Trojan, Warns Kaspersky Lab
Hmm, my install is not saying there is a core update... Normally it does this.
I actually downloaded https://gyazo.com/ for Windows recently... And i've never seen a better tool for screenshot (and gif) sharing... It's much more user friendly/simple then this one :)
SF Chef Dominique Crenn Transforms Memories into Food at Harvard
“RAWRGWAWGGR.” (Wookie for "Awesome").