skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The FBI recently changed its long-standing policy of not recording interrogations.
Very cool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUnhBHwCq90
I believe (but cannot prove) that the 20% is mostly due to China. Because it's such an incredibly populous nation, it can dominate international statistics like these.

Unfortunately my home nation (though very small) is also on something like 20% WinXP (thus limited to IE8). It's ridiculous, but as long as clients are willing to pay us to support IE8, then that's what we'll do, much as we hate it. In my country it hopefully won't be long before it becomes prohobitively expensive to support IE8, so there's that... :)
Just imagine how much good that could be accomplished if the time spent simply on meaningless comment on meaningless snark about photo-sharing apps was instead productively deployed.
Everytime I read these accounts of breakthroughs I'm baffled by how everything looks different on hindsight:

Bricklin’s teachers at Harvard thought he was wasting his time: why would a manager want to do a spreadsheet on one of those “toy” computers?

or the one about the origins of the telephone:

The invention is practically worthless. Don't through your money away!
The US spends more, not only per capita but as a share of GDP, public funds on healthcare than some OECD countries that have single payer with generally similar outcomes.

So you (in the general sense) are already trusting the government with (or at least, not preventing the government from spending, whether you trust them or not) the money to provide single payer -- you are just doing it in a system which requires an even greater amount in private expenditures on top of those public expenditures to provide a similar overall quality of care.
Yes, see https://www.coinbase.com/docs/api/multisig

Good question!
Computers are becoming non-upgradable because it is easier to do things that way. That doesn't mean consumers aren't interested in upgrading.
Baidu Posts Mixed Q3 Earnings, Sending Its Shares Sideways
An undercover cop is actually doing the thing. They are not undercover as a guy in a pizza costume with no pizza.

Am I mistaken?
From all the "protection through credit cards" talk (which is a new concept to my German socialization - credit cards have a pretty bad rap here), it seems to me that in the US it's easier to counter risks by adding a middle man (yay, layers of abstractions, all with extra costs) than fixing the root cause.

Because here, we enjoy a reasonably fast, cheap and secure electronic direct debit system since the early 80s (only now replaced by a EU wide system that works pretty much the same) that was built by merchants and banks. Credit cards never managed to seriously make a dent in that market.
I had a phd and three degrees included.
Nah. What you usually want from a compiler is maintainability and correctness. There's also a grand tradition for dogfooding by writing the compiler for language X in language X. If you don't, then how do you know you're actually making progress?
Steve Ballmer’s Fergalicious Clippers Future
You don't have permission to access /ap12fj/pdf/a12_sa507-flightmanual.pdf on this server.
I don't think they were detained. That has a specific meaning of not being free to leave, where it seems here as if the police merely asked questions. The police don't need permission to ask you anything, although you're not obliged to answer either. However, we'll never know exactly how this went down legally speaking, since the top poster avers that he had his headphones on for the first several minutes of the interview.
Yes, many enterprise companies are behind, but not all.

We're enterprise and upgrading to 3.3 as we speak. We see a 4-8% of users coming in from older IE, mainly XP. We have customers in USA only.

Our public website: 3% IE7, 5.2% IE8

App: 1% IE7, 3.3% IE8
Spread spectrum modulate its emissions to backhaul cached crypto keys?

(/me ducks)

edit: oops, the downvoters are correct; modern cpus have dedicated hardware for that.
So as a freelancer I was paying $140 a month with a $500 deductible.

Now with Obamacare I am paying $260 for the same level of coverage.

How is that helpful to me? I'd love to hear some positive stories, because I'm just paying more and making less in my pocket, while people who don't work are getting health care for free.
I don't really agree with the proposition that a university degree has anything to do with or should have anything to do with critical thinking skills. A university degree simply implies intimacy with the existing knowledge in a field. This notion that because information is available you don't need to expend effort learning it and you will be just as effective is counter productive as well.
I knew I had seen that first image somewhere... https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bb/Fatboy_Slim_-...
This is really cool, thanks for pointing it out... I'd, personally prefer that some of these implementations allowed for both a mongo wire protocol compatibility, as well as being able to use a similar interface within plv8 ... that would be awesome.
I might, but I refuse to click on such a link-baity title.
Sparkfun to offer SIM cards for 6mo with unlimited data
I disagree. The company I work for provides software to schools and school districts, which tend to be pretty far behind the technological curve. After analyzing our usage patterns, we were able to drop IE8 recently.
It works great, but if you don't allow this to operate in incognito windows there is no way to bookmark webpages easily, unfortunately! Google needs to fix that bug.
any attacker who gains a foothold of your operating system execution environment can trivially subvert your security as well. Does that mean crypto is broken on PCs?

Yes, of course your crypto is broken if an attacker has malware running on your device. The difference between that scenario and Coinbase is that your device only affects you. A break in Coinbase's security will affect hundreds of thousands of people.

Assuming your are using SSL, what exactly is the attack vector for getting a "foothold into your javascript execution" besides hacking Coinbase itself?

There are at least three vectors. First, XSS. If Coinbase ever has an XSS vuln which allows JS to execute in the same context as their crypto key generation, then that attacker can silently siphon keys as they're being generated. Once enough keys are under their control, they can transfer the BTC of every account they control to the attackers' own wallet.

Second attack vector: Third-party JS libraries. If Coinbase is loading JS from any external source, any rogue employee from that source can launch the above attack. This attack may seem unlikely, but greed makes people do strange things, and the amount of money able to be stolen from a successful attack on Coinbase will be in the range of millions, if enough users start using multisig vault.

The third attack vector, which a sibling comment mentioned, is a rogue browser extension. Several extensions request permissions on "all websites," and users happily approve them. Now, you can say "Those people deserve what they get," but that's unproductive victim blaming. The fact is that users already behave this way, and letting them lose thousands of dollars for approving some silly extension like "Cloud To Butt" isn't a good thing.

Banks do a pretty good job of defending people's money. If they lose people's money because they're attacked, the bank will still credit the money. Would Coinbase?
Well why would you invite a pizza delivery guy in without any pizza? Actually now that I think about it I don't ever recall inviting a pizza delivery guy into a dwelling as opposed to paying at the door, so that wasn't a very good example. But I thought your objection was 'not really a pizza delivery person' as opposed to 'not actually carrying pizza'. It sounds like you would be OK with it as long as you got lunch out of it :-)
> Why is everyone so negative on here?

It's a very common trend on HN to nay-say anything that changes the status quo.

Rather than looking at all those cool things you listed and saying "wow, this has great potential, I hope x,y&z..." It's much more popular on HN to say "This will never work, it's a stupid idea to change the status quo".

It's like HN'ers are afraid of change, or afraid of trying something new.
In addition, the issue was leaked pre-announcement among a great many parties who had time to prepare.
And what happens when the amount of your users drops slightly or that hired dev is now worth more money? And what about the other costs on complexity in your codebase? I think the revenue needs to far eclipse one dev's salary to justify keeping IE6 support.
The artifact is suggestive rather than conclusive. However, I'd argue that the "human presence" part actually was a surprise. If that really was a Brandis sextant box that had been surplused from the U.S. Navy, it indicates a human presence on the island during a relatively narrow time period, roughly 1919-1937. During that time period the only documented human presence on the island was the survivors of the wreck of the SS Norwich City and their rescuers in 1929, and accounts of that event indicate that they were never on the part of the island where the sextant box was found. The sextant box was also found near a number of large bones which were clearly identifiable as human. Where did that person come from? Were they shipwrecked on the island sometime between 1919 and 1937, but in a different event than the Norwich City wreck? What ship went missing in that area of the Pacific during that time period?

So anyway, this is just some circumstantial evidence. But it's not the only evidence that TIGHAR has. If you start combing through their website, you'll find they have a bunch of independent circumstantial evidence, none of which is conclusive by itself, but taken together starts to look suspicious.
TFM: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/local-ssd
I believe that to be a drush issue. drush cc drush should have fixed that.
Well put. Unfortunately, too many people can't get past "the government is taking my money".

It is a bizarre consequence of our modern politics that so many have become so enchanted with this mantra, as if there is "correct" portion of each dollar that should go to the government, and whatever is currently being taxed is too much, regardless of what needs to be or should be paid for.
Or for that matter if you ever spontaneously change genders (statistically speaking), because getting health insurance prior to guaranteed issue was treacherous for women. We were routinely denied family coverage.
Young, healthy people will get screwed by any mandatory government healthcare system, but my view in general is that having strong government oversight of healthcare is just a good thing. With reference to this Guardian article, the US spends $8,362 (Private individuals, Government, and insurance combined) per person. Contrast that to the UK which spends $3480 per person. While I hate paying taxes just as much as the next person, I do think I get very good value for money for my National Health Service.

Universal healthcare is just a good thing.

http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2012/jun/30/healthc...
The date was scheduled to allow people a quick update. It could have been released oob, but would have caught many people by surprise.
Yeah. The xorg.conf file was a little old example. Though I keep coming back to Linux every few years to check, and the 'making executable an executable' problem is still there from my very recent experience (like 3 to 4 months back). Right at the time I was being impressed by how easy it was to isntall Ubuntu from my Windows partition, I couldn't believe when one of the professional products we use in our office had these official installation instructions for Linux: "1) Download the file, 2) go to the command prompt and make it executable by typing <whatever>" ... Now I understand it might be that the product makers haven't updated themselves, but it's definitely a turn of for a lot of people.
One way to think about it is that you're paying an extra $120/mo for protection against rescission.

Another way to think about it is that you're paying $120/mo for the guarantee that you'll be able to obtain coverage for your spouse and children in the future. That guarantee did not exist at any price prior to ACA.

I'm not sure how to respond to your last point, because people who don't work have always received health care for free. The backstop for health care financing has never been "no health care". The backstop is bankruptcy, which isn't an issue for the unemployed poor.

By extending health care to people who can't afford it, the ACA has probably lowered your costs over the long term. That's because the most expensive possible way to provide coverage is through emergency room visits, which is how the uninsured obtain coverage.
...people who don't work are getting health care for free.

And some of them would love to work and pay for their own healthcare. But instead of focusing on economic development and employment, the government was debating the ACA. I don't think it's a coincidence that there is massive underemployment out there. The labor force participation rate hasn't been this low since women started leaving the home to work last century.

From the article:

Critics of the Affordable Care Act have
often warned that the program would be unfair
to the young because it limits the ability of
insurance companies to charge higher rates to
older customers, who tend to be sicker. But
young adults show the largest reductions in
being uninsured of any age group.

...and the young have the highest unemployment rate.
Package managers usually have non-idempotent actions that might change parts of the operating system in non desired ways. That means that you could not have atomic operations ala SQL. There is one packager manager that solves that, Nix(from NixOS), on top of which you could apply something like an SQL language.
This is the rhythm of the night!
Drupal warns unless you patched within seven hours, you're hacked
This is definitely true in some cases, although I think the article was trying to only include places without the income restriction.

In my case, I got two associates degrees essentially free: I had a scholarship that covered all but about $3000 my first year. The second year, my parents income had dropped to the point where government grants kicked in - the grants not only covered the remainder of my tuition, but also gave me about $3000 in stipends.
Larry Wall also says that the P can equally be validated as "Pathetic". And it's a lowercase Perl, not PERL.

Source: the Camel book.
You don't need a key for downloading. For uploading, you use an access/secret key pair from https://archive.org/account/s3.php You then add that to the ia tool with "ia configure".
Maybe because the iPhone 6 has a different width than an iPhone 4?
Coming belgium this Jan. Excited!
I guess i haven't worked with this kind of stuff before, but i'm having trouble figuring out how it would work with these sounds.

These sounds are meant for web apps, right? I would imagine they will wind up in a source control repository for a web app.

So there's only one individual that's allowed to add them to the source control repo?

The license says "It is unlawful to distribute any of the audio files to ANY ADDITIONAL USERS", does that mean it's unlawful if other individuals have access to that repo and check it out? Or they can check out the repo, but they can't... write code that uses the sounds added to the repo, only that one guy can write code? Can another individual fix bugs in his code? Can another individual deploy the code? Or to the other extreme, as long as you have one individual committing all the sound files to the source repo, the entire rest of the company can then write code using them?

None of those make much sense, I can't think of anything else that does.

But if Boom Library has the same sort of license and has been succesful, then either it makes sense in a way I don't understand... or nobody uses Boom Library for projects from companies or team entities, just one-man operations... or everyone's just ignoring the license and doing what they think probably makes sense.

Looking up the Boom license, it does say "If you want to purchase a multiuser license, please contact us directly." So I'd guess some are doing that, and others are probably ignoring and violating the license.
The future of Docker (interview with Jeff Lindsay)
> Isn't the whole point of project Ara that you can disconnect components and the phone doesn't crash?

If the CPU is disconnected from the device it will not continue to function. Failing gracefully is the best you can do and even that is incredibly hard. Are you going to give the CPU its own battery so it can keep its cache when removed?
I can highly recommend these two books for an
engaging introduction to getting things right in the rocket business:
Ignition! An informal history of liquid rocket propellants
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/677285.Ignition_
and
Space Systems Failures: Disasters and Rescues of Satellites, Rocket and Space Probes
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1015478.Space_Systems_Fai...
I'm hoping the JSON & plv8 support gets much more in the box, and that the replication setup becomes more baked in as well.

Right now, I'm migrating from MS-SQL to a MongoDB replica set for most of our core data. Mainly because the failover works better than most, and the licensing costs for even MS-SQL with replication and failover are budget blowing. Most of the PostgreSQL options for replication are really bolted on with some serious drawbacks, and automatic failover to a new master is another issue.

I've always liked PostgreSQL (and Firebird for what that's worth)... I do hope that some of these features become more of a checkbox item during installation, and less of a bolted on, have to compile and dive into the deep to get them, and even then only have it half baked.
Total link bait..

Some guy just advertising MS Surface.

Here's the cached version: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:-H30gQ...
It is a SQL-injection bug. The consequences of such a bug are pretty grave, and include remote code execution.
Except the US spends $8,362 per person per year. The UK spends $3,480 per person per year. http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2012/jun/30/healthc...
Loved it! Feels nice to see the pioneering spirit at HP is still alive.

A cursory look at the SDK shows that it's mainly WPF and C++ (QT?) which might make it easier to develop apps. Looks interesting.
Git Internals–Git Objects
As the map clearly shows, the people who were helped most are all the new people who joined Medicaid when it was expanded.
Anyone can generate an S3-like/API key. They have the same rights and restrictions as someone using other methodologies. So, for example, you can upload into the general Audio or Texts collections, but you can't upload, say, right into the Grateful Dead archive or the CD-ROM collections we have.

In the future, we hope to have it that accounts will be assigned and de-assigned by some credential different than the current somewhat-binary approach we have now, but that functionality doesn't exist yet.

So basically, upload is constricted like before. Download, however, is as unconstricted like before.
Wish I could upvote you twice. His posts are amazing.
Only short-sighted greedy people are unhappy.

The polling numbers disagree with you:

http://kff.org/interactive/health-tracking-poll-exploring-th...
>Even Microsoft is trying.

Well why in the name of all good design did Microsoft not put out a version of IE9 for Windows XP while it was still supported? That would made everything so much simpler, including for them -- after all, they have to worry about IE8 just like the rest of us, XP or no.
What's your point? The US outspent all the other countries prior to the ACA as well.
It's best to follow the security announcement list. Such announcements are also posted to https://drupal.org/security and the release notes (click through from the upgrade warning).
About 5 years ago, at age 25, I found out I had a thyroid tumor for the second time in my life. My employer based coverage dropped me citing a surgery I received at 16.

Not only was I employed full time, I was restarting school. I lost everything. Tuition I paid, loan privileges, I had to sell everything, my credit sucks. Until the ACA went into affect I avoided doctors, even for big stuff because I was terrified of getting my family dropped.

I can go to the doctor and many people I know from cancer support groups can get insurance now, I'm not just talking about those who don't work, it was really hard to just get a company that would cover you when you've had cancer multiple times.

I know it sucks for some people but it's helping so many people who really needed the help.
Host with a private repo on Github Pages.
"If we can lose an entire 777 today..."

This starts to look more and more embarrassing in retrospect.
All that’s great about CoffeeScript in 40 characters
Charismatic speakers 'manipulate their vocal frequency'
Why? Didn't they plan for security updates?
This is rather impressive. In the video, for just a moment I thought he was going to take off directly from the freeway. Top speed of 100mph, range of up to 500 miles. How can I get a test ride?

It does require a pilot's license, and has lots of regulatory hurdles...
So post-menopausal women are now required to buy a more expensive plan that includes maternity coverage because, "insurers aren't allowed to exclude sick people anymore." Sure...that makes sense.
Startup Liability Insurance
How do P2P start-up websites, like TaskRabbit or Care.com, handle general liability insurance?
Admittedly, Saint-Exupery's WWII recon plane might have been shot down.

And in the case of Earhart, it was a boundary-pushing world record attempt. ;)
First things first; the card data is encrypted on read and the device will soon be PCI certified. So none of the card data will be accessible to anyone on the device.

The transaction data (amounts, items, transaction statuses, etc) is managed by the PoyntOS (owned by Poynt). That data has the necessary authentication and authorization around it to prevent just anyone with the device from having access to it. Only a merchant user logged into the app and with the appropriate level of privilege will be able to access the data.

Finally, 3rd party applications will go through a strict vetting process and will be signed. Therefore, it will not be possible for some fake app to work on the device. Also, PCI requires us to constantly monitor the installed application for any kind of tamper.
I am not sure. But they are dropping IE8 support so they can start using rems.
That neither agrees nor disagrees with what I said.

But if you want to make broad sweeping statements about political party affiliation and views on social good Vs. personal wealth/greed, then it more supports what I was saying than anything (see political party Vs. views on Obamacare graph).
I don't really understand this comment. If you're posting on HN you probably care about startups. And generally, startups don't or can't provide health insurance to their early employees. Which leaves the startup game to the very young and very healthy. The ability for everyone else to have the opportunity to leave their existing job (aka healthcare source) and strike out on their own should surely increase due to this.
Pretty common here (New Zealand).
... the most expensive possible way to provide coverage is through emergency room visits, ...

By which time a generally very treatable condition has become acute, and then very expensive to treat no matter what.
Am I the only one who actually thought that video was going to show some sort of demo for the new release? hahahah. I was actually pretty disappointed when that didn't happen.
Before the split they where easily making 5+ billion profit per year and had 317,500 Employees. So, while I don't know all the numbers post split I doubt there having many issues right now.