skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a lot of that is in the presentation of the tutorials and the documentation. There's a book on Oreilly called "Lightweight Django" that strips away all of the absolute non-essential cruft of Django and starts from scratch, slowly adding pieces from the framework as it goes along. It shows you why you need each piece and why it goes where it goes.

Django doesn't need the magic, it's just annoyingly presented that way.
That's the one. Thx!

Rootkit, Playstation Network hack, Baidu spyware, ... I want to believe in Sony, and yet, this. :(
When are you hoping to release the book?
Just unpacked my Sony Z3 compact, haven't installed a single app and its connecting to China... Needless to say, I will never use this phone or any other Sony product ever again.
This is the folder I found in my Xperia Z, latest stock firmware (Android 4.4.4) installed after a full wipe about a month ago.
Files are mostly empty.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ds1iyk5vffexrlx/baidu.zip.zip?dl=0
It's quite a game theoretical problem. Make a strictly standard compliant browser and nobody will use it, since it won't display most of the websites. You have to render badly formed pages somehow if you want your browser compete with other browsers, since they are doing the same.
But that kind of solution works only if you are self-hosting, or anyway have access to the server, doesn't it?
Anecdotal evidence from a fun show, plus the mandatory reference to Dunning-Kruger.

"Unfortunately, Kruger and Dunning never actually provided any support for this type of just-world view; their studies categorically didn’t show that incompetent people are more confident or arrogant than competent people."

http://www.talyarkoni.org/blog/2010/07/07/what-the-dunning-k...
Did this not get much coverage in the US?
Julian Assange claims Google is in bed with U.S. government in new book
It's happening for stock out of the box configs too. It has everything to do with sony.
> some familiarity with concepts that are entirely made up, such as the plates of parallax, ultra-lipid, and cholarine. In one study, roughly 90 percent claimed some knowledge of at least one of the nine fictitious concepts

Is it possible that this is at least partly down to the phrase "some knowledge"? Knowing what parallax or lipids are might be seen as having some knowledge of the concept.
Ask HN: Workarounds for selling apps from unsupported countries?
Any workarounds for selling apps on Apple Appstore and Google Play store from unsupported countries? i.e. countries in which you can't create a merchant account.

Thanks!
I'm willing to give SCEI (the Playstation unit) the benefit of the doubt still (despite their hacking scandal), but I'm surely done with Sony Mobile devices for sure.
That certainly borrows from Socrates: "I know one thing: that I know nothing."
Why I left my $254,895 PM role at Microsoft to start a Seattle tech startup
Ah, but can you trust the c̶o̶m̶p̶i̶l̶e̶r̶ 3D printer?
BlackBerry CEO: 'No One Is Cooking Our Funeral Dinner' Any Longer
Oh, my favorite Greek philosopher! :-)
> The duplicate detector is usually quite more clever than
> just exact URL match

This doesn't match my experience, but then I usually editorialize my titles if I'm resubmitting something I know is here already.
> Much like CS doesn't "stumble" onto new equations for modeling physics

Physicists come up with new equations for modeling physics. Metaphysicians make up elaborate reasons why they're actually intellectuals and not just on privileged-white-man welfare.
how exactly does your setup works when offline ?

what if you do understand the internet and stay away from centralized third party solutions and rather self-host your email because it is too sensitive to give away to giant corporations ?
I wonder what would happen if the situation had been reversed, and the USA President was sitting in the 'hijacked' plane.
Because General Relativity primarily benefited from evidence that a new model was necessary. A-priori thinking can help to expand the space of possible answers, but it's terrible at locating uniquely correct answers within any given space.
Easier UI Reasoning with Unidirectional Dataflow and Immutable Data
Each bucket looks like 5 - 8 litres. That's a lot of water. Might have to keep using to soapy water for more washing.
It certainly was invented by PhD students in AI.
Why I still program?
> It can dump the firmware but it can still execute something else than this (or in addition to) this firmware, can't it?

Well, of course, in theory. In practice the total amount of firmware space is limited. It's rather large, as these things go, at 256 or 512 KB depending on the exact model.

If it dumps a firmware close to that size, which passes scrutiny by several people, I would say that the risk that the chip still manages to contain a firmware which creates bad random data and a fake firmware is rather slim.

Of course it's not impossible, and if you made it a contest (which, perhaps it is to some people) I'm sure it could be done.

It's hard to trust digital systems of this complexity; what if you decide you don't trust TI (the makers of the microcontroller) in the first place, for instance? Building your own processor at this performance and size level isn't trivial.
I think the reasoning is that it's development, and in a very rapidly evolving ecosystem. Once you ship a product you should obviously bundle and maintain the libraries you use with something like docker.
I honestly don't think it could be worse. The incentives already seem quite weird to me - in Europe we don't typically have paid signature gatherers trying to petition people on the street and register them to vote. I find it very easy to see how people who are here illegally or who are here legally but not entitled to vote might end up being registered to vote by accident - I nearly (and criminally) registered to vote years ago while I was signing some innocuous-seeming petition to save whales or something like that in the middle of the street. At the time I hadn't been in the US very long, maybe a year? It was only because I'm the sort of pedant who reads the fine print on everything, even TV adverts, that I noticed the boilerplate text at the bottom of the form about how I would be breaking the law if registered to vote without being entitled. A lot of people just follow the instructions of the signature-gatherer, and those persons are a) paid by the number of people they sign up and b) not necessarily so well-informed that they realize the significance of the legal problems that illegal registration can cause for the registrant.

It's a bit disheartening we have papers that need to be in order

Agreed, and I don't think you should have to carry ID if you're not voting/driving/engaged in something which can materially impact others. But in a complex modern economy, government-as-ID-provider is about the nearest thing we have to a neutral honest broker, so I also agree it's unavoidable as a practical issue.
And the moral of this story is: Never trust any floating-point number whose bits you haven't polished yourself.
why the name calling ?

Sorry but the usage you described is exactly what the group of friends I was part of did in the 90's using an IRC channel. usenet would be public and a board would not update itself in real time.
India’s Answer to Uber, Ola Takes $210M Led by Softbank at $1B Valuation
Twitter vulnerability exposed – see the first tweet here
Reading /proc/pid/cmdline can hang forever
This makes me sad, I just bought the Z3c.
Ask HN: Shouldn't this HN post be ranked higher?
Can't we give a lot of money to the guy who made Sequel Pro to make a PG version?
Funny Video – Best Funny Fails Compilation – File_Funny
The post has:

- More points

- More comments

- Is more recent

Only it has been posted by a "newbie"... Should this really create that much of a difference in posts? (i understand a difference in comments, but in posts it's just link sharing). If it's something the community likes, they will respond and upvote it...

When Patio11 responds in a comment though, everyone likes to see him on top (he does have good comments ... )
Suggestion for modification: Call it OpenRNG instead of OneRNG. In every second sentence i read the word open. Its obviously a main purpose.
Apple Pay Registered One Million Credit Cards in First 72 Hours
Reading the thread from the startt, it seems that Baidu is used for pushing content to MyXperia.

MyXperia is their service similar to let you can remotely track or lock your device. My guess is they are using Baidu's push service to send the commands to device.

So I'd say this is a poor choice of service provider from Sony - especially for non-Chinese versions - but _probably_ harmless.
With go, you should absolutely vendor your dependencies. Unfortunately, the tutorials and docs on their site do not point that out strongly enough, I guess a lot of beginners will be bitten by this in the future.
If what you're saying is true, then it's a pretty gross breach of trust and privacy. I don't care how small a community is, there should be some minimum expectation of privacy around a transition, independent of the legality.

Drop me a line - mallyvai at offerletter.io - I guide a lot of other engineers on job-related stuff (i founded offerletter.io ) - we may be able to help here (and we're absolutely discreet about this stuff :-)

-V
> plus the mandatory reference to Dunning-Kruger.

Well, the article was written by David Dunning, the one the effect is half-named for, so it is almost literally mandatory that it is mentioned.
"completely arbitrary from addresses with no configuration necessary"

That is the main reason I still use mutt. I like to be able to edit my from header when sending messages without having to pre-create virtual identities and then pick from a list. I asked for this functionality to be added to Evolution but apparently my use case wasn't common enough.
You and your employer have a simple arrangement that you provide him with your time and expertise and he pays you an agreed amount every month for your trouble. You aren't marrying him. That contract can be terminated by either party under a variety of circumstances. Neither of you should expect some kind of loyalty to stay with the company. Don't believe for a minute that your employer wouldn't let you go if he had to or wanted to.

This is your career and your life. If it comes back on you then you explain that you are looking to earn your full potential.

There is an old adage in sales. If the customer wants to buy your product then the only thing that's stopping him buying it is the price.

You're the product. You need to be happy that your are being paid what you are worth, otherwise it will eat you up from the inside every day you get out of bed.
would be much more convenient if the article would say in the beginning what it is about...
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8-Year-Old CEO Reuben Paul Proves That Kids Are the Future of Cybersecurity
Jajaja http://jajaja.urbanup.com/1209537
Re address books and mutt. I recently integrated my Owncloud contacts into Mutt by following these instructions:

http://got-tty.org/archives/mutt-kontakte-aus-owncloud-nutze...

They're in German, but they're easy enough to follow even if you don't speak it (I don't). It works really well.
Has anyone reversed com.sonymobile.mx.android.apk yet?
right-click on the page and you have a refresh button right where your pointer is
Google Instant is trying to kill me (2010)
"Interplanetary exploration and exploitation" - in that case, exploration started long before 1995. We had Viking on Mars in the 1970s. On the other hand, we have no interplanetary exploitation worth talking about, and there are no colonies on Venus which would have rebelled. Nor one on Antarctica. So Heinlein was either too pessimistic or (much more likely) too optimistic.

"Antipodes rocket service" is not close. "Antipodes service" means non-stop service to the other side of the world. Concorde didn't use rockets and required several refuellings to get that far.

"Rise of religious fanaticism" Is there any time since that prediction was made that it wasn't true? The Christian right (in Heinlein's construction, they would be religious fanatics though not as severe as Nehemiah Scudder) has been influential in US politics since the 1970s, and managed to take over most state GOP membership by 2000.

"Commercial steroptics" too is a tricky one. There have been a number of 3D movies (red-green and polarized), including red-green 3D shows broadcast on TV. In the 1990s the place I worked at had 3D shutter glasses in order to visualize protein structures, and I saw an autostereoscopic laptop about 10 years ago. These were all from companies, so qualify as "commercial".

Why does then does "3D TV, Oculus Rift" count as particularly notable, other than being what there is now? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_television says "As of late 2013 the number of 3D TV viewers started to decline in popularity" and points out that "In July 2013 the BBC announced that it would be indefinitely suspending 3D programming due to a lack of uptake" and "In 2013, in the US, ESPN 3D was shut down due to lack of demand, followed by Xfinity 3D and all DirecTV 3D programming in 2014."

For that matter, "Also in May 1997, ABC had a special line-up of shows that showcased specific scenes in 3D. The shows included Home Improvement, Spin City, The Drew Carey Show, Ellen, Family Matters, Step by Step, Sabrina, The Teenage Witch, and America's Funniest Home Videos."

These suggest that there have been several phases where people believe there is a commercial market for 'steroptics', push it on the hopes of developing such a market, and then finding that it's a lot smaller than they had hoped. It may be that Oculus Rift is the first to crack the problem, that hasn't been established, and there are other head mounted displays stretching out decades before it, including the VR crazy of the 1990s.
For a 6-course menu, you'd need more, at least 8-10 pieces per person.
> You can provide additional guarantees and proofs, but showing me the source is item number 0.

And item number 0.5 is allowing me to build the source and upload it to a pristine EEPROM chip.
>Antonio Palmosi left the force after a bribery scandal in 2004

I guess, that is not exactly coincidence. Probably he got kickbacks from Pipino for not arresting him.
Yes. From the story "Logic of Empire":

"The general bacteriophage which has so nearly eliminated disease caused by pathogenic micro-organisms on Earth was found capable of a subtle modification which made it potent against the analogous but different diseases of Venus. The hungry fungi were another matter."
I totally thought this was Met Life Insurance, which would have been mildly plausible. ;)
I'm pretty sure he has dozens of agents (both Russian and American) following him 24-7. That's the only way for him to stay alive and not be kidnapped by an "adversary" (e.g. China).
I'm currently paying $10/month for GDrive, mostly because of the auto-awesome photo suite that automatically incorporates my full-size GDrive photos and lets me share easily on G+. While I love that perk, it just doesn't compare to backing up my entire family's data for $20/year each... and that's before including the free Office suite for each of us!

If anyone at Google is reading this, you can win me back by incorporating photo deduplication. I have well over a terabyte of duplicate photos that I don't dare delete, but could easily be deduplicated down to maybe 100-200GB. I'm sure deduplication already happens server-side, but the consumer is still stuck with endless copies in disorganized folders.

Sadly, this is almost certainly checkmate for Dropbox. I imagine they'll be acquired by Amazon, which has yet to offer a decent consumer-facing cloud brand and needs the economies of scale to compete with Microsoft and Google. Even then, I'm not sure how anyone can compete with the price of OneDrive alone... much less when coupled with the best-of-class Office suite.
I've had a lot of fun with electrostatics, but never thought to use it on a robotic gripper before. That's awesome!

Here's a video of some stuff stuck to my walls.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3knDxQpPRo

I was playing around with a high voltage ion generator, and was able to stick things to my walls. I was thinking of using it for helping to hang posters so they can be re-positioned prior to using more permanent methods.

I was even able to hang a phone book on the wall once by sticking pages down one by one.
Oh, I was considering that as part of the "build it myself" point, but yeah, totally.
Copyright or trademark infringement. Either way I fail to see how this affects national security. Isn't that what DHS is supposed to be about?
I guess its a comment about the morality of the rich. The idea being that to get rich, whatever rich is, it is assumed that they effectively stole from the poor. So taking it back is re-appropriation, or some such.

Personally, I see tax as the civilised way of doing that. Granted, that doesn't work that well, but then given our democracies, that up to the masses to vote for it, who are basically the poor.
Startpage appears to have been around a while and seems relatively open.

However, how does Startpage make money?

In fact, how does DDG plan to make money?
Note: I'm Paul the designer

You're completely right someone could put some other firmware on the image but have it return the correct one - we solve this by:

- padding the image to the size of the ROM (256k, the runtime image is ~10k)with random data making it incompressible
- signing the image (including the random bit) so that the image can't be altered

On a linux system the udev install script kicks off a process that starts with verification of the firmware image and finishes with putting it into service if verification passes.

This is open hardware - you can program it yourself, we'll be releasing both the hardware design and all the software in a little while - along with programmer for doing it - you just wont be able to create an image signed by us - but you can sign images and share them with your friends.

Note: what you can't do is program the device over the USB

As far as lifting the lid and verifying what's underneath is concerned we don't expect every user to open it and look at the board and understand how it works (we hope some people will and will verify our work) - but what you can do is look under there and verify that the board looks the same as images that we publish.
You are the experienced one on the team, and he is the new guy. Make sure he understands the hearty, and take a few weeks to mentor him in how things should work. Teach him the culture that you want to have at work. The fact that he is having some trouble is a good point for starting this relationship, but isn't necessary. You should be able to fix this.
How Perks Can Divide Us
it's a sad pun, we're from NZ ....
I'm curious why they chose to use an avalanche diode which doesn't generate quantum-random numbers, unlike a reverse-biased transistor.

As far as I'm aware, this means you could effect the numbers, by varying temperature.
I have only one active HN account. I wonder if only submitting my own blog posts might be considered wrong behaviour. I write on my blog once in 2-3 months, and submit it to HN. HN and reddit are my only source of good reads, so I rarely find something useful to submit; and I submit links when I find them.

Not commenting/submitting regularly is the only reason I can think of that can be considered bad on my part.

Here's my other account for which HN has gone read-only: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=channikhabra
Looking forward to the videos of this. Made my own own React framework too:

https://github.com/zubairq/coils
Well, that's the point - they shouldn't be coding for "free" - it should not be a real-world problem, which is most likely solving a stupid bug in a framework you use, or a simple CRUD/statistics script. Instead, you want a puzzle that is a challenging as it's interesting - e.g. some Code Kata as another commenter suggested. Basically, it should be interesting enough that people who don't want to apply to your job would want to solve it, and after they solve it, you offer them to apply, which they would be likely to do, because you've proven yourself a cool guy/girl.
Apparently, caffeine makes it harder to intake iron.

http://fscn.cfans.umn.edu/prod/groups/cfans/@pub/@cfans/@fsc...

And anaemia, stemming from lack of iron, leads to fatigue and irritability, which both suck balls for coding.

edit: What did we learn in the article?

1. 140 cups will kill me.

2. Up to six cups a day will result in higher or lower mortality, depending on the study.

3. A study has shown that caffeine may lead to higher bad cholesterol.
Planet Pet
> It even has a “tinfoil hat” to prevent RF interference

Isn't this a problem in the US, being against the famous part 15 of the FCC rules:

«Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) this device may not cause harmful interference, and (2) this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation.»
Why did you choose to use Twitter as the sole way to register? This might be old information by now, but I think Twitter is still very restrictive when it comes to giving out tokens.
Well, this is one "newbie", but not all "newbies" are the same. I also think it depends on the time span during which a post gathers upovotes and comments. You can't derive the position of a post based on points, comments and actuality of a post.

I think some things changes since pg posted the algorithm [0], but I can't find anything. Also make sure to check Google for "Hackernews ranking algorithm". [1] [2] [3]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=231209

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1781013

[2] http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really...

[3] http://www.quora.com/Whats-Hacker-News-ranking-algorithm
Huh, interesting. What's the rationale behind the 2nd condition?
Why More High-Tech Companies Are Doing Without Managers [video]
I never interacted with high DPI displays, but from my bedroom it seems like having a faster bigger keyboard .. maybe usefull but not the real bottleneck (except for fringe cases : high end CGI, movies, biology). Some times too much is a regression.
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Though the article does not take into an account the possibility that some may consume caffeine in powder form. You can find 100 grams, or over 7 times the lethal dose, for 13 bucks in Amazon [1].

As for who would use caffeine in such form are weightlifters and people interested in nootropics in general. I follow both communities online and from time to time I find some people overdosing caffeine by mistaking it to some other similar looking substance, like creatine or taurine. Though typical overdose has been about 3 grams, it has been enough to make the consumers force themselves to puke it out or get into ER.

I havent personally bought caffeine in pure form, but the idea has crossed my mind few times as these articles have started to pop out. I would not be surprised if caffeine would sooner or later be banned from being sold online.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/BulkSupplements-Pure-Alanine-Powder-gr...

EDIT: tried to simplify few sentences
Great, a good low-cost feature in the meantime would be useful messages when trying to import unsupported or corrupt files, seems nothing happens now?
Intune integrated into Office365
> And anaemia, stemming from lack of iron, leads to fatigue and irritability, which both suck balls for coding.

What if you take vitamins & minerals?