skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Never mind that if "boring" isn't the wanted option, the alternative is probably pretty much dominated by corporate identity anyways, where a blank slate is better than some involved design (e.g. gradients, desktop-like 3D look or material design).
If I were in your shoes, I would go to patio11's website (kalzumeus.com) and sign up for the email list at the very top. Trust me...
Just a small correction, it's $1.39 per 1000. Some competing services are as low as $1 per 1000.

> If your site does anything abnormal (whether it's 'what's n+n?' or 'what popular figure comes through your chimney in December?') a bot is hopeless.

Check out https://github.com/kbhomes/TextCaptchaBreaker for a great example of how trivial these are to break. And free too. Not to mention you could convert them to an image and feed them to a site like deathbycaptcha, antigate, etc. I've tried feeding some fun stuff like this through these services, you get interesting results and will likely have a high failure rate, but you'll get enough right to pass around 50-70% of the time.

Honeypot fields are pointless as a good bot just rips the whole form and fills in what it wants, if needed, executes JS too.

Of course, I'm assuming a determined attacker going after your individual site, not a bot just spamming random web forms. So it really depends on your threat model.
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How to enable Android’s new “Reader” mode in Chrome
Ha, yes, maybe self-driving cars would be safer if they also functioned as safety monitors.

--

"Take me to the ski resort, HAL."

"I'm sorry Dave, I can't allow you to do that. It's snowing along the way."

"Yeah, I know--that's the idea. I want to make some fresh tracks."

"Driving through the snow would be more dangerous than driving on dry pavement. In addition, I calculate that skiing is 4.76 times more likely to result in injury than reading a book. Please return to your couch; I will download a new book to your Kindle."

--

Incidentally, this was a major theme of Asimov's Robots/Foundation series--that intelligent robots programmed to prevent humans from coming to harm would become nannies of humanity in order to execute that command.
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> Many people suggest that startups not over-optimize on issues like security and performance when it's not their core business.
> The same could be said of Sony:

How so? The whole point of saying it about startups is that they are startups.. they have severely limited capital and resources and need to optimize for growth/revenue/continuing to exist.

This does not apply to Sony. If you are storing medical records and SSNs and you are multi-billion dollar company; there is no viable excuse that looks anything like, "uhh.. yeah well we are really just an entertainment company."
To be fair, wet roads confuse human-driven cars, too.
I appreciate the great deal of thought you put into this. I feel like a mini-Internet celebrity of the minute.

You are entirely correct about needing compose to type the symbol, but I use it so rarely, that I just copy-pasted.

It's not an umlaut though, it's a different diacritic called diaeresis. It makes me feel like I'm speaking a more awesome language when I use it.
You do that through a Security Risk Assessment. There are plenty of models (e.g. Octave) out there to help a security engineer conduct a Risk assessment on an organization's infrastructure. Moreover, a Security Risk Assessment is very strongly suggested by any Security Compliance Program that deals with sensitive information.

This dump clearly shows personally identifiable information, something that would be easily classified as sensitive (e.g. SSNs). I'm very sure Sony Pictures classified their leaked movies as sensitive since it would cause massive financial loss (which happened) if it was stolen.

If anybody was doing a Risk Assessment, protecting this critical part of the infrastructure would have been number 1 on the list.

Hackers are even claiming that a physical door with access to the sensitive environment was left unlocked. That's security 101!
Ask HN: Ever hired an intern or personal assistant? What was it like?
I'm beginning to consider hiring a part-time personal assistant or intern to help me with my work (I'm an independent consultant). I know about "virtual assistants", but I'd need more help than just researching things online or sorting through data. Also, I think I would prefer to have someone local (even working out of my office, maybe).

Wondering if anyone here has done this in the past, and what you've learned from it.
Manhattan Project Led to U.S. Nuclear Arsenal's Huge Costs
Funny. I just had my Uber driver take me on a 50 minute trip from the Kennedy Center to Union Station, a trip that usually takes 15 minutes, because he blindly followed the GPS straight through downtown. The entire time I was thinking: "it's 2014 and we still haven't gotten basic route-finding right; self-driving cars are a long way off."
Interesting, my workplace McAfee Web Gateway prevents me from accessing your site, the reason given is that it is a "Parked Domain". I rarely see our gateway block anything, and I've never seen one blocked for being a parked domain. Just wanted to pass this along, maybe you're missing out on some traffic...
this is very nicely done
I consider Apple laptops to be far less than good.

The keyboard is very specific to OS X and it's annoying to use under any other operating system. They don't build proper trackpad drivers for Windows or Linux last time I checked. They steer you directly towards the most expensive model if you're a professional because everything is soldered onto the motherboard.

You don't get a copy of Windows with it and if you're in business, you're going to need that as nobody in business really runs OS X (and that BYOD propaganda you're hearing about is just that - no IT department wants to infect their actual network with outside devices, so you'll most likely be stuck in some kind of DMZ without any real access.)

They're also stuck in the past. The Surface Pro is the future for mobile workers (but until Apple "invents" their version, I think most of the Apple apologists here on HN would probably disagree.)
I worked on Crush the Castle for Armor Games in the late 2000s. Angry Birds took the same game concept, added much cuter characters and art, and blew us out of the water with it. (No offense: we took it from someone else.) Now I feel kinda sad, kinda smug that their glory is fading a bit. Rovio seems to have forgotten the lesson that the greater your success, the more likely you are not to be able to repeat it. People tend to assume their best days are ahead, and thus expansion proves to be overexpansion when the best days turn out to be behind.
Maybe the carbohydrate to glucose pathway is for critical situations only and we should not relay on it for prolonged periods of time.

These are evolutionary adaptions that let us extract energy efficiently from our environment, maybe yesterday's sensationalist news about our alcohol dehydrogenase efficiency is proof that we should use alcohol for all energy needs.
great quant info in here
Great start!

One thing that I noticed immediately was the UX associated with the hamburger menu.

When the page content gets sufficiently long, you have the potential of scrolling beyond the hamburger menu. To jump to another page, you have to scroll to the top.

Potential solutions could be making the hamburger menu fixed to the upper-left corner, or provide UI widget to return to top of page.
If the tools are useful enough to attract backlinks, you might want to find a company that's audience would find value in your tools, and sell it to them as an seo strategy.
Here's the simple formula...

1. Content Development: Build a linkable asset (content or tools that people are compelled to share).
2. Outreach: Develop a targeting list of people who would likely link to your tool, and nurture a relationship with them.
3. Get Rich.

Packaged right, to the right company, you can probably charge $5k-$20k for the tool and another $5k/Month for outreach.
Native Android style in Qt 5.4
Does anyone know the basic differences between Julia's macros and Lisp macros? Are they the same or is one more powerful/flexible than the other?
http://newslines.org/about-newslines/

"We are the only direct competitor to Wikipedia ..."
ES6 “shorthand properties” are just begging to create hard-to-find bugs
Devolve is not the opposite of evolve. To devolve is to transfer ruling power to a lower level, e.g. from a central government to regional governments.

A species evolves to adapt to its environment. The opposite (if there can be such a thing) would be to not evolve.
you can hold the left/right arrow keys
> and all those important files were just lying around

That's it. Whether a designer was comprised through a phishing attack or a physical door with access to the sensitive environment was left unlocked, there were clearly no controls in place to manage all the files just laying around like money under a mattress.
While I agree this is a critical security flaw who in their right mind would expose phpadmin to the outside world? Is this something that is commonly done?
One of the interesting things we're finding as we start to coax machines to do human jobs is that humans tend to not accept a machine unless it's much better at the job than a human. For example, on many computer vision or NLP tasks, the current state of the art is about as good as most humans.

The problem is that when they're wrong, they're wrong in ways that humans wouldn't be, and the wrongness appears to be "broken" to us and we overweigh these incorrect responses because they're both wrong and not human in their wrongness.
I don't. All subscribers and traffic are organic from Google searches.
>This article read like a paid Google App engine advert.

Except for the fact it doesn't mention App Engine at all.

And Google does have a lot of other offerings besides App Engine.

Please go on about App Engine. Perhaps you should take a better look at Googles other offerings before you criticize.
Also about C++:

"One time I tried to create a list<map<int>>, and my syntax
errors caused the dead to walk among the living."
Bootstrap started out as framework for internal apps.
Should Computer Scientists Experiment More? (1997) [pdf]
I used this app to propose to my girlfriend. (actual review)
It's no easier for bots. They still have to answer the old OCR challenge or a computer vision problem.
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I love Hy and I've started using it several times but it still somehow has a few quirks that I bump into when starting to write serious code. Now it tries to reflect how Python works which isn't always that lispy: basically I'm waiting for more Clojure to creep in :)
"Inspirograph isn't mobile friendly... yet! A beautiful, ad-free Inspirograph app is in the works."

Wonder if that will be free as well. How would one go about transforming a (desktop) web app such as this one into an app for each mobile platform?

Edit: and here's the source:

https://github.com/nfriend/inspirograph

Looks like a bit of framework bloat (in my opinion), this is really the kind of thing that could cleanly be done with minimal frameworks and libraries. But the source still looks nice (and there's even a windows screensaver version??)
You'll need a fair few sessions, unfortunately. It's not a quick process. They're trained to know what to ask, how to be useful to you, and so on - at least, the good ones are!

Note: make sure you're going to a therapist - someone with years of training in the theory and practise of psychotherapy - not an untrained/semi-trained "counsellor".
Do you really understand SQL’s GROUP BY and HAVING clauses?
Does Amazon Local forecast the company’s future as a delivery company?
Why is drug policy "liberalizing" now? There's no new information.

There is. And because of it doctors really want to use marijuana derivatives. I know some of the folk running the NHS studies and doing some of the PHD work on endocrine effects.

Here's a couple of recent studies on Sativex.

http://www.gwpharm.com/oncology.aspx

http://www.gwpharm.com/GW%20Pharmaceuticals%20Announces%20Ne...

Also, you have organisations like Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, who have been working heavily behind the scenes for the past decade. http://www.leap.cc/
Divide Your To-Dos into Three Boxes: Observe, Analyze, Apply
I don't recommend trying this, but this guy made a fortune using his SEO value for ranking of years for car insurance search terms.

http://www.calculateme.com/

Basically, he published a bunch of calculators, got lots of links, built up pagerank (not a relevant metric anymore), and than built out unique content pages/ local directory for car insurance, and sold leads for a commission.

Strategies like this where the content and links are not relevant to the category (i.e. calculators to car insurance) probably don't work anymore...

But, if you can find an industry that is relevant to your tools, it should work really nicely, especially if you deploy it on their website under a resources section.
I would check out

Mathematics: From the Birth of Numbers
by Jan Gullberg

Beautiful book, goes from the counting numbers to partial differential equations. It's also a delight to read.

I would start that as a survey of mathematical concepts, and then move on to a good math engineering/physics textbook, like Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences by Mary L. Boas
Well to be fair most of their users probably are too "stupid" (aka were never taught) to do that.
There's a difference between not being able to hear and not knowing what to listen for. Listen to the highs on a well tuned hi-fi system and you can hear the difference between CD and SACD. Listen for the sound of a singer taking a breath or the slow ring of a cymbal. If you've never heard these things in person to begin with then you're at a disadvantage trying to hear how badly they are represented in recording technology from the 1980s.

Don't argue from a position of ignorance. Make friends with a recording engineer and have them play you a 32bit mix followed by a 16 bit mixdown.
Facebook’s Plan to Wire the World
Won't infrared sensors work well here?
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So true. Of course, you better not tell that to the person who wrote it. You might not get your bonus.
maybe u should go back to 2006
Seconded.
I can't remind myself enough that there are plenty of successful SaaS apps outside of the HN/TechCrunch/Pando loop.
Talk about tunnel vision...

Congrats on your success.
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And the world must know about you not caring.
Thank you for sharing the details! Creating something like this, and possibly having it pay my rent, is something I'm hoping to build in 2015.
So Amazon has "simplified" billing by removing a number of complicated options, but simultaneously adding a bunch of new options.

I much prefer Google's approach where the discounts "just happen". Planning for reserved instances, even before AWS added the crazy light/medium/heavy workloads, was always stressful (do I take 3 years? do I take 1?).
First thing I'm missing is, "Why not games?"

Second thing is as a creator, why not use Patreon, Indiegogo, Gumshow, or IndieAisle. Most of my books are on all the major platforms, outside of Google Play.

I can't see a compelling reason I'd list here, or shop here. The design is decent, but it feels a bit...generic.
It's very profitable. http://www.bricklink.com/
Hi Everyone. Initially the app was created to overcome the Twitter 140 character barrier, but as we were building the app we realized that we can use Mammoth Tweet app for much more. Would love for everyone to try and provide feedback.

Thanks.

Kevit
Firstly - What's with the fucking attitude?

Secondly - Did you see the words over optimize? There is certainly such a thing as too much optimization in terms of security. Would you hire police men to patrol your kid's lemonade stand startup? No.
This seems really useful, although it probably could be improved by more labels (restaurants, names of mountains etc.) That data is probably available from open street map, so it shouldn't be too hard to implement. It would also may be a better idea to not load a map by default, as it takes several seconds.
The R language, for programmers
Fine "Google Cloud Platform" then. Happy? They've changed the name a few times. If nitpicking is all you can criticise my post for them I must be doing something right.

People call Amazon's entire offering "EC2" all the time. People call Google's offering "App Engine" (because it existed first, and because initially it included more stuff than it does today).

It is pretty obvious that I was talking about Google's VM product ("Google Compute Engine") because this entire discussion makes no sense otherwise. You're being intentionally obtuse just to have something to whine about.
I think it's strange that they use Morris.js[1] for their graphs on the main pages, but don't mention it anywhere.

[1]https://morrisjs.github.io/morris.js/
Great article to read with the CloudToButt chrome extension
broke my mobile firefox too.
Without any experience doing what you're doing, I would say listen to what your users tell you. Review their emails and they'll tell you all you need to know about what they are looking for (enhancements maybe)? Learn to build a premium model after what they are asking for.
Photographic evidence or CCTV, by itself, is almost never enough to reach a conviction.
Oh man, I loved hacking on this game back in the day because the file structure was so straightforward and the code so transparent you could change basically everything, including textures, sounds, car types and interactions, physics - the whole lot.

Sadly, I haven't seen anything else since with that low of barrier that was as much fun to use. Motocross madness was another good example of that as well.

*Edit: I was actually thinking of Carmageddon 2 but its all about the same
I'm pretty sure you went into this article looking for excuses to call it a paid Google placement. If I were reading your comment through a similar lens, I would call you an Amazon shill but I don't think either of these posts were paid for by Amazon or Google.

>> “Google is making a dent and AWS is starting to feel the pain from a pricing perspective,”

>But they didn't announce a price reduction this week!

Uh, they announced a change related to pricing, not a reduction: http://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/simplified-reserved-instance...

>> says one ex-Amazon employee who asked not to be identified because his current employer works with the cloud company.

>Because they work for Google. Because this is a paid Google advert.

They don't work for Google. They work for a company that works with Google. That could be one of thousands (?) that are hosted on Compute Engine.
Are computers able to recognize a cat in a picture and tell it apart from dog?
What do you think of http://www.fatmap.com? Similar thing. I have seen a demo of this on mobile and it's pretty impressive. Also http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/01/fatmap-raises-seed-funding-...
We can just continue burning coal downwind of you then. Wouldn't want to move to something more expensive.
A farewell note to a programming language
Just FYI—the name of your project goes against the Dropbox branding guidelines: https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/branding
Tech.eu publishes EU tech M&A report for Q3 2014
Correct, I am referencing the new nocaptcha system. Those images would get stale as opposed to those in the traditional scanned book, street signs, house numbers in the recaptcha.
Sampling bias. At least in HFT, the days of hiring quants who can't code are over.
IntelliJ license agreement requires consent to use name in marketing materials
force it into the other extreme

No. Extremes are always bad - except in one case: me making this claim is also sort of an extreme. But the only good one, lol :]

For the rest: I think I know what you mean. I used to be self-analytical like that as well. Getting older though I found in the end it just made me unhappy because all this analysis (for me) led to mainly focussing on the bad points and ignoring all the good points. So now I'm easier on myself and instead of constantly trying to fix my whole self in one go I'm trying to do it rather gradually: firstly always try to do good and good only and secondly when I figure I'm not doing good (well, just admitting that and trying to fix it is already a good start and steps beyond what some ever achieve), or being way too biased, or wanting to kick people becasue they are being complete asholes, etc, etc, a short reflection going for example like 'ok, I'm too biased here, that's not so good, but it's also nothing to be ashamed of, just try better next time' or 'ok, the guys opinion clearly differs from yours and is possibly also completely wrong, but that does not mean he's a complete asshole. Better try to educate him instead of trying to kick his ass'. No idea if that makes sense to anyone but after some years of doing this I think I've actually become a better person. And definitely less unhappy. Nonetheless, sometimes I'll still be a complete ass myself mainly in online discussions. Working on it though :]
If you're using a mutex directly, it's because your higher-level concurrency constructs - task queues, actors etc. - are inadequate. If you're using goto, it's because your higher-level control flow constructs - if/for/while, exceptions - are inadequate. Likewise if you're using macros, I'd argue it's usually because your within-language constructs are inadequate; things like LINQ (which I've seen people use macros to emulate in other languages) are important and common enough that there should be a standard way of doing them in the language.
Those coments are mostly extrapolating results gotten in a place with a nice weather, and every inch of the road mapped.
Page loaded really slowly for me (and I'm not on a slow connection!). Got bored after a few seconds and left.
It's part of the move away from ownership and towards leasing and licensing of everything. Because there is much more profit there.

I started out as a BSD guy, who transitioned as the *nix desktop got better to gnu/linux. The more I learned about the differences between gpl/bsd and the more I thought about the philosophical underpinnings, the more I am convinced that Richard Stallman, while eccentric and sometimes hard to bear for some, was and is a man ahead of his time, and that he is absolutely right when he talks about the four freedoms.

Despite this, at my recent new position, I gave in and decided to dive into the apple ecosystem because "spend less time fixing your system and more time working!" was what I kept getting told. I also have apple users so the ability to support them is important.

That being said, I have been increasingly dissatisfied with the whole system, both in it's functionality and its philosophy. (which is a whole post within itself)

I'm about ready to scrap it all and return to something I have more control over.

The bottom line is this: If you don't have root on your device, you don't own it. (iPhone, iPod, iPad, Android phone, Windows phone, Smart TV's, gaming consoles, we are increasingly surrounded by devices we don't have control over. I was listening to a talk about why bsd is a better ecosystem, and it is, in many ways, and the presenter said something that really struck me. He said, paraphrasing, "...and we recently found out [whichever]bsd is in the playstation 4." He said it in a way that was supposed to be impressive, as in "hey look, our shit is so awesome and business friendly that it got put on the new playstation!" An audience member then said something along the lines of, "is the source code released?" And of course the speaker had to mumble "no" and move on quickly.

It's the epitome of the problem. BSD licensing enables companies to restrict the freedom of the user, full stop.

I truly believe GPL is just getting started in the future of science, technology, and communication.