skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly.

For example, the (also Seth Rogan / James Franco) film Pineapple Express: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/pineapple_express/

58% rating from "Top Critics". 73% rating from audiences.
For comparison, the Nike+ FuelBand teardown: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xdajSS_cOU

(Warning: very lengthy and detailed, contains some humour.)
Revisiting the “Cookieless Domain” Recommendation
They won a long time ago.
How do you know it's a botnet? For all we know the attackers have list of compromised servers that they use. I know the distinction is thin, but it still exists.
Seriously though, Guardians of Peace is a name that could have only come from someone that's fanatical or someone that's got a great fucking sense of humor.
They may well attempt to rerelease it, and its notoriety may attract a decent opening weekend. But notoriety alone won't save a turkey. If it's actually bad, this incident won't be able to turn around its long-term prospects. If it's good, that's a different story -- but if it were good, you'd think Sony wouldn't have pulled support so quickly in the first place.
Sony should release it free on YouTube.
I don't understand what this has to do with hacking in particular.

That they had a list of theaters showing the film? It seems trivially easy to find however many theaters you want, just by googling.

It just seems confusing.
Ask HN: Is Yahoo Relevant?
I just visited the Yahoo site after about 2 years,
just to see what they're about. What I found was a bunch of aggregated "popular" news, none of which I would ever read. I tried there search engine and the results were reasonable but not superior to Google. Every one seems to be touting Marissa Mayer as saving Yahoo. What am I not seeing here?
Interview with Mattan Griffel, CEO of One Month Rails
I assure you, if this happens again with a better movie more likely to make money, it will get shown. This is a business decision.
Logisim was last updated in 2011, and just a ~month ago Author announced he is ceasing development.

http://www.cburch.com/logisim/retire-note.html

He probably could make some money by tooling it into a ios/android app. EveryCircuit is similar in spirit and quite popular.
If someone with broken English successfully hacks your company's internet firewall, are the odds improved that they will blow up your garage next? This seems strange to me.
I agree I just had to rage for a second. At some point, I'll have to learn to into TDD or just start using sanity checks liberally (because I've lost mine)

Thank you for taking the time to read =)
We differ in that I would group this action together with espionage and sabotage, but if you are looking for other examples of nation state sponsored 'malice' attacks the Syrian Electronic Army's ("state-supported") attack of Ebay, Paypal, Ferrari, Walmart, media organizations, security companies, government twitter accounts, and Microsoft (and others) are examples of attacks that are meant to hurt reputation and cause chaos more than they were about data or finance.
Sony: No VOD Release for 'The Interview'
Right, I should take exemplary lessons of politeness and politics from Greg and Linus.
Do you just install from source? Or do you use any of the debs? Which one? Are you on Debian or Ubuntu?
Am I right in saying that the complaints with btrfs in CoreOS are specifically around its use in conjunction with Docker?

(Interested as I'm thinking about building a homebrew NAS/general purpose server w/ btrfs, there's a lot of outdated info on btrfs but I was getting the impresssion that it's now a pretty stable and useable filesystem)
Sure, here's a small sample: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/19268997/20141218_013221...
According to QuantCast (https://www.quantcast.com/yahoo.com?country=US), Yahoo still has 74 million users monthly. That's a pretty big number and puts them in the top 10 of US Internet Traffic. People still use them for news, search, and other web properties such as Flickr. Rest assured, there is money to be made from this kind of traffic, and Marissa Mayer is "trimming the fat", aka reducing costs, which generates more profits.
So let's say there's a gene that might be useful to me. I have a listing of base pairs, but it would be very expensive to extract DNA/RNA from actual specimens. I chemically assemble an exact recreation and inject it. Is this synthetic biology?
A technically more correct way of putting it might have been "alters our gene expression", but that isn't as grabby-- not to mention the additional buzzkill that gene expression constantly changes throughout the body due to a plethora of factors, whether you exercise or not.
The first one links to the second; the second is a broken link.
I wouldn't even limit it to semi-official government leaks.

For instance, New Gingrich said:

> No one should kid themselves. With the Sony collapse America has lost its first cyberwar. This is a very very dangerous precedent.[1]

> @RobLowe it wasn't the hackers who won, it was the terrorists and almost certainly the North Korean dictatorship, this was an act of war [2]

So now we have uninformed rhetoric coming out from people who—unfortunately—may have their opinions viewed as credible due to their past as an elected official. This was a candidate for presidency in 2012.

[1] https://twitter.com/newtgingrich/status/545339074975109122

[2] https://twitter.com/newtgingrich/status/545339504803196928
.cc = cycling club (yes, I know, not officially). It's reasonably common - not just Rapha but road.cc, vulpine.cc and others.
Free iOS app to create plain colored wallpapers
Well, that's not supposed to happen.
This has essentially happened already. Comedy central censors South Park in a direct response to threats made against them regarding depictions of Mohammed.
Better webfont loading with using localStorage and providing WOFF2 support
Steve Carell North Korea Comedy Also Cancelled
Guests now able to use Chromecast without sharing wifi password
The US government is never going to release all of the evidence it has because they don't want to explain how they obtained it, which would be the inevitable follow-up question.
I would be really surprised if this kind of software could be used accurately in any way. Especially on the vocal recognition part. As any kind of neural network technology, vocal recognition needs a lot of training input to work properly. As the web is primarily a text-based medium, this kind of technology works very well in languages where the spoken language is close to the written one (that's why it works quite well in English for example) but it's going to be really hard for languages where the spoken & written forms have taken a completely separated route.
> best advertisement method for visitors and website owners

The problem is, they are not the customer -- the advertiser is the customer. The measurability of internet advertising is also its fallacy: while in traditional media outlets, advertisers just keep buying and buying "because our managers will fire us if we do not get the advertising slots before black friday", on the internet, advertisers discover that their ROI of black friday ads is very low and adjust their willingness to pay premium prices for them accordingly.

You forget the constraints that advertisers have been putting onto CPM based campaigns also: for example, frequency capping is a common targeting mechanism since the 90s: only show my ad 3 times to the same visitor within a 30 minute timespan. It involves a lot of cookie processing, session logging (think about race conditions when multiple ads are requested in the same pageviews, etc).

If you have 20 campaigns running with a decent frequency cap, you can get a LOT higher average CPM than otherwise (because advertisers get a certain guarantee of the amount of exposures / visitor).

Anyway, I'm all for disruption, and I've been the technical lead of an adserving platform for almost 10 years -- and I'm glad I had an exit and can leave the market behind me. It's complex, margins are extremely low, and you are only able to disrupt if you cater to the advertisers, not to the publishers/visitors. The things that are currently disrupting the market are only in the best interest of the advertiser, because hey, that's where the money is coming from. One of the more scary startups I encountered in the last months I was active was a startup that linked location data to visitor cookies -- buying "bogus" facebook ads to link a cooke to a location, and using that information as feedback for offline advertising (for example, how many people are able to see our billboard daily? how many people were in the football stadium when we ran our ads?). All kinds of red flags privacy-wise, but that's where the market is moving. Google is moving towards abusing their cookie (they have one big "super"-cookie both for advertising and gmail and search -- you cannot opt out of targeted advertising without opting out of gmail) and linking mobile location data with the cookie on your desktop.

Disruption on the publisher/visitor side is nice in theory, but I am very afraid it does not work in practice.
Sony says it will pull 'The Interview' from theaters
Only kilos? Compared to bamboo that actually sounds feasible.
On one hand no, it was definitely a 3rd party that allowed sent snaps to be permanently saved.

On the other hand, perhaps Snapchat is making an unreasonable promise to their users (send data to someone else that will be auto-deleted) that is fundamentally impossible to enforce.

It depends on your point of view.
I see this type of comment across a number of fields - why isn't X safer?

Generally is comes down to the 'insurance' argument - why didn't we spend the time (read: money) to test and prevent for X?

The answer corms down to the risk/benefit.

It's possible to insure your house against total loss, against any type of threat. You could build it on the shoreline of a known hurricane location, or on top of an active volcano, and insure it for full replacement. All you have to do is deposit an amount equal to the replacement cost in an account - if you suffer total loss, spend the money and replace the house.

Where people go wrong is by thinking that problems can and should be prevented at any cost. But the issue is that thinking that way leads to excessive costs for the thing in the first place. It would be possible to design a highway system where nobody ever died. However the cost would be so high that very few highways would be built, so the advantages of cheap and easy travel are lost.

Likewise, it would be possible for Microsoft to build an automated testing and checking software that never made a mistake. However that would make azure uncompetitive or unprofitable. It's cheaper just to hire good people and accept that occasionally, something might go wrong.

Some software is actually made to never go wrong. That software is in satellites and mars rovers and the like. Even then mistakes happen due to the nature of complexity and probability. But the cost per line of delivered code for a satellite is orders of magnitude higher than the cost of azure management code.

You really only need to look at problems when the cost of fix is much better than the cost of potential loss. That's why planes are safer than cars - because the loss of a big plane and passengers is a very costly event.
Not only is sensitivity an issue, but also frequency range. I feel quite confident that more technologically advanced civilizations will communicate at frequencies we are currently unable to demodulate. It's more efficient. Look how our frequencies have scaled on the order of a hundred years.
The South Park episode you speak of still aired. But the depiction of Mohammed was "censored."

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/201_%28South_Park%29
Wikipedia now has an article on this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cover_your_ass
Hitler (Adenoid Hynckel) falls off a vehicle and arrested and humiliated by his own men in classic Charlie Chaplin style. It's a great hilarious movie but there's no dignity in it and there's certainly an empowerment fantasy involved.

Maybe you should rewatch The Great Dictator.
Yup, libertarians have being saying for years that there is an unequal distribution of "justice" towards those with brown skin and that the militarization of local police is dangerous territory. People, especially on the left, mischaracterize libertarians as racists who don't want to pay taxes and then the right thinks we're tin foil hat wearing pacifists ready to surrender to the jihadists.
I managed to extract the raw minute-by-minute data from the Band using some hacky tricks. I was thinking of posting a howto, but trying to check if it runs into problems with the CFAA/DMCA. Might post something tomorrow after making sure it's legally sound.
I just visited Walmart after about 2 years, just to see what they're all about. What I found was a bunch of cheap stuff, none of which I would ever buy. I tried their fountain drinks and the results were reasonable, but not superior to Target. They also had lots of rack space devoted to tampons and other "feminine hygiene" products, which being a man, I never use. What am I not seeing here?
Thanks Dennis. I see that the quantcast graph shows a downward slope and a loss of about 8 million users per month for the last month. Extrapolating based on this trend doesn't look very good. Are they doing anything to fix this? Does anyone on HN use Yahoo regularly?
It's certainly true that a ransom was demanded first, giving Sony a few days to respond, and then only after the compromise was completed were demands made to remove 'The Interview'.

It truly is difficult to attribute and only with more evidence and a more careful analysis of timeline, the malware, and the communications will things come into focus.

One thing I have not yet been able to find are numbers for the ransom. I've seen the emails demanding ransom and the defacings demanding the same, but nowhere have I seen a number of dollars being demanded. Have you seen that anywhere?
I write a lot of JavaScript and one thing that helps me is using Firefox Developer Tools or the Chrome Developer Tools. Usually you will get a decent error message, although it's not perfect. Another thing to check out is a framework (like Backbone.js) - it'll make your life so much easier in the long run. Also, JavaScript kind of has it's own take on traditional design patterns, which I use frequently. Addy Osmani has a free book that has proven to be invaluable for me - http://addyosmani.com/resources/essentialjsdesignpatterns/bo...
The difference between Facebook today and Yahoo during the dotcom bubble and the investment feedback loop is that Facebook's revenue is already a lot larger than what startups spend on advertising and user acquisition.

A similar argument was made against Bitcoin, that the value was derived from VC investment. When I calculated the figure it turned out that if the total of all VC investment into Bitcoin went towards purchasing coins, it would only have made up 4% of market cap.

You could do a similar calculation with Facebook and user acquisition pricing, although seeing Facebook is at $12B p.a while Yahoo was at hundreds of millions while VC investment is about the same in both periods leads to a conclusion that Facebook is drawing in a lot of new revenue from old ad industry.
Simple and Fast Multimedia Library 2.2 Released
I am very reluctant to commit to a framework. But I like using jQuery.
Not true. I went to Cuba twice from the USA, legally as a student with an OFAC license. This was in 2002 and 2003.

First time via Toronto (Baltimore -> Toronto -> Havana).

Second time we took one of they very few available IIRC American Airlines flights from Miami. Baltimore -> Miami -> Havana.

Believe it or not, the Canada trip was much easier. In Miami we encountered a lot of hostility from the Miami Cuban immigrant community. Eg, the gate to fly to Havana was really hidden in an obscure place between two terminals, and we felt people were jerking us around when we asked how to find it (we were literally sent to both extreme ends of the airport a couple times). Returning we had some aggressive questions from an immigrations officer when he found out we weren't visiting family there, and sent us to the line for getting our bags fully inspected for farming produce contraband.

So yeah, it is possible to fly there from the USA legally, but in our opinion flying waaaay out of the way to Canada was actually easier and less stressful.
As mentioned by others, there isn't any solid evidence here. I consider NYT one of the more reputable news sources out there (the bar is pretty low...), but this situation reminds me all too well of the following which I half-jokingly shared with a friend recently:

How to be a media outlet in 5 easy steps:
- do not provide any sources, at all, unless of course you're dogfooding
- make bold claims based on hearsay, comments from random strangers and uneducated/irrelevant celebrities
- judge and slander people before any researched verdict has been reached
- spread lies and make them truths through mob behavior, then support your original lies by pointing to the "public consensus"
- do not take responsibility for any of your actions, ever, unless it generates money and/or attention

The repercussions of these half-assed "investigations" worry me to say the least.
I'm getting no results for SFO->ORD or SFO->DFW in January 2015. Am I doing something wrong?
Way better than the movie. The book is always better than the movie.
Sorry, I misspoke, I meant the prevailing theory that North Korea is even involved in this. There's basically no evidence that North Korea has any involvement

Wired has a good write up on the lack of evidence http://www.wired.com/2014/12/north-korea-did-not-hack-sony-p...
I figure the last two years of President Obama's term are going to be one wild ride. He has clearly shown he could not if he harms others in his party politically and he certainly could care less what the Republicans think.

Freed from any need to cooperate; now that Republicans are in control; with Congress its going to be fun. Why do I say no need, with Reid in charge of the Senate he had to play by party rules, he is free of that.

Some moves will definitely be for the good, some may not be. Regardless it should be chaotic if not fun to watch
Wouldn't profits going to Sony and the MPAA already be antiethical to most hackers?
They've done a lot, like rolling out new updates to Yahoo Mail (where they can serve ads like Gmail) and other monetization things like offering prints for Flickr. Only time will tell if it will be successful. There are rumors that Safari on iOS will default to Yahoo, and that may help turn the numbers around a bit.
They should do a digital release or sell to netflix. Then we should air drop copies of the film over Pyongyang.
Ever tried memorizing the 60 times table?

The duodecimal times table is actually easier to memorize than the decimal one because while it is 44% bigger, there are many easy patterns.
Ehh, just pointing out that having more doctors is not that important from a public heath perspective. Plenty of people in the US for example only really see/need a doctor at birth for vaccinations and then suddenly die in there late 80's or early 90's. For much the same reasons that some people actually lived into there late 90's 2000+ years ago.

If nothing breaks there is little need to fix anything.
Good training data's partly hard to come by because there's often reasonably poor inter-annotator agreement on sentiment datasets -- that is to say, humans disagree a lot in how we interpret a phrase. What reads like sarcasm to you might read like genuine enthusiasm to another.

It's pretty easy to load up a set of data into a crowdsourcing tool and use microtasks to rate it, but my experiences doing so weren't superb (even restricting to native English speakers alone).

A better source of data is starred reviews where you have the star rating and the review itself -- these come free with a sentiment rating, although plenty of caveats around normalization. There are lots of places with review systems like this and some (like Yelp) even make the data available: https://www.yelp.com/academic_dataset
Licensing practice is mostly at the state level (aside from certain DEA pharmacy regulations). States that promote licensing, liability, and practice regulations that encourage more pharmacists and nurse practitioners to practice more independently have much lower overall health care costs (also dental hygienists, opticians, &c).

Your pharmacist is part of a system that got your health care right this time.
Exactly my point. Nat Taggart is being shown as incorruptible, within the standards of "corruption" that the author has placed into her Mary-Sue-Universe.

He doesn't just say "no", he throws the guy down three flights of stairs!
I'd rather this ship with the latest technology is transporting fuels from small drilling rigs than rainforest in Southeast Asia and South America being clear felled to make bio fuels.

Fuel use is morally defensible and fossil fuels are the most efficient fuel for the time being. Until a replacement tech is found and developed then the correct thing to do is find more efficient extraction, transportation and use of fossil fuel. Happily that's the way things are going as the current price drop demonstrates.
The Sinaloa Cartel's 90-Year-Old Drug Mule
> But what happens when fundamentalist, a la ISIS, decide to do physical harm for any film or song that humours their twisted ideology - will the film studios stop releases then?

I agree with you, they shouldn't be caving to threats. But they can't possibly believe that this is a credible threat. We don't have a whole lot of North Koreans emigrating here. TMZ has a slightly more likely theory [1]. Rather than genuine fear of attacks from North Korea, they contend that Sony simply wanted to bury the movie without looking weak.

"We're told the execs are actually viewing the latest threat as having a silver lining ... the threat of a 9/11-type attack will make so many theaters pull the flick themselves -- and Sony won't have to do it....Sony execs want the bleeding to stop"

[1] http://www.tmz.com/2014/12/17/theaters-cancelling-the-interv...
Resource Groups and Tagging for AWS
loliwm is another one.

https://github.com/Cloudef/loliwm