skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is telling that the SR-71 has not been replaced with a better and faster plane.

It appears that without Kelly and his organization, the government/contractor world is simply incapable of the task. In spite of material sciences advances, computing and CAD advances, etc., not only can today's system not produce an improved version, it would not even be able to match the specs of the SR-71 in a new design today.

Of course some may say that the successor may exist but is so secret no one knows of it, but that is extremely unlikely. If it existed whoever created it wouldn't be able to resist taking credit.
Do those 10 repos include private repos? What is GitHub's policy about scanning/inspecting private repos in cases like this?
Silk Road prosecutors want to ban Ross Ulbricht's libertarian politics in court
For those trying to read this page but unable to deal with the broken JS, text dump to Pastebin: http://pastebin.com/munLi0Cy

Misfortune Cookie is a critical vulnerability that allows an intruder to remotely take over an Internet router and use it to attack home and business networks.
Nicely done :)

I would give it a try for other communities as well.
SS7 really isn't generally available, it'd be another carrier doing the insertion into the network.
Enjoy Glasses-Free 3D DVD on Sharp SH-12C Aquos 3D Smartphone
Maybe it's as simple as this :

Start a new research. Work with 1-sigma significance (~2% error rate allowed). Then investigate the favorite brand of soup of the brothers of cured cancer patients. Make sure to research about 50 brands.

Huge news ! If you get your brother to eat soup brand 23 you have a significantly higher chance to survive cancer ! Huge article in every newspaper.

What happened here ? 2% error rate.
You can mount NTFS case sensitive, but you probably don't want case sensitivity if you interop with Windows and, if you don't, why on earth would you use NTFS?
you learn something new everyday haha
Those reports (fiber that wouldn't melt, fiber going through glass) were second-hand reports from the sufferers themselves. They claimed that these things happened. The only actual lab report found that the fibers were normal household things of the variety you'd expect: cotton, human hair, rat hair, etc.

This is an unfortunate psychological disease.
It still wouldn't be the same case as neither Apple nor Google have anything near antitrust levels of monopoly
Males generally have a higher risk of suicide.
Where I live, that's a generally well-known fact, and is being addressed in various campaigns and programs.

It has nothing to do with entrepreneurship per se.
Farming becoming economic is a great sign to me. It shows there are places with a lot greater efficiency that are competing fiercely with the local source and are forcing specialization.

Services are not commodities: a service by one provider is not necessarily indistinguishable from another. Service providers, and producers in general, actually vigorously fight commoditization -- it creates an opportunity for a market, and this improves competitiveness and efficiency. The providers are comfortable with their high margin untradable goods, but consumers get high price variability and discover-ability. Since the service providers fully control the service, they are unlikely to ever allow a market to form.

Now imagine the opposite: imagine servers became fully commoditized. The market then would become highly specialized and efficient: you would probably be purchasing server time directly from the server manufacturer (chosen among many) through some contract and a provider (again chosen among many) would actually host the server and electricity for a cost. There's enough competition in the hosting business that this has essentially happened already: the commodity standard has become AWS. Low efficiency providers have been squeezed out for a long time.

It's hard to compare this to trading grains or iron, though.

The financial industry is 100% concerned with practical matters, since every stock is eventually linked to a real world property, value, good or service. It's a different matter if they are fair, though, as I discussed previously.
If I understand correctly, all of the femtocell products that consumers can purchase and deploy are little SS7 gateways that you can have right in your home...
If I remember correctly, the Marines use amphibious assault ships that don't have conventional runways (such as on Navy aircraft carriers) to take off/land on thus the need for a VTOL aircraft. A VTOL wouldn't be necessary for a Navy aircraft carrier (example: F18 Super Hornet). Another example of this is why the Marines wanted to keep the Harrier around for so long before it became too problematic and expensive hence why they wanted VTOL capabilities on the F35 JSF (also another factor in the cost/time overruns).
>Honestly, there's also something to be said for two-tier package management, ala OS X with Homebrew

Agreed, I really like the sound of that. Been aching for some time to have a stable base system like deb stable / slackware and then have my development toolchain specifically but other uses might surface / need bleeding edge.
Using Firefox (guess Chrome way is similar):
1. Turn off javascript
2. Load the page, you see only spinner
3. Right Click on the spinner => Inspect element
4. You see evil div element with id="preloader"
5. Right Click on it => Delete Node
6. ???
7. PROFIT
Do you have pics of the safety razor as a scalpel? That sounds kind of like a bread lame (google for "bread lame" for pics)

What's the process for making the custom finger splints? Do you use a point cloud device like a Leap Motion to model the finger?
Ask HN: 99designs for your startup – What was your experience?
I've been back and forth on using 99Designs for startup ventures, especially at the beginning. If you've used 99Designs in the past, for logo, app design, site design, etc., what was your experience like? Would you use it again?
Hi lukeholder, the screen resolution is "tied" to how quickly the mouse moves, so no matter which screen resolution you choose, the mouse will always move to the right location.
While I largely agree with you in the context of this article, I don't really like a similar trend to this sentiment I've been seeing in HN comments recently. There seems to be a devoted core of people who hate long-form journalism and storytelling writing styles. Every time a New Yorker or Aeon article shows up here there will be multiple comments to the effect of "What's all this bullshit about random people? Get to the point!"

I really don't get it. Do these people want dry newswire articles to be the only form of nonfiction writing that exists?

Also, "ad hominem" is both misspelled and used grammatically incorrectly in this article, but it does apply in that case. The author is attempting to say that mainstream medical researchers attack the character of Morgellons "patients" rather than their arguments.
Good catch on entertainment (and people watching). I'm not much for that, but my SO is.

As for knowledge, I think that it is a mixed bag--I've been in stores where the staff outclassed most anything I could find on the internet, and others where, let's just be charitable and say that the staff was lacking.
Seems like the Command Line Tools (without XCode), which also ships git, have not been updated (yet). Rather annoying.
Who's afraid of the big bad wolf
5 months of Techstars and a 2 bottles of wine later, Peach is created to destroy market share for all the companies that kill us at the register with their overpriced extended warranties. http://bit.ly/getpeach
Not tech, or even a famous figure, but I still check the blog of my history professor from college: https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/

I have a friend who wrote poetry on the side and never publicized it. These poems are so good that I still check it every other day, even though no new posts have been made in maybe a year.
He's actually at Forever 21, so I assume he's reminding them: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/joseph-park/3/710/a3b
Awesome read, I think that flatmate situations are a big hit or miss.
I'm all for using what amounts to military tactics against poachers, but that alone is probably not going to solve the problem - there is simply too much money to be made. It reminds me of the drug trade, really, and while with drugs we can mostly solve the problem through legalization, that's not really an option here.

Which is why I think this article is somewhat misguided. There is only so much Africa can do, and that's even assuming plentiful resources and political will to do it, which might be a mistaken assumption.

The demand problem needs to be solved, and only China can accomplish that. This article seems to be giving them a pass, and that's wrong. For example, I would like to know more about this "ivory spending spree" in Tanzania. Regardless of whether it was lower-level officials getting "out of control", what was the official response? Unless it was a harsh one, I'm afraid the question of whether they were following the orders of their superiors is not very relevant - the result will be the same either way, which is that ivory consumption by Chinese will be seen as socially, legally, and politically acceptable.
The ontology IDE was so amazing.
Or...hyper-velocity, fly-over, manned surveillance platforms have been replaced by increasingly sophisticated surveillance satellites, non-fly-over surveillance technology (e.g. SLAR) and unmanned drones, making an undoubtedly immensely expensive, manned SR-71 follow-on superfluous.

That or we got stupid since Kelly died. One of the two.
This is not accurate.

Ones bank account is not FDIC insured against theft, but from your bank going bankrupt. I would love an update. It will all depend on just how good of a business account you have and just how much viral this goes.

For reference. Go here and read under the area called
"What is not insured"
https://www.fdic.gov/consumers/consumer/information/fdiciorn...
We're very bandwidth limited right now, but it basically is like a bread lame.

There's a SCAD script for the finger splints and we've been taking the measurements with a medical caliper. This crew is half medical doctors :) I'm just here to do the engineering and some drone/rover piloting. We're also designing a way to take air pictures from Mars where drones won't work.
fixed. anyone else experiencing trouble?
Slate development goes back many years. Perhaps sometimes you've got to let the field lay fallow for a season, before that next big burst of inspiration.
Realize you're talking about a 15 year span on a 1,300 year one. The changes we're seeing in media technology are a distraction for this company. It may well long outlast the Web.
youtube-dl FTFW.
Modern design with multitouch and capacitive screen, perhaps. First touchscreen phone was the IBM Simon in the mid-90s, and my Kyocera 6035 was one of many Palm/phone hybrids that predated LG by years. There were also Symbian and Windows Mobile PDA/phones.
Show HN: ScrumBLD – A Network for Building Products Together
No -- this was done by the 'Five Good Emperors' (Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Pious, Aurelius) and done more out of the lack of suitable male Heirs than of a notion to go outside the blood line. The Five Good Emperors ends to Aurelius, who -- coincidentally enough -- was the first to name his son as Heir. His son was Commodus, and was (by the account of contemporaneous, biased sources) a bad emperor -- although there is thought that many of his evils were embellished by detractor historians.

Otherwise, the title of Imperator/Augustus went to male blood heirs or usurping Generals (in one case, to a wealthy man who bought off the Praetorian Guard).
Show HN: Lottery of Birth
Interesting to see that Marc Beniof funded them. Salesforce has so much inside info on corporate America, I wonder if he's secretly running a hedge fund on the side that just trades on the info it can glean from its users on the state of the US economy.

And will at some time in the future, will MP be able to do the same thing?
i cant help but be reminded of the support-group addicts from Fight Club while reading the article.
The verbosity of this vs. actual information makes my flag-finger itch. It also, apparently, keeps getting killer on /r/netsec[1].

<TLDR>"The affected software is the embedded web server RomPager from AllegroSoft."

"AllegroSoft issued a fixed version to address the Misfortune Cookie vulnerability in 2005 [...]" but it's complicated.

TR-069 is mentioned because it makes it sound cooler, and also uses the RomPager in certain implementations.</TLDR>

Yeah, Home Gateway security is almost as nonexistent as their release/update cycle. TR-069 is a blasphemy and an anathema in the first place[2].

This is an attempt to 'heartbleed'-ize a much broader issue. It is one of many, and they are known, and they never get patched.

Maybe make this into a crowd-type-movement to take back our routers, intending to put pressure on manufacturers to be more responsible with security and the intermediates for pushing the updates (since they've provided themselves the functionality to do that/TR-069/The Irony), but do not try to heartbleed-ize it, kinda comes off cheap.

In the meantime, for those that can (Hello Friends!), we already know the available patches:

* OpenWRT

* DD-WRT

* Tomato

It's tricky though, because you may have to spend $20/$60 for a new router.

EDIT: Also, dupe. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8767193 Hrm.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/2poyp6/misfortune_c...
https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/2polm6/the_misfortu...

[2] "So my ISP can just flash my router with a new firmware, remotely, and then flash back the original, at any time? Or anyone with my ISP's private keys/credentials* , for that matter, but let's not open that can of worms. And you say that, despite this being active (and sometimes partly hidden and un-killable cough BTHomeHub cough) our routers are still running archaic software that hasn't received a 9-year-old patch? Then... ugh.. what is this used for, exactly? Why is it there?"

* Oh God I hope it is at least private keys and not 'admin:P@ssword1' :S
The problem with this strategy is it runs the risk of reassigning resources from the most dangerous vulnerabilities (which infosec-trained sysadmins and developers know how to judge) to those with the best marketers and designers behind their team. It's the same as Oracle DB deals being sold to executives over rounds of golf instead of to the developers who will actually work with the service. To be clear, I'm not sales-phobic or anti-design, I just don't think that security vulnerabilities need to be marketed.

The only argument I can see would be consumer awareness, but that might be worse than anything else - just look at the mass hyperbole being thrown around right now about the alleged direct North Korean involvement in the Sony hacks, a contention which few people in the security world appear to take seriously. I guess find a way to get hotfixes out reliably?
An alternative to genies: http://www.HandwritingThatWorks.com
What traffic? They're stored on my hard drive. I don't fire up the client. I don't buy things with them. I just sit on them.
>>the money would be funding legitimate wildlife preserves in Africa, and elsewhere

Why not give that money to starving people?
no it wouldn't, nor should it.

US companies get hacked all the time...have you not been reading the internet over the past, oh, 10 years?

also, there is still big doubts that the NK's did this.
> Now your AWS bill is something like $25-30k/month. You're at the point where the pricing differential between real hardware and AWS is getting big, and it will only get worse over time.

Until you're at the point where it's on par with hiring a dedicated Ops team, $25-30K/month will really feel like a drop in the bucket.

This is why so many of us are happy to accept our AWS overlords.
The Value of DevShares
Two months ago I decided that I didn't want to be in the position of waiting for a vendor to release an upgraded firmware OS for my house firewalls.

If Ubiquiti's EdgeRouter Lite ran an actual Debian release rather than a derivative with no obvious toolchain, I would have bought that. (If they change to that, I would recommend them.) I worked my way through the capabilities list of the PCengines mini-ITX devices (ALIX: underpowered; APU: a little expensive) and settled on AMD's successor to the APU, now called Athlon 5150/5350.

It's deployed and making me really happy now.
Amputee controls prosthetic arms by thinking about them [video]
It would be better to talk about anxiety, chronic itching, etc. and offer the patient some potential treatments. CFS, fibromyalgia and IBS patients are in a similar situation.

There's a disease called Hallucinogen Persisting Perception Disorder (HPPD) that some people get after heavy use of psychedelics. The theory I subscribe to is that they're actually overreacting (almost obsessively) to the defects in perception that we all have. For example, if you stare at a bright white screen, especially when tired, you'll eventually see "static" due to retinal fatigue happening at uneven rates. The brain filters out a lot, but when that filter is weakened or challenged, it can let "hallucinations" in. Most of us aren't bothered by "white screen static" and hardly notice it. For some people (such as those with HPPD, who may have strong emotional associations with "tripping") that can be very distressing. In extreme cases, they can't go out at night because they're bothered by (again) scotopic vision defects that all of us have, but that (due to their anxiety) they can't tune out.

What I've noticed with anxiety is that there are things that are hard to un-notice. For example, after reading that article, I itched like hell. I knew why, so I didn't need other explanations (I basically know that reading any article about health problems is going to be a bit masochistic) but there are some distressing thoughts that are just very hard to banish, especially in a state of fatigue (which is not uncommon in our overworked, bizarre society). None of us is fully in control of our focus, and sometimes it's possible to get into a feedback loop of anxiety producing weird symptoms (panic attacks, for example, can throw all kinds of shit... even phantom smells) that produce more intense focus and anxiety.
Agreed, but I think Japanese service culture is an exceptional case ... really haven't experienced anything like it anywhere else.
Serial's $2,500 Phone Bill and the Prison-Calling Racket
It probably changed even if you switched away from Google and back to it at some point.

Firefox checks the pref value, and if it equals the default it considers it a reset and removes it from the prefs override file. There's no way to hard set the equivalent of the default value.

But as mentioned elsewhere, now that the default is Yahoo, changing it to Google should stick forever.
Don't do this. Just put the URL in the normal way and a simple description, like 'Peach app offers better value on warranties.' Seems like a neat concept, you don't need the smart alecky pitch.
I think you have to either get the patient before they get sucked into the delusional illness belief, or concentrate on the patients who are open to the treatment option. I had CFS myself, and I was very open to the idea that it was caused by stress. I've also have IBS. Doctors didn't have any useful suggestions, but I was able to eventually figure it out by myself. I think one of the problems is that doctors don't really have the time necessary to deal with conditions like these. Certainly for conditions like CFS and IBS there are a lot of patients like me who are interested in finding the actual cause of their illness. I've never talked to any Morgellon's patients, so I'm not sure what the ratio of open-minded to nutty patients is for that condition.
I remember when I had the same realization about chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia. Whether or not they are "real" doesn't matter at all - the people experiencing them are obviously sick in one way or another.
Absolutely. A common approach to programming bugs is to try and educate programmers to not make particular mistakes. A more effective approach is to redesign the language so those mistakes are impossible.

For example, the JSF C++ guidelines say not to use 'l' suffixes on numeric literals, because they look like a 1. D simply makes the 'l' suffix illegal, use 'L' instead.
Hominin is a valid word, it refers to the larger group of humans and proto-human ancestors which are part of the homo genus.
That's an incomplete analysis.

A more complete one would look at what each engineer had contributed. If the one with the foul-up has and does contribute significant value, and doesn't repeat the same mistakes, it's a good call.

If the careful worker both avoids errors (and costly mistakes) and exceeds other engineers in contributing value, there's a strong argument for keeping them.

There are people who simply foul things up. And there are those who avoid mistakes by simply never taking risks. You almost certainly want to discard the first. The second's value depends on the value your organization gains from innovation.
Those types of goods are known as Veblen Goods:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good
> My solution is to use w3m.

It's amazing how much nicer the web can be without images and javascript. These tool-bags really want to "promote their brand," but they might consider creating a website that looks less like malware.
Serial Podcast, Audiobooks, and the Renaissance of Audio
Are there not job trees??!
Might not be that uncommon. The University of Alaska, Fairbanks supercomputing center is DoD funded. In return for 25% academic timeshare on the system the university hosts and runs the actual facility.
Lottery of Birth lets you be born into a random country and provides some interesting facts about what your life would look like. Take a moment to contemplate your own life and how your real 'lottery of birth' has played out.

I just began learning AngularJS and this is an attempt to apply what I have learned so far. Feedbacks are very welcomed!
The 2014 [In]Security Hall of Fame
At least for C, with GNU Global I can jump around Linux Kernel effortlessly, while I put it into VS and VS just hanged.

For C++, well hopefully we have some new language to replace it in the future. But at least for jumping to symbol definitions/references, it shouldn't be a problem with GNU Global. For code completion, you can still use `company-gtags` to get completion symbols in your project. It's really simple. I know it's not really intelligent (i.e. only show completion candidates in current namespace), but instead throw you everything, but it's practical enough.
Really impressed with their openness on the terms of the deal. He disclosed valuation ($865mm-post) / dilution (7.5%) and their balance sheet ($22mm). Very impressive terms for that matter. Congrats on the round and success with the business.
You and I have different interpretations of minority. Apparently 44% women is regarded as a "small share"?!?
I can't downvote you, but I would if I could. Not because I work for Snapchat, or because Spiegel needs defending. I'd downvote you because because your comments here are petty and baseless, and sound a little delusional.
Most likely, the .gov registry delegates the second levels, and has no idea what is used at the third level.
Hacked emails reveal China’s elaborate and absurd Internet propaganda machine
I suspect that it might be low GABA that is causing the itching, as that is the neurotransmitter that is reduced in alcohol withdrawal (actually, it's a downregulation of GABA receptors), and it's GABA that reduces anxiety. As you say, it's probably just a removal of the normal "anti itch" filter that causes you to notice the itching.

I usually start itching when I read about fleas. There is an actual thing called "contagious itching":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itch#Contagious_itch

So there can definitely be a psychological trigger for itching. Add in some anxiety and/or withdrawal and it's easy to see how something like Morgellons could happen.