skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very interesting question. HTML5 audio and video are definitely a possibility, if there's a strong use case. If you have a specific idea, I'd be interested to hear it.

I don't expect Flash or Java support. Flash and Java apps that load their data from standard HTTP resources can be scraped regardless of support, the others need reverse engineering anyway and wouldn't fit with HTML scraping.
As a non-security aware(not a security specialist) developer, this was one of the most instructional and concise little gem about security flaws i've read. You can learn very useful tricks just by reading this. Thank you
Those aren't particularly new things to study. We have tons of murine data on the subject and quite a few PhD students over the last 4-6 years have done their PhDs on microbiota and diet with themselves as the guinea pig, so to speak (2-4 year longitudinals).

There are a couple mouse papers out that don't directly address the issue in 2, but that permanence (or lack thereof) played prominent roles in their findings.
That was my initial impressions as well. Seems like a convoluted way to get around Generics. Very interesting stance from the Go team.
Google Form export to Google Doc (based on a Template)?
I'm helping a division in my organization systematize a series of standard memoranda that get produced regularly, with slight modifications (e.g. Dear [A], We look forward to meeting [B] at location [C] on date [D]. Please find attached information as requested. Regards, Employee [E] -- where letters equal data inputs we collect through a Google Form). Anybody know of some simple software that would enable us to do this? Thanks!
Well, it would be worth establishing 10 times cheaper than what. I mean, it would be very naive to believe that SpaceX will charge 10% of what customers pay elsewhere to get their stuff into space.
BitShares is a platform for stable value cryptocurrencies.

http://bytemaster.bitshares.org/guest/2014/12/22/How-BitShar...

This login stuff doesn't seem super interesting, but stable cryptocurrencies do to me. BitAuth[1] is a similar idea for using keypairs for authentication. Neither will take off until there's a huge install base for the wallet software, or browsers have embedded the protocol behind a good UI.

[1] http://blog.bitpay.com/2014/07/01/bitauth-for-decentralized-...
I couldn't figure it out either. Can make single effects with keyboard, but clicking the tiles generated a line but no noticeable effect.
Maybe to keep the plane at an optimal velocity?
every letter corresponds to a beat! Dashes are spaces between beats! Tweet from either the web-app or from Twitter like so '[dd--dd--ddo---o---o---o] #MMODM'
In a way, they are right about it being against the twitter terms of use, and twitter should comply because it's their rules anyway. Still, can twitter be "held responsible"? It kind of sounds like you holding a bar tender responsible for drugs being traded in her bar. Even if she was aware of it, why not arrest the actual culprits?

Any lawyers care to comment?
SoundBounce Rocks, its even better than SoundDrop!!!
> Let's be real here. If Docker was 'just' an open source project, it would move at 50% of the pace and security issues like this would still not be solved.

That's wild speculation, and the elephant in the room (Linux), while a different beast, is a pretty strong counterexample for how being 'just' open source oesn't doom you to being slow or insecure.

> It's crazy to assume that if it were an open source project it would somehow get the core right faster or not expand on its ambitions.

I don't think it's crazy at all. A (say, community funded) purely open source project has no distractions and has nothing to do but to get the core right. It also has no incentive or reason to expand its ambitions.
I've come across the elevator design question in one of my graduate courses. I remember that one way to solve the elevator problem is to use Petri Nets (from the exotic world of graphs, math-modelling, and reliability engineering).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petri_net
Simulation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59jW9dngt_c
Graph Kit for Ruby: Bootstrapping a Spree Store and Integrating with Neo4j
Thanks, both are good points! I assumed there were downsides to if you weren't able to wipe out the robust bad microbes but that's even worse than I had expected. Perhaps I'll wait on self-experimentation. The possibility of nefarious and now genetically enhanced microbes reigning supreme in my body is not cool.
Hybrid electric flight is a perfect fit for military UAV's. It enables longer flight times, with lighter loads due to higher efficiencies, maybe at reduced vibration(which can be a problem for imaging and reliability) due to better engine design(because of the smaller design range), and at critical times when total silence is needed , the UAV can run only on electricity and be quiet and almost without vibration.

And it won't be surprising to learn that some militaries already have such systems in use.
> Oh, there are people who feel that inclusion should take place regardless of ability.

I don't think so. If you're referring to affirmative action, then that's not some sort of "pity inclusion", but an important step in fixing biases by creating role models (biases need to be fixed from both "ends": education at a young age alongside with assisted creation of role-models). So affirmative action isn't the desired inclusion, but one part of starting the "fixing" mechanism, and it's a temporary measure until true inclusion catches on.

> Because I'm not so sure that we natively are all exactly equal in all abilities.

Of course not. But innate talent averages across "races" (there's no clear definition of the word) and both sexes would come out to having differences that are far below personal innate differences, as well as far below group differences that are a result of cultural bias. So even the most statistically oriented mind would find no good objective justification for discrimination.

> Also I'm not so sure that those who enter tech actually are "lucky" to be in the field.

The question whether tech is a "good" field to be in is rather subjective. What is objectively true, however, is that tech holds a lot of power in our society. Groups that are excluded from tech are excluded from this source of power. Not incidentally, the same groups are marginalized from most other seats of power.
Cognitive Cooking: An IBM Watson project to create recipes
Wikipedia lists Angara A5 as 5.4 t to GTO in one configuration (Briz-M), and 7.5 t in another configuration. Falcon Heavy is listed at 21.2 t GTO.

For cost, couldn't find estimates for Angara, but to compare Falcon Heavy with Proton (same GTO payload capacity as Angara, ancient tech):
Falcon Heavy: $85M per launch for up to 6,400 kg to GTO
Proton/Block DM: $95M per launch

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_%28rocket_family%29
http://www.astronautix.com/articles/costhing.htm
Not quite. The idea is that every source of social power would see close to proportional representation. The issue of power is crucial to the problems of sexism and racism, as unequal distribution is more prominent where power resides, and the assumption is that groups wouldn't want to voluntarily yield power over them to others.

Being a dick to women is what misogynists do. Feminists want to do away with sexism, which is a set of systemic (usually unconscious) biases deeply engrained in culture. So the goal is to do away with sexism, and that, in turn, would probably result in a much more equal distribution.
Innovative voice messenger with group chat support and voice changing feature
We approach this the same way e-commerce or gaming companies approach fraud: we'll actively monitor the infrastructure and set up safeguards to prevent spam and other illegitimate activities.
OK, honest question: why have the "The image you are pulling has been verified" message without also printing a disclaimer on `docker pull`?

Secondly, It seems that the author did not follow the stated docker procedure for security vulnerabilities (https://www.docker.com/resources/security/). In my view this taints the author's position of revealing a vulnerability to the community and reduces it to mere attention-getting.
> To have those guarantees the data would need to stored in an atomically reference counted structure (or something else with the same guarantees), which is just like you said.

That is not true.

`Send` is having its `'static` bound removed, so sharing data will no longer require reference counting for threads with bounded lifetime: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/458 (the RFC hasn't been officially accepted but it's been referenced as a foregone conclusion several times by Rust core team members).

There is already an experimental library exploiting this for `Sync` data, which includes immutable substructures: https://github.com/nikomatsakis/rayon

The only reason people aren't more aware of this is because the functionality isn't exposed in the standard library yet. The language is perfectly capable.
For some reason I always find it amusing to see US lawyers title themselves with a middle ages term such as "Esquire". It seems so incongruous.
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Interesting that David Boies is representing Sony – he represented the US v. Microsoft, Napster v. the RIAA, Oracle v. Google.
doing very little times 2300 in parallel is sort of the point though. if you have a parallel optimized job (like sum/agg of many rows/table), it is stupid difficult to make fast on a complex CPU where most of the execution paths remain unused. you must wait for the instruction pipeline to clear, and you can only process so many ops per cycle (whats a popular core count now on a big cpu system? 48-96 threads i think my UCS blades can run). when you are talking THOUSANDS of cores on a weee baby 250w GPU card, of which I can put TWO OF in each system? That is enormously powerful for those parallel tasks.
It doesn't make Docker "not secure", it means that you need to verify image files in the way you verify other files you download. These changes are irrelevant to the security of Docker itself, for the way I use it with my own images.

"it's either not secure or is secure."
Security is always a matter of degree.
Author here.

> I wish the author had not omitted this crucial paragraph in the announcement he quotes:

I did not quote this announcement, only linked to it.

If this is intended to be prototype code, it should not be enabled by default, and certainly shouldn't be printing inaccurate messages to users in a 1.0 product.

Also, the referenced warning goes to the daemon log, and doesn't appear to ever be triggered.
It would be great if it had a heartrate monitor built-in
You start with feeling bad for Sony and its employees. You see a letter like this and my response goes from feeling bad to "Screw you Sony. You first show immense stupidity in how you handle your security and then flex your muscle around."
"Pretty much everyone"

Really?

I know companies like Blur are trialling it, but they're still using VRay. I know The Mill have done stuff with it, but they're still using Arnold too.
As mentioned by acomjean, fecal transplant (FMT) is the typically how we restore "healthy" biota in the gut. Interestingly, only a handful of species play a large role in the regulation of gut microbiota and physiology/psychology of the host. Recolonizing the gut with these species alone is enough to restore a "healthier" mix.

[1] http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2013.11.024
Ask HN: How do you take care of your vision?
As a developer I can easily spend 12 hours a day in front of a screen (Laptop, phone, tablet, TV). I try to follow the 20-20-20 rule (http://lifehacker.com/5591835/reduce-computer-caused-eye-strain-with-the-20-20-20-rule).

But sometimes it's just not possible to stop working and look at the wall for 20 seconds. How do you take care of your vision?
yea, this article was not great.
Didn't Science used to consider all sorts of weird things as true and therefore the "right answer"? Wasn't phlogiston the right answer at some point? Wasn't aether? And so on? How do we know we've finally arrived at the "right answer"? Try answering that without using the philosophy you so diminish.

The problem with your point of view is that you get blinded by what can even be a Science. I think that's why we need philosophy. It asks hard questions and directs the investigation.
I think what underlies Page's thoughts is that he thinks Musk is more effective than most charity. He sees charity as a sink that will provide no long term improvement of the human condition. Honestly, it's hard to disagree.

Except for Bill Gates, precisely. His fight against Malaria has been tremendously successful. Would Page object giving his money to Bill Gates? I don't know, I hope he wouldn't.
Most likely an elaboration of that argument goes 'humans in general can engage in contractual agreements, although some are physically or mentally incapable of performance or comprehension, respectively. Apes, monkeys etc. cannot do so at all.' One could refute that by observing that animals do sometimes make simple mutual arrangements, such as favorite sleeping spots or the like, and animals who are cosocial with humans can certainly be trained. I presume a contractualist would argue that such inter-animal arrangements are too informal and not abstractable, and that training simply develops reflexive behavior...although since animal training is typically predicated on the concept of earning a reward for performance, this objection seems very much like an attempt to wriggle out of one's performance obligations, and I'm not sure it's conceptually different from overbroad get-out clauses in insurance or employment contracts that basically allow one party to exploit any economic asymmetry in order to avoid payment.
Nice! Can use on my Linux VM.
I've read a bit about fecal transplants and they apparently have good results. I just wanted to oversimplify and remove as many variables as possible before introducing new ones. No longer liking the idea...
Beautiful Python: A Simple ASCII Art Generator from Images
Sometimes an exploit simply needs to make more trusted code take an exception (often after "paving" memory with known values). Since an exception can be theoretically be induced by user-mode code flipping bits in structures it doesn't own . . .

I can see "exploit resistant memory" being a selling point, maybe soon.
'Twas the Raid Before Christmas (A Forfeiture Tale)
Just wondering, can the scraper record video of the site it's on? I feel like that's something I have a lot of use cases for. Even if it's not possible is there some hack you could do by taking a snapshot every 1/30th of a second and stitching it together into a 30fps video? Always been curious about this.
Yeah. I really like Pebble. YMMV but for my needs its perfect. I want important notifications 'on my wrist'; so I can put the phone away during family time (when daughter is around). And the basic screen (no bright colors or touch sensitive) works great as daughter lost interest in it after 2 mins!

I just wish they develop true wireless/cordless charging using something like ambient light, hand motion or whatever so I don't have to charge it every few days!
Sounds a bit unpleasant to inhale... hope it isn't applied as an aerosol
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> Let's be real here. If Docker was 'just' an open source project, it would move at 50% of the pace and security issues like this would still not be solved

Funny, systemd-nspawn just gained the ability to import and run Docker images. Or rather "the best known container solution".
How many have been removed for copyright reasons?
related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8399767

actual blog: http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/MarkMennell/20140929/226628/M...
I agree with many of your points, and have recognized the same pattern here before in terms of info products like you mentioned. Can spot those a mile away now.

The distinguishing factor is that a large % of the businesses here attempt to really add tangible value, vs. just selling a dream that they hope some newbie suckers buy into.

Again, quality over quantity. For example, Mike Hartl sells an info product. It also happens to be the definitive bible on Ruby on Rails and has helped numerous people start learning the language, including getting jobs as developers. Contrast that with some random person's "WaFo Special" and I think the difference is pretty stark.

I'd further add that I'm not dismissing SEO at all. I think it is quite important under the "Content" umbrella, but trying to game it is not sustainable and a waste of resources in the big picture. These days it is about creating linkable, high-density/value content, and then getting relevant backlinks for it. That has never really changed in the SEO space. A lot of the random attempts at gaming the signals you send search engines has.
The more I read about Thiel, the more I wonder how someone so smart can be so dumb.
7 reasons why I'm sticking with Minitest and Fixtures in Rails
Slightly misleading, as he originally built this in 2007, and must have not updated the firmware since Sony removed the ability to install Linux on the PS3 years ago. This couldn't be replicated now without either finding old, unupdated PS3s (unlikley considering updating is required for playing newer games), or possibly jailbreaking them to be able to install the other OS.
The Interview – In Cinemas on Christmas Day?
Paid trials also work (for example, I was a contract-to-hire at my current job).

But many people don't want to leave the security of their current job for a temporary contract, so you would need to spend more time vetting those candidates.
> What's the cutoff in last-second button pushes to prevent the elevator from too abruptly stopping?

A good starting point might be to have a stopping distance table for whatver the definition of "graceful stopping" is. Then, the elevator stops iff at the time the button is pressed, the stopping distance is less than the distance from the top of the elevator to the top of the floor, i.e. it doesn't need to backtrack.
"no incentive or reason to expand its ambitions"

with a nod towards systemd.
More secure means exactly what he says. Nothing is ever secure unless it's unplugged from the network. Security is a series of doors between your data and the attackers, making something more secure is simply adding more doors in front of it.
That religious truth and religious dogma are not the same.
Ask HN: SDET / QA viewed as 2nd string Developers
I'd like feedback from both testers and developers (and managers) on this.

My experience has been that engineering (and sometimes testing) leadership view even SDET as a sub-class of development. Interviews with companies all ask the same code, design, and implementation questions—with the fact that testing roles ask additional questions on automation, possible issues that can arise, and how to break things.

The job entails more work that simply development. So why does it seem development is always at a higher salaray, and viewed with more prestige?
Most people don't question views that justify their wealth.
Ask HN: Best website to find a laptop by spec
I'm a bit disappointed with the "laptop search engines" I could find through Google - they invariably fail to categorize by some of the metrics I'm interested in.

Does anybody know a laptop finder website that allows to filter by (1) size, (2) amount of RAM, (3) core, (4) SSD size and (5) screen resolution?
To extend your analogy, once the management knows this is going on in their bar, they have a responsibility to act. If they don't they open themselves and the bar to legal liability. What if someone is injured or dies in the course of, or later as a result of, illegal acts on their premises?

To have "terms of use" and not enforce them, or enforce them selectively, is to invite disaster. If the rules should be changed, better to do that. The courts will take that better than selective enforcement.

P.S. I despise Scribd.
Yes. This is tradeoff of privacy vs recoverability. The best security means I am completely responsible for my own private keys (or passwords). But if I lose them, no one can reset my password for me.

Ultimately, though, I think we are heading toward separating the ownership of the identity and the backup of the identity. I am ok with owning and backing up my own identity. But maybe my dad feels more comfortable with some 3rd party having a backup for him. In that case he can use someone else to be a trusted backup for him.

Right now, if I want to login to Facebook, then Facebook both serves as my identity owner and my identity backup (e.g. "forgot your password?"). I might be ok with Facebook being a backup provider, but I don't want them to be my identity owner.
I too worked with C++ for years but I haven't for some time. I plan to learn the C++11 stuff and get back up to speed because I hate the feeling of falling behind in a language that really has no competition in the niche it fills.

Here is a somewhat off-topic question for you: what is the job market like for C++? Is it mostly maintaining/enhancing legacy code or is there considerable new code being written in C++?
Though I understand Sony probably feels compelled to at least try to stifle links to the stolen data, I am a little bothered by their legal reasoning they are using to support their argument. That said, they seem to be wording their accusations towards Twitter very cautiously. It also does not seem to be worded as a threat, but more of a strongly-worded request, so I'm not sure saying that they're threatening to sue them is accurate.
Compared to letting some 13 year old on the other side of the planet install software on your computer without you knowing about it?
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The array prototype functions are only specified by the standard to deal solely with numeric keys, but the lines between and object and array are still pretty blurry. The use case for each is different, but the original question far above was "array/map combo. Have you ever seen anything like that in another language?", and clearly JavaScript is very similar even if not exact.

var x = {};
x[0] = 1;
x.length = 1;
x.map = Array.prototype.map;
x.map(function(y) {return y;});
//[1]
I have worked with many excellent developers who don't program in their spare time - you cannot rely terribly highly on the answer to this question.
Using statistics to make the world a better place?
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>Should SONY's response been DMCA takedown notices?

This lawyer letter goes beyond what DMCA Sec. 512 allows. 512 authorizes requests for "removal of material" that is believed to be infringing; in this case, Sony is demanding suspension of Twitter users' accounts (which even Sony would likely concede are 99.999% non-infringing as measured by number of tweets). The letter also raises non-DMCA CFAA and state law claims.

> Does DMCA cover unpublished copyrighted work?

Yes. The DMCA covers "copyrighted work[s]," and publication is not necessary for copyright to attach. The longer emails likely meet the threshold for copyrightability and the screenplays, even unpublished, are the very definition of a copyrighted work. Note fair use still applies to copyrighted works.

> If the DMCA applies to trade secrets and personal email

The C in DMCA stands for "copyright." It doesn't apply to trade secrets.

David Boies, the lawyer who wrote this on behalf of Sony, is a very capable hired gun (he represented DOJ in its futile pursuit of Microsoft and plenty of other high-profile plaintiffs). Twitter is going to have to be careful in how it responds.

Remember news organizations have also reproduced excerpts from the Sony-hacked emails, and in some cases the entire correspondence. Note Sony hasn't threatened to sue them, at least so far. Also note Boies' letter could have been addressed to the individual Twitter users, who are actually the ones responsible for posting the material. It wasn't.