skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Microsoft informed us that a fix was planned for the January patches but has to be pulled due to compatibility issues. Therefore the fix is now expected in the February patches.

So, they met the deadline and fixed the vulnerability, but due to compatibility issues had to pull it before being released through Windows Update.
>An octocopter will have even worse range than a normal helicopter, so you cant get very far

not really. Octocopters are much easy for a scheme with tilting of a couple of rotors and thus having efficient plane style horizontal flight than tilting the whole machine like helicopter. As result - higher speed, longer range.

> and everyone having flying cars based on pushing air will not be able to use them from the street due to the problem of blowing pedestrians over.

You statement is true for helicopters. The octocopters are much efficient with pushing of the air. Google e-volo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzP0Zqxam7E
(or the old work - Piasecki VZ-8 Airgeep - much less of airwash effect)
Show HN: Guess Game by Screenshot
What really happens with most government run investment where funds are allocated to outside investment people or groups (ex. EU funds), is that the investors have limited incentives to actually/help create successful companies.

In fact, what often happens is that the investors manage to funnel a large portion of the funding back to their own pockets by requiring the startups to pay for bootcamps and trips that are run by the investor and mentors (i.e. investor's buddies) and pay for services and facilities that the state provides the investors for free.

On top of this, the investors get very generous salaries and reimbursed for many if not all expenses (i.e. a great opportunity to double dip, see above).

Finally, if the investor has any money at risk in the fund it is normally all but fully insured by the government and they get the lion's share of any returns, if there are any. All in all, it is a great deal for the investors with almost no accountability and little net benefit for the startups.
Either Google is sending Microsoft bug reports like rapid-fire, and Microsoft has already fixed dozens of them that we haven't found out about - or for some strange reason, Microsoft didn't fix the only two bugs Google reported in the last 90 day period.

If that's the case, then either Microsoft forgot about them, or they carefully orchestrated a PR scandal against Google (wouldn't be the first time - like the time they built an unauthorized Youtube app that Google specifically told them not to build, and then notified the whole media about it, putting words in the reporters' mouths).
In Brazil "jaywalking" does not exist either, we do have pedestrian crossings on streets, and the law says you are supposed to use them, but I think there is no legal penalty for ignoring them.

In fact after learning english it took me several years to understand what the hell was "jaywalking" because as a Brazillian it makes no sense.
I would use that. For unpopular open source projects. Let me review and comment other people code, make them review mine. Some rating is probably needed. Very nice idea.
Is there proof that the comment was committed with the line of code?

Of course once it was a identified a concerted effort could have been made to rectify the situation.

Sometimes a problem is identified working on some unrelated aspect of the software and the developer does not have time or scope to change the offending piece of code but wants to place a red flag.

Of course this example does not appear to be systematic approach to marking "fixme", unless of course their fixme tag is actually #scary.

Edit: Of course one would hope they have raised a rather high priority work item for this.
While I agree with their aims, that picture is a bit manipulative. (They are changing the angles between shots.)
the government plays the "influencing jurors" card...
>such as a pedestrian stepping off of a crowded sidewalk.

Cars shouldn't be driving at high speeds along sidewalks. It's extremely dangerous and unplesant.
I like Docpad, it was one of the first. https://docpad.org/
Nice. Although if I forgot I did this, I suspect that I will have a difficult time figuring out why I cannot delete the file.
A one-to-one means-tested top-up means that the effective tax rate on all income below the guaranteed level is 100%. That is pretty obviously a terrible idea.
Wow, yeah. I'm 20/400ish without my contacts in (nearsighted, -3.75/-4.0, plus some mild astigmatism), and while I couldn't drive a vehicle like that (or rather, wouldn't - I could probably stay in the lane okay during the day, but wouldn't be able to read any signs, and after dark the whole experience would be terrifying), I can certainly interact fine with others, read facial expressions as long as a person isn't on the complete other side of the room, can easily navigate unfamiliar rooms, and use a book or a screen as long as I hold it within a foot of my face.
Other companies fix such bugs in days.
Target closes all 133 stores in Canada
Sounds like investment firms in Silicon Valley.
Look at "The High Cost of Free Parking" (http://www.uctc.net/papers/351.pdf) for more information.
That looks like an unofficial repo. I don't think the guy who committed that actually wrote it.
Well, but that's kind of unimportant.

So, look, suppose that we have four people in our population. Before taxes and redistribution, their incomes are $0, $50,000, $100,000, and $150,000.

We want to create a more egalitarian society and basically redistribute $25,000 from the richest person to the poorest, and $10,000 from the next richest to the next poorest, so our target final incomes are:

$25k, $60k, $90k, $125k

We could do that just in a straightforward way, as described, in which technically the government takes in $35k and the cost of the program is $35k.

Or we could do it with a GBI, giving everyone a $25k basic income, and taxing everyone including the next poorest person, so everyone's total incomes look like this:

$0 + $25k - $0k = $25k

$50k + $25k - $15k = $60k

$100k + $25k - $35k = $90k

$150k + $25k - $50k = $125k

And then technically the government has taken in $100k and spent $100k instead of $35k... but everyone is exactly as rich as they were in the version where the tax was $35k. Government expenditures look bigger, but are actually the same, because a lot of the expenditures are essentially taxed down to zero.

You can do this with any desired level of redistribution. You shuffle money around a lot more in a GBI system, but what matters is the amount of redistribution, not the total "expenditure."

It would be admittedly hard to make the general public understand that.
"Are you sure you want to Cancel?"

[OK] or [Cancel]
And I will repeat my response. You can't control that.
"45 minutes of play time" - slight exaggeration there.
Music Key CC
How soon before GoogLeNet roars back into first?
"Predictable, or agrees with a human implementer/trainer. Pick one." ?
Other companies do not develop enterprise operating systems.
Now that would be a funny situation
Tony Fadell now in charge of Google Glass project
Alibaba joins the WebScaleSQL group
I don't know what "quiet suburban streets" you grew up on, but on mine the speed limit was 25 mph and people would zoom around at 35.
my hope is that Hyperloop is just a starting point for Musk in high-speed transport systems and Hyperloop 2.0 will be a ground launch system :)
The Netherlands, perhaps?
I just downloaded it, and I'm stuck at the "please enable the following to fully join the Be My Eyes network". I approved all the permissions. Nothing's happening.

iOS 8.something on an iPhone5.
Here are three deaths from Portland's MAX light rail in about the last 13 months.[1][2] And it's not a very big system.

There have been 34 deaths in just one portion of the light rail, in less than 30 years. A few are classified as suicide.[3]

There are some barriers and crossing gates, but MAX mostly runs alongside pedestrians and vehicles. It's up to the pedestrians to pay attention.

Edit: BTW I think that what we call "light rail" may be larger than what you consider a tram and what we call a "streetcar". A MAX car is about 28 meters long, a streetcar is about 20 meters long.[4]

[1] http://www.oregonlive.com/commuting/index.ssf/2014/08/max_tr...

[2] http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2013/12/man_str...

[3]http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2011/06/man_kil...

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_Streetcar#Compatibilit...
Trust me on this. Blade efficiency is not only a swept area game, but also the middle of the blade is extra useless due to horrible vortex effects. One big blade massively outperforms eight little ones. And you cannot get away from the fact that you are hovering around a minimum of a ton. Either you have a really big cross sectional area of downwash from massive blades, or everyone falls over.
Probably means an onsite and an offsite backup for example.
If your configuration file is a Lisp file, then it's not a configuration file. It's a distributed portion of your program which is wide open to being destroyed by a sysadmin. "What do you mean I took down the site by adding a TLS parameter to the config file? How could a config file overwrite a function symbol in your code?!"

What a config file should be is the simplest, most easy to read and fill out configuration file you can possibly think of. It should be tolerant of simple formatting mistakes and be targeted at someone who is not as smart as you are.

It should also never contain executable code, because config files are rarely as well protected on a system as executable code is, and this could lead to some really nasty vulnerabilities if it's exploited.
Oh, they weren't getting him for crossing the road, but for subsequent contempt of cop. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contempt_of_cop)
Linus supports selinux right now, the only issue is that applications ship with policy about as often as they create their own user (actually, maybe a bit more often).
This is the only reference to the term "Loyalty Capital" that I can find online. Strange.
Yeah, the article is a bit weird. It's looking at something VERY specific and not really the broader "are charter schools good?" argument.

The idea behind the article is this: people claim that charter schools, known for better academic performance, will cause public schools to increase the quality of their own academics because parents will be able to choose to send their student to the better school. Basically, the idea that increased competition will increase quality across the board.

The article says that this may not be the case because academic performance isn't as significant a factor as people might think. Most people will say that, if given the choice between a Grade A school and a Grade C school that they would send their children to the Grade A school. But after looking at the actual decisions made, it appears that many people would be fine with a Grade C school if the Grade A school was 2 miles further away. Or if the Grade C school had a football program and the Grade A school didn't.

In other words, if public schools and charter schools are competing, they're not actually competing on academics (since parents aren't using academic performance as a deciding factor). Instead, they're competing on other factors: location, extracurriculars, etc.

And if the schools aren't competing on academics, then there's no reason to believe that increased choice will create increased academic performance across the board.

At least, that's the point the article is trying to argue.
Hope doesn't build things. Execution does.
The same as most cars in most cities I guess. They come from the suburbs to work in the city (or enjoy it's offerings).
Previous discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8892587
Probably different media, e.g. an external hard drive and DVDs.
I'm saying that people can set up this policy themselves. I'm not saying steam should do it, I'm saying anyone can do it for any application they install.
"My fellow passenger and tour guide is David Chaum, the bearded and ponytailed founder of DigiCash, and the inventor of cryptographic protocols that could catapult our currency system into the 21st century. They may, in the process, shatter the Orwellian predictions of a Big Brother dystopia, replacing them with a world in which the ease of electronic transactions is combined with the elegant anonymity of paying in cash."

Reading that and understanding that this was written in 1994 is quite surreal.
Make a 3d Printed Lego-Compatible Arduino Micro Casing
What about the Japanese owned car factories in America? (OK, people were probably up in arms against them at one time.)
Isn't this the basic idea behind the sandbox in OS X?

I think OS X (and mobile app development in general) shows both that this is great in theory and a net improvement over not having it, but that there are some common pitfalls to address.

First, there are a handful of apps where this model doesn't work so well -- e.g. text editors, FTP clients, etc. So you're inconveniencing quite a few legit apps which need broader access.

Second, as a corollary of the first, that means you're going to have a lot of apps that legitimately need to ask users to approve broader access. And as the number of apps asking for approval goes up, the more likely users are to simply ignore the warning and approve all. This is especially problematic since we can assume the average user is a good judge of which apps need which access.

Edit: One way of reducing user acceptance fatigue might to introduce greater granularity into the requested permissions and then tier the permissions requested -- e.g. commonly asked vs. uncommon. E.g. an app may legitimately need permission to write to any file in your home directory, but it's highly unlikely they'll need permission to write to more than X number of files per second. Or at least they shouldn't be able to do so without the OS throwing up lots of warnings outside of the app.
> robust application-level access control would be a helpful thing to build into modern operating systems

Something like Windows Store apps, but which ideally wouldn't require the use of a specific store? (Only Entreprise apps can bypass the store from what I know)
I just went through the process of getting my post graduation job (Computer Engineer btw). Before I went to any interviews I asked my peers what sort of offers they got and it was all between $75-90K. I went to job interviews and when they asked what I expected for salary I told them what I had heard and was scoffed at from several companies. I received 3 offers, $65k, $70k and $95k. I got the $70k offer to go up to $83k with a two month signing bonus which I took mostly because of the better location.

Companies will constantly tell you that you are worth less because it isn't in their interests. Don't buy it.
Yes, this line of tought.
We need to find answers for at least some existencial questions...

Unfortunalley i think that massive reduction of population is imminent, either in form of war or some ebola type disease.
Sure hope that singularity will happen soon enough.
Testimony is a form of evidence.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testimony
Your moving the goal posts.

Can I keep an intelegent AI in a box. Shure, unplug it.

Can I keep all AI's in a box well no.

PS: Lot's of dumb things are said about AI's. Sadly, people tend to think in terms of Science fiction as Magic but in The Future. And then picture AI's as the ultimate wizards able to reshape reality to their whim. Reolistically the first true AI may find programming boring and so much for the singularity. If AI smarter than you is a bad idea it's unlikely for a progression of AI to keep building ever more intelegent replacements.
This is the case with all config files, though, regardless how simple. The incident where Google accidentally blacklisted the entire Internet [1] was because of a one-character typo in a config file.

The lesson you should learn from this is not to never include powerful statements or interpreted strings in config files, it's that you should test your configs as if they were code, because mistakes in them are just as dire. Even if you limit yourself to key/values in a .properties file, you can still bring down the site if you typo a filesystem path or database name.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2009/jan/31/google-bla...
Yep, Microsoft's the only one.
Intel Enables an Internet of Faces with WebRTC
You mean like when Japanese automakers opened factories in the US to make their own style of fuel-efficient and compact cars? Short-term maybe, but I think most people appreciate job creation in the end.
I'm late to the game on this but Radio Shack has one thing the rest of us don't, and that's access to capital. I think they should sell the company to their employees and form a collective with borrowing power in order to fund some of the more compelling technologies that are sorely needed today like rooftop wifi meshnets or burner wimax cell phones that can be used to tether laptops for free. There are so many crowdfunded projects that would benefit from a technology co-op taking the place of institutional investors.

Then go back to their roots as a local store that keeps certain niche products in stock. For example, when I need parts from microchip.com, I should be able to have them sent to my local Radio Shack and pick them up the next day (if they aren't already there). So basically their business model would be to be a local subsidiary of amazon.com that specializes in up and coming technology. The information about who’s buying what and what they are building could be more valuable than sales.

I guess to summarize they would be a farmer’s market for technology, where people could buy shelf space and showcase their creations, which as far as I can tell doesn’t exist in most cities. We came close where I live during the Great Recession when big box stores were closing like crazy and the space was converted to bazaars. Unfortunately there were a lot more nicknacks than crafts because nobody had any money to buy anything. It would have been so awesome to be able to buy things like solar panels or hydroponics garden kits but usually we’d spend our money on a chair or whatever.
Like AppArmor, or SELinux, or any of the other applications which have their hooks in the LSM? They do a fantastic job of this, if you can figure out how to use them.

The truth is that they are too hard for even your average Sysadmin to configure & manage, let alone your average desktop user.

setenforce=1 (yeah, right).
How is that a reasonable excuse? If they have so much money their operating system should be fixed faster, not slower, than other operating systems.
We have to assume not until/unless a lawyer shows up and says otherwise.

Rumors to the contrary, we do have a right to free speech, so you can say anything you want in a courtroom without being arrested, unless it causes immeidate danger (e.g. yelling "FIRE!").

When jury selection happens, I have heard that you can be rejected from being on the jury if you say (essentially) that you don't agree with the law. Not agreeing with the law is precisely what leads to jury nullification.
This. In some European countries (e.g. UK, Scandinavian countries) there is no such thing as jaywalking. Pedestrians always have the right of way, except on motorways.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaywalking#Europe
Why can't a woman be more like a man?
Or if you're on a Mac you don't even need any extra hardware.

Just ARQ and an AWS Account [or google drive, or dreamobjects, or SFTP, or...].

Your backup is client side encrypted and completely painless. Take half an hour to set it up and then just forget it till it saves your ass.

Not affiliated, just a fan: http://www.haystacksoftware.com/arq/
> very likely

I take issue with this characterization. Unless there is a much, much more realistic piece of evidence yet to emerge, I regard this allegation as very unlikely.

And if it's not true, and all DPR did was help people to circumvent laws prohibiting transactions of prohibited substances, then he's a libertarian hero.
Dress better with this app that allows you to mix and match clothes
How about using a better language? She'll scripting is an awful, awful language. An error like this wouldn't have happened if the program had been written in C or Python or Perl or whatever your choice might be.

Shell scripting seems tremendously overused. It makes some things a bit easier, but it's so crazy it makes PHP a look like a pinnacle of good language design.
rm --preserve-root

isn't a bad thing to have either. That way, even if you do screw up, you won't be able to run rm against '/', even with '-f'.

It's one of the top aliases in my .bash_aliases file.
lotsofmangos is right! I have designed and built RC helicopters, tricopters, and quadcopters, from scratch. More blades is usually a lot less efficiency. There is something to be said for tricopters. From the point of view of pure efficiency, one large blade is always more efficient than 3 or more smaller once. Don't trust me, take a look at any static thrust calculator[1]. However, I found that with large and voluminous loads sometimes a tricopter can be more efficient because it allows you to mount the props away from the center load, so that the thrust of the prop isn't lost by pushing against the frame of the craft. This works in RC vehicles, but probably wouldn't be much of a benefit in full scale vehicles.

As for the prop wash of an octocopter, try standing right next to one that's taking off caring just 5 kilos of payload (batteries and DSLR). I have, and trust me, it gets really, really, windy. And that's with a 5 kilo payload, with a copter capable of generating maximum of 12 kilos of trust. No scale that up to 1000 kilos.

[1] http://personal.osi.hu/fuzesisz/strc_eng/
Well, Google has been sending Microsoft (and other vendors) lots of other bug reports: https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/li...

What I find interesting is that there are at least a couple of cases in which bugs were marked as being subject to the 90-day disclosure deadline, but not made publicly visible until days or weeks after the deadline had passed.

https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/de...

https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/de...
False analogy. First, the parent didn't state that it was, in ask scenarios, a useless product. S/he said out was useless where s/he lives due to a design decision. Secondly, we can't control the atmosphere, but Google can certainly control the design of the Chromecast.
The "shebang" treats everything after the binary as a single argument. It only does one argument from the shebang and the file itself as the final argument. So it would run that kinda like

bash '-e -u' $file

But you can do

#!/bin/bash -eu
>Although the rocket's landing did not go according to plan, the other half of the launch mission was a success.

Describing the first stage landing as "half" the mission is disingenuous. The mission was the ISS resupply, and even if the first stage landed properly if the resupply failed it would have meant a 100% mission failure.
rm --preserve-root -rf "$STEAMROOT/"*

would have worked too.
I looked at Hexo, Assemble, Wintersmith, Docpad, Metalsmith, and many others. I wanted flexibility to restructure as I saw fit and easily add structures other than just blogs. I tried docpad but it struck me as too "tell you how it's gonna be", even setting your front end template. Metalsmith (http://www.metalsmith.io/) was a great solution to that. It's a lot like using Gulp and Express' middleware plugins. I liked that I could completely customize the build pipeline to get exactly what I wanted. There's also a way to do your build pipeline with config files, if that's your cup of tea.