skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if HN commentors will start concern trolling.
Irregardless.
> If you tell me you're a muslim, I can have a very good statistical chance to pinpoint you in one of several ethnicities...

So what? A person's race doesn't determine the ideas, religious or otherwise, that they hold. Two famous examples: Ayaan Hirsi Ali left Islam, and Cat Stevens joined it.

A person's ideas, on the other hand, make all the difference in the world. Who can deny that these terrorists were not motivated and guided by a distinct ideology: fundamentalist Islam?
The API with a single call "createWithdrawl" is very good.

Having code like this to begin with changes how all your future code works. It also is easier to debug, simpler to explain, etc. You think twice about adding new API calls, which makes you think twice before you add new bugs. Having the ability to muck around with API calls you shouldn't be making will catch you eventually.

I've posted this before, but web-app security in most startups I look at is so bad. If it's written in PHP, I can normally find every bug in the book in under 5 minutes. What is worse on top of that is many companies don't respond (and don't fix) when you report bugs. I'm talking well known startups too.

I really think the OWASP Top 10 needs to be required reading for startup founders (or technical leads).
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The NUC we just got at work to play around with uses standard laptop size RAM in 2 SO-DIMM slots.

For storage, there are two NUC models - a slimmer one has just room for an mSATA SSD, then there is a thicker one the mSATA/mini-PCIe slot with a standard 2.5" mounting tray.

You will still have to get a WiFi adapter if you need WiFi. There are lots of standard half-size mini-PCIe WiFi cards.

Not sure how the video works yet, but if you order one make sure to get a mini-HDMI to HDMI or a mini DisplayPort to regular DisplayPort adapter.
That's because you have no real friends, only facebook "keeping up appearances"-tier acquintances.
> Only, I've never heard of WhatsApp being used as anything more than an indicator that your SO is cheating on you.

How? I've never heard this. Whatsapp is on your phone like texts.
Misses or hashed over many relevant facts.

Claims of major scientific break-through, yet is describing something at a very early stage of development

Nothing odd here, just the current state of scientific reporting.
I can't tell if you're disassociating yourself from the "many people" you mentioned or not, so I'm not sure how to word this, but... Just out of curiosity (because you seem like you have first-hand experience of the old NYC) What do you believe has had the most impact on decreasing crime in NYC? And what do you believe is the best solution going forward?
It's not easier said than done because it's technically difficult, it's easier said than done because you have to shove it down users throats and they're not going to be happy about it. And because there's an associated cost to productivity.

Worth it to avoid something like Sony's indecent? Probably. Easy to convince the non-technical decisionmakers of that? I'd bet not.
That's carrying it a bit far, and I don't think that's what the GP was saying at all.

I think they meant that police officers have a duty to enforce the law in each situation they are presented with. And law enforcement situations are composed of individuals, some of whom may or may not be breaking the law - we give the officer the right to make a snap judgement on this in emergencies.

For example, if an officer arrives at a situation where one individual is robbing another, then their duty to the public (and to the victim) is to try to prevent the robber from victimizing the other individual, or apprehend the robber if he has already committed the crime. In attempting to do so, they uphold their law enforcement duty to the public.

Just as much, it is important for the officer to follow the law in the process of enforcing it, which is at the crux of the debates around the death of unarmed individuals by police.
They certainly chose their strategy consciously -- it was just a bad strategy, relative to the counterfactual.

Apple was wise to launch on just AT&T, you're right that it did in fact let them create the (clearly very popular) experience that it did. But once the iPhone was a mega-hit, they went 4 years before getting Verizon in on the game. That was a huge mistake, and Apple clearly had the power to negotiate a pure iPhone experience with Verizon and get out of its exclusivity contract with AT&T far before 2011.

Certainly getting onto LTE early and increasing screen size earlier than they did would have provoked little missed steps in their UI and general experience -- and once Android was an entrenched competitor, perhaps that was exactly the right decision, since purity of user experience is a core part of the iOS versus Android value prop. But back when the Android user experience was just purely awful, it's pretty hard to argue that the iPhone would have been materially hurt by a few little grinding points. The Motorola DROID wasn't released until Nov 2009, and I had one of those -- it was clearly far, far behind the iPhone of the time in terms of UI.

If Apple had followed the path I described, the iPhone might well be materially worse now than it actually is -- but it would also have 80%+ market share with no serious competitor, rather than 21% market share.
A few years back I came across some emails from the previous user of a computer I was given. (They really should have wiped the hard drive...) They were messages to his family back in India. The guy had been using heroin, and had kicked it once or twice. But he fell back into it, and it was when his old friends rolled into town. That was the trigger for him.
Looks like I'm not alone in this belief:

https://twitter.com/MadAxes/status/552814382338826240
Anyone have a link where I can read about these 'client controlled session identifiers'? I can't picture an approach to web app sessions which isn't essentially equivalent to a cookie (in terms of privacy, and ability of the client to control persistence).
There is a gathering in SF being organized on Facebook. Tonight, 7pm in front of the French consulate.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1562482893969481/?pnref=stor...

#JeSuisCharlie
Yes, I would as long as it's a natural river in chronological order.
Completely agree.

One of the few books I kept from college and still pull it out once or twice a year when I need to look up something and refresh/relearn. Incredibly dense.
Amazon would not be able to survive a race to the bottom in a price war like Google can.
Google makes a profit on its main business, Amazon does not.
I am unsure about some ES6 additions.

Thanks to Crockford we got a decent ES5. Remember that several syntax changes got postpones to ES6. And don't forget about "E4X", a beast that was supposed to be JavaScript 2? http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecm... It got similar traction as XHTML 2. Both had no backwards compatibility - an insane idea. Some new features in ES6 look like Crockford "good parts" movement lost and Sun/Oracle Java evangelists won.

Hopefully Douglas Crockford updates his "JavaScript: The Good Parts" in time for JavaScript 6.
While there are new strains this would be a new class WHICH means AWESOME if it works out. Since this is so early I am not hoping for much.

My son had cancer and he had a staph infection that was septic (AKA in his blood through out his body). Non-resistant = 95% cure rate resistant strain and if you have a compromised immune system less then 50% cure rate. Good news for cancer patients and glad to see it coming down the track.
This is the problem I see with outlawing encryption entirely. At what point does something become "encrypted" w/r/t the law?
This may seem like a silly question, but I think it's a real concern:

Is rot13 encryption? (No, of course not!, you say.)

How about a shift cipher with an unknown distance? (Well... it's just as trivially breakable as rot13..., you say.)

How about a book cipher? This one I particularly like, being quite amenable to your idea of "encrypted speech": does reading out a book cipher over the phone constitute "encryption" in some sense? And I also considered it for the lavabit case: if the gov't has a wiretap warrant for your phone, under their reasoning in lavabit, couldn't they compel you to disclose the key to the book cipher in that case? That seems to be crossing the 5th amendment line there, to me; toeing the line of the 1st and 4th as well. And so, I thought at the time, it seems pretty obvious that the "assistance" clause of the wiretap law did /not/ compel revealing the key any more than it would compel revealing the key of the spoken book cipher.
As <pm> points out nearby, the GAE pricing issue was in 2011. It's now 2015.

I use GAE for http://recent.io/ (which I left CBS last year to found), and have found that prices have been gradually falling for the last few years. I can't speak to what happened in 2011, but I think it's fair to say that GAE was a much less mature product then.

My own sense is that Google would like to diversify away from being 90%+ reliant on advertising, and is highly unlikely to discontinue a paid service that serves that goal, that is profitable, that is under active development, that allows it to compete with Amazon, and that is used for its own products internally. You might as well speculate they'd discontinue search or email.

I use AWS for some smaller components of http://recent.io/, and have found both to be equally reliable. Google also has assigned me a rep who I can call or email when there's a billing issue, sign up for beta trials of new features I'd like to test, address technical problems, etc., and I've never heard from a human at Amazon.
This in fact would be a different class. So it is a HUGE deal.
Very true, just to muddy the waters further however bear in mind that maturation generally happens at a faster pace in hotter climates which rum producing countries generally are.
It think it varies based on your account. We were one of the companies that presented during the keynote at this year's re:Invent. We've also got an enterprise account. I'm not sure if either of these are a determining factor, but we get excellent support. Phone support is good and emails are answered in about an hour. They've also connected us with their engineers when support isn't able to resolve things.

On the whole, I think the only thing they could improve would be to reduce the siloing between different offerings. When dealing with an issue that spans, say, EC2 and Route 53, I would expect their support to talk to each other and present a unified response to the customer rather than require us to deal with two separate support reps. But this type of siloing goes beyond support and applies equally to the AWS product.
I imagine they do because it makes the process easier for them(Google) to manage. Otherwise they would need interns typing out the URLs for all of the tomes that would be coming in every day.
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Also noteworthy that Google+ didn't even get a mention, even if to mock it.
Depends if it was the same one or not.
Cool stuff guys. Quick question: how much of an adoption are you expecting for iBeacon compliant stuff in say, the next 2 years amongst small and medium retailers? Or is it more of a large retail play?
Subtlety will only get you so far in negotiations, especially when you're already a 'captive' employee.
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> Everyone calls it "Nye-Nite"

I have never pronounced Ninite as "Nye-Nite" or heard anyone else pronounce it that way in the UK.

I'm guessing you are American?
> This is horrible, and we as a society need to somehow make this kind of thing not happen.

No. We shouldn't. We as a society need to stand for values of openness, freedom of speech and freedom of religion. There is no way to do this other than to accept that there are psychopaths and lunatics among the human race and sometimes they do something terrible.

After all, the only way to truly prevent acts like these is with an absolute police state. I am Charlie, and I will not stand for such a crackdown.

We have to stop imagining that we can entirely cure the human race from mental sickness or extreme radicalism. We have to accept that, in a free society, sometimes horrible things happen. One day it's a hurricane, the other day it's a terrorist attack. Nobody is to blame except the perpetrators and their direct influencers.

Stoltenberg (ironically now the boss of NATO) said it best the last time something like this happened in Europe: "The Norwegian response to violence is more democracy, more openness and greater political participation". That's the only valid response.
Not Solaris / Illumios ?
Indeed, so keep in mind that he has a vested interest in being able to use the FreeBSD feature to efficiently copy a file from a disk into a network interface.

Having to break stuff into protocol frames or having every byte have compute done on it for encryption foils his optimization. It doesn't mean that his optimization is more important than TCP connection sharing and ubiquitous confidentiality, integrity and authenticity.

(Edit: typo)
Agreed. The potential backlash against innocent French and European Muslims is one of the scariest things in these events. France is full of closeted (and not-so-closeted) islamophobic fascists, and this attack of violence against words is almost guaranteed to cause some of them to unite and multiply their aggressiveness and stupidity. It is not a good day for the Muslim world.
The revenue from my apps have grown to be significant. Not enough for me to work on it full-time though.

Off the top of my head, I think 95% of my revenue is from ads. I have plans to work on improving IAP conversion since I don't like the fact that I show ads. This article got me thinking about what I can offer more than just "remove ads".
When I heard 'teenager' I was thinking 13/14. Like a middle school or young high schooler, not a college freshman.
>>In short, many have nailed this on the head. It’s dead to us. Facebook is something we all got in middle school because it was cool but now is seen as an awkward family dinner party we can't really leave.

>What?

The author is talking about how their grandma is on fb now and on their friendlist. They don't feel as comfortable posting certain content there.
Yes that was 2011 but it scared the hell out of me. Since then all my company's project are hosted on Heroku and other Amazon technologies (Simpledb, Dynamo etc.). If I had to have a vendor lock in in exchange of faster development process, I'd prefer to get locked in with Amazon other than Google after that GAE pricing incident.
Off topic: while running Noscript I know I am just begging for broken websites, but this page shouldn't be outright unstyled without JS.
Bitcoin investor who renounced US citizenship now can’t get back in
This is only anecdotal of course, but I taught in a 99% African-American public high school and it seemed like most students were on Twitter. Most of those former students are obsessed with Snapchat now -- I do get a lot of the "I'm so bored" messages from them via My Story. I guess when you have to opt-in to see someone's Story it doesn't feel like you're spamming someone if you post a bunch -- your friends control the spigot.
> “It should be used, if it gets successfully developed, as broadly as possible, because it is exceptionally well-protected from resistance development,” said Kim Lewis, one of the study’s authors and a professor at Northeastern University in Boston. Lewis estimated that it may take more than 30 years for bacteria to become resistant to teixobactin. He is also a co-founder of NovoBiotic Pharmaceuticals LLC, which is developing the drug.

I'd much rather get two or three more that all use different mechanisms, and use them as a cocktail.

Let the bugs try to develop 3 different kinds of resistance at once.
Complaining about downvotes is the surest method of accumulating more. It's an observation I've made over the years, not an indictment of you.
Just a small precision (I am French and following media closely):

- Two people assaulted the office, and killed 10, wounded 11 (4 of which considered critical).

- They furthermore killed 2 police officers on their way out, one of them point blank as he lay wounded and was asking for mercy (do yourself a favor and don't look at that witness video. I mean it. NSFL).

- They are on the loose and are reported armed with automatic weapons and a rocket launcher. No kidding.

- Their car was found in a suburban ghetto (Pantin, in Seine-saint-denis)

Sorry for the gory details.
They claim it's much harder for the bacteria to develop a resistance to, but that's very hard to prove without creating resistant bacteria.

Let's not hand this one out like candy and end up back against the wall like we are now.
Are you using OpenBSD, or one of the Linux ports (Neukirchen?)?
i can't figure out which one of the several Go9P implementations you started with. or is this something you rolled out yourself? any differences between this and others?
One problem I have with the "you don't see what I see, just trust I'm right" line is that there's no way to refute it -- short of an outside, independent party providing a different compelling analysis and interpretation of the forensic evidence. The relevant parties (Sony, FBI, etc...) don't have any interested in sharing, and in fact have a vested interest in not sharing, that forensic evidence. So... I strongly suspect that right or wrong, the existing given position is the story that will always stand.
I was in the middle of writing a response with a description of a client-provided UUID, with the scope and persistence specified by the client, but then I realized that I was basically describing a cookie. My version might have been better because it would more easily allow the user to control how the session ID is disseminated, but that would have been a feature of the HTTP client–not the protocol itself.
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Well, Amazon also has a 6 year head start. Compute Engine has only been generally available since December 2013: http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/google-com...

App Engine was released a long time ago, around the same time as AWS, but they aren't comparable products. It seems clear that the market chose the AWS technology since it was more compatible with existing code.
GitHub dmca takedown notice of android code
Google's legal department might be a fun place for a machine learning expert to spend some time teaching machines to detect bogus DMCA takedowns.
And you clearly have no idea what you are talking about.
copy/paste:

takedown notice here: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2014-12-22-Cambri...

the interesting part is this:

"Although the file, com_svox_picottsengine.cpp, bears an attribution to SVOX AG in 2008-2009, it contains copyrighted source code written years earlier by me and assigned to Cambridge. I am the author of the claimed work and no portion of this work was assigned or licensed to SVOX AG. Accordingly, the content infringes Cambridge’s rights under the federal copyright laws, including the DMCA and Copyright Act. I have read and understand GitHub's Guide to Filing a DMCA Notice."

more interesting? this is in the android master tree here: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/svox/+/ma...
Use yellow pages: http://www.pagesjaunes.fr/recherche/paris-75/charlie-hebdo

There are 3 addresses.
It's very hard to respect the petulant and passive-aggressive behavior they're displaying.
Pretty much nailed it on the head:

If I could break down a party for you in social media terms, here’s how it would pan out:

* On Snapchat, you post you getting ready for the party, going to the party, having fun at the party, the end of the party, and the morning after the party.

* On Facebook you post the cute, posed pictures you took with your friends at the party with a few candids (definitely no alcohol in these photos).

* On Instagram you pick the cutest one of the bunch to post to your network.

I said it then and I'll say it now, FB screwed up when they pivoted to copy Twitter. FB was fun when it was more private. Zuck should've realised that once there was a critical mass of news reports of teens getting in trouble for stupid FB and Twitter posts, teens would dump the service.
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So let's use this one WITH EXTREME CAUTION, i.e. only in very limited, justifiable circumstances with careful medical supervision to make sure that the patient finishes the course of treatment instead of just taking it until they feel better. Let's not give it out for, oh say, viral infections 'just in case' as was the case with doxycycline or cipro in the past. It would be nice to have one emergency antibiotic that actually works when something serious hits. Learning from our recent history in provoking antibiotic resistance should be priority 1.
Moonpig API Flaw Exposes Data from 3.6M Users
While an interesting article I'd take it with a grain of salt and not try to make generalizations about others' social media use.

The author seems like he's on the high end of social media use.

As a 22 year old male I check Facebook occasionally to see what my friends and family who live in different areas are doing, and that's about it.
Damaging the Social Order All by Themselves
Try the Santa Teresa 1796. Highly recommended and still my favorite after many years. I'm biased though, since it's Venezuelan (and I am too).
Nope! L'amour plus fort que la haine. http://madvilletimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/charlie-...
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Considering how many bacteria are out there, and how frequently many of them multiply, even a one in a quadrillion chance of a mutation providing a resistance benefit is barely a speed-bump in evolutionary terms. Their "thirty year" claim is a best guess, but as this is entirely random, it could be three hundred, and it could be three.

Remember there's about 10^14 bacterial cells in the average human body, ten times the number of human cells. Everyone's a big petri dish. If you killed all but one in a billion you'd still have a whole bunch left.
And if you ask them about this, you get no reply. Which is interesting.

Yes, they should be regarded as a malware site these days. It's a shame, really. Some other site should probably mirror the projects that aren't anywhere else and host them properly.
If you look at the end of the article there is a short bio and his photo. He's a blond, white boy who's the spitting image of a young Mark Zuckerberg. To the "separated at birth" level of looking like him. Kinda freaky. :)
From the article:

While I will save that debate for another day, it is safe to say that when photos are “leaked” or when there’s controversy about security on the app, we honestly do not really care. We aren't sending pictures of our Social Security Cards here, we're sending selfies and photos with us having 5 chins.
I think the real meat of this article is here:

"...strikes multiple targets, including cell walls...Since the lipid structures it attacks don’t evolve as quickly as frequently mutating proteins, it may take the bacteria longer than usual to develop a survival tactic."

Proteins change often and quickly, but basic cell structures may take longer or never adapt.

But I'm not a pathobiologist, I just play one on the Internet
Trust your customer. Cafe style vs. Vending machine