skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cool, well in all this time, all the C static and dynamic security features are still failing. So today, in the real world, your choices seem to be either fail at runtime or fail and execute arbitrary code.
Now if only Twitter would eliminate the Flash dependency to show animated GIFs on Firefox...
Have been thinking of something similar lately: A fictitious newspaper with headlines that illustrate the propaganda aspect of our news orgs. Headlines like:

- Foreign leader lacks dignity

- US institutions solid

- Life in the 3rd world is horrible

- Life in the 3rd world is meaningless/scary

- Something some politician said was important.

- Politician's legacy is important

- Foreign institutions/economy shaky

- Foreign unemployment soars

- Life in foreign city dangerous

- Election in foreign country rigged

- Arcane details about silly political spat matter

- US institutions beyond reproach

- Firms are not beyond reproach

- Sports matter

- Storm with name nears

- Three cheers for successful US company

- You know buzzwords so you are informed about science

- You know buzzwords so you are informed about technology

- Token story about the EU
Translation:

1. The Slack team didn't need to generate revenue at all for a solid year so they could ignore commercial considerations that would harm product development.

2. The Slack founders had the industry clout and interpersonal relationships to not just get beta users for their app, but to get the RIGHT beta users for their app, ones that would give valuable, relevant, on point feedback reflective of the concerns of a large valuable addressable audience.
Not sure on iOS. Here it is on the web interface:

https://imgur.com/O1DaihN
Why Good Feedback Is Hard to Find
>Can't count how many times I heard in the 2008 time frame that OSX/Apple would dominate all in the pc world in short order. Still waiting.

I've been following the IT world since like 1995, and I've never heard that being said or written once.

Can you point to some articles from 2008 that say that Apple will "dominate all in the pc world (with regard to Mac sales) in short order"?

What I did read multiple times was that "Apple is doomed" like 10 times a year ever since 1997 (the meme seems to have slowed sometime around last year).

That said, note how Apple DOES dominate "all in the pc world" in total revenue/profits when phones are taken into account (after all Microsoft and Google also produce phones).

And how Mac profit (not unit sales) DOES dominate "all in the pc world", or at least amounts to the profits of the top-5 rest desktop/laptop seller combined.
Inflection Point in University IT
Because I want to watch Netflix or whatever else requires it, and that's a value calculation I've made?
So you're saying that, as a bomb threat suspect, they would not be able to convince a judge to give them a warrant for his laptop anyways?
Speaking from personal experience on Yosemite: slow UI, constant beachballs and stutters (despite lots of RAM and no platter drives), paint/refresh bugs while scrolling, 100% CPU usage to play tracks (without FX/EQ), years of mission-creep, and a general conceptual mess since version 12, with its multiplicity of modes and sub-modes.

As an iTunes apologist and power-user since 1.0 (my huge library admittedly is not helping), 12 has become the last straw on using iTunes as anything but a sync tool and database. As a media player, it's a disaster.
Wow -- It was cool to see they had parachutes on the plane itself. Is this common on smaller planes these days? I've always wondered if/why airliners couldn't do something like this.
Broadcast.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast.com

Made Mark Cuban some money but it never turned a profit for Yahoo and they don't have anything in that space anymore.

You can look at the entire list here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisition...!

A couple of others that stand out: GeoCities, Zimbra (Yahoo bought it for $350 Mil, sold it to VMware for less who sold it down the road as well), etc.
Not that different in interests either. Economists are mostly serving a role as policy influencer in favor or either states or corporations or both.
Apparently thousands of people are fools, then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8948705

The fact is, consumers behave in foolish ways, and it's up to Coinbase to protect them. Yet their default protections don't. In fact, Coinbase advertises the opposite: their advertising about "insurance" gives a false sense of security.

You're smart. That's good. I wasn't, and I suffered for it.

There just isn't any reason to use an exchange like a bank exept laziness. The only exception here would be market makers and maybe big-time day traders who actually have a reason to keep a ton of money on the exchange at all times.

Not even big-time day traders. I was a day trader, and the reason to keep money on the exchange was because it took a long time for a deposit to be recognized by the system. Longer than the market opportunities existed. As far as I know, this is true for almost all exchanges due to bitcoin requiring several minutes to confirm transfers. That's why people keep a large amount on exchanges.
Given that many legitimate news articles are generated programmatically, it might just be a matter of publishing the templates :)
Exactly this thing happened to me in an OpenBSD upgrade. My network card no longer worked. That prompted me to actually read the release notes, and I quickly found the reason.
Looks like the config requires you to specify repo URLs (only GitHub?). Can't seem to get a private repo to work.
The insurance does cover it, although fuel exhaustion is very much pilot error.
I remember the days where they talked about making video cameras that would actually stop recording if they were pointed at a piece of media with special markers in it.

Nowadays people would use some kind of HDCP-breaking digital capture device, and regulating all video cameras is basically impossible with their ubiquity, but it's crazy to think about video cameras being modified against our will to suit the needs of one industry.

Those in power will always try to take control away from us. Don't let them.
That eyeball in the circle of dots would make a good logo for an NSA project. They should borrow it.
I love whispersystems and use there products. This post gives a real inside into the mind of of many hackers, specially in the last couple of years. You spend so much time with Alice and Bob and because its intresting you think about it even when talking to normal people and this might be a harmful way to think when actually trying to build a relationship.

Moxie has probebly felt this more then most, and I want to take this change to thank him and the rest of the people working on these systems.

I hope that we do meet on that beach and that classical liberals are equally welcome even if we do support global capitalism :)
They also bizarrely consider something that you have only watched a few seconds of (by accident) as watched and like to show recommendations by that.

Through human eyes, Netflix's recommendations are especially dumb for the reasons you and I give. Equally pointless is recommending things I have already watched in a genre instead of other items in that genre, and doing a filter bubble where they keep narrowing down to things like you have already watched.
These posts depress me. They are always showing off some cool algorithm that is oh so clever, and yet Netflix recommendations are just the same films over and over again. Amazon instant somehow nailed it - I keep finding new shows/films that are actually well aligned with my viewing history and rating. Maybe their offerings are more tailored to my tastes?

As a tangent, I've been meaning to start a discussion on how utterly unusable I find the Netflix interface. Maybe it is because I only just signed up and haven't been exposed to its iterations, but I am pretty sure I spent 10 minutes trying to figure out how to watch a particular episode. Likewise the personalised experience page sometimes disappears. Again, not wanting to compare too much, but for a late start to the game, Amazon I found pretty intuitive.</rant>
I use Clementine on Linux, and sometimes on my Mac.

It handles more formats than iTunes (FLAC and OGG, maybe others), and the interface is okay, but not as polished as iTunes.

I haven't used it to add or remove music from my iPhone on either platform, but the Linux version can play music from the phone, so maybe it works.
European counter-terror plan involves blanket collection of passengers’ data
I've never felt that implication.If companies engage in effective (but legal) lobbying to benefit themselves at the public expense, that's regulatory capture even if it's not literally corruption.

I guess it could be an argument about what corruption means, but I think that people underestimate how dysfunctional the legislative and regulatory processes can be even without any legal violations.
That is a bit rosey. Wind is close, but solar is far away. Neither have cheap enough to be used as baseline power.

But we don't use oil for electricity anyway. It's mostly transportation. The question is not renewable v. fossil, but why type of automobile power plant we will be using.

Electric cars will take a while but electric trucks are way far off.

We can stave off global warming by fracking the everloving fuck out out of America and using natural gas for electricity and for automobiles.
Nope, it will come aliright. You're just taking a black/white dichotomy. But they don't have to make it impossible - just inconvenient.
I doubt Marlinspike needed Zizek to discover They Live.
For me, no linux support is an issue. But then, I have plenty of options for open source media players so I don't particularly need iTunes.
> that climate change is terrible news for them

Terrible news for the House of Saud? Doubtful.
No I meant another kind of issue. The "smart" adaptive buffering was a problem, but 90% of the time you could force seek youtube flash player and wait for the stream to accumulate enough for the video to continue.

With HTML5 (under firefox nightly) sometimes it's really stuck and no acceptable amount of seek and/or wait had any effect on it, so I believe it's another kind of bug.
they live is one of the best john carpenter films, and that includes the epic 10-minute on-concrete wrestling match before keith david will don the glasses.

being extremely entertained to see a blog entry about they live aside, making privacy simple is super hard. similarly, making people care about privacy is super hard. killing the aliens is even harder.

ubiquitous surveillance has a pretty obvious response in the long run: ubiquitous encryption.
The Difficulty of Scaling Your Business to the Opportunity in HFT
This would be fantastic!

Light is essential for me to get up properly. I currently have an alarm that gradually ramps up a lamp in my room to full brightness. It works well, but the downside is that it only stays on full brightness for a set period of time which I can't change. I want my alarms to continue to pester me until i'm actually out of bed! regardless of what time it is while completely removing my sleepy self from the equation of mashing buttons.

Luna sounds like a great fit.
And it's absolutely worth reading beyond that.

I LOLed at this bit:

"I do not eat breakfast. Please do not ask me any questions about what I will do breakfast. Please just do not bring it up."

Reminds me of a book I read to my two year old called "I want my hat back".
This doesn't demystify SEO. There are just so many factors involved in SEO, and unknown factors. Something that works today may not work tomorrow. The only true guideline to go by is to create great content for humans, period.
Why is screenshotting so troublesome?
toosh
As I understand it (and keep in mind I have never used Rust, so I might be completely wrong), Rust does have ways to perform unsafe pointer operations and the standard library includes code that does this, no? So, replace VM with libstd. Even if this is not the case, the compiler could produce code that is not memory safe due to bugs in the compiler itself. Turtles all the way down and all that.

Either way, I am all for reducing the number of places where random pointer juggling happens inside a program, be it by using a VM or forbidding certain language features outside of small system libraries (e.g. by banning "unsafe fn" from your own Rust code or by using a static checker to force you to use only the "safe subset of C++"). That way we just need to get a couple thousand lines of code right to solve this particular class of nastiness forever, instead of the hundreds of millions of LOCs that live above the system abstractions.
Sometimes it is pilot error, but apparently not in this case. Seems to be a failure in the ferry tank pumps according to comments on avcanada.
What do you mean by "as yet non-existent"? I believe Chrome, IE and Safari are all shipping it. It sounds like you can even use Netflix with it, as of last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8159110
A Product Journal: To MVP or Not To MVP
On the other hand, people who are that crazily obsessive about playing a popular sport are usually lauded by society, rather than being kidnapped and sent to rehab.
It's not cheating if the CPU is a Chess Processing Unit. :)
Yes. It's a great concept. Then they threw in zombie-like aliens in hopes the movie would sell.

The concept is from the Illuminatus trilogy.
(http://www.boogles.com/local/Illuminati/fnord.text)

Fnord!
First line of Moxie's post: "The 1988 film They Live is one of the last great masterpieces to come out of the hollywood left."

First sentence spoken in Zizek video: "They Live from 1988 is definitely one of the forgotten masterpieces of the Hollywood left."
That seems so cynical you just as easily pass it off as a parody of being cynical.
It's a question of scale.

I think these systems are banned in the UK as they're explosive devices and the risk of them going off on the ground was deemed more dangerous than their benefit. /noresearch
Michael M
I agree. All the little value-added features they support that makes them different from competitors requires tracking more information. Being more useful with the same inventory is a matter of helping people utilize that inventory more effectively. That means knowing more about your customer. This isn't new with the internet, businesses have always tried to know and understand their customers. The internet just makes it easier to know more about individual customers, instead of broad categories.
While I too couldn't comment on the actual JavaScript they put in place for the test and how it might have impacted other factors I just wanted to make a quick comment on the idea of a page speed penalty.

1. I have never in my life seen evidence of this happening before (enterprise consultant in this field). I am positive in my mind that it was not a case of "page is faster = drop in rankings".

I would be willing to bet that it had a lot more to do with the "rendering content in JS" which has traditionally been a huge issue for search engines (despite what they claim).

But every single time I have seen someone claim this or something like this there has been many other factors at play.

2. It is highly likely that the amount of impact that any given variable (in this case pagespeed) is not the same across the board. In fact it is much more aligned with the kinds of industries you are in and the keywords relating to that search.

As an example page speed is MUCH more likely to be a bigger factor for an e-commerce website and keywords showing any kind of transactional intent than it would be for someone looking for detailed information on a medical condition for example.*

*This isn't a confirmed fact that I know of at all but it seems to be a relatively well established theory in some more advanced SEO circles I believe.
Aha - thank you
Are realtime wind maps and forecasts over the pacific accurate enough for planes of that size?

I'd imagine a strong enough headwind would burn through your fuel pretty quickly.
Ask HN: Career advice for lifestyle business owner
I'm 29. I have a moderately successful lifestyle business. One day I'd like to either start a startup or become an angel investor. I'd like some advice on how best to get there. These jobs require either

1. Talent/experience
2. Money
3. A good network

And ideally all three. Right now I have sales experience with some self taught programming experience and a modest amount of money. I work alone so my network is pretty bad.

My business makes ~75k per year, but ties up $150k in equipment and inventory. It's a small business that will not scale too well. An increase in revenue requires an increase in capital and an increase in my time which I cannot outsource. I could probably double or triple the business max. Through my business I rarely meet interesting people to grow my network or grow much in terms of marketable skills besides sales.

I struggle a lot with how to spend my time. Maintaining my current level of income only takes ~10 hrs/week. Should I keep growing my business and just try to save and make as much money as possible or try to get more work experience and programming skills? Possibly go to grad school or a bootcamp code school and get a job programming for a few years?

I have a decent amount of money saved up, but not nearly accredited investor level($1M liquid). I have a BS in Industrial Engineering from a big ten school. I did not get a degree in CS. I've done a fair bit of self taught programming and side projects but that can only take you so far imo. I've never had a corporate job.
As a parent with a few kids, I was very fortunate to be able to work with my employer and instead of x number of weeks off, we split the same quantity of hours to part time per day for double the amount of weeks.

This worked out well for both me and the company. The company was able to continue projects with my input, and I did not feel like a stranger on my "return".

Obviously for the first few days I was completely out, but after that I could handle dropping by the office a few hours each day.
> bucket(hash(experiment, url))

Unfortunately it often seems to be per domain, and not per url. And then you have to factor in backlinks...
They aren't dumping it below cost. I believe the post above was incorrect on that. Google management have said that they profit from fiber.
Blog post coming soon, but 12.04 is vulnerable, but has a patch available.
Standard equipment on a Cirrus SR-22. Ballistic Recovery Systems, a company from Minnesota.
Isn't that called "The Onion"?

As they say about programming, the best way to complain about software is to write software. If you don't like what the media is reporting then start your own news organization of whatever kind, including satire. To complete the exercise, put years of your life into building circulation, attracting talented writers, dealing with technology costs and issues, creating and maintaining relationships and generally doing the things necessary to scale a business. Then after all of that investment, make the decision between "listening to your customers and giving them what they want" and "sticking it to the man".

The majority of media organizations don't select stories on the basis of what will be the most effective form of propaganda, but based on what they think people want to read about and discuss. Any business that has the mindset of telling it's customers what they want instead of listening to them and responding to their needs is going to have a rough go of it, including media businesses. You may not like the results, but any fault that you perceive lies more with your fellow citizens than it does with the organizations that deliver news to them.
Love the laser one :-)
> The company would use the public school buses that sit unused in parking lots on the weekends, and charge $8 per ride or $15-20 per month for unlimited service (the price points fluctuated).

The real outrage would be if a private company were allowed to run a for-profit transit service using public property, and an unlicensed one at that.
This is a classic example of focusing on fancy, clever things and forgetting about the obvious and simple wins.
Smart Neural Stimulators Listen to the Body to Deliver Tailored Therapy
I find it amusing that all of the other entries are oil companies.
What did you use to find contract work?
I do this for a living and I couldn't emphasise enough how much of a bad idea it is to build a business around SEO.

Is it a really important and potentially profitable thing to get right and do well at? Without any doubt the answer to that is yes in almost all cases.

Is it also at the same time where you should spend all of your marketing time and spend? No, not unless you want to spend the rest of your days worrying that the next major update will potentially wipe you out.
Or simply that $40bn in volatile stock that can't be sold for a year is not worth full face value. Which makes a lot of sense if you think about it.
The article discusses how RethinkDB differs from "realtime sync services" such as Pusher, PubNub, and Firebase.

While comparing against Firebase makes sense because it's an alternative database, I see Pusher and PubNub (and similar pubsub services, such as Fanout) as being complementary to RethinkDB.
If they let Google cut off their supply of eyeballs, Careers isn't going to do too well, either, though. Google is adding a tall hurdle to the front of their user-onboarding funnel.

It's a fair point that ads are not the best way for them to monetize, but practically any other form of monetization also involves getting users from a search engine onto their site.
Most people aren't capable of taking quite that long a view.

It is very unlikely that anything you do in a video game will persist more than a few years, let alone beyond your death. If you do things in the real world, there is some chance of a legacy that persists past your life and affects people after you're dead, whether it be kids, a house you built, a book you wrote, or whatnot.

Ultimately, yes, all our works are but tears in the rain. But if you take that view too long and too hard it's easy to sink into ennui and just let yourself wither away; why bother?
The Bonfire of the Humanities
It's not the technology, it's how society uses it. I don't want cyborg super-soldiers operating under a repressive extrajudicial Section 31-type agency with Star Trek doors coming after me.
Aside from the Alibaba news, which smarter and more capable people here are commenting on, I found this nugget to be really interesting:

"The company’s net income was $166 million, or 17 cents a share, in the fourth quarter, compared with $348 million, or 33 cents a share, in the same quarter a year ago."

How long is the current trend sustainable? Year-over-year losing half their net income! At this point it seems like a simple matter of time.
I wonder if it would be feasible to add this sort of real-time feed to a conventional RDBMS like PostgreSQL. This feature would be quite useful for at least one of my projects, but I'm not sure I want to give up a mature SQL-based DBMS for something relatively unproven like RethinkDB.
Packages are ready, but if your mirror don't have them, use manual way: http://systemz.pl/post/fast-ghost-fix-for-cve-2015-0235/
It's for CentOS 6
I'm not getting mad at anything. I'm responding to "the competition got serious" - no it didn't, that's an outright lie. The competition died.

In any case, it's bad because it means that if I don't want to agree to Google's terms of service for whatever reason or just don't want to interact with them as a company (perhaps I disagree with some corporate policy of theirs), then I have to either deal with a worse experience, self-host, or pay money to a company like FastMail. If there were reasonable competition, I and many others could use them, and Google would have to convince us not to switch.