skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Inbox is this really cool thing that doesn't work for anyone. It's awesome for categorizing transactional emails, but misses the mark for person-to-person communication.

If you use one email address sole for transactions, and one for personal emails, Inbox is actually pretty awesome. I don't know many people who do this though.
>The military orientation of JPMorgan’s security team leaders may incline them to see the involvement of governments and spies when companies face a range of threats, many motivated purely by profit, says Brendan Conlon, who spent 10 years in computer network operations with the NSA and now runs Vahna, a security firm in Washington. “It’s like groupthink,” he says.

Not only the cultural pre-inclination but also the political cover it gives to JPM to claim a nation-state bogeyman, instead of copping to having a flawed organization.
SpiderMonkey, ASM.JS, and iOS comes to Node
Detecting a sub is one thing, but destroying it is another. Do they have a 'solution' to that?
Meh. Windows 8 was the last straw for me. I was on every Windows release since 3.1. With 8, I finally decided to move to the Mac for my desktop, at work and home. At home, I need Lightroom, which precluded Linux.

I agree that Windows 8 was bold, but it was still a mis-step in that it assumed a touch screen. Using a mouse with that UI was an exercise in frustration.
Why do I need to be signed in to view some of the games? That's kind of annoying...

http://gamamia.com/games/89
Also Flipboard is no less accessible then it already was as a native application. The problems with making an app rendered in canvas can be solved (largely because they open sourced their work).
To be fair they still have "clearly advertised, transparent, standardized pricing" for all their normal services. Only the enterprise pricing is obfuscated.
Fair enough.

I guess I mean to say that I really like this book, and would enjoy more from the author teaching fast Haskell, to supplement this book about simple Haskell.
I don't know about the battery controller, all of it works with Linux (System76 is a Linux retailer after all).
Relax, enjoy your home, enjoy your neighbors, enjoy their guests.
No trackpoint.
couldn't AirBnB just restrict rentals to 90 nights/year in portland? or couldn't the city just look for rentals that are available for more than 90 nights/year?
> What if we had a nice way to figure out whether: ...metrics...

Microsoft's Team Foundation Server has a lot of this built-in. Check out Visual Studio Online, I believe they have a free level.

The way I was taught Scrum was this: metrics are there to help the team become more efficient, not for performance evaluation purposes.
India’s electricity problems: An area of darkness (2012)
Take a drink if this article critical of Google is at a lower rank than we would expect. Currently:

Rank 11 129 pts, 2 hours ago

vs

Rank 5 115 pts, 5 hours ago
The big difference is that "Hey, Siri" isn't a privacy threat at all, and that Apple doesn't generally allow people to snoop on all of my supposedly-secure traffic and then say "oh, there was no problem" when confronted with it.

About the closest they've come to that was the "goto fail" bug from a year ago or so, and that gave every appearance of being a mistake, and Apple didn't try to claim that it wasn't a problem (although they were, as usual, pretty quiet about the exact nature of the problem).
It's actually much easier than that - no secondary purchase is required with Windows 8

https://www.thurrott.com/uncategorized/1146/clean-pc-walkthr...
"We have thoroughly investigated this technology and do not find any evidence to substantiate security concerns."

http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Lenovo-P-Y-and-Z-series/Removal-...

"This article will be updated with additional instructions on clean up of deactivated files and removal of certificate shortly."

This was just edited in, here is the post before that:
https://web.archive.org/web/20150219151726/http://forums.len...

So, Lenovo, why should we remove this certificate after all? Any security concerns perhaps?
At some point you're going to have to trust the vendor and the supply chain... unless you're prepared to build your own computer by soldering home-made components onto a bread-board! ;-)
> I've had way more trouble with out of date packages on Ubuntu than Debian (Sid).

Just my two cents, but I've had way more trouble with missing packages. It's a pity, but Ubuntu repositories are growing at a much faster pace.

If I want the latest and greatest I can always compile from source...
46 Hidden Tips and Tricks to Use Google Search Like a Boss
Alfred is awesome http://www.alfredapp.com/

It is based on an idea from an older launcher called Quicksilver http://qsapp.com/

These types of apps have existed in OS X for a long time. I'm kind of surprised that Linux doesn't have an equivalent yet, as pretty much any open-source dev who uses a Mac laptop knows about the above apps.
HBR: Where the Digital Economy Is Moving the Fastest
I've sampled a few, and I've set up and used Bacula. At the time (10 years ago now), it seemed way more complex than I needed (a lot of it seemed to be centered around backing up to tape, which was not our use case). We eventually started using BackupPC, which we were really happy with, except it didn't have a native client for backing up windows, so there was a little weirdness with shadow drives, locked filed, etc. What you got in return was an open source project, a great interface, extreme versatility (do you want to back up using rsync, reverse rsync, tar-piping over SSH, or some custom mechanism?), and extreme space savings (all backup files are hard links to specific file, across multiple backups and separate backed up systems) along with reduced network usage if using rsync led to some interesting use cases we couldn't have done otherwise.

I've been out of that field for a while now through, so I'm not sure how much of that is common nowadays.
The model of "subs as aircraft carriers" for UUVs seems less likely, though. UUVs are arguably better deployed like satellites than aircraft. This is the way underwater mines are deployed today: seed an area well in advance of hostilities with mines that dig themselves into the bottom, and activate them remotely at need.

If you posit that submarines are going to be highly detectable (which is reasonable, and has been a risk since the '80's, when thermal signature tracking looked like it might become viable) then there's no particularly compelling reason why you would deploy UUVs from subs rather than from planes or surface ships.
Show HN: Gist management from the command line
>Thanks for making HTTPS non-mandatory in HTTP/2, IETF!!

You're shitting me!?! Who, specifically, do we have to blame for that?
What is this dog thinking? Scientists now have some fascinating answers
Superfish is a local proxy. It doesn't introduce load time delays, because it's local to the machine.

The page would load normally, then Superfish would be shipped off to China, then it would receive a command back from China about what to do.
> I found that it wasn't as safe as it claimed to be and that the tooling was not very good.

How was Haskell not "as safe as it claimed to be"? What tooling was not very good? What tooling was missing for you?
Doesn't matter what machine you're using if your ISP e.g. Comcast is injecting ads into the web pages you visit!
Close:

http://blog.erratasec.com/2015/02/extracting-superfish-certi...
I've made a number of Minecraft videos on linux using ffmpeg and editing using Kdenlive. If you google for linux screen recording there's a bunch of good options, including much friendlier options than a long ffmpeg command.
Who knows what <insert person or company of choice> is doing behind closed doors? What am I doing behind closed doors? What are you doing behind closed doors?

While there is a chance someone may be doing something bad behind closed doors, that cannot be used as a reason for why they are worse than someone whose door we have opened and found doing something bad.
What is broken in Firefox? Looks pretty much the same as in Chrome. Firefox 37 on Mac OS that is.
...or your neighbor could open a meth lab and you may never know about until you find out that half your building has cancer from inhaling the fumes.

We have condominium boards and neighborhood regulations in place so that if or when there is bad behavior there's recourse against those actions (yes, I know most condo boards would have regulations against renting. Most of the times they wouldn't get involved unless there was an issue though).

One of my neighbors rents out their place on Airbnb almost every other weekend. The tenants are almost always well behaved... unlike an owner that lives on my floor that I've had to have the condo board send a letter to because of late night parties.
Successful companies with incompetent employees
This guy's premise is that submarines are going to lose their stealthy advantage. He is not qualified to say that, and the technology he mentions could become a threat to subs has been talked about for 20+ years. There is not much danger that these new technologies will be able to detect a sub in our lifetime.

I acknowledge that technology will require subs to become even more quiet, but new propulsion systems are now on the boats instead of propellers. They are quieter than ever and no one could detect us before.

Subs have already become “carriers” of SEALS and rockets. So that mission can only be expanded.

Not much new in the article.

Edit: Source: US Navy submarine nuclear reactor officer, 20+ years
I don't run AV software on my Mac because the threat and possible consequences are sufficiently limited.

But I've never heard about AV software itself being a vector. Where can I find out more?
It is. If you're claiming a homestead exemption, and then renting the place out, that's illegal. If Portland's property tax agency is online, and you had the AirBNB address, you could easily confirm this (as the exemption would be listed on the property index page).
If the intent is there, then Attempted Burglary would be the charge in California at least. Penal codes; 663, 459.

http://law.onecle.com/california/penal/663.html

http://law.onecle.com/california/penal/459.html
500,000 x $1.20 x 40 x 52 = $1.2 B per year in post-tax wages. This goes directly to the economy. That is good in a way.

The only downside in the states is that most of the income of service sector employees go for the rent; in that sense, most of this goes to landlords, etc. Rentier capitalism (extratcing rents) is the major driver of how the rich makes money in the states.
Come up with analytics to support your findings

Analytics are irrelevant when you're writing some huge internal service for a company whose conservative upgrade policy dictates that only one older browser will be installed and used company-wide until God-knows-when.

By the way, glancing at a few browser market share websites, it looks like IE8 and IE9 are alive and well, totaling around the same as IE11.
Aren't you comparing the capability to do 3D with the straightforwardness of vertical centering, though? Certainly CSS has the capability to do vertical centering of multiline text, and I wouldn't call the 3D rendering strategy in this experiment amazingly straightforward---in fact, the cleverness of the technique is one of the things that makes this experiment so cool.
What? No github repo?
MS still has lion's share of the desktop and enterprise though - they could have put out something open like SPDY with IIS and IE support built in and that would have made a difference.
$64.4 billion in cash as of the latest quarter.
I'm kind of impressed that their PR guys are so incompetent. Their statement is so nakedly condescending, they might as well have straight-up said, "You guys are full of shit, but we'll stop just so you'll shut up about it."
No, you don't need to pass the TLS connection to China to perform an MITM. Superfish would generate a cert at installation time, unique to the specific user that was being targeted. The channel back to China would be protected by TLS too, but it wouldn't be MITM'able by anyone except Superfish HQ, unless they lose their private key.

I disagree that it's poor form to react to downvotes when they're wholly unjustified. Maybe I did a bad job explaining myself. In that case, I should explain myself better. That's a positive thing, not a negative. Reddit has this stupid trope like "Complaining about downvotes? That's a paddlin'." Which if you think about it just a self-reinforcing culture of bandwagoning. But I imagine that this is now entirely offtopic and boring, so let's focus on the tech.
Be careful with Amazon Glacier, retrieving data usually leads to a rude awakening.

Glacier bills on "peak retrieval rate". Say you have a 100mbps connection and 1TB of data. Retrieving all 1TB over a 24-hour period at an even rate will cost you ~$300. Not great, but not awful.

But this calculation is wrong. The real story is much worse.

You're not retrieving your data directly from Glacier. You're restoring it to S3, then downloading your files from there.

Amazon is going to bill you at the peak retrieval rate _from Glacier to S3_. If you're lucky and it takes four hours (and at an even rate), you'll rack up _$2000_ in charges.

This has happened to me and to many others. The solution is to carefully meter your restoration requests. Or, better yet, don't use Glacier in the first place. It's simply not suited for the everyday user.

Play with the numbers for yourself:
http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html

And I'm certainly not the first to warn of this:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4412886

- http://www.wired.com/2012/08/glacier/
Yes, but AirBNB would prefer to skirt regulations as long as possible in order to grow revenue and market share.

See: Uber.
Those kind of monolithic network security systems see to be intrinsically pointless. If a user can run code on the machine then they can probably get around the network level security. So any implementation is dependant on AV software preventing circumvention. At that point you might as well install the tracking/filtering software on the local machine.
There is another organization that advocates the use of cattle for grazing and converting deserts to green lands. The green lands have been found to restore streams. This movement uses the same principles for sustenance.

I think it is called the savant institute. the founder also has a ted talk.
This is why I don't worry at all about AI.
My case against Glacier:

a) if you're using it for backups it's discouraging you from periodically checking your backups, which is standard good practice.

b) if you're using it for backups of your backups, dude what are you smoking? Why don't the backups of your backups have backups? Or second breakfast and mid-afternoon tea[1]? Where does it end?

For most of us mortals, it's a hard enough job doing one set of offsite backups and convincing our loved ones to get with the program. Find the one right offsite backup solution for yourself, periodically compare your on-site archives with your off-site backups, and get on with your life.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLXeL4HbPr4
I'm currently reading "Thinking, fast and slow" by Daniel Kahneman himself and I couldn't recommend it enough.

One point he makes early in his book, though, is that when he talks about "System 1" and "System 2", it is merely a figure of speech, that he talks about two systems, two minds, precisely because of how we tend to relate to each one of them as an agent. But he wants to be clear that reality, as far as his research goes, is not "two systems". Or at least that's what I got from it!
The dropdown is funky. I haven't dug into the `why`, but if you click on the actual ▼ character, the menu doesn't expand. Gotta find the sweet spot, cause at first you might think it's fine.

https://www.muicss.com/docs/v1/css-js/dropdowns

Tested on Chrome/Ubuntu and Chrome/OSX.

edit: appears an issue was just opened. https://github.com/amorey/mui/issues/1
This is a fascinating article, and stands on its own merits. Go read it.

The point I'd like to make though is that sometimes we use science to justify intolerance, and time and again the science has caught up with what people have reported as their own life experience.
Assuming, from the password, that it uses "SSL Digestor" by Komodia, then yes, it should generate an invalid cert:

http://www.komodia.com/wiki/index.php?title=SSL_Digestor#Cer...
Again, irrelevant. This thread isn't "sillysaurus3 imagines how he would implement the perfect proxy," it's correcting an assumption about the actual existing proxy. I suggest if you want to pursue your off topic study of how to implement a proxy that doesn't introduce latency while performing the functionality, you do it elsewhere.

You should also read the HN guidelines before explaining downvote etiquette to me, because they will surprise you, apparently.
just trying to break into a building would likely be classified as burglary

From wiki: " or loitering unlawfully with intent to commit any crime, not necessarily a theft – for example, vandalism."[1]

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burglary#United_States
I have a layered photo backup process:

- New photos live on my laptop (in my Dropbox and covered by Backblaze)

- I manually copy photos from my laptop to a RAID array on a server elsewhere in my house when I'm done editing/processing them

- The server backs up the photos to S3

S3 is the last bastion, so to speak. I expect that normally, I pull any photos I need back off my server. But the house burns down, I go to S3.

I run a cron job on my backup server that picks up all changed files (in my photo storage dir) and pushes them to S3 with s3cmd[1]. It's a pretty 'dumb' process, but works well.

The S3 <-> Glacier lifecycle stuff is pretty cool, so the plan is to eventually enable it to deep-archive older photos.

[1] http://s3tools.org/s3cmd
Seems to be only you, from the looks of my posting history. Perhaps you should have checked there before making an ad hominem?
Can I just have on thing that does event logs and snmp and uptime and alerting for internal and external devices in a secure way all in one package? I'm so tired of having to have 30 different softwares installed just to accomplish 3 things.
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There are lots of extreme examples one can come up with to show why caring how your neighbors use their land is warranted. Think dumping toxic waste, using their land for as an outdoor shooting gallery at all hours of the day, etc. Just about everyone understands that one can not and should not be allowed to do anything they please with the land they own. The question is where to draw the line.

This is where elections, the court system, and societal norms come into play. Make your voice heard at the local level. Get involved. Convince your neighbors that AirBnB is a good thing and shouldn't be any of their or your business. Perhaps your view will prevail with regard to AirBnB.

I suggest though that saying that how land is used is none of your business (or mine) is not the right method. It makes you sound extreme. There are far too many people on the planet and far too many people with nefarious intent to let everyone do as they please with their land.
https://github.com/amorey/mui
iOS 8: Feature Availability
He became a Republican.
It's a shame because I bought a Lenovo laptop about half a year ago - I love it!

I wiped the preinstalled version of Windows so I'm free of this issue. I'd love to install Linux on it but wireless doesn't work in any of the distributions I have tried.
Backblaze provides a mirror of your running system with a 30 day max limit on diffs; if you discover a file disappeared or became corrupted more than 30 days in the past, Backblaze can't help you.

You can download 1GB/month from Glacier for free or you can transfer any amount from Glacier to an EC2 instance in the same region; one or both should be sufficient to do your own integrity testing.

Anyway, Backblaze is a backup service, Glacier is not. Glacier is a storage service you can use with any backup software written to be compatible with Glacier's API. Backup management including diffs is the backup software's job, not Glacier's. Glacier's job is to be very durable storage; I also wish Amazon would say more about their storage media but it's generally understood to be heterogeneous with multiple redundant copies of all data stored.
>> "...to demonstrate that you don't have to have suburbs to have a livable home."

Hasn't that already done by literally everywhere that isn't the sprawl-blighted, car-centric parts of North America and Australia?
Tweet-deleters: people who are making their Twitter histories self-destruct
Superfish, the movie http://imgur.com/WT33KBJ
The HoloLens Toolchain and XAML Grids
The similar magnitudes of intra- and inter-sex differences are the best argument against sexism.

This seems more true for behaviour than it does for physiology, but findings like those in the article make it harder to draw even that distinction.
Why should I do it elsewhere? This is a thread about an interesting tech topic, and maybe some people might find that aspect interesting. This is the last comment I'm going to write to you because this is now wholly uninteresting to readers. I'll never understand this mindset of "Oh, well, there might be a misunderstanding here, but rather than clarify it calmly and rationally, I'll take this as a license to be angry and mean."

Who cares if someone thought that the proxy was going to work like X, but it turned out to work like Y? What matters is that if it can work like Z, then Z should be pointed out, especially if it enables some interesting aspect that people previously hadn't noticed. Anyway, you've successfully killed the fun of HN for me for the day, so see you later.
In my opinion, disrupting an industry is more of "what you do" thing than how you do it.
Lenovo in Denial: Insists There's No Security Problem with Superfish
That's the wrong Github link.

This is the right one: https://github.com/amorey/mui
They did a lot of great low-level yet user-facing work (butter, volta) but it seems like ART complete fruits are still to be seen.
Try being seriously under-unemployed in a recession for 5 years, watch a single demographic group of "I've got mine, so the hell with everyone else" entitled brats make tons of money in SF playing casino capitalism with mostly fake valuation companies that don't make any money, and then watch them cash their chips in, go into a city with a major housing crisis and push up prices so high through real estate speculation that nobody actually living there can afford to live there anymore. It's really, really easy to understand why people are mad about it, whether you agree with them or not.

Real estate has gone up 30-50% since I moved to Portland 4 years ago, so of course, so have rents. 10+%/yr is a crazy number. Most people didn't make that much more income in the same time frame. I have friends that live in a house and rent a part of the house on AirBNB, and it helps them, and for that I am happy. But I'm torn about whether it's positive overall for the city to let out-of-state management companies buy out what's left of Portland's (very, very limited) supply of real estate and flip it for guerrilla hotel usage.

I'm not saying AirBNB should be illegal, but Portlanders generally don't want to become California's vacation home, they don't want to copy the dog-eat-dog jungle that is modern San Francisco, they've never been an Ayn Rand libertarian whatever, and their strong tradition of progressive, heavily interventionist government planning (for things like, say, affordable housing) are being put in jeopardy by these disruptions.

It's all quite understandable, again, whether you agree with it or not.
Unity is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_%28game_engine%29
Financial Event Study Conducted in iPython Notebook
I don't see a problem with those solutions that protect networks, if the users know about it. The alternative would be to have no Internet access at all in order to lower risks of loading malicious content.