skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh man, those hilarious 'Congress Created Dustbowl' signs; everybody who passes those has to just wonder why these people started farms in the desert, right? Congress didn't make a dustbowl, you or your forbears just made a farm in a dustbowl and then assumed water from elsewhere would always be there for you. These same people would probably spout off about personal responsibility or some such nonsense if given the chance...

The almonds and rice and alfalfa issues only exacerbate the original silliness of farming in the goddamn desert.
The Parkinsons app, for example, correlates symptoms and physical activity. I don't know who would have an incentive to bankroll data skewing.

The current crop of apps have nothing to do with rating products.
A great ad for Apple's security.
Unusable on mobile. I think this is just click bait.
Or, if you end up forgetting about it or your s.o. moves the laptop from your desk to the other side of the room...
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I am managing a 7 digit banner ad budget which helps my client generate a profitable 8 digit income in education business. So no display advertising isn't dead for advertisers, because possibilities are more. The problem with Gigaom and DDJ is that they have low capacity with not much relevance advantage. One single programmer can run a web site with tenfold their capacity with a fraction of their cost.

In contrast one can claim banner (outdoor, indoor or web) never really worked except for some carefully chosen "success stories", and now advertisers can measure.
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I have doubts about that. Sure, you possibly could drag the laptop by the MagSafe without it disconnecting if you drag carefully. But I feel like when you really yank on it, like you would when tripping over the cord, that even a 2 pound laptop would disconnect from the MagSafe without flying off the table.
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Thanks. I'll take a look at the email validation code.
The implication of the article is that this is some sort of specific attack against Apple. Surely the reality is that the CIA, and pretty much all 3-letter agencies globally, in a concerted and organised way try to break the security of all secure devices. That's a big part of their job - you can't gather intelligence if you can't read it.

The good things in the article are two-fold: firstly, Apple haven't just capitulated and handed over whatever is asked of them, and secondly the documents about the effort don't specifically mention any sort of success which could be interpreted as the agency failing. Of course, if they had been successful I imagine they'd keep as quiet as possible about it.
Yours is the 2015 version of the 1980s-era DOS app that displayed a fake word processor UI with the top portion of a fake but intriguing letter visible. You would leave this app running and then leave for lunch. An office snoop would see the fake letter and want to read more, then press a key to scroll down, which would activate a siren sound on the PC speaker and display some silly "you're busted" message on the screen.
On my desktop (DH87RL / i7-4770 / 2x8GB Crucial DDR3L-1600), rowhammer_test reported errors after ~20 iterations (less than a minute).

I went into the BIOS and tried lowering the tREFI value from 6300 to 3150 (not sure what the units are). So far, it's gone 1000 iterations with no problems detected.

Edit: Actually, the units are probably multiples of the cycle time, just like CAS latency. So, for DDR3-1600, that would mean 6300x1.25ns=7.8μs, and 3150x1.25ns=3.9μs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAS_latency
They are intrinsically valuable to them. People get bored with things. We always want a new toy, a new experience or a new adventure. Even if you do create the perfect tablet, people will not buy it unless you appeal to their playfulness. Show them a pretty dream to which they can aspire. And after a while, they will start demanding the next iteration. Something even better. Because the old one lost its shine.

Regarding the way things get built now, it's just pure greed. Business people promise bullshit to each other. And then they hire engineers to build something to fulfill the contract. The engineers are pressed by time and lack resources. So the product ends up shitty. Quality is never considered because it costs too much.

Don't get me wrong. I agree with you. I'm currently in my third year of building an awesome product. And where everybody else decided to cut corners, I'm polishing like crazy. And guess what. It takes huge amounts of time and energy. And everybody is saying how great it is, but very few actually get their wallets out.

People say they want perfection. But they aren't willing to pay for it. Instead, they are more than willing to shell out money for a pipe dream. This is why a shitty product with great marketing will bankrupt an amazing product with shitty marketing. It's all about what people dream about. Not what they hold in their hands.

How we could change this? Probably by having a technocratic society. Where execution is valued and promises are ignored.
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Hi HN,

Where have you met interesting people offline who have later become good friends, co-founders, mentors, etc.?
> Transaction fees: no, again anything dogecoin can do can be built on top of bitcoin. You can build sidechains, treechains or indeed off-chain payment systems on top of bitcoin that are cheaper than Dogecoin or even free.

In theory, sure. But defaults are important, simplicity is important.

> To say it's more equitable because long-term dogecoin has slightly higher inflation than bitcoin is like saying Kenyan shilling are more equitable than dollars, and dollars more equitable than dogecoins.

Both those things are true. Look at the Gini coefficient for wealth held in each currency. (There are downsides to high inflation, but not at the USD level).
> "We can tell you exactly what happened when your candidates tried to implement a REST API. We can compare their performance against hundreds of other talented engineers (including your current employees) on the same task."

Dayum. tldr; if you like your job and you play this game, play to win
Python package with builtin JavaScript interpreter and CoffeeScript compiler
This was mostly an experiment, but the core idea is to provide a simple way (no V8 or SpiderMonkey dependency) to run various preprocessors commonly used in web development without the need to integrate NodeJS in development stack. It should be fairly easy to integrate this with webassets package to automatically compile and merge CoffeeScript files.

It currently only provides the CoffeeScript compiler but I'm working on patching and porting the TypeScript compiler too.
Because there was no need. Reservoirs were full and residents conserved: http://www.santabarbaraca.gov/gov/depts/pw/resources/system/...

FWIW, this explains why it will take 20 mil to get it back on line: http://www.noozhawk.com/article/santa_barbara_desalination_p... One eye-opener: reverse osmosis membranes break down with disuse so they were sold to Saudi Arabia.
> It would be helpful to know exactly what's killing them instead of just assuming the reason is obvious.

We will never know "exactly", as much as, conceptually, we'll never have "complete" security in computer systems.

Especially when one of the big players is a corporation who's very glad to sell contaminated products. Do you really think that they're keen on finding the "truth" (a reasonable one) about neonicotinoids? I'm sure they're already very active in obfuscating research.

Besides, in a context where pesticides usage is alarming (or extensive to say the list), why should should be allowed to use something until it's "exactly" proved as harmful, instead of preventing it until it's "exactly" proven as harmless?
Of course, reality is more complex, but again, in context, the first option should not be obvious or granted.
I think it is wrong to except everyone to contribute to open-source and I have seen that even the very smart programmers are not interested in making personal projects or contributing to existing ones.

Honestly, after mind-taxing eight hour job, you want to go home, watch a movie, read a book or some other relaxing activity. Not to mention that for people with families, it is nearly impossible to find the time to contribute. The rockstar-ninjas with thousand-starred repos on Github are very rare.
Yeah, the echo chamber gets really tiresome.
I think the 'TEN' was emphasising $10m rather than stating only 10 employees made that much.
best thing to come out of friendfeed, Tornado. I remember asking Bret Taylor on his blog [0] when he gave a Tornado example if he'd ever release it. A bit of time went by, then he did. [1] Thanks Bret.

[0] http://backchannel.org/blog/tornado

[1] https://friendfeed.com/friendfeed-news/9b8fbaed/technology-b...
OSX has ZFS via OpenZFS.
The CIA? Thought the NSA did this.
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The cynic in me feels that this might be part of a PR campaign coordinated between the US govt and US tech companies to try to give the impression of an adversarial relationship between the two.

The article quotes Steven Bellovin: “Their attitude is basically amoral: whatever works is OK.” If you forgot the article, could you tell who this is talking about? The government or the corporations? It seems like it fits both pretty well. The two entities both have a lot to gain from cooperating. Why wouldn't they? Whatever works.
It may be time to retire Mr. Betteridge.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=betteridge&sort=byDate&prefix&...
If I have to go out of my way to wrap my phone in a protective case and treat it with extra care just for it to not fall apart under what I consider normal day to day use, then it is not fit for purpose as far as I'm concerned.
I agree. When the intelligence community has to resort to this, I think the everyman is ok:

>At the 2011 Jamboree conference, there were two separate presentations on hacking the GID key on Apple’s processors. One was focused on non-invasively obtaining it by studying the electromagnetic emissions of — and the amount of power used by — the iPhone’s processor while encryption is being performed. Careful analysis of that information could be used to extract the encryption key. Such a tactic is known as a “side channel” attack. The second focused on a “method to physically extract the GID key.”
How much does it cost to build an Android app in India?
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1800 channels for $650 would be even better.
I honestly can't speak on the Californian mindset since my experience living there was only a few months so I can't say for sure it would work. I think it would give leverage to the people trying to enact agriculture changes though.

Once people can't water their lawns you can quite easily say "You can't water your lawns but look at this footage of MegaAgriCorp flooding this near desert field for days on end(I saw this near Delhi where a maybe 10 acre field that was rock hard was covered in plastic and flooded for a week then planted) just to get an extra few acres of land." and you will have a lot more advocates for change even if most people just go 'Meh'.
Software Developers India is a company being in mobile app development and venture funding more than 11 years, I am associated for clients apps to get developed by their app experts. So they develop for $25-30/per hour, varies accordingly to the technology, category and requirements.
http://www.softwaredevelopersinc.com/pricing.html
How do you loadbalance requests between the servers?
As long as starfighter isn't the only way technical recruiting happens, I think that's not really a problem. There will always be lots of ways to demonstrate talent :)
I don't watch sports, so what I want is only $15. Big sports fans might only pay for ESPN, and those who watch a lot of both will pay $35.

(Where I am, HBO is an extra $21/month, so $15/month is actually a discount!)
Interesting twist when Glenn Greenwald/Snowden is now suspected of doing PR for tech companies.
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Here's their mission statement:

"Preempt threats and further US national security objectives by collecting intelligence that matters, producing objective all-source analysis, conducting effective covert action as directed by the President, and safeguarding the secrets that help keep our Nation safe."

Historically the CIA and NSA have a competitive relationship, they vie for the same funding. I would think pursuing iPhone security would cross into the NSA's domain and that they wouldn't appreciate it, however the CIA has a budget 50% larger than the NSA and I'm sure they'd like to keep it that way by staying relevant.
Nice introduction. My colleague works exclusively in raytracing around black holes (although he uses the Kerr metric) and he has produced some really cool images.

I highly recommend looking at the literature for really cool images with more complicated black holes.
I miss that from Windows/Ubuntu too.

You can setup an OSX service to let you do it[1]. Doesn't really work for network shares through.

[1] see 4 from http://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-to-copy-a-file-path-in-os-x/
Apple Raises Prices on Several Products in Many Countries Amid Strong USD
Given the plundering of insecure Bitcoin exchanges, I'm reminded of this passage from Gibson's Count Zero:

The Wig punched himself through a couple of African backwaters and felt like a shark cruising a swimming pool thick with caviar

https://books.google.com/books?id=7RpZX8mYKVMC&pg=PT139&lpg=...
I have the feeling that this quarter is not going to be so easy for Apple.
That seems optimistic.

I'm in the category where I don't need ads, I need timely and well categorized (machine sortable; accurate) results for product requests that I have when I discern a need.

I don't fell bad at all about running an adblocker because I would never have clicked on the ad to begin with (it also saves bandwidth and eyebleach); unobtrusive well placed and related text ads /might/ remind me of a need I had been meaning to fill.
Possibly, even given Betteridge's Law of Headlines. The article is quite right that sending money is very expensive in Africa. I have employed (and still do employ) a few migrant workers and I can assure you half their pay goes home and that it costs a hefty cut for them to do so. I've experimented with various ways of making it easier for them, but short of sewing US dollars into their clothing when they travel home, there isn't much out there. The more SADCC countries start accepting Bitcoin, the easier this will become.
Yup. The MacBook Pro I use today is likely to be my last Apple machine - I've been using their kit for decades - but they've stopped being about software, or hardware.

They're all about brand. This was ok when they had technically excellent products to talk about, but their products are today mediocre, arrogant, and speak of a new, stupider, wealthier target audience.

Fucking gold!
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UK power plugs also require a fuse, which I believe is not mandatory anywhere else.
> Are you not replying to my main point (most merchants are honest therefore chargebacks are rarely needed) because you agree with it?

I think there's an at-the-margin effect here. The threat of chargebacks makes actual chargebacks usually unnecessary. Just like having an army can be very valuable even if you only go to war rarely.

> Yes it is possible. Some hosted wallets let you set up recurring payments. This is awesome because unlike credit cards, you don't have to give the merchant authorization to debit your money, but you give this authorization only to the wallet hoster.

With a bank account you can do this as a "standing order". It's safer than most of the bill-payment methods. And surprisingly useless, because most of the time you want to pay a bill that can vary, so you need to give the merchant authorization to tell them how much you need to pay them.

> setting up a recurring payment disclosed in the fine print when you think you are authorizing a one-time payment.

Something you can only stop by making setting up payments less convenient. If bitcoin takes off, it will need a system for seamlessly setting up recurring payments from a website that wants to - and the exact same scams will apply.

> This scenario covers literally ALL in-person transactions. Hardly a "very special case".

No, it only covers cases where you pay after using the thing you bought. If I buy a TV with a credit card, take it home, plug it in and find out it doesn't work, I can if need be make a chargeback; with bitcoin I'm stuffed.

> No we were comparing typical users. A security conscious credit card user can STILL get his number stolen and money stolen (eg. a merchant gets hacked).

If they're security-conscious enough to not get their PIN stolen, then they can't lose any money.
Strip Clubs.

One of my very closest friends is a bartender in a Portland strip club; we met when I asked her to Beta Test my iOS App, Warp Life.

Many of the dancers want to Beta Test it as well.
If I'm understanding this right, this article is claiming that the CIA served up [edit: could serve up, not proven they did, see comments below about plausibility] poisoned versions of XCode, which would then be used to make App Store apps that eventually phoned home to Langley with either app-specific data or whole-phone data.

This raises so many questions, among them:

1) What was [edit: would be] the criteria for serving up a poisoned version instead of a real version of XCode to a dev? Was it [would it be] limited to downloadable versions or were DVD software copies affected too? One possibility came to mind: Does XCode come in different flavors based on county of sale/download, language, or a combo of the two? If so, would that be that criteria for their attempt to not target US citizens, by crudely targeting non-US and/or non-English app developer accounts? Because that would be the fakiest attempt yet at trying to claim plausible deniability, since so many apps with mainly American userbases are developed by overseas devs.

2) If a dev had a poisoned version of XCode, how could they not see a mysterious server being pinged during their development of the app? How could Apple not see something amiss during their QA of the app before they pushed it to the store?

3) If I were an evil genius Big Brother no holds barred government, I'd want data from messaging apps, social networks, and geolocation apps most of all, less so from things like single-player games. Thoughts on which apps are likely to be in the top 5 of their wishlist?

4) Does this mean that PhoneGap / Cordova / non-native HTML5 apps really are better? :-)

Say, why did Facebook change to a native app again?
$50 for the privilege of not having to take your phone out of your pocket is still pretty expensive.
Yeah, windytan (the OP of the image) is a really cool person, too!
tl;dr no. Someone actually tried to crowdsource a Bitcoin remittance case that worked out ahead of existing mechanisms, and nobody could:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/2ne03g/the_buttcoi...

It turns out: that last mile? That's the bit you're paying Western Union for.

(This is without getting into how hard it is to convert actual money to Bitcoin [Know Your Customer] and how hard it is to get actual money back out of Bitcoin exchanges [the only reason the spread here http://www.thebtcindex.com/ can exist at all]. Bitcoin exchanges are sufficiently awful hives of scum and villainy in the first world.)
I am surprised that Patrick is moving onto yet a different project.

After leaving his job he works as a freelance online marketing expert. Then quits that despite implying making a lot of money. Instead wants to create online marketing courses to reach bigger audience, but takes forever to produce any content and is now abandoning that track. Creates AppointmentReminder with some good initial success but reading between the lines that is going to be sold/abandoned as well.

Now moving onto yet another project. Seems you have created several great opportunities for yourself but cannot stick and focus on any one thing?
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But it's so totally appropriate given the deluge of BITCOIN WILL SAVE THE WORDL articles.
Oh, I don't know, basic things like not crashing when you look at it wrong. Having copy and paste reliably work rather than being a crapshoot?

I use the cli (not via terminal.app, it crashes too), largely because finder does not want to be used.
I was poking around when this was first announced, and if I remember correctly it seems like HBO only gets $4-$6 per cable subscriber. So even with the administrative overhead, the per-subscriber profits will almost certainly be significantly higher.
Don't people just sample the market to find out a brand that is to their tastes (performs as desired) and then keep buying it while the price is still of value?
In the title the word Could should be replaced with Might or May.
Terms come into currency to fulfil a need; as long as headlines like this are on the front page, then "Betteridge" will remain useful.
Giving helper dogs to disabled people can be such a long shot. Thanks to the dog, perhaps a meeting takes place that would not have taken place otherwise. This meeting could be the start of anything - perhaps a romance, that leads to the birth of the girl who will discover ... well, we will know eventually, won't we. Thanks to this man's long shot bet with his legacy.
I lived in a place where someone managed to swap wires at one of the switchboards. There was no ground (not that uncommon), so the supposed 0 was wired to the ground at the sockets (that's what you should do). What it means with German/French-combo style socket is that phase (+/-230V AC) was wired to metal parts sticking out of a socket or any grounded appliance plugged in.

Everything plugged into affected sockets seemed to work just fine. Even a desktop computer + monitor. We only found out because roommate was getting electric shocks from the metal PC casing.
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Just check what company is tracking you and opt-out of their remarketing lists.
http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/
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You are ignoring the obvious answer that Apple even said in the announcement: wireless everything.

This is exactly like the removal of the DVD drive in MacBook Airs. "HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO USE MY DVDs?!?!?" The answer is: don't. Download things over the network instead.

Same logic applies here.
I'm not so sure. I find most such persons will put some money into a phone or tablet, but if they have a laptop, they usually buy a cheap one from Wal-Mart for under $300.

As far as I can tell, the market for Apple's laptops are normal hipsters, hipster devs that can't stop talking about how you can build a blog in only two hours with Ruby on Rails, video and photo editors clinging to the meme from the 80s that editing software is somehow superior on a Mac, and college students that don't want the embarrassment of using an "old person's computer".
I'm paying about 5 euro / month in Vietnam where the infrastructure actually is a communist conspiracy, kinda.
They said they created a poisoned version of XCode, not that they were able to serve it up successfully to anyone.
A possible workaround for this would be to create some software conceptually like the TrackMeNot browser add-on, that visits lots of politically sensitive wikipedia articles.

Such software need not be a browser add-on; it could be a *NIX daemon, a Mac OS X LaunchControl (LaunchCtl?) background process or a Windows service.

The idea is not so much to prevent spying, but to inject so much noise into the NSA's spying efforts that it is unable to discern any information that would be useful for intelligence.

In any case, I'm going to use Tor to read wikipedia from now on. I even use Tor to read my GMail!
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