skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We just patched our webservers last night. This morning, I see 9 more patches available, including this one.
That's how it is now. If Samsung wanted to create its own ecosystem, Google isn't stopping them. Samsung would just need their own app store as well. I don't think they seriously had any intention of doing so, so they signed the agreement.

The thing is, the Google Play Store is more than just an app store, it's an entire ecosystem of apps and libraries that are guaranteed to be there and synchronized across the device. If you make Google services optional, then developers can't rely on their presence and would have to develop against multiple APIs. You'd get into a situation where an app would work on one manufacturer's device and not on another, and the platform would likely crumble over time as the user experience would pale in comparison to the tightly integrated iPhone.
I'm not sure the number of bugs actually encountered by users would decrease if everyone started using size_t tomorrow. What value is more likely to be found: INT_MAX+1 or -1? Even something simple like iterating backwards over a string is bug-prone with unsigned types.
Out here in Switzerland it's almost the opposite out in public.. one can walk about (ok, not so much in busy areas of main cities) and greet and be greeted by random strangers.

I'd agree it's a cultural thing.
Foursquare's newest location-based advertising platform seems a likely reason according to your themes.

http://blogs.wsj.com/cmo/2015/04/14/foursquare-launches-new-...
Not to ignore the bigger issue, but the site implies .io would belong to the Chagossian people today if this hadn't happened. But the IO country code is derived from "British Indian Ocean Territory". Is it likely that the Chagos Archipelago would have this ISO 3166 code if the deportation hadn't occurred?
They didn't really remove checkins, they just moved them into a new app (Swarm).

There's still a checkin button in Foursquare that launches Swarm. Saying Foursquare got rid of checkins is like saying Facebook got rid of Messenger. They didn't, they just moved it to a new app.

It's true, they did (mostly) remove the gamification aspect of checkins. It was fun competing with my friends for getting the most points. Now, you just can compete for stuff like most restaurants, most night life spots, etc.
Ancient Greek democracies were slave-holding states - as was the US, initially.
Even if you have Kernel Caching enabled (as it is by default) if you haven't created any rule for it you're safe.

I created a rule to cache all .png files and I changed the curl request to request a .png image on the server. I got a BSOD!
Worst company name ever.
A Familiar Debate Concerning Social Media Signals
Yes, Foursquare's situation is bad. Still, it has gathered precious and unique data.

One shouldn't underestimate its holistic value.
Such an idea would sell better if it was marketed under comedy and not necessity.
Do you think the median HDD for servers is larger than the median HDD size for laptops?
It does not mean we don't care, but that there other competing interests we care more about that private collectors does not need to worry about, and that most governments can't compete on disposable income with the combined fortunes of private collectors.
This is starting to cross the border beyond a fun idea you want to share and just slightly changing your business model and pimping HackerNews for publicity (again).
>I'd argue that the profit motive is fine, private security works without this problem.

The payment incentive is very different for private security. They don't get to seize property.

The more relevant analogy would be privateers. Turns out they did have similar problems going off their assigned duties and sometimes dropping their charter altogether and just becoming pirates.
Move to Montreal :P You'll get a weird combo of the Canadian niceness and the French rudeness.
Is Apache Spark Enterprise Ready?
Windows also has a TCP/IP stack in the kernel.

And a GUI stack (win32k.sys).
Ohhhhhhhhh, Patrick is the Bingo Card Creator dude!

Somehow I didn't make that connection before, even though I follow him on Twitter.
6 Struggles Only a Tester Will Understand
Disclaimer: read the note at the end.

> But our ability to recognize and acknowledge wrongs is not a limited resource.

I just happen to be re-reading Daniel Kahneman's Thinking Fast and Slow at the moment, so this is very fresh on my mind. In fact, this does seem to be a limited resource, and the bias that overwhelming the resource creates is called the availability bias. Essentially, in cases where the media covers matters of lesser significance while ignoring matters of greater significance predictably leads people to weight the more heavily covered issue more highly despite its relative unimportance.

I don't know about the specific claim by the gp, but in general, I think it's socially useful to point out situations where a less covered related issue is not getting the appropriate amount of attention relative to a particular sensationalized issue in question.

Note: I'm interpreting 'recognize and acknowledge wrongs' as our ability to concert attention and restorative actions toward addressing issues, because this is where the rubber meets the road in addressing wrongs. So I'm responding more to a projection of wpietri's comment that I think is a bit more toward the consequential rather than a strict reading of her/his comment. This is clearly responding to a somewhat different argument than the one wpietri is making, so it shouldn't be construed as an argument against her/his statement so much as an argument inspired by her/his statement.
How do you know what Foursquare's business plan was? Foursquare raised a Series D. They didn't go into that pitch telling VCs that they're just getting traffic and they'll worry about monetization later.

Struggling to build a sustainable business model is not the same thing as not having a business model. Again, it's difficult.
Firefox 31 from the debian wheezy package
As a beginner, I ~hated~ the print statement. The print function had analogous syntax to all other functions, whereas the print statement always seemed to use some kludgy tricks.
Top Social CIOs
You know how $YOU need to pick a web server, and so you start reading about them, and you find a site that has posted some microbenchmark about serving a hundred byte static file or something, and $SERVER1 can do 106,000 per second and $SERVER2 can do 107,000 per second, so $YOU go with $SERVER2 without asking any more questions?

Yeah... that does nasty things to these server's architecture... "Performance at all costs" eventually strays into taking down the barriers built to protect the system, but at the inevitable cost of slowing things down as things go through the barriers.
Horowitz also told that story in his Pando interview, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqI7fa04atc
It is normal in physics to use temporary labels for things that are not known. Dark matter is labeled as that because it has properties similar to visible matter. Once we learn more about it, a better name will probably be found, similarly to how the ether concept was replaced by relativity theory.
Are there any proximity-based apps that don't require Facebook? I'm interested in trying something like this out, but I don't use Facebook for various reasons.
Facebook’s ThreatExchange: Who Owns Your Data?
Not sure if you're being facetious but Iceland, Costa Rica and Mauritius all fail that test and are commonly accepted as nations.
Parserator – A family of probabalistic parsers
Don't bet against yourself
I imagine very little. If that were the case people would be using old versions of Ruby as well as Python.
I always enjoy your posts and insights. I find them to be right on when I consider my own experiences at various companies (all outside the mythical and magical Vale of Sillicone).
By that line of reasoning, I should be legally allowed to invade my unarmed neighbor's house, kick him out and claim it for myself.
This was the first google result I found when searching for this same error message and problem.

I dug around and found the last line of ~/Library/Caches/Microsoft/uls/com.microsoft.autoupdate2/logs/<hostname>-20150415-0724.log contained the following error:

04/15/2015 14:29:36.753	com.microsoft.autoupdate2	0x10e91f000	com.microsoft.autoupdate2	AutoUpdate.DownloadWindow	ibcu7	Error	File signature not verified: http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/0/C/70C26EA7-EF6D-4...	1C6F7480-A6A5-4D71-B86A-FFE6385302B0

I downloaded this .dmg myself and successfully installed it. After this, letting AutoUpdate pull and install the remaining three updates worked as expected.
> She yells at her computer, doesn't know what a twitter is, and struggles to find windows she's minimized.

> You should design with your mother in mind. If she can't understand your site, others will struggle as well.

I'm not sure your mother represents the average user, and likely does not fit the target demographic of most web sites/applications.

Maybe I'm missing something...but how is this useful? I get that we should all design for actual people. But most of the time, "most people" (and perhaps more importantly, most paying customers) aren't going to be your mom (or people like her).
MIT 6.858: Computer Systems Security
Google files patent for robot personalities
How old is the USA again? When was (say) Utah settled by Americans? Can we have that?
The market would be even less competitive without Google. It would just be Apple and Samsung. Having multiple OEMs selling similar products is definitely a good thing: if Samsung starts to ship terrible products, another OEM can step in and users don't face a huge learning curve. We already have one vertically-integrated vendor in Apple, the market needs an "open" option as well if we want a healthy marketplace.

And they absolutely compete against each other. They just don't do it in public because there are more effective ways of competing.
Is it even cool to be a unicorn anymore?
Off-topic - that game is impossible.
Which is great, until people start getting most of their news from him...
A service that is desperately needed.

Ever try and get your grandparents to use an iPad? Your grandparents defeated the Nazis, they're pretty fucking awesome people. And then you have to humble them with some stupid, ""Swipe up to get to the settings..." They're like, "Why can't we just have a button?" And they're right.

Too much design today relies on gestures that make no sense. Font sizes are way too small / don't scale / weren't tested with large fonts. Integration with services that not everyone has heard of. Thumb readers that don't even work for elderly users. It's all gotten a bit out of hand.

In any event, this is a good way to validate the complexity, and get ideas on where your marketing / education materials are weak.

Hiring the elderly for QA is a great idea.
What Is the Internet Version of Your Story?
Under dlopen, symbol resolution takes place; it can change the destinations of function calls.

I'm probably a bit biased since I'm rather used to Windows' explicit import-export system, but having function calls change just because a library was loaded sounds like an opportunity for some extremely confusing bugs.
Show HN: Teamodoro, pomodoro timer for teams
Truth in Advertising – Is This the Most Handsome Realtor?
PaintCode 2.3 adds over 15 new features
If anyone is wondering, that's a reference to the finding of the skeleton of king Richard III of England under a car park in Leicester:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-21063882
Agree, first research your user profile, then persona. 95% of the case mom will not be your persona.
Learn from awesome Entrepreneurship 101: Who is your customer? https://www.edx.org/course/entrepreneurship-101-who-customer...
What are the top factors when looking for a new job as a Developer?
No, it's not ironic at all. It's not asking people to stop using .io. It's asking people using .io to support a fund that supposedly helps the cause of natives of the island.

Did you read the link?
Most likely the decreasing relevance of printed news. Most major events were soon known more quickly thanks to radio, then television, then internet.
like all things in realpolitik, you can certainly try!
High cortisol will cause the type of hair loss the article mentions. There are a number of things that will cause hair loss.
I've never worked in those languages, but I suspect I'd end up with a lot code like this:

foo(author: author, title: title, price: price)

The problem in the article is real, but it is the exception. If it's hard to see what 5% of your parameters mean, forcing 100% of them is probably a cure worse than the disease.

When I worked in Java with IntelliJ, the solution was to simply hover over the call, and the declaration would appear.
BT addresses Sony-style 'network' anomalies with new security product
Are you sure you have IIS on an OS with the vulnerability? It seems like windows 2008 R2 has it, but not 2008. My work is all on windows 2008, not R2.
I've lived and worked all over the country and do a lot of engagement with the academic literature and academics in general, and I've never even heard of Campbell.
I'm s-tu-pid.
http.sys lives at the bottom of HTTP processing/consumption stack, and that's where vulnerability is. HttpListener simply uses Windows HTTP stack's services, as IIS and others do.
FYI: I believe all you need to do is run Windows Update (and reboot) in order to get the patch for this.

I'm mentioning this because found I the Microsoft articles slightly unclear; they listed separate downloads for these updates and I wasn't sure if those updates were available via Windows Update or not.

However, it appears that running Windows Update is sufficient. I ran Windows Update on a 2008 R2 server running IIS. One of the updates it pulled down was "Security Update for Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 Edition (KB3042553) which is the KB article that references this vulnerability.

After Windows Update & a reboot, I used the curl snippet provided on the linked article to test my patched server. At this point it does not appear to be vulnerable to this issue.
Wow. Sad.
My best friend got an E90 shortly after it came out. I was so jealous of him for ages.

The dialer was particularly awesome. It was the first time I saw a dialer that a) had untrained voice dialing and b) had vocal caller ID.
why would you say that to someone.
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I think Grindr and Hornet let you make accounts without Facebook.
Chrome 43: Cut and Copy Commands
Are you so unhappy with your life that you have to tear others down to feels better?
Lets not play the "my team is better than your team" hysterics, especially when we all had to do emergency patching for shellshock, heartbleed, samba, etc in the past couple months. Hell, sambra runs as root too.

There's a lot of security stupidity out there. I'm still waiting for a unixy OS to be written in something like Rust.
Ask HN: What do you want from an online travel guide?
We've been thinking about creating a new kind of travel guide website

We have analyzed a lot of websites but now we are just going around and asking people what they think is missing.

Please share your views. Thank you
That would be a great way to try and lower the purchase price of a struggling firm. Dump a bunch of negative PR on the company through 3rd parties immediately before making your offer.
I googled the question. Weirdly, the answer uses Lincoln's assassination as an example. It was the fulcrum event between new and old. Here's how the inverted pyramid report of his death began:

"This evening at about 9:30 p.m. at Ford’s Theatre, the President, while sitting in his private box with Mrs. Lincoln, Mrs. Harris and Major Rathburn, was shot by an assassin, who suddenly entered the box and approached behind the President.
"The assassin then leaped upon the stage, brandishing a large dagger or knife, and made his escape in the rear of the theatre.
"The pistol ball entered the back of the President’s head and penetrated nearly through the head. The wound is mortal."

http://www.poynter.org/news/media-innovation/12755/birth-of-...

The technological driver wasn't the addition of new media but the telegraph, which meant news stories took on a new urgency -- and editors had to make quick cuts to stories close to print time as they decided which stories deserved most column inches.

Will the Internet kill the inverted pyramid approach? There is no longer any cost associated with column inches printed or characters transmitted.
> http.sys which is a webserver component running inside the kernel (yea right, great idea!)

I had no idea. Madness
> DHS/NSA already has them

Every major security company has them thanks to MAPP. I don't quite understand why people have such a problem with this program.

You also can't ignore that the most recent linux vulnerabilities were privately disclosed to major vendors weeks ahead of time, as well.
"useless as you are"?
> You should design with your mother in mind

If you're a guy, you know those prototypical ads that show the incompetent male who can't fix something/clean properly/file taxes, and then the wife/girlfriend shows up and saves the day?

I imagine this meme of the incompetent mother who doesn't understand computers must feel the same way for women.
I have talked to engineers from oil and gas as well as from nuclear industries about solar. The oil and gas folk generally like it and have an eye on the jobs, whereas the nuclear folk haven't looked into it and claim it is pointless. One of them even thought that the incoming solar is far less than we use and spat his drink out when I told him the actual numbers involved.
I've noticed lately that I tend to give solitary individuals a nod when I walk by them. More than half the time I get a nod back and I find I initiate far more nods than I receive. I'm sure it's function of all kinds of things, all cultural. For example, if the person is having a cigarette outside a bar, I'll usually get a nod back and especially so if it's daytime. If it's in my building, I'll usually get a nod back under some sense of neighborly solidarity I can only guess. On the street it's much more random. I'm on the east coast and originally from the west coast.
http://gimletmedia.com/show/reply-all/about/
> Reply All is a show about the internet
https://twitter.com/CNBCnow/status/588354385249435649

edit: cnbc saying they are not in talks for the twitter blocked individuals here
I felt this article was interesting regarding why and how they did it:

https://medium.com/@mrdavenport/swarm-branding-and-visual-de...
> isn't dark matter simply a plug because mass of galaxies and large scale astronomical structures calculated from light and other electromagnetic radiation, doesn't agree with mass calculated by observing they're gravitational interaction?

One might more generously say that dark matter is a proposed explanation for many measurements deviating from predictions based on visible matter in a way very consistent with the existence of large amounts of non-electromagnetically-interacting matter.

I don't think there's anything fundamentally ridiculous about this. For instance, while you characterise it as 'radically' different to any matter that we observe directly, the neutrino has most of the relevant properties, and e.g. supersymmetry has been noted to include dark matter candidate particles. While one may doubt that supersymmetry is actually correct, I think it demonstrates that the combination of properties (massive + electromagnetically inert + maybe weak force interacting) isn't necessarily a problem.
Conversely, both Rome itself and its urban area have far fewer people than either Paris or London, which combined with the larger area, makes the density even less of a problem.
Can you please provide example of CURL syntax you used to produce this please?
It is easy to miss, but the text of the O'reilly artivle is only the teaser/preamble for the podcast.
So Nokia owns Bell Labs now? What a world we live in.
What role do you see managers playing in an organization? What do you mean by "His job is to make himself not needed"?

It seems like for any organization, some structure is required just for information dissemination. So making an enormous assumption that corporate leadership trusts their people to do the job and do it well, what does a structure that is not a "giant human machine" look like?

Thank you
Can you give a citation for the Maxwell Eq. aether paper?
How to Create a NSNumberFormatter Singleton in Swift
Do you remember what the fault being reported on the BSOD was?

(If you could take a screenshot/snapshot that'd be great.)

I'm really curious to see what bugcheck is being hit.
For a very long time Yahoo considered itself first and foremost an entertainment/media company. It considered "online" as its channel.

It's not a bad strategy given that Yahoo isn't particularly technically exceptional.
Exactly my question. Also, Virgin Galactic.
I wasn't aware of his stance on this specific matter. I guess I was needlessly worried, then.
Yup I've read.

By using .io TLD, they are submitting to the UK government on what should be theirs. It may be like rebels claiming a territorial independence but then still pay taxes to the government for that particular territory.
Patrick has to be one of the nicest people in our community. Whenever I shot him an email, even with the worst questions, he always took the time to respond. And please keep in mind that he used to consult big companies at that time and charge good money for it, but he always helped the community like this.

Thank you Patrick and all the best with Starfighter.
And trying to sell to yhoo for $900m

http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/15/sources-yahoo-in-talks-to-b...
Excellent, thanks for the breakdown.
Would $1 billion in cash per household compensate? I believe for most people, the answer is "Yes, of course!" Is $1 enough? Of course not.

To me, that means the "right price" is somewhere in that bounded range and makes eminent domain conflicts amenable to financial analysis.
Reporting in!
Once again, have you even read the article that you pointed to? If so, what do you think about her plan to remove open source contributions from the hiring mix? She suggests that when hiring, employers should:

a) Ask for code samples.

b) Pair as an interview.

c) Hire as a contractor before you make an offer of employment.

She does not dispute the existence of bias, rather she makes the point that valuing open source so heavily makes technology less of a meritocracy.
Your unarmed neighbor's house happens to be on the land of an existing nation, so you would have to deal with their military before claiming rights to said house.
And for PC games of the era. I know Descent did that.
So a company that no one cares about is purchasing another company that no one cares about?
Nokia also designed the hardware and wrote the software for the N1, so i wouldn't call it a traditional brand licensing thing a la Kodak/Polaroid.

I should know, I was PM on it.
I miss the Yahoo! of

Delicious, Flickr and Pipes when those products were first brought to Yahoo! and than killed by lack of investment.
How to drive 20,000 hits to your Tech Article
Such dead ends might not be useless.

Many Rotary rocket alumni went on to found XCOR where they're building a suborbital winged rocket plane. XCOR's also lined up to provide a piston pumped rocket engine for the ACES upper stage for ULA, which could mean very flexible in space operations (long coast times).
The Girls Set the Tone
This page makes it sound easy to go from the one to the other:

http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2008/10/22/getting-...

(not as easy as earlier versions, but still)
Do you often make predictions that turn out to be wrong? Be afraid of Staked
This has been fixed as of this morning. Not sure what channel worked, but it was a welcome surprise to wake up to! I was not expecting such a speedy resolution.