skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SCOTUS has decided that it's not corruption unless there is quid pro quo. In this case, the pro part is missing, because Intuit gave them money, and the politicians did something to benefit Intuit, but it can't be proven that Intuit gave them the money for doing it.
podcast - Episodic content played on an iPod. So yes, you download podcasts and play them on your iPod, originally. A newer term is Netcast. I find it better because it removes the branding. :|
As joshtriplett said in the issues, this depends on the already-unsafe ability of Rc to leak when a cycle is formed. It's just turning one form of unsafeness into a wide form. Nice to see that the team are doing what they can to about the issue though.
To be fair, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TUX_web_server. Having said that, this is huge. This is way worse than Heartbleed for the IIS crowd.
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Qt was bought in part to attempt to bridge Maemo/Meego and Symbian. Problem, in part, was that previous Maemo versions, as well as Intels Moblin project, used GTK. With Maemo5 you had a massive culture clash, that pretty much ripped the community down the middle.

Then the CEO was ousted, Elop brought in, and shit really hit the fan.

Then again, maybe Maemo should have just died at that point, rather than be resurrected as Mer/Sailfish. The whole thing produced ripples that seems set to yank the larger Linux community apart.

While Maemo was Debian in a mobile device, Mer/Sailfish at this point is as close to that as Android is.
Net neutrality is (with some imagination - even that was already stretching it) about inter-member state commerce, i.e. the common market. For surveillance that point is much harder to make.

"So, I don't have doubts about the fact that EU has the right and the power to do something."

Based on what knowledge or qualifications? Have you studied the structure and history of the EU? For example, can you say (without looking it up) what the difference is between a regulation and a directive, and what the difference is between the European Council and the Council of Europe? Because if not, frankly, you're not qualified to have a valid opinion on this.
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"Se-quel" is 2 syllables.
Additionally there are a bunch of other things very wrong with the exploit code.

If the connect() fails, it will use file descriptor 1 which is usually stdout and write the request to it and try to read from it.

And there is a problem with strstr() not getting a null terminated string (if the stack memory for recvBuff wasn't automatically zero'd out which some compilers can do).

Why do these people bother writing the exploit in C? A curl one liner is good enough.

Also the check for 'The request has an invalid header name' seems dubious to me because a proxy in front would likely return a different error (the header name is not invalid but rather the range not satisfyable).
How about "be acquired by Google."
I wow-ed at US iOS market share. Then I got to Japan's.

Wow...
Typical Linux servers drop privileges before accepting any connections from clients, precisely to limit the scope of this sort of vulnerability.
User-select: all, a small but easy win for usability
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More, more parentheses!
Well, who came up with this un-monetizable product then?
I think this might be well traveled ground now, but people always ask me what I'd recommend to learn good C++ style.

http://www.amazon.ca/The-Design-Evolution-Bjarne-Stroustrup/...

and

http://www.amazon.ca/Modern-Design-Generic-Programming-Patte...

are my two favorite books. And then if you aren't happy with these books this stackoverflow link has more books than you could ever want:

http://stackoverflow.com/q/388242/25981

This link from Microsoft is also pretty darn good:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh279654.aspx
I expect the next version of Brainfuck to have unit tests and agile scrum sprints.
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Symbian may have been stagnant, but unless you are a Wall Street day trader you didn't much care. Symbian could demo capabilities that iOS and Android are just now sprouting (and the press is going gaga about it as if it is something completely new groan).
Travel outside of NYC and SF sometime and you'll see plenty of undeserved reputations in either direction.
C++17 will deprecate trigraphs, but interestingly they still are a thing in mainframe space. Here are two (PDF) documents from IBM about it:

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2014/n421...

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2009/n291...
Blaster[0] was a worm. It used CVE-2003-0352.[1]

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaster_%28computer_worm%29

[1] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2003-0352
I use Raindrop.io (Mac app + Chrome extension) for all of my bookmarking, and it's been really great. Easy to use, looks nice, has great search.
Well, of course you can make such a web server on any OS where you can modify or extend the kernel, but TUX is not exactly a popular or recommended solution. There's a reason the reference manual is dated 2001.
"...and for being cheap."

Admittedly, I am ignorant to many of the TLDs available today... But having primarily dealt with .com and .net TDLs previously (and their <$20USD price tag), is there something else at play when considering the cost/value ratio of an .io domain? Something that would make sense to refer to it as 'being cheap', despite it's costing 100%+ more than a 'traditional' TLD?

I get that 'io' is two letters rather than three and so it's "cool"... And that an io domain has potential for "domain hacks" (I assume they are talking about a neat looking URL, where the 'io' has significance in the brand and URL)... But is 'cheap' accurate?

Just curious - honest question... When I read 'cheap' as one of the primary bullet points (of the few cited bullet points) for the io TLD, I thought "There must be a lot that I don't know about io TLDs - let's ask".

Thanks!
Big data, big opportunity for Expedia and its customers
"Oh, I'll TiVo that!"

And how are they doing?
That's the thing; even if it's not true there are almost certainly sales reps going around and saying this (and if it's not true that's almost worse).
You mean legally doing that. They're already illegally doing it in various trenches, and so on, anyway. And that is sort of the point.

I think this is a tiger vs. paperbag issue, personally. The fact is, if companies are serious, they'll start setting up their own encrypted links, actively, and fighting back. Then it won't be an issue where, locality-wise, you set up the servers.
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Yes! I can't believe that nobody else has made this point.

I am as disappointed in the pivot of the app as everyone else, but it's hardly the sign of impending death the post (and many of these comments) make it out to be. 4sq built up an incredible points-of-interest database, and that is their real product.

By providing that POI data to other providers -- most notably Twitter -- they get much of the same data that checkins in their own app gave them. And Twitter is massively more popular than the Foursquare/Swarm apps ever was or ever will be.
Someone else said that elsewhere in the thread, and I disagreed there, too... it's funny how people can look at the same situation and come to completely opposite conclusions. But to me it looks as though the entire system is designed to hide how much people pay in taxes. Almost everybody pays via automatic withholding so they never see the money in the first place; the defaults are designed so that people over-withhold by a small amount and get a refund; and even that's not enough so we have some taxes that are partially "paid by the employer" to even hide it from a deduction line on the paycheck. As I said in the other thread, if "we" wanted to make sure voters couldn't ignore their tax burden, we'd end automatic withholding.
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Well, the US is still being held responsible for slavery even though that was outlawed 150 years ago, right?

Just because it happened long ago doesn't mean that the current government can abdicate any responsibility for reparation. The UK government should at least attempt to return the relics it has warehoused to their origins if they are under stable rule.
From the linked page: "TUX has never been an integrated part of the official Linux kernel, although it has been shipped in some distributions, notably Red Hat, SuSE and Fedora."
Firstly, when did http://cl.ly/image/192x1c3L3B0d become the model for success?

What it really comes down to is this:

1. You're left with an app that has stagnated in market share for a number of years (even dropped a bit)

2. Your brand has been marginalized by Facebook's vertical integration of your primary feature

3. You have some money left (investment, revenue, whatever - I don't know about Foursquares's finances, but they obviously have some money or they'd be gone)

Given the aforementioned, do you A) pretend like nothing happened and continue watching your brand fade into obscurity (e.g., MySpace), or B) try to reinvent (e.g., like MySpace did - their traffic topped 55M uniques/mo in 2014)?
Not everyone agrees with your definition.
Dallas Buyers Club asks illegal downloaders to name their price to avoid court
my mistake. apologies.
A new standard in "feed me entertainment!" perhaps.

At launch of iPhone Nokia had featurephones that were more capable.
Who Owns the Copyright to “Happy Birthday”?
I do, but I’d prefer not to tell people whose interest in them is too genuine. :)
Commenting without RTFA considered harmful.

TFA talks about passing false instead of true or vice versa.
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Or an unexploded bomb. :(
Pretty well. Actually very well. Meeting expenses with quite a bit of padding. That used to be the definition of success before the cult of "growth" took over everything.
Don't we have to check the trends for "swarm" now though or am I missing something?
Plan 9 was licensed under the GPLv2 last year:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/02/14/plan_9_moves_to_gnu_...
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Your friends don't really sound like a representative sample. Most people complain about Facebook on privacy but don't modify their behavior in any way.
Two men stood at the verge of the cliff, watching: businessman, boatman.

— She's making for Bullock harbour.

The boatman nodded towards the north of the bay with some disdain.

— There's five fathoms out there, he said. It'll be swept up that way when the tide comes in about one. It's nine days today

The man that was drowned. A sail veering about the blank bay waiting for a swollen bundle to bob up, roll over to the sun a puffy face, salt white. Here I am.

Nice website, if a little unresponsive. If it gets just one more person to crack Ulysses and discover the immense beauty of this extraordinary work than it has to have been worth it.
And how much internet-facing web content is served with this toy webserver exactly?

That's what I thought, none (except maybe the author's blog? wild guess).
Hmm, a cluster of P9P linked mobile devices...
If I wanted that data, why would I pay instead of looking at it for free?
I actually don't because I have no clue how Windows Server works. So this attack hits the kernel and the context is low level, right?
This looks like a fun project about one of my half-dozen favorite novels of all time. Unfortunately, there is probably more garbage (explication, criticism) written about this book than any other, outside of Shakespeare. If you're hesitant to just dive in, I recommend Nabokov's Lectures on Literature (all the lectures are great; the one on Ulysses shows you the hidden machinery turning under the surface of the novel).
Also power consumption/die area.
HBO accuses Periscope of 'mass copyright infringement'
Ah, you fell for it too.

How much does it actually cost to run the foursquare that millions of users liked?

Hint: not very much.

If you can't make that "not very much" back from ads, you should sell to someone who can.
I was struck by the same feeling, that this piece was a gripping read on what was already a gripping story to tell. His "brain was oozing out" was a point I stopped and read again. What changed the style of reporting I wonder?
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I'm assuming you are trying to confuse older in the context of the father, saying the sons are older than the father?

Wouldn't the 'older' be limited in context to his group of sons?
That you can write a module to serve HTTP from kernel space is a given.

That people actually use it is another topic.
The app isn't the product. The points-of-interest database they built from their apps' users is the product. And that is what they're now selling to companies like Twitter.

Twitter's incorporation of the POI will give them much more "check-in" data than their own apps ever could.

https://medium.com/@dens/six-years-in-a-few-thoughts-on-four...
I think Yahoo has gone too solidly down the "Harvesting" road and may be past the point of no return.

I used to go to Yahoo Finance a lot, but it really sucks these days because they often don't have any news stories, just the same tired articles about how if you don't buy coffee out of the house you can save enough money to buy a yacht when you retire blended perfectly with Jim Cramer's stock tips and the other scames like the "one wierd trick" ads.
I completely agree about the difference between OEM versions of Android. The home and back buttons on my HTC One M7 are on opposite sides to those of my wife's Galaxy phone. What I don't really know is at what point the OEMs have enough freedom to let Google be out of danger from the EU.
There's a wrapper for CPython to get it to implement the tracing code, afl-python[1]. Alex Gaynor did a basic intro to it a few days ago which is a better write-up that the project itself has! Of course, this doesn't work so well with mixed C/Python code.

[1]: https://bitbucket.org/jwilk/python-afl
[2]: https://alexgaynor.net/2015/apr/13/introduction-to-fuzzing-i...
while a .io domain is more expensive than a .com domain, you have to take into consideration that all the good .com domains are already taken (and you have to buy them from third parties for more money), while you still can get some good .io domains
Could this be a foray into interactive online museums?
The new site is useless for the few things I still used a weather website for. Firefox's performance thing said it takes 30+ seconds to load fully. Google Now's weather card covers 90% of what I used to use it for.

Is there a good weather app with a radar that has storm tracks for < $3? That's the main thing I used it for.
I had always assumed "Happy Birthday" was public domain, if for no other reason than lack of enforcement. The idea of some company collecting royalties is re-god-damn-diculous.
Wait till you try to figure taxes on employee stock purchases that you do through payroll deductions. I could not get a straight answer even from the IRS, to the point some told me to track each share back to its original purchase price and fill a form per affected shares. When you call and get a different answer each time it screams that the system is to complex.

Intuit is a convenient fall guy and nothing more. The real threat is that if the system were simpler and more open it could not be used to political advantage.
Yeah, but the long-term outlook for fossil fuels is still rising prices. If given the choice between building a new LNG plant or a new nuclear plant, are LNG fuel prices low enough and stable enough over the long term to justify over a 20 year+ contract? This is an honest question and I'm sure the energy industry has a legion of forecasters and quant jocks on it, but I personally don't know how the economics work out.

There's also the carbon footprint aspect to consider. If the "carbon tax" is successful, nuclear could be a more cost-effective option than hydrocarbon-fired plants in areas without a more stable "natural" power source like hydroelectric or geothermal. The petrochemical industry likely has enough political pull to neuter any carbon tax law, but in theory that's how it should work.
I am honestly curious if there is a good argument for any of the examples you mentioned.
Certainly on purpose, although probably a poorly thought out decision.
I think because you'd want a stream of user info for your machine learning application.
My windows knowledge is rusty and outdated but... do you mean that code runs in ring 0? that "kernel space"?
It is common for code which is designed to trigger security bugs in systems to be published with several errors, so that skiddies can't just compile and run.
I think the key is in who gets to define what is "proper" compensation.
I do not believe that anything can compensate for loss of one's home. I do not know what's going on in the Occident but here in Istanbul on every flipping square metre they build a glass tower where they stuff people, and everyday neighbourhoods are killed and the city is resembling more and more those stock videos of Chinese urban areas. This cannot be compensated anyhow, regardless of where-ever it happens.

/rant
This is, to me, the big one. The OHA is a huge agreement across an entire market segment not to compete with Google on a ton of products and services. There's no way Google gets out of an investigation with that practice intact.
I tried to send the bad curl request to our servers (test env, obviously) and I didn't get any error. It seems I should be getting "Requested Range Not Satisfiable" if the server is vulnerable and "The request has an invalid header name" if it's patched. I'm getting neither, simply a normal response HTTP 200 with the requested page. Anyone knows how to really test it?

EDIT : It is indeed related to "Output Cache" setting in IIS as I said I was suspecting in another comment. I managed to crash our servers by going to IIS Management, select the website I wanted to test, go to Output Caching, enable the feature AND also add a rule (I added a rule for .png just to test). If you have NO rules it is the same as having the feature disabled so you are safe. If you add a rule and check "Enable Kernal Caching" you are vulnerable!

EDIT 2 : As some have asked, this is the command I used to crash our test server. I tested it after having created a new Output Caching rule to cache all .png files in kernel mode.

curl -v http://example.com/image.png -H "Range: bytes=18-18446744073709551615"

I didn't take a screenshot of the BSOD and I don't plan on crashing our test env a second time today because people are using it (I tested it early enough that not a lot of people were at the office yet).
Should be relatively easy to make a tool that uses `losf` or similar to get a list of all running processes that depend on a shared library.
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I'm very much pro-Bangladeshi independence, and pro-secession/revolution in general. I didn't mean to suggest any pro-Pakistan sentiment whatsoever. I'm just citing it as an example of why governments in general can't be trusted.

But I don't know why you cite Obama's election favorably. He ran on a platform opposing an individual mandate and then personally pulled the "hey! that was a joke - Obamacare time." Before him, Bush ran on a platform of humble foreign policy and limited government and then pulled "hey! that was a joke".

I'm not sure why "hey! that was a joke" is horrible when applied to a person, but acceptable when applied to policies. But then again I don't really go for identity politics - e.g., I don't care if the president is a Bengali or not, I care what actions he takes. (I'm also not pro-democracy.)

Do you think any software system can run with having validation every-time you pass an value to a function ? We put validation only in cases where the cost of putting it ( time-efficiency , memory ) is lower than the cost of security.

I believe the future of computing will be in dependently typed languages (e.g. Idris) which do exactly this sort of thing at compile time.
"...its possiblities for domain hacks..."

Ok I'll admit it, I'm a little lost. What do they mean by this?
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As presently any system like that I assume is pretty must bespoke per rocket family.

Yeah, but the original engine was not the standard LOX/kero turbopump affair. The seals were breaking new ground, if nothing else.
Actually, with a quality parameter at 100%, JPEG doesn't fail as spectacularly as you probably have in mind.

The compression artefacts I think you are thinking of are likely the result of someone not setting the quality parameter appropriately. For text or charts, you're best off at 100%, but you can easily get away with lower values for most photographs. Granted, not an issue with PNG, but JPEG isn't so bad when used properly. (and typically does have huge file size benefits)
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I don't understand how an entity can force Google to change their algorithms. They are a private company and with their own hard work they managed to get as many clients as they currently have. So because so many people are using Google as a search engine, they are now supposed to promote competitors of their services because "so many people are using it"?

It's like saying "so many people are driving BMW, it's not fair for Audi, BMW should include an Audi advertisement now and then. If they don't, they will have to pay us a big fine!". Isn't Europe a free market?
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Why didn't she just.. not walk into people. I manage to walk through busy places without verbally announcing my every move..

The whole article seems as ridiculous as the above; just trying to squeeze a few paragraphs out of a boring experiment.

"This week I didn't speak until spoken to. I talked a bit less but otherwise it was pretty standard"
Sure, but there's still some good .io domains available exactly because they aren't cheap (right?).
Ah, yes, I've done broadcasting too. The app is not the product if it's free. But people mistake that: you still have to actually have an app people want, if you're going to make them the product.
No API, have to be logged in to view, then implement anti-scraping measures.
IIS has several components. One of them, the vulnerable part here, is running in kernel space. In kernel space you have access to everything.

As far as I know, IIS is the only(bar embedded devices running a single address space OS and various ancient/obsolete toys servers on linux) used in production that handles part of HTTP in kernel space (or ring 0 if you will).
The tax code does not allow you to deduct cost of living expenses, as a general principle. So someone making $200k in Iowa has more disposable income than someone making $200k in NYC, but the Fed. Gov. taxes them the same. To me, it follows that the tax code shouldn't impose an extra burden because of an inference about your living expenses made from your marital status.
I don't believe so. I think I found out that chargebacks can only go back 60 or 90 days, and I also found out that (shockingly) it's not illegal to charge an expired and cancelled credit card on a recurring basis, and I decided to devote my energy to something more useful.