skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK, I had a quick search and apparently going from LaTeX to markdown to JATS XML (with pandoc) [1] [2] is the least horrible way.

[1] https://github.com/mfenner/pandoc-jat

[2] http://blog.martinfenner.org/2013/12/12/from-markdown-to-jat...
It'll be the second, I'm afraid. Only Windows Servers running IIS should be vulnerable, maybe the post didn't make that entirely clear.
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Paypal donate link to a gmail address makes me a little nervous. Is http://www.chagossupport.org.uk/ a legitimate and well-run charity? Where specifically does the money go?
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Sounds like the author understands the bug but does not understand why it allows remote code execution (which I don't understand either; once details are released it should be clarified).
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The cost is not so much the tax, but the work that must be done in order to comply with it. This ends up as a deadweight loss.

Regulations also set the minimal viable size of a business. Small manufacturing businesses of all kinds are beset by the CE compliance requirements.
I am a little unclear about your question. Are you asking how to get the kind of real hardware skills that you think is missing from school? I think the much harder problem is figuring out what to make, not how to make it.

If the question is really about how, then I would say to just dive in. Think of your own fun project, and build the hardware/software to work with it. I think there is a lot more work involved in a good hobby project than there is even in most senior design projects in undergrad.

I recommend thinking full one full project to invest a little time/money into. Plan everything from the enclosure to the hardware and software. For example: make a dorm room security system that displays the time since the last person was in your room. Now you will know if someone snuck in while you were in class. Start with a box[1], layout[2] and order[3] a pcb. Interface with some hardware[4], and then write the software to tie it all together. If you want a little help with the soldering then you can also have seeed solder on the microcontroller for you for just a few dollars more.

Sparkfun also has some great resources if you need tips on how to layout PCBs.

Don't be surprised if you actually need a few revisions on the board before you get it working, especially on your first one. Its easy to forget something like the programming port...

Starting from scratch, doing a full buildup, and having a professional looking finished product will give you a lot of confidence.

If your question was what to make then you are on your own. I have no clue.

[1] http://serpac.com/wm031x.aspx

[2] http://www.cadsoftusa.com/download-eagle/

[3] http://dirtypcbs.com or http://www.seeedstudio.com/service/index.php?r=pcb

[4] https://www.sparkfun.com/products/13285 https://www.sparkfun.com/products/9261 https://www.sparkfun.com/products/9393 https://www.sparkfun.com/products/11993 and https://www.sparkfun.com/products/9276
You know, my iPhone has taken to auto-capitalizing the word 'white'. As a white man, this scares the hell out of me, as it strikes me as being racist as hell. I don't have the same reaction when I see the word 'black' capitalized. We are an odd species...
> ... held the Internet "land speed" record. Twice[0]

"SUNET has transferred around 840 GigaBytes of data in less than 30 minutes, using a single IPv4 TCP stream, between a host at the Luleå University of Technology and a host connected to a Sprint PoP in San Jose, CA, USA."

Come on, everyone knows Sprint doesn't have that much bandwidth. I bet they were faking speed test results again. grin
Up until recently, a lot of Atoms were 32-bit only. Mostly for market segmentation reasons.
Thanks for one of the best expositions on fundamental xenophobia I've read in a while.
I'm also non american, and I'm always surprised how much american politics piss me off.

Maybe I'm kinda scared since it's the most powerful country in the world, so the whole world might be influenced by how crappy those politics are. Capitalism is everywhere, tax dodging is rampant, and it all seems to seed from american capitalism.

I'm not anti american, I love so many things about the US, but there are particular aspects that are just so senseless.
Intuit doesn't know tax law better than IRS workers, they just spend lots of money lobbying Congress to prevent simplified filing processes.

Intuit is one if the powerful political interests you refer to, an integral part of the FUD system you talk about built to keep the current system as-is for their own benefit.
>They lost all rights to their homeland, now including the valuable .io TLD.

You don't want to know what happened in the United States... Or everywhere, to that matter.
Off topic, but does anybody know if there's a way to turn off ASLR e.g. while debugging (honestly, i'd be interested if you can do this on any platform)? I'm pretty confident the answer is no, but it can really be a pain sometimes...
Would the arvix ever use this?
Exactly. Me and my friends also stopped using the app just after they remove all the gamifications and mayorship thing. It was super cool amongst friend to be a mayor of some place.
>A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the HTTP protocol stack [...] could execute arbitrary code in the context of the System account.

SYSTEM is higher than admin. Using IIS on windows is like running a webserver as root on linux.
I am a bit confused by the article, where it initial talks about how the system would be return-free, and that it would save everyone from doing record-keeping. But later, it talks about a system very similar to Sweden where tax returns has been prefilled with financial data, which people have to verify and sign. That system is not return-free and you still need to do record-keeping, since the numbers reported in by the employer could be incorrect.
You know that people that use lobbying will almost always care more, because their money is on the line? Also they are willing to use that money to prove it?
Chances are, if you're using those binaries, they have their own versions of whatever libraries they depend on already baked into themselves somehow. So even if they depend on OpenSSL, and you update OpenSSL on your system, they're probably still going to end up using a version from a year ago regardless of what you do.
The explosive growth of .io domains
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> Isn't the US the oldest democracy ?

No. They're one of the youngest. The English empire had a parliamentary system when the US left, that's where the whole "taxation without representation" thing comes from, they didn't get a representative in the English parliament.

In fact the US governmental system is largely influenced by the English government system (with several changes made due to lack of monarch, and a need to elect 100% of their government as a policy).

PS - Before you argue that "if people are appointed it isn't a democracy!" you may want to think that position though, the two houses and the president are elected, but most other positions remain appointed in the US (e.g. supreme court for just one example).

PPS - I'd also argue that any FPTP system is only "barely" a democratic system since by design a vast majority of people feel they have no one who really represents their interests in either house. Instead of minority voices getting one seat, they get none, see the Nordic countries for how it should work in a democracy.
Huawei is generally #2 in market share, no?
Yes they do bother me. Diesel especially. Scooters too (two stroke engines pollute more).
That's a good point, because in the example we can clearly see how to check if a system is or not patched and that, using this attack, we can crash a Windows Server.

The remote execution part is completely missing (fortunately), but I was wondering if this gives the admin rights on machine (I have absolutely no experience on Windows Server machines, so I don't know how it works in terms of services, permissions and roles).
It's only because I have worked on php projects where my involvement started since various degrees of completion, and these issues happened to me most frequently. My point was that PHP can be configured (or not) to handle errors better, but so can node.
That is so scary, I hope OVH can help get this thing stopped. What a stupid law.
Walking by someone without acknowledging them certainly is counter to human nature.

I think that is very much a function of your local culture, not some core "human nature". Here (Sweden) I regularly walk by people without acknowledging them, and that's in the office. Out in public, I would probably be considered mildly strange if I started acknowledging strangers.
I agreed with you until this past year. If you play with a Nexus 5 or 6, and then you handle a Galaxy S6/Note4, LG3 or HTC M8/9, the user experience of all the of the non-Nexus devices is actually quite good and the OEMs are now allowing users to either disable or remove OEM apps & skins or skin elements they don't want. Frankly, the UX of stock Android is pretty crappy in several areas, and a lot of third party ROMs & skins improve it dramatically.

The issue I have is that if you're a non-techy user and you get accustomed the "The Samsung Way", then try to switch to a different brand device, it can be very disorienting. They practically feel like different OSes in some cases.

In addition, the current Nexus devices (5/6) are pieces of crap compared to the halo phones from the big OEMs.
It has been mine. I have been interviewing and hiring developers for the past 6 years, this was my empirical observation. I am glad you had a different experience.
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Presumably if it's a profitable business then the bankruptcy auction prices for patents will rise to the point that they're only barely profitable.

20 years ago they didn't, but the more interesting question is what's the thing that's available cheaply today that people will be buying in 20 years. If you have some ideas for this in the unethical space I am genuinely interested.
According to comments in the other discussion here about this it might not IIS be only, because that kernel component is used for other HTTP services as well:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9378449
Only at the HTTP parsing stage.. Once you get into ASP.net you'll have dropped privileges.
Interesting. I don't use Object-C, but always heard parameter names are actually considered to be part of the method name there. Was that wrong?

Ah, or do you mean the name is just empty? How does that work on the implementation side? I.e. how do you refer to the passed arguments?
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Brazil is exactly the same!
> ..marker D is a story about how Foursquare resorted to raising debt financing to avoid a down round.

Keith Rabois has hinted that they did do a down round: http://jackgavigan.com/2013/03/17/foursquare-does-a-down-rou...
/proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space on Linux?
I love the beer can analogy. Agreed it is a really interesting problem. Which I don't doubt SpaceX will solve. I was not impressed with the ULA "lets just catch the engines with a helicopter" idea.

Can't wait to see the recovered barge video.
Sorry ESL, I was setting this up to talk about how the CEO of Reddit was using this as an excuse in her law suit.

"such as some women like CEO of Reddit" would be better. The original does make it seems like all women.
That looks like equipment from Nokia's handset division ramping down.
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Agree. The european problem: non-entreprenurial culture resulting in startup-prohibiting red tape. Two factors where the US beats Europe. Now combine that advantage the Americans have with the economics of scale of Software: It eats the world.

Part of that cake: Pretty much any non-downtown store in Europe.
I suspect you're wrong in the definition of what the talents we need are. When people say "we need talented people" they usually mean that we need people who are best at doing what we do now. And that's not the solution, that's the problem.

What is the difference in required skill sets, between what we do now and what we should be doing?

I think this can reasonably be split into two basic tasks: find (and sufficiently define) a problem to solve; and given a problem / set of constraints, find a good solution.

Which task is different between "now" and your ideal, and how does that difference require different skills?

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In order to improve society/business/whatever we have to change it, and we can only change it by bringing in ideas that are different to what we have now.

This assumes that we're not already changing it. Also needing different ideas on what things to do, is different from needing different skills on doing those things.

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That is best done by people who offer different perspectives on what we're doing at the moment.

Or, by asking or watching those people (all the million-and-one ways that for-profit companies do market research and user research and such).

In the case of tech, that's women, ethnic minorities, LGBQT+, non-tech, etc.

No. It's whoever has problems that need solving. Which has nothing to do with tech, and everything to do with the fact that "improve society" above seems to mean "moral progress".

Probably the best thing that happening in this regard right now, is the push for police to wear cameras. (So shouldn't that mean that the tech for this has been developed with higher-than-normal participation by non-rich-white-techie-dude people?)

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The thing that really must change in order to get society making the best tech possible that really impacts lives in a positive way is that we need to break the 'privileged white male' echo chamber that keeps coming up with the same dull ideas. That can only happen by filling the chamber with more people who aren't privileged white males.

No. The echo chamber has nothing to do with who's in it, and everything to do with who has enough money to be the target demographic.

Either raise awareness that other people have money too (or can have money if they buy (on credit) what you're trying to sell), or convince people to work for social good instead of a paycheck.
I have a Shopify app that makes ~$400/month gross revenue. Do your research first to make sure that you're filling the right niche, and you can definitely do alright.
In the software space, how much tangible benefit has antitrust actually provided to consumers?

Microsoft's power was reduced more by market shifts, failure to adapt, and unanticipated new tech than it was by monopoly sanctions.

I do believe absolute free markets are not practical, as evidenced by the fact they mostly don't exist.

However, the minimum force principle applies. For every government constraint on tech I thing it's fair to ask, is there no way the market can fix itself in 5 years? How many disruptive shifts will happen during that time?

Maybe government could help more by starting first with stronger patent reform?
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They actually do know many of those things--e.g., mortgage interest you get in a 1098 is also filed with the IRS. There is no reason the IRS couldn't pre-prepare returns based on what is already required to be filled with them and precomputed taxes based on them, and still provide you the option of providing additional data. It would be easier for those work no additional info but also for those who needed to put some additional info, as a lot of the work that needs done now would already be done.

Well, there is a reason, and is that tax preparation software and services companies spend lots of money lobbying Congress to keep the existing system since simplified filing would kill much of their business.
It seems the dip is actually mainly driven by turkey. Turkey seems to screw with many such Google Trends plots, I have noticed.

http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=Foursquare&geo=TR&cmp...
Re your footnote, I don't see how you can hold that belief.
Yeah sure. What does that have to do with my comment?

My point is that legislators are almost universally dedicated to keeping their jobs and will pretty much limit their responses to lobbying to the situations where it won't lower their chances of getting reelected.
> The Constitution was clearly written by people fearing a new tyrannical government (see 2nd amendment).

Alright quick pet peeve: First off I agree that the constitution was specifically written to make it hard for a dictatorship and or tyrannical government.

But my pet peeve is: You cannot use the 2nd amendment as an example of that. It was written four years later and by almost a completely different set of people.
Yes, that's my point. Emacs could, but does not integrate with the OS and established keys that well.

Spacemacs fixes some of that integration. cmd-X C V S all work. but no cmd-F or cmd-R
Don't destroy Joyce's wordplay: it is Finnegans Wake, not Finnegan's Wake
Not registered in the UK:

http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Showcharity/RegisterOfC...
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National borders are a military question. If you looked at the link, or just skimmed the quote I selected from it, you must have noticed that the town didn't decide to tax its own area; it annexed a nearby portion of a freeway and taxed that (seriously, go look at the picture). How do you think Malaysia would respond if Brunei suddenly claimed ownership of nearby Malaysian territory?
It would allow the same privileges as the user which is running IIS, usually a "system" account - which equals Administrative privileges.
From the exploit code:

memset(&serv_addr, '0', sizeof(serv_addr));

That doesn't seem to be correct. The digit character 0 is not the same as the null character ('\0'). Just write 0 or use `struct sockaddr_in serv_addr = { 0 };`.
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I wanted to avoid replying to you. Our perspective is dramatically different and I am tired of arguing with people like you who 'oppose diversity activists'.

However, did you even read the article that you linked to?? Someone posted a link showing that if you blindfold people (so they just listen to how people play), you end up with more women in orchestras. The Ashe Dryden article is about how using open source contributions as a sole barometer of 'merit' leaves an awful lot of talented people out in the cold.

The only point where she mentions anything close to your point is when she says that many female developers use androgynous sounding names and won't put pictures of themselves online.
I'd argue that the profit motive is fine, private security works without this problem. The issue with asset forfeiture laws is that they create an incentive to violate the fourth amendment. The funny thing about this New Mexico law -- all it does is echo the Constitution. It shouldn't be necessary.
I didn't know that, Thank you!
And for a "practical" example: http://www.99-bottles-of-beer.net/language-brainfuck-2542.ht...

Cheers.
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goodness me yes. It appears to be a kernel-mode http parser:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/WindowsServer20...

is that really the only way MS could make IIS fast enough?

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TUX_web_server
Languages without type-checking considered harmful.

Seriously, it's 2015, I shouldn't have to worry about getting my arguments out of order and slipping into production code. Test your code, pick a better language, or hell, use enums. Instead we get one hell of a click-bait headline and a very specious argument.
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"Half the volunteers were allowed to telecommute; the rest remained in the office as a control group."

It's an RCT of people who wanted to work remotely.
I'm not sure Tinder got the nth-degree thing quite right - first degree is someone I know, not someone who I have a mutual connection with.
Coverage on the landing. I find it amazing how "fast" it comes in, although I'm sure it has a minimal fuel budget. Again, kudos to the SpaceX team on some amazing technology, forward on to June 22!
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ESR advocating for something is reason enough to seriously consider the alternative.
How exactly do you imagine this is possible? End to end encryption means Apple cannot access the message contents.
ASCII NUL is indeed 0x0.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_character
http://www.bibase.com/images/ascii.gif
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I buy Asus stuff then flash third party ROMs. Here's a massive list:
http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Supported_Devices

If I was buying something today, it might be the Asus RT-AC66U (since it is a "compromise" between price/performance).
That doesn't sound appreciably different from the US's "state secrets" defense
You need to talk to small business owners in any service industry that isn't restauranting. Those owners would consider the business practices of Yelp and (I guess) Foursquare thuggish.

Two years ago I sat in on a call with a Yelp rep with a former employer of mine (small business connected to the real estate industry). The Yelp rep said "Advertising through Yelp will almost instantly increase you rating." My employer asked "Does that mean you'll manually fix my score?" To which the rep responded, "Your rating will get better if you advertise with us."

That was 2 years ago. I know Yelp has gotten flack since then, and maybe they cleaned up. But that stink of being a thug doesn't wash off quickly, especially in the small business community.
Standard model neutrinos are ruled out because they are relativistic and cannot play a role in structure formation (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_dark_matter )
It's funny how everyone in this thread is saying they needed a monetisation strategy but no one has suggested one. Maybe there just isn't a business in check ins.
EU accuses Google Shopping of search 'abuse'
Search Google for the "secret" URL. Make sure you click the option to show the "omitted" search results. In the search results, look for the results that date from before the article was posted. You will find an URL on pastebin.com. Look at the timestamp. This page contains a partial HTTP log, containing not only the relative URL but also, in the referrers, the complete "secret" URL.
So, my conclusion is: in the group conducting the "secret" chat, somebody posted the HTTP log to Pastebin.com, and then, and only then, was the "secret" URL picked up by Recorded Future.
Exactly. There are many styles of pizza, most of them shouldn't be directly compared to most of them. It only makes sense to compare styles which are closely related.

http://slice.seriouseats.com/archives/2008/01/a-list-of-regi...
And how would "compliance and legal" get access to something engineering designed to be end-to-end encrypted?
I worked in ops for several years but never really got passed simple scripts in various languages. Then out of pure frustration with the lack of tools to do my job I decided to dig deeper into Python.

I started off with a project to track Application Outages using Django. It took me three months and a lot of reading but the application is still in use after 3 years with very little maintenance. I have then gone on to use Django and Flask for various one off web apps. Pandas for data analysis and a lot of third-party packages.

During that time I have looked at Javascript(Node stuff), Ruby and Go. Python keeps winning because my brain can understand it and I get things done the fastest in it. You need to find what works for you there will be plus and minus for it all but getting things done is where it matters.
Yep!

Peperone is actually a bell pepper in Italian, so no meat, but not spicy either. Peperoncino is the spicy one.