skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's funny to imagine social hackers buying tons of diapers to get on top of the rankings.

I would assume the ranking system will work such that having a high rank isn't that valuable but having a low rank is very bad and looking like you're trying to hack the system doubling bad. Thus I'd assume hacking would be a high-risk, low-reward activity.
This sound ridiculously like a piece of propaganda. The article doesn't even link to the study.
btw, not inferring that there's no room for compromise. But I think one of the only ways to make "surveillance" policies sustainable is by making their operations fully transparent. I get the eerie feeling this is not what US Govt. wants to do.
Feds Say It's Time to Cut Back on Fluoride in Drinking Water
unfortunately that kind of solution isn't always suitable for mass consumption and the kind of target audience for this article.

There is always a trade-off in this kind of case between security and usuability
> Bad supervisors often say things like, "don't give me complaints without also giving me a solution."

That might be a bad supervisor if they say it to unskilled labor; to professional/analytical staff, the expectation that a problem report to management include a recommended course of action to address the problem is not unreasonable. In fact, since those are the kind of staff that would be called on to propose action to resolve a problem even if someone else reported it, its simply a case of issuing the follow-up assignment in advance to eliminate an inefficient delay step.
This showed up in Burn Notice, though I can't remember the episode. It's cool to see it's real.
> the platform is buggy, and building a good iPad app is a more complex and expensive endeavour than building an iPhone app.

Citation needed? What do you find buggier about iPads than other iOS devices, and what makes them harder to develop for?
HiredinTech.com hacked
> I'm starting to wonder if maybe Tim Cook is a better CEO than Steve Jobs.

I don't know if this was ever in question. I never viewed Jobs as a particularly good CEO—charismatic and spiritual leader, yes. Good CEO? Probably not. He knew how to motivate people to get his version of the truth to consumers, and that version was incredibly successful.

Jobs was a marketer (and perhaps innately clairvoyant) at heart who was so successful at marketing that he could do a good job at CEO and create a multi-billion-dollar company.

Cook is a genius at the broad-stroke of business operations and most likely leaves the storytelling and imagination to others. It's little surprise the immediate results are a better bottom-line. Time will only tell if Apple truly has enough creativity and stories in the ranks to be long-term successful. (I think it does.)
Absolutely fascinating and very insightful into the differences in perspective between engineering and other disciplines.
tim was the COO when steve was around, you have to also remember that the markets now are much larger than the one's before.. i do believe tim is an exceptional CEO but these numbers seem to reflect better and increased interest in apple products and bigger market size thanks to their bold expansion into asian countries
This is the whole idea behind the article:

>“The Toyota guy explained this to the panel,” Martin went on. “He said, ‘Here’s our process.’ So I said to him, ‘What do you imagine the people are thinking? They’re shaking like a leaf at the side of the road and after that whole experience they are told, “The car’s fine. Chill out. Don’t make mistakes anymore.” Of course they are not going to be happy. These people are scared. What if instead you sent people out who could be genuinely empathetic? What if you said, “We’re sorry this happened. What we’re worried about is your comfort and your confidence and your safety. We’re going to check your car. If you’re just scared of this car, we’ll take it back and give you another, because your feeling of confidence matters more than anything else.” ’ It was a sort of revelation. He wasn’t a dumb guy. He was an engineer. He only thought about doing things from an engineer’s standpoint. They changed what those teams did, and they started getting love letters from people.”
Some are arguing that the death of the iPad means that Apple is now basically a one-product company which could be an achilles heel no matter how many phones are sold.
The Words the Media Industry Prefers
Take Nothing, Leave Nothing: On being banned from the world’s most remote island
It's more a science than economics, which is good enough for me....
Google Summer of Code 2015 accepted projects
Agreed. Reading about the oberth effect and actually doing hohmann transfers are totally different things... And you really appreciate how damn difficult the burns done to save Apollo 13 were.
This might actually be partly generational, if you, like me, grew up using a calculator. I must've done that test with probably about a hundred patients by now, and I have to tell you, the average halfway mentally competent seventy year old can do it faster than me. It's particularly embarrassing when they make a mistake early on, and then I can't just look down at the test sheet in my hand for the correct answers to see if the rest of the numbers are correct.

That said, like other commenters have said, it's supposed to be a little bit hard. This exercise is part of the mini mental state examination [1], which is intended to be a screening test for the early stages of dementia, so you want to challenge people a little. The math part is actually the second-hardest task - the most difficult part for people with even very mild cognitive problems seems to be drawing the two interlocking pentagons.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini%E2%80%93mental_state_exami...
IE<11 on Windows 7 require TLS1 or SSL3, which is not approved by PCI DSS :( How will that work in reality?
There's default settings, and then there's "default" settings. I think of Debian's debconf and how there are different levels of prompts when installing a package.

A good compromise would be to ask on use. The first time someone searches say "What service do you want to complete this with?" and have Yahoo/Yandex pre-selected. Then never ask again.

The never asking again is the key part. IE's setup dialog is a problem because it's either answer a bunch of annoying questions now or answer a bunch of annoying questions later. It should be a choice of setup now or don't bother me again (unless I activate the setup wizard myself).
what a convenient timing too...I was using hiredintech to study for an upcoming technical interview....
Tim Cook was the COO not the CFO
* But before judging China, people need to ask themselves if the hold their own government to the same standard of criticism.*

Not really. We should judge China immediately as bad and then go on to look at our own states (which aren't terribly good). The "let's get perspective on this repression" argument is always a sham, whether it is made by China, by the US or whoever. We need to look at all governments but never to say "the badness here makes this other action OK".
Couldn't agree more. I have an iPad 2 (I think) sitting at home that I occasionally pick up. It serves it's purpose and there's no reason, or incentive to go out and get a new one.
This is very encouraging to read about. I hope now that the famously anti-marijuana Michelle Leonhart is retiring from administering the DEA (arguably in disgrace) that the President will appoint someone with a more evidence-based outlook to that position. This article makes me a little more optimistic in that regard.
Can you expand on your reservations with this?
with hardware support for encryption in CPUs and directly on the drives themselves the hit on performance isn't anything like as bad as it used to be with pure software solutions
The remarkable life and lessons of the $8M janitor
Both the pitch here and the site seem a bit light on endorsements from companies which have previously hired your interns, although I'm guessing you have at list a few good endorsements on file? Maybe consider giving visibility to a few good "reviews" from companies. Just my 2 cents.
The number of dragon missions of 6 is incorrect, there has so far been 6 CRS flights plus 2 demo flights.

"Vehicles landed" of 0 isn't technically correct. There have been several grasshopper and F9R-dev landings.

The "quickest turnaround" also says -62 days for me...
Or simply on a slower replacement cycle. There's room, but it's not for essential or daily use, like a phone or a notebook, and the things it's used for don't require the latest shiny hardware.

So many people that own one don't replace it until the battery starts dying.
Loss of executive function is a common symptom of dementia. It seems entirely plausible to me that a good way to test for that is to ask someone to solve a relatively simple problem that they've nonetheless probably never been asked to solve before. Especially one that involves applying some iterative process.
48 hours with the Apple Watch
Ask HN: Where are the happiest engineers?
Title pretty much says it all. A brief search on HN didn't reveal much.
No, I was a huge bookworm as a kid and I read almost as much as that in the summers. It wasn't about racking up points, just pleasure reading. When you are reading for fun and not for learning, you can go for a lot longer without getting tired and skip all the boring parts. It's not that much different than burning through an entire season of your favorite TV show, or through an entire single-player game, in a weekend.
> French will be present on all continents, and particularly predominant in a continent that, by 2050, should be a fast-growing economic powerhouse–Africa

6 years ago, Rwanda changed its language medium in schools from French to English, and more French Union African countries may follow. Virtually every African I meet from a French Union country speaks English just as well. If there's any sudden decline in world population in the next 35 years, it will probably be in sub-Saharan Africa. Mandarin's making inroads in Africa with the huge influx of Chinese workers there over the past 20 years.
Having learned and then driven stick for eight years afterwards, I still occasionally roll through stop lights because I am stomping on the non-existent clutch pedal of my automatic truck before I brake...

Good luck finding a stick shift if you don't custom order it these days, btw
I have an iPad 2 and it is still usable (with a noticeable slow down for web browsers after the iOS8 upgrade) after all these years. I suspect a lot of people just upgrade their tablets less often that their phones. I use it mainly as a glorified e-reader.
Yes, especially casual users, who use it for browsing on the couch. There is no strong pressure to upgrade, when your browser works just fine.
Is it really dying? Just curious as I love mine and I am not familiar with the numbers. I remember speculation some time last year, but the article I had read didn't cite any hard data.
SpaceX Thales Mission Launch
The fundamental dilemma in privacy is the same as for security and Ken Thompson nailed it thirty years ago.[1] You have to trust somebody.

If I didn't trust the folks at Mozilla and Ghostery and NoScript more than Google, I'd run Chrome and leave JavaScript and Cookies on by default. If I trusted Facebook and LinkedIn more, I'd stay logged in. I don't so I don't.

[1]: http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html
> What is the point in finding every possible flaw with security here?

Because security is only as good as its weakest link, and an adversary who wants your sensitive data won't choose not to break in because your security is "mostly OK".

At the risk of being overly negative, if you have this attitude, you're not building a secure system, and, for your users' sakes, you shouldn't say that you are.
This is a brilliant read. On cybersecurity:

"One fundamental cause of cyber insecurity is core weaknesses in the architecture of most current computer systems that are, in effect, a historical legacy. These architectures have their roots in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s when computers were roughly 10,000 times slower than today’s processors and had much smaller memories. At that time, nothing mattered as much as squeezing out a bit more performance and so enforcing certain key safety properties (having to do with the
way in which access to computer memory is controlled and the ability of operating systems to differentiate among different types of instructions) were deemed to be of lesser importance."
Some phones are encrypted if you add a passcode, but won't be unless you do. Also AFAIK android still isn't by default event when a passcode is set.

One of the problems with doing it by default is the consequences of a lost password. On a consumer device (where there's unlikely to be an admin backup password) a lost/forgotten password can result in the user losing all their data.

Once people get to the point of storing all personal data off machine (e.g. OneDrive / icloud) it would make more sense to have this kind of thing enabled by default.
@ericfrenkiel Just look at what happened recently with FoundationDB.
The other approach is to not leave anything on your PC that you care about someone else having access to.

This could mean keeping a lot of data encrypted online, with keys being remembered (and possibly backed up in a safe at home incase you forget)
I think the larger iPad will help. My mom (iPad target demo?) is waiting for the larger iPad to upgrade to. If it's A4 / letter size then it will really take off for the publishing industry and academia (reading PDFs).

A big downside to the iPad is slow text input. Many people love their laptops because they can quickly communicate with people.
Researchers Plan Wirelessly Hack Car Public Summer
Building an embedded HTTP engine into an Init system?? Fuck that. Someone needs to reign these people in.
The promise of a $150,000 jet-powered light aircraft
Probably in the happiest countries:

http://qz.com/390827/the-happiest-countries-in-the-world-ran...
True that. I have no motivation to update my iPad 2 so far!
I want to joke but I am scared I would offend. Basically well done man it's far better than I could do if that is a working hat store !

I have to say though the design is lacking. Other than that keep at it !
I don't see how the article you linked to [0] indicates a detectable OS in any way shape or form.

Rather, the issue is that if it cannot be shown that you do know the password, then ownership of the drive cannot be determined. Entering the password is equivalent to admitting ownership, and therefore would be self-incriminating.

The article indicates that the FBI decrypted one drive and found evidence that it belonged to Feldman:

>According to the order (PDF), after devoting “substantial resources” in the case, FBI agents apparently have been able to decrypt one of the drives. The government argued that because it had found “numerous files which constitute child pornography,” “detailed personal financial records and documents belonging to Feldman,” and “dozens of personal photographs of Feldman," Feldman therefore has “access to and control over” the set of drives.

Edit: Forgot link.

[0]http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/05/28/in-reversal-ju...
This feels a little like a honey pot. If some bad actor is tracking you (and trying to find out where you go), they probably know who your friends are (or can get that list very easily, whether legally or illegally), and then you all get charged/tracked together. In fact, you've made it easier to track you all together by making the ties explicit.

It seems like this is only really obscuring traffic/protecting privacy if traffic was shared with anonymous people, but that already exists, and it's called TOR.
Fun fact: Macbook revenue is now higher than iPad revenue.

So much for the early hype of tablets killing the PC.
Is Ubuntu moving away from .deb packages? Here is the complete story
PowerShell's "pipeline" is largely analogous to chained methods in a scripting language's REPL, and therefore is not the same as Unix pipes, which are used to share data streams between processes.

Unix already has the object functionality you see in PowerShell: Python, Ruby, the JVM, etc, and all of these have existed for far longer than PowerShell. The only thing PowerShell has is a bunch of shortcuts for system operations, which Unix already has in the form of POSIX shells and utilities, and which many languages provide language-native abstractions for.
Israels Mobile Users Targeted by Sejeal Group
Learning to Love Forms (Web Directions South '07)
How is this different from the pattern established in database/sql?
I'm a typical developer and I think I speak for the vast majority of people when I say that my concern is not with top level government agencies decrypting my hard drive. My concern is with me losing my computer or having it stolen by a petty thief, in which case I feel that the proprietary built-in encryption tools offered by Microsoft and Apple are perfectly suitable.
That's a cop out argument.

Gas pedals and ignition switches are things that have existed for decades. Why are they screwing around with materials that don't perform well for a part as universal as a gas or brake pedal? Why not leave the damn thing alone?
I find it strange that the shadow, or wake, of the 1960s Ralph Nader case ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsafe_at_Any_Speed ) is not mentioned.

Rather large elephant.
A response to recent concerns about security vulnerabilities in AFNetworking
Yes, it's rather awkward on non-discrete scrolling systems like trackpads and trackpoints.
I think it's easy to argue that tablets have hit steady-state penetration, at least in developed markets, but I think "dying" is a stretch.
Remembering Google Exec Dan Fredinburg
And that kids is why you don't extrapolate long term trends from exponential curves.
Just ran it in my console. That's really cool.
If you use go generate [1], you check in the generated code, and only the author of a library pays the cost of code generation, not all the downstream dependencies.

You pay a price for not recompiling from the real source; in particular, after a security bug is fixed in a code generator, the downstream libraries won't automatically regenerate their code.

On the other hand, it's no worse than ecosystems such as Maven or Linux distros where people commonly download binary libraries rather than compiling from source.

[1] https://blog.golang.org/generate
I'm a Linux desktop/laptop user and just wanted to point out that LUKs encryption is built right into the RHEL / Fedora installer and works like a champ.
I've dealt with many different types of beggars on a regular basis during the 5+ years that I've been living in Chicago. While my pockets aren't deep, I do try to be charitable when possible. I only give to those who I see on a regular basis, who come off as humble, non-harassing, and don't display obvious signs of substance abuse. Charity will range from spare change, to extra cash, even food if I'm out grabbing some when I run into them.
I've seen this come up a few times--there were a lot of stories about it late last year. It looks like hokum at first glance but apparently has some actual promise in that it has been reproduced and a -very- slight amount of thrust seems to be generated.

http://nextbigfuture.com/2015/02/update-on-emdrive-work-at-n...

Apparently the current methodology of testing chews through equipment due to requiring hard vacuum. Right now they're trying to get to 100uN of force produced so they can replicate on another system (which requires that to beat its own detection floor).
It's not the most user-friendly design - I found myself start at the bottom of the page where the form was, and then scrolling up to the pictures/descriptions, and then back down to the form, and then back up again to the next section.
> Unlike in Windows and Mac OS X, you can only encrypt your disk when you first install Linux.

That is obviously simply not true. There is no user friendly GUI way to do it, but it is definitly doable, and that's what they should have written.

Also, recommending BitLocker, and not having the main guide for something more user friendly and open source?
This is cool! It'd be cool to have a .json version of this page as well to see what other people could do with it! Stats are better with context - if you could do the same thing with NASA/ULA/China/India/ESA/etc it'd be even more illustrative.

Also, +1 for getting rid of the scroll-assist. Kind of annoying.

Slightly off topic: does anybody know if they're going to try controlled recovery of today's launch vehicle?
It would be interesting to see an upgrade frequency comparison of "creators" vs. "consumers".
The article suggests Ghostery sends data anyway.

Also, the non-denial denial in the next FAQ item (https://www.ghostery.com/en/faq#q6-general) sets off all kinds of alarm bells.
This would at minimum leave your cache exposed...
Wonderful job, guys. Will you broadcast Olympics? What will change for this one?
Ask HN: Best resources for reading up on B2B marketing besides SaaStr
Besides SaaStr, what are some other quality B2B communities that you guys would recommend?

Coming from a CS background, I have noticed marketing blogs/communities are full of people sharing content and twisting facts with a slightly concealed goal to sell their products instead of sharing knowledge for the sake of sharing it.
Phones are also typically on multi-year contract (or a multi-year payment plan depending on your location and/or carrier), so you get "prompted" to upgrade on a regular basis when you finish a cycle. I only really upgrade my tablet when there's a serious tech jump, like going to Retina or cutting 1/3 weight or whatever.
> Yes, services is where Go has a huge advantage over Python and Ruby in particular because of their inability to leverage SMP due to the GIL.

That would be an advantage of Go-as-a-language over Ruby-as-a-language in a world where JRuby didn't exist.
Sorry, but I think Tim is still mostly coasting on Jobs' brilliance. Not only was he a product genius but he was a gifted recruiter. At the senior level, Cook is 1 for 2 at best. Forstall may have been a jerk (like Jobs) but was arguably the second most important person on the iPhone.

Or look at it this way: would Cook be doing as well without his predecessor? Almost certainly not. Would Apple be doing as well with Jobs still at the helm. Almost certainly so.
Another example of great design married to great content almost totally marred by scroll hijacking.
out of curiousity, what would you recommend as a user friendly open source disk encryption product in place of Bitlocker?
The Rise and Fall of the Hotel Mini-Bar
Thats a double edged sword. The thing is, it was not their job to make people feel better, it was their job to evaluate the situation. There is a good and a bad side of that trade off...
I don't think it's "dying". Tablets are in the same situation as flat-screen TVs: the market is more-or-less saturated, they last a long time, and there is no compelling reason to upgrade. In contrast, phones have a fairly short replacement cycle, because they are subject to significant wear and tear, and there are compelling advancements in power utilization, communications, etc.
Note that is true only in America and some richer western markets. Phones in mich of the world are bought just like tablets, but are used often and so still get replaced every coupke of years.
Dev here. Will remove scroll assist in next release :). API, allowing you to pull raw data planned.

No landing today, too heavy and going too far.
Text from pictures
Well I think you will have to actually list some places if you want to argue it is hacker friendly :)... just saw this thread, in Tokyo myself. I don't think it's particularly hacker friendly, cafe wise, lack of wifi, etc.

I would be thrilled if you would list a good cafe or two, as I am always on the hunt.