skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only way to succeed with this is with heavy firewalling or VPNs. There are several unknown zero days in any application so just by opening up your application to 0.0.0.0/0 makes it possible for blackhats to get in. The only question is how much your information is worth for somebody. If you it is less than price of a brand new zero day you might be ok, but there are still the script kiddies and political blackhat organizations who mass deface any site that has a "zero day" vuln, (zero day means in this case: unknown to the operators of the site).
Re-Greening the Sahel (2009) [pdf]
Awhile ago it occurred to me that there will come a moment when anybody who is working in any sort of manufacturing but who isn't doing nanotech is, in effect, just playing with model trains, tinkering with toys. That moment may have passed already.
This is up to the VM provider. I haven't seen a list yet except that this doesn't affect VirtualBox (if no floppy is mounted, the exploit is not possible).

One would expect though that there is no issue if a floppy drive is not attached, and hope that there is not a separate security hole to mount a floppy from sandboxed code (unlikely).
There are many transactions in the world where people pay for things they didn't specifically want, e.g. buying a car and getting all the seats and safety features, or ordering a meal and paying the full price even if you ask for some ingredient to be omitted.

In none of these cases--paying for a car where you'll take out the seats, paying for a meal where you don't get the mushrooms, paying taxes for government services you don't agree with--is the payment suddenly "theft".
It also doesn't help that they hide details and sometimes straight up lie to students during those first 12 years. To avoid "confusing" them.

Students aren't usually taught subtraction is adding a negative number. Students aren't usually taught division is multiplying by a fraction. Students aren't usually taught that there are ways of counting outside of the decimal 'base 10' way of counting, or the advantages of counting in Octal, or how to count in Binary on your hands.

Math teachers love to say "2+2 does not always equal 4" but never explain that's only true in Base2-4 where the representation of "4" doesn't exist and it is represented as 100, 11, or 10.

So not only are we taught "there's always an answer". We're not taught other concepts and sometimes information is left out entirely until you reach a college level of mathematics - at which point all these lies, unexplained concepts, and "answer-seeking mentality" become a problem.
A user-friendly solution to piracy
There are two ways to think about microservices. Development (which your comment focuses on) and deployment. The pure/idealized microservice is isolated from the rest of your environment/codebase on both of those axes. In practice, there will be some coupling on both, and perhaps one of those isn't isolated at all.

The monolith is simply the opposite of the microservice ideal, it is heavily coupled in both development and deployment.

And yes, DRY does often run counter to the development isolation, as you need to balance repeating yourself or sharing code (and reducing isolation).

As these things generally go, any system in contact with the real world will exist somewhere between the monolith and a federation of microservices. My current company, for example, employs 2 distinct codebases, Java and JavaScript, which have 3 and 2 deployments respectively, each in two similar-but-not-the-same environments (in-house and white-label). We could easily split those deployments into twice or 5x the number, we could also join them, this just happens to be where things naturally settled for the time being.
Housing CEO at it again, donates all his shares to employees
> They became popular because they are effective.

I believe this, but I'd like to read more about their effectiveness. Is there a particularly good article on the topic?
Hasn't the zoom thing been around forever? It goes back at least as far as Rival School and probably earlier games I can't remember - I think Soul Edge did it too?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb5rTtSrP3E

Rival Schools also changed the background during supers/knockouts, although it was just "fade to blacks" and 2D overlays rather than a new environment. But looking at this video of Battle Fantasia supers (been so long since I played it!) that's all that game did as well:

https://youtu.be/3TXk38j1wUc

The "freeze other animations while the super move executes" thing is such a minor stylistic thing that I'm having trouble really thinking of it as an innovation and to boot... is that even what Battle Fantasia does? I mean look at this super: the steam in the background is still animating:

https://youtu.be/3TXk38j1wUc?t=115
Already popular with entrepreneurs
Good surf/yoga/creative/authentic vibe
Close to an international airport
Sunny and different from Europe :)
http://www.thebluehouse.io/blog/2014/12/1/why-this-american-...
Isn't the theory around the uberman that in those 20 min you go straight into deep sleep?
Those people also cost money, and most managers are allergic to spending money on good people (ignoring the difficulties in finding those people in the first place).
When I vote, I vote third party, believe me.
The actual computation done is not computationally useful. It only "secures" your bitcoins in the sense that an attacker has to put more economic input into their attack to match the economic input of the mining network. The act of mining does not even check whether the transaction is valid - that is done by the host that decides which transactions to include and the rest of the network deciding to propagate a mined block. Mining just churns through a single hashing algorithm to deliberately expend power. You could also secure your network by introducing trust and actually securing the trusted nodes, without having to create an ecological travesty.
Gary Levitt from Mad Mimi Talks Email Marketing in 16 Questions [Interview]
I figured and that's why I almost didn't even post my comment. But the picture was chosen for a reason, so I was curious if I'd get any comments from people that the picture appealed to. I would guess it'd be a good environment for developing business plans and strategies.
The readme doesn't have much to it, and since i'm not particularly network savvy, can someone explain how this works exactly?
What's the relationship between "genome sequencing" and IVF?

This quote from that article was interesting to me, I had always assumed that mammal reproductive systems were relatively similar: "The reproductive system of rhinos is very complex and there is still so much we do not know,"
Interesting way of putting that perspective. I have been trying to put my finger on the whole remote working issue for a while. What you expressed is one aspect to the issue, but I also think that it is probably just an intermediary symptom, a phantom / false cause if you will. Personally I think we would see a lot more remote working and even a social revolution if at very least the incentives for physical office space were removed from tax and accounting policy. Remote working is really a difficult nut to crack that has a significant cleft between it's potential and present reality.

I guarantee that the company that can scale up effective remote working that has severed the tether to co-located organizational structure will be wildly successful. Unfortunately, I think it will also have major social repercussions similar to the impact that autonomous transportation has the potential for causing.
From the article:

> The practice has proven to be controversial.

Is that the new slang for 'criminal' or for 'state-sponsored theft'?
This is why the individuals involved in these acts need to have their names and faces splashed in the news, and their homes picketed by protesters, for starters.

Individual discretion, but with collective protection and anonymity. That's not going to work.
The owner must be present during home-sharing, so each property owner should be limited to sharing one property at a time. Since the properties must be licensed, it should be easy to shut down the multiple-property Airbnb landlords.

What this might enable is "sharing" a huge property, say an apartment complex, essentially opening up a new class of low- or no-amenity hotels.
We're not humor impaired, there's just a higher bar. Otherwise it becomes like every other internet forum ever: dominated by one-liner meme-based reply-chains that drown out the real conversation.
John Kricfalusi always laughs at and criticizes Pixar animation. Mainly because he's a hipster (even looks and dresses the part) who wants to go back to the good ole days of Bob Clampett, Chuck Jones, Tex Avery, etc. For most Pixar or other 3D animated productions, there just isn't enough squash and stretch or exaggeration to appeal to old time animation enthusiasts.

I think it's possible though. It's been done to a limited extent in video games: note how Link's sword arm and sword grow when he takes a swing in Wind Waker.
Linux seems to have a policy of avoiding breaking changes. Nice for maintaining software, but it's not the best quality kernel as a result.
The fact that these boxes keep turning into successful small businesses is amazing to me. Especially when this box already has a competitor that I thought of as soon as I figured out what it is.

The article wasn't as insightful as I hoped. Though I'm pretty impressed by that growth in 3 months. You often see things like SaaS growing much slower. I see people talk about taking years to scale to 20k in monthly recurring revenue and they did it in 3 months. I appreciate that they shared their story but it seems like mostly they built a following by sharing dog pictures on social media. Maybe that's the lesson?

They did drop some info about AdWords not working which sounds like the targeting might have been weak or just not good for their target audience. The 100 conversions from a 10,000 person email list is very low for email. Most lists outperform any other media in conversion rates from my experience but those lists are filtered before people even join. It sounds like they have a bunch of people that simply like dogs and decided to join the mailing list. I could see why the conversion could be so low in that case. I still think focusing on a better mailing sequence is an easily hanging fruit to attack but it looks like social is working for you. It would be interesting to see churn numbers in a few months.
I'm by no means an expert on this but I live in South Africa and we like to hunt game. The guys that I work with are regularly at game farms. One complaint they keep repeating is that game farmers don't want to own rhino because of many reasons, some of which (a) they are expensive (b) they are high risk (c) there is little return on investment (no coming here and looking at them on safari is not enough). High risk, expensive investments with little to no return are not a good deal. Making the sale of rhino horn legal is one way you could create the incentive to breed/keep these animals on their farms and also push up the supply of horns making it less profitable to poach.

There are entire farms where crocodiles are bred just for their skin. People like crocodile skin, they make shoes and crap from them. Some people think rhino horn makes their dicks work. Ok fair enough, lets make a shitload of horns.
Or not at all, especially when the price of electricity is usually over the price of mined coins.
There should be a fanfic about Eve's universe raiding SecondLife or vice-versa.
Sunset – Secret
20k is nice, but how profitable is it?
I run 8.1 pro on my personal PCs because I need hyper-v and remote desktop for development. I would be happy to buy a "home" edition if it came with the those features but MS captured my additional dollars for the pro edition precisely because I did need them.

Most people are getting OEM editions of Windows anyways. Anyone installing an OS on bare hardware is not going to be put off by confusion between SKUs.
Since when access to scientific knowledge stopped people from believing pseudo-science ?
Agile is great, for many reasons. Not least but including:

Having loads and loads of meetings. Like teaching people to build a car or town with Lego using an Agile methodology. Instead of letting them do it themselves, it was a game-changer on memories of Lego as a kid, the impact was like coming off a waterfall, no, even being in a waterfall.

Improving meetings by doing them standing up with a whiteboards instead of a meeting room glassboard. Not only freeing up precious meeting room space for those teams doing scrums with remote teams that also do stand-up whiteboard scrums on their own, our white boards cost leading to less wear-and-tear, scrums tend to last for 30-60 minutes, improving everyone's cardiovascular system, and we can do them at any time of the day whenever the team lead decides a scrum should be done, damn everyone's productivity, it is all about the scrum and helping everyone get things done. My team lead says Agile is a better method for managing things.

Overtime is now referred to as a 'sprint' when we realize we're behind deadline, but can enjoy the process of sprinting every 2 weeks. We have replaced the boring, planned methodology of milestones and working overtime to fix what we hadn't planned by sprints, where we do overtime on a systematically planned 2-times-per-month basis, and everyone is happy because of the 'focus time' whenever we're not scrumming, and free taxi home at night. We also work shift 2 days per week because that totally helps sleep patterns. Enjoy the early morning and late evening at least twice per month.

If the sprint doesn't work, we just push things to the next release. It seems to keep everyone happy.

Agile tools are so flexible we have to make our own, as our organization is so paranoid and locked-down regarding information security we cannot use anything that doesn't go through an approval chain so many miles long it literally virtually circles the earth several times over. So we resist this, and dedicate 1/4 of all of our resources to beating these out-of-date systems at their own game. A guy said he could do the whole 300 person project in Excel, but we thought maintaining a staff Name-ID-email-telephone table would not totally not work, and kept the 300 people making this system Agile instead, we're just using a single API, after all. Agile is all about the team.

Even our bathroom staff are Agile. When the GM leaves in the evening, all tissue paper is removed from the bathroom, promptly. It is replaced when he returns in the morning. That is keeping a tight, ship.

*All the above is true, if somewhat hastily typed.
"why would you take your home computer and connect it to the workplace?"

- Blackberry
Someone pointed this out to me long ago, and I've yet to see anything that disagrees with it:

Every time you see someone succeeding at Scrum, it's because they're also doing most of XP.

Maybe we need to go back to our roots. I know that several elements of XP have only recently clicked for me and I feel foolish for having taken so long (but nearly everybody I know is still struggling with those aspects too, so I'm in great company). And I was exposed to XP in '99, which means it took me 15 years.
Are the main customers for items like this the poor and uneducated, or the wealthier segments of Asian society with plenty of access to modern scientific knowledge?

Also, I wouldn't be surprised if it's analogous to the Dr. Oz / anti-vaccine set in the U.S. Those people have access to all the knowledge they could want, but you still couldn't shake their misguided beliefs out of them.
You should Google up and see how common this problem really is. My example, I am a consultant. But I do have domain accounts in companies I consult. The OS that came with the machine (windows 7 home) had to be written over since it won't let me log in.

The point being, it's such an artificial restriction. Most PCs are laptops, and this really restricts mobility.
That implies that you might have actually read the contents of a bill or two. Something that congress doesn't actually do anymore.
A win for the hotel industry lobby groups and a loss for the general public.
The power of community in business
Makes sense. I typically try to design things so that they are initially joined (for convenience) but can easily be split off -- such as a simple router between micro-apps which can be replaced by haproxy (or similar) later.
I think their is a group of people like my parents. They never really used computers and don't "get" them. Now that they have smartphones they are all over the web. My dad refuses to touch a computer but shops on his phone or ipad all the time.
Ask HN: Why not just use ssh for everything
We have all these so called secure messaging apps, some are OSS, some are not, it's kinda a mess.

I can open an ssh connection to a remote server, a friend can do the same, and we can use wall or tail files or whatever, essentially, we can chat, insecurely on a box that we have a secure connection to.

I am sure it would not be hard to make the ssh libraries the core of an app that chats, talks, walks, runs, or does whatever, securely.

Why aren't we just doing thing instead of reinventing all these secure transports?
> the Valve megacorporation

Why is Valve a megacorporation vs. just a corporation?
> How do I protect myself from the VENOM vulnerability?

> If you administer a system running Xen, KVM, or the native QEMU client, review and apply the latest patches developed to address this vulnerability.

> If you have a vendor service or device using one of the affected hypervisors, contact the vendor’s support team to see if their staff has applied the latest VENOM patches.

Or you could, you know, search for "qemu disable floppy" in google, read a bit and apply this flag to the VM:

qemu -global isa-fdc.driveA=

or -nodefaults to only enable the devices you want to enable...

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2013-02/msg004...
A programmable controller for connected devices (YC S13)
We just got back from 6 months in Morocco. We work with technology. Me: programmer. She: designer. Dog: just does the cute thing. We travel by camper van.

I'll contact your site and we'll drop by in the Fall if you all will be around.

Cheers-
Matt
It's only free as an upgrade, and even that is time-limited. New copies will still cost money.
I think you're making this distinction wrongly.

"Brainfuck etc" - by which we mean not just joke programming languages but most (all?) programming languages generally considered to be Turing complete - don't prohibit infinite storage, and tell you how they would behave if somehow they were run in an environment where they did have infinite storage available.

In that sense, I think it is extremely reasonable to say "the language is Turing complete", without any lowering of the bar.

Any individual finite realization of that language will, of course, be theoretically a finite state machine. But you can't reason about how that restriction of the language will behave (for instance, whether it will halt for all inputs) in the general case without naming the particular resources available. And at that point, it's still not a convenient form for those kinds of questions.
This is precisely my concern when servicing clients. Have you (or has anyone else) worked as a client-facing development team and successfully dealt with this tension? Obviously in the case of great clients this becomes a non-issue, but when clients are new to product development, do you simply need to have a very strong hand to make the product successful?
There's something to that, but for an approach to be worth trying you don't have to expect it to work: just that you'll learn something about the problem.
"And on Xen and QEMU, even if the administrator explicitly disables the virtual floppy drive, an unrelated bug causes the vulnerable FDC code to remain active and exploitable by attackers."
> It's also not been considered too urgent since they have the sperm and eggs already, they can always put the baby in a Southern White Rhino.

Source? Why is the Guardian article framing Sudan as the species' last chance if this is the case?
I've ran campaigns that targeted likes and I feel like many of them are phony but I've also ran target campaigns to lead pages as an affiliate and had success in the past.
i would say no, i would call it, "potential recurring income". with only 90 days of data you don't really know how long each customer will stay, without more data you really don't know how many of those will stick around for another month. then again i dont count my eggs before they hatch.
Classic "Worse is better"

I shall let Rob Pike explain :

When I was on Plan 9, everything was connected and uniform. Now everything isn't connected, just connected to the cloud, which isn't the same thing. And uniform? Far from it, except in mediocrity. This is 2012 and we're still stitching together little microcomputers with HTTPS and ssh and calling it revolutionary. I sorely miss the unified system view of the world we had at Bell Labs, and the way things are going that seems unlikely to come back any time soon.

http://rob.pike.usesthis.com/
If you don't mind my asking, how did you go about mankind this? How did you go about unearthing the API?

This type of tinkering seems like something I'd REALLY enjoy playing with! But I've no idea how to get started. I'm just a back end developer who lives tinkering but doesn't quite have the expertise.
Cool article, Elon has actually stated the perspective he takes to innovate these types of problems. It's actually very practical and can be put to use to innovate any problem really Here's an article sharing how he thinks about problems and how he solves them with a simple mental framework
http://bit.ly/1KJVYkV
Potential acquisition for gopro?
Title reminds OP of Apple Watch Editions, which are gold and cost $10,000: http://store.apple.com/us/buy-watch/apple-watch-edition
In regards to turning on the z-axis to be able to land with engine failure, I believe User is referring to Autorotation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autorotation
I'm surprised to learn that cloud computing solutions (EC2, Azure) don't already support IPv6. Can anyone share why this is? I would think the switch is inevitable. What roadblocks are in the way for enabling this?
I was looking up the differences in them a few minutes ago and there really isn't any, so much so that I'm not concerned with losing the Northern White Rhino sub-species. It's not a good thing, but we do have the required pieces to bring them back and if we don't then there is an identical animal which still has a decent sized population.

I think the tolerance between species is highly variable, but "Fetuses of the Giant Panda have been grown in the womb of a cat by intercurrently inserting panda and cat embryos into the cat womb." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interspecific_pregnancy

However, wikipedia says: "Following the phylogenetic species concept, recent research has suggested the northern white rhinoceros may be an altogether different species, rather than a subspecies of white rhinoceros, in which case the correct scientific name for the former is Ceratotherium cottoni. Distinct morphological and genetic differences suggest the two proposed species have been separated for at least a million years."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_rhinoceros#Northern_white...
The communication was so effective I chose not to respond to it.

I personally prefer (there it is!) to work in an environment where being incorrect isn't such a big deal everyone thinks you have to walk around eggshells in order to point it out.

I responded to another poster in this thread and told them they may just be in the wrong place. Or to put it another way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4hqFvXm57M&t=01m23s

What you read as effective communication I read as the guy whose mindset is so far off of what's effective it isn't even worth engaging him.
Seeing the strength of google migrating all their employees to yubikeys
How to Meditate Over a Cup of Coffee