skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unless you have personally read, fully understood the security implications of, and compiled from source every application currently running on a Linux machine, including the kernel, then you really have little guarantee of safety in open source, and probably not even then.

Most Linux users are not experts in any of the multiple languages that their applications might have been written in, and so are neither capable, nor likely willing, to pore over millions of lines of polyglot code just to verify that the latest version of Iceweasel doesn't have an NSA backdoor (or what have you.) Therefore, the blind trust most Linux users place in whomever wrote their distro and their applications is no different than the blind trust Windows and OSX users place in the companies that make their operating systems and any binaries they download from third parties.

Granted, in the open source case, anyone can look at the code, and the axiom that "with enough eyes, all bugs are shallow" does sometimes work. But it doesn't necessarily follow that no one at Microsoft or Apple is paying as much attention to their code as the masses are to open source code. It's just an assumption on the part of the open source community, that open source necessarily leads to greater code coverage because the code is available to everyone, versus a subset of employees at a company, and that it's harder to hide things in plain sight when the source code is available. This assumption of course turns out sometimes to be spectacularly untrue, as it was in the case of Heartbleed.
I think the more pressing thing to consider is P(injured player | play call). If you consider the fact that your quarterback is on the field for the 2 pointer, but not the 1 pointer (typically), the slight difference in point expectation is likely not worth the risk to your franchise player.
Sorry, the data you quoted is absolutely wrong. It doesn't distinguish between low cost android video players and iPads. If you want to make a point about android being used widely, that's fine, but if you want to make a point about iPads being affected by commoditization, the data doesn't support that.
The experience of dealing with Microsoft's support sounds exactly the same as what I had to deal with. In my situation there was no workaround possible short of rebooting the system (it was a kernel resource leak), so after spending 3 months iterating through different ways to reproduce the problem (including "we don't support Windows on VMWare, after asking me to send them a VM image to reproduce the problem), going through 3 levels of support, I got to the people who were able to get me a fix. Alas, it was a private patch which was only available upon request, which didn't help much as I was working for an ISV.
In asm you write loops because they are easy, map is hard (and generally slow because it's a lot more code.)

ASM derives performance from specialization, ASM asks, how often is this code ACTUALLY going to run on another architecture, OS, etc? And then gains performance by not supporting those things via abstractions, etc.

Throw away your CS textbook and run benchmarks, reality dictates theory, not vice versa.
ApplePay potentially meets that description. Also, chip-and-pin cards.
First beta of Graylog v1.1 with own log shipper is out
> Every Bitcoin exchange I can think of has lost some significant amount of coins to hacks. I see no reasonable solution for this problem.

This is a problem for Bitcoin, but not a problem of Bitcoin.

The major fallout that I see from those hackings isn't so much that they occurred, but that unlike an attack on accounts held by, say, Bank of America or Citibank, there's no recourse once the funds have been siphoned out of the Bitcoin exchange -- they are just gone.

Is that the problem that you're describing when you talk about there being no "reasonable solution"?
Startups are like fighting forest fires
You maybe should have noticed already, but this already exists and the transition is in progress.

http://blogs.wsj.com/corporate-intelligence/2014/02/06/octob...

You should have already (or very soon be) getting new credit cards in the mail with a SIM chip in them.

After October 15, 2015 credit card companies (instead of merchants) will be liable for financial losses due to credit card fraud where the consumer is forced to use the mag stripe. (In the US of course)
Yes! I like this very much. This is the favorite feature I used in LT (though I've wished to delve more in its architecture), I never really got the hang of external REPLs and browser sessions.

I recently tested Wallaby.js, which brings LT approach to testing. Now I wonder if the logic in Hydrogen could be extended to call module's tests and bring results just like the evaluation messages come. I think both immediate coding and testing might make coding more intuitive and reliable.

Is there an Atom to Jypyter bridge or something? How does Hydgoren and Atom communicate with Jypyter kernel?
A Partial Inventory of Gustave Flaubert’s Personal Effects
Just overheard a funny conversation between two engineers
Was just walking back from lunch and overheard this:

Engineer #1: "Someone asked me for a restaurant recommendation in Boston. I've never been to Boston, so I did what I always do... I just looked it up on Yelp and told her the top result. Then she checked Yelp and said 'OMG! Yelp agrees with you!'"

Engineer #2: "You're an API, man. A natural language processing API."
Oga (XML/HTML Parser for Ruby) 1.0 Released
Fifty percent of American companies fail within their first five years.

The simple fact that a company has funding does not mean it will succeed.

I would suggest that you - politely now - bring your concerns to each of the Board of Director members. If the CEO needs to be replaced, it is the Board that would do it.
Right, I had forgotten about that after the first million.
You also should account for the fact that coaches are often considering more than just points, and beyond that are often just irrational. Coaches should go for it on 4th-and-short more often than they do, but getting stopped on 4th down is demoralizing and makes the coach look foolish, which shifts their decision-making. Getting stopped on a 2-pt. conversion might also reflect poorly on the coach, so they are averse to calling that play even if it is statistically the right move.

I find this psychological side of coaching very interesting, and sports are a great venue for examining the psychology of decision-making. A great example of outcome-bias is the sports world's reaction to the Seahawks decision to throw the ball at the goal line in last year's Super Bowl. I would argue it was the proper decision as it maximized their chances of winning the game (it allowed them time for one passing play and two running plays, as opposed to just two running plays). Unfortunately for them, a very low percentage outcome occurred (interception), and that outcome has strongly biased how the play call has been judged.
That says absolutely nothing specific about what is actually being voted on or against.

That doesn't tell me if he votes with Congress on war policies, different budget issues, drug policy, incarceration policy, surveillance policy, et al.

Averages on something like that are almost entirely worthless.

You'd have to be specific on what he voted on, and why. Or what he voted against, and why.

As Bernie Sanders pointed out in an AMA the other day, he often has to vote against some thing (a smaller part of a bill) he is in favor of, because a bill contains a far bigger issue that needs voted against.
Point understood; however, when you do have the full capability to end something, and you don't, then you do have full responsibility for the present day situation.
Yes because they are upfront about it. You know what you ate getting --which is blatant propaganda. Everyone knows this. With NPR they have people believe they are unbiased and have no ideological framework. It's way more subversive, because for most inane things they appear unbiased so when they want you to buy into something you are predisposed to believe their delivery.

Take a good liar. Do they lie at every occasion? No, for the most part all they say is plausible and they use that believability to their advantage. Note I am not comparing NPR to liars, I'm comparing the phenomenon.
The graphs it can show you are good, but don't tell you about your accuracy, which is probably my biggest problem with my own typing.
You're wrong.

He was perfectly willing to hand over customer data before Snowden.
You've always needed a reasonably recent version of OS X to use up-to-date versions of Safari. The window for "reasonably recent", right now, is Windows 10. There is no basis in fact to claim that Edge+1 will not support Windows 10, too.
#c9d9: Episode 17 Recap – Application Release Automation in Regulated Industries
HVDC has been around since the 30's. It's useful in some situations, but has a lot of tradeoffs.
In formal debate all remarks are supposed to be addressed to the president of the deliberative body. In this case "Mr. President" may well be the President of the Senate, not the President of the United States.

(Disclaimer: I haven't had a chance to listen to the stream yet, so I don't actually know whom Sen. Lee is addressing. In the top remark, Sen. Rand is most likely addressing the President of the Senate.)
What normal internet activity does CFAA make a felony?
How people choose to spend their time is definitely not the "real question" here. The real question is it legal to write software that interacts with an API which is covered by someone else's copyright (assuming you can even copyright an API) without their express permission?

Since that happens pretty much every time you write a line of code, I would say it's a pretty important question. Whether or not you distribute said software, whether you distribute it in binary or source form, and whether you charge for said software are all interesting confounding variables and it would be extremely interesting to delve into whether those factors impact the result.

Keep in mind this is simply software which sends and receives packets over a network. The server has no obligation to response, and there is no "linking" of libraries. Let's assume that none of WhatsApp's code is being distributed (assume a clean room implementation of the API, not decompiled from WhatsApp source)

I wonder if things like if WhatsApp included a magic string in the header, and then claiming copyright of that string, if that could also impact the legal result.
You also can not assume that the original author of PuTTY isn't secretly working for NSA, or who ever. The fact is, the ONLY safe way to get PuTTY is to indeed grab the code, go through it line by line, and than build it, and hope that your compiler sin't infected as well. I am just point out that it's more difficult to hide things inside the code than it is in the built binary, not impossible, but more difficult.

Web-of-trust, what ever that might mean, isn't helpful because you ultimately have to trust someone. How do you know the person you are trusting isn't an NSA agent?
> What amazes me is that out of state students would have to pay out of state while someone in the state without a visa could get in state tuition.

Why? The basis of in-state tuition for residents is that, through the required residency period, you have subjected yourself to the tax and other obligations that come from living in the state and have contributed to the community independent of nationality or citizenship, and that the tuition break is part of the service that the State provides in exchange for that to residents.

I'm not sure how permission from the federal government to be in the country is even relevant to that.

> I'm not against in state tuition for visa offenders, but at the same time there seems to be an unfairness with regard to out of state students who would have to pay the "full price".

Currently-out-of-state students could choose to move to the state first and establish residency. I'm not sure where the supposed unfairness is.
The original article is from over a year ago. It wasn't in response to anything in particular, but it doesn't have to be.

If you see something potentially vulnerable, you don't have to wait until it's been exploited to report it.
It's very hard to ELI5 quantum mechanics. The only thing we can definitively constructively say is that we have a mathematical system that describes the universe very well at certain time/energy/distance scales. Trying to ascribe meaningfulness to this math is an ongoing struggle.

Aside, the terms "spooky" and "weird" are used to describe phenomena that "have no classical analogue." Physicists don't agree on what Schrödinger's cat means. I find that it muddles more than it clarifies.
Well its not fair someone was born in New Mexico and wants to study at UC Irvine either.
This sounds like cash.
I hope to God, despite the date, this is post-dated. I know Yemenis where I live and they cannot even enter ... because the airport has a giant fucking whole in the runway and now and they might have been landing in a downtown neighborhood with a long drag, if I understood one of my co-workers correctly. Or maybe that was the Iranians and other people that inspired raid-runs. God bless United States of Arabia Air Force (this is my joke name for the KSA strike teams; I do not see this as a positive).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sana%27a_International_Airport

Shit there is terrifying. If you have money, please donate. You can say what you want, but there are so many people who were struggling before that privileged asshole friends who live in the GCC, and I like to tell "Yemen stories" I hear from these dudes to ground the shit out of them.

And imagine your tribe repelling the army, the Houthis, and Al Qaeda in Yemen at the same time. Most of these dudes run their own villages, and no outside influence is welcome. The Yemenis are the ultimate libertarians, so help em out.

(Watch me roast for that joke; oh well, I tried.)
It's easier to 'sell' people free updates without a lot of perceived upsides for the end-user than to 'sell' them that they also have to pay for the update :)
So can anyone propose a sane way to check devices for vulnerability? Obviously one can disable NetUSB in the web interface, but that may not be enough.

Nmaping port 20005 is not accurate enough.

I want to check 3 of my routers, both from LAN and WAN.
On investment groups
Well, you can.. but that's kind of your fault for being cheeky. So yes, you can lose control over your account if you do that, but that's not really a bug, that's a PEBKAC.
Used it for 20 minutes and bookmarked so I can use it more. Great tool!
I agree that larger smartphones attract buyers who otherwise might have bought a tablet, but there is zero evidence that hybrid notebooks have affected the iPad.

There isn't even evidence that the overall trend foe the iPad is lower growth - just that the upgrade cycle is slower.

As for a 'one-trick pony', that statement is certainly false, as Apple has multiple growing product lines.

Also, saturation for smartphones may be approaching in a few markets, but saturation for the iPhone is much much further off, so your prophecy of decline is empty as yet.
Rich kids can afford the full price. Poor students can't afford to move to get residency to qualify for in state tuition.

Also at 17 18yoa you have not paid into the tax system, so that's irrelevant. It's not like we're about to qualify how much parents have or have not contributed into the system.
I would like to see an option to type in languages other that read from right to left. My English typing is alright but when I have to deal with foreign characters, Arabic or Hebrew, it really slows me down.

Is that a possibility, or would the algorithms and systems in place not work with those languages?
A currency should be scarce, but scarcity does not have to come at the cost of spending energy.

Imagine a coin that's tied to how many push-ups you make each day? That's still scarce, but the side effects are positive, not negative - you get healthier instead of burning more coal.
Paul has been hitting his party for three hours on their support of surveillance and the patriot act.
> the first mainstream imperative scripting language to have these async/await concepts built-in

Hi. https://www.dartlang.org/articles/beyond-async/
azure redis cache service uses redis on win so yes
They don't apply cleanly to real property either which is why people who own property have 'people with guns' (gov't technical solution) to resolve any disputes about who's property it is.

Similarly when someone uses a server in a way you don't like you send 'people with guns' to resolve any disputes, because in this case lawyers are believed to be cheaper than changing the server.

This isn't about the ideals of law and power, it's about getting people to stop doing things you don't like, apparently WhatsApp chose a reasonably effective strategy.
Jupyter provides a spec for a ZeroMQ-based messaging API, which kernels in each language have implemented. Hydrogen acts as a client to those kernels the same way that the Jupyter frontend does, sending execution requests to the kernel and displaying responses.

I'd love to see live test results in Atom too! It would make it so much easier to be confident in your code's correctness.
How Augur (Decentralized Prediction Market) Works – Narrated by Shooter Jennings
That could have been what the author meant, but it still needs a citation.
* Unemployment is at 5.5%

* Many hi-tech jobs go unfilled

* There's a huge fight to raise the minimum raise to $15 an hour because the gap between the rich and poor is increasing.

* We import 100,000 people every year because there aren't enough Americans for those well-paying jobs.

I'm not an economist but since we exported many well paying manufacturing jobs, and no one should be planning a career working at a minimum wage job, shouldn't we try harder to train Americans some of these people for these hi-tech jobs?
The New Mexico resident can surely get in-state tuition rates at NM State in Las Cruces, also a great school.

Why should California have a special obligation to students from New Mexico? Note that New Mexico already gets 37% of its state budget from the federal government, and has among the highest per capita number of federal employees (both civilian and military). Californian tax payers are already heavily subsidizing New Mexico as it is.
The purpose of bitcoin's design is so that you don't have to trust the participants of the system at all. That's the point.
Mapping the 21st Century Classroom
I'm looking forward to that Elixir kernel!
Yes, you are right, SOFORTÜBERWEISUNG is not perfect.

If I had the choice, I'd pay with a Lastschrift.
What the Google-Twitter Deal Means for Your Visual Content
Technical note for those not familiar with U.S. Senate style: the first "Mr. President" refers to the President Pro Tempore of the senate (currently Sen. Orin Hatch), not the President of the United States.
by the creators of exalead
So I love what you post, jacquesm, but can you give me background? When I wrote my previous post I meant I want to read about their rigs, their programming languages, style, art that inspires them, not corportate melodrama

Granted, I totally only skimmed the article. But once I read the title and checked the first few paragraphs, I decided I'll pass as this is the kind of article I avoid. I know there is a problem, but I know these women are getting shat on in some circles. I want to see how the productive ones handle their craft, not shitty company politics.

But I will re-read in depth. You usually post cool stuff, so I do not want to write you off from the gate.
Even more annoying is using virtual box with a linux guest and resetting the VM when you wanted to recall a command (CTRL-r).
Seems they've already tried a DMCA request:

https://github.com/venomous0x/WhatsAPI/tree/fd07b49a459cda25...

... and it didn't work, causing only "brief downtime", probably because it didn't actually fall under the DMCA.
Three Things Weekly: Lily, Coffee's Benefits, Syncing Sublime Packages
THE FAT BURNING KITCHEN REVIEW- THE FAT BURNING KITCHEN REVIEW PROS AND CONS
There really is no more Tea Party. It was co-opted by the establishment. The original Tea Party was far more libertarian and stood against all those things you list.
I don't want to disillusion you, but I know plenty of people with (at least part-time) programming jobs who don't care at all about all the new programming paradigms, programming languages, libraries, frameworks... boasted often here on HN. I'd say that a huge majority is pretty pleased with what they know, as long as it's enough to do the job.

Actually I'd consider myself in that group; most of my work is in Asm and C, with some C++, sometimes Java, and very occasionally do I do anything with Web technologies.

The difference, however, is that I do consider all possible inputs, think about how much space things take up, and generally try to cover the problem space. If there is a variable-length field, there will be a statement in the documentation/requirements which states any length restrictions, and what happens if that length is exceeded.

The sort of programmer that didn't have any experience and directly went from Sandbox-Java to bare-metal kernel-code in his first project?

I think this has much to do with it - those starting with HLLs that cover them with a safety net, letting them do stupid things without all that much consequence, may not develop the same type of thinking; but, even if this was written in something like Java, a Nullpo or IOOBE is unacceptable, and perhaps they would just patch in code to catch the exception and ignore it, not giving this case the proper thought it deserves.

To put it a bit more bluntly: when you're writing in Asm on a machine running DOS, and any bug is probably going to make you reboot, you quickly tire of hitting the reset button and learn to think more carefully about what you write. Although I've migrated from such an environment a long time ago, the habit has stuck.
Mandating Binding Arbitration as condition of service or sale can be problematic. A contract of adhesion may effectively be used to deny people their rights in law; throwing in a biased arbitration process just adds insult to injury.

And the arbitration process will inherently be biased. Which party picks the arbitrator? Pays them and has a long-term relationship with them? Not the customer.
Can you really even say it's the same photon performing the random walk? Maybe you could say it's the same unique packet of energy, but my understanding is that the photon is effectively annihilated when an atom absorbs its energy.
> scarcity does not have to come at the cost of spending energy.

But it does until there's a better alternative. Currently there is no algorithm or technique that can't be gamed or corrupted other than proof of work.
Will -- Nice work! Been hoping for something like this and an excuse to use Atom
Colombian Users to ISPs: “Where Is My Data?”
Here:

http://www.c-span.org/video/?326084-1/senator-rand-paul-rky-...

At the top of the video, click on "Watch this program from the beginning"

Skip to something like 3 hours and 50 minutes into the video. That's roughly where Paul begins.
And a minimal working mono distro is pretty small.
If you change the blade on an axe, and then later the handle, is it the same axe?
Federal Court of Appeals Blocks Use of Trademark for Censorship
Visa less can surely get free education in their place of origin too, but that's not a solution. The NM student wants a quality education at a school offering the degree they want.
The first two lectures here: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...

They're kinna mathy, but a lot easier to understand than similar lectures from physicists (because the background knowledge is much greater)
Also try GNU Typist http://www.gnu.org/software/gtypist/. I learned to touch type using this software around 2000. It was really good. Haven't had to look at the keyboard after that.