skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems like illegal works should be protected by copyright[1]

But that begs the question, as ad injectors are probably not illegal.

[1] http://www.cardozo.yu.edu/sites/default/files/Eldar%20Haber,...
Publishing research on malware should be perfectly legit.
>NSA will stop collecting meta data

I feel this should be reworded to "NSA will be more careful not to be caught collecting metadata."

The checks and balances in place to enforce these sorts of things aren't actively being checked.

See: Congress and FBI spy planes
Using a copyright work and modifying it in some way often qualifies for fair use. I also think that in your example the antivirus companies would be happy to see who complains about their copyright violation.

http://copyright.gov/fair-use/
.. hang on let me write a blog post about how i'm quiting the tech industry
A vast majority of insurance brokers / providers simply don't have an API or even an easy way to send insurance information. It's surprising how many HR related tasks are still very manual in 2015 especially considering you should be able to offload everything minus employee relations and hiring in HR.
Especially since Apache Spark is the most committed to Apache project and one of the most popular open source projects in the world.
I guess you can do the routine stuff in private health care, where they actually care about the quality of service (so they should be able to communicate in English). It's not really expensive too; in Warsaw appointment with a specialist (cardiologist etc.) is $25-$50.
For serious stuff (like surgery) it's best to go with public health care though.
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It seems pretty easy to do the math on the dilution. What is the specific effect you're concerned about?

If the question was just "should TEPCO keep paying", I'd agree.

But that's not the only question.

In the ocean, the tritiated water gets diluted, quickly, to levels asymptotically approaching ambient beta radiation. A mishap with the tanks on land however exposes the land ecosystem to potentially concentrated radiation.
I remember when I first heard of the original Surface I was desperate to own one and followed every bit of news I could find. I do hope that future iterations of the hub will revisit the table paradigm, though now that I've cooled down my nerd lust I do realize that there may be some ergonomic concerns. Having to lean over a table to see the display properly could be a literal pain in the neck over the long term.
Seems to work for ServCo...
What about iterating from the end of the list in this particular case. This way you don't need a temporary list

for (int i = names.size()-1; i >= 0; i--) {
String name = names.get(i);
if (name.startsWith("B")) names.remove(i);
}

Admittedly, needing to use an explicit index counter is not as nice (and more prone to errors) as using the other for syntax. But one could imagine a language with e.g. macros that made the backwards-looping syntax more intuitive (I assume a single-threaded situation and an ArrayList).

Your general point still stands though.
Or they could be outright lying. Like HealthTap. If you read their reviews on glassdoor, every 10-15 you get an honest review. And if you google the ceo, he goes through dev teams like tissue, both in this and in prior startups. But the majority of reviews are glowing.

contrast this:
http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/HealthTap-Reviews-E453567.h...

to

http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-HealthTap-R...

or

http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-HealthTap-R...

or

http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-HealthTap-R...

etc
Now you have :) (Indian Source)

http://www.mid-day.com/articles/10-interesting-facts-about-f...

>On the 31st birthday of noted American programmer, software developer and co-founder of the social media giant Facebook we look at some interesting trivia about the man and his creation...
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Assuming the data is accurate and hasn't been 'adjusted' or 'corrected.' The whole climate business is a corrupt mess. Raw data over the years has been 'fixed' and policy is being made from 'models.' Yet what non partisan organization checks the models? The IPCC certainly doesn't. It's all a scam. We had global cooling fears in the 1970s. Then warming. Now "climate change." Yet industrial carbon output has risen exponentially and consistently since the industrial revolution yet temperatures haven't, thus calling into question that increased carbon dioxide raises temperatures. Such a disgusting mess.
https://scott.arciszewski.me/contact/ this is the site url probably.
Now you have: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-10685669

"It took a long time for the international media to pick up on the story,
so I spent a long time following the Kampala hashtag on Twitter and
checking my e-mail," said Jonathan Gosier, an American programmer
living in the country.

And: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-21280943

There's a buzzword, coined by the American programmer Ward Cunningham,
for the problems hidden in computer systems as a result of corners being
cut: technical debt.

Also: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22american+programmer%22+si...
I'm not developer but I work in IT. Facebook, Google and others are racing to the bottom and pushing it at the highest levels - even the president is on board. The idea is to flood the market with "coders" and then everyone will make $12/hr. That's your crisis and it's definitely coming.
I assume there is some fair use cover AV providers could argue ("purpose and character of use" sounds like their bag) but I'd be surprised if many authors want to come out of the woodwork to fight that fight with them in the first place. As we can see in this case, it's a big deal that the author is seeking copyright takedown.
Oilsands were sold to the public as an avenue to create high paying jobs and to rejuvenate the economy.

800 high salary earners ($200k/yr avg) could be put out of work as their profession is eroded and the public is shut out of what was supposed to be an opportunity to stay in/bootstrap themselves into the middle class.
I personally hold that RIM failed because it ignored it's winning demographic (government, military, enterprise and business users) and attempted to create a device for the broader consumer market.

The Storm was rushed out, as the article says, in part because RIM thought it had to compete where I don't think it had to compete. Now I'm no savvy analyst, but it seems to me like RIM got tricked into picking a fight on Apple's terms and lost terribly.
Publishing a book report is very different than publishing the book itself.
I thought I had a source, but when I went looking I found tons of interesting connections (eg Kaspersky having gotten started in anti-virus while he was KGB) but no actual proof of involvement.

Given how Russian business works, though, it would seem likely that there is a connection.

But http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-19/cybersecur... is an article that gives more recent reason for why Kaspersky is a potentially interesting target for Western spies.
Thanks for the positive feedback. It would be great to monetize Strength Level, to fund further development and expand its capabilities. We have two ideas at the moment:

1. iPhone app - people want to rate lifts at the gym

2. Premium accounts - see workouts older than 6 months/personalised recommendations
I don't personally know anyone who hates Google, so perhaps the author exaggerates with "everyone hates Google". Also, I don't have a problem with "placed" ads in my Google searches. I don't click on those links, but they don't interfere.

I think what the author fails to understand is that everyone in the "personal assistant" game - Apple's Siri, Microsoft's Cortana, Amazon's Alexa, and the impersonal voice queries in Google search, maps and Google Now - is also in the search game. In my experience, Apple isn't as good at search as some others - for example, Siri frequently can't find local businesses that Google maps can - but even if it came up to full speed there's no way it is going to displace Google, which has its own popular Android mobile platform.

As to Spotlight, I had to disable it on my iMac because it was periodically and for long periods sucking up most of the CPU and all the I/O bandwidth to index the disk. The fact that its implementation of even local disk search is so bad doesn't make me think Spotlight is going to conquer the world.
Hadoop needs a major 'weight-loss' exercise for its million LOC codebase rather than adding sophisticated algos
This comes off at fake to me. Yeah they're removing 5 harassing subreddits like /r/FatPeopleHate but they're leaving arguably worse subreddits, like /r/CoonTown/, up? This feels like they just kinda picked a few subreddits people have seen to make examples of them and hope it makes advertisers more comfortable.
I'm from Brazil. Which carrier do you use that has this same behaviour? I really want to check what they are doing...
Agreed there's a big difference between "Pay off the $100K Las Vegas McMansion" equity and "Pay off the $1M Palo Alto starter home" equity. My guess is that the former is do-able if you find the right company (who will also let you work from your cheaper remote location). For the latter, I still don't believe you're going to see that without a gamble on a very early stage company.

And, since this is HN, of course I always need to preface with "Yes, I know you can point to a handful of outlier counter-examples, but they don't disprove the general case".
The client paid for ADP access and has every right to use whatever means they deem necessary to input or output data from the ADP system.

Thats not actually what the client pays for though. The client paid for access to ADP's system according to the Terms of Service that ADP sets. If those terms of service and the rights they engender are not acceptable to the client they are welcome to find another provider.

I've frequently posted my dislike for ADP on these boards and I took my business elsewhere.
It's like a truck company going into the shipping business. If the shipping business succeeds, they increase demand for their trucks and at the same time, have cash flow to fund the truck development.

But the truck company's actual goal is to use the trucks to haul dirt to fill in the ocean. Filling in the ocean doesn't have an ROI for decades, so the truck company needs a profitable business to help fund it.

SpaceX will use its rockets to raise a low-Earth orbit satellite network that would provide low-latency, high bandwidth Internet connectivity globally. The profit from that business would, in theory, fund development of the space ships, and, the development of a human colony on Mars.
why not?

i can probably patent a full auto gun, even if it's illegal for me to have one
> I never used Duolingo much because you have to type on a phone which is pure pain

Duolingo has a full-featured web version: https://www.duolingo.com

I find it vastly easier to use than the mobile version for that reason.
It's kind of cute how the technical report[1] goes to great lengths to finger Israel, without explicitly stating it (see page 43).

[1] https://securelist.com/files/2015/06/The_Mystery_of_Duqu_2_0...
It should teach them a lesson. Being exposed as malware authors (with intent to sell it to be used for malicious purposes) will not serve them well.
That's something we've discussed at length and will probably implement someday. It's pretty challenging, though, to do it the way we want, and other stuff has to get rolled out first.
Clicking on some of the landmarks around the hotel, they have some Google reviews. The reviews for the Pyongyang Arena makes interesting reading.

https://www.google.com.pr/search?q=Pyongyang+Arena,+Pyongyan...
Who on earth joins a subreddit called /r/FatPeopleHate?
That's just blog spam of the AP piece which itself is pretty short. There's really no new insights here, just "the Storm was rushed, it failed, so we gave up." That's the entire content of the original article, a single short quote.
> You can't defend such dragnet surveillance techniques as 'terrorist prevention'.

Of course they can. They'll never be made to tell us who they were targeting or what they collected and I'm sure if they need to make a statement the government will lend them a counter terrorism team to stand with for the cameras. It's the easy thing to do, I doubt they'll do anything else if push comes to shove (unless Theresa May needs another anti-extremism news story I guess).

I think you were getting at the fact it's a ridiculous response to the supposed threat - I agree, but unfortunately at this point I don't think there's much the government won't do if they can call it terrorist prevention.
GraphQL and REST
Did I miss something or is that "article" two paragraphs with a single quote which amounts to “With Storm we tried to do too much."?
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Most of these have been starters or quick intros and over a couple years old, although potentially useful. I have downloaded a few and read through the entire postrgres one in under an hour.

I am reading AngularJS Web App Dev Cookbook from packt and it's a pretty good read.
I think it's 10% + 2mph? So on a motorway or dual carriageway the limit is really 79.

It used to be generally accepted that you were safe doing 80 mph but with the proliferation of average speed cameras people are a bit more conservative.

10 years ago it wasn't unusual to see people doing 90 - 100 on a motorway - now it's rare.
I'm not sure they are not illegal. At least they shouldn't be any less illegal than many other types of malware. But I'm not familiar what laws that falls under.
What value are they contributing in the publishing process, then? Anything other than typesetting and marketing?
So... top management at reddit literally allows loud and vocal groups to deny even the right to exist for other groups whose opinions they don't agree with. I don't condone hating on fat people (or any group of people), but all these fat-haters were doing was expressing their own opinions amongst themselves on a containment sub. And if top execs at reddit can express their hostility for a certain group of people (in this case fat-haters) by straight-up kicking them out for intolerance or harassment, I don't see how they're any more tolerant or less harassing than the very people they just banned.
If one's argument is that we don't know enough about what really drives our climate to make these types of predictions, why would one then turn around and make a prediction?

Also, using the phrase "global warming denialist" distracts from your point. When some scientists thought neutrinos traveled faster than light, they weren't called "light speed denialists". Have some respect for alternate scientific opinions.

The problem with GW predictions is that most of them are wrong and the ones that are correct aren't correct for the right reasons.
I've been trying to learn java spring boot to add to my CV. How do you feel about java?
Expensive for an individual, but not for a group like a military (I understand if Google wants to stay away from that can of worms) or a big manufacturing company like aerospace or food or car repair, etc ...
> The existence of a public interface usable by humans (a web app) does not in any way imply the existence of a machine-usable protocol for accessing that same functionality.

Is that non-implication better for consumers? For people?

If not, why should it exist?
I don't think it was about networking, necessarily. Here are a couple references:

http://superuser.com/questions/176388/why-does-windows-use-b...

MS-DOS 1.0 (which did not support directories at all) was already
using / to introduce command-line options. It took this usage
of / from CP/M, which took it from VMS.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/larryosterman/archive/2005/06/24/432... goes into more detail.
Show HN: Claimsman – tool for auditing users' file access
safe harbor means: if you do that, even if you are guilty, you are exempt.

if you are innocent, you don't need safe harbor because well, you're innocent!

but just like every criminal case in the usa where law representation is far from fair and free, its often better to accept the guilty while being innocent just to avoid the legal costs.

that's why dmca stinks. it forces your hand even more to just assume guilty for the low cost of censoring someone else in favor of someone that can pay a legal battle.
This is so sad...
This. I waste 2 hours a day commuting. 10 hours a week I'm sitting in the car doing nothing, for no real reason other than some company culture nonsense.
This is one reason we chose the form factor that we did for Cinder, because we can automatically measure thickness. We found that's something rather hard for people to do, no one really wants to hold up raw meat to a ruler app on their phone, and yet is crucial to time estimation. Then we ask you what we don't know, so in the app you'd say: Chicken breast. We've also done some cool things to know when it's done, like how a rice cooker clicks off.
I understand the concept, but HN has never worked that way, and if it did the results would be so bad that I believe (though I realize it won't convince you) that even you would recoil in horror. It would also kill HN pretty quickly in all the ways we care about, though I suppose the numbers would go up.
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At the store, I thought the clickable screen was "neat" but would probably become annoying after a few days. 100% return rate confirms this. RIM had to know it was going to fail.
On the other hand, virtually every other editor is the correct tool to do that task, yet this one is not. Are we supposed to accept that?
Great comment and I completely agree with you.

Programmers have a tendency to detach themsleves from the business where software is there to maximize the profit. It doesn't matter whether it's written in PHP, Ruby, or [language of the year] [0]. But if you let the programmers go wild, many of them have a tendency to pick the hottest thing just because [some reason that has no advantage from business POV]. I guess that's the sign of boredom.

Programming is fun, playing with new toys is fun, but it should not be forgotten that it's part of the business.

[0] Well, it sort of matters. Dev time costs money, good tools and languages will make you write it faster therefore maximizing money. But that's not what I am talking about here.
Since the days of Orange Book in 80's three rules have been golden in IT security: authorize, audit all information usage, and never let uncontrollably the information out of the secure domain. Implementing properly access management, watching users, and limiting the tools works still nowadays when implemented correctly.

The leaks of the past a few years each one of the previous failed. The users had baffling access to the information, there were oversights in auditing, and it was somewhat easy to move the information mass out of the secured domain. Leaking was downright easy, and getting caught was not certain.

I took recently a look at different products meant for file access auditing, to solve the part "audit all information usage" in cases where the information systems can not be adapted (COTS). There seems to be a surprisingly large amount of products with different feature sets and value propositions. Some of which have pretty steep prices and highly evolved features.

I got the inspiration to develop my own very simple tool, just for learning new skills and for the heck of it. A few hours of wading through MSDN, nerve wrecking C/C++ programming, tuning and it's ready. Quality is a bit so-so (there might be at least memory leaks, although I attempted to catch them) and I had no accurate specifications, but here it is...

With this application all file accesses (creation of low level handles) cause an event that is logged at centralized log management system. I did not implement hashing the files or gathering them, because it probably has a direct impact on the performance of a desktop, but it would be trivial to add as a feature.

After the information is in the centralized log management system, it is relatively easy to generate for instance weekly report of all the file accesses of users. In AD environments one could fetch information about managers, push the data through a good PDF template, and email the reports. As outcome the managers would get weekly reports of what their underlings have accessed.

When the awareness of the previous would spread, that would raise the bar to even attempt anything in the higher security environments. The impact on the overall security in the long rould would be more significant than the actual technical feature. The information security tools work best when they have a psychological impact. Absurd but true. It's not always the best to crank some technical bolt all the way.

On the other hand, some privacy should be guaranteed to the users by limiting the tool. At least in lower security environments this might come across, because employees probably nowadays have limited rights to use employer's computers for their own matters, for instance accessing banking services while on lunch break.

I would appreciate comments, code review, bug and feature reports, etc!
You are not very observant then.
There's a far, far better account at the Globe and Mail:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/excerpt-ho...

(it's an excerpt from a book)
Would enterprise and business users really be using Blackberries today if only they had stuck with hardware keys forever?

I can't imagine it happening. Enterprise IT isn't isolated from the rest of society (although it sometimes feels that way). When the rest of the world moved on to touchscreens, Blackberry would have been left behind anyway.
I found a handy calculator here: http://ie.thesalarycalculator.co.uk/salary.php

There's a UK one here, if you'd like to compare: http://listentotaxman.com/

(Both are very simple, it's 10 seconds to fill in the form.)
Starting a new Open Source Project

[ ] 1. Choose a nominally unique name within language/package
space

[ ] 2. Okay, at least choose a unique name within the comparatively small sub-community you're targeting, so as not to invite unnecessary confusion for literally everyone involved

[x] 3. Post on Hacker News
Mashing down keys as fast as I could to stop the spin... had to leave before getting too dizzy. :)
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>He or she may find themselves drawn toward entrepreneurship.

The author may find the change refreshing, but I've never been as burned out as I have with my own company. It's like taking all of the other stuff, then adding an order of magnitude to the stress level. This comes from having responsiblity for everything, including the pressure of making it work overall (i.e. the dark side of the control and "freedom"). As well, you can frequently feel unappreciated by customers, staff, partners, etc. And, I've found myself far more sensitive to this than to the same from any manager or employer I've had.
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Normally I don't comment like this, but I have to ask.

Why the hell is this on the Hacker News front page?
No, RIM failed because government, military, enterprise, and business users are also normal consumers when not working. Sure, they had great messaging, but apple and google had decent messaging with web browsers, games, and applications
Unminified version: http://pastebin.com/Zgjaksng
In Norway my grandma tells the same thing about life 50 years ago far into the countryside -- she tells this funny story about somebody who was extremely hungry after a long hike, but didn't eat as they were only implored to eat twice, not three times. Granted she thought they were silly, I guess the custom may have become more relaxed around then.