skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes thank you. Well worth reading. I was quite annoyed by what seems to be such evident lack of critical thinking by Michael Lewis

I picked up (and have even blogged about) the idea that "good" traders were trying to buy 100m USD of BP shares in three different exchanges and that by the time 1/3 of the order hit London HFT traders "somehow" worked out that there was another 2/3 going and sped over microwave towers to front run the order. But how do you work out that the london order is going to be for 100m? What if it's just for 50m - suddenly you have bought 50m shares of BP no one wants. It's an insane risk.

So I still don't know what HFT and algo is about (it seems to be there are arbitrage opportunities between strongly correlated stocks, and presumably arbitrage opportunities between strongly correlated stocks in different exchanges. And the speed issue is having to beat other people who have the same algo / correlation as you)

But honestly I would like some confirmation
An Analysis of the Starbucks Cyber Attack and How to Stay Protected
You don't have to do that; there are plenty of webpages with GPL'd html and injecting such code into that html without also providing the code under GPL on request to any user is a violation of the GPL.

I'm curious if the above copyright infringement would stand in court or not... Copyright infringement normally does need intent and I'm not sure if this is really intent or not.
Yeah, this is actually addressed in the further paragraphs:

>Raiu went on to say the reliance on the highly unusual vulnerability is one of the things underscoring Duqu developers' extraordinary talent and the plentiful number of additional unpatched security bugs with the same unusual capabilities they likely have at their disposal.

>"These guys are so confident to develop their entire platform based on this zero day it means if they get caught and this zero day is patched they probably have another one they can use, which I would say is a pretty scary thought," he said. "Nobody develops an entire malware platform based on just one simple assumption that this zero day will work forever, because eventually it will be discovered and patched. And when it is patched your malware is not going to work anymore. I think that's also very scary and quite impressive."

Still the attackers' resources are not unlimited - they lost some development time, and maybe some unique opportunities which were possible only with this particular zero-day.
Ask HN: Cross Device Tracking
Hi,

I am trying to build a cross device tracking engine that would help me track a particular user on mobile as well as on the web browser. How should I go about building this for lets say an e-commerce app?
http://www.wunderground.com/history/
We got cheaper rates with a 'boutique' insurance firm that was smaller. You can get even cheaper by going the PEO route, but we decided that wasn't a route we wanted to go down.

Zenefits does not get any special deals; you get the same deal as every other 'small business' broker.
DoJ Subpoenas Reason.com Over Comment Section
Pointing out how badly the US treats blacks sure brings out the dog-whistle terms.

Of all the recent videos where police violence has been highlighted, have the victims of that violence "run from the police, attack and beat them, try to take their guns?"

So, why not stick to what actually happened: unarmed people getting tasered, beaten, and shot, by police. The US has a quality and performance problem with thuggish cops.

Even under stress, even when taunted, actually especially in stressful situations should cops not go ape-shit and start screaming obscenities while brandishing guns. It means they have lost control. That kind of person should not be armed. In fact, the vast majority of police work does not require a firearm. We should have many fewer armed police in the first place, and the ones who are armed should be the sort of people who never end up in videos like the ones we have recently seen.
MD5's compression function was already broken 20 years ago: http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~bsy/dobbertin.ps
Towards the sun, by a very large margin.

Of course, no spacecraft will ever be at rest with regards to the Sun -- it would take 30km/s of delta-v to get there, and there's rather little point. They will be orbiting, starting from leo, which means that the meagre acceleration from a sail is more than enough to get basically anywhere.
This resonated with me because I feel the same way and grew up with similar parents.

I'm actually in the process of a cash-based home buy... the potential extra earnings of not fully owning my home aren't worth the mental anguish it would cause.
Doesn't using HTTPS prevent such an injection?
Pinot – realtime distributed OLAP store from LinkedIn is open sourced
Ok, let's for the sake of argument grant you that a public web app is an official interface (I'm not saying API because it's not a "programming" interface). The implied contract is that humans will continue to be able to use the web app to access the functionality it's intended to provide. Anything in the HTML is an implementation detail, not part of the contract, and is subject to change at any time, so long as the contract (human usability) is still fulfilled. This is why web scraping is such a risky proposition: the structure of the page may change at any time without violating the implied contract of a human being able to use the web page.

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. If you infer one, you do so at your own risk. By the same token, the existence of a machine-usable interface that is not public does not imply a contract that it will continue to exist.

If you build your business on an imagined contract, be prepared to have a bad day when the other "party" to the non-contract "violates" it.
Why are you getting down voted? I don't see anything particularly wrong with what you said.
OMIM (Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man) as Text Corpus for Word2vec
I'm the submitter and author of the interview solutions.

This project was meant as a learning project for me but I think that it might be useful to others who want to understand how Rust is different from other languages.
> 3: add 2 to your mana pool

Another card nerfed by the removal of mana burn! (http://archive.wizards.com/magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtg... section 3, "Mana Pools and Mana Burn")
Really? You actually believe the hysteria?
Part of the problem there is that the DMCA (and arguably the legal system in general) doesn't deal well with pseudonymity. Contesting a DMCA takedown requires that you send your real name and contact information to the service provider and to the sender of the DMCA. This ends up making the DMCA a dangerous harassment tool; targeted individuals end up with an unpalatable choice between allowing their harassers to force any content of theirs to be taken offline (which will often cause their accounts to be suspended on sites like YouTube!), or giving their harassers their personal information.

But more generally -- yes, it's a huge problem that the DMCA has few consequences for "spray and pray" takedowns. While there are some provisions in the law for damages against knowingly issuing an invalid takedown, it's incredibly hard to prove (I'm not sure if it's ever happened!), and in any case, it doesn't apply if the takedown was simply sent in error. Even if you make that error repeatedly, and don't do anything to prevent it.
Ex-BlackBerry Co-CEO Talks Publicly
It also seems to be one of those papers that uses machine learning because it's the topical thing to do.
Doesn't that fall under vigilantism? Publishing fingerprints might get you in trouble.

In most countries you are forbidden to take photos in a private setting without permission, and in some even in public.

wvenable's comment is on point. Just as public websites aren't public domain, publishing information delivered on request might not be legal.
De-duping like this seems unnecessary. I'd prefer to see do-nothing bias. No explanations or artificial manipulation needed. Just let the threads compete. Like life.
The South Korean government is now officially a patent troll
C# isn't cool.
Why Only 12% of VCs Can Be Considered Successful. Max
If you build some tech product/service to earn money you are in fact not quitting tech industry! You are tech industry - eventually. ;-)
Facebook Real GIF posting and a neat extension
Well, I am set on logos for my next many startups now.
I am impressed that Pyongyang appears in Google maps
https://www.google.com.pr/maps/place/Ryugyong+Hotel,+Pyongya...
I was looking for the giant Ryuyong Hotel in the center of town.
> I don't want them just going nilly-willy around an environment.

To be fair, you can say this about pretty much anything. But unlike microbeads, which are intended to be flushed, nobody is suggesting that it would be a good idea to release them into the environment.
What does Ted Cruz have to do with anything? Do you know anything about his positions? Wasn't Al Gore that said all of the polar ice caps would be melted by now? Wasn't it Gore that also predicted a dramatic increase in hurricanes? When did that happen? Cruz is Linus Pauling compared to Al Gore.
Yea I tried German for a while, never got into it and I think that's why. At the time the tablet app (android) didn't have a very good UI around accessing tips + hints and comments (I think comments were excluded completely but can't quite remember).
Fingerprints are not copyrighted, code is.

You might claim fair use if you published it as part of an article, but probably not on GitHub which is intended for using and editing code.
No, there is no easy way around this. My kids are diagnosed with Asperger. my heart aches when I see them missing social prompts and fail to form the social bonds that are so important at their formative years.

When Google glass was first announced, I had hope that it would help with the interpretation of underlying meaning of social interactions. I came to the conclusion that the idea is there, but the technology is not.
It looks like you can only do one day at a time though?

My ultimate goal is to make a list of cities with less than 10 90 degree days per year. I still don't see a way to do that on wunderground.
I suppose one could say this is an argument against using the "computer the size of the universe operating for a trillion trillion years"-type illustrations. Statements like that reflect the current theoretical strength of an algorithm, but unfortunately the illustrations can lead us to (wrongly) assume that flaws won't be discovered in the algorithm for that period of time, which is very much untrue and undermines the practical implications of those statements.
Sidebar: for those of you who are unaware, the Lego platform has actually spawned a business facilitation technique, Lego Serious Play (LSP). There's a certification and lots of application in various industries. It ain't cheap.

To the author's point, it's very interesting how the adoption of Lego decades ago is now affecting product sales, perceptions, and spin-offs today, as those kids become power users and buyers.
Nothing wrong with debt and being at peace with it. Why doesn't it make sense to you? (I genuinely want to know your opinion)
This is a really cool product. I am surprised at both the quality of translation and the seamless integration into the page. I am definitely going to be using this.

Great job!
What are user gestures?
I would hope so, unless there is some monkey business with the SSL Certs like the "superfish".

A lot of pages aren't https yet though.
Seems like lawsuit is the only way we'll find out the truth. I'm not inclined to believe Zenefits at this point. Was it really scraping ADP rather than using the normal integration methods made available to all brokers?
And yet people pay taxes to the u.s., a brutal and desparate country where the state regularly tortures people in prison, puts its citizens to death innocent or guilty, and sponsors some of the worse terrorists on the planet. The u.s. has far more affect than nk when it comes to misery.
Open Source:

MacDown [1] is a pretty decent MIT licensed editor. It's probably one of most well known open source Markdown editors for OS X.

Haroopad [2] is GPLv3 licensed and does pretty much everything that MacDown can. It is also cross platform (Windows, Linux, and OS X) which is an advantage to some.

Both offer the ability to change their look via themes and support various Markdown flavors.

Paid:

Byword [3] and iA Writer [4] are both very nice minimalist editors. They both have 'focus' modes which dim all the lines and/or paragraphs in the document except the one you are on to help you concentrate while writing, etc.

[1] http://macdown.uranusjr.com/

[2] http://pad.haroopress.com/

[3] http://bywordapp.com/

[4] https://ia.net/writer/ios/
Presumably the original server process uses exec() to start the new process, which inherits the open socket handles, and the descriptor is passed as an argument to the new process.

(e.g. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14351147/perl-passing-an-...)
> Stuff like doubly encoded URLs

Could you elaborate on this? It sounds a bit scary. Does this mean that Rails tries to decode a URL several times until it can't be decoded? If so, isn't this problematic if some (arguably crazy) person tries to send "%2F" literally, not "/"? I'm half sure I'm misinterpreting, so here to ask.
This is totally a great explanation, thanks! This sort of thing is why I hate working on platforms (but also why it's so in-demand).
I'd never considered that angle before, that's a good thought! If they intend to modify the source of a page then that would be considered a derivation, and obfuscated code is not considered a source code release.

I'd love to hear a more professional analysis on this angle.
Our production thrift code generator (now at https://github.com/twitter/scrooge) was JRuby for about a year, before Robey decided it was an abomination and rewrote it in scala.

JRuby was easy because you can Maven require it from a Java project. Ruby already has a Thrift IDL parser, so I just stole the AST from that, and used an ERb template to write out corresponding scala. The whole thing was maybe 200LOC.

But yeah, that's the only JRuby that ever did anything production related at Twitter.
Lightweight VMs on OS X
Well, you should always be able to tell if you limit yourself to HTTPS sites. If they offered their own devices and had hacked them to make middle-manned HTTPS sites appear safe, that would be crossing the line for me.
Reddit bans a top 10 subreddit with over 150k subscribers
Should we fear the growth of Chinese telecoms company Huawei? (2013)
I think PCSOs do deter from petty crime when patrolling, especially teenagers in deprived areas.
SpaceX files with the FCC to offer Web access worldwide via satelite
A takedown notice is sent under penalty of perjury (which makes it different than a C&D notice). The issue is that it's up to the party that receives the takedown to petition the court for the perjury cause, and that's almost never worth it.
Is illegal code (i.e. malware) protected by the copyright to begin with? If it is, then all antiviruses blatantly violate copyright. But something tells me they don't need to ask any permission from malware authors.
Show HN: Paint Together – Paint and Chat in realtime with your friends
Something is rotting under Silicon Valley
Check here: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access
So if you had to do it all over again, would you write the API from the start in Go, or would you start with Ruby and transition to Go again?
MSR Project Premonition: Detecting emerging infectious diseases with drones
Are these the same climate scientists that were accused of fabricating data by adjusting the adjustments in order to support their political desires? Those climate scientists? Because if anyone is having trouble with credibility right now it's the entire industry of grant-chasing climatologists. The IPCC even admired that climate policy was a means to redistribute world wealth. Does that not scare anyone? Has Al Gore become a billionaire because of a climate 'crisis' he helped invent? I don't know anything about this Curry woman but I do know that political ideology has a disproportionate influence in climate science because it's an ideal Trojan horse for Marxism. It's no accident that extreme leftists are the ones most passionate about carbon. Carbon represents freedom. It's that simple. Even the founder of Greenpeace admits that the whole global warming industry is nothing more than a political scam.
"Pay off the mortgage" equity, however, continues long after that. Yelp started in 2004, I really doubt that Eevee was a single-digit employee there. I know folks who started at Google as employee ~20,000 in 2008-2009 and ended up with "pay off the mortgage" equity, particularly if you're living in Las Vegas instead of Silicon Valley.
Quora is silently killing it
For those of you who are interested, here is the code: http://pastebin.com/shcMPTHc
Insist on reasonable work hours. Argue that it will maintain your performance long-term. Say it like you mean it, and don't settle for less. Be ready to leave if you must, in fact, and do not let the glitz/glamour of a well-known brand/company allow them to tread on you.
They may be able to, depending on Indian Court's jurisprudence on personal jurisdiction, but unless they have assets in India, the Indian judgement would have to be brought to the United States for enforcement. The U.S. has laws and procedures outlining what sorts of foreign judgements will and will not be honored and enforced by U.S. Courts. For example, a U.S. Court will not enforce a libel judgement from a UK court, because of the SPEECH Act. See more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enforcement_of_foreign_judgment....
The advance they offered me was less than a quarter of the advance I've seen quoted for other specialised tech books, and about a tenth of what an author would expect for a best-selling mainstream consumer-oriented title.

They also spam people on mailing lists looking for authors. (Not spam the mailing lists - harvest addresses and contact people more or less at random.)

>I think this low remuneration affects the quality of the authors they are able to attract, so you're right in that part.

From what I've seen, not all the books are terrible. ;)

But they're certainly not in the same league as No Starch, or most of the self-pubbed titles on LeanPub.
I would love to know about Parse's stack's, please, consider sharing with us :) (http://stackshare.io/trending/tools)
Canada’s oilsands are paving the way for driverless trucks and threats of layoffs
The extra money ("capital" means something else in econ than finance) comes from trading things valued, by another, more highly than that other values the money.

It comes at a cost, but a person and the bank might both come out ahead in utility if the person has a stronger preference for money in the short term than the long term (see "Time Value of Money", "Hyperbolic Discounting") compared to the bank. There are a number of forms this can take, but one worth calling out is when the person is able to use the money to produce the thing they are going to trade for more value.

Does all of this assume growth? Not really. It assumes someone is creating something somewhere, but it doesn't assume society is creating more tomorrow than today.

That said, even that is not assumed by Economics - because nothing in Economics says banks will always be willing to make loans. If conditions are such that they do not expect to be able to be paid back (often enough to have a positive expected value), Economics says banks stop lending. There is no assumption of infinity.
What a stupid email the ADP rep sent out!
Is munchery the next Uber?
Your point is logically inconsistent.

There's some evidence that the iPhone in your pocket, for example, may have been built via forced manual/child labor in Taiwan/Vietnam/China etc. The fact that the iPhone is a revolutionary (and generally game-changing) product doesn't somehow add to the virtuousness of how it was built.
Your site is down.

Error 526 Ray ID: 1f474c500f7a0ef1 • 2015-06-10 18:56:46 UTC
Invalid SSL certificate
VPC Flow Logs – Log and View Network Traffic Flows
Symfony 2 with the Sonata project, hands down. Look at https://sonata-project.org/uploads/media/default/0001/01/7c6...

Modern-looking starter templates, nice defaults and conventions and very good features (for example, it handles one-to-many relations easily.)
I feel like this before even starting my career...

I'm passionate about structuring knowledge, perception, society, art, sound. I'm good at creating concepts.

As a programmer I'm mediocre (I can learn what I need quickly and on demand, but I'd not open-source a library anytime soon). Yet I still feel like this still is the easiest way to earn a living.

My aim is to have the freedom of a digital nomad. Making money and tech (also as the execution of ideas and concepts) is just a necessity...
So, in addition to knowingly violating HN etiquette you are bragging about your ignorance? Tell me why what I said isn't 'trivial'? If you aren't familiar with the concepts, then how could you even know if what I said was simple or not?
Superfish was because the laptop manufacturer bundled adware which added its own root certificate that was broken, they aren't able to add root certificates in this case.
iOS 9 Bringing Changes to URL Schemes
Bad Meteorology FAQ
USA Freedom Act passed – NSA cant legaly collect meta data anymore
It's a shame that it does seem like jerky behavior is at least correlative, if not causative, to success.
I'm all for women having more choice/options, but it seems very odd to me that the FDA was delaying this drug due to concerns over its safety, and now after an "intense lobbying campaign" it is approved. Is that normally how drug approvals work? You ignore safety concerns if there is a big public outcry?

If women literally start to suffer negative health effects, it will be on the FDA's hands but also on the hands of these "women's charities" who wanted to ignore the health effects to "even the score."

I like this quote:

> “To approve this drug will set the worst kind of precedent — that companies that spend enough money can force the F.D.A. to approve useless or dangerous drugs,” Dr. Adriane Fugh-Berman of Georgetown University told the committee Thursday. She is the director of PharmedOut, a project that questions the influence of drug companies on the practice of medicine.

I just think the drug should be approved just like any other, on the basis of its safety Vs. relative merits. As far as I know Viagra and other male-orientated drugs also had to go through that same rigor.

PS - Men likely benefit from this just as much as women. However men too will suffer if their love ones are injured by poorly evaluated side-effects.
There was a question about it on the stackexchange network as early as 30 April:
http://superuser.com/questions/908092/my-isp-is-inserting-a-...
Oh? It's up from here. Maybe it's a CF issue?

Regardless, I have other domains/sites for mirroring content. ;)
so will Edward Snowden be rehabilitated? In my opinion the US Government would create a precedent for every possible future whistleblower. What do you think?
It may not be legal, but I'm not sure it is wrong either (the web stuff and not the burglary)
I guess it's for people who are stuck with Java because of a corporate choice that has been made to use only this language.

That's very common, and it's usually easier to get approval for a new framework than a different language.
Memrise is about the same and has some courses.

http://www.memrise.com/courses/english/esperanto/
Afaik, the jvm is often praised for being the gold standard in terms of vm, both performance wise and in terms of tools available to instrument it. I'm curious as to why the parse engineers were not looking forward to using it. I've always thought using it was a good point for a language...
Didn't India ban Github a while back?

http://thenextweb.com/in/2014/12/31/vimeo-github-30-sites-bl...