skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Try to open a factory in Marin county or build a house in Malibu. THIS is why manufacturing has left the U.S. In the U.S., people want jobs but they don't want the factories that create the jobs. To build a house in Malibu for example, It can take 2 years, just for permits! You can even hire someone called an "expediter" who can speed it up slightly, but not by much. ..and that's to build a house. Imagine trying to build a computer factory. Apple has a Mac Pro factory in California, but only because the margins are high enough on the Pro that they can absorb the huge differential for the California factory. If they attempted to make MacBooks in California, it would likely double the price.

The reality is that U.S. Corporate taxes are too high, the EPA often acts like the Gestapo, state and local permitting makes filing papers in India seem like ordering from Uber.

Don't misinterpret, I am not hating the EPA, however their obsession over CO2 is killing US industry. Taxes are killing growth and NIMBY politics has pushed the factories across the oceans and over the border. Obamacare is also a large disincentive to business.

You may agree with the above things, however when you can't even convince people to buy a useful app for $1.99, you certainly cannot convince consumers to pay hundreds of dollars more for electronics to have US manufacturing.
yeah, it's mostly the same thing except you still bounce on ddg's servers which sounds pretty silly but in practice it means that it'll work on any browser anywhere as long as you use duckduckgo unlike custom aliases.
Blog spam (sorta). Original source: http://kai.sub.blue/en/africa.html
This is awesome. In my mind the ability to send money or pay for things without worrying about what currency you're using was the main thing holding bitcoin back. now people can reap the benefits of the bitcoin network without having to deal with bitcoin. I know there are those that will hark on how "centralized" Coinbase is. I mean I agree it's not ideal but this has mass consumer appeal.
When I started this product one of the main driving forces was that using Intercom in my side projects that weren't generating much money became too costly. I was using Mixpanel at the time also to see what events a customer performed to get some idea of what they were doing before asking for help. Also I had dashboards on Ducksboard. These are the products I wanted to replace for my own services, taking only the base features that I needed and integrating them together.

I figured it would probably make a useful service for others around the world who wanted to add some support to their apps but don't have the money in the first months while they grow.
hey, i like this service, but when do you guys go live?
Timing attack on Arduino
I'd argue that the discovery of Denisovans might be bigger than Neanderthal genes, but they're in the same ballpark. Modern sequencing technology has led to an explosion in discoveries about early human (and other organisms') evolution.

Actually, I'd just put "rapid sequencing" right near the top of the list. When I started grad school (in 2003 if you must know), there was a feeling that it'd be very hard to get any better/faster than Sanger sequencing (and modifications of the same). Now there's a plethora of technologies that are both faster and more accurate.
Isn't this similar? Rootless is strengthening the sandbox against malware.

Anyone on the new Mac version want to test this?
Why is it hard to track users when DuckDuckGo has access logs (tuples of date/times, ip addresses and queries) and ISPs have a pair of a date/time and an ip address -> a real identity mappings?
Can you afford not to be an Entrepreneur?
Anyone know if there is much of a contractor market in Spain?
Because the countries, being smaller, can be arranged to fit into Africa.
DDG has thousands of premade !bang shortcuts though. You don't have to spend any time creating unique search aliases for every one of your browsers. You (and anyone else) can directly search wikipedia with a quick !w from at DDG from any browser anywhere.
This has come up before on hn, but I always find it interesting how hard China is pushing into Africa economically:
http://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/2163955...

http://thediplomat.com/2015/01/china-embracing-africa-but-no...

http://qz.com/217597/how-a-million-chinese-migrants-are-buil...

(that third article is probably the most interesting)
Ask HN: Is your startup being turned around by Microsoft?
Are you starting to consider using Microsoft tools or services as a result of their recent moves to be more focused on providing what people actually want?

Would you consider using Windows 10?

Would you consider doing open source development on Visual Studio?

Would you consider using Linux running on the Azure platform?

I'm curious (and not in any way connected with Microsoft) to know if Microsoft's efforts are working.

For me, I have bought a PC and will install Windows again for the first time in 10 years. Maybe it will be a good experience although I'm pretty meh on the fact that the registry remains.

I'm also going to give Visual Studio a try.

I'm also definitely going to have a dig around Azure and see how it stacks up against AWS, Google and the others.
A very good article that aptly shows (some of) the hard & sticky questions we are confronted with all the time. How you answer these questions will determine the quality & stability of your code to a large extent.

I agree with the OP that commonly, “dependencies are worse”. Redundancy will increase the quantity of your code, but dependencies increase its complexity. And quantity is always conquered easier than complexity.
> You have to be an expert in the required area.

Nah. I'm by no means an expert in anything - you just have to be good enough to justify the daily rate (mine is low* for this reason.)

* but still a lot more than I'd get being permanent, obv.
Stunning murder of teen over stolen phone highlights risk of tracking apps
Note that these seizures are for picking up passengers in response to street hails, not pre-arranged pickups. That is against Uber's own policy as well as the regulations.
That paper is rife with confusing or just plain wrong terminology, and the discussion jumps between Android, iOS, and OS X, making it really hard to digest. I think these are the bugs they have discovered, but if anyone could clarify that would be great:

• The keychain can be compromised by a malicious app that plants poisoned entires for other apps, which when they store entries that should be private end up readable by the malicious app.

• A malicious app can contain helper apps, and Apple fails to ensure that the helper app has a unique bundle ID, giving it access to another app's sandbox.

• WebSockets are unauthenticated. This seems to be by design rather than a bug though, and applications would presumably authenticate clients themselves, or am I missing something?

• URL schemes are unauthenticated, again as far as I can tell by design, and not a channel where you'd normally send sensitive data.
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Sony+Xperia+Z4v+Release+Date+and+Features+|+AnsMachine
For those interested in seeing the exact sizes here's the area of each continent in km and miles: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Continent#Area_and_populatio...

One thing I noticed from looking over the above wikipedia comparison is that a lot of the land mass is probably uninhabitable, and it made me wonder how much is uninhabitable when comparing land-masses. The closest thing I could find was a chart of currently uninhabited regions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_uninhabited_regions
Show HN: Pentesting with Kali Linux – New Hack Insight Publication Is Out
Agree, the idea doesn't even matter. It is all about the execution.
They do make the claim in the paper:

> We reported this vulnerability to Apple on Oct. 15, 2014, and communicated with them again in November, 2014 and early 2015. They informed us that given the nature of the problem, they need 6 months to fix it.

However, doing nothing seems to be unfair:

> We checked the most recent OS X 10.10.3 and beta version 10.10.4 and found that
they attempted to address the iCloud issue using a 9-digit random number as accountName. However, the accountName attribute for other services, e.g. Gmail, are still the user’s email address. Most importantly, such protection, based upon a secret attribute name, does not work when the attacker reads the attribute names of an existing item and then deletes it to create a clone under its control, a new problem we discovered after the first keychain vulnerability report and are helping Apple fix it.

So not nothing, but their iCloud 'fix' doesn't work and there's no fix for the real issues. But the researchers say they're helping Apple fix it, so nothing does seem unfair.
> If you are doing something electronically, more than likely, you can be tracked.

That doesn't really encapsulate the range, sure if I'm logging into facebook from my home connection off a stock linux desktop then that's way more trackable than Tails off a memory stick in a laptop with no hard drive using the wifi of the McDonalds across the street from Starbucks.

The issue is that the bar for anonymity online gets pushed higher and higher.
Full-Color HD Videos of Earth from the International Space Station
There is a slight difference in that with alcohol you are most likely to kill yourself, whereas a gun you are more likely to kill someone else.
Has anyone asked the Winklevoss twins what they think of "no-one will steal your idea, tell everyone!"

I know "no-one will steal your idea" is the accepted wisdom but I don't buy it.

I think "no-one will steal your idea" because in the vast majority of cases, your idea is crap.

If your idea is absolutely compelling then people with the resources and motivation will steal it. Why wouldn't they? If you told me an idea that was a huge opportunity, and if you were not a friend whom I had loyalty to, then I would build your idea for myself. I have the time and the ability to, so why wouldn't I?

I think build your software to the point that it implements the vision you have in mind then release it. That's my idea of MVP - minimum valuable product.
In other news, look how many continents can fit in the ocean. See how many moons can fit in the earth. Lots of smaller things can fit in larger things!
They don't have the baggage of all the atrocities of the past, they aren't overtly racist on principle, and they have no qualms taking advantage or the situation and participating in the corruption and exploitation. How is that surprising?
I was faced with this last year. I'd been at the acquired company for sixteen years, so most of my ideas on the side came about after I started employment. There were too many to practically list anyway.

I met with a business attorney for an hour. He said the terms were enforceable in my state; in fact, they'd taken it as far as they could without making it unenforceable. There were significant and potentially very expensive downsides for me.

In my state, employers can fire employees for any reason, so there was nothing stopping them from firing me for not signing.

I tried to negotiate, but they were inflexible. Fortunately the job market here is good, I had significant savings, and I had been thinking about taking a sabbatical anyway to develop some of those ideas. I refused to sign, they asked me for my resignation effective three months later, and I gave them a letter.

All this stuff varies by state, so meeting with an attorney in your state would be a really good idea. Mine cost $300.
Well, it was a niche search for sure. The A6 is a British military internal code (I haven't yet found out what it is, but strongly suspect it to be anti-reflective drab green because the vehicle was that colour when I bought it). It's just that the other search words had no connection to Audi, I haven't seen Audi used by any military (Mercedes, Land Rover, Jeep, Ford etc yes).

The result seemed based off of only one of the search terms, not a grouping.
That has only been demonstrated in mice, however, and only with semi-unrealistically large dosages of sucralose, if memory serves me right.

In humans, we have a lot of evidence that shows that the source of calories does not matter, for fat loss. Long term health is another issue, of course.

IMHO, putting focus anywhere but on calories is doing oneself a very big disservice, except for some athletes and bodybuilders for whom other factors are important as well.
Very good guide. I am thinking of becoming a contractor but had not idea you needed so much saved up!

Looks like I am gonna have to scrap my lavish summer holiday plans to put money aside...
I couldn't get the client to connect, but you may have better luck, MetaTrader seems a more reputable company as opposed to gomez peer.
https://cloud.mql5.com/en
...and by Europe it means Europe minus Nordic countries, part of Russia and most of ex-Soviet states.
A closer look at Europe
For every single idea - there are hundreds of people who probably have the same idea. No one's gonna steal anything, relax.
Dark energy / accelerating expansion of the universe: well this goes back to 1998..
We are planning to launch next week.
Use startpage.com, that uses Google results and doesn't track you. github repo is the first hit for "devise."
Show HN: rspec-preloader
I agree and also have my copy of macaw lying dormant. in their defense though I think its just really hard to mix a drawing canvas with another 'canvas' where you're translating language to language. Adobe hasn't been able, nor has Corel or Xara or Serif and several other companies.
Obligatory xkcd https://xkcd.com/977/
https://github.com/klen/muffin
NowSecure has some details about this flaw [0]. Summary:

The SwiftKey keyboard (which can't be uninstalled) checks for language packs via HTTP:

http://skslm.swiftkey.net/samsung/downloads/v1.3-USA/languagePacks.json

That returns a list of download URLs and SHA1 hashes (which are obviously useless when they're in the same plain text response).
These download links look like:

http://skslm.swiftkey.net/samsung/downloads/v1.3-USA/en_US.zip

The zip file is downloaded and then extracted as system user. The zip file may contain paths like ../../../../../../../../data/payload, which basically allows to write anywhere on the file system.

This can be (ab)used for a system level remote code execution.

Ryan Welton also published a video demonstrating the exploit. [1]

0: https://www.nowsecure.com/blog/2015/06/16/remote-code-execut...

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvvejToiWrY
Apple Keychain cracked
Codeshapes: A guessing game for programmers
> “It’s like flying your car in a snowstorm. You don’t see anything, and that’s quite dangerous,” said Elsa Montagnon [...]

-- from an alternate universe where we got those flying cars.
You are making the claim that a caloric deficit is detrimental to health (although you choose to call it "starving yourself" for unknown reasons, even though starvation is something completely different), the onus is on you to show evidence for that.
How about one that can do multi-term queries at a decent speed while at a large scale while still giving good results?
Witless Ape Rides Escalator, Donald Trump 2016: Campaigning for Great SNL Skits
At the end of the day, there are 3 main players molding a great deal of the tech world, and Apple is one of them.
The idea doesn't matter? Of course the idea matters. The technology highway is littered with the wrecks of beautifully executed stupid ideas. I personally have frittered away more money than I would care to recall beautifully executing stupid ideas. The execution meant nothing because the idea was stupid.
AWS is the leader in Cloud Services, checkout their full portfolio against Azure and see the diference. Azure doesn't have enough IPv4 and it has been constantly been using international IPv4, since they came in late in the ball game.

Checkout Developing in Ubuntu againt developing in Windows 10 to see the difference, if you like it then try a MacOS, it's certainly the best performance and stability in any Dev's work OS.

Best of luck in Windows dough :), been there.
Bravo, Apple. Humongous security hole and you don't address it in six months?

I hope it's being readied for inclusion in 8.4. We all know how it bruises Apple's ego to have to patch stuff without acting like it'a a feature enhancement.
"MIT restructured its curriculum" because after the dot.com bust, EECS enrollment dropped by more than 1/2 after being a solid 40% of undergraduates for more than 2 decades, and the department panicked. And, yeah, punting teaching the fundamentals for some hand-on work (robots, communications) was part of that.

There was also a commandment from on-high, don't know if this was above the department or in it from long simmering resentment, to entirely purge Scheme from the curriculum.

Given all that, Python was perhaps the least worst choice (although using Java to teach the rest of what's in SICP is not even wrong), although I personally wonder about the wisdom of purging functional programming from the curriculum at the same time that multi-cores may be making it a lot more relevant.
While all you say is true, don't forget that by doing this China is slowly building itself a reputation for UN votes. A major goal is to enter the permanent council and/or preventing Japan from having one.
But those of us who have experience in employment issues know the damage that j random lawyer you met down the golf club can do.

Which is why I think it was necessary to be very direct about the issue
Practical Persistence in Go: SQL Databases
I really like Linode. We've got two instances and they are very reliable. I switched one over to KVM last night and everything went off quickly and without a hitch.

I'm a bit confused about some of the comments here. I like linode because they deal in VPSs with the things I need to run real databases: Fast SSD and good RAM amounts. Things may be different now but two years ago when I compared to Amazon, Linode had a much better price and selection on that. And I'm just not motivated to look at AWS now, since in that time I've been very happy with the reliability.
It is certainly more difficult for US and other powerful countries to enforce its diktat on certain countries (like those in Europe). They are more powerful in a geo-political sense and also have a deep-seated fear of government surveillance.
“Optimize Everything” Startup SigOpt Raises $2M from A16Z and Data Collective
Fuck patents.
While we’re talking about map projections, I’ve long been partial to Cahill’s octahedral maps. Gene Keyes has some derivatives and a comprehensive website about the subject. http://www.genekeyes.com/B.J.S._CAHILL_RESOURCE.html

I’ve recently been trying to make some better Cahill spinoffs of my own. Here’s a conformal version:
http://i.imgur.com/RhZL1FN.jpg
For unemployment purposes if a employer in the us changes anything about your employment involving compensation, you don't have to accept and they can only fire you and you can still collect. He can say my ip is potentially worth X million I want to be compensated, to continue to own it, or be fired.
Differential dataflow
Somebody should build that.

Why should governments and corps have all the fun? (Insert sousveillance/transparent society/David Brin rant here).

Are there any decent open source number plate recognition libraries yet?
Why the Bitcoin Blockchain Could Make Gift Cards Even More Beloved
I would add to that that H1-Bs should be auctioned. That way, they are more likely to be used for high-value people coming to high-value R&D positions, not lo-wage seat-warmers for outsourcing shops.
How to autoscale with this?
>>checkout their full portfolio against Azure

I don't need 99% of what AWS does. The critical things needed are virtual machines, device block storage and object storage. All the rest is nice to have.

I already use a Mac and I'd rather drink motor oil than use Linux as a desktop. I do use Linux however as a server.
I like being distracted, and letting my mind wander. Social media does not let my mind wander - it's only a distraction in the sense that it gets in the way of our lousy jobs.

The problem with social media, smart phone apps, and all this so-called "distracting" technology is that it's addictive.
DDG's search results have substantially improved since a few months ago. I now use it as my primary search engine.
Thanks for the link. But I don't know that I would call Scientific American a blog. Personally I think SciAm's version of the graphic gets the point across better, since it shows the curvature.
Startpage is a mystery to me. Why would Google simply provide a competitor with search results? If they're bought, and that can't be cheap, where does the money come from?
Common Lisp == Mainline Lisp. It's the direct descendant of original formula McCarthy LISP, and has accumulated a lot of warts and random stuff. Plus it's more generally multi-paradigm than Scheme, Racket or Clojure, and has no bias towards simplicity and a limited one towards elegance.
Fnally, something more interactive than "Cracking the Coding Interview"
> There are not that many THAT "common people" anymore with regards to technology

In HN? Surely. In our little and self-centered IT shell? Mos' def'.

If you worked with and studied users, your opinion would change. Updates in particular are interesting; most people postpone them ad aeternum.
It's interesting to read this with micro-services in mind.
There are some stupidly named plugins & libraries out there, not to mention films and music too. Sometimes you need context. One of my favorite bands is called Perfume, results are terrible unless I provide context or type their name in kanji. I say "one of" but there aren't any others <3
Let me fix the title for you:

"The asshole who made sure _none_ of us could enjoy flakey pie crusts, crispy-creamy donuts, and silky cake frosting because fat people can't control how much crap they shove in their pie holes. "
Original Americian sniper, 1809
>"By posting your open ended 506b filling for a proposed growth equity fund on Hacker News (which you own), you are engaging in general solicitation and advertising, which requires a 506c filling."

This is a link to a limited notice filing, required by SEC rules promulgated under the Securities Act. It is hosted on the SEC's public dissemination service and in the public domain. If referring to information in this filing constituted public offering, nearly every Reg D offering would be broken.
People don't get that technical skills are not enough to get good at technical interviews. It even sounds funny because these are TECHNICAL interviews. But Interviewing is a skill by itself: how to communicate, how to walk another person through your thoughts when you haven't reached an answer yet or might be lost, how to address non-obvious challenges while explaining your solution strategy and how to do all of that under pressure. All of this goes above and beyond knowing the answer...
Practicing is key. Many of my friends with strong backgrounds failed on most of their interviews, but after learning how to do interviewing they were able to land almost every job they wanted.
Founders are worrying too much about protecting their ideas. Instead of working people, focus more on execution please.