skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure there's a lot that goes into fixing these, but Adobe surprised many in the security community with their fast and responsible reaction to the zero-day flaws unveiled by the Hacking Team leaks.

Microsoft has the resources to fix these; I'm not sure what their excuse is (and it may be valid), but vulnerabilities like this should take highest priority.
If I remember correctly, Airbnb struggled to raise after YC as well. Sequoia came in and gave them $600k quietly after Greg McAdoo synthesized and reframed the Airbnb vision (See Nathan's Startup school speech from 2013). Why didn't Paige participate in funding after demo day?
That might be the funniest thing I've ever read on HN.
They keep trying to keep what could have been, not what they have. They need to take a basic photography class to understand noone wants an out of focus or otherwise ruined picture, no matter how great it could have been.
Note: submitter here. I have no affiliation with either the show or the network. (There's contact info for me in my profile if you wish to validate this.) I'm just digging it and thought other HNers might be digging it too.
Why mention an SLA if it's 99%?

To me, "SLA" is an enterprise oriented term, which a lot of folks (us) don't care about because we're scaling horizontally and architect with failure in mind.

99% for a typical non-scaling enterprise app is crap.
If they lived much longer, comparisons on earth would lead one to expect they'd be much slower to get anything done. Small burrowing rodents that live a couple of years hit the ground running, build extensive dens, and reproduce before they're a year old. OTOH giant tortoises never actually do anything except walk around slowly.
I think you imagine what Zubrin calls the "Battlestar Galactica" Mars mission, with a huge ship, assembled in orbit, that basically drops a whole base in one go. That kind of mission was also analyzed by NASA and found to be prohibitively expensive.

If you read the wiki page about Mars Direct, you'll see that this is a much more modest proposal that doesn't require that kind of technology. With mostly proven technology and multiple launches over a number of years you can have a semi permanent Mars base with a few people on it.
Show HN: Command line JSON-based music player for OS X
Just watched the first episode yesterday. Really good so far and looking forward to it for sure!
And Softlayer.

As a friend of mine who works there says, "IBM wanted to have a great cloud business, so they bought one".
From the third paragraph: "Smoke evacuation canals designed to suck out smoke and replace it with fresh air failed to do either. In an actual fire, the inspectors determined, the main smoke vent might well implode." Assuming the inspectors were correct, the original design, at least as implemented, didn't work.

While the "in accordance with the laws of physics" may be overly catty, a bit of searching around suggests that smoke evacuation dampers are generally placed on the ceiling, and it's not unreasonable to think that's because, well, smoke rises, isn't it?
Congrats to all of the brilliant folks at Gingko!

Hurry up and automate science!
“its control of the iPhone ecosystem” - the ecosystem BELONGS to Apple… it created it from nothing… of course it excercises control over it…

“Apple overlord Tim Cook” - really? overlord?
> Additionally, next-gen cameras with 40-50MP RAWs are right around the corner.

The future is here! Canon's 50.6 MP 5DS is shipping now.
I agree and SATA via USB is just as suboptimal as GigE via USB (2.0).

I'm still sort of aggrieved that Solid State via DDR got caught up in lawsuits and is still commanding exploitative pricing. SATA for Solid State isn't exactly optimal either, though obviously not nearly as terrible as USB - SATA - SSD. SSDs with PCIe interfaces are so common now, it's shame not to see wider support for it.

A little tidbit I saw in HP's "The Machine" promotional talks was the idea of "fabric attached memory". If ARM 64 & RapidI/O ever make it into widespread use, it would be great if there were various forms of memory with RapidI/O interfaces commonly available.
Maybe off topic, but why are these hosted search engines so expensive? $45/mo to start. Are there any $5/mo, low volume, machines for hobby developers?
The Almaden Research Center is still a top-notch research facility.
Mixpanel Codeless Mobile Analytics
Microsoft's changing their approach, but it tends to take a long time for the rest of the .NET ecosystem to catch up.

Case in point: Judging by all the .NET code Microsoft has up on GitHub, they've more-or-less completely switched over to xUnit.NET for their testing framework.

Meanwhile, in most Microsoft shops MStest is still considered the best-in-breed option purely by virtue of the fact that Microsoft wrote it. NUnit is a strong counterculture alternative in the same way that espresso drinks are still considered a counterculture beverage in some circles. And nobody has even heard of xUnit.NET.
I currently have a job at Microsoft and am considering applying. The application says I don't have to quit my job until I am accepted. However Microsoft requires me to give a 45 day notice. So I might not be available full time in the first week or so, will that be a problem?
And we won't ever if we don't start developing the necessary technology by experimenting with bases on other planets. Humankind can't stay on Earth forever and expect to survive.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinoa#Nutritional_value

http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/cereal-grains-and-pasta/...
I don't suppose you've seen any hints of release dates have you?
Yep, makes for an online gallery that isn't any fun to look at.

Perhaps common sense, but I recommend remembering to print photos (say 4x6") you really care about (works especially if you lose your backup) and also hang some of the stuff you really care about it (because you're unlikely to look at them electronically).

Take advantage of your walls, if you have a event decent camera, seeing your stuff 10x14, 16x20 or even 20x30 is also exceptionally worth it.

I'm kind of fond of mpix standouts which to me look a lot better than seeing things behind glass - http://www.mpixpro.com/Catalog.aspx/standouts
"Rather than trying to hold on to everything, they choose what is actually worth revisiting. This could mean they're a little more selective with the shutter, or they only keep the photos they like."

This is the exception to the rule. Not normal.
Buried within the article is an argument in support of wilderness:

“It has to be one of the maddest places we have both been to,” he says. “No words can describe how isolated this place was.” The closest road was three miles away; the only nearby structures were a shuttered pub and an old windmill.

In the American West, Canada, Russia, and myriad places throughout the world, it's not hard to get three miles away from a road.

Wild places are good for the soul.
Thanks, somehow I had the wrong number remembered.
Hi, I am Benjie, and I work on software at Ginkgo. Synthetic biology is a big field; Ginkgo applies synthetic biology to metabolic engineering and we develop software that are somewhat specific to that area.

For example, many people talk about omics data by themselves, but we develop and use tools that allow us to integrate genetic, transcriptomic, proteomic, and metabolomic data with genetic changes, strain culturing conditions, sample prep parameters, and instrument settings. We want the truth.

In 10 years, the biggest impact left by our software efforts will not be any single piece of software, but a set of forward engineering rules, gathered by our existing and future software, that enables true design automation and makes biology a great engineering platform.
This is one of the dumbest things I've ever seen on this site, though I admire the author's love, of commas.
>I guess the bigger question is simply, are you going to limit your audience only to people already following best practices?

No, of course not! We desperately want to bring people into best practices.

Most people are simply unaware of what they're doing wrong - or have no good means of knowing what to improve.

It's our great hope we can improve everybody's security.

>An SSL when transferring over these files

Yup! All communication happens over SSL :D.

We have elaborate plans to even add certificate pinning to the agent but that's on pause until we sort out larger infrastructure architecture.

Thanks for pointing that out as well. I've noted this elsewhere, but communicating how much effort we've poured into this is hard!
Actually, they have that functionality, at least in windows server 2003[1]. The 64 bit transition probably broke it.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/897341
This looks awesome! Just watched the brief intro video, how do you guys calculate the off-target effects?
I am a german living in Berlin - and let me tell you, I feel deeply ashamed. Not because I am german, but because I have the impression that a lot of people involved, especially our once-so-admired former mayor Klaus Wowereit, are obsessed with money, and got caught in a swamp of corruption and were misleading the public.

A year ago or so, it turned out that the folks responsible for all the mess (none of the board of course) we not to be found, because they were supporting a system were a subcontractor could hire another subcontractor and so forth, making it impossible for anyone to get a grip on what is going on. And that is not what I would expect from a billion dollar project run by some of the most trusted politicians and executives in our country.

I flew home from Budapest a couple of weeks ago, and I was surprised to see that we were using the actual airstrip of BER. The flight was supposed to go to SXF (Berlin Schönefeld), but instead we landed on the new airstrip, driving by the not-yet-finished new airport. Can anyone tell me why?

There's more to it though - starting with corruption [1] and going all the way to REBULDING the whole thing [2].

I'll stop here now - but I hope that there will be a lot more of critique towards those who made this a completely embarassing desaster.

[sorry guys, links are in german. I'll try to find english ones]
[1] http://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/berlin-schoenefeld-korrupt...
[2] http://www.faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/acht-milliarden-euro-b...
DR: If you can develop your startup's "product" without writing any code, then writing said code anyway would be a distraction.

The author gives a couple examples of startups that started off with a Google spreadsheet or an e-mail list. If that doesn't sound like your tech startup, well, then programmers will be kind of important.
WTF? Microsoft must have known what would happen. This isn't 1999 anymore. Did they just call HP's bluff? I was under the impression that MS was generally doing a fairly good job as far as taking these reports seriously.
Absolutely. They've pulled an amazing turnaround, momentum is going to take a while still.
By the same logic, any depressed high school kid could also engineer a pathogen to wipe out their entire civilization before that happened. (I think this is a plausible great filter candidate)
Holy crap, that Zeit article is horribly written.
Everyone needs to check out https://smugmug.com - for $40 a year you get unlimited photo and video uploads (yes, RAW files are ok). It's like flikr with no ads, only your own stuff on the pages, super customizable (with a power account - $60 a year - you can point your own URL at your account and no one even needs to know the files are on smugmug.

It's a site designed for professional photographers that also happens to have kickass features for casual photographers as well. There's even lightroom plugins to upload directly to smugmug.

One of the best features, in my opinion, is the customer support. They respond within a couple hours. They're super nice and knowledgeable.

I've had an account at smugmug for nearly a decade, and would never go back to free services. Google photos is nice, but the size limitation is definitely a problem for prolific photographers.

(I don't work for smugmug nor do I know anyone who works there, I just love their service.)
California Firefighters Might Shoot Down Drones
Ask HN: What ideas is YC now mostly looking for? Has it changed over the years?
I've been discussing with a few people and we were wondering in what way has the YC portfolio changed over the years.

Is there a shift from consumer-facing possible moonshots (Airbnb, etc.) to more "world problem solving" ideas, like genetics, big data, renewable energies... ?
Hello, is anyone aware of such app?
cue aliens impersonating Egyptian gods and enslaving the human race until being killed off by Kurt Russell and James Spader
O'Reilly Maker – create your own O'Reilly animal covers
Because it's more profitable to sell larger accounts, even if fewer of them, than to sell many cheap accounts. One enterprise user at $100,000/year brings in the same revenue as 1,667 "hobby developers" at $5/mo, but requires significantly less babysitting.
Your college notes sound similar to something I did with the mandatory "notes from assigned reading" I did in an Electronics class. Instead of outlining what the text was saying, like a nested bullet point list, with figures only rarely. I would draw out the graphs and figures in the assigned reading section, nice and big. Then around the figure/graph (like in a spray diagram) I would put notes from the text where they were relevant (usually in a uml, folded corner, box). Sometimes I would combine a couple of the figure/graphs or redraw a section of them more than once, or expand some part out larger, but largely (after I noticed what I was doing and made it intentional) each figure/graph in the reading was a page of "illuminated" picture notes, and that is all the notes were or needed.
If you can solve this people will throw boatloads of money at you.

Unfortunately it's not easy -- even writing scripts to detect running processes across all our servers to identify Java, Apache, Tomcat, etc etc has proven difficult to get right. Sometimes you can get enough info from extended process list info, sometimes not.

Sucks.
Oh. That kind of debate. The kind where people who think that drawing a distinction between deaths during the accident and deaths caused by the accident is itself intellectually dishonest and accuse those who insist on making such a distinction of being arrogant and shilling for nuclear power lobbyists; and the other people who think that there is a meaningful distinction to be drawn between the immediate impact of an accident and its aftermath accuse people who would conflate the two of ignorance and fearmongering.

Yes, it's 'debatable' that way too.
That sounds like an insane thing to do? Have no idea where that is from.
We'll learn how big the invasion force is, and when they're likely to arrive.
I find it hard to believe this is a lack of engineering talent. MS has some extremely talented people and has pushed out some very neat security stuff well before, say, Apple has. I cannot believe MS has people sitting around saying "well darn we just don't know how to fix this bug for 6 months now". There's gotta be more to the story... I hope.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9935830
Tijuana!

Actually, I thought it was just a proposal to link the airport with a foot bridge to the U.S., but it sounds like it is already under construction:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_Border_Xpress
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2015/feb/16/skybrid...
So... JS with Classes... or JS++

edit: Why the downvote? I'm just having a bit of fun.
Product Owner Perspective: Spreadsheets are extremely powerful, highly flexible, ubiquitous and very easy to use. If that's a problem then we need more problems.

It is trivial to make a trivial spreadsheet but the last real competitor to Excel was Borland Quattro Pro in the early 1990's. Google has to give away their product.
Kepler has to be one of the most interesting NASA missions in the last few decades. We always suspected there were thousands of planets, but knowing it is exciting.
With human-style chemical rockets, sure. But what about nuclear pulse propulsion? Or some sort of exotic equatorial railgun?
Measuring Learning in Dollars: How to Calculate ROI Without Forecasting Revenue
The title is a little bit of hyperbole, and I know this is going to get a lot of comments saying things like "this is fucking stupid", but this is actually pretty insightful. Building stuff before you know you're building something somebody needs/wants is very risky and can be a total money/time/attention sink. To the extent that it's possible, it IS a good idea to try and validate the product idea BEFORE writing code.

If we've made one big mistake at Fogbeam over the years, I'd actually say that it's building too much of the actual product, instead of using mockups and dummied-up demos and what-not just to test the demand for the concept. Early on I had a lot of mindset of "We need to build a fair amount of this, so we can show it to people, so we can find out if they need/want it or not". But honestly, we could have done wireframes, mocks, backend-less demos that were totally dummied up, etc, just to test the concept in front of potential customers.

So yeah, I'd say, don't get too caught up in the headline, but read the article and really think about what the author is saying. IMO, there is some valuable truth here.
We may never know the answers to these questions. Though it is currently possible to say something about the atmospheric composition of some close exoplanets, and that ability will be improved with better telescopes, the planets that Kepler observed during its mission are too far away to learn much about for the foreseeable future.
It's not just MS, I'm pretty sure every Ubuntu OS update from Hardy to Lucid destroyed 1) my video configuration and 2) one other large thing and 3) 20 little things
An app edits your crappy iPhone clips into a pretty decent music video
Thanks for the kind words!

For ping-and-visualize, I'd recommend a tool that'll give you raw access to the underlying data. Some choices are https://amplitude.com/ and https://segment.com/. Happy to chat about pros and cons if you're curious -- harry@periscope.io.
Oh, I see. Thanks. When was it settled? Apple vs. Apple was settled in 2007. I would be surprised if the trademark dispute had no bearing on the licensing dispute internally, but I guess we can't know.
Any way of cheaper pricing for VMs? We have a bunch of VMs that run on not-our-host-node, so it would be effectively $9 for a 256MB RAM instance.
Introducing Nurse: Auto-Remediation at LinkedIn
And to add a gold seal to your hall of fame certificate do an Olympics in Massachusetts.
David from Sentry here.

We actually knew about the problem with delay and had been working to improve it. We were a couple days away from failing over to the new hardware (safely) and unfortunately we didn't have any early warnings in the logs. I haven't yet looked at why.
What people have to understand, for context, is that this project is kind of a pinnacle of failure and corruption that was born and fostered in the post-unification "reconstruction" of the formerly East German territories.
The History of Computing at the Ballistics Research Lab (1992)
This is a general principle. Functionality is an asset, but code is a liability. You should write as little code as possible.
I just preordered the Sony A7r II: "only" 42MP but DxoMark ranks the sensor higher than the Canon.
Many of the abstract concepts introduced by the Amiga have not been replicated since. All the amazing things we do today we do by brute force. By throwing more clock speed and storage capacity and memory at the problems. Meanwhile, every application developer has to explicitly write—or include a library for—every format they want to support, every codec they want to be compatible with, etc.

Even with all of our gigahertz and gigabytes, we misty-eyed nostalgics know that it could have been so much better, more elegant.

> isn't it fair to say that the Amiga had its day in the 80s and 90s, and that time is now past?

Yes, it's totally fair to say that. But don't mistake all the love letters people write for the Amiga as irrational pining for "the good ole days". There's real substance there, real things that were lost, as vidarh's comment shows.
Introvert and extrovert programming languages – F# for fun and profit
Don't forget the full-time admins and hwops people. Operations costs are going to dwarf the capital investment.
Glad to hear the rumors are false. Congrats on the raise!
Or the "zoo hypothesis"[1] is true and we're quarantined off on our little planet out here. I figure we're like the people on North Sentinel Island[2]. We haven't even invented fire, and we kill anyone who tries to shows up on our island. We're so remote that the local authority in the area has declared our Island a protected zone, just as India has with North Sentinel Island. We occasionally see helicopter and try and shoot arrows at them.

1.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoo_hypothesis

2.http://www.odditycentral.com/travel/north-sentinel-island-th...
At least 25% of it will be over IPv6!
http://www.math.smith.edu/~nhorton/roadless/roadless-usgs.pd...

Average Distance to the Nearest Road in the Conterminous United States

Surprised to actually find something while checking your claim!
I lived in Korea for awhile, I still seem to remember the sounds of the letters, this was a good refresher.
Code Signing in El Capitan
Pricing really isn't changing. Hope you stick around!
There's quick and easy, and there's delicious. Making curries is not that hard though, I've found the BBC's Food website to be an excellent source for recipes: http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/chickentikkamasala_73305
But they'd have seriously huge muscles. And I think it's safe to say that their Mr. Universe would easily kick our Mr. Universe's ass.
Yep, very practical for getting stuff displayed cogently and with minimal fuss. I wish other platforms besides R would have something like this.
> All we really have to do is fire judges (and those that appoint them) who do not uphold the constitution

The biggest problem with doing something like this is coming to an agreement on exactly what the constitution allows and prohibits (and somehow also get everyone to agree that the constitution should be followed, because there are people all over the political spectrum who don't think that).
Traits of a security "expert":

- charges by the hour

- has no product to sell but hype and fear

- conflates "vulnerability" with "attackability" for profit

- thinks by breaking people's products they are helping fix them

- does not know the meaning of phrases such as "practical" and "real-world"

Security experts are snake oil peddlers.

They sell tougher doors so thieves can't knock them down, while the government furnishes thieves with universal jigglers/lockpickers.

The first security expert will be the person that stops the government from putting backdoors everywhere. They won't do that because to them, government backdoors are not a problem. Only your vulnerabilities, which do not prove a service can actually be attacked, are a problem in their eyes.

Which is why they charge you by the hour while working for the government implementing the backdoors that they use to scare you into paying them their high consultancy fees.
That's weird, I've seen conflicting information that says imgur deletes images not accessed for 180 days.
Most people will not stare at the screen for 5 minutes while it's updating. They will be doing non-computer tasks in the meantime. Also, this ignores the ability for the updates to be postponed[1] until a convenient time (at lunch?, after work?), which means the lost productivity is reduced to the time it takes to restore the workspace.

[1] Even with windows 10's forced updates, I still think it's possible to postpone updates, just not indefinitely.