skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're right: there's zero legal or moral obligation to share your fortune with them.

But I understand why this idea comes up. Put yourself in the shoes of the "junk shop" (from article) owner or flea market vendor. We're not talking about a high-end antique store. The seller is likely not wealthy. They're going to be devastated that they let this opportunity slip through their fingers.

A tip or kickback of, say, $25,000 would only be 0.5% of your pre-tax gains, but it would likely be a significant windfall for them, let them pay off some debt or take that vacation they've always wanted to. It's a nice gesture and would help take the edge off that anger and regret they'll inevitably feel for the rest of their life.

However, before I did that, I would consult a lawyer. On the one hand, sharing a small piece of the pie with them might give them something to lose and make it less likely they'd bring a frivolous but possibly expensive-for-you lawsuit against you – by an attorney who's working on commission and betting that you'll settle. On the other hand, giving them a cut might open the door for some line of reasoning or set some precedent that they're legally entitled to a portion of the proceeds. I don't know. That's why I'd consult a lawyer. :)
Yeah, except that inevitably one does end up wanting some element of Turing-compleness, hence the Jinja templates used in Saltstack & Ansible.

In a S-expression-based configuration language, one would either embed an S-expression-based programming language, or generate the S-expressions with a programming language which can manipulate S-expressions.

I don't think that it's that easy to get away from needing Turing-completeness in general. No reason you can't still support rollbacks, dependencies and diffs anyway.
Do you mean books in general or books on design and/or psychology, like Norman’s?
People read reviewers and get catalogues and search for things on purpose.

I don't think people have a problem with getting information about products when they deliberately look for that.
If I had a good relationship with the store, or if it's a well-kept store that's a substantial boon to the community, sure. But otherwise it's like trading stocks - the seller was betting that the value is low and will continue to be low. Would you give money to the trader who sold you a stock that later dramatically rose in value?
We've automated this at MixRank and have analyzed millions of apps over the last couple years.

Is there anything of interest HN would like me to look up or blog about?
Blue bell knowingly sold tainted ice cream that killed people. People went absolutely nuts when it came back to grocery stores. I ruled them out for life. The general public just doesn't seem to care about anything unless it directly appeals to them. Not in my back yard syndrome on a global scale.
Because I don't feel very confident in the result, I just feel it's more likely than not.
"I would like to point out that last year was a global temperature record and this year will probably be a record too."

Not according to the satellite data, which is far less manipulated and inherently more accurate than the NOAA surface record.

"In any case, temperature (and especially surface one) can be deceiving. Ocean heat content (which is in a more direct relation to sea level rise) actually increases quite unabated"

The claim made in the linked graph equates to an average temperature change of .004 deg C for all ocean water since 1978. The Do you really think we know this? What are the error bars? The graph is made even less credible by the near-instantaneous 5e22 spike around 2013 in the three month average...

"As for the sunshades, well, good luck with that"

What choice will we have if the alarmists are correct? The claim was that anything over 350 PPM would be catastrophic. We're now at 400 and climbing, with no end in sight.

"It's simply a lot cheaper to not burn any more coal or oil."

That's not going to happen for a long time.

China's emissions will increase until 2030, and it's already the major contributor. India is also on a path to burn a lot of coal. There's almost zero chance of CO2 concentrations not hitting 500 PPM, and they will likely hit 600 PPM easily.

The win/win scenario involves vastly expanded next-gem nuclear electric generation, but there seems little likelihood of that happening.
Is this going to be open source? Or a commercial product? I don't think most iOS devs would want to use a closed-source library, not necessarily because they're averse to paying for something, but because the UX of using one is much worse.

- There's generally no dependency management, or you're forced into using Cocoapods, and using it in a bad way (binaries in your repo).

- You're at the will of the vendor for additional features (framework, Swift nullability/generics integration, bitcode), and, if they're even available, dependency bumps. This gets really painful. Every time I used a closed-source framework, it ends up being a nightmare.

This is compared to:

- Add line to Cartfile

- carthage update

- A little drag and drop

- Done, future releases will probably Just Work

You might have better luck with people that aren't necessarily "iOS devs", i.e. games, where using closed-source is more common and they might not even be using Xcode.
Crazy South African Woman appears in court for trying to sell baby on internet
Surprising that a judge doesn't make a mistake all the freaking time. The legal system is a religion, it has little basis in reason.
>It's a living, I suppose, but does "running your arbs" create anything of value?

Something similar could be said of the people chasing the ball around the field.
Wow, one of my favorite scientists dissing one of my least favorite. Thanks for the link!
Checking the LAPD's crime classifications
Clutch’s Interview on Cheesecake Labs’ Xcode User Experience
To the credit of Mozilla's board, Eich wasn't fired. He quit because the hoopla made doing his job impossible. It was the right move on his part because his presence became damaging to Mozilla.

To your point about it being fine to fire people for their political beliefs, the legal right to do something doesn't say much about whether you should. I think everyone would be appalled if it became common practice for employers to look through every campaign you ever donated to, every cause you ever lent support to, to find something to disqualify you over. It also does nothing but further alienate and divide people.

Going back to the McCarthy era, there was nothing illegal about firing communists. And the people doing it had lots of reasons to think they were doing the right thing. The US was in an existential battle against an empire that had worldwide gulags and purges as its goal. Stalin was a proven master of infiltration and palace intrigue. More recent evidence shows that McCarthy's paranoia was not ill-founded -- Soviet intelligence had infiltrated large parts of American society and government. It was still morally wrong to fire people for their political opinions. Especially if they aren't loudly advertising them.
I suspect that what will very likely be the case is that VW will have to drastically drop prices to maintain sales. The result will be that they become more popular as an inexpensive car and sales will shoot back up, but with less total revenue for VW.

Some will be outraged, but a bunch of other people will be happy. It will be interesting to see which group is larger!
Don't post job ads. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
> environmental impact is higher for producing meat that that of driving cars (globally)

That's a pretty tall claim. Have you got a citation? I'd also argue that there are ways to grow meat much more environmentally friendly and not all that more expensive than traditional feed lots.

> People aren't sheep. They just don't care. Sheep care, at least for their babies and each other.

You're a fool if you believe this. Sheep don't plan their environment in any kind of meaningful way, they just wander around eating. If you cut the field in half and move the sheep from side to side and actually manage their grazing you can get more production per acre than if you just leave the sheep to themselves.

Without the farmer intervening and selling sheep off, they'd quickly outgrow the feeding capacity of their naive grazing strategy, continue having babies, and start causing deaths from malnutrition.

Please learn about natural systems a little bit before spouting things that sound insightful but which are actually devoid of any reality.
TLDR: Radicland is a makerspace run by a hardware incubator? Too many buzzwords and passionate endorsements of the obvious to make this a compelling interview.
There's nothing wrong with the linked Bloomberg article, but it's a little barebones and link-free. Here are two others with a little more background and commentary:

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151016/08010632559/appea...

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/10/appeals-court-rul...

And the Court's actual written opinion:

http://www.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/isysquery/c3458e0a-f3d...
Try proving it...the evidence is stuck in some corporate recruiter system.
This is not even a particularly new development.

I remember reading a few articles back in 2010 or 2011 where movie studios were complaining that for some films, only the first viewing of the opening night would be sold out.

They did some research and discovered that people were pushing social media and twitter updates as they were walking out, recommending everyone to just avoid the damn thing. This was at a time when cinemas would have tickets reserved and you could pick them up from the ticket booth.

So what happened, was that people would simply not show up at all and the theatres couldn't even know that there were plenty of unsold tickets until ~1h before the start.
To clarify, I made an error: you generate powers of g (or just any group element whose discrete log you know), not p.
It's an historical accident. But electricity as the flow of positive charge is a pretty reliable model outside of materials science and nano-electronics, so why worry?
Only in the barest and most technical of senses. They are not being shoved in anyone's face; They are being placed where people want to find them. They are not subsidizing anything, and thereby mucking with normal healthy free-market dynamics (where the customer is the customer, not the product). It's one thing to put a sign outside your new bakery, or to request the newspaper's food critic to review your product, and its another thing entirely to "donate" your cupcakes to a charity bake sale on condition that there be a sign about your shop or flyers handed out with the cupcakes.
Interesting software, horribly written article.
Statically linking everything seems to complicate upgrades significantly. If libc is rev'd does that mean every binary on the system needs to be rev'd as well? Static linking is great for simplifying the deployment strategy but can degrade the user/administrator experience.
Thank you I had an idea of the performance delta. But, comparatively (to something like TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_[256|128]_CBC_SHA) how does it compare?

Edit: Thanks for the edit! What I was looking for.
Oops, this was meant to reply to the parent of whom I replied to.
Unsolicited I know but a good friend of mine runs a recruitment firm in NYC. He's a tech guy (I've worked with him for nearly 10 years) and the founder is an ex-Google dev too (I've only Skyped with him but he seems to know his stuff).

They mostly place for contract roles - but I could be wrong on that.

Happy to introduce you if you wish.
"Do you know how agencies work?"

Pretty much how the article was written.
Bookmarklet to increase font size anyone?

Small font size makes it faster to scroll past long threads.
I never heard of that, but it reminds me that when I moved to Minnesota in the late 90's the phrase "salmonella vanilla" was associated with Schwann's Ice Cream. Try finding anyone these days who even thinks of that. I see Schwann's making home delivery of their frozen grocery products all over the place (mmm, cheesy tater tots!). They seem to be even more popular now.

People have short memories for this stuff.
I don't get it. If a recruiter calls you, you are either interested or not. So, what's the harm ?
Krebs is a security investigative reporter. He has had many threats and written about them before. I am sure he is taking some precautions. That said, I don't envy him or the danger of his job--but that's something a lot of reporters just live with.
Nice rebuttal though. He has a point. Either show your proof refuting the claim or stfu. I get so tired of armchair experts discounting everything because they just know it can't be true, that it would be nice if someone put people like this in their place once in a while.
The approach Ryan used was to look at ObjC classes, but you're right that many SDKs and tools don't show up there.

We actually scan millions of apps from the app stores. Here's a public view of the top 500 in US, and if you choose the cross-platform category, you can see apps like this. For example, "Pac-Man 256" is rank 28 (Unity), Amazon is rank 30 (Cordova), etc.

https://sourcedna.com/stats/

It's actually very difficult to accurately match code written in so many different languages as compilers discard a lot of the info you need. I spent a lot of time researching and evaluating different ways to fingerprint libraries, as well as reconstruct the boundaries of internal modules when there weren't any symbols.

We match code by using a similarity search across all components we've ever seen. Since code written in C can be compiled to x86 or ARM, we disassemble the code into an intermediate language. Then we reconstruct control-flow graphs, data dependencies, and other platform-independent features. We index these in a custom search engine, which allows quick lookup and matching.

It's very difficult, but ultimately a really fun problem to solve. Most of our engineers got started with exactly the exercise Ryan did here. :-)
>the most reasonable explanation seems to be that someone in the past long gone was playing around with embedding vector displays in DNA

I think you're confusing reason with Star Trek. Elaborate, repeating patterns can emerge from any number of random or chaotic processes, that doesn't mean an intelligence tried to encode something in it.

And even if it were plausible, given the amount of DNA we've studied by now, the lack of any obvious discoveries of messages from aliens or our ancient ancestors would suggest that it's not that effective as a storage medium for arbitrary messages.
Leo Laporte has a new favourite weather app [video]
The key for security clearances in the US is honesty.

I know of several people with surprising skeletons who got were honest and got clearances. Most definitely do not lie or attempt to deceive. This will get you DQed much quicker than any therapy or drug use.
An algorithms book.
Maybe it's time the porn industry got serious about ditching flash. Porn is the only reason why I still use flash, and I suspect I'm not the only one.
There are a lot of reasons to use ansible, but in my opinion the one thing that sets it apart from other orchestration frameworks (saltstack, puppet, chef) is that it's agentless. You don't need anything installed on the node servers except for ssh and python 2.4+ (which means pretty much any major distro but coreos). There is no master node to keep up, and no specialized daemons running on the managed nodes.

Because of this difference it's really easy to incorporate into an existing infrastructure with no current frameworks. Pretty much every job i've had started off with a bunch of existing servers they set up ad-hoc, which we then wanted to add automated orchestration to.

It's also really easy to use your defined playbooks against different contexts (just use the hosts file switch to run against staging, or a cluster of test vms, or a bunch of lxc containers).
As a primer on the many and significant difficulties of analytical verification, this may have some merit; as an argument for the futility of attempting to do so, it depends on a false all-or-nothing dichotomy.
Also, the smartphone is pretty much a combination of a PDA (which existed since the mid 1990s, eg. the Palm Pilot, or even Apple's own Newton) plus a phone.
"To say "now grovel and be exploited" about a process where the person will almost certainly end up with a fantastic offer for an engineering job in a comfortable office with great pay and great working conditions may actually be the least self aware thing I've ever seen a human being write."

It was at this point that you lost me. You've clearly been lucky enough to never had a crappy job.
Webapp Security 101
>So let me see if I follow.

You obviously don't, so you may want to give up or try again.
Or go the Tesla way - build a super-expensive automaton for some rich customers and use that money to bankroll R&D for a cheaper solution...
As mentioned elsewhere in the thread, the cars will be "fixed" via a recall of some sort, which will likely reprogram the ECU to reduce emissions, which will in turn reduce performance and gas mileage. Now that might be voluntary - I don't know if laws will compel people to do that, though emission testing might start requiring such updates. Plus, the new cars released will not be able to "have great gas mileage, performance AND low emissions" without technology advances since the cheating is caught and disallowed going forward. So they might be less competitive, initially (though in the US, there isn't really much diesel competition.)
The judge does make mistakes all the freaking time. But in practice the system is so stacked against the defendant that this effect is negligible.
Use it on Linux with NoScript. Knocks out most, if not all, of the problems. ;)
You also can't say it had to wait for technology because it is possible that aliens could've come along in the early 1800s and enlightened us all. Granted, that seems unreasonable, but is it that much more unreasonable that a nation (if not world) wide same time rejection of a common social norm back when most people were not interconnected?
I never saw that image before, and it's obviously fake. You just can't see through that much seawater.
Move to SV, then get a job
I would expect that if an app is popular enough to be in the top 100 then it most likely has the bankroll to pay for native devs.

I can't imagine ever seeing a non-native app in the top 100 with the exception of maybe ReactNative-based apps which is a bit of a grey area since it compiles into native.
A recruiter once lost it with me when I was job hunting about 5 years ago. They has put me forward for a job which I'd already applied for (one of the biggest consulting co's in the world) and was convinced that I'd cut them out of the process completely (despite the fact I'd told them I'd applied).

Got offered the job in the end. Shitty salary (and not the most exciting of jobs as I gathered too).
As an owner of an older home I find the evolution of central heating to be fascinating. I highly recommend this book:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Lost-Art-Steam-Heating/dp/09743960...
agwa wrote:
> Last I looked nginx used fixed 1024 bit parameters, which is very bad.
> I don't know if this has changed or if there's a bug report.

NGINX has had the ssl_dhparam directive (allowing dhparam of arbitrary size) since version 0.7.2, released in 2008.
It's quite shocking how many 0-day vulnerabilities these guys fix.
I don't see why Xamarin wouldn't be detectable but I don't think it would appear as a separate library. Due to the impedance mismatch between C# and ObjC, Xamarin has to generate proxies and wrappers as well as deal with some abstraction leaks.

However, iOS (afaik) doesn't quite have shared libraries like you would have on a Linux server and there's no point in creating a separate ObjC library that would add bloat to each Xamarin binary because the C#-to-ObjC transpiler can selectively generate the wrappers/proxies during compilation. Xamarin might not even use a code generator to do that because you can just include all the ObjC code with the transpiler and copy-paste include them into the project at will.
Exactly. People wanted to create the world he presented, even though it was clear it wasn't a very nice place even if the technology was cool.
More recently, Napoleon's Egyptian Scientific Institute in Cairo: https://www.rt.com/art-and-culture/egypt-library-fire-herita...
wow, my girlfriend and all of her friends get Ipsy bags, didn't know it was started by a YouTuber. Good for her!
Just because it's old doesn't mean it's unmaintained.
Whoa. What? If I could use only one adjective to describe VW it would be "plasticky". I've always seen VW interiors as incredibly austere. I drive a 2006 TDI Beetle and I find my 1991 Honda Accord to be more comfortable.
If your API receives 1 spam request a day its no biggie.

If it receives a few million (eg. via LOIC or whatever), its disabling.
I agree that both Realm and Fabric have done an excellent job reaching out to developers. Fabric went to another level in providing a slick interface to make it easy to drop in and update their SDKs. I'd be excited to see that more generally available, maybe integrated with CocoaPods.
Appeals Court Gives Google a Clear and Total Fair Use Win on Book Scanning
Probably because nobody called it 'configuration management' then. It's a very good tool from the job - because eventually all configuration formats end up getting Turing-complete and totally unreadable. Why not just start with something that supports code = data out of the box?
When REM sleeping you enter a state of deep paranoia

This is speculation rather than fact, as far as I am aware. I do know about sleep paralysis (I worked on a movie about it and got to read a bunch of interesting research) but there are also lots of mystical/ meditational techniques for handling your dream experiences - it's a skill that can be learned.
Exactly. And yet the message of the page is that it is e-books that are the threat. "The Dangers of E-Books". "Join our mailing list about the dangers of e-books". "We must reject e-books..."

DRM is the enemy, not e-books.
Software developers in my office are prone to terrible internet-of-things ideas
Vendetta? Ha, I post one comment with a better example of introducing a project's motivations and I'm on a vendetta? That escalated (in your mind and nowhere else) quickly.
How is it legal to file for an IPO at a loss?
lower economy, lower performance, and possible higher maintenance costs too. Some of the proposed fixes involve retro-fitting Urea-based SCR systems, which need to be maintained more than "no filter at all".

But those effects are long-term and therefore less quantified and immediately apparent. Seems to me, the major influencer on how drivers feel about VW is the news items about how bad VW is.
Makes sense that it's admissible in that case.

Would you still be able to be held legally responsible for breaking the law to get the information though? In that case, the evidence would be admissible but wouldn't you be in trouble for breaking into your neighbor's house?
I mostly noticed because there were less people than for yesterdays (also very important and controversial) votes.
Appeals court rules that Google book scanning is fair use
Haha, I'm a dev and I pronounced it like this for a while (knowing it was incorrect).

Someone like me probably set them down the wrong path!
The startup 'training' program
> deal with (possible) lower fuel economy and performance,

Not clear if these results will hold up, but CR ran some tests that seemed to indicate that running the car in "cheat mode" had a relatively small impact on performance - "both cars added less than a second in the 0 to 60 mph time. The Jetta saw fuel economy drop from 53 to 50 mpg, and the Sportwagen went from 50 to 46 mpg." http://www.wired.com/2015/10/vw-diesel-cheat-mode-mpg-perfor...
World Programming Responds to $80m SAS Lawsuit