skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't forget to turn off the light on your way out.

lightsOn = !lightsOn || lightsOn
Interesting! So are store.p212121.com or lapspend.com aka offers.p212121.com hooked to the same backend? Can I buy from labspend.com? Since universities buy through their labs do they see divergent prices even within the same institution? How do you provide cheaper prices - do you buy in bulk and then redistribute or do you simply get lower prices bc you move large volumes via pooling? I think you are onto something really cool here. I imagine a future where perhaps Stanford would do all their buying through you since you could pool the volume of multiple large research institutions. Btw how do you process payments? Also the more info boxes on labspend.com don't seem to be working.
"Addiction itself isn't that big of a deal. If the user doesn't want to be addicted, there easy ways to slowly get off. Take time, thes no rush. It's only the legal and financial aspects that make it problematic. "

Seriously? Im sorry but have you ever actualy met someone who developed an addiction to their pain meds!?
Every time I write that in JavaScript, I delete it and just use ! As well haha
DOJ indicts man who blasted false stock info on Twitter then traded on it
One day, many networks will simply drop TLS connections that cannot be decrypted and inspected on the fly. Outbound SSH and general application packet data that has high entropy will be dropped too.

These certs are used to terminate TLS connections at the network edge, then some device makes the requests out on behalf of the clients. Decrypt, inspect, pass back and forth (only if it is authorized).

This is done in the name of 'security'. The companies that sell these devices assert that is makes us all safer.
Ask HN: Has anyone started looking into lifecode?
Went to a talk the other night about lifecode. As I sat there listening I couldn't help but think that clinical genomics/big data will become so much more present in the world. Really excited to see where this stuff continues to take the world.
Kasita: former dumpster dweller launches affordable modular smart homes
> We used to use GWT which is no longer maintained

I understand where you're coming from, but FWIW this is incorrect: Google has a team of ~4-5 engineers still actively making changes to GWT, and even currently prepping/testing a new release.
> users may have installed our app from other sources than the Play Store

Is this a euphemism for piracy? Where are these users getting the app?
"Experts have long seen such iron-clad security as a necessary first step before commercial transactions can become common on the Internet, the global computer network." - "Even if the N.S.A. was listening in, they couldn't get his credit card number"

Huh. Guess this necessity didn't really pan out. Yeah, need to at least feel somewhat secure giving a CC - but, with all the government snooping and massive data hacks that have going on, I wouldn't call it "Iron Clad". Yet will still shop on-line
No, it's not worth it.
C#

https://dotnetfiddle.net/afyTvh

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Threading;

public class Blink
{
const string FilePath = @"/sys/class/leds/beaglebone\:green\:usr0/brightness";
const int BlinkDelay = 2000;

public static void Main()
{
using (var writer = new StreamWriter(FilePath))
{
for (var state = true; true; state = !state)
{
writer.Write((state ? 1 : 0).ToString("00"));
Thread.Sleep(2000);
}
}
}
}

Reactive Extensions (C#)

https://dotnetfiddle.net/bpOF5e

Observable
.Repeat(Observable.Unit)
.Select((index, _) => index % 2)
.Select(string.Format({0:00})
.Delay(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(2))
.Aggregate(
new StreamWriter(@"/sys/class/leds/beaglebone\:green\:usr0/brightness"),
writer => (writer, state) => writer.Write(state)
)
.Subscribe(writer => writer.Close());
Alibaba? Would be funny if Yahoo! was involved in this
Considering where US companies operate especially in the Energy sector they probably found a 1000 different ways to "legally" pay bribes without violating the FCP or any other similar legislation.
Yes, if you enable CPU ABI splits there will only be the lib for a specific architecture available in an apk.

You could load the lib from a remote server after install if you need to save space but if we are talking about saving 1-3 MB I'd definitely save myself the hassle and just pack the libs for all architectures in one apk file.
Linus Torvalds targeted by honeytraps
If you're clever enough to sideload are you not clever enough to recognize and remedy the problem? Developers should not be enabling people who aren't able to handle that responsibility.

Actually, now that I think of it, I can see a business requiring employee devices to be flashed with a set of apps but not wanting to put the effort to actually check that it'll work. In that case the developer should determine if the user is an individual or a company and in the later case sell them a contract for support.
Ask HN: Worth pursing web development if you have a criminal history?
I'm facing DUI and Felony ASSAULT charge. MY life term goal is To become a web developer is there a good chance to work and make money in a field like this with criminal background? Maybe I could Freelancing ? is that possible?
Neat :) I'm in Queensland's Hansard, by virtue of being a part of the Queensland Youth Parliament, then Youth Peace Parliament. It was quite a thrill to find out afterwards that our debates and bills would be kept on the record as a teenager.
If you are investing at that late of stage you'll likely negotiate downside protection like liquidation preferences which significantly de risk the deal. In which case a 2-10x return is actually really good b/c you are not expecting to lose all your money in your individual investments. So in a late stage portfolio you would break even on a few and hopefully make returns on one or two.
FWIW, the article's author is named "Judith", presumably a woman, and unlikely to actually be a misogynist. That doesn't mean she doesn't have some annoying assumptions about gender and such, I dunno… Maybe she felt something like, "you'll probably be getting funded because your good looks help your campaign, and I wish you would just be transparent about it and just go be a model…" who knows?
This is the first case I've seen where a digital blackmailer didn't follow through with their promise. It's bad for business for them to renege as it increases the chance that their next victim wont pay.
From what it seems, there were two DDoSers. The ones they paid to, did stop DDoSing, but the other one is unknown and is still doing it. The first one did contact them and tell them that they had already stopped DDoSing.
There are Orthodox Jewish families in Israel which have very few rooms for very large families. (Among the ultra-Orthodox in Israel the fertility rate is 10 children per family). Often these families have very little income which includes state support for their large families, and esp in large cities such as Jerusalem can little afford larger accommodations.

In SF, NYC (where I live) and other US localities, the issue is not family income but rather is the use of politics to limit zoning density and thus artificially creating housing scarcity.

Thus, renters pay more than they otherwise would with an efficient market and billionaire land-owners have much greater wealth than they would in an efficient market.

In NYC, we had a somewhat similar situation with Taxis. Medallions were artificially limited to 13,000 in this city of 8 million where many people do not own cars and use mass transit and taxis. As a result of this 13,000 limit, taxi medallions had a market value of $1.2 million.

Then thankfully, Uber came along, thus creating a larger supply of hail-able taxis and the taxis medallions now have a market value of $700,000 or so and some taxis are no longer in use.

In NYC, our current mayor has two properties that he rents out for a total of $120,000 per year. He is able to get this high rent because of city laws that limit zoning density. Thus, he has every incentive to want to artificially limit zoning densities.

Thus, while many liberals fret over income-inequality, they still support zoning regulations in cities such as SF and NYC that amount to a transfer of wealth from lower income individuals to wealthy individuals.
Yes I know many people. I also know some that OD'd off of crap "heroin". I know users that got promotions and high personal praise after switching to full-time OxyContin use.

I've met successful CEOs, VPs, and scientists that are addicted to opiates (Confirmed.) In your next professional interactions, look at everyone's pupils. You'll find some incredibly pinned. That's a pretty good sign.

Truth is things like OxyContin are often given to middle-upper class users and they suffer little downside (sex drive and constipation being the main things.) After you have enough income and supply the popular perception of addiction being a problem just disappears.
Don't see why it shouldn't be possible. Go for it
So why do you assume automation doesn't also bring down costs at the competition and forces as a result everyone to give the reduced costs back to the customer? In your Model you would need to be able to tax world wide.
It's never worth it. For $6k you can get actual protection for some time before you upgrade your infrastructure.
> Everybody else doing autonomous and electric vehicle research also seems to be operating out of california right now as well

That is a particulary narrow set of blinders. Even in the US it is not true - MCity and U-M's research in Michigan is a good counter example. And when you look over the pond, there's a lot more going on in Stuttgart and Munich than in the Valley (with less breathless hype but more actual progress).

Of course for Chinese car builders it is easier to poach US engineers, research and know-how to build their own industry - less problems with the language than in Germany, less distrust given that Californian research is half run by Chinese grad students anyway.
Wikipedia (which is always right except when it's wrong) claims that construction of the Glory facade began in 2002.

I can't escape the suspicion that they just wanted to write an article about the Sagrada Familia (can't blame them for that) and felt that they had to come up with some topical-sounding spin on it.

[EDITED to add:] Oh, and hi! Long time no see.
Not really, you'll get caught eventually, especially in the energy sector; e.g. Triton Energy. It is an incredibly effective piece of legislation, Jimmy Carter and company really gave us something that would benefit the world (you can't just say "this is how they do it here so this is what I do").
You find some of that in Gobolinux.
I'm curious as to how the cuneiform is translated. Are they (or have access to) linguists who specialised in old Mesopotamian languages? Or do they use some freely available tools like this: http://www.paleoaliens.com/event/babylonian/ ?

Or in other words - is the translation legit? If I show it to the Sumerian god Gozer, will he laugh at me? I realise the translation is probably phonetic (i.e., written in cuneiform but would sound like English if Gozer read it).
Often enough that I wouldn't take a chance with my health by trying this app.

I've also practiced martial arts for over 20 years. I know that while I can hold my own in a self-defense scenario, arranged fights are another story entirely. Even untrained people get in lucky shots, you make mistakes, you have a bad day... and there is no guarantee that your opponent will not have their own 20 years of training.

Or your opponent could be a psychotic jerk, and will just gouge your eyes out.

Fights with strangers is just a bad idea.
I was similarly curious too.

You may find http://hn.algolia.com of interest to look through, to see the kinds of things HN tends to upvote, and the kind of things that tend to get passed by. Different things attract different levels of attention and fascination on here. It can actually be quite interesting to observe.

This is just a fascinating artefact of the HN hivemind collective interest, I guess.
Doesn't have to be that extreme in many cases it can be just a concussion which leads to intracranial swelling you feel "fine" till you go to bed and never wake up, other common side effects of getting repeatably punched in the face also include things like an increase likelihood of having a stroke due to blood cloths forming within cranial blood vessels (Circle of Willis, Cerebral and Lenticulostriate Arteries).

Killing a man with your fists isn't that hard, much training in various full contact martial arts actually goes into practicing how not to kill your opponent during a fight.
The top post in /r/programming this year is about a guy writing his own eye tracking software:

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3ke7ug/eye_tra...

https://www.reddit.com/r/software/comments/3kdghp/eye_tracki...
There's another good one:

"ProtonMail should apply for a refund. Or at least store credit."
The app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kii.safe is free, so no. Some users might not want google to know they're using a particular app (this one a is a security one, so probably a higher proportion of users would care). There are over 10 million users from the play store, so 100,000 is not that high for sideloaders.

Plus, google might block downloads in some countries.

There are a number of sites that offer apk downloads for free apps: see http://apkpure.com/, https://apps.evozi.com/apk-downloader/, or http://apk-dl.com/. See also http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/download-apk-google-play-bypass... for more reasons people might not want to use Google Play.
Here's something more appropriate (air coded, modulo my iPhone's spell corrector)

section .text
global _start

_start:

; Write the ‘1’ to a file
mov eax, 4 ; sys_write
mov edx, 1 ; # of bytes to write
mov ecx, ‘1’ ; Means light should be on
mov ebx, file_open ; File descriptor
mov eax, 4 ; Call to sys_write
int 0x80 ; Call kernel to write file

; Close file
move eax, 6
mov mov ebx,
int 0x80 ; Call kernel to close file

; Quit to OS
move eax, 1 ; SYS_EXIT
int 0x80 ; Call kernel to exit to OS

section.data

filename db ‘/sys/class/leds/beaglebone:green:usr0/brightness’,0
len equ $-filename

section .bss
file_open resb 1
state db ‘1’
Interestingly, I put the same bug in at HackerOne 9 months ago. It was closed as not applicable. So they had at least two independent reports of the same bug and failed to understand it, acknowledge it and then fix it.

Way to go slack.

If you have any critical data passing through slack, when you get owned, you won't be able to say say it wasn't entirely preventable.
The article states that it was most likely two different attackers, due to the different methods used and the blackmailer denying responsibility for the comtinued (unsophisticated) attack.

I'm not sure what to think, but I can easily understand why they did pay. It's easy for others to say what would be best for the industry, but when you are the one suffering and your ISP is angry at you, and you can pay a small sum to (possibly) make the problem go away, your opinion will change.
Faraday is probably a front for the Apple Car
Free Mobile Game at BlizzCon 2015
God, why? That's utter incompetence. Never pay ransoms. This has highly lowered my opinion of ProntoMail.
I'm reminded of a similar article on ransoms and FBI's strange advice to pay up.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10482242

I think this is a good example of why this is bad advice.
From my perspective the startup world turned a corner on this a few years ago. Bragging or signalling about hours worked is no longer fashionable. That's why an article like this one produces an instant rage-thread with literally zero favorable comments: we're looking at light from a star that actually left several years ago, though the current article would probably have sounded tone-deaf even then.

It would be interesting to see accurate data on whether startup employees work fewer hours than they used to. I'd be surprised if they were by much; self-reported numbers were chronically inflated in the first place because it was fashionable to do so. What's new is the cultural consensus that maximizing raw hours is wrong and that raw hours don't equate to productivity. Those were always truisms, but they're truisms that the culture has now settled on, which seems good.

Edit: one trend that doesn't get commented on as much is the fragmentation of the workday: i.e. working hours are less likely to be in a single contiguous block and more likely to be scattered through the day, evenings, and weekends, even if total hours worked are no higher. The problem in this case isn't raw quantity, it's not getting away from work for a long-enough stretch and so not getting any regenerative context switch. Hopefully this will get discussed more and studied.
NEVER EVER PAY RANSOM MONEY.

Please. Even if your business will suffer it will suffer a lot more if you do pay since now it is known you'll cave. Also: you are making the problem larger for others.
Yes. Startups may not have requirements as strict as bigger, more established companies. For example, at the 2 startups I've worked for, there was no traditional job application, so no questions about criminal history or background check. Early stage startups are typically so focused on finding product market fit, and not on HR policies. Getting in early will let you bypass even having to answer questions about your criminal record.

Freelancing is the other option, since working for yourself means you don't have to answer to someone else about your criminal background.
One thing I can add from my analysis is that there aren't seperate counters for files/teams/etc. there's only one. So if a given id is used by a team, it won't be used as a file id.
This was true when print was orders of magnitude cheaper to distribute than audio or video. Of course text still has distinct advantages, particularly for further education (a lot easier to skim and pull the factoid you need out of a textbook than 80 hours of video), but "society" shouldn't be affected nearly as much as it used to be.
The bash example should have set -e or #!/bin/bash -e so that it will exit on error. That or the rest of the languages also shouldn't bother to check for errors. Also rather than invoking another shell use let and do let STATE=1-$STATE just like all the other programs. And why does bash need to have comments. Maybe it was a subtle joke that C doesn't get comments, but bash does :D in which case well played.

#!/bin/bash -e
STATE=1
while : do
echo $STATE > /sys/class/leds/beaglebone\:green\:usr0/brightness
let STATE=1-$STATE
sleep 2
done

While all of the programs can be made smaller in size the bash script is probably the default way that the script would be tossed together. Bash has a ton of problems, but sadly between it and the standard unix commands you can get the job done too quickly and easily.
Is DMARC like HSTS for SMTP?
I absolutely agree with "focus on what you can do." I think that we can also engage in the conversation as a community and network, which of course you are doing.

The main thing that stuck out to me about your post was "low risk to me." I have studied risk extensively, and I would like to point out that generally, risks are classified with ratings of both frequency and severity. I would categorize the NSA spying as moderate-high risk (to you) due to their extremely high frequency. Yes, the severity to you will be relatively moderate (chilling effect, etc), but the cumulative, unrelenting effect it has is incredible.

As I'm thinking about this more, it's not even a true "risk," because risk always entails uncertainty. You are certainly being affected by it. The true risk of the spying program is that somehow you are hung by your own words, which has an extremely high severity (prison aka slavery). I hope that this rings true to you. Rereading what I've written, it seems like I could be projecting a lot of my own feelings and experiences onto you, but this stuff is just so universal in its effects.

Thanks for discussing this! Have a great day.
A couple of things spring to mind:

Naur's "programming as theory building" essay [1]. E.g.

> programming properly should be regarded as an activity by
> which the programmers form or achieve a certain kind of
> insight, a theory, of the matters at hand. This
> suggestion is in contrast to what appears to be a more
> common notion, that programming should be regarded as a
> production of a program and certain other texts

This suggests that it might not be a great idea to outsource
understanding. The entire essay is worth a read.

Yosefk also gave a fairly amusing characterisation of what it
is to work for a software company [2]:

> Basically the "knowledge worker's" contract is
> something like this:
>
> > We'll give you a precisely defined salary
> > and a benefits package. In return, we
> > request that you handle some problems that
> > we're told we're having. We hope that you'll
> > solve them well enough to prevent us from
> > having to know what they were in the first
> > place. Please help us maintain the feeling
> > that we own an asset similar to land or gold
> > or something. Please keep the realization
> > that we're more like the operator of a
> > flying circus than a landowner from
> > disturbing us. And certainly, never, ever
> > ask us what to do with any of the moving
> > pieces of this flying circus, because we
> > seriously have no idea.

[1] there's a copy here http://alistair.cockburn.us/ASD+book+extract%3A+%22Naur,+Ehn...

[2] http://yosefk.com/blog/information-asymmetry-cuts-both-ways....
One of my favorite employees had almost identical charges to you. I never once hesitated to hire him (I've hired him at 3 different companies over the years). I have, once, had to write a note to hr saying I would take on the liability as a manager for having an employee who has a prior record.

Now, the reason he hasn't had trouble is because he speaks brilliant English, he's honest about his past, he presents himself well, and his technical skills are top notch. If you have those, you'll get past this!
Well, my little sister (12) and my dad (56) love KDE Plasma, as it’s "simpler than windows".
Friends (https://moose-team.github.io/friends/) allows you to use your SSH keys but it's not email anymore.
Yeah, I'd be upset if I were one of the people who donated and found that's what they did with the money.
I do not look forward to advertisements using this technology.
Same here. By partnering with academic labs, you can often minimize the upfront cost of both equipment and technical assistance, as well as gain credibility. Downsides include (1) your IP has to be licensed from the university (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10001393), and (2) you can't (directly) control recruiting.
Ruby without Rails
Find a startup and prove your worth. Totally possible!
I wouldn't throw Taiwan in with China, they have pretty advanced foundries these days, definitely on par with Korea and maybe even Japan.
Because many people will die in horrible ways from its effects.
Many professionals work long hours and thus want short commutes.
The original DDoSers actually did honor the ransom and stop their attack. However, another group started hitting them after the ransom was paid. Probably because they just advertised themselves as people who will reward DDoS attacks.
That's because critical mass has been achieved so now you have little choice.
Weird, that they are so focused on jaywalking when Austin is #12 worst city for burglaries and car thefts.

http://www.kvue.com/story/news/local/2015/01/28/report-austi...
That sounds interesting but is way over the head of a non-bitcoin expert.
I don't understand why the attackers wouldn't stop? Why would they want to build up a reputation of not being worth paying? If they were always true to the word, then people would mostly always pay.