skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Study links differences in neurotransmitter activity to symptoms of autism
They don't do bug or vulnerability fixes in new releases?
But then you'd expect it to converge, and that would break the law.

Cost estimation is an NP problem. Perhaps it will become practical when we can use a quantum supercomputer to estimate the time needed to build a single page web app.
All of these require judicial authority etc to use. Surely that's defence enough?
Yep. If someone for example had access to amazon top 100 sold books, the information one could derive from it would be surprisingly little. You could not determine what genre is most popularly sold, what the profit margins are in the book market, or who the target audience generally are.
The security theater of the TSA is indefensible.

However, I found the article dubious. The only source for Mike England's alleged response is an email to _The Intercept_. While I am not calling the author a liar, I am skeptical that the response was placed in context.

> Clarification: An earlier version of this story incorrectly reported that hackers had broken into Travel Sentry’s internal website.

This is a particularly egregious error in reporting and suggests, to me, very sloppy reporting. So, without seeing the actual content and context of the email, including perhaps, the email which prompted the response, I am reserving judgment as to whether or not what has been reported is true to what the TSA actually meant.

It certainly wouldn't surprise me to hear the TSA responded in that way, but that doesn't mean that's what's actually happened.
Asperger's and Autism Linked to Decreased Action of Neurotransmitter GABA: Study
I think its fantastic. Now when people bring up the fact that the government needs backdoor access to encryption to fight "terrorism" I can just point to how well they manage these things in practice.
"Taking responsibility" means very little these days. The problem with corporations is that nobody is truly responsible for any crimes committed by the company. If the people responsible were to actually go to prison or pay any fines out of their own pockets, then I suspect they would be a lot more careful.

Any fines paid by the company itself, no matter how crippling, eventually only really hurts the workers (because they're downsized), the customer (higher prices to cover the extra cost) or even shareholders (sometimes that may be appropriate, sometimes not). Ultimately higher management remains in control, and no matter how guilty they are, they invariably end up being the ones to decide who really gets punished here.
Has he taken a stance against net neutrality recently? He seems to have taken a stance around 2007 that regulation might be detrimental to innovation. I'd be interested to hear his thoughts on the FCC's 2014 ruling, and if he felt those regulations specifically were negative or positive.
Using Azure ML
What does this point prove? The point of visual programming is in user experience of completing appropriate tasks.
Say someone is renting out a room on AirBNB, and they also have some dropcams monitoring the perimeter of their house.

Someone rents the room, and runs this script, disabling the cameras.

During the stay, the property is burglarized, and there is no surveillance footage of the crime because the renter disabled the cameras.

That seems like an incredibly messy legal situation. Would the renter even be able to exonerate themselves? They disabled the cameras, it almost feels like they inadvertently framed themselves for a crime they didn't commit.
Looks more lightweight than the last secure phone design I had. The need for dedicated chips for CPU hardening, baseband firewall, and power isolation made it quite bulky. Looking for a commercial model, I settled on this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_9000_Communicator

Didn't build it for obvious reasons. It was the shit back in the day, though, with probably some people willing to buy if they get trusted chips. Not sure enough on return to want to risk it, though.
Flaunt roughly means to show off. I think you mean flouting the law.

(edit: Nevermind, I see flaunt has both meanings)
It makes me wonder about their control of the software design and build process. It looks like something went really wrong with their software supply chain.
Over long enough period of course each will decline.But within 5 years risk is small.
Verisign isn't hitching the proverbial chain across the river, because they are a necessary part of the domain registration of domain names. They are providing a necessary service and raising the barrier to entry with their patents. If their role were unnecessary, then it would be rent seeking behavior.
"Instead of using the NIST recommended curve points [ScreenOS] uses self-generated basis points..." [0]

The way I read this statement is that each device generates its own set of points. If this is the case, I don't see how it would work as a crypto backdoor.

If by "self-generated" they mean generated by Juniper once, well, thats fishy.

[0] http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=KB282...

Edited to add: Upon further research, the latter possibility seems more likely.
Unfortunately true though. Have a look at this blog: https://takingsenseaway.wordpress.com/

This is just mind blowing to use your words.
Just another lightweight React setup
After college,

2 years of startup @ $90k, worthless stock (one of the first employees), long hours. Learned a lot, but definitely underpaid in stock.

FB @ 2014 - $230k/yr = $150k base + $50k stock / yr + $30k bonus.

FB @ 2015 - $480k/yr = $200k base + $200k stock / yr + ~$80k bonus.

Getting into the senior levels at FB/GOOG does indeed get you 250k+ easy.

Friends at FB who joined the same day as me, but fresh out of college: $200k+ / yr right now.
"There's a sweet spot around $600 for a PC, if you buy in this range you'll save money because you won't need to upgrade the majority of components in many years. I often recommend logicalincrements.com as it has PC prices per-component in tiers."

Exactly. It's the same mantra I've always used when doing computer builds. Incidentally, the last gaming rig [1] I built was about $600 with more power than necessary. :)

[1] http://elitegamingcomputers.com/gaming-computers/#2
I don't see that "likes to swear or have people swear nearby" is an essential or generally accepted component of the role of "engineer".

Your statement is actually extremely sexist, I'm not sure if you realise that. "The role she's earned should trump the one to which she was born" - so being a "lady" is somehow an "inferior role" that can be trumped by the superior, earned role of "being an engineer"?

It really doesn't seem that hard to me. A person can be all sorts of genders and various fluid things in between male and female, and you accept that and treat them as such - with respect for all those roles, without assuming one to be superior to the other. On top of that, they might take on a bunch of other roles. Those roles don't obliterate the nature of who they are. "I'm no longer a woman, I'm now an engineer" implies that the two roles are exclusionary, that one is superior, to the other, etc.

How about: "I'm a woman and I'm an engineer. They're both part of my identity."

Caveat: I live in the UK. We don't have quite the levels of rampant sexism y'all seem to have in the states (or at least I haven't observed it). Or racism, for that matter. Seems a bit more civilised over here, based on the stories I read about the US. People are people. They're black, white, rainbow-striped, whatever. They're people and people are awesome and worthy of all the love in the universe, whatever their gender, skin colour, profession, etc.
From a pirate's perspective, Tor can be useful for BitTorrent sites, except for sending the actual BitTorrent traffic over it. I think the greatest problem here isn't that file sharers keep getting caught en masse so that we have that kind of need, but the risk and effort necessary to even run a P2P site. Tor in itself, as an anonymizing network, can help a lot there as long as you don't mess up. That is, as a .torrent file store and search engine.
"The iPhone 6 takes just four minutes"

Jesus, it's gotten that bad...?
Well in my case (East Bay) I don't need to drive but I like it, and rideshare/public transit for every little errand is taxing and unnecessarily slow.
It's actually pretty neat. I use it to program the Ozobots (http://ozobot.com/) my wife got me for my birthday.
It's a first good step.

What I want is freedom of PC hardware of the 1990s in a smaller form factor. A smartphone consists of a system-on-chip (SoC) computer, memory chip, modem, display, cameras, antennas, sensors, card slots, battery - all could be modular. And be of a convinient form factor so that several companies offer such parts.

Android took the omnipresence role of Windows 95 on smartphones and tablets (though Android device driver are hard to find).

Back in 2006 I had a modular notebook built by an OEM sold under different brands. (picture: http://p-fst1.pixstatic.com/51b62f6dfb04d67b66000b29._w.540_... ) What a great hardware platform.

In 2016 the notebook market is in a bad shape - business notebooks: lower build quality (no Thinkpad robustness), higher prices and no modular notebook platform. And on PC the trusted computing (UEFI, GPT, Palladium) accelerated by Microsoft is hostile to non-Windows 8+ operating systems. Hopefully, the EFF can do something there.
Rakht: Save Lives
"At the time of this writing, yearly salaries of $100,000 per year for a junior developer (with around 1 year of experience or right out of college) are common."

Good luck living in SF with that.

"If you overhear a discussion in a restaurant, it’s very likely it’ll be about software or a software company."

This is actually the main reason I'm so glad I don't work in SF. Seriously, how boring is it to walk into developers everywhere?
> Those service personnel shouldn't be expecting privacy while they provide services, anyway.

Jeez. Not sure how to respond. I think for me it is not 'complete okay' to waiver your privacy whenever you provide paid services to some overlord.
Here's the other piece: Estimations happen prior to negotiations. This is why you see so much "buffering." A much better approach is to figure out your budget / schedule first and then work on what scope can fit within that pre-alloted budget / time frame.
Doesn't work for Sky Broadband in the UK. I use Google DNS but TPB is still blocked.

I'm not sure if you can easily find the server IP for TPB - they appear to behind CloudFlare?
Agreed, this is a pretty narrow slice. Though if you're seriously worried about all forms of surveillance, you can end up heading down a deep rabbit hole pretty fast.

Consider "The Thing:"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device)
Stop looking at HN and go work that thing you promised yourself you'd work on
Please ignore if your not me..unless you'll find it useful too.
yea you could just go shopping and buy the range the locks which you can see the lock key ID through the packaging.
just purchase all variations... likely people did this in past.

i never use luggage locks, i also keep my most valuable items in my carryon rather than my checked bags.

the locks are useless. easily cut, easily opened using tools, TSA still had access, now other people have access by copying the TSA keys.

if someone wanted to break into your luggage, they would have with or without the key.

i have had hard shell luggage cracked open by just terrible handling, i once had a lock/zipper got ripped off when it snagged somewhere.

i pack my luggage in a certain way and utilize tape in certain areas to know if someone was rummaging through it at the airport.

there is no security/privacy for your luggage at the airport
I have seen nothing tangible so far that shows that VW is backing off Diesel cars - perhaps they cancelled their marketing campaign in the US. I would very much like them to focus on EVs, but whether they do remains to be seen. (A very good indicator for that would be that they start building charging infrastructure and introduce some vehicles with more than 100 miles range...)
Android 6 fixes the permission system. That's pretty fundamental.

http://developer.android.com/training/permissions/requesting...
Ah I like this explanation a lot. It's almost as if project task timing distributions are negatively skewed.
Unix as IDE [ebook]
> Would the renter even be able to exonerate themselves?

If you can convince the cops to do their job, then yes?

If my apartment was burgled when I was at work and my new roommate had the day off, the cops would -hopefully- do some investigation to determine if anyone else might have possibly entered the space, as well as checking and enquiring with pawn shops and grey-market street vendors for my stolen goods.
Another project free of generics, exceptions and heavy abstractions strikes again. Great to see Vulcand usage.
I think DRAKON solves the layout problem quite well (the specification also tries to cut down on excessive use of arrows).

[1] http://drakon-editor.sourceforge.net/language.html

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10100932
The Freedom Caucus killed Kevin McCarthy's bid

McCarthy killed his bid with one interview on Hannity where he implied that he had helped orchestrate the Benghazi committee as a means to take down Hillary. That was the slip-up that gave the Freedom Caucus the necessary leverage they needed.

Other than that, I agree with your understanding of how Ryan became Speaker.
My comment was that, yes, though I'd really want to see counter-examples that aren't New York City's suburbs I guess. It's kinda a world unto itself.

The idea here seems to be reducing starting capital needed for brick-and-mortar start-ups. How do we compensate the artists? I think they're already being compensated with nearly free workshops/office space, which sounds like the tipping point between starting the business in the first place for a lot of these folks.

The article talks about how it was a non-starter to purchase the buildings from the property owners because of a host of reasons I'll not reprint...

It's about craftspeople and small businesses, and helping little people in these communities to experiment with new business ideas, not about making landlords rich. Both both sides have to see a benefit for it to work, and just trying to legislate turnover of old buildings to non-profits to build co-ops isn't going to get much love from the property owners (who probably have more political power)
React Refetch
They also have a gender ratio that's often unimaginable for equivalent events in Silicon Valley. Congratulations to all organizers! This is great to see.
I wasn't such a fan but a friend of mine was and explained to me what I needed to know before watching the movie. I went into the movie with expectations at 0.

The movie was epic. I loved it. Damn. Just set your expectations at 0 and may the Force be with you.
No, because you'll just ask it to build it in constant time. Software costs more to measure than to do.
I thought that the key's images were posted online by a TSA employee that didn't know any better...
Look at the complexity of the solution needed to solve a simple challenge[1] on the demo pages:

https://i.imgur.com/B6qFqww.gif

The blocks nest four deep. It's a good illustration of how hard hard it is to make graphical programming easier than regular programming.

[1] https://blockly-demo.appspot.com/static/demos/plane/index.ht...
Creative Destruction Lab: Canada's incubator for scalable tech ventures
Instead of using the NIST recommended curve points it uses self-generated basis points and then takes the output as an input to FIPS/ANSI X.9.31 PRNG, which is the random number generator used in ScreenOS cryptographic operations."

Looks like they feed the output through a standard CPRNG. Assuming it's true, that pretty much breaks the DUAL_EC attack because you can't use the output of the final CPRNG to recover the DUAL_EC state.
Cracking WEP WiFi Using the Raspberry Pi
Where I work we don't estimate in time, we estimate in points. Points are intended to represent engineering's view of the relatively complexity and uncertainty of a given story.

Pivotal Tracker then looks at story delivery over the past 3 weeks and gives a simple average: velocity. You can then look forward to see approximately when future stories will be completed. You can also see a volatility measurement, which characterises how much velocity is fluctuating.

Our horizon is deliberately short, because we move very quickly.

Nevertheless, it has a simple advantage: it is based on the true and most recent data of the exact project you are estimating.

Other estimation techniques are useful in other situations, but simply being able to say "those are the actual numbers for this project this month" is enormously powerful. There's no fudging. The numbers are right there in black and white.

It usually takes a little while for people new to this approach to accept that velocity is not a target; it's a measurement only. It's a unitless measurement that is only meaningful within a single project, operating at a floating exchange rate with calendar days.

One last thing that helps, as others have pointed out. Break down your estimation tasks into smaller units. Never accept the small headline that hides a big feature. Continuously look for seams to break big stories into small stories. When the pointing begins, summarise aloud with fellow engineers a rough idea of what will need to be done.

Psychologists call this the "unpacking effect", and I suspect that it's responsible for most of the estimation-increasing power discovered in more fully-dressed estimation techniques like PERT, parametric estimation tools or even good old fashioned checklists.

(I was working on an estimation tool for a while, so this subject is dear to my heart).
That site design has some serious issues. They're doing something in the header area that doesn't respond to swiping. In landscape you can't scroll the page.
That's why PERT has problems. Estimate times for "best case", "likely case" and "worst case"

Expected time = (best + 4 * likely + worst) / 6
Startup Ideas: The Excel Sheet Heuristic
I agree, but why would you assume they don't already?

Transporting bulk bits is a commodity race to the bottom, which is why the idea is so technically successful. Now that there's proven demand, telcom raises profit margins by decommodifying opaque bits into specific value-priced services.
Radioshack used to sell a $10 plastic microscope that people hacked webcams onto. What happened to that? Here's a link to an old tutorial.

http://www.instructables.com/id/30-minute-USB-microscope/
All my iPhones have lasted 4-5 years. Granted I had to get the screen replaced on one of them after my bird dropped it off the counter.

Wtf are you people doing with your phones? I downright abuse mine (think longboarding falls at 50kph with phone flying out of pocket) and it survives all.
All the money was flowing to IBM licenses. Hence when we needed another database for reporting, we went with open source. Vertica is big money++ And really, after my stint with that company, I really can't stand commercialized licensed software anymore.
You start by saying they give all the details.

That's not what I said. It's basically the opposite of what I said. In my initial response to you, what I was basically saying was that the article presented the key upshot of the researchers' findings, without echoing all the details. That is, it wasn't anything like the FUD piece you were making it out to be.

Do you at least agree that the article doesn't explain what the quoted 87% increase means in a way the readership is going to understand?

No. It's very clear, from my reading. I'll agree that not every reader is going to understand it, but anyone with say, median freshman-level skills in reading comprehension ought to be able to understand it.

Can you explain what that 87% increase means?

Yes. But I'm not going to do it for you.

The article had almost no relevance to this thread; it was dumped here as yet more pill-shaming bollocks;

It's fine if you want to think that. Doesn't seem relevant to what I was saying, though.
Actual phone cost 12K. Repairing cost 13K (INR)

I would like to share a terrible experience which I had with Micromax.
I got a brand new phone Micromax Canvas A350 (2GB ram, Octa core processor) as a gift.

After a week of use I accidentally dropped the phone and broke the screen. I took it to Micromax service center and they asked me for 6K to change the screen. Since the warranty does not cover these type of damages.

A local repairing shop fixed the screen for 2K but now the warranty is violated. After a month of use power button failed and GSM signal receiving is too weak. I opened to phone to see that the antina wire was broken.
(which connected GSM module to the mother board)

I took the phone to Micromax customer care they gave me a list of things to replace:
Whole case + GSM module. Total cost : 7K + 6K = 13K.

Only things broken was a power button and a simple wire which will not even cost 10 INR. The cost of a new phone is only 12K
Thanks for the link, unfortunately all I see is a contact sales button.
If we really want to get serious about keeping our phones for more than a few years, we need to solve the problem of software bloat. I would love to see an open ecosystem with some sort of distributed benchmark so apps are strongly incentivized to be implemented efficiently. Which of the 1,000 egg timer apps should you pick? The one that doesn't run out your battery before the egg is cooked! But how on earth do you even know which one that is in the current ecosystem?
Sometimes management needs to be tactfully reminded that they have the power to correct these things, but they need to be made aware and it needs to be done tactfully. I can see how you regretted not speaking up in front of a majority who seemed to bless the bad behavior by indulging in it, but if it happens again you may want to speak to your supervisor in private.

We hired a new guy who needed some education from the management on how NOT to speak to female colleagues on the team. He was assigned to some projects with a female colleague of equal position and pay, and he spoke to and treated her like a subordinate although she was not. He was doing this unwittingly and meant no true harm, but it was very insulting. This was likely another case of a youngster who didn't have much experience working with women on a team. It was brought to the management and they spoke with this new guy and his behavior changed immediately, he's now much easier to work with all around and everyone is happy about it. But if no one spoke to the management about the behavior, it would have gone on unchecked and probably escalated.
Because when you are in a business that follows a process you are in a business that can hide behind that process and no one has to accept responsibility.
Author here. I'm happy to answer any questions.
One of the few concrete functions of the Vice President once elected, is to serve as a more extreme alternative to the political positions of the President. That way, nobody opposed to the President's platform can assassinate the President in the hopes of killing that platform, because it will only be replaced with a worse version.

This is not the case in an across-the-aisle Presidency. There are lots of Paul supporters who would like to see Sanders dead, and a whole bunch of them have guns and are fond of out-of-the-box thinking about their liberty. I spent a few months participating in online communities associated with Ron Paul back in 2007; It was enlightening, though it left me feeling a little soiled.
Do you expect privacy in the workplace?

Do you expect privacy when you're in a shopping mall?

You're in a building controlled by someone else, no renting going on. What is your rule for when privacy is expected?
Has Europe Reached the Breaking Point?