skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dropcams could be illegal in many states in this case since they can record audio... but laws should be updated to include video. (see two-party/all-party consent states: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_recording_laws#Unite... )
The reference Wikipedia gives for that does not actually say that the original “cat” only took one file name. What is says is that “cat”s predecessor, “pr”, only took one file name, and that “cat” subsumed it.

How’s that for pedantry?
>From the animation on FairPhone site, I counted 17 screws and 6 standoff. How many people, who would not even try to repair their phone will find this easy enough to start repairing their phone?

So we developed into society where 17 screws is such a major problem to deal with it... Also people who wouldn't not even try to repair their phone will not try even if there is no screw.

In my opinion such phone should appeal to what you call geeky crowd and from there it should initiate some social change (probably via media such as Internet) where changing 17 screws will not be difficult task but highly rewarding in terms of being human and hardware/cost wise. After that it should spread to people and with it the hardware becomes industrial standard (parts at least) so the price of changing goes down both in cost and finding them.
Although I'm happy to admit that there was no major public pushback against CISA because no one in the public cared, I'm not convinced that it had public support or positive media coverage. I typed "CISA" into Google news, and these were first articles and opinion pieces that came up on the mainstream (not tech-related) news sites. (I couldn't find any positive publicity at all.)

--

Washington Times: "ISA cyber bill squeezed into omnibus spending plan | Lawmakers have contentious cybersecurity legislation into an omnibus spending plan..."

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/dec/16/cisa-cyber-b...

Huffington Post: "Congress Ties Controversial Cybersecurity Bill To Key Spending Package | And critics are not happy about it."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/cisa-omnibus-spending-bi...

The Guardian: "Congress just revived the surveillance state in the name of 'cybersecurity'"

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/dec/16/congres...

CNN: "Congress, don't be fooled by cybersurveillance bill"

http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/18/opinions/polis-cybersecurity-l...

International Business Times: "Controversial Cybersecurity Bill CISA Passes House, Takes One Step Closer To Becoming Law"

http://www.ibtimes.com/controversial-cybersecurity-bill-cisa...

Washington Times: "Lawmakers line up to complain about last-minute inclusion of cyber bill CISA in omnibus"

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/dec/17/lawmakers-li...
Interestingly enough, it's also completely illegal in the US to de-auth a WiFi client which is exactly what this is doing and the disclaimer is hardly accurate:

"It may be illegal to use this script in the US."

There's no "may" about it. It is illegal:

https://www.fcc.gov/document/warning-wi-fi-blocking-prohibit...

Two wrongs really don't make a right. Without physically locating the camera you have no idea what is being deauthed. It could be a camera monitoring a locked (unavailable to the guest) room or even a neighbors camera. Not everyone out there is a perv and there are entirely legitimate and expected uses for WiFi cameras which are not creepy.

It would be better to locate the camera and if in a location where privacy is expected, simply call the police because who knows how many other victims there may have been and who knows how creepy the person who put it there is.
Developer Tools that depends completely on your browser
I picked up a chromebook for my daughter the other day and was looking for web based programming apps. I came across "Run Marco", built using Blockly, which is fairly basic at this point but seems to be under active development.

https://www.allcancode.com/runmarco

(in the CWS https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/run-marco/objdeaib... )

Worth checking out if you have a child and you're looking for a lightweight web based programming intro.
As a counterpoint, you can do an absolutely absurd amount of good with this kind of money. With a salary of 250k, you could donate 150k to charity, and still be quite well off.

I like to go by effectiveness estimates from www.givewell.org. One of the charities they approve of is GiveDirectly (www.givedirectly.org), which makes direct cash transfers to people living in extreme poverty. They feel confident in the claim that the average person receiving money from GiveDirectly lives on the equivalent of about $0.66 (U.S) per day[1]. GiveDirectly has an organizational overhead of about 15%.

Another charity they like, the Against Malaria Foundation (AMF), distributes anti-malarial bednets. The nets cost something in the ballpark of $5-6 to make and distribute[2], including organizational overhead. They make a much more tentative estimate that each $2,800 sent to the AMF results in about one life saved[3] (of a child under 5).

So, by donating 150k, you could plausibly:

1) Double the yearly income of about 531 people

(66c * 365 = $240)

($150,000 * 0.85 (efficiency) / $240) = 531

2) More tentatively, save the lives of about 53 children.

($150,000 / $2,800) = 53.6

GiveDirectly Estimate Source:

[1] http://www.givewell.org/International/top-charities/give-dir...

AMF Estimate Sources:

[2] http://www.givewell.org/International/top-charities/amf#Cost...

[3] http://www.givewell.org/International/top-charities/amf#Cost...

*Edit: Formatting corrections
I can't stand tooltips. Either they have a delay and it takes forever for you to get them to appear so you can read them all or they appear instantly and are always obstructing your view when mousing over tools. Besides that, a great many programs use hotkeys for their various functions/tools and NEGLECT to include those hotkeys within the tooltip description. Ugh.
Edit: Sorry for causing some confusion about if this is using docker or not. There is no reference to docker in the docs.
Well he seems like an unbiased observer. "Hey California, you should use that settlement money to accelerate the rollout of the product I sell."
Design and Use of Pushbutton Telephone Sets (1960)
Safer only in the sense that there's less shrapnel from the bins themselves, which is part of the reason why trash bins make such terrifying bombs in the first place. However, drop a bunch of nails and other shrapnel with your bomb, and the effect is now potentially greater because there's no shell to take most of the blast. I think the more modern bins that have very narrow openings are probably better from a safety point-of-view, since most trash is rather small anyway and terrorist bombs seem to mostly be rather clunky affairs. The split bins that have specific openings for things like papers, cups, and petty trash, are even better since they add an environmental aspect.

It bugged me so much to walk through for instance Liverpool Street Station, or others, and not finding a trash bin to throw away whatever petty trash I'd collected on the way (napkins, chewing gum etc.) When someone pointed out the terrorism aspect of trash bins it was a bit of a revelation to me, and since then I've had much more respect for the people involved in street planning, including the design of public trash bins and such.
Hofstadter's Law is my favorite law of all time:

"It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law."

— Douglas Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Hieroglyphics and demotic are the same writing system using the same letters. They're like print and cursive.
Yeah, kismet and/or airscan are pretty much the two go-to tools for wifi security auditing.

Kali Linux (can run from a bootable live image) has these two plus a whole lot more useful tools for doing this kind of thing.
I think this list reinforces the fact that there's only one reasonable presidential candidate on each party's ticket.
"Significantly more than $1.7m to build a roundabout"

No. Look again. The quoted text says "$1.7 million to design and build the roundabouts". Plural. That was three roundabouts, not one, on "51st Ave S, Renton Ave S and S Roxbury ST". And some of the objections you just now raised have been addressed in links I gave earlier, including examples of SDOT proposals for roundabouts in urban Seattle.

I give up. You have decided on your answer and no real-world information will change your personal beliefs. You win.
The CSS vertical-align property explained
The original vulnerability report is already on Hacker News at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10747267 .
OP is talking about Smart DNS which is a consumer product aimed at bypassing geo-restrictions.

Used by people to get US Netflix when not actually in the US.
Video was 404 at Dropbox.
I'm fairly sure he is content with the states defining it. I'm not sure I've heard whether or not he'd do anything concerning what the supreme court decided.

Follow up: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/06/rand-paul-comments-gay...
Beside the legal issues I fear that this is a risk in a way that it could create a false sense of security. I.e. non-technical people thinking "this will make sure I'm not filmed" while this isn't the case.
There can be cameras not affected by the script, cameras with cables, cameras with their own storage etc. pp. Of course everyone here will say "that's obvious", but I'm not sure this is obvious for everyone.
That looks real nice! Glad someone is working on making Scratch do functions and stuff, because it's being used for teaching in many schools here in UK.
Also, having just cloned it from https://github.com/jmoenig/Snap--Build-Your-Own-Blocks/ , it appears that you just put host it with normal web server; none of that Adobe Air needed, unlike the newer Scratch versions.
Can you explain why you think Bob Kahn is against net neutrality (whereas Vint Cerf is for it)? I am not that familiar with this issue and the other sides arguments (against), but there are prominent people there.
Website of free writing and publishing resources
Given that that is EFF's description of the bill, nope, I think you should.
Exactly, he (unfortunately) feels like he has to say these types of things to pander to the typical Republican voter. However, he's one of the only people out there talking about the real issue: should government be involved in the marriage business at all? Sure, Paul says some seemingly nutty stuff, but if we judge based on his voting record, he's easily the strongest Republican on personal liberty and right to privacy (not to mention a sane foreign policy).
If all one wants out of Zsh are the smart tab completions then msys2 is lighter weight alternative. I have found babun a bit laggy.
In Germany the scam has been picked up by non-legal scammers (as opposed to the legal scammers you mention) who send out letters to ask you to pay but they have nothing to do with the copyright holders at all.
>overpriced memory (DDR2)

If you aren't buying stuff like this on eBay, you are doing it wrong. A 4GB stick is less than $10 including shipping (new, even) whereas the cheapest 4GB module on newegg is over $70.
use startpage.com - anonymized Google results and they don't track IP
He’s already under investigation, but you can’t fire him until that’s proven.

Letting him resign allows VW to rebuild a lot earlier.
They are already being forced to -- California already has a ZEV mandate, and VW is selling the Golf EV here. This would just accelerate the process.
Unity3d 5.3 build for linux is out
IITM develops carbon ‘nanotube’ that helps kill cancer cells
Lose 10 lbs in 2 weeks
Project MKUltra
Negative emotions are deep and profound. Positive ones are silly and trite. To smile or be happy is the least sexy thing a person can do, and negative articles get a few orders of magnitude more clicks than positive ones.

It's the old "if you mistake a bush for a lion that's fine, but if you mistake a lion for a bush you are dead" cognitive bias. I've thought for a long time that it manifests in art via shock, negativity, outrage, etc. being a cheap route to profundity. You have to work hard to make positive art profound because the bar is higher... you don't get the easy free profundity points negativity gives you.
Brother HL 2460 Driver Download
Requirements != Expectations
All of these stories are just press hits for people like Amash and Wyden, whose PR strategies involve courting Internet privacy supporters.

There's nothing at all wrong with that.

Certainly, even when I disagree with them, I'd rather read Wyden and Amash talking points than hearing about why we should kill the families of ISIS members. And I mostly agree with Wyden!

But it's just worth remembering that no matter what had happened with CISA and PCNA, there were always going to be these stories. You take press hits when you can get them, and these were lay-up press hits.

The House and Senate bills passed with overwhelming support and significant media coverage, and Obama backed the bill. Nobody is hiding.
> In fact, try to constantly find many small changes that your team should make, just to keep them on their toes.

I worked for someone early in my career who followed every item on that list, especially this one. It made me pause -- I thought it was just him.

But thanks to the experience I've completely lost my taste for this kind of management; give me the specs and the authority to make small executive decisions and I'll get it done (that's what you're supposed to be paying me for). It is definitely demoralizing, and is a great way to lose your employees.
Xmas Drones – Guide to the Best (non-knockoff) Drones on Amazon
No, he was fired, he just continues to get paid.

This would be true for almost any worker in Europe, unless you could prove in court that he/she had been grossly incompetent -- and such a case could drag on for years and cost as much as the severance pay.
I'll bet you there are tons more unintentional vulnerabilities than actual backdoors. The state of secure software is so poor that you only need to install an actual "backdoor" if you don't have the money to throw a couple of security researchers at it for a few weeks.
I upgraded the SSD in my Macbook Pro Retina myself, using a relatively cheap replacement (not sourced from Apple). As for the RAM, at some future date when 16GB is inadequate, I suspect the graphics card, CPU and bus performance will also be inadequate, so it's better to upgrade the whole lot together and sell the Mac as an unadulterated unit. Mac resale value is far higher than PC kit. It's not a false economy to spend more to get a Mac, if you consider the TCO. Plus, if my Mac has problems, I just take it to one of the many nearby stores. Even out of warranty, they'll do a lot for free.

My arguments sound elitist? That doesn't bother me at all, I'm afraid.
Related, Non-transitive dice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nontransitive_dice
The amount of traction Elixir has gained in the last year is amazing, but not completely surprising, as it's fullfilling its promise of being a better Rails, in which Erlang's scalable parallelism model plays a big role.
Buy the ETF, Not the Mutual Fund
Why start again as a glorified code monkey? From a similar pattern and ten years down your line, you might want to consider exploiting programming techniques within your hard-earned domain expertise to make the biggest impact.
Hrmf, and your sentence isn't a hyperbole?

I mean, if we extend your logic, we should monitor everyone at all times because someone might just accidentally do something to hurt your child right? You never know why an extremely rare event like you mentioned could happen.
Don't forget that those 250k are pre-taxes, and salary in Ukraine is usually quoted after tax afaik.
Thanks very much for info. Much appreciated.

Agreed that the EFF risks its reputation when it freely uses hyperbolic language. But I think some of this is due to (mostly philosophical) difference about how much we should worry about granting vague powers to the government which are mostly not abused. People similarly differ in how fiercely they fight free speech restrictions, etc.
In my opinion it's better to replace `cat FOO | more` with `< FOO more`, because cat is used because people first think that they want to take contents of some file and pass it through some filter.
Because clients connected to a "hidden" SSID broadcast -in cleartext- that AP's SSID in many frames that they and the AP transmit as a normal part of operation, [0] deactivating SSID broadcasts gains you no security, a fair bit of inconvenience, and -potentially- reduced battery life when you move out of range of the AP as the client spams "are you here?" messages, rather than taking the absence of SSID broadcasts as a sign that it's out of range of the AP.

Now, you could "hide" your SSID to reduce the number of SSIDs that appear in a WiFi network browser in a congested area... but that's a thing that -IMO- doesn't get you much for the hassle.

For security, either use WPA2-Personal in AES/CCMP-only mode with a long, randomly-generated password, or WPA2-Enterprise [1] in the same mode.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_cloaking#False_Sense_o...

[1] Maybe even with client authorization through certs! :D
As I read this, I can't help but think it might have taken a fraction of the time if implemented in Meteor.
If you're going to use quotation marks when referring to something I said, you should actually quote me, instead of making stuff up.
Warsow 2.0 is released
My favorite clause...

"(e) Prohibited conduct -- Nothing in this title shall be construed to permit price-fixing, allocating a market between competitors, monopolizing or attempting to monopolize a market, boycotting, or exchanges of price or cost information, customer lists, or information regarding future competitive planning."

Does this imply it could have been construed that way without this clause?
Great summation, although I read all of it before I had to recap. It's great that Cloudflare is open sourcing their work on the bypass network kernel space and we can be assured about how it holds in in production since they have the platform to battle test on.
The road to here is littered with Dataflow attempts. I am thinking in particular of the Transputer and the Hypercube, though I also came across several others that never made it out of the lab. I have a design bucket list of my own - back in 2000-5 I designed a Dataflow graphical progamming "language" we called VNOS. Its really nice (of course I'm biassed:). But that list of mine is waiting for me to get the time and energy to build a hardware version of VNOS out of a large array of very tiny CPUs, with VNOS as the programming and operations UI. FPGA tech passed my requirements a few years ago, all I need now is the time, money, and energy

But DF has always had this uphill battle against the traditional Control flow paradigms, which all the major development methodologies support. Procedural programmers have problems grokking it. Naive non-programmers love it, but they have no say in the industry.

One has to wonder if now MS is spending serious time looking at programming with Petri nets it might finally get some mainstream traction.
Search either app store for 'baby monitor' and take your pick. I can't remember the name of the one we settled on when my son was born earlier this year but all of the ones I tried worked reasonably well.
[Every language should come with a "minimum" instruction set. A curated subset]

OP is referring to 'get started' documentation, not to the language itself being minimal-size.
Have you looked at Alice?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_(software)
I think the underlying worry here is very legitimate.

But my interest is in making sure we know the truth as precisely as we can, and I believe nobody is well-served by the propagation of falsehoods, even when the falsehoods support a valid narrative.
That's a bogus argument. Any flagship phone from Samsung or Lenovo will make the same tradeoffs that Apple does between thinness/weight and user-servicability.

In any case, you suggest Samsung/Lenovo phones take 10 minutes for a battery replacement. The iPhone 6 takes just four minutes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgmtNJuqEHI
Link to the script: https://julianoliver.com/output/log_2015-12-18_14-39
A few years ago I worked for the .coop registrar (poptel) before the launch we had an amusing brainstorming session to produce the banned list of words for the launch.
Facebook or Google searching their own data isn't a search under the 4th amendment. All that data analysis they run on you is their data not yours.

Them searching your private messages/emails are (probably) a search but since they aren't government the 4th amendment doesn't apply. If government specifically coordinates that brings it under the 4th amendment.

But--here is the problem. Google (and I assume facebook) are already reading your email. They run algorithms and text searches on it. If I were DOJ I'd argue 1) that none of those messages are private since the companies are allowed to read the data whenever they want. 2) if not, then the indexing and analysis is definitely not private.

People should step back and realize this CISA only occurs when you already let companies violate your privacy.
In defense of the "Performance Considerations" against postgres, I worked on a team that had a BI guy that regularly wrote giant multi page queries using WITH statements.

The main database was IBM DB2 9.7 on RHEL and it had about 3 months (800GB) of data in it (we pruned it nightly). We had a "reporting" database that was postgres 9.3 or 9.4 (can't remember). It was the same schema but was never pruned. It had about 15 billion rows total and about 5TB of data. About 700GB was indexes. The same query when ran on DB2 took 12 hours, on postgres (5x more data) it took 24 hours.

The query plans were mostly identical (neither one did much to optimize the WITH statements). The speed difference seemed to come from Postgres just accessing the disk better.

When doing an index scan, the disk read speed was about 80MBs, while DB2 was 10MBs. Full table scans in Postgres were between 180-220MBs while DB2 was around 60MBs. Same storage too (netapp over nfs). DB2 was using direct IO so it like to read in 4k chunks, but even disabling that didn't help much.
SpiderOak's experimental Kloak provides such a system.

Encrypted pub/sub social will be the only way to ensure privacy, long-term. (Other than purely anonymous networks, which have other use cases.)
> and still have deep emotional impact from all kinds of stuff

Amen. Wish its more common than commonly perceptible.
Non technical people are going to run shell scripts?
Would the downvote care to elaborate? Why would the nature of the asset imbalance absolve capitalism itself?
Cheap, fast, good. You can only have two.
I think the "big deal" about CISA is that it essentially gives the heads of state the ability to say "cybersecurity threat indicator" and by so doing collect any information or spy on any system they wish without warrant or any other form of informed oversight.
"I'm eagerly awaiting the market's return to phones that you can actually fit in your human-sized hands. Bigger is not always better."

I never bought a smartphone because I never wanted to carry around huge devices ... for the last few years I have used a motorola F3 ("moto fone")[1]. I loved this phone.

It finally broke, however, so I was forced to buy a modern phone, and I found the Neptune "pine"[2] which is a phone-watch, but you can detach it from the watch band and it essentially becomes a very, very tiny full featured android phone.

I have been using it for about two months and it is great - it's basically a very tiny hotspot device that I use for mobile wifi and bluetooth, etc., and it works great as a phone ... and texting/typing isn't ideal, but it works.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Fone

[2] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/neptune/neptune-pine-sm...