skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
hn has an outspoken minority actively competing in the cheapskate olympics. everyone's circumstances are different, do what makes sense to you.

there's always some penny pinching proselytizer trying to tell other people how to live.

i find it better to focus on making more money.
Indeed, that and I like it's team -> project -> repository UI a great deal, even though I mostly work alone I can create a team for each client, multiple projects and repositories spread between them.

I've few complaints about bitbucket and when you consider it's still free for me it's insane (I've felt so bad by how much I used it I kinda wish they would charge a few bucks a month sometimes).
Scholars Criticize Academia.edu Proposal to Charge Authors for Recommendations
Apologies: I didn't think of that.

I had no idea what it was either, so I thought I was saving you a search.....
The US drone fleet was not more secure at that time. In 2008, recordings of drone feeds were discovered on the laptops of Shi’ite militants. Four years later, less than half the drone fleet had been upgraded to use encrypted video.

http://www.wired.com/2012/10/hack-proof-drone/
See the note in the article about the use of the phrase immortal instead of selfish. Simply, selfish was a poor word choice, not a literal statement of the action of genes.

Genes don't "choose" to mutate any more than they "are selfish"
> submit/upvote/downvote flow was so novel

What was the timeline again... Slashdot emerged in 1997, it developed voting on several different criteria, you could filter for "funny" or "insightful" posts, and it had a pretty sophisticated meta-moderation system.

Digg simplified that with up- and down-votes.

Reddit borrowed digg's model.

I'm not 100% sure what the innovation of reddit was at the time, but I feel like these three just had slightly different tones to their communities. Slashdot was the geek site, Digg had more jokes and politics, reddit was sort of... deliberative? The culture was a lot different back then, a bit more like this site.
Why not have an application process similar to YC?
Yeah, I had shit to do today. :( Thanks.
How to Start a Startup: Lectures (2014)
I'm not affiliated with this project but ucoin would be a great idea to fund. Basically combine basic income + Bitcoin - mining costs.

It requires a trust graph currently but a centralised authority would be ok in my view (we interact with them everyday - government organisations).

http://en.ucoin.io
In 1999(!) the earliest version of the C10k paper I tracked down had this to say:

And computers are big, too. You can buy a 500MHz machine with 1 gigabyte of RAM and six 100Mbit/sec Ethernet card for $3000 or so. Let's see - at 10000 clients, that's 50KHz, 100Kbytes, and 60Kbits/sec per client. It shouldn't take any more horsepower than that to take four kilobytes from the disk and send them to the network once a second for each of ten thousand clients. (That works out to $0.30 per client, by the way. Those $100/client licensing fees some operating systems charge are starting to look a little heavy!) So hardware is no longer the bottleneck.

(http://web.archive.org/web/19990508164301/http://www.kegel.c...)

If we haven't fixed the C10k problem with 17 years of hardware advancements, it's a pretty poor reflection on software engineering.
Sketch. I've transitioned my UI/UX workflow completely from Photoshop and haven't looked back. The hype is real and well-deserved.

Truman Capote's book - In Cold Blood. Also, The Great Gatsby. There are countless phrases littered throughout both where I just think 'fuck, that is really something'.

Keto. It's easy to stick to and I've consistently lost weight. I no longer have brain fog, bloating, and I can't even remember the last time I felt hungry or craved sugar.

Buddhism / meditation. It helps being thankful and to understand that there is something more to life than what is on the surface.

The Doors because, well, Jim Morrison.

Water. Seriously, drink more of it.
> You might be talking about some kind of Spectravision-style video scrambling

I think that's exactly what he means.

You're right, it's not intended to be cryptographically strong encryption in the modern sense. Scrambling (as I believe the term is being used here) prior to transmission often has practical purposes other than obfuscation, eg eliminating patterns in the signal that could interfere with the modulation scheme (for clock recovery). That it prevents casual eavesdropping is usually a side benefit, even though pay TV has tried to pass it off as a protection scheme.

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

Here is an interesting report (attached in TFA) on how they cracked one of the transmissions containing digital video: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2699848-S455N-Redact...
I have no idea what you're talking about.

As was pointed out in another comment[1], Goldman Sachs won the ensuing court case.

Which begs the question: Does the legal battle in fact, continue, or is the matter settled (in which case the parent's author is talking crap)?

Which is why I asked "Really?"

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10994872
Yeah that's pretty clever (I hasn't thought of it before either). Reminds me of another hack/trick I saw recently, where you just put :root in front of a selector to bump up its specificity.
A friend of my is a zealous adherent of "Rich Dad, Poor Dad". So much so, that the first thing he did after saving up enough money on his first real job, was to follow the book's advice: take out two mortgages and get two apartments. That was around early 2008. In my opinion that is a very shitty outcome: you're stuck with real estate in a stagnant market, bogged down by mortgage payments, and thus totally lacking any professional mobility. Your only choice is to wait out, rent out what you can, and hope to break even sometime in the next 20 years.

In my opinion, personal financial stability (and even prosperity) can be boiled down to a few simple rules:

1. Earn more money than you lose.

2. Be very careful with debt.

3. Take risks, but be very aware of the downsides.

4. If you have to invest, invest in yourself first (education, connections, etc.) and in securities second.
Sure. You have to start somewhere.
It is a Swift REPL. Do not confuse REPL with an interpreter.
>caused a mutation to make them more bland, this occurred in the 1940's before

Then why do so many people alive today complain about the taste and texture, since most ought not even know what a pre-1940 tomato tastes like?

>I always think it ironic to blame modern techniques

Blame the abuse of selective breeding and genetic modification.
Ridley's The Red Queen was a fascinating follow up after having read this. They both completely changed my world view.
Well depends on how you define valuable.

Tactical information usually means that by the time it's intercepted, analyzed and disseminated on its self is have very little value.

For example if we are at war right now the chatter between various units on a local scale isn't that important any information you might gain from them will not be useful to you as it will be out of date before you can do anything with it.

However if you capture the same tactical information over a long period of time during "peace time" from the same units during various military exercises you might gain some insight in the long run.

I don't think the US has gotten any real intelligence out of this, they probably knew that Israeli drones are capable of carrying weapons and while Israeli still does not allow armed drones to be used in combat (at least within the confines of Israel/Gaze/West Bank) having proof that they do at least experiment with armed drones and being able to shove if into the face of some Israeli politician when the time comes might have some value.

The biggest value I can think of is that Israel is the largest exporter of drones in the world and while most of it's export is to NATO countries (over 80% of NATO's non-US drones are supplied by Israel), it also sells drones to China and now Russia (please note that after the "Falcon" affair there is a US congressional oversight over Israeli arms exports, this is the only country that needs "US" approval to sell arms under certain circumstances), so it gives them a fairly good opportunity to train under more or less real world conditions for when they'll have to do it to some one that might slightly more mind their presence like say China.

On the other hand It would also not surprise me if Israel didn't knew about this and was quite interested in seeing what the can the US actually intercept from their drones, because as far as real life goes while the NSA/GCHQ might have been extremely proud of their work and boasting about how it can improve their national security some one from the CIA/DIA/DOD or even US congress could've take that report walk down to the Israeli Intelligence Attache in Washington and handed it out to them directly.
The last time I've done homework I gave the candidate a choice of problems. As in "pick one of these, solve the problem, and explain why you chose it".

Some were larger than others, some were very simple and straightforward while others were more amorphous.
I feel like the world runs on several billion dollars with of insecure code, like GNU/Linux, Apache, OpenSSL, OpenSSH, etc. This code will last decades, and YC startups in particular rely a lot on it.

It's not clear that the current processes for writing code and then patching security holes will bring us into the future. Powerful governments and companies are routinely hacked.

Can we move all this code to a secure future without rewriting it all?

On the other hand, there are existing efforts, like https://www.coreinfrastructure.org/

I'm not sure how well they are funded.
If the encryption is done badly, it's also sometimes possible to recover a shadow of an encrypted image from the cyphertext without actually decrypting it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_cipher_mode_of_operation...
Actually, you can count on wind. You can use weather prediction to know when it can and can't be there.

I heard the following quote recently, "I know what the price of fuel for wind will be for the next 20 years. I know what the price of natural gas was yesterday."

To us, it sounds like wind is intermittent. But that's fine; the wind is always blowing and the sun always shining somewhere (its transmission that needs to catch up). Non-renewable fuel coasts will always be unpredictable.
Yes, unfortunately, there are far too many people who do not care about using correct terminology.
They didn't change the UX and tank their site. That was their innovation, if we are being honest.
Of course, it is good to have realistic expectation and not bite the hand that literally feed you. But were comes this above reproach that the food industry enjoy ?

> Convenience, High Quality, Cheapness you can't have all three.

What about ... everything else that is usually discussed here on HN.
The food industry is as bad as the oil, banking, car, movie and music. It is generating a enormous amount of money, concentrated in few hands, is repeatedly involved in scandal, benefit from opaque government protections and regulations. There is 0 reason to think that the food that reach our table, is anything close to an optimum.
Hiring is definitely a good indicator of the bubble bursting because hiring indicates that startups are getting funding and they turn around and hire people. When the funding dries up, these same startups tighten the belt, the hiring drops and then the layoffs start.

A good indicator of a bubble in SF/SV startups is measuring the IT job market using local Craiglist and Dice job postings since startups heavily use them.

I used both websites on & off since the late 90s to find contract & permanent full-time jobs. Back then at the height of the dot-coms, the Dice home page showed 120,000+ jobs, right after the crash (2001-2003) that number fell to around 20,000-30,000. Now it's around 80,000.

On Craigslist, at the dot com height, the Software section for the Bay Area (https://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/sof) had so many job postings per day that the list of postings for that day would spill over to the next page (there are 100 listings per page). A year & a half ago (late 2014) there was a good amount of postings and I got a frenzy of replies when I contacted them. Now, there's only a handful of postings per day.
Not true, the study references both low skill and high skill jobs. Not to mention there's corporate taxes and other revenues that the government receives that they wouldn't otherwise from a foreign company.
Haha. If you look up the rowhammer exploit on wikipedia, the example is in assembly ;)
To answer my own question:

"swift" or "swiftc" w/o -frontend invokes the driver, which launches both the -frontend and other tools like ld.

The Swift REPL (Read-Eval-Print-Loop) acts like an interpreter. Valid statements, expressions, and declarations are immediately compiled and executed.
Hardly, if her married name wasn't Clinton, it would have made no more than a Friday afternoon page 18 story and then disappeared.

Of the terrible things perpetrated by US government officials, this doesn't even register in the top 20000.
The Tragic Data Behind Selfie Fatalities
Statisticians: When We Teach, We Don’t Practice What We Preach [pdf]
Very valid point from a couriers perspective. We will consider and safe and systematic way to do this so we don't run into cases where a courier claims an import duties were collected when that wasn't the case. Definitely appreciate all the valid concerns you bring up.
You are right. In the case of LCAs, the employer do not have to prove that they did not find a qualified citizen worker.
Swiss government proposes paying everyone £1,700 a month
Browser JS insertion on HTTP is pretty novel; it was done with ad networks a few times, but never at the scale of the GitHub/Great Cannon attack. Using an existing botnet certainly was fine, but for most sites, blocking botnet IPs doesn't cause as much collateral damage as blocking compromised-browser IPs.

If you did a watering hole attack, doing JS injection on a really popular "show HN" post on HN, against HN, you'd be effective in getting HN to block the IPs of a large percentage of real users, which would hurt, even if HN could repel the attack entirely. Blocking 50k random botnet IPs wouldn't really affect many regular HN readers.
sklogic is right.
I'm working on this as a startup called Fearless.

http://FearlessVR.com
> Then why do you think that American workers, orders of magnitude richer than the Chinese, should be made even richer?

Because that's in the interest of their fellow citizens, since those citizens can vote to influence decisions that concern them, not the chinese. I don't think an american want a chinese to fail, but I don't think an american citizen really holds the fate of chinese people, and I don't think anybody should pretend otherwise. That's mainly about doing things that concerns you, and things that you can reach. The state of the chinese economy is in the hands of the chinese.

What I mean is that those decision are beyond the grasp or citizens and politicians. People should care about their own first, others second. Trade is fine, as long as there is no loss on your side. Maybe some want to believe that the world is one uniform place, but the reality of politics say otherwise. Sometimes you have to come back to basic strategy and realities.
You forgot "trying to understand WTF the clients need built".
Oh.... I thought you were talking about curves in the routes programmed into the flight computer!

AFAIK, stealth planes use all flat surfaces and no curves because a curved surface is more likely to reflect a signal from an active radar beam back in the direction of the detector instead of somewhere else.

If you shine a flashlight beam on a reflective sphere, you will always see a tiny spot of reflected light somewhere on the surface. If you shine a light beam on a perfectly flat surface, and it is not angled correctly, you will not see the reflection.

So stealth surfaces are designed to be as black (to radar frequencies) as possible, and as flat as possible. And if possible, you should make as many of your flat surfaces parallel to one another as you can manage, because each one sends a reflection of a radar beam to a new spot, and you don't want the spots to be widely dispersed.

In order to classify a radar reflection as natural or artificial, you have to detect it first.
> absent any other agreement

The user agreement includes perpetual, irrevocable license to reproduce content you submit to Reddit.
Where's the Linode founder(s) in all this, and why couldn't they have kept customers informed? It seems like a lone network engineer has been left to deal with a potentially company destroying event.
Maybe it takes too long because the salary you're offering is too low.
That $1 bid was someone who wanted to do the project for free. Just thought that should be disclosed.

"I figured it would be cool to be a part of this first micro-purchase experiment and demonstrate that there are people — at least one but I think a lot more — willing and excited to help out on meaningful, civic-minded initiatives," he said in an interview with Federal Times. "I love working on little web projects in my free time. This is $1 more than I make on those and this one actually helps people."

http://www.federaltimes.com/story/government/acquisition/gsa...

https://18f.gsa.gov/2015/11/06/micro-purchase-lessons/

https://github.com/18F/calc/pull/256
> Early in tortoise evolution there are HUGE benefits to a male that doesn't flip his buddies over and gets all the ladies as a result.

I believe Dawkins would argue this doesn't result in an evolutionarily stable strategy. Refer to chapter 10 of the Selfish Gene, I think it directly answers the concerns you have.
I'm pretty sure that PoC||GTFO is the successor to Phrack (at least in spirit). They list pastor@phrack.org as the submissions address.
Ask HN: My Chrome Extension got taken down
My Tilepad chrome extension (http://tilepad.co) recently got taken down. I couldn't get any official response from the google support team.

--8<--
Your Google Chrome item, "TilePad", with ID: jglhlhdkfaejllkkbcolnkcehcnpcjpf did not comply with our policies and was removed from the Google Chrome Web Store.
Your item did not comply with the following section of our policy: An extension should have a single purpose that is clear to users.
...
Please reply to this email for issues regarding this item removal.
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--8<--
I don't understand what is wrong with my extension. I've tried to reply but no answers.
Any idea how I can get it back? Should I try to submit my extension as a new one?
Close enough it's even worse since with video you have to preserve the frame structure so even less of the "data" is actually encrypted.

The scrambling/encryption it self is not ECB but when you brute force the keys you get the same effect as ECB encryption and images, you basically then run some basic analysis usually FFT which alerts you that a candidate image has been reconstructed if it's good enough you can take it, if it's not the correct value usually can be then guesstimated based on the key that has generated an image that cam close enough.

This is how these systems tend to work
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conditional_access
Microsoft grabs ex-Google and Facebook brains for unstructured SQL engine
This is really suspect. Note these two quotes:

"Orison will automatically store energy when utility rates are low, and then use that energy to power your home or business when rates are high. During a power outage, it will automatically power your home or business and make sure none of your stored energy is sent back to the grid."

and:

"Simply plug it in like you would any other appliance, and you’re done. Orison automatically begins working. No permits, construction, or wiring required."

Unless your home already has a transfer and isolation switch installed [which would require permits, wiring, and possibly construction], "simply plugging" this in will not prevent power from being back fed to the grid during a power outage. Which right there would be a violation of the electrical code in most locations. Why? Because homes back-feeding the grid during outages result in an electrocution risk for any linemen working on restoring the grid to operation.

So, as described, this will never meet electrical code requirements, and "simply plugging it in" would be a huge safety and possibly legal issue for the owner.
Free trade with China has undoubtedly destroyed US manufacturing jobs, and therefore significantly affected the working and lower middle class, which makes (or made) up most of the people.
China has always implemented protectionist policies. The US government committed the same mistake of the Brits many years ago, by assuming free trade meant a level playing field and everyone would stick to the rules. In reality, you just end up giving away economic power to those nations who will happily subsidise their exports whilst penalising imports.
Yes, while the crowd is large, the demonstration is lengthy so people do mill around the machine. You can get quite close and get pretty much any view of the machine you want while it is in operation.

Totally brings this to life: http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2247
Buuut, TSG does not say evolution operates at the level of individuals.

Furthermore I don't see how your turtle flipping example negates the TSG idea. (but I'm very far from an expert on the topic)
The soylent point is definitely of some substance although I don't know if it's quite potable.

All puns aside. That would be a much better alternative to feeding prisoners the food they currently get. It would be much more balanced and fair.
This is true if you are from the country, but if you are a recent immigrant you are treated as though you are a bankrupt.

If credit scores were really based on risk they would look at the default risk of immigrants as a group (maybe using things like country of origin, education level, and job status to fine tune) and start the score to reflect the real risk rather than starting at zero.
Somewhat related, I've been pleasantly surprised by the number of design manuals that US and other government agencies are releasing. Some notable favorites are:

* CIO: https://playbook.cio.gov/designstandards/

* CFPB: https://cfpb.github.io/design-manual/

* GOV.UK: http://govuk-elements.herokuapp.com/

Hope to see more open gov open source projects in the future.
> It's amazing how long Reddit existed before rolling out a mobile app.

This isn't their first mobile application, it's their new one. The original one is six years old:

https://github.com/reddit/iReddit
Avocados have to be harvested green since there is only about a 45 minute window of ripeness before they are hopelessly rotten. /s
No, but it's likely they all need to be cleared for Top Secret / SCI. Those don't exactly grow on trees, and a lot of them are former military.
You might enjoy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10859383
No offense taking. You bring up very valid points and concerns and they are all things that we've considered and are working on. We have answers to some, and there are still a lot of questions we don't have clear cut answers to but the fastest way to have something safe and secure for people to use is for us to expose all the cracks and quickly fix it. We appreciate all your questions amazon_not. Please keep it coming.
If you want to fight corruption, the best traction I've seen so far is Mayday PAC. It's not going that well. It might be helpful for you to read what they've tried and learned so far.
+1 for 18F. I'd even dig "18F Labs".
It is Minority Report minus the precogs, so I vote for options one and three.
"the digital information in a gene is effectively immortal"

I'm having a tough time with this part; the information is clearly NOT immortal. It changes.

[ btw, looks like dang got here before you did ; thanks, dude ]