skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The IDF absolutely knows that their old drone video feeds were insecure. They didn't need The Intercept to tell them that.

As for your second question, there is no actual debate about whether NSA should hoard/exploit or "fix" vulnerabilities in foreign signals intelligence. Their charter is to exploit. That's what SIGINT is.

The debate is whether NSA should be required to fix vulnerable infrastructure when that infrastructure is used by US commercial infrastructure. That's not what's happening here.
Like cameras on the street that capture aggressive lane changing coupled with license plate readers?

What's next - thought crime?
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> These little quips like yours usually come from people who have never taught a diverse group of students before, and they are condescending to people who dedicate their lives to teaching others.

I've been a high school teacher the past 12 years.
The article also mentions that so I'm guessing the questioner is looking for other examples.
Two If statements, no nesting

vs.

Three If statements, 1 level deep nesting

To me, the first option is clearly simpler and more readable.	Then again, looking at the second option I notice immediately that I can dismiss it if wrapper happens to be false. But it really depends on what the other code lines contain.
My best friend is a devout atheist and he likes to quote dawkins and hitchens and other high priests of his religion. I use these terms purposefully. He's every bit as fervent as any hell fire and brimstone Baptist.

Yeah, I know what you mean. I am an atheist, but not what I call a "militant atheist", or a "Dawkins / Hitchens acolyte". I believe (or dis-believe) what I believe, but I'm not worried about getting in other people's faces and contesting things with them. The only time I care what other people believe is when you get into situations where people try to use the hammer that is government, to force their religious beliefs on people who don't share those beliefs.

I consider myself to be an agnostic at the moment mostly due to a lack of options. I don't consider it to be a "weasel term".

Yeah, I could have worded that better. I'd say it was a "weasel term" for me to call myself agnostic, as I really was an atheist all along. I just wasn't quite confident enough to really state it firmly, and also I think I thought that saying "agnostic" instead of "atheist" was less likely to provoke conflict (again, living in the Bible Belt, with lots of friends and family who are very religious).

I have nothing against the term agnostic in general, I just realized I was using it to avoid the issue.
It's a crazy world we live in right? Many people are donated phones and you can buy them for $30 or so at the local supermarkets. It's not so easy to find accommodation and food.
https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/2o6yp8/brainfck_in_ru... was one of them
And all of them Darwin Award nominees...
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Depends where you live I suppose, Have a couple of local chicken shops that make great roast chickens, and of course supermarket ones nearby. I'm in Australia though, and I suspect our experience is different from the US.
Author here, and I agree that using templates for complex code generation is a mess. However, it's a popular mess in some branches of high performance computing right now, especially for dealing with the transition to execution on GPUs. If you're stuck in C++ and want abstraction without runtime cost, templates are what you've got. An alternative option is to step outside of C++ and write a compiler or source-to-source translator in a more suitable language (the direction we've gone since), but that means existing C++ programs can't just drop in your DSL as a library without adding more bits to their toolchain.

If you do decide to make a complex library based on template meta-programming, you inevitably end up needing a meta-meta language to help build it because templates are so ill-suited to the task (especially before C++ 11). Many template-based libraries (like Eigen, http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/) have chosen to use preprocessor macros as that meta-meta language; we decided Racket was a better choice and this paper is our exploration of how that might work. I suppose an interesting takeaway is that even if user constraints force you to implement your DSL compiler as a template meta-program, you can still use an outside meta-meta language to help create the templates.

The statements regarding debuggability make two claims that I think are correct, if not particularly strong: 1. using Fulmar as a meta-meta language produces a more readable template meta-program to examine than do preprocessor macros; 2. Fulmar can catch some errors at the meta-meta level and provide nice errors (section 4.5) in places you might have otherwise received the nasty template expansion errors (again unlike preprocessor macros).
Yeah, always liked the idea since I saw ErgoQuests zero gravity workstations - http://www.ergoquest.com/zero-gravity-workstations.html - a few year back.

But 4000-5000 is a little bit too much for me personally.
Command line tool for Socket.io benchmarking and stress testing
They would usually get towed for that
Sure. But a Caesar Cipher is also not encryption "in the modern sense". I was wondering whether you were talking about a property of some input domain to a modern cipher, or some hacky scrambling system used in lieu of a modern cipher --- and it's the latter, right?
Architecting shock & awe into a product experience
I 99% believe this is just a modern day "A Modest Proposal", but at the same time, there is a part of me that could believe someone is actually serious.
The base types are "unsigned int", "negative int", "binary data", "UTF-8 string", an array of said items, a map (key,value) of said items, extended types (up to 2^64) and tags (again, up to 2^64). There are only 8 "extended types" currently defined (false, true, null, undefined, half float (IEEE 16b), single float (IEEE 32b) and double float (IEEE 64b) and break (used to terminate streaming data)), leaving plenty unused values for future expansion.

Tags are used to apply meta information to a piece of datum. For example, you can tag a UTF-8 string as a URL or tag an array with a reference so it can be referred to elsewhere in the CBOR encoded data (an extension defined by the IETF but outside RFC-7049).
Ok, that's a good point. Thanks!
Which is why you do not blog about them and communicate quietly with your customers.
It's technology related
> blackholing is a blunt but crucial weapon in our arsenal, giving us the ability to ‘cut off a finger to save the hand’ – that is, to sacrifice the customer who is being attacked in order to keep the others online

There is something very ironic about this. They have a policy which instead of addressing the problem actively assists anyone wanting to attack their customers. No surprise that these customers have been complaining about this practice for a long time. But until now it was Somebody Else's Problem so they didn't bother figuring out some proper (or at least less terrible) solution. Now this lack of preparedness bit them in the ass...
Most of the national brands make whole fat yogurts with no added sugar or thickeners.
Yes, I guess in the right light a selfish gene operating locally ends up promoting cooperative behavior for exactly the reason suggested to the local detriment of the individual (It is just that there is unlikely to be any single gene that can do that). It would be interesting to see what the carrying capacity of such defector genes is as a function of population size. I usually interpret 'selfish' to mean genes that produce defectors (ie no flip) since there is a local benefit to the organism (and thus the gene itself over short timescales) but Dawkins does use it a bit more broadly. I still find implying telos to genes is misleading since the same gene (allele) can produce opposite effects when surrounded by different environments and thus any function it may appear to serve is not intrinsic but conditional.
It wasn't hard for me to register my LLC for a DUNS number, and I don't recall any sort of onerous verification process, but I also used the free signup for gov't contractors[1]. It still strikes me as extremely strange that government contracts require registration with a private entity—seems like it should be done through the OMB or SBA or something. Be forewarned that if you register a DUNS entity, DnB will hound you with worthless phone calls offering "value added" services (possibly including unnecessary paid "verification"); best to use a Google voice number or a line to which you can otherwise apply a blacklist.

1. http://fedgov.dnb.com/webform/displayHomePage.do
> Minority Report minus the precogs

Unfortunately, there is a huge push right now to create exactly this kind of "pre-crime" nonsense. Don't ignore the "serious proposal" possibility, because other people are treating it seriously. A lot of it is snake oil and wishful thinking, but that never stopped a bad idea from being adopted.

https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7457-predicting_crime_in_a_big_d...
I wrote a long step-by-step article about what you need to do [1]. It is written for Australian companies, but only a couple of steps need to be changed for any other country.

1. https://www.tillett.info/2015/12/01/how-to-register-an-austr...
With this updating process when the update process itself is vulnerable is "tricky", I know but you can avoid those nasty things by:

1) Using secure and let's say trusted VPN and then all your connections are going to be encrypted by default
2) Update your applications in trusted environment like your home network

There is only one thing to remember - don’t connect to public Wi-Fi Hotspots unless you know what you do.
Yeah, The Red Queen was great. Some other good related titles are Sperm Wars, The Evolution Of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating, and The Mating Mind.
In this instance, a timely fashion means you sort out the security and legal issues before you start shipping.

I don't care how much anybody wants or needs this service. If you mess this up you will completely fubar a person's life.

You do NOT start a service like this by winging it. You start it by talking to lawyers, lots of lawyers, and government officials. You dot your i's and cross your t's and then when you have a complete handle on the issues you start executing.

You'd have done better joining a law firm and not a startup accelerator.
Systemd mounted efivarfs read-write, allowing motherboard bricking via 'rm'
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>in the modern sense, encryption, with an actual cipher, must necessarily take digital inputs.

thats the thing - you cant go digital on lossy analog channel without sacrificing bandwidth (for FEC).
This article seems a little tech-centric. Products don't tend to flourish based purely on technical merit, and there could be many reasons why that product has thrived other than network effects, e.g. aggressive pricing strategies, good sales team, good marketing, brand awareness from customers, switching costs for the restaurant, the health of the food service industry, or perhaps it doesn't bring in enough customers for it to be a priority for restaurateurs, etc etc.

If shitty products tend to thrive it's probably more often due to industry lifecycles, incumbent dominance, solidification of position via acquisitions etc, and the difficulties of innovating in large organisations
Yes open source projects do, and Kinto is currently a well supported project at Mozilla. The folks who made Kinto are awesome, and do awesome things at Mozilla, but my personal experience from working at Mozilla is that Mozilla is an awesome steward of open source projects for users. The devtools team is doing a much better job of becoming stewards of tools for developers, but Mozilla has traditionally been less than ideal steward of projects for use by third parties.
A rare two hour Github outage isn't enough to make anyone on my team want to start dicking around with internal tools.
Oh wow! That takes me back. One of the very first Mac games I played on my Dad's Mac in his office.

I also loved Mission Starlight.
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It wasn't perfect, but man I loved using it so much more than anything else. It had some rough edges, but I knew how to work them. I remember fighting with Visual Studio around the same time. Actually, for years, I used CodeWarrior on Windows and cross debugged from my Mac because it was easier than trying to use Visual Studio.
These developer descriptions sound like they are coming from the "Silicon Valley" tv show.
Regulation isn't always a good social model. Rulebreakers get things changed. Sometimes that coincides with a great business opportunity, and sometimes it doesn't.
I'd be more inclined to agree, on a few limitations... reduce patent protections to 5 years for any technology implemented completely in software, or protections against software implementations for the first 5 years.

Not pay anyone (including) officers within a company (including bonuses and stock options) in excess of 100 times what the prevailing minimum wage is at the company's headquarters.

These limitations would still allow for a wide income inequality, but necessarily limit the level of inequality per year. Those at the top can buy stocks against taxable income. And would propose other limitations to encourage redistribution and limit shifting funds to tax shelters.
I took a course on scientific writing as literature. My favorite authors were Oliver Sacks, David Quamman, Tom Wolfe, R. Seltzer, and Loren Eisley.

syllabus http://www.tara.tcd.ie/bitstream/handle/2262/51786/PEER_stag...
The name is an homage to the show 30 rock and their offices are located on 18th and F
I'd posit that 98% of providers from whom you can acquire budget VPS will do the same thing. The practice is not unique to Linode; why should a network you're paying $20-$100 do everything they can to keep a target online and threaten other customers?

Contrary to popular opinion, if you're getting DoS attacked, you're either (a) popular enough to start thinking about adult-size pants for your transit strategy or (b) inviting the attention by your choice of content or activities. In years of hosting, I started to know the targets of DoS attacks by name. You have to own at least a little bit of responsibility, and mitigate on your own end if you're going to be inviting that kind of attention; IRC and controversial blogs are the usual suspects here, but that's probably changed recently as I've been out of the hosting game for a while.

Linode has few options for reacting other than the one they use. I know that sucks, but it's how it is.
Yes, reminds me of CASE (Computer aided software engineering) systems from the 90's. In 10 years there'll be no programmers, then the web happened, and it all started again.
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Uncertainty is ubiquitous, yet few people feel a need to qualify their disbelief in leprechauns, unicorns, Darth Vader, etc. Why is it only gods where this seems to be required?

As for Pascal's Wager, what if God rewards atheists and sends believers to Hell?
Please stop before somebody gets hurt.
Dawkins and Jiddu Krishnamurthi changed the way I see/experience life, the way I see culture, my sense of morality, forever.
The Mars Project (1952) by Wernher von Braun had a pretty big impact on the public imagination and helped drive the Apollo project [1].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mars_Project
There are some laws around what data can be used to underwrite loans. Nationality can't be used, but immigration status can be.
http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0347-your-equal-credit-...
Drug safety initiatives for illegal substance users. Mix of scientific research, knowledge distribution and legal lobbying.

As much research into mental health as possible.

How to use technology to better inform the population of political matters and allow them to more directly influence the actions of politicians.
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, by Julian Jaynes. It would be a stretch to say it succeeded in profoundly changed its own field, but it certainly is more than just explication for the lay reader - it lays down a compelling argument which attempts such change.

And it's a great read.
This is a pretty good style guide and has a lot of habits I've been practicing for many years now (even pre-sass/less).

Slightly off topic, I'm slightly bothered by the amount of trash talk CSS receives since it's pretty much the best language we've ever had to define interface styles, and it's only getting better. Maybe some of the rules about behavior are arguable, but by and large I've never met a design I couldn't get to work with some well-defined CSS.

And if you can't read nested CSS I can't imagine how you'd feel in the face of some heavy XML.
Not really as possible with a consumer scale web service, but you can certainly modify your communications strategy to be less of a red flag for the bull. :(
Man I am sorry to see one of the major driving forces behind Siri and the alike not getting paid his fair share(billions is his fair share).

Personally, I have much smaller inventor-ship horror stories that have taught me any further advances from big money people/companies is that I need to paid ... X huge billion to million dollar company deposit money in my bank and do it now before we go any further with any type of business relationship.

Don't ever get drunk on the excitement of the biggest companies and such in the world chasing you .... focus on them paying you/depositing CASH in your bank or hand ..otherwise tell them to take a jump in the lake and to come back to you when they are ready to deposit money in your bank!!!
No no no.... No need to apologize! Just chase the bug. This looks awesome for a V1! Kudos to you guys.
Thanks, that's a good list, and I see the problem.

Out of interest, what makes Pry easier to use? I'm not sure I understand the comment about having access to the whole app environment. In the Clojure REPL you do as well...?
If you feel entitled to not be displaced - then yes, that's a sense of entitlement.

I was amazed by the people who felt entitled to a lower cost of living - all while blaming IT workers for gentrifying their beautiful oasis. I would have thought they lived in SF their whole life to feel that level of angst. More like a couple years. Intermittently. While their parents pay for their art degree.
Americans have bland palates so the producers get a way with this. In other countries, people wouldn't buy the tasteless tomato.
You may consider trying this with Turkey, as well. Informally, friends and family do this kind of thing pretty regularly, and it was also common practice among colleagues at my company's Istanbul office.

Though it obviously doesn't offer the protections of a more formal arrangement, there is a Facebook group now to support connecting people – https://www.facebook.com/groups/417504741672236/
prisoners dilemma blew my mind when I read it as a teenager.
"lol"

-Uber, Amazon, Airbnb, every bank, &c.
Enemy of the state
Religion != God.
The comments indicate that the icon will never be displayed on `localhost`.

I'm not sure what the situation is like for websites hosted on a LAN or using something like zero-conf, but I wouldn't be surprised if they do display the icon in those scenarios.
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This is basically my viewpoint on agnosticism vs atheism as well. My trajectory was Catholic (but not devout) -> atheist -> agnostic. I'm fascinated by all kinds of religions as historical artefacts even though I don't follow any specific one.

I certainly don't view agnosticism as a weasel term either. I cannot be certain there is no god any more than I could be certain there is one (and note by god I'm not referring to the man with the beard and the pearly gates and all that.... something that I think can easily get lost in conversation on this topic). I think it's honest to just say "I don't know".

I have a friend who's in the process of discovering his own atheism and while atheism is not a religion, I can clearly see the similarity in passion. I was likely the same back when I was exploring it at first.

Have heard lots about The Selfish Gene but never actually sat down and read it.... should really do so. Is there a more modern version to read these days, or is TSG timelessly applicable?
I was living in Mountain View when they first unveiled this beautiful beast, and went to a couple of the very early exhibitions. I love everything about the Computer History Museum, and recommend it heartily to anyone visiting the area. I've taken a huge variety of guests (from my parents, to non-techie girlfriends, to nerds of many types, etc.), and I think everyone has enjoyed it and learned something. The Babbage engine is one of the coolest things in the building, but having it go away doesn't make the CHM any less worth visiting.

In short: If you haven't seen the darned thing, and you're anywhere near Mountain View, I guess now is the time. And, if you miss the Babbage engine, you should still go check out the CHM. As nerds, it's like the museum of our people. Where else can you see one of the first computer games or hear one the first computer music pieces being demonstrated by the people who wrote them? (Though those also have a time limit...the folks who wrote those first games and musical compositions are in their seventies; they won't be docents at the CHM forever.)
In this case, they are referring to DraftKings and FanDuel.
> Yoghurt in the US has been completely destroyed by the "non-fat" movement.

No, it hasn't, because you can still get other-than-nonfat yogurt, both full fat (sometimes labeled as 4% fat, which is certainly a response to the anti-fat movement) and low-fat (2%); I have yet to see even a poor-quality supermarket that doesn't have full-fat yogurts (though the most common offering and the one with the greatest variety of choices seems to be low-fat, but still not non-fat.)
Militant atheism has legitimate basis:

http://reason.com/archives/2012/03/27/believers-atheists-wor...
86bps is an ok fee given that you had a VP running this who was on vacation for a number of key events during the deal (http://dealbreaker.com/2013/06/goldman-was-professionally-ne...)

PE firms pay a few hundred grand for senior level attention more often than you'd think. Fee grids are based off the complexity of the deal, and frankly the seniority and number of people involved. Banks think about the ROI of their salary payments on a daily basis
I wonder what will happen if Linode routes their traffic through CloudFlare...
The combination of a cultural bloodthirst for hypocrisy, as well as the human intelligent capacity for abstraction and pattern matching guarantees that anyone can, and probably will, end up being labeled a hypocrite.
actually, property taxes in sf are a little over 1%, so you're looking at $10.4k/year on that $900k condo (note: on the cheap for sf). $3400 + $900 tax + $100 insurance = $4.4k, again, without any condo fees, maintenance, or utilities. So you'll net much closer to $5k than $4k. Which to my claim, means you're out $60k post tax (over $100k pre) without eating, health insurance, owning a car, or parking yet.
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