skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Should note that John McAfee is offering to "break the encryption" of the data within 3 weeks of commencement using "social engineering".

His intentions: good. His success probability: unlikely (unless they have knowledge of how the encryption key is built from the passcode)

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/john-mcafee-ill-decrypt-san-b...
Many luxury car shoppers are not that concerned with reliability since they plan on only owning the car for a few years. 3 year leases are common and even those who buy a vehicle outright may trade in long before reliability becomes a real concern.
I'm not sure I understand your criticism, but I should've clarified "content addressing using long, cryptographically secure hashes". Most of the major projects are using SHA-256.
They have not demonstrated that stress hyperthermia = feelings.

Just that stress = hyperthermia in a fish.

It's a result, but it's not the result in the HN title. Which is not in the article BTW.
We could say there are no deductions, ever. Every dollar earned is taxable. Every dollar spent is taxable. Nothing and no one is exempt from taxes. No expenditure is deductible. General Electrics pays the same income tax (hopefully a progressive tax so as to be realistic) as Podunk College. This would be ideal.

Side rant: The government shall keep public policy and tax policy separate. While we are at it, we shall prohibit state and local governments from doing these things as well. No, Maryland may not give a tax break to House of Cards. No, AnyTown USA may not give tax break to Walmart. If there is a reduction in tax, it should apply to everyone. Oh and yes, no special excise or stamp taxes either.

Yes, our tools in public policy will get blunt and there will be a very rough transition period. However, I think the end result will be worth it. It is definitely better than having these neo-cons in power while bitching and moaning about not being in power.
Taxes are high enough (especially on high income employees) that if the employer can count it as an expense, and it doesn't count as employee income, then it's worth providing as long as the employee would be willing pay ~60% of its cost from their post-tax income. Factor in bulk discounts and the figure is more like 50%.

Unfortunately, the debate on payroll/income taxation never really addresses such distortions, and gets stuck on "come on, an extra 10% isn't as big a deal for you".
Even criminals themselves including rapists and murderers have a problem with child pornographers and child sex offenders.
> TED is now a full-blown lifestyle company

Hasn't it always been?
Can you explain "it's usually a lease?" Doesn't it defeat the purpose of signaling wealth if you don't actually own it? How common actually is leasing at this price level?
I say typically as I pictured the teenager taking 30 selfie snaps a day for their Snapchat timeline. Or the bro grabbing a quick gym shot for Instagram. To be fair, I should have said stereotypically.

The selfies where you're capturing a moment or something interesting (like a tourist spot) aren't so vapid, but when that tourist destination is filled to the brim with people and a very large percentage have 3-5 foot aluminum poles swinging around it really sucks.

There's still a sense of narcicissim to it when you're streaming your vacation to your Facbook/Snapchat/Instagram feeds real time. I get putting a couple shots up at the end of the night or trip, but I swear I could create an itinerary for some people's vacation down to the half hour.

Whatever happened to gathering the group around and getting someone to snap the shot for you? I don't take a lot of photos on vacation because I like to really soak it all in- and all I take is my iPhone as my camera. So I'll get some goofy shots, some shots with the wife, and maybe some really interesting or beautiful things I just really want to be able to look at again. I might take only 20 photos in a week long trip.
How to Make the Right Choice in Buying a Camera Smartphone
> It's the responsible thing to do for their shareholders

And not just shareholders, but for employees, suppliers and everyone else the company deals with. Companies usually do not sit on the money, they invest it trying to make more money. Usually this investment is on salaries, but can also be on R&D, acquiring other companies, etc...

It always ends up on the fundamental question of who is better to determine how to spend money - the public or private sector.
We are implementing the Red JonPRL proof assistant (https://github.com/JonPRL/sml-red-jonprl) in SML (using MLton for builds and SML/NJ for development), and could hardly be happier.

Dealing with unicode is a pain, but so far, we've been able to do what we need.
Or you could just, you know, not include sensitive information in URLs, reducing the risk of it being leaked through sharing, referer, or other ways. HTTPS only prevents MITM. You should still think about the design if your site.
From what I've been told, they are looking to hire 1 engineer. I guess that is better than nothing, but it doesn't look like webrtc is going to be any sort of priority for them. Also, it may not be super valuable in Safari, which has a small market-share. Where it is needed is mobile safari. From what I understand having it in Safari does not mean it gets built into mobile Safari.

Also, note the date of the posting. 4 months ago and still there...
Agree. Though I do not have authorization to adjust the link - guess it requires a mod.
The law is Societal Consensus.
A friend of mine did the same seminar, the thing that you get is positive belief in yourself to conquer anything. This may wane, but if you are down on yourself, Tony Robbins will turn you around.
You have to account for competition.

Suppose there are two companies with the same business model, operating in the same countries etc. One files taxes "fairly" and one minimizes its tax burden as far as the law will allow. Which one do you think is going to be in business for longer? Which one would you buy shares in?

You can get as angry as you like at the companies, or the legislators, but in the end it's the system you need to be scrutinizing.
> Poorly written, lazy or "bought-for" laws are being used exactly as they are worded

Not really. The IRS for one has open to them a very wide avenue of interpretation for many tax laws.
You are right, but its still wrong. Even if the legislation around the subject matter doesn't work, it doesn't mean the companies aren't paying their "fair share". They aren't. Just because something is legal, does not make it morally acceptable.

At the very least it should show the fan boys that companies like Google, Microsoft, and Apple really do not give a shit about you. Its about profit, they are a corporation, stop idolizing corporations.
Yes, it'd be too easy to abuse. Post a piece of important news, get it upvoted to the top, change the link to something malicious.
Wealth begets power begets law begets wealth.

The deductions (or avoidance) is "legal" because it follows the letter of laws ... bought and paid for by companies which see 100:1, 1,000:1, or 1,000,000:1 returns on their lobbying "expenses" securing just this.

Until and unless money's influence is removed from politics, this will be the case.
I am pretty sad they're posting MD5 sums of the correct images: It's pretty trivial to collide MD5 -- and when you've got an active attacker, this is something you should worry about.

SHA1/2 at least, but preferably a gpg signature would be much better.
This tweet by Jeremy (Yelp CEO) speaks to the broader issue:
"5/5 entry level jobs migrate to where costs of living are lower. Have already announced we are growing EAT24 support in AZ for this reason."

https://mobile.twitter.com/jeremys/status/701094909072150528
So what do you buy instead ?
I'm not afraid the computer will get me killed. I'm also not afraid other drivers are going to get me killed. I agree the cars a much safer than 30 years ago. By older car I'm thinking something 15 years old or newer, so they still have computers in them, they still have most modern safety features, but they don't have full blown OS's with the most craptastic manufacturer proprietary UI's known to man that never get updated and never will be updated.
So take the 'undocumented' code, copy it, paste it into a file, put the license comment at the top, and move on with your life. String munging regexes together is going to be slower and error prone.
32-bit hashes are not useful for content addressing pretty much at all. If you look at the table here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem#Probability_t... (50% chance of collision with only 77,000 resources)

See also: https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/10/28/287 where Linus Torvalds says 12 hex digits (96 bits) is pretty much the minimum short-hash for the Linux kernel commit history.

Extremely short hashes can be useful briefly for manually transcribing between devices, as long as you immediately "resolve" them back into a longer form, before new collisions can happen. But this is more on par with clicking "I'm feeling lucky" than creating a link. :)
Very nice.. Found my own species in a few click!
I don't think there is anything "wrong", but I appreciate the irony that Eric Schmidt and his ilk have spent a lot of time and money getting cozy with politicians that want to tax me into the ground.
Buffett has called it a big mistake. Berkshire Hathaway was run with almost zero capital investment, and instead of modernizing factories they just shut them down. The success came once they were finally out of the suit lining business (what BH actually did) and into the holding company business.

I think it probably influenced his thinking, and putting more emphasis on known brands. Berkshire Hathaway made suit linings, a commodity, and were not a known consumer brand. After BH, he made investments in See's Candies, Coca Cola, national or global name brands that have a hold on their market - a "moat" as he calls it.
You're going to have to go back quite a while (pre ABS, pre airbags) to find a car with no engine computer.
Except the (potentially) sweeping changes due...

No, it wont be 5-20 years. What i am talking about can't be achieved in 20 years, what you will achieve is part of evolution, not revolution.

Do you really think your own livelihood -- and that of people close to you -- is that immune from the potential negative consequences of the "revolution"?

Don't worry about me, i will survive natural selection.

Not entirely. But we can moderate and regulate it if we wish (and we pay close attention). That's the key issue, here -- not simply "either fight it or embrace it."

Good luck with that, seriously, you will regulate it for sure as hundreds of other things that needed to be regulated in USA and didn't because of lobbying. How do you want to regulate it ? Did you regulate wall street? How about punishing anyone after 2008? How about HFT? Did you prevented deregulation that caused world crisis? No, you didn't and you know why. What about gun control? how about hundreds others, where big players are involved? So did you do all those things that felt even more right to do than what we are talking about ? No, so please wake up and stop pretending you have any choice.

USA know that technology is the core future of economy, no one will stop it, you know why? Because USA is not the only player in the world, and if USA still want to be in top, it just can't be stopped, because others won't. It's just couple examples from thousand why you can't do anything about what's coming. Big corporations will just benefit too much from it and you will see this argument "we need AI/robots, costs are too high, or we can't compete with the rest of the world". Sorry, but you already lost this war, you just don't know it yet...
Jeb Bush has raised far more MO ey than the other republican presidential candidates and got the nod from the party of elites and yet he's in near last place with the party's second pick in distant third and two outsiders, which the party can't decide which it hates more, vying for first and second.

Money is even barely buying Hillary first place.
I like that the name Cheese Grater gets clarified with the README and I instantly got it and chuckled.

One thing I've been trying to figure out is how to inject secrets into my lambda packages so I don't have to have them checked into Git, but also using the right secrets based on an application environment.

Although once they make Lambdas available inside of VPCs I'd be able to do away with a lot of it by a using roles.
I have long wondered why they didn't do the 'same day delivery' thing once Amazon showed that people would pay for it. With all their locations and space, they have inventory near most of the population. Add some uber-contractors and voila! ,, well they could have tried it anyway.
In the Ayn Rand books I've read, the characters (at least the protagonists) are obsessed with doing things the best way possible; Their motivations seem to revolve around a love for building and creation, not monetary gain. Chouinard could probably be a Rand character.
How many "Understanding Git" posts have hit #1 on Hacker News? More than a few. How many have hit top 10? Surely dozens.

Can we, please, take this as an indicator that Git is too fucking complicated? After the first thousand "Git made easy" blog posts it should have been apparent.

Le sigh.
Johnny clubfingers 5-0 clicks Ok, and destroys "evidence" for being a total idiot... I take it he/she was hungover during that 2 hours of computer forensics in the academy. For crooks, this is good news; for stopping potential future victims, this isn't good, and misapplied to innocent/MPAA/RIAA enforcement, it's destructive and lowers LE credibility.

The moral of the story is for individuals, whom should implictly fear government overreach no matter whom is in office, one has to back their shit up and make it SWAT-proof, even if that means running several TahoeLAFS boxes in countries like Switzerland, because running a server (physical or Linode) or just replicating data to a friend's server just doesn't cut it and never did.
> Google pretending that sales are made in Ireland (and not by the revenue-targeted local salesperson selling local ads to local eyeballs) in order to enable them to deduct fictitious license fees owed to a subsidiary in Bermuda is not even in the same ballpark.

The whole problem is that it isn't a tax on local sales. It isn't a tax on property or labor or consumption. It's a tax on income.

But income is revenue minus expenses. So the company in the US pays developers to make software which costs $99 and the company in Ireland pays $100 for the software. Then the company in Germany sells $1100 worth of advertising and pays $1099 to license the software from the company in Ireland. Which means the company in the US made $1, the company in Germany made $1 and the company in Ireland made $999.

The allocation of the income between the different subsidiaries is almost completely arbitrary so companies arrange to do it in the way that minimizes their taxes. If you don't want them to do this, tax something other than income.
This is going to sound crazy like I'm an old man (I'm not, I'm 32!), but I've been loving the quality of both Tommy Bahama and LL Bean. They actually have some hip stuff, not just printed hawaiian shirts and duck boots. Tommy Bahama jeans specifically hold up super well, and I'm a weightlifter so they are cut to handle my meaty legs. They seem to be made very well. The fabrics are very thick, sturdy and you can tell the quality of the threads.

I've been finding screaming deals on ebay for clothes, so have been "NEW without tags" Tommy Bahama stuff. Even the gently used stuff is such good quality that you can barely tell it's been worn at all. So for things like cashmere sweaters it's great value. For example I got a $250 mock sweater for $40 and it's awesome. I get more compliments on that thing than anything else I wear to the office. Kind of like this one but in more of a purple bordeaux color:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/NWT-TOMMY-BAHAMA-Half-1-2-Zip-Sweate...

Anyway, imo the quality of both LL Bean stuff and Tommy Bahama blow J Crew etc all out of the water. They're like how Lands End used to be, before Sears ruined them.
And here I thought that this kind of stuff was the reason people didn't like perl or haskell.
But according to the article stress hyperthemia is one trait used to identify consciousness. Is consciousness the same as "having feelings"?

>One particular trait used to identify consciousness, which was previously thought to be absent in fish, is the capacity for stress-induced hyperthermia or “emotional fever”. This is a physical reaction similar to a fever caused by infection, but in this case the trigger is a stressful situation. Basically, the body gets warmer in response to stress.
And Part 2/2:

file.seek is your friend. You should not use any dynamic allocation to make it more robust (yes preallocating fixed memory size with "char circular_ring[N * MAX_SIZE]")
Where N and MAX_SIZE are fixed.

Well. It requires a complete rewrite for this code to not create a risk for your users. Your code is like full of hidden landmine by lack of design.

And you know what?

It used to be standard knowledge for introduction to CS for scientific. You know why? Because no users of computers like to lose their precious data made during a very long measurement spilling huge amount of data and costing a lot of resources. (like gold, helium, molybden, electricity, time, wages of qualified operators....)

It seems like coders do not care of their users, like a builder thinking it is reasonable to build 50 store buildings on quicksands because people only judges builder by the look of their creation.
After receiving a job offer, she loaded up on credit card debt and signed a lease she couldn't afford. This was an obvious mistake, which led to a situation she should have seen coming. And that's OK. We've all made decisions that look obviously wrong in hindsight.

The problem, for me, is that her post doesn't acknowledge any personal responsibility in the situation. It seems more intended to extort her employer by shaming them and placing the blame squarely on their shoulders. I can't imagine this looks good to many employers.
Heavy Metal Passwords
OK, given the context of a safety recall I thought you were making a statement about safety.
If they managed to hack the site to point to the new iso, they probably also changed any checksums. Signatures help, if you have a way to verify that you are using the right key.
Part 1/2: Resurrecting SFJulie1's original comment here because it seems like it was unfairly killed:

Ohla. You have to rewrite it entirely.
Logs should only be built by chunking at the end of the file atomic write of data in at most PIPE_BUF with an "atom" based on this quantity of data. You are free to do whatever serialization inside this constraint as long as a missing chunk cannot corrupt the whole file.

(That is the reason I switch off from systemd that stopped respecting this rule.)

For your logger to work in a "safe fashion" it has to be designed like an asynchronous HW driver.

A part consuming the logs from IRC, that pushes chunks in circular buffer ring of N fixed size data for which buffer overflow HAVE to be checked (per chunk size and for N) (the bottom half). And a driver that is signaled "asynchronuously" to write the chunks into a file when ready. The critical part (writer) should almost be a one liner to avoid interruption and be written in an overly defensive paranoid fashion.

You should have a cursor for the writer and the reader on the circular buffer ring and should always check that the consumer does not overrun the writer. Hence the writers' code should be designed to be asymmetrically faster than the reader.

It requires IPC or messaging to coordinate both reader and writer. Most people do it in multithreading, I do it with multiprocessing because it is simpler. You should understand that you have thus a Single Point Of Failure (the file) and that because of all this your software will have a domain in which it will fail (if you want to multiply the reader to distribute the load for the consumer to 'scale up').

The file has to be opened with exclusive access. The code must have a "catch all I can" to be able to unlock the file if ever something bad happens and at startup the code should check it can open the file. (atexit callbacks and every "recoverable" interruptions sent by the OS).
I'll just leave this here

forums.linuxmint.com pwd
/root/hacked_distros/mint/var/www/forums.linuxmint.com
forums.linuxmint.com cat config.php
<?php
// phpBB 3.0.x auto-generated configuration file
// Do not change anything in this file!
$dbms = 'mysql';
$dbhost = 'localhost';
$dbport = '';
$dbname = 'lms14';
$dbuser = 'lms14';
$dbpasswd = 'upMint';

Perhaps the insanely secure db credentials had something to do with the breach?

But what would I know.
I didn't see Apple treat FBI and China any different in this case:

Apple gave FBI the iCloud backup data for US customers (under some US law); Apple will give or might have been giving China gov the iCloud backup data for Chinese customers (under a China law).

you may not like Apple or China, but it's not fair to blame Apple for favor China in any known privacy case so far.
It is not mob rule, of course. It is a set of mechanisms to remove corrupted or failed officials from power by replacing them with better performers. At least in theory.

Are you trying to say that humans are not subjects to "animal evolution" or ecological laws?
... and that boys and girls is called "tax planning".

But don't try it at home - for you, me and every other regular Joe Doe or small-business owner, this would be labelled as "tax avoidance".
It's not the same thing at all, some things are exempt from tax this is a "smart" tax policy that is instituted to ensure that people save money

Read the bottom part of my message again. Yes, the Roth IRA is meant as a savings vehicle, but not for high income earners (>$137K/yr).

However, the law is setup so that you can get around it by just putting your money into a regular IRA and converting it to a Roth. The gov't never intended for people to do that (since it gets around the income limit). However, it's completely legal.
Importance of Code Readability
Note that this is an article debunking a Arstechica article previously discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11108738
> I wonder, is the enforcement of this artificial notion of property rights a form of coercion? If it didn't exist, would the plumber still choose to fix pipes all day?

It is going to be hard to have a reasonable conversation if you want to invert the meaning of words. In your hypothetical world if you attempt to take my property I'm the one being coercive if I attempt to stop you?

There is an enormous body of knowledge regarding the value of property rights and the connection to economic prosperity. You seem to be rejecting that body of knowledge and advocating for a Hobbsian 'state of nature'.