skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>unless the main site is secure but the downloads aren't which is idiotic by 2016 standards anyway

https adds a performance hit. The security of "checksum over https and actual file over http", if the checksum is checked, is the same as "actual file over https", barring preimage attacks.
You go to a car junkyard and find the parts you need. Parts from 3. parties aren't that uncommon either.
3 Reasons Why It Is Time to Onboard Users with GIFs
Can we flag content like this as thin / high ratio of advertising against content length?
That's just a failure mode, not the normal "nature of the beast" as is the case with non-electric cars.
Does every single cloudflare blog post need to appear on Hackernews?

"talent and a marketing team that knows exactly how to acquire customers and more engineering talent."

This resonated with me. I pursued a job opening there based on their blog posts and the engineering culture that was presented in them. I really liked the engineering folks I met at my onsite, they were all awesome. The recruiter on the other hand was a an idiot and probably one of the most unprofessional recruiters I have had to interact with.

I believe the intention of the blogs is in fact to attract engineering talent and that's fine. However it's a shame that the HR/recruiting part of that pipeline is the polar opposite of the thoughtfulness and thoroughness of their engineering culture - clueless and unprofessional.
Maybe "narcissism" will be over and done with, by the time we come up with a popular stereotype for the next generation.
Hacking Mobile Phones Using 2D Printed Fingerprints [pdf]
One way, if you're suspicious, is to dial some # you know is NOT the bank, and see if they answer as the bank.

But in the heat of the moment we often forget these sorts of things; I got a scam voice mail allegedly from the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) saying I owed money and was about to get sued.

I KNEW it wasn't legit; I KNEW it was a scam, but I still had that adrenaline surge and a desire to clear it the hell up, right now, using the method they wanted me to use. Which of course would have cost me a lot of money. My cooler head prevailed thankfully, but the fact my emotions rose so high, so quickly, scared me. Still does.
the site is fairly opinionated - for example i wanted to contribute a pull for adding an oauth provider to lobsters. If you think about how lobsters works and their moderation log [1] and invite audit [2], it seems almost beautifully designed for "hacker" identity. But jcs doesnt want it.

[1] https://lobste.rs/moderations
[2] https://lobste.rs/u
How does Frege's performance compare to Haskell? The start-up time and over all.
The problem with our system is not ONLY a lack of money.

Part of it is the monetary allocation. Property taxes are the primary school funding mechanism, and they allocate the most money where it is least needed.

Part of it is socioeconomic. We allocate the same amount of money as much smaller countries with more homogeneous populations and much less poverty.

Part of it is societal. The best scores come from societies that value teachers and knowledge. Having a large anti-education population hurts your chance of educating effectively. If you segment the US into different areas, you find that the Northeast is more competitive with world scores while the Southeast is vastly worse than even these averages suggest.
I thought only apps signed by "identified developers" are run by default on Macs with Gatekeeper now. Shouldn't code-signing have prevented this? Unless they inserted the malware before the signing process.
Small companies making a big contribution
http://gelookahead.economist.com/slideshow/start-ups-fightin...
Nice job. The simple examples are sweet.
To me richer means conversations and experiences. I love a good discussion about technology, politics, brewing, and many other subjects. Or just about life in general.

I also like experiences such as a good hike, bike, camping trip, eating out, etc...

Sending a friend a pic or even interacting on facebook doesn't really do much to further the friendship.
Honest question: Does anyone use standalone global jQuery plugins any longer? I've been using browserify, require, and webpack for so long now, I don't know if this is interesting to anyone anymore.
Older models are a popular choice for the low budget motorcross competitions :-)
If someone wants to take over OpenHunt, email us at support@openhunt.co

The code and production database is available (with all the users and projects), so you'd be able pick it up right where it left off.

I was going to write up a post-mortem but haven't gotten to it yet. Anthony Franco's comment on HN was pretty spot on: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10940729

Would like to reiterate (as I said on the original launch threads on HN), OpenHunt had no animosity towards ProductHunt. The community (including me) had some critiques against how PH was being run, but instead of constantly complaining about things, we launched an experiment to see if things would be better with an open source community.

It didn't work out this go around, but I'm hopeful another team can do better.
> A car that needs the manufacturer's permission to activate is not your car--it's owned by the manufacturer.

Yes, but on the other hand it is best to view a car as a service, because this makes sure that the interests of the manufacturer (or service provider) are aligned with those of the user: no more "planned obsolescence"; and the manufacturer will plan ahead for recycling of materials because this is in their best interest (unlike when you buy a product, where the manufacturer couldn't care less).

This is becoming a new trend, and it is a good thing. The user pays for a service, and the provider has to provide the service for the optimal cost, without hidden costs such as for replacement, repair, etc.
Tried to search, found https://tails.boum.org/blueprint/bootstrapping/extension/, and links to https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/satori/oncomejlklh..., with code at https://github.com/glamrock/satori
If you a replacing an ECU on a car with a new one, you have to flash it with the right firmware for the vin number of the car. At least that's the case with Chrysler. My friend works at a Chrysler dealership as a tech, and he says that basically anything you now put in on the car, be it something complex, like the ECU, or something simple, like the windshield washer control module, it has to be programmed. If you don't program it, it doesn't work. On BMW M3 you even need a computer to "program" a new battery.
"Local legislation is always determined by local voters, which is why they need to be seriously investing in a grass roots infrastructure."

What you're describing is "astroturfing": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing

AirBnB provides no benefit to local voters and communities, except to the hosts putting the guests up. Possibly hotel tax revenue, which would've been realized regardless through traditional hotel bookings.
Here in Lisbon no such distinction is made, any diesel or gasoline car built before 2000 is banned from the city center.
The weekends are with the family, aside from errands. I do see the time slipping away; my oldest is 17, followed by 10, and 5.
Imagined design for a faster-than-light spaceship
What I mean is that most electricity is presently generated from fossil fuels. E.g., 2008 figures on wikipedia show 2/3 of electricity from coal+oil+natural gas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_generation#Product...
I use virt-manager as UI.

https://virt-manager.org/

And libguestfs/guestfish to manipulate VMs:

http://libguestfs.org/guestfish.1.html

I did a small toolchain with bash files to cross-compile for Windows (with mingw32-w64). After the build the Windows binary is injected in a VM and launched with guestfish. It works!
> I always hear the argument "they're taking our jobs", but that's not true, is it? As the economy gets larger because of the influx of people, more jobs become available.

Not back in my hometown.

A rust belt city experiencing a population decline and real income growing slower than the national average after thirty years of factory closings - that is now an asylum city, and one of the largest in the country in terms of refugees per capita.

People there find themselves competing for a shrinking pool of jobs with hardworking immigrants willing to work for less, and who often receive government assistance.

Naturally, there is complaining.
How is the OSX App Store 'awful' compared to a Linux package manager?
I think we get too caught up in binary thinking - why limit our choices to the current definition of Open Source. Isn't it possible to redefine open source using laws which could be implemented by the government? We could simply ask ourselves "What is good for our society and the world" and then work to define Open Source to fit that model.
At any rate, I don't believe that we should be giving free software to companies which are helping to undermine the values of our society. On the other hand, I would like to see all software be free to everybody who is trying to help or trying to learn. We have to stop thinking in the current dichotomy.
Well it's a bit complicated. Schools being funded locally means that a lot of that spending comes from a state or federal level and is 'required' to have various strings attached to it.

So quite a bit of the money that comes in can't be used to say buy more desks or hire an exterminator or fix the AC. It has to be used to buy say SmartBoards or iPads because !technology! and !STEM!, a couple years back for instance my mom was issued an iPad and told to integrate into her teaching. One iPad in a class of 30+ teaching English. With ~100 teachers at the school though that'll show up as ~50,000 dollars worth of spending and it'll do jack all squat.
I'm on 2.90 and can't find any weird processes running. I'll hold off on 2.91 until they've explained what happened.
Nice. Retro C code. Declarations of working variables at the beginning of the function, and a call to "strcpy". Very 1980s.

Doing this in Rust would be a good exercise.
Tinkering with an electric car when you don't know what you're doing will kill you so much more easily than a gasoline car will. That probably has something to do with it?
Mostly just wanted to point out that there are two numbers that drive how many new cars are sold:

1) Increase in total number of vehicles in use (relatively level 2008-2013, a quick google didn't find newer data)

2) Old vehicles taken off the road being replaced by new ones

The net effect of a particular person buying a slightly used car over a new one is basically nothing. The big picture only changes when people are choosing to keep an old car on the road for longer.
Socio economic reasons are a big part of this. Providing education for ESL students isn't cheap. Most ESL is for low income students whose parents don't pay for private lessons.

If you take all middle class and above students and above the US figures well compared to other countries.

So it's not that how we go a out educating is off... It's just that educating such a diverse student population with the economic and social characteristics is more difficult than when you have a more homogeneous culture.
70k is still a ridiculous luxury price for a vehicle. If you buy at BMW levels, prepare for BMW level service prices.
They can't be replaced because they are extremely expensive, and no mechanic is going to touch these thing without manuals and tools.
What's the problem with the requirements?
Nope, we didn't have any legal issues. Product Hunt was actually pretty supportive (and listed us https://www.producthunt.com/tech/open-hunt).
The strength of a chain is the strength of its weakest link, and the more "apps" are provided as the system the longer and more vulnerable is the chain.

When it comes to checksums with have the chicken egg problem plus the collision attack of md5.

MD5 has been the standard for too long (and is deprecated since 10 years for crypto checksum). And for next generation of softwares to install that don't do modern checksum how can they trust the download of the package required to check for whatever the new format?
Plus the new format is less likely to be checked without errors. A off by one character could easily be discarded in checking given the number of packages that are now required to be installed and the human limitation in focus.

Human are the limiting factors, and security is modeling the user in a kind of grotesque caricature of a robot that can check thousands of informations perfectly and remember 20 characters passwords for tens of appliances.

There is a tyranny of computer engineers regarding what is safe for people having a life not concerned about geeky technology that is a tad annoying.

People have the right to be human and to fail is human. The burden put on human to make the system safe in order to avoid costly for the bosses human interactions is way to high.

And since computer security always blame failure on human behaviour I begin to positively dislike it.
Can you explain why? I'm not an expert but I know that GHC relies on some sort of stack reduction machinery. Implement something like this on top of an existing VM, and you would lose some performance, I would say.
I do.

I have a set of 2 or 3 plugins I use repeatedly. I keep meaning to learn these new tools, but I can't seem to find anything easy that says "Here is how to just use these things, on jquery, d3 and one other file, maybe with some babel", everything seems to dive off in random directions.
Concussion – Bang to rights
"The [Black Energy] malware was reportedly delivered via spear phishing emails with malicious Microsoft Office attachments."

Again it seems this is the easiest way to get inside of any sufficiently large organization.
I believe GP is referring to asset forfeiture. Asset forfeiture is a legal fiction in which objects associated with a crime are charged. So if drug dealer was transacting drug deals in his car, the government could seize the car and charge the car with a crime. The owner would then have to try to represent the car and prove the car's innocence in the crime. But because asset forfeiture is normally a civil proceeding, the burden of proof is much lower for the government (preponderance of the evidence rather than proof beyond a reasonable doubt). So even if the owner was found not guilty of the original crime, the asset can still be found "guilty" and seized.

Here's a good flowchart on the rules that the owner must go through (at the federal level) to win their assets back: http://reason.com/assets/mc/2015_06/forfeitchart.jpg

These two Wikipedia articles have more:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_rem_jurisdiction
I've become increasingly paranoid lately, given that things like these happen and major bugs are uncovered in software that I use almost every day.

It's good that the Transmission developer reacted quickly and made waves so that people can at least be aware that they might have been exposed..

But I wonder how many more applications from the hundreds that I have installed on my machines contain weird stuff - either intentional (for money) or unintentionally (result of a hack).

Open source software is especially vulnerable to this kind of stuff.

If a hacker gets access to a server holding the binaries for an open source app (which most people download), the hacker can just compile the program from sources and add his own code in there and place the installer online.

Given that many big governments are now involved in the information wars, this scenario is quite likely.
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Implicit is basically just an implementation detail. The idea of only allowing one typeclass instance per data is generally referred as confluence and you're correct in that scala doesn't attempt to enforce it.

I understand the Haskell communities desire for coherent typeclasses, but I still find the newtype work around cludge to allow multiple implementation of, say, Monoid to be quasi hacky. What's worse, you can still fairly easily define multiple instances of the same typeclass accidentally (orphan instances) and the compiler won't catch it.
Yeah, that's an odd claim considering that it's built on Electron, which is Chromium-based.
2.90 was released a couple of days ago[1], so if you haven't used Transmission in a couple of weeks this doesn't affect you.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_%28BitTorrent_cli...
I can't find a reference but I read that people with less empathy are more successful in hierarchical organizations.
Apparently people aren't sure what is good vs evil anymore....what a sad world we live in.

Greed: Russia's former largest foreign investor: Putin is worth $200 billion.

http://www.businessinsider.com/russias-former-largest-foreig...

Wrath: HOW MANY MORE YEARS WILL PUTIN OCCUPY UKRAINE?

http://www.newsweek.com/how-many-more-years-will-putin-occup...

Here Are The Numbers On Putin And Journalists Ending Up Dead

http://dailycaller.com/2015/12/22/here-are-the-numbers-on-pu...

Pride: Moscow court upholds gay Pride ban for next 100 years

http://wisconsingazette.com/2012/08/17/moscow-court-upholds-...

Gluttony: Russians start trashing banned Western food

http://money.cnn.com/2015/08/07/news/russia-destroys-food-pe...

Sloth: How He and His Cronies Stole Russia

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2014/12/18/how-he-and-his-cr...
What's developers' general attitude towards ads?
I'm a developer who happens to do a lot of marketing simultaneously. I've been in a lot of intense debates about adblockers and how they affect publishers as well as advertisers, but also the other side, the adblocker users.

I've been in several meeting where ad tech devs were proposing all kinds of solutions, like content blocking, "encrypting" ad delivery, etc etc.

But I realize I'm talking to a very tiny niche. I wanted to ask the general dev audience who actually make cool stuff that draws the audience.. and hence the "traffic generators".

What's your take on ads? Hate it? Don't care for it? What about the people who act as middlemen (i.e. the ad networks)? What's ur attitude towards them?
PhD to Product: Journey between two unknowns
Different student populations would be my guess.
That's basically the entire premise behind the Black Swan meme.
Given the cars have various levels of self driving it would seem like the moment you mod your car Tesla would want nothing to do with you because you've changed something that could cause a crash.

That seems in some way different from a non-self driving car. Of course you should be able to do anything you want with your car but would it be unreasonable if Tesla basically disabled all their software and services at that moment? Basically making it clear if you mod the car they want no responsibility in what happens when it's self driving.
This is a pretty stupid example imo, it isn't really workable in practice. You can die from a ruptured appendix and the surgery isn't terribly involved. Whereas people come in constantly with elevated WBCs; it'd require a high index of suspicion to treat for appendicitis with antibiotics in every circumstance. You would probably end up doing more harm than good that way because antibiotics are not benign drugs.
> Part of it is the monetary allocation. Property taxes are the primary school funding mechanism, and they allocate the most money where it is least needed.

Less than half of school funding comes from local property taxes. Slightly more than half comes from state or federal support, which is overwhelmingly directed at poor school districts. In 45 states, the poorest school districts get more money than the richest: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2015/03/12/in-2....

> Part of it is socioeconomic. We allocate the same amount of money as much smaller countries with more homogeneous populations and much less poverty.

We allocate staggering amounts of money to the poorest school districts. D.C. spends triple the OECD average on its overwhelmingly low-income student population. And test scores are terrible.

Education as a remedy for social problems is a failed experiment. As a society, we like to lean on education as a way to make up for the sins of our past, but education is never going to fix inner cities victimized by historical segregation, deindustrialization, and social collapse. Nice facilities and well-paid teachers aren't going to help kids who live in communities where parental power vacuums have left gangs as the ones in charge of the social structure.
Thanks a lot for the info.

I've heard about asset forfeiture before, but I had no idea it worked that way.

Seems a bit insane that you can charge objects with crimes.
How is "Tampering with the Vehicle and its systems, including installation of non-Tesla accessories or parts or their installation, or any damage directly or indirectly caused by, due to or resulting from the installation or use of non-Tesla parts or accessories;" not a violation of Magnuson–Moss Warranty Act?
I feel bad for people who are involved in politics who think this is a way to discredit anyone, let alone Donald Trump.

He knows how to play the marketing and identity game, that is what the Trump name is.

The only way you beat someone like this is on the issues, and no one seems to want to tackle them anymore except for a few people who are bought and some stragglers.

Insulting someone in the position of Trump only solidifies the beliefs of his followers and makes him seem more correct and appealing.

If someone went up, asked a policy question, and let him speak we would see a very different outcome form this election. No one has done that on the republican side of things, and look where we are now.
that feels like a pretty week standard for knowing if your machine is infected. I will look for a virus scanner myself, and seriously think about reinstalling if it finds anything
Pull the SIM card, don't connect to WiFi, and done. The SIM card is a little inconvenient to get to, but it wouldn't be much of a hack.
> and it was an easier fix to disable ATS than to transition whatever connection to HTTPS.

Pretty sure this is for arbitrary downloads. Unless you want to prevent transmission to download from http based sources out of principle it makes no sense to do anything other than opting out of this behavior.
Instagram blocks links to Snapchat and Telegram
XZ Embedded: 8-20 Kb decompressor for the .xz file format
Raising a Generation of False Entrepreneurs
Yeah, and passwords aren't supposed to be dictionary words. Nevertheless...
In terms of large western democracies (ie: excluding city-states), Australia only has a lower immigration rate than Spain and Norway (pre- syria crisis) and basically shares a spot with Canada [1]. The US and New Zealand have half that rate. There's a persistent myth that Australia is anti-immigration, when we're taking in more through regular channels than most others. Curiously, Norway is another country perceived as isolationist and not big on accepting migrants.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_net_migra...
CNBC isn't a website I'd expect to read anything tech-related on, but there are actually a few details in this article:

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/03/06/reuters-america-apple-users-t...

- It's Ransomware.

- Seems to be a 3 day grace-period (chance to remove it, possibly).

- The Transmission developer certificate [Gatekeeper] has been revoked.
The abbr tag didn't work in my latest chrome browser. The pop-up always showed, not just on hovering.
>Are you suggesting that all criminals should be released immediately after being arrested?

I am not and I don't really understand how you came to that conclusion based on my comment. It's completely reasonable to hold people pre-trial but without the guarantee of a speedy trial you end up with a method for states to hold people indefinitely.