skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right. All I have to do is distribute the correct hash for my binary as a malicious software distributor because there's no authenticity verification at all, only that the bits in my binary blob match a certain pattern.
Yes, this. If you want a password that is secure against a bruteforce attack, I would strongly advice against making it up yourself. You will never know the entropy of your password and it could be anything.

I personally just generate 10 passphrases from a wordlist and take the one the I like the most. This way you get both – predictable entropy and good chances of getting something you can remember. Even though I could never quite figure out which effect the "pick one of ten" method exactly has on the entropy :). If anybody has any good input on that, I would be very happy to hear it.

If you have a wordlist that contains information on the type of word, you can generate grammatically valid sentences without loosing too much entropy. I wrote a tool to this in my native language (german) and I get sentences like "schleimendes Hervorbringen transportiert krampflösend". This (very) roughly translates to "slimy production transports anticonvulsantly". The german sentence has an entropy of 52 bit.
Noted: I've gone with BitDefender from the Map App Store. Will report back results.

EDIT: welp, BitDefender found nothing, all clear.
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"It's why there are so many angry people in this US election."

Did you miss the last 12 years were people were lynching puppets of the sitting present (Bush protestors) or pooping on cops cars and shutting down large portions of inner cities (occupy protestors) or large segments of the country referring to a minority group of tax reformers as "tea-baggers"?

By those standards, things are a lot more civil.
This article is spot on, but the author fails to account for the fact that on _most_ new cars, your in the same boat. Unless its a maintenance item, your not going to be able to replace it with anything but the manufacture's blessing. The biggest difference is there are a lot more maintenance parts on a conventional car, so you have more of an opportunity to replace things. It was my understanding that the only true maintenance part on the Tesla was the wiper blades.
This article should be called: How to tip from an American Citizen odd point of view.

I've traveled to practically every country in Europe and this article is mainly incorrect. For instance, tipping taxis? Seriously? Nobody does that and for good reason.

In restaurantes you can leave small token of appreciation, but it would be something like 1 euro.

Seriously, this American costume of forceful tipping is just wrong, please fix your country instead of trying for the rest of the world to commit the same mistake.
Agreed. I don't have the process running either.
Screenshot of Transmission 2.90 red warning to update to 2.91.
http://imgur.com/aQdHJ3b
It seems that is a ransomware campaign
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-ransomware-idUSKCN0W...
Next monday, tomorrow could pave terror on the office.
> You obviously don't run a parse app or have not tried option 1 (use parse-server) yourself.

I built 6 apps on Parse (4 of which are still in production) and started using it in 2011. Of course Parse-Server is still buggy, it's been out just over a month! In that short time it's garnered an incredible amount of support from the open source community. Knowing some of the leaders of the project and how quickly it's been adopted by third parties offering Parse hosting solutions (https://github.com/relatedcode/ParseAlternatives#parse-serve...), I feel confident in its future and maintain it's the easiest (least code/ least cost) way to continue with your existing app. Maybe I should've added a con about its youth.

> I'd argue then that option 2 is the only path for front-end devs/novice devs that cannot afford to develop a proprietary back-end.

The article was geared towards app owners, not front-end/novice devs. I agree for that category of developers CloudKit and Firebase continue to be very attractive.

> For option 2 I'd add backendless.com to your list. I have been testing their service and so far so good.

Backendless.com looks good. I mentioned at the end of the article that other BaaS providers like Kinvey, Kii, etc have the same issue that a young Parse did (and I'd throw backendless.com in there) in that who knows if they'll be around in the future? Sure, FB shutdown Parse, and Google & Apple control Firebase and CloudKit. But despite FB's decision, I think it's more likely a BaaS backed by Apple or Google will be around 2 years from now than one that's not.
Granted, the project I saw this reasoning on (https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Download_Security) is one where users are especially likely to do security checks, and they generally aren't satisfied with the security of SSL anyway.

> just to save a negligibly small number of CPU cycles

The link above says they can't afford the additional cost. If it's so negligible, would you sponder the cost of those extra cycles? I'm sure they would host on SSL if someone covered the cost.
Dejavu.

"the largest distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks ever seen" ... returns again part 2
"Sticks a potato in exhaust pipe"

"Drives around car"

"Dies"

Alternatively, disconnect the steering column and drive off a cliff.

There are a thousand easy ways to kill yourself making uninformed modifications to any motor vehicle, by its nature. Its a ton of steel that goes up to a tenth the speed of sound. If anything, the reduced complexity of electric vehicles gives you fewer vectors for wrongdoing to screw yourself over. You can break any number of parts in a combustion engine to make it fail, whereas in an electric vehicle all you really have is steering column + drivetrain + battery pack.
I feel the same way. I drive a classic Range Rover, and it is a lot of fun. Yes, I spend around $2000 each year getting various components repaired or replaced, but that is enough to keep ahead of entropy, and between loan payments and the higher cost of insurance I'd be spending twice that or more on a newer vehicle. Plus, I have a relatively simple machine with no fancy DRM automation crap that won't report me to the FBI for crimethink.
Interesting language, and looks fairly concise to write. I imagine shoehorning all numbers into doubles makes for slower integer code. Also a shame you included pervasive null.

Wren looks straightforward enough that you could have a static type system without losing any expressiveness. Have you considered that?
Perhaps more importantly, Electron is literally Chromium.
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Author here. We make an effort to compress the GIFs to make them suitable for slower network connections. Our tests and feedback from users haven't shown this to be an issue yet. A possible fallback is indeed to use static images for users with slow connections. But, the users we are targeting don't have this problem, so we aren't too concerned :)
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> Tesla is doing anything they can to make sure there is no aftermarket for their vehicles

This seems to fly in the face of evidence, considering Tesla directly facilitates aftermarket sales:

teslamotors.com/models/preowned
The WBC count would only be some evidence. I presume some sort of ultrasound could localize the infection in the appendix.

I imagine there are some people for whom surgery isn't an option. I'm not sure what that condition might be given the routine nature of the procedure, but they might be out there.
Great post, thanks! You use 'Mestizo' once, and then 'mezito' several times. Is this slang, a repeated typo, or a term of the art? Google doesn't find much for it.
Yes but there are also 3rd party tools available to code ECUs, keys etc. Like the VAG-COM for VW and Audi cars. I don't need to ask vw's permission to add a new key to my car.
Yeah just yesterday I was looking for something to play Google Music through on my new MBP, found Radiant, saw it required Flash and proceeded to move on. I'm on a 14 day trial of Gear Player, which seems nice but seems lacking for how I interact with my music.

It works well enough, has album art views, something I do want as a feature, but Radiant has a nicer overall UI (IMO), has a mini player that I can tuck away in the corner somewhere, and has the ability to add new playlists within the app. Installing flash is that much of a dealbreaker for me.
Those voids also allow the wiring of the windings to flex slightly under the changing magnetic flux leading to eventual insulation failure.
A battery might exceed the current value of the car, but once you add a $X battery, the vehicle goes up $X in value. The economics are fine there.
Unfortunately, this is how Bitcoin was promoted for a long time. "Free, instant transactions!" It always bugged me.
This week in driverless cars
The interesting thing to do would be the things that go from nothing to many quickly and then learn them :-)

(hint, elixir)...
I just filled up yesterday and gas was 2.89$ a gallon. Where exactly is it 1.80?
There are independent ECM repair shops out there which helps keep maintenance costs down and cuts dependence on the OEM.

http://www.autocompdirect.com

http://www.autoecmstore.com
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Kudos to the author for pointing out the distinction between stem cells derived from the destruction of an embryo and stem cells derived from adult tissue, and for explaining which type of stem cells this research involves (embryonic). Too often, even reputable news sites don't properly explain the difference, or even say which of the two they're talking about.
Wow this is the first I'm seeing of Nim. Goodbye, Sunday! Where did this come from...
I think there's a decent MOOC on udacity; or at least there was at some point. Linear algebra helps a bit, but you can probably pick up most of what you need to get started.
Haters gonna hate and short sellers gonna drum up FUD.
I'm talking about biological evolution, not social. Not sure how you missed that in my comments since you seem to read so much.
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My '04 vibe needs new catalytic converters, exhaust, and tires, which are altogether right about the book value of the car.

So I'm going to disagree on "few hundred dollars", at least here in Canada where the road salt eats cars.
It seems an up to date OS is the way to go (as in this case it was detected by OSX)
> Publishers do this with research papers, no problem.

Are you kidding? What's the first complaint you hear whenever a news article based on (and most likely distorted from) a new scientific study goes on Hacker News? "I'd love to look at the original study, but it's behind a paywall." Moreover, have you ever seen the à la carte prices of journal articles on these sites? Over $30 per article in many cases! The number of citations in an average journal article is in the dozens, not to mention the articles read but not cited. They might get a few suckers or truly desperate people to pay the à la carte price, but IMO the real purpose of those prices is to keep university libraries and corporations paying for already ruinously-priced journal subscriptions since paying for individual articles would bankrupt most research groups in short order.

This is how I fear a subscription-based model would actually work if it became more widespread -- you would end up paying hundreds of dollars a month to read the articles in Hacker News. The ability of advertising to support a habit of reading articles from thousands of sites is one of the great benefits of the internet. In fact, I would enthusiastically support an ad-supported version of Elsevier if it meant I didn't have to pay for individual articles or a subscription, even if the ads were as intrusive as those on 4chan or The Pirate Bay.
If you think I'm singling anyone out, take a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=dang. I'm posting these all the time, unfortunately. (Edit: I see that Zikes already pointed this out.)

I wouldn't say the article was particularly substantive, but by HN's standards the comment wasn't fine. It was (a) fluff, (b) generic, (c) ideological, (d) inflammatory, and (e) by an account that has done this before.
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The same BitDefender which was hacked a few months ago? http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/39028/cyber-crime/bitdef...
I'd have preferred something vaguely English the first time I encountered the lorem text. It would have saved me a lot of confusion.

Rather than thinking, "Oh, nonsensical text with typographic characteristics similar to English to show how the layout works with this template", I thought "Oh, this sample article that is supposed to be an example of good use of this template is in the wrong language...somehow my installation got screwed up and it installed the wrong template set".

I then spent two or three hours trying to figure out how to tell the software I wanted my examples in English before I came across an explanation of the lorem text.
Is it ironic that it is often the "Me generation" that derides millennials as being self-absorbed? Not that gen Xers don't as well.
> The anti-AirBnB side is absolutely better organized. Why else would AirBnB have to outspend them >10x to stop Prop F?

Perhaps its not about organization? Perhaps the anti-AirBnB side is simply in the right?
Thanks! I will definitely update the implementation as the project matures.
Do people actually believe that Putin personally ordered to shoot down that plane? What incentive did he have to do something that would obviously turn the whole world against him and lead to many sanctions?

Do you think him doing something obviously stupid like this is more likely than just supplying serious weapons to incompetent "soldiers"?
As someone who owns both an E30 BMW and a Ford Escort, there is kind of a "myth" about cost of repair and reliability when it comes to luxury brands. I don't think any BMW or Merc is going to be more reliable or cheaper to repair than a comparable "cheap" car. It's just that people a). take better care of luxury cars and b). people are more likely to keep them running.
It would be interesting to have a service where you can put these types of projects into a moratorium, so that they stay in a somewhat passively-active mode to see if any other interested parties would like to take it over, instead of killing it off instantly.
Don’t you dare to call yourself a “frontend developer” (and co.) if you don’t know these simple tags.
> can anyone recommend a good antivirus for OSX?

Common Sense 2016, see https://github.com/drduh/OS-X-Security-and-Privacy-Guide
Plugins do not auto update by default. You have to specifically turn those on, and not via a switch, but via code editing.
That's really the best picture of the Church of the Nativity they could find?
Careful not to backup the malware infection though...
Armin is right; further more, I suspect a lot of technology like MegaSquirt will continue to improve, and we'll have (thank god) aftermarket ECMs to put into these cars to give the user more control over the vehicle.

We can only hope that a similar movement to Linux on PCs builds up steam up in the automotive space, as many of us
like being able to understand, adapt, and improve on our
vehicles.
It's stupid, but the conversation itself is not cruel by any stretch of the imagination. It's just a conversation.
My fear is high-tech components in a car. We may come to a point where we can't replace most of the gears simply because of technology unavailable.

But that being said, a lot of Tesla customers are wealthy and they are probably happy to either get a new one, or send back to the factory/certified repair shop.
I like retro. Any pointers (pun intended) to good C material is appreciated.
The first thing that hit my mind was that they are doing it the apple way, apple is doing quite fine with its locked devices.

like most engineers I like to play with and explore my technical equipment but for most people it is just a hasle.
No cryonics company has yet claimed that it "works".

They're quite up front about the fact that they have no idea how to bring anyone back. People choose to get cryo-preserved despite that because, as far as some people see it, it beats being buried underground or burned to ash.

Marvin Minsky who passed away recently was on the board of Alcor (one of the main cryonics companies in the US). Does he seem like a scammer to you?

Please research your claims before accusing people of "scams" left and right.
"Jailbroken", exactly. The mobile industry has taken this lockdown approach as well. It's working for them. I wouldn't be at all surprised if it works for the auto industry too.

I'm not sure this is inherently bad or good. I don't like it personally, but I do see the reasoning. Self-driving cars probably shouldn't be hackable, and the first attempts need to be airtight as possible (what with the media jumping at every chance to spread FUD). But it concerns me that the days of opening the hood to hack away at your pickup truck might someday, largely, go away... That's not good for anyone.
> Adblockers deny money for websites without replacing it.

I hate the way this frames the debate. Ads invade my privacy, slow down my Internet browsing, and consume my network and device resources—why can't the cost for content writers, servers, etc come from some other business model than invading my privacy?
> Please explain how advertising "harm"s society?

While I feel of often does, that's not the claim I made which was about the harm from when you are dependent on advertising.

If your product is only profitable as a vehicle for advertisements, there is a conflict of interest between your goals with the product and advertisers goals. As we have seen in many cases over the last half-century, eventually the interests of the advertiser take over. The slide of TV shows from having only a few commercials between shows to the current idiocy of literally having more commercial than show on some channels is an obvious example of this trend.

> In my experience

I suspect you're engaging in selection bias. Most people don't even notice costs associated with advertising, because they already have high tolerance. Try isolating yourself away from any advertising for about two months; I doubt you will look upono advertising so favorably after that.
uRPF is a pain to people who want to do any kind of creative TE with their network. For residential networks, I somewhat understand the value, but it makes dual homing unreasonable for anyone who doesn't have an ASN + BFP sessions.

I'd argue rather than this, we need to be able take Flowspec (RFC5575), and make it more reasonable for transit.
Not sure if this link will stay valid, but this is the file that the audio player is linked to: http://hwcdn.libsyn.com/p/f/2/5/f2559823f35854c8/20_20VC_FF_...
I'm working on an isomorphic transport library
I'm working for some time on this framework agnostic library called ironwingjs. I want to provide an abstract transport layer so the developer shouldn't worry much about how the client communicates with the server. Right now it works well with RESTful APIs.

Ironwing basically follows the REST way to communicate with the API so if your API is restful(ish) you just fire up ironwing, point it to the api url and you can manipualte your resources. Also this library now works on both nodejs and in the
browser (for server-side rendering and other purposes).

(inspired by http from Angular 2 and REST adapter from Ember)

I would appreciate some feedback on this, maybe some pointers on new features. I don't know yet how useful this library is, but it is something I want to continue to build and I think it might become helpful. I want to make it as general as possible.

Some features I will plan to implement:
- token based authentication
- JWT support
- stream support
- websocket support
- maybe JSON-RPC support

Any comments/suggestions are most welcomed.
Thanks in advance.

link: https://github.com/andrei-cacio/ironwing
"[young]... lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning -- all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything -- they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else." - Aristotle

Griping about those wacky young folks goes way back.
If you install the official GPM extension, you will be able to use the media keys.
Gas is $1.34 per gallon today in my town here in South Carolina.
A lot of this is not that uncommon for other car manufacturers as well. The "Premium" warranty of a used BMW also depends on the car being serviced at an authorised repairer. Yes, it's the manufacturer trying to be more of an "integrated" service provider and keeping the resale value up, but it also ends when the car gets older. Most of those cars the go on to lead a long life with aftermarket parts and repairs.
With the rest of the industrialized world being more socialized and having less childhood poverty, I think one could make the case that we are indirectly inadequately funding our education system in terms of child nutrition, parental involvement, etc.
Can anyone tell me if this also applies to brew's cask's builds? I needed to download CentOS the other day and wanted to go with a torrent. I got pretty pissed after I realized that BitTorrent installed some adware called Spigot. I tried to remove it as good as possible (I mainly killed the process, removed `Library/Application Support/Spigot` and ran a `sudo find / | grep -i Spigot`).

Ironically I decided to use the good, ol', trusted open source alternative transmission because I just read on HN that Transmission gets updated again...
>> They have a quite succesful such platform in the Netherlands from what I've heard

Is it the Correspondent? Does 40K members paying 65euro/year, and their achievements doesn't sound that differentiated from what is available on the web, for free(although it might take a bit of effort to filter) [1]:

"we broke the news of a major European bank’s involvement in illegal land grabs in some of the poorest regions of Europe; in another piece, our Technology and Surveillance Correspondent warned readers about the security risks of using public wifi networks; and our Hacker Correspondent demonstrated why you might want to think twice before posting photos of your children online. With these and other stories, we strive to provide readers with new perspectives for understanding how the world works."

Reading the rest, it seems the major reason for their success is their "expert community " and the access to that you get via subscription - altough i wonder how do they compare to other web based communities.

[1]https://medium.com/de-correspondent/dutch-journalism-platfor...
XKCD got it right. Just pick 3 random words from a dictionary and the resulting nonsense will still be easy to remember.

I wrote a script that even estimates the entropy for you based on the available dictionary size:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12646318/tools-for-genera...
Of course they know. Employees are required to report their tips amounts, as the employer is required to withhold SS/Medicare and pay any shortfall. What you are claiming is the entire industry is breaking the law - I suppose that's possible, but I find it unlikely.
> phones becoming nothing more than expensive bricks after 2-3 years due to lack of vendor support, coupled platform DRM that prevents re-use?

I have repurposed my old Samsung android phones around the house as displays on the walls. They all have the net connection shut down and I use the wifi. They all work great and I see no reason they won't work until the hardware dies.

I know this is only one data point. Can someone describe how other models of phones can become bricks?

Edit: People less weird than me can still use the phones like tablets are used without a radio connection.