skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Structural engineering solved these kinds of problems with building codes.

I'm guessing a lot of buildings and bridges had to collapse for codes to take hold. I hate to think about how many power grid shutdowns and crashing cars we will have to go through. Clearly the routine theft of personal data has not made enough of an impact to improve security.
There might be significant cost savings in the ability to power off a room remotely instead of having to send someone over when a guest checks out. I would be more worried about the tv, the faucets and air conditioning, though.

Also, some hotels manage to have the tv showing a welcome message when you enter.
CroTeam is one of the best game studios out there when it comes to dev-friendliness, up there with CCP and Riot.

Huge props for this release. Well done.
Pangu Releases iOS 9.1 Jailbreak Exploiting CVE-2015-7084 on 64-bit Devices
Doesn't Google hire the best of the best?
That is also due to South African culture, and not necessarily just wealth inequality.
Except if you put in the back door it's not limited to that one person planning to kill people. It would be for everyone, in which case it is potentially mass surveillance.

Not to mention that the "someone planning to kill a bunch of people" scenario never actually happens. Typically these tools are used when prosecuting regular people for regular crimes, or looking for information after an attack has already happened (San Bernadino). Nobody has yet been able to point to a case of consequence where this type of surveillance was ever used for someone actively planning an attack.
> but if you have a compelling use I'm sure you can get access by talking to humans.

So they make money by potential customers guessing at what they can provide them and reaching out to them? Seems like a terrible way to do business.

Unless I missed it (which would be easy; damn is it hard to get to the content on that site) I see no information about anything other than what they do internally. Which is cool but that's about where it ends.
AmiKit X on A.L.I.C.E. laptop launches and runs Linux apps on Amiga desktop
My advice is that don't expect that you can "learn" Scala in a couple of weeks or months. Instead expect that you can learn enough Scala to get the next task done. If you like it, you might be pretty happy spending a couple years learning it.
It's far from an objective observation, I'm merely pointing out that the idea that you need to be doing a thing in order to criticize someone else's thing is hogwash.
What no indie developer wants to hear about the App Store
Please, I urge you to put backdoors in all your startup apps.

Sincerely,
Russia & China
The fact that I have no idea what any of these are probably explains their kill off. Sad times now and sadder times coming for Yahoo.
Ok? They switched because plastic is a far superior material.

I never have to worry about my plastic canoe rotting, weighs half of what a wooden one does, and is more flexible when scraping rock.
We just need a bacteria that eats the plastic-eating bacteria.
No? Which was my original point. If interesting math and logic problems having to do with secrecy becomes controversial it will be expunged from the curriculum.
"Americans who went to college and graduate school did well. They scored above their peers with similar degrees in other developed countries.

For young adults with a high school diploma or less, things did not look so good. These Americans performed significantly worse than those in other countries with the same education level."

Doesn't that just mean that smart kids in America are more likely to get a higher education than in other many other countries?
Congrats to the Cruise team and YC! Hard tech is alive and well :)
Why are you asking for "read and write all public repository data" & "read and write all user data."?
I understand the read, but not clear on the write
Yes, and more-recent iOS devices have stronger security features than the one in question here. Regardless of the outcome of this case, I expect that trend to continue as a result.
They are probably looking for the code signing key, not a data encryption key.
> F.B.I. personnel apparently believed that by resetting the iCloud password, they could get access to information stored on the iPhone. Instead, the change had the opposite effect — locking them out and eliminating other means of getting in.

I don't believe this one single bit. I believe they already have salvaged whatever they could from the iCloud account.

They have been after the backdoor for a long time. Needing info from a "terrorist's" phone is the perfect cover.

The accidental reset is just bullocks
They likely can take images of everywhere in the world. They will very likely be limited as to who they can sell certain areas to, at various resolutions. The US government restricts sale of imagery under 31cm resolution currently, but previously it was 50cm. Neither of those restrictions would apply to these satellites which are 90cm resolution, but similar things will probably apply elsewhere. I believe Israel is one of those places with a coarser limit in place.
Do you have a link to the hearing by chance?
It could certainly slow searching by topic (since patrons are remixing the books based on whatever way they're using them). It does seem to demand quite a bit of infrastructure, adding RFID scanners to every shelf (and keeping them working). If it truly would allow every book in the collection to be pinpointed in realtime, that would be a plus, many times the catalog can only tell you that the title you're looking for should be on the shelf, not where it has ended up.
I was a CTO strategy consultant for an RFID MIST startup back in 2008 - that is RFID chips on documents, id badges, and any item of value within an organization. The MIST is a series of wireless sensors & network placed throughout the organization, enabling 3D location of any RFID marked object within range of the MIST network. The system could track who, when, and where of any person or item of interest simply by following the RFID through the series of sensors. However, there was zero plan for security of the RFID signals nor the MIST network itself, they were planning on security by obscurity. As I made more and more noise that security was their entire mission, and by not having any themselves they were setting themselves up for massive hacking. Thankfully, their main inventor was more interested in surfing than working, and their investor got deported for tax fraud.
I met Scala a few years ago, we had some fun together but she's way too high maintenance.
I sure hope that you're right. Are there precedents in which risk of harm from disclosure has successfully served as an unreasonable burden? (I am obviously not a lawyer.)
This has become truly ridiculous. No one believes there's anything of use on that phone yet the FBI continues to persist to try to force Apple. If they want the key and the source code, give it to them. They're obviously so fucking incompetent they wouldn't be able to do anything with them. I assume Apple can revoke any keys remotely so give them the key and revoke it immediately. This isn't at all about anything that happened in San Bernardino anymore and it's just the FBI being the fucking, repressive assholes that they've always been. In fact, this is the exact reason for having crypto on the phone. It's to avoid the fucking assholes of the FBI getting to your data because they're the criminals that Apple refers to when they're talking about protecting their customers.
> At some point scrolling gets somehow stuck and I can't scroll down anymore.

You just have to scroll harder. Seriously. Every time it got stuck for me I just tried scrolling faster and after a few swipes it would move on.
Yeah but he's missing out on surgically inserting electronics into his butt! Sad!
If anything, many Euro governments are worse than the US in this regard.
What am I supposed to see?

http://imgur.com/RXMn72r
I work at LinkedIn. Let me be the first one to tell you that it is an amazing place to work at! Everyone is super smart and talented. The infra teams have some really amazing projects under their belt - a lot of which are open sourced. I work on the applications team and I love the culture in our org - everyone is super friendly, helpful and it's a privilege to be working on products that are used by hundreds of millions of people and being able to call shots on them. Also as a relatively inexperienced dev, I'm given ample responsibilities to drive my projects and mould them that I feel are helping me grow. The perks are absolutely amazing - pretty comparable to the ones you get at FB/Google. My favorite ones are $2k reimbursement for fitness related expenses per year, an entire week off during Independence day and Christmas, a day off to yourself and your team each month (search for InDays), and frequent company and team outings (there was a screening for the last Star Wars movie and is another one for Batman vs Superman soon). I'll probably never work for another big company again after this for an entirely different set of reasons, but I am absolutely glad about my decision to join LinkedIn.
Curious what YC could do from their perspective to leverage their semi-unique position here as well.

The big cloud vendors are probably more geared towards the infrastructure side, but given problems (a) that "hard tech" requires non-trivial capex, (b) that many startups fail (nature of the space), & (c) that YC sees a lot of startups, then maybe there are opportunities to more efficiently handle "hard tech" needs by time-sharing common resources.

There are always going to be bespoke needs, but things like shared vehicle fleets with standardized interfaces, etc seem plausible when you've got a stable of 5 startups, with each being perfectly fine only testing their autonomous UAV / vehicle platform Tuesdays and Thursdays (or once a month) and letting someone else use it the rest of the time.
Yes. My reading of the headline was "hard" in the sense of "hardware" because hardware tends to require larger investments and more time--and it's often much harder to advance to a viable point incrementally. To be sure, these characteristics also mean that hardware tends to be more difficult than many types of software but the terms don't mean the same thing.
Why buy when you can rent?
Very nice, thank you for sharing this! When you move "Teiresias" its like he is dancing!
Ah thanks for the clarification
Even on HN there are a lot of equivocations and ambivalence about issues like this. If those of us who should know better can barely agree, how does the genpop stand a chance?

We are headed to a future where if you don't know how your systems work and control them yourself someone else will.
It's slightly updated version of engine their early games used in 2001 so it's older than Doom's 3 engine id Tech 4. Should be still interesting for fans and study how old games work though.
alta ski area uses rfid intelligently -- embedded in lift tickets to forego scanning bottlenecks.
This pricing does not seem sustainable.

€12 a month for 4 dedicated cores, and 8GB RAM? How is that even possible?

Is this some novel meaning for the word "dedicated"?
Or taking a shot at the clearly surprised and now well lit individual.
That's not really true. Gold is used in decoration because it's expensive. i.e., it's use as a status symbol derives from its costliness primarily, not the other way around.

Aluminium had a similar status, at one point it was used for decorating the most fancy things, it was a show of wealth and power and more expensive than gold or silver. If you had aluminium cutlery, you were the bomb. Then they were able to produce aluminium cheaply, instead of mine the small amounts that naturally exist. It became dirt cheap, and thereby lost its status.

Was it any less decorative? No. The cutlery still looked the same. It became uninteresting to use aluminium not because it became ugly, but because it became cheap.

Same with gold. Yes we sorta-kinda like shiny things, but we don't like the gold apple watch the best because we like the tacky golden color so much, we like it because we all know it's expensive. There are lots of pretty metals, pretty colours etc, it's not what gives gold its value.

Of course gold isn't useless, it has industrial applications and indeed artistic applications as you mention. But what is clear as day, is that it trades at a value that far exceeds this use, at a value that can't be explained by its functional utility alone.
Prestige.
I think you are talking thousands not hundreds. They had to pay people to set it up, pay for tablets for every room, and pay for the control devices too.
When I was in high school, I wanted to be a graphic artist. I completely understand thinking it's not good enough yet. Part of you is in this product, and it's always coming from a vulnerable place, no matter how good you are at taking criticism.

You've been working on this since at least september of 2015. it's good enough right now. Even if you up and change huge chunks of code later, it's good enough right now. I feel like a douche saying this, but How many more times do you think you'll be on HN?
> Do people actually read docs any longer

No, not really. People read headlines and make pithy middlebrow comments. Though I also don't think that's a new phenomenon...
Idiomatic Scala is very similar to Python written in a comprehension-heavy style with better destructuring.
The U.S. Government Launches a $100M 'Apollo Project of the Brain'
I ordered some Torx TR bits to upgrade my Mac Mini, and now I've been noticing those screws everywhere too. I'm tempted to just start carrying a screwdriver around...
Along with any of a number of other auto companies and their suppliers. I'd be very surprised if this plays out as any sort of winner takes all over the coming decades that this will play out.
What users wanted was a way to gauge what features are more important, so maintainers could prioritize the important issues to the community. All asked for was to be able to up vote _issues_, and be able to sort. [1]

Instead we got reactions, and it completely missed the mark. They've made it easier to be passive aggressive. Also it lingers on your post, instead of having the unconstructive comment stand on it's own. How does one respond to a down vote, make another comment saying "... hmm?"? It's weird.

[1] https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/9
Is a positive opinion worth anything if it comes from someone not building the product? If so, why is it different for a negative opinion?
Yes and at some point you need a token of value. Imagine the plight of the itinerant tradesman as he herds his chickens through the forest from village to village simply so he can trade.

No no, food is far too cumbersome to be a token of value. Much better to slip a tiny token into ones waistband and exchange it in the markets. Gold was an exceedingly good token of value.

Diamonds are not currency because they are not easily divisible. But they have been a store of value for centuries now, and that makes them money.
It's on a private subnet. You'd have to have some way to get onto the hotel's internal network. The one described in the post is being physically at the hotel. Now, there might be other ways, but this most likely isn't about to show up on shodan.
> Not sure who would want to read prior revisions of a blog post.

I've long wanted online news sites to adopt version control in published stories so that one can review what changes were made after publication. I think it would make newspapers more accountable about changing articles.
To me, "Hard Tech" is more science oriented, like the Space Shuttle material that you can hand hold at 1500 degrees: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp9Yax8UNoM

Stuff that's non-obvious but amazing and makes you think sci-fi... DARPA does a lot of this kind of stuff.

Definitely non-trivial problems, most likely hardware, maybe materials science or something in the other science fields. Maybe new math, or solvers that take days to run on thousands of CPUs. Stuff that might take thousands of man-hours to develop.

Not sure how YC would be involved here, as this is expensive to develop, but DARPA has a funding model.
And most places already have a system that works and no incentive to upgrade their tech from 15 years ago.
Any one know any books or resources that concentrate on invariant programming? Translating recursive code into properly tail recursive or iterative code can be pretty difficult.
It's a very bad sign that America has reached a point where its overbearing government can confidently and boldly voice such demand.
I agree. But when I get an AirBnb I only go for entire-home (usually an apartment) since I want my own key, privacy. I don't want a bedroom in somebody's house (which is much worse than a hotel). I don't need a hotel suite. So its comparing the two minimum offerings for me: AirBnb entire-home vs standard hotel.
Yes, there is. Touchscreens lack tactile feedback, and for stuff that one must manipulate on the dark (like a light switch), that's a very important flaw.
> In the same vein what would happen if Apple decided to destroy their master key and all backups?

That wouldn't quite be "destruction of evidence", but the government would likely try to bring "obstruction of justice" charges over that.
Porn clicking Trojan on Google Play can consume more than 3 GB in one day
How Coinbase ships product
We have over 250K travel itineraries that we use to power the AI!
Hogwash? I don't use that word, but I still think you using it is jibberwasocky.
From the articles I've read about Google executives affiliation with the government - Eric S. in particular, I'd say they don't need the courts to get whatever they want
I think someone else mentioned this as well, but unfortunately Github ties the "staring a repo" to the write permission. I think I can try to separate it out so it can ask for that scope when a user wants to use that feature.
The problem is, with the code signing key, they can load a new modified OS, brute force the password and get at the data because the data isn't mathematically secure to begin with.

iPhone data shouldn't be encrypted on the basis of a 4-digit PIN. It should have a much longer password that's entered at startup. The 4-digit PIN can be a "screen lock" to prevent casual friends grabbing your phone and swiping pictures but shouldn't be the thing that encrypts your data. There isn't enough entropy in a 4-digit PIN, period.

The iPhone then adds a feature to self-destruct after N attempts. This is where a modified OS comes in. This isn't true security. Get rid of the self-destruct feature and you have brute forcing ability and can decrypt the data in minutes.

In a truly secure system, I would be able to safely just give you an image of the flash storage and all the signing keys. You pick your tools, OS, hardware, and you would still have no shot at decryption, at least not with classical computers and as long as P!=NP.
Have any societies actually used barter?
Modbus is an application layer protocol. Different things. It's more akin to HTTP than IP.
Anyone have a link to a description of the exploit?
Absolutely. A lot of sales-heavy companies have thousands of vice presidents, because if you're getting approached by a 'sales employee from XYZ investment bank' you hang up, if you get approached by 'the' (really 'a') vice president of sales from XYZ investment bank, you're more inclined to consider the sale.

There's entire industries where you start out of college around age 22, get an entry function for 3 years, a follow-up function for 3 years, and then become vice president by 30, and stay there for life, become a partner or change careers. The amount of VCs is ridiculous and totally lost its meaning.
Yes, all of these are reasons why gold got started. A gold backed system is perhaps not even possible anymore let alone desirable.

Please see http://svs.io/post/69301254342/bitcoin-fud There are only two things we've used as money (metals and state power)
Import Evernote to OneNote – finally
To expand on that, lack of awareness of the problem space and lack of knowledge of the specifics involved. And I think the latter is a huge barrier.

From what I've seen (relatively minimal), industrial automation tends to be incredibly bespoke. E.g. we had consultant X from Y integrator (sometimes now defunct) come in Z years ago (where Z is always > 10) and set up this system: we've been using it as a black box without change since.

In short the "Linux on the desktop" problem - the burden of having to support 1,000+ unique configurations, each with their own edge case behaviors (or outright bugs). And from what I've seen, the ideal startup growth pattern doesn't fit with a services "send one engineer out to an account to custom fix it" way of doing things.
Awesome FP JavaScript : A curated list of awesome functional programming stuff in js
Why Are We Fighting the Crypto Wars Again?
Anyone want to start a ternary computing startup? In the post Moore world I think there is a market and it is one of those innovations none of the big players are working...
anybody have luck with the "join us" link? Doesn't show up on google's job search
"Is this solely to look "fancy"? If so, then at least get the tech right otherwise you look incompetent."

How many of their guests have thought it looked fancy? Probably a lot. How many of their guests have done something similar to what this guy did? Probably not so much.
Opting out by not participating is approaching impossible, and doesn't send a visible signal to site owners. There will never be "enough people", but that doesn't mean the issues are not important. If the minorities who notice problems (missing wheelchair ramps, lack of braille on signs, ambiguous color indicators, gross violations of privacy) are silenced and ostracized, we all suffer.
European privacy laws protect your data from commercial exploitation, but offer almost nothing in terms of protection from the government. There's no principle in law that the government cannot force you to self-incriminate or unreasonably search and seize your property like there is in the USA. The UK has, and France is getting, mandatory key disclosure laws.
"Hard tech"? Okay. I have
such a project.

Big ass problem: Found one, where a
the first good solution is a
must have for nearly everyone
in the world with Internet access.

"Hard tech" solution: A bunch of
applied math, with advanced prerequisites,
some original, for
a unique, really good, fun to use,
interactive and
addictive,
by far the best in the
world solution
-- Did that.

"Hard"? Silicon Valley has
more hen's teeth than entrepreneurs
who could understand the theorems
and proofs of my math even if
I explained it to them. Why?
They didn't take the prerequisite
pure/applied math courses in
grad school. Neither did
more than a tiny fraction
of computer science profs.

Code: 80,000 lines of typing,
running, in alpha test -- did that.

"We hope to hear from you."

You did, and you ignored it.

Using my HN UID,
look up my submission in your records.
If you are interested now,
then let me know.
Home cooked food is a lot more expensive than normal if you are only in the home for a couple days and don't want to spend the first one preparing food.
Except when you're abroad on roaming cellular charges, and your three laptops decided that since your iPhone's personal hotspot is WiFi, it's time to download today's ChromeOS image version, because the one you had downloaded the night before was not good enough anymore.

Source: Chromebooks are awesome, and even with excesses like this, they're still the cheapest to operate by far.