skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The essay "Shakespeare in the Bush" describes an anthropologist recounting "Hamlet" to a group of people in West Africa. Their cultural expectations completely upset her understanding of the "true meaning" of the play.

http://www.naturalhistorymag.com/picks-from-the-past/12476/s...
Authors see dark side of tech's advances
The right to file a new claim at any time is what we're talking about, not the right to pursue a particular old claim after an extended delay.
> I always thought this was fascinating and makes me think of the implications of happenstance. A company called Genius whose first domain had the word rape in it, which was promoted by a poker player who once created his own personal TV commercial and ran it via Google TV ads- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocekqhrmPNo

So what?

> But give them $20 million and say they are pioneers in a general space that's decades old, and suddenly Genius is pioneering annotations and redefining fair use.

$20million came after they got traction. Sure, maybe some of the founders are annoying characters, but that has nothing to do with their business. They built a popular website, people came, they promoted well. More people came. Investors got interested because of their traction. So they invested. Now they're doing better. I don't see anything wrong with this story. You just sound jealous man.
I didn't even know read-only vnc was a thing, and I feel a lot less mortified about the various control panels with instrument status we're seeing. I dont give a crap if the wider Internet can see the temperature of the walk-in fridge at the lab.
Dr Stoll: Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the GPL
Anyone want to turn the mic up at the ongoing lecture at the University of Connecticut?

http://vncroulette.com/index.php?picture=429
Demo please
Goddamnit Steven.
Stop making everything you do so beautiful.
This was a very interesting read!
Its origin is Ellis island, so definitively American slang.
You clearly don't know what actually causes most site outages. Move along.
We need to change the name of IoT to IoZ (Internet of Zombies) because most of them will end up as zombie in someones botnet.
You mean, unpublishing a widely used library? Once it had been uploaded to, say, maven central?

I couldn't figure out how to do that and some googling turned up:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9789611/removing-an-artif...

Which indicates it "can't be done".

So, no I dont think maven has that particular issue.
As a response to your summary of the article and not you directly: absolutely fucking not.

In most of these instances, people are exercising their freedom of speech to shame people who are exercising their own. In many cases, it's students or parents publicly shaming a college.

That is absolutely not at all the kind of censorship of a tyrannical government. Private institutions caving to pressure from consumers or the media is what happens when everyone can speak freely. Some people have more power, and they use it to make sure that minority speech is ridiculed.

Tyranny isn't misuse of market power or the press, it's misuse of government and the law. When we see the US government telling people they can't teach novels about Nazis at universities, then someone can cry foul.
You must be a fan of wives staying home and not working.
Well, rather than getting into a debate on what constitutes "nothing special" or "side effect", I'll let the docs explain the details.

http://redux.js.org/docs/advanced/AsyncActions.html

Note however that it does say "This function doesn’t need to be pure; it is thus allowed to have side effects, including executing asynchronous API calls."
I think there's a difference between getting upset and asking the author to change it. I saw very few people get
Oh absolutely. Ra ra ra. On the other side: Let's pay people based on how many dependents they have. Why does a single programmer with no children need any money? Or any time off from work? Clearly people who have children should get first preference about using paid time off? /s

No, equality means everyone gets treated equally regardless of how much or how little family obligation they have. If someone has 12 children, that was their choice.

Equal pay for equal work cuts both ways.

Edit: This is another reason where a universal basic income could help. Sure, it won't be enough for an apartment in West Village in Manhattan but at least now we can tell anyone who lives there but can't afford to live there to simply get out and go a little further or better just move. Why is it wrong for people to be priced out of a neighborhood? I don't see anything wrong with it. I am so mad at cheap populism with slogans like "family first" or "children first". Say no to that.

Another thing this brings me to is we should absolutely bring an end to elected representatives by district in our legislature. If there are enough people who benefit from rent collection in an area, they will continue to support legislation that allows them to continue collecting such rent (in this case it'd be suppressing new property development if you're a property owner or rent control if you are lucky enough to have a rent control apartment). Elected representatives who only need to answer to a particular district is a horrible idea and we should do everything we can to bring it to an end.
Any source on "1/5 the price to build the fab in Taiwan"

Googling I found:

"Taiwan Semiconductor, the world’s biggest custom-chipmaker, plans record spending on plants and equipment this year. It’s lavishing $12 billion on factories -- more than Intel Corp. has ever spent in a year"

Which looks more like Taiwan being enthusiastic for building tech stuff rather than dirt cheap. I'm recently back from Taiwan and I'm not sure the costs are much lower than rural USA.
Keeping private medical matters private is prudent in almost all interactions with strangers.

Ever notice how the POTUS never gets a cold or a flu?

Never, ever talk about your health unless it's good. Period.
This tends to invite geographical arbitrage (not necessarily a bad outcome). As indicated in the article, some firefighters enjoy the high salaries coupled with a (likely) very low COL 2+ hours away. You end up with smart, clever workers commuting in, sleeping in chairs and vans, etc, but not necessarily moving there. Even if you made a rule that said the workers had to live within 20 miles, my sense is they would game the system. I'd do the same in their situation. Lots of places experience this same dynamic because similar to SV they are undesirable for certain groups. Saudi Arabia pays a fortune to import the majority of its surgeons, from the US, UK, and elsewhere, and those professionals tend to treat it as a temporary post in exchange for twice or three times what they would make elsewhere.
How do they achieve being very selective yet being unbiased and fair? That seems like an extremely difficult proposition.
Some interesting metadata:

The dates on the screenshots range from 31 December 2015 to 5 March 2016, with many at either the beginning or end of February.

The computer name of the hacker doing this also appears to be "want.some.vodka".

http://vncroulette.com/index.php?picture=439
Which would you pick? Certainly not xml?
Thanks for sharing. As others have said, please consider getting help; the sooner, the better. Depression has a way of becoming more entrenched, stubborn and isolating over time.

It also changes your outlook on things, such that it becomes more challenging to remember which is you and which is the disease as it continues to merge itself into your being (so to speak).

Good luck.
When I was in middle school, I got really interested in 3D graphics, which led to Lightwave3D. My parents drove us several hours to B&H Photo in NYC so I could look at a video toaster. It was in a box on a shelf and they simply said "Amiga is dying you don't want one of these." Later I got to see one in person at a local computer fair. Not only was the toaster revolutionary for video, Lightwave had a brilliant future as a standalone application. I never owned one (though I'd later own lightwave on Windows), but I subscribed to the magazines and watched tons of demo videos. What a fun time to get into computers.
A personal class electric counter panel ?
This will not be true if a long service worker accumulated a huge seniority based increments. Even past high performers who has taken their foot off the pedal would be in this group.
You prefer welfare for blind people vs giving them meaningful work?
A jawn is like..... http://youtu.be/wtmpW6qI-KU
As a Yahoo employee, I can say with certainty that I'm not in the bottom 15%.
Early markets are jungles full of diversity. Every tiny detail is a huge differentiator. A bit more ram means more complex software, a bit more transistor means faster interaction.
The "learning" element seems very loosely connected to the product. Call it what it is - a scalable minecraft server.
The xray machine is good: http://vncroulette.com/index.php?picture=502

(I'm obsessed with this)
Live near Toronto, Ontario. Definitely heard 'Man that is just sketch' a lot. Probably more widespread than you think given the other responses.
TIL:

Many UIs for industrial control systems are very simple.

Ubuntu is more prevalent than I would have imagined.
What is that green thing on top?
Most layoffs are absolute in numbers (you must lay off %10 of your org). So if you don't lay them off, you have to lay off someone else.
Like2Vec – A New Technique for Recommendation Items
It's deleted now but at the time when I read it it didn't appear sarcastic at all. I thought I was usually good at figuring out sarcasm on the internet so I'm going to blame their terrible ability to express it (if that was the case). :)
"is a fake SQL injection error page" https://twitter.com/1x0123/status/713879106614636545
i wouldn't be of surprised if something so simple was the "hack" that affected water treatment plants in various articles on HN last couple of weeks.
Is this only text or do they also offer audio/video? Text to me just seems like it would take a very long time to accomplish something, at least at the start.
Life is a drama with sprinkles of comedy.
"the first amendment is clear on this issue"

Since the First Amendment only restricts the actions of the federal (and by extension the state and local) government, it only applies to universities run by the government (e.g., state universities). Private universities like Emory are not bound by the First Amendment any more than a shopping mall is. However, there are other ways to pressure universities to allow freedom of speech: exposing their actions in the press, alumni cutting off financial support, etc.
I'm totally speculating. I don't know.

> Why would a manager get agitated about one of his/her people actually updating their skills on their very own site?

Dysfunction is prevalent everywhere in the world. LinkedIn isn't somehow magically exempt because they own the product.
On Blind (yet another anonymous app for employees at BigCos) there have been dozens of people reporting 300k+ salaries at Google/Facebook/etc. Most recently was a Senior Software Engineer at Netflix with a $420k base (Netflix doesn't really do stock as a significant part of comp).

I'd love for this to be common knowledge.
The BBC Creates Step-By-Step Instructions for Knitting the Iconic Dr. Who Scarf
You must work with a lot of optical stuff...
I guess it's just luck that no mischief-maker has gone and tried to do as much damage as possible.
With average tenure in the valley at less than 2 years, most people naturally update their resume every year or so.
Which meds?
I dunno but it's not moving very quickly.
I tried connecting to a few of them... It still work. And I could even control some of the machines.
Out of curiosity, does this mean you drop older positions completely off the resume? Doesn't this make employers question the time periods not accounted for?

BTW, I've needed a resume a few times even when not looking for a job -- e.g. a potential investor or acquirer wants to see resumes of all key personnel.
Drone delivers package to Nevada residential area, a first for US
For those who think the rave comments are just fanboys talking, I was working at a government lab when the Amiga came out.

We had multi-million imaging systems built by defence contractors like Harris and MD, yet we were blown away by the Amiga. The Amiga was 1000x cheaper and 100x better.
The patent is the opportunity to be rewarded (paid) for your work, instead of ripped off. Sans patent, BigCo just takes your great idea.
I just went through a round of interviews with a few companies and I didn't use a resume. They only asked for one the day before the scheduled onsite, so interviewers could have something in hand going in. I told them to just use my LinkedIn.

While you might say my LinkedIn is my resume, every single interview was the result of a referral or me reaching out to the company directly. I didn't submit a single job application. Nobody looked at my resume and made a snap judgement about whether to pursue me as a candidate.
Reminds me of this joke image http://www.optimiced.com/wp-uploads/2009/02/the-twitter-futu...
Did we actually get 480,000,000 dipole antennae into space? This seems utterly impossible.
You're 22 man, please don't waste your youth.
If that means a level playing field, yes. Positive discrimination is discrimination and should be banned outside of education.

Why the downvote? Is that for disagreeing?
Yes, if you hand over the choice of "limit all possibilities down to a few I can choose from" to another party, then yes, you are handing them a lot of power over you.

However, you are probably going to hand that power to someone - there are just too many products to research them all. I am arguing that you are probably better off if you hand that power off to an entity who's only revenue source is you and people like you, than if you hand that choice off to conventional advertising agencies.
I have tried a couple of times to get into ledger-cli, and what generally happens is that get really frustrated with "post-date ambiguity". In other words: do I enter a credit card transaction or check as the day I wrote it or the day it cleared? If I do it the day I wrote it, my balances are impossible to reconcile. If I do it for the day it clears, my balance view is ignoring things I know are about to happen. It is even worse when for self transfers, where there is an origination date, a "change visible in originating account" date, and a "change visible in the target account" date.

I guess I could get around it by having "in flight" accounts that deduct the money from the originating account, but at that point it is basically quadruple entry accounting, which seems like an excellent way to make a complete mess of it.
To more quickly funnel them to prison, obviously. What, you thought these were children they were teaching?
Can you provide more detail about this? I'm really curious, a defense contractor I know of is moving to a fixed-price contract and there's a lot of messaging about how they just won't be able to afford a lot of folks and so forth. It would be highly interesting to me if they came out of it with a higher profit margin. Anything I should look out for to determine if that's the case?
I will be using bacon cannon from here on out
I once played chess against a guy who used this word for just about everything. He made his move while I wasn't watching, I turned around and asked him what he did.

"I took your jawn with my jawn." I said "which one is John?" He said "They're all jawn."

From then on, every time I spoke to him I replaced every noun with "John." Surprisingly, even without nouns, we never had much difficulty understanding each other.
Since you're restricting yourself so much, you don't have many options. One opportunity, although a shitty one, is to find a 24-hr gym with treadmills and get a membership, make a platform for your laptop that can hang onto one of the treadmills to use as your work 'desk'(can't get kicked out if you're 'exercising'), you now have a place to work/shower/bathroom, and then you can sleep in your car (which is probably illegal there so find a good parking spot!).

I guess it just comes down to how set on being in SF and not giving up equity you are.
7.62x39 was going to be my bullet of choice. 10 years or so of depression was enough. Until I saw my 3 year old daughter down the hall while I was heading to the closet to get the rifle. In that moment, I chose to endure the pain for her. Not that I didn't think about it again, many times, over the years.

A friend happened to call a few days later. He convinced me to schedule a doctor's appointment that day. Tip: The receptionist will find a slot the same day when you tell them you had to give your guns to a friend just in case. Be honest with them.

Sleep, light, medication,therapy, nutrition, hydration, friends you can call. Figuring it all out can be complex. Getting help is vital so keep looking until you find the help. Finding the right therapist may take a while.

It took me almost 10 years before I stopped having suicidal thoughts after my near miss. Another 5 years before I figured out one of the main reasons for what I was experiencing. Nearly 25 years total of the pain of depression because I figured I could handle it myself.

I was wrong.

Get the help.
I like to call crab clows 'insert.'
>Morning commute and night commute are the darkest hours of my every day life

You should work from home!
There's an obvious resolution to job loss from automation. Imagine, for example, that 90% of the population become economically superfluous. What's their fate? Starvation and rebellion, perhaps. GMI would forestall that. But tax rates would be huge.

Maybe instead, we grow the economy ten fold. That's rather the vision in Vinge's stuff. And indeed, that's pretty much what has happened in the industrial revolution. But damn, how could Earth support that?

Interesting times, for sure.
Say what you will about us, but Ruby people get to have the most fun.

hops on hipster hashrocket and tribbles off into the sunset
If you're comparing them to VC-funded startups, games studios run on negative profit margins until the game is released!
It's important to understand that VNC is an open standard implemented by hundreds of different client and server packages. VNC does specify a password-authentication mechanism, but whether or not it's used, or how it's used, is entirely up to the implementation. Likewise with whether or not clients have control of the mouse and keyboard.

Historically, open VNC servers have been relatively difficult to find. I don't really mean difficult, just that you had to put some concerted effort into it and very few people did. It's a reasonably modern phenomenon that things like Shodan and other large-scale network scans (including accidental ones, like Google sometimes) can be used to quickly find them, and it's quite recent that someone has nicely packaged it into a website. So this is a problem with very little visibility until today. And it still doesn't really have that much visibility in the right place, which is the somewhat insular ICS industry (and a couple dozen other industries to a lesser extent).

SCADA HMIs and other ICS systems of that sort do often expose a VNC interface with no mouse and keyboard control - effectively a 'read-only' interface as you say. This is certainly less of a concern than allowing people on the internet control, but it is a significant and unnecessary security exposure. The kind of information revealed there can be very helpful to an adversary in finding a way to gain control.

In most cases, access to change configuration is protected, although it's often not protected well. I expect common vandalism against internet-exposed ICS to become more and more common going forward. In most cases it doesn't really have the potential to cause permanent damage, only reduced productivity or mere irritation to the real operators. This is not always the case, though. Idaho National Laboratories conducted a notable demonstration of causing permanent and disabling damage to a diesel generator via unauthorized access to a SCADA interface (the Aurora demonstration).
This isn't roulette. It's a slideshow.
I wondered the same thing since TANSTAAFL. Looks like there's a "store" selling various in-game perks: https://s.m.ly/
Just added a PR for the spermy operator (~>).
Scanning and Nmap Lab: [In Nepali] Learn Ethical Hacking Pt.7
Companies being generally unreceptive to this kind of feedback is partly why full disclosure is so necessary. If they won't treat a security incident with the importance it deserves its time to elevate it to a PR incident by posting to full disclosure.
Yes. They are referring to each individual copper needle as a dipole antenna.
By all means, pay people equally. But if a professional in their 30s isn't making enough to raise a family, they're not paid well. If you pay your firefighters like that, they're going to leave for other cities which do pay enough to raise a family.

It's not that people with families should be paid more, it's just that making enough to live by yourself isn't a good benchmark for pay. People without families will make way more than they need, but that's just how things go; there's a reason DINK means "lots of disposable income."
This made my night. That is exactly how I feel. I just spit out my drink reading this comment. Id rather just go give random people a dollar sand see their reaction.
M&A is also another interesting case for layoffs, in this case it might not follow this traditional format as it could be redundancies that are eliminated because of political reasons and not necessarily performance/salary.

It feels like the reasons for layoffs boil down to:

- Money (Run rate/market/shareholders)

- Strategy (Company decides to go in a new/different direction)

- Politics (Internal to the company/executives/board)
It's hard to catch up, when everyone moves at the same speed.
Shodan has been keeping track of publicly accessible control systems for several years now and you can use the search engine to identify them. As a starting point check out: https://www.shodan.io/explore/category/industrial-control-sy...
A third option to building more housing or shedding local jobs is to create fewer new jobs. For example, by taxing tech companies until they slow their growth.
Show HN: Pycraft – learn Python with Minecraft
https://github.com/teachthenet/pycraft

This project is aimed at 6-12th graders, though all may find it fun. It's goals are two-fold:

1) Teach the basics of programming, of reading code, editing code, writing code from scratch, and learning how to google things.

2) Give kids something they can use as a baseline to heavily modify based on their own ideas - they can start with the spell frameworks in lessons 7 and 8 and give themselves superpowers, or go in the direction of lessons 5, 6 and 9 and focus on automating complex architecture!

Solutions can be see in the branch "solutions", and a person can run their own server from the "server" branch. The Master branch is the client, and you can connect to my server from it (instructions in the readme).

Looking for any feedback, particularly around the lessons themselves and any ideas for additional lessons - but open to anything constructive.
Amazing to see how much infrastructure is using VNC.
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This sums up what I dislike most about Scala (which is an even worse offender in this regard). A rule of thumb: if a 10-year-old wouldn't be able to intuitively read the operator, use words.
Lithium batteries are perhaps an example. Grove had:

>The U.S. lost its lead in batteries 30 years ago when it stopped making consumer electronics devices.

>Unlike with microprocessors, the U.S. share of lithium-ion battery production is tiny

But now the cutting edge seems to be Tesla's Gigafactory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigafactory_1