skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A comment in the Reddit thread says that the breach includes some .edu credentials as well:

alum.mit.edu stu.aii.edu student.monroecc.edu mail.mst.edu missouri.edu usnwc.edu jfsc.ndu.edu utsa.edu hsl.harvard.edu itt-tech.edu scad.edu gmu.edu ohsu.edu my.sinclair.edu

I haven't downloaded the file to confirm. But if you've got an account at one of the above domains, you should consider that password compromised and rotate it, there and anywhere else that uses the same value. (And consider not re-using passwords, if the latter case applies to you.)
Your original statement was that this work would not happen at all, not that Monsanto specifically would not do the work. I was saying that your copyright analogy doesn't work for you, because plenty of writing still happens.
The oft-cited explanations—campaign contributions and the allure of private-sector jobs to low-paid government lawyers—have certainly played a role. But to Kidney, the driving force was something subtler.

The only "subtler" thing is that corrupt actors of this sort need to manufacture vague and appealing alternatives to plain-old-corruption in order to look themselves in the mirror.
And composed/wrote many songs for others. I think recognizing talented icons when they pass isn't unfit for here.
Online calculator measures impact of $15 wage
Thanks, really helpful info.
"Price is nearly equal to value except in rare edge cases of market failure"

What does this even mean?

I'll give two thought examples.

1)Let's say I have a severe peanut allergy and peanuts are selling at $5.00/lb. Does the price meet the value? I.e. would I have a tricky time deciding if I would rather have the $5.00 or the pound of peanuts? Is this even true across society as an "average"? Do we believe markets are that rational, efficient and smooth?

2) over the course of the last year the price of gasoline in California has fluctuated by nearly 40%. Is this variance truly reflective of the relative value of gasoline to dollars over this time period, or is the "catastrophic market failure". How Scotsman must such a failure be?
Facebook's stance on vulnerability research is incredibly admirable. I can only home more companies hold themselves to the same high standard.
Just because plenty of writing still happens doesn't mean that George RR Martin spends years of his life writing Game Of Thrones without copyright.
The article provides context so I didn't link directly to the calculator.

Link to calculator: http://minwagecalc.hhs.purdue.edu/
I hope they won't do that. I believe those approaches do a disservice to Android in general.

For instance, it really annoys me when Android Studio pushes you to add app indexing stuff, which in turn needs Play Services to work. Play Services unnecessarily bloats my APKs, so I go great lengths to avoid it.

I prefer a more agnostic Android Studio (and Android in general) rather than gravitating towards Google sponsored add-ons.
And here's the emotionless email:

"This message is to inform you that the Bitcasa Drive service will no longer be supported. You will need to take action to avoid losing your files.

All data must be downloaded by 11:59pm PST on May 20, 2016, after which time all accounts and stored data on Bitcasa Drive will be permanently deleted.

To learn why this is happening, please click here.

Thank you for being a Bitcasa user. We have appreciated all of your support."
If the government org in question had followed iOS deployment best-practices, they would have already had sanctioned access to this phone.
From reading through the article, it certainly sounds like mass delusion / tinnitus.
Which is a bigger flag for mismanagement. If the phone had had device management software as most major companies provision, no hack would have been necessary.
I didn't say it was negligence on the part of the shareholder. They are putting their money under the control of someone else, they should be thinking about risk when they do so. Is it so clear that a series of closer looks at Enron's books would have missed the fraud?

It's also the case that I was thinking more about the companies that are fined and keep operating with all the same officers in place than I was thinking about companies that implode. For example, shareholders of JP Morgan apparently aren't real sad with Jamie Dimon.
Copyright and patents are meant to encourage the creation of difficult things. Protecting novel things is the means. Difficult things is the ends.
I'd say that this problem isn't just with Valve. This strategy of gambling for virtual items with in-game currency is used in other games that use a freemium model.

Valve gets fewer complaints because you only spend real money on cosmetic items, it's not pay to win. But I think Valve has a better reputation than every other company that makes money off of gambling in video games. I usually assume companies are exploiting their players if they have gambling with in-game currency.
Astute analysis, Valve's proximity to the secondary market seems to be the issue here. They also appear to allow you to generate keys for games that can then be sold[0][1]. This provides you with an indirect way of cashing out your earnings.

[0]https://www.g2a.com/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-2-steam-cd-k... ($7.23 USD vs Steam price of $19.99 USD)

[1]https://www.g2a.com/mass-effect-trilogy-origin-cd-key-global... ($13.66 for all 3 Mass Effect games or $34.99 on Steam)
First Response – World's First Bluetooth-Enabled Pregnancy Test Now on Shelves
What if the clients are wrong? What if they think they need something, but it turns out that they have a bad interaction with the drug?

There is a reason doctors undergo training and are held legally liable for mis-prescription.

The service may not have been illegal when only looking at the patients being served (I have no idea) but it was certainly illegal from the doctor's side. Not to mention...highly unethical from the medical side. All the doctors involved should have had their licences revoked.
They're tracking to spend upwards of $3-$3.5 billion in 2016 on Google Fiber. They're likely spending a fair sum on infrastructure as well as everything else.

(from Q4 2015)

"In the earnings announcement this week, Alphabet (the parent company of Google) shared that most of it’s $869 million in capital spend on “Other Bets” went to Google Fiber, according to CFO Ruth Porat, and that Google Fiber would continue to be a driver of CapEx spending going forward."

https://abc.xyz/investor/news/earnings/2015/Q4_google_earnin...
They just released ION as open source https://github.com/amznlabs/ion-java
http://amznlabs.github.io/ion-docs/index.html
Hacking the DRM RFID filament cartridge on the DaVinci Jr 3D printer
It just shows that the smartest people in the world working on cool tech doesn't necessarily mean business success. It's a different kind of smarts.
Code doesn’t usually exist in a vacuum; it has dependencies on an environment that keeps moving forward. If your old commented-out code is calling any functions, those functions may have changed. It probably used a bunch of libraries. It probably needed a certain compiler or interpreter version. And if it ran on just one OS or hardware, you might have a hard time even finding the right system to run the old code.

In other words, unless you are also keeping your entire universe in revision control (all code changes, lists of program and library versions, old machines, etc.), then there isn’t much point in just preserving code. That code probably won’t copy/paste into the current environment with the same behavior, and it’s almost worse if it does “fit” because the behavior may now be misleading.
No, I shouldn't. You know as well as I do that it would be a waste of both of our time. Sometimes I'm ok with that, but this horse was already beaten to death.

I humbly submit for your consideration that my assumption of you making comments in bad faith is not unlike yours and Alex's assumptions of bad faith on the part of the researcher, and perhaps we could all improve a bit here.

Snipe aside (which was fired at facebook, not you), I am genuinely confused about their ambiguous policy, and it looks like other commenters are too.
The surprising habits of original thinkers:

https://www.ted.com/talks/adam_grant_the_surprising_habits_o...
The criticism of economic metrics is sound but the rest of the article reminded me of Politics and the English Language (the use of complex words where simple ones would do).

On the topic of economic metrics - I believe that at this point, in the UK at least, GDP, unemployment, median wage, inflation, and possibly more indicators are irrelevant, and the focus on them misplaced, primarily because housing (capital) costs have exploded whilst other (operational) costs have shrunk.
Propaganda aside, geofencing isn't about stopping a sophisticated group from launching an attack. Its about making sure all my friends around here keep their DJI Phantoms away from SFO arrivals and departures..
I don't think it's that straightforward. It's hard to vote for something that doesn't come up for a vote. And it doesn't come up for a vote if the right people don't want it to come up for a vote.
Banks invest in Ex-regulators. As an ongoing investment, they would expect a payoff.

Also, a bank would prefer to reward the boss or co-workers who fires an over-zealous regulator to rewarding an over zealous regulator.

The whole absurdity you quote reads like something someone else hoping to be hired by a bank would write...
Bitcasa being shut down with less than a month notice
DuckDuckGo's results have definitely improved over the last year. I now prefer DuckDuckGo's SERP UI over Google's and really like the !bang searches. I only need to use Google (!g) when looking for some very technical or recently-crawled pages.
Another good "must read" is this:

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

The entire "Revelation Space" series is excellent too, if that one grabs you. :)
On the other hand, German battlecruisers were the focus of British fire in the Battle of Jutland and only one was sunk. HMS Hood may have simply been a flawed design.
One obvious guess would be that it's a dress rehearsal for a possible Nobel peace prize win.
It's an unfortunate consequence of this never ending war stance. These guys end up getting damaged and discarded, and end up in bad places.

I think the overnight creation of these powerful mercenary orgs will be a long lasting negative force with all sorts of ill effects.
`git blame SuperImportantCodeFile2` => Fired
Most of it is link tracking for newsletter distribution. You can remove it and shorten it to [1] without any impact

[1] https://blog.codeship.com/kubernetes-namespaces-resource-quo...
I kinda agree with a lot. Not everything, but a lot. However it only works when you actually have faith in the leadership and a fan of the product you're building making the whole thing unrealistic. It's unfortunate.
We now live in an age where stating an opinion that is against the current narrative will get you fired or your personal life ruined.

I've seen so many people on Facebook talk negatively about Republicans, Christians, and white males with impunity.

You can't tell me how bad discrimination is, while at the same time being brutally discriminating against someone you don't like. It's this sort of hypocrisy that leads to people like Donald Trump running for president (and getting lots of support).
It's purely for information dissemination, not trying to get people to be repeat customers or join the Navy. That's what navy.com is for.
Have you seen this Deadpool movei part? I guess not
Bitcasa Drive is shutting down
Alphabet is the second largest publicly traded company in the world ... if that's not business success, what is?

I think in these kinds of conversations we sometimes lose a little perspective.
The only people who know for sure aren't talking. You don't react to a sub the minute you discover it in peacetime. It gives away too much information about the quality of your sensors.

They may have discovered it far from the fleet, or may have missed it, or anywhere in between.

Also, during wartime fleets will be using active sonar. It's going to be a lot harder for subs to hide.
The thing is, companies like Google, Facebook and Apple are kinda companies of great britain or at least Ireland. They have bases in Ireland for tax purposes and to comply with certain data retention laws.

That aside, it is not really too much to ask that a company that does business in England abide by English law.
Facebook, Twitter and Yik Yak could be banned by NUS motion
#20 is "cord blood"?! TIL that some people preserve their children’s umbilical cord blood in case the stem cells become medically useful someday.
I wish people who paid lots of government money for things were always forced to do so out of their salary. For example: we will pay you $X per year in exchange for giving you the responsibility to make up to 10 big purchases; each time you purchase however, 1% of the proposed sum comes out of that $X salary; now then, how judicious will you be?

One thing Ron Paul did in Congress years ago, after one of those stupid “let’s spend taxpayer money on a bunch of medals” proposals or something, was to rephrase that expense: he challenged Congress to simply donate a percentage of their own salaries to make it happen. After all, if it was so wonderful (echoing all the things other Congress members had stood up and said about the idea before then), and so worthwhile, surely they would personally not mind chipping in something, right? Predictably, a very small number of congresspeople were suddenly willing to go quite that far.
Argggg, I have around 700GB of data in Bitcasa, can anybody recommend an alternative? Don't need sync, just cloud storage that mounts in OSX as a native volume.
So if I declare that I need a powerful anesthetic like Propofol, the doctor should just give me a prescription like that? What's the point of requiring a prescription then?

The previous article said that those forms were rubber-stamped. No matter what you declared, you got your prescription.

And regarding clients using the medicines legally, that's like saying that sellers of explosives shouldn't check their clients, because it's the clients responsibility to use them legally.
So an EULA just protected people?
Right, as opposed to also worrying about a careless teenager flying their drone too close to an airport to get a sick camera angle of a landing plane.
Solaris 10 and 11 have SMF
If you had a real argument here, you'd make it, rather than suggesting that I'm commenting because of a fictitious working relationship with Alex Stamos.
iPad Pro True Tone: Looking at the Future
It's relatively recent, to crack down on ridiculous speeders and racers. Honestly those people deserve the book thrown at them.

Going 50km over is an instant roadside suspension and a $2,000 - $10,000 fine.
Streamlining the Sign-in Flow Using Web Credential Management API
It weighed heavily on my mind to upvote this, based on your username, but it is a truly insightful comment.
I'm confused. All the skills you cite are exactly the ones I would expect a PhD researcher (esp. in math, comp. sci, stats, etc...) to be proficient in (although, perhaps not the schmoozing). You're saying your PhD researchers aren't skilled in research methodology and stats??
Where? In the US it is still legal to fly over 400' for hobby purposes when flying under the safety guidelines of a community based organization.
Why would you expect them to be responsible with money that isn't theirs?

Your argument would work for an individual, and to a lesser extent a corporation (where money spent comes out of profit and would be balanced against benefit), but the government plays with your money - not their own.

If they want to get into a hundred phones, they'll just ask congress for an appropriation for $100m. And since the government is one of its own largest lobbyists, it'll happen.
Elon Musk has an idea for autonomous transit vehicles
No? The purpose of the title should be to describe the content of the article. If reporting what Pegg said exactly makes the title misleading there's no reason to quote him. Even if you wanted to use his words exactly I would have put "fan website 'Memory Alpha'".
My problem is that I love free things. Instead of blocking ads if I go to a website which has ads I don't like then it's just forever dead to me and I block it. I get the internet that I want and the websites I like get paid. I just browse with noscript and all that stuff if I don't want to be tracked but if I'm just going on netflix and facebook it's not a big deal to me.

Edit: obviously I don't expect everyone to agree with me on this but it works for me pretty well and I'm happy to contribute revenue to the sites that I enjoy
This problem applies to any app store.
The reason why the government has to take action on this is because as a matter of policy, the government coerces people to invest in corporate America. If people were freer to not participate in the stock market casino, then there would be no need to regulate it.
Would he have a guarantee he would be allowed back in Russia? If not I guess he can stay in Norway indefinitely but would need a work visa as well.
IntersectionObserver’s coming into view
As someone pointed out above, that's not different than trading card games. It's arguably more restricted than real world trading cards because you can't sell them outside valves market.
Ask HN: Is Entrepreneurship WRONG for me?
I've been doing a lot of thinking lately. When I look around at the successful entrepreneurs, I feel like most of them never really intended to be a business owner. They never set out with THAT goal. Instead, becoming a business owner appears to have been a side-effect of pursuing something that they were intrinsically interested in.

To that end, it would seem as though I am not a good candidate for entrepreneurship. I am deliberately searching for, and trying to start, a business of some kind. It's the business that is my goal, instead of the side effect. I wonder more and more, if I have it completely backwards, and if I truly have a snowballs chance in hell of starting a company, as a result.

I know there are many founders on HN, so I would love to get some perspective from you all (or anyone else). Am I crazy? Should I abandon my direct efforts and instead let the wind blow where it may?
>What happens if you send in 10,000 flying bombs simultaneously?

You're wishing into existence a capability nobody has or has had since the Soviet Union fell, and won't have for decades at least.

Beyond that, you're ignoring the ability of a carrier battle group to disrupt that kind of attack. The way to defend against that kind of thing is to destroy the launching platforms.
On the flipside, that is what makes me feel old.

In my teens/20s, my friends/colleagues and I would just go casually someplace to hang out after work/school without planning squat. (After class) Hey, let's go to x's house and chill. (After work) Everyone, let's go to x bar and unwind for a few hours. Now? I can't remember the last time I could casually say to a friend to hangout tomorrow. Practically everyone (save one's SO) seems like they need a few days to weeks notice in advanced. It's not an exaggeration to say that sometimes I have to book people 2-4 weeks in advance just to have a coffee/lunch! All I have to say is thank god for meetup.com which fills the space in between.
I wish people would stop talking about "fast" and instead talk about "efficient".
not sure how cracking encryption will "un-kill" even one of those people.
It's not really about 'security being addressed', we all know that. It's about marketers creating the illusion that security has been addressed for end users that don't understand it anyway. In the case of stuff like Windows, it's about eventually forcibly removing control from the users by pushing updates.

I think it's dishonest to not just simply post that 'if you're afraid of the cloud, you are not our target market, go away'. I guess it's a capitalism thing. Wouldn't look good to investors, or whatever.

I am sad because I have a beefy machine, and I want to use this, but I can't. I'd pay for it, you know? But I don't 'do' SaaS, the reasons are too long to list here.

More concretely, 32GB RAM is trivial, and preselecting my languages is... I've already pre-selected them! It takes months, years to learn a language :P

Kite looks really super cool.
> Now the FBI are sure that the attackers weren't in contact with other ISIS members.

Umm, no - no they aren't. Not even close. The terrorists personal phones were destroyed before the FBI could recover them, this was just a 'work phone'.

Don't you think it's likely that a) there is a reason they destroyed their personal phones, and b) if they were going to communicate with other actors they'd be more likely to use the phone that's completely under their control?
You can make the case that's gambling, but to call this "serious" gambling? That's a stretch.
Moscone West, where I/O is usually held is not undergoing renovation. Just the main (North and South) buildings.
That would bring an antitrust lawsuit against them pretty quickly, I think.
Monsanto is doing what would traditionally take farming communities hundreds of years in the span of decades. There is value in incentivizing research and product development in that. Furthermore the patents expire in a timeframe of two decade so the greater community still is able to have superior harvests within a timespan of decades instead of centuries.

Monsanto existing is a net positive given how long traditional techniques would take. It is being closed and made for profit because it takes millions of dollars worth of investment to make these improvements. There should be incentive to do this.
“Englishization”: Changing Rakuten's Company Language from Japanese to English
FWIW, that draft was added after I published my blog post.
Ask HN: A shift from gas to EV's will cause us to deplete another resource, no?
I do understand that we will not consume lithium at the same rates but isn't the transition from oil to lithium going to land us in similar predicaments to the ones we're in now re: our dependence on a quickly depleting natural resource?
Codeship Founder here. @op: Where did you get the link from? I'm curious if it's our newsletter because then we would fix the URLs.
This isn't an odd effect at all, it's perfectly well understood. Google the "85th percentile rule" for more.

If most drivers are "automatically" adding 9-10 MPH to the speed limit, it means the speed limit is too low.
You can read the story from a few months back to find that Facebook apparently has an unstated but non-repudiated policy of threatening to involve the FBI and actually doing reputational damage to researchers who they feel cross a (poorly described and enforced) line: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10754194

In this case, they (correctly) went the other way, which creates even more uncertainty. Given this pattern of inconsistent enforcement mixed with threats, I would feel genuinely unsafe reporting a security vulnerability to Facebook except under very specific conditions. That's probably not what they're going for, but that's the environment they're creating.
If the ads business goes to shit, the cloud business takes a beating, also.
Then in 10 years, someone, somewhere decides that 90 is acceptable on a specific road. Now all cars with limiters need to be modified. Want to be able to change it remotely? Now you add an attack vector. Throw in a GPS? Now you're asking for additional government monitoring that is mandatory and might be (will be) used for spying purposes.
Probably has a bit more weight if the award comes from a country other than Russia. Plus if the court lets him go, than he probably can increase his travel options generally.
Reminds me of Not Yours To Give: http://www.constitution.org/cons/crockett.htm
We financed it - your kids will be paying for it.
Only in the US. :(