skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Relatedly, I once toured Sipsmith's surprisingly small (commercial garage size) distillery, which they're justifiably proud of, being apparently the first new London gin distillery actually in London in - long enough that, when it came time to apply for the appropriate license, nobody at City Hall actually knew what the process was.

A couple photos:

Wide view, showing almost everything:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/porsupah/21526970411/in/datepo...

A glimpse into the maceration still, showing some of the botanicals involved:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/porsupah/21331379849/in/datepo...

And a simple view of the hatch of one of the stills, Patience (the others being Prudence and Constance):

https://www.flickr.com/photos/porsupah/21330240210/in/datepo...
it's kind of amazing that woese managed to discover a whole kingdom of life with just a few RNAs and the best we can do with thousands of genomes is make weak associations.
A16Z's Ben Evans talks about the order of magnitude shifts in computers sold - 100,000 mini computers, 1bn PCs over 20 years and 4.5bn smartphones in what, 7 years? (that's last years figures). We should be passing 7bn soon.

A smartphone for every person on the planet.

I occasionally ramble about a golden future for humankind. It's a small chance we shall get there, ending poverty, war, disease, maintaining liberty and democracy.

It's one of those "so many ways to mis-step" issues.

But if I am honest, having everyone on the planet able to talk to everyone else on the planet seems like a good "safety rope" on the journey. Smartphones are helping that.

But still that's a mind blowing statistic.
Then I guess you will be without a phone. I am pretty sure Apple is one of the best companies in terms of supporting their old devices. My friend has a two year old android device and its pretty much unusable at this point. Iphone 4 was released 6+ years ago.
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You don't want to work for a company that operates that way anyway, if you can avoid it.
I'm just adding to the post I replied to, I realize it is an urban truck
Package maintainers, you DO NOT OWE anybody anything. If a package you maintain is "mission critical" for a company then that company can contract you to maintain the package, companies need to stop expecting developers to work for free. How many companies that made a profit with moment.js contributed back to the project ? financially ? Personally I believe that dual licenses, one GPL, one commercial make more and more sense in the OS world.
The MB3D project is dead. What now?
Addressed some of this in my main response. A lot of companies in this space will have cyber coverage that includes: breach coaches, privacy/security lawyers, forensic specialists, security operations consultants, and companies to handle mandatory breach notifications.

I tend to work mainly with small businesses and professionals in healthcare, law, etc to avoid and prepare for incident response, but I also work with clients in the middle of a breach.

In lieu of someone like me or a dedicated breach coach/resolution company, there are a handful of good attorneys who understand tech/startup culture and even enough of the technical intricacies to provide a good response.

Our new website will include resources, but it hasn't launched yet. I'm often available to do a short call at no cost to discuss level of effort and get a company or startup moving down the right path. If you want to take me up on that, hit me up on https://www.linkedin.com/in/clintonjcampbell now (or quirktree.com starting next Monday).
LinkedIn is a spammer paradise and a cancer for everybody else though. LinkedIn is designed decently but just as full of spam and overflow as Myspace was. Pretty much only worth using between jobs - but otherwise, I think there are much better platforms. They've become all about upselling: "Buy our premium membership and see the people who've seen your profile!" And they of course, sell your data and viewing habits without care.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/nextavenue/2013/09/03/has-linked...
>Anonymous person (under a nickname) sent screenshot as a proof that they managed to gain SSH access to our production server. The screenshot is legit, information displayed in it could not be faked without actual access.

Could you upload a redacted version of the email? Get rid of anything that identifies you or the company - the community here might be able to help.

I agree with the majority of the advice here - get the server down immediately after preparing a new, security enhanced version.

Assuming the following:

* You use a key for access and not a typed password.
* You haven't done done anything to your distro to compromise security.

There are probably two likely routes of thinking here:

* The key leak was internal to the company and you need to figure out who it was.
* The software your company wrote introduced a security vulnerability.

For the first one, you need to devise a method of catching them out - you at least want to know if it was an internal or external source. Assuming this person is smart, they'll probably be using a VPN or TOR so tracking their IP will be useless. Try the following:

* You could set SSH to only accept incoming connections from your company (and your home IP as backup). Allowing SSH connections from arbitrary places is generally not a good idea.

For the second one, it would be good to know what sever software/libraries you are using as well as versions. `sudo nmap -sA <IP>` your own server so we can see what you have running and possible entry points.

Also:

* Patch SSH to send you all commands typed - if you've been compromised you at least want to know to what extent.
* Assume whatever data was on the server is now compromised - databases, passwords, usernames, emails, bank accounts, etc. You need to inform your customer base if their details are leaked. Internal or external they've already copied everything (I would have).

They are just some initial ideas - no doubt somebody will shoot them down but hopefully you can find some use in them.
It would be interesting to know how many of those phones are actually active as we speak. What happens to old generation iPhones? Are they sold to users that can't afford buying a new one or do they stay in a drawer as a legacy item the same way old laptops do?
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I'm not exactly sure what facebook having 150 car chargers has to do with the rest of the world getting car chargers.
Posted yesterday, also. But easily one of the weirdest science projects I've seen mention of, or read about.

(Assuming it is a valid research project, and not a troll of some sort).
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What are you talking about? Those articles are generic studies about past elections, there's no theoretical way those studies could have found whether or not there was an issue in the 2016 election.

It's okay to take back something you said in error in HN, you don't always have to double-down.
Some really nice photos!

In the first photo, is the device with the brass windows, possibly a bubble plate column?
Current market evaluation.
The oddity is that I believe sha512 uses 64-bit words while sha256 uses 32-bit words. So on 64 bit hardware sha512 will be faster (presumably because using the 32 bit registers is slower somehow, I don't know). This is why ZFS is adding support for sha512/256 as it's Merkel tree hashing function.
Wasn't expecting to see someone promote LinkedIn as a better alternative to Facebook!
It is not mentioned in the article, but the UAE is a country with sharia law: Flogging is a punishment for criminal offences such as adultery, premarital sex and alcohol consumption, while apostasy and homosexuality are crimes punishable by death. Amputation and crucification are legal punishments. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_the_United_Ara...

I wonder if the author is afraid of retribution (e.g. abduction, “disappearance”).
Anything that pushes you out of your comfort area is good for you, brain can be conceptualized as a muscle... and if you don't use it you loose it.

I met a guy who had a stroke and as a result of it he loosed a lot of his brain capacity.

He was learning spanish, learning about computers, learning french, writing a book, doing kayak, running, hiking... everyday.

He told me... every second of kayak I do; I'm kayaking running away from death.

He was conscious on how this helped his brain, to gain plasticity and allow other parts of his brain to supply for the loosed capabilities.
No we did not compare to SHA512 (since we don't need it).

I would expect SHA512 to be 2x faster compared to the SHA256 software version, but that is still way slower than the ARM SHA extensions accelerated version.
That's preposterous, don't you know the cold war is over?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1409sXBleg
On fail2ban, I have had more success in being able to stop attacks quickly by using SSHGuard. Quicker easier setup, easier to understand, etc. Is there a significant reason to use fail2ban over sshguard?
> always ask a new recruit which salary he/she wants publicly (by that I mean in front of a not insignificant part of the company, we are 50) and show them salaries of other people in case it does not really fit.

That sounds absolutely awful.
Took some digging, but here you go: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/k3lgWD6rUo9JaR31UDa
Presumbly it is the American ones (such as myself) being referred to - separated from their relatives by more than a century and a half https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotch-Irish_Americans
"He's more skilled than you" sounds far more toxic than either of those "bad" reasons you gave as examples.
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I have a Facebook account and it waste's approximately 0% of my time. I check it for about 15 seconds every two days. I never post anything.
> I occasionally ramble about a golden future for humankind.

What, filled with landfills of iphones? The hope to "improve" or "advance" humanity is the most nauseating part of silicon valley. Technology does not necessarily make the world a better place. In fact, it has actively accelerated the burn rate of our collective resources. Meanwhile, there is zero indication anyone is living a better life than they did before.
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Generalist doctors have a median salary of ~$200k, with specialists earning a median salary of ~$300k. The lenders will have an easier time vetting doctors since almost all of them make a high income with good job security.

By contrast, developers have a median salary of ~$95k nationwide and ~$110k in San Francisco according to Glassdoor (or $65k nationwide and $103k in San Francisco according to Payscale). Of course, some make much more, typically through stock options. So lenders are probably filtering by occupation and employer (e.g. Google, Facebook, etc.).

I'll trust that the lenders are competent to determine whether someone with with a ~$150k salary is a strong candidate to buy a $2M house with no downpayment. Housing lenders haven't shown poor judgement in the past (edit: /s).
FYI, if you do want to chat. Our new website will include resources, but it hasn't launched yet. Hit me up for now on https://www.linkedin.com/in/clintonjcampbell. Our twitter account, @quirktree is operational though not launched yet. And our website, quirktree.com, should be ready by next Monday with online contact options.
Who wrote this absolute waffle and was proud of it. fewer paragraphs on zucks eyes, "signature look" and admiration of rome would not have gone amiss
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No sourcing for the main claim of the article. Besides, the cold war is over, doncha know?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1409sXBleg
> Disclaimer I own a data center

I'm curious why you think owning a DC makes you less qualified to respond? Presumably because someone that senior is less in touch with day-to-day security operations?
No need, they should voter fraud Hillary style.

Seriously though, the wapo/nytimes BS on Trump is getting old
The Golang assembly does not support all instructions, we've created a tool (see https://github.com/minio/asm2plan9s) to assist in translating instructions into their opcode equivalents.
Slightly clearer view here:

http://famousworkspaces.tumblr.com/post/21326452092/howard-s...
Yeah I was thinking N Korea is probably the closest modern example to Nazi style fascism. They've got the unswerving loyalty to the dictator for the military good of the country thing going on. Not very good at building autobahns and industrialising though.
"Commercial entities". It's not like they're going to go after fans tweeting things. They have to protect the value of sponsorship, otherwise nobody will pay for it.
I didn't know that! ... anyway, yes I'm afraid, I just did what I felt to be my "duty" and hope for the best :)
I'd consider it a decent beach read but wouldn't nominate it for a Hugo [not that I'm likely to be asked for my nomination]. I read it off the public libary new shelf a few years ago. It was two or three evenings' worth of reasonable entertainment and Pokemon Go reminded me of having read it.
That fits with my understanding. What I don't know is how this interacts with the acceleration functionality the chip has. For instance, do the instructions end up being "please do sha256 on this data", or are they closer to AES-NI where it's "please perform one round of an AES encryption flow".
Then yes, SF/Silicon valley is the place for such things. Don't know about NYC
They tweeted the old ones though : https://twitter.com/ESA_Rosetta/status/758231095829729280
Oh, good catch. I'm incorrect, and they are using the component.[1] I suppose they just have the same policy for the carousel as for Google News.

[1]: http://i.imgur.com/Jlu6JRX.png
People in software generally suck at negotiation. And, salary transparency just reduces overall salaries and increases profit for the company.

Why? because a software developer will say, 'Wow, I can get paid that much for doing something that I love? Sure!', and they'll take whatever they're given.

But, ask yourself, do you think the person in sales does the same thing? The person in finance or marketing?

Look, you don't need to be a world-class developer to make $200k / year. You just have to be 1% better than the developer making $190k / year.

As a baseline, a typical services / contracting company will bill a senior developer at $190 / hour. The math is straight-forward.

This works for product companies, as well. You and your 20-person engineering team build a product that ends up being worth $100M? (completely realistic, btw) Yeah, even at paying $200k / year, the company and investors are making out.

It's funny, actually. For all of the software people that I know who are self-described libertarians, when it comes to their salary they are willing to lean socialist.
No. I asked a question and answered it myself. I come to the same conclusion.
It's a company with millions of dollars on marketing. You can bet they've studied their price point and it is exactly at the right ratio between sale quantity and sale amount. If Linux became unsafe/untrusted (e.g. unapproved by S&P500 audit companies for example, or if black hats activities were discovered at the kernel level of Linux), however, they would become a monopoly on PCs, and they indeed could triple the price.
> Length by percentage in this case has nothing to do with semantic or rhetorical value.

In logic, the strength of an inductive argument is based on the premises. So I would say that the premises have great rhetorical value.

With that in mind, length seems like a reasonable proxy.

> It seems to me that it's easier for you to insult me than to engage with what I'm saying.

I just wrote a massive comment. When you say things like this, it brings out the gadfly in me. It's absurd to say I don't engage with what you're saying. I wrote a reply to nearly everything you said.

> If you just prefer to assume bad faith when someone makes a mistake, rather than give people the benefit of the doubt at no cost to yourself, okay.

I explained why. With the mistake, you're referring to the your first comment again. To repeat: it has nothing to do with that!
Part of me doesn't like the whole red scare deal, but also, electronic voting machines should be banned outright. You think that after the OPM scandal that those things have the highest security??
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12171453
Unless we are seeing the end of VC, then there should always be a new up and coming business. In which case there should always be an investment opportunity - and at expected returns better than negative.

Installation of renewable energy, mobile network roll outs, basic R&D for science, that alone could consume a few hundred billion globally and the returns would be 10% or better. (Sell electricity to 3bn people in india and China at 100usd pa / house - approx 100bn pa marketplace there)

I refuse to believe "well that's it lets stop making new businesses"
Likely because Tesla leadership expects the stock price to be significantly higher in a few years, and they can make do on a smaller amount + proceeds from vehicle sales until then.

To be precise, the capital raise in May was for the gigafactory and Model 3. The expected capital raises in the future are for Tesla Energy expansion, plus future vehicles. That plan might change, but this is the latest official message.
> I think Facebook is here to stay.

Well, that just sounds like an open invitation to challenge them.
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I'll try it out, thanks :)
I read up to Excession and stopped. At the pace I was going, there was going to be a year of Culture, then nothing new from it forever. It's such a shame that Banks died but damn, did he leave a mark.

If anyone is in the same position, I can recommend the Second Apocalypse series[1]. I find it feels like you put Tolkien and Banks in a pot, inverted some tropes, and let simmer.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Scott_Bakker#The_Second_Apo...
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I think they meant 'disclosure'
You are approaching from the wrong angle. How much was the exploit "worth" to the company?

Some people want to watch the burn. An attacker could make it known anonymously and LastPass will never recover from that onslaught.
Puts me in mind of Moxie's experience in a similar incident with Mobily and Saudi Arabia[1]

[1]: https://moxie.org/blog/saudi-surveillance/
Yahoo makes a profit as well. Verizon may have overpaid (I couldn't say), but they are getting a mature property which makes money.
My father is still using an iPhone 4, 6 years after its launch and is now thinking of upgrading to a 7 in the fall and I have had a 5S for 2 years now and think I can pull another 2 years before I upgrade. These phones have longer lives then they use to but Apple sales I believe will remain steady since some old iPhone user has to upgrade and they most likely will pick an iPhone. There isn't much reason to switch to Android at this point.

The only thing that could take them off there perch is another revolutionary device showing up on the scene, but I think that won't happen for another decade.
Can you stop, please? You are literally arguing about someone reading the article, and being completely uncivil while doing so.
The Bolt will also not be able to ship in nearly the volumes of Tesla Model 3.
to be honest, finding out that someone else disclosed something very similar in the past has been a big contribution to my final decision to publish the post.
Awesome to see Craigavon as the most hygienic place, I love very close and used to go to school there.
Probably less than you would think - even older iPhones have fairly decent resale value.
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I have an iPhone 4 sitting atop a bookshelf gathering dust. I have it for the rare test session.
>"All he wants is for America to see him as a worthy adversary. This week, we're giving that to him, and then some," she wrote.

Oh, Russia... don't worry. It was fun while it lasted, with the spies and the assassins and the constant teetering on the precipice of global nuclear Armageddon. You'll always have a special place in our hearts. But you wouldn't even put the uniforms on the last time you invaded someplace. You know we like it when you wear the uniforms.

So... I think it's time we saw other adversaries. Now that you're no longer communist, the spark's just not there anymore. It's not you, it's us.
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The $200K level is really, really not mythical in NY. Many software jobs at all kinds of companies, ranging from start-ups to pure tech firms to food service organizations to finance companies to advertising firms will pay a software developer around $200K/yr in base pay, and usually there is some opportunity for bonus and equity as well. You probably also only need 3-4 years of experience to get your name in the hat for these positions too; I'm not talking about only developers with like 10 years of experience.

To put it in perspective, I earned a base salary in the very high $100K's when working for a large education company in Boston, having only 3.5 years of experience at the time.

The cost of living in New York is something like 30% higher than Boston, so before I would even consider any job in New York at all, even just to keep my wage at the same level relative to cost of living, you're talking about a salary certainly above $200k. Sure, places are free to dupe youngsters who just think it's cool to live in NY and are happy to take a discounted salary in order to get that personally-valued benefit. But a lot of thoughtful people who would make great employees for you won't do that -- won't even consider your job at all or do any of the hiring process unless they know it at minimum offers them a pay level that keeps their quality of life consistent. Otherwise they'll just stay where they are, or they'll work in some different geographic area where the pay isn't so distorted from the true cost of living as in New York.

I do love all the work that Stack Exchange does to keep using fully private offices though. Despite disagreeing with the salary levels, I would still say Stack Exchange is one of the best organizations around purely because it's like the last bastion of hope that we might move away from the demonstrably unhealthy dystopia of open-plan office madness, and further because they're in Manhattan, they help eliminate the demonstrably incorrect claim that a lot of places make, which is the excuse that they need open-plan offices because of real estate costs.
Well, it's relevant to those of us who are using App Engine. Where else can I can I set up a service for a hobby project without a monthly charge if it's barely used?
I disagree - Yeah the latest iPhone app adds zero quality of life, but look at technology over decades - start with penicillin 70 years ago, or heart pacemakers, or simple mobile communications (that changed life enormously - and has huge role in expanding business and relieving poverty not just making it possible for rich westerners to arrange evenings out)

Yeah there are a million ways we as humankind can stuff this up, but technology has and does make life qualitatively and quantatively better for millions. It has been doing this at a accelerating rate for two centuries.
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But the supercharger network is woefully inadequate for the number of Model 3 vehicles they intend to produce. Either Tesla is going to have to put a whole lot of money into its supercharger network (more than they've announced, certainly), or they'll have to restrict it to Model S owners.