skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Today's media decide the story before any of the facts are known and push whatever narrative they seem fit. Problem with this is most often when the facts come in the subject is not wearing the halo the media first painted them with. Ultimately the narrative falls apart and the media rarely offers a follow up, the majority of the public goes on believing the first version of the story they were sold
It all seems rather unlikely. There are all sorts of shocks, all the time in agricultural production but we have a hybrid system composed of subsidies ( that cause pretty significant overproduction ) and derivatives that lay off price risk. SFAIK, these are now deeply entangled.

It hardly perfect, but it's been polished and debugged over decades. The film "King Corn" does a good job of a layman's exposition of at least the subsidy system.
Bringing computing to the consumer in a way that lets you control their experience and extract rents, perhaps. We haven't been doing so well when it comes to the original liberatory purpose of personal computing.
JSON has huge advantages from a security perspective.
The feature-richness of XML is also a richness of sources of security vulnerabilities.
OnboardIQ (YC S15) Is Hiring Ruby Engs. And Data Scientists
OnboardIQ (https://onboardiq.com/) is a hiring automation platform for companies employing lots of hourly workers — think delivery companies, retail, call centers, and service marketplaces.

We went through Y Combinator’s batch last summer (S15), raised a $3.3m seed round, and we’ve grown tremendously over the past year. We are still a small and scrappy team looking to build out our engineering team, and we’d like to work with you.

On the surface, we're a b2b software tool. Underneath the hood, we've collected tons of applicants by serving as the backend that processes every single one of our customer's hourly-workforce applicants, and we've started to build algorithms that can predict hire rates and retention of applicants in a service economy that is characterized by unpredictable labor.

Our stack is Ruby on Rails on the backend, and React on the front.

Email me at keith@onboardiq.com with your Linkedin & Github profile!
> This problem was eventually addressed by browser vendors by simply improving the accuracy of color quantization when overlaying HTML element

What does this mean?
In high-school civics class we are taught that trial by jury is part of the American system. Yes, there is a legal right trial by jury and occasional actual trials by jury. So what? The Soviet constitution guaranteed freedom of religion, and indeed there were a very few churches and synagogues running during the Communist period.
Android has a cursor. If you connect a mouse using a USB On-The-Go cable (essentially a micro to full-size USB adapter) you'll see it appear. Keyboards and game pads work too.
You don't even need to get that sketchy. With services like ACM providing their research libraries at student prices, you can have all sorts of papers easily downloaded from the comfort of your dorm/whatever.

Personally, I only really went to the library when I was doing Master's research, and there were a few specific books I needed on graph theory. Went in, got them, and that was it. Everything else I was able to easily and legally do online.
I wouldn't even say first, I'd say they believe the version they want. It's all about echo chambers these days, one need only look as far as the modern (american) college campus, tumblr, facebook, twitter, etc. Anything that isn't devout worship and support is now "harassment" and they have to flee to their safe spaces. The mere concept of civil discourse and disagreement, together, is intolerable to these children.
This is an appeal to authority.
You do remember the development of QuakeWorld right?

http://fabiensanglard.net/quakeSource/johnc-log.aug.htm
It's a major flaw even according to federal judges:

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Former Judge John Gleeson, who in March stepped down from the federal bench in Brooklyn to enter private practice, noted in a 2013 court opinion that 81 percent of federal convictions in 1980 were the product of guilty pleas; in one recent year, the figure was 97 percent.

Judge Gleeson wrote that because most pleas are negotiated before a prosecutor prepares a case for trial, the “thin presentation” of evidence needed for indictment “is hardly ever subjected to closer scrutiny by prosecutors, defense counsel, judges or juries.”

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Why hackers should track their requirements
That's a good tip to discuss the work with family when working at home on weekends especially, as they have no idea of the problems a developer faces when working remotely on weekends.
This, more than anything else, is why I've come to truly detest web development generally and open source CMSs in particular.
‘Smart’ locks yield to simple hacker tricks
Google buys Orbitera, a platform for cloud marketplaces, for $100M+
before his "invention" was thoroughly exposed as a fraud--eg, there are youtube videos showing its faithful reproduction in under a minute from readily available components--Ahmed Mohamed, during his numerous television interviews, repeatedly referred to the clock-in-a-box as "my invention"--for instance, on Good Morning America, he said "this wasn't my first invention and it won't be my last"

AM's father--an odd cross between a muslim apologist and a Kardashian--said numerous times during television interviews that his son had never been in trouble before this incident.

in fact, AM had had been suspended numerous times during the previous two years. Likewise his older sister had also been suspended for a "bomb"-related incident in the
same school district three years earlier.

and the racist school AM attended? less than 10% of the students at that school are white; The school's valedictorian the previous year was Muslim girl who was also quick to disagree with the characterization of the school as anything other than accommodating to Muslims: “…Mac is a place where there is no or very little prejudice.” (http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2015/11/25/muslim-former-texa...)
Can use bluetooth as well. I've helped mates replace their windows laptops with android tablets for (non-STEM) uni coursework. Pick up a cheap bluetooth keyboard and mouse, a tablet, and you're good to go. The keyboard and mouse will last you a decade, easy, and buying US$100 tablets every 2-3 years, you're looking at nearly a decade before it would cost the same as a laptop.
Exactly right. Test builds can crash; production builds should log errors (and perhaps inform the user).
One could frame the entire computing industry as a distributed genetic algorithm, executed by the real computers in order to understand themselves and the environment around them. One could further posit that we don't really have a good handle on the right fitness function yet.

(I realize this sounds like a low-effort joke, but think about it for a second.)
Less phisically active, more intelligent?
Twitter has a nice mobile interface as well.
This is amazing...

It shows how far PCs have come that we can emulate a machine that I once lusted after in a browser.

On a personal note, can anyone remember what the name is of an Amiga game that I once saw at a store?

I just remember that there were objects arranged I think in a grid, and there were laser beams, and you could rotate small mirrors on the grid to reflect the beams onto objects, I guess to destroy them. I only played it for a couple of minutes but I'd like to see it again.

I remember being amazed at the Amiga's graphics (I had a C64), and I'd love to see how dated they are now.
Am I the only one that thinks that Twitter is not and should not be a growth company? It has a clear function of attractiveness which is linear with the population of the earth. All of the people who want to use Twitter are (for the most part) using it.

The only reason for me not to use Twitter right now is all of the ridiculous, desperate nonsense they are doing to maintain their outsized workforce. If they would make timelines linear again, and focus on improving performance, their audience could be maintained and their ad revenues could be retained; they'd also have room for improving targeting.
You don't die when your phone reboots.
That's why I'm looking for IM with E2EE enabled by default.
So I use OTR but not many want to play with sharing secrets, question and answers or any other method of authentication, not mentioning fingerprint verification.
The potential for coercion in plea bargains is so high that I think it draws into question the practice as being in any way just. I've heard about drug cases where prosecutors offered 2 year sentencing deals vs. 60 year threats if the case goes to trial. What rational person would ever take that risk?
> Relationships are a key part of being happy

Is this really true for everyone? I sacrificed my relationship because I prioritize my projects and I've never been happier. I can't imagine getting into another since it would mean compromises I'm not willing to make.
Listening to the little nagging voice of career sensibility stops being a good idea if you're not going to then turn that quality salary and employment security in to a base for a fun life.

If not programming, that 20% of your brain would have been thinking about whatever else it is you did for a job.
One of advantages of using google products now is that all of their products can be controlled with a single account without much hassle. Since one is going to use at least one of their products, it makes to use Gmail. Gmail has a lot of advantages, although Fastmail does provide more flexibility.
Does CNN stands for Cellular Neural Networks? I was under the impression that it stands for Convolutional Neural Networks.
One thing that has always puzzled me.

If addiction is a disease why wait for an addict to hit rock bottom?

Would you wait for a diabetic/heart disease patient to hit rock bottom before treatment?
NASA's new camera just properly filmed a rocket plume for the first time
SQLite is indeed nothing short of amazing with regard to the testing they have.
Actually, no, most OEMs are forbidden to build an open source version of Android.
> when I'm flying an airplane; I'm also putting my life in the hands of people that wrote the code

Yes, but you don't have to. You're not gonna die if you don't put your life in their hands. But with pacemakers and such, you have to get one or you die. Then, you depend on the manufacturer.
Building a business that exits for $5m makes you an exceptional founder, especially a decade ago. That was only a few years after the dot.com crash. And Harj did it in about a year and a half, so you can't really compare his business to the decade or more of growth of businesses like Facebook or Uber.

Any exit is quite rare; one that returns a decent multiple to the investors is much more rare. Don't put down the hard work and exceptional capability of a founder who achieves success.
Sorry, but the facts don't lie, even the linked contracts from back in 2011 gave Google veto powers over all device releases. You really have no idea how much control Google has over OEMs. Documents are linked above, please read them.
"The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST)

The LSST is a new kind of telescope. Currently under construction in Chile, the LSST is designed to conduct a ten-year survey of the dynamic universe. LSST can map the entire visible sky in just a few nights; each panoramic snapshot with the 3200-megapixel camera covers an area 40 times the size of the full moon." - https://www.lsst.org/
Predicting the comeback of XHTML
Probably an implied "good" modifier in there.

Good relationships are a key part of being happy.

Bad relationships...not so much
A lot of fields offer those things, they just don't also offer high pay.
Nobody mentioned http://www.wholeearthtelescope.org yet?
The word “writer” is hilarious
'State-supported' Project Sauron malware attacks world's top PCs
The solution to that is pretty simple: vote not guilty, and refuse to budge. If you need any clarification, the prosecution has not done their job. In a criminal trial, you're not there to figure out what happened, you're there to judge whether it has been established beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant is guilty.

Whether the defense or prosecution made mistakes, if you're left with a reasonable doubt that the defendant is guilty (and I personally consider it the case that inept defense can cause reasonable doubt, unless the prosecution presents an airtight case - a lot of people, including most of my lawyer friends, would disagree with me there), don't vote to convict.
I don't see a problem here. Basically, the amateur build the MVP and validated the use case. And when it was shown that the software served actually a need (maybe one people couldn't even articulate before, but when they saw the app they knew "that's fine, I just need this feature too) the app got used more. At some point the app will have to be replaced. Software ages and rots. My software, your software, everyones software.

So, now we are at the point where the app is breaking down under its own weight. What do we have now?

- Clear specification: The users already know what they want from the app, something very rare in our business

- Proven value: The app is not something someone designed by looking at people from the outside and saying "I think that can be done better ..." but something which stems from their own daily needs and pains.

- Experience with likely extension points: From the history of the app and where new features had to be bolted on you can already see where new feature requests will likely come in, so a new design can accomodate that

And last but not least: A working app, so you have less stress to finish something, but instead can iterate on your new version until it really is better than the current version, without anyone bothering "when is it finished? when is it finished? We need that yesterday. When is it finished?!"
I was under the impression that Mac OS, iOS, Android and recently Windows all run "Linux" under the hood nowadays. Not to mention the presence of Linux in the cloud, which is essential for the functioning of most websites, apps and mobile devices. Am I wrong?

Basically, it's easier to tell where there is no Linux than the opposite. That surely doesn't sound like such a failure. It's as if all the other OSes and systems are front-ends for Linux subsystems.
How do you send this information back to the browser then? You can't embed it into forms nor send requests to the server. While this information is always there (unless you disable CSS), there is no way to extract it (unless you use JavaScript).

This is why OPs point is still true. Without JavaScript, this information is worthless.
Oooh, that's clever. So the mole I clicked on in the author's POC was in a position that was unique to my combination of visited and non-visited sites. The evil attacker has no way of knowing that though, until I play the "game", click on the mole, and trigger a GET request with the info. Do I have that right?
contrary to popular opinion....

Obscurity is good practice as one layer of a layered defence system.

See "Defence in Depth" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_in_depth_(computing)

"Defense in depth is originally a military strategy that seeks to delay rather than prevent the advance of an attacker by yielding space to buy time".

We have to acknowledge that no system is perfect, there will always be holes, therefore a good approach is to layer up the imperfect systems which delays the attacker.

Obscurity is one of those layers, a system will always be more secure if you have to find it first.
CharityStars raises €2M to accelerate the international expansion
Except it's not even that "simple", which was the whole point of the article
Aggressive use of NSEC
I am trying to calibrate my internal scales to Silicon Valley price tags, not trying to put anyone down.

For reference, a popular deli and catering service in my hometown makes a profit of ~$1m a year. A good McDonalds location nets more than $2m a year. A dad and sons medical practice nets over $5m.

Required investment to become a partner at YC seems quite low to me compared to these traditional businesses. I was under the impression that YC would need something like $30m-$100m investment to become a partner.
He worked on games from my childhood, and from where I stand, this is the top most link on the front page.

My childhood needs to quit getting to the front page like this.
I don't understand most of the financial terms used in this article. Where do I start?
> Talk About Your Work

I strongly disagree with this one, although I'm not sure if my reasoning is broadly or only personally applicable. The last thing I want to do at the end of a long day of work is recap what I did. Even in the best-case scenario of a day full of victories, it's just exhausting to try to relive all of them with the added burden of explaining the decade-plus knowledge base you'd need to understand why Problem X was so hard to solve. I'm much happier with a base of other interests to talk about after work with a non-programmer instead.
Scratch holograms may have led to the invention of stereo photography.

Someone recently found that Charles Wheatstone wrote about this phenomenon first, after noticing it in lathe-turned flat surfaces. Wheatstone looked at it a bit, then taking inspiration from the obvious 3D images, went on to invent stereo drawings, photography, and the stereopticon.

But, Wheatstone never got it. He never realized that we can make our own scratches, and therefore draw any 3D object. "Steampunk holography" remained lost for about 150 years.

"It is curious, than an effect like this, which must have been seen thousands of times, should never have attracted sufficient attention to have been made the subject of [scientific] observation. It was one of the earliest facts which drew my attention to the subject I am now treating." From Wheatstone, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 128, (June 1838) "On some remarkable, and hitherto unobserved, Phenomena of Binocular Vision" p371-

The same thing happened again in 1992. Two scientists at Polaroid corp. accidentally made some scratch-patterns producing flat images floating in 3D. They analyzed the scratch geometry. But they missed the secret trick, and never attempted drawing their "holograms" using individual scratches. doi: 10.1364/AO.31.006585
How are you going to be able to prove you know nothing more if you publicly disclose this information?

There are plenty of powerful people who might think that if you can do this imagine what else you can do. Since you can’t prove that you don’t know anything more it is very risky to tell anyone. Best to keep your mouth shut and let the world know when you are dead.
A jury is one of those things that it's the best you have. If you can't perform and function with the juries you select, then there's bigger problems brewing in your community.

I see a considerable amount of apathy towards serving in a jury. Why is it seen as such an inconvenience? I can understand if it causes financial problems, but I've seen jury dodging at all levels.

When it comes down to it, if you were accused of a crime wouldn't you want people who cared on the jury? If so you must serve on the jury and must do it dutifully.
As a former Samsung owner, that's actually the same feeling I get every time I heard of an Android vuln but definitely without the frowny face. I only get frowny face when the exploits don't work on my specific device. Or, rather, used to then I noped right out of that situation and got a Nexus device.

In the same way I never intend to get "free phone with contract" ever again, I hope to never again buy a device that is subject to vendor "enhancements."
Twitter was originally ad-free. Only once it got big did it get ads. Then they started getting user resistance to the ads. The stock dropped from $60 to $14. The company is losing money heavily. The sales and ad services aren't working out for them. Now they have to cut back.
What about lavabit? They were forced to shut up shop because of a secret order that was for much more than metadata.
Early Stage Recruiting
It's not a way "around it". It's how you keep working right up to ship. Cert usually starts 2-4 weeks before launch, eg when it is required to be "done" for disk printing. This matters less for online games but disk non-network games have to "work" when printed to disk. It's also partially a way to let developers have a bit of slack in a system that is modernizing. Before you react and say "well it should modernize", relalize that the console holders (sony/ms) are protecting the sizable percentage of console owners who don't have what you'd call broadband from launch day issues. This process at least makes the devs think about the patching process.

Source: I sheparded 3 AAA games through cert for playstation.
That's looking at it the wrong way. The bug is not that it received a malformed packet: any network-aware program must expect to receive bad data and avoid crashing or other undesirable behavior when receiving bad data.

Sure, the player's software on the other end should not have sent the malformed packet, but crashing on bad untrusted input is a bug of its own, and I'd say a worse one.

(And who knows, maybe the malformed packet wasn't caused by a bug on the other side, but by something malicious, or perhaps some sort of network-caused data corruption.)
Microsoft calls in Continuum - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/Continuum - they haven't really pushed it to market yet.
The Myth of Scientific Method
Eh, the gist is employees take on very little risk. We get paid every two weeks up to layoff or retirement. It's different when you are looking for investors.
Do your friends actually like you
True, but history has demonstrated countless times that closed source code doesn't provide near enough obscurity to deter hackers, and automated fuzzing tools make it even easier.
I know that my wife appreciates hearing some about how my day went. I don't go into any really deep detail, but talking about how hard a problem was and how good it feel to solve it, or venting about something stupid that a coworker did are things I've come to enjoy.

The technical details and why it was hard to solve aren't the parts that matter.
Elon Musk: Autonomous Cars Will Be Here a Hell of a Lot Faster Than People Think
Perhaps I'm not following your intention, but for those with bootloader-locked devices, if we could have gotten enough control over our devices then we would have already jumped off of the antiquated builds. So it's a terrible catch-22: those with super old bootloader-locked devices are actually the most vulnerable to a whole host of these style attacks, but are the least able to do anything to the hardware that we paid good money to buy.

Also, while this may just be my experience with cyanogenmod and the devices that I have managed to root, one can often end up not having access to the necessary blobs to make the phone run as well as it did under the bloated rom. That actually is very similar to Linux and the Win-modems and a ton of Win-printers that followed: sure, you can run a FLOSS setup, you'll just need to be very, very choosy about the hardware that goes into it.
I read it as; if you take shares instead of your marketvalue in cash then you need to understand what you are doing. A lot of people do not.

Term sheets and contracts by investors usually contain things that benefits only them, especially when the company does not work as expected.
I think it would be a lot less than 20%. It's so much easier to context switch into and out of the "work" mindset in other fields.

By default, this "computer brain" of mine is carried with me when I leave work. I have to make a concentrated effort to context switch back into "real life" mode (similarly how I have to context switch into "computer" mode). I think that's why so many of the good programmers are a little weird and introverted, because they don't bother to context switch back.