skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many of the errors are just coding irregularities. Half are really good catches; but half are of the 'lint' sort. Still worth reviewing in case an actual mistake was made.
Yes, I understand multiple security firms have said "It was Russia, trust us." I don't see much corroboration offered up --- they claim it fits an attack profile, which I don't find entirely convincing. That's not evidence, it's testimony. I offered my theory on why they might be motivated to state this absent evidence in the previous comment.

It is fine if you want to believe their narrative. It was constructed to be believable and at this point it's just an independent judgment call on which sources are credible and which scenario seems more plausible (hacking DNC mail server by a nation-state's cyberwarfare apparatus v. internal whistleblower copying data). No hard feelings.
Nope! This is not a problem brought on by the digital age. It has just become more obvious.

The problem is that popular theories of management are about control. The CEO controls everything. His immediate in-group controls slices. Their in-groups control smaller slices still. If you control nobody, then you are lowest in the primate status structure.

Remote working undermines that, because it removes you from direct control. Managers and execs are in large part unable to usefully evaluate the work of the people under them. (The whole theory of the MBA is that it's a universal management degree, that understanding of a domain is irrelevant.) Which is why we have to spend so much time on control-oriented systems like plans and trackers and reporting. Managers, unable to actually judge the work, fall back on the obvious: physical presence and conformance to ritual.

To fix this, we need an entirely different theory of management, a shift from controlling to supportive. There are plenty of options here (Lean Manufacturing, Servant Leadership, "Teal" organizations, what the Zingerman's businesses are doing, even our pre-MBA business past), but approximately nobody is adopting them because the people with control like having control. And because we have these cultural assumptions that somebody is supposed to be in control.
I wonder how it will handle the stop sign on the 376 on ramp in Squirrel Hill.
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I found these (for the record GO means GB in French) :

- "NRJ Mobile Woot 2h + 3 Go" for 12.99€ (2h voice)

- "NRJ Mobile Pocket 5 Go" for 14.99€ (but no voice included)

- "Bouygues Telecom Nomad 10 Go" for 16.99€ (no voice included)

- "Free Mobile" 19.99€ 50 GB data, unlimited voice

I think you can only register online for NRJ Mobile. You will find Bouygues Telecom shops in any sizeable town (this is why I included them).
Free is interesting for a few euros more you have unlimited voice and 50 GB data but I'm not sure if they are practical for just a week, you'll have to see if it's easy to unsubscribe.

They're all fair use. The fair use close mean that after you reach your quota they will throttle your data but you'll still be able to use it albeit more slowly.

Source : http://www.touslesforfaits.fr/?BudgetUtilMin=0&BudgetUtilMax...
I don't take notes. (It's worth pondering whether taking notes is really an aid to internal remembering...) In any case, what I was trying to point out was that it could be the case that we actually remember almost everything, but have real difficulties in recalling our memories without cues. (It's also worth pondering just what it is that "autistic savants" might actually be doing ...)
The last time I tried Scribus it seemed very limited--slow and unable to deal with large files. Is it any better now?
You managed to call one of your novels "recursion". Proof that the medium colours the work.
Or more possibly that they simply had no interest in discussing "shop" on a weekend or outside of work hours. Or perhaps they were preoccupied with other things being that they weren't at work. Seems quite a stretch and kind of unfair to proclaim how horrible they and Cisco as a company are based on this.
Add in hiring, benefits, vehicle transport and repair, sanitizing the data, hiring managers to manage the folks that do all that... any large project is unexpectedly expensive.

Still point taken that its just millions.
I imagine that such vulnerabilities would be passed to US-CERT, without attribution.
Harder to engage a remote employee in company culture and values

You know, I am not sure it is such a bad idea. A diversity of cultures can make the work a better place. Besides, what is the "company culture and values" anyway? I am, frankly, more suspicious than curious.
Also, he wasn't punished for positing a heliocentric model, but rather for writing a book with a character named Simplicio(idiot in Latin) who parroted the same arguments against heliocentrism as the pope. This was taken as him calling the pope an idiot.
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The subsequent sentences are also there for disclaimers and subsetting. The first sentence model is too weak for real writing.
I was about to mention perhaps they mean faster to write, and also conceptualise, but you nailed it.
I find with F# that sure you are writing less actual code, like 1000 characters instead of 2000, but for me the biggest gains from using/thinking in a functional paradigm, and having access to functional tools is in the process of actually tackling problems. The conceptualisation, execution and testing of solutions for these problems for me has been less onerous and more enjoyable with F# than using C#.
I always thought TeX and friends had much prettier output than roff-family output and my professors always appreciated a TeX formatted paper.

But for rapid documentation writing I found roff perfectly acceptable. It worked for Bell Labs, so why not? In fact for a while I actually published my resume in man format after slightly tweaking the an macros. Very few people got the joke and most just asked if I could e-mail a copy in Word format.

If a sysadmin / engineer / devops dude showed up today at my door with his resume in -man format I'd think it was cool.

The fact that Scrivener is now available on the iPad and Literature and Latte abandoned Linux makes an iPad Pro a tempting platform. But frankly there's nothing wrong with using a unix distribution on a Chromebook or droplet via ssh and roff to author a book from start to finish. And it would be far cheaper than an iPad Pro.
Link to script?
I haven't tried it. I think the idea is really interesting but it always seemed to me like it was somewhat in contradiction with why people become employees in the first place. My perception is that people ultimately sort themselves into different roles in the workforce and those who are employees are doing it mostly because they want a consistent income every month, perhaps a social environment to participate in and a fair amount of direction. If you don't want those things you go freelance or become an entrepreneur.

When I look at past and current people I've managed my feeling is maybe 1 in 4 would respond really well to the "results only" workplace and the other 3 might quit.

I think the whole discussion of remote work is colored by the fact that there is a particular personality type - smart, introverted, self-motivated, results-oriented - which operates very well remotely. A lot of these people gravitate toward the tech industry. Some of them get a taste of remote and then they talk it up like it's the future of work for everyone because it is so great for them. I totally get it, I prefer remote myself, and if those people produce then I'm happy to let them be as remote as they want to be forever.

It's just that those people aren't 100% of the workforce (probably not even 30%).
Give me a car which self-drives for 4 months of the year, and requires me to drive it the other 8 months. That's still a massive advantage over the car I currently own.
In the UK there isn't a week goes past without a Vauxhall zafira (often several!) Bursting into flames.

Top Google link today:

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1384280/family-of-five-miracul...

I know there's been a fight for a recall for around 5 years but I think that's now going to happen.

Tesla need to make many more cars explode in a fireball and they need to learn how to stonewall customers if they're to have any chance of joining the heady heights of mainstream car manufacturers.
At least it's better than to let a KGB-run dictatorship have any say in the matter, especially considering their aggressive foreign policy.
Oversec: transparent text encryption for all Android Apps
Helsinki Tries Self-Driving Buses in Real Traffic
> I don't think we can even consider ARM to be a RISC,

ARMv7 OK, is-it still true with ARMv8?
It seems to be a much more 'reduced' ISA.
Uber and Volvo put $300M into building self-driving cars ready for sale by 2021
I had a friend who was driving home from University at the end of term, along a motorway. Without warning flames appeared from the bonnet. She pulled over hurriedly and jumped out of the car, to watch fire consume the car and all her possessions in just a few minute.

More anecdotal evidence, but yes ICE car fires are not uncommon. We all know that Teslas are better than ICE for safety, but that doesn't mean there isn't a marketing challenge to get the public to think like that.
Today, however, there are six expensive networks (HiNet, Korea Telecom, Optus, Telecom Argentina, Telefonica, Telstra) that are more than an order of magnitude more expensive than other bandwidth providers around the globe and refuse to discuss local peering relationships. To give you a sense, these six networks represent less than 6% of the traffic but nearly 50% of our bandwidth costs.
Going to have to +1 this. I worked remotely/from home for 6 years, and was extremely productive, and also much less stressed. If I needed to take an hour or two and go to my apartment's pool, then I'd do it...

Now I'm back in an office doing 9-5, and everything is a chore. My stress levels are significantly higher than previously, etc...

With tools like group video calling, conference calls, email, Slack/chat, etc... It's incredibly easy to stay "close" with your team while being remote.
The engine catches fire at times. Also any wiring may catch fire by overheating the material around it.

I've seen car fires before on the side of the highway.
I also messed around quite a bit with Unreal Engine and my Rift dev unit. It's also compatible with Vive from what I understand. I enjoyed playing around with it because it was easy to go from my past tinkering in stuff like Cinema4D to making objects, textures, and lighting in UE, then hitting "play" and being able to walk around them in VR wearing the Rift headset.
I do appreciate stories such as this. I don't draw any conclusions from them, but they are nice data points to have. New technology comes with new performance and safety envelopes, often unknown even to the engineers who design them. Reporting on otherwise unknowable events is helpful to build a picture of what those envelopes are.

Without such reporting, it's unlikely that Tesla would have added the underbody plating when they did. Perhaps this incident is an aberration, or perhaps it is one of multiple incidents where the plating can be pierced and it leads to an upgrade. Either way, it's nice to know.

Regarding ICE cars, Ferrari had a problem with a certain mid-engine model a few generations back where a fuel line would disconnect under hard driving and spray high-pressure fuel on the (hot) engine to obvious result. I don't believe any one was killed, but drivers sometimes reported barely making it out of the car in time. Enough reports of such incidents led to Ferrari investigating and making sufficient changes to prevent the fires.
Vandalism includes defacement too, even if the defacement is fully reversible (such as spray-painting cleanable surfaces).

According to Wikipedia, throwing shoes over powerlines already counts as vandalism (though I wouldn't mind a citation on that). If throwing shoes over powerlines (which anyone can agree is fully reversible) then you should be able to argue that projecting light is vandalism too.

Actually, projecting light is worse, is't not actually possible for the target can clean up the defacement, short of forcing you to turn the projector off.
Nice! I'll definitely keep an eye on it.

I was just a bit disappointed when I went through the commit log, as it's not very descriptive. Here is a great article [1] on writing good commit messages.

[1]: http://alistapart.com/article/the-art-of-the-commit
Switch to Common Lisp.

And with lisp, you don't have to repeat yourself: any pattern, or any boilerplate can be abstracted away with a macro.
It's your funeral.
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Cars burn really well as it is. I saw someone hop a curb in front of me. Must have nicked the sump because there was a tiny flame under the now stopped car. I came back not more than 30 minutes later to see the fire brigade had put out a completely burnt out husk of a car.
Sn1per: Automated pentest recon scanner
How does the concept of morality have anything to do with enthusiasm for new technology?
Nothing at my current position, but on a previous team we had a rigorous code review policy without a tool (FishEye/Crucible, etc) to facilitate it. I wrote a bash script that accepted a ticket number as a parameter. It scanned SVN for all commits associated with that ticket.

For each file, it would diff the original version with the last version committed against the ticket, and pop the diffs up sequentially in Vim (IE, one end-to-end diff for each source file).

I'm sure there's a better way, but this worked well enough at the time.
Always a matter of perspective. I get the dictatorship part, but it's certainly not US who can berate others for 'aggressive foreign policy'.
“I originally created Sn1per because I didn’t want to run 10 different security tools and remember every command switch for each pentest I was doing. I wanted to be more efficient in the enumeration phase in order to save time and focus on other more manual aspects of penetration testing,” 1N3@CrowdShield, creator of Sn1per

Features

•Automatically collects basic recon (ie. whois, ping, DNS, etc.)

•Automatically launches Google hacking queries against a target domain

•Automatically enumerates open ports

•Automatically brute forces sub-domains and DNS info

•Automatically checks for sub-domain hijacking

•Automatically runs targeted nmap scripts against open ports

•Automatically runs targeted Metasploit scan and exploit modules

•Automatically scans all web applications for common vulnerabilities

•Automatically brute forces all open services

•Automatically exploit remote hosts to gain remote shell access

•Performs high level enumeration of multiple hosts

•Auto-pwn added for Metasploitable, ShellShock, MS08-067, Default Tomcat Creds.
I can't see how anyone would expect that Coursera certificates will be a replacement for a degree. There's quite a clear difference between the two.

Having said that each of the individual courses that I've taken on coursera were significantly better than any courses I took during my degree.
They hired a significant portion of their staff from CMU's robotics division.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/is-uber-a-friend-or-foe-of-carne...
I have often thought this, and I'm glad someone wrote the paper. I'd like to see more research in this area. It could end up being applicable to the design of more intelligent processes for group decision making at government scale.
For those curious about what he is referencing: https://github.com/NARKOZ/hacker-scripts
We’re Living in the World Wide Ad Honeypot: Even Pooh Couldn’t Stomach It
> how do you plan to market the book?

that's what he's doing here.
Excellent feedback! Thank you so much!
I'm also skeptical that we will reach the point where cars will not need a driver at all in the near future. I might be wrong but it seems to me you need something close to AGI to have a fully autonomous car.

And with current approaches to self driving cars you need lots of data, sensors, fast and reliable internet connection, accurate maps and so forth, all of which are not at the level needed to have autonomy on all roads. So even if the algorithms would be good enough you'll need much more than that to get to self driving cars.

On the other hand a human only needs one working eye and a way to steer the car to be able do drive pretty much anywhere.
I made a small script that uses pattern matching to automatically parse and organise documents I get from various source (bank, clients, google, etc). It renames the docs and copy them in the right location.
Since we're on the subject ... is real-time tracing feasible in the next decade? i.e. if we had a load of cores, can we parallelize the heck out of it?
that's very conservative... i hope it is published long before then :)
RTL URLs get flipped, making phishing easier
Beyond the Map with Google
Last summer I saw one of these autonomous Uber cars driving on a side road when I was leaving my office in the Lawrenceville neighborhood in Pittsburgh.

Was tempted to motion to jump in front of it to see how the car would react, but didn't...
That's BMW for you. They manage to keep a lot of it out of the news. Many years ago the M class engines had a problem with cooling and would occasionally melt the car. Sometimes in the driveway. In the case of my boss at the time, as he was heading down the highway. Thankfully some other drivers noticed the flames shooting out and let him know so he was able to pull over to the side of the road and get out safely.

There were a few small articles at the time, but for the most part BMW just paid off the customers and went on their merry way.
Yeah, incentivizing by tickets is always dangerous, coincidentally there was a story in the UK papers yesterday about employees gaming a test system to hit 999 call targets (911 for the rest of the world)

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/aug/17/two-g4s-poli...
These are not mine, but I still enjoyed reading about them and thinking about the ideas behind them.

https://github.com/NARKOZ/hacker-scripts
From the article:

> Though both have now officially moved on to new challenges, Koller and Ng remain co-chair’s of the Coursera Board of Directors

They are clearly both still involved.
WSJ: Facebook's Point System Fails to Close Diversity Gap
> can be abstracted away

Except for too many levels of abstraction.
How dare you say that. Don't you know that every single job is legally required to provide you with enough money to support a family of six while living in the Bay Area and driving Escalades?
How many billions have been poured into speech recognition? I don't anyone here would trust controlling a car with Siri or Google Voice lest it misinterpret something you said.
"As a person within the industry" has there been any talk about the paths driverless will take? New roadways? Attendant-less roadways? Change in existing designation of highways? How to accomodate 10-20 people (vehicles won't look like they do now)?

I envision future photos-videos of driver and driver less "vehicles" at a busy intersection just like horses and early cars.
Uh, this is a convoluted approach to a pretty simply established relationship between public and business owners / operators.

Practically speaking in my city, based on ordinances, if there's no sign that says "Post No Bills" then "It is okay to post flyers on this building." The flyers should be different from vandalism, in that they are not permanent nor so flimsy as to fall off and become litter. A projection easily fits into this category, physical or digital "bill" so to speak.
No, vandalism requires actual physical damage of some sort.

The article is essentially the legal reasoning from the Nevada Court of Appeal - some fairly experienced legal minds examining the situation (in this case, via an appeal).

They're fairly clear in how they examine the situation and that no accepted definition of trespass applies and suggest some recourse to 'victims' who could, rather than incur huge legal fees, simply set their own competing projector to overcome the undesired images. An example of appeal judges being fairly pragmatic and laying a foundation for lawyers handling future cases to suggest better resolutions than expensive litigation - if only they'd read appeal court decisions /and remember them/.

However, they do also suggest there is a case to consider the situation a nuisance (s.4) and take action that way.

Given they make no mention of vandalism as an avenue, it seems quite evident the experienced legal experts suggest the situation is one of nuisance and should be handled as that if resorting to law.

Why should anyone on HN argue with a qualified legal opinion by suggesting alternative legal strategies?
But if we take into account damage to reputation aren't we getting dangerously close to infringing on free speech / freedom of the press?

If the projected accusations are true, then the damage to reputation is really coming from the person's own actions being widely communicated. Right to control property is one thing, but we have no right to control what is widely known about our actions.
This is the exact reason that the Disability Discrimination Act, now the Equality Act, was introduced in the UK (no idea whether there's any equivalent elsewhere). It's illegal to for a business to discriminate their service based on a customer's disability.
Maybe more open regulations, smaller city (they seem to be mapping all the streets) or better road-markings. Or a combination of these three.
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Last time I checked Google's self driving car was doing pretty well already without major breakthroughs. I suppose there still are problems when the weather conditions are less than ideal, but you can't compare it to /r/shittyrobots.
>That's why in every other country that has paid parental leave, the leave is covered by society and not your employer.

That's not totally true. Many countries require the employer to pay at least some of the leave.

>Again a public good like raising the next generation should be paid for by the public.

This is absolutely not the American perspective. Americans don't think of their children as "public goods", and the expectation is that everyone will support themselves and their offspring, and that individual charity will be accommodated by voluntary private activity as necessary. This isn't based on selfishness, but a belief that if you don't want your children to be wards of the state, they shouldn't be dependent on it for their sustenance.

The European system is looked upon with suspicion out here, to say the least. America is not a big government place.
That seems pretty damning to me personally, but I'm not a statistician. It's also something I would never think could give an advantage, but I guess it makes sense that it would, especially with some of these finishes that are within tenths of a second.

Wouldn't be surprising either, the Rio Olympics as a whole seem to be a mess, and I doubt most pool builders even consider it.
What makes this stop sign a challenge?
America’s housing system still has not been properly reformed