skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Three years is kind of crazy. NSA, CIA, and other agencies it's one year.

FBI should have the easiest time finding hackers. Unlike the CIA and NSA, they have offices in almost every major city, but they don't seem to take advantage of that at all. They don't event list any tech/cyber/whatever roles here: https://apply.fbijobs.gov/
The original paper, from January 2015: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v517/n7535/full/nature1...

And a more easily comprehensible summary of it: http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2015/01/08/tei...

The most interesting part of this is how the compound was discovered:

> A multichannel device, the iChip, was used to simultaneously isolate and grow uncultured bacteria. A sample of soil is diluted so that approximately one bacterial cell is delivered to a given channel, after which the device is covered with two semi-permeable membranes and placed back in the soil. Diffusion of nutrients and growth factors through the chambers enables growth of uncultured bacteria in their natural environment. The growth recovery by this method approaches 50%, as compared to 1% of cells from soil that will grow on a nutrient Petri dish.

The iChip was originally described in an April 2010 paper (http://aem.asm.org/content/76/8/2445.long), and builds on earlier work from 2002 (http://science.sciencemag.org/content/296/5570/1127), along with advances in microfluidics.
The advantage that I can see to that transparency is the potential for reducing income inequality based on gender, ethnicity, etc. Whether that's effective is another question.
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So even the article says the main reason they can't hire good hackers is that the can't offer reasonable compensation, long term career prospects etc. But het, much easier to blame those hackers for smoking pot.

This is just a stupid excuse for why he is not doing his job effectively.
>>We already have autonomous weapons, their called mines.

By this logic, our ancestors were using autonomous weapons too, since they invented various traps.
False. NSA is definitely 10 years [1].

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Scope_Background_Invest...
> We already have autonomous weapons, their called mines.

And those autonomous weapons keep on killing and maiming people for a long time, whether the orignial conflict continues or not. The squeamishness does not seem to have quite disappeared either, judging from the fact that much of the world has comdended and opted to forgo their use. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottawa_Treaty
Could we update the title to reflect that this is an old article?
They are most likely randomly administered to all employees along with a regularly scheduled polygraph. That's the DoD's model.
Unless there's some unforeseen toxicity, I don't think they should make it a last resort drug. Just use when necessary.

We already have some very effective, semi-toxic antibiotics like colistin and other peptide-based antibiotics that we use as last resorts.
How about because those whom are skilled and ethical view a lot of the work that the government would use them for to be unethical and against the principles upon which their country is founded?

What if they feel that someone like Edward Snowden is a true patriot, for standing up and doing the correct thing in the most viable way offered to him?

Or maybe, after a lifetime of experiencing government bureaucracy in schools, they've seen how broken things can get there, and can't even begin to imagine how bad things can be in the areas with insufficient light to burn away the worst offenders?
Because two wrongs don't make a right. If you believe cheating is wrong, start by not doing it. There's no path to eliminating this behavior that does not start with people saying it's wrong and backing it up with an alternative example.
>I wonder if the drug tests after that are regularly scheduled or if they take you at your word once you're hired.

If the FBI anything like the DOE it's random for the duration you have a clearance. Random polygraphs too which are much, much worse.
I'm also wondering about that. The only recent statement I know of is from Cloudflare, where they say that 94% of the Tor traffic they see is malicious.[1]
It's good to protect anonymous way to use the internet, but it shouldn't be ignored that Tor is probably primarily used for illegal purposes.

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-trouble-with-tor/
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What I'm personally afraid of is that, due to the bad power supply which was repaired in restoration part 1, the wrong voltage was applied to one of the power pins of several boards full of DRAM chips, and this may have fried the entire lot of them.

If the Alto2 has 128KiW of dram, and the drams used are old tms4108 chips(I'm not actually sure about this, they may be even older), and there are 18 or 19 bits of ram per word (16 bits plus 3 parity/ECC? Again, not sure.), then there could be as many as 304 chips to replace (or at the very least, to pull and test each one and replace the bad ones).

Fortunately, if they used triple-voltage (5v, 12v, -5v) 4108 or 4116 drams, you can replace those chips with the 5v-only 4164 chip by bending 2 pins upward on the 4164 and soldering a wire to another pin. This isn't "period accurate" but should work to replace a few bad chips until working ICs can be found.

See http://picmania.garcia-cuervo.net/recursos/redpicdatasheets/...

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There's also the "Star Trek factor" (I just made us this term). Tech people grow up watching or reading science fiction and then try to build the stuff for real, because it would be cool.

We'll have to see if ordinary people find it useful.
I'm skeptic about recommendation feature. My reaction to them, in these rare occasions when not get ignored all together, in all sites ranges from 'huh?' to 'wtf?'. Specifically Youtube gives geographic location too much weight -- just because I live in a certain country, it doesn't I'm interesting in all these trending local shit-pop music or stupid 'fun' videos.
The same FBI that fights the War on Drugs and the War on Whistle-blowers so violently? The FBI that was behind COINTELPRO (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO)? The FBI that recommended against prosecution of Clinton despite finding that she was negligent in her handling of classified information?

Cry me a river.
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that's why i hate story like Mr Robot. It give bad impression.
You do have to choose which packages you want to install at some point. When you do `npm install && npm start` it will still work as planned. The problem here address is for when you need to deal with a new issue.

If it were a handful of extra kb, I'd agree. Of the top off my head I can think of following file formats "somehow" suited for configuration: json, cson, properties files (java), yaml, xml, conf-files (Apache), ignorefile syntax, ini files.

Supporting all of them could be a reasonable goal to the community (looking at the packages in npm: it is an actual goal already).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Configuration_file
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There have been many advantages to running on different platforms, which have various quirks.. different endians, page sizes, strict alignment requirements, stack-grows-up machines (hppa).

I think that trying 'oddball' platforms indeed help shaking out bugs. But if that's the goal (rather than supporting the five users that still use such hardware), wouldn't it be more attractive to build pseudo-platforms in an emulator that simulate other architecture choices, and run it on fast and easy-to-get x86_64 hardware?
You can still pass your investigation if you've done drugs in the last 10 years but you do have to disclose it and sign a form that states you won't do it again or associate with anyone who does while you have a clearance (edit: or at least that's how it was 10 years ago).

The purpose of clearance investigations isn't to dig up dirt in order to hurt you you, it's to find out what dirt foreign intel services can dig up on you in order to hurt/blackmail you.
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Ehh... no, that's how far back they look, but only within the last year is sometimes a disqualifier. I can tell you that they will overlook even fairly recent usage sometimes.

CIA: "To be considered suitable for Agency employment, applicants must generally not have used illegal drugs or misused prescription drugs within the last 12 months."

NSA: "Recent and/or frequent use of illegal drugs, including marijuana even in states whose laws permit its recreational or medical use, could raise a security concern, and may be disqualifying"
That's exactly what it is, and it's an area over which the EC does not have jurisdiction. Hence spinning it, unproven, as a competition issue.
That 2-3 mins read on black background and green font killed my eye for a second there.

Anyone else got the feel?
Twilight Princess works fine on a new-ish i5 with the Intel graphics. Smash Brothers Brawl works fine too. So the older Gamecube stuff is alright on modern computers.
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How is that calculated?

Cash in an account is fairly easy…but stocks and shares? Property assets? Cars/boats/aircraft? Furniture? Art? Intangible assets such as patents or licences?
Most importantly, don't feed it to livestock.
There's always something to remark on other peoples use of bash, I often find.

For example I'd rather just do while command; do sleep 0.1; done.

Or simply install autossh.
I don't disagree with you.

I will just notice it somehow isn't a problem in the EU, where taxes differ wildly.

Hence, culture.
You represent the other extreme with your comment. Very few software projects have more than two or three years of "experience fertility," for the kind of experience you mean. There's a difference between someone who can't even last a year to get a project from prototype to some semblance of maturity and someone who wants to move on after one to two years when a project reaches the point at which maintenance overtakes new development.

What's the difference between somebody who works on four different projects over 8 years for company X and somebody who works on four different projects for four different companies over the same period, in this context?
What is the underlying platform or language? The post doesn't even give us an introductory statement about the technology involved.

Come on, that's ridiculous.
The article can probably be viewed using LibreJS with GNU IceCat, that's the bar he uses for most websites (however he states that for GNU package hosting and things that the FSF supports, this bar is not high enough and outright denies any non-free JavaScript in those cases).
dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12427073
Do you have a 10 year cape?
I don't think I've ever seen Stallman taking the "lesser evil" philosophy. As a smarter man than me said: "The lesser of two evils is still evil, and the enemy of my enemy is not my friend."
If the provider accepts it for 8 months without even sending a warning, I don't see a problem.
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> One example for me was pull-ups (the exercise). I always assumed you had to do them overhand with a medium-wide grip. They never "clicked" with me and I could never feel good doing them.

This is great thing to point out in general. A lot of advice and widely held "knowledge" is well-meaning but can either be wrong or too strict.

Another one I've come across is people thinking there's no point in trying start running/jogging if they'll have walk most of the way...
Can't expel your income streams...
I'd agree that there it would be very nice to correlate with a traffic load graph. For areas like California, where you have pretty much the I-5 or the Highway 1, knowing the fatality per car travelled would be interesting view.
So scrolling through this thread so far we have

- No smoking pot in 3 years

- Random drug tests

- Random lie detector tests

- Not the best pay in the world

- Lousy career prospects

- Working with others who they admit aren't the most technical in the world

Yeah can't see why they're having trouble hiring
(2014)

I even think it was posted at that time (or maybe a similar article)

Well, can't say I'm sorry for them.
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I'm not so convinced IoT will fizzle with average people. Security and cloud-dependence aside, I can see the value in certain things being connected and remote-manageable: baby monitors, lights, pet feeders, washing machines, coffeemakers, ovens, thermostats; anything where controlling or seeing data from it from a outside the room or outside the house would be genuinely useful to solve particular needs. Some others will be complete gimmicks solving no real need.

And all of this doesn't account for any evolution of appliances along non-IoT spectrums or the introduction of entirely new ones:

- a combined washer/dryer blackbox where dirty clothes go in and clean, dry clothes come out

- an affordable at-home deboning/meatcarving apparatus

- an at-home vegetable-growing planter

- a 'smart' pan that controls the cooking temperature and done-ness

Some of these concepts are being trialed right now, or exist at industrial scales and have yet to be scaled down. A lot of what's being talked about assumes that were it not for them being 'smart', appliances will look exactly the same in 10-20 years. I don't believe this to be true. Nothing too futuristic, but new gizmos will exist, solving real (if niche) needs, some of which benefit more from data sharing than others.
Honestly, it is arguable that the user actually agreed to monitoring and in-flow data modification knowingly, and therefore it might constitute an Unconscionable Contract due to an Unfair Surprise (again, depending on jurisdiction).

That is assuming the user did actually agree to anything.

Now what if the exit operator put up a ToS themselves stating users of their exit node will be monitored and/or data flowing through their services might be modified on route even? Because, after all, it is the TOR users using their services, not the other way round.

"You hereby grant Tor Exit Operator Ltd, A Nigerian Prince/Russian Business Network joint venture, the right to monitor, log, modify all data you transmit to our service and an irrevocable, unlimited license to use any data you transmit for any purpose".
> "how do you justify working at such a place with the kind of corporate moral code that would punish employees for behavior not defined in the employment contract"

I've worked for a few organisations where the contract has included clauses on exclusivity and IP assignment.

Each time I've asked for those clauses to be removed before joining them, and each time they've agreed.
In my use-case I would like to offer as many structured files formats as possible. But to be sure: you can replace "structured file" with "code syntax" (example: syntax highlighting) or "natural language translation" (example: translation of a cli tool) or "database driver" (example: orm tool).

(In my project that is the exact problem case)
They probably rely on a sense of patriotism/duty/exclusivity to make this work for other "on the line" departments
Both Firefox and safari come with a built-in feature to display Web articles in a readable manner.

Almost every article I read on the Web benefit from using this function, and I'd recommend you start using it too, and save yourself from looking at the next horribly layed out article.
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I guess you can throw ridiculous dress code in too?
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Shame, because I think Mike Rowe is a true hacker - and this is one of his more interesting hacks.

Ah well!
The Roslyn one removing "whitelist", that's... Wow.
Here is a good update I missed: Formal statement from Nodevember[0]

[0] http://nodevember.org/statement.html
> it reduces your ability to negotiate

It can also increase your ability to negotiate: "This person does the same job as me. That work is value at $X, so I should also be paid $X."
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good hackers don't smoke
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Now that it's been legalized in Oregon, there are marijuana stores all over. But before that, I don't even know where'd you'd get the stuff. Occasionally when I'd ride a train to work at 4 AM, somebody would come up and try to buy it from me; so I guess I look like a drug dealer. In states where it's illegal, do you just wander the streets at night asking people for pot, and hope it's not laced with rat poison?

I've literally never seen actual marijuana in real life before, even in a state where it's legal. So I'm not sure I buy this argument that you can't go 3 years without smoking the stuff.
The idea is to code the front-end logic with the same style than on the back-end with express.

I've tried to push the isomorphism logic one level up by aligning the front-end and the back-end Frameworks.
So with frontexpress same language same API on all the stack.
What is the function called? And is there a Chrome equivalent, by any chance?
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I'm a senior undergraduate Computer Science student, and I recently began a paid internship position working remotely with a startup during school.
It's been a bit of a rough start, and I'm having trouble getting clear tasks with well-defined requirements. The company has only begun working with interns in the past few months, and had very little in the way of established workflows. I effectively report directly to the CEO, who is an alumnus of my school and doesn't seem to have experience managing software projects. They only started using task tracking and workplace communication tools in the past few weeks, and so far I've primarily communicated via email and calls. I'm beginning to feel quite useless, as I have no real idea of what's expected of me or what the acceptance criteria are for the feature I've been tasked with implementing. Said feature had a rather unrealistic deadline to build from scratch, even for a professional working full-time, let alone a college intern working remotely for maybe a dozen hours a week. There are a number of other things regarding the company that strike me as red flags, and at this point I'm not sure it was a good idea to accept the position. I'm interested in the work being done though, and I think it could be a beneficial arrangement for all involved if the managerial/logistical issues can be sorted out.

So how can I make the most of this experience and provide as much value to the company as possible?
For those interested, the next generation Nintendo emulator, Cemu for Wii U emulation is also making rapid progress, with many games fully playable near native speeds.

http://cemu.info/

Unlike Dolphin, it's currently closed source & Patreon backed though.
I expected some wisdom, but that comment basically says that a rewrite either isn't needed because programmers are already excellent in the first run, or the rewrite will end with a similar shit code in paraphrase, because programmers have learnt nothing.
Also it takes time, which costs money...
> or associate with anyone who does

No wonder they're having problems finding candidates. Hackers are probably way more likely to use certain drugs like weed, MDMA and psychedelics than the general population, due to their intellectual curiosity and intelligence levels (which I assume are significantly higher than the average).

Do they really force applicants to disassociate with their friends and family, like in Scientology, or is it just a rule they only care really about in the most serious cases (if friends are dealers or have drug problems etc)?
> Since the empty String is a valid String, and Strinfg.valueOf() also returns a String, what other behavior would you ever imagine being sane or possible?

IMHO, String.valueOf() throwing NPE upon encountering a null reference would be both sane and possible.

Unfortunately, it does indeed appear that it returns "null" instead [1].

[1] https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/String.h...
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Résumé/CV:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/is60nlpuadhlvpi/Sibaditya%20Maiti....

Email:sibaditya.maiti@gmail.com
And since they only invalidated his passport, we can conclude that Snowden doesn't have any other citizenships (it is against international law to make a person stateless, and the US surely would've retracted his citizenship if they could).
apparently some people claiming crookford bothered them without any evidence is enough to get him kicked out. this is madness at its finest
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Does the FBI's salary compare favorably with what people get at big software companies? I'm guessing that's the real problem.

Going deeper, what's the career progression like at the FBI? Do you work your way up to being a higher-titled software engineer, or do you have to transition into a different role in order to get paid more? Guess what, that's another problem the private sector has solved.

How much did we pay for that joint strike fighter? That's how much reasonable cybersecurity is going to cost.
Because it works for the people who are doing the work. Many outsiders have suggested that they switch, but that advice never seems to take hold.
I'm going to agree with you re: Whistleblowers & COINTELPRO, but was Clinton criminally negligent or just "Best practices were not adhered to" negligent? My impression from Comey's statements are the latter.

Asking this genuinely, since I didn't read far into the story beyond said statements.
from Putin's Russia standpoint, it is probably best to maintain fire in the conflict, without adding too much powder or lending overwhelming force to separatists. He uses Donbass conflict as "grappling hook" in the Ukraine's back, that basically prevents it from joining EU or NATO. (Current regulations deny membership to any country that has unresolved territorial claims or participates in the military conflict.) And it bleeds Ukrainian resources, destablilizes economy, etc. So, he is pretty much doing best by not winning this conflict decisively. (btw, why don't you ask yourself what EU/USA is doing right in this conflict?)
Interesting article, spoken from a movie geek. I posit though, the Betteridge factor is a bit lower for movies than it is for movie theaters.
No, the real question is why certain people on HN that likely won't even use OpenBSD let alone contribute to its source code are complaining about what VCS it's using, or what the directory structure of its source repository is like.
That requirement is a bit outdated. At native (not higher than a real gamecube) resolution, I find that the vast majority of games play just fine on Intel HD 4000 integrated graphics, and I imagine newer chipsets perform even better. When Dolphin was first released though, Intel graphics were pretty much garbage, so the discrete graphics requirement made sense.
Can this be astroturfing? My finances mom died of an accidental Fentynal overdose this past year. It was legally prescribed to her.
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The article does tell you what that number means.

1.000.000 homes can be powered by the hydro plant, though you are right that it doesn't say anything about for how long stretches of time, but since it is supposed to act like a battery for solar, maybe 1 day is more than enough.