skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking at the statistics, are a significant number of break in's happening via lock hacking or via the good old fashioned kicking in the front door in your neighborhood? We have had break in's in our neighborhood and lots of conversations with the police. The former is unheard of and the later is the common practice. One thing that really surprised me was that you would think that burglars would go through a window if a door is difficult to penetrate, but once again in my neighborhood that is a rare occurrence even with a large number of homes with easy to get at windows. My point is that this is not likely to be an attack vector unless the other mechanisms are more difficult at the majority of the houses in your neighborhood, or you truly have significantly more expensive items than your neighbors (and it is obvious that you have these items).
> You can Uber/Lyft whenever it’s too difficult to walk.

Not with kids you can't, because then you need car seats. Things like the Ride Safer Vests help a bit, but now you're having to lug those around. And if your kids are small enough, they must be in a rear-facing seat no matter what.

In practice, this means that for a family with more than one child there's a multi-year period when Uber/Lyft/taxis are basically non-viable. With one child, you may be able to limit this period to a year or two (e.g. in California the rear-facing seat requirement goes up through age 2).
Paranoid Android: The Divine Madness of Philip K Dick
Despite the negative connotation, I wholeheartedly agree with this assessment. I usually ignore YT's Recommended videos for the same reasons you describe.
Kind of a silly comment, but is this really anywhere on Earth? What about Death Valley? Antarctica? North Korea? Syria? Siberia?

I'd imagine they use the profit from domestic shipments to help subsidize more costly international ones, if it's really $3 regardless of destination.
> I'm also always amazed at the hardware reqs for emulators. They suggest at least an i5 or i7 and recommend a dedicated gpu! For a gamecube! Released 15 years ago!

But it works well enough for most games even with an integrated Intel GPU, as long as you don't try to improve on the base game too much (resolution, filtering, etc..)
Okay, if Tor decides they'd pare back of the rest of the world to "focus at home", that would be a perfectly fine thing, logically consistent thing to do

However, this argument doesn't generate any virtue points. My sole claims about Tor are (1) they've pivoted and (2) their short-sightedness. They want to be rah-rah human-rights, but their angle of pursuit of human-rights is, ironically, notably counter-productive.
I'm only going to start with electronic keycard access. For me, being able to replace big, sharp keys with small, smooth cards/discs of plastic is a big win. No fiddling with my keychain, just walk up to the door, press my wallet/keychain/pocket to the door and tap. I want that convenience, without having to sacrifice security (which is the case with all such consumer locks I found).

Calling that a smart lock is a bit of a stretch. Keycard access is old school, but was only used in commercial settings until recently. It's just that the consumer market has dubbed anything that isn't a plain mechanical lock a "smart" lock when applied to people's homes.

Internet connectivity would be something I add later. I'm not as motivated to put the device online, as the benefits as you listed them are a bit fringe for me. Assuming I complete this project it will certainly get open sourced, so perhaps other users will motivate the addition of such features.
Hiding the fact that you're using Tor isn't one of the main goals of Tor.
I believe the router relies on a binary blob that lets EdgeOS (based on Vyatta which is based on Debian) offload routing to some specialized hardware.

I run a OpenBSD router in a PC Engine Apu1d and it's more than fast enough. I can hit 700+ mbps on iperf with a basic pf rule set. Since OpenBSD is in the middle of updating their network stack to enable SMP I'd bet that number will rise with the next couple releases. I found mailing list posts from a year ago that have the iperf benchmarks of the apu1d right at 500 mbps. I'm interested to see if the network changes that landed in 6.0 will mean a measurable difference. This is entirely academic on a 30 mbps connection but I like it when numbers change.
Camera and light switch are probably on wifi -> jammable.
We are more open to patches on Fossil because (1) Fossil has a BSD license, which is easier to accept patches for than public-domain and (2) Fossil is seen (rightly or wrongly) as less "mission critical" than SQLite.

And, you are right - in many cases people will send a drive-by patch but we will rewrite it rather than apply it directly: to make sure we understand it for long-term maintenance, to clean it up, and to avoid licensing problems.
would it be legal to re-use this technique on another commercial project without getting consent?
tl;dr:

"We show that CPUs and GPUs are much closer in performance
(2.5X) than the previously reported orders of magnitude difference."
The problem with IOT is that it's the tower of babble. Interoperability will be the killer feature that will drive growth.
"The truth is, progress only happens when people find common ground and build something on it."

Very wise words.
Nodevember is offering refunds, so it's very hard to see how this could be a scam, and difficult to imagine how Nodevember would stand to make anything but a large loss by removing Crockford as a speaker. They chose to proceed with this anyway, which is indicative of serious concerns.

Removing him as a speaker and remaining quiet about the exact reasons can mean any number of things.

Suppose they have compelling reasons to believe having him speak would be harmful, but that they do not have a firm enough basis that they are comfortable publicising, in which case publishing their rationale could be both unethical itself and could expose them to legal action.

Or perhaps they have received information in confidence, from sources they trust, but believe that information received in confidence is not theirs to publish without consent. Or perhaps their information is alarming and yet primarily circumstantial from a constellation of different sources.

In essence, there is a fairly wide terrain where it is perfectly warranted to have deal-breaking levels of concern about a prospective speaker without being in a position to merit publishing accusations against them.

From the responses here, it seems that many struggle to imagine conference organizers could be placed in such a position. This is exactly kind of bias we might expect to find in an overly white and male subculture where navigating these kinds of murky waters is at most a purely hypothetical exercise rather than a day-to-day reality.
It seems there was insurance on the satellite but not on the rocket. The insurance didn't cover it blowing up during the prelaunch testing phase. The third article states they are getting insurance monies and having SpaceX launch another rocket instead of taking the $50m. So, take your guess as to what the real story is at this point.

http://time.com/money/4478053/musk-spacex-rocket-insurance/

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-02/when-a-com...

http://www.spaceflightinsider.com/organizations/space-explor...
RSA Fault Attacks Explained
Crossed Letter
Satellite owner says SpaceX owes $50M or free flight
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d8/Tianasquare.j...
While information bubbles have existed as long as people had a choice, at least with a newspaper or TV channel, you have to read and watch a little to understand whether it fits your liking. You have to put some effort in.

With recommendation engines, your bubble, without effort, ossifies.
given that most houses do not have all of this the thieves will probably run and move on to the next unit.
Even your Wikipedia link confirms what I said earlier. China is the bottom half for urbanization globally. Morocco is more urbanized than China, and I've never heard of anyone describing Morocco as an urbanized country. So this is really your bias at work. I have travelled in China several times and as soon as you go outside of the large cities, you'll see great poverty and rural life everywhere. It's changing, but it will take time to move hundred of millions of people to the cities.
Then you have brands like High West, that are doing some interesting things (for instance their "Double Rye" is a blend of a young LDI-sourced rye and a 16 year old Barton sourced rye - also note that they are very open and forthcoming about what they source and from where).
I'm going to start only hiring old (>35) developer. Basically kids rush through their work. I need experienced craft-driven workers who understand the big picture. So I'll swap the young/ambitious language for "mature, well rounded".

And it worked!

My new UX person is over 40! Best part? Rather than waste time masturbating over the latest CSS "framework" we're crafting lean, responsive, modular front-end code that our own team can maintain and extend without hitting the inevitable "wall" when trying something unique that the FW (at any layer) don't handle.

One old, grey beard in place of three up-starts.

My time managing is reduced, better quality output, reduced training time. The overall cost to the company is less! FTW!
As opposed to planting your flag in the ground that your camp is always right and the outgroup is evil?
That was the citation :-)

Seriously though, Node is written in C++ and is a single threaded interpreted / Jitted / Garbage Collected Virtual Machine which has to jump through trampolines and layers of abstraction to call system services.

While it might be very efficient at what it does, it isn't as close to the machine as a native C++ application.

One asynchronous WebSocket server written in C++ can run rings around one Node WebSocket server.

If the premise is that to mitigate this we can set up an entire cluster of node servers that will beat the C++ server, it follows that we can set up an entire cluster of C++ servers that would be even faster.

C++ is faster in every regard. There is no "usually", about it.

If we are talking about some metric like programmer productivity, sure sometimes it takes more effort to write code in C++ to achieve what may take a single line in Node.
Tell that to all those ISPs doing DPI and injecting crap and ads in unencrypted http. Or hotels running captive portals. Or your employer doing org-wise TLS MITM and logging.

Unethical? Most certainly! A crime? Could be depending on what was done and in what jurisdiction, but far from certain.
This is a fluff piece trying to make an arch-conservative who is constantly pushing for deregulation and removal of environmental protections sound like a softy because he donated a bunch of money to Rowe's foundation. I have no doubt that the Koch brothers believe the agenda they push is for the best, but that's because they are self centered people.

If you dig below the surface of any of the seemingly not self interested stories told in this piece, they come from a place of total self interest. The Koch brothers employ former convicts because they know they can pay them low wages and work them hard in their factories because they're desperate for work. The Koch brothers push for deregulation of all industry, the hair braiding license is just a seemingly "common sense" deregulation story.

Mike Rowe has long been far too cozy for my comfort to large corporations and conservative politics in general. He throws Bill Maher in here to make himself sound "middle of the road" or like he has views across the spectrum, but in general Mr. Rowe tends to be on the conservative side of issues, which is why it's no surprise to me that he's buddies with the Koch brothers.

EDIT:

I should add that you can be a conservative and be a principled person who isn't selfish (obviously), but the Koch brothers are not that. You can also be a selfish liberal too, so I don't mean to imply that conservatives have a monopoly on being an asshole.
`test` is the oldest and most portable syntax, "[" is a POSIX synonym which is either a shell built-in (e.g. in bash) or a command i.e. /usr/bin/[ .

You are correct that the author seems to misunderstand what "[" and "test" do, probably by failed analogy with C syntax. In the case of "test foo" for any string "foo", "test" will be evaluating a non-empty expression which is always true.
This is not uncommon in compiled-to-native languages.
Parody should presumably not be a get-out-of-jail free card that that allows people to rinse off and rekindle bloodstained racist tropes about people of different skin color and/or foreigners representing a sexual threat to women.

If that were the case, we could simply take any sexist or racist thing we want to say, bake it into the premise of a joke with a parody outcome, and publish it without consequence.
By "in his post announcing his talk," I assume you mean "in his post defending himself and explaining his perspective, after being attacked by HUAC, Red Channels and the entire John Birch Society."

I shouldn't post. But at long last, sir, have you no decency?
I tried your friend's app but I bailed out when it was unclear where my payment details were being sent.
"Tor provides a gateway to the free Internet, bypassing most mediums of censorship that may be imposed by someone, like for example oppressive regimes."

People sure seem to believe that getting around censorship is one of the main goals, though.
I took some liberties with the word "the", but I'm pretty sure that you know that it's easy to construct an ordered sequence of all rational numbers using any of a number of standard diagonalization arguments. I'll skip the details you already know.

Eventually, yes, you're going to be able to poke a hole in my argument. It is definitely flawed. I don't know how long it'd take us to get there, but it doesn't really matter. But we're already at the point where this cannot be considered "basic", and that is my true point here.

Attempting to demonstrate that 0.999... = 1 while meticulously avoiding any rigorous definition of what 0.999... means is not very easy and will require you to fend off all sorts of potential jabs from various directions. It's much easier to just talk about infinite sums and be done with it.
FireChat (http://www.opengarden.com/firechat.html) tried to do mesh network messaging, but security is hard to get right in mesh networks, since the data passes to other clients if needed. For example in Tor, it's great use for anonymizing end users, but it's not great for security - I wouldn't use it to send confidential information such as credit card info.
I've been blessed to be very inexperienced with funerals. Two grandparents, an aunt, and a high school classmate. With my grandparents, we knew it was coming and had lots of chances to visit in the preceding year. Granted you always wish you'd done so more, but those ones are relatively easy to handle and feel like family reunions mostly. My aunt, who committed suicide around age 50, was much harder, despite her having dealt with mental illness all her life such that it wasn't out of nowhere. My grandfather, who outlived her by three years, was devastated (his wife, my grandmother, not being around as she'd passed away 45 years earlier).

When my friend died, I saw his parents quite a few times in the following year. Every single one of those times weighed heavier on my mind than any of those three funerals, despite those having been for family members who I knew quite well. When comparing these early life tragedies to older people passing, the only similarity is death.
High West is very hit-or-miss --- I actually don't like most of what they sell --- but I think they're pretty honest. Midwinter is probably in my top 5 American whiskies. (If you know something in the same style that's better, please correct me).

It's unfortunate that with US whiskey, you really need to know brands. You can tell people how to shop for Scotch with just descriptions --- you like smoke you buy an Islay single malt, you like character you buy something that says "first fill sherry cask". The US market is trickier.

And even more unfortunately, the most important advice you can give someone shopping for US whiskey is: ignore entirely the concept of "craft" whiskey. The very best US stuff isn't "craft".
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There was a recent episode of the Bikeshed podcast where the hosts had Sandi Metz on as a guest for their RubyConf panel. At one point they took an audience question along the lines of "What should I do a talk on? I'm sure everybody already knows whatever I'm going to talk about."

Sandi Metz had a great answer. Something like "What have you learned in the last year? Do your talk on that. No matter where you are now, there's somebody out there now who is where you were a year ago. They still have those things to learn."

I think this is a really healthy way of looking at blog posts as well. You may say what you want to write about is too complicated for beginners but been done before by experts, but that also means there are plenty of people out there that just don't know it yet, even though they are ready. It doesn't matter if you've been in your technical field 2 years or 10, there are other people out there just behind you waiting to learn the same things you have.

If you wrote about everything that came to mind in this manner I am sure you'd have some writing that goes over some basic stuff, but also writing that is extremely relevant to some readers and will help them immensely.
Of the 3 Linux admins that were above me last decade or so, none are still in the industry.
One went into medicine, one went into real estate, and the last I believe became a firearm instructor.

None had passion for Linux or sysadmin per se. It was just a job they could get with enough pay and lifestyle (stable location, hours etc) they wanted. When they got older, they simply moved onto different jobs that they thought could pay them more or enjoyed more.

I do wonder, how the job market of linux/sysadmin will shape out in 20 years...
"ALEC has proven expertly capable of devising endless ways to help private corporations benefit from the country’s massive prison population."

Gross.

"That mass incarceration would create a huge captive workforce was anticipated long before the US prison population reached its peak—and at a time when the concept of “rehabilitation” was still considered part of the mission of prisons."

Are we finally admitting that that's no longer (never really was) a thing? Now maybe we can start to take responsibility for bolstering corporations that actively work to incarcerate people for profit?

How is this different than slavery? Oh, if they're paid $0.20/hr they're not slaves?

Edit: as pointed out below, the 13th Amendment says prisoners can be slaves. I hadn't considered it in that context.
Why not just point that big patch at a busy coffee shop? There are lots of open wifi spots out there.

Honestly, if you are doing things so naughty (which I don't advocate) that you are worried about state adversaries using lots of resources to track you down, you probably need a level of OpSec that you are not likely to achieve without being supported by another state level espionage agency. But at the very least you should be disguising yourself (in such a way that you still blend in), you should not be accessing an AP within a few hundred miles of where you actually live, you should probably not be driving your personal vehicle anywhere near the AP you log into (instead, using public transport paid with cash and then sitting on a park bench near the AP), you should probably be using a computer you purchased second hand from a thrift store with cash at least 6 months ago, you should probably wear gloves, you should probably dispose of the computer in a public dumpster in a different town than you accessed the AP. Hell, you probably shouldn't even download TAILS from an IP you control, I have no doubt every Tor Bundle and TAILS and WHONIX download is logged for cross referencing. Even with all of that, I honestly doubt that in the current climate a normal, highly careful person could remain anonymous if they were targeted by a major western intelligence agency like the NSA or the GCHQ.
Frankly, I don't understand your comparison. A "smart" door lock isn't trying to make your door harder, it's trying to make it more convenient to operate than your regular lock.
> the pronoun "they", which is correct

It's also highly ambiguous in this specific case (I had trouble understanding the sentence, too), and a simple "him/her" would have been preferable.
Russian doctrine of information warfare seeks to create confusion, distrust and ambiguity about truth. Part of this ideology is to label everything as propaganda, to claim there is no objective truth, that everything is influenced by the funding agent. This allows to claim, that Russian-backed news sources that form an integral part of their information warfare machinery and spread blatant lies, are as legitimate as any other source of information. This allows the state to keep the monopoly of truth which allows for removal of any accountability from government actions. Which perpetuates status quo of power.

There are in fact shades of grey. All journalists are biased by their world-view and of course backers at least fund the ones the views of whom they like. But there is such thing as journalist ethics and not all funders exercise the sort of control over the writers as the fsb does. Not all media is propaganda.

We don't get such articles about Saudi Arabia because there is no war there.
> just find a case where a company has been successfully sued for not minimizing their taxes sufficiently

If I owned a company overpaying taxes I'd seek to have them acquired (priced using a tax-efficient income assumption) or management replaced. Suing would be unlikely.

That said, I agree with your general point that no fiduciary obligation is likely violated. It's just bad business.
I'm a liberal, but does it occur to you that your perception of this may be majorly colored by your own bias? If you had read a similar piece with conservatives replaced by progressives, who would feature in it? George Soros?

One can also say that your moral indignation is only surface-deep. For example:

"The Koch brothers employ former convicts because they know they can pay them low wages and work then hard in their factories because they're desperate for work."

First of all, they don't know when setting the initial salary who is a former convict and who isn't.

And secondly, what exactly are you proposing would be better for the former convicts than this? The ex-convicts choose to work there over the alternative employment options. It seems that their self-interest, such as it is, benefits the ex-convicts more than your non-existent alternative.
"DevOps" is the new sysadmin.
More like it's a bug that worked on the real console so they didn't ever notice it.
Oh greyhats, never change
This ^^

Their whole handling of the situation was incredibly unprofessional. Really makes the whole conference sound like utter crap if they can't even handle something like that like adults.
Everybody believes what they push for is for the best. You believe what you're pushing for is for the best too! That's what people do.

But at the end of the day, it doesn't really matter if the Koch brothers are evil incarnate or not, if Mike Rowe got them to dump a big pile of money into a good cause. You can both keep your opinion of the Koch brothers, without lowering your opinion of Mike Rowe. Because all he did was get someone with a lot of money to put a lot of money in a good place.