skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's currently a problem with "package bandits" that cruise neighborhoods after the UPS and FedEx trucks have been through. They'll hop out of their car and grab your delivery off the front porch. So they don't even have to break-in to steal from you. :(
The extent of doping in Russia was far beyond anything seen elsewhere. So yes when you have a complete collapse in trust in a country they will have to earn their way back.
Mapping the brain: scientists define 180 distinct regions, but what now?
> Same reason we let people walk away from homes (or not walk away, simply not be able to afford them)

Like I said in my comment, I recognize that there needs to be some option for people who can't possibly repay their student loans. Defaulting on your mortgage is not consequence-free: you lose your home and hurt your credit. We don't let people just forgive their mortgages and keep their homes without hurting their credit, but that's what a lot of people are advocating for student loans.

We should treat student loan debt like any other debt.
This completely. People don't forget that in technology, novelty (and by extension innovation) is the entire goal. And following the groupthink of best practices puts your squarely in the middle of the pack. In short, we don't have enough free thinkers in our industry, so I pretty psyched to see this site.
> Blaming China or Russia is lazy writing

It's what the author is being told by the people he has spoken too. Maybe a lazy assumption on their part, but it's not lazy writing. And your point is directly addressed in TFA:

"The data I see suggests China, an assessment shared by the people I spoke with. On the other hand, it's possible to disguise the country of origin for these sorts of attacks."

It would be interesting to know the sort of resources needed for this kind of attack/probing. Is it limited to state actors, or could we all play? Is the objective simply to be prepared, or is there a plan afoot?
>Just because an exchange of money takes place does not at all mean that it's not under duress.

The average sale is over 50 times the value of the property.

>A camp prisoner selling their personal property, or their talents to a prison guard is not a fair exchange of value either.

Your analogy is really really wrong.

>These settlements can't exist without the frequent application of violence.

That is a correct statement, but if you actually deconstruct it the argument isn't the one you are trying to make.

Without the violence towards Jews the settlements would not be needed at all, if a Jew can buy a house in Hebron which had a vibrant Jewish community up to it's slaughter during the Arab revolts at the end of the 19th century and live there in peace and quiet there would be no need to call it a settlement.

Many of these "settlements" aren't towns, they aren't cities, they are apartments that were purchased in a town where Jews used to live and were driven out.
This includes places like Hebron and Jerusalem, because according to the press and some people a Jewish family moving into a house in E. Jerusalem is a new settlement, or at least an expansion of an existing one.

If Jews could live there without the fear of violence there would be no reason for the "infrastructure" which causes so much "inconvenience" to Palestinians, I'm pretty sure that the Jews would also prefer it that way, they might actually be able to open a window.
There’s no such thing as an ‘addictive personality’ – here’s why
I believe this is a sensible course of action and a natural evolution/pivot/hedge of making use of an existing social network/community to satisfy a couple goals (for Google):

- Have a general-purpose social network, but bootstrapped from a userbase where it can be welcome rather than vilified (unlike Buzz, Google+, etc.)

- Stop the slow trickle of (duplicative, cross-pollinated) traffic from the Youtube community to other platforms, because their own platform is lacking (they needed Twitter-like micro-announcements badly)

- Better arm themselves against other sites that have done video from the beginning but are expected to develop a similar direction (Twitch)

- Better arm themselves against other sites that didn't start off with video but have branched out into it (Facebook & subsidiaries, Twitter & subsidiaries, Tumblr, most other social networks these days)

Hopefully this also stops the (IMO, frankly irrational [1][2][3]) speculation that Twitter will be bought out by Google.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12418727#12420732
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12083561#12083975
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11913828#11914620
My Battle with Impostor Syndrome
Is there a reason why RunKit isn't open source?

PS: does this mean Ross now works for Stripe... again? :P
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Detroit Community Technology Project Launches the Equitable Internet Initiative
Has this approach ever worked for you or is this first time you've tried it? Not a positive or negative comment, although I assume "no". Just curious.
You can wait your right to sue in a court of law. You will instead go to a sham court where the "judge" is only paid if the company still wants them to be an arbiter and the results are secret.

You may want to look up "mandatory binding arbitration" for its ability to stop lawsuits. You may also note the Supreme Court of the United States of America has already decided that no meeting of the minds was necessary to lose your right to the courts.
> You just have to assume that I'm not BSing, either you're interested or you're not.

Assumptions are the mother of all fuckups. You want examples of work and/or accomplishments? Fair enough.

Show us this proven track record of yours.

What products have you developed? What have you successfully marketed?
Thanks Brian - when you go all in on demo day prep so do we :)
The Six Reasons Smart Folks Are Worried About Apple – Calacanis.com
That is one of the problems with hunting, you are more likely to find things that other people won't and sometimes its very unpleasant. Humans like to stash their sins in the wild.
You chose a particularly interesting example: as far as I can tell, to a first approximation, all timeshares are scams designed to separate a fool from their money.

So if I had the free time, I would consider attending in order to ask pointed questions and warn other people away.
Rackspace Email Outage
By those days standards that was "well armed", some police and some criminals carried semi-autos, the 1911 was obviously popular being the military issue sidearm since that year, but it wasn't common. And a shotgun is a fearsome weapon at shorter ranges, out to 100 yards or so; it's just that an AR-15 is better for almost all police purposes, ditto for civilians for self-defense.

And in the long run, I suspect trading their khaki for body armor and the disdain or worse of civilians will be viewed as a mistake.
How would one repossess an education? Isn't that the reason student loans are not dischargeable?
Top venture investors still betting on startups in AI, self-driving cars
I am from India, living in the US and I have seen tons of Indian snobs saying the Indian food in the US is just not good enough. I just can't agree. I can imagine that the probability of finding good espresso may be much higher in Italy - maybe every corner cafe makes only the best coffee. But the idea that good espresso cannot be found anywhere in the US (or SFO), which is home to many Europeans, just seems a bit of an exaggeration.
> Not many lived with their parents after the 18-22 range.

There's this amazing thing called "renting." Not owning your home doesn't mean you live with your parents.

The notion that you should be able to immediately buy a house at the beginning of your career is ridiculously entitled.
Also: it sounds less horrible than pumping sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere.
I guess people are raised on different value systems (or develop them on their own.)

My value system puts human life above all else.
Ask HN: AirPod Security Questions
Some questions re: iPhone 7 AirPod's Bluetooth implementation:

1. Can anyone point to any specs or articles as to whether is vulnerable to eavesdropping? *

2. Can multiple AirPods interact with the same device simultaneously? (Useful if legitimately authorized; scary if unauthorized/unknown.)

3. Is it possible that unauthorized AirPods be connected, to an Apple device (either with or without access to that device, to press "Connect")? By, say, hacking the synch credentials that are store on icloud?

After an hour of Googling, searching Apple's site, and watching relevant keynote video yada-yada, I can't find any discussion of these topics.

Seems like journalists don't want to question Apple.

* See wikipedia article on Bluetooth/Security:

"[Bluetooth] is susceptible to denial-of-service attacks, eavesdropping, man-in-the-middle attacks, message modification, and resource misappropriation. Users and organizations must evaluate their acceptable level of risk and incorporate security into the lifecycle of Bluetooth devices."
Unless I am mistaken iCloud wasn't compromised.

There was an issue with allowing brute force attacks which was fixed. But all the publicised hacks were to do with individual accounts being compromised.
Evernote employees, if you're curious what happens to you in this scenario, people who worked at Nokia should be able to clarify.
> The BIG problem is they will likely not even use the same "standard" across Android devices... what is a headphones manufacturer to do?

USB Type-C has provisions for putting audio directly onto auxiliary pins exactly for this purpose.

However, I suspect most won't get rid of the standard audio jack without a good reason.
You're kidding right?

1. They're bluetooth. They're exactly as vulnerable as any other up-to-date bluetooth headphones.
2. You can probably pair multiple sets of AirPods but iOS will only let you use one audio output device at once. I don't believe you can use two pairs of bluetooth headphones at once so I don't see why you'd be able tow with AirPods.
3. If you hacked iCloud probably. But that requires hacking iCloud. If you do that you have better things to do than pair some headphones sneakily.

Dude, they're just bluetooth headphones with a little 'magic' to make them easier to pair. They're probably MORE secure than so many headphones that use a fixed pin of 0000. And the headphones can only ask to pair, they can't force a pair.
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It depends on exactly what services Schneier is talking about here, but an awful lot of the infrastructure of the internet is hosted in countries that the US armed forces have easy physical access to.

Even if a cyber attack were the "plan a" for quickly and untraceably taking those systems out, the US has an easy enough "plan b" that testing "plan a" isn't going to be a major concern. Add that to the fact that the US has a lot more to lose if it gets caught attacking internet infrastructure than China and friends do (even just tests like this) and I would be surprised (honestly not shocked, but definitely surprised) if the USA is behind these shenanigans.

Actually, if the US wanted to test something like this on a service in a friendly country, I would expect the NSA to approach the infrastructure company and say something like, "We're concerned that $enemy_of_free_speech may be planning an attack on your service, and we would like to wargame that scenario with you. What time(s) would an outage have a minimal impact to your bottom line?"
That is a lovely idea. Unfortunately, a scoring scheme has one foot in the indexing process (that thing that the google bot does) and another in the querying part, so switching schemes would often mean you would need to re-index your data to cater for the new metrics you now need for a new type of scoring.
They're at the "nobody has yet to come up with a serious proposal" stage. Some are skeptical that they can ever fit in. We'll see.
Did you read the article?

A large number of the people who default on their debt never graduated.
I'm there with you. I used to use it all the time and even paid for Evernote business for the office (I think only 7 or 8 other in the office use it), however I've been using it less and less lately and will probably drop it at renewal time. It seems like I'm always stepping over useless features (Work Chat? uh, no) while hoping they actually implement features their users are asking for (e.g. dark mode - https://discussion.evernote.com/topic/94974-dark-mode-for-ma...). I probably just need to bite the bullet and figure out how to export everything I have in it to OneNote or something.
I feel the same way about Chinese IoT vendors - the cheap Xiaomi 'Little Ants' webcam that watches packages get dropped off on my front porch is routing notifications (and video, on demand - it stores stuff locally on an mSD) to servers in China, but it seems extremely unlikely that the PRC government has any interest in it, or use for it; and I doubt Xiaomi would bother giving it up to any other government.
> ctrl-R is not bash, it's GNU readline

As readline was codeveloped with bash, I think it's incorrect to say it's not bash. It is bash by way of readline - additional information important for some contexts, not for others.

> cw to change word, $ to go to the end of the line, etc...

But not, sadly, ci" to change what's inside quotes.

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As to your obviously troubling experiences with some vim users, I apologize on behalf of my sect. But tone down your characterizations - there are plenty of smug and superior emacs users as well. (For my part, I don't much care what others use as long as they actually learn their way around some sort of powerful editor.)
I couldn't disagree more.

Perhaps if I experienced slavery, I would prefer death, but from where I sit now, I would rather be alive than dead, even if it meant not being free.

I can't imagine what my grandparents went through in concentration camps, but it seems to me that they did everything they could to survive...and I am grateful for that, otherwise, I wouldn't be here today!
It's not a difficult process, the problem is there is little incentive to get to make it 'correctly'. Good pizza for example costs significantly more to make and you can only afford to serve it if you customers are willing to pay for it.

PS: Chocolate seems to be the worst offender, IMO. Good chocolate is pricy and has a poor shelf life, but tastes so much better than even expencive chocolate you can find in the US. Even when you can find a good brand companies just tend to make worse product over time, because that's how you maximize profit.
Please stop with this. You are repeating some argument that is not relevant in this discussion.
I wonder if you (or anyone) know where to find the study?

I found the researcher herself, but none of her publications seem to be about this

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kinga_Kowalewska-Grocho...
No one's stopping you from cutting them a check. Ideally you would not hold a gun to my head and demand I do the same.
Maybe a better phrasing would be "features that let you focus on the road more" (e.g automatic shifting, ABS) vs. "features that let you not need to focus on the road" (e.g. lane assist, automatic braking, radar cruise control)
That comment wasn't civil nor thoughtful as HN requires of each one of us that want to be part of this experiment. I hope next time you give us a piece of your mind it'll more representative of the best part of it.
There is a difference between doping amongst athletes and state sponsored doping regimes.
Awesome, thanks for this! So it sounds like no real issues, then.

But all the same, I should add syslogd_flags="-ss" as soon as possible on a new install.

Also worth noting, Vultr 'helpfully' adds "PermitRootLogin yes" at the very bottom of sshd_config on their new installs of FreeBSD. Ostensibly so you can log in without their VNC-in-a-web-browser client, and just use SSH for the initial setup. Which I quite like a lot. They give a really strong password that looks to be around 64^16 in terms of entropy, so that's probably fine. I always turn off root login and password login as soon as I add my authorized_keys to a user account anyway.
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That's not necessarily a crazy opinion, but it's not a mainstream one.

The mainstream opinions seem to be:

1. Climate change isn't real or isn't a big deal.

2. Climate change will be a global catastrophe or even lead to human extinction.

Now, it would be reasonable for the people in group 1 to complain about geoengineering experiments, but actually they don't seem to care. And the people in group 2 are pretty much to a man saying, "Climate change is a huge problem and the only solution that we are willing to entertain at all is cuts to carbon production with no offsetting energy production except through solar and wind -- even though these are clearly not politically feasible in large enough amounts to make the difference, and indeed even though there's growing evidence that even unrealistically massive cuts won't solve the problem."

This suggests that there are some unstated facets to the beliefs of people in group 2.
ThreatConnect, and FireEye, computer security companies, performed the attribution. I had never heard of ThreatConnect before today; FireEye is well-known for accurate analysis. It's attribution reputation is similar to that of Kaspersky Labs.
Waylens preorder starts
Is there a way to pull that out of the ocean? Some kind of sifter on the front of a ship? Has anyone tried it?
Yes - I need more of this in my life
Why should something like this prevent you from using lastpass. And who is really trying to use short or numeric passwords anyway. I just have lastpass set to A-Za-z0-9+Specials @ 27 characters and leave it that way unless a site won't accept it.

The password meter "strength" feature is just silly UI in general.
Note that this is literal in some cases. Norway, being one of the major neo-socialist successes, is also a major oil exporter in the region. They have holes in the ground shooting money up that help enable social programs.
I have been to Florida over the season 2015->2106. It was practically impossible to get anything palatable with at least a minuscule similarity to what we call a coffee in Austria. Austrian coffee culture is close to Italian. Starbucks has a hard time there as well. Why spend loadsvof money on a second class mug when you get much better a lower price plus culture for free?
> Cosmetic companies include microbeads in many products.

Those are now banned, no?
That post is publicly visible to me. It also seems to be the first post for the account, and is fairly substantive.

Moreover, I don't think it's even possible to reply to posts made from shadowbanned accounts.
This is exactly true. Military forces make plans for everything, then make more plans, then study the plans, practice them, and revise them. It's actually the single biggest activity of any military, day in, day out. We're not going to change that anytime soon either.

As you say, we need to be active as citizens in ensuring that either such a war never occurs (in which case lets be realistic, a loss of the internet is going to the prelude to mushroom clouds), or that conflict is minimized and if necessary, occurs through proxies. It's ugly, it's not the way we should do things, but it is the way we do things.
It didn't clear at all last year though if i'm not mistaken.

And based on this: https://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/
It's already closed up again.
Congrats, Ross and Francisco! I was curious about what you two were up to, which led me to Tonic two weeks ago. You guys move quickly! ;)
Two Companies Combine Blockchain, Data Analysis to Bolster Finance Industry
Rcarmo/azure-docker-swarm-cluster: A re-usable Swarm cluster template for Azure
I think you make some good points, but I think I need to agree with the previous poster, it seems mostly like marketing jargon. I come to this conclusion because these people, who market themselves as "data-scientists", really seem just like statisticians, or am I wrong? Don't all scientists, to some degree work with data?

I recently worked at a company who employed "data scientists", they rarely worked in isolation as far as I could tell, and usually required heavy assistance form system/database/storage administrators to be successful and aided by (but not always) with software engineers.

In the case of ML, I still see it as just software engineering / computer science. Sure there are pioneers in the field of deep learning, but aren't most of us just leveraging APIs or existing algorithms?

Honestly, I'm pretty confused myself lately and I work with some of this tech. Open to enlightenment on this topic by the way.
> Strangely many already had resistance

Keep in mind that modern antibiotics were created partly because at the time plants with antibiotic properties were being used so heavily that they were already becoming endangered. E.g.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldenseal
The Permanent Web
I was surprised by this but this is indeed the case. [1][2][3][4]

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/4nsp5p/usb_type_c_...
[2] http://www.usb.org/developers/docs/
[3] http://i.imgur.com/y6xCS9u.png
[4] http://www.anandtech.com/show/10273/intel-proposes-to-use-us...
Any and all that can be saved. I don't have answers to these problems...but, given the choice between censoring a Facebook post that calls for the slaughter of women and children in Israel, versus worrying about the slippery slope of censorship... the choice is black and white to me. Censor It!
That just blew my mind. My company had it's main office in the same building as Eataly as recently as 6 months ago. I've never been inside Eataly, kept meaning to! Grrr...
Again: WADA isn't the organization that determined the where the attack came from.
We're the Only Plane in the Sky
We've already shown that we can pretty effective destroy a country's infrastructure from the air as well, not just with explosives and incendiaries, but other clever tricks as well.
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There should be a term for "overprepping for disaster because it's so exciting to think about".
The extension looks great, though I wish it didn't use the new tab real estate as I am using Speed Dial for my bookmarks. Speed Dial makes sense for my new tab screen because all of those bookmarks take up space, whereas just configuring your page blocking doesn't require that space. Good work nonetheless.
Five eyes program
Yeah, I'm way older than that.
Right. You have to be making about $700k as a single person (almost a million as a married couple) in ordinary income in San Francisco before you exceed 45% total tax burden. Many people who make that much money will not pay that much in taxes because their compensation will come from capital gains (e.g. VCs earning carried interest capital gains).
Linode is being DDoS'ed in Dallas
I just uninstalled Ghostery earlier today, in part because of good advice such as that. Thanks
Has there ever been an attack attributed to Russia that they didn't dispute?
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99% sure you're right. It was a mix of brute force and phishing iirc.
Good thing this won't be a problem anymore.
You don't need to look there, at all. Just look at the US aggressive wars and subversive activities in this century, e.g. Iraq, Libya and it becomes clear that the value of human rights abroad from the US point of view is exactly 0.
they seem to be DDoS'ed often.. how many incidents has it been over the past few weeks? :\
Another interesting issue is that not all nations aren't going to agree on a point "we like." Island nations might want to fight for every .1 degree C. Russia and Canada might say fuck it, warming helps us. W Europe who is fairly shielded again major change by ocean currents might say that nobody should geo-engineer because it's not worth the risks (because their risk is lower than others).
Reminds me of when the military dug up corpses from the artic so they could get at the 1917 Spanish flu