skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hijacking live broadcasts seems to be one of the ultimate hacker accomplishments. There is something about it that is far more disconcerting than just defacing a webpage. Seems like it would feel far more invasive, popping on your living room tv. Would love to know how much someone like the BBC spend on security, must be huge.

The most famous TV hack, Max Headroom [1] (NSFW), from what I recall involved overriding the terrestrial signal, presumably with very powerful broadcasting hardware. BBC are digital now, so I am surprised they haven't had a successful incident yet.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWdgAMYjYSs
Notes on interviewing engineers
Put up a project, was there for a couple hours then the project was some how deleted. You may have a vulnerability somewhere.
Jesus H. Christ what a lot of negativity from a neat project. And the same quote from Carl Sagan is a nice asshat touch from people that probably don't make anything at all ever.

Great work op, don't let these pedantic asshats keep you down.
Do they speak English in work? I know that Dutch people have perfect English but I am wondering if it is used 100% in work.. in docs, meetings, casually, etc
DC restaurant at night, office by day
Like, as long as you can ignore it, it doesn't bother you, right? Homeless and crazy people make me, like, super sad and scared too. I totally get it. I'd live in Tennessee in a second if only there were no black people. It's so depressing having to see racism.
You don't get an XPS. Or any consumer/creative/performance/whatthefever oriented laptops Dell and HP may suddenly decide to offer because of some idiotic marketing decision. Their business workstations is where it's at. Always been solid on all fronts (except design, I guess, but that's subjective).
As people get older, they tend to wonder if what their doing is valuable, or even morally right. So I think as Facebooks employees are getting older, they naturally want to leave. At this point Facebook is one big click bait site and that's not something people want to work on long term.

If Facebook was more about bringing people closer together, and less about showing ads down the throats of it's users, more people would want to work there.
GitHub Removes BSD2/3 Clause Licenses
When creating a new repository on github.com (https://github.com/new), it is no longer possible to automatically generate BSD2/3 clause licenses.
I work in an open office and grabbing a room with somebody is totally normal—it happens every day, for all sorts of boring reasons. We even have small rooms perfect for this purpose: three or four chairs and no tables or video conferencing equipment. People use them for anything from random conversations (technical or not), personal phone calls or even just a bit of extra privacy and quiet for solo work.

Personally, I've been very happy with the environment. It helps that the open part of the office is bright, quiet and pretty sparsely populate.
"Is the implication that this is only worth reporting about because of that case, and without the Supreme Court case this wouldn't have been reported at all? Or is it that it was only looked at in the first case because of the Supreme court case?
"

as the sibling comment says, Eugene is a law professor specializing in first amendment law.
He almost certainly is reporting on it because of that case.

Would it be worth reporting otherwise, yes, but definitely, the former is accurate.

One of two things happened:

1. Either Eugene discovered it himself because he saw that case
or

2. Someone notified Eugene of that case.

My guess is his earlier blog posts let folks know he was interested in these issues, and someone emailed him this case, which got him investigating.

(I'm sure if you bug him, he'll tell you, he's a nice guy)
Open source projects seems to help if you know what to look for (like search for top 10 android project/plugins/whatever) - breakdown each part you would like to learn (architecture/codeStyle/asyncTasks/compatibility/images/UI/tests/perf). Concentrate one at a time.
This is true for me, but only for domains I know very well. The less I understand the problem, the more I have to think in my head. But there is a mode that I make use of frequently when I want the best answer I can currently produce - I just have to quiet my mind, and the best available answer immediately bubbles to top of mind.
I once worked as a consultant to a subsidiary of one of the larger Cybersecurity vendors.

Many institutions have weak cybersecurity including healthcare concerns. In this Fortune article about he Sony hack, the CEO said basically that they did not want to spend the money for Cybersecurity. http://fortune.com/sony-hack-part-1/

Target and Lowe's POS terminals were hacked because they were told to upgrade their software to a newer version of the OS and they didn't do it. The CEO of Target was canned as a result.

Many firms and other institutions love the power of computing without spending the money and hiring the expertise needed to maintain the security. There are private security contractors that these groups can hire to ensure that their environment is fully secure .

In addition to financial audits, shareholders should insist on cyber security audits to ensure that the firm or institution is acting in a responsible manner.

Obviously acting in a responsible manner regarding Cybersecurity is not a guarantee, but many cases of hackers breaking in is because of not even making the attempt to be secure.
A bunch of people seem to like it. A bunch of people seem to dislike it. It's almost like people are interested in a multitude of things and what appeals to one may not appeal to another. Huh, who knew?
I have no problems with what to do with idea, I just need a useful idea just for my practice, not for monetize or poplarity, just a tools that will be great for practice purposes and will be useful for someone :)
Human-caused climate change has doubled western US forest fire area
You should pair it with building personal projects as well, but I absolutely attribute my confidence in interviews to the time spent working up the ranks on Codewars.
When I applied there and was given a tour of several areas it seems to be small team rooms that could fit, at most, 10 people. But this was also in just two parts of two buildings in their headquarters so who knows if that's the norm across the entire company.
This is a bit exaggerated. As the results deck [1] shows, fully 25% (13.5 million) of those listed as Freelancers are, in fact, Moonlighters. Moonlighters are explicitly described as having stable, full-time employment in addition to their freelancing gig(s). It also lists another 28% (15.2 million) as people with a traditional job who then additionally gain income from sources like Uber.

What this adds up to is over 50% of those surveyed do not rely on freelance work for all of their income. In fact, it is likely that freelance income only accounts for a minority fraction of the income earned by half the respondents.

1. http://www.slideshare.net/upwork/freelancing-in-america-2016... (slide 10)
How Tripstr cut server costs by 75% and improve CI/CD on Google Cloud
The library will seem to withstand a quick and dirty test on performance and scale-ability, and then collapse when near release production puts pressure on it. Then you will rewrite it, and to distribute the crunch, will do so from then on.
I have my office windows all blacked out with blinds and a heavy curtain. Natural light makes it difficult to look at the screen. I will enjoy my natural light when I don't need to use my brain for coding and work. The best environment is like an evening or night: darkness except some dim, indirect lights, just like evenings and nights with slight ambient lighting. Best offices accommodate different needs.
The primary obstacle of the "real problems" mentioned is people.

For example, consider that:

Sometimes people don't want to be helped (see: many homeless)

Sometimes leaders don't want their people to be helped, because they gain from keeping them down (see: African warlords / government leaders embezzling aid)

When faced with SOCIAL problems like these, it's no wonder that someone of a 'hacker' mindset like Elon instead prefers to devote his time to solving problems which instead have technological roadblocks (well, maybe not entirely applicable in the case of Tesla or SolarCity).
It was support for an additional 802.11n card. Not 802.11n in general.
> I'm usually concerned with how easy it is to manipulate text: sort, search, delimit, and replace substrings. Especially given an array or matrix of string data.

No significant experience there. I would read http://docs.julialang.org/en/release-0.5/manual/strings/ and make sure that the data structures are adequate for your work. You can write C-like code and get C-like performance. Julia also makes it easy and efficient to pass data to and from C. Python/R/Matlab interop works nicely, but there's a cost.

> Maybe the biggest concern is documentation for functions. Is it quick to look up any function? Is it quick to discover available functions relevant to a task?

The docs are pretty terse:

http://docs.julialang.org/en/release-0.5/stdlib/strings/

Google is pretty good for discovery, although not as good as for widely-used languages. Many people ask on the julia-users Google group, and almost every well-written question gets answered. Typing ?function_name in the REPL returns the function docstring, similar to Python, and does a (very-limited) look-up.

I use Jupyter, and find the experience much better than in a REPL. I've tried Juno, and it's still too much of a WIP for me. YMMV.
What a scummy move.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12670997
It will take buying the company and making it happen.
This is why you should use your own email domain so you can just shuffle it around providers as needed.
>> so the rotation curve should approach the Keplerian limit...

I don't agree. If we treat the galaxy as a bunch of concentric rings, many of them are nowhere near far enough away to reach that "Keplerian" limit.

As an experiment I modeled a flat disk of uniformly distributed stars. Without doing a dynamic simulation one can do the n-body calculation to determine the total pull on each star and determine what its orbital velocity must be to go in a circular orbit. You find that the "galactic rotation curve" will have a velocity that actually increases all the way to the edge. Of course a uniform distribution is not what a real galaxy looks like, but I think we can all agree reality is somewhere between the uniform flat disk and the highly concentrated central mass. And the actual rotation curves are somewhere between Keplers and mine. I'd expect people to work backward from the rotation curves to determine the mass distribution and then try to understand why that isn't what is observed. I suppose that's just a different way to get at the same mystery.
HN clone with Angular2
Jetpack is in my (personal and completely biased) opinion the even more interesting project. It's the implementation of the App Container specification (like rkt).

Just pointing it out cause it was only mentioned in brackets.
I try to be skeptical about these sorts of explanations, but that might just be to stave off paranoia. What will be the amphetamines/leaded glass/DDT of today? Will future generations look back and say "of course the early 21st century was insane, they were all overdosing on sugar and caffeine!"
Thank you, I found this article fascinating and was looking for more!
And it comes with an "any" key! https://ksr-ugc.imgix.net/assets/003/972/304/567c71457a35a77...
There's plenty of established precedent for this, and of course a head of state would qualify as a public figure under any libel or slander claim. I am strongly in favor of the first amendment, and would be opposed to prior restraint. None of those things have anything to do with the example I gave however.
As a former Thinkpad travel keyboard user I would like to suggest you check out the Ergodox keyboard or -- my favorite and current daily driver -- the Diverge (http://unikeyboard.io/product/diverge/).
Shocking, a German nuclear plant suffered a disruptive cyber attack
I did misread that. I think the point still stands. The cheapest server cpus from 2010 are 60% as good as the best 2016 cpus. It might be close to the iPhone 7's latest chip or Google's Pixel. But most people don't have the latest and greatest. A normal phone won't be close to the latest and greatest i7. And I don't think it will be close to a 2010 era server.
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> My overwhelming suspicion -- as someone who went to an Ivy League school -- is that I was being treated as "yet another brown person,"

Isn't that the way it's supposed to be? It's an old concept: In the eyes of the law, people don't get special treatment depending on their social status.
Yes, but I was responding to a claim that equated to "go with the most broadly held view".
EPA is shitty, but the FB campus is right on the bay and not in EPA. The only shitty thing about it is that you have to deal with the Dumbarton bridge traffic, which is good or bad depending on which side of the bay you live on.
Or use a code formatter?
One could also argue that developers also has some impact on speed in an app like Hugo. The measured speed increase from Hugo 0.16 was 40/60 Go vs Developer.
They mention slaughterhouses in Ukraine. Does anyone know why Ukraine of all places?
What's your identity?
i wonder why people still use teensy boards, when similar chinese boards can be bought for a couple dollars each instead of $20.
I have had too many jobs in my life.

The one constant is employers will pay as little as possible for a person's skills. (This is discounting unions, but they are looking like a footnote in history books)

I would happily just take money over benefits. I have never seen an employeer offer me the option.

Our for-profit insurance insurance(US) is not geared towards insuring individuals. I don't undated why? Actually, I understand why, but tired of politics, and companies making huge profits over sick people. Insurance company have run the show for too long.

Watching last night's debate, while she said it horribly, "Obama Care" has some good features. We don't want to throw the baby out with the bath water? Or, do we? I kinda don't care anymore.

Let's make America great again! Yaa--Hoo! Good luck getting congress to approve any of your "Great" ideas. You will sit on that office for four years, with your hands tied. By the way--I'm all for his stance on Tarriffs, but how is he going to get congreess to go along with them?

Never felt so hopeless.

(Way off topic. Just don't care today.)
For most providers, using your own domain is a paid feature.
Why not make it as a command line program that requires only the barest minimum of depedencies? And be bold: make strong conventions so that the source structure is as identical as possible for each site -- so people can build on your project and provide tooling for it.

Focus on getting the basics right.
I work in a team sized room and much rather would have my own quiet space. I happen to sit next to a "key person" who is constantly having (important) discussions with coworkers that I don't need to or want to hear.

I'm really distraction and noise sensitive so I really prefer working from home when there's code to be written.
Along with the Ergodoxm, you might like the Diverge keyboard. I've been using one every day for a couple of months now and love it.
Are you serious?

Take 5 minutes to think about it and see of you can't come up with a couple reasons.
Forget internal organs, it amazes me that scholarship in the 15th century was completely ignorant the clitoris. From Wikipedia

> Gabriele Falloppio (discoverer of the fallopian tube), who claimed that he was the first to discover the clitoris. In 1561, Falloppio stated, "Modern anatomists have entirely neglected it ... and do not say a word about it ... and if others have spoken of it, know that they have taken it from me or my students"
You probably shouldn't drink the juice of a dozen carrots, if you'd like it expressed in a way that doesn't miss the point
I'm intrigued, could you give an example of the Matlab way?
I'd point out that amphetamines and other drugs are still being used by military forces around the world.
Good point, the real problem is not open offie vs closed office. It's distractions - noise, interruptions, visual distractions etc outside of the computer screen. Actually if you really think about it, the biggest distractions for quality work are multi-tasking on the computer.
That's interesting. What do you think it is about smartphones that made it easier?
It was a curve ball, probably he spit on it.
I wouldn't work in that godforsaken thing but that's just me.
Yea it seems like a great project but I don't really like to think of my IDE as a dependency of my code but rather my code as a dependency of my IDE.
"Changed", no. Reified an existing one by providing additional reinforcement to the expectations of instant access? Certainly.
I think the highlights don't mention the release's best bits. The full release notes are way larger and it really depends on what you do, what you might consider the most interesting part.

Also I am happy to see a bunch of "Sponsored by..." Netflix, Yandex, NGINX Inc, Netgate, Citrix, Juniper Networks, Microsoft, Dell, Multiplay, ScaleEngine, etc. in there.

https://www.freebsd.org/releases/11.0R/relnotes.html
EC2(TM) users are urged to read the Errata Notes for FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE regarding an issue discovered very late in the release cycle that may cause the system to hang during the boot process when upgrading from previous FreeBSD versions. New EC2(TM) installations are not affected, but existing installations running earlier releases are advised to wait until the issue is resolved in an Errata Notice before upgrading.

This is discussed on BSD Now 162 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ-mgwxhNvo
What has Linux done to close the gap to GRsec?
This is what I see groups for. Chat for small groups, Facebook groups for larger groups and long-form posts that require more in-depth discussion. This is what we do internally at Facebook and it works pretty well.
I'm not actually sure how common it was for the government to intervene in families' home lives, even, say, at the height of the middle ages or the Byzantine empire. That said, to whatever extent it did happen, it was wrong, and the Catholic church acknowledges as much these days.

On the other hand, I think the history of humanity, which involves nearly universal belief in some flavor of divinity, is all-but-conclusive proof that your second point is incorrect. That doesn't mean the x-theists are right: just that religion is quite obviously the default state of humanity, and irreligion is the exception.
How to choose a laser engraver
What about function types? That alone gets you to "tree" complexity.
Coal Miner’s CEO Calls Tesla a ‘Fraud’ and Elon Musk Tweets It
I think humans when exposed to new technology tend to do stupid things for a while until they get smarter and figure out what to actually do. The early decades of the 20th century brought many new and powerful abilities, mostly fueled by the combo of war and technological advancements. It wasn't clear to leaders then that giving soldiers meth or even taking it yourself wasn't such a smart move.

Humans are much smarter today (about substance abuse) and we are slowly walking down the list eliminating over-use of less damaging substances like sugar, caffeine. Products like coca cola are facing a huge consumption gap in certain, very developed areas.
I pay $5 a month for Google Apps, which is completely worth it for me since finding good, unclaimed short email addresses on Gmail is not possible.
They've removed the notice from that specific type of ECP (and I was not aware of that), but it's still present on other types, including some that are common in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_contraception#Mechan...
Why Twitter Shouldn’t Sell
Really good read. Saved in my book mark. Solid information dense document.
I am in Germany.
The NSA debacle made a lot of important people quite unhappy here, not to mention the current tensions between DBank & DOJ and so on... - so I am afraid we would interpret this a bit like Apple's labels, except in this case we would read:

Designed in NSA - Made in UK.
Ah sorry - I didn't realize people wouldn't understand this was a spam pitch! Point taken. I address non-native English speakers later in the post.
I sit right next to a wall of floor-to-ceiling windows. The new designer who just started sits across from me and can't stand the sunlight, so he pulls the blinds down every day, all day. Drives me nuts, especially in the winter when I'm at work for all of the daylight hours I'm awake for.
So if $24 million becomes $26 million in one month, they say it's 100% IRR? Even though it's only up 8.3% and it's just as likely to go back down?
Go’s Testable Examples under the hood. Introduction to ast and parser packages
Photos? Perhaps you can try to write a small blog post with some history and some photos, and end it with "If anybody needs one, please let me know. They are available at my door (Budapest, Hungary), no shipping, no warranty.".
Did you miss the part where they were treated worse because of their skin color?
> I never liked LastPass because it's rigid on how you can store data. Surely username+password+ website is common enough, but give the user the opportunity to add custom fields. This is how KeePass and 1Password work, it's a proved design ;-)

While it isn't quite as nice as KeePass and 1password, lastpass does have secure notes for things that aren't sites.
Camel 2.18.0 release: java 8, spring-boot
If all you want is the email address, you can simply transfer your domain to Google Domains and use their free GMail integration. That'll save you $48/year assuming you don't value any of the other paid features in Google Apps.
Sound similar to case in Sweden where one person was found guilty of preparation to commit an act of terrorism by first reading documents on how to construct a bomb and then going out and buying ingredients.

The only major issue I have with it is that reading and researching (i,e, searching the web) is now recorded and used as key evidence, and the days where one could go to the library and read in secrecy is gone. That used to be a rather sacred activity, and all the reasons for why such spying is ripe for abuse seems to have been forgotten.
13.91x return. It doesn't appear all capital was called, but assuming it was, on a $100m fund the return is is $1,391m.

Assuming 2/20 economics for the partners, that's $278.2m returned to the partners.

2% MGMT fees would be 2m/year over 10 years ($20m), but that probably had nuance (drawdown after $x years, or % of called capital) and/or had to be paid back, so let's ignore that.

Assuming Brad and Fred each split the carry 40% 40% (and 20% for other people) that's about $100m return to each of the two major partners.

Nice return for delivering a great LP shareholder return on a reasonable timeframe.
There's still a need to solve the basic problem: a command line site generation tool. Preferably one that doesn't try to solve everything else in the process and ends up being a poor something else. Build something that does one job well and design it with the intent that other people can build on it.

For instance so someone can use it to build a website generation service. (Yeah, you kinda do have to solve the basic problem of generating the HTML anyway, so one might as well focus on doing the core part of it well)

I'm not saying it is easy. In fact, it is hard because people tend to get too familiar with their own mess. Or they think it is easy.

(And no, that wasn't angst. That was realism conveyed in a honest manner)