skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
they go into a randomized lottery which decides who gets to run their exploit first. They then have a set time to exploit the device (commonly 2 minutes), and if they can't do it the next team in gets to go.

Generally once a target has been compromised, no other teams are allowed to use the same vulnerabilities. this prevents a team from sharing an exploit/vuln to others who run it again. The downside is that if you've been working on an exploit chain for 6 months but a team runs a similar bug ahead of you, your work is worthless.
Great, he's using his newfound fame and credibility in one area (a lucky coin toss), to make grand assertions on what Trump's presidency will be like. Where can I buy the crystal ball he is using?
BlackNurse Low-Volume DoS Attack Targets Firewalls
these things would've cost next to nothing to make, and they figure they can sell a large enough volume at a low price that they'd net more than upping the price slightly and selling substantially less.
Stubbornness and vanity. Except in code form.
This is true.

But that doesn't mean the preceding comment was right to compare "grab them by the balls" to "grab them by the pussy". "Grab them by the balls" is an expression. "Grab them by the pussy" was a claim that Trump could do exactly that, to anyone he chose, by virtue of his celebrity. That claim was backed by a Cosby-esque assortment of women with sexual assault stories involving Trump.
I understand that you object to it.

In terms of your value to your employer, is it not true?
I had a similar thought. The GOP establishment is clearly not happy with Trump. If given a serious enough opportunity, the GOP may be willing to impeach their own President, to replace him with Mike Pence.
Should be titled: "How FiveThirtyEight Desperately Tries to Regain its Credibility"
Wouldn't you want to know if a drug study was sponsored by its manufacturer before believing it?

That is not the same thing. I assume someone is not sponsored by a manufacturer unless such a sponsorship is explicitly stated. I also expect someone who is in fact sponsored by a manufacturer to state this explicitly as that would be relevant in the interpretation of that person's claims which, in the context of drug studies, can be judged objectively. In the context of a political or societal discussion it is much harder to be objective as those fields are largely subjective - there generally is no absolute truth. Seen in that light it is hardly relevant whether a person supports this or that party, policy or politician when discussing claims about their merits as other participants in the discussion can make up their own minds on the subject regardless of what the claimant thinks about them. I'd go on step further and claim that the discussion would actually improve when such disclaimers are left out as it would reduce the influence of group think and open up the possibility to discuss matters which fall outside of the comfort zone without needing to excuse oneself for even mentioning the subject. This would only work in a place where the discourse is generally polite and thoughtful, HN being an example of such.
Thanks for your remarks.

We'll definitely have to agree to disagree on Trump, but you and I do have common ground in our belief that access to employment is an issue of social justice, and that the H1-B program has been abused and corrupted in a way that has created profoundly unjust outcomes for Americans.

The United States already has a program for legal immigration, right? Why do we even need H1-B?
Also, not really 'completely free speech' either. From the Breitbart article:

> a zero tolerance policy for promoting terrorism

Everyone has their own version of acceptable free speech. Him using 'free speech' as his tagline and yet having restrictions is hypocritical.
"This one is not based on a system; it's just my gut."

Just a reporter scraping for a story.
Sure, since it isn't going to an American anyway.
https://www.amazon.com/treasuretruck had it today.
From a viewers perspective this is great. For past World Chess Championships you could watch ex pros/ high level players commentate on Youtube and Twitch.
Word on the street is that's actually been the plan all along.
I don't think he has much data to work off to create a model for impeachment.
Tra, a file system synchronizer
Does Blink have high function key numbers like F-17? The lack in Prompt forces some ungraceful exits for Epic Cache admins.

Also, does it have a method of emulating the non-numeric characters generated by the numeric keypad of a big old keyboard?
For every opinion like yours, I guess there are folks like me who like businesses taking political stands for what they believe is right. I'm happy to start being a Grubhub customer.
It absolutely is fair. For a long time after a syscall your program will run slower thanks to the increased cache misses from the kernel clobbering your stuff in cache. That's a real price that you pay for a syscall and it would be wrong not to count it. However, if you found some other way of doing the work, e.g user code, kernel bypass, amortized bulk syscall, those will also have a (lesser) effect on the cache. So to be fair you compare a syscall against that, not against zero.
I know it was out of line, Scott: I've been lurking for years, and know the guidelines.

You cannot ignore though the insane, unprecedented emotional context we're in right now as a nation. Anyway I apologize.
It helps to buy the waterproof sports covers so you can just spray and wipe after each use.
Why is this kind of political propaganda on Hacker News? In an election where each candidate got approximately 50 % of the vote, "what to do to win next time" type posts are purely political. Adding "silicon valley" to the title doesn't do much.

Imagine if you will articles by opponents of leaders of other countries (Erdogan-Turkey, Narendra Modi-India, or Vladimir Putin-Russia) discussing how to counter their influence, and all those articles landing here.

"A Time to Act: Some suggestions for Bangalore", would be flagged into oblivion in microseconds.

Just something to think about.
Eh, we are entering an area of speculation. The right answer is 'only google knows', but since you are asking twice this question, let me try to take a wild guess:

- Google, an advertising company, benefits from having access to the plaintext of people's messages. They can advertise this as 'secure' but only for the comm channel.
- Proton mail, advertises itself as: "ProtonMail is the world's largest secure email service, developed by CERN and MIT scientists. We are open source and protected by Swiss privacy law.", featuring end to end encryption, anonymous email, mobile clients etc.
- Fastmail: "Secure, reliable email hosting for businesses, families and professionals. Premium email with no ads, excellent spam protection and rapid personal support."

If I'm a product manager of GMail, I'd be more scared from Proton mail than FastMail. In fact, anything featuring end-to-end encryption will be approached with negativity, because then GMail can't target ads, which are the main cash cow for google.
Move to Canada, drama queen
Google maps reference?
Thank you for showing me this!

Not sure how I missed it.
Speculative, but I imagine that some government-sponsored Google employees pull levers from time to time. For instance, http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/09/13/hillary-google-bias...
Nice, I had a feeling they did that, thanks for the link.

I fully agree, missed optimization opportunity from not being able to inline is usually a bigger effect, because loops dominate the runtime and that's where those optimizations count.
>If your company didn't have access to foreign H1-B guest workers, you would have two primary options: 1.) hire and train American workers, or 2.) recruit more aggressively by paying even higher wages.

Or 3) offshore the work. This effectively gives smart people overseas on-the-job training, sends money into the economies of the nations of which they are citizens, and teaches them how to compete with US businesses.

Protectionism _never_ works.
I can't imagine this playing out well for the GOP. Trump is a populist candidate; impeaching him would strongly alienate their base.
Let's be fair, skin-tone wise he would be an anemic pumpkin.
Sorry -- you're right. I should have said "explain monads well."
When enough people are making predictions, a few are bound to be right through chance alone. The same phenomenon occurs with the stock market. The question is, how do you distinguish correct predictions made by chance from those made by correct analytical methods? This task may be as difficult as the original prediction itself.
Melodies are less constrained than that, timing between notes (which includes 0) note pitch and duration are all open. Which is why musical notation is really complex.

Further they are not patents two people can in theory both have copyright on the same melody.
Please know that many of my responses here have been hastily typed and that I in no way meant to suggest that a person is interchangeable in the same way as a bag of rice or a ton of pig iron.

I simply believe that American workers should get first crack at all economic opportunities in this country and that it is unjust to make Americans compete with foreign nationals for jobs.
I'm not sure about impeachment - but I do think that's the most likely outcome is Trump derailing his own Presidency with injudicious remarks. Bill Clinton lost two years of his legislative programme due to the furore created by a comment he made about gays in the military while out jogging at dawn.

I'd say that it's more or less inevitable that Trump is going to say something on Twitter that is going to blow up in his face in a big way. People are able to say all sorts of things when they're running for the Candidacy / Presidency (H Clinton the first time round had several such mishaps). Do that when you're President and there's a good chance you'll run out of political capital before you've managed to achieve anything meaningful.
> In terms of your value to your employer, is it not true?

I work for humans, so: Nope.
IMO it's even more important now, given the polarization, to remain civil.
>The defendants E-Learning Ltd and Logical Thinking Ltd, which operate website Chess24.com, had argued in court papers that World Chess was seeking to stop websites from reporting on information already in the public domain and not protected by copyright law.

You can't publicly broadcast facts. Then say no one else has the right to rebroadcast those same facts.
Do you think their reaction to not having a standardized version would be "aw shucks, I guess we totally won't go with our own proprietary version then!"
Depends on if they can hang a big enough scandal on him.

(there is a story out there that would be sufficient; it's hard to evaluate the credibility of it, but more information could become public and change that)
On epigenetics: we need both Darwin’s and Lamarck’s theories
Right, he's clearly just abusing his limelight to make a statement here.
I just don't think this is good enough.

Companies need to hire and train weaker candidates. It is socially unjust to make American workers compete with foreign nationals for jobs.
See, to me, the sequence of keypresses I make while banging on my keyboard seem like it could be represented as an ordered list. I may be missing something, though.
Or he'll do the opposite, as in he'll shoot his mouth off so often people will give up trying to hold him accountable, making him an unpredictable wild card that can pretty much do anything he wants. (In fact I'd say he crossed that point a long time ago.)
idk what happened but at 1400PST on the money i loaded it... "add to cart" and "buy now" buttons were there but their function was inoperable. That page was broken for hours after that. And now it just says not available. ugh
I did this a couple times for limited edition systems. You just have to wait in line early and get as many as the store will let you.

It's not a tremendous amount of money but if you sell a few $300 systems for 2-3x the original price and you're a college student or such, it adds up fast.

The last time I tried doing it was for the limited edition pikachu 3DS; upon seeing a line of 50+ people in Oakland (most of which probably had the same intention as me), I decided that the gain was not worth it anymore.
Beesell, Foursquare meets Monopoly
We mashed up a Monopoly inspired game mechanic with thousands of real world locations and called it "Beesell" (from: buy + sell)

Our UI is mainly an iOS app. Android coming later.

We'd love some feedback. Our in game currency is called "honey" and you can get some here:
http://beesell.com/redeem.mp?c=mkapp11h

Happy hunting!
'The Election Was Stolen – Here’s How…'
It costs about 100x of normal Unity licenses.
This piece isn't great. Sure, I agree that the election outcome was bad. In fact, I think it was an utter disaster. This piece tells young people (presumably, "millenials") not to worry, it'll be okay in the end. But it's too easily interpreted as "don't take action, it all works out in the end anyway".

A TON of millenials didn't vote in this election, and that's why the values they cherish (or will soon realize they cherish) will be trampled over. Marco's message isn't a call to action; instead it's placating. I hope someday we can look back and say "well, that was just a wrong turn." But goshdarnit, 3 days after the election is too early for that!

PS -- Like other commenters, I agree that this piece is a little too simplistic in its view of young=liberal=good and old=conservative=bad. I don't agree with that, and besides, it's a little tasteless to imply "don't worry, those people that disagree with you will die soon enough."
> This article is a great example where in using docker for the first time they chose to attempt to run the state layer(database) in a container.

One question I've had as I evaluate moving a Rails/Postgres app to GKE is whether I should abandon the thought and go with AWS/RDS, or containerize Postgres on GKE, or some third option. Has anyone else been part of a similar migration onto GKE, and how did it go?
Mostly unrelated, but I use the opposite trick to ensure that the "grep" process itself doesn't show up when I "ps | grep" for a process.

Something like:

ps -ef | grep "myprogra[m]"

Is still a regex that matches the string "myprogram", but it doesn't match itself, so the "grep myprogram" doesn't show up in the output. Easier than doing " | grep -v grep" or similar.
Same here.

I had the gut feeling something had been wrong with the Linux client for a while. Spotify also tends to show up pretty high in h/top, aside from iotop.
Perhaps they could do like what is done when using certain types of medical equipment and ave the part that is in contact with the person wearing it switched out between each use.
So if tomorrow it was possible to become a US citizen by filling out a web form and paying $50, that'd be fine by you?

It'd be fine by me. But I'm a job thief. Unless I become a US citizen. At which point I'm still the same person, but somehow it's OK.
That would be a tremendously bad idea. Suppressing popular votes for hope (in this case by poorer people without college degrees) is what causes revolution.
>> Protectionism _never_ works.

That's a very convenient aphorism, but it's not true. There are thousands of laws in this country that do a great job protecting people. Intellectual property laws and labor laws are a great example of "domestic protectionism" if you will.

It's socially unjust to make American workers compete with foreign nationals for jobs. If the end game of a company is to simply offshore all their jobs, then they can also plan on giving up the benefits of being based in a stable democracy like the US. EX: it's highly unlikely that their assets will be nationalized.
Here's a post on Polycount that analyzes other parts of the game:

http://polycount.com/discussion/104415/zelda-wind-waker-tech...
This is about to get interesting. Quick hypothetical here... What happens when the candidate that is "the brick thrown through the window of the establishment" ends up just following the republican agenda anyways.

Ohh boy, we are in for some interesting times for sure.
Give it a few months.
Ask HN: Non-Citizen US Visa Holder Working on Charityware?
So I live in the US but on a temporary visa hence I can't have a money-making side projects. However, I really want to make this side project and have people pay for it in a way that X% of the profit goes to operating cost (AWS hosting, CDN,domain,etc which I hope would altogether would be small in comparison to revenue in the long term) and 100-X% would go to a charity. None of the profit would go to me since I have a full-time job already (and legally can't anyways).

I have several thoughts about how to do this and would love your ideas:

1) Is this legal for me? (This might be hard to answer)

2) Should I request for funds directly or make it an honor system? (this possibly negates me having to worry about question 1).

3) Has anyone done this successfully or something similar?

4) Any other things I should be thinking about? Is this a foolish idea?
> as long as there was work

Not work. Creativity. Big difference.
Not only once, but in many independent experiments too.
Recent data suggests trade restrictive measures are at an elevated level.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-10/trump-or-n...
NK is starving, equipped with ancient hardware, and without adequate fuel for training. The one thing they have is artillery, which can do an incredible amount of damage to SK.

So you think the current token US force in SK can stop China if it decides to intervene? That force just acts as a nuclear tripwire; it doesn't need to be larger to act in that fashion.
I read this as basically a Win to Solr?
As a person that's actually running a hobby search engine:
It's simpler to apply a coefficient on a hostname string than process associated data; may it be during a fetch, a processing or a search phase.
Just because you found one for sale on ebay doesn't prove the part about the bots at all...
My remarks about the citizens of Syria were made in the context of the brutal war being fought in Syria at the moment.

>> So if tomorrow it was possible to become a US citizen by filling out a web form and paying $50, that'd be fine by you?

No, citizenship should never be for sale. Otherwise it's meaningless. You should be allowed to immigrate legally provided you can satisfy the requirements of our immigration program.

>> But I'm a job thief.

Please note that those are your words, not mine. I don't view people here on work visas as job thieves. My remarks are framed exclusively around what's best for Americans: it is socially unjust to make Americans compete with foreign nationals for jobs.
I had my Chinese distributor set it up. It seems like you need to have a Chinese local there to get through all the red tape. Even for him it was a pain.

The semi-intersting thing is this server does not even have any public face - it is purely just a back-end data processor for DNA sequences.
I'd say that it's homicide. Sometimes homicide is justified, and sometimes it's not. I think that defensive homicide is okay, and I think that's fairly uncontroversial.

And there's definitely a difference between directly killing someone and withholding extraordinary measures. What's extraordinary and what's ordinary will, of course, change over time with the progress of technology.

I'm not troubled by not tasking medical staffs with regulating hormones &c., as is required to keep brain-dead people alive. I'm rather more troubled by keeping them alive only to remove their organs piece by piece (but I find dead-donor transplantation morally problematic at best, anyway).
You don't need "vision algorithms". Just average the color of a couple of pixels per square. The cube is always in the same place, no need to do anything fancy.
Once again, thanks a bunch for the detailed reply. Do you blog or use Twitter or something? If so, I'd really like to follow you :)
> What killed Detroit wasn't a trade deal, except to the extent that we allowed Japan to sell autos here at all.

I'm referring to what killed Detroit the city, and it's jobs, not what killed the automakers.

A famous quote regarding NAFTA [1] from Ross Perot was abouta "giant sucking sound" [2] the jobs would make as they flowed to Mexico because of lower wages and healthcare expenses.

Looking it up I can't find any details on NAFTA helping catch tax evaders so I must be thinking of a different international arrangement.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Free_Trade_Agre...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_sucking_sound
Let me get this straight. He claims his system has correctly called every presidential election since 1984. But he predicted a win for Gore in 2000. He says that was correct since Gore won the popular vote. In 2016, he called the election for Trump. And that too is correct even though Clinton won the popular vote. Okay... Sounds like someone is "moving the goalposts" to suit their model...
Honestly, I was going to buy one. But the itch will probably pass by the time they're back in stock. Since I'm filling that itch with emulators now.

At an impulse buy price point, I wonder how many unrecoverable lost sales are caused by lack of supply.
I actually think Trump may do his best as president. He may do some really dumb things (really what president hasn't?). Unless he decides to do some really really illegal stuff, he probably won't be impeached. Let's just all hope Trump doesn't hurt us. I doubt Trump's presidency will turn out as bad as many people are predicting.
I'd prefer if you just said it's because you'd like protectionism to lead to higher wages for American citizens.

Oddly enough, right now, the USA skims the world's talent this way. You get to tax the brightest, you get to profit from the companies they found here, the people they employ here, the business they do here.

I'm here on the E3. Australia has turned up for every US war since Korea. Our blood is mixed with yours in the mud of a dozen nations on four continents, including ours.

Our reward, as one of my colleagues quipped, is that the US gets to take our brightest people.
VRCover makes vinyl covers that prevent the foam from sucking up sweat. You can just clean them with a mild spray sanitizer or wipes. This makes a huge difference for any sort of athletic game, otherwise if you take the headset off even for a minute the damp foam will cool off, and it feels absolutely hideous to put a cold damp headset on your face.

I have some of their newer 6mm ("wide-FOV") replacement pads for the Vive and while I found the "cover" style to be fidgety to get and keep in place the replacement pads are a huge improvement. Literally just remove the old foam and slap the new vinyl pad on (attaches via velcro like the OEM pads).

https://vrcover.com/product/htc-vive-foam-replacement-6mm/

A++ would buy again. Major quality of life improvement over the standard pads.

With vinyl covers I don't see what would stop you from just spraying down the whole surface that comes into contact with your face - assuming whatever you use isn't nasty enough to fog the plastic. I don't do it because it's not really a concern apart from face grease if you bump the lenses, which I clean with a microfiber cloth.
We want safety, personal freedom and justice enforced by some agreement because we're weak and we need the agreement to protect us. Powerful ones are looking for more power because it's the power that protects them. The idea of safety is universal. The means to achieve it are not.
Very well.

If I could become a US citizen for free (and I can't, by the way), would you drop your objection?

Edit for your edit:

> Please note that those are your words, not mine.

I'm using the words protectionists like yourself have commonly used.
$520,000 in a day. I wonder how many man-hours were spent prior to the competition?