skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the contrary, only trivial jobs could be done by individuals. A single person could do very little alone against a really hard problem.

Teams really help immensely. The original definition of corporation was "a group of people that joins together to do something", like making a bridge, or sailing half of the world when those activities were risky, dangerous and hard.

There was a time in which sailing meant 2 of each 3 ships were sink by storms, or pirates. Romans will kill you if the bridge you build was weak.

But the team members must be great individually and complement each other. For example the group that invented the transistor, aerospacial rockets or the integrated circuit, or the microprocessor were a heck of a team.

In the US individualism means the individual mindset is favored over anything else. In the rest of the world it is the other way. For example in Japan going alone is suicidal, "The nail that sticks out shall be hammered down".

I would say the best system is some of both systems.

When Steve Jobs was ousted of Apple his number one priority with Next was having success so he could maintain the best people of his team. And it was not a secret, he will tell you.
But isn't each field a multiple of the word size on both 32 and 64-bit platforms?
I will soon be in similar situation and I am truly concerned since godaddy seems to be doing lots of money on putting other people's expired domains on auction! I do not agree they belong to godaddy to make profit of it!

It will take up to 41 days if you are lucky and nobody buys that domain.

Read here: https://uk.godaddy.com/help/what-happens-after-domain-names-...

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This seems an interesting article too: https://mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2005/03/how-to-snatc...

As well as this one: http://www.scottphillips.com/2011/01/buying-an-expiring-doma...
How exactly is this off-topic? How is the post I'm responding to is on-topic?

That's fucking bullshit.

Here's what the person I responded to wrote:

> Seems like a reasonable and responsible solution to this issue. Perhaps the "Apple is imploding" comments were a bit premature.

Then I responded that nobody actually addressed those "Apple is imploding" comments....

What the fuck is your deal man? Can't stand anybody who doesn't love Apple like you do?
There is a part of me that would just love to see a double-cross in this.

"Hey, we're IBM, we can help you with your nifty new fascism."

Once the list gets made:

"Oh, that's not his address that's weird..."
"Huh, that person doesn't exist, that's weird..."
"Oh man, the servers are down again. That Microsoft you know!"
"We lost the db. We have a backup, from March."
More details here:

http://www.idsnews.com/article/2016/11/protestors-at-standin...
The rise of anti-intellectual politicians and policies makes politics quite relevant to discussions like these. Ignoring the political impact on positive endeavors is wishful thinking.
That's the real crime here.
It's absolutely insane. Setting up a distributed key-value system with some basic API shouldn't take more than a few days.
If they've connected to Gmail before they would have received HSTS headers. So I'm not sure what you are suggesting? Could you elaborate on how you think GSM cipher downgrades lead to stolen Gmail credentials?

edit: Furthermore Chrome/Firefox implement HSTS preload lists on which gmail.com is included. [0][1]

[0] https://cs.chromium.org/chromium/src/net/http/transport_secu...

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2012/11/01/preloading-hsts...
In other strange news, Cracked is on the front page of HN.
http://zerocash-project.org/media/pdf/zerocash-extended-2014...
...as well as Java generics.
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It's definitely both. Via personally experience, a bunch of people in a room hashing out ideas real time--the more difficult the problem, the more this has to be counter-balanced by intense personal study to mature a concept enough to bring it to the group.
How not to give a fuck like Rick
Your analogies sound comparable, but fall a little short when you examine the full picture, here's why they do not quite apply.

There is limited competition for the 'last mile' infrastructure (due in part to the significant upfront capital costs creating a network, and the historical fact that existing infrastructure was previously a public good in many cases--ie paid for by the gov.)

So, you can look at this from an anti-competitive monopoly perspective. If I have a regional monopoly on the last mile infrastructure and I bundle in such a way that it gives my new video streaming business an advantage over others then I am illegally leveraging my monopoly to another business category. That is illegal in the US.

Mobile is similar, except instead of copper in the ground a handful of companies have paid for a monopoly access (or perhaps more correctly a triopoly) to certain broadcasting frequencies.

Going back to your analogy, maybe rephrase it in terms of core infrastructure like a public road being turned into a private good. Now, if the operator of the private roadways started to run their own fast food restaurants and when you buy a meal from them you get free access to the road. Alternatively, you could buy a meal from someone else, but now you have to pay for access to the road.
I am a little surprised to see this post. I replied to a similar post in September, cleared the HackerRank test, and was told an interview would be scheduled in the following week, However, did not get any intimation after that, and on inquiring, was told that the hiring has been put on hold till new year.
Has the decision of putting the hiring on hold till new year been changed?
You can buy all kinds of valuables online, which you then resell. Gift cards are quite common.
Good point, and I don't think it's possible to use prepared statements for table names. I'll remove the regex for this.
Probably again making legal what has been going on illegally for a long time.
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Isn't that (almost) 1000? All numbers between 001 and 999?
You're a fucking moron.
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It's a matter of not operating in a jurisdiction that hands out software patents. Europe is generally much more sensible in this respect.
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If everything in this story is true (and I see no reason to doubt it), then there is a 0-day being used here in the wild to hack gmail accounts for political purposes. There really need to be some security engineers (ideally Google security engineers) on-site investigating, both to identify and fix the exploits being used, and to establish their use later for legal purposes.
How would this IMAP implementation work? Some kind of local proxy that does the decryption on-the-fly?
This was the only option left.

I could think of nothing else. Reasoning with and threatening customer care (or customer harassment?) failed.
Note that often RAM usage goes up as the browser is running longer. A good test would wait the same amount of time after opening the browser to check.
Great article on perverance and prototying, getting feedback and knowing how to challenge conventional processes.
We've become spoiled by how incredibly reliable modern turbofans are (ETOPS etc.). I recall reading that before jets took over in passenger planes, it wasn't entirely uncommon that planes arrived with one engine failed. Big turbocharged (or even turbocompounded in some cases) multi-row radials are just very complex machines operating pretty close to their design limits.
My first thought was /^H\documentclass{screenplay}

Edit: fixing my solidus direction.
I feel like this was the good side of religion. At least within subgroups of people.
> I've never used them and will continue to never use them :-)

... and convinced your surroundings to never use them? ;-)
I can see something simple like redirecting random pages to a fake login page. The average person will fall for the simplest of attacks so it wouldn't surprise me to hear that they were just using a captive portal that asked for their Google account credentials to use wifi.
This does not require hindsight - it is literally the first thing you would ask about in an audit of the system's security. The real issue is what it says about the competence of the people running these systems.
...for every valid/correct credit card? The answer is a ratio of 1:x_1, where x_1 is every correct cc. And each correct cc is a ratio to the total number of cc vulnerable to the system of attack, 1:x_2; and this is in turn a ratio of 1:x_3, for all the currently valid cc, etc.etc. Right? But what's more concerning is all of the successful fraudulant activity is adding to the loss those banks are adding to their books, which in turn will be passed on to customers as bank fees and other costs.
Pretty much the same here, DDG, Fastmail, Firefox, and Here Maps and Movit for mapping/traveling.

Honestly, DDG surpassed google search years ago. I've preferred Firefox for a long time, and Fastmail's UI and service is incredibly superior to GMail. I guess the cost might be the only downside.
Precisely what the Investigatory Powers act in the UK has done. It's all very sordid: "We've been doing something illegal in secret? Well, let's just make it legal and pretend it's new." Ugly stuff, and risky for our collective future, but it's where we in the west are now as a society, and we weill have to make the best of it.
You can potentially issue an old-style mag-stripe credit card knock-off, and pay with it in an offline store. IDK if it's worth the effort: the card should look reasonable physically, too.
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Isn't mid-air refueling a much later invention? Never heard of it being used during WWII..
On the other hand, "inline" too much code which is faster when benchmarked in isolation, and thanks to cache effects you may end up with worse performance as now less code fits in the cache.
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>I think the guideline exists because even as an honest question it does not add anything to the comment

I hope you see the irony here considering how much you're derailing this conversation (I'm only responding because I realize your intentions are good). And I'm pretty confident my comment added plenty of value to the discussion - I realize sometimes tone is lost in text, but after my clarification I don't see why you need to harp on this. Anyway, original comment edited.
For any valid card number yes. I'd bet that almost all don't have three numbers all the same and that there are probably more rules/conventions that would reduce the search space.

http://m.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=count+of+permutations+of+...
The tricky thing about stuff like this is that the majority of people at protests (and in the general population) are incredibly tech illiterate. They are easily exploitable, but also prone to misunderstanding what they're seeing when things go weird with their devices.

We know that hacking and spying on protestors happens, because there are FOIA (and similar state level public information act) requests that have revealed it. We also know there is collusion between private tech firms and the government at all levels that utilize questionable tactics (Stratfor leaks; Barrett Brown just got out of jail for covering this collusion as a journalist and Jeremy Hammond is still in jail for leaking it). So, something is certainly happening at Standing Rock. It is a protest against perhaps the most powerful interests in the world (oil and gas and international finance) so surely every tool available is being used against them.

So, this is probably half paranoia and half correct. It's hard to know which parts are correctly diagnosing the symptoms, however.

Also, some of the practices are likely unconstitutional, by most reasonable interpretations, but we long passed the point where the US government gave a damn about that when it comes to tech privacy.
Sounds like you should check out "Don't make me think" by Steve Krug! It's a quick read and contains very simple effective advice on how to make your UI usable. He outlines ways to do very cheap user testing to add objectivity to the decisions you're describing.
While I agree getting support from Apple in-store can currently require multiple trips, hours waiting for an appointment and potentially $800 or more to replace a motherboard everything's stuck to, there are alternatives, including AppleCare, which allows for phone support from the US, a very easy escalation process to senior support and managers, and again with AppleCare, if urgent, you can get service from local authorised repair centres (not Apple Stores) where Apple foots the bill. Apple will even pay for an on-site visit if your computer is less portable, like an iMac. And AppleCare covers select accessories from Apple purchased for use with your Mac, but that's less relevant as Apple exits the networking and display business. Frankly that's my main concern about buying an LG display, will I get Apple-like support and repair?
But the OS is committing to supplying memory for any writable pages you duplicated, because after all you might write to them. The OS doesn't know which pages you won't duplicate.

Unless you set your vm.overcommit_memory sysctl variable to 1 (= never refuse malloc), duplicated writable pages are going to subtract from available memory, even if all copies are currently the same.
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I'm no means on expert on this, but having delt a little with online transactions from testing responses from a payment processor.

The things that needed to match also involved the customers street address, zip and name. If I recall these were scored and if the match wasn't good (zip was entered wrong) the transaction was rejected. Maybe different payment processors have different thresholds for rejecting a transaction?

https://help.chargify.com/payment-gateways/Error-FAQ.html
I think he means elementary in the sense of foundational.
Why would you need image embedding in screenwriting software? Scrivener would be for prototyping like that.

My primary problem with FD is no support for UTF at all. Real fun writing in other languages. Sometimes even impossible. Fade In saves the day.
I have a question:

At the beginning of the article they author mentions that there is no cell signal once you reach the camp.

Wouldn't a Cessna with a Stingray on board show up on your cell phone as a signal?

It was my understanding that the way the Stingrays works is that they broadcast a pilot signal just like a regular cell tower albeit a spoofed one.

Wouldn't you be able to see that your cell phone all of sudden has x bars signal when you hear or see the Cessna and then that signal would disappear when the Cessna leaves?

Cessnas are not that quiet and they aren't capable of flying that high to the point that you couldn't hear or see them right?
"Legally"? Seriously misleading title, a foreign nation state hacking people has not been made legal outside the US at all. It might be legal in the US, but surely it's still computer crime where it's committed.
Did they pause when there was an incoming call?
> we will have to make the best of it.

The thing is, technology alone will not be enough as a protection. We need a sane legal framework. They have a virtually unlimited budget (our taxes) that they can use against us and they will always find new ways to carry out their mass surveillance.

If we allow our governments to take our money to make us puppets, then we're pretty much f#cked until the next big revolution (in whatever form that will have to be).
The site also mentions bugs found in open source projects using PVS-Studio [0]. The ones found in GCC [1] are particularly noteworthy.

[0] http://www.viva64.com/en/examples/

[1] http://www.viva64.com/en/b/0425/
Relevant: Lack of a Cipher Status Indicator on Android has been an open issue since 2009 (https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=5353)

There is also an open-source android app to detect fake base-stations: https://github.com/CellularPrivacy/Android-IMSI-Catcher-Dete...
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No, I'm pretty sure sctb is a little to heavy-handed with this off-topic detachment bullshit.

He also detached my comment in which I responded directly to a statement that somebody made, but not the statement itself which. Both my comment and the statement were about the same exact thing.

Original statement - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13064089

My response - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13064489
You could tweak the regexes a bit to fix some things...

- it's currently skipping variable names with underscores, and it's matching variable names that start with numbers, which isn't a valid variable name

- the false positives coming from ->execute($whatever) could be fixed by not searching after a > character. I don't think that would create any notable amount of false negatives.

Like, for example, changing:

'/UPDATE\s+.*?\sSET\s.*?\$[a-zA-Z0-9].*?/i'

To

'/UPDATE\s+.*?\sSET\s[^>]*?\$[a-zA-Z_]/i'
https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Sicherheitsluecke-in...
you mean \documentclass{screenplay} :P
I'm no lawyer but this does not say the FBI can hack anyone anywhere in the world. It explicit says a judge may authorize the search warrant if, among other things (mostly related to where the target is within the US):

(B) the premises—no matter who owns them—of a United States diplomatic or consular mission in a foreign state, including any appurtenant building, part of a building, or land used for the mission's purposes; or

(C) a residence and any appurtenant land owned or leased by the United States and used by United States personnel assigned to a United States diplomatic or consular mission in a foreign state.

So it says clearly "owned, leased, used by... US diplomatic or consular mission in a foreign state". Not that any laws have prevented the FBI/NSA from doing any of this already.

Apparently, citizens of other countries should not be worried (with this particular law). Could anyone with more knowledge in this area double check this?
I've seen this particular article before and despite me being fairly liberal, seems kind of lazy for journalism. It's a bunch of heresay with no conclusion, but clearly wants to draw the reader's opinion. The author admits that they aren't a place with an investigation budget and "someone else" should look into it. This damages the story - which seems likely to be happening to some degree - to the point where it is completely lost to someone who isn't fully aligned with the conclusion ahead of time.

I mean, a simple technical fact check of one paragraph that they could have enhanced by speaking with someone who understands these things:

> would talk about their cellphone signals cutting out just as drones circled above.

OK, plausible

> Mobiles would switch themselves off and on again -- not in pocket but in hand.

If they mean turn on and off, unlikely. Maybe rebooting via DDoS on the baseband, but we're jumping into suppositions and inventions here.

> Camera apps were opened out of nowhere

Pretty unlikely

> and batteries would drain by enormous percentages, killing the phones in minutes, rather than the steady decline of any device pinging back and forth searching for a signal

That seems plausible. DDoS on a phone by making the bandwidth burn power.
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The relevant part of article six of the United States Constitution.

"This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.

The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States."

Therefor, being that such a warrant system is in violation of the fourth amendment (they key here, for those naively claiming this isn't such a big deal, is the interpretation by the executive that such warrants give them the power to hack thousands of computers without description of their location, their probable cause, and the person that owns them):

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects,[a] against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

The FBI and every congress-scumbag who passed this, or blocked the delays, is very close to being in violation of their oath, technically and in spirit. Now, for congress they must sign an affidavit that (5 U.S.C. 3333) will not violate their oath while in office, the punishment of which (18 U.S.C. 1918) is removal from office and confinement or a fine, but the criteria is hard to pin down legally.

(5 U.S. Code § 7311) "An individual may not accept or hold a position in the Government of the United States or the government of the District of Columbia if he—
(1) advocates the overthrow of our constitutional form of government;
(2) is a member of an organization that he knows advocates the overthrow of our constitutional form of government;
(3) participates in a strike, or asserts the right to strike, against the Government of the United States"

My question is, are the executive officers also supposed to sign that affadavit? If so, that's a starting point, but if not, what punishment is there, what legal recourse, to get rid of people in the executive or judicial who are pushing or acquiescing to blatantly unconstitutional expansions of power?

Bonus question: does the third amendment apply here as well, since they are putting their own malware in our houses?

"No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law."
If a tab goes missing and you can't tell, did it really matter?
They could just as easily be jamming cell signals.
They should be doing that for a few iterations before backing off. Otherwise you end up with bad scheduling leading to slow warmups, among other problems.

You shouldn't use rayon for blocking I/O; that's not what it's designed for. Rayon is a parallelism library, not a concurrency library.
Make the best of it? I would prefer relentlessly challenging it in court and attempting to subvert it with technology.
Tempting to embrace Rick... "Listen, I'm not the nicest guy in the universe, because I'm the smartest, and being nice is something stupid people do to hedge their bets." Yes, totally agree... people are miserable to deal with.

But it's probably more productive to read "How to Win Friends and Influence People" -- will lead to you being able to accomplish more of your goals, and probably being a happier person as a result.

We pick our battles... if the goal is just to prove how much smarter you are than others... you'll have a hard time measuring it and not a lot of friends or achievements to show at the end of the day.
This book is a great resource. I've gone back to it frequently. If you're interested in getting into statistics and machine learning, I cannot recommend this book highly enough. The motivations are good, and the explanations are good. Shalizi's class for this book at CMU is highly sought after, and some of that surely makes its way into this massive book.
Avoid? What you are suggesting would be a big reason to go to war.