skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"penetration testing" is usually a euphemism for "blackhat". "penetration testers that require discretion", doubly so.
This is not much related to the project itself, but I don't like this recent trend of implementing command line tools in Node. Command line tools are minimal and should be usable on bare-bones systems, without requiring a whole cutting edge runtime to be installed, be it Python or Node or whatever.

I understand many don't agree with this, but this is my preference / opinion.
The article is from 2014
You're joking, but I recently thought about the idea that we could actually use the advent of cheap eye tracking software for gaming to write an EasyMotion-like plugin that moves the cursor to the position on the screen you're currently looking at.

For now, this will sadly likely keep to prove difficult since the driver situation on linux isn't really good yet.
Lead poisoning afflicts neighborhoods across California
Wikipedia updated with 2017 results:Rust won first place for "most loved programming language" in the Stack Overflow Developer Survey in 2016 and 2017.

Love the site.
"Textbook Mary blog article"?
You say that as though big companies and government are not part of us. They are. We elect them and work for them. We also make extensive use of the resources they extract for the enormous benefit of everyone.
Breaking after a mere 10 miles, to me sounded really awful, but apparently they planned on this. The construction must have been to save on weight, making the wheels no more reliable than the exact distance they wanted to travel: "...milled out of solid aluminum. The wheels contact ground with a skin that's about half as thick as a U.S. dime, except at thicker treads."
AQAP trying to hide explosives in laptops, official says
I liked his blog post and thought it was interesting. I didn't see anything obviously bad in it, I just saw an SEO-type telling a story and promoting themselves through it.

I don't know what he has done in the past but I think you are being harsh.
Dutch election results and xenophobia: Don’t be relieved by the Dutch election
Patents give monopoly rights on inventions. Monopolies are bad.
Oh, nice. I'm afraid my Nexus 7 (2012) wasn't bestowed with the latest version of Android :)
My favorite bit so far from the LBRY FAQ: "we’re basically, fundamentally the same as a toaster"
Yeah that sounds familiar. I think it was a documentary about Monsanto. Can't remember the exact name, might have been a BBC program?
One of your point is that three things to memorize is more difficult than having just one, but sometimes it's just not the case: adding vivid images and funny/silly backstories actually makes remembering easier, as research suggested and borne out by personnal experience.

Now, it could be argued that these images/backstories could be made up for random ASCII chars too, but to me it's just easier to do so with words.

Regarding screenlocks, I tend to use relatively mediocre passwords (nothing stupid, though), since screenlocking is only useful against very casual attackers -- someone skilled and motivated will just get in if they have physical access to the box. But I agree that it's where muscle memory would work best.
GraphQL – A Cool Kid on the Block
> We believe that outside certain conditions in the tropics most ethanol EROI values are at or below the 3:1 minimum extended EROI value required for a fuel to be minimally useful to society.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421513...
43% prefer tabs? Get out!

[http://stackoverflow.com/insights/survey/2017/#work-tabs-or-...]
Performance bugs – the dark matter of programming bugs
Great, the do it, then we will A/B

I'm in love with data visualization / generative art.
Developers that attend conferences in USA are very small and biased subset of total developers worldwide. For vast majority of developers attending a conference in USA would cost few to several months worth of salary, so it's no brainer. Not to mention bullish USA border controls that makes people (especially non-white) think twice before traveling. I haven't seen many developers using Macs outside of USA and few Western Europe countries.
I wonder if stresses build up from the day night cycles on Mars - which I suspect would be pretty harsh on finely machined bits of metal.
This isn't just something that's limited to John Deere tractors -- even though John Deere is using provisions of the DMCA to 'highly discourage' farmers from screwing with the internals.

Caterpillar also has a fair share of tractor hacking going on -- with dealers in China actively encouraging hacking and modifications of their equipment.

The reality is that if you've ever grew up on a farm, this type of thing is the norm -- smaller farmers don't always have the cash to do costly repairs and if there's a way to make it work in a non-standard way, a lot of times the temporary solution becomes the permanent one. Buy a tractor with a smaller PTO, but, have a larger one available? Cut it out, put the new one on. Diesel tractor but your family also owns a restaurant? Modify it to run on old oil.
I took it to mean "for any given option, reason tries to take that option to the absolute extreme". As a programmer, I'm used to thinking of if/then choices as "conditionals".
My surname is Fox.

Its very hard for CS agents to spell correctly.
Some axial turbines have ceramic blades
It helps to be interested in matrices.
https://www.garyvaynerchuk.com/
Live blogs offer a unique second-screen format for interacting with viewers and readers.
Ok. Maybe I was too sceptic.

However, I'd expect a competent tech journo to make some questions and write about how the electric plane actually works.
It does sound like upgrading all the customer servers would be a hassle, but that might be a feature in some domains - if customers have process / regulatory / training constraints and don't want to upgrade promptly, for instance.
Eurostar have around 80% market share on Paris–London for good reason. At 2hrs 15mins from city centre to city centre it's faster, less hassle, and more comfortable than flying. Security is less strict (you can take liquids) and you don't have to check your bags. Two large items of luggage are also included for every passenger. It's not even more expensive than flying if you book in advance if you include the price for airport transfer.

London–Paris is just an example in the article to demonstrate the range of that hypothetical aircraft. It could also be useful as a demonstrator.
Sort of. The early wear was much faster than anticipated, so they've since been using softer ground (sand instead of rock) as much as possible. You don't want to carry around any unnecessary grams on a rover, but I suspect the next one will have sturdier wheels.
My first year as a developer
It's taken from "Disrupted" book.

It's basically a blog post that is pure fluff to generate inbound traffic with no real substance.

Think "10 ways to increase your Node.JS performance", "3 reasons why your AD Campaign is not working" etc..
I think (hope?) it's less about the specific technology than about the general attitude of looking down on someone for the choice.

Life is short, and someone that uses another tool might just have a good reason for it (that can be learned from).
the danger in my view is that it is seen as a binary choice - which, if you go all in on microservices, just shifts from one problem to another - they need to be seen as just another tool for architecting and scaling

there is nothing wrong with building a monolith so long as you gave some thought to how it might get partitioned later

once you've built a few I think you start to see where those pressure points will be and microservices are a good pattern for scaling the functions that get all the traffic once it's working

I hear people talking about using only microservices to underpin a big app but I just can't imagine that is an efficient or sustainable approach for an app with any complexity if the core function spans across all those services - at the very least I can see macro changes becoming disproportionately more challenging and risky over time
> London is special because there are a lot of Apple stores here (I count 7). That's more than many European countries have.

Probably because London has more people than most European countries.
Maximum efficiency is ... 100%. So if a turbofan is 30% efficient, then the best you can do is about 3x.
they're doing a massive push in self driving ai.
sell the ai & the chips. seems good
Would you consider putting up an email in your profile (even anonymized), or emailing me (my email is in my profile). I am interested in talking with you about Tor security research, and it seems you are an affiliated dev.
Sometimes, App Store reviews won’t tell you the real story
From https://www.techinasia.com/ai-chief-scientist-andrew-ng-resi...

“Andrew joined Baidu because of our shared pursuit for the future of AI,” stated Baidu on its official Weibo account, China’s answer to Twitter. “We still have this goal, which is to push forward the development of AI and make life in the future more beautiful.”

“Despite our regrets, we send our thanks and blessings! We wish Andrew even greater success in the future, and hope all goes well!”
How to reveal the hidden password?
GOLANG ENGINEER
Well, Emacs did stand for "Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping", after all...
نقل عفش – ارخص شركات نقل العفش
I heard about an experiment once where a number of test subjects were ranked from rich to poor, and everybody got some money that they had to give either to the person above them in the ranking, or to the person below them.

In most countries, people tend to give the money to the people below them, because they need it more. Only in the US, do people give the money to the person above them. The explanation was that they tend to see the person below them as competition.

It seems there's just something about the US that fucks up people's sense of fairness. Maybe the US plays different downtrodden groups off against each other so they fight each other instead of uniting and fighting the people treading down on them.
"Monsanto wins landmark patent case in Supreme Court"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5700514

tptacek 1408 days ago:

Once again regarding this story: to understand what's happening here, it's very important that you understand that the farmer didn't just acquire Monsanto seeds, but also used glyphospate herbicides on the crops. The point of Monsanto's invention is that it survives Roundup; if you spray Roundup on normal crops, they die.

Most people who see this story play out seem to think that it implies a Monsanto seed could blow onto your field and then get you sued. But of course, if you didn't know you were planting Monsanto seeds, you wouldn't think to try to kill them with Roundup.
They built their model around expensive ink and cheap printers. Of course they will try to protect that. And yes, it is abuse.
Will you have time for that after fighting the borrow checker?
I have a friend that services and repairs combine harvesters for a living. He tells me that he rarely has to do any welding or heavy lifting any more because the reliability and mechanics of the machines have become very reliable.

He's spends most of his time diagnosing on-board electronics. Which he says is the root of the discord with farmers. They think of their tractor like a hoe, you plonk it in the ground and get going. Where as the modern farm tractor or combine is actually a complex set of computer systems with literally thousands of sensors.

Farmers see the manufacturer as trying to extort on-going revenue, whereas manufacturers are trying to provide a new generation of smart farming. Getting 1 cm precision of sowing and fertiliser spreading is the innovation that the technology is delivering. The problem is that nobody wants to pay for that ongoing data processing.

This is going to happen with cars as well. It seems to me that people should rent/lease rather than buy because of this constant need for updates and servicing.
You can grow a turbine blade out of one crystal of titanium rather than many which improves the strength.

Here's an amazing video about other parts of the structure and construction of Rolls Royce titanium turbine blades.
It's awesome.

I've no idea about inconel...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFRdp1Js9Kc
He seems like a give back to the community guy, so I would expect either openAI, his wife's company or a new AI non profit
Incredible. At what point in time did the land of the free become the land of undisguised fascist corporatism? Does John Deere actually think they are achieving something positive with their behavior?

First they came for the farmers, and I did not speak out —
Because I was not a farmer.... -- Niemöller
Tabs are far superior. :)
It would still be a pain for cloud providers if the tenant can unwillingly DoS the hypervisor. Sure they have watchdogs in place, but it gets more complicated if the DoS can be non-malicious.
you find the optimal distance for a flight and create a mesh out of those flights. and stop lines from crossing.
Inventories are not "commingled" they are completely separate in the warehouses. Just because multiple vendors sell the same product and use the "fulfilled by Amazon" service to fool you doesn't mean Amazon is accidentally sending you an item from the wrong seller.

If you purchase from Amazon and don't check that it's "shipped and sold by Amazon" then you are asking for trouble.

The biggest issue is that Amazon has allowed, because of corporate greed, Amazon to become the new Chinese Ebay. The crap you have to wade through to find trusted sources is ridiculous. Amazon has lost a huge amount of trust because of this.

That said if you take the time to verify who the seller is you WILL get items from that seller and NOT from some other random seller. They are not just tossed into inventory together.
Show HN: Video games for indoor biking and elliptical machines
How to USE ARDUINO SERIAL MONITOR?
Well we wouldn't be where we are today without them, those parents!

I jest.
Gene Editing Technique Helps Find Cancer’s Weak Spots
TAILS exists, but that doesn't necessarily prevent fingerprinting.
How far does this logic apply? If it covers building machines used to kill without justification (I'm assuming you wouldn't point this out if you thought the machines killed justified targets), does it apply to someone running a website teaching people how to use malware? Someone using malware? Someone running a website dealing in harmful material that is mostly illegal? Does it matter if we say the person lives in a place where the local authority allows for this activity?
That's a little more achievable than the "zero emissions airliner" their website promises and would explain why they're talking about going after the A320 market rather than the ATR one (And a 5% emissions reduction over a 10 year horizon is only half what engine suppliers aim for by improved jet technology, though if it's on top of that improvement it would still be very welcome)

But if what they're building is an APU rather than a new means of propulsion involving radical wing redesigns, I'm not sure why they're talking about building their own airframe rather than getting it certified to go onto the next generation of other manufacturers' airframes
Data Masking for User Privacy with NginScript
The code linked to is written in bash and doesn't require nodejs.
> I have been working in mostly Java, PHP and JavaScript shops lately and trust me, the "cool" tooling you get there

Given this and your earlier comment, you seem to think that people who have had bad experiences with Perl simply want to be cooler, to use cooler tools, because if only they had your experience they would see how useful Perl is.

This is exactly the kind of echo chamber that the talk condemns. Criticisms of Perl as experienced in the real world -- and yes, I have done plenty of automation and devops work in Perl and bash -- are brushed aside with ad hominem attacks. If Perl works for you that's great, but clearly it had problems for my coworkers and I, which you completely brush aside.

This attitude that the Perl community consistently demonstrates is just another reason why I intend to never use it again, and why I thoroughly dissuade any newcomers to programming from spending their energy on this language and its community.
Oh, absolutely. For some reason Apple seems to have filled Microsoft's role as the big bad legacy bad guy with vendor lock-in.

Is it even possible to run macOS in a VM on non-Apple hardware with a non-macOS host yet? Microsoft provides free VM images for every OS and browser version you might want to test against, Google provides the Android devkit that works cross-platform. But if you want to target macOS or iOS it seems you're still stuck buying Apple hardware for $$$ to do anything. And don't even get me started on the lackluster support for PWAs -- at least the fallback for those is a web app that still works in the browser (provided you have Apple hardware to test it on).

EDIT: Also Microsoft has moved React Windows into its official GitHub org and advertises it as an official way to provide extensions to Office.
He didn't tell me that anyone complained about delays, etc.

I think delays weren't that noticeable then.
If nobody's willing to buy it then it means there's no market for them to sell that offering.

Their strategy will alienate their consumer base which hopefully would make room for other businesses to thrive where there's an actual market (the hoe they plonk in the ground).
while this may be, when it comes to the EFF I give them some latitude. I think they're fighting the good fight in general and if they get more exposure then I'm ok with that.
GulpX • a Curated Shop for Amazon
„...That said if you take the time to verify who the seller is you WILL get items from that seller and NOT from some other random seller...“

Wrong.

Source: Amazon seller
That doesn't necessarily correlates to real life identities. I never post personal information if given choice not to, that includes as many "other" as there is.
I wonder if Baidu hiring Qi Lu as COO in January has anything to do with it?
He has been called "a leading authority in the field of artificial intelligence".

OTOH Ng specifically thanked Lu Qi on twitter.

Oh well, I guess eventually we'll know more.
Unfortunately companies do this all the time: I have personally seen clauses in contracts put forward by employers whose exact wording had been rendered completely ineffective and unenforceable by UK employment case law.

If it’s bad faith to sign off on a contract which contains clauses you do not intend to honour (because they are unenforceable) surely it’s equally bad faith (if not more so, given the power relationship) to keep unenforceable clauses in contracts purely in the hope or expectation that they will frighten uninformed employees into conforming with them?
And the converse is...

"Im sorry. We cannot hire yo for employment at this time because you are male."

Yeah... That would be a lawyers fieldday.
MIT develops an emulator to test new network protocols
Patents are actually proven harmful in certain domain, including software. More than half of the R&D costs are now patent legal bullshit related & stuff, which is insane.
The growing trend toward compiled languages
Fetching Data in React: ComponentWillMount vs. ComponentDidMount
Start by doing, then if you can't do it then learn the theory. Do again to make sure you .now understand the theory. COntinue until mastery is confirmed.
I think there is severe bias in their results simply because of the content in stack overflow and the people that visit.

For example, the data on a lot of developers only having 1-3 years of programming experience. That would naturally follow that a majority of active users on a Q&A site would not have much experience, right?

Same can be said for data about what technologies are represented - JavaScript was at the top of "Most Popular Technologies". There is a lot of churn in JS frameworks... which probably leads to a lot of questions for inexperienced programmers... which would visit the site more frequently.

There definitely are some good results in there - I would just take anything regarding popularity with a grain of salt. I also suspect the population of people taking the survey don't fully represent all software developers equally. People that are in a stable role using "unpopular" or proprietary technology have no use for stack overflow.
"Second flight will be after the battery recharges, approximately 10 years after the first flight"
I'm not following. At which scale does John Deere have a monopoly?

Anyway, There's nothing nefarious about protecting your profits by avoiding liability. You seem to want Deere to be this evil corporation, which simply doesn't resonate with my experience in any way.
> cross instance reporting

Isn't a DWH the best solution for this?
You can do it but only by filtering down to a specific department. Once you do that you can choose Amazon.com as the seller filter.
Check this out:
https://industryhack.com/challenges/hack-the-harvester/

"We invite all hackers, designers and forest machine enthusiasts to hack the harvester. We will take you to a visit to the Ponsse’s manufacturing factory, show harvesters in action and provide you with different APIs and data sets from the forest machines and the maintenance process. Now, Ponsse wants to build a community of tech startups and talented developers with whom co-operation can be continued."
I think this is the future. There will always be a few main do-anything languages, but we're going to see languages that fit certain use cases becoming very common.

Historically languages were limited by their compilers and VMs. You ran Java or C++ because it took a large company to come up with a fast enough environment. Now we have the tools and experience that anyone can create a fast enough language in a few weeks.

Also historically, if you wanted your code to run faster, the answer was pretty much always to move to a lower level language. Java too slow? Use C++. C++ too slow? Use C and/or optimize choke points with assembly.

The tooling exists now that we can solve a lot of those same hard problems using languages and tools designed to solve them without reinventing the wheel in C or assembly.
I'm not sure what we (bioxydyn) have done constitutes a microservice but we have split different parts of our business logic into separate executables that communicate using HTTP and a central data store. Our product is a data processing pipeline and we took this approach for several reasons which I may have missed in my skim read of the article. Firstly different parts of the pipeline have different resource requirements and would thus be hosted on different hardware configurations. Also parts of our pipeline lend themselves to different designs and languages (some Java, some C++) decisions which are also influenced by the availability of third-party libraries. Finally, by designing the overall system as a set of coordinated individual services we allow greater flexibility in our deployment model; allowing us to cope with some unknowns around scaling and regulations in different environments.
The point of the article is that you don't need the VCs.
I think this explains some of the confusion I've had reading posts below.
He's referring to overcoming the Coulomb Barrier in stars that allows fusion to happen at temperatures/pressures that are otherwise too low to fuse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_tunnelling#Nuclear_fus...
Yup, gift cards only work when you are still under the radar. Once they know the connection, the anonyminity advantage is mostly lost.

Edit: assuming they don't have access to the gift card system of choice.
Advance wars is famous for being good to play in the gym.
Hack the Harvester
Help
Is there any one who can help me better understand the open source and how to use it and how to upgrade modified software to a droid and maybe some insight on what to do if you have a phone that was hacked ? Thank you for your time