skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a STEM person, I like the STEM-makes-you-a-hacker angle of this piece, but I think a more likely causation factor is the need for software piracy.

Most computer users in Eastern Europe do not pay for Windows. They download a pre-cracked installed, or use a serial, or a crack or something. For an entire generation or two, before you'd get access to a computer, you'd have to know how to install a pirated OS on it. Same for all software and media. Piracy, yes, piracy. Terrible, I know, but very motivating. If you learn how to use a computer, you'll have access to stuff. If you don't, then no stuff.

But worry not, the Eastern Block is not about to take over the internet. The stupefying site with the blue header has taken over mind share and now nobody is learning anything about anything anymore, anywhere around the world, equally.
FBI never examined hacked DNC servers
There's limited 6-DoF from Google's Jump camera (https://vr.google.com/jump/): "Assembled videos are high resolution and come with depth data, ready to go for edits and visual effects."
Experts Suspect Russia Is Using Ukraine as a Cyberwar Testing Ground
The Singapore government implemented something similar a year earlier - disconnecting all government office computers from the internet. It's inconvenient, but in certain high risk use cases (power plants, airports, etc.) it might be essential because there will always be vulnerabilities in a system, especially when people are involved, no matter how well the systems are monitored.
Also a large-scale wind farm in the hills W of town, near Tehachapi, interestingly enough.
wow new favorite site http://www.zombo.com/
James Cameron ("Avatar", "Titanic", etc.) used to argue that high frame rate was more important than higher resolution.
If you're not in the first few rows of the theater, he once pointed out, you can't tell if it's 4K anyway. Everyone in the theater benefits from high frame rate. This may be less of an issue now that more people are watching on high-resolution screens at short range.

Cameron likes long pans over beautifully detailed backgrounds. Those will produce annoying strobing at 24FPS if the pan rate is faster than about 7 seconds for a frame width. Staying down to that rate makes a scene drag.

Now, Cameron wants to go to 4K resolution and 120FPS.[1] Cameron can probably handle that well; he's produced most of the 3D films that don't suck. He's going to give us a really nice visual tour of the Avatar world. For other films, that may not help. "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk" was recorded in 3D, 4K resolution and 120FPS. Reviews were terrible, because it's 1) far too much resolution for close-ups, and 2) too much realism for war scenes. Close-ups are a problem - do you really want to see people's faces at a level of detail useful only to a dermatologist? It also means prop and costume quality has to improve.

The other issue with all this resolution is that it's incompatible with the trend towards shorter shot lengths. There are action films with an average shot length below 1 second. For music videos, that's considered slow; many of those are around 600ms per shot.[2] They're just trying to leave an impression, not show details.

[1] https://www.polygon.com/2016/10/31/13479322/james-cameron-av...
[2] http://www.cinemetrics.lv/database.php?sort=asl
In the Image of God: John Comenius and the First Children’s Picture Book
>>Other than in extraordinary circumstances, you gave the teacher and the system the benefit of doubt.

This is changing or has changed in India. These days you can't do anything much to the child, even if the child is clearly getting spoilt. Parents seem to have very bloated egos these days.

The bad side effect of this is many teachers don't really have the same degree of connect with their pupils these days. So its largely like - "What have I too lose, should you get spoilt' mentality is getting common.

In a generation back during my parents's time, teachers were literally looked up as very honorable and respectable. I even know of an incident which my uncle told. He used to play a lot and was not good at studies, when he passed examinations, my grandparents would go to the school and ask the teachers if they gave their pupil a honest evaluation. They literally would be surprised if he got a pass, and asked the teachers to be honest if had failed. Compare this with parents today.

This reminds of a song in Hindi from the movie '3 idiots':

kandho ko kitabo ke boj pe jhukaya, rishwat dena to khud papa ne sikhaya
I found Salton Sea just plain depressing when I was there :). Salvation Mountain is a worth a visit on the other hand.
theoretical computer scientist
I don't often feel constrained by static typing but perhaps we are just working on different kinds of problems.

As for distributed systems, it's true that static typing doesn't solve that on it's own, but combined with something like protobuf, it should right? Admittedly I've only recently learned of protobufs so feel free to correct me.
Usually 2-4 times per week, but mostly just weekends. Definitely not athlete material (anymore at least). When I'm properly sweaty it generally isn't pleasant, especially when it dries.

I should have also noted that I haven't used deodorant in at least 10 years.

Maybe I just got lucky and won the genetic lottery in regards to smelly bacteria.
According to Indie Hackers, Scotts Cheap Flights (discount airfare newsletter) does $320k/mo

Interview here: https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/scotts-cheap-flights
>This shows how we are being played with. The NSA could already have published the security details of all leaked tools, so we could all have protected our computer systems. We could have prevented Wannacry.

NSA did exactly what you said and went to MS months before wcry hit, once it was clear what shadowbrokers had, in order to patch the vulnerability that wcry exploited: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/security/ms17-01...

unfortunately, not everyone keeps their systems totally up to date for various reasons.
We work out in the open on the EE issue tracker. But if you are a paying customer and have an urgent need it is better to contact support to get your issue prioritized.

I've asked our support team to comment if we can explain that better and to comment on the onboarding process.
I'm having a new A/C and furnace installed. About half the proposals we received had wifi-connected thermostats, and I said no thank you.
Machine Learning for At-Home Immune Monitoring from Athelas
I run The Sizzle (https://thesizzle.com.au), which is a daily roundup of tech news with an Aussie slant. Any Australians who enjoy HN should check it out!

I've got 445 subscribers that pay $5/m or $50/yr for it. No ads, no tracking, but I do insert affiliate links - primarily eBay.

Costs me about ~$1000/yr to run (Mailchimp, web hosting for a Wordpress blog & Discourse forum and Zapier costs mainly).

This financial year (July 1st 2016 to June 30th 2017), revenue sits at about AUD$18,000. I expect around ~$30,000 next year if there's 0% paid subscriber growth and affiliate link revenue stays the same.
Cooperation is related to a family (or a clan/pack) life. It is the "most natural" survival strategy. Expanding it to a non-keen is not a big deal. Nothing to see here.
I'd really like something like this in podcast form. Summarize the best links and maybe invite some highly rated commenters on for discussion.
Networked-Aframe 0.2 Is Out – Multi-User WebVR in HTML, WebSockets or WebRTC
I don't think people have a problem with foreign entrepreneurs who want to build businesses here. They have a problem with them not hiring the people who actually live here.
More like >90% of the time, no one ever looks more than 180 behind them, so much of the extra information is wasted, but costs more to produce.
Timmerman Report (biotech) is doing well, judging by some comments I've seen posted by its founder, a former Xconomy journalist who started the newsletter full time about two years ago. Not sure if it's profitable, though.

In the indie book publishing world, I subscribe to a paid newsletter called The Hot Sheet (http://hotsheetpub.com/). I pay $60/year or thereabouts, which I think is reasonable considering the insights, analysis, and tips I get every 2 weeks. I doubt it's a full-time income for the two writers, but on the other hand I don't think it's a full-time writing gig, either.

It's worth noting that in many of these niches there is very little in the way of established trade pubs as print magazines covering the industry have folded or become shadows of their former selves when they moved online. It doesn't surprise me that some of the more talented or insightful writers have decided to launch their own brands and build their own audiences.
Before anyone else is confused while reading the article, this was published January 4th.
My Father, in Four Visits Over Thirty Years
The part about wireheading reminded me of this post on SSC: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/01/28/wirehead-gods-on-lotus-...

For myself, I suspect that raw 'happiness' is ultimately not sufficient, and that instead shares a common (and much more complex) cause with 'satisfaction', which will be much harder to hack because it's counterinductive (ie. the awareness that you're hacking your 'satisfaction' criterion is itself dissatisfying.)
I honestly don't get the feature. More issues created per user == better? That's like more lines of code == better. Could you explain how this is a game changer for you?
I broke my iPhone 7 screen
I would bet that if it ever gets to a jury phase the very first thing Comcast defense will do is try to use the jury selection process to dismiss jurors that have ever had Comcast service.

That will tell you everything you need to know about what's about to go down.
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According to Wikipedia:

Udo of Aachen (c.1200–1270) is a fictional monk, a
creation of British technical writer
Ray Girvan, who introduced him in an April Fool's hoax
article in 1999. According to the article, Udo was an
illustrator and theologian who discovered the Mandelbrot
set some 700 years before Benoît Mandelbrot.

Additional details of the hoax include the rediscovery of
Udo's works by the also-fictional Bob Schipke, a Harvard
mathematician, who supposedly saw a picture of the
Mandelbrot set in an illumination for a 13th-century carol.
Girvan also attributed Udo as a mystic and poet whose
poetry was set to music by Carl Orff with the haunting O
Fortuna in Carmina Burana.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udo_of_Aachen
Most companies hiring and empowering decent security people would have avoided this bullshit, due to all the twitter signaling.

Noobs: follow @hackerfantastic
3DS is mostly a joke for anyone who _really_ wants to use your credit card. I won't go into details publicly, but I will say that having an app to authorize transactions is a step-up from the good 'ol "enter your PIN"
There's no patch. The fix is just to reflash Linksys firmware to make sure you're not running compromised firmware.
This fact has been overlooked by way too many people.

One should ask why the victims would refrain from providing law enforcement with access to evidence related to a crime that is later blamed as the reason they lost the election.
yeah, I think the competition is looking for tech like the one opengarden had, something of a mesh network where people are connected thru bluetooth and wifi (direct), etc.
This made the rounds here a little while ago and should help you prepare for CS heavy type interviews:

https://github.com/jwasham/coding-interview-university

It's pretty in depth and extremely popular (44k stars). Hope it helps.
Glad to hear that. Can you maybe tell more about your use case?
While this is a fun hoax, there is an 13th century illuminated manuscript that does get the imagination going:

https://pavlopoulos.wordpress.com/articles/frontispiece-of-a...
What beautiful black magic programming even despite the fact that I hate flow chart programming like unreal and other game engines do.
I don't know why you are being downvoted... I immediately thought Pied Piper, then had a bit of chuckle. Jian Yang!!!!
"…the FBI never requested access to the DNC’s computer servers…"
Yeah, I think Mr. Comet even said so in his recent testimony.
Disk cache? Nowadays Chrome is eating so much RAM that it's pushing other programs into swap.
I know what you are saying... However, I met Ben Huh and I think he's a capable individual. When he joined, he took the "job" for six months. Not sure if he will continue to work on it. No updates from the YC folks on that matter.
TSA launched a $1.5M challenge to improve body scanner threat detection
I am extremely skeptical that a porcupine would take out a truck tire.
Only if cyber weapons are built to target the military. I'd wager they're built to wage economic warfare rather than any military role, the corporate/commercial world is a much softer target. Imagine doing the economic/industrial damage of carpet bombing cities but without firing a shot.
Launching a pile of nukes can kill tens to hundreds of millions of people. People have been launching cyberweapons since they were invented with death toll low enough that folks still reference THERAC in software deaths. Don't play: the two are barely comparable in how many they kill.
In the 90s I had this problem with Sun Microsystems (it's called "aging payables"). If you give a discount for prompt payment they take the discount and pay when they want. If you charge a penalty they pay when they want and ignore the penalty.

I needed to make payroll so drove over to HQ to try to get payment. They wouldn't even let me in past the lobby. Finally I just asked everyone who walked in, "Oh, are you here to try to get them to pay their overdue bill as well?"

Eventually a confused looking guy came out and handed me a check.
You owe Uber nothing, no, less than nothing. Don't defend them, they pay lawyers for that.
Comey's response six days later:

Comey: DNC denied FBI's requests for access to hacked servers

http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/313555-comey-fbi...

Who forgot to adjust their clock for leap half year?
I am quite surprised no one has used an exploit for rompager yet and used to it take down most of the internet.
IoT Goes Nuclear: Creating a ZigBee Chain Reaction [pdf]
More like tools + a ransom with I.P. laws.
So is this more or less evil than Uber's various unethical actions? Comcast CEO sure won't be stepping down. Corporations gonna corp.
A fear of mine, that I think wouldn't be too hard (relatively speaking) would be to interrupt bid/ask sizes in markets, since it's largely machines trading now with no humans able to step in like a floor specialist. Effecting the bid/ask sizes could cause a massive over supply of equities and cause it to crater, which could induce more machine selling simply because that's how their algorithms are written. The market could crash 10% before anyone knew what was happening. There are breakers that are built to prevent this but high leverage in ETF securities, etc could exacerbate the event. In effect, causing an '87-like crash from a hack. The '87 crash was also largely machine driven.
We are at Cyber War
Yeah, not sure what OP's point in publishing a 6 month-old story is. Maybe amend the title to reflect that, I thought it was some new development and was also confused.
> unfortunately, not everyone keeps their systems totally up to date for various reasons

Because patching requires a quick risk calculation. Should I patch to the bleeding edge and get the latests security but risk a regression bug, or do I wait a bit so I can run a full regression test?

On my machines, sure I like to stay on the latest and greatest. But I'm sure there are plenty of companies that got bitten because some critical software they rely on didn't play well with the latest OS upgrade. Blame game notwithstanding, it comes down to a business disruption risk.

Of course, the right answer is to test the patches as they come out in a non-production environment, and go from there based on results. But I can see where some companies wouldn't have the resources devoted to do that on a frequent basis, which is unfortunate.
Nah...I've interacted with this douchebag. This is totally in character for him. Surprised it took so long for this to bubble up. He was identified on Secret a few years ago for this type of behavior. Finally caught up to him.

https://startupsanonymous.com/question/thoughts-post-listing...
U.S. households now have as much debt as they had in 2008
FYI I don't know if the offer is still out but I remember seeing this a little while back https://twitter.com/peterc/status/717393310080507904
Lowering cycle time to production, streamlining delivery of value to customers, validating more hypotheses against the market?
Then how are they able to say with certainty of what happened? Is it normal to just take private companies at their word when it comes to investigations?
This article seems a bit late, or?

Here's a tweet thread from May 17'th of this year; linked in the original artice, that would probably provide more info;

https://twitter.com/SteveMcLaugh/status/865002008515719168

This article is written by another journal, so, take the article with a bit of salt and pepper.

just gonna leave these here, anyway:

https://www.nature.com/ecommerce/subscribe.action?productId=...

http://www.nature.com/openresearch/publishing-with-npg/artic...

http://www.nature.com/openresearch/publishing-with-npg/natur...
Oh, he is guilty. This shit is nothing new for him either. Always been this way. Was one of those star jocks in high school who used to torment nerds and go out with the cheerleaders. Total bro. Fuck these guys. Time to turn Silicon Valley back to the nerds and geeks (of whatever persuasion, color, gender, etc.). These assholes need to go back to Wall Street so we can build in peace.
Blessed Plot: a diagram of the molecular structure of insulin from 1968
Ask HN: What Podcasts are you listening right now and why?
I am new to this Podcast thing on iPhone, and I'm looking for either something funny or about startups.
A Better Model of Data Ownership
Yes, I don't see why not.

I should be able to also sue the contractor or something, but ultimately my neighbor should absolutely be able to blame me.
I recently viewed a very short and practical page on accessibility that you might be interested in. It had a contrast tip that matches parent's claim.

https://axesslab.com/accessibility-according-to-pwd/
Though I use Atom on a daily basis, I maintain the opinion that with software available such as Visual Studio Code, it's painfully obvious that Atom never had performance as a high priority to begin with.
So glad the Sky-Voda merger was declined. Two shit companies coming together like that can only mean one hell of a monopoly.
There's also Source Insight [1] which supports C/C++/Java/Obj-C - quite a fantastic tool, but unfortunately it's Windows only (Wine works with a few hiccups)

[1] https://www.sourceinsight.com/
While packing problems are pretty cool in general, I'm afraid I don't understand why this is useful for 3D printing. Does this increase printer throughput?
I honestly don't think anyone in a 1st world country would starve, if that happened. It sets you back 20 years, the processes and technology to deal with that are still in place. And it's a lot less than 'entire eastern seaboard has no electricity'.
The servers were investigated directly by a private company that specialized in such things, that the FBI regularly works with, and the results were handed over. It's really not that strange for an organization to balk at handing over it's private proprietary information to the federal government. Especially when there was a chance that within a year that government would be run by someone with a personal vendetta against said organization.
We have realized the same function, also we developed a app providing the live broadcast. Although it's not 360 degree, users can still get immersive experience. download the app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vrmedia.sh...
I love having a connected thermostat, mind you. But I'm using INSTEON, which is controlled locally by my computer. Rather than trusting the security of a random IoT device, I ensure nothing can get to my devices except through my computer.
About as normal as private discussions with Attorney General when your wife is under investigation, and AG requesting FBI to call an active investigation a "matter" to coordinate the narrative with press.
Obviously not interested in having hom back, especially considering how easy it was to vote yes. All it took was a click, something one does hundreds of times a day.
Uber is a money machine right now. For many people all over the world, it's the go-to for taxi services and food deliveries. It would be stupid for them not to invest in self-driving cars. It's something that affects the core of their business and revenue. If Tesla comes out with full autonomy much sooner than they can, Uber is out of business. You can't compete with not having to pay drivers. If another player with self-driving tech starts selling the technology to OEM's, then uber is right where it's at. But if it succeeds before the others, then it's profits and future success will be astronomical. If Uber wasn't working on self-driving tech, it would be a huge mistake.
Six months ago would have been right during the most frantic moments of the election. A lot of people probably missed it.

I already had to vouch for it, but I doubt this will survive another 10 minutes of the flagging / downvote brigade.
Is it really virtual if it is recorded actual reality?
Take a look at the economics of driverless cars. It is not a case of "Oh look! a shiny object" but "Oh no! We are building an obsolete business". Even the big automakers now understand this will be radical change (Ford hired away part of Uber's team).
Visual Studio 2013 and lower had the Code Definition window, which sounds very similar to what you are describing. It was replaced by the (possibly inferior) inline Code Peek feature in VS15.
Creator here. Happy to answer any questions.
CJDNS is a self-organising IP address allocation and routing layer. A node's public key acts as its IPv6 address, and routing uses a DHT of those nodes.

This style of network has the property that you can take two independent CJDNS networks, link them together, and all nodes are mutually addressable/routable. This is in contrast to The Internet, whose addressing is centralised on IANA.

cjdns is moderately active, though most links between nodes are via an overlay on top of the public Internet. The goal is to have physical/wireless links between geographically close nodes.

Use https://peers.fc00.io/ to find a cjdns node geographically close to you.

Decentralized protocols such as ipfs/scuttlebutt work particularly well on cjdns, as a file shared on ipfs in one network, will automagically become available on another network, once those networks are linked.

cjdns: https://github.com/cjdelisle/cjdns
In my experience graphicsmagick solves most OOM problems of Imagemagick. It's also faster.
N.S.A.  Was it hacked?
What if Shadow Brokers isn't some elite hacking group, rather instead it's the N.S.A. itself?

Think about it, the N.S.A. releases vault 7 through a fictitious hacking group. The main goal? To have access to systems across the globe and no one is the wiser.

What is the one thing the U.S. Government has always wanted? Total control of everything! Release the tools and let society infect itself.

It's the perfect scenario. We all think it's some elite hacking group and behind the Shadow is the real Brokers, the N.S.A.

Of course it's all in theory but not out of the realm of possibility.
Critical infrastructure, Economic stability, nation states preparing/probing for war/advantage?