skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It also appears to be using common Windows lateral movement techniques based on credential stealing (namely WMI and PsExec), in addition to EternalBlue.
Are you trying to argue that Standard Oil didn't have much lobbying power? Or that politicians/courts were less corrupt back then?
I once fixed a bent pin in a socket 775 motherboard's CPU slot by bending it back with a knife. I was pretty sure I'd break the board, but it worked!
The fact that the visa waiver program existed earlier has absolutely no relevance. Was there a way to check requirements prior to ESTA being created? Yes. But now, ESTA is the way requirements are checked for the visa waiver program. That is the purpose for which ESTA exists and for which it was created. That is ESTA's job. That is what ESTA does. ESTA is not some separate data-gathering or visa-issuing system; its sole and entire purpose for existing is to be the thing which, now -- and yes, once upon a time a system existed for this which was not ESTA, but that is not relevant because now ESTA is the thing which does this, because it is possible for one thing to replace another thing -- checks requirements for the visa waiver program.

So, hopefully you will finally, for the love of all that is holy, agree that ESTA is the thing which checks requirements for the visa waiver program. The visa waiver program is tied ultimately to one, exactly one, and only one thing: "Are you a citizen of a country designated as part of the Visa Waiver Program? (Yes/No)".

Everything else is secondary to that. Everything else is details. Everything else is bureaucratic requirements like checking how long it'll be until your passport expires or looking for red flags like not having a return ticket, and those things get checked on everybody, even people who are getting visas. Meanwhile, citizenship of a visa-waiver country is the sine qua non of the visa waiver program and thus is the sine qua non of ESTA "approval" since ESTA's sole purpose is to check the requirements of the visa waiver program.
On the first date with my current girlfriend, she offered to pay for her dinner. Pleasantly surprised, I told her she'd, "...pay for the next one (date)." She took it really well!
Martin Kleppmann's "A Critique of the CAP Theorem" lays this all out very nicely and goes further, providing a better conceptual framework for discussing the tradeoffs: https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.05393

One of the best papers I've come across in the last few years.
This only works for a very small subset of studies in a subset of scientific fields.
Facebook now has 2B monthly users…and responsibility
back orifice?
subseven?
The point being it is the only study that seemed to point to a link to cancer. But it was hugely flawed and was retracted. Given the hysteria over roundup you would think there were a bunch of such studies.
Japan is the #3 economy in the world, the #2 cultural exporter after Hollywood thanks to cartoons and video games and most Japanese people don't learn English very well. In fact, Japanese interest in learning English peaked nearly 20 years ago.
UK defence secretary threatens military strikes against hackers
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What do you think n here is when you say O(n^2)?
As someone one who was born out of the US but has lived here for nearly all my life - it's all crazy.
Although it may be unpopular, the government is starting to quietly and systematically turn against the majority voters. It's terrifying.
I think they're just working up to a business model whereby the company will sell bespoke artisanal hand-made organic gluten-free electrons.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the use of solder the central issue to first generation Xbox 360's famous Red Ring of Death? The solder would fail and the machine would refuse to boot.
While we may find the high profile cases featured on Retraction Watch mainly in high impact journals, that's precisely because unscrupulous people deem these journals worth it to cheat to get into. Nobody cheats to get their paper into the International Journal of Architecture, Engineering and Nursing Science - because it and it's ilk are utter pieces of crap that will accept anything, up to and including randomly-generated text and pro-Sri-Lanka-highly-racist-UFO-conspiracies (real example). Teaching laypeople to avoid these is a very good idea.
How would I configure StackImpact to run on my celery workers?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33784418/how-is-a-passwo...
We have no idea if that is the only address they are getting paid on, so this is kind of misleading.
It was mostly a joke, but I get your point and it's fair enough.

Here is some interesting reading instead:

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc/article/PIIS1470-20...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4756530/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25801782/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/?term=glyphosate+cancer

http://www.nytimes.com/1991/09/04/us/lawn-herbicide-called-c...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22222006

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/?term=2%2C4-D+cancer
I carry three or four different means to set a fire in the backpack I carry when I go hiking; a credit-card sized fresnel lens is one of them.

I also like to scavenge the huge fresnel lens from larger (40+ inch) rear-projection TVs - these are often thrown out by people during our "bulk-trash pickup" days. It only takes a few minutes of work to remove the front screen of the TV (they are designed to be removed). A few more minutes will net you a huge silver first-surface mirror, too.

The fresnel lens from one of these TVs - mounted in a proper frame - can easily melt steel and rock. You have to be very careful when using it (wear proper clothing, plus welding goggles and gloves), and store it properly out of the sun afterward (because it can easily set things randomly on fire you don't want set on fire).
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Hi, author here. Thanks for the tip, I wasn't aware compiling with Emscripten would work on stable. That should simplify the process. I'll do some more research and update the guide.
It's not a joke. It's like the 4th comment you've posted on this thread claiming that people who disagree with you must be paid shills.

As for your links: the ones actually about glyphosate are all based on IARC's assessment, which the WHO was later forced to walk back (see upthread). The remainder are about herbicides that aren't glyphosate. Nobody is arguing that all herbicides are safe. The discussion is about whether glyphosate is a human carcinogen. The evidence suggests: probably not.
I mean, he's basically going to DDoS the Blockchain.info servers if too many people use this.
Bing and ddg would fill 90% of that void in two days.
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That wasn't for interfacing with the heat spreader it was soldering the actual data pins.
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It is on android.
Yeah, and the Department of Defense is capable of nuking major cities. And it's about as relevant to this discussion.
This community of tech lovers is growing quickly
And the current SPDY solution actually turns out to be worse under many circumstances, causing QUIC.
That clause of the license probably wouldn't hold up in court though.
The problem was not Jigsaw breaking Maven, it was more Jigsaw breaking Maven Central by allowing anyone to name a downloaded module/jar to whatever he wants (like npm before version 3)
Yeah, 'criminals' are caught quickly when they harm an important businessman's mistresses' niece and it makes a good cctv news blurb. Not so much otherwise
IPFS [0] and it's sibling Filecoin [1] are dealing in a very similar space as your wonderings

[0]: https://ipfs.io/
[1]: https://filecoin.io/
Original comment poster here.

I have conducted literally hundreds of technical interviews. To me, too, it was a jaw-dropping realization that some candidates can arrive who literally have no idea how to program a computer. I don't know how they get through school (with high GPAs, even), held their last job, or impressed their phone screener. I don't even want to speculate. The sad fact is that trivial, two-minute, easy-peasy exercises can and will expose some candidates as being unable to work through them, even with the most friendly and patient coaching.

So I always ask at least one trivial question that can be solved in a minute or two with a couple of basic relations and a Boolean connective.
Of course you will gain the weight back, if your eating above your daily calorie burn - that has nothing to do with aggressive weight loss. You just need to keep your weekly average low enough to not gain the weight back. Depending on your metabolism and your bodies "set point" you might only need 3-5 days a month of this to maintain your current weight.
karma-runner/karma is still the top result. Doesn't help.
In fact, this Friday is the fifth Friday of June.
There's never been any impediment to people giving away their music for free to create exposure. To radio stations, TV, movies, as free concerts, as mp3s to download from their website, whatever.

The argument "I'm pirating the fruit of your work and investment against your will, but trust me it'll be in your best interest, I know your interest better than you do" is untenable.
On a related note, I don't understand the reason behind transactions like this:

https://blockchain.info/tx/9778c698f3f2a2c9b9e9f0fdea3c96e8f...

Is there something special about using numerous senders like that?
Well, true. If you guys can report alternate addresses I can add it... but about to sleep now tho.
It does not seem like something wrong directly. I also think showing off might be intention.
On Bitbucket a fork of a Mercurial repo is non publishing by default. It would be neat to see all of the publishing forks which are basically trying to be "maintained forks".
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It may be, but it is not in hardware or software lated to the major "desktop" platforms. And they are by design far more locked down than your average laptop or desktop (just wish said locked state didn't leave the OEM so much in control).
The traditional answer to automated irrigation for indoor plants (and outdoor plants when you need better water efficiency than with a sprinkler system) is typically a drip system (background info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drip_irrigation). Interesting that this project didn't seem to go that direction, seeing as how water distribution is kind of a solved problem in agriculture/horticulture (at least in terms of the mechanical aspects; efficiency can still use improvements, and little projects like GreenPiThumb are definitely steps in the right direction).
Do you have any places to learn about less traditional design and architecture?
PyCon 2017 had a really good talk about debuggers [1] which covered how PEP523 [2] is making debugging python 3.6+ code much faster. I think that a profiler is somewhat similar, however instead of, potentially, stopping execution on each line it is collecting data.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdObDUbLjdg
[2] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0523/
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Having a two way internet pager (being able to read and send email) is good. Almost everything else about smartphones is really not that good but worth tolerating for email.
IEEE 754 double precision floats have enough precision to represent every 32 bit integer, the problem is when you try to use them to represent 64 bit integers, you get problems such as this: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/12115
Night shift can't forget and leave the data to day shift to enter. That is fraud. It is not allowed.
Relevant comedy skit: https://youtube.com/watch?v=iRtBvo9grLw
Does anyone know if any tools exist on Linux which can be used for early detection of ransomeware?

Something that monitors file access, disk activity, etc. for suspicious behavior and can trigger some action or alert?

I think I remember some discussion about using a 'canary file' - some innocent looking file with known contents which should never be modified. If a modification is detected, you know something fishy is going on.
Facebook now has 2B monthly users
>I can't figure out why Co-ops (particularly education institute backed) haven't really taken off in the US.

I'm not familiar with what "education institute backed" means. Does that mean GTech provided initial seed capital to the co-op for free? If so, how much money was it?

To the general question of why co-ops are not prominent, it's because the workers don't have significant money. By definition, the co-op is owned by the workers and therefore, the workers need to fund the business. That limit on investment is why co-ops are often smaller businesses like consultants sharing an office & a laser printer or farmers-&-market collective. I also made a previous comment about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11165966
Did you read the comment I was replying to? I ask, because it sounds like you did not. I am going to quote the entire thing to make this extremely blunt, as I don't trust you will read it otherwise :/.

> I'd encourage you (and everyone) to read the comments in the other thread happening today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14643712

> You'll see people baffled by this decision and generally happy with the service and products google offers.

> It's just a reminder to remember that what doesn't work for you may be pure bliss for other people.

Read that, then read my comment, and then read your comment... it makes no sense at all. The person I replied to was defending Google using what I consider to a bullshit argument: using the apparent benefits of the monopoly to defend its existence; this (bad) argument also applies to Microsoft.

In my post, I demonstrated that if that posted truly believed that, then they had better be prepared to defend Microsoft as well. Then you come out of nowhere and try to attack me, as if I was the one making the argument, rather than replying to it? WTF... I absolutely think that both Microsoft and Google are clearly abusive.

This is particularly interesting and annoying as you seem to be going around this thread making the exact same mistake in multiple contexts. As an example, in reply to this other comment from someone else trying to compare the PR spin from Google to that of Microsoft.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14646873
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My site would be DDoS'd first... for blockchain.info the resource required to process is negligible imo.
I like the scale idea! But as the plant grows, you would need to adjust.
Maybe one day brain surgery will be super easy with the right tools. But yes, I somehow expected the article being about someone who fixed the silicon or something crazy like that.
So the reason your moisture sensor project failed is because those types of moisture sensors are really designed for "stick it in, test it, and pull it out" testing. If left powered on in a moist environment, the conductive material on the sensor will quickly corrode (quickly as in the span of a few hours, as is seen on the graph).

However, Vegetronix makes an ultrasonic soil moisture sensor that does not have electrodes, and thus does not corrode. It is far more complex and expensive ($40) but it's designed as a moisture sensor for sprinkler systems and as such is engineered to be left in the ground.

Edit: Link to Vegetronix sensor: http://www.vegetronix.com/Products/VH400/ . I have used it and it works well, but as it turns out, even this is not sufficient to really automate a garden. You need fertilizer. Hydroponics make dealing with that complication much easier -- until you realize that the fertilizers are caustic / acidic enough that you have to flush the lines with water as well...

In other words, there's a pretty good reason you can't buy a kit off the shelf that will grow plants :)
I have a stainless steel saucepan from IKEA that I've used for camping for several years, and on a bright day, with some effort, I can start a fire with the lid.
The concept sounds interesting. Are there any successful tech-coops in the San Francisco bay area that people are aware of?
I like to look at multi-core CPUs as examples. While in theory cores can partition from each other or fail in myriad of ways the system is engineered such that the probability of these failures is low enough that it doesn't matter. If you lose a core or you lose an interconnect between the cores, you lose the chip. Really you can look at each transistor on a chip (any chip) as a node in a distributed system, as long as the system is engineered not to fail you don't really think about CAP.

The more interesting trade-off is using consensus algorithms for availability and durability. You can keep going as long as you have a quorum of nodes but you pay an extra rtt (at least). Having multiple replicas (in either consistent or eventually consistent systems) costs in linearly more expensive writes and storage (typically, unless you use some sort of erasure coding.)
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That's pretty much how ads on Google used to look. They've improved quite a bit since then.
It's just a variation on the typical logic/creative thinking questions that a lot of people and companies obsess over.

"Well they're a great candidate otherwise but they totally failed the boiling water on alternate planet question, so let's keep searching" - believe it or not, that's a real mentality out there. I don't get it and never have.
My question is: what happens when you pass something that's not an integer to the rust lib code via this?
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I've been warned that the Japanese consider this the way to learn English and if you investigate your "girl friend" you will eventually discover the real boyfriend that she treats like a boyfriend when not with you.

YMMV.
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Well, I believe the court has considered their position and feels that "punishing" google is not a matter of commercial success but of anti trust law (the "companies don't have inner pressure to be moral" argument).
One's opinion as to whether the court is acting in good faith with regards to its mandate is a matter of faith, I'll concede that; I personnaly have more faith in our individual ability to reorient the court/EUs mandate than to exercise pressure on google/corporations who are filling the new power center that comes with the internet and mass information distribution.
I'm sorry Dave, I can't tell you the emission levels!
>Interesting, the more (socially) right wing your neighbourhood is, the better the economic mobility.

Sure, if you want to completely ignore the effect of two of biggest economic developments of the past quarter century.

Namely, the oil boom in (conservative) Alberta and the fisheries collapse in the (liberal) Maritimes.
So let me ask you an "easy" question: for your interview questions, are you consistent in what you ask, and do you have a consistent approach to evaluating a candidate's response?

I ask this because some of your "foundational" questions are not as simple as you might think (I could talk for literally hours about XSS and the only conclusion I could give you would be "there's no sure-fire way to prevent it", for example), and others border on pop-quiz material, which is not really a great way to evaluate someone.

Another question that's important to ask: you say you're working with recruiting companies. Have you tried not doing that? Recruiting companies don't exist to find you qualified people, they exist to spam you with résumés. Recruiting companies have been known to flat-out alter résumés to make them better match the set of keywords you said you wanted. And my own experience is that recruiting companies are the source of a huge percentage of headaches in hiring. Cutting out the middlemen can and likely will drastically increase your success rate.
Is it common to have a list of every employee's mobile phone? I would guess a lot of firms just have informal lists of phone numbers held by managers and colleagues.

Plus if there was a list, wouldn't it be on a computer that's currently off?
If a partitioned node can serve reads and the other nodes can serve writes then you must be reading stale data though.
Ceylon has two things that Kotlin should have IMO, a better type system, where are my union types and intersection types ? :) and a real specification.

Otherwise i prefer Kotlin ...
If you live in the US (or you know someone), and you have bulk-trash pickup (or can scavenge otherwise) - look around for an old 40 or 50 inch rear-projection television. All of them use a large fresnel lens for the screen (they also have an interest lenticular lens as well - but that isn't as useful due to it's short focal length). This lens, properly mounted, is capable of melting glass, rock, steel, etc. IE - if you use one as a solar concentrator, know what you are doing, as they can be very dangerous (not a toy). There are plenty of instructables and such online detailing how to build and use one - for instance:

http://www.instructables.com/id/Giant-Fresnel-Lens-Deathray-...
Email account used by Petya ransomeware has just been closed
That only happens after the initial infection into the network. Notice that it says it scans the "local network".
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I created a docker image that allows you to play with their tutorials, currently not supporting the GPU extension but plan on using nvidia-docker later this week and have an image ready to play with. Here's a link to whoever is interested https://github.com/alcedok/nnabla_notebook_docker
I would be interested in an attestation service that can provide court-admissable evidence that a particular piece of content was publically accessible on the web at a particular point in time via a particular url.

I believe the only way to incentivise participation in such a system is by paying for timestamp'ed signatures, eg. "some subset of downloaded [content] from [url] at [time] hashed to [hash]" all tucked into a Bitcoin transaction or something. There are services that will do this with user-provided content[1]; I am looking for something that will pull a url and timestamp the content.

This would also be a way to detect when different users are being served different content at the same url, thus the need for a global network of validators.

[1] https://proofofexistence.com/
Which is exactly why the EU has 3 (well, now 2) open antitrust cases against Google.
Those who have examined the publicly available malware samples have stated this address as the only one used at the moment. It is certainly possible that an upgraded variant may use others though.
And the EU cookie consent law doesn't apply when you're using cookies for most other purposes than tracking.
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Very lonely, seeing as how it's been proven time and time again that NSA stockpiles Windows 0days. You're delusional.
I made a small tinder-like website to help me memorize the Kanji since it is my personal bottleneck now and it's working quite better than I expected:

https://core.cards/

It is based on spaced repetition and frequency lists to optimize what you learn (see the About page).

It has to be complemented with other learning methods of course. The required login is with github for sync with different devices.