skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The part that perturbed me the most about his account is he didn't even backtrace the IP floppy disk log via the DHCP authenication backtrace. It's a rookie mistake, but so is misspelling 'nothin personnel kid'.
>> Can you see the X at the beginning of the runway while sitting in the pilot seat?

On approach you should be looking at the threshold and the numbers. That's right around where the X was, so it would be clearly visible to anyone trying to land on the closed runway. They were not trying to land on that one, and since they were over the taxiway the X was actually two "lanes" away from where they were. I don't think the X is terribly relevant to what happened here.
"but the Internet got me because it became addictive while I was using it".

The point is you don't have to "use" a "TV". But we arguably have to use a smartphone and the internet.
Which is one of the reasons why I agree with their strategy to sell to its own employees and investors first.
Their feedback loop is so quick and they have a financial and personal interest in the product being perfect.

If they see any issue they will already have a lot of knowledge to debug it/know immediately who to contact to get it debug and have a financial and personal interest for it to be done quickly and correctly.

Which is also part of the reason why the ramp up is really slow at the beginning.
my notes from this article:

* don't use linkedin
* don't use hotmail
* always use 2FA
* use complicated and different passwords
* security questions matter
* avocado toast?
* change passwords periodically
I certainly didn't mean for it to sound that way. I don't think that is what's going on though. If I received similar compensation and had more of my income taxed to provide social services... I would be 100% OK with that. The issue though is that Canadian employers haven't caught up with the fact that they need to match the compensation offered by US companies to attract the best talent. So the gross compensation itself is pretty low already, and probably gonna taxed more. Seen from that perspective, it doesn't seem like an attractive proposition financially.
> In my generation, parents said the same thing about TV.

I lived through the transition, and the internet/smartphones are definitely worse than TV.

TV gets boring (or there's nothing on), the one NES game you got for Christmas last year gets boring, but there's always something new within easy reach on the internet. It's much harder to get so bored you want to do something else.
Yes, but you're still constrained by the RF that cell site covers. 1Gb cell tower backhaul? (and only 1Gb to cover all of those buildings) Or 1Gb to each building? Tradeoffs.
It's not ideal to send every new user's password to a 3rd party service.
There is even a list of "you have to do A, B, C, and that's about it" that is missing some major - well known, even! - items.

Our "field" of programming is so weak in its preservation of institutional knowledge, that we have to occasionally fight the recurrence of bad ideas about very basic things, like using string filtering to avoid SQL injection. Yes, this happens, even in "hip" new parts of the field, like the communities around newer languages. (I have a specific example in mind, but I don't want to deal with the resulting war.)
Japanese marriage rates are in long term decline. They don't marry all that much.
This post was at bit hard to read with the buzzfeed-esque jokes and writing style.

Here's my summary:

1. Someone gets permission to hack their friend
2. They find their email / phone number online
3. They lookup old password leaks for the email (passwords don't work)
4. They end up setting up a fake page to phish their friend (it works)
5. They wait until their friend falls asleep to reset the twitter password
6. They make their friend follow a bunch of fake Mario accounts on Twitter
7. Friend notices, they meetup to swap stories (the friend doesn't follow the fake Mario accounts)
> are professional cryptographers and world-renowned experts

They were not in the beginning. And implementing crypto helped them get there. That's my point.

> Finally: you obviously know that "writing your own crypto" isn't the only way to become good at it. In fact, it's a terrible way to get good at it. The right way to get good at crypto is to learn how to break it.

I strongly disagree with you on this, but I'll add a twist: I'm mostly saying to become good in "applied" crypto you must roll your own. There are too many problems you can't understand until you actually write code and try to make it secure. If you want to become good in theoretical crypto, then don't roll your own obviously.

This works in any field btw. The best web pentesters are the people who have implemented websites on their own as well.
I'd think most of them would cooperate with the police.

We've already seen local cops in Sweden and Denmark track drug dealers through bitcoin. They must have had the cooperation of exchanges and banks to make that happen.

So I expect exchanges to cooperate on the same level that banks cooperate with police.
DataPanda – Make your data clean to begin with
the federal tax credits are structured to expire x months after shipping y units, tesla is working to those constraints.

https://cleantechnica.com/2017/01/20/predicting-us-federal-e...
You're right about compensation, but cost of living in our major cities is nothing like NYC. I live in the capital and pay under $1000 for two bedrooms very close to downtown. You can get a swanky condo penthouse here for less than a one bedroom in Manhattan. Or split a nice house with two other people for $400-600 each.

Friends in Toronto pay around $2000 for two bedrooms in the middle of downtown. Haven't checked in a while but fairly certain Montreal is somewhere in between. Those same friends were paying more than $3000 for less space in the far end of Brooklyn.

Vancouver is crazy but sort of a special case especially when compared to nearby Seattle, but it's the only major city that is so close to an American metropolis.

And that's leaving out the free healthcare and abundant green space which is a huge boost to my QoL.
Software challenge to optimize tax reduction strategies
> They have so much cash they could buy Disney outright if they wanted to. Think about that for a second...

Yeah and they don't.

Why don't they buy Tesla? Why don't they buy Disney? Why don't they attempt to reinvent home construction which is a stagnant for the most part? Why aren't they the next Bell labs? Why not reinvent major home appliances most of which are a huge drag and a dumpster fire of usability? "This changes everything" was their tagline for a phone. Why stop at the phone? Why not redesign everything?

Why stop at a nice looking HQ, why not create Castalia? Why not create a house of study and give one hundred architects and designers a rest-of-their-life pension and see what they come up with? Because it might cost too much?

Why not pick a hard problem of any kind and actually tackle it? Because Q3 might look bad? Is that why?

Why don't they do anything ambitious with that hoard? Really ambitious. Not hire more CS students for machine learning and deciding which iPad to kill next to make Q3 look the best.

If you ponder the existence of money-to-imagination ratio, Apple is dead last. They are guilty of all the interesting things they do not do. Just an astonishing lack of real vision.
I built this site: https://engineered.at

It's like HN, but powered by hundreds of startup tech/engineering blog feeds. It pulls in some really good stuff! Not a lot of users yet, just barely getting it going so far, let me know what you think.

EDIT: Lots more planned for this site, just only able to spend free time on it:

1. Following users/messaging them privately

2. Notifications when users reply to you, follow you, etc

3. Self-curated front pages. I realize not everyone cares about all of the feeds in the site, so give the ability for people to hide certain feeds if they want.
Robert Bosch GmbH, the - amongst other things - automotive supplier is not a publicly traded company, but the German equivalent of a LLC. (Some subsidiaries are traded on the stockmarket, though)
Google alerts every morning works well for me. Then Reddit and then HN.
That sounds like a great deal! I'm looking at Google Fi for two phones: one-time ~$1000 for two phones + $20+$15/month for unlimited voice/text + $10/GB which I plan to WiFi apart from maps.
Yes. The blogpost is about the organizational difficulties in unlocking the value of technically sound "data science" projects, but these in turn are the tip of an iceberg of "omg watson" on the executive side and "machine learning does well on $archetypal_dataset, it can do anything!" on the techie side.

A while ago there was a Kaggle project to solve certain conjectures on prime number theory. Seriously?
I'm surprised Verizon hasn't "transitioned" these legacy accounts to a "newer, better and faster" (cough) accounts..

I presume there are some legal reason why they haven't done so yet?
I'm lucky I set up call forwarding to my google number a while ago. I can't even receive calls anymore! If the skype gods are smiling, one of my associated phones will randomly ring if somebody tries to contact me on skype (Google voice I think tries to ring all your phones in hopes that you'll pick up one of them, but in practice it can be somewhat random what actually connects).

Sometimes it doesn't though, and then I have no idea you tried to contact me, because skype is so broken that it /never/ rings when you call me.

This makes matters worse when my skype number is listed as the contact number on some contracts I've signed (their computer system was set up to only accept Japanese phone numbers).
Indentation is for code blocks. Such blocks are supposed to be rendered monospaced and unwrapped. A browser that didn't render them that way would be broken. The solution is to format quotes in a way that's appropriate for quotes, not using code formatting.

(The real solution would be for HN to support an actual quote style, like Markdown's leading > style, but alas....)
Isn't ADS-B already on these planes? Shouldn't they have gotten some indication they were about to hit several other planes?
Not sure why this is downvoted, DCC is direct connection which bypasses the server, p2p.
I was lucky. The department of corrections where I did my time provided community college courses. I started by getting my GED then taking basic courses such as writing, math, and social studies. I decided to major in business but changed my major later on to CIS (Computer Information Systems). Managed to accumulate two degrees while in prison: Associate degree in General Studies, and Associate of Science in CIS. The prison system started cutting down on available college courses while I was there. Like I said: I was lucky.
> Trying to add jokes to Wikipedia main page content is a similarly fruitless endeavor.

wikipedia is routinely used as a site with a toxic culture that succeeds inspite of, not because of, its community.

Imagine how great Wikipedia would be if it the userbase didn't have a significant proportion of pathological arseholes.
You can, but there is a very strong "don't modify other people's code; down vote wrong or not useful answers and provide your own" culture.

This becomes especially noticeable when answers based on an old version of the language or library no longer work for a newer one.
Relax, it's just market segmentation and better-focused customer acquisition.
Vyopta: Shipping fast and reducing operational costs with MongoDB Atlas
The translation of lean-startup means absolutely nothing, link tells me to buy a book. No.

being told what I am thinking about things is really needlessly confusing, because its often wrong, then I need to remind myself that those statements arn't meant to teach me anything, but instead make me laugh? I don't know.

It'd be better to have like, 1 line of joke per 5-10 dotpoints, not 2-3+ lines of joke per dotpoint, that is my opinion though
NSFW even with headphones due to some really funny moments.
As former heavy RSS users, what do you think of a site like this one I put together? https://engineered.at

It sort of "hides" the RSS feeds behind a social news interface, using a ranking algo like reddit/HN.
I ended up reading it like I read man pages. By which I mean, I skim through it really quickly and then do something else.
Go and check out the statistics for large parts of academia it's not jobs galore. Some are doing well but most areas aren't really.
This crowdsourcing challenge offers a total prize pool of $150,000 for a plan to create Odele, an automated tax planning assistant software that centralizes all financial planning around tax savings and planning.
I totally agree with you. My kids are in their 30s so I avoided this whole question through timing. I am fascinated to see what the others here think, especially those with kids that are in the affected cohort.

There was a very tragic event in our area (Norther NJ) just recently. A 12 year old girl committed suicide due to bullying, some of which was described as "cyberbullying." There are not a lot of details available yet, so it's hard to say if there was a smartphone involved or not. Can you imagine that not only are you getting bullied on school grounds, but now it also follows you home in your pocket? Egad. No escape. All by yourself. Horrible.

I guess in the end it really is up to the parents to do what they can.
Exercise improves memory and concentration. Schools here now have kids go on a stationary bike for a few mins before lessons to help them concentrate on lessons. Personally I will ride a bike for 20 minutes as fast as possible to get heart rate up, shower, then have no problem concentrating on streaming lectures or working through a technical paper for the next couple of hours whereas before I would always have my mind wander and not get anything done.

Doing pullups/anything that builds your core also helps your back, so sitting for a while isn't uncomfortable. If you don't have an exercise bike just run in place, or do anything else to get your heart rate up before you try and concentrate.
I am 42 and having the best sex of my life with my wife married 16 years ago. The book The Enlightened Sex Manual [0] is a great ressource on that matter.

TL;DR of the book: ejaculate less often, be more awake during sex.

[0] https://www.amazon.fr/Enlightened-Sex-Manual-Sexual-Superior...
YES, this is what I was hoping send was, another implementation of webrtc p2p file sharing.

Unfortunately it is not.

My only issue with filepizza is, I wanted to host one internally, but it has a hard dependency on a hardcoded list of torrent trackers. (I have a DENY ALL firewall rule at the border which can't be touched) :(
The zeitgeist has shifted? The zeitgeist hasn't changed since 1847, when Marx wrote about the character of monopoly in The Poverty of Philosophy. It hasn't changed since President Harrison signed the Sherman Antitrust Act in 1890. It hasn't changed since Standard Oil was broken up in 1911, over a century ago (with Standard Oil of New Jersey and Standard Oil of New York recombining in 1999, the broken up monopoly come back to life).

It hasn't changed since the breakup of Ma Bell in 1982, the Baby Bells having re-formed into two companies: Verizon and AT&T, who control the last mile of wire and wireless, the network neutrality of which they have been fighting against. It hasn't changed since the big eight accounting firms became the big four accounting firms. It hasn't changed as Google and Facebook swallowed up all online advertising, search, social networks etc.

The idea that the zeitgeist has shifted from monopoly is absurd. Billionaires from Warren Buffett to Peter Thiel seem to think otherwise. In every industry, mergers and acquisitions leave an increasingly fewer companies with control of more and more of their markets. The data is out there and quite obvious, you really have to put on some kind of ideological fantasy land kool-aid trip to see otherwise.
How are you handling the tagging on this? By hand, 3rd party service, algorithm?
Isn't it a little ridiculous not to expect immigrants to have favorable opinions of the host population? What you say is probably true for a great portion of immigrants in general but the tolerance must extend both ways. Being disliked by your guests is a pretty disheartening experience and likely a cause of some of the backlash we've been seeing lately.
I do! And it mostly worked. And was quite good for transfers, no matter how mall or big the file was.
Just because there is a limitation on password length doesn't imply they store the password in clear text.
Also for integrations with other, often older, systems.
I now need an app that does this (so it can act as a file sink, ex. when you press "share" on your phone).
I’m trying to work out if you’re serious or satirizing someone who believes this nonsense.

That’s not a failure of imagination - that’s business focus.
I can't edit this comment anymore but I'm replying to myself to point out this little bit of C "trivia": the printf function itself, probably the most iconic standard function of all, is not portable.

The problem is that it returns an "int" which contains a negative value on errors and the number of character written on success.

Of course that means that it's possible to write a string whose size doesn't fit in an int.

For instance if you have a 64bit computer (and enough RAM) you can try the following code:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <assert.h>
#include <string.h>

int main(void) {
size_t len = 0x80000001UL;
char *str = malloc(len);

assert(str);

memset(str, 'a', len);

str[len - 1] = '\0';

fprintf(stderr, "\n%d\n", printf(str));

return 0;
}

Don't forget to redirect stdout to /dev/null. You can pipe through `wc -c` if you want to make sure the billion 'a's are printed.

On my computer the "printf" manages to print the whole string successfully but it returns... -1, signaling an error.

The size shouldn't be returned that way, it should be a "size_t" as an output parameter (since you also need a special value for errors). In Rust you'd use "Result<usize>" and you'd have a more elegant solution. Of course you can't really do that in C (except by returning a struct, which is a bit cumbersome) so I guess they said "meh, who prints that much text anyway?" and assumed an int would be good enough.
It's also a bummer there are only sha1's in the file. It would be good to block things within hamming distance 2 of a leaked password (so p@ssw0rd€ would also be blacklisted...)
"Experiements in data science"

Is the blog's title misspelled?
the file is deleted after one download or 24h, which limits the damage. Of course it's also open source so you can host your own- which I think quite a number of people will do.
They are missing out
So anything you send needs zipping up with a "salt" file first in order to bypass the hash check? Is there an add-on to do that for me yet?

Do they communicate that sending any known file is non-private?

If I email myself a pop-song, does the client automatically start the extradition proceedings for the RIAA; or does that come later? /s
I used one password for a decade or so in the 90s and early naughts and though I've since moved on to use LastPass and two factor for everything this is the first time that password appears in one of these databases.

Guessing it was in MySpace..

Ironically I used another password for sites I trusted less and that one isn't in there.
> Where I come from (India) there are things like if you belong to religion X then you cannot go to temple of religion Y during prayers, etc

Those policies exist all across the US and Europe as well, as well as the rest of the world. It's not limited to India.
> Where I come from (India) there are things like if you belong to religion X then you cannot go to temple of religion Y during prayers, etc

I don't see what's the problem. It makes perfect sense to me

Temples of any religion are usually not public grounds and can enforce visitation rules.
Social Engineering is a thing to watch out for.
I've learnt to never answer honestly when they're asking stuff like "Where were you born?" "What's your first pet" etc.

Instead I've made up some answers that I'll never tell anyone else.

However that doesn't really make those details secure.
2FA is where it's at.
this post introduced me to the arrow function ((https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24900875)), which i'd previously not heard of. evidently it was introduced in ECMAscript 6 but for engines that use JavaScript and older browsers (amazingly, they still exist) it won't work
Not sure how that suggests that at all. User inputs have some sort of cap (don't want someone using a 2GB string as their password). So naturally there's a conversation at some point about "what's our maximum password size".

If that conversation starts off at 1000 characters you're fine, but more often then not it looks more like:

"Make the requirement 8-12 characters"

"12 is too short"

"fine make it longer, like"

"Ok" [18 char implementation]

"Hey, Bob in accounting says he uses 20 char passwords"

"Fine, bump it by another 50%"

[27 char implementation]

[no further internal complaints]

[Specs never updated or reviewed again]
I suspect a not-insignificant portion of the refugee population are actually economic migrants using the situation to their advantage.
Cure for the common cold is a step closer
I can not think of a country that does not have a mix of private and public ownership of production/distribution. What should we refer to those countries as?
I think I misread your comment - I had interpreted it as suggesting that exchanges should be required to issue IOUs for new forked assets, which has serious practical issues.

Of course, saying that coinbase balances are IOUs for bitcoins is basically what happened here, and apparently people aren't happy about it. While you could change the marketing material, I don't think it would do much to change the outrage in this case; I very much doubt people will pay attention to such a nuance when they apparently couldn't be bothered to temporarily withdraw their coins.
China and the US are battling to become the world’s first AI superpower
Yeah, imagine a headline "YC-backed Splinder is dating app only for white people".

I bet people would not be that relaxed. #justsayin'
That time range has many things inside it which could explain that drop, e.g. terror attacks, war on terror, banking crashing and seeing "too big to fail" applied to big banks, while people on the street were left to suffer. Before that the 90s with "you should only care for yourself, that way everyone is cared for" and so on.
I'm a huge Elon Musk/Tesla/SpaceX fanboy, but I make it a point to reinforce this.

Especially with Tesla, the hype is way, way overboard. It's not connected to reality.

I say that as someone who reserved a Model 3 on the first day, and will be buying one hopefully in a few months. And I also believe the Tesla Motors will very likely become a global, major auto-maker, not based on stock price, but based on how many cars they make.

I do think Teslas are either the best cars in their class or close to it. But the alternatives aren't that far behind, and there's no reason to believe they won't catch up or even surpass the Teslas.

I will end by noting that I believe Elon Musk when he states his goal for Tesla: to 'push the ball forward' regarding the production and use of sustainable energy. He fully expected Tesla Motors to fail, and it nearly did.

So Musk's primary goal isn't to become the largest auto maker in the world. His goal is see the vast majority of new cars being electric, whoever sells them.

I think that kind of straightforward, honest and pragmatic perspective is a big piece of what drives the often rabid fanboyism, and the irrational stock price.
Talks about reviewing code, mentions a closed source application...