skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's the issue with story points and velocity? I've been using them for years and personally I think they're some of the best parts of agile!
Not much. It's a good finding; as a bounty submission (for a good company), I could see it getting $1-$2k. But I don't think there's a market for these kinds of information leakage bugs. As a rule of thumb: if you can't plug a vulnerability directly into a business process that was already built and operationalized on some other vulnerability, it's probably not worth anything on the black market.
Accounting always was and always will be more important at a startup. Finance is a distraction and doesn’t become important until you’re big enough to care about it.
Wow. This is gross negligence. Short version: the guy's insurance company had him put a GPS-enabled device in his car to measure usage. With no auth and only the car's license plate number, you can track the car, find out who owns it, and get a bunch of stats.

This is the kind of thing that should result in a fine of millions of dollars. They never even tried to secure this.
That has already happened as transaction fees have increased from less than 1 cent to $5.
Hi everyone! This is part of a course project my group did at Brown University attempting to create a better system with which to find Computer Science courses. Part of the project was to post the website on a forum for feedback, so we decided to use Hacker News. Let us know what you think!
This is not right. If ends justify means then we are in for a world full of strife and tribalism. This will make it difficult for people to trust anything. This is how we have ended up in this highly charged outrage porn filled world where everything and anything real or fake is being used to influence and recruit people towards one ideology or the other. This in the long term does more harm than good even for the people who think they are on winning side. It is more than ever important to be genuine and real and not do or say anything just so that we can win an argument, however right we might think we are.
https://mobile.twitter.com/adam3us/status/923309367260274688

Good reason to believe the entire thing was simply the old system attempting to hijack bitcoin.

https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/7fsbw5/divorcing_the_s...
This is a mostly solved issue.
How to deal with anger from my business?
Parinfer is another good attempt at making editing Lisp code easier: https://github.com/shaunlebron/parinfer
Even if it got flipped on accidentally, it would merely log information and not transmit it anywhere.

Indeed, this is pretty benign compared to the "feature" in Windows 10 which does log and send that information if you enable it... and I believe this is enabled by default:

https://images.techhive.com/images/article/2015/08/0904-win1...

I really wish the "security" people would stop "crying wolf" constantly with things like this.
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Its not The Atlantic article, its a repost of Aeon article.

Here is the link to Original,
https://aeon.co/ideas/black-holes-are-simpler-than-forests-a...
Windows CMD bug not fixed from xp to 10
Honest question: what is the big deal about syspatch? I see OpenBSD folks talk about it as if it is the greatest thing since sliced bread. How is this different from what many distributions have had for more than a decade in the form of apt or yum?
> I cannot fathom why this is even being questioned

According to chart 2, men's labor force participation drop mirrors women's in that time period. Its not gender specific.

Is the idea here that we know why women's participation is dropping but men's drop is just a mystery? If its dropping across the board regardless of gender there might be other reasons. correct?
the reason i am being downvoted is because hacker news is fucking garbage now. too many insecure, underqualified jackasses looking for a reason to argue.
Walmart’s last quarterly EPS beat analyst consensus by >3%, according to an aggregation by the WSJ.
It is disgusting to link sources from those Liberal Party leaning media outfit which we Filipinos know that are full of crap. Look for a journalist that is fair when writing news and I will acknowledge it.
What about wifi and cell networks? I've never looked into these devices, but surely that would be an easy way to get the general location of most cars.
I briefly thought this might be a discussion of Flat Earthers.
I mentioned to some people at my company that "devops" was meant to be more of a philosophy than a separate team and they were bewildered. But I guess I'm happier with ops being a separate team anyway.
The Constitution talks about militias. Not individual citizens. The Supreme Court ended up INTERPRETING the Constitution so it ended up what we have today.

Needless to say 90% of US gun owners wouldn't make it in the military and thus would not be allowed to bear arms. Problem solved.
It might be good for class action lawyers and bounty hunters to start teaming up. Then the company either settles up to avoid a trial and bad publicity, or else they have an expensive court battle with potential negative PR coming out.
Part of the difficult of achieving diversity in the startup world is that the first filter everyone has to pass is drinking the ideological Kool-Aid.

Tough to attract diversity of thought when you directly screen it out.
You are correct. I used to work for a company in the Netherlands that does this for a couple of big brands, often for every store worldwide. I was in technical support for the music players.

They had two guys, who were also DJ's in some local clubs, work in an insane spreadsheet to decide the music for many different brands. Whenever I'd hear a cool new track I'd tell them. That way a track I found ended up playing in a bunch of stores worldwide, pretty cool.
I was curious about where Amazon Flex delivered so I went to their site. No indication of whether my area was covered or not so I ended up downloading the app. Once signed in the only location listed was Pennsylvania. Not where I live so instant delete. Not sure why they didn't just put that on the landing page.
When I had 2 years exp, I was offered 125k at a company in Austin. Not 134k, but I imagine that figure isn’t impossible
The young Steve Jobs was fired from the company he founded, because of being unbearable to his team, not to mention internally sabotaging the Lisa team (and contribuing to the failure of the Apple III by very stupid frivolous decisions.) See "folklore.org" for first-hand account.

The initial success of the Apple computer i'd atttribute more to Wozniak for knowing what the hobby computer should be. The original macintosh wasn't a sales success and sales only took off after Steve was fired and the business strategy was reviewed.

The "version 2.0" Steve Jobs that returned to Apple was an improved person, but I simply wouldn't take any advice from the younger SJ.
This doesn't really mean there's a limit to scientific understanding, just that there's an infinite amount of questions we can't have an answer for.

But there could be an infinite number of questions we can have an answer for as well, thus there's no limit to our understanding.
Does anyone have advice on how to do skills based volunteering as a software engineer? Something where my software skills help a good cause. I'm currently volunteering teaching kids and teens to code every few weekends and it's okay, but looking for something higher impact if possible.
I also like litecoin for the purely selfish reasons of it still being (relatively) cheap. BTC prices are out of my ability to play, and most ICO's are derivatives of 'ScamCoin'. LiteCoin is one of the few options it feels I can still get in on the action with a purpose driven coin with a strong/transparent dev team.
Their are a few examples where the first impomentaion adapts and wins. However, email needed to change over time and adapt, but Bitcoin is very resistant to change which is going to kill it.
Mass murderer? You have no idea what you're talking about.
The fact that we would be richer if more women worked is not some suggestion that we wouldn't be richer if more men also worked.

You can argue that there are confounding factors making it unclear why fewer women work (percentage wise, compared to the past), which would rebut the clickbait title. But the actual content of the article seems pretty straightforward.
ITIL is not really known outside of specifically IT at large, bureaucratic companies that look at operations as a cost center (even in tech companies, there’s some basic internal humdrum IT after all) and it’s probably where I’ve had my lowest professional compensation historically as an engineer that does infrastructure and operations at scale. A lot of these same places are basically going to fail at any interpretation of the term devops because change is so unbearably slow and because most of these organizations are in crisis mode as a business spending money to stay relevant as technology-first companies eat their lunch.
>> The fact that most bitcoin is mined in China is also fueling the environmental concerns.

When identity politics and environmentalism ride in the same cart, the whirlwind follows.
> If the POW is maximally hard (energy intensive) then transaction fees will need to be high for miners to have ROI.

If the transaction fees aren't high enough to support the current level of mining them some (but not all) miners will drop out (and the "difficulty" will adjust to compensate).

The result is transactions will continue to be processed, but the overall security of the network will be lower.
You do realize bitcoin is constantly evolving and can change its code right? If another crypto creates a better scaling tech, bitcoin can incorporate that idea.
Isn't there another possibility? What if a math breakthrough makes bitcoin mining much cheaper? What would that do to Bitcoin -- hyperinflation?
Yes, but it is not like a single service has been breached to leak that many accounts, significantly reducing the relevance and impact of this particular database.

Anyone can compile a list such as this from other big dumps without much trouble, you just need some disk space.
This is how you get plausible deniability. Instead of one obvious backdoor you build a system of compromised parts that look innocent on their own.
It'd be ridiculous to call in every gunshot I heard...

1.) November just ended, and so deer hunting season. There's still black powder season ongoing, plus rabbit, coyote, and game bird seasons.

2.) There's a rifle range two miles away. Then there's a Sig Sauer training facility to the other side. It's pretty common to hear automatic weapons fire.
Not entirely...

Depending upon the types of "timestamp", "data", "index", and "previousHash", the value, "timestamp+data+index+previousHash", may be interpreted as a number or a string, affecting the final hash.

Splitting it up prevents this uncertainty.
There are many insurance companies that use OBD GPS trackers, as well as standalone trackers that plug in to the cigarette lighter, in order to charge based on mileage.

e.g. https://www.metromile.com/
Yes - in theory these types of questions exist. But are things like the common cold amongst these problems?
I figured that they would use an app on your phone for GPS, accelerometer data, and gyro. The OBD adapter would just pull things like speed and be used to recognize that you're driving.
Any time a bitcoin transaction takes place, a hole is left in its place. The hole attracts other coins and when paired with an Ether, a new coin is formed: ExciteCoin
There are so many comments worth responding to in this thread, but this one in particular raises my ire. Are you really trying to reduce policing tradition in America to western films? How about the real west, where self defense was a way of life. I don't want to be too combative but I seriously don't understand peoples inability to understand the principles of self defense as a natural human right, and yes that includes killing when applicable. It just reeks of a naive liberal mindset when people try to say you shouldn't shoot someone who breaks into your house in the middle of the night. Police don't have a duty to protect you, and very often will not protect you, and most of the time will just draw chalk lines around the bodies.

Its your own responsibility to protect yourself and your loved ones or other people who can't protect themselves, that's a fact, and it's high time the anti-gun crowd pulled their heads out of their ass, because a gun equalizes an otherwise unequal situation.

God made humans, Sam colt made them equal. I'm an atheist but the principle still stand. This goes for one of the most vulnerable classes of humans as well, women.

As a combat vet I have some major issues with the militarization of police, and their poor training/methods, so I got a bit ot. If we were to have a real conversation, I think we would be better served to talk of the pinkertonian origins of policing, or the CIA/FBI influence on it (eg. OccupyWall Street snipers), and the general lack of punishment of oath breakers, or the thin blue line.

Instead far too many use it to pivot to a session of anti-gun circlejerking.
Its certainly possible but these things are built to be dirt cheap.
I live in the Midwest and understand the challenge. The first step to passing an amendment is obviously creating the conceptual space for that to happen, and gee look where we are.
Would you happen to be affiliated with Donorbox in any way?
I feel like I already said "I understand but I disagree".

A round wheel is more useful for a car than a triangular wheel. That doesn't mean it's a "car wheel". It's just as good on a horse wagon or a bike.
Prankster tricks TripAdvisor into thinking his shed is London’s best restaurant
Etherium’s proof of stake should solve this problem. But I agree, the incentives aren’t aligned to help the environment and that should be a major concern for anyone who cares about future generations livelihood.
I wonder if the mood disorders are causal.

For instance, the largest mood disorder was anxiety. Let me recast anxiety as "overly caring". An anxious person may work 3x as hard at a presentation or an exam.

I don't want to glamorize mental disorders, but I think this might not be a coincidental connection.
People seem unlikely to consider a VC survey to be the place to confess their deepest fears honestly.

As in a job interview, if someone asked "What is your biggest flaw as an employee?" They are unlikely to get a useful reply: "Sometimes I work so hard that I make other people feel bad" perhaps
See the other leaf of this purely functional comment tree for my answer.
JK Rowling's success story is singular because the masses don't have oodles of disposable income

Hardly, she could still be a huge success story if she split that pie of disposable income halfway with another author who was her equal- but public attention doesn't really work like that, is the problem.

But targeting whales to avoid the masses lottery, yes, I'm with you & the article there.
Going further, maybe the inclination to join any social organization correlates with mental and physical disorder. Such organizations, while limiting membership based on specific acceptance criteria, may be generally welcoming to people whose traits are orthogonal to those criteria.
I'm not entirely sure if you are implying that wrong indentation in Haskell will result in programs that compile, but give differing output? I have honestly never seen that happen, and couldn't imagine a piece of code that would compile in either cases.

EDIT:

1) as masklinn mentions, the indentation in Python and Haskell works differently. Furthermore, Python can have expressions as top-level, which Haskell cannot, and you can also have if statements with no else in Python, which again, in Haskell you cannot.

2) I know of no formatters for Haskell which will change the semantics, since they all rely on rendering an AST of the code (IIRC).

3) Ocaml is also white-space sensitive, so I don't see the point in the comparison there?

4) You would need to have some pretty contrived code for it to both satisfy the parser and type-check and be wrong logic caused by moving an indentation.

Like, you can't do it in a function that's a if-then-else plainly, nor a case-statement. Maybe a where statement, but then you just promoted the function to top-level, which will not be a problem unless it's shadowing something else, for which you'll get a compiler warning.

Show me some code, and then I'll consider the point valid, I just can't come up with any examples.
From a strictly environmental perspective, mining in China in general is going to be worse for the global environment than in the US due to restrictions on pollution from energy generation in the states, at least for now.
This is in no way unique to The Daily Show or The Colbert Report (both of which were on a Comedy channel, but I digress).

Lots of TV news programs are attempting to curate your opinion based on carefully cherry picked nuggets of information. Nancy Grace, Rachel Maddow, Bill O'Reilly (used to be at least), et al. The 'show clip -> explain outrage' is a news trope that won't be going anywhere anytime soon. Maybe we should focus on the individual merits of these shows instead of unilaterally deciding that they are a general cause of some aspect of society that you may think is problematic.
So, is this "scientifiamerican" a serious publication, or what? I mean, it says that high IQ leads to various good outcomes (a fact that is obvious, well-known and easily explained) and then basically says the opposite because of a...Mensa survey. Like, uh, that's not how you do science. At all. Not at all.
When the mantra among developers is "the only way to get a raise is to change jobs", and people are moving on a bi-yearly basis - yeah, you need to plan for cogs.

No amount of ownership is going to cover for an otherwise brilliant developer who jumps ship once the project has shipped its MVP. And if that brilliant developer wrote that project in, say, Haskell (because they wanted to learn it), that project is probably doomed from a financial point of view - a quality Haskell developer willing to do maintenance on an existing project will likely cost more than the project is worth in the first place.

The root of this problem does lie in management, but it's a self fulfilling prophecy at this point: employees have taken the lesson to heart. Even companies which do give fantastic benefits are going to still see high turnover, and need to account for that.
Short answer, yes. The current commit includes the hash of its parent(s), so its own hash reflects the whole history, and one can not change the history without also changing the current hash. Just like a block contains the hash of the previous block.
And a kWh of power is of course done with coal. How pathetic.
The article mostly argues that some concepts are too complex for humans to understand and that only though computers or post-human intelligence can we discover further scientific truths.

But, the scientific process is independent of human intelligence. So, more interesting is: given an infinitely intelligent organism, can that organism be use the scientific process to completely understand the universe?

Or, does science have a flaw that limits it's ability to explain certain truths?
I’ve recently tried to become more literate - in the “literature” sense. It’s a fascinating world and I hope the journey helps me become less psychologically lopsided. But this style of writing is really holding me back from what I’m sure is a rich and beautiful world.

The first few paragraphs of the article struck me as almost unbearably pretentious. It reads to me like a manifestation of pretentiousness itself. It was really grating and I had to stop reading.

But should I have kept going?

In other words, is this article really as pretentious as it sounds in my head as I read it, or am I experiencing the literary equivalent of a layperson overhearing a highly technical conversation between two developers and assuming they’re just showing off by intentionally using larger words than necessary?

Is there true depth here that I’m missing? Is it worth exploring those depths?
Ask HN: Standard set of Criteria for evaluating new Consensus/Blockchain Systems
Is there something like the Jepsen test suite for consensus/blockchain systems?

Example of new proposed systems:
- hashgraph http://www.swirlds.com/whitepapers/
- Tezos https://www.tezos.com/
The difficulty automatically adjusts every 2016 blocks based on the amount of time it took to mine them, so a breakthrough in mining efficiency would increase the difficulty until it reached the 1 block/10 minutes target again.
FYI this comment was linked to in /r/btc, which explains the "miners are peers" brigading: https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/7il8rr/the_original_sa...
that's because a lot of journalists here can be paid. this is a fact. for example, a certain mayor in my city doesn't want to pay his electric bills so what he did was pay journalists to write black propaganda about the president of the electric company to destroy his reputation. and when that wasn't enough he paid the news commentator of an infamous radio station. this happened a decade ago.
Right? Ops, but an ops team you'd trust touching the code.

I feel like devops to most just means "ops but closer to the code now that there are so many code/release management tools and someone has to manage it all".
> * Are you saying that a verified compiler is useless if you write buggy software?*

Not exactly, but if we look at it that way, how is it wrong?

I write buggy software; what do you write?

With the approach I take to writing software, the methods by which I flush out my bugs find compiler issues also in the same stroke.

If I didn't write buggy software, I could ditch testing, right?

Except, oops, not without a proven toolchain.
Can, but won’t as has been proven repeatedly.
Thanks for the link. I couldn't find any services offering this when we started building debugProxy. It's good to see there might be a viable business model here :)
If you want an alt coin with more capacity than bcash, more decentralised, and faster, use litecoin. It even has atomic swaps with bitcoin.

Look at the price. Going bananas.
Thanks for the comment. I'm the author of the original article. I was surprised to find this old piece on the HN front page today.

With all respect, I don't misunderstand TDD or OOP. I agree that those aren't methodologies in the strict sense. But rigid adherence to OOP design or TDD can paralyze a team and focus development on goals that aren't the customer's priorities. OOP and TDD can influence how the team works and what shape the project takes just as much as waterfall or agile. When I read articles claiming that TDD is the sure path to reliable development, that's a methodological claim, not a technical practice.
Interesting, it's a border dectecion issue, where a single color shows as a curve when it bends sharply the entire way, but short segments approximate to a line when they are mostly just lines with strong curves only at the end.

I suspect it would look very different when animated.
>Yes, but it is not like a single service has been breached to leak that many accounts, significantly reducing the relevance and impact of this particular database.

Err, it actually increases its relevance and impact. With the same database now a hacker can reach multiple services...
comments from the first time this was posted here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14314205
Gödel's theorem does applies to mathematical systems of axioms, and I don't think it's clear how it translates to physics. To take an extreme example, you could answer any physical question about a universe that's made up of a single particle traveling in a straight line, even though doing so requires a mathematical system complex enough for Gödel's results to apply.

On the other hand, there are a number of interesting undecidable questions (in ZF, the axiom of choice and the continuum hypothesis are examples).