skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hello. I noticed Steve is writing a book about his time at Google:

I have a lot of good stories saved up that I’d love to share. Google corporate didn’t much care for my blogging, and even though they never outright forbade it, I received a lot of indirect pressure from various VPs. So eventually I stopped. Sad.

But that’s not where my mind’s at today. Those stories will have to wait for my book.

I can completely relate with this. I used to work at S2 games on Dota 2, and at Matasano as a pentester. Both cases led to a lot of interesting stories, and I have often thought of writing a book collecting these into a single work from the perspective of a programmer, simply putting thoughts to paper.

There is a book, With the Old Breed https://www.amazon.com/Old-Breed-At-Peleliu-Okinawa/dp/08914...

It's the perspective of a WW2 solider, and simply chronicles events one after another with very little personal flair. Simply a linear sequence of events. The end result is fascinating, and works like this seem rarely published.

My question is, how can I do this without ruining my career prospects? Is that a valid concern?

All of my stories are generally positive, and I don't think any of them would cause drama. I just want to reminisce about the good times, and collate the perspective of fellow devs and pentesters.

Obviously, sharing specific details that were covered under NDA is out. That's not what this is about. But I do want to be careful not to gain a reputation as someone who will reveal company secrets if you hire me.

Any tips? It's a scary prospect, but it seems worth doing.
That assumes a really high level of technology literacy from the people the fake is being used to deceive. That simply isn't going to be true, probably ever. It's already easy to convince people of transparent falsehoods, plausible faked video evidence will make it worse.

It's the "Give me six lines written by the most honest man in the world, and I will find enough in them to hang him" problem except now it's "give me six photos of the most honest man and I will convince everyone he loves to abandon him".

There are notable examples of harassment mobs forming and never dissipating off of really scant "evidence", things like accusing school shooting parents of being "crisis actors" or long harassment campaigns based on flimsy claims that a woman slept around. It's disgusting.

School bullying leading to suicides is already bad enough, what about when teens are sending forged porn of each other around? Or to classmates' parents to get them in trouble?
I know this is leaning into off-topic territory so I promise not to do the fiction-debate-thread thing, but a lot of readers (myself included) disagree with the suggestion that he ever lies to the reader. :)
agree, but in the long long run it will lean towards hotter as the sun changes phases. eventually earth will be a scorched rock without anyone's help.

you have to consider, the earth is about 4.5 billion years old, and we only have 1 billion left, but life will be wiped out much 'sooner' then that.
Ted Nelson's ideas continue to point a road to the future, to a better internet. Sir Tim's Web has been creaking along, almost since it's inception due to it's fragile design. That you don't rank him alongside the other three only says that you don't understand - which is fine.
Burger company launches blockchain rewards program, stock soars
I don't know of any security talent with moderate people skills that has trouble getting a job. However, there does seem to be a huge misunderstanding on how to best break into the "security industry", which is just too generic and really the wrong question to ask. What specifically do you want to do? Then you can identify the most efficient way to get there. Most people I know found their way in through other careers as developers, sysadmins, or network admins..focusing on security where they were first. Things will grow from there.

Hypothetically, if you have solid experience as a full stack web developer then I would suggest finding a way to pivot off that expertise (web application security, infrastructure, etc) rather than diving into the Shellcoders Handbook, x86, and K&R, which are going to be more tailored towards reverse engineering and vulnerability research.
The Internet Association is kicking off a new diversity initiative
That's not really how it works. You could equally argue that those ancient bacteria have attack methods that our modern bacteria has forgotten about, making them even more dangerous
Makes sense. I make a point of calling Free but it wasn't clear to me whether the pin was attached to the object reference (since the handle contains a reference).
Original title: A lobbying group for Amazon, Facebook and Google is kicking off a new diversity initiative thanks to pressure from Congress
what about titanoboa vs modern tiger ?
I don't think you can say "Apple doesn't innovate" and then list not updating their desktops as proof. Pushing incremental updates to computer hardware isn't innovation. Its iteration. Its something HP and Dell do. Of course we want Apple to do this, but it isn't evidence that they don't innovate.

I also wholly disagree with the viewpoint that Apple's pace of innovation has slowed. I strongly believe that the best products in Apple's entire lineup right now are the Watch and AirPods; what they are doing in these two categories are 10x ahead of competitors. iPhone X? They were the first to release IR-based face detection and authentication. They took what MS did with the Kinect and made it 100x smaller. The A10 and A11 are 2-3x more performant than any competition. They lead the industry in productizing consumer security. These are all innovations.

I simply don't think its fair to judge everything any company does to the iPhone then say "they're not innovating". The iPhone is, without a doubt, a once in a lifetime thing. I compare it to the discovery and application of electricity, oil, or the integrated circuit. It was a core insight into human behavior and the world which marked a dramatic change in all of humanity. Just calling it an "innovation" is a disservice.
Monosnap records video and audio, and is available on the App Store. I don't know offhand if they record off the built-in mic or if they hook the audio stream some other way, however.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/monosnap-screenshot-editor/i...
>The problem is not governments accessing this data.

Some people have a big problem with governments accessing this data. For example, the US government has used brute-force to access data and bully both citizens and non-citizens.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/13/technology/aclu-border-pa...

https://www.cnn.com/2017/02/13/us/citizen-nasa-engineer-deta...

I can find more individualized cases if you'd like.

I, for one, do not trust the organization known to send people to offshore prisons to be tortured with no judicial overview to "do the right thing" regarding my data, especially when that organization gets penetrated by data breaches so often.
If Google could fix their documentation - which has been a problem for as long as any of us can remember - THAT might actually qualify as innovative.

It's something the market wants. It would increase productivity. It might even increase happiness. The world, indeed, would be a much better place.

Hey. A guy can dream, can't he?
But by Sanderson's First Law, if it were in an appendix he wouldn't be able to use consequences of the rules in the story. Imagine I Robot if the laws of robotics were an optional appendix (although not quite that extreme).

FWIW, I didn't find it over-explained, but I tend towards systems naturally.
AI Startup Using Robots and Lidar to Boost Productivity on Construction Sites
I for one appreciate the link. I think his advice is right on target for someone who aspires to be a creative writer, which is not necessarily the same thing (unfortunately) as someone who aspires to earn a living from writing.
It's also important because Mauchly, the key engineer of ENIAC/Uwho worked on these, learned and discussed ABC design from Atanasoff himself, one time staying as a guest in Atanasoff's house (and without mentioning his work on computers).
"Let's begin with an analogy"

[4 paragraphs of fantasy explorer game references]

All I've learned is my brain hurts.
"Save the earth? The nerve, the arrogance. Now the people? The people are f"
Thanks that clears some of it up. It seems that java runtimes that do EA actually do this sort of crazy difficult analysis that quickly breaks down with branches and non-inlined code.
This is why people don't listen to the scientists, because absurd FUD like this gets spread and it discredits the entire movement. Even the most doomsday predictions are on the order of inches, maybe over a foot in the next 50 years. Such a rise would still be incredibly devastating, don't get me wrong, but it would take about a hundred years of a completely runaway warming cycle to raise the seas a single meter, much less hundreds.
Transparent ponzi scheme ICO raises $120k in 5 hours
"I'd rather cry in a Ferrari"
Fines like these don't tend to cause immediate personnel nor budgetary repercussions for the business unit in question, for the same reason BUs aren't punished if they miss sales targets for a quarter. Every BU's strategy is reviewed and signed off on by that BU's legal team before anything comes close to being shipped. A negative judgement isn't indicative of a mistake, it's suffering the loss of a calculated risk. If you do some VW level shenanigans you may get fed to the wolves, but most of us are smatter than that.

Ultimately the effect on the organization/employees is the same as any other financial loss. If it's too big or comes too soon in sequence with other losses, there will be strategic realignment (tm). Otherwise it's baked into the operating budget.

Source: Better part of a decade with Qualcomm
Google's incentive and performance review systems reward shipping and don't reward finishing or maintaining. That's a root cause of many bad/rotting Google products (though hardly the only one).

For things involving open source or standards processes, it's really transparent when this has happened - Web Audio is the most notable one I've had the misfortune of interacting with, but there are some other cases where a pet project or prototype was kicked out the door and handed off to someone else (or no one).
Jeff Bezos’ brilliant PR stunt
If you did manage to squeeze more sense out of Ted, I'd love to see it. Most especially on his "artisinal" point.

I've been digging at the trope of technology as decentralising, and am coming to suspect that it's anything but. Support for this in a few places, including Ed Glaeser of Harvard, particularly in his Triumph of the City and many YouTube talks, Evgeny Morozov and Zeynep Tufekci as regards Internet and communications, and others.

It's starting to hit me that we had a locally-oriented, peer-to-peer, decentralised world at one time, and it was decidedly lo-tech.
Those seem more similar to old school analog computers, in a sense.
Blockchain based commodity trading – the end of trading as we know it
Most Swift code is divided nicely up into modules, which are compiled together and have their own namespace. https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Sw...
Building Blocks of Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)
> Another weird omission is lack of any kind of concurrency story

Grand Central Dispatch (GCD or libdispatch) is generally the concurrency story on Darwin platforms. There has been an ongoing effort to port it to Linux. Not sure how complete that is but I linked the Github below. Swift on Linux still has a lot of rough edges in general.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/dispatch

https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-libdispatch
> Which big companies are doing an impressive job of innovating?

What on earth gave you the impression that big companies innovate?

Small companies innovate. Big companies eat the small companies, absorbing their IP, or duplicating it. Or the small company survives and becomes the big company.
C99 has this, I believe?
https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Variable-Length.html
Average draw in the US is ~1200 watts.

https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=97&t=3

Canada is similar and then most other places are ½ or less.
Earthsea was a trilogy from '72 to '90, but it's now five novels and a bunch of short stories. They're all good.
Can it even dye my eyes to match my gown? Jolly good e-mail client!
I'm a frequent game jam participant, that's my little weird hobby. My GitHub now is an ugly mix of my well-done free software projects, forks of thinks that I contribute to, small little utilities/hacks/old student projects I upload just in case it's useful for someone someday, and tens of ugly code dumps of things I made from scratch in 48 hours with varying output quality and constantly bad code quality.

And I don't feel bad about it at all :P
"DNA or it didn't happen"
Cameras that digitally sign each frame?
This is great news for developers who use Apple products.

I'm happy they're trying to improve the cross-platform story but I'm not sure I could ever completely trust the ecosystem when it's so tightly bound to MacOS/iOS (standard library still not complete, 3rd party libraries may only work or be well tested on Apple platforms, new features may take time to land on other platforms.)
Then you must support paying unrealized gains on your home and stocks each year, even if you don't sell them? Because it's literally the same thing.

> How else would you do it

The same way every other investment works: Tax the gains when the asset is sold.
If a nuclear weapon is about to explode, here's what you can do to survive
Forgive me if I've missed it but I haven't seen any evidence that quantum computing has been used to solve even a very simple calculation. It seems that the purpose behind trying to build a quantum computer; is you really need to be out in front, not necessarily that it is possible.

Are quantum computers just the fusion reactors of the computing world? Maybe one won't be built for 20 or 30 years, maybe longer.
I doubt it - React Native's implementation of flexbox is different enough to make it very difficult to produce the same layout using the same out.

It's almost like an uncanny valley effect - its similar enough to lure you into a false sense of security, until you realise that defaults for flex-direction are reverse, or it implements flex/flex-grow/flex-shrink/flex-basis completely differently.
We have wild turkeys near us. My chocolate lab went a couple rounds with a mother turkey this spring. First couple of encounters went to the mama turkey as she was defending her babies and my dog was just terrified of her. She would spread her wings (6-8 feet wide or so?) and then hover above him. He would freak out and back away, terrified. Eventually the dog got brave, chased her off and ate a couple of turkey babies. But based on that interaction, I definitely would NOT bet on a lab taking down a velociraptor. The raptor would have gone for the kill when the dog was still scared..
It may not be “fair” in some cosmic sense, but traits that you don’t have control over are important for lots of things you want to assess. For example, should modeling agencies not take into account physical appearance?
Sounds like a great idea. You first.
> If the corporation isn't very transparent to employees, it might help to exercise at least one share, to have stockholders rights.

Can you elaborate on the benefits of this? I exercised ~10% of my vested options at my 1 year cliff, but I have not received any additional communications. I looked into requesting specifics from the company because they're "A Delaware Company", but apparently the law says that "curiosity" is not a valid reason.
Show HN: Stadialist
Hi all! My name is Erd, a product designer/maker/code abuser based in Berlin. Recently taking inspiration from many indie makers, I decided to build a site for a little passion project. Football experiences and the stadiums they're played in - basically a way for me to track stadiums I love going to and discover new ones. Figured there are more out there like me :)

Would like to get the communities feedback, positive or negative. Where can it improve, what features would you like to see, bugs, would you use it? Anything that helps me validate the idea beyond the proof of concept is appreciated.

Thank you kindly :)

https://stadialist.com

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Providing new values to the society is innovation.
Offres de paris – Halifax – http://link.intertops.eu/c/383162
Bring Mathematics to Life, Integrate R, Sagemath or JSXGraph in Your Open Book
Break my crypto miner
His Ether wallet shows $130k already and rising:
https://etherscan.io/address/0xe3f64dc522a66405c51d96aae2342...
An interesting angle here is the arms race between manipulation and forensics. In image forensics, clever people are using clever techniques to keep us tethered to some notion of authenticity in digital media. Like this guy: http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/farid/downloads/publications/wif...

These emerging video manipulation tools open new frontiers for related forensics research. In 10 years, when we see a video of someone doing something horrible, these people are perhaps our only hope of knowing whether or not what we're seeing ever happened.
Missing context: this is https://github.com/witheve/Eve, not the game EVE Online or the Python REST framework.
Definitely an interesting digital ecosystem experiment. Hopefully it can sustain itself. Will be interesting to see how it plays out and evolves.
> we are professionals, and so we do not accept undefined behavior

Lol'd, tell that wannabe-elite-C-programmers.
If you don't know who the fool in the market is, it's you.
A guy I work with showers with his Galaxy S8, or at least that's what he said he does.
I only knew about him from his posts about interviewing and technical interviews and in addition to the irony you point out I wonder whether there's more irony around the possibility it could be the hiring practices he seems ok with that may also be shutting the potential innovators out. I've worked at tech companies and I feel there's a bit of a mono culture among many programmers.
Indians will die of heart attacks and cancer before they become old enough to get alzheimers or other mental issues. Before you downvote me to oblivion, many indian and non-indian dr.s friends have told me this.
Analyzing E-Sports VODs via YOLO's Computer Vision and Deep Learning
I think we have - between the Pioneer and Voyager probes, plus the various probes on Mars and Earth's moon.
There is a difference, but increasing either the bioavailability or half life of toxins is undesirable.

Also, CYP3A4 is one of the p450 enzymes. But after looking it up, piperine does seem to be specific to CYP3A4, which is better than inhibiting p450 in general.
Much like blogger before it, people are starting to figure out it's best to have your own digital home on the internet.

Medium echoes Blogger today, the downturn is coming.
I work with FHIR extensively and find the standard to be decent but not great. Perhaps my biggest complaint is around naming strategies.

"What date did this event occur?", can be assertedDate or effectiveDateTime or performedDateTime or any number of things based on resources.

In the old versions it was even hard to know "What's the patient ID associated with this resource?", sometimes it was "patient" sometimes it was "subject". This has gotten better in STU3, and improvements have also been made to the way practitioners are identified as well.

I think there's a ton of irreducible complexity, but there are also common themes and common parts of medicine that should form the foundation of the API. It seems that instead of thinking, "What are the real commonalities here? Lets make them flexible enough to handle 90% of cases, but with a standard interface for extension." HL7 started from a current cumbersome standard and shoehorned it in.

I really am optimistic though, it's getting better all the time and FHIR is actually remarkably extensible to handle corner cases. I really hope it becomes the standard moving forward, especially as it smooths out the rough edges.
Understand Crypto by Watching Videos
"The largest known number factored by Shor's algorithm on a quantum computer is 21."
The wiki article says twice that a the motivation for studying continuous variable quantum computing is to understand "the ways in which quantum computers can be more capable or powerful than classical ones". But it never explains why you want to use continuous variable quantum computing over qubits. What are your arguments for why the correct path forward is not qubits?
We've been using zstd for a while in production, switching over from rar/gzip/7z for archiving huge XML files. It's speed to compression ratio is really impressive. Hats off to the development team.
>ctrl+f "Malazan" - "0 results"

I guess I'm going to have to be 'that guy'. Malazan Book of the Fallen does the whole intricate, overlapping fantasy universe incredibly well.
The musical work dates from the 1930s, though yes, it is based on poems and texts, by the same name, from ~1000 - 1100 AD. And quite bawdy / visceral.
There was a good radio lab episode about this:

http://www.radiolab.org/story/breaking-news/
> 90% of US schools? Why aren't they a $10b company?

From looking at Class dojo,, I would guess because supporting large number of users is a cost; now, in a perfect company, there's a monetization strategy that creates value from that user base, but ClassDojo’s user base is neither ad-friendly nor likely to pay out-of-pocket.

They implicitly (from the “always free for teachers” line) are open to trying to get students, parents, or “school leaders” to pay, but any of those might prevent teachers from using it (or even being allowed to) even if it was free for the teacher.
At this point yes . We need ~70 years of research to get to something useful ( I asked my professor about this who I studied quantum computing this).
I've taken some machine learning classes and I've played with TensorFlow a bit. None of this was a big surprise to me.

But the overall implications are deeply troubling. I am tempted to say we're not entering a "post-truth" era, but more like a "post-reason" era. It's almost like rational thought has painted itself in a corner. These videos are almost like a mathematical "proof" too complex to be independently verified, or too complex for a human (and those are happening too).

If reason is hitting a ceiling, I'm not sure what else we could use to steer a coherent society through whatever murky waters might lay ahead.
The design space has one non-obvious but fundamental strict dividing line: if you can constrain the mutator code enough to be able to insert write barriers for generation GC you also can constrain it enough to have all the metadata to support moving GC at least to the extent of opportunistic compaction (eg. what CLR and SBCL on i386 does, both of which have conservationaly scanned stack because building stack map for register-constrained platforms like i386 is essentially impossible).

On the other hand BEAM has AFAIK non-moving generational GC implemented in the aforementioned way which is in this case trivial as you don't need any write barriers and remembered set when heap objects are inherently immutable. (In this it is somewhat relevant that Boehm GC for some time had API that allowed you to signal the time extent of mutatibility of given heap object to the GC, AFAIK it is no-op since some 6.x version and the concurrent/incremental/generational bits of it work on basis of mprotect() and handling SIGSEGV)
also http://witheve.com/ for more details on what it is.

kinda sad :(
I was very confused, as today there is/was a giant $1million-worth battle between some large Corps in Eve.
On the photo/picture department this is nothing new and it has existed for ages.

http://iliketowastemytime.com/sites/default/files/imagecache...