skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's a reference to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Considered_harmful
Yeah, exactly. Pretty much anything will have some bias.

Not to say that I would take this, or any other, chart as the gospel (if anything, I certainly wold not have put NYT as high), but it is interesting to see that WSJ, as corporate a paper as they get, is rated in the upper rectangle. Equally News-Corpsy Fox is way down.
To be clear, since I originally found the article confusing – the record would be for organic solar cell's efficiency at 14.2%; they still have a way's to go until they beat the record for a solar cell's efficiency which sits at 46%¹.

① - As of December 2014, the world record for solar cell efficiency at 46.0% was achieved by using multi-junction concentrator solar cells, developed from collaboration efforts of Soitec, CEA-Leti, France together with Fraunhofer ISE, Germany.
It seems to be mostly an excuse for yet another initial coin offering.

This is another scheme for changing contracts retroactively to "fix bugs". Who can make changes is regulated by what seems to be a proof of stake system. What a contract is for change purposes is ill-defined. The authors seem to think of a contract as a standard form, and changing that standard form changes it for all existing users of that form. A real contract is a text plus the agreement of the parties. That doesn't seem to have been thought through.

There's a lot of "trust us" stuff in there. See 5.5, "Trusted Oracles", and
6.4, "Marketplace Curation". There's a bigger problem - this is supposed to be for contracts in Etherium, but control rests with the holders of the proposed "ZED" tokens.
As a parent commenter said, you could also put a diode for your circuitry. You would then have a single 3.7V supply.
Don't be so sure people aren't going elsewhere. Besides craigslist, there's also the not-Internet option, which I think many of us on here forget, possibly largely because it's so seemingly difficult to measure (in our skewed experience).

I've met many young people who still default to pen-and-paper for things like note-taking. It's tempting to dismiss them as luddites, but I can't exactly blame them, given how much I know about just how user-hostile modern computer software and hardware can be.
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Mistakes are inevitable. Deciding to ship without any upgrade capability is a choice. A deliberate, negligent choice.
> Honestly, a publically available real time map of the location of all lawmakers that haven’t pledged to fix this is probably the only way to fix it.

Restricting this to certain lawmakers based on political affiliation on positions is not the right way to go. If one party is more affected than another, they will turn it into a purely tribal issue. (Democrats are lawbreakers who are endangering Republican politicians by releasing sensitive location data! This shows that Democrats cannot be trusted! Why wasn't Clinton's location data released too? Fake liberal news, etc.. etc..) This is easy to spin, and will turn their base against reform.

If you do this, you have to include all lawmakers. This is actually more fair because regardless of who is paying lip service to privacy, the legislature collectively has failed to do anything about it. How do you know those who claim to support privacy really do at all behind closed doors?
I have been a C/C++ programmer for over 10 years now, and coming from the same background as you, QBasic, I know just what you mean. The build and dependency systems for C/C++ are atrocious and not made for humans. The syntax is from a time when you didn't want your code to use up all your storage, and its been evolving slowly since. Unfortunately, nothing can fix the worst parts of either language short of starting over, and at this point, since we all know them well enough not to care, we are just stuck with them. Going to CppCon and watching the YT videos, all I see is an ever-increasing burden on the programmer to know obscure facts and the current trends to correctly write "modern" C++. I will stop myself before getting to the template meta-programming language hidden away, that no one tells you about before its too late. :) At the very least C has a consistent calling convention per architecture. C really just needs a better standard library, from scratch, and it could be the modern BASIC with worse syntax.

Might as well mention, I have used FreeBASIC before and its quite good and very mature. It generates C/C++ code (I don't remember the details) and compiles using GCC! If the compiler can generate standard C/C++ code, there is good reason to believe the project could be maintained forever and compete with other languages.
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I can't say definitively, but I couldn't find a public posting on this by MicroTik at the time Cisco made their information public on Cisco's Talos bolg. So I contacted MT support through email and was told that they were notified of the vulnerability May 18, 2018 but had already patched it March of 2017. I looked at the changelog on MTs RouterOS and several vulnerabilities were patched back at the time.
I don't see anything that indicates agreement from the author of the post.
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Get enough sleep
I would recommend JS stuff for middle schoolers. I agree Python is boring for Kids, but for kids under middle school, HTML + JS can be too much burden to learn. Besides the resources available on the web is not very friendly for Kids I think. Not to mention NPM & JS Framework stuff, even callbacks and jQuery are too much complicated.
User falcon620 posted a comment further down in this thread with a link to a device to test DP cables that was much cheaper than I expected it to be!
I'd agree with that if Facebook would be that single outlier nobody wants to emulate.

But Silicon Valley isn't a monolith where everybody is on the same page about everything, I have no doubt there's plenty of people in SC who consider FB a success-model to be followed into a shining future.
The tweet that you have linked to is a response to the author, and not one by the author themselves.
>they are meaningless in those areas because the government itself already defies them.

That doesn't make laws meaningless.
>He got it to where it rendered everything, moved and rotated objects, and took input, but he ran out of single-letter variable names to use.

The sheer amount of time that would have had to have gone in to that is a testament to the power of kids feeling bored to a level that may not actually exist any more. We have, today, tools that make things less tedious than writing matrix transforms in single-letter variable names, but at the same time we have computer games and more recently social apps raising the tedium floor that anyone is willing to put up with. If there was a way to combine modern tools with 1980s tenacity we'd probably end up with a golden era on our hands.
How close does it get to the stated 25,000 passengers per hour throughput metric?
> You wouldn't be able to laugh at the stories if you didn't feel like the victims had it coming. It's a classic morality play.

As I recall the stories, it was very hit-and-miss whether the victims of the BOFH deserved it, or if they were just hapless people who the BOFH thought it would be funny to be cruel towards. And even if they deserved something, what the BOFH dealt them was always way out of proportion. Imagine if Judge Dredd has been played as a comedy, with mostly horribly disproportionate violence and death for minor offenses.
Very well written article. I think everyone can definitely emphasize with the confusion that comes with having to dig through APIs and tooling for the first time.

When a friend asked me to teach him some python the most stressful part for him was setting up the editor, understanding the command line and how an API worked as well. Like the author he grasped fundamental python pretty quickly.

I think there's still no really good solution to make the whole process appealing. You can have people write puzzle solutions which circumvents the API and documentation issue but doesn't produce a real project, you can give them an IDE which avoids the command line but doesn't teach much and often is too complicated for a simple script, and so on but there's always some nasty issue for beginners in the process.
I won't provide a source but i'll provide a modified real life example, since i'm pretty sure this vuln is still in the wild.

I was doing a pen test on a router whose manufacturer decided it would be an OK idea to use GET requests to launch their ping diagnostic tool on their router's unauthenticated QA web interface.

this ping diagnostic tool was triggered by doing GET http://192.168.1.1/diagnostic/trace&ip=X.X.X.X

The IP address in the URL parameter would get plugged directly into a "ping" command line command, so you could obtain command injection by going GET http://192.168.1.1/diagnostic/trace&ip=X.X.X.X&&telnetd

You could exploit this from literally any website on the internet, and since it's a GET request and we don't care about what it returns, CORS won't save your router. I think that counts as a javascript one-liner, but you get the idea how fucking awful some of these routers are.
> * Restrict shallow work to 2 hours (after 2 hours, say no to everything shallow)

Except when the initial classification of a task as “shallow” is incorrect, and it actually should’ve been “deep” (although, this shouldn’t happen too often, except when it does happen).
You will probably be disappointed to know that dart is fully statically typed now (with type inference). Still a good language but missing it's dynamic soul. I too thought that gradual typing was a perfect balance.
Just make sure that you don't end up downloading a few DLLs you weren't expecting.

https://securelist.com/apt-slingshot/84312/
what's second best ? 26% ?
Can someone explain why the going rate for website testing is $120/hr? Some sort of bubble?
Free software is generally delivered as is, without any guarantees.

Router software is part of something you actually pay for, so there should be liability.
I see articles like these as useful reminders that human actions have consequences which need to be understood and mitigated if they are bad enough.

We don't want to become numb to the signs of systematic and widespread problems.

On the general topic of pollution and what it takes to organize effective responses, a friend recommended this article https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/10/magazine/the-lawyer-who-b...
I have a very strange feeling that GDPR will end up resetting the internet (in a good way). It's already astonishing how we're getting unsubscribed from every possible mailing list we didn't want to be on in the first place, and it'll become even more awesome when all the websites will take notice, how little they are allowed to do in terms of piling crap on top of their web presence. I'm rather excited about the future right now.
What difference does it make, though, if the world is largely satisfied with the "inferior" tooling?

To wit: http://dreamsongs.com/RiseOfWorseIsBetter.html
I'm curious how much this is about "many small and unlikely failures leading to disaster", versus "they sailed into a big storm and were doomed". The usual narrative with complex engineering disasters is the former. I'm wondering, for example, if everything else was going well with the ship, could they have survived such a close encounter with such a big storm? Or, if the engine was kept online, would that have changed anything? It seems to me that this situation went far beyond survivability, but it's hard to tell from the NTSB report.
Mind boggling this isn’t the default.
Yep. And the shark is still a shark, and the horseshoe crab is still a horseshoe crab...
Honest question: how's their GPL compliance these days?
Thanks for posting this. This looks quite useful for making programmatic use of electronics datasheets.
I suppose I just don't know what exploits could be implanted -- are there forms of rootkits that can go undetected? Or have all of these infected firmware been reverse engineered and the exploit in question cataloged?

According to ArsTech in this article (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/05/hacke...) the VPNFilter exploit can survive a reboot - so how can a simple reboot disinfect if the only delta is the owner of [one of] the second stage callback IP addresses? I haven't seen any mechanics explained that would actually disinfect the router.

I appreciate your response with actual critical thinking tips and not just flippancy - I don't know where else to have these types of discussions.
But attribution is not permanent legal requirement it’s eventually going to expire. And copyright or IP is about the owner of the repository, but not the personal information in a repository. I find it hard that “copyright” or IP applies to personal information unless you are the one owning it, which you don’t if you work for a company. However it could be kind of funny if you work another company contributing to a project owned by another company.

About “defense of legal claims”, removing people from the history will only strengthen your claim as the owner of the repo?

I’m not convinced that paragraph 3 actually applies here, not sure what exact claims can be done for keeping that information as it is. And can github “hide” behind such vague exceptions?
I don't think the FBI Special Agent job description is one line of "make humans trust you" - I believe it's closer to "protect the country from foreign and domestic threats," and I think just because the FBI tells me to jump doesn't mean I should jump...

Your second point is not clear to me. Space aliens aren't an extant authority on our planet (afaik)
KDE set goals. We are here to talk about them. Ask Us Anything (Reddit AMA)
More transports coming! IPFS is built on libp2p, and so far all available libp2p transports have been stream-oriented (TCP, Websockets, WebRTC, Onion, QUIC), but different types of transports are in the works: packet-oriented (UDP, Ethernet, WebRTC-unreliable) and store-and-forward.

Apart from that IPFS is built and layered in a way that makes the application layer independent of transport semantics - the network in terms of connections and hosts is abstracted away.
nah, just throw some ML inference and pray that most of their DNA was unused or secondary :p
The reason is because management is almost never driven by science or productivity maximization but maximization of either narrow subdivided metrics (like costs for a particular function) or absolute cargo cult conventional wisdom. Even when there is an empirical, data driven culture somewhere in an organization, it rarely extends to the board, often doesn't extend to the executive suite, and almost never extends into, say, facilitues management.
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Do we have hard attribution to a particular nation-state? I know it's being implied that "Fancy Bear did it" but that seems like something anyone who didn't look closer would just buy regardless of truth.
I kinda wonder about viability of alternatives to Silicon. I say that because the price of high quality silicon has dropped enough that other hardware costs are as important. Higher efficiency means you need less everything else.
On the other hand, remote upgradability is how malware gets itself installed in the first place.
if you're referring to a lack of productivity "focus" prior to having kids, sure. I recommend signing-off facebook/twitter/slack/discord/reddit/hackernews and only having them on your phone.

When you feel like geeking out on something, put the phone on airplane mode and put your IDE fullscreen. Focus should be a single goal 'e.g. rewrite that utility I did years ago in AIR and won't work on linux now because AIR is unsupported and I switched to linux because windows 10 screwed me with its forced updates while I was working' (real case ;)
Ask HN: How do you validate a business idea?
Hello HN,

I am not a business expert and I don't have any economics background so bear with me on this one. Let's say you have an idea for a new business or product and before start building it, you'd want to validate it. How would you do that? How would you know that the idea might fly? How would you research the market to see if it would fit?

I apologize if my questions are vague, I don't know what would the starting points for this topic be.

Thanks!
> why router manufacturers aren't financially responsible for the exploits

Because then they'd all exit the router business. Nobody wants to expose themselves to unlimited liability.
It gets better as they get older.
I'd be interested in how true that is. All we really know is that there are strong morphological similarities between modern and ancient horseshoe crabs, to the extent that can be evidenced by the fossil record.

But there are many contemporaneous species that seem similar in form but have very stark differences in e.g. behavior.

Unfortunately DNA AFAIK degrades beyond recovery on geologically short timescales, so we might not ever be able to say anything definitive.
Why are Latin/Greek listed together under rule #1? They may have shared cultural history but they’re not closely related aside from being in the very large Indoeuropean family. Latin should be with the Romanic languages if anything.

Also, it’s a bit naïve to say that a declined language only has 1-2 forms without taking into account oblique cases, but that’s a hard thing to deal with programmatically.
My first proper approach to programming was a BASIC dialect for the Pocket Viewer (An early Casio PDA). At that point I already knew how to work with a computer, how to download programs from the Internet and load them up in floppy disks or burn them to CDs (My computer didn't even have any USB ports) although my time with the family computer was rather limited whereas I could use Dad's Pocket Viewer which he didn't like a whole much and practically gave away to me any time I wanted.

It was really limited, with no real means to access the system's memory save for a couple roundabout ways including yes, actual PEEKing and POKEing of all things. But it was still extremely fun despite its limitations. I wrote a simple text adventure game, a virtual die (so I could play board games whenever my little brother "lost" their dice) and even a simple poll app (Presidential elections and how they were supposedly rigged with electronic voting was a big topic back then. Nowadays it's just a given where I live). I have no doubt these first approaches tend to be the most important and keep having an influence even way later on.
Been plainly clear for many years. Gamergate really has a lot to answer for in terms of allowing people with first-hand knowledge of a topic to see how blatantly and maliciously falsified it is in all quarters of the media.
Archived copy will hopefully work better:

https://archive.is/NX3VY
it was merged from acdlite's branch. look harder :)
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the issue of the article is resolved insofar attention was a concern.
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> Why should I trust the FBI?

So don't. No one is forcing you to reboot your router. No one who cares about this issue cares about your personal Jason Bourne fantasies.

Reboot. Don't reboot. For the rest of the world, your decision makes zero difference.

because skeptic

It's just like English. Close enough.
Why is there an assumption that competence is lost by allowing for equal opportunity?

We can prioritize equal opportunity and then meritocracy within that. There's no need for all this handwringing about loss of quality, when there's been no demonstrable evidence of that.

Things get better for a subset of educated people, and nothing gets worse for anyone, but we still get 1000s of comments like the one above.
> My only gripe with Nim is, as usual with non-mainstream languages, lack of libraries and frameworks (and lack of polish in the ones that exist, like Jester). The language itself is good and it's still evolving, so it has a chance of getting even better.

We need you to help us change that :)

> BTW: I've read your book, great job!

Thanks!

> Also, I like how the code listings are annotated - how did you generate them?

I used asciidoc to write the book and then my publisher applied some magic to format everything nicely. Not sure about the details I'm afraid.
They’ve been pretty good about not ending a season on a cliffhanger. That’s one of the many things I’ve enjoyed about the show.
The Lazarus IDE short circuits most of these problems and can quickly build some very "real" feeling apps that can solve real problems for people just learning to code.

It is object pascal (with the attendant quirks) but it seems to be code-ish enough that people can transfer on to more modern languages without too much fuss.

https://www.lazarus-ide.org/
That would be my expectation then, since an extension cable should behave (as much as possible) as the original port you'd be using.
Why would you shit all over your colleagues’ work like that? An announcement post is not a place to air your grievances.

I don’t even understand why you’d compare a pattern library to a rendering framework. And comparing development speed for a component in a shared library against that for a single use case is completely unfair.
I have a book, "Misson Control, This is Apollo" (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6082047-mission-control-...) that features a lot of Alan Bean's paintings. I always thought they were quite good but I'm no art expert.
Such nostalgia! I used to make fake dos prompts that would do strange things to commands that looked almost right. I was such a little twerp.
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> Yeah, definitely.

Next time you get a prescription filled, ask yourself if you're willing to pay that much for a router.
These are also worth including:

https://legiblenews.com

https://thecontext.net
> If you're willing to pay more above the taxes and do so, you're already part of the solution and you're already performing charity without the need of government.

No. I'm willing to pay a large amount to go towards public housing as taxes, but not as charity. The distinction here is that it coming in the form of taxes ensures that everyone (or at least everyone able) is also paying their fair share, and that we'll have enough for a substantive impact.

I don't have much interest in putting in extra while homo economicus types get the same benefits of living in a society with fewer people homeless while not contributing.
Google cannot update a phone that uses an OS built by another OEM. Since the OEM cited in this complaint is a low end Huawei phone they're responsible for pushing the update.
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Thanks, I will fix CSS.
You can likely get around the diode drop that this would impart by clever use of a P-channel mosfet.

https://hackaday.com/2011/12/06/reverse-voltage-protection-w...

This ends up using the body-diode that's present in all mosfets (it exists because you can't manufacture one without it) to get the initial protection, that then lets you turn on the mosfet fully, getting a much smaller voltage drop. You'd still need to be a bit cleverer to handle both sides but it shouldn't be too hard.
Store of Indian city names in different Indian native languages
Astronauts as a group trained together for years before going.

Source: The making of an ex-astronaut by Brian O'Leary.
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What was flying over Italy? UFO Search and rescue operation? 27th of May 2018
Pretty much the best idea to get action on this.