skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FTA:

> After the first hack, Terpin alleged that an impostor was able to get his phone number from an "insider cooperating with the hacker" without an AT&T store employee requiring him to show valid identification or provide a required password.

If what he's alleging is true, then he certainly has a case against AT&T.
Not on that scale. But I know plenty of teachers who chose not to be administrators because they enjoyed what they do. I also know many first level software development managers who “self demoted” to become software developers and took a pay cut.

Other developers I know took a pay cut and contracted half the year. You can make those choices if you don’t have outrageous expenses- including student loans.
Ask HN: IT security for small teams?
For enterprise teams, there are lot of expnesive options to secure IT infrastructure and assets including computers, servers etc.

If you are a smaller team, what are the options to consider that don't go beyond say $100/Month ?
I am asking in terms of things like encryption for laptops, ssh key management, login/password management including things like 2FA (yubikey?) etc.
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Hey guys! Launched this on Product Hunt yesterday. Wanted to see what HN thought about it too.

Upload your (or anyone’s) public LinkedIn profile in PDF using LinkedIn’s ‘Save to PDF’ feature. The tool scores your profile and gives you feedback on how to improve your profile’s visibility and discoverability.

Would love your feedback.
>(For example, luxury condos get built, but affordable housing does not.)

One think to think about, in a lot of areas where only luxury condos are being built, there tend to be pretty limited numbers of condos being built. If you are a developer and you know you will only be allowed to build 50 units, you are going to build the most expensive units you can so you can maximize your gross profit even if the marginal profit rate isn't as good. If you were allowed to build 1000 units, you might choose to build affordable housing that has a better marginal profit since the larger number of units allows you to have a higher gross profit.
Milo became less prominent after he got banned, but not necessarily /because/ he got banned. His loss of prominence followed an impressive string of self destruction, of which his banning from twitter was only one part.
Find a good Korean fried chicken place. Most of them will have a pretty spicy option.
In fact, there's no way to make a C for loop run 256 times using only an 8-bit counter, because there aren't enough states. Looping N times requires N+1 evaluations of the termination condition, and with only 256 states of the index variable you can't have more than 255 iterations.

You can do it with a do { } while loop, which only needs N evaluations of the termination condition for N iterations.
Waymo: Why a virtual world simulation is crucial to self-driving cars
I usually have my foot with me.

Foot + phone + ground = destroyed phone

But, with enough resources they could still read the memory in the phone even if it was smashed.
Why would a university willingly give up millions of dollars in tuition?

Some people and institutions optimize for other things once they have enough money.

Alas, this couldn’t have a large effect on health costs anyway, since costs are dominated by things other than doctor pay.
$1B is an ~8% increase in industry revenue. That doesn't feel extremely significant in terms of value added.
> Starting at 1 is more intuitive

Only when counting. Why should 'numbering' be the same as 'counting'? I don't see why that would lead to a generally more intuitive when most of what you calculate with 'numbering' is offsets and indexes. Offsets begin at zero. Indexes could be by ordinal and not by offset, I suppose, but I don't see how that could be a benefit in typical index calculations--mostly they're just offsets in my world, distances between indexes.

I rarely ever refer to specific, literal indexes, so I can't say that I have much of an opinion on them, but that does seem to be the area where indexing by ordinal would make the most sense. Perhaps this is the main operation that dominates numerical calculations? Rails even adds english ordinal methods (e.g. first, second, third, fourth, fifth) for this purpose.
You should create a sample poll and link to it, so we can try it out. I'm not going to register for something to demo it.
I interpreted “high-bias” as meaning it has an idiosyncratic and specific audience, but “low variance” as meaning with high probability it will be an effective teaching tool for that audience.
Also concerning is what they are doing towards companies (pardon the tangent):

> It covers [...] device vendors [...] as long as they have "a nexus to Australia"

> But what if the suspect stores the keys themselves? In that case, the government would pull out the big guns with a second kind of order called a technical capability notice. It forces communications providers to build new capabilities that would help the government access a target’s information where possible.

> What if the communications provider doesn’t want to help? Then they could face penalties from the government, or "injunctions or enforceable undertakings".

Yeah, right. But the precedent is alarming, because what is happening (and you see it with other "pro law enforcement" or "pro privacy" legislation too) is governments are giving themselves broad enforcement powers to ask for things and then only using it when push really comes to shove. This they-can-but-they-probably-won't approach towards enforcement is dangerous as it removes predictability in favor of government subjectivity. What does it mean in practice? It can mean that while Samsung or Apple would give them the middle finger resting on their size/leverage, a smaller company can't do that. So the enforcement agencies proportionalize their punishments to the amount tolerable without citizen backlash.

Everyone should just remember this tactic when we go around praising laws with big punishments for big companies just because we happen to like the spirit of the law. And also remember this when people call us stupid for questioning subjectivity of statute enforcement or the lack of statute enforcement in general when new versions of these laws are crafted.
It is a legal definition. It the US it goes:

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech"

"Free speech" in the US is a specific legal limitation on congress. It doesn't mean that individuals or companies have some obligation to provide others with the means of spreading their ideas.
2006, but my highschool was really early in Germany with this (and e.g. we weren't allowed to use Python in our exit exams years later, since it hadn't been approved yet)
Authy specifically stores your account in the cloud and can be recovered using SMS. They have a 24 hour warning period during which the email address on file receives multiple notifications that a recovery is being attempted with the option to cancel but if someone has control over your phone number for an extended period of time they can absolutely take over your Authy account. I found this out when my Authy account was corrupted somehow and support said, hey no worries just go through the recovery process.

Google Authenticator is offline only and is not vulnerable.
Castle Wolfenstein, Lode Runner, Karateka, Ultima, Wizardry...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Apple_II_games

I don't ever remeber being bored for want of games. My house is where the neighborhood kids went to play video games.

And what I remember about my Atari 800 is that it got so much play we were comstantly having to repair or replace the terrible joysticks because the bubble switches on the circuitboard would wear out too easily.
The world took web (the whole idea of documents linked to each other) and used all their "creativity" to make this some sort of "application platform" (which is never was designed to be).
Malpractice suits are brought over 3x as often in the US as in Canada, and malpractice insurance can cost more than an order of magnitude more.

However, in the US there is a much greater incentive to sue. About 21% of malpractice suits that pay out, pay out over $1,000,000. Something that elsewhere would merely net you enough to handle the medical fallout, in the US nets you a lottery jackpot. Because the money on the line is so high it incentives both layers and plaintiffs to aggressively maximize the payout. Like so many other aspects of the US health system, other countries do it better.

* All claims were the results of a few minutes of research on Google, I would be interested in learning of evidence that contradicts my claims.
What about WGU?
Cool project and am glad to see RethinkDB getting some love, a couple questions, specifically about the hardware, came to mind:

Do you order the hardware and then place it wherever you like, or do you guys set it up?

How does shipping it work?

What is it underneath: Raspberry Pi + custom stuff (batteries etc)?

Will you be offering fancier machines later on, as in a machine that lets you input text?

Thanks for posting, i might well have use for this some day.
Computer gaming and home computing in general had it's own crash at about the same time
Wait until they learn about dihydrogen monoxide. This chemical has a 100% mortality rate!
If the subsidies are private it would be a great way to solve the "free education" for everyone promise that is gaining traction (I'm assuming education will also be pitched as a right if it hasn't already).

But as long as health is not a free market, then the price isn't going to necessarily go up or down in response to costs. The price will continue to be function of political power and monopolistic practices as it is now.
There was a site posted on HN a while back that had an interesting take on a solution to this: they had a service-worker that checked github.com for the latest version of the app code and itself (along with the standard subresource integrity of course). That description doesn't do the system justice, as to my memory it seemed like a pretty sound system as long as your public repo remains uncompromised.

Unfortunately can't remember the name of the website nor exactly what it did...
>There’s a huge line between the confusing, but relatively safe flat earth conspiracy theorists and the the one that actively riling up people to harass parents grieving over children.

How about anti-vaxxers...are they somewhere in the middle?
While that's very encouraging to hear, that depends wildly on what program and specialty you are in. West coast vs East Coast plays a role too.

Peds/OBGYN/IM/Derm and most female dominated specialties you see this.

Neurosurgery, Ortho, Gen surg, etc not so much.
"Quitting is always an option"

I always said that until the 2003 downturn. Things can change very quickly.
ARM-powered Mac idea boosted by firm claiming its chips can out-perform Intel
I wrote a short note to Steven Kent a few years ago saying I enjoyed reading his book. He was kind enough to write back and thank me for reading. The earlier editions had a different name: The First Quarter: A 25-year History of Video Games. [1]

He noted in his letter that he wouldn't have chosen such an "arrogant" title for his book as "The Ultimate History", and the decision was the publisher's. Seemed like a thoughtful and humble person.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/First-Quarter-25-year-History-Video/d...
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Yep, totally agree! We soon upload some polished media footage of actual buzzer stations placed in cities so that people can get a better understanding of it.
It's truly ridiculous how hard it is for hospitals to answer this question sometimes. We've occasionally received the answer that they won't know the price until after the appointment because they won't know which code to charge until they've provided service. Then you ask what the cost of the likely codes are and they still have no idea.
No, it's definitely poorly thought out. This is one of the problems that we're trying to deal with over in the wlroots camp.
Ha, I have fond memories of abusing school photocopiers to share these things, which I think is probably why some developers adopted the red acetate trick to obfuscate the answers to the copy protection questions. Color photocopying was obviously very significantly harder to come by back then, a B&W copy wouldn't work with the red lens.

The design of the code wheels for those games that had them was often surprisingly elaborate as well.
I don't think we understand each other. If a device gets in the hands of the attacker, I won't assume he/she's going to use your code and obey to your restrictions. The primary device contains the key, that the attacker can possibly extract and use, setting any arbitrary counter he/she wants.

I see your point on the limited usage of the backup while you buy a new device. This goes back to my initial comment... you basically always need 2 active security devices, so I don't really see any big benefit in having a backup vs a secondary device.
These concepts are interesting:

https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/18217/javascrip...

https://bitbucket.org/geraintluff/caution.js/

The idea is that a long data-uri containing hashes and a small loader function are bookmarked. The loader won't load the corresponding javascript unless the hashes match. The user only needs to verify the javascript once, then they can rely on their bookmark containing the hashes. If the server were to swap out the javascript, the bookmark would fail to load it.
Authy at least will let you "recover" your account by them sending a text message to the associated phone number. Tap the link in the message and presto, 2FA codes.
Right. Also everything is a file, an object, etc.
Maybe indexing should be considered harmful. We're living in the age of really smart compilers anyways. It's time to move on. Elixir sets the example - do everything with TCR, provide an Enumerable interface, and beyond that use map/reduce.
This is based on a slippery slope argument: if the major platforms can ban speech inciting violence against Jews and African-Americans, then what's to stop them from doing it for other classes of speech? The answer is that the public outcry for kicking off other kinds of users is likely to be more pronounced and more justified. I'm not shedding any tears for the Daily Stormer or Gab, and I don't view them as canaries in the coal mine.
Actually, the second POSIX subsystem could deliver signals to Win32 processes. Who pointed at the Linux subsystem, by the way?

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11416392
Yes, and twitter, facebook, 24/7 news, computer games, everything we can to escape the simple fact that life, for most of us is just plain boring and meaningless.
The line is established:

The (US) government has legal limitations on what it can do that results limiting of free expression.

Corporations do not.

Twitter, FB, and any other platform run by a private company is not obligated to provide a platform for anyone, nor is it obligate to suppress anyone whose actions do not break laws covering private individuals.

FWIW I terminated my Twitter account yesterday. The platform provided no value to me, and I did not care to provide value to them.
Part of the problem with software today is bulk of the jobs are library plumbing.

Sure you still have jobs where something of high quality like an OS patch, driver or some big algorithm work needs to be done- But those jobs are rare, and there are often ways to hire such people looking at their prior experience.

Its always hard for freshers to break into the cream software jobs that can offer you some different experience compared to others.

In general you have to take whatever comes along the way and build on that. This is unfortunate, regardless of whatever practice you might have done on leetcode, plumbing like jobs are what are common in the world today.
Elon Musk’s Boring Company Plans to Dig a Tunnel to Dodger Stadium
I have a work VM with a stripped out i3 that can't create new terminals other than a startup terminal with tmux (which calls shutdown now on EOF); and it can still do basic interaction with other new windows. This reduces problems with VirtualBox X integration and makes the VM simple and like a terminal with some X capabilities. I3 is really flexible for this kind of use case.
On the one hand, you say we need to give geographic minorities extra power so that their interests are protected.

On the one hand, you say we shouldn't give other minorities extra power because without geographic distance jealousy/tension would overwhelm the political system.

I can't help but point out that you're making this claim on a thread attached to a story about a violent rural rebellion against urbanites! I.e., geography doesn't defuse those tensions.

So given that those tensions exist no matter what, is there any justification?

> It might not be a reasonable, logical justification, but it exists.

So to be clear, there's no reasonable justification for giving geographic minorities extra voting poewr that doesn't also justify giving other minorities extra voting power.

The only justification is grounded in realism: a fear of jealous-inspired violence toward neighbors that geographic distance would presumably prevent.

How does the very article we're commenting on not completely refute this argument?

> MA isn't that much of a special case, as it's the case in the majority of states and Federally.

It's a special case in the majority of land mass (this is just a tounge-in-cheek joke ;-) )

Federally, I disagree. Democrats won the popular vote in the Senate and Presidency but control neither. That's largely attributable to urban voters in states that allocated their electoral votes to (R).
Glad they're protesting something actually bad this time (unlike US military tech)
::world -> world :)
> One important benefit of Go's error handling pattern is readability.

Maybe; personally I find it increased clutter that obscures readability (much as do checked exceptions.)

> With exceptions, it's not easy to see who handles it and where.

Who handles it and where is the one thing that is explicit and readily apparent with unchecked exceptions. What can be harder to see with unchecked exceptions than with error returns or checked exceptions is who (other than the original source) throws it and requires consideration of handling it or ignoring/rethrowing it in the caller.
Right. There's too many levels of abstraction. It's like trying to find the implementing code and all you keep finding is interfaces.
Oh we added support for VT sequences in commandline apps years ago - case in point, WSL.

see [this docs page](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/console/console-vir...) for a (surprisingly incomplete) list of VT sequences we support, and how to use them.
Apologies if this was covered somewhere on the web site, but I wasn't able to find it -- may I ask what are the serving sizes? Are these individual servings suitable for one person, or for a larger group/family (4).
You basically said so in your last paragraph, and I agree it's a tradeoff, I just want to reiterate that in my experience, bubbling up and retrying/degrading/failing at the top level (system boundary, client side) makes for a robust (distributed) system you can reason about. Having hundreds of easter eggs in the project where somebody tried to do something smart when encountering an error seems more like a nightmare scenario to me. Old Java enterprise applications are filled with this, and they are rightfully frowned upon. Checked exceptions are the culprit.
Don't you think there are plenty of people out there that would be willing to do Doug's job just as well (or better) for < 22.8 million?
Since the insurance charges the same for a large prescription versus a small one, even if you aren't planning on selling them, it makes sense from a financial perspective to get the extra pills, just in case you do need them. (If there are complications, or if something else happens, etc.)
Sometimes things happen. There are commercials on TV all of the time where lawyers are soliciting people to sue doctors for birth defects like cerebral palsy.

I’m glad that my parents spent my childhood focused on therapy, motivation, etc to help me deal with cerebral palsy than placing the blame on the doctor.

Yeah my case is relatively minor in the grand scheme of things.
Did you really have to derail this discussion with this side-topic too, instead of participating in one of the numerous other ones in the last few days?
This is great! Now lets please do the same for nurses and social workers who pay exorbitant tuition rates, too, yet get paid peanuts to be on the frontline of health care.
It’d be best to imagine something else. Stenographers are much too busy in court, recording transcripts of proceedings as they transpire. They wouldn’t have time to help avoid detection.

I think it’s probably better to use a stegosaurus, given their spiked tail, and boney plates, which will scare off any attackers.

Or maybe just safely conclude that casually pondering what might or might not work isn’t good enough, and cannot compare to what’s faced in a real situation, where simply knowing what the word steganography means wouldn’t help either.
It isn't credible because the IRS IG has nothing to do with securities law and so they aren't the proper authorities. A simple read of their website shows it exclusively has to do with proper application of internal revenue code.
I did a prelim-surgery intern year. The hours are worse than medicine, but there are way less "mandatory" activities (no lectures, no endless rounding, etc.). For the most part, you're on the floor waiting for pages. I used the time between pages to write code.

Now I'm a radiology resident and have much more time.
Oooh, that's very cool. Thanks for the links.
Nobody likes the decals about using unsigned drivers on their desktop. You should be able to self-sign, which might also be a bit more secure. Unfortunately, that is not allowed in Windows afaik.
> The name of the level is "the properties of a mirror" which hints that you need to find a mirror of the original site in order to solve the level, and I think that the mirrors are no longer online.

I would assume that if this were the case someone who has already completed that level could check if where they found it was still up? Perhaps this is not the interpretation of the level name that the writers had in mind?
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Big and Small Computing: Trajectories for the Future of Software
>The gap between productivity and a typical worker’s compensation has increased dramatically since 1973

https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/
I completely agree with you. I just don't want to reinforce the impression that MDMA can be treated/used in the same way as tobacco, alcohol, marijuana, or even LSD. I am not opposed to its use, medically or recreationally, I just want to make clear that it is something that should be treated with more care and caution that, say, marijuana.
Would you, under immediate threat, be able to locate and destroy the memory chips—and specifically the memory chips—on your phone? If they're prepared to lock you up for 10 years, they're prepared to do some serious digital forensics on some unsnapped chips.
Genuinely curious - What is the current state / precedent for this type of situation in the US?