skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow! Anyone else reminded of the gargoyle rig from Snow Crash?

I went from "probably vaporware" to "I should look into buying one of these" just from looking through this teardown.
Only when the outrage gets loud enough to affect their chances for reelection (which happens with a lot of issues, just not this one).

Unfortunately, Hackernews seems to be the only place where security is taken seriously. Probably because we understand the severe collective risks involved to everything from banking to healthcare whereas most people as individuals don't care if say, their credit card number is stolen, since they aren't liable for fraud. It's hard to see the bigger picture if you aren't technical.
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CS 640: Introduction to Computer Networks at University of Wisconsin - Madison, taught by Dr. Paul Barford:

http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~pb/cs640.html

We used an earlier edition of the textbook in 2003 (if memory serves, might be +/- a year), and per the link above, looks like they used it as recently as Fall 2017. I remember greatly enjoying the book and the course.
Online Video Surges, Publishers Clamoring for Access to This Revenue Stream
The paper is also on arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.02047
Some things you can only reasonably do once a year, and I think it'd be a disservice to them to not do some planning. I like to think of it like a harvest festival: we've worked all year, let's enjoy some of the fruits of our labor.
In the blog article, they state:

> we have made sso a priority target for penetration testing by researchers on our bug bounty program — we’ve paid bounties for a number of reported issues!

While that makes it clear that they cared about penetration testing, it isn't what the person was asking to that you replied to -- they asked if they had contracted with an independent company to do testing. This did not seem to be answered by the article, and seems like a reasonable question to ask.
It absolutely is a "shady way to keep you using the app", in addition to a whole host of other subtle things you wouldn't even notice. My intern project one summer was a (failed, thankfully) experiment with one of the darkest patterns imaginable. Everything is very carefully tuned and measured against relevant stats. If it looks good in some place like Venezuela or Zimbabwe, it gets lined up for general rollout.
Kind of, "women laughing at salad" is a very odd (possibly unintentional) category of stock photography. https://www.thehairpin.com/2011/01/women-laughing-alone-with...

So when he mentioned women sipping champagne and laughing, it brought the image to my mind.
Pretty cool project. Thanks :).
I started and ran a science-oriented theme camp out there for over a decade as an impoverished academic, and a lot of my friends in the Bay Area help build or manage the event. I’m neither rich nor a hippy.

To me, the fundamental idea of the event is that we’ve become divorced from the act of creation and civic participation due to being enmeshed in a highly commodified, transactional society and that it’s worth trying to address that. Most people can’t use a torque-driver or recognize a turnbuckle. But people can learn, and when they get involved in build projects or camps out there they do. They start trying. It’s amateur art hour write very large, but the beauty of it is how many people start trying to make something of their own, sometimes with amazing results.

The event is flawed as hell and always has been, but it remains an astounding expression of labor devoted to the amateur’s search for meaning through creation. It’s art will never appeal to the traditional critic who worries more about the statement of art than it’s artifact. They can look down their noses at the idealism of those who thought to try to make something for once, instead of leaving the important job of art to those who know better, who have the right ideals, the right politics, the right message. We’re going to continue to do carpentry, to make circuit boards, to write software, and to teach others to get involved in the art of trying.
Home seems like a tough call but I could see commercial opportunities a la Beam: https://www.suitabletech.com
if you are in a jurisdiction that has something like the Statue of Frauds [2], you might try to argue the bet is invalid

At that point, you might just try more direct means of not having any friends and save yourself the hassle.
You are free to license your software as you wish, and I am not questioning your right to. There are three separate issues here.

>our responsibility is to choose our license terms and clearly communicate them to those who want to use the software

You are not doing this. Your website reads "Dgraph is available under an Apache v2.0 based liberal license", which is technically true but also very dishonest. Your software does not use the Apache 2.0 license, and users of it should not expect to enjoy the freedoms granted to them by the Apache 2.0 license.

>We have not changed the Apache license terms

This is not true. The Apache license explicitly grants freedoms which the following

>We have added an additional term

changes. Don't wrangle words into passable lies, you're not talking to idiots. Your wording is misleading and dishonest, which are two qualities you should be trying very hard not to associate with your brand. So far you're not doing well. No one is questioning your right to license the software as you wish. But you are not proud of your choice and are using slimy and dishonest language on your marketing material to hide your shame and trick potential users.

A separate issue is the subjective one, which is whether or not the commons clause is liberal. I think you are being dishonest here. There are widely accepted definitions for "liberal" among the open source community. The main differentiating factor of a liberal license is that it's not viral. Most people informed on this subject can then neatly and objectively file licenses into liberal and restrictive categories, with licenses like MIT, BSD, and Apache in the liberal camp, and the GPL family of licenses in the restrictive camp. However, the distinction has always been subjective, and nothing like the OSD exists. Additionally, the distinction is only ever applied in the comparison of open source licenses, of which yours is not a member. The realm of proprietary licenses masquarading as open source licenses is unexplored territory, and I'm drawing a line: no matter how restrictive a license like AGPL is, a license which is not even open source in the first place is far from liberal.

The third issue is whether or not using the Commons Clause is the right thing for Dgraph to do. In my opinion, it's a slap in the face to everyone who ever used or especially to anyone who ever contributed to Dgraph. In fact, as I was researching dgraph a bit more to see how you approached this issue, it also occurs to me that I can't find any discussion where existing Dgraph contributors were consulted on the matter of relicensing their work, which seems to me that your license change was not only distasteful and harmful to your project, but also illegal. Were all of the contributors consulted and their permission obtained to change the license? I'll certainly be consulting them if not.
"Wait, hiring a security guy is how much? Fuck that... How much is a Senior engineer to make our API? .... Shit. That would definitely cost me my third corporate lease... How much to hire those kids that emailed us out of the blue?

Yeah, I'm sure they'll do a fine job, just hire them.
The competition is no doubt the driver of reasonable'ish price in Sweden. Honestly feels odd how Sodastream is almost certainly pricing themselves out of the market (I personally know of several families who have abandoned their machines due to cost which can hardly be in Sodastream's favour, unless they are committing a wilful "slow exit" from UK market)
I think that may be more due to the fact that it is a cultural experience much like traveling to a foreign country. I haven't been to any burns but I attend one of the smaller regional events and there's always a culture-shock/reverse-culture-shock aspect to it that can be particularly thrilling.

If your friends are part of any theme camps then they might have events going on throughout the year; there's a burner scene and hanging out with them certainly builds anticipation.
I can't remember the exact year, but a while back, maybe 10 years ago, I was talking about this type of attack with some friends, including an EM transmission guy, and we came to the conclusion that it would be hard, but probably possible and it could probably be worked into an airport security scanner.

If memory serves, I sent Bruce Schneier an email about it and he replied with:

"Very interesting. Thanks."

Now that I'm older I realize the hard part would be keeping it secret that you're doing this, not actually pulling it off.
> Your other post at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17663077, specifically the part "We analyze this data and utilize advanced statistical methods to take our client’s guest communication and marketing efforts to a new level." sounds like you're a spam company. Nobody wants hotels to "market" to them.

Here's a direct link to his comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17672442

There seems to be some sort of HN bug or limitation that makes it hard to find when starting from the link to the whole "Who is Hiring" that you gave.

Specifically, if I go to your link, and repeatedly hit the "more" link at the bottom until HN is now supposedly showing all ~1000 comments, and use in-browser search to try to find his user name or to find phrases you quoted from his comment--no hits.

Specifically, if I go to either of the "Who is Hiring" threads the aforementioned comments are in, repeatedly go to the bottom and hit "more" until HN has shown me all that it is willing to show, and then use in-browser search (Firefox 62.0b19) to search for his user name or for phrases from his comments on the page--his comments do not show up in the results.

At first I thought you must have posted a link to the wrong "Who is Hiring", but no, if you go to the direct link I gave and hit parent, that takes you to the link you gave.
Life as a bug bounty hunter
Huck Finn is tough. It's not really appropriate as-is for the modern day child. So either you water it down to sell it as a kid's/young adult movie (what most versions have done), or you try to sell adults on watching a movie whose protagonist is a youth. Add to that the complexity of dealing with difficult racial topics, American history, and finding a young actor who can pull off the role and it's pretty clear why we don't yet have and probably never will have a good movie version of the book.

Maybe someone will make the movie from Jim's perspective and that would be an easier sell?
I don't know why you're getting downvoted. I'm not sure I agree with you about ownership, but it's a point worth considering, as are your other points.

Also, I like the idea that it's not services themselves that are the problem, but rather platforms being used to force them down people's throats. Coming up with policy to discourage services seems much more conceptually difficult than rediscovering serious antitrust, a simple oldie-but-goodie.
Things change, whatever. Burning Man is now it's a luxury art and music maker festival where the rugged conditions are part of the appeal in the same way that they are for Mount Everest. If you want the old Burning Man you'll have to start a new thing.
It's one of those things that the west knew and then forgot in the 90's after the cold war ended and we realized how great free markets were at improving people's lives.
Congratulations on your recent immanentization of the concept of the eschaton! ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanentize_the_eschaton
What exactly is nonsense about it? They get paid for part-time work they otherwise would have to do for free during an interview or as homework.
What's the alternative? Just have everybody constantly work and "time share" the kids between peoples shifts?

The nuclear family concept has its pros, it's also far from "raising kids in isolation", pros which these days are marginalized in favor of "alternative family concepts", but what all of them fail to address is the original reason why the nuclear family fell apart: Middle-class jobs can't support single income families anymore.

That is the actual problem, not in what constellations people chose to parent their kids.

As the economic pressure increases, more people from the family are forced into more work, leaving less time for the actual family and taking care of children.

In an ideal world work-load would have shifted, so both partners only work like half the time, leaving both of them time for family stuff. But that's not what happened, nowadays often both parents work full-time jobs and still make not enough to be able to afford a nanny, which would be an even worse solution.
Fogleman here. Funny to see an old project in the #1 spot (again?).

I hesitate to comment about this being productive while having kids thing, but some people seem to be implying that I must never spend time with my kids. It's far from the truth. A week ago my son (age 5) and I went camping in the backyard. Coincidentally, he and I have just recently started playing the real Minecraft together on our own private server - every evening lately. (I had never actually really gotten into the real Minecraft before, believe it or not.) We've been playing lots of Thinkfun games like Rush Hour and Shape by Shape. I actually still lay with my son while he falls asleep every night. My daughter (age 7) and I walked to the playground and played for a while there yesterday. We go out and check my vegetable garden daily, and my daughter likes to play "baseball" (plastic bat and ball) in the backyard with me. I work from home currently which is nice because there's no commute and I can see my kids a lot. We have "dance parties" in my home office where there's lots of open floor space. I could go on of course.

I fully understand the sentiment that time is short when it comes to spending time with your kids before they are grown.

There are plenty of folks without kids who aren't super productive too - so the whole thing seems a false dichotomy to me.

Frankly I don't even feel like I work that hard. Maybe "hard" is the wrong word. A lot of people are constantly busy and have no free time. Yet they don't seem so productive? I'm the opposite of that, somehow.

I know I'm under no obligation to defend myself - but there you go.
I've been using dgraph for a side project. I chose it because I have a really high performance requirement and I find the query language feels 'right'.

Glad to see the progress made, and bugs found and fixed, for these Jepsen tests.

As a side note, interesting to see a largely Go-based, real-world project plagued with race conditions. Quite a few bugs read "but it was done in a goroutine" or "but mutable capturing in a goroutine", and even a segfault.
It will use lasers to send the data. An interesting proposal to use the sail as an antenna here: http://breakthroughinitiatives.org/forum/13?page=4
It's not really an issue to me that someone else is making money, I understand I could come off as a budding capitalist who's mad they are missing out on their cut. But that's not the case. I have always felt OSS was an embodiment of human generosity, and it just seems that it's been commandeered by commercial interests. Passionate devs are happy to keep working on it anyway, because it's fun. Their efforts might have been better spent on more altruistic OSS projects, but that's not my decision to make, and I don't exactly lead by example.
Netflix is the latest company to try bypassing Apple’s app store
Look at the code coverage. Not just the line percentage, but look at the more complex pieces. Are they covered or not?

Don't refactor it right away. I'll take your word that the code is shit (frequently the case), but you don't know the idiosyncrasies well enough to know what to do with it.

After you've worked with the code a while, you'll be able to attempt a large refactor. Until then, gather low hanging fruit. Clean up confusing variable names. Add comments where needed. Write your new code as clearly and cleanly as possible. Use a tool like sonar to inspect your new code so that you don't introduce new problems.

Most importantly, ADD UNIT TESTS. That will make sure that your new code works with the old and it will allow you to attempt a larger refactor while being sure that you aren't breaking anything.

If necessary, you may need to add some integration tests as well.

I've been in your shoes. Bad code is no fun, but don't let it get you down. Focus on the happy parts of your job (team, culture, whatever). Good luck!
I never been to either, but the burners in my area also go to firefly. There also are a variety of burning man associated events at other times.

https://www.fireflyartscollective.org
Smalltalk is simple. But Smalltalk doesn't help making your programs simpler - at least not as much as a powerful FP language.

OOP is a convenient tool for cutting your state into smaller, independent pieces. But that can only go as far as the pieces can be independent, what for most practical domains is not very much. It also does not bring any other big benefit bundled with it, what looks to me like the EDJ complaint is all about.
For meltdown, speculative execution alone only allows an attacker to load stuff in to the processor's cache, actually reading if from cache requires a textbook side channel timing attack.

So meltdown definitely qualifies as side-channel.
There are many options. For the wireless part my suggestion is to use zwave or zigbee devices as both protocols are open and widely used.

You can use a raspberry pi with a controller and Home Assistant (or equivalent) or an Athom homey which is not fully open but freely programmable.

Option:
https://xiaomi-mi.com/sockets-and-sensors/xiaomi-mi-smart-so...

And Ikea will release zigbee wall plugs this year, their gateway uses the open coap protocol (no need to use their app) and as said you can also use any zigbee controller you want.

Fibaro sells zwave wall plugs, but there are others.

Finally sonoff has wifi plugs which can be flashed with open firmware.
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Ah! Almost my entire ~5 mile (each way) is on bike paths. But audiobooks are definitely different than music. Much easier to hear around as there's only a single person speaking instead of various continuous channels.
Re "Facebook sold API access to Cambridge Analytica": it was free, CA didn't pay any money to FB, they simply had an app on FB.

Re "they have proven they will fork over user information wholesale if it means continued company growth": that's very fair criticism imo. I would just note that "fork over" here means "give access to apps on the platform". Also, they changed this mechanism years ago, this scraping vector is no longer around.

Re "I take it you work at Facebook, right?": as I wrote in the original comment, I worked there for 18 months in 2016-2017, I no longer work there nor do I own any stock. I'm a heavy FB user since 2013 when I got divorced, the net of FB for me as a user is very positive, every day. Based on seeing FB internally, I think it's a great company, and I'm comfortable to entrust them my data (I was a Data Engineer, so I have an idea what they do with data).
I'm not an expert on the on the inner workings of the human eye, but yes I believe the severity of the "blur" effect depends on the difference between the distance of the focal plane the object is rendered on and the actual distance your eyes are focusing on. As long as it's "close enough" you won't notice. (Though I have no idea how close "close enough" is for the average human.)
How do you prove that you deleted something?
Nothing happened because it's very difficult to assess damages of personal information.

For example, if a health insurer the size of Equifax lost the equivalent amount of HIPAA related information due to negligence, you can sure bet there would be penalties. That's because HIPAA related info has legally defined protections.

As it is, calculating the damages of releasing your equifax info is a speculative guess at best, which is why at most you got to lock access or ID fraud protection.
Just wanted to say you sound like a great parent!
It's quick and easy to get going. It comes with build in social features for both writers and publications.

But it also comes with negatives, biggest one being that most content is just old "re-purposed" content from other sources.
I really like a lot of F#, but it is really difficult for those of us with limited .NET experience (Python, R...etc experience here). There are several F# books, but it's all a bit above me. If you are an F# evangelist, please consider spreading that idea around. Maybe an updated tryFsharp.org would help. Not just REPL snippets either but how to put things together.

I appreciate everything the open source community does btw. It is just a little frustrating that there is a really cool language and ecosystem that I'm only making glacial progress in.
yes and that's fine

but lets look at the article itself: why is it even written? because it transformed to being more of “the hippest party around” instead of “true experiment in intentional creative community”, despite maintaining both of those experiences for everyone that attends?

I casually hear all of the disdain towards the concept of burning man, and it mostly comes down to the contrived concept which themselves only stand out because of the costs necessary to get there

this festival in particular invites it, and I enjoy the privilege of being able to go
Thank you. That is a great collection and brought back some very good memories of some great stories.

I have a large collection of old science fiction books (60’s and 70’s) from spending a lot of time in second hand book stores.

Growing up before the internet and the explosion of the genre in the 90’s that use to be the only way to find new books or authors.

The art of sci-fi book cover has certainly lost something...if only for being more pc.
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Looking forward to read about it. Thank you for the project!
Great point. I went from 25Mbps DSL to symmetric gigabit fiber last year, and that'll change your life.
We use self-hosted WP. I find it's the most flexible option.
Agreed, but most of the people on this site are not 87 year old retirees. It would be criminal for them to miss out on those returns.
The fact that one of those phones exist anymore speaks to how incorrect this statement is.
Robust endianness conversion
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BoA? I use that feature too, and I'm worried that they'll just drop it once flash reaches end of life.
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I'm not a big export on notifications, but afaik on current Android there's OS level ways to turn off notifications. Eg. in the swipe-down thing if I tap-and-hold a FB notification, it offers to turn off all notifications of this category (eg. FB comment notifications). I just tried it.
Many people (including me) think it’s best to start with the Foundation core set - Foundation, Foundation and Empire, and Second Foundation. Then you can move to the Robots Series - Caves of Steel, Naked Sun, and Robots of Dawn. Then circle back to the Foundation sequels, which ties them together a bit. It's important not to read Robots and Empire until you read the Foundation series.