skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Haha, good point. 8am is a long wait though.
Three. Laptop mic, + a wi-fi connect ipad and iphone.
>My short story aside, if you have been identified as someone worthy to be recruited, why do a lot of people on HN find it so offensive?

I don't know any other way to read these emails than "your job is worse than what we are offering!". Since I've chosen this job myself and happen to like it very much it appears quite insulting, especially when the offered job is objectively worse (i.e. less pay, less fun, less prestige).
zero, actually. Not super intentional. I tend to unplug my speakers and plug in the headset only when I need it. The cell phone is in the other room.

I did like the old days when forward facing cameras had slide shutters on them.
Why I will never fit in amongst C++ programmers
Thanks. That's the reason I asked about it. I have stopped reading or at least have not read or heard about any latest NSA news. So, I have no clue whatsoever.

I think I vaguely knew it was about privacy but was not sure why was the question being posed about the number of microphones. So, now I am curious about the story!
New Android Trojan has been discovered, its almost impossible to remove
Is this really true? Does anyone know more about this Trojan? http://www.amongtech.com/new-android-trojan-almost-impossible-to-remove/
while I agree that users could do a lot of the computing that is now outsourced to the cloud on their own computers, I think there is a lot of convenience in the cloud model and it may be hard to get consumers to move away from it. I would like to hear more about how we might actually effect change so that the government simply doesnt have the right to requisition data from companies as they have been.
Perhaps... but as a society, we also love to freak out about danger to children. The younger the child and the less-well-defined the risk, the better. FAS presses all the right buttons.
Plan 9 doesn't separate the read and write fds, but does provide a separate ctl file to replace ioctl. This may be a cleaner approach: control signals are no longer "in band" operations on the data fd (or fds). Logically it seems better to have a single fd representing a full-duplex connection, and expecting the programmer to keep track of the connection state (or possibly receive an error if they don't)
> Look around your home. There are processors and programming in most every electronic device you have

And those devices are packing more punch for their size -- just look at the Raspberry Pi and it's competitors.
G.hn gear you can buy has been slow in coming, and it's got competition. I found a good overview of the situation here:

www.theregister.co.uk/2013/02/05/feature_powerline_networking_the_next_generation/print.html
So you want to be a frontend engineer?
c'mon it's a lot more likely than any of those. but can imagine a future in which the only way to run Windows on new hardware is in a Linux VM.
Printrbot was a disaster on kickstarter, hopefully they are getting better at on-time deliveries (the guy on the first picture of this article is the founder of that company)... they were almost 1 year late if I remember correctly
It always breaks nytimes.
Hmmm... use two TCP sockets?
You probably have better developers pushing live code over at those other places, I'd bet.
I'm very interested in how dynamically generated code interacts with instruction and micro-op caching on modern processors. I'm working on intersecting lists of compressed integers at really quickly, and JIT-like approaches seem to be the frontier for fast decompression schemes. It seems likely you've thought about this. Any suggestions?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17738154/how-can-i-write-...
Nate is a sports geek first and a newsman second, it is quite literally that simple. If you don't believe me the read the first half of his book.
My statement wasn't meant as a general argument, but was just referring to this specific case - namely, inexpensive fast food. In order for the comparison between American and Yugoslavian work ethic to hold, you'd have to lower the American salaries to the point where they cannot afford McDonald's food. Let's see how that impacts their productivity.
It never ceases to amaze me that such emails are carefully constructed in the graphical sense, but miserable failures in the grammatical.
It was vBulletin and PHP so the hash function is as follows:

$hash=MD5(MD5($password)+$salt)

These guys think it is incredibly fun to crack Vbulletin passwords as well:

http://forum.md5decrypter.co.uk/default.aspx
http://www.coreboot.org
I thought they were writing an article on the Tor-hidden network that is home to tons of black market transactions
They want us to be transparent.

They just don't want to be transparent themselves.
Summer soup
This article is the ultimate proof that ANY Medium link is garbage.

I'm glad Tolstoy is not around anymore and is not able to post on Medium as it would surely turn out to be bad.
I believe culture is a real thing that influences behavior. The word simply refers to group norms around behavior and attitudes. Any group of any size will have a culture.

I believe that culture is a poor explanation for events in some cases. As you pointed out, it is probably not a good explanation in the case of deference (although I am not well-versed in the differences between Japanese deference and Korean deference), but that doesn't mean that cultural explanations are invalid altogether.

In particular, a training program will have a certain culture (set of attitudes and behaviors that get inculcated in the trainees), partly influenced by the national culture (including financing levels, collaboration with foreigners, etc.), and partly evolved on its own.

If not for culture, how do you explain the differences in training? I'm not saying your view is invalid, I just haven't heard what you think about this yet.
simple NLP solution

famous last words.
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You are versatile across technologies and platforms, and can teach yourself what you don't know quickly. Ideally you have some experience with distributed database systems (cassandra, hadoop, hbase, etc.), security (HIPAA), and generally get excited about data, sensors, health, and how we can combine them to make people healthy at scale.

We are based in Palo Alto, California - the right candidate can work remotely for a time period, though we would like to get the whole team under the same roof soon.

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(As I understand it) Plan9's file-system abstracted over network connections, yeah. You'd bind files & folders to your view of the filesystem, and that binding could cross network boundaries.

EDIT: theoh says it better https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6080324
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2625101

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2645659
Why Weed Isn't Legal and May Never Be
Well, a phone that doesn't have NFC ? -1 for me.

This thing sounds like a phablet to me
>I was aware I was rambling more about being frustrated about society than existential depression

Actually, I think you were more on target than not, as it is very difficult to delink the two. The article discusses frustration about society or the "less-than-ideal" state of things as some of the preconditions leading up to the existential depression that some gifted kids experience.

Sure, there remain issues of our smallness, purpose, etc. However, I have often wondered what the Laozi quote you referenced crystallizes so well: what if we weren't all induced to participate in this "Matrix" of a society that pushes many of us into a life of subsistence while others profit from our efforts? What if instead we were more community than competitors and were more free to pursue what fulfills us and betters humankind? Would we feel as small and hopeless? Or would we be empowered and enlightened by our hand in creating and participating in a just society? And would the discoveries and progress that ensue as a result of so much effort and brainpower dedicated to causes other than personal economic benefit actually offset at least some of our sense of lostness and insignificance? That is, would we be more evolved and literally more significant or aware of our significance? Perhaps we humans are actually far, far more powerful and significant than any of us presently realize.

The world's resources would surely support such an arrangement if our mechanisms for allocating them were more evolved than "mere economics".

Surely, when gifted kids have such thoughts but are instead forced headlong into the Matrix, the temptation towards a more hopeless state and subsequent existential depression becomes highly possible if not probable.
I'm with Quartz, as another commenter below notes. I usually spend my time here reading and posting some stories. Am working up to commenting.
http://markwatson.com/opencontent_data/lisp_lic.htm
Imagine reversing the direction of reporting: allowing the user to learn more about the network, for example. That would be just one reason to put custom firmware on a SIM card. Another might be running a known-secure firmware for security-conscious users (corporations, governments, kidnapping/extortion targets, etc.).
I'm guessing its more the latter (send an error an then use the result to deduce the key) That being the case, then someone duplicating the Raspberry Pi micro cell site could passively attack any phone that came within range.

Makes you wonder if the FBI snooping cell tower already does this :-)

Makes me wish I had the burner phone concession at DefCon.
Firefox DOM Inspector showed that each <video> tag has one src attribute pointing to webm file while I expected to see separate <source> subtags for webm and mp4. It turns out that the video tags and other content are inserted by JavaScript.
Do you all make money developing Linux software for consumers? Anything my mom may have used, perhaps?
This is a great article. Unfortunately, I don't see it ever working out. It would be one huge workspace though...
No doubt, but unfortunately it's probably not as simple as placing the 'gifted' ones in one room and the 'ungifted' ones in another. Surely its a spectrum?
4 mics, 4 cameras.
I use TCC for this type of thing. TCC is a small, fast C99 compiler that is also a library (so it can be embedded in an application). It can compile code into memory which can then be called (in fact, the same code can be re-compiled multiple times, each time resulting in new code).

On the down side, it only supports x86, X86-64 and Arm architectures.
So are all computing security jobs tied to the U.S.? I can think of Avast in the Czech Republic and Kaspersky Lab in Russia off the top of my head, there's probably a lot more out there.
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Oh I missed that, point taken
I have been working on OTA platforms for years with Mobile Network Operators worldwide, and I have yet to meet one that is only using DES for OTA keys. All the ones I know are using 3DES. Not sure where Nohl is getting his estimations from. Half a billion SIMs? Show me the data.

For this attack to work remotely you need to send a binary SMS and be able to read the SIM answer, which probably requires some privileged access to an operator's SS7 network. Far from obvious. Since Network Operators are in complete control of SMS traffic, blocking anything that has not been issued by their own OTA platform is just a matter of configuring a filter on an SMS-C -- if not already done.
If your expectations are learned in one RDBMS and you move to another, you will always find things that "don't work as expected."

This is why it's a bad idea to assume you can treat RDBMSs as interchangeable black boxes, unless you confine yourself to the most basic subset of standard SQL.
I'm not sure if there's a cause-effect relationship here. MakerBot was only founded in 2009 [1], RepRap released their first project in 2007 [2] and the project I was a part of, Fab@Home, open-sourced in 2006 [3].

I can't speak to the other projects' motivations, but I know that the fact that patents were expiring made little to no difference on our decision to make a printer. If you can believe it, the Fab@Home was almost an afterthought. We had top-of-the-line commercial 3D printers in the lab, but they didn't do the kind of custom material jobs required for the project that Evan Malone was doing. His PhD project was to create a 100% printed-from-scratch robot, and no technology fit the bill. So, he and Hod built one in order to get that project done. Like the Oculus, technology had advanced to the point that doing this was actually feasible on a shoestring budget. It ended up being a project of its own, but it wasn't like they saw the patents expiring and all of a sudden decided it'd be great to open-source a 3d printer design.

With how popular 3D printers are getting nowadays, it's possible some companies are looking to take advantage of the expiration of SLS patents, but I wouldn't hold your breath for an open-source project. If someone was making one, you'd know about it already.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MakerBot_Industries

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RepRap_Project

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fab@Home
> I think this is a really pathetic reason to be depressed.

AFAIK Depression isn't something one reasons oneself into.
Obviously you can add a more detailed payload in the response body for precision, HTTP status codes are the error class (similar to SQL error code classes, or even the error codes themselves for such things as the class 23 codes)
Three.

This may have worked better as a Poll :)
I'd rather mock stuff like this with a mocking library that doesn't involve making requests to remote servers. The interwebs are (relatively) slow and I want my tests to run fast.
It's unsurprising that the kinds of threats that are most common nowadays are the ones that get around automated security, which is essentially what AV software is. That doesn't mean that automated security has no future. It just means that, barring some sort of strong AI, automated security needs to hand-in-hand with manual security efforts.
Yes, but Sublime's UI consists almost entirely of a gigantic text window and the OS X menu bar.
I'm somehow reminded of the feeling I get every time I log on to my PC and see this in the task bar alert message: "A new version of Java is available..."
I don't think this is a reasonable assessment at all. SIM manufacturers use 3DES, not DES, which - while not recommended for new systems - is still pretty damn secure.

I don't think you've really understood the complexity of the SIM - there are literally thousands and thousands of pages of specification, which means that any sim will interoperate with any phone.

A SIM is not an "MVP" by any stretch of the imagination - it costs millions of dollars to enter the market; there are stringent security and compatibility controls, and no-one will consider selling you silicon unless you're ordering millions of units per year.
I think it was the communism - it was a really bad economic system that was so out of touch with the reality of human beings and the past thousand years that people had no other choice but to engage in corruption (bypassing the system).
Runscope can do this with the Passageway feature. It also has traffic inspector, request editor and the ability to do shared requests https://www.runscope.com/
That's the reason I have not purchased one. If these repairs were covered by warranty, I'd probably go for it.
The decline of Venice has less to do with the decline of the Middle East and more to do with the rise of the Ottomans -- whose conquest of Constantinople shuttered a 2-century long dominion of the Bospherous (and the substantial trade thereof) by Venice. Additionally, Mongol incursions at the north end of the Black Sea made the increasingly-expensive trade with the Ottomans very expensive.

On top of all that, the agitation of the Christian West to the Islamic East put Venice in a very tough situation -- one that engendered hatred from both sides and filed down the richness of that international trade they had labored centuries to build.
It's strange to think that within a decade we will probably have electronics to a point where we'll read moving-picture stories like this on paper-like devices -- straight out of Harry Potter.
But it's the people who want more who drive progress. Which is why the thing collapsed - take away the desire of those few to be and do better, and the whole system stagnates rather quickly...
this is something I hate about the "unix design philosophy". when you start digging deeper, you realize that "everything is a file" is true, except for network connections, and A/V devices, and input peripherals, and really that the only things that actually are files, are files. everything else is allllmost a file except in one little weird way, or, many big big ways...
Reminds me of showoff: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2467107
Yeah, the Liberal types like their social programs, and the Conservative types like their lower taxes, and no one has actually tried to reconcile those two opposing pulls.

I don't know why that obvious contradiction was never tackled. I would like to think it's because the Hollywood execs of SoCal and the ex-hippie/Silicon Valley combo of NorCal are so geographically far apart that they don't talk, but that's too simplistic, I'm sure.
That's a good point. A plus side of such a precedent is that it might strengthen the position of journalists asserting a 5th-amendment right not to testify (assuming the government doesn't grant immunity up front). Conspiracy is so broad that anything they say about their relationship with the person in question could potentially be used against them, giving a good basis for invoking the 5th.

On principle, though, it seems journalists typically wish not to appear as witnesses at all, which makes it harder for them to use that approach. Except in limited circumstances, like choosing not to appear as a witness in your own criminal trial, the 5th amendment doesn't protect failure to appear; to invoke it you'd have to show up on the witness stand and then refuse to answer questions whose answer you felt might be self-incriminating. Of course, you could blanket do that to every question except bare factual ones that ask for your name and the like. But you'd still have to show up, and on principle journalists seem to have a view that they should not appear as witnesses in such cases at all (which can lead to them being held in contempt of court for refusing to appear).
+1; I worked on SIMs in the past, and all our customers were using 3DES. They also all required OTA messages to be signed, so I think the chances of half a billion being accurate is crazy talk
They could have a friend prepare supplements that are real and placebo. Take them and record the results. It would go further to prove the effect within the sample population of themselves which is likely all they care about.
c'mon a future in which the only way to run Linux on new hardware is in a Windows VM is a lot more likely. Just wait for the next 9/11 and Patriot Act 2.0 that makes software non-DRMed by big corps illegal...
Looking forward to the explosion of 3D printers that can use some kind of liquid metal, and then make metal stuff.
Sometimes you just want to do a quick test and not deal with the complexity of a proper mocking library. But I agree this is not something you'd probably want to bake into a continuous integration build.
Looking at all the languages near the top of language popularity chart, I don't think OO is going away. Last I checked Python was still an OO language. If you look at all the jobs on the job boards OO is still the dominant flavor as it has been for 20 years or so (only plain C is the oddball). Will that still be the case 20 years from now?
I wondered for a moment, "why is this relevant?" until I saw that you're responding to the parent's nationality.
I have trouble understanding what she (he?) is complaining about. People offering to walk her home? The only real pan point I see is the neighbor complaining - hardly something that should ruin a whole life?
DuckDuckGo Founder Gabriel Weinberg on LiveSpeak Radio
> A centralized, specialized, service would hopefully at least be cognizant of being hacked.

The biggest tech companies in the world have all been hacked - what part of "No system connected to the Internet is 100% hack proof." do you not understand?

Right now, it's largely up to users to ensure some sort of post- "password compromised" security, e.g. by using service-sepecific email addresses, service specific passwords, etc. There are third party tools like 1Password that can help with this, and e.g. Apple is integrating similar functionality into Safari for OS X and iOS.

Under your plan, the user doesn't have that ability - they have to find an OpenID provider they're happy to use, and hope it has decent security.

OpenID has many benefits, and its nice to have it as an option for login, but thinking that a mass adoption of OpenID will solve problems of password security and storage, is naïve.
Recently, San Jose university put its partnership with Udacity on hold citing "disappointing student outcome".

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/07/18/citing-disappo...
Staggeringly ignorant if you think the Apple ecosystem is nothing but fart apps. Seriously, I haven't seen one of those in many years.
Core flaw of Cookies
سباق الولايات المتحدة
لعبة جديدة من العاب سباق سيارات في هذه اللعبة ستخوض سباق في الولايات المتحدة الامريكية في شوارعها ستقوم بالسياقة وعليك الاسراع للفوز حظ سعيدا
Some related trivia: While it was called the Silk Road, silk was less of a major point of trade after the 6th century. Two Byzantine monks made the journey from Constantinople to China and back, purloining silk worms in the process. This led to a domination of the European Silk trade by Byzantium for the proceeding 8 centuries:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smuggling_of_silkworm_eggs_into...
Well then, your wait is nearly over. Although it isn't liquid metal, its powdered metal. Laser sintering is a process whereby you take a material in powdered form, lay down a layer, and then have a laser heat it to malting at specific places (that is the sintering part). Then you lower and the platform and repeat.

There was a hobbyist sugar sintering printer which used a heated element to fuse sugar. Not as sturdy as metal but you can eat it :-).

Given the explosion of cheap Chinese made laser cutters on Ebay I'm sure they will be all over this new market. Most of the parts already exist in the form of a laser cutter anyway.
In the footsteps of Leonardo da Vinci
The "absolute silly notion" you (unfortunately) rudely deride is also correct. For more information, you might be interested in: (http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/02/technology/02darpa.html?_r...) and (http://books.google.com/books?id=n6PGe0TZuKMC&lpg=PA193&ots=...)

The statement, "Money is a token of value, so if you're creating value for someone, it shouldn't be too hard to get some money for it," is ideological and doesn't withstand scrutiny. For example, a mansion would represent enormous value for someone in abject poverty, but they may have no serious ability to compensate you. (This is why we may have bizarre outcomes like roughly as many homeless people as empty hotel rooms and apartments. The allocation system is profoundly irrational.)