skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's amazing how much code goes into all of the microcontrollers and processors in a modern car. An IEEE article from a couple years ago cited that a modern luxury car may have 100M+ lines of code controlling it, vs 5.7M for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter aircraft (loc is not a great metric, but still...).[1] The jet plane software is no doubt subjected to more security scrutiny, but even if cars had the same code quality it seems like there would be at least a few vulnerabilities in those 100M lines.

Also, if you're curious about interacting with CAN there are a number of hobbyist transceivers out there[2], or to simply listen a logic analyzer would do the job[3].

1. http://spectrum.ieee.org/green-tech/advanced-cars/this-car-r...

2. https://www.sparkfun.com/products/10039

3. http://www.saleae.com/logic16
Yes, I am, for a bunch of reasons, not worth going into here. The simplest response to this would be that broad surveillance of US citizens violates our Constitution, but surveillance of foreigners abroad does not.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lies,_damned_lies,_and_statisti...
> Once more nutritious than natural, the artificial meat will allow to overcome the current energy limitation on our brain.

I think you could rather drink a mixture of a protein, vitamin, oil, enzymes, etc, shake today - and get the same effects, than wait for your enhanced meat product.

The energy limitation was also a leap, when apes (or whatever) started eating meat, and later humans (or whatever) started using fire to cook their foods. And then bigger, more thoughtful, brains could be sustained.

There really is nothing more to improve on that will give you better than marginal results from this point in time. And even then, you'd have to wait for evolution to take its course and produce (well, perpetuate) whatever DNA is required to produce a bigger brain over a millennium or even longer... Assuming that's even a trait that is capable of producing more offsprings than in those that don't have that trait.
Almost certainly, provided you're running a recent-enough version.

A snooper at the line level would be able to see that you were SSH'ing to a given system and the amount of data transferred, but nothing more.

SSH has had very few vulnerabilities and has been really put through the ringer crypto-wise for quite some time. The protocol itself is likely quite solid. Of its common crypto algorithms, the only one I'd avoid is arcfour/RC4. It's an algorithm that's known to be somewhat weaker than other common algos. Blowfish, AES, CAST, Salsa20, Twofish, etc. are not known to have any practical real-world-usable attacks against full-round versions.

Keep in mind that in the crypto world a "break" is anything that shortens the time to recover the key from that of a brute force search. So if I find a shortcut to crack a 2^128 key size symmetric cipher in "only" 2^112 iterations, that's a break. But it's not useful in the real world. To be useful in the real world, a break has to shorten things down to... well... depends on the adversary but probably <2^64.

Of course you cannot rule out the possibility that the NSA has unpublished attacks against any of these, but most cryptographers I've read consider it somewhat unlikely that they have an unpublished attack good enough to efficiently crack them and read traffic in a real world scenario.
It's legal to produce porn, you can own copyright on porn, you can legally take money from people for access to porn.

I think those are the things that allow for porn production to be profitable. Also porn is something half of the population watches.
Come now, certainly you don't believe that. Capital structure is an integral piece of corporate strategy as is board construction.

Bezos has liquidated so much AMZN stock he doesn't need AMZN's balance sheet for a piddly $250mm transaction. He might even figure out how to do something he hasn't done at AMZN and that's turn a profit. The last I checked, AMZN still had an infinite PE.

By keeping WaPo remote he can at least create the appearance that AMZN is corporately neutral for whatever news platform ideas AMZN pursues.
I see the potential of these kind of applications, it's a killer product for their target audience. But I can't see how this would fit in my WordPress workflow to be honest.

I tried the demo and the interface looks great but I feel restricted. My process usually begins in Inkscape. I build all the layouts in vector and once I have a good idea of how they should look like I grab my WordPress boilerplate folder and build the theme from scratch; no static first, just dynamic as I go. They're not complete themes though, just what's needed for the given project.

So yeah, great product, looks good, but I won't use it. I had the same thoughts about Adobe Reflow. Tried it, liked it, maybe for a static portfolio site but other than won't be useful.
Did you see this: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/05/us-dea-sod-idUSBRE...

"A secretive U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration unit is funneling information from intelligence intercepts, wiretaps, informants and a massive database of telephone records to authorities across the nation to help them launch criminal investigations of Americans.

Although these cases rarely involve national security issues, documents reviewed by Reuters show that law enforcement agents have been directed to conceal how such investigations truly begin - not only from defense lawyers but also sometimes from prosecutors and judges.

The undated documents show that federal agents are trained to "recreate" the investigative trail to effectively cover up where the information originated, a practice that some experts say violates a defendant's Constitutional right to a fair trial. If defendants don't know how an investigation began, they cannot know to ask to review potential sources of exculpatory evidence - information that could reveal entrapment, mistakes or biased witnesses."
I am not advocating that people look at the entire justice system through a lens of cold rationalism, but projecting a single observation through that lens.
Yes, both in Mississauga by the warehouse and in downtown, though I don't know details about either location. http://toronto.amazon-jobs.com/
Everyone should donate to the ACLU, but try to give them a PO Box or something; their donation calls have crossed the line into "frustratingly annoying" more than once.
"You were never called any names. He said you were an apologist."

Well there you go.
> Trader Joe's now has a house brand of 100% Greek Kalamata olive oil, which they buy in bulk and bottle, and is very good for the price.

Does it taste at all like olives, or is it the same bland test-tube oil?

> The traditional place to buy it in the U.S. has been in 5-liter tins at Mediterranean grocery stores catering to immigrants (depending on the region, these might be "Greek", "Lebanese", "Turkish", or "Arab" supermarkets). These are a great deal, especially if you cook with it, but off the radar of most regular shoppers.

This is an excellent tip, thank you.
>Hmm, says no results for some of them.

A bad sign. This is usually the result of a single test hanging indefinitely, leading to the necessity of killing the entire automated testing process. As a consequence the test results don't get sent to cpantesters.org, putting the onus on the user to file a bug report.
So when you need a bigger space, make sure it's at least as poorly constructed and ill-suited to the task as your current space?

Maybe the lesson (for tech companies) should be to postpone leasing high-rent office space until you're confident you'll be able to afford it for a while.
I'm italian and when you buy extra-vergin olive oil (btw I think I never buyed in my lifetime non extra-vergin olive oil) you can read where the olives come from (either 100% italian, mixed with european olives, extraeuropean). It's not difficult to make a choice. I'll try greek oil if I can find it and compare
The Case Against Babies
> This year, they’d decided to buy a used car in Linden, which had plenty for sale, and so they bundled their cash savings in their car’s center console.
Or maybe a news platform that passively ranked community-generated content geospatially. Already built and innovating on the core platform...

:)
Their pricing plan only list on demand crawl at the top tier... i assume you have a very big blog?
Exactly. Most officers aren't out to screw you over, but there are some who don't care how much they mess up your day/month/year/life. Lying to them, in any way, does not help you.
Do you monetize HN, or the data generated?
That's something I always wanted to know.

Not counting talent acquisition and buying/investing into startups
Journalistic institutions, in an effort to inform the masses, perform three critical functions: 1. Production of information, 2. Curation of information 3. Verification of information. A more colloquial way to say that might be "creation, curation, and fact-checking."

So far the creation aspect is almost entirely dominated by ordinary citizens. With nearly everyone carrying internet-connected devices for photo, video and text input, there's simply no way a news organization, no matter how large or well funded, can keep up.

Where "News" is still lacking now has more to do with the latter two points. The best content is invariably on Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Vine, etc. but finding that needle in the haystack that is a news event is borderline impossible for the "ordinary citizen." Even the major news organizations are largely poring over the data that comes in and trying to find the best stuff. The third part - the fact checking- not many have time for anymore. The world moves so quickly that verifying accuracy is much less beneficial than seeking the next scoop. News orgs can move fast, make mistakes, and issue retractions later if they were wrong. Or they can just say "we're getting reports that..." (Translation: "We're watching Twitter and people are saying...")

I truly believe that creating a system that allows ordinary citizens to curate (vote on) and fact check the firehose of information flowing through social media networks is the bright, sustainable, profitable (!) future of journalism.

Full disclosure: I've been building and testing a product for a year that does precisely that, so I'm a little bit biased.
Yes: order it from Zingermans online. Zingermans is a mail-order deli in Ann Arbor, a sort of culinary Mecca, and they specialize in sourcing lots of interesting olive oils. Their descriptions of those olive oils is pretty much dead on.

Get a couple Paesano loaves to go with it (throw the extra loaves in your freezer). I don't know what it is about that bread --- I think they mill some of their own flour --- but it is crazy and addictive.

Well, shit. This thread just cost me $400.
Cool concept, but it's seriously annoying. Either make the user always scroll, or always click.
Nobody that I know buys 5-liter tins of oil (I'm italian) and I wouldn't even know where to buy them. The most common format is 1 liter, followed by 0.75
Isn't this what Hunch was all about before they got aquired?
I think the author is making a bad analogy and ignoring the general function of recommendations. Of course they're all positive and lacking nuance. It's one to one vouching that both parties agree to, not review or analysis.

That said, I'd say they are certainly junk, just not necessarily for the reasons stated.

As I see it, LinkedIn makes junk of itself by being way too cluttered with the products of non-stop demands to engage in all sorts of empty actions. LinkedIn is an ugly rolodex, not a network.
He's not taking majority ownership, he's taking sole ownership. He can be the one and only director, and is entitled to make decisions in the interests of the sole shareholder (himself). The rules are different when there are no minority shareholders to protect.

> "Bezos himself will buy the news organization and become its sole owner when the sale is completed, probably within 60 days."
Snowden: only thing in the world that matters.
> with supply of soybeans so high my suspicion is that low demand causes soybean product prices to be high.

High supply and low demand are both factors that lead to low prices, not high prices.
Is this type of disruption possible for the US teaching market?
The amulyte website seems to imply that you are the only outside-the-home option, which isn't true. You might want to edit that a bit. Overall I found it a little weird that none of the content appears to be addressed to the old person who will wear and use the system (it all talks about "your loved one" not "you") - if you're targeting seniors who want to "maintain their independence", shouldn't you be expecting at least some of them to be still aware enough to want to look this stuff up for themselves?
wha't s a "mn"? mili-newton?
That's cute and on one hand I like the concept, but on the other hand I find that's exactly how normal terse regexs read to me anyway...

^https?://(?:www\.)?[^ ]*$

is way more succinct and just as easy to read as:

.startOfLine()
.then( "http" )
.maybe( "s" )
.then( "://" )
.maybe( "www." )
.anythingBut( " " )
.endOfLine();

Well... assuming you know regular expressions. Which you should if you are a programmer.
That's the exact reason why I changed from Ubuntu to Mint. I really tried to like Unity on Ubuntu, but in the end it was a big improvement to change to Mint's non-Unity interface.
Planning to launch a startup? Launch your kindergarten startup first.
But some say it better than others.
> Re the forums, I do find SO far better than the apple dev forums in terms of quality of answers, at least for released SDK questions.

It's just unfortunate that one can't ask questions under NDA on StackOverflow.

Apple really should just allow this, as their forums are complete garbage even when they are working.
I'm just pointing out that asking for data from a database is always going to be easier than exploiting a system, no matter whose it is. From what we know, it seems that the USG has the ability to do surveillance on Google Mail by querying a database, but likely does not have that same ability on a foreign mail service. Therefore, it is likely that it is easier for the USG to read mail from a Google user.

As you know, security is not about making things impossible but making them more difficult and resource-intensive. So far, we have little evidence that Google has been making anything difficult for the USG.
"LinuxMint Developer Edition (LMDE)"
-- http://www.networkworld.com/reviews/2013/080513-linux-mint-t...

// WTF!
I'm a little unclear as to why you had such a long conversation with someone you were annoyed by about something you weren't interested in.
I am on the opposite boat. As an current intern, I keep getting LinkedIn emails about senior developer positions. Flattering in a way though not really useful!
Ideally, you'd refer to an actual lawyer in your family or social circle, or your actual lawyer if you have one. It seems like a stretch though, that an officer would suspect or catch you on such a trivial lie. You could also just keep it vague: "I heard from a lawyer once that..."

Personally, I lean on "it makes me uncomfortable", which has the virtue of being both unfalsifiable and true.

(Side note: I wish I had a polite answer to "where are you headed tonight?", which is a question I don't feel I should be obligated to answer, but could turn the conversation hostile to refuse directly.)
Mint packages browsers to make money off of them, including the very questionable use of OpenDNS advertising pages as fallbacks for hostnames that are not found.
I use Mint because I feel I have the access to the wide repositories that Ubuntu provides, including easy access to third-party software like Google Chrome, but I avoid a lot of problems I have with Ubuntu. Ubuntu tends to barf on my grub installation, Mint doesn't. Unity randomly crashes and stalls in both normal desktop usage and gaming (such as Team Fortress 2), while Mint doesn't include Unity. For some reason, Ubuntu will sometimes stall on boot when loading the Nvidia proprietary drivers for my Titan. Mint, for whatever reason, doesn't have this problem.

And, I'll be honest, as a long-time Debian and Ubuntu user, Unity saddens me. I really love Debian and Ubuntu, but I feel like Unity and some new decisions they're making is the elephant in the room for me. Progress is great, but it's hurting my desktop experience.
That product sounds interesting! Let us (or at least me) know when it begins to come available!
Why was management involving themselves in decisions about carpets and walls? Surely this was a poor use of time in area where they are not experts. An architecture or interior design company would be one thing, but engineers and management should at most merely approve decisions. Surely their involving staff sent the signal that worrying about this stuff was OK. If one assistant or outsourced interior designer had been in charge how many problems would have been avoided?

Every business reaches the point where everyone can no longer work in the same room. Even if you continue renting out three floors of a building, you will eventually lose the "everyone knows everyone" feeling unique to small companies. When there are 500 people in the company there's no getting around it. You lose something there, but it's a sacrifice most companies make in order to continue growing.

There are some thing you can do to maintain your culture. You can usually maintain a fairly flat management structure. There are large companies - eBay, last I checked - where almost no one has an office and everyone works side-by-side. You can continue to promote events and activities. You can continue to promote risk taking rather than becoming risk averse as most large companies do.

I don't know the situation, but I really doubt that "new building" is the unavoidable root cause of the author's problems. Some loss of startup culture may be unavoidable as a company grows, and perhaps the time-wasting could have been managed better in this case.
That's what http://www.rosettacode.org is for.

I agree that stackoverflow.com sometimes is a little too trigger-happy when it comes to closing questions, but we really don't need a community-wiki top answer with 1845 upvotes that is basically a rosetta code page, spawing dozens of copy-cat questions with slight variations on the theme.
> Since the focus on that huge UFO shaped building, they been having all sorts of problems

Unless that UFO building killed Steve Jobs, I doubt there is an association.
This is being discussed right now here in Uruguay. The price government is thinking is in the U$ 2 or 3 range for a gram, which is apparently higher than the black market.
I think that's a bit of a hyperbole. If I'm asked by someone for a recommendation, but I'm not comfortable recommending him/her, chances are I will simply ignore the request. If I do write a recommendation, it will most likely be on things the positive things I've seen about the person.

Assuming people in general approach recommendations in the same way, LinkedIn recommendations are good at identifying strengths of a person, but not weaknesses. In that aspect, they're not total junk.

Obviously, I wouldn't base hiring decisions on LinkedIn recommendations, just like I won't base such decisions on letter references, but they can be a small factor that influences the overall decision (after an on-site interview for example).
And you should always finish your dinner because there's starving children in Africa.

The terrible state of IT recruitment is a legitimate issue and trying to derail discussion of it in this way is obnoxious.

Also, there's not millions of viable candidates for software development roles who are unemployed. If there were, salaries would be dropping and there'd be no cold calls from recruiters. The people you're talking about - while potentially highly skilled in other areas - would hate to get that call just as much as the author, as it would be a job they couldn't do and a waste of their time. (Not to mention demoralising.)
I've gone back to Debian after I grew sick and tired of Ubuntu. Wheezy is one, very smooth distribution, super stable, highly recommend it!
Watch The Wire. Specifically, Season 5.
Did you find out what pay and benefits they were offering?
What you need to know about what you eat: health & weight [OHM13]
I don't think Recommendations are junk because when you write one for someone, you are vouching that you believe they can do a good job and had a positive experience working with them. As for why you don't see negative recommendations, I would never write a negative one, I just wouldn't write them one at all.
Just wanted to back what zmitri said about Kitchener/Waterloo being the closest to SV in Canada. I went to school at the University of Waterloo, spent 2 years in Seattle, spent a year in Toronto, and have now been in Mountain View for 2 months going through YC. My general conclusions are:

CONS:
-Canada thinks smaller than SV (not as open to big ideas)
-BDC is a big player when it comes to Canadian money, we've had some interactions with them and for the most part they run more like a bank/government organization than they do a VC. They are getting better, but are just not quite there yet. In the end we actually turned down money from them.
-The accelerators there are trying...but they are a far way off from being of the same quality as some of the ones down here
-When it comes to raising money you normally get a lower valuation and the terms aren't usually as founder friendly

PROS
-There are a few bigger players popping up in the Toronto/Kitchener scene that are really helping the culture and community there grow
-It's cheaper and talent is easier to find (Waterloo produces some amazing talent)
-There are a lot of government grants and tax incentives

There are definitely people in the area worth meeting who are doing some exciting things, but the buzz and excitement and opportunities down here are still greater imo. I'm also partial to the West coast as a general lifestyle choice.
works fine with Vim
Have you seen BlackBerry 10? Even as an Android dev, it's my daily driver.
Impartiality: the American left and the American right!

It's all that matters. :P
Rinehart only owns 15% of Fairfax.

Also, what about all the TV and radio networks? Their ownership is wider than the three people you list.
No one said anything about condoning evil. And the quote you end with is exactly what I'm saying.

> Trying to apply a physical law to a philosophical construct is folly.

That's not what I'm doing. A government is not a philosophical construct—it's a system of rules enforced by living, concrete people, by physical means, against other living, concrete people. For the same reason that your house gets messy or your car might fall apart if you don't take it to the shop, civil liberties that take a lot of law-enforcement effort to respect and seem to help the bad guys won't survive if cops ignore them with impunity.
Having to be rude sucks.
Personally, I only use grapeseed oil. I've tried olive, it's too heavy. Tried canola, it's okay. But grapeseed is amazing. It has no particular flavor, you could drink it and not become sick from the heavy load that typical oils will give you, etc.
Upvoted to draw attention to this dishonest piece of astroturfing.
Apparently I have bad memory, because 3-L is what I was thinking of, not 5-L. I'm not Italian myself, but my Italian landlord brings these kinds of things (not the same brand, but same format) regularly: http://www.colavita.com/store/images/products/EV_Oils/Med-Ti...

Most households in Greece will have something like that, and they're easy to find in any country if you go to a Turkish, Greek, or Arab supermarket. I could be wrong about Italy.
http://grasswire.com should be launching in a few weeks, just have to tie a few loose ends together.
Unity is pretty terrible, and a huge step backwards.

Mint reverts the huge step backwards.
If you write the blog I'll read it. Does that help?