skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If, like Stuxnet, your goal is to infect specific machinery, then reporting back infection can be valuable. Once the right machinery is infected, others could wipe evidence of malware presence. You might object that uranium centrifuges probably don't have decent speakers to generate a signal... But they would instead generate unusual spin patterns, exactly what Stuxnet was designed to achieve, and those patterns would be audible to nearby equipment. Seems like a fine way for Stuxnet to report success back up the infection chain and then cover its tracks.
It's long been observed that once earning reaches a certain absolute number, quality of life and other intangibles quickly overtake monetary compensation as the primary driving force. Basically its saying if my options were 60k/year and great quality of life vs. 120k/year and shitty quality of life, I'm much more likely to take the 120k than if the situation was 120k/year vs. 240k/year.

The problem is very real, banks wouldn't be responding to it otherwise.

Also helps that tech companies are "winning" the PR war against traditional banks. Being a banker used to be fucking cool, now its lame.

Edit: okay, that last line was confusing, so let me try to explain what I mean: Most bankers aren't married to finance, it's not like they have this amazing passion for excel financial models. They are attracted to being at the very top of the talent ladder, in a position that offers the most challenge and potential reward. Nowdays technology is seen as an equivalent option for a lot of kids entering school
I've spent nearly 2 hours with sites down at Rackspace, which is certainly not a budget provider, because our hardware firewall crapped out and they "couldn't find" our hardware in the datacenter.

Entirely different problem from a provider that loses one internet connection and their other links can't keep up with traffic, but you can still have major problems even if you're spending thousands of dollars a month compared to hundreds.
The best and brightest are turning away from Wall Street
Not knocking this post, but I find it funny because anytime I've used wordpress to create a website I get 100+ spam users/subscribers a day.
This is also the reason why a lot of clocks like that won't work on inverters that convert 12 VDC to 120 VAC since any load and most of them fall below spec.
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You were one of the lucky ones, then. They didn't even teach us to make omlettes.
Here is the actual Facebook post, with photos (sv): https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=725135880838623&set=...
More on folks leaving Wall Street here....

http://www.cnbc.com/id/101156782
One of the hard parts for me to understand about articles like this is the addition of race into a social calculation that may not have included race. If I see somebody I'm hiring has a clean car (one of the examples in the article), I'm not thinking "Great, a black person acting white by having a clean car, I'm hiring her", I'm thinking "Great, a tidy person with a clean car". I see this a lot. Obviously there are people who think the first way and I'd wager almost every person of color deals with these people every day so it's probably hard not to do that. But putting assumptions like that on every social interaction seems problematic to me. But as a white man I of course have absolutely no real sense (outside of reading and friends) of how it is to live as a person of color so what do I know. Just thinking out loud.
How could you live with yourself if he was?
>aping the white male privileged life of the mind

Oh look: another racist, sexist, and poorly written complaint piece masquerading as some kind of intelligent discourse.
>"I read the whole article and do not agree. Here is Silicon Valley the importance of appearances has become marginal."

Qualifying "do not agree" with anecdotal experience in one small area dominated by one industry is a bit of a stretch don't you think?
This is interesting and I love how transparent they are. It's also well written and has indeed nice visuals.

Thing is, their blog doesn't talk about customer support at all. It's about earning money. A multi-part series on the Journey to 100K a month. So, the take-away is not really a take-away in my opinion.

Find your voice. Sure, but the blog has nothing to do with customer support. Optimizely does talk about split testing. Helpscout does talk about customer support. Copyblogger does talk about copy-writing.

I'm curious wether the next blog posts after this Journey to 100K will be as successful. So far, I don't think that they really found their voice and their authority in their respective niche.

If it drives new customers to their SaaS, that's great for them, but blogging about their successes and getting more success by doing so, seems to be a bit early to give "key-insights" into the business of how to write your own blog that brings you success.
This effect is biggest in low tax countries because of the credit US citizens end up paying the HIGHER of US and local income taxes (more or less - rules are complex).

Also see relatively few Americans in Hong Kong and Singapore which have low tax rates like Dubai. Unlike almost everyone else in the world there is no benefit for Americans to work in low tax countries because they still end up paying US tax rates. If a company hires an Austrailian and an American in Hong Kong the American ends up with less after tax income. So the draw to these places is much less for US citizens.
For a second I thought I had stumbled onto tumblr.
So can TogetherJS be postmodern and work in IE? I guess not?

Also, I'm getting the feeling golang is a postmodern programming language and clojure (lispishness) is not, but I'm new to this whole postmodern thing, which is probably the wrong attitude completely.

Edit: I read the first paragraph and I was right about lisp, yay!
The paypal screens all changed for me the otherday when I was paying through it. I had to stop for a second and check it wasn't just a bad phising site, payment sites changing makes me lose trust in them :s
I will agree the value of a put-together appearance is valid, in many contexts. and i wouldn't take from that at all.

However ... it's ridiculous to use this to defend a $2,500 handbag purchase. the purchase was inadvisable at best.

marshall's, target, JCP etc have a massive business strategy around making sophisticated looks available on a low budget. so there are plenty of ways to accomplish the objective of self respect, presentation and budget.

there's an old essay by tom wolfe called "mau mauing the flak catchers" - watching the CEO of barney's defending himself, I think that fits just about perfectly.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_Chic_&_Mau-Mauing_the_F...
Abortion, Homosexual Marriage, these are manufactured controversy. They were created so that that poor masses can be convinced to vote for them.
Possibly Jason Chaffetz from the House. He's been really good with these kinds of issues.
No, its just pure snark. C and C++ are long different. I love K&R[1] C, but is really doesn't show properly written C unless some update occurs that addresses the newer standards and all the fun memory issues.

> Does C++ have a fixed ABI yet? Is there a fixed name-mangling scheme across compilers? How do I bind other languages to the lambdas?

Pretty useless for the purpose of my question. I was asking a simple question, your just in it to spread snark.

1) The original edition was one of my favorite books and what I used to learn C back in the day.
I think its important to understand that Silicon Valley practices are not representative of societal trends. The examples the author uses are about going to a welfare office and interviewing for an administrative position at a cosmetology school. Just because one trend doesn't exist amongst a class of wealthy people in San Francisco doesn't mean it doesn't hold elsewhere.

So its fine to disagree with this article but I dont think that the experiences in the current tech age in Silicon Valley do anything to invalidate her experiences at welfare offices in the Mississippi delta.
I clawed and scratched my way into Europe (Ireland) because I was sick and tired of my taxes supporting drone warfare and I didn't want to have to pay $2500 per month for an apartment so I could ride a bike to work. It's awesome.

By all accounts Germany is even nicer, with a stronger economy, better cycling infrastructure, and cheaper rents. Honestly I'm not sure why you'd move to the US if Germany is an option.
Grid interconnection has always been possible, whether it is precise or not, however if one grid was running faster than the other doing such an interconnect would cause the grids to eventually stabilise somewhere in the middle as the faster grid caused the slower grid to speed up and the slower grid caused the faster grid to slow down.

The amount of power wasted is insane though. Bringing new turbines online for example means getting the turbine to run in sync with the current clock cycle within a certain percentage otherwise massive damage can be done as the turbine jumps backwards or forwards when connected to the grid.
If Paypal wanted to be shitty about it, they could file a DMCA notice against the host or bring up trademark infringement.

Most companies wouldn't, as these sorts of redesigns are done in good faith. There's always that one company though.
Getting a nice outfit or two is probably a good investment. I guess it helps you deal with bureaucrats and job interviews and stuff.

But what about the rest of the "investments" poor people make? Are they all worth it?

To what EXTENT do poor people make good decisions? THAT is the real question here, and it isn't even being asked.
Valid point. I'm not a doctor, but I'm guessing the immediate symptoms of hyperthermia - i.e. profuse sweating, blushing - could be masked by such a device when it is tricking your brain that the skin surface temperature is lower in relation to the the actual. Core and skin surface temperatures have intricate relationships in regards to heat dispersion through blood circulation.
The mathematics are less well researched, and at least for some algorithms the keys are quite large. (For instance, a pretty standard sized Niederreiter key and a single Niederreiter signature put the minimum size for a certificate over 1 MB, which is a lot less onerous than it used to be, but a bit big for doing a lot of copying on cellular networks.)

I haven't heard this expressed anywhere, but it could also be that the McEliece and Niederreiter algorithms have a bit of a feel to them like the Merkle-Hellman knapsack algorithm that was thought for a long time to be secure.

Though, if you're being paranoid and can spare the cycles, it wouldn't hurt to take Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman (or ECIES) exchange, encrypt that using RSA (or ElGamal), and then Encrypt that using Niederreiter (or McEliece), like a bunch of Russian dolls nested by key/message size. All three crypto systems would need to be broken in order to recover the key.
If I were seeking citizenship in Germany but had only been in the country on the tourist visa, does the (5 year?) timer start from when I arrived in the country, or from when I get an official visa?

You can work a job legally without a work visa?
Awesome project! Any chance you'd be interesting in publishing the code for the bot so we could make variations of happybots to spread the <3 and not-so-subtly protest the suspension of said happybots?
Going out on a limb here because this does not make sense to me either. But maybe this has something to do with the fact that the valley built all of the software used to support this, quietly invested in it all in 2010 for undisclosed amounts at least in the tens of billions and approaching or exceeding 100 billion, and the money doesn't want it on the front page of one of the most popular news sites?

By money i mean this money that keeps its actions shadier than the NSA: https://angel.co/emc https://angel.co/emc-ventures
You're assuming there's no derived benefit from belonging to that league of people, but she makes the case that there is a benefit (or benefits) to it, despite admitting it's kind of lame.

It's not the strongest argument, I'll give you that, but I wouldn't know.
I don't generally support socialism, but your statement is completely wrong. What about Scandinavia and Germany? What about worker's rights? The US itself has plenty of measures which were deemed socialist years ago[1] but are now so common that we take them for granted.

[1] Note that socialism designates a vast array of different ideologies and its meaning is continually evolving. It certainly did not mean the same thing in Steinbeck's time as it does today.

Edit: grammar
In my experience very few people even know what "median" is, so they usually mean tha arithmetic average.
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The article raises a good point, but it also frames the dichotomy as an either-or question.

In other words, is there no middle ground between buying an Hermès Birkin bag and dressing in rags? At least in the US, discount stores plus some fashion sense can compensate to some degree for raw dollars and a personal shopper.

Where I think the upper class pulls away from the lower class is in access to experience at a young age. Except for very rare exceptions, children are of the social class of their parents, and tend to have the experiences associated with that class.
Disagree entirely. Silicon Valley is just as superficial as the rest of them, except the points your'e being judged from are a somewhat different set from mainstream society.

In the Valley tech scene (and all tech scenes everywhere) the respect we afford people is heavily influenced by a lot of cultural markers. Access to newfangled gadgetry, neighborhoods we live in, even freaking toe shoes. Don't have the spare time or money to hobnob with other startup types at an expensive trendy bar? Whoops.

We may hire you without these signals, we may be happy with your work. But all else being equal someone as good as you, who presents the correct cultural markers, is going to be afforded a lot more respect and leeway.

The Silicon Valley "meritocracy" is largely a myth. The subculture rejects a lot of mainstream ways of brutally judging people, which is often interpreted as our culture being less judgmental. On the contrary, we simply have formed different ways of brutally judging people. Appearance is everything, tech or otherwise.

Hell, just look at the threads on hiring every time they show up on HN. Lots of people insisting that a candidate must have a fleshed out Github account to qualify - as if activity on Github is the same thing as programming aptitude. Lots of people insisting that side projects are necessary, or participation in open source - as if those things indicate or guarantee aptitude. The brutal ageism we suffer from in this industry is also an indication of just how superficially judgmental we are.
I have been considering some special auth support. For example, there could be rules like "if an Authentication header is identical for multiple requests, then assume it is from the same authenticated user entity without necessarily forwarding the request to the origin server again". This alone doesn't buy you anything, but it could be used as the basis of further rules such as a cache layer that caches per-user.

These ideas are not totally baked but could help in reducing load to the backend servers, which falls in line with Pushpin's goals.
Maybe he/she is confusing with Lumia 920 with N-series phones? AFAIK there has never been a N920. There was the N9 but that was it...

...unfortunately.
Microwave clock, oven clock, your VCR/DVD players clock, and your alarm clock (if it is the plug-in kind that doesn't use a crystal to keep time).
This guy was one of the main founders of pwn2own. Not a fictitious person.
And yet she shows the barrier to entry for a woman to be other women in HR who were of the same race. How is 'critical self awareness' of straight white males going to help that?

I've talked about this before at length, but assigning the term 'privilege' exclusively to 'straight white males' is fairly intellectually dishonest. The problem is bigger than that - our culture values behaving like a 'normal person', our definition of 'normal' just happens to have a lot of white people in it. Some poor white people living in trailers with heavy accents and unkempt clothes would have had (and do have) similar problems.
I came here to say the same thing. When I saw his name in the title I groaned a little inside... "What's he doing this time?" I was pleasantly surprised to see he's actually trying to help.
This is the latest round of our project where we exercise the performance of fundamental operations in a wide variety of web application frameworks and platforms. This project started in March with about 20 frameworks and since then, the community has contributed three times as many.

Round 7 was long delayed but we hope to iterate the rounds on a monthly basis in the future.

We'd love to hear your questions, thoughts, or criticisms. And thanks to everyone who has participated!
I have done something similar, but used a Raspberry Pi and Seafile (http://seafile.com) instead of BTSync. I did not get the chance to test it with large media files, but works great for documents and photos. Also has mobile and cross platform clients.

And the best part is it's open-source: https://github.com/haiwen/seafile
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People have the arithmetic mean in mind, but their intuition of "average" is actually the median, or even more commonly the modus.

When somebody says "Average people are X", they usually mean "Most people I've encountered are X", which is the modus. Hell, I just did that in this exact sentence!
You could conduct entirely legit business within a 'black market' but most people will still assume it's nefarious until proven otherwise.
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It does, but I've never seen them used in a Unicode context.
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Depends on the average (good lord I can't believe I'm posting this on hacker news). You're talking about the mean, there's also the median which would fit the definition pretty well.
Automated tests trigger automated security, all admins are banned, user groups are automatically notified that certain admins are no longer admins.
Who is behind https://riseup.net/en?

Its where Glenn Greenwald resides via email.
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Is there an award for oddest bedfellows? 'Cause this has got to be a real contender. I particularly like Hatch's bond mechanism as this will force the revelation of the money trail. And as every CSI show will tell you 'follow the money' is key to solving crime.
The CardDav and CalDav stuff was a hassle for me to make work. After the trial and error and googling, getting it set up myself, I pretty much had to grab each family member's mobile device or computer and punch in the magic codes. But once I had it going... It works! All of our calendar and contact data is available on each of our computers and we can share them easily.

And we own the data, not Apple.

I highly recommend owncloud.
You may want to take a look at http://berlinstartupjobs.com
The bottom of the article links https://gist.github.com/abeppu/6958565
Superstar? Good one.
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Are there any open source load balancing solutions like what Amazon ELB does? Say, install the load balancer on to one or two Amazon VPS, proxy traffic to third party VPS/dedicated servers, Linode, OVH, etc. Wonder how feasible this approach is?
Certainly true. There are very nice designer handbags for a fraction. Even if you think the $300-500 brands aren't good enough (Coach, Marc, Kate Spade, etc), there are even more in the $800-1200 range (Louis Vuitton, for one..)

I know this because I have a wife with tastes for such things :)
Please understand I am just trying to explain a viewpoint, not necessarily state my personal beliefs.

I think the argument is that you won't notice when a white male is tidy. You notice a black person with a clean car because subconsciously you don't expect it. So even a positive thought or comment (a tidy person with a clean car) becomes racial because it would never have come up with a white male.

See also: "articulate"
That's not what the article claims at all. He's claiming the audio is used to maintain a network connection for command-and-control continuity using other already-infected machines:

"Ruiu said he arrived at the theory about badBIOS's high-frequency networking capability after observing encrypted data packets being sent to and from an infected laptop that had no obvious network connection with—but was in close proximity to—another badBIOS-infected computer. The packets were transmitted even when the laptop had its Wi-Fi and Bluetooth cards removed. Ruiu also disconnected the machine's power cord so it ran only on battery to rule out the possibility it was receiving signals over the electrical connection. Even then, forensic tools showed the packets continued to flow over the airgapped machine. Then, when Ruiu removed the internal speaker and microphone connected to the airgapped machine, the packets suddenly stopped."
I don't think we're an exception at all. If anything we just flipped it upside down and called it a day.

In other industries you'd be mocked for wearing a hoodie to work. In this industry we mock you for wearing a suit to work. Hell, show up at most software shops in a pressed shirt and slacks and see what happens. Wear a tie non-ironically and we start assigning labels to you - "MBA", "suit", etc etc.

We've traded one superficial signal for another superficial signal, have no illusions about it. We've spent so long trying to be the anti-mainstream-business that it's no longer about letting people do what they want, and about conforming to the "cool software shop" cultural meme.
Berlin is a relatively cheap place to live. So depending on where you live now you might actually need much less money when living in Berlin.
Sounds great. Definitely an interesting project that I will keep my eye on. Yes I am a cyclops... :)
Not long ago, there was a submission about a bug reporter didn't get any kind of reward (except a coupon) for reporting a bug for Yahoo!

Kudos to Yahoo! for listening to community's feedback.
How does this generate security credentials for a user client side? It mentions Identity Federation[1], but it looks like that links with Google , Facebook, or Login with Amazon. Is there a way to to authenticate a user without a 3rd-party login service?

[1] http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2011/08/aws-identity-and-access-m...
That being said, I am learning rails right now... Is it time to switch to a different language? What would you learn today in preparation for the next big thing?
Does anyone know if any substantial gains have been made in what I believe is the number one problem with Thorium reactors: that moving liquid salt through the reactor is extreamly corrosive and parts don't last very long (under a year iirc)?