skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is NOT an accurate analogy.. to make it analogous, you need at least two fixes: a) the person needs not simply see from window, but to get into your basement from breaking a double-panned window, and go up into your bedroom. b) Also the charge needs to be for 'intrusion'

Plus, using 'murder' and 'family' and 'dead' etc. are too dramatic and personal and unnecessary to convey your point about internet security.
Ok, that's good to know; I'm just saying, no, not trolling, really had no idea what that meant.
You're supposed to build an audience first before you lock them in.. not do it right at the beginning.
Nine years later, Citibank’s fraud department is still self-defeating
Then raise the issue at a shareholder meeting. Owning 2 shares (or 200) won't get you access to logs.
I found an old Heathkit at a garage sale: https://www.flickr.com/photos/xistence/sets/7215762293061906...
This reminds me a lot of Nassim Taleb's thinking in the book Antifragile.
The central premise of this article was not that the maker community doesn't exist in China, the central premise is that because it "never went away" the maker culture of China has evolved further than what you might find elsewhere.

But even that I disagree with. Not on the impressive infrastructure that China seems to have for makers (which is worthy of envy, in my opinion), but on the "never went away" point, because it never went away in the West either. The maker movement is a shiny version of what came before. Before the Arduino there was the PIC and BASIC Stamp, before that people built stuff with discrete TTL logic, before that people built analog circuits, and on and on... Every aspect of the maker movement, aside from perhaps 3D printers, has pre-maker movement roots. In other words the maker movement is a popularising movement, a rebranding of what came before. There's nothing wrong with that, I'm glad more people are being encouraged to create, but I do not appreciate people trying to rewrite history to bolster their own narrative.
Reverse Engineering the Oculus Rift DK2
To me, the saddest part of this is that there are plenty of high-caliber female computer scientists out there right now -- Denning, Liskov and Wing, Hamilton (computer science and the Apollo program!), Greif, and many others. On a more prosaic and less-theoretical level, I recall that my copy of A Quarter-Century of Unix showed that women were key developers in many parts of that OS. But, of course, those were more elegant applications for a more civilized age.
With the current low price of bitcoins, wouldn't it be a good time to burn bitcoins into XCP ?
The argument was that people should move to a cheaper city if being a Facebook bus driver can't support them.

But that doesn't imply that Facebook is forcing people to move cities. Facebook isn't altering the labor market by employing drivers at market rates.

I hope you'll agree that the frictions from moving arise from changes in cost of living (or in the labor market, which doesn't appear to be changing). If the change in the housing market is gradual enough, the frictions need not be very significant, since they are amortized over a longer period of time.
scottdakota in the comments on TFA mentions the guitar-electronics and boutique-audio "scenes", both largely masculine and in the same not-hyped-but-never-went-away category. Then there's the whole world of car customisation, restoration and construction which also leans male, has a significant electrical/electronic component and even enjoys quite a lot of broad popular awareness (six seasons of national TV, dawg). I'd say the hype disparity is more a product of class than sex, if anything. There's a certain minimum level of cultural middle-classness which you normally have to be at or above before you're susceptible to the urge to publish manifestos about what you had for breakfast, and my guess is that most of the guys doing full engine rebuilds in their spare time are below that level while many of those poking (often very casually) at Arduinos are above it.

(Digression: another dynamic, thrusting young blogging/social networking system without permalinks for the comments? How absolutely darling. To think that WordPress, Blogger and nearly every sad, dumpy old-wave blogging system had this one figured out back while the WTC was still standing. Strangely appropriate given the topic of this conversation.)
I doubt the count-up method was intended to be a new method. I think the new curriculum had it in the second-grade book, and assumed that former second-graders had seen it there. It's not the textbook makers' fault that the school changed between years.
Microsoft 20Th Year Anniversary Employment Crystal
Whether Overstock succeeds in this or not, it's coming and it will be huge; I so predict.
Kryon – Quantum Kids, a Video of Gifted Children
Testing a $35 Firefox OS phone–how bad could it be?
good to know. i've also seen people mention pale moon.
Ah, I mixed the two. The fact that English is non-native language for me, didn't help, either. What is (e-)residency good for, then?

For anyone Russian reading this: should residency be прописка? It actually was canceled in favor of registration. So, I guess, residency is registration?
I'm less impressed by the skateboarding tricks and more impressed by the physics software that can derive all this from a video.
Do sanctions actually help reduce the problems caused by these countries, or is this just some sort of principled stand? The fact that Cuba is still ruled by the same oppressive government today as it was when the sanctions were imposed over 50 years ago would seem to indicate that it's not actually a useful thing to do.
In my opinion/experience, functional programming is great for web applications. However, I believe it is much more generally applicable than AnimalMuppet.
I had a mutual friend with the trader who gained inside information on the pharmaceutical stock that he then relayed to Martha Stuart. This trader(who I will not name, but can easily be found with a little googling) left his analyst position at SAC when the situation got messy then joined Front Point Partners as a portfolio manager. From what I understand, he was in the 8-figure range.

FrontPoint was then itself brought down by an insider trading case relating to the top level mgmt. I dont think the trader even received a subpoena. The sad reality is that there is probably no risk in cheating if you're not a high-profile manager. My assumption is that these guys can produce "research" after receiving a subpoena that muddies the water just enough for their lawyer to bail them out.
Do you have any links (in English) about this? I am having a bit of trouble finding anything really substantive. I have an unfinished environmental studies degree, so I find this interesting.
Same downside as doing anything for a living.
Did we read the same article?

I think Shirky is saying that "Maker culture" in the US (and Canada, etc) is dominated by people doing stuff mostly in their spare time, being self-congratulating, and looking up to the occasional person able to make a career from "Making". In contract, he says, to China, where this activity does exist but is dwarfed by the actual people who Make Stuff who are far more competent than the typical "Maker culture" hobbyist, and they generally do make a living off it.

> The Maker community in China is MASSIVE.

This is exactly what Shirky is saying -- in some sense he's lambasting "Maker culture" as being the bullshit self-congratulation, and he's saying that in China there are real people making real things, that they are actually making much more stuff by comparison to the "Makers" that make up "Maker culture" in the US, etc.

That's my read, anyway!
I really like the overlay of physics information in the video. It is so much easier to explain to students what acceleration is by showing it rather than asking students to imagine "the second derivative of the position function r(t)=(x(t),y(t))."

Check out the software they used: http://www.cabrillo.edu/~dbrown/tracker/
Would you rather live, today, in Cuba or (the poster boy for malicious US intervention) Chile?
Starflight: Near-Term Prospects
Any group of people that grows will eventually accumulate traits that resemble humanity in general. This means that once a group is sufficiently large enough it will probably contain some of the jerks, too. The proper response, of course, is to ignore them unless you have evidence of some actual specific threat which should be brought to the attention of law enforcement, not complained about on the web. Any group that grows eventually has to deal with these jerks, and most learn to just file the rant based "threats" to /dev/null where they belong.

There is one data point you can possibly extract from the sudden appearance of jerks ranting about your work: it is a rough heuristic that suggest that group of people has grown "sufficiently large". People working in the arts sometimes take this as a suggestion that they have "made it", as they have finally achieved an audience that is large enough that touches on a diverse cross-section of the population, and n not just their original niche.

So this suggest that the thing Mr. Poettering is complaining about... is that the people whgo oppose his software have become so large that normal users from random parts of society are complaining. It is proof that it is not, as many suggest, a small amount of unix beards[1] that are doing the complaining.

Mr. Poettering just needs to learn that when you make it big by trowing your weight around - especially when you deliver your own testosterone-fueled challenges and insults - you are making yourself a target. This may or may not be deserved, but if you want to survive in a world where assholes and jerks still exist you need to learn to not take their insults too personally.

/* I'll point out that this general advice is true for anybody with a large audience. If I were to reply to the long history of how systemd forced a coup and hostile takeover of the linux community, then i might suggest that while there area always assholes, this does stink a bit like he's responding to a situation nicely setup for him by some agent provocateur. It certainly fits his cabal's historical style. /

Edit; for the record, in no way am I condoning* jerks that merely throw around insults and threats. I am simply stating that they are inevitable once your audience is big enough.

[1] myself included; also: https://imgur.com/QWkbh
I found Japanese Indian food to be an acquired taste; I eventually did acquire it, but it's kind of its own thing. I doubt the place I'm thinking of is still in the basement of SLS, since that was more than a decade ago, but they advertised "Pakistani-Afghanistan" food and the big burly guy who punched the naan then threw it directly into the tandoor. In addition to Singapore and Japan, I've also had naan in India and many other places... Eventually I'll have my own tandoor.

Even if I'd missed the naan in Japan, my experience with Japanese Mexican food alone would have left me somewhat skeptical of your claim. b^)
Quite generally, Counterparty functionality that requires the use of XCP simply can't exist on platforms without their own currency. That's why it's there.
Mailgun charges $59/month for a dedicated IP.

http://www.mailgun.com/pricing
"Do you mean you don't think people can be trusted to keep their own shares safe?" Well, to a degree, yeah. Most people don't know how to properly keep them safe.

The main thing I'm trying to say is that it's potentially easier to steal shares, and there is really no way of reversing it if it's decentralized. If you know some shares are stolen, can you invalidate them, or reissue shares? It's not really completely decentralized if you can. There is probably still a central authority for creating and issuing shares, but they will allow you to trade the shares in a peer-to-peer way.
> IMHO, Terr's guess is exactly right. You get all the lift from pushing down the nose / dragging across the grip tape.

This is clearly not the case. The front foot guides the board, stops it rotating backwards, and is necessary to land the ollie, but it doesn't help get the board into the air.

The back foot pushes down (HARD) on the tail, the entire board rotates about the back axle until the tail hits the ground. At this point the front truck (which has significant weight (relative to the rest of the board)) is moving up and the rear truck is stationary, the momentum of the entire system is now up - the skater now (simply!) has to lift the rear foot at about the same speed as the tail lifts off the ground, and use the front foot to stop the board from over rotating back.
There's FTP/S (and RFC-4217, and not SFTP), which uses an SSL session negotiated inside of an FTP session. I don't know if there's a client/server combo that supports pinning, but this much at least exists.

Frankly, if I was looking to implement this, I'd start with SFTP/SCP. FTP/S is, at best, a rarely implemented kludge.
Perl has PSGI ( plackperl.org ) but it's more commonly used in CGI.

Citation needed.

I've been a serious Perl programmer since the 90s who has written public facing code at at least a half-dozen companies in the last decade. I've seen all kinds of combinations of things like mod_perl, fastcgi and Plack, but not once CGI.

I don't doubt that there are still some toy websites that run old CGI programs written in Perl. But I haven't seen them in the wild. And that niche has been replaced by PHP.
I'd love to but I don't have time and there's a lot of articles and content for this that already exists.

The gist of it all is that China is a low trust society. Everyone has a price and rules are only rules unless you have the resources to bend them for yourself. Yes this happens in Western culture as well, the big difference is the both degree and how prevalent it is. e.g. it is much harder to bribe a police officer or teacher here than it is in China. Over here it's an extraordinary event; over there it's mundane. So how do things work in a low trust society? If you can't rely on the rule of law to be consistently fair, you rely on your family. I'm not just talking immediate family. I'm talking about your cousins, and not just your immediate cousins; people over there rely on extended relatives as well like second or third cousins. That's your network of stability. Everything and everyone else (short of close friends) don't matter. In general you put your family ahead of yourself and your personal desires i.e. You don't study philosophy even though that's your love; you go into something practical like being a doctor or computer engineer (yes we have that here as well, but again the difference is the degree)... If there's any culture that truly adheres to the psychological theories of evolution, it's Chinese culture.

One more thing: It's a society of pragmatic pessimists, which I feel is yet another reason Chinese society has against it when it comes to innovation.
>> Yahoo takes external security reports seriously

Few weeks ago, I reported to your team that some of the yahoo servers' SSL cert were expired, acknowledged but no one want to fix it (until I post it here and finally get them updated...your site was showing security warning to your users for 2 weeks)

One of your awesome engineers replied the issue with expired SSL cert: "there do not appear to be any security implications as a direct result of this behavior"
This is awesome. It created a Hitler birth certificate for me. lol
I just tested my email system and 10/10 so there is not much more that I can do. The problem is that I am losing a certain percentage of emails (~2 to 3%) to customers in a completely non-deterministic manner. Microsoft is the worst offender, but it happens with yahoo and gmail too. I am beginning to think that filters have a randomization factor in them just to drive me insane.
I think there are quite a few people who do make a living by participating in vulnerability reward programs (well, not at $50 level, obviously).

Now, I have not seen too many people who would be doing it consistently for many years - simply because it gets tiresome. But it's the same thing for security consulting - at most consultancies, pentesters come and go.
No, the person you're replying to just has remarkably poor reading comprehension skills. I'd say maybe English isn't their first language (which it totally might not be), but even that isn't sufficient to explain their misinterpretation.
They should expand this museum. I want to virtually walk down The Hall of Shame. That KL-7 sim looks like a cool idea. I don't see any source though. Might be fun to create other ones, but browser-based.

http://www.cryptomuseum.com/crypto/usa/kl7/index.htm#sim
I really need to start doing consistent balance drills and flexibility training

If that's your aim, I can't recommend a regular yoga practice highly enough.
You're stealth. How'd they find out about you?
Twice means once for the initial bug on Wednesday, the second time with one of the "nuke the attack surface from orbit, it's the only way to be sure" patches that became available that Thursday.

This is no guarantee, of course, which is why the pen-test team that Chris Rohlf runs has to stay abreast of and continuously test the latest available exploits as well as the attempts that we see in our logs.
I think you meant to reply to my post because the article more or less says the same thing as your post.

> Ah yes, yet more cultural enlightenment from someone who's been here a few years? Months?

If you haven't guessed already, I'm Chinese.

> They hack hardware, but they are not Makers.

Just having the skill to do something is different from having the love for it. It makes a huge difference in what you make in the long run as both an individual and society. This said, I'm not saying that this can never happen in China, but for it to happen there needs to be a really big cultural change which will be very hard to do when there's an artificial limit placed on the ideas that people can experience and express.
There is no "doxing" rule on HN. That, too, is a Redditism.
We should all just decide on JS and solve the interesting problems instead
I have the same issue with 2nd hand items on the web. Always trying to find unrealistic prices, then praying for it to not be a busted. Often ends in 'well I wanted to see' hindsight justification.
We'd assume they'd be using HTTPS, you can't redirect HTTPS traffic without serving an invalid certificate which most browsers will warn you of. Or a forged cert, but that's harder to do.
You should have said "the anti-American garbage that leftist teachers are feeding to grade-school kids is breathtaking in its effectiveness" but in order to do that, you'd have to have some understanding of the true (not the political) version of history.

What's really amazing is that you think your 1960s, nihilistic, self-loathing, theyre-all-the-same cynicism is thoughtful and original, and you assume that the reason I disagree with you is that I haven't heard of such a notion before, and must not be as educated as yourself...
Have to disagree with you there. Educated people tend to be well informed and hold sensible opinions on global warming, vaccination, and education (and often hold silly opinions on nutrition, even though there is a very strong incentive). Economics is unique as something where people disdain the mainstream.

One notable difference (you can see it in this thread) is that people assume economists are somehow different from other academics. That academics in general can be trusted, but economists are sellouts. What they miss is that there is no significant difference between Economics as a field, and other fields. They get paid slightly more, but otherwise the journals, professional organizations, tenure committees, etc. are exactly the same. There is literally no point where the capitalist comes along with bags of money for his obedient intellectual servants.

The real reason people don't accept the mainstream is that it is very dismal. It says that your revealed preference proves that you value a cup of coffee in every morning over the life of an African (since you could donate that money to life saving charities). It says that inequality can't be fully ironed out because some people are more productive than others. It says that there is no way to shuffle around interest rates, bank accounts, etc. and make everyone better off. It says that there is no easy way to make the world better, because the free market has already maxed out the easy gains.

Personally, I think that the best way to encourage people to be more open to the mainstream, is to tell the other side of the store. Economics is also uplifting. It says that when you work for a company, you are creating value, and that that value can and does help people other than yourself (through the tax system). I also believe that tech has very large positive externalities (especially once you understand that taking people's jobs isn't an externality). Finally, it enables people to embrace the positive, self-affirming aspects of Ayn Rand's philosophy, without going to extremes. I do feel guilty that I don't do more for the people who are worst off. But at least I can enjoy my money, and my life, without feeling guilty that I'm driving some artist out of the current trendy area.
Wow, I find that very interesting.

Here in Australia employers won't hold back and will provide a negative reference if appropriate.
They obscure the destination, track users, and break at some point in the future leaving a bad link in the archives.
Oh, did I hurt feminist inside you ?
Here are claims[0] from prominent national news organization and many many reputed sources.

So that addresses your question #1.

#2. You are twisting the words. I said when "When HP announced "Meg Whitman" as CEO everyone was so voraciously attacking how HP is is being in bad condition because of male CEOs". It is not same thing as saying Whitman was chosen because of her gender.
My point still stands though. In her tenure of last three years she has failed to turn around HP from lost focus despite whatever claim you see.
Here is latest news on more layoffs from May [1]
So she is doing no wonder than some male in same position being as CEO.

#3. I don't know about conspiracies and I would never see myself assimilate with one. But, here is thing I can tell you.
Circle of powerful people do definitely want more women in powerful position. HP, Yahoo, IBM, Oracle( recently ) on and on. I don't know if these efforts are to get more women in tech industry or something else but there are sustained efforts across US for sure.

Regarding your claim "few women in tech industry " is blatantly false. I worked for four Org. on east coast. 8 out of 10 IT managers are women. 7 out of 10 women in mid to senior level mangagement up to VP.

This is not case of any one company , rather I would say there are more women in management than men.

I don't form my opinion from sustained campaigns run by someone and I certainly look far beyond San Francisco hypocrites.

[0] https://www.google.com/#q=woman%2B+ceo%2Bbetter%2B+than%2B+m...

[1] http://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/hp-plans-more-...
Admob.com also had an expired ssl cert for a few days recently.
Ignoring the genocides and the gulags for a minute, let's simply explore your theory that the USA and USSR were morally equivalent. The USSR conquered and imposed brutal slavery on every eastern european nation. The USA did not conquer any of the western european nations. We didn't even conquer Cuba. If we had the military power, why wouldn't we?
Smalltalk (as a language/environment) fits really nicely with 'the Cloud'. It already runs in its own VM as the normal way of distributing applications, so provisioning should be cake...

I've never heard of Seaside or AIDAweb, before, though. Anyone used Smalltalk for production?
The title is bad, but read the article again. You are making the exact same point the author made.
You are forced when you cannot use the software you used before.
Well the climate sure beats North Korea's.
Me too, my Dad and I bonded over building a SW radio together. Heathkit was the first in the Maker movement.