skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was trying to convince an ISP that they should not be recycling emails for prior customers. They seem to think it was not an issue but I told them they were mistaken.

I tried to express that by giving out the old customers email they were allowing the new person to perform things like password resets or even receive email that was suppose to go the orginal account owner.

In the end I got them to revoke the email they reused and make sure it is never given out again.
5 Steps to Selling Your Home
I can get that comments are not "big data" but SQlite seems underwhelming.

Any reason why this choice was made?
Huh?

My insurance covers me in the case of theft. When I applied for my policy the adjuster asked me questions about my physical security. Do I have a deadbolt? Security system? Things like that. These variables (along with others, crime rate of my neighborhood, for example) were plugged in and I was given a policy with a premium tailored to my risk. If I lie about my risk to get a lower premium, then if I make a claim, then I won't be covered.

Consider a 100% purely hypothetical situation where I told my insurance company I have a deadbolt on my door. They issue me a policy based on that information. This policy has language in it that defines what a deadbolt is. I then replace my deadbolt with something that doesn't fit the language of my policy. I make a claim, and an insurance adjuster comes to my house. They notice that I was using a tool to secure my door that didn't fit with my policy language. Now I won't be covered because I didn't follow the policy.

Of course that's entirely hypothetical. Maybe (probably?) not even likely. But since it takes all of 5 minutes to verify if the new lock you are installing is compatible with your insurance policy, it would be braindead to not check.

Just something to consider...
λ is greek: HL3 confirmed
It depends why you want to start a company. If it's because "this product needs to exist", you may have lost your motivation. If it's because "this product is inevitable, and I believe I can do a better job than other people", then keep at it.
Mm... If $5/month/user makes any difference to your bottom line in comparison to salaries and the benefits you are getting from the service, I suspect that you have a problem -- and one that has nothing to do with Slack. (As in, you've a serious sales or management problem in your organization, or you're not a qualified lead, e.g. you're a student or a non-profit.)
100?! That's phenomenal... I'll give them a call tonight and ask them to check with Charter and see what is available (for a decent price/a price they are OK with).

Thanks for the heads up!
Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8954100.
I can do this all day: In order to be able to attack somebody who's attacking you, you need exploits available to you. If you have exploits available to you, you're making yourself attackable. Do you really not see the problem here?
... and the previous response is clearly a rebuttal to your assertion that it was too "expensive" to build the failed gen lockitron. I pointed out that the BOM and build costs couldn't be nearly as high as you were claiming.

It wasn't about the retail price.
In the readme file (BootChess.txt) He quotes a great HN comment thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7940938) from (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7940212), a 128 byte raycaster written by the same author. The title of that section is "Proving know-how remains valued". This post has already generated some similar gems like this one (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8954853).
>Turns out that cutting in a depressed economy makes the depression worse

Sure, if you are insolvent but you can still get a hold on some borrowed money your situation is obviously going to get better in the short run. But you are just killing the goose that laid the golden egg, since your economy is dependent on borrowing money.

It's not black or white. On the one hand you have the economist that say that Greece must stop running a public deficit since it may risk a default if creditors believe that the Greek Government will never be able to repay the debt. On the other hand, you have the (neo)keynesian economists that believe that cutting spending during a crisis is a suicide, and therefore paying off the debt is not a priority. Which ones are right? Well, only time will tell.

> As a result, Greece now has enormous unemployment, a vastly shrunken economy, and a debt-to-GDP ratio that is only going up despite the huge spending cuts.

It's not clear how much of these is caused by the austerity measures. If you remember, at the beginning of the crisis most European governments launched public spending programs in order to reactivate the economy. It only made things worse: it did not create long lasting jobs and it only increased public deficit, which in turned also increased their debt obligations.

>This is clearly an unsustainable course, something now recognized by the Greek voters.

Actually, the only "clear" unsustainable course is to keep the economy afloat by increasing their debt. If this is the new normal, they will not be able to keep borrowing forever.

>Unfortunately, there appears zero chance that EC and German politicians are going to acknowledge that austerity doesn't work.

You have to understand that they are choosing the lesser evil. Even if austerity did not work, it still might be better than increasing their debt.
You don't have to carry a key with you.
A doctrinaire Ayn-Rand-ian got control of Sears a few years ago and tried it: http://www.alternet.org/economy/ayn-rand-sears-and-eddie-lam...

Didn't work out too well. Some units needed to work together for the organization as a whole to function -- but being forced to compete against each other for corporate resources gave them incentives to sabotage each other instead, and the overall bottom line suffered greatly.
Google said they considered the open access model but rejected it. I don't think they explained why, though.
It was the NWS in this case who was playing up the fear. The useual suspect, The Weather Channel, is the only one who got it right.
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/27/9

Note the long list of mitigations. Some things will be remotely exploitable (exim), but it looks like most things will be safe enough, as it doesn't affect cases where forward confirmed reverse DNS. Even the exploit they give only works against particular exim configs.

That said, this has a picture, and a name. So it's obviously the biggest deal ever.
Transloader for iOS 8 to Get Action Extension and Today Widget
> CenturyLink and Cox were perfectly fine dabbling in 50mbps service for the rest of eternity without true competition.

Why isn't there competition between those two?
Cars have been doing keyless entry for decades. They've even recently moved to proximity keys so that you don't even have to press a button.

What do you not understand?
Tragic. I played a lot of World of Warcraft when it came out, had the classic relationship challenges (wife didn't play but the kids did) and finally stopped playing seriously when I realized I had wasted a weekend working on materials for imaginary armor rather than building an actual robot or learning something new. Fortunately, Blizzard completely ruined the game with the Mists of Pandera expansion and I've never played since.

But looking back at why I played so much, is touched on in the article. It simulates being very productive (which in a meta sense you are), and for me that represents "goodness" in my self image. It was only after I called out the lie I was telling myself about "getting stuff done" did I really lose the compulsion to go play for hours.

I still enjoyed the social aspects, and the strategies for gaming the economy or finding a new way to solo a boss fight, but I no longer equated it with being productive. So for the same reason I don't sit in a movie theater for 8 hours straight, I stopped playing for those long stretches. And when I did have something I could get done, I chose not to play WoW.
WikiLeaks Blasts Google for Quietly Handing Emails to the Government
> I had a bluetooth deadbolt. I was able to give my friend a virtual key when he came to visit as I didn't have a spare for the deadbolt.

Or you could have visited the locksmith (or your local hardware store with a key department) and gotten 1 or more spares in minutes.
Technical analysis of Qualys' GHOST
> If not solved, try a different query and repeat.

I'm not sure if you even bothered to read the article... since that was the very next sentence. I, too, wanted to give the author the benefit of the doubt and assume it was mere information gathering, which is a good thing, but the next sentence shows that the intent is to solve the problem from start to finish with Google.
Its certainly a more complete solution but probably costs too much for the average person to use on their own home. Even $99 for a lockitron is too expensive to interest me at all.
Cute. They couldn't even take Gibraltar then, and that was tiny and on their border.
Cool - thanks for that! I'll dig into it.
The issue he (and I) have, is that this is worst-first thinking. Sure, your insurance company could deny you coverage, but it's very unlikely. In the absence of evidence that insurance companies do this (and insurance regulators allow it), we should act under the more likely outcome rather than an hypothetical worst-case scenario.

That's why he asked if you were in the lock or insurance industry. Someone with experience in these matters would be qualified to speculate on the importance of taking this into consideration. Without that expertise, rhetoric like this feels like advice to always wear a helmet in case of flying debris. Well-meaning, but unrealistic.
It looks like what's going on is that gethostbyname() calls __nss_hostname_digits_dots() which checks to see if the string you passed it was an IPv4 or IPv6 address rather than a name, and in that case it functions like inet_aton/inet_pton and converts the IP address string to a binary IP address as though the "name" 1.2.3.4 resolved to IP address 1.2.3.4.

In that specific case there are no aliases and exactly one IP address, but the buffer could still be too small (e.g. if caller-supplied with gethostbyname_r()).
Quite incredible. Imagine Australia speaking Spanish instead of English.

Its an extremely stable state. I would be reluctant to think it would still be fought over today if Spain did try to take it.
Cheap 2-4 layer PCBs in US: http://www.pentalogix.com/us-prototype-pcbs-4-pack-p-602.htm...

There are Chinese ones as well that ship to you within a week.
If they can't castle then they aren't complete.

Or do you mean the ai can't castle, but you can?
MY SWEET REVENGE ON TIME WARNER CABLE AND COMCAST!! Take my money Google. I'd love to see the look on their faces when they realize that Google is coming to eat their lunch.
I have friends that keep insisting I get back into gaming and
frequently question my (apparent) lack of interest in current
games. This sums up my reason for not going back to video games:

But just as Patricia rematerialized, her AA recovery partner
and husband of 43 years contracted a fatal illness. Patricia
took care of him until the end.

"I regret so much," she said. "I wasted all our time
together. We could have been doing all kinds of things, but I
was just gaming."

I wasted almost a decade of my life, and who knows how many years
off the end by the terrible condition I let my body fall into. I
failed at graduate school, and nearly failed as an employee. I
had no social life outside 3 or 4 friends at any time during that
decade. I'm no longer in the head space where games are dangerous
to me, but I can safely say that I'm enjoying playing sports,
going outside, dating, hanging out with friends and the rest of
the things I gave up for those years much more than playing the
latest FPS or strategy game of the month.
The Urge to Rewrite
"Consequently, achieving peak memory bandwidth performance on the GTX 970 is still possible, but it requires more effort since simple striping will not do the trick."

So you have to specially write code to reach peak memory bandwidth, the same as all other chips.

Unless that part of the article is wrong?
And a system where A) you give everyone the same 2 character password B) you don't give anyone a username and C) anyone can give anyone else admin credentials with no authentication?

works just fine there.
Awesome and very helpful to hear it from an independent 3rd party... thanks!
Underwhelming? Do you have a case for this where SQLite wouldn't be good enough?
Friends and I were having beers and decided to come up with the most absurd product we could conceive of actually getting funded. One guess as to what it was.

Honestly, doors and locks do not need 'disruption.' Many many other things could use this treatment and the hours put in.

Aside: We decided the pricing sweet spot was 40, as that's about double the cost of a real lock. Also, this actually passes one of the Valley tests, that the company help get you laid (Fb, Google, Uber, etc all do this and the lock here does too as it is 'James Bond-y')
Sure but the question you have to answer before that is how to get in your home without your phone.
LaunchKey seeking elite front-end dev to help evolve security beyond passwords
Best Practices When Creating Custom Elements
I've experienced the opposite so far in my area; I've received a data cap from Comcast for which my monthly overage charges exceed $100, on top of the $50 base cost, for the same 50Mbps service.
I am sure there is - but I don't think CL had the capacity to really 'push' Cox. They weren't rolling out anything better than what Cox had, just comparable, so both were just happily sitting there for years and years not really bothering each other.

Then GFib comes in and suddenly everyone has piles of internet laying around ;)
During one of the darkest periods of the last few years, I was working on a failing startup. All the front-end work was done and "good enough", and I was waiting on my cofounder to finish up a few last infrastructure tweaks so we could launch. I had less than a couple hundred in my bank accounts, was barely making rent, and was basically in a holding pattern.

So, I started playing Fallout: New Vegas. I clocked like 120-140 hours in two weeks. I beat the game, I beat the expansions. I had a blast.

I think the problem with the video games is that they often offer a certain kind of refuge. You're a hero, and more importantly, you make tangible progress.

Playing CS or Quake or UT or Payday, you are playing a round, and everything lives and dies in that 12-20 minutes of your life. Everything is simple: strafe left, fire, reload, pickup, die, respawn. It's a beautiful three-dimensional puzzle in planning space, and at least for me is nearly a meditative state. I'm a big guy, and when I played Mirror's Edge, I quite literally cried because I was getting a chance to experience a freedom of movement only my skinny, small friends who practiced parkour could accomplish. I was free.

Playing RPGs is similarly relieving: I'm the Courier, I'm some guy left for dead in a pit in the ground, and I've got to piece together how I got there and how to bring justice to the person that put me there. I've got a neat little checklist of things to accomplish, fairly straightforward ways to check off those things, and a continual sense of "oh, okay, if I do this, then this happens, and then this." At a time in my life where things were most uncertain and the way most unclear, I could fire up New Vegas and see a logical progression of actions and accomplishments.

What do we get in the real world?

Well, it's not the people--it seems like pretty much everyone exists mainly in a state of consumption, alternating between work and home and social media or texting.

It's not heroics--the only wars being fought are unjust and unending police actions against the third world or our own citizens, and even as experienced developers we, searching for ever-more professionalism, realize that a team is not made of a hero and ensemble cast but instead a group of cooperative individuals with humility.

It's not even a clear causal universe: I write several KLOCS of code and deliver features, my sales don't increase. My friend doesn't take out ads, his sales increase. My cat plays outside, it gets hit by a car and dies behind a radiator waiting for me to come home. My other friend hangs outside in a parking lot, and a wild kitten appears. There's no sense to it, only random chance.

And so, does it really surprise anyone that we'd prefer our virtual worlds to this situation?
Can we have a ban on "X considered harmful" titles? Have some originality.
The README file is really interesting: http://lpaste.net/119343
In theory, I agree. I've often likened code development to muscles; you get good at what you do, and what you don't do atrophies. If you push changes ever hour, you get very good at making sure that works. If you push them every three months, you get good at pushing them every three months, and panic when something requires you to move within days. And so on. This applies to all sorts of development process aspects (test a lot, get good at testing, fail to test, becomes impossible to test later, etc).

In practice, neither what tedunangst nor I think matters, because once you ship something to a customer in any way, they're not going to upgrade it. Offer automated upgrades and they'll demand a way to turn them off. It's not just developer boxes we have to worry about, unfortunately.
They've validated your space. Learn from their mistakes. Hijack their customer feedback. Do it better than them. Think of ways to partner with them. Keep your enemies closer. Make it simpler than they do for the consumer or enterprise. Yahoo, Excite, AllTheWeb, HotBot, Lycos etc were all search engines before Google. Compuserve, Geocities, TheGlobe, Friendster and MySpace were all essentially social networks before Facebook.
Rayger: Music-Sensitive Party Light System
Oh please, all it would take for this "Ghost" vulnerability not to happen was someone at glibc to have made the right call regarding how to treat a buffer overflow in a function dealing with external data. They didn't, so what? The lesson here is that Red Hat & other companies should do additional review if they are shipping something branded as super secure and stable.

Long term support is great. People screw up sometimes. Additionally, it's about time core software components get more attention from companies with the big bucks (and that are profiting from it).
Here's an example of that kind of transient information sharing working quite well over a long period of time:

https://oaklandwiki.org/Why_are_there_helicopters_right_now%...
There is a huge problem. Your landlord still needs access, and isn't very eager to keep track of 15 different locking systems across all his tenants when the keyed locks he installed work perfectly fine.
To put 'Getting Netflix' into perspective for you, my home connection is 2 Mbps down, 1 Mbps up and I have no issue watching Netflix steams with good enough quality to be enjoyable. We choose to get this slow connection due to the cost ($15/mo) and see no reason to pay for higher tiers of speed from Time Warner.
It's not clear to me: Is that list at the bottom new things in v.3?
JT from Tuft & Needle here. I met with Andrea and the team last year. They are solid. The big difference with this tech is that it can actually impact the way you sleep as opposed to just reporting data points.

When you sleep badly you usually know it in the morning. A wristband telling me isn’t that useful. A tool that actually helps you fall asleep and stay asleep provides significantly more value.
How does the sleep phase sensor work? I'm assuming it can't read brainwaves...
What's the mechanism by which a company would be financially ahead with such policies?

Drawing from a deeper talent pool; building a more loyal workforce; improving morale. All of which help your existing hours be more effective and the latter two mean staff are more likely to do extra work.
Same here with Johnny Mnemonic :)
Apache Cordova/ Phonegap
It shouldn't even be a perk, it should be standard and law.
Or it does using the above mechanisms.
Looks like it's likely based on node-webkit / nwjs / atom - dead give away is rounded bottom corners and sharp top corners, a long standing issue for that project.
Finally, a scripting language that captures the essence of Windows as much as Perl captures the essence of Linux.
Echoing malnourish, touch base with them and highlight to them that your context is that of a university. I'd gather they'll give the service away to you for free, if only for the sake of making sure you're team members are familiar with -- and addicted to -- using it by the time you're done studying.
What "great work". He took someone else's work and said "look what I did".
This is implying that people actually want to upgrade full releases. Perhaps I would like to make a Linux box and have it last a few years, and only patch it for security fixes as it is working fine. Yes if I do have to upgrade that system 5 years later it is going to be more painful than every 6 months, but if I did it every 6 months I would have to devote development time and switch context every 6 months.

Small updates are better if you have to upgrade entire systems, but many people do not want to risk destabilizing working systems every 6 months. For that we have LTS where someone will integrate in security fixes in a hopefully non impacting fashion and for that I am thankful
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Keep in mind that they didn't "tell" you that you'd be on call every night. They asked, and you said OK.

The fact that they didn't include a question mark at the end of the sentence doesn't change the fact. The correct answer is still "No, Of course not." It's then up to them to decide whether it's worth firing you for giving the sensible answer to their silly request.
Advancing the realtime web
I need one of these in a Twin XL size.

(I can't be the only nerd who needs an 80" long bed, but doesn't have enough room for anything wider than a twin.)
It does, but no raw data are sent, most of the aggregation happens on the device.
We upload sleep patterns, average values for some sensors (temp/humidity, ambient light) and major events (loud sound or quick change in ambient light).
We use those data for historical data analysis on the server side.

The cloud service relays commands to the cover when your phone is not connected to your wifi too (you can warm up your bed while ubering back home on a cold night).
I think your argument holds, thanks for presenting it. The argument raises a question for me. Is their inherent hiring bias in that type of situation even without a leave policy? What I mean is, as a woman of child bearing age, if I were to get pregnant and have a child during (or immediately prior to) that 12 month runway, wouldn't I possibly be a hiring risk since even if I won't be eligible for pay, I would potentially be out of office at least temporarily. Minimum 6-8 weeks?
Yeah, well this guy can launch a GUI in zero bytes! Beat that!

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=18860
Double Fraud productions? No thank you. Tim Schafer, you are an insufferable, money-wasting, hypocritical bastard. Gets 8x as much money as he asked for, then delivers less than half of a game in twice the time (Broken Age part 1). Then he does it again, but doesn't even promise to finish the game, just to wrap it up and release as is (Spacebase DF-9).
That was a stupid choice of words... What I meant to say was neo-liberal, I guess. Since the whole comment is mostly hyperbole anyways, I will let it stand as is.
I don't live there, but I guess it is an oligopoly. They probably offer identical (or very similar) services at similar prices, both making a huge profit. Neither wants to rock the highly profitable boat.
I really wish they start the service in the D.C Metro/VA regions too. We have FIOS but they charge ridiculous prices (i.e. ridiculous compared to G Fiber prices :-))