skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And, in a late update:

http://www.wired.com/2015/02/nsa-firmware-hacking/

I don't know if he's considered worth this much to "the authorities", but how'd you like _that_ done to your disks?

(If I'm reading that right, by non network connected burner machine would _probably_ be safe against that, but it's clearly half decade old NSA tech. Assuming their capability hasn't improve beyond that is ... foolish...)
If you use firefox on the desktop and on android you can easily sync your passwords for anything browser related without any third party extensions and without trusting unencrypted data to a 3rd party.
Ask HN: Is there a site to find ppl to work on projects with based on speciality
I'm a back end dev and have a bunch of ideas that I'd like to implement, but my front end skills are really lackluster so am worried that once I do implement the backend code, it's just going to lay there on my computer and never be published. Would like to find a good front end dev looking to collaborate on hobby projects and so thought I'd check here if there was a site that facilitates that. Thanks!
To provide context: Neil Patrick Harris made a joke that Edward Snowden "couldn't be there for some treason".

I firmly believe all puns are uncalled for in America (except by dads, who call for as many puns as possible). But sometimes we get the humor we deserve, not the humor we ask for.
While I understand your reasoning, keep in mind there are US citizens that are being executed without even a trial.

It's fairly obvious the government can and will do whatever they want.
The issue with keepassx is sync conflicts.

If you modify a password on machine A and a different on on machine B, resolving the conflict requires manually exporting both to XML, manual merging, etc. It's a real pain.
"What version of Linux are you running?"

"Uh, 2.something."

"Well, that's a span of 15 years right there. 2.what?"

"Uh, 2.6.something."

"Okay, that's a start. That narrows it down to a span of 8 years, almost a factor of two in improvement."

If they were to adopt semantic versioning, they'd NEVER bump the major version number in a hundred years. Think about this: when was the last time that changes to the Win32 API broke your application? Linux is also like that.
Your feedback isn't very constructive, and reflects poorly on your time management skills.

200 bugs is just two bugs per week for two years. At three hours per bug, that's 6 hours per week - 312/yr and 614 total. Significantly less than a college degree.

Alternatively, spend some time learning to code: https://www.youtube.com/devfactor - build some cool projects and present them to your employer.
And way _way_ faster if you've NSLed the US corporate officers of the drive manufacturers, or deeply rooted their internal networks Gemalco-style...
Most people can't watch video during work hour. We should always treat video as 'optional extra'.

Case in point, technical support/call center and room where you're constantly 'monitored'(NASA control room/datacenter NOC etc).
Isn't the sleep part more the first few years where kids don't keep a single-block-of-time sleep schedule? Then you have even more free time when they go to school.
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I'm using pass on OS X and Linux (synced via Dropbox). It's an open source terminal based password manager and uses GPG under the hood. I don't have a mobile client, but the amount of times I've needed a password on mobile when I don't have my laptop around are far and few between.

The documentation was a bit lacking when I started, so I wrote an article with instructions:

http://www.stackednotion.com/blog/2012/09/10/setting-up-pass...
I have the exact same problem. Frustrated with how little progress I made in 2014, in January I sat down and thought about things I'd be happy to accomplish in a year. Which skills will make my 2015 a success? The two things I chose were non tech related: writing and meditation. These two tasks are my absolute priority this year since meditation will help with stress and anxiety, and writing will help with learning other new skills in the future.

With this in mind, it's easy to push away any new hobbies/subjects that would normally interfere.
Lenovo hit with lawsuit over Superfish snafu
L. Gordon Crovitz: From Internet to Obamanet
Granted there does need to be some balance. Perhaps reasonable suspicion can lead to a reasonable stop: no more than five minutes. And never a search, regardless. In the article, stops of over an hour were mentioned. That's not reasonable in the court's opinion even as it stands now. Honestly though, I do not see the situation improving until the courts essentially reverse themselves and realize what horrific mistakes they've made in regards to the fourth amendment in the past. And while I'm being honest, I don't see that ever happening. I like the idea of a no-go zone, but while that might solve specific instances of abuse, it will not address the systematic abuse that the police have created in this country. Perhaps if we had a separate police to police the police instead of foolishly allowing them to police themselves we could reach some justice. This is also something that I do not see happening in this country as most people do not realize how horrific the police really are because they're white and will never experience it first hand. It's sad living in a society devoid of justice.
(1) Catalogs of some of the more common
behavior and emotional patterns and
their development over time of
human females and how to recognize these patterns
in real life and respond to them.

(2) The role of entrepreneurship in our economy
and society and how to be a successful
entrepreneur.

(3) The connections, common and/or possible,
between high end academics and careers, especially
business and entrepreneurship.

(4) Clinical Psychology 101 and how to detect,
understand, and respond to the common problems.

(5) The shockingly large fraction of people
who make messes out of their lives for no
good reason, and how to detect, understand, and
respond to what they are doing.

(6) The surprising ability of some people to
have terrible lives for their first 20 years
but seemingly put all that aside and have good lives.

(7) What parts of advanced mathematics are powerful
for valuable applications and how to make such applications.

(8) Real Politics 101, or how to please 50+% of the
people saying next to nothing and otherwise saying just
lies!

(9) Always look for the hidden agenda.

(10) Organizational Behavior 101.

(11) The common real situations of marriage and
parenting in the US, e.g., "there are a lot of
affairs". If you have or may have significant
wealth, then no way should you get married without
a rock solid pre-nup. As in
the opera Rigoletto, La donna è mobile,
that is, "The woman is fickle". From "The Big Sky",
"You can never tell what a woman will do next.".

(12) How fiction works in books, plays, TV,
and movies, and how it connects with the
mass media including what is called the news.

(13) What are the really important things
in life and how to understand
their importance.

(14) The world changed a lot from 1800 to
1900 and then from 1900 to 2000 and then
from 2000 to 2015. Rapid change will
likely continue. Expect and accept it,
welcome it, and take advantage of it.

(15) A good family is one of the most
important things, and to have one likely
you have to work hard to make it so.
Some thoughts: VMs are an interesting case. Someone with the motive and means would have exploits to get out of the VM. This is probably easier if the guest is running something to accelerate (e.g. VMWare Tools / VirtualBox Guest Additions.) Once you get out, you have to account for the host OS. Assuming you could do it, how does one determine if the VM is part of a honeypot or the target?
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Wake up.

Exercise.

Shower.

Breakfast.

Creative writing(blogging or fiction).

Khan/Coursera videos or various programming exercises.

Then I'm ready for the main work for the rest of the day =)
http://xmarks.com/ is owned by LastPass
Is this news? I don't know about anyone else, but ever since my undergrad days, I see repeating patterns in nature and I just say to myself "oh, there's another partial differential equation"
Mac OS 9 on Unsupported Hardware
What’s life like for a man who tastes words?
Prosecuting a journalist -- over something that has the executive branch sweating bullets -- when they're on the way to attend one of the biggest entertainment award ceremonies of the year would be like loading a revolver with a whole stick of dynamite and pretending you're just going to shoot your foot off.

"TSA imprisons Oscar winners on their way to the ceremonies" isn't something Obama wants to see in every newspaper on Monday morning.
I think your question is legit. It shouldn't be down voted. It doesn't apply to science and engineering disciplines because we humans have made those disciplines "human proof" by rigorous analysis and testing. Here when people say "winging it" is I think meant to point out that Humans are limited in their capacity to know everything about things ,especially predict the future yet people sometime act like they do know. "Winging" might be a coping mechanism we have to employ to stay relevant in the rapidly changing world. It may not have been true 100 years ago.
The article doesn't actually mention the specific Turing paper. It's "The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chemical_Basis_of_Morphogen...

It should be noted that Turing was a mathematician, not a scientist. He wasn't trying to prove that tiger stripes occur in a specific way but instead he wanted to model mathematically how such large scale structure could arise from uniform homogeneous structure.
The reality is it's very hard to have objective performance. Salespeople somewhat have it, but even then you don't know the performance of the deals until many years later. You can somewhat come up with it for VCs, but it takes many years to sort out talent vs luck vs good or bad markets. Observing the quality of decisions is by it's nature extremely subjective.
Seems like a significant source of aneutronic fusion fuel, which gives you the energy generation (or bang) of conventional fusion but lets you isolate most of the radiation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium-3#Extraterrestrial_abun...
> But you are calling for her termination. For something unrelated to her current job.

I am calling for her termination for something on-going with her current job and related to her old job. Did you not read the article? A Reddit employee asked the defense to subpena more employees because of conflicts at her new job. I highly doubt the employee was "trolling" the defense with his or her request (more than half of reddit's staff is female). There is obviously something of substance there and I think that combined with her prior experience is telling of the toxicity she is bringing with her wherever she goes.

I don't care if she's in the right or wrong, I only care about reddit since it's a website I use every day and have for years. I would not want a CEO with such problems and baggage following them around heading up any company I'm a part of or I enjoy. It's like that one kid in school who always said they hated "drama" yet always found themselves smack-dab in the middle of it. They may have had no part in the drama, but it followed them around. They were a toxic presence and that's exactly what's begun to happen with Ellen Pao according to this article's bit about reddit.

More than that, it's strange that KP hasn't settled. That's something that, if there was actually evidence, even mildly strong "iffy" evidence, they would want to do immediately. They wouldn't let it move to trial. Unless they had evidence which supports their own side of the story. Again, that's largely irrelevant to me. Even if she's 100% correct, I wouldn't want someone with all that baggage heading up my company. CEOs need to be fortitude personified.
So, I'll ask the more cynical question -- how does this affect Ed Snowden's chances of getting a pardon and being allowed to come home?
This is great. Now, how can I get to see this movie here in Tokyo? It doesn't look like any screening is planned in Japan, and most people here don't seem to care the issue.
> But it seems not easy to find hidden gems.

Yup. Very glad to hear that you want the
"hidden gems".

Finding them is
a nutshell description of the
purpose of my startup.

Thanks for the wording!
Check out https://github.com/mstarke/MacPass as well
I found LastPass terrible from a UX perspective. Sure it must claim a lot of checkboxes on a feature sheet, but the applications/plugins/website are buggy and inconsistent with each other. It only works well when you use it for the narrow purpose of automatic website logins. Throw any other password at it, or dare to try a different workflow, and the whole thing just crumbles.

I only use it because I have to at work. 1Password is much more convenient.
I was just thinking about this yesterday, and I disagree. I think it's something that people repeat without really thinking about it.

Sure, if you hate your job, or it's meaningless. But let's turn this around. Do great painters wish they had spent less time painting? Or do they wish they could finish their last project. Do writers wish they had written less, or do they wish they could live long enough to finish that last book?

I do what I do because I enjoy doing it more than spending time with my family. For better or for worse, it is a compulsion, a calling, not a job.
Was that what he said? I didn't hear the "t". Without the "t" it's much more amusing, with it's sad because it plays on a line of thought that is sad, small, and wrong.
Sensitive much?
Both have made several appearances in the US promoting the film; Greenwald has also been on a book tour. They're probably taking care with what they try to take through customs (if anything), but simply visiting doesn't seem (for the moment at least) to be prohibitively tough.
Paris already has a very successful shared electric car device called Autolib. I use it at least once a week, and it's brilliant. The scheme works because the battery has a range of about 150km, but the typical trip is only 5-10km. The systemight not work as well in less dense cities.
It's the first part in a series of articles.
I'm sure he will mention this, especially considering he hints at the densoty issues right at the beginning.
Because this comment is nonsensical for not including the text:

Jeffrey Paul ‏@sneakatdatavibe

A first for the #oscars: being surprised the winner was willing to enter the country to accept the award. #landofthefree
Ask HN: Developers how much you read books?
How much you developers read besides reading tutorials & technology news. I am a developer and its been a long ago that i ever read a Book/Novel/Fiction even physical newspaper. It seems like developers (like me) have lost this good habit

Thanks
Link should be http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/22/opinion/sunday/nicholas-kr...

Trailing slash kills the link.
"On the other hand, the strongest argument for some people advocating 4.0 seems to have been a wish to see 4.1.15 - because "that was the version of Linux skynet used for the T-800 terminator"."

Makes total sense :)
The recent past seems like such a dark time for people who are skeptical of all this State Spycraft stuff.

An award to a good film about an essentially important issue, with a little dark (or darkly sinister, take your pick) levity by Mister Oscar, and you start to feel that there is a glimmer of hope...

The EFF can justifiably rant and rave and they do a good job at it. But a little nod from a general public institution seems, to me at least, to provide a special sort of boost.
> I disagree with the implication that employment differences are to be trivialized as 'matters of preference,'

I dont think that's trivializing the issue at all. Millions of people in the world with different preferences in all manner of things from movies to professions is hardly trivial. What's trivializing is thinking we can do some studies and find some kind of root cause of what is really an average of millions of personal choices.
Thanks for the emphasis on the possibility
and importance of rock solid engineering.

At times, information technology entrepreneurship
seems to believe that no such thing is possible.
You can't possibly be serious. I've had one CEO like that over 20 years. Most CEOs are somewhat less than that and they do at least ok if not great.
Who's Going to Run Node.js, and Why That Matters
I got the API from this site: http://apps.evozi.com/apk-downloader/ (app path is com.facebook.katana)

The extracted APK only totaled 51.6 MB. A lot of it was from the assets and libraries, as you might imagine.

It doesn't explain why the size on OP's device was so large.
I had a quick look at her last 50 comments or so, they look fine to me. Can you provide some more specific evidence of your claim?
Raising kids is mundane, boring, uninteresting or intensely irritating 80% of the time. When it's good it's really good, but you don't get to choose when, and you've got to be at least somewhat on your game the rest of the time too if you don't want to be a jerk to them.

EDIT> This is for people with strong (non-kid) passions that are time-consuming. I know people who are just amazing with kids, but typically they don't seem to have much else going on in their lives.
I think that's a bit optimistic. To be honest I don't come across that many bugs in open source software. Google and Apple products, yes, but I generally don't have access to their source. Right now there are just a couple of open source bugs that are annoying me, but each of those would likely take me at least a few weeks of full-time work to track down.

IMO you're much better actually building something impressive rather than fixing a bunch of bugs if you're looking for a job.
I've never been much of a reader for the entirety of my life. I loved working math and logic problems even at a young age. tearing apart computers, working on cars with my dad, and learning new mechanical skills, never from a book. My parents really never pushed me to read very much. Now in my thirties I find myself only reading tech related news, source code and skimming documentation.
Wake up in a panic

Check various things online in case another 9/11

Take some innocuous daily medication I have to take

Get dressed

Go to work

Get coffee

Get caught up with overnight emails

Get caught up with feeds, blogs, etc

Decide on the main thing that's going to happen for the day
Most password managers on Android are bad news bears anyhow:
http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/11/using-a-password-man...
me too, but fyi: http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/11/using-a-password-man...
That sounds like an ideal, yet long routine. How long does that take you?
Google Vietnam Compromised?
Looks like someone has compromised Google's Vietnam site.

A cursory DNS query for google.com.vn against 8.8.8.8 returns a Cloudflare IP. I'm not a security expert, but seems like something decidedly strange is going on.

As of the posting of this message, this is what is found when accessing the home page: http://imgur.com/wMScgY6
Retrouvez le single One Last Time de Ariana Grande et la sonnerie sur m.Mplay3
Is Nato looking the right way?
What point is that today? Just curious as I am also a technology recruiter in my early/mid 20's. Shoot me a message if you can!
Wake up

Skip school

Turn on the Atari
1) You will have to continue studying and learning for the rest of your career, unless you want to be easily replaceable. If you want to be easily employable with a great job and great salary past the age of 45, you can't just be a coder. You need to be a tech lead, architect, etc, someone that can lead so that you add value in ways other than coding. If you are a coder at the age of 45, you have to be significantly better than someone who is half your age and half you salary to keep employed. An average, or below average coder at age 45 is not easily employable, at least in Silicon Valley.

2) Salaries for pure coders flatline around the age of 35, unless the entire industry's salary range goes up like it has over the last 5 years. There is a sweet spot of experience between 8-10 years, and companies don't value 20 years experience more than 10 years experience. The industry simply isn't the same 10-20 years ago as it is today. The only significant difference that I bring to the table over an 32 year old coder is that my code is probably incrementally more reliable and my manual testing abilities are probably incrementally better, but for the most part, the differences are intangible and definitely not enough to justify a salary increase.

3) Take care of your body. Age is not just a number. Practice good eating habits and do not gain weight because it becomes much harder to lose as you age. Your body goes through physical changes from your early 30s, and you are weaker. My memory is significantly worse now than it was 10 years ago, and often forget things that I've known for 10-20 years. My body is significantly weaker than it was even 5 years back.

4) Learning how to be personable and sociable will help accelerate and lengthen your career. No one wants to be around someone who is a technical genius but an asshole. They would rather hire someone who is very good, but great to work with.

5) Customers don't care about technology, they care about solutions. In the end, as long as you are solving customer problems, you are employable.
I think the situation with KP should have pretty much disqualified her right off the bat. She shouldn't have been hired in the first place (though I think she got the job by default thanks to Yishan unexpectedly quitting). They shouldn't have hired her at least until her lawsuit/court case was over with. Right now it's clearly a huge distraction and has proven to be as such.

If reddit didn't hire her to begin with, they wouldn't have had one of their employees telling the defense to subpena the rest of them because of all the conflicts. Her actions with that company are now affecting and a distraction for reddit itself.

Put yourself in the shoes of a reddit board member and tell me you'd gladly hire her to run your company. With all her current baggage and the drama, and conflict with your current employees. Tell me you'd genuinely be happy and fine with her overseeing your company. One which happens to be one of the hottest web properties and quickest rising social media sites out there.

Your job, as a board member, should be to minimize any and all risks to your business, no, investment. Ellen Pao is risk personified at the moment.
Alarm radio wakes me up with jazz

{run,don't run}

make coffee/tidy up/drink coffee

shower

make breakfast

eat breakfast over coffee and {math textbook, video lecture}

commute on bike
> - the importance of caring for your body, listening and acting on its complaints rather than pushing yourself harder;

Yes! I found it way too easy to push way too
hard and, thus, do some serious damage.
One case took surgery and, then, years to
recover -- I'm back to normal now.
Some of Seagate's drives require signed firmware.

http://www.seagate.com/www-content/product-content/savvio-fa...

8.7 AUTHENTICATED FIRMWARE DOWNLOAD
In addition to providing a locking mechanism to prevent unwanted firmware download attempts, the drive also only accepts
download files which have been cryptographically signed by the appropriate Seagate Design Center.
Three conditions must be met before the drive will allow the download operation:
1. The download must be an SED file. A standard (base) drive (non-SED) file will be rejected.
2. The download file must be signed and authenticated.
3. As with a non-SED drive, the download file must pass the acceptance criteria for the drive. For example it must be applicable
to the correct drive model, and have compatible revision and customer status.
I was asking about the exact uses murbard2 detailed, for which murbard2 thought OCaml was not ideal... not asking which language I should learn to understand functional programming