skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That statement isn't from ars, it's from experts, and it's correct.

Reverse engineer 12+ firmwares, make extensive modifications to their functionality, recompile them, properly QA them, and use them as just one element of a complex malware chain is not a student project.

The link you provided shows how much investment it takes to identify a small bit of firmware functionality and not even do anything useful with it.
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When the cable or water company does it to me (overcharging on a bill), it takes months to get solved, and they make you feel like you're trying to rip them off, so, no - it has to go both ways or none.

(Cue me last year walking into a Comcast office with my lawyer in tow to discuss them charging me a modem rental fee whereas I have my own modem - in truth, we just were in the neighborhood)
Can you honestly say that you'd go to an airline's web site, search for a flight, get quoted a price, notice that if you switch to a foreign currency the quoted price is literally 100x cheaper, and think it's probably legitimate?

If you'd actually think that, I'd say you're probably not safe to have out in public without an escort.
The house off the grid is built on
industrial infrastructure.

So what? It's a matter of degree.

I helped my parents build their off-the-grid house. It's solar-powered, but uses batteries for backup storage. It collects and filters rainwater, recycles and purifies its own sewage, and is made mostly of recycled materials (in the style of what's called an "Earthship," but with a more traditional, house-like form factor).

Did industrial infrastructure come into play? Of course. We used cars and trucks to get stuff there to build with. We used machines and materials produced in the modern world. What difference could that possibly make? The house is still much less ecologically destructive than the vast majority of dwellings worldwide, both in terms of ongoing damage and initial construction.

It's possible to create buildings today which get all their electricity from the sun; which require no industrial infrastructure at all for sewage, heat, or clean water; and which cost much, much less than earlier housing models. That's an amazing improvement.

All tech's based to some degree on tech which came before.
Talking about switched prices: I read recently about Amazon and Squaretrade. Apparently, Amazon pulls in the Squaretrade warranty price dynamically when it renders the page for an item; and Squaretrade uses some sophisticated model to determine the price. So if you add it to your cart when you're buying the item, you are not guaranteed to get the same price you saw; the price of the warranty in the cart can often be much higher.
> Even people in the US should only be in the office 1/3 of the day.

A Silicon Valley startup /generally/ has most of their customers in the US. Both US businesses and US consumers have a cultural expectation that issues be resolved quickly within business hours, but are usually more forgiving at 9 PM at night. (For example, if I call my bank at 3 PM, I expect a resolution darn near immediately; if I called at 11 PM I would expect to leave a voicemail. In both scenarios I am equally satisfied, even though in the first I received an immediate solution and in the second I did not.)

It's not a matter of having developers on call 24/7, but in having the 8 hours they are online overlap the 8 hours that the customer base expects prompt service.
The final paragraphs about the rise of surface mount PCBs are a more accurate diagnosis than anything to do with RadioShack's marketing strategy.

Just look at AdaFruit Industries and Sparkfun. These two companies couldn't do a better job marketing to the DIY audience and have done an incredible job expanding the reach of DIY, but even taken together, with MakerFaire thrown in, I don't think they'd crack $200MM in revenue. Topline. Assuming margins of 30%, it's a great catalog business, but not one that can support a 7,000 store chain.

The reality is during RS's heyday, if you wanted electronics, you had to build them. Or at least know the rudiments of repairing them. Today, the stuff we get from Shenzen is just too good. Too advanced and too cheap and too disposable.

While experimenting with Raspberry Pi boards is cool, it's a hobby, or educational experience, not a replacement for manufactured goods.

Changes in manufacturing took away RadioShack's raison d'être. Big box retail applied purchasing power leverage to take away many of RS's most profitable categories and Amazon/Walmart piled on. This left them as a weird Frankenstein combo of a Brookstone and cell phone retailer. Selling a few more Arduinos and Zigbee breakout boards wouldn't have saved them.
> Sorry, I was referring to what has been the standard recommendation for losing weight and being healthy - low fat, low protein, high carb.

I've never in my life heard anyone recommend "low fat, low protein, high carb" for losing weight and being healthy (as a maintenance diet for people without special needs like losing weight, sure, I've seen that.) Even 30ish years ago, while "low fat" was prominent, a focus on lean protein sources as a main source of calories was common. And, "low carb" to the extreme has been the common recommendation, in various forms, since the late 1990s.
The calorie range you listed is the difference between a cut and a bulk for most people. There is no possible way you could achieve better weight loss running a calorie surplus relative to a calorie deficit.

> In fact, if you are eating decent food and keeping fat% at ~30-40, I guarantee you that you will have troubles eating more than 2500 kcal per day.

2500 calories per day is what I eat when I'm running a cut, and I'm usually hungry even after hitting my macros. Daily caloric needs are individual.

People interested in estimating their caloric needs should check out if it fits your macros: http://iifym.com/iifym-calculator/

The calculator will also suggest daily nutritional macros to hit depending on your goals (losing weight, maintaining, gaining weight etc).

I would also recommend http://www.myfitnesspal.com/ for tracking your calories and macros.
I've been working on a Namecoin light-resolving client lately, and this looks really intriguing. However, like with Namecoin (but more urgent because of the need for Bitcoin blocks), how "fast" can a node come online to this system (and how much data is needed to be downloaded)?

Are you aiming for the "light-resolver" marketplace, or is this solution really for people who are already running full Bitcoin nodes?
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"you're going to have to undo all of this"

Why can't "all of this" be packaged into one idiot-proof box with connections to the grid, your off-grid system, and your house?
More like passive towed decoy system than jammer.

Moth equivalent of AN/ALE-50.
Thanks, I didn't know this one.
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Sure, so you just need to give examples of you working on projects virtually and that you know how to communicate without others in the same physical location. Student projects or other things you have done are ok -- it also doesn't need to be something where you were in different countries -- just different physical locations, working together virtually. The keyword is "discipline" -- it is perceived by employers that you need it to be an effective remote.

For me, I was a contract developer right before being hired, so I had a track record of working for people that weren't in my office.
It riminds me of a video game I used to play as a kid -- you could be the driver of a hook-and-ladder fire engine, and you could drive in the front or back position. The fun part was driving through neighborhoods smashing everything flat and causing fires, all in awesome two-color graphics!
In any given kit the ratio of custom pieces to generic pieces is still favorable. As a random sample check out the parts inventory of this kit [1] from Lego's Star Wars: Clone Wars system. When you sort by quantity, you see the vast majority of parts are generic wedges, blocks, and plates. Browse around the site, you'll see the same is true for any set over 50 pieces. The idea that you "can't take it apart to build something different," is a little ridiculous, it isn't a model airplane.

I take it you haven't played with any of the modern kits. I encourage you, if you enjoyed lego as a kid, to buy a couple and see for yourself. The model on the box is more polished, but the building blocks are very much the same.

1. http://www.peeron.com/cgi-bin/invcgis/inv/sets/7752-1?PagerS...
Is that $4000 figure for the 12V battery made out of 800Ah 1.2V cells, rated at "400Ah @ 5hr, 450Ah @ 20hr" shown on their web site for $3880? I've always wondered why more fixed site solar PV systems do not use iron nickel technology; it it is initial cost, I wonder what makes this technology so expensive.

Some day I want to look into the feasibility/advisability of a continuous automatic feed of distilled water to keep iron nickel batteries constantly topped off, and a hydrogen outgas capture mechanism (preferably passive) which takes that output of the iron nickel batteries and feeds it as the input into a hydrogen cell.
You store the salts with the hashes. The basic idea is that salts force attackers to actually do a hash ("slow") instead of pre-computing hashes for common passwords and doing a dictionary lookup ("fast".)

All that is to say that if you (the attacker) have the hash you probably also have the salt.
A research paper authored last year cited a study which found that only 30% of the variation in performance could be attributed to deliberate practice.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289613...
My question has always been how accurate these calorie counts are. I always get a burrito bowl with no sour cream, which allegedly comes out to 655 calories. But I'm not entirely sure how accurate that is - I usually have to tell the person "a little cheese," because when I don't, they often put a mountain of cheese atop the bowl (probably an extra 100 calories or so).
It's hardly very wrong. United carried 139m passengers in 2013, that's just over $8 per passenger.

If they do indeed make more than $22 per passenger on ancillary revenue, that means they loose $14 per passenger if you look at the fare in isolation.
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> Is it possible to lower your requirements or change how VLC works/can do when it is sandboxed?

Maybe for some, but not for others. You really need to be able to open a file without file opener. Opening optical disks is really important too. I don't get why read-only access to a device poses so much threats but I'm probably missing something.

FYI, so far, libpulse links to x11.
My superficial suggestion: Sleep, diet, and exercise.

Cut everything else out until the task is done, provided the task holds that level of importance to you. Sleep will help your brain, exercise will energize you (even if it's just a brisk walk), and food will sustain you. Sometimes it's easy to overlook the basics—the foundation of quality effort.

My real suggestion? Take a step back and consider whether the environment around you will keep you healthy and happy long-term. Burnout charges interest, and if your environment doesn't afford you the opportunity to repay that interest, you'll spiral into psychological and physical bankruptcy.

So before finishing this project, take a physical step back, look at your environment objectively. Is it going to bankrupt you? If yes, seek to remedy the situation immediately and forcefully. If no, see my superficial suggestion and get to work.
> Calories in vs. calories out is 100% what determines how much weight you gain or lose.

No, its not. Muscle and fat don't take the same calorie surplus/deficit per pound to gain or lose, so calories in vs. calories out will not tell the whole story of how much weight you gain or lose.

I believe, in fact, that it takes less of a calorie surplus to gain a pound of muscle than the calorie deficit to lose a pound of fat, so that its actually possible to gain weight over time on a net calorie deficit, within certain bounds.
OpenGrok seems like a light version of DMS as I understand. It was presented at Google in 2010 [1]. It's a software analysis tool (control/data flow, copy/paste detection, ast levenstein distance), refactor and translator between several languages. IIRC they do distributed systems.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-_dw9iEzhA
He removed calories from his diet.
This topic deserves a full Sama essay imho, but I'd venture that maintaining a coworking space would be a major energy suck for management. And no, coworking spaces do not manage themselves, although to those that do not contribute, it may appear they do.

Plus it would attract people who are not scrappy enough to use their own workspace solutions (garage, apartment, kitchen if need be).
What puzzles me is the timeframe presented. What is the point of starting production in 6 months if the gigafactory is not up yet, and TSLA is production constrained just making the car batteries?
Two wrongs don't make a right, especially when they're unrelated companies.
But before that they primarily sold crappy audio equipment--and consumables like batteries and phonograph needles.

Whenever the topic of Radio Shack comes up there's this nostalgic remembrance of them as some sort of "maker space" but that wasn't central to their business for a very long time if ever. I'm not sure it was even an important part of their brand for most people except insofar as a "place to grab a cable quickly" counts as being part of a hobbyist identity at a time when products were less integrated than today.
Take a look at the app mentioned above (RandomRun). Looks like it supports cycling as well.
As a kid, I always found the big box of bricks boring. The sets had all the cool pieces (and still do) and, like you, I'd build what's on the box initially but not long after those pieces just went into the pile to build other cool things.
Zen is not nihilism (unless you're bandying about the word in a way that has nothing to do with the actual practice of Zen)
Don't get me wrong, I hated Flash as much as anyone else. And yes it required a plugin, but it was ubiquitous, and did run everywhere. Plus it allowed people to make rich games and apps. I even remember someone developed a DB connector that used Flash's protocols (it wasn't using Flash) to allow universal web based access to DBs (my google-fu is failing me, can't find the project now).

So regarding your points:
1: Flash everywhere made it a de facto standard
2: You win there - except in my opinion most real world examples of 5/3/JS are not accessible (which is condemnation of us devs, we have to tools to make our sites accessible but we don't (are too lazy to?) do it.
3: Fair point again, but I glimpsed a headline here on HN that said Firefox was using something else to play flash videos...

But to your main point which was drawbacks and dev hate, I think we are also starting to see that happening now with JS. There are drawbacks to JS, and some are starting to hate it. Wether or not it is enough to start a Che Guevara movement against JS I guess will unfold in the coming years.

My money is on the fact that JS is here to stay (but I am personally still hesitant to dive deep into it)- but I think that it is in the realm of possibility to remove JS and move to something 'better'. Just what that 'better' is I don't know.
The last sentence of your post is known as 'link-prediction' in the networks literature. [1] is a pretty comprehensive survey from the networks perspective. In many cases this reduces to learning pairwise distances between vertices.

The network translation view is interesting, though one caution would be that you can have two graphs constructed on identical points, but with a different graph construction technique (say k-nearest neighbor vs fixed eps ball graph) and it is unclear if you should say the two graphs are the same (since they share the same latent coordinates) or if they are different since the graphs differ.

The generative model approach seems like a pretty nice way to go since it lets you evaluate against simulation and ground truth. The only problem in my view is that network models may be quite limited since the relevant network models for these problems rely on exchangability of some type.

We've a paper in review on the link prediction problem via random walk hitting times as a similarity measure. We don't have a preprint on Arxiv since that would de-anonymize us, but I'd be happy to send a copy if this is relevant to your work.

[1] http://arxiv.org/abs/1010.0725
It wasn't his claim originally; he took a paper and summarized it in the 10,000 hour rule, even the original paper author has denied the claim stated as such.
raincom is right, bigger clients are typically going to be your best bet for higher rates because they're already comfortable with the idea of investment large sums of money to complete work (not to mention their HR policies incentivize them to not necessarily hire FT talent). True BigCo is used to shelling out 7 and 8 figure contracts to larger firms, handing a quarter/half million to someone with some desirable expertise is nothing out of the ordinary.
In fact it does matter where the calories come from. It matters dramatically.

You eat doritos, white pasta, white bread, pizza and Mt. Dew. Consume 2,000 calories per day.

I'll eat broccoli, chicken breasts, eggs, and bacon at 2,000 calories per day.

Let's compare results after six months. Can you lose weight by keeping your terrible diet below X calories - good luck with that - but yes you can, assuming you can handle what the hyper carb diet does to your body's sense of being full and energy levels. However we will not have the same results, and you can eat more calories in my diet than you can in yours, because to process my diet burns more calories than yours, and the protein in my diet will aid your muscle retention a lot more than the high sugar diet.

Hint: protein is a vastly superior intake vs junk carbohydrates. 300 calories from chicken are NOT used or processed by the body the same way as 300 calories from a Mt. Dew. Broccoli burns a lot of calories during the process of digestion relative to its calorie count.
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In the light of the NSA hacking revelations, we should recognize that the systems we're using are fundamentally insecure. With Linux, we should be able to improve security while maintaining user control. I think this is a step in the right direction.
For most companies, the "no cloud integration" is a plus. Their people are supposed to store their files on internal servers, not in some cloud.
Radio Shack definitely missed the niche that Sparkfun/Adafruit and others have filled.

However, I suspect that niche is nowhere near big enough to support Radio Shack's size. All those retail outlets can't be cheap to run. They needed a business/market that was easy to transition to and would support their existing size. They chose wrong, but I don't think ditching the hobby market was necessarily a wrong move in their position. Once the improved experience of ordering hobby electronics online became more widely available, "storefront supply of hobby electronics" was not a business model that could ever support a massive chain of retail stores.
Why is silicon valley considered the epitome of the world?
Heh. Or just use SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) disk drives. Heck, my boot drives are hidden behind an el-cheapo LSI board that mirrors them, even experts find it very difficult to talk directly to those drives (a perhaps unique case for this 200x board/chipset family).

On the other hand, my next system will almost certainly include flash drives, and I gather the inefficiencies and imperfections of ATA don't matter so much with them, and staying in that ecosystem is of course cheaper. But maybe like their true enterprise magnetic disks, SAS flash drives are better.

It's quite interesting to witness such a dramatic and quick change in how we build systems, but I'm glad circumstances forced me to build my current systems before using flash drives was safe enough (for me).
As a response to some of the other commenters, weight loss is a more holistic thing than just number of calories.

Even if we assume a calorie is a calorie, and that what kind of calorie has no effect on how fast your body naturally burns them (and that's debatable), the body response may be such that you naturally exercise more if you eat a diet geared one way or another.

That is, the poster may find that after eating carbs, especially simpler ones, their energy spikes, but they're too full to comfortably exercise. But by the time they'd be comfortable exercising they're too tired, and they simply don't. Whereas with higher fat/protein, they feel less full, and/or maintain energy levels longer, and naturally exercise more. Or whatever.
Workers can safely work on live high voltage lines, if they're wearing a Faraday cage "hot suit" and not grounded: http://youtu.be/LIjC7DjoVe8
What constitutes an expert in your opinion? There are some 2.4 million people playing table tennis in the UK[1], so the top 250 is pretty elite. Just looking at membership in Table Tennis England, there are nearly 25 thousand players[2], making 250 the top 1% of people who care enough about the sport to spend money becoming a member. I'd call that expert. It's certainly not just "ok at table tennis".

[1] http://tabletennisengland.co.uk/news/table-tennis-facts/

[2] http://tabletennisengland.co.uk/etta_website/annual_report/a...
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Regarding fairness over customer mistakes, I experienced one recently that impressed me greatly (albeit unrelated to airlines). I bought a house two years ago and recently discovered that I never cancelled my insurance for the condo that I sold shortly afterwards. The house insurance was rolled into my mortgage whereas the condo insurance was deducted from my bank account, so I didn't notice the double payment for a long time because they weren't in the same place.

When I called to cancel the condo insurance, they offered, without any prompting on my part, to refund all of the excess premium payments after the sale, even though it was nearly two years ago at this point.

Many companies will actually make good on an honest mistake like this.

Edit: another example just occurred to me. There are frequent stories about people running up bills on Amazon Web Services (and sometimes other cloud providers) by accident, typically because their servers got compromised or their credentials leaked. The provider typically credits the excess.
> is this basically just running billions of text passwords through the md5 algorithm and comparing the results with the unknown string?

Yes: "using a computer that tried more than 300 billion plaintext guesses every second"

The Arabic version was obtained by doing an educated guess based on the English version
http://foreignpolicy.com/2014/03/18/yes-there-are-bad-guys-i...

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/13/ukraine...

Please educate yourself.
No one cares what the Web was originally intended to be, frankly.
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Would you be willing to have a truly level playing field, where no energy technology was awarded subsidies?
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Fine - but don't be surprised when a decade after letting their website rot, everyone's reading Murdoch's newspapers and the BBC has no reach.
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Gladwell's 10,000-hour-rule is, at its core, anecdotal.

The 10,000-hour-rule seems like more of an observation that people who are really good at things are likely to have spent a lot of time doing them.

My anecdotal observation: The people I know who are masters of things, were very good at those things early on and that encouraged them to practice more and more.