skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That doesn't really refute the article. Anyone with access to the DNS server could change the email records for a few minutes to intercept mail. A hacker wouldn't have to wait for propagation in that case. And who would notice? This has me thinking, it would be nice to get alerted if a) my DNS records change at registrar level and more importantly if b) my DNS records change at the DNS host level.

I think DNS hosts should offer a waiting period option or approval system (with warning alert) for changing email records. Obviously you want website records to change instantly for failover, but I don't want a hacker changing email records in the middle of the night without anyone knowing. I use Linode and DNSMadeEasy and I don't remember either service sending me a notification when an email record was changed.

Also, seems like you could sell a 3rd party service to monitor DNS hosts. (I didn't bother to Google if that service exists already.) I'm assuming "dnshistory.org" only pings once per day--pretty much useless info from a security standpoint.
No, of course not. But choosing to smoke a joint is a victimless crime, as is choosing to abuse cocaine or any other substance. Most of the problems with these substances are caused by the fact that they are illegal and are forced into black markets.

We could discuss the social harms of substance abuse all evening, but at the end of the day I'm not harming anyone when I take a puff in the comfort of my own home.
In the last two days, I've gotten coding exercises that are supposed to take a eight hours, and one that was based on an api that doesn't exist anymore, that would be a solid two days of engineering time if the apis worked.
Doesn't look very smart to me.

I commute year round in all weather: pouring weather, snow. I need fenders. Look at the frame: it has no receptacles for the screws for installing them.

For $1250, you don't even get lights, nor reflectors in the wheel spokes: basic safety features.

Also no suspension in the frame. Thin tires. For something pitched for commuting, this is designed an awful lot like a racing bike, but not optimized for that use, either.

For commuting you generally want 1.5" to 1.75" road slicks. They require less pressure to achieve low rolling resistance (you will be grateful when you don't have to jam 115 p.s.i of air using an emergency hand pump), provide more comfort and protect the wheel against damage from surface irregularities better. In commuting you have potholes, stones and curbs to contend with, as well as junk that falls out of trucks. Some of it you don't see very well at night.

I would probably trash that frame in about a year.

http://www.roadbikereview.com/reviews/why-you-should-be-ridi...

This is a bike to separate yuppie fools from their money.

Not to mention investors.

"LED's to guide you on your commute". WTF? You can get voice directions via headphones from a navigator. Approaching right turn. Ding!"
Go-eval – eval()for Go, kinda
Ask HN: As an econ undergrad how does one get into to an early stage company?
Hey guys,

I would like to start by thanking anyone who is reading this and also thanking those who take the time to help me out. So for some background, I am currently an economics undergraduate and I have always wanted to get into the technology space and especially early stage start ups as part of me knows that I can make an impact in the company as well as I am willing to take that risk with the team to venture into this new and exciting idea.

I have noticed that many companies are looking for programmers/engineers and I can understand that but I do not have those skills to offer, or at least not to the level to where I could make an impact. So where does someone with my abilities go from there? I have seen opportunities in larger tech companies but is there room for an individual like me in the early stages and if so what is your best advice to get my foot in the door?

PS: As I am still an undergraduate I would like to intern as much as I would like to be an employee.

Thank you once again!!!
You don't have any files over 200 or so lines of code?
Note that one side of this debate presumes semantic-semiotic equivalence (that any discussion of a subject X will come with the same connotations) while the other side presumes linguistic relativism (that you can talk about X using word Y or word Z, and the connotations are attached to the words, not the subject.)

"Political correctness" (and the concept of a "trigger warning", and a few other things) is only a coherent concept under the assumptions of linguistic relativism. Since the two sides have different axioms, they can't really engage in a debate.
This is a good brief on how a serious business manages its version control. Thanks!
1) Craigslist

2) WeWorkRemotely

3) HN Who's Hiring Threads

4) Angel List (angel.co)

5) VC Firms' Jobs pages (e.g. HN's /jobs)
Reminds me of Googler Steve Lacey, killed by a road rage driver (http://www.kirklandreporter.com/news/138605969.html)

When trying to find this story, I googled "employee killed by driver" and it's just a non-stop parade of stories of drunks and ragers killing people.

If you cause an accident either drunk or by rage, you should go to jail, period. The Netherlands has no tolerance for this kind of bullshit. Injure someone while stoned, 3 years jail time. Kill? 6 years or more.

People obsess about self driving cars killing people, and yes, there will be accidents. yes, there's going to be a case of a little girl chasing after a ball into the street who gets run over. Yes, there's going to be cases of a self driving car running over a pedestrian, or turning head on into traffic. I'm almost sure of it.

But these incidents probably will be insignificant compared to 30,000+ people killed per year and even more injured by human drivers. If 100 people lose their lives to software bugs per year in cars (which will improve over time), but 10,000 people lose their lives to human bugs, it will be a vast improvement.
Betting $20k on black isn't as fun, you don't learn as many new skills, you don't have skin in the game, and there's no outside chance to become a millionaire if your company IPOs with a $10B+ mkt cap.
> Forcing use of Origin, Sims being online only

So much smoke has been blown about these things, it has almost been overlooked that SimCity apparently just wasn't a very fun game. Tiny cities, bugs, overly-complicated simulator that was never really taken advantage of, etc.

Had they just delivered something like SC3 with snazzy graphics, I think the silent majority (such as myself) would have purchased and played the hell out of it without a second thought to the Origin/online issues.
If you're inviting me to pile on..

I'll also point out that carbon is a terrible material for bikes that are getting banged around with locks and bike racks. Minor carbon damage can cause total material failure. Your bike shatters underneath you.

People who spend >$1000 for a bike don't usually buy hybrids. Existing roadies won't want this. The market will be people-who-don't-currently-ride, but won't think anything of spending >$1000.

People-who-don't-currently-ride are going to be very uncomfortable on a bike that has its handlebars lower than the saddle.

They will sell some, but few will get ridden for any length of time. If they want to create something like bike-Waze, they need network effects, which is going to be very difficult at this price point with a product that isn't interesting to current cyclists with disposable income.

Bike shops are going to avoid stocking these, as they don't want to be on the hook for supporting a complicated product from an untested vendor. Buying a bike though the mail means assemble-it-yourself, which is easy to get wrong. It's even more perilous with carbon componentry.
The more monstrous transformations of the thing look horrifying even in well-lit, motionless, on-the-set photos while surrounded by a film crew. That's the result of fantastic creature design. "The Thing" would have been effective whether done in CG or not, but I have to agree that acting out appropriate fear must have been a little bit easier for the cast of "The Thing" thanks to the monster being so vividly realized on the set.
stole the words out of my mouth. probably with less grammar issues.
Advice from a billionaire
Pakistan’s mobile phone owners told: be fingerprinted or lose your sim card
IPO'ing is so mainstream.
> Simliarly, a piano player isn't "dissociating" just because he or she isn't thinking about which finger goes to which key at all times.

The piano player example is apples to oranges with driving on auto-pilot example. In the auto-pilot example, you are responding to external stimulus (even without a kid jumping into the road), in the piano player example, he/she is using "muscle memory."

Also, the piano player doesn't get to the end of the piece and forget ever playing the piece.
Phenomenal networking experience. Enjoy
This product is awesome. I really appreciate the thought and effort that has gone into it. I wish you the best of luck.
Definitely not.

Unless the usual method of taking LSD is via pill form.

But I hear MDMA does not induce hours of hallucinations either, so perhaps LSD does come in pill form with logos on it.
Although it might annoy some users, a quick work-around might be to add a tag to the file. Tags on files/folders don't go away when you move or rename the file. Something like, "ghostnote:<ID>" where ID is some internal reference to the associated note.

In fact... using this method you wouldn't have to store the URLs of files/folders at all.
Actually, they published an article highlighting the different view of a single researcher (ok - he had a co-author in one paper). Note that the paper showing the decrease in violence makes no claims for the reasons behind it.

I find his argument compelling, but that doesn't mean the consensus is any different.
Ironically, this post made me a little sad that my career track doesn't point toward making a YC attempt.
http://jobrapp.com
Killing yourself vs. working hard enough – which is right?
Call me obsessive, but I'm an extremely detail oriented startup founder. I need and want for every little detail to get done and get done properly.

I have a team and most of them are NOT tech people.

Most of them have a laid back approach and never seem to panick or care about these "Details" which i think are critical to a startup.

It causes me to worry a lot and puts me under a lot of stress because I feel like I am the only one that cares, and then i'm left dealing with the bulk of the issues we have.

I know if I was to just "let things slide" no one else would give a shit about them.

Not sure if I'm overreacting or if this is how it is.

I'm a bit of a perfectionist and feel like we could be moving forward faster, we are still moving forward, but it just feels sloppy and not highly optimized and strategic which I thought it would.

EDIT: Also a lot of this stress comes down to me envisioning investors judging our team. I think I work like a machine, and the rest of my team works like humans ... sounds kind of rediculous, but I imagine investors would want machines and not sure if they are empathetic to the fact that not everyone works like one
"Active idle" on a drive is still rated at around 5W. Maybe they don't spin down completely in the idle state? BackBlaze says it's better for the longevity of a drive to leave it running than to power it on and off regularly.
It would be nice if NYC laws were as friendly to pedestrians as public transport is. Most pedestrian deaths in NYC occur in cross walks where we have the right of way. The charges for a car running a person over in a cross walk can be as little as a $300 fine and are often not much more than that.
It doesn't matter. They aren't selling deodorant -- their customers in 10 years aren't going to be the same group of people as their customers today. See also: Hasbro, Disney.
This is where my curiosity lies. I wonder if the DICE founders were very sharp, knew what they were getting into, and had the leverage to set the kind of terms that would maximize their chances of success.

For example, I think they decided to keep the studio in Stockholm. That might have went a long way to keep the EA influence down and letting them focus on building blockbuster titles.

Perhaps EA is a sink or swim kind of organization (on that level)? In a harsh kind of way. In reality most franchises do eventually sink.
Unless, you know, hills....
Doing this sort of thing at scale would only be efficient if you were using slave labor or something close to it.

If Etsy lets their employees take a bike-break for a good cause, fine. But I feel much better about giving my compost to a unionized garbageman with a big truck than some hypothetical coolie on a bike.
The way I figure it, when value is being knowingly and unnecessarily destroyed, someone somewhere in the chain is being irrational. Given that EA is a public company, the obvious candidate for that somewhere is Wall Street. Your analysis seems to confirm that.

But the stock market is supposed to be hyper efficient nowadays such that it's practically impossible to outperform it even for the experts, let alone for random punters on the Internet.

What's the resolution to this paradox? Not a rhetorical question; I'm actually curious.
Ask HN: What are some good tech/science news sites I may not have heard about?
Aside from the major ones like TechCrunch, Wired, The Verge, and such. I enjoy discovering kind-of-obscure-but-beautiful things like Nautilus, and I've been hoping to find a tech site that has a good amount of depth but has more than five articles a day, and maybe has a pretty design to boot.
The counterpoint would be that exercise changes your body in all kinds of ways, which might have a bigger overall effect.

Not sure if it's true, but it's at least as scientific as "can't outrun your fork".
Whenever I hear the whirring of hybrid or electric car I realize that times are changing. It may be decades or more away, but I like to imagine what cities of the future will be like.

So quiet! So fresh! The rumble of a car engine and its smelly exhaust will seem quaint. Maybe like the feelings now of seeing a horse-drawn carriage, and seeing the horse shit in the street.

So much space! My street is walled in by parked cars. The driving lanes are wide to accommodate human error. Perhaps the outer parts of the road will be re-purposed as park space. Only two narrow lanes in the middle for the computer guided vehicles to travel on. Or maybe only one lane, since the cars can coordinate their directions on this rarely-trafficed street.

Of course things won't be all rosy, but it IS certain that the feeling of cities will be very different.
Mass effect 2 was perhaps the best game in the series, but it was a very different game than mass effect 1. While the core mechanics were the same, it was extremely episodic and the plot was flimsy. I recall ME3 reeled it back a bit, doing away with some of the annoying exploration stuff, but suffered from third installment syndrome.
Ask HN: Reccommended reading to get up to speed on Hacker/Startup culture
A friend of mine just got offered a top executive position at a tech startup and is in culture shock. In his own words "there are these rooms full of kids and I can't understand what they're saying, and the valuations - they don't add up...", etc. etc. "What am I missing here?"

This guy needs to get up to speed fast on startups, product management, engineering, hacker culture and so on after a lifetime of hierarchical command and control in the financial services industry. What are the most concise and illuminating introductory texts I can refer him to?

Thanks!
Transfer of the mind, definitely. Hardware independence. Plus possibility of backups. Even if your body is completely vaporized in a blast, you can come back if there is a backup of you.

Forget immortality through the extension of the biological life of the body; yonder lies folly.
MDMA absolutely is.
I am well aware that it is not ordinarily associated with hallucinations or disassociation.
I can also absolutely say that you do not need a serotonin-syndrome inducing dose to forget who your friends are, who you are, or have no idea why you have are sitting on a bed (your own), or who it belongs to.
It can also make you hallucinate and "disappear" into your hallucination for several hours, before you pop back into reality.
Finally, and not really disassociation and more hallucination, it can make the faces of your friends morph into other peoples and even appear featureless.

Or so I have heard.
Good point; if you want the job, it could help to be remembered as that person who asked the great question that made me look smart!
How do you define an emergence of a species when these hominids are always in a state of constant change? Wouldn't this mean that there is no concrete way to determine if a fossil is from 'one side' or the 'beginning'(earliest point) of a species?

Might be slightly off-topic.
DICE has barely been able to release a non-Battlefield game since EA bought them, despite a much more varied output before acquisition. I imagine that isn't too great for employees at the time who didn't want to make pew pew simulators for all eternity.

Exceptions to the rule:

- Mirror's Edge
- Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit (w/ Criterion)
- Medal of Honor (multiplayer only)

And that's it. That they weren't allowed to make a straight up sequel to Mirror's Edge, and only now are coming out with a "reboot" says a lot to me about EA's control over their output: crank out Battlefield games or lose funding.
Please leave Bioware alone...Shame you EA!
Dalrymple fails to mention that the Mughal Empire wasn't exactly the most sound of economic masters over the subcontinent.

For decades Mughal princes had been controlling monetary flows by printing new currencies every year or so, causing rapid inflation in old currencies. The Mughal Empire allowed Clive to set up a free trade zone with a land grant of a swamp that eventually became Calcutta, and the East India Company built a wall, and started trading on the pound (£). It's amazing what happens once you stop trading with unstable currencies. Growth and prosperity. The Mughal empire, which was on the verge, essentially collapsed over the next few years (post '57 -- mostly through the 60s and 70s) as the merchant classes just shifted to doing business in Calcutta.

--> I wrote my undergraduate thesis about this topic, and spent a year at the British Library reading first-hand accounts from both sides, focusing on the resulting Anglo-Indian legal system set in place by Sir Robert Chambers. Dalrymple is right about a lot, but this piece most certainly omits the fact that a number of sectors of Mughal society gained a great deal from dealing with the British (never mind overlooked Mughal brutalities that go unmentioned in the piece).
This. The best reason to work at a startup is because for some people it's a more rewarding job than not working at a startup. If that isn't true for you, don't work at one.
Perhaps I can help:

> I have plenty of social circles that are (at least nominally) totally different from my work: contra dancers, people interested in effective altruism, folk musicians, friends from college, and so on. And yet I keep finding myself in the middle of a programmer monoculture. Why?

1. These are contact circles in some online social network, perhaps, and not actual social circles?

2. Programmers are the only people who don't have anything better to do than to go to gatherings with other programmers. Non-programmers aren't there because they are otherwise engaged. Or, perhaps, let me put it from this angle: any time some get together is announced, most of the people who have that spot free in the calendar are geeks. "What, Saturday night at 9? You bet I will be there! I'm super social! ... Hey, why is everyone here a programmer?"
And that is why refusing to share information is a bad idea. They lost a (presumably) good hire who might have made a difference to the outcome of their company. They wanted to hire but chose secrecy over a new employee. It didn't work out well.
Remember this: if you are a run-of-the-mill State Department staffer or a military servicemember and you put classified material on a non-classified network, you might go to prison. Even high-ranking government officials have gotten in serious crap over classified material mismanagement--GEN Petraeus did this and lost his job as a result.
> Fine. Show me a "safe area" of Brooklyn that has a crime rate of 6
6? No, I cannot. May be somewhere on Mars.

But according to city-data, overall crime rate in NYC was 256.1, so in the safer parts of Brooklyn it should be not more than this number; and it is lower than average for US.

And 6 is actually an artifact , erroneous number because...

> http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2013/c...

...according to FBI report, Westlake does not report offenses anymore to FBI (ad city-data uses the FBI report).

> Well, for a start you don't pick out the one with the highest crime rate.

> That map demonstrates that Elyria is an extreme outlier, even for the area, much less for the country as a whole.

No it is not. Extreme outlier is East Cleveland, a suburb of Cleveland.

> You got busted, dude.

No I am not, because 325 is slightly above average crime level in the US.

No matter how you bend data, cherry pick data, preferentially choose tiny white affluent suburbs, NYC, a quintessentially big American city is not crime-ridden, especially if you do not venture into the hoods.
I Toured Stasi HQ with NSA Whistleblowers
This Jawbone Is the Oldest Specimen of the Human Genus
Clojure yes.
But not a single LISP. 3 ruby, but no perl, no Java, no javascript core.
Thanks a lot! Yeah indeed, unless you go towards a private message, social media is still one-to-many.. With email you can build a much more personal relation.
dnshistory.org: "A5: We aim to check every domain at least once per month and the minimum interval between checks is 24 hours."
This is where the troublesome nature of humans comes into play. I first want to say that as someone who works in robotics, I want the automation revolution to come as much as the next guy. As a matter of fact, you are probably going to be hard pressed to find a demographic on this site that thinks differently. However, our world is sometimes driven by the vocal minority and in this case it will be the luddites that VEHEMENTLY OPPOSE self-driving cars for short minded purposes.

Growing up in Nebraska and witnessing the reaction to technological influence there was very eye opening in that you realize that the common man/women thinks very much with their emotions and not with logic. You can beat them over the head with facts like this and they will argue for their old ways. They want to be in control of the situation. They want to have the right to drive their car themselves and they certainly don't trust a machine to do it for them. (I guarantee that you will hear arguements like "it's taking away jobs" and "look at this instance where it malfunctioned") this leaves some very tricky features that engineers must work into it. Is there a manual override? Are there regulations on what kind of sensing equipment is on board or is it left to the private company? What is the acceptable error range for a car at the end of the day?

I think we will move into a world dominated by self-driving cars and other tech conviences that make our life easier, but I think it will be slowed down considerably by those who are resistant to change. I think anything that cuts down on instances such as this is a good and much needed thing that cannot get here any faster.