skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it hard to drive home how much info people leak. Just the cultural references you make, cross referenced with Kindle purchase history...

But as touched on, the real question is how well does disinformation work against LE? We see all sorts of dumb reveals in court documents. A single line like "yeah I spent 30 days in jail for pot last summer" really narrows it down. But how far will it throw LE off if such a slip is false? Are they actively trying to determine this kinda thing? Without knowing how many investigations simply fail, I suppose it's hard to know.

I guess the best indicators are the long-standing evasions we know of, such as the FBI agents that the KGB turned.

The other take-home lesson is to use high-latency communication. In the lulzsec investigations, agents monitored when Tor was on in the suspect's apartment, correlated to when the handle was chatting. (OK he was probably toast at that point anyways.) I'd also guess that doing batch communication reduces the tendency to slip up. No small talk. Also no external interruptions ("sorry, power just went out for a minute") to mention.
There are enough suckers out there to make this possible I suppose.

It's not just an alpha male thing. I've seen this on the female side as well. As a photographer I've worked with porn stars and I've seen them get tons of cash and even cars just by asking a sugar daddy or through "financial domination" (usually over the phone and not even in person). It's really a sight to behold. Overhearing it, you're like, "did that just happen?".
There is a good reason not to have a product: if you have a product, the smart money will sit back and watch what the product does. But, if you need money to complete a product, the investor knows what the funding is for and has no option to "see what happens."
Indeed! Wink :)
This is unfair to him, let him move on from previous 'mistakes' people are too harsh on him.
I fail to see what he has done wrong, he has clearly moved on from NKS, it is just his critics that have not.

He seems to have contributed a valued product that is used by many and is strictly an advantage in many domains.
It would have nothing to do with the cert being SHA1.
Weird...yeah, there is normally a paywall, but I thought it was deactivated for this because I've been able to get to it incognito...but I guess they detect that I'm coming in from an academic network...
Facinating concept. I suppose it should be pretty safe to build the machine into the lock too (have the controller be a pretty straightforward pin/pw->dial combo). Would still be vulnerable to keylogging -- but the general principle of "just a decent/high-precision combination lock", paired with "too many combination for brute force to be feasible" is interesting.
Rust: On Reference-counting and Leaks
On the same note, here is a surreal 22 min drive through Pyongyang.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4hLctBvojE

It pairs well with a few Aphex Twin songs:

Heliosphan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z4cLmbw6q0

Flim : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhHkUg-QCwk

Ageispolis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOf6ICP3WAg

It is surreal because it almost makes it possible to forget how may people that regime has starving, worked to death and tortured.
I'm a big fan of node.js/io.js and I'm pretty excited about this, but I have to say I've lost all respect for Joyent.
Why would something like that need to be a a 'widely held belief' -- aren't faculty easily identifiable i.e. listed on their website, or confirmed via a phone call?
I remeber when Whoopi Goldberg told me about this in 1999.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flooz.com
> but one of these has multiple implementations, is backwards-compatible, is truly cross-platform, is well-specified, and is standardised

None of these problems would be difficult to address if the four-member vendor cartel which controls web "standards" was willing to adopt NaCl. Of course they don't want to adopt it, but that is the real problem right there. Of the four, two members (at least—maybe now three) have an active interest in holding back the Web to protect their native app platforms, while one would rather reign in Hell (through its position of shared mastery over the Web hairball) than go broke in Heaven. As to support for other languages, I only have to point out that one of Mozilla's reasons for decrying Google's intended browser support for Dart was that Dart compiled to JS would not be competitive with the native Dart implementation.
I wonder what it would take to hold those glaciers where they are compared to the coastal dikes and population moves that will be made necessary by rising sea levels.
Somebody didn't get to point 9: "I don't really believe we switched universes. Obviously, with my rational mind, I understand that the most reasonable explanation is that I misremembered. Occam's Razor and all that."
According to Wikipedia, his parents put up the initial money.
Very interesting. Thank you for sharing. Would it be too much to ask for more?
As mentioned above, the article is referring to those 'under 18'. Does your 'state' not restrict access to porn magazines for those under 18 now?

In Florida it's a felony. Florida Statute 847.012 - Max 5 years.

Why? Because it's degenerate, and <i>your</i> state agrees.
So......what are you working on?
The number of times I've turned to my wife and muttered "This is true" while watching is pretty startling.

In talking to people at work about it, there is a general sentiment of "haha, this is really funn....errhmm...that's a little to close to reality..."

Mike Judge is an absolute creative genius.
I can believe it. I once worked at a place where it took me three tries to quit. To this day I don't know how he talked me out of it the second time, and the third time I psyched myself up and just kept repeating like a mantra that I was leaving.
These are exactly the contortions I'm talking about. You're building a whole history of reboots and states and stuff, and I just build an RPC function call named "Reboot" and move on, without cluttering my API with crud (heh) like this.
I'm just an amateur lock-picker, but AFAIK plastics would be completely unsuitable for use as general lock-picking tools. Maybe for circular/tube-type locks -- but I doubt it.

Might be easy to print parts of a tubular lockpick/universial key(ing) tool.

For regular lock picks, metal 3d printers might work -- I'm not sure how brittle thin pieces would be. But those things costs a fortune, so I think making by hand would make much more sense.
I use Django a lot too, but JavaScript (ES6 specifically) just isn't a big mental shift anymore. I prefer Python syntax, but Python, Ruby, and JavaScript are pretty comparable at this point.

Also JavaScript has a pretty good variety of languages that compile to it. If you like C#/Scala/Swift use TypeScript. If you like Java use Dart. If you like Lisp ClojureScript.
Pair it with racer for auto completion https://github.com/phildawes/racer
Nope! (On everything you wrote, including "the" and "and".)

Also: loser talk is loserly. PNaCl (did you mean PNaCl not NaCl? NaCl was never proposed by Google for the Web) like Dart fell to physics. All else is stamp collecting.
It's off-topic.

Relatedly, saying you downvoted someone is against the rules too.
Not if you want to leave no trace. Say you want to break in, install a keylogger, and then leave.
> Raw performance is efficiency.

Efficiency is analogous to velocity, with gains analogous to distance. Highly efficient developers must still travel non-trivial distances to achieve performance gains, and therein lies the core of my epiphany, that performance is not efficiency, and highly efficient developers must spend non-trivial amounts of time to achieve performance gains that may in fact undermine development velocity, CPU efficiency per task, architectural efficiency (DRY), time efficiency (latency), etc...
Was The Uber guys doing bad hustle then... not knowing who gets hurt...

The nature of disruption is that some people will get hurt.. Taxi medallion/Hotel owners folks think they are playing by the rules while others aren't...

The market seems to have rewarded the bad hustlers here then as per your definition or have I got it wrong.
DNA Is Multibillion-Year-Old Software
Feds Say That Banned Researcher Commandeered a Plane
You may wish to read section 9 of the post, which explains that the multiple-universes idea was a bit of a joke. But nonetheless there is something very interesting going on here.
"Stuck in Lodi again."

I don't remember who wrote this but an artist once wrote "If I was going to get out of Lodi I was going to have to paint my way out."
I'm likely missing something, but why did this get upvoted to HN front page? Any relevant piece of news that propelled this here?
You are correct, I was. Thank you
Mail your homepage to mdcrawford@gmail.com and I'll give you an entry at http://www.warplife.com/jobs/computer/

No charge, no time limit.
Weird, confused it with Reddit where you motivate your vote. Deleting.
The dev builds come out every few days here: https://www.sublimetext.com/3dev
At least it was a researcher and not someone from ISIS.
okcupid does exactly this. Most of their questions are submitted by the users themselves, and they have hundreds if not thousands of them, but they present the questions to you in the order of most differentiating first. You can answer as many or as few as you want, but matches get better as you answer more, with monotonically diminishing returns. You also get to say which answers you would accept from your match (doesn't have to include your answer) and how much it matters if at all.

My gut tells me it's akin to doing principle component analysis. To find the most differentiating question, do 1 dimensional PCA, and the question most aligned with the resulting dimension is question #1. Then do 2 dimensional PCA fixing the first dimension as the first question. The result is question #2. And so on.

OF FAR GREATER CONCERN: They are collecting email addresses associated with personality questions. There is no privacy policy, other than the statement "If there's a match, we'll email you. (You will not be emailed under any other circumstances: no promos, no newsletters, nothing except news of a match.)" You don't know to whom you are giving this information, as there is no named legal entity, just a gmail address and a domain name whose registered owner is hidden in whois databases.
Could a blind person read with their stomach? My idea: a pad you strap on to part of your body that has some sort of mechanism in it that allows you to "feel" the code as you type it and the output it produces when you run it.
So that others may judge for themselves: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3092921
Learning something.
That raises the question of whether any major features that contribute to safety have been there the whole time?
>and you need to give them the custom tools, if the latter are using GPL, then who knows what the third-party artists might request.

At most, source code to those custom tools which contain GPL licensed code.

>if MAME is released under MIT/BSD then it can be freely put in consoles, gameboy, psp, etc.

MAME (as a project) is now to be released under GPLv2 unless I'm missing something, but there is also a lot of BSD licensed code in MAME which can be used in proprietary projects.

That said I don't think the MAME code is of particular interest to game developers, as it's basically cpu and video/sound chip emulation coupled with drivers.
"These are warning signs that the remnant is disintegrating," Khazendar said. "Although it’s fascinating scientifically to have a front-row seat to watch the ice shelf becoming unstable and breaking up, it’s bad news for our planet. This ice shelf has existed for at least 10,000 years, and soon it will be gone."

One could argue that when the glaciers retreated off the northern hemisphere and allowed thrive in the temperate zones, that was bad for the planet. :-)
I've never used web workers, but as a developer who has written a lot of multi-threaded code in C++, I'm kind of glad that as a user I don't have to suffer poorly written non-thread-safe JavaScript. I've seen some terrible multi-threaded code by developers who just didn't get it. I suppose that's why web workers are designed the way they are: to make it easier for developers who maybe don't quite get the intricacies of multi-threading.
> Visual Studio Code is not just Atom with a different skin.

And debugging tools that actually work. A strong debugger has always been the reason Visual Studio has excelled, and they've brought that to an open source editor.
> That people try to dominate and manipulate others for business gain? Is that what you have an incredible amount of difficulty believing?

I'm sorry you wrote all of that, but no.

I have a hard time believing in the existence of some "alpha male" type who can bend "lizard brains" to their will, even against all reason and logic.

Unscrupulous people exist, but not in this pickup artist übermensch form.
And everyone drive a Mercedes! Magical place.
I'm not sure what you're getting at. More of what?
As someone who has been homeless, please let me know if I can help in any way in addition to donations. I don't have much time, but what you're doing is incredible
Well, Arch Linux simplify them all, everything is in usr/bin and others just symlink to usr/bin.
For some reason this story reminded me of this guy who repos ships:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/nov/14/max-hardberger-...

If you google his name you can find a few neat stories about him. He wrote a pretty entertaining book about his adventures too:

http://www.amazon.com/Freighter-Captain-Max-Hardberger/dp/09...
The only PhD defense I've seen with standing room only. Congrats!
It's spooky. One of the examples I'm thinking of was basically crazy, not to mention a sex offender to boot. He had an endless track record of failures too.

But when he walked into a room, you sat up a little taller. You felt better about yourself. When he spoke, it took an act of will not to start to believe.

I was not the only person who experienced this. Many people did. We had a postmortem about it and just couldn't figure it out.

That's why I suspect this stuff is pushing some ancient primate dominance buttons. It is so irrational.

edit: thinking on it more, one thing he did to great effect was to project this aura of invincible confidence and then extend it around others through subtle flattery. They call them "confidence men" for a reason. It is devastatingly effective, even when your rational mind knows better. It seems to speak to something deeper and more ancient.
UPS knew what they were getting into. You don't pledge transportation services to the world's largest aquarium without expecting to ship some fish.

The publicity was probably worth the cost. If I had to ship a terracotta army, I'd much rather go with a company that is known to have successfully shipped a couple of sharks and whales.
http://www.businessinsider.com/inside-story-of-clinkle-2014-...

> “It’s not the kid’s fault,” McCarthy said, defending his flustered boss. McCarthy sometimes took over for Duplan during the weekly all-hands meetings on Fridays, correcting him and referring to him as “kid.”

Its a bad play to join any company whose founder and chief executive is at his first leadership post (first real job?).
that would be a good universal solution -- it's just that would be too fast and too assuring to get the most fun out of the puzzle...
Amen to this. I know you (justifiably) believe there are many bad actors in technology, Michael, but parent's comment is beyond belief.
Assign people a random team. Try to make sure each team has people with different skills, so that everyone can bring something to the table.

Good internet connectivity.
Still an incredibly stupid thing to do. He increased power in one engine causing it to fly sideways which could easily trigger a pilot confusion/error to crash the plane.

Just what kind of an asshole would risk so many lives to make a point?
Why Apple Won’t ARM the MacBook (2011)
this is a good database :)

Thanks for the pointer!
>used default IDs and passwords to gain access to the inflight entertainment system. Once on that network, he was able to gain access to other systems through the network.

This is pretty disgraceful. We put billions of dollars into stopping terrorism and keeping people from hijacking planes and it turns out they can't even secure the systems that control the plane. All they had to do was change the default passwords! Stories like this sound like something made up by the ministry of truth. Unbelievable.
hackathons seem to divide into two main types - one where people get together to build stuff and advance the state of a (usually popular) open source project via a concentrated sprint, and the other where people or teams compete for prizes.

personally, the latter strikes me as betwixt and between - if i wanted the competition, i'd rather enter a pure programming contest with explicitly artificial problems and well-defined judging criteria, and if i wanted to build something i'd rather be doing it cooperatively than competitively.
By ST you mean Haskell's StateT	monad transfomer?

Are you	suggesting to define purity by the inability to define O(1)
mutable vector-like operations? That would be an interesting
proposal. But I wonder if it captures the conceptual content of the
informal concept of purity. Maybe a time complexity restriction	should
be provable from purity?
Damn... lol
SF resident here.
I've had quite a few close calls, and the same holds true for many of my friends who bike.

These typically happened on these "shared bike lanes" - it's where the city takes the right-most car lane, draws a bike sign on it, and tell cars and bicyclists to "get along" (since cars are still allowed full use of it).

This, of course, doesn't work.
Cars are much faster than bikes, and asking these two vastly different transportation methods to share a lane is nuts.
Should the cars just drive 6mph? Should they go around, try to merge and hope they don't misgauge the distance?

The problem here is that the city didn't put any real thought into the bikes lanes, and the result is a terrible and incredibly dangerous system.

Personally, I've given up on bike lanes in many areas of the city. It's simply not safe.
A VP at a bank isn't really that high up. It's essentially a middle management role... It's not uncommon for people to make VP in their late 20s.
If snarkiness tends to be this predictable, I wonder what kinds of data analysis can be done just using certain recurring phrases.
I don't really need a web client. At any rate, I have chatsecure for Android -- a good command-line client with a way to access logs would be nice -- but a GUI app would also work.
I don't doubt the existence of clueless VCs who throw their money around, but that's no different from any other form of business. They'll soon lose that money.

The problem is that, given the anecdote of another commenter with intimate knowledge of the situation, Michael's explanation doesn't match reality. I suspect cases like this often defy simple rationalization, but as outsiders we don't have the facts to correct our theories.
Any plans to take Rust to the big data arena? Oh how I wish I had Spark Rust API... lower memory footprint, no GC, yet it will be pretty straight forward to migrate Scala / Python jobs to Rust (with a small memory management / borrowing concepts learning curve I assume).
but see thats the beauty of it, that its able to dynamically change to your needs when you are using the machine.
We put up with this for a year, and then all of us, quit again.

Why did you even stay for 3 months?
Zebra Med is automating the interpretation of medical imaging
>I’m still waiting for /opt/local to show up...

Well, he doesn't have to wait anymore:

https://trac.macports.org/wiki/FAQ#defaultprefix

>Why is /opt/local the default install location for MacPorts?
Likewise, who cares if people openly express their opinions on it, even if you think it sounds harsh?
I do a lot of hackathons. My record is 4/26 for winning 1st, 16/26 for winning 1 or more prizes, mentored 3 times and judged once.

Do it on a weekend, have interesting sponsors with prizes, and make the judging/presentation criteria very clear from the start. Also attendance can be hard to estimate, not everyone will show up and not everyone will come back, plan accordingly.

Also, three pieces of advice I always give at hackathons:

1. work backwards from the presentation
2. only build what you show
3. only show the interesting parts

Happy to mentor/judge, mat@tinj.com.
Cult of personality may pull some strings, but sooner or later the company needs to function and those people either steer the company in the right direction or capsize the ship because they're hot air.
That's much easier than I thought it was! I'll have to start working on my kernel again.
Even though a solid package manager was enough to get me on board, I deeply agree with you in that building a community around it will make all the difference.

I'd also like to think it will be a bit less difficult for Mozilla to accomplish this because, well, Mozilla's values inspire loyalty, even love in my case, I love Mozilla.
You didn't link to any of my comments, so let me help your reading comprehension.

My point then was that if Google had had MS's IE4-6-era market share and lack of scruples, they could have pushed Dart into Chrome and started using it in their web properties, and the lack of equivalent performance between DartVM and dart2js -- especially due to lack of bignums and other affordances in JS, which lack Google materially increased by choosing to invest in Dart over JS -- would have stunk. It would have verged on the monopoly abuse of which MS was in fact convicted.

My point was not that JS must be the only way to run Dart simply because I or anyone at Mozilla (or anywhere else, MS and Apple included) prefers JS. That would be dumb, and it's clearly not what I wrote.

Browser vendors have to keep JS improving. That's a given. Adding the extra costs of DartVM and the inter-heap GC and write barriers to glue it into the shared DOM client side is a huge tax, which would have helped kill Mozilla faster. MS and Apple wouldn't pay that tax. Why should anyone? Again it's not about JS being uncompetitive. "Competitive" is what browsers are when they run web content better and faster. Dart has very little to do with this.

JS is very, very hard to replace, for reasons I summed up as "physics" (apologies to Rutherford) and won't belabor here. Yet the Dash memo proposed to do just that, to replace JS, using lame assertions about how JS couldn't be fixed.

That was not just lame posturing and excuse-making for a Lars Bak retention program. Given Google's power, it was a disservice to the Web as a standards-based and ever-evolving platform, whose caretakers are obligated to keep working on it in the open, not try proprietary end-runs. (Yes, of course, many people at Google work hard to improve the Web. Good for them, but not relevant to what happened with Dash.)

I'm happy to say I was wrong to worry about Google succeeding in acting like MS did with ActiveX/VBScript. Not that some at Google didn't try (or won't again with other stuff), but they failed with Dart. I predicted that, too, as an ultimate outcome after wasting years and megabucks -- including real opportunity costs to V8 and JS. So too did many at Google predict this crater.

Dart's a compile-to-JS language now, not due to any preference for JS by anyone at any browser vendor.

Get it yet?
I'm not entirely sure about the hotel industry, but for the most part the taxi industry in most cities lobbied for the laws, which restricted competition. They had dug their own grave by the time Lyft launched (and subsequently UberX).