skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, apparently they created an app with an enterprise certificate that has a transparent icon in the newsstand app.

The enterprise certificate (now revoked) bypasses the App Store review, as is well understood.

However, the app still needs permissions. It asks for permissions. So, if I'm reading correctly, it would require physical access to activate.

Not quite as scary as the title would show. I'd say "install" rather than "infect" because there seemingly, unless I missed something (which it's possible I did) there's no actual exploit involved.

If you let someone else run software on your device, and allow them to grant permissions, then obviously they can steal your data. The only reasons that make this notable are the enterprise certificate and transparent icon. (And of course the source)

So read the article, but the title is a tad misleading.

EDIT: Thinking about it some more, I should point out that the article is fairly well written. Also, we consider computer spyware that doesn't use an exploit an "infection", so I guess it's valid, but still misleading. Great and informative article though.
Is it common to lock a satellite into a stationary orbit?
Same with https://kat.cr/

Though I assume this is a hiccup.
A separate issue - I never know exactly what people mean when they say this:

"Diverse teams are more innovative and adaptable than monocultures."
What? Do you expect Sam to slag her publicly? When was the last time any corporate board slagged a resigning CEO publicly?

Sheesh.
Yeah, living in London you have several cameras looking at you permanently. You can see a bunch of them via the TFL api as well.
I'm not subscribed to any of the default subreddits; I imagine very many long-time users are the same way. I never read /r/all precisely because it's an aggregate of posts on subreddits I don't care about.

In particular, I'm subscribed to no general-purpose or wide-purpose subreddits. A few city/geographic subreddits mentioned it in passing, but, like, /r/programming or /r/nycbike or /r/radicalchristianity are going to treat any post about it as off-topic. You can't just post an advice animal about it, or request IAmAs from everyone involved, or say that today you learned whatever-it-may-be about Ellen Pao, or what have you. Nor can you do this about any other topic, which is why I bother to read these subreddits.
I mean, we have similar programs in Canada and it isn't a problem...
I think you are glossing over how the law of supply and demand is in play here. And how a degree no longer guarantees a high-paying job.
Well said; there's a very strong snowball effect on online forums, which instant communication amplifies greatly.

Especially "the last guy said x, so x+1 is ok to say", followed by "the last guy said x+1, so x+2 is ok to say".
Yes, that's the standard thinking on distributed systems. I worked on infrastructure at Google for 7.5 years, so I do have some idea how that works.

However, lately I've been building a very stateful distributed system and finding that I can do a lot more with a lot less code and a lot better performance -- while still handling failures just fine.

This is a complex topic and I can't do it justice in an HN post. But, basically, while you always have to be prepared to start over in case of failure, "starting over" on every single request is overkill and adds all kinds of complication and latency to the system. If you instead permit yourself to set up some state and only start over when there's a problem, you can do a lot better.
I think the subreddit system is a good way of categorising content and more importantly, behaviour. People are talking a lot about misogyny but its possible to avoid all the drama if you simply subscribe to smaller, more interesting, well moderated subs. I kept up with my favourite books, video games and other interests like history without being interrupted by Pao hate.

I think HN is great too. The knowledge of some of the commenters here can be very educational.
Just because you don't have internal proprietary data doesn't mean you cant have a rational opinion on the matter. That is a ridiculous standard. The Victoria thing was a monumental cluster fuck in one of the most outward facing facets of the company.
As long as they keep Matt Levine happy, I'll stay happy. He's the best. http://www.bloombergview.com/contributors/matt-levine
Something being "bizarre" is entirely orthogonal to "right vs wrong" value judgements.
Emails from psychopaths:
Well, this kind of looks like an egregious violation of company policy. It looks like she punished an employee for giving an interview to a famous minority politician. There has to be some company policy against retaliation on political basis.

Regarding "mob rule" this is a free country and people have a choice which website to read and to contribute to. If people want to go away from reddit that is their choice. The company that owns reddit does not need to follow reddit user wishes, but they have to face the distinct possibility that those users will leave and the consequences thereof.

You can call it mob rule, but other's can call it the matter of ordinary people exercising free choice.
In my experience: if you go around scratching backs routinely, there will be someone to scratch yours when you need them. Start by being generous with your own time, and it'll work out in the end.
Some griefers did key on that. But overall, she was perceived as opposing free speech, which is a core value for numerous (maybe even most) Reddit users.
> Security is hard.

Security is impossible.
To be fair, SF apartment rent doesn't include a 5000-foot runway.
So applying a label is more harmful to you than causing harm with or without a label. Let me test it: your view is short-sighted. If I was right, you roll your eyes or get irritated. If you were right, then you seeing it led to a feeling of being violated, potentially shortness of breath, lost sleep, and possibly post-traumatic stress disorder. Is this how you feel?

Your other point makes sense. I think it's what your getting at. How people categorize other people can lead to them harming them and often does. This is part of human nature I'm afraid: shows up everywhere with every kind of people with very few exceptions. Your boss vs employee example is decent until you take it to the extreme to support your agenda. An extreme that's rare.

Now, let's try a different take with an actual person in my categorization. He's a nice-looking, sharply-dressed, young manager from a fairly typical family with typical good and bad per people that grew up with him. He picks fights with underlings who are good workers but don't play politics (image worse than him). He wittily cuts them, sets them up for problems, and has enjoyment in his eyes. He regularly deceives both new hires and existing staff in games that benefit him at their other expense. Far from remorse, the more agony and rage people break out into the more there's a glimmer in his eyes. His calm, confident, and apparently caring demeanor around most employees and other management ensure his victim's rage fit appears to be their own personal problems. He cunningly tells a believable story that pushes all the right buttons. They quit. If anything, he's good at getting troubling workers out of the place the others think with some on the fence and a few seeing his game but quiet.

I call him a psychopath, born or learned, because he acts like one. His victims used the same word although it's certainly a pop psych term & that's expected. How would you describe this person to a third party, especially a layperson, that captured these traits adequately?

Note: He eventually did leave the place... in handcuffs... for allegedly fondling his hot gf's... daughter. The look on his face in the mugshot wasn't shame or guilt. It was a look I've seen 100+ times on kids & teens: "Shit I got caught."
Alexis Ohanian was chairman (and possibly CEO) and Steve Huffman was the original CEO. They made reddit better by creating it.

Yishan Wong was also a CEO (prior to Pao) having been an engineer at facebook. His tenure was also controversial although not as much as Pao.
Thanks to bots, yes. You did notice that those 4k+ upvotes posts had somewhere between 0-20 comments in them, right?
It sucks, but it's probably because Java is used so much by large enterprises - and big organizations often won't tolerate using other people's code or sharing their code with other people. Node and Perl are used more by individuals (or startups) doing small bits and sharing back and forth.

If you start one I'll use it though. :)
In most cases, this shouldn't pose any issues (though some games doing crazy things with networking could be affected).

These rules restrict the ports listening directly on the internet. The average gaming PC is behind a home router, has no ports reachable from the internet, and network games still work fine.

If your college was like mine, what they did was filtering outbound connections, which is different. Outbound traffic is unfiltered by default on EC2, and it's fine to leave it that way.
When my sickly widowed grandmother makes a fruit cake for me, and asks me if I like it, I tell her yes. In your world, I'd have to tell her no. That's total transparency.

If people were truly good, total transparency would happen naturally. People wouldn't keep secrets because that's simply not the right thing to do. But that doesn't happen. People don't always do the right thing, and forcing total transparency won't stop that.

You could make the same arguments for having locks on doors. It would be nice if we lived in a society where we did not need them. When we have that society, we will have transparency too, but until then, I'm keeping my doors locked and my information encrypted.
It is the same mechanism as the mortgages that created the housing bubble -- an almost limited amount of credit with a 0% risk (in theory, not practice as we will soon see).
The skeptic in me points at android and deduces that the whole focus of Google open source is skewing ecosystems towards google revenue and or hiring models.
It's really not as obvious as you're making it sound. According to google, the most concrete definition of "misogyny" is: "an ingrained prejudice against women."

So immediately there are 2 problems here:

1.) Ellen Pao does not represent all women, nor would all women agree for her to represent them most likely. So dislike of Pao does not conclusively imply a dislike of women in general. Especially when we keep in mind the context of people being upset about a female employee being fired.

2.) Even if we assume that yes, Ellen Pao did represent all women, that still does not imply that the public's sentiments against her were somehow "ingrained" or unjustified. She did decide to ban several subreddits before the latest incident with Victoria (which may or may not have involved Pao). The anger may have been unjustly directed towards her specifically when it should've been directed towards Reddit management in general, but being a lightning rod for bad press has always been an unspoken the function of CEOs. It may not conclusively prove that the anger directed at her was purely due to management issues, but it does cast doubt about it being because she was a woman.

So the issue here is not that something can't be pseudo-objective if enough people agree, it's that the claim is not specific enough to be meaningful, and these kinds of terms are usually just used as social trump cards that discourage questioning, which again, is the opposite of what journalism is supposed to be about.
I totally agree. In discussions on race and gender discrimination, I often argue that these are evidence of human nature's trend to (a) group together + support those similar to oneself; (b) compete with or mistreat those outside the group. It's a nice abstraction on top of all the forms I've seen of this that gets to the real issue. Now, the specific forms of it certainly develop their own mental baggage and reinforcements on top of this.

Yet, without being a sociology/psych major, I think this is a normal thing that should be recognized and hit head on by any reformists. That it's a weakness in human nature must be understood before it can be beaten. Otherwise, strawmen and red herrings abound.
Reddit is legally allowed to censor all they want. Some people, especially people younger than me, like a version of the world where somebody smoothes off the rough edges and hides unsightly things. I think it feels too much like Disneyland.

Reddit spent years building a freewheeling culture. Pao decided to impose standards on that, and her guiding principles weren't well articulated. In the end, it was a really bad copy of Disneyland, and the fact that the effort failed was no surprise.

I'm not sure the company really knows what happened, given that they think they've given their users what they asked for, but they're also telling their users that they're spoiled kids.
your isps were competent maybe
Which will ironically make people less secure, since some people will just disable Chrome's malware warning, or the at the very least learn to ignore the warnings.

And Torrent Freak provides actual information here: https://torrentfreak.com/chrome-blocks-major-torrent-sites-o...
Also, see some of Robert Harper's lectures on the same subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SnefrwBIDc&list=PLGCr8P_Ync...
It's probably not a good idea to play any competitive multi-player games on this service anyways, considering the additional latency and higher possibility of interruptions.
Canadian universities are all public though.
Didn't Google just remove the confederate flag from Shopping Express and ads, not from search results?

They don't sell Nazi flags in their store or (afaik) let people advertise using them, so this doesn't seem as inconsistent to me as you make it sound.
This was in my opinion one of the best talks at defcon a few years back. I replicated this with some CDN domains, and was amazed at the number of bits that were being flipped out there that drove traffic to my test systems. It would have been very easy to serve up content that could have caused a lot of problems.
I don't know, where I'm from "disgusted" is a much stronger term than "offended". It's like a visceral repulsion that triggers something bordering on mild rage. I don't know how the OP intended it, but if it's as you describe, then yes, it's not too bad, but I haven't seen that term used so lightly usually.
No, just because the GP didn't elaborate reasons for the comparison does not make your strawman not a strawman. You put words into badsock's mouth, and then applied shame for things badsock didn't say. "This reminds me of gamergate" is not "any criticism of any journalistic ethics anywhere", period.

Similarly, my 'there are parallels' and your 'huxley and orwell' aren't the same. You say that it's pointless to present without clarification, yet I presented the comment dispassionately and gave some counter-examples to clarify. Your huxley/orwell comment was a snarky comment, based off a strawman.

You're also confusing my point with the GP's. While I agree with the GP, my point is not that this event is reminiscent of gamergate, but that you're behaving hypocritically.
Most of my nginx use has been to serve static assets and reverse proxy to web apps, so I'm not familiar with a lot of other use-cases here. What are some common problems I can solve with openresty vs what I can already do with nginx?
Satellite TV and communications satellites commonly do this -- otherwise your satellite dish would have to track the satellite across the sky as it moves.

Defense Support Program satellites are also in stationary orbits so they can watch fixed regions for nuclear missile launches with infrared cameras.
In my experience:

1. You apply, you do okay. Let's call you applicant A.

2. Company has found someone else they want more, so they start moving forward with that person (applicant B).

3. Recruiter knows that that applicant B might reject their offer or take a different gig, so he doesn't tell you (applicant A) any of this. He waits until things are 100% finalized between the company and applicant B before he gets back to you at all.

4. In some cases, after a month of silence, he comes back and says "they're ready to hire you" (because Applicant B turned them down), or he'll say "they just hired someone else", or he'll forget to respond to you entirely.

Moral of the story: Just keep moving, keep interviewing elsewhere. If they get back to you someday, great. If they don't, no sweat.
I doubt your last sentence, as I regularly use Reddit and never saw anything like the story you mention. Certainly there were bad comments in more sanely named threads, but no highly upvoted threads with that title like you mention here.

Mind linking it?
I was just discussing a similar idea with a friend this weekend. Perhaps abiogenesis could still be occurring on earth. My friend contended that existing life would consume the raw ingredients before they could self assemble. It's a very reasonable objection but I think it's an assumption worth checking.

I'd never heard of desert varnish, that's totally fascinating.
The opposite of addiction is connection
> there's something soothing/cathartic about running a frantic

"Euro Truck Simulator 2" was the same way for me. At first, I thought, "That's stupid, who wants to drive a truck (around a virtual Europe) for fun?"

Then I gave it a go when it was on sale on Steam and find it incredibly relaxing after a stressful day of work and surprising fun? I now have over 100 hours sunk into it..
Corrupt regimes always get the intelligentsia on its side either via threat or in this case bribery.
> The societal cost of the cash could be less than the aggregate cost of the crimes

This is the idea behind a basic income.

Some experiments are also finding it cheaper to just give people houses than to continue to run homeless outreach programs.
There are sites like ProductHunt, which specialize in this type of thing. Might be worth checking out.
All of the brigading stuff is so needless subjective too. If you are going to ban some communities for behavior, establish a clear definition of that behavior and track it.

Analytics showing brigading statistics would be dead simple. It would establish a clear, objective metric and back the notion of behavior, not ideas, being targeted.

I also kind of doubt objective numbers would justify the actual banned subreddits; I think it would show a lot of other ones were just as bad or worse, but weren't so unapologetically disgusting.
Far as DSM, that is very significant. Far as evidence, most evidence I've seen were articles written talking about various studies or research in the literature. That's how I get a lot of information outside my field. They talked about case studies on them, some were different from birth, and some were neurologically different than most people in terms of how their brains processed situations.

Or were my sources bad and there's nothing supporting the existence of people whose brains seem wired to act with psychopathic traits? It's possible it was misreported given I don't have journal access to most of the publications. If so, I'd also appreciate a good source that survey's the literature on the subject and shows what's learned/unknown.
Ask HN: Cataloging Files on the Command Line
I am looking for a portable tool to catalog files, like Yojimbo does, but for the Unix command line. I am talking about info such as the original URL, author, copyright status, and other metadata.

Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Moore's Law + Deep Dreams + AR = a weird and somewhat disturbing future. I am ready. I have prepared.
TL;DR: No 2 factor auth, yer dead?

I am having an impossible time following this story. So vague. Thanks for the most descriptive link yet (although still totally lacking). I watched the cspan event and all I could derive was that inadequate logging meant they couldn't say how bad the event was. Totally unclear.
You can try helicopter-parenting; be that weird parent standing up in the back of the class yelling at the teacher. That might work.
Five UK satellites go into orbit on Indian rocket
Has anyone tried SoftEther VPN in place of OpenVPN for something like this?

http://www.softether.org/

I've been using it to set up a site-to-site VPN between my home network and my Azure VMs and in my experiences the performance has been quite good. They also claim to have higher max throughput than OpenVPN but I haven't yet verified those claims myself.
Several years ago, I saw a replay of a news show from the 60s on which the guest was MLK Jr. The interviewer suggested that King's success, as well as that of a few other "colored" people was proof that nothing was wrong with the status quo.

Segregation and all the other ills of the day had nothing to do with the challenges faced by "colored" people. They just needed to be smarter and work harder.

Putting aside that there are various degrees of poverty, I will just congratulate you and your friends. But, studies show that economic mobility is far more difficult than in the past and more difficult in the U.S. than in many western European nations.

The severe and worsening income and wealth stratification of the past few decades is no accident. There are structural problems with our economy. That a relative few can overcome this to some degree neither disproves nor mitigates that fact.
Free Education: Hundred Places to Learn
ES6 in Depth: Generators, continued
I probably sound more vested in the issue than I am. I probably also sound like I'm piling on with unhelpful feedback at a difficult time. I don't intend either -- I'm just a bit perplexed at why some forms of controversial, hate-oriented, and/or immature speech are considered OK on Reddit while others aren't.
If the comments have any SEO value to you, then no I wouldn't use disqus, I'd make sure the comments actually lived in the DOM of the page.

But if the comments are just an add-on with little SEO value, then sure, quick and easy.
The problem is some of the worst parts of reddit love to leak into the innocent, fun sections. My first experience with /r/fatpeoplehate was because one of the trolls started harassing a poster in /r/adventuretime who just wanted to show off an awesome hat she made.

It was disgusting and made me take a break from reddit immediately.
It's exactly the same moral hazard as with home loans. There, the bank repossesses and sells the underlying asset so the only time they can ever lose is if housing prices crash. Presumably student loans are secured-by-fiat for precisely this reason.

Financial gamers inherently desire airtight abstractions so they can leverage the heck out of them. But this doesn't mean they should get this wish, since the purpose of the financial system isn't simply to perpetuate itself but to optimize for people.

Everyone needs a place to live, so under financial primacy the only limit on housing prices in a developed area is the economic rent on the principal. A college degree is worth a heck of a lot over one's lifetime, so the fully-optimized market solution is for most of that surplus to go to the credentialer.

In all cases of secured credit, the effect is for prices to rise such that things that used to be able to be owned are instead rented by most people.