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Impressive and awesome. This is perfect to catch up on using build tools. I focus on core programming concepts in my own work, and at work most of that stuff is automated to just a few commands, so I appreciate the gulp.js part of your tutorial most. Thanks for the great work.
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Were they really at a university? It looks like they were "inspired" by researchers at universities, which universally have review boards that stop idiots from disabling cars on an open road to see what happens.
This concurs with the arguments a very liberal city planner once convinced me with. His preference for a solution, of course, was different government pressure on where people live and work, rather than my preference of less pressure, but he was convincing on the nature of the problem.
> What exactly were the American soldiers dying and killing for?

Many were drafted into compulsory military service. They were placed into a situation where it was "kill or be killed." If they didn't want to fight or they deserted, then it was federal prison.
That's what happens if you try to do something in the Google infrastructure that Google doesn't want someone to do.

IMHO, that makes Chrome a crippled platform subject to sudden application or addon deaths subject to Google's whim.
haha yeah....found out about this YouTube fad after we bought the domain. alas.
Hi! :)

My argument is roughly that we don't know for sure that people were put in harm's way, and we have good reason, as hackers, not to trust the legal system to reliably figure these sorts of things out (and they generally fail in the direction of being worse for both individual researchers and society of a whole). If we did empirically find the legal system reliable and fair, I'd be more convinced that the threshold for objecting should be "unreasonable".

The action is also over right now, and I see no indication that they intend to do so again. So this is either about punishment-as-retribution, or about dissuading future researchers from doing similar things. I don't think retribution is particularly justifiable, and I think there are better ways to dissuade future researchers, like having a conversation about it without the police involved. So I guess I'm arguing the specific sub-case of 2 that if they don't intend to put someone in harms' way again, law enforcement isn't necessarily right.

(You're right about the highway patrol thing, btw. I think I had it confused in my head with some other recent public/police conflict where the highway patrol was worse than the local police, but it looks like the opposite was true of the Ferguson protests.)
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I think suburbia might be a victim of its own success.

As people moved out to more widely-dispersed communities, that caused commuting all the way downtown for work to be increasingly problematic. So of course that encouraged demand for business to also move out to the suburbs.

Eventually things got so dispersed that people had to start driving everywhere. Roads got congested. It became increasingly common for people to spend 1/5 or more of their free time behind the wheel. Attempts to relieve the congestion inevitably require frequent road construction projects, which only increases everyone's sense of frustration.

I think it's pretty plain to see that nobody actually likes this state of affairs, and also that continuing the suburbanization trend would only continue to make it worse. Maybe there was a period back during the baby boom when the suburban lifestyle worked out really well (from a happiness perspective; let's forget about the economic and environmental cost for the sake of argument) for the first people to adopt it, but it's a lot harder to see the attraction now that the wide open spaces have become crowded with cars and parking lots.
You honestly don't think these "security researchers" did anything wrong? They could have easily demonstrated the same vulnerability on a private course and made the same point, no need to recklessly endanger everyday people.
right, but the links still show up right? They are just dead when you click them?
I hear mailchimp will get the job done
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Not sure how good the developer(s) are at math. App store says $4.99 is 40% off. That would make the regular price about $8.33, which AFAIK, isn't allowed. ;)
OK, just making sure I follow: They should exploit security holes and put people at risk to ensure that security research is not underfunded, which could lead to someone exploiting security holes, which would put people at risk.
I wish Hacker News would strip out affiliate codes.
Related article at http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/0fdc6e62-2f23-11e5-91ac-a5e17d9b4c... (probably need a free FT account to view, or search for it via google)
My understanding is that airline pilots only use autopilot when at cruising altitude. At those heights they have several minutes to take over and fix a problem before crashing.
You don't want to develop that here, that's ok, but It's worth saying that these were not the most common leftist opinions, and the USSR in particular was popular on the left far longer than was prudent, from a modern perspective. (Not saying I wouldn't have made the same mistake as human alive in the 50s)
Indeed; lots of good stuff here, but for the immediate decision, the OP needs to find some part of the company's work that demands higher quality, accept doing lower quality work fast and learn how to do that (yuk), or find another company, or perhaps a subfield, where quality is rewarded.

This appears to be one of the reasons grey hair is generally respected in embedded work (not in Detroit, though), the cost of low quality there can be very very high.
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Stupid people flying drones is not a new phenomenon. There was already an article posted a month ago about this happening: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9782177
That was a previous demonstration; this one was done solely wirelessly.
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The researchers did disclose it privately. As always, the believable pressure of public disclosure makes the process work.

https://twitter.com/0xcharlie/status/623492229714313216
Wouldn't a simple Google Group like service fit ?
Is it really a "full-stack" "app"? Sounds more like a set of scripts:

> "...using React, Node.js, MongoDB and Socket.IO..."
I look forward to this industry realizing everything doesn't have to happen in SF.
Hah! I had a gig in that building (6116 Executive) when I was a consultant... writing billing systems for a phone company right after the Bell breakup.
What you get in Toki Pona is a series of lexicalized phrases from word compounds.

In a natural language, you would get these along with the borrowings or coinages, to a greater or lesser extent based on the culture's attitude toward lexical borrowing.

Toki Pona has a strong cultural bias against borrowing, and probably (perhaps somewhat like Pirahã) a strong cultural bias against discussing complex, abstract concepts precisely.
I know. But suddenly everybody cares whats going on on reddit and its just lame.

Even the headline here on HN reads like some buzzfed upliftingNews regurgle.
If you think that "drive-by-wire" is a specifically-Jeep problem, I've got some bad news for you....

It is a safe assumption that these guys just happened to use a Jeep, and with some work almost any modern car could have this done to it.
Rice theorem is not really applicative here. It is a beautiful theorem, but it has to do with what we can compute, while "safe" has to do with what one can access.

A function taking Integers to Integers in a pure language cannot do I/O, and thus is "safe" to run, in the sense that I can be guaranteed it does not contain a trojan making my computer into a peer on a botnet. This is true, even if I allow it to compute any computable function.

Computational expressiveness and "safeness" are in a sense orthogonal. And just as I don't think it is always appropriate for any function to do I/O, I am not convinced all functions should be able to perform any computation. But that's a different discussion.

Regarding definedness of the term "safe", I would say it is defined by your threat model. It not an absolute term, but dependent on context.
Just uninstall Flash; it's no longer needed for web surfing.
Depression is a disorder, it's not people who just felt a bit sad and then killed themselves because they didn't have their priorities strait.
:) It's all good, I was a little bit terse... I should consider that in the future.

We do use gcc's unwinding library, last I recall, but if you're writing an OS, you can implement the language items to do whatever you want, including just abort.

There's no inherent TLS implementation that I'm aware of.
I wonder if there's some sort of fractal rendering procedure like zooming/rotating/viewing, that could be turing complete with a given fractal. Would be a kind of cool hack.
I get an _extra_ 10-20 min in Linux vs OS X thanks to powertop tweaks implemented via udev rules and a minimal desktop with a tiling WM and no desktop environment.

But I agree on the annoying omissions. I hate no dedicated insert, although shift + backspace works well.
It does take into account the lost income if you have to quit your job to go to a bootcamp
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9921335

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9906107
the same licensing rules apply if you edited the song yourself to a movie in final cut/imovie/premiere and then posted to youtube. we've found that most times youtube detects content in a video, they'll pre-roll an ad to make sure the artist gets paid.
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They intentionally put people at risk when there were better, legal alternatives. Responsible researchers do not do tests that subject the general public to risk.

I do think that educating them with regards to better choices would be helpful, but they appear to have committed an offense and documented it on camera in the news. I think they were going to end up in trouble one way or another here.
> I know this sounds unbelievable

It doesn't sound unbelievable at all.

I just wish the article had asked more questions and provided more information, rather than presenting the subject uncritically.
Does anyone know if uBlock Origin's default "EasyPrivacy‎" filter blocks tracking scripts like this? Or is a separate tool like Ghostery actually necessary if I want to stop the trackers from loading?
I think this article perhaps misses the real story. That being, office parks first built in 25+ years ago are reaching an age where their long term leases are expiring and they need to be renovated for the first time since being constructed to attract new tenants.

While it makes sense to renovate an old factory and turn it into trendy office space with exposed brick and vintage architectural details from decades past you have to wonder what the fate of more recently constructed buildings will be. It's hard to see any situation where the 90's office park building will ever be valued for it's structural appeal to the extent that people will want to gut and remodel it instead of bulldozing.
I think because we are living in the prehistoric era of modern webdev. Programming in assembler is much easier!
Slowing down and eventually driving off on to a grass shoulder wouldn't even crack the bottom 1% of crazy shit I've seen people do on highways, on purpose.

IMO, the danger to the public caused by the researchers somewhat-controlled exploit is utterly dwarfed by the danger Jeep/uConnect is causing by directly connecting its cars to the internet. If the researchers are successful in getting car manufacturers to remove features like this entirely, the net result will ultimately save lives.
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That's a neat video on reversed steering.
In the past, researchers in other fields cared more about "badass" than the basic empathy a dog can demonstrate.

That's why every research lab has an ethical review board.

Scientists failing to care about social consequences is nothing groundbreaking.
I don't mind that it was demonstrated under real world conditions; I mind that no safety precautions were taken, like, you know:

- Contact the police and let them know this experiment will be conducted; and ask for police support

- Conduct this experiment on a closed road
> I wonder if some of these can be turned into more modern co-working spaces that can be rented by the desk.

It would depend on where the commercial building is. WeWork locations in the city are convenient and fantastic, but even a very, very cool WeWork location with all the bells and whistles wouldn't get me to commute out of the city to some suburban hell. It's just not worth it.
Shipped with VS 2015,

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dotnetnative
Considering that children forced into prostitution are sometimes charged with the crime of being a prostitute when the police 'save' them, I'm not surprised about this.
I would like it on Android and iOS via updated Mono.
This technique is limited to "unrealistic" point lights (except for stars). To improve the shadow quality it is necessary to work with light fields. This can be done either by voxel fields (I think nvidia tried something like this) or depth fields. I use the later one with the advantage that it can be easily combined with other techniques and can be updated in real time. For almost static environments like the one in the example I would advise to use precomputed emission maps. There is also something wrong with the shadow map (right image) I suspect a blur step is missing.
As someone who has been trying to spread the word on Opal for a few years (including this talk http://funkworks.blogspot.com/2014/01/opal-new-hope-for-ruby... for full affect, For watching the video I would start with the uncensored https://vimeo.com/82573680 and then switch to http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=GH9... when it's done), it surprises how little interest the Ruby community has taken in opal.

I would in part attribute this to not enough documentation and examples, but otherwise I'm surprised.

This is about as comprehensive a list of opal resources as exists ATM
Totally true. My claim is smaller than I made it seem. I don't like Marxism even though I find some of the analytic tools it provides to be very useful. Even so, I have to give it credit that its largest experiments were very popular with a lot of leftists.
I'm willing to bet FCA wil recall all of these "UConnect" enabled vehicles within a month to patch this. This will blow up fast.
Happened to me last night

Worked 6am to 2pm at my day job. Came home, ate dinner (late lunch) took a 2 hour nap. Went to Starbucks and worked for 3 hours on my side business and had 2 grande coffees - got home around 9pm and couldn't fell asleep until midnight - one of those sleeps where your not really sure if you actually feel asleep.

Coffee, especially strong coffee, can destroy you late at night.
Safari's URL bar turns into a loading bar when you do this.

Only browser I can think of that dealt with the problem better than "it says loading in a tiny, optional status bar at the bottom" or "a small icon starts spinning out of the main field of vision".
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Bad calculation. One auto hacker can shut down all vulnerable cars simultaneously.
:) We had to round off to 4.99. The original price is 7.99.
There is no way a "not real-world conditions" argument could be made if this same test was done on a test track. No automaker would even try it because it would generate even more bad press. The "researchers" did the test on a public, in-use highway for better press/cool factor. Completely irresponsible.
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Do you see the searing irony in your edit?

Edit: The irony I see is not political, it is in saying They're not the sort of people that do some research before forming an opinion. while making a declaration that was not especially well researched.

I also probably disagree with your characterization of the people defending the researchers (but who knows what your definition of "leftists" encompasses).
I paid for Sublime Text to make the annoying "buy me" message go away. I probably wouldn't have paid if it didn't nag me, and I never would have tried it if it weren't freemium.
> "Pay-for-Play Reflection"

Native and allowing reflection? I am now much less interested in M#.
It's not either/or. You're presenting a false dilemma. You can demonstrate the problem without doing it where you put real lives in danger. The researchers acted recklessly.
You could do something like a private Google Group or Yahoo Groups.

Another option may be to do something with Mandrill or Sendgrid.
Pathetic they can get millions to militarize the police, or a super high tech bomb squad vehicle/robots/xrays to investigate a bunch of abandoned suitcases, but they are suddenly poor when it comes to financing something that could actually save lives.

in the case where, say, a serial rapist/killer hasn't been caught, there can be a backlog of untested DNA from other crime scenes that may identify the suspect, but haven't been tested because of the backlog.
[EDIT] OK you have snow tires. Then what's the deal? I've lived in snowbound places, without snow tires, and rarely had difficulty getting moving again after parking half an hour to shop. Sure, if you leave your car in a bad spot during a snowstorm you'll have problems in the morning, but most robocars will never have that problem, because they will only park in safe secure areas and only during the 2AM-5AM "quiet" period when people don't want to go places.
They did NOT "slam on their brakes" and it was NOT a large hazard. I understand that, if something had happened, they would have FELT partly responsible. But it's the kind of responsible that people with a lot of bumper stickers experience when someone wrecks because someone was paying too much attention to the stickers and not enough attention to the road.

Yes, they created conditions that might have made it possible for a lousy driver to wreck a car, but, no, they did not do anything inherently dangerous. A driver--ANY driver--is expected to be able to handle gently decelerating cars on the highway. They should also be able to pay attention despite big billboards, confusing traffic signs, and attractive people gallivanting on the sidewalks.

The average traffic jam is much more likely to cause an accident, but it typically doesn't and, when it does, we blame the driver that rear ends someone, not the masses of people who have actually stopped on the highway, often NOT gently.
It happens on your local machine. There's a checkbox to enable / disable it.
Nobody really believes michaelochurch received an apology from upper management. the lawsuit potential alone means that even if there was such an apology it would never be in email. he really actually seems to be crazy.

I personally really appreciated the spreadsheet because I am anti-capitalist, but I find Erica's version of the facts to be distorted in a self-serving way. I find it hard to believe this would meaningfully impact her career.
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Planes run on similar tech, why haven't they been hacked? The odds on this seem long indeed, especially considering how dangerous driving is already
You seem to be confused.

Because a dangerous threat exists does not give a researcher license to endanger the public to prove it. This is especially the case when a safer alternative to demonstrate this exploit easily exists.

Robbers could enter your home and hold your family at gunpoint AT ANY TIME. That does not give me the right to prove to you how easy it is by entering your home and scaring the crap out of your family.

1) This is a dangerous exploit

2) This was a dumb way to demonstrate it

Those are not mutually exclusive.
Also as a way to racially and economically segregate the population. Office park connect to residential suburbs where little Johnny and Lisa can get good schools and other white upper middle-class friends to play with.
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Ah, the common belief that criticizing feminism, be it well or poorly done, is sexism.
There's a huge difference between stopping on the highway and decelerating due to lack of engine power. The driver knew what was happening, turned on his hazard lights, and didn't apply the brakes. Slowing down on the highway, although annoying, shouldn't be an unfamiliar or unsafe scenario (ex: construction, traffic backup, etc.)

This would be a completely different story if the researchers applied full force to the brakes or accelerator since those are unexpected (to other drivers), sudden, and difficult to react to behaviours.
I've written a fair amount via this tag on my blog http://funkworks.blogspot.com/search/label/opal

I'm committed to providing content for opal newsletter http://opalist.curated.co/issues so that will be ongoing. Hope there's some interesting info in there
Ask HN: What kind of infrastructure is needed for a video sharing service?
I know Netflix or Twitch used Amazon's servers, but what kind of operating costs are to be expected for this kind of service? For a whole year of operation?

Or if one is to have a service to share up to 3 minutes of videos max, what kind of costs does one have to expect, per year of operation? Should one use the same CDN provided by the hosting service or use Akamai like Facebook?

And what are the data centers and CDNs that are interesting for small to medium video sharing startups?

How does Azure compare to Amazon? any interesting whitepapers out there?
Most self-driving cars won't be stored in our garages, because we won't own them. That's one of their big advantages.
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The one question to ask interviewers: "Do you ever use the word 'passion' to refer to anything other than sex?"

...I'll make an exception for religious feelings too.
Given the risks to safety, it's necessary to use defense in depth and secure every layer by air gaps where possible, and a strict message whitelist where not. This might add $100 to the cost of each car, which is a ton of money when multiplied by millions of cars, but it simply has to be done.
Thinking about what I want to do the next day is a terrible idea for me.
No, it's not the truth. There is absolutely nothing correlating entrepreneurship with not being able to insure yourself or your family. The only reason that is right now is because the startup culture is filled with 20 somethings right out of school, and no one wants to change that.
Great point! WeWork looks awesome.
Standing ovation to you. That is a lot of work and a precious resource. Kudos.
Investing isn't easy - that's why I think its good to start earlier and learn quickly. This way, when you have a larger capital base, you've learned some lessons and hopefully conquered some behavioral pitfalls.
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Your argument would make sense if all exploits were equal. Think of it more like infecting people with weakened/dead forms of potentially deadly diseases so they will be better protected against that disease. The weakened form, while it may not be risk free, is not equal to the harm of a full own infection.