skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm rather confused why not contact a lawyer and pursue legal action?

What kind of legal action would you pursue?

She likely has no funds whatsoever to go after. I would contact a lawyer in this case, for sure - but I don't think it makes any sense to pursue legal action here - legal action is very expensive, and it is very likely throwing good money after bad money.

The only actions that make sense to me are police/interpol complaints, and (possibly, depending on lawyer advice) public naming and shaming - which this website does.

Note that the "naming and shaming" doesn't actually give anything back to those who were scammed - it's mostly a public service for the rest of the world.
Yeah... Memcached is one of the other ones that has the same problem but around 100,000 public instances... Maybe I shouldn't have even mentioned MongoDB since everybody's so focused on it now, but this sort of configuration issue affects a ton of database products.
Linus was speaking abusively there, but he wasn't just speaking abusively: there was a context. That context wasn't that Linus spends hours every week trolling Reddit by putting people down and making snarky remarks about every new project. The comparison to Linus is really irrelevant and needs to stop.
Is there a good book on the design of AmigaOS that explains these things? It sounds like a lot of them are side effects of being a multitasking but not multi-user or memory-protected OS, so you could teleport data into other programs without concern.

It would be interesting to try and forward-port these aspects of AmigaOS to an ARM system.
The thing that strikes me is that while the data being searched for has been optimized down to 2 bytes of bitfields, the same hasn't been done with the phone numbers - area codes in India appear to be variable-length (2, 3, ? digits) with that length being part of the 10 digits, and presumably mobile numbers are handled similarly either with their own area codes or overlapping. Breaking the data by area code would allow the elimination of significant chunks of the total possible address space, and further separating (as they do) into dense and sparse would further reduce the requirements (since tries, skip-lists, etc. have their own overhead).

It comes down to this: while the Indian phone system could in theory allow 10 billion phone numbers, there are not in fact 10 billion legally-allocatable phone numbers and the rules in place likely effectively reduce the legally-allocatable number to somewhere between 1-3 billion numbers. Dividing based on those rules may both reduce the problem to something requiring less engineering time and simiplify possible marketing-related factors (e.g. selling access/systems targeted only to specific area codes).
Some say that Free Trade is really a tool of oppression. Third world countries can never develop their own industry because they cannot compete because they will never get over the Ricardian hump where their products will always be inferior or more expensive.

All they can look forward to is low margin agriculture and exploitative "offshore" manufacturing.

The solution would be self imposed sanctions aka trade tarrifs but the IMF and WTO will punish you for trying.

http://www.freetradedoesntwork.com/
The most interesting is that hiding salary information does not work. If you don't receive a raise similar to the average of your firm, sooner or later you will find out and search for another job that will pay average or better salary. And if you receive above average, then you will either be promoted to a level where you're average again, or have your future raises decreased. Basically, the only thing that works is a promotion, which is clearly a public event. So, it would be much better if everyone had their salaries made public, with salaries clearly tied to promotion levels.
Yeah, same here. Except for a couple of stories, the front page from when I joined in 2008 easily could've been the front page today.
In contrast to the Purism machines the Gluglug has free firmware. As far as I know this is the only commercially available solution with free firmware.
It's also the laptop Richard Stallman uses.
Reddit manages OK. I wonder what level of petitioning would be required to get the admins to fix HN? Or are all the cool kids using an app which avoids this problem?
I imagine the problem is with assigning names to them.

Usually I've seen people keeping them in hibernate xml with named queries, or some proprietrary .xml files.

CDATA is overkill IMHO, easier to escape the few problematic characters.
"This is super cruel and merciless."
srsly, dude? have we lost all perspective?
Looting has happened, but as far as i know, mostly in the private sector. Robert Maxwell was the last great example, and the rules in the UK were tightened up considerably after him:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/1251019.stm
>super cruel and merciless

That's how it should be to keep the ecosystem as clean as possible.
I would first verify the causal link between "no mobile app" and "small number of users." Can you scope the product or marketing towards a desktop-centric audience and verify that your product can scalably grow in that sub market?
My Thinkpad x201 has an hardware switch for turning wireless on/off, though I can't tell if it actually cuts the power or just tells the module to disable itself.
Note that Chrome on Android has a "force enable zoom" setting in Accessibility panel while Opera for Android (which uses Blink engine, same as Chrome) has reflow-on-zoom support (called "text wrap" in settings).

On Windows Phone there is a system-level setting "ease of access > allow zooming on all web content".

This basically solves the issue for me. I browse almost exclusively using Opera.
Whoa, I didn't know that. I quoted the 230kbit number from memory, when I researched it several years ago, when my parents still had dial up. I'm not surprise that MRO is faster.
Latest nightly doesn't show the problem. Go firefox!
Great answer, thank you. :)
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What sucks is Android used to be good, at least in a lot of cases. I don't know how much this generalizes, but on Hacker News I used to be able to pinch to zoom, then double tap the screen and the site would wrap at the zoomed size. This went away somewhere around Ice Cream Sandwich, not sure exactly.
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Original comment I replied to was referring to accident, there was nothing about emergency vehicles already working the scene...
For the 2013 edition of "Project Oberon" book, Niklaus Wirth rewrote the Oberon system for the custom RISC CPU, which he designed in Verilog language. It seems like he wasn't a fan of it, so he created Lola-2 in 2014 and wrote a transpiler to Verilog:

"Now textual descriptions of hardware are common place, the preferred languages being Verilog and VHDL. With the view of a teacher, I have the same grave objections against them as for the wide-spread programming languages: they are by far too complex. Thereby they make it difficult and pitfall-prone for beginners, apart from causing headaches for teachers. I felt that Lola could play the same role for HDLs as Oberon for PLs, easing learning for beginners and relieving teachers from headaches."
Hehe, for that matter it'd make a hell of a means of distribution for illicit materials (pirate software/movies)...

Think db nodes to find/query for torrents...
Thanks, it works perfectly now.

Do you plan to also make a version for 64bit ARM ? This one works perfectly on my Nexus 9 but I would love to be able to develop for ARM64 directly on it.

Thank you for your work, From what I see on the play store, you plan to make money with the extensions ? I will probably buy at least the theme one soon.
Timezone issue perhaps?
Thank you! I've written a new language for your comment:

<knockout_punch> ::= <personal_attack> <you're_wrong>

Its provisional name is Cute.
That would presuppose Celine has money to afford lawyers, if she does, that would be the point to recover the funds, and/or countersue for fraud.
> Anyone else @HN that knows of something similar ? (apart from evernote)

I'm currently experimenting with Emacs org-mode, Microsoft OneNote and a personal MediaWiki install on localhost. My observations so far:

- Emacs org-mode: (+) integrated power of my Emacs setup, (+) great key bindings, (+) based on text files, (-) difficult to learn, (-) no fancy UI, drag-n-drop

- Microsoft OneNote: (+) nice UI, (+) good mouse support, (+) drag-n-drop, (-) proprietary format, (-) no LaTeX

- MediaWiki: (+) rich wiki capabilities, (+) great revision management, (+) available in local network on any device, (+) everything in the browser, (-) painful updating, migrating, installing, (-) slow, no good keybindings

My conclusion so far: I'm torn between MediaWiki and org-mode. OneNote is a bit too proprietary for my taste. Next I’m going to move everything to org-mode and work on ways to publish my notes with LaTeX markup on the intranet and to include pictures more easily.
It's still surprising... I've used MongoDB a few times, but I was always well aware to put it behind a firewall and setup basic auth.

I'm not really one for super fine grained security at the database level, but you should at least have some level of connection controls in place.

iptables isn't that hard.
Ask HN: How should I handle layoffs?
I have been a regular reader of hacker news for a year or so and have a lot of respect for the community here. Commentators usually bring a lot of intelligence, business experience, and entrepreneurial know-how to their thoughtful advice.

How should I handle layoffs and a reorganization?

Background: I run a website design / development and online marketing agency with roughly 70 full time team members. Due to a slowdown in new business and the unexpected cancellations of some of our larger clients, I think we need to let about 6-7 people go.
Elaborate? I don't think there's much of anything that could change out from under a suspended process that couldn't change out from under a running process.

(Case in point: you can have a system hibernate, have a supposedly locked file change, and have the system resume.)
For curious souls, Chrome on Android sometimes supports reflow out of the box, depending on vendor. Apparently vendors like to set different flags in browsers to differentiate themselves from each other. HTC is one of those who ships Chrome with reflow on zoom enabled. It is a bit battery draining to recalculate stuff each time a user zooms hence it's not enabled by default.

*(according to research from Peter Paul Koch from his Mobile web handbook)
Thanks for replying! It is true that there is capture w.r.t. the standard library, and the Common Lisp specification forbids rebinding those. This is a case where the separate namespace complicates the semantics.
Sue for what? Cecile sounds very broke to me...
"human knowledge is cumulative" implement this idea by encouraging users to make public posts, then other users could search through them and fork them, this will be very good
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And the SFLC will help you to create the onerous organization you need in order to collect, possess, and spend that money by committee.

And that is why everyone turns to the ASF for help in this situation, since they already exist, but that's probably not sustainable.

The answer is not clear.
I don't know about this Purism ideology thing. Having watched the video, they keep saying things about people losing privacy through the use of various websites, that's the main point of the video. You can't solve that with better hardware, if you provide data about yourself to a third party.

And the hardware they do provide is not significantly more secure/libre than any run-of-the-mill laptop. I mean Intel, with Intel Management Engine? Surely, you're joking.

Providing a linux distro-spin-off as an OS?

To me, these guys sound like crooks, because they make a lot of claims, and they are nowhere near delivering on those promises. And they use a bullshit language with terms like ideology, but again with no real substance to back this up.

I'd much rather buy a Novena, if I was really concerned about this kind of things. Just my 2 cents.
it's mattermark data.
Welcome Mohamed.

"This place is overwhelmingly full of smart people, and I sometimes feel out of place!"

Don't feel out of place. You may just be suffering from Dunning-Kruger effect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

The smartest people for me are those who can drop all pretensions and learn as much as they can. You're well on your way.
To me the most compelling feature of the laptop is the hardware switches to toggle the camera, microphone, bluetooth, and wifi.

Even libre firmware can't guarantee my system won't be compromised and updated with malicious firmware.
Plus it's already taken.
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Believe it or not, the online world doesn't revolve around California or the European Union.

One of the best "features" of the internet is that it is jurisdictionally grey.

Otherwise, why not just subject the entire world to the stringent requirements of China?
This is a victim-blaming myth. The prime responsibility for the damage is the person who did the damage. Not the discloser, and not the victim.
What about PC parts sales?
Have they perhaps increased during the same time frame as owners swap to incrementally upgrading their machines?
And this is why I asked if the account was inactive and deletable. A staff member checked the account and confirmed that the account was inactive and deleted it so it could be reclaimed.
Gluglug – The Free Software ThinkPad
Huh? The likelyhood that an average comes out to divide a population exactly 50/50 seems low. You'd expect it to be off by a point or two, at least. I'm just pointing out that your statement that 50% of X are below average is not usually true. Unless you meant at least 50%. In which case it's a: misleading, B: still wrong.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9912034, except for the one that needs this URL for context.

That story has been on the front page for hours and is the place to discuss this.
A very short period honestly.

I was surprised how easy it was.

That being said, I would have gladly contacted the account holder but GH removed that capability a long time back. Instead I had to resort to the TOS rules that allowed inactive accounts to be removed.
The one place I worked that used them, switches were not temporary. There were about 4000 of them last time I checked.

There was an advantage: if a bug popped up you possibly had a workaround immediately for the customer. Downside is you had no idea if that workaround would expose more bugs.
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yeah... I remember buying higher quality disks, that were marked for lower density and single sided (forget the brand) and discovering that you could punch and format double sided, double density without issue... jackpot!

It would have been hard to imagine these days having a stack of thumb drives and digging for one at least 8gb, and thinking, when I saw the 512mb-2gb ones of just tossing them away.
Is it a relatively small niche, though? Anything that has a microcontroller needs embedded software written for it, which is a large and growing market of smart devices and doo dads. It's not as large as the web, but it's hardly a small niche.

The reason I'm interested in it is it's the opposite of the web. It requires small, deliberate programming as opposed to the bloat fest web programming has become. It's also physical, whereas web programming is entirely non-physical. After spending so much time in these digital worlds I've been a part of, I want to build real, physical things.
So they haven't solved the problem of getting a free implementation, they've just disabled the security feature that stops rootkits from replacing your bios?

Now I don't have the freedom to modify the code or improved security. How is this making me better off?
I have extensive experience prosecuting cases like this and would be happy to assist the OP. I ask that he fly me to New York City at his earliest convenience (after wiring me a good-faith deposit) so that we may discuss this in person.
That's no reason not to try. There are always ways to improve.
They're still the only laptop which ships with a hardware switch for the camera. They could focus on advancing on all side topics.
I'm sure there a lot of strange requirements in random states of India, China, Russia, Egypt, etc as well.
It doesn't demonstrate anything, it is comparing two completely different things. Bandwidth is not a performance limiter in either of these cases.
What additional things have you wanted to xo?
Thats what they want, not what they currently got. The laptops that have been shipped does not use Coreboot, it has a proprietary BIOS.
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Having read through this, it seems less like she wanted to be wined and dined (given how the "victim" flew to London), and more that she just wanted to seem important. A lot of people want to be VCs; and it turns out you can get most of the VC experience without having money if you just never invest. (On the flip side, a lot of people want to be entrepreneurs but have no product.)

Having been through bad experiences with wannabe investors in the past, I made a rule that I would only ever deal with investors that were well-known or were heavily vouched for by someone I knew that had been invested in by them.
I owned one for a bit (A500 and A1500). AS I was in the UK, this was wiped out by the Acorn Archimedes coming on the scene.

I can't say I ever "loved" it nor found it reliable. By 1998 it looked quaint compared to NT4 etc.
>Though the most successful founders are usually good people, they tend to have a piratical gleam in their eye. They're not Goody Two-Shoes type good. Morally, they care about getting the big questions right, but not about observing proprieties. That's why I'd use the word naughty rather than evil. They delight in breaking rules, but not rules that matter.

Sounds like a perfect YC founder to me.

http://www.paulgraham.com/founders.html
Really cool. A couple of things I'd like to see would be:

- Change the window title to something other than 'Dashboard', and add a favicon.

- Give me a way to get my data out. Dropbox syncing would be great - a folder for each category, and sync .md files into the folders. (Two way syncing would be even better)
That could end up being part of the problem, if in ten years people are using Jira for project management in non-technical companies, a new management team could see source hosting as an albatross and a mistake of the previous regime.

Despite best efforts, there is no known corporate structure that can protect its' customers from the lack of perspective of future leaders, who will be focused on keeping as much staff employed as possible and delivering profits to investors.

The answer to this used to be places like cdrom.com, but I just checked and they're gone. :)
What did the police say when you filed a report?
One of the major omissions is that there is no "GROUP BY" equivalent. For example I wanted to generate a table with average book rating grouped by author, but it wasn't possible.
I should disagree. In some cases you are right like high tech stuff but in other cases that don't need that kind of tech like online retailing, mobile apps and games and generally internet based services they could grow.
Tesla's communications are so screwed up and have been for so long that, yeah, I blame the CEO. The not-rehearsing-for-events is just a sideshow compared to the trainwreck of communications at Tesla. I've been a customer for two years, and a shareholder longer than that, and at Tesla the right thumb doesn't know what the right index finger is doing, let alone right hand not knowing what left hand is doing. Across the board, from the CEO to PR to IR to service centers to stores... nobody has information and it leads to a really inferior customer experience. Individuals here and there do herculean jobs trying to make up for the organizational weaknesses, but the problem is pervasive and widespread, and I blame Musk, however much he deserves credit for leading his companies to the great success they've achieved. It comes at a cost and I'd argue it's going to be a real nightmare over next two years as Tesla tries to cross the chasm from early adopters to early mainstream with the Model X and then the Model 3 vehicles.
I just have a small comment about the difference between professionals that went into the profession via the front door, college, certs, etc. And those the went into though the back door, learned on their own because someone somehow decided to pay them. Generally the latter are people that get some satisfaction out of the trade. But there a lot of professionals that went to school to become X and found they hated it once they got out. Yet they owe all this money, and they can't see any other way to earn the money they are used to. These people are usually very unhappy people.

The others that are generally happy with what they do, and aren't the type of people that like playing power and status games with what they see as the lesser races of programmer.

To the point, if you find a career you like, that's like hitting a home run in life. Letting unhappy people convince you to give that up is really terrible.
If you create a bookmark with the following URL, it will allow you to override the zoom setting on any site (at least on iOS):

javascript:document.querySelector('meta%5Bname=viewport%5D').setAttribute('content','width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=10.0,user-scalable=1');
I want to play "Marble Madness" and "Hole-in-one Miniature Golf".
Not even a hackathon?
Personally I'd suggest a self-hosted instance of Moin Moin Wiki (https://moinmo.in/)
Here's a more general-audience article with different info about the research and its context:

http://www.wired.com/2015/07/science-can-learn-wiring-monkey...
What I've learned is that when people say Fortan is faster, they mean for their specific math based usages due to good integrated libraries, and that they often doesn't really know C++.
The sad thing is, they fixed this a while ago with a stylesheet that adjusted the page width and text size to fit your display, but reverted it after a bunch of people whined hard.
Funny, coming from an electronics background, I can understand the stack down to the metal. But from my point of view, the further away from the metal you are, the further you are away from monkey work.

The author could not have flipped things more on its head to me. It's ALL monkey work, in that it's a lot of tedious glue work and calculations. Except the higher level you are, the easier it is to be executing your vision, rather than meeting some spec.

You are a lot more likely to come up with a webapp business idea, than you are going to have the opportunity to design the next CPU or what not.

Business matters aside, I also find coding challenges to be more like puzzles, whereas circuits to be like a stack of math problems. If you don't like being a code monkey try being a (used) human calculator!

Grass is greener, I suppose.