skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you are generally right here, and it's obviously up to the individual person, but you can do various things to make yourself more available to interested people. My friend once had an idea when the two of us were more interested in free software advocacy. He put a big "GNU/Linux" sticker on his laptop and ran a fairly flashy setup of Compiz (the flashiest thing around at the time). Then he just went to bars and cafes to chill out and hack.

Interested people would often ask him what his computer was because it was obviously different than anything else they had seen. At that point it was fairly easy to see if the person had any interest in software freedom. I seem to remember he used to carry around those Ubuntu CDs that Canonical gave out for this purpose as well. At worst he would give them a CD and say, "Give it a shot. You may like it or not."

The thing is that quite a few people, even if they aren't technical, have an interest in software freedom once they know what it is. Many of the people who approached him did so because they were frustrated by companies dictating what they could and could not do with their computers. They were looking for choices. The killer feature to demonstrate was the package manager of all things.

Of course choice comes at a cost. It was important to stress to people that the cost of using the choice was spending time learning and fiddling. The people who approached my friend were often the type of people who were quite happy with this trade-off.

Later, when I worked in a high school in Japan teaching English, I used to hang out late at night hacking on my computer (I had no heat/cooling in my apartment so the school was the best place to hack :-) ). Many of the other teachers would see me working on my laptop and ask me about it. GNU/Linux is practically unknown to the mainstream in Japan as far as I can tell, so it was always an interesting conversation. After the school board dictated a change from MS office to Open Office (which I had been using throughout anyway), several of the teachers installed Ubuntu on their personal machines. To be honest, for the kinds of things they did, it just worked better.

I think that this kind of passive advocacy is probably going to be the most effective. I think many people here would be surprised at the level of resonance that free software has with normal people on the street (once they understand what it is). But it is best to narrow your target to those people who are interested unless you just want to hear endless stories of "I tried Linux and it didn't work LOL".
> If Coca Cola built roads to villages to sell their products, you would also be unhappy?

If Coca Cola built roads to villages to sell their products , but only Coca Cola trucks could use the roads - FTFY

Now that doesnt look so good, does it?
Thanks. I am guilty of being intrigued by 'Learn you a Haskell for great good' that a colleague kept as a prized possession on his desk and not following up and learning it. I know what I am doing this weekend.
> I looked up the safe...

You're likely mistaken. The device whose ports we are talking about epoxying was referred to by david_shaw. Noone in the thread has speculated as to the type or model of device. The only information we have about the device comes from david_shaw:

"I can't give specific details (for obvious NDA-related reasons), but this application was a large device that interfaced with mission-critical hardware -- and ran Windows XP embedded."

> If I didn't have a company to promote, I don't know if I would come foreward with vunerabilities? [sic]

If you were not doing the research for a paying client, nor were you doing it to publish a report, why would you be doing it?

> ...the biggest deterrent to crime these days is the proliferation of video cameras...

London has a very dense CCTV deployment. Look at the crime-reduction studies that have been done since their deployment. It'll be enlightening.

Also, I am now on notice that you will not likely work for a bank. Thank you for that information, I guess.

And, uh, my bank is a lot better than yours, it seems. Shop around!
Yeah I don't think ad-supported is good for mobile games. What are we doing at the moment? Forcing players to watch videos to earn coins, sticking ads in user's faces. No one wants this. It just dilutes the value of advertisements and annoys users.

Just because it generates money doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.
Living in Boulder, I'm curious as to why?

I'm seeing the other side of the coin, where getting hired is proving very difficult. The joke here is even the dirtbag climbers have PHDs.
There are a lot of banned sites, users, ip and keywords, that autokill the submissions. The problem is that some articles are not so easy to classify. For example "5 tips to optimize your web page conversion" is probably a SEO advertisement spam, but there is a little chance that it has some interesting content and some new unknown information.

The humans check the no-autodead submissions. The amount of very good submissions is very low, so it's not necessary to filter them from the new page.
Obama Orders Development of Supercomputer to Rival China's 'Milky Way'
None of the following is a defence (his attitude on NAMBLA is deeply squicky to me); but, as far as I know, Delany (not Delaney) was never a member of NAMBLA. The closest that some quick Googling finds is the famous quote:

> I read the NAMBLA [Bulletin] fairly regularly and I think it is one of the most intelligent discussions of sexuality I've ever found.

Will Shetterly has a conversation with Delany on the subject at http://shetterly.blogspot.com/2014/07/a-conversation-with-sa... .
True - it's the (many many documented[1]) cases where the SQLi grabs the password_cleartext column, not the encrypted_hash one that worry me here.

[1] http://plaintextoffenders.com/
How much time have you actually spent in SF?

As an SF Bay Area resident since 2009, there's no better place if you want a career in tech.

Yes, you can still have a great career outside of SF but it's a lot easier here.

I have lived and worked in 4 US cities and the best engineers are here. The selection of good jobs is immense. If you are a decent engineer, you have so many choices.
Author here.. didn't realize this made it to HN yet, I was wondering where the spike in traffic came from :). Sorry to miss the initial questions, but feel free to ask me more.
In principle, couldn't the issue be too few fiscal transfers? I.e. San Francisco should be paying even more into the federal coffers, to be redistributed even more to Alabama and New Mexico?

Or, thinking about the other direction, even restricting ourselves to within California San Francisco and the Bay Area single-handedly pay for a massively disproportionate part of state government services and redistribution. Perhaps it's time to go way back to metropolitan city-states as the proper scale of government.
If you aren't ok with public information being re-broadcasted, don't go outside.

Rights and freedoms that you can only exercise by giving up any semblance of normal life are no rights and freedoms at all. The idea that the moment you step outside of your home or go on-line you forfeit any right to the slightest respect for your privacy and we should just accept this is silly.

And if you think the only people who care are a few internet warriors, please consider the likes of Google's Glass and Street View, where some people have felt strongly enough about the invasions to resort to actual criminal violence in response, and some entire countries have clamped down on the surveillance in response to public concerns.

In any case, with many of these systems, we aren't talking about public information. We're talking about technologies that systematically abuse friendships and commercial relationships by getting one party to tell the technology operators information about another party without that other party's knowledge or consent and potentially even if that information had been given in confidence.
>If they use IP logs coming from Amazon, that doesn't mean anything, because Amazon employees may be signing up for Angie's List for their own personal reasons, correct?

According to the lawsuit, Amazon employees were soliciting businesses using the Angie's List messaging feature.
I have an exceptional deal on my 2 bedroom in Mountain View which costs me around 2400/month. I believe the current market rate for my apartment is something like 3300.

If you're willing to live a bit further out (like Milpitas/Santa Clara), you can live somewhere for under/around 2000, which (when split with a spouse/partner/roommate) can be reasonable given the salaries in the area.
Didn't Google drop RE<C because they realized current technologies weren't enough?

http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/google-engineers...

"Trying to combat climate change exclusively with today’s renewable energy technologies simply won’t work; we need a fundamentally different approach," wrote Google's Ross Koningstein and David Fork in a piece published yesterday in IEEE's Spectrum"
> right on the ocean

No, it's on the Chesapeake Bay.
Someone has to pay for this. Providing the full internet isn't an option.
Well that's the fault of what ever cheap-ass contractor/landlord built/provisioned the place and was probably put in place well before California had a drought possibly even before people decided Phoenix was fit for human habitation.
Right, Apple and Google really didn't have much of a choice.

There is no way Apple was going to brand iOS, which is understandable — that would be like seeing an "Intel Inside" sticker on a MacBook.

And there was no way Google would just "hand over" a differentiating feature of Android to their biggest competitor.
Thanks for your detailed response.
1. I don’t ‘feel comparable to a Google senior (L4/Level4, to use Google terminoloy) engineer’ - it is a fact that my role at my company is equivalent to that. If anything, I feel an imposter, having made it to my job with all the shortcomings discussed (Google L4 engineers can typically build software at scale easily, and definitely aren’t as uncomfortable reading code as I am). It helps that I am in extremely niche field, so cannot be directly compared with other canonical L4 types.
2. Your story of the shift from medicine to software and the thought-process is useful. Not entirely easy for me to follow given my immigrant status. Any minor job title/company changes trigger a new H1/greencard, somewhat jeopardizing my chances of staying here longer term. I am not whining - just making a note here, in case someone reading this has dealt with or seen similar situations being handled before.
"Bait and switch"?
I could believe that, but my personal experience is that we were able to introduce pretty modern tools--AWS, Node, Backbone, Hipchat and Google apps for communications. Getting these approved required going through a rather complex security audit and dispelling a decent amount of FUD, but otherwise, there's no real legal barrier to using modern open source software.

I think what was probably key is to find an internal champion within the organization you're working with. If you can find a good partner on the business side, you can often get things through the bureaucracy if you're patient and diligent.
> For one thing, we can expect coffee to become more of a luxury, with prices shooting up by around 25% by 2050 according to Bunn’s calculations

A 25% rise in price over 35 years qualifies as a crisis now?
Not indefinitely. It will get EOL'ed, and at that point it might not be possible to opt-out of the upgrade.

It's always possible to opt out of the upgrade with Windows 7. I have a perpetual licence to use it, and I can turn off any automatic updates that would break it.

The worst that will happen, short of Microsoft as a business going under or similarly dramatic changes, is that I will only enjoy free security updates from Microsoft until the end of the guaranteed support period (still several years away) and then I will have to use alternative means to secure my systems against any remaining threats.

As demonstrated by the large organisations still on XP, one of those means may simply be paying more money to Microsoft to continue supporting an older platform you want to keep using.
A similar thing was probably said about the 1st transistor which was the size of a book or so.

If you can build a basic gate out of molecular transistors without leakage or capacitance issues you'll make quite a breakthrough even if you need an entire electron microscope to power it.
> I do think that Windows needs an OS-wide incognito mode, just a simple switch to record or not record data.

Sounds like switching to a guest account. Not as quick as a simple "toggle data recording" button, but that functionality is definitely already in Windows.
Are people actually believing Microsoft's FUD?

The "security" of newer Windows is mostly anti-user, anti-freedom. XP doesn't enforce code signing, and SFP is only advisory, so you can run whatever you want, hack and customise the OS code easily to get it to behave how you want. Most of the exploits that gave XP a bad name in the early days were from IE in its default configuration, which basically no one on XP will be using now.

It takes time to get bugs get discovered and fixed. There's a lot of new code in these newer versions and I bet they'll be uncovering more bugs in it as time goes on, some of which won't be applicable to XP because the code isn't even present.

As for "privacy"... XP most certainly does not phone home with anywhere near the amount of info that Win10 collects, as this article shows.

I'd be more inclined to say "Worried about security and privacy...but still wants to upgrade to Windows 10?"

My next jump after XP will likely be some form of Linux with WINE - with everything that can phone home removed.
It's worth noting that Microsoft is heavily afflicted with the "left hand doesn't know what the right hand's doing" syndrome. Most of its product departments have antagonistic relationships with one another at best. The cloud services department(s) could have entirely different policies and philosophies from the one that makes Windows, which further has different policies and philosophies from the team that makes Office, which further has different policies and philosophies from the team that makes Surface tablets, etc.
From the story, it sounds like the client actually cared about the security of these devices. I would be somewhat surprised if they were left unobserved long enough for someone to surreptitiously carve out the epoxy and attach a drive to it.

Though, we can't know if the client was looking for intrusion prevention, or merely after-the-fact intrusion detection. :)
shutup fsf
A very clever idea...they dont even need to offer it for free..they just need to sign the lease or buy the building and lease it to their portfolio companies.

Edit: this would be a really clever idea for a fund to raise a round just to buy real estate to lease to their portfolio companies. It will give investors a chance at indirectly investing in startups with secure value backing the investment.
Incredible; I'd love to rent one of these for a weekend.
Dhalgren[1] is a rich, interesting book but it really isn't SF, and is very much a product of its era, the 1960s-70s. I think it is in part a fantastic re-imagining of Delaney's own early years as recounted more prosodically in "Heavenly Breakfast"[2]. There are long passages that are probably sharp parodies of figures and events in the 1970s NY literary scene. Much of it is an elevation of the 1960s San Francisco hippie scene into a dystopian fantasy world. I think it works to read the city of Bellona as a symbol of an economic status: the status of the urban underclass, some of whose members are trapped in it, while some have entered it willingly to explore it.

That smoke blown, it rewards patience with some wonderful writing and some gripping drama as well.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhalgren

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavenly_Breakfast
I haven't integrated Hangouts with Google Voice, and I never intend to. I'm still using the standalone Google Voice Android app and the web interface.
bangladeshi here, really good see a bd startup in YC, we need more people like you.
Try this: https://docs.hyper.sh/get_started/darwin.html
This video has given me a newfound respect for Facebook.

Many engineers at tech companies like Google, Facebook, Microsoft, etc. report that they feel overqualified for their work. I imagine many yearn for the chance to work on moonshot projects like these - is there any reason why secretive research divisions at these companies are so small, when there is plenty of engineering talent to go around internally?
I'm all for anything that gets people to pay attention to legal obligations. I do agree that many lawyers are inefficient and could be helped by automated tools. But I know of many, such as MY lawyer, who are very reasonable.

I do see many companies who don't know how to use lawyers. They do things like ask outside counsels to attend on-site meetings in person. Or they lie, forcing the lawyer to do things five or six times based on new information they pull out each cycle.
I think it is kind of reflecting how poor the state of technology is... 2015, we have to take away _the_ way of communication "email", no fancy windows and don't let parents pay online without having an eye on it.

I completely agree that this is all correct, but... how poor, 2015. Or am I wrong?
That's not magic, Crome could do the same if Google chose.
I don't really think it's 10/20/30/40, one year cliff means they get 25% after a year but then the schedule is monthly. See it as a salary: you get some every month, it stops when you get fired.
It seems, then, that you're a flashcard consultancy that works with customers to optimize learning using SRS + something like http://www.supermemo.com/articles/20rules.htm. Perhaps with more secret sauce.

Are there studies you use to inform your secret sauce? Are they recent?

I ask as someone who's been building a personal knowledge base of sorts of which one key component is Anki / SRS.
Here is a video playlist of the first

Here are video playlists of all the CS courses at berkeley

http://webcast.berkeley.edu/series.html#c,d,Computer_Science

This is the most recent version of the CS61A course (Spring 2015)

2015 version:

https://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=-XXv-cvA_iBM29DgZsG...

first python version available online (Fall 2012)

https://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=EC87898FD0A141069E

This is the last version of CS61 taught by Harvey (Fall 2010)

https://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=EC6D76F0C99A731667
Why? unikernel is quite opinioned imo.
I agree that hash-based addressing creates a bit of a chicken-and-the-egg problem for content discovery, with the exception of, for example, existing links or QR codes. You'll always need some way of looking up the hash for the content you're hoping to find. But that lookup mechanism need not be a single centralized service. In fact, I would make the argument that in many cases, search engines are doing exactly this right now: you have several coexisting, competing, but centralized services, and a user is free to choose between them. It's centralization, sure, but in a much more robust way (though it admittedly could be significantly improved through, for example, a common search API). The only difference is that contemporary search engines are looking up URLs instead of hashes, but given how we're using URLs these days (ex: https://imgur.com/iauyhdf), I don't think it's a big distinction.

You're also spot-on that dynamic content is the hardest part of hash-based addressing, but the problem is a bit more nuanced IMO. On the one hand, all content, once created, is static. If a thermometer reads 32.8 at 15:40 on 30 July 2015, that data point is fixed in time, immutable. However, we humans think of things far more conceptually, and we build cognitive connections between things. All content is static, but all concepts are dynamic. So the question is then, how do you reconcile those two?

The best answer I've personally come across is bindings -- exactly analogous to binding names to variables in Python. Some hash bindings would be static, some bindings dynamic. That also allows you to construct more complicated objects like buffers natively. That's how I'm doing it in the project I'm working on (https://github.com/Muterra/doc-muse), though the bindings are a relatively new addition that I haven't had time to test yet (or update the documentation, for that matter).
Inside iOS 9 search -- Apple's plan for more connected apps
nod nod I just wish irascible would come back. I was interested in hearing what -from his 25 years of game development experience- makes him feel that "Rewriting any game in javascript is imho a great idea.".

I'm obviously missing something, and I was looking for the benefit of his insight.
I don't see how having a "site down" template is anything suspicious. I have a page that I replace my company's web-app with when I'm performing upgrades; they could have easily made their's a generic template and customised it to the situation.

Changing the CSS on the site during the hack? I don't see how that implies anything other than someone in their large organisation had the idea to change the CSS to improve the readability.

And I'm not seeing how their story has changed, just new statuses with different wording..
Programing is un-natrual.

Lets assume you graduated at 22, and your 28 now... You have a total of 6 years of experience, and the reality is the first three of those were you unlearning computer science and starting on the path of engineering...

The problem may be what your coding. If your interested in math and science and business is the code your writing DOING those things? Programing is PART of the job, figuring out what to code is the bigger part, and if that isn't interesting then the coding is even MORE un-natrual. Does what your company does excite you in any way, are there interesting parts of it for you to chase after, and if there aren't can you name a company that does something that you think is interesting?

The other question I have is are you in the US (an Ivy school) but not FROM the US ("my country's...")? I ask because it may be compounding the issues your having.
Yes, but if the submitter was trolling for overly curious pedants, he got both of us. ;)
Greg Brockman is joining Stellar's board
Is it named after the Usenet grepper?
The one thing Linux excels at over any other platform I've tried is for embedded development. Try mounting a dd image anywhere else and you'll see what I mean.
That's a very misleading summary. Mozilla is rather clear that they don't want to spec on a specific version of SQLite. The one thing that is weird is Mozilla saying that developers want "anything but SQL", which sounds like BS. But even if they were in agreement that SQL was great, the simple fact that there's no independent implementations of SQLite 3.6.whatever's SQL dialect is good enough reason to not make it a standard.

It does show the total need for a fast, JITable intermediate language, and the silliness in not having one from the start, or at least long, long ago.
Silicon Valley startups are paying headhunters $30,000 a head for hot engineers
You were always free to not use new MS operating systems.

Are you also free not to have your private information (personal data, trade secrets, whatever it might be) given to Microsoft by others you interact with who do use Microsoft's new operating systems?