skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Startup Weekend entrepreneurial event on alert after man threatens explosions, guns

http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2012/04/startup...

In reality I was lecturing the Starup Weekend corporation on Engineering Ethics. I'll explain in more detail some other time on my own site, then submit the link.

I do not want to be specific about the bug I referred to when I tweeted that anyone with a basic understanding of computers could detonate a large industrial facility from the comfort of their own home, but I will say that the actual detonate is Trihedral Engineer's VTS HMI/SCADA industrial control systems product.

It has since been renamed "VTScada". I expect that's because I BCCed one of Trihedral's three partners, the one who does all their sales and marketing, on my eMail to New Orleans industrial control systems engineer Roger Williams in which I requested he forward my Kuro5hin diary about Glenn Wadden's Deep Insight Into The Nature Of Reality to his colleagues in the Gulf offshore oil industry.

http://localroger.com/

Roger's ROFFLECOPTER arrived in my Inbox twenty minutes later. He knew very well I had BCCed someone at Trihedral but he had no clue who it was. In his reply, Roger complimented me for my persuasive rhetoric, as well as pointed out that I was an even more effective troll than he was.

My bunker buster bug is easily patched but Trihedral has no way to verify that their users have actually installed their patches. Were I to point out how to exploit it, a great many large industrial facilities would detonate. You don't want to do that.

However I will point out some other, far less likel yet deadly bugs that, given VTS' steaming pile of C++ source, would be quite intractible to fix. Trihedral has no hope whatsover of fixing all of them without a complete rewrite:

Jonathan Swift Sticks It To The Man

http://www.warplife.com/ethics/safety.html

> If the single installation of a Human Machine Interface / Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition product used to control a Giant Robotic Automobile Assembly Plant is not Exception-Safe...

You Will Drop a Pickup Truck
On One of Your Plant's Workers
Thereby Making a Widow of His Wife Instantly.

I don't actually know that it's related, but not long after I published Stick It To The Man, CERT issued an advisory regarding VTS.

I don't actually know but assertively speculate that VTScada is that complete rewrite. I will give them credit for VTScada's far-richer user interface.

Insightfully well-designed and implemented UI is of vital importance to Human Machine Interface / Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition Products. Consider that Three Mile Island was the result in part of all the knobs in its control room being identical.

I once saw a photo of a reactor control panel where someone had replace all the knobs with beer keg tap handles. :-D
Yeah I used them both for some time. I always thought IRC could use an update, though. PSYC looked most promising due to keeping closer to IRC roots:

http://about.psyc.eu/Introduction
http://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/751/can-you-fly-...
I actually found it disappointing, compared to some other similar Disney material I've seen earlier. It is perhaps too simple.

Certain things are so grossly oversimplified, they are misleading.

For example, how does sorting rays following similar direction help? The history book analogy is appalling. It might give the misguided interpretation to a kid that it is always better to sort items - e.g. before summing a few numbers, may be sorting them is a good idea, or before map operations may be sorting them will ease the task for a computer, etc.
what the actual fk?
N.Y. attorney general forces ISPs to curb Usenet access (2008)

http://www.cnet.com/news/n-y-attorney-general-forces-isps-to...

Thank Andrew Cuomo.
I had a 6.2 acre lot in an area that was zoned for 3.3 acre lots. I could not get a variance, so I purchased a tiny sliver of useless land from a neighbor. It was a strip of land on a gas line easement and thus totally unusable. It only connected to my property for 10 feet of property line, but I was able to purchase the neighbors unusable land (he had 4.5 acres to start with, losing .4 left him with 4.1 and still over the 3.3 minimum). So I combined the 6.2 and .4 acre lots into one and then re-split them.

So the order of operations was:
1 Buy 6.2 acre lot
2 buy .4 acre slice of easement
3 get lots surveyed and combined
4 survey lots again for split
5 apply to county for split
6 get split but have to sell both halves on the same day because mortgage company would not release the lien on only one half of original property.
7 $$Profit$$

about 2 years and made about $100,000 net. Total sale was $440,000 of both properties and one house.
Many details here for anyone that missed it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9981805
This all more or less kind of happened eventually, but the parts that were early did not go the way you state, and the parts that did go that way were much, much much later and did not directly influence the overall fate of usenet.

All in all, no, you're only talking about some side stuff that only clouds the history.
EvasiOn8 Jailbreak iOS 8.4, 8.4.1, 8.4.2
NYTimes follow up to Gravity Payments' $70k minimum wage
A Renewal Reminder
It's only less production if you assume that productivity remains constant or decreases if you give the employee that extra time off.
Wikipedia “Co-op” mentorship program
You generally can't change the name on an airline ticket.
Do they think all the magic takes place on the devices, or somewhere else? e.g. do they think of "syncing" as something that occurs directly between devices, or that involves services in the middle?
USENET has always been used for porn and piracy, since at least the early 90s. Of course, most of the great newsgroups were discussions-based, but probably most of the bandwidth was porn and piracy.

When I was in college, I remember someone on my floor had written a program in Pascal that automatically downloaded porn off USENET. He would leave his computer running all the time, connected to the college's internet connection via modem, and we would occasionally see a flash of a porn pic on his screen and ask "What was that?". This was before the days of integrated TCP/IP stacks in the OS, so if I remember correctly he had to dial in via modem and then use something called Slurp or something like that, I can't remember exactly now.

This continued all through the 90s. A bunch of my friends had Airnews accounts and downloaded mp3s and porn 24x7, during what we called the "Golden Age" of piracy, when Napster was starting up in 97 up until the early 2000s, when the bust hit.

At some point, the medium for discussions moved off of USENET and went to more user friendly places like email mailing lists, google groups, yahoo groups, reddit, etc. This left only piracy and porn on USENET, and I'm actually surprised that some ISPs still support USENET at this point.
> Whether the cost in disk activity is worth it

If the comparison is with using Git, then it is clear you're not so resource constrained that you can't countenance running MD5s, since Git would run shasum.

I think in our current laissez-faire climate w.r.t. security, I think recommending leaving security on the basis of saving a few cycles isn't very wise.

> It does not assume the version on the remote machine is "exactly how you left it"

I was ambiguous and sloppy, sorry. It doesn't not check for changes in a secure way, but assumes that, as long as the meta-data for the file matches, the content is as you left it.

When Linus built git, he specifically did so around sha1 to ensure that you ensure the data you think you have in the file, you do in fact have. rsync --checksum is thus a reasonable replacement for git deployment, but rsync --no-checksum isn't, imho.

Sorry if I was vague or misleading, thanks for the clarification.
CEO Who Set Minimum Wage of 70k Faces Backlash
> What is the value of saying, "That's no application programming interface, it's just an implementation detail." I think it just confuses the concept for possible surrounding context.

Suppose it turns out that your MF RPC (or however your API is implemented) works too slowly, and instead of passing whatever through TCP, you are going to generate a file accessible through the shared MF/non-MF file system with the relevant contents.

If all it takes is calling up Frank in the MF programming department to do the MF side (or even better, doing it yourself) -- then, no, it's not an API any more than your private class names and functions are an API - the MF/non-MF dividing line (which will likely also separate operating systems, programming languages, etc) is of no consequence, because there's no negotiation around changing it.

I have witnessed exactly such a power struggle last time I worked in an environment that had mainframes (some 25 years ago) - functionality that was available on the MF was needed on a unix workstation. The amount of dev work on the unix side to do a mainframe RPC or to do it from scratch was comparable. From most perspectives, the unix re-implementation was a pure win. It sounds like a clear-cut decision, but the MF people argued fiercely against it -- to the best of my understanding, because they were constantly losing turf and relevance. Would you not call this political?
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9983224
For gcc see https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Integer-Overflow-Builtins...
Bubble Blaze Hack Tool Android-IOS
I think reddit is the reinvention of USENET. It is mod-heavy and has enough critical mass of users to provide excellent results from its upvoting system. And many subreddits are extremely well maintained with a very high signal to noise ratio.

It even has its equivalent of alt.binaries.pics.* if one is so inclined.
Interestingly, and apropos of the grandparent comment, the pictures of the Lufthansa 747 in the third answer to that question were taken on approach into SFO.
Thanks for the civil response. I'll keep this brief, because we shouldn't keep this up anyway.

no one is allowed to submit job ads as stories to HN
--> Alright, a general rule.

That includes YC startups
--> The general rule applies to YC companies too.
That's fair.

since the job ads we let them post are not stories
--> .. But the only reason it applies is because
YC job ads circumvent the submission mechanism
that can't be used for submitting job ads.

Of course you want only YC companies' job ads on the front page, and that's fine. It's your forum.

I have a problem with the wording because it's basically all about pretending that YC companies don't get any special treatment, based on the fact that they're not actually breaking the rules that apply to all companies.

But the only reason they're not breaking the rules, is that they get to circumvent them. That's special treatment right there.

Pfft. This took way longer than it should have. I'll just move on now.
It's pretty much a hosted IRC server with a decent client and a really nice, extensible bot.

They have a way better client than hangouts for OSX, about the same on android.
Ah, you're trolling. My bad.
Is this a standard list of questions that I can find somewhere? They sound helpful.
I can't find the article right now, but this idea isn't new and the answer (according to the FAA) is no. There are several types of pilots license but they all fall into the category of commercial or private. Private pilots can bring passengers in their planes much like private drivers can bring people in their cars. BUT private pilots cannot explicitly sell their service. Passengers on a private plane cannot be the sole reason a flight is happening in the first place. If you are a pilot and you break this law, you risk loosing your license (and it is a much higher investment of time and money than a driver license).

For a while there were legally grey areas involving "fly share" websites. A recent-ish FAA ruling determined that this is not legally grey, it is not allowed. Period. Dot. Until that issue is resolved, Air-Uber is a head-in-the-clouds dream.

IMO the FAA is right to enforce a certain level of safety and competence in the skies. Most pilots agree with them. This is not like taxi medallions. The regulatory body actually does something useful rather than just protecting rent seekers. At the same time, I think there is a demand for fly-sharing. Perhaps the FAA could create a license in-between commercial and private that allows you to shuttle up to 4 people in a Cessna or similar aircraft.
If you look at the "sharing" economy as the trend of increasing the utilization of an expensive piece of equipment to maximize its use; then I'm pretty sure when it comes to air travel Southwest Airlines has been doing that for a while and is the undisputed leader in efficiency.
Uber "disrupted taxis" by disregarding the law, removing protections for both passengers and operators, and shifting risk on to operators while shifting profit margins to management.

None of which exactly inspire confidence when it comes to something like operating aircraft.
Disney's global illumination tech is spectacular. The quality level since Monster's University is just leaps and bounds better than everything before it. Well, technically their short Partysaurus Rex was it's debut. But Monster's University was the first feature length.
Looks like their briefing is August 5 or 6.

https://www.blackhat.com/us-15/briefings.html#unicorn-next-g...
InfluxDB (YC W13) is hiring full-stack Go developers in SF
InfluxDB is an open-source, distributed, time series database written in pure Go. We're building new cloud-based tools to enable widespread adoption of InfluxDB, and want them all to be written in Go as well.

If you're a former Rails, Django, or Node developer looking to write Go full-time, we'd love to hear from you.

We're headquartered in San Francisco and have a lovely office in SoMa. Come join us!

To apply, visit the job page here:
https://boards.greenhouse.io/influxdb/jobs/83686
I can't remember to the documentary that has made with RAF Sea Harrier pilots, but in combat they preferred over Panavia Tornado even if the Tornado have supersonic speed, higher altitude and thrust.
Oh wow I think I have this! It has a glossary in the back to see what Japanese words the English came from. I really liked that idea.

Also, Pinball is probably my favorite work of his because all the pieces which appear in later books - cooking, whiskey, the rat, nonplussed antagonist - appear but the book reads like a weird kind of sketch rather than a fully filled in painting.
A Killer on the Loose
This vaccine is for prevention. There is no cure for the infected.
As others mentioned, it's doable, but can involve long wait times and hefty landing fees. From the safety standpoint, the airspace that is that congested with large aircraft is not really a safe zone for a smaller plane to be in, due to wake turbulence. Even experienced pilots can end up in a situation they have not encountered before and lose control of the aircraft http://articles.latimes.com/1993-12-17/news/mn-2813_1_fiery-...
100 groups does not sound like a small number.
Anecdotal alert. All people I know who went 'on pension' either started working again or died (at least 5 cases of high profile managers getting heart attacks or commit suicide within a year after their pension). Most people, including my father and grandfather, really did not like pressureless sitting at home. You do the vacations and the reading and hobbies but then, unless you are very dedicated (like a job), there is a hole. I believe this to become a society wide thing quite soon. Actually dedicating yourself to do something (be it painting, coding, building, whatever) as a discipline is very hard and very underestimated for people who never needed it.
It might be pretty safe if you're only ever adding, multiplying or dividing with other unsigned numbers. Once you start doing subtraction it could get ugly.
Tools for Creating a Basic Layer of Application – HTML and CSS
I've seen people 10 years my senior cast a 32-bit pointer to an int32_t. It's funny because it's not difficult to get right, but nobody ever seems to bother.
See also Aether, a decentralized Reddit-like application:

http://getaether.net

(Not involved with it myself, just thought it was relevant.)
And still, 99% of retail investors should have a core in Vanguard Retirement or Lifestrategy funds.
Use signed because pointer differences in C are signed:

char *a, *b;
size_t foo = a - b; /* generates a warning with -Wconversion */

This tells me that C's native integer type is ptrdiff_t, not size_t. (And I agree this is crazy: unsigned modular arithmetic would be fine, but they chose a signed result for pointer subtraction).

Why care about this? You should try to get a clean compile with -Wconversion, but also you should avoid adding casts all over the place (they hide potential problems). It's cleaner to wrap all instances of size_t with ptrdiff_t- you can even check for signed overflow in these cases if you are worried about it.

There is another reason: loop index code written to work properly for unsigned will work for signed, but the reverse is not true. This means you have to think about every loop if you intend to do some kind of global conversion to unsigned.
Your counterparty will not agree to an arbitrator that is not neutral, so there is market for third-party verifiers who have a reputation for trustworthiness.
I thought the homework example was a good analogy for context-switching.

The big thing they were trying to get at is there are some clever tricks we can do to make these massive calculations more efficient.
Teeth Whitening and the Hygiene Hypothesis
Cataclysmic event of a certain age
"You guys are lazy. I like work... because I'm American" is a pretty garden-variety troll.
The article addressed only commercial air travel, so more of on-demand short-distance aspect of Uber than share-my-personal-vehicle-in-a-commercial-fashion aspect of it. After a series of mergers and acquisitions US air space is close to oligopoly.
Let's take Treaty of Versailles, for example. Who would you say was responsible for it? Lawyers or politicians?
So did spotify, if they didn't then no one will opt-in not because they care about their "privacy" but because it takes effort and knowledge.

They set the LAN option for enterprise and education SKU's not because they care about their privacy but because the network setup will not make it functional as UPNP and other types of port knocking are not something which is available in an enterprise environment.
Microsoft describes hard-to-mimic authentication gesture
So this is a competitor to qemu?
Not to be confused with Unicorn, the Rack web server, which I'm pretty sure had the name first :/

http://unicorn.bogomips.org

Would it be gratuitously negative of me to point out that I wish projects would stop doing this?
My surface correctly identified Vodafone connection over Wifi and Ethernet as a metered connection without any hassle.
If I wanted to set something up like that, just for fun/experimentation, is there a tutorial on how to go about it?
Online Machine Learning in Go
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2930277/Eleve...
Airpooler and Flytenow were the startups in the space. (Had the idea myself a few years back.) The FAA ruling was pretty unambiguous:

http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/15/faa-bans-planesharing-start...
Dale Carnegie's book is the obvious choice. However, Lifetime Conversation Guide by Van Fleet had a ton of specific stuff tailored to different situations. Stumbled upon it in a thrift store and bought it because of its thoroughness along with giving me a few good ideas.

http://www.amazon.com/Lifetime-Conversation-Guide-James-Flee...
The rules are to strict. If your friend is a pilot and you guys decide to go out on a flight, you can't in any way pitch in for gas money because it could be interpreted as commercial exchange. In my opinion the FAA is overreaching. I live in a rural area with an airport and would love to be able to fly to my home town, Portland, on a regular basis for business and pleasure. Right now to fly to Portland I'd have to drive 120 miles to Medford, OR , then fly down to San Francisco, then fly to Seattle and connect a fight to Portland! And back again. It'd be cheaper and faster to take Greyhound.
A CEO raised his company's minimum wage to $70k a year, and some employees quit
> (And I agree this is crazy: unsigned modular arithmetic would be fine, but they chose a signed result for pointer subtraction).

But. Signed means that i < j implies that p + i < p + j, or that p < q implies that p - r < q - r.
This is a mystifying analogy. The average person has a vehicle that might possibly be shared via Uber. Almost nobody has an aircraft they can do that with. The organizations that do have aircraft tend to be, surprise, airlines, leasing companies, flying clubs. As for "robust international carriers" many or most of those are state-owned. Operating aircraft safely is a labor- and capital-intensive business. It's hardly an area where one wants to see a lot of little startups burning VC money.
Do you have any conclusive evidence that the laws 'protected' both sides in a superior manner than Uber does?
Edit: If you'd like to down vote fine, but please also provide evidence for/against their/my claims. To be against data, or the asking of evidence is to be ignorant.
The processes mentioned still sorta basic but I think it's always useful to point out that innovation extends beyond tech.

Also, I wonder where any of this (solar city, spacex and tesla) would be without government help?
All that and so modest too.
@oreng put together a nice high-level diagram: http://oren.github.io/blog/convox.html

We're using CloudFormation and Lambda to create and update everything.

The "convox" stack the installer creates makes a VPC, ASG, ECS cluster and ELB, and registers an ECS task and service for the API and private registry.

It also creates DynamoDB table for recording every build and release. And creates a KMS key for encrypting all the environment variables before we save them to S3.

An app stack the "convox deploy" command creates makes ECS tasks and services and an ELB for all the containers in `docker-compose.yml`, and creates a Kinesis stream for app logs.

Take a look at the CloudFormation tools as a starting point:

https://github.com/convox/kernel/blob/master/dist/kernel.jso...
https://github.com/convox/app/blob/master/template/staging.t...
New attack on Tor requires luck but shows limits of Tor privacy
Yep. Travis (CEO) had already said, if a particular space relates to Uber's core competency than chances are they'll do it. I don't think they'll do air travel in this sense.
"The average person has a vehicle that might possibly be shared via Uber."

Wait, is that true? My experience with Uber drivers is they all bought a new car to be Uber drivers, sometimes with a loan Uber helps them get.

Uber being some kind of "sharing" economy company seems a little dubious. They are really quite different than AirBnB, which really is based on a surplus of housing.

Uber is mostly just a taxi company, and their fleet is all pristine, new cards, which they make drivers get and maintain. And the drivers are only "not employees" according to a very fine line.

It's more like the "1099" economy than the "sharing" economy. Uber isn't leveraging a car surplus - they are capitalizing on a worker surplus. There are no beat up old jalopeys getting "shared" via Uber. There is no natural, organic market, among people with/without cars.
The private flight business is worth more than the public flight business.