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Ask HN: What can we do against terrorist attacks, like the one in Paris? | There is very little we can do in the short term. We have to understand the reasons why ISIS are targeting the west. They have a multiple pronged approach:<p>- Provoke the west to further attacks on Muslims. Ideally the
deaths of Muslims in Muslim lands should include innocents.
Drone strikes and bombings are g... |
CVE-2015-8126: Multiple buffer overflows in libpng | Right, so the announcement is kind of vague; let's see what's actually going on. Here are the recent commits to libpng:<p><a href="https://github.com/glennrp/libpng/commits/libpng16" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/glennrp/libpng/commits/libpng16<... |
Made this open-source, ad-free OS X menubar world clock. Feedback appreciated. :) | Sounded nice but doesn't work on El Capitan 10.11.1 when I tried adding 'America/Los_Angeles' as one of the clocks. Hope the bug report helps. Added as <a href="https://github.com/Abhishaker17/Clocker/issues/1" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/Abhishaker... |
Ask HN: How to form deep friendships later in life? | There are ways to make deeper relationships faster. The key is to become an irreplaceable existence in each others' lives. People fall in love and become closer than any childhood friends (in several aspects at least) even if they meet late in life, right? You basically need to create that kind of relationship wit... |
Ask HN: How did you get to your current job/startup? | My current status: About to drop a very well paying job to move countries (back to Australia) to become a consultant specializing in training, onboarding and POCs in Search Engine industry (primarily Solr and Elasticsearch). I am at the age of being "The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and E... |
The reverse job applicant (2010) | Man, this hurt like a liver punch. I graduated about a year and a half ago.<p>Two years before graduation, I interned at a really big oilfield services company and they, engineers and managers, liked me despite a Van Wilder academic track (I spent 9 years in college for a 5 year degree. I failed to adapt to academia. I... |
How ARM got so successful without the public really noticing | As with most things I think the success of ARM has less to do with its chips or architecture and more to do with its business model and the competition.<p>For decades the combined power of Intel's volume and Window's ubiquity kept a huge amount of resources dedicated to that platform. SPARC, M68K, NS32, VAX, ... |
Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule (2009) | As a maker-turn-manager I've become skeptical of this perspective. I think it's indulgent and misdirected. Yes, if <i>I</i> as a manager schedule <i>your</i> time, I'm probably not going to schedule it for your best performance. But I don't think the problem that as a manager I don't leave y... |
A letter to our daughter | It is a lot of promises that are hard to keep.<p>They think they can just throw money at a problem and it will eventually go away given enough time.<p>They think people in communities will give up their bigotry against certain groups without a fight. They think everyone in the future will adopt the same worldview that ... |
Should kids learn to code? | Should kids learn to code?<p>That's a great question. I also wonder if adults should learn to code, or my peers who would be young adults.<p>I'm 24. I started programming when I was 10 years old by reading a 'For Dummies' book teaching Basic. I hardly read the book because it came with a CD with the... |
Science-fictional shibboleths | I love this stuff. I'll quibble with a few things.<p>(1) Conspiracies<p>I totally disagree. I find long-lived conspiracies quite believable, but with the caveat that they must be socially realistic and have plausible operating principles.<p>First of all, a long-lived complex conspiracy cannot remain <i>totally</i>... |
New Style of Police Training Aims to Produce Guardians, Not Warriors | Police need to just behave more like firefighters.<p>Not only that, but I think that a lot more cops need to be out on <i>foot</i>. Not bikes, not segways, none of that. They should be out walking around, talking to people. IMHO, I should know who the cops assigned to my neighborhood are.<p>Here's a thing that ... |
Common Probability Distributions: The Data Scientist’s Crib Sheet | Nicely done.<p>There is an important point that the article makes although only implicitly: If have some data and want to know what the probability distribution is, then hopefully know enough good things about where the data came from basically to <i>know</i>, even without looking at the data, what the probability dis... |
Japan’s 105-Hour Workweek | This is mainly second-hand information. I haven't worked at a Japanese company, the closest I've gotten was interviews and a sort of off the record job offer. I have lived in the country for 1 year though, so I definitely saw the actual hours friends were at work or busy because of work.<p>1. Japanese busines... |
The slowing in population growth in Africa has been less than anticipated | The comments are better than the article itself.<p>From: NdiliMfumu Dec 14th, 03:10<p>Today's problems with overpopulation are directly related to Mankind's evolution, as are many other modern discontents:<p>Prior to the modern era (especially, prior to the beginning of organized agriculture in the Middle Ea... |
What does a GB of Internet service really cost? The worst case scenario (2011) | There's more than a few problems with this particular assessment as it relates to "what we pay" and what kind of service we can expect for that price.<p>On the cost side, I suspect the cost of support, service and customer acquisition significantly affects the cost/GB. I used to switch between UVer... |
Ask HN: The Struggles of Poverty and Trying to become a programmer from 0 | I am currently struggling with similar tough situation.I see some helpful advice here but honestly, its easier said than done.<p>-I am a latina, working in retail, no support of any kind whatsoever, surviving and on top of that with an expensive autoimmune medical condition. My job is in retail working long stressful h... |
OpenBSD Jumpstart: Learn to Tame OpenBSD Quickly | Very nice, here's the plain text version instead of slide format.<p>Learn to tame OpenBSD quickly.<p>December 24, 2015<p>History<p>Forked from NetBSD. Theo De Raadt is the founder and leader of the OpenBSD project. The first OpenBSD release (1.1/CVS) appear on October 18, 1995.<p>Why use OpenBSD ?<p><pre><cod... |
The Ivy League, Mental Illness, and the Meaning of Life (2014) | > And I think we see that in the last 50 years, the meritocracy has created a world that’s getting better and better for the meritocracy and worse and worse for everyone else.<p>But weren't you saying just the opposite? That being part of the elite, which here you call "meritocracy" because you'r... |
How Calico, Google-Backed Research Lab for Aging Research, Operates | Some more insight from this, an audio interview with Aubrey de Grey (SENS Research Foundation) and Brian Kennedy (Buck Institute):<p><a href="http://mendelspod.com/podcasts/brian-kennedy-and-aubrey-de-grey-their-converging-approaches-aging-research" rel="nofollow">http://mendelspod.com... |
Ask HN: What's the new best practise security model in the enterprise? | This definitely more an infrastructure question -- specific to your organization's workflow, internal policies, existing software, priorities and politics -- than a general 'where do I implement {kerberos, RSA SecurID, off-site audit trails, etc}. You won't get a one-size fits all solution, as it totally... |
Ask HN: What is your advise to move up the ladder? Any anecdotes? | I'm curious if you discussed your desire to move into a management position with your supervisor. If you did discuss it, what, if any, feedback did you get?<p>Based on your statements in your question, the frustration is obvious, so is a sense of entitlement, like you've earned this right but it's not h... |
Let’s Move Beyond Open Data Portals | Sorry...I just have to disagree with the OP. Several years ago, Socrata stopped by where I worked (a news organization) and told us of their idea to build a portal of city governments everywhere that would host datasets. They were new at the time and I just thought they were bonkers.<p>Now, I can't believe what yo... |
It's time for the US to use the metric system | Getting closer, but we aren't there yet.<p>Truth is, there is a TON of industrial machinery, tooling, fasteners, and more centered on Imperial units. Increasingly, new projects are happening in SI units too. This may start to snowball in the near future. Some of this is driven by global networking effects. Comm... |
Ask HN: I'm a dull person since software doesn't excite me anymore. What to do? | Now I'm humming that Father John Misty song that goes "people are boring, but you're something else completely..."<p>This isn't much of a cheer up but lots of people are dull in this sense. Maybe they've worked at the DMV for 40 years. Or they've been dealing with local politics all t... |
Show HN: Fisherman – Plugin manager and CLI toolkit for fish shell | So, to answer the most important question, WHY do I want this thing?<p>Long wall of text ahead, but I promise this covers a lot.<p>---<p>If you are only using fish, you are missing out the ability to effectively share plugins, prompts, configs, missing completions, documentation for external utilities, plain old script... |
Ask HN: What is your company's on-call rotation like? | Hi,<p>My company does 24/7 devops for some clientele. We are a team of 6 for reference. We have been doing this for many years since before "devops" was the term for it. Some of the platforms we have also built for these clients, and some we simply manage, or we have only built+manage the automation.<... |
There are no secure smartphones | That's right. Focus on the baseband is kind of the new fad in mainstream ITSEC. These problems are long-known in high-assurance as the cert requires <i>all things that can compute, store, or do I/O</i> to be assessed. The reason is that, historically, these were all where attacks came in. I'm pretty tire... |
Apple May Be Using Congo Cobalt Mined by Children, Amnesty Says | Sigh.
Why are people even surprised? This won't change and can't change until we stop yelling "think of the children!" and only demanding for the suppliers to do a better job.<p>Yes some suppliers might be able to do a better job but many cases they also simply can't it's just the nature o... |
Desktop Neo – rethinking the desktop interface for productivity | Am I the only one who has trouble with touch interfaces in general? Ever since my burnout I developed tremors in my fingers (I'm only 35) they got less but I don't expect them to ever completely disappear.<p>When I got my first smartphone, a Galaxy S4, which is nearly all-touchscreen to the edges and only 8mm... |
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