skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sadly, users who follow this advice will forget that they did by the time they can't figure out why connections fail to servers that have been configured for forward secrecy only but run an ECC-incapable version of Apache (thanks to long-term support Linux distros keeping old Apache around).
Calls for O-1aaS startup.

Setup an organization that will:

* Generate awards and prizes in computer science and its sub-fields.

* It will have a journal that will be populated by a deep learning nn. Seeded by a few areas of interest a user will put in, it will then auto-generate articles.

* Setup a contracting service where you invest in it initially, then it pays it back to you as salary for whatever minimum amount of periods O-1 requires. (Bonus, use also for money laundering).

* Have a number of "critical" position and can only be filled by <firstname.lastname> person.

This is of course a joke. But that how some PR organizations works. There is of course the classic book "Toxic Sludge is Good For You: Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry" how the word sludge turned to biosolids. One of the techniques was to create a fake scientific journal and start publishing fake papers to it. Then convinced the dictionary publishers that biosolids is now a word and it is used by "scientists".
That is actually speculation that there are two more films. He's only contractually obligated to one more. But things could change.
I like how the only critical voice they can find is a local economist who suggests doing basically the same thing in a slightly more wonkish and efficient manner.

The optimist in me hopes it's a glimpse into the future.

Sadly there's no mainstream car company that is taking EVs seriously at the moment. I wonder if any of the new chinese entrants are putting a focus on Norway?
I think J-1 would be the most legally correct (IANAL and all but I have some J-1 experience). YC should be able to bring founders on board. Since J-1 is for education and the program is basically an education.

J-1 is also quite openly (ab)used to bring employees over who do not qualify for a H1B or O-1.

Only important thing to remember is to pay the J-1 "student" otherwise they are (depending on origin country, but most I think) subject to a rule preventing said person from returning to the US within two years.

I think J-1's are 18 months max. Plenty of time to get a business up and running. By that time if the founder is successful (e.g. take on more investment) they could probably employ themselves with a H1B or E-2 ("investor") visa.

But I'm sure the J-1 has a bunch of issues concerning founding legal entities - this part I have no experience or knowledge of.
It doesn't even have to be outright intentional abuse in order to be a really shitty situation. The story for going home at time X can no longer be something like "I need to sleep in order to be productive tomorrow", so it'll morph into something like "I don't particularly care about the success of the company" and you'll get branded as a bad employee.

No top-down force required, just a shift in common knowledge about what your capabilities are.
I have pitched to 23andme a few times over the last few years that they should accept Bitcoin, and offer totally PII-free purchases. This is a great use of a cryptocurrency to my mind; a legitimate good which one should in no way attach to one's identity.

I would use that service. But, I would never, ever send them my DNA attached to my identity.

Sounds like I can't be the first to use Bitcoin with them either, come to think of it..
> This is not only because of privacy concerns—the people who contribute their DNA to such endeavors, whether medical or genealogical, rarely expect to have their genetic code scrutinized by cops—but also because those databases haven’t been vetted for use by law enforcement.

It's a real shame that behavior like this will stifle progress. I had been interested in doing 23andMe, and now I'm reconsidering it.
I dunno, he picked a fight and lost, and besides that carders are just generally scummy. If it were some kid who was only guilty of breaking into corporate/government systems for the heck of it, then I could see your point.
The Wired story doesn't have any mention of 23andMe in it, so the title is now inaccurate. And now having read the fusion.net story, I think it's a much better article than the Wired one because it covers the angle of each company's privacy policy, their interaction with law enforcement, the introduction of transparency reports, and so on rather than Wired's which only covers the imprecise nature of DNA.
Apache decides the DHE keys, OpenSSL decides the ciphersuites used. Red Hat didn't even enable ECDHE until they moved to OpenSSL 1.0.1 in RHEL 6.5 in late 2013.
There are companies who are identified as providing J-1 visas and they charge $5k - $6k for the service

http://j1visa.state.gov/participants/how-to-apply/sponsor-se...
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why the downvotes? I meant 'Word' like I agree: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Word
I'm curious to know what you determined are the objective signs of brainwashing and mind control. Would you share?
I rarely lose my patience, I do love the subject of sustainable growth and will check your video.
Valid concern, but that's a bit a defeatist attitude. Yes if we all switch to more secure encryption, they will try to crack or cripple those, but to crack 1024 DH was a multi billion dollar effort (just on the cusp of what it feasible for them). If we can use something more secure, then it's out of their ability. The good part is that often we can increase the difficulty to crack something by an order of magnitude without a high cost to us.
Without meaning to be rude, I struggle to imagine the decision-making process that lead you to watch Andromeda before watching Babylon 5.
I agree with you on this one, but I have hard time believing that between U.S. and Russian governments the former is more dangerous to its citizens than the latter.
Or Chiwetel Ejiofor. Honestly if they both end up in consideration as a replacement for Craig they should flip a coin: heads gets Bond, tails gets Blade reboot.
They exist, but are well aware of the risks. And sometimes they find it wise not to test the legal boundaries:

Any book you cannot scan?

Unfortunately, WE CANNOT SCAN ANY PUBLICATION BY McGraw
Hill. They do not allow us to scan their publications. When
we receive any publication by McGraw Hill from customers,
we will return it back by charging actual postage fee."

http://1dollarscan.com/faq.php#8a
Hence "That said, you should still upgrade to 2048-bit (or higher, if you're paranoid) ASAP."
Would be great to have it post to slack if something reaches X points
Anyone who values privacy should care.
Cops are asking Ancestry.com and 23andMe for their customers’ DNA

What's with the title here? Not only is that not the title of the article, but 23andMe isn't even in the article at all.
(Edit: dragonwriter's comment also makes the important practical point that these entities aren't HIPAA-covered in the first place!)

Take a look at "Law Enforcement Purposes" within "Permitted Uses and Disclosures" in the Summary of the HIPAA Privacy Rule.

http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/understanding/summary/i...

Law Enforcement Purposes. Covered entities may disclose protected health information to law enforcement officials for law enforcement purposes under the following six circumstances, and subject to specified conditions: (1) as required by law (including court orders, court-ordered warrants, subpoenas) and administrative requests; (2) to identify or locate a suspect, fugitive, material witness, or missing person; (3) in response to a law enforcement official’s request for information about a victim or suspected victim of a crime; (4) to alert law enforcement of a person’s death, if the covered entity suspects that criminal activity caused the death; (5) when a covered entity believes that protected health information is evidence of a crime that occurred on its premises; and (6) by a covered health care provider in a medical emergency not occurring on its premises, when necessary to inform law enforcement about the commission and nature of a crime, the location of the crime or crime victims, and the perpetrator of the crime.
I know I'm beating a dead horse but it would be nice if they still didn't make you opt out of McAfee when you download one of these critical updates.

If they absolutely must use these sleazy methods of making extra revenue, couldn't they just limit it to a singe opt-out the first time you install Flash? Kind of ridiculous that they're still trying to scam a buck out of the transaction when you're only downloading yet another update because of security holes.

Kinda makes you wonder why you have to update the program so often, regardless of these more serious issues if each update brings another chance that you'll forget to uncheck the box next to the yellow "M".
Last I checked (updates may have fixed this), Ubuntu 12.04 had ECC-capable OpenSSL but ECC-incapable Apache.
This title is inaccurate and misleading. The cops searched a publicly accessible Ancestry.com DNA database. Ancestry.com did then hand over the individual's name after receiving a court order. It also later shuttered the public database as a result of learning that cops were using it in this manner.

There is no allegation in this article that 23andme or Ancestry.com has turned over private DNA information (although it's certainly plausible that this has occurred or one day will occur).
Thomas M. Cooley's 1879 analysis of privacy of telegraphic correspondence (the "hampered by fears" link in the Guardian article) is fascinating: https://archive.org/details/jstor-3303981/
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Speakers are much more expensive, but much better than headphones for locating sound.
Relevant followup article.
http://venturebeat.com/2015/10/15/microsoft-stops-automatic-...

TLDR: It was a mistake and Microsoft stopped it.
what about just no using encryption and dont doing stupid stuff like delivering drugs to your house using your own name?
What will be really interesting is when they acquire a sample from someone based on a partial match by a family member to one case, then proceed with an unrelated case based on a partial match to that sample!
Not sure why this is getting downvoted, as someone who came into the US under an E-2 visa I can attest that the system is horribly flawed* & foreign investors/founders definitely should exercise extreme caution.

* - for example, rules of the E-2 state you have to invest your capital, then apply for the visa, which may or may not be granted. If you do it 100% by the book you also have to leave the country while it's under consideration (and leave your investment to run itself). They don't give any guidelines for specific dollar amounts. It then has to be renewed every 2-5 years (again, arbitrary decision) and does not lead to any permanent residency.

It's a mess and I would not recommend it as a long term path to living in the US.
Absolutely not. It doesn't make any sense. They sold me an item for $2. The item's new value is now many times that due to findings of my own accord.
Intel has 1,000 people working on chips for the iPhone
> - Having an agentless setup is ideal (anyone that tells you that Chef/Puppet agents have never cost him/her time is either a new user or trying to sell you something)

An agentless setup is ideal iff you have an effective method of service discovery and strongly consistent data storage. Most of my clients don't, and chef-server is the closest thing. My own systems use chef-zero, which is agentless; since they're generally immutable servers, this just gets dropped into AWS userdata, much as I do when I use Ansible, for a one-shot configuration and I'm off to the races.

> - The YAML, then Jinja2 parse can be annoying, but it's ultimately not that painful once you're used to it

It's significantly worse than "if (var) { block }", though, yeah? I mean, yes, it works, but I think that having a programming language with conventionally understood data structures and functions, to say nothing of a parsed configuration spec that you can do transforms over, is a decent bit more useful in the general case. Faster to write, easier to read, and, over the long term, I tend to think it's easier to maintain.

I mean--I'm a programmer. Programming things is easier for me than maintaining YAML files. =)

> - I'm a Python developer and I've found it reasonably easy to "monkey-patch" in behaviors that I prefer/need

This is really the big plus to Ansible that I can see; if you're a Python person and not a Ruby person, I can see some value here. (I am a Ruby person.)

> - Ansible doesn't force a workflow on you, so you can just focus on "getting shit done"

Chef Zero here too (though Berks tends to be helpful anyway). Running chef-zero over `ssh` is a pretty fair approximation of what most folks use Ansible for.

All that said, I'm not saying you shouldn't use Ansible, and I dig that you have some perspective about it. Just offering a different point of view. =)
Applying the same standards of health information protection mechanisms fully to authorized guns would require all sorts of other reforms, like drug law: what's to keep a police officer that arrests a corporate executive on cocaine or prostitution charges from dumping stocks on that company? All human activity could be considered "health information" by the issues HIPPAA claims to address with it.
HP makes software solutions available for Amazon Web Services
Ask HN: What is your favorite desktop Linux distribution these days?
most stable/usable
The Facebook app is killing your iPhone's battery
I'm really uneasy with police analyzing our social media data, it's heading into thought-crime territory. But there's tons of money to be made off of it.
Google's book scanning project is fair use, appeals court rules
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You mean the specific impulse for nuclear thermal rockets, as far as I know the fission fragment rockets have ISPs in the 10^5 range.
what's the threshold here? and if everyone sets up their own, with a million users, the server is making a million requests to the API and that's not super efficient
I'm halfway through third season, so I may as well finish it before switching at this point. I don't really expect Andromeda to be in any way positively comparable to B5, though I do like the "restore the civilization" attitude of the protagonist :).
Could anyone explain what the goal of this project is? Which audience it is aimed at? Where would I want to use it?

Embedded systems? (Despite the small number of packages, the size of some make me think not)

Reproducible builds?

Unikernels?
The Hacker News community discourages comments that do not add value to the conversation. Simple statements of agreeing are best handled through the up vote mechanism.
I'm wondering how you assess, say, Louis Vuitton or Rolex?
It was the title of the originally submitted article that the HN moderators replaced with this one. Previous article: http://fusion.net/story/215204/law-enforcement-agencies-are-...
Chef needs to be installed, but it can be (easily!) run in an agentless mode via chef-solo or chef-zero. It can be installed from Rubygems and requires no master node.
I'd work with you.
> They have no credit limit at all

To be fair, none of AmEx's charge cards have a limit. But even the Centurion Card will get declined if you try to spend too much, they just don't tell you what "too much" is. I would even bet that the credit limit formulas across all their charge cards are the same and that the inputs are purely customer & purchase specific.

Note that AmEx DOES have credit limits on their credit cards, where the distinction between charge & credit cards is that you "have" to pay off the charge card balance each month (although that isn't even totally true any more).
The difference between "doxxing" and "journalism" can indeed get blurry every once and awhile[0], but it's usually not that hard to figure out.

Journalism is newsworthy and has the intention of informing people in the public interest, doxxing is typically not newsworthy or in the public interest and has the intention of harassment or intimidation.

[0] http://nymag.com/thecut/2015/07/gawker-slammed-for-story-out...
New Tor apps for iOS 9 headed to iPhone, iPad
There's a number of EB-5aaS services out there, mostly targeted at rich Chinese/Russians/Saudis - invest $500k into a property development that is tenuously linked to a depressed area (eg. a condo on Park Ave that is dubiously associated with a low income project in Harlem) and the developer will help you with your visa.
Your assuming it was using there grinder vs. there grinder settings that was important. In other words proper technique vs. proper device.

Also, time sitting around post grinding is a large factor.
sssshh. we're not supposed to talk about that.
When you go start a farm you'll have to invite me to visit.
The article quotes Denver's district attorney as saying that this familial DNA searching is especially good for "cold cases where the victims are women or children". Women or children. We're searching through databases of innocent people's DNA, finding potentially damaging false positives, all because we need to keep women and children safe. Has this guy been binge watching Mad Men?
Yeah, I'd get a lawyer if I ever had to do it. In my case the field is very narrow, so there's basically no press. But I'd be able to get letters from all the major players saying I was major. A couple of them have scattered press mentions.
I'm wondering if they can play the Apple role of sticking with the higher end, but smaller user base. They already have enough cardholders and usage to the point where not accepting Amex is pretty brain-dead.
HIPAA only affects information held by covered entities (mostly health care providers, health plans, and their business associates.)

23andMe, Ancestry.com, etc., are not HIPAA covered entities, and thus HIPAA has no effect on them, even before considering whether the type of disclosure discussed would be allowed if HIPAA applied.
Ok, how's this for sensible? The holy trinity of criminal law is means, motive and opportunity. Let's review:

Does the NSA have the means for such an attack? The article argues convincingly that they do.

Does the NSA have the motive for such an attack? Yes, if their mission is to gain access to as much of the signals traffic in the world as possible -- and I think that's been pretty well shown to be true.

Does the NSA have the opportunity for such an attack? Certainly, the Snowden papers have shown that the NSA has access to a wide variety of communications channels.

So, I think it's a perfectly sane argument to say that if the NSA haven't performed this attack already, they will certainly do so at some point in time against some target. And, if they are not, state intelligence organizations under other flags, such as China, will -- and China has shown a clear interest in attacking not just military but also commercial targets within the USA.
If you're spending an hour a day cooking, I'm guessing your standards are way to high to be dealing with Soylent.
The the originally linked article did reference 23andMe:

23andMe says it’s received a couple of requests from both state law enforcement and the FBI, but that it has “successfully resisted them.”
Theranos board: Lots political connections, little relevant expertise, no women
Most of Amex's non-corporate business now is regular ole credit cards.
Because the link submitted by op was changed:

http://fusion.net/story/215204/law-enforcement-agencies-are-...
The effect of radiation on a space craft/probe is not binary and like with all things, you have to take into account many different factors and make many trade offs often forced on you by economics and risk aversion/tolerance. In order to maintain public support and politic capital, NASA has to do some really stupid things that they wouldn't otherwise need to. SpaceX doesn't have to deal with public perception like NASA does because insurance companies and customers dealing with space are much smarter about the cost benefit.

For example (citation needed but these are ballpark numbers I remember from a JPL study), if you have $500 million for a mission like NuSTAR, one that must succeed because of its scientific significance, you have to spend that money to get a 95% success probability (for the primary mission duration). You can build and launch the satellite for $250 million with an 80% probability of success (and launch two) or launch one with a 95% chance for $500 million because that last 15% has rapidly diminishing returns on capital invested. The former has a 4% chance of both failing, 64% chance of both succeeding, and 32% chance of at least one succeeding.

However, after half a century NASA has found that what matters is the absolute number of failures, not number of successful missions or success rate. It's absurd, but NASA gets more funding when it successfully launches 4 out of 5 missions than if it launches 8 out of 10 for the exact same cost. This means that the two satellites for $250 million option has a one in three chance of at least one failure andh could easily cost NASA $500 million or so for another scientifically critical mission, even if one satellite makes it and the mission is successful.

It gets even worse when you factor in all of the pork barrel politics going into the NASA budget. Because NASA has operations and vendors in so many districts, in order for the timing and logistics to work out in the above example, they'd have to spend closer to $300-$400 million per satellite, wait many years between launch attempts, or build both satellites at the same time and waste everything but the launch cost (only $50-100 million) in the 80% scenario where the first satellite makes.

NASA has technical and political debt just like any fast moving 50+ year old organization but it is still a lean mean fighting machine that accomplishes milestones for our civilization on an annual basis. It's our political system that's bloated.
Which country? Looking at the UK, the 2015 Range Rover Vogue doesn't feature any automatic steering. Just Auto Cruise Control (http://www.landrover.co.uk/vehicles/range-rover/option-and-a...)
If the DNA services become popular enough, your identity might be deduced from your family members' DNA. There have already been a number of real-world stories where people used DNA in unexpected (and legally questionable) ways to identify people or relationships, including using family members' DNA as a starting point.

There's also already some research with positive results about deanonymizing DNA:

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/339/6117/262.short

https://petsymposium.org/2015/papers/07_Humbert.pdf

The former is based on trying to use known data about family relationships to figure out who someone could be, while the latter is based on trying to figure out what someone would look like (or what other observable properties they could have) based on their DNA and then recognize them in a database of anonymous DNA samples.

While both of these studies have pretty significant constraints on the ability to do this kind of deanonymization in a general way for large databases, I think the power of DNA deanonymization will only grow as DNA databases and publicly available family tree records get larger, and as people learn to predict more and more phenotypic traits from a DNA sequence.
MIT does - and you can use their materials for free as well....
https://courses.csail.mit.edu/iap/interview/materials.php
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Thanks, just noticed dang's post at the bottom.
Sarbanes-Oxley. It's been a disaster for IPOs. http://www.vox.com/2014/6/26/5837638/the-ipo-is-dying-marc-a...