skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I warned others about them. I rarely warn projects any more because my associates and I have done that until we were blue in the face with little effort. My MO is to just post good stuff in forums that attract talent so they might see and adopt it. In any case, I posted a write-up on what real security is and what goes into it on Schneier's blog in response to a [false] comment saying secure coding is all you need. Here's the Pastebin of it:

http://pastebin.com/y3PufJ0V

Here's a specific example where I try to make a step-by-step guide for high assurance Tor without knowing its internals. Just drew on my prior work:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/09/identifying_d...

Hope what High Assurance Security takes is more clear now. Unless you get lucky (eg GPG), you need high assurance to resist TLA's successfully and that might just be delaying inevitable. Still need monitoring & tamper-detection.
"When I was a teenager we knew something had gone on here. But there was no one to ask because all the (German) residents were shipped out of the area and replaced by Poles after the Potsdam Agreement."

Just have a think about that: displacement leading to loss of historical continuity. How would people feel ending up in some city possibly hundreds of miles from where they grew up? Could be a nice sub-plot...
Do you mean you use Tor with VPN together?
I think you missed parent poster's sarcasm :).
Bayes Theorem and Naive Bayes
Maybe related to 6, inexplicable anger, but 10, bad marketing.

The product's namesake reminds me too much of cannibalism, coercive social engineering, industrial meat-processing with lax oversight, and neo-Malthusianism to produce any feeling other than nausea, regardless of whether or not the name was chosen ironically.
Another explanation:

More than 95% of people in the world are not American, and good American universities have access to the top talent. If the US is doing a competent job of hiring the best people then the majority of these researchers will not be American-born.
Except modern capitalism doesn't work on money, it works on debt. Sure, every now and then the bubble collapses because everyone defaults, but then the cycle can begin anew.
Yesterday I was going to add something like that, and got distracted.

With all the disintermediation that the internet has supposedly done, there must be also room for some new-fangled intermediation ...
These aren't fat pointers. A fat pointer is, well, fat: it's twice the size of a normal pointer, because it has both a memory address and a length. But Cello's 'fat pointers' are just regular pointers that happen to point to memory preceded by a length. Cello's 'fat pointers' don't solve the array slice problem.
This is not on topic for Hacker News. Please re-read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and
https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html. We're looking for stories that gratify intellectual curiosity, not celebrity gossip.

Also, please do not editorialize the titles of stories you submit to HN.
I will not condone a course of action that will lead us to war!
The super powers are entering into a new installment of the Cold War. Starting, it seems, with provocative actions on the part of the Big Three. This missile launch was saber rattling, make no mistake.
See http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/keys.html

Also the.earth.li (PuTTY's download host) is available over HTTPS: https://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/x86/putty.exe

But I do agree that HTTPS on both by default would be great
> I wish people understood that hyperbole weakens their position.

Depends on the audience. Hyperbole won't convince anyone who fundamentally disagrees with you; you need a reasoned argument for that. But hyperbole can work wonders on people already slightly inclined towards your position but not yet acting on it.
So if the way the receiver gets hold of your public key is by a link in the signed email, what's to stop an attacker changing the link to a fake key and re-signing the email?

Hmm. Why don't we have a standard place on our domains for public keys? For example for myname@mydomain.com the public key could be https://key.mydomain.com/myname.
Generally, evaluate it at 0. Except ...

When the company is operationally cash flow positive, and growing.

The reasoning for that is fairly simply. Any company which is not operationally cash flow positive and growing will either die (value 0) or another funding round (what every you originally valued it at now less than that). Basically until a company is a company the equity has no value, instead you have value because in an acqui-hire situation there is more value if it brings in more engineers.

Best way to evaluate a startup offer are "Does it move me along my path of growth?"

So do you want to try being a "growth hacker" instead of an engineer? Or want more "full stack" exposure, or experience in a company running everything in house, or everything in the cloud? Basically does this experience help your move along your path.
> 1- get to know a new domain or at least a new subject,

pro-tip: don't accept a 1-year postdoc in a new domain/subject (unless you urgently need to get away from your old subject).
(This sounds like an aggressive quibble, but it isn't. I am just interested.)

May I ask: how do you know soylent is shelf stable? Is it packed in a protective atmosphere? What testing have they done?
Countries can withdraw from the treaty.

As a practical matter the forces that led them to negotiate it in the first place will tend to prevent that from happening, but control simply is not being signed away.
Reminds me of high school statistics class, when the teacher read out in class after a quiz, "[Name] answered negative 4% for the probability in question 3. This is in fact the probability that [Name] passed the quiz."
> signing the Putty executable

But there's a GPG signature file which you can use to verify the download! How? I wouldn't know because I've never bothered. And if I remember correctly, the RSA key is also 1024 bits which is another no-no (this has come up before).
The PackageManager bug was worked around by Google Play, and was fixed in API 18 (JB MR2). As of today, this is only a problem if you distribute or support the unofficial distribution of ABI-specific packages outside of Google Play and you target API 17 or below.

It's also worth noting that Chromium removed their workaround and are shipping a new native library loader purely to optimize for the fact that they are now the system WebView implementation, thus they need to reduce RAM usage when they are loaded by many running processes.

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/base/+/master...
> "And even for those few, it's a mistake to start too young. If a startup succeeds, it takes over your life in a way that cuts off lots of other opportunities."

Curious for more of an explanation here. I am 27. When is too young? As someone who sold their company, I can attest that it takes over your life, but the amount of things I have learned is insane and I wouldn't trade that.
There is a big difference between scientists doing research, and possibly finding results that go against global warming, and deniers that are only using logical fallacies to support bogus claims. Scientists have no problems with serious research, whatever the conclusion. It is the second group of people that are making a big disservice to humanity.
That's... a really good idea. Just reading over the article I was trying to find some issue with the Chronos, and I really can't. Half the utility of my pebble is it vibrates when I get a notification, which is really all you need. The LED aspect of it seems like a good solution for it's lack of screen.

The only issue I can see with the device isnt actually related to the device- it looks like it depends on proprietary standards, meaning it needs its own apps and hooks.If noone wants to support another smartwatch in their app, this is dead before it hits the water.
Worth noting that there really haven't been many old "Tories" in the Conservative party for a long time - they are about as rare as socialists in the Labour party. The Conservatives (and New Labour) became "liberals" years ago while nobody really knews (or cares) what the Lib-Dems think.
Their current release key is RSA 2048: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/keys.html
Cable companies can't replace network hardware every three years. It's just not profitable. Cable systems were upgraded to broadband 2000-2005. 10-15 year replacement is short in the telecom industry. It's not surprising that new entrants into the market can give much higher speed. If you demand upgrades every 5 years that is going to increase costs considerably.

Also a large amount of coax spectrum is for video tv service.

The real curiousity is why Verizon fios can't deliver near 1gbps. It's already has a fiberoptic network. I'm guessing it's the hardware at the nodes.
Maybe you could trick the user into clicking on a link to "telnet:evilserver.example.com" and host a telnet-protocol-compatible TCP server on port 23 that just sends the payload without requiring any user login?
I'm inclined to be suspicious of things like the TPP, but the hyperbole I see actually makes me wonder if it's a lot more benign.

Of course there's a deeper underlying reason in my case: I am very deeply cynical about "activists" regardless of their political bent. Left, right, up, down, doesn't matter-- I've long observed that activists are True Believers for whom the victory of a pet ideology is more important than truth or reality. It really is equal opportunity: I am about as skeptical of Greenpeace's latest claim as I am of the religious right's recent "abortion doctors are selling chopped up fetus parts" outrage.

I will take you seriously if you have a genuine grievance. Otherwise I see third party activism (moral outrage tourism?) today as largely a form of entertainment. It's something people do to feel morally superior and self-righteous or to be part of a "scene."
This is definitely the future for both desktop and VR gaming. There is no way games will go to 4k and beyond at 2x60hz and spend 60 rendering passes doing pixels in the top left corner of the screen. The question is what will happen to console gaming? The eye tracking issue isn't quite as easily solved for consoles.
Those keys aren't cross-signed (i.e. from a CA) and are delivered over HTTP. Totally and completely worthless.

A bad guy could just replace them with their own keys (assuming anyone manually checked these to begin with) and I couldn't detect it.
Show HN: Chrome extension adding an I am feeling lucky button for YouTube
Why Twitter Needs to Stop Suspending Islamic State Supports’ Open Letter to Jack
It's worth nothing.

Problem solved.
A few hundred years ago people started to become interested in observation, experiments, and something close to what we'd now call the scientific method.

Previous natural philosophers mostly read what the ancients had written, thought about it, argued with each other about it, and accepted their conjectures as scientific fact. Many of these supposed truths were trivial to invalidate by actually going out in the world and measuring things, but that didn't come into fashion until relatively recently.

This brief history of science is often taught inside of chemistry classes. My teacher had a great time telling us about the beliefs that preceded our current understanding of the atom and how we came to reject them.
The comment was not about dynamic range, but the nature of the upper amplitude limit (hard vs soft/frequency dependent). That says nothing about the dynamic range, which is still a creative decision during mastering. I was trying to point out that vinyl mastering is common (contrary to parent post) and that one reason is the technical differences between mediums. I agree, though, that market pressures are a strong driver of the differing creative choices during mastering, but the decision to master separately for vinyl is often indepenent of that.
A Texas Utility Offers a Nighttime Special: Free Electricity
Hehe, ok then. You had me wondering there.
Probably has all of the contents from Capone's safe :-) [1]

It is interesting in this day and age how difficult it is to do good imaging underground. Seems like something computer power and GPUs should be able to address.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mystery_of_Al_Capone's_Vau...
OS X Tips and Tricks
I still don't understand why PuTTY got so popular (e.g. why not OpenSSH/Cygwin combo)
Not quite, I'm referring to https://www.torproject.org/docs/pluggable-transports.html

My favorites are obfs4 and StegoTorus, running on a private machine in some "cloud".
The complaint is that the salaries and roles are very bimodal. You're either a postdoc with very low pay and few responsibilities or a prof with pretty good pay running your own lab. There are few roles in-between. There are some - soft money researchers - but these are not as common as they might be.
It's dry, and the packages are sealed.

For comparison, an unopened and properly sealed tub of protein powder lasts well over two years.
Replace conservatives with women or afro-american and see if the answer still sounds legit. I think you're oversimplifying. Academia is still a social environment and social pressure still exists.

I don't think it's fair to say that conservatives will dismiss social psychology as a field. Maybe certain schools of thought, but hey, that's the spirit. On the other hand, if the vast majority of scholars are white atheist/agnostic men, imagine how easy it is for certain views to prevail.
This hidden smart watch really captures what Mark Weiser meant when he wrote about Ubiquitous Computing in his Scientific American Ubicomp article "The Computer for the 21st Century" [1]:

"The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it."

"Such a disappearance is a fundamental consequence not of technology, but of human psychology. Whenever
people learn something sufficiently well, they cease to be aware of it. When you look at a street sign, for
example, you absorb its information without consciously performing the act of reading.. Computer scientist, economist, and Nobelist Herb Simon calls this phenomenon "compiling"; philosopher Michael Polanyi calls it
the "tacit dimension"; psychologist TK Gibson calls it "visual invariants"; philosophers Georg Gadamer and
Martin Heidegger call it "the horizon" and the "ready-to-hand", John Seely Brown at PARC calls it the
"periphery". All say, in essence, that only when things disappear in this way are we freed to use them without
thinking and so to focus beyond them on new goals."

"How do technologies disappear into the background? The vanishing of electric motors may serve as an
instructive example: At the turn of the century, a typical workshop or factory contained a single engine that
drove dozens or hundreds of different machines through a system of shafts and pulleys. Cheap, small, efficient
electric motors made it possible first to give each machine or tool its own source of motive force, then to put
many motors into a single machine."

Mark Weiser on Ubiquitous Computing: [2]

"Ubiquitous computing names the third wave in computing, just now beginning. First were mainframes, each shared by lots of people. Now we are in the personal computing era, person and machine staring uneasily at each other across the desktop. Next comes ubiquitous computing, or the age of calm technology, when technology recedes into the background of our lives. Alan Kay of Apple calls this "Third Paradigm" computing."

[1] https://www.ics.uci.edu/~corps/phaseii/Weiser-Computer21stCe...

[2] http://www.ubiq.com/hypertext/weiser/UbiHome.html
This article is unsubstantiated claim after unsubstantiated claim leading to an overconfident fear that encapsulates everything I hate about modern news including things inside the article. I'd hope the author was self aware enough to see the irony in writing this article but I feel to stick after reading half of it to find out.
Just one metric you're not outlining here. Is the current offer at market rates or is the entire offer assuming some portion of equity in-lieu of cash?

If you're already being offered a job at market rates then the rest is really just how much of a gamble you want to take and If you're at market, and you've got equity then I'd take that.

Generally a startup is not going to open up their books enough for you to make a smart enough decision on whether any additional gamble is worth it.
> For example banning guns is similar philosophically to banning drugs

If we consider one angle exclusively, yes, but it's more nuanced than a single angle.
The question was, why would a system tipping be better than a system of flat, honest fees for delivery. It does not address that to say, within this system, you should do this.

You were giving justifications at a system level, which why I said it would imply that other systems should shift to "pay what you feel like", irrespective of which ones currently use it.

And it's not an exchange, if one side has nothing to withhold, but a gift.
Ask HN: What do you think of open office floor plans?
Good for promoting collaboration, or merely an obstacle to privacy and productivity? Seems like it's very difficult to find a Bay Area tech company these days which doesn't use the open office plan. Facebook now has a 2800 person room in its headquarters, for example.
Agree totally about the Pebble vibrate function.

I hate hearing my phone ring and ALWAYS keep it on vibrate, but sometimes you don't feel a pocket vibration in your pocket.

After realizing a hated all of Pebble's apps, and not needing a watch face to tell time, Pebble just became a wrist vibration band for my text messages. But that feature alone is enough for me to keep the device around.
I'm really surprised at how dismissive people are about the value of equity on Hacker News. Would you never start your own company, because then your compensation would certainly be tied to the value of the equity? If you really think that the shares are, on expectation, worthless, then don't work there, because your efforts will be for naught when the company folds.
This view is just absurd. Beyond comprehension.

You are aware of some people who function well with addiction so you assume that all addiction "isn't that big of a deal." BS. Go to a treatment facility and tell the patients (of all income levels) their opiate addiction "isn't that big of a deal."

I've meet many people (one an amputee, one great grandma in her 80) who have become addicted to their doctor prescribed medicine. All of which look like they have their lives together from the outside (and aren't having problems paying for their medicine) but their lives are being absolutely destroyed by opiates.

In the case of alcohol addiction there is even a word for this - "high-functioning alcoholic."

Just because you are able to function normally doesn't automatically make your addiction "not a problem" or doesn't mean it doesn't effect you in a negative way.

I'm not telling you that every addict is having their lives destroyed by addiction, but to assume that just because some don't means that all don't given enough income is preposterous.

"In your next professional interactions, look at everyone's pupils." No, thank you. I couldn't imagine wanting to do this.
I use PuTTY at my job because we do all of our development on a Linux server but have Windows laptops issued to us.
I thought it was "elided".
Also, Tor is not designed to be resistant against traffic analysis by a global passive adversary. That isn't the kind of evidence that can be used in a US court, but intelligence agencies aren't primarily interested in bringing cases in front of courts, anyway.
It's usually put against the class of arguments that being derivative or being recombinant is in itself a valid criticism of a product. The company isn't going to give up any revenue just because it found a better target market for a similar good; and neither will accepting the existence of predecessors help the predecessors any. Not to falsely represent your point, but do you believe that changing industries makes this any less the case?

Plus the extent that Soylent is a substitute for Ensure or Boost or those peanut bars they give to starving earthquake victims isn't total: Soylent is based in consumer feedback while Ensure/Boost have stopped innovating; Soylent is aiming for use in perpetuity while Ensure/Boost are meant to be stopgap measures, etc.

I like the product a lot so I'm going to be speaking vehemently about it, but that doesn't mean I'm not open for criticism. I'm wondering what your thoughts are.
They've re-invented the Promissory note

Historically, promissory notes have acted as a form of privately issued currency ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promissory_note
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Good idea! Soylent is probably an excellent disaster food- it's denser than anything else out there, and I'm not terribly worried about gut folia or whatever in such a situation.
This is my mantra.
When you say "late-stage," is the company generating revenue? Is revenue growing? If so, this changes the standard-issue "it's all worth $0" logic a little bit.
I find that having about 20 people in room is a good number, above this many people, after discussing with them, find that larger rooms makes you less likely to collaborate due to being self-concious of so many people listening to the conversation
That is a pretty interesting idea for a sub-plot, and can be worked in more realistically than the amnesia/split-personality kind of plot that is more common (Memento, Tyler Durden). Sort of an exploration or investigation of a character's cultural/community genealogy.
>> Psychologists understand the biological, environmental, and social factors that affect behavior and are reluctant to label people as “evil” whereas conservatives are far more likely to adhere to a Biblical moral code where there are simply good and bad people.

Wow: "there are simply good and bad people". This is utter nonsense. Such a caricature!
Few weeks ago I decided to use facebook only for messages and events - I blocked the search bar, news feed, and the box on the right (I'm not sure how it's called). I use ublock origin, these are my filters that seem to do that:

https://gist.github.com/t0mk/ce14b1e11c1c0229972b

(I half clicked it, half wrote. It was guessing, I don't really know what the ### does and why jsonp)