skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
BEAST and CRIME are both chosen-plaintext attacks. They don't rely on the improper MAC composition in TLS CBC.

Lucky13 and POODLE are the chosen-ciphertext attacks.

EDIT: Some more details:

BEAST takes advantage of predictable IVs in SSLv3 and TLS 1.0. In these protocols, the IV for each new record is simply the last block of the previous record. An attacker monitoring traffic on the wire can use this predictability to build an encryption oracle and guess-and-check the contents of ciphertext blocks.

CRIME uses plaintext compression to its advantage. A message with longer common substrings will compress slightly better than one without, and this is reflected in the ciphertext length. An attacker can make adaptively chosen guesses at substrings included in the message to recover, e.g., session cookies.
Forget the specificity of Micky Mouse, as that character just represents Disney's brand. Do you really think a company should lose their brand after X years? Disney doesn't care about Steamboat Willy, they care about people selling knock-off mouse ears, which comes with Willy entering the public domain.

I was just listening to an NPR segment on how Elvis Presley's image has become tainted by cheap crap, and that inspired Frank Sinatra to ensure the same doesn't happen to him. His biggest fear was that his face would be sold on a coffee mug. Should anyone be able to do anything with Frank Sinatra's likeness now that he's passed?

Should the estate of George Lucas be able to create new Star Wars movies in X years to compete with Disney's Star Wars movies in effort to undo everything they added to the universe "Because it wasn't George's vision", even though he sold off the rights?

I know I'm throwing hypotheticals and edge cases out there, but I just want us to focus on the issue deeper than "What reason is there to keep Steamboat Willy out of the public domain?" There's no good reason. But there are tons of good reasons to ensure people can't profit off an active brand's image.
Bubble deals are delightful. Time Warner and AOL merging marked the height of bad mergers in the last tech bubble. Since every trading company is now basically a tech company in disguise I wonder if this time around these mega deals will be seen as disastrous in the eyes of history.
I've seen people say they stopped visiting Hacker News because it includes so much non-programming/startup content.
Curious to know what the privacy policy is with this thing.
>Drivers set their own hours and use their own equipment

Not exactly...

1. Uber actively solicits drivers to work certain hours and pays bonuses/hourly salaries to do so.

2. Uber, at least historically, has solicited drivers to travel outside their county (where ride sharing may legal) to drive in other counties (where ride sharing is illegal) by paying bonuses/hour salaries.

3. Skip the car for a second...all other equipment to facilitate the ride is provided by Uber, including: an iphone provided by Uber; the software scheduling the ride; the software routing the ride; and the software facilitating the payment process.

4. It is my understanding Uber will finance vehicles for Uber drivers, making Uber the owner of the cars being used by Uber drivers in many cases.

5. Where ride sharing violates the law, ranging from traffic tickets to criminal arrests, Uber will pay for the Uber driver's lawyer.

*I have always said 5 is the most disturbing, in what other industry does a company provide services (through employees or contractors) where the employee/contractor can be civilly fined and/or criminally charge for doing their job? From a legal perspective the courts, as far as I am aware, have never looked a company providing a lawyer as a factor in determining the employee/contractor relationship issue. However, that is only because I think the entire scheme is novel for any business, again what other industry see employees/contractors fined/arrested for doing their job? Ultimately the fact that Uber provides and pays for lawyers to represent Uber drivers will pop its head up in the courts, and it would not surprise me if this fact becomes a new element/factor the courts weight in determining the employee/contractor issue. In my opinion, such a scheme strongly suggests an employee relationship.
Up until about a month ago, that was me. I literally never turned on my oven for weeks on end. My stove was primarily used for boiling the Cup-O-Noodle water. I got fast food (or slow-but-still-bad food) for ~ 90% of my meals.

I also have a belly that needs to go, so I decided to start counting calories and staying completely out of the drive-thrus. This has been a real eye-opener! By best estimate is that my former diet was probably about 3,000 C a day. Now that I'm watching what I eat, I'm easily running at 1,800 and not feeling hungry.
Intuitive Scrolling Interfaces with CSS Scroll Snap Points
This kind of merger seems exactly what the regulatory system was designed to prevent, right? Have any recent mergers actually been blocked? Is the regulator completely toothless now?
France will not ban public wi-fi
I wonder if that was required for FTC approval.
Then if they want that, they should be hiring employees.

I honestly fail to see why what Uber wants is in any way relevant here.
暁 is not 赤月

As /u/ZenoArrow pointed out, it means "dawn" or in some contexts, "in the event... (of)"

It's used as the title for Akatsuki no Yona (Yona of the Dawn) but is otherwise only really known for being a certain group of characters from a certain anime which was implicated.

There are also a few characters who share the name, such as Akatsuki Ousawa. But that would refer to an individual and not a group.
Just socks, maybe the $10 bills were stolen ;-)

A transient mailing of discrete paper cash is different than a call-to-action requesting coins that will be delivered to the same address on a regular basis.
What possibly happened (alternative version):

"Shit, I don't think we can hit these performance targets and stay under the emissions limits."

"Hmmmm... I think you're right."

"The boss is not going to be happy. I guess no bonus for us this year!"

"Hmmm... What if we wrote some code for the ECU to detect when the vehicle's being tested and dial down the performance?

"What, are you serious?"

"Yeah, that way it'll still meet the emissions standards, and hit the performance targets, right?"

"No way, man. Das ist verboten, dude. The boss'll never go for it!"

"He doesn't have to know! Nobody has to know. We just slip the code into the ECU when nobody's looking. Nobody's going to check it!"

"I dunno, man..."

"Come on! You want that bonus, don't you? Think of all the lederhosen you can buy!"

Paul Kedrosky wrote about this type of scenario: http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/an-engineering-th...
> However, it does not follow that the uncredentialed person telling you that education doesn't matter is therefore right in the rest of what he/she is telling you.

Where did I say that it follows?

Also, AFAIK Robin Hanson is a full econ professor.
I'm fairly sure money received from doing business with uber is meant to account for both depreciation and salary.
If you pay money to a company you don't pay separately for labour and deprecation of assets. You pay a single price, it's up the company how to split it.

If the company doesn't set aside the money for depreciation and renewal of assets , they will soon realise and stop doing that activity if its unprofitable.

Stop treating uber drivers like children.
Making a mockery of Mickey is fine. It's parody!
No, it's concerned with truth, including the truth of good utility. But utility is never the primary concern, even among utilitarians and pragmatists.
> Isn't that quote itself just a false rationalization - 'I cheat but so does everyone else so it's not immoral'.

It could be - Here's a moral question: If you are an athlete who is attempting to get into the professional league...would you use performance enhancing drugs to "break in" if you had a small chance of getting caught? (I don't think this requires an answer - people internalize this differently and it could spur a discourse)

> Personally I never got anything out of winning at sports per se. What gives me a buzz is performing in a way I can be proud of.

I can think of some particular situations in sports (Hand of God - Maradona) when the stakes are high and you'll do anything to win. Technically, he didn't cheat, but he sure as hell didn't come forward either.

> People cheat, corporations don't as they are just virtual groupings of people.

You're right. What would you call a grouping of people with C-Level titles who "cheat" a cabal? Seems too ominous. I used corporation to describe the high level officials who profit most by cheating.
> Spidermonkey performs amazingly today, and even beats V8 on its own benchmarks.

And yet somehow Firefox manages to run WebGL a lot worse than Chrome and Opera (Blink/V8 based browsers)...
"Middle ground" here is going to be devastating to technology employees, especially IT.

Welcome to the Service Request, piecework economy.
> If I can summarize, the main distinction between feminist philosophy and normal epistemology is that feminists don't seem to believe in objective reality.

Philosophies which dispute whether objective reality exists (or even is a coherent concept) predate feminism by, well, quite a lot.
Do you have any evidence that the ratio has changed?
MLs are way much better than the average blubs for writing compilers, but yet they still have some issues. The worst is the amount of a boilerplate code needed to implement even the smallest pass over an AST. Say, you want to visit and rewrite all the identifier nodes, but yet you must implement recursive functions for all the node types. In Haskell a bit of the Scap Your Boilerplate magic relieves this problem a bit, but still a long way to go to reach a level of convenience of Nanopass.

Next issue is related: slightly amended AST types are hard to define, they cannot be derived fromtypesxisting one by a simple rewrite.

Also, MLs do not allow an easy way to handle metadata transparently.

What I really want to have is ML type system and Nanopass density combined in one language (working on it, not done yet).
So we now have links between Syria, refugees, the MIC, Russia, Germany, France and somehow in the middle of that poor VW the victim of being used as the stick to push Germany back into compliance?

What do you think they would have used if VW had not conveniently committed fraud?
F#?

I think is doing better than expected. Is the one I'm using now, and is nice.
Amgia best illustrates that best technology doesn't always win. 2nd Be O/S.

I think Open Source has changed this now. The best usually always wins out now.
But which OS is run in the Docker? If Linux, then I've only seen ASP.NET 5 via Mono. Core CLR is a runtime library, Roslyn a compiler, but can they be used on Linux at all and are they enough? According to the material I've linked, it's Mono for ASP.NET 5 on Linux.

How do you think it's done? I understand they debug the instances from a Windows 10, but what runs in the instances? "C#" must run on something, if the instances are Linux, how then C# runs in their examples?
> The easiest way to lose IND-CCA security is to fail to MAC your ciphertext

Or the easiest way to get IND-CCA is to add a MAC to your ciphertext 8)

Actually, it's not that your scheme magically gain IND-CCA when you add the MAC, it is that the attacker just lose the CCA attack model (he can't test random decryptions anymore).
If "Managing an Experimental Household: the Dees of Mortlake and the Practice of Natural Philosophy" sounded interesting to you too, you don't need JSTOR access:
http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic472431.files/WK11...
First, congrats! Buying a business is not an easy task.

Before anything else, I would sit down with all the employees (together and separately) and hear from them what are the problems in the business and what they think should be the priority.

This will have 2 affects.

1. They will respect you for giving them a voice.
2. You will get smarter by the minute on what the business needs.

After that, before anything else I would just set up systems in place, processes and systems are super important when you run a time and materials business.

Understanding the cost and getting the cost of goods and labor down would be my first priority. Processes will help with that since less time will be lost.

Systems I would put (in order of priority)

1. Orders and production
2. CRM *customer service, customer relations, sales and more should be included to make sure you maximize your business.

Without more details it's hard to give more tips, but depending on the business type a website with online orders and online quotes can go a long way, for other types it's not that important.

Above all, good luck with your journey and your business. Take care of your employees, they will take care of you a lot more in return.

If there's a single tip I can give you is to treat your employees as equals, as you want yourself to be treated, they are your single most valuable asset.
Staples and Office Depot just had their proposed merger stymied by the FTC

http://www.wsj.com/articles/antitrust-suit-over-staples-offi...
Thanks for helping me avoid the clickbait.
Depreciation not deprecation.
That's a lovely, idealistic premise. But one half of this negotiation has considerably more power than the other, and many would argue the less powerful side needs to have certain rights protected.
The refugee children making the journey to a new life, alone
That stuff is everywhere (in grocery stores) in the US. My local safeway carries several "flavors" (which are more like an essence or hint of flavor): raspberry, lemon, etc.
It's puzzling to me that it isn't more popular honestly. My main exposure is through F#, but I would be interested in a new dialect or revision to ML, especially if it gained reasonable community support (the size of say, Scala or Clojure).
So, what if a UberPop driver, driving from home to the first ride he is supposed to provide, hits a pedestrian?
Just saw this on Twitter yesterday: "Over the long term, the future is decided by optimists."
> App-type adblockers seem to require rooting.

I use Adaway on my Android phone. I do sympathize with content owners, the reason I use Adaway is because it has a significant impact on the mobile browsing experience. Limited screen space, higher sensitivity to network traffic, and less available CPU mean that blocking ads on mobile is even more important to the user experience.
>obscene licensing prices

You can always use Octave.
Uhm, is Bratkartoffeln an English word now or is that just a slip? (Just curios, I like those adapted words.. übercool.)
On Pandering: How to Write Like a Man
Components of a Modern Web App
Most people White Flight it started in the 50's so if a 50 year old study looked at 1950's data it's not going to have inverse white flight data to look at. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_flight
It is illegal in Denmark.
Lessons Learned from my First Year as an Entrepreneur
More likely gas turbines powering electricity generators.
$650M / 6300 ~= 100k per employee. Granted, not all of that will be allocated to severance packages, but even half of that would be a pretty phenomenal.
Germany just switched on a revolutionary nuclear fusion machine
Yup! As long as it's a Forever stamp, we'll honor it :-).
Great, so now you have not one, but three monopolies in various industries. This deal seems to be made mainly to get rid of its strongest competition in those industries.
Functional Programming in Go [slides+video]
Uber drivers are way more cogs then Ebay sellers. They are representing Uber so they are instructed to offer water to the client, say "how are you today sir", etc.
>If it was transferring wealth from drivers to shareholders, they wouldn't do the job.
>
>They chose to do the job, so it is at least better than the alternative options they could do.

You've hit upon the reason why austerity is so 'popular': it artificially constrains aggregate demand for labor, reducing available options, which allows businesses to suppress wages for workers, despite them creating the same amount of wealth they were before.

There simply don't exist jobs in which workers get to keep the vast majority of the wealth they create. You can't choose to do them. They aren't an option. There just exist jobs where you get to keep relatively more or less. Uber is in the latter category, and people take it because they have fewer options.
I used a standing desk for a long time (year+).

I recommend minimalist shoes, this will help your feet get stronger, stay away from anything that has cushion in it.

Lately, I got these: http://naturalfootgear.com/collections/mens-shoes/products/l...
Can't recommend them enough.
What’s your TRUE customer lifetime value (LTV)? DCF provides the answer
...most of which will probably go to a handful of executives.
Then we have an oligopol of two bad actors.

Sounds like Comcast and ATT. None of them better than the other, fighting about who is going to have the monopoly.
I've worked with quite a few German companies, none as large as VW but this is absolute SF (entertaining though it is). The Germans have a word for their way of working 'gruendlich' ('thorough') and they (usually!) mean it. How this happened will be the stuff of endless case studies when - and if - the truth will finally be on the table. At a guess that will not happen before all the current board members and the former CEO are well in their graves.

BTW the whole scenario outlined in your link is bunk. The code came integral from Bosch and was definitely not developed gradually. It basically is designed purposefully to do an end-run around tests and Bosch explicitly warned against inclusion in the production version of the software saying 'this would be a very bad idea'.
That's some serious financial engineering there.
Show HN: Using PostGIS and CartoDB to identify schools at risk from earthquakes
> But i think the problem here is not the strategy.

The problem is the strategy.

> We are talking about individual car performance. This is not about the NOx produced by the whole VW cars.

We are talking about the NOx emissions of diesel engines in general, and of VW's decision to base their US and global strategy around diesel.

> Every other single manufacturer car is at least 4000% better ? Incredible. This is the question.

What's the point of praising my comment if you didn't fucking read it? Other manufacturers don't have 4000% better cars, in the US other manufacturers sell gasoline cars which intrinsically produce significantly less NOx.
Save your database on dropbox/onedrive/google drive/etc. and you're done.
Recognition that the styles exist, that they have (whether they ought to or not, and whether also on some more fundamental level than culture or not) a cultural association with gender, and that the style associated with the feminine gender has in patriarchal societies been devalued -- even to the extent of being treated as invalid and unworthy of consideration -- is both progressive and, if not empowering in and of itself, a fairly important foundation for empowerment.

So, yes.
>What left ideologies can libertarianism coexist with?

You might be surprised. Bleeding Heart Libertarians[0] is a good place to start. In the US, libertarianism has traditionally been more closely aligned with the right, but that's more or less an accident of history. There's room for disagreement of course (based mostly on how you define terms), but libertarians find plenty of overlap and disagreement with both the left and the right.

[0] http://bleedingheartlibertarians.com/
Might sound a bit crazy, but anyone else surprised at the reasonable gender equality in that photograph? I somewhat expected a large amount of male teachers, but if this is indicative of the average makeup it bodes well for future female CompSci majors.
Are you not in a major metro area? When I lived in rural missouri (40k city) I still found multiple brands of full fat (and not just plain flavor).
France Refuses to Limit Public’s Internet Access in Wake of Terrorist Attacks
Yes! Look up Roko's basilisk.

It's like someone wrote a lovecraft-style horror story, forgot that it was fiction, and totally lost their shit over it.

It used to be a banned discussion on LessWrong because it's supposedly a truth so horrifying that it'll destroy your mind as soon as you understand it.

.... if that's not cult behavior then I don't know what is!
Except they very much are. Uber drivers get punished if they refuse too many fares, which means they do not get to choose what they work on, and they do not get to negotiate their own prices.
I don’t know – I was just too lazy to translate it, and then I usually pretend that the German word would be english. Most readers never notice anyway.
The operative word is "PPP-adjusted". Bangladesh has a PPP exchange rate of 30 cents on a dollar, so you only need to send $300.
Why would they use ETE? Isn't the whole point of WA/FB to sell user-created data to third parties?

Edit:

Given the down vote(s), I guess I'm missing something obvious.

What I'm getting at is this: If our activities were completely encrypted and we appeared anonymous to WA/FB they couldn't hope to make money.

Would anyone smarter than me care to explain why this isn't the case?
How many scientific papers parameterize the gender of the observer?

Does your own work do this?
Unless you fail to MAC in constant-time. Then you've just made it less convenient.
> ...These driver owners are small businessmen. They own their own trucks. ..."

The Uber case can be distinguished...Uber actually owns the vehicles many of the Uber Driver's operate. (If you are an Uber driver you can have Uber finance you a vehicle). Further, very likely the truck drivers actually own a business entity separate and apart from themselves, I don't think you will find many Uber drivers being paid in the name of a business (not determiniative but a factor in many states).
Data Workflows with Airflow – Tips, Tricks and Pitfalls
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10710670
Thanks for that, I'll change the link. It's a fantastic paper and Harkness's book length study of John Dee is even better. I was actually planning on doing my PhD work on Dee until I read it and realized that the book I wanted to write pretty much already existed:

http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/history/histor...
"About half of employers offering two weeks' salary for each year you've worked there."

http://money.cnn.com/2005/10/18/news/economy/annie/fortune_a...
I completely agree that if the purpose of a marriage (or life in general) is to maximize enjoyment, then you definitely don't want to build it around self sacrifice.

An equally commendable goal, I think, is to become a more caring, empathetic person. In this context, self-sacrifice would take a more central role.

Personally, I'm trying for a mix of the two. I want to enjoy my life and marriage as much as possible, but I'll make enjoyment sacrifices if I can look back on my life and be satisfied that they were for the greater good.
The USA to Conquer England
Wow, DOJ will be busy.
I have literally just brought up Roko's basilisk in a different branch of this thread! Cray cray.