skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think this is a very hard combinatorial problem. At least last time I flew, they scan my boarding pass when I'm pretty close to the scanners. They'd just have to pick me out of, say, 50-100 other scans. And once they establish decent time data on BP scan to body scan correlation, they'd be able to narrow the field further.

I agree with you, though, that your last point makes this moot. They're too bumbling for me to worry.
Chrome has certificate pinning and HSTS, making this kind of attack impossible by a MITM.

It is curious that the only serious vulnerability described in the article lacks any technical details.
I'm not sure. Human brain uses dedicated facilities for this.

You won't win much by making every neural network learn stuff from scratch that can be done once, good.
> what's changed is dramatically lower cost for homebrew hardware or industrial prototyping

Also changed is industry awareness of x86 platform (in)security, an increased role for the Intel ME in 2016 laptops, and the existence of a software-hardware partnership (Qubes-Purism) that could advance the proposed architecture.

Any open-hardware implementation of these ideas has the potential to influence mainstream x86 OEMs, as OLPC inspired the netbook category. The more people who design and build open hardware prototypes, the faster the industry can converge on a disaggregated firmware/hardware TCB.
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I think the distinction is useful too, as it gives you a better idea of where a language actually sits in a development workflow.
Right, Ubuntu running autonomous stuff feels kind of like the opposite of "a user".

And if watching Netflix on their smart TV makes people Ubuntu users, then having a bank account makes them users of any number of exotic IBM letters-slash-digits operating systems. (though ironically, Netflix is just about the only thing I run on my old Ubuntu laptop, and superior compatibility with that Ubuntu laptop was the primary reason why I switched from the silverlight-only Netflix clone I used before to Netflix, so for me personally, they are very much related)
I'd be curious to know if the Soviet Union's target list has ever been released to the public.
There is no question that bodies are in fact machines, there are parts that regenerate and parts that don't. Many extreme sport enthusiasts carry life-long consequences of parts they broke during their activities.

The issue here is more if the oxidative stress put on your components is offset or even completely overshadowed by the biochemical benefits of exercise, and there is indeed reason to believe that a moderate exercise regime - not unsurprisingly - may yield optimal results.

Exercise too little and your body's machinery will start to suffer from use-it-or-lose-it symptoms. Exercise too much and you will cause an inordinate amount of mechanical wear that cannot be regenerated, plus there may be some biochemical stresses as well.

I know "do it in moderation" makes for a shitty headline that interests nobody, but all things being equal that should probably be the take-away here. I agree with you about gradual increase being advisable, but perpetually aiming for your physical limits may not be the most appropriate course of action for individuals who are already fit.
That's not his point. He doesn't care that your list is different than his; he cares that you have one.
I agree with you on most of this. And yes, a "Persona 2.0" should really just take the Persona lessons and learn from them, avoid the mistakes.

That's also why I mentioned in my other reply that I'd be willing to help a project that has a chance to succeed - and that means being lead by someone who has themselves learned all the lessons from Persona. Someone who was on the original dev team.

But this also needs backing from Mozilla, or a corporation like mozilla (there aren't many).

While a lot of devs, including Mozilla devs, agree that Persona needs a successor... there's no sign of any such backing.
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VS also has nice Python tools. Powershell competence is going to improve your Windows experience. I figured out I have been looking the world in the wrong way. We all complain about the annoyances, but I think to use both Windows and Linux competently makes you a better over all developer.
But that's exactly what happens sometimes. Family was ridiculously overprotective of me and crossing roads because my sister got run over by a car. I was barely able to go out and do anything at all outside until I managed to get out of that environment because my older cousin got herself into drugs.

While this is merely anecdotal evidence, my story is not unique. The younger sibling paying dearly for the bias caretakers incurred thanks to correlation to a bad incident is far, far from a rare occurrence.
Am I just a cranky curmudgeon if I think that the most clear, elegant, and easy-to-read resume format is still Michael DeCorte's 1989 LaTeX template?
Check out JSON Resume too: https://jsonresume.org/
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That's what we have right now, we just pretend that we don't. The TSA routinely fails their own inspections.
Thanks for sharing. I've heard numbers like these quoted before with respect to other small or medium sized businesses like franchising a fast-food chain and a question just occurred to me. For the people you know, are the owners' salaries taken before the profits as part of the operating expenses or do the salaries come out of the 300-500k of profits?
> With Persona, once you decide to login with your email account, first Persona looks for an IdP with your domain/provider, the if not found it goes back to the persona catchall service.

This implies a classic chicken/egg dilemma: email providers won't implement Persona support unless that would be useful for lots of people; Persona wouldn't be useful for lots of people until their email provider supported it.
We need end-to-end encryption everywhere, stat.

It's the only way to keep government and politicians honest.

Of course they are working on inventing reasons to make that illegal too.
Completely impractical.

ICBMs can't even reach orbit, never mind Mars. So we'd have to build enough rockets to lift around 10,000 nuclear warheads to Mars, typically weighing around 300kg each.

The inevitable launch failures would be interesting too. Even if 99% reliable, that's still a hundred nuclear warheads raining randomly back to Earth.

And on top of all that, I don't think it'd actually make Mars significantly warmer.
I was also sorry to see Mozilla give up on Persona - I believe the web needs something like this.

I happen to be quite good with Node / JavaScript and I will happily help out.
The entire point of "Persona" is that it was actually something in the backend called "BrowserID" that was supposed to integrate with the browser instead of running some random JS widget in a page. Well, Mozilla never even finished implementing the first version of that before they declared "no traction"! What nonsense!
I completely agree – very unrealistic characters (maybe that's why there was no character development). Also there was a lot of exposition about how extraordinarily 'funny' the main character was and I didn't get that at all, it felt very heavy handed with the jokes. Also, the bit about cannibalism made no sense whatsoever.
Ok then... Install your heavy SQL database on your super fast machine and use it for everything till your memory screams.

I'm not saying SQL databases are bad. It's just... They are not the only choice!
You should be happy that now we have tons of alternatives to choose.
I had a lot of fun writing a program to solve this puzzle last year. I wrote about it here: http://almostobsolete.net/regex-crossword/part1.html

The Haskell code is also on GitHub
I don't get this. After Snowden and every revelation to come from that, how you can be so incredibly flip about other conspiracy theories is disappointing.

I don't like it one bit, but every wacko that told you the government was listening on every phone call and reading every email turns out to be very right, and after Clapper, et al lied about it to Congress with no repercussions, well, maybe don't be so quick to dismiss further theories about the government spying on you.
To clarify, I didn't mean to imply that all those swabs get sequenced. That's too expensive to make sense. Rather, I'd expect them to be sequenced on demand if called for by a specific investigation.
Thanks, dude!
Kondo's book is definitely amazing - a very important book, like you say. The system behind it is extremely simple and quite powerful.
The second operating system hiding in every mobile phone
Honestly I don't know. I've never looked into it
It's alarming that after 2 years they killed it off for lack of traction, and not only that, decided they had failed.

How could they have possibly succeeded in that timescale? They seem to think there were flaws with Persona, and that's true, but those flaws could be fixed. Making a few mistakes on an attempt doesn't mean you should kill it off if the basic product works well. It means you fix them. Starting a new Persona is silly, Persona itself works.
To me, Persona never _shipped_. They still discourage self-hosting the identity verification code, so even on a happy path where the user somehow managed to get an email provider that natively supported Persona you still had to talk to Mozilla servers. That's not federated identity, it's centralized; it offers nothing above Facebook Connect.

Would doing that alone have made Persona a success? Probably not. But as it is, it's not even in the running.

(Context: I wrote my own IdP, so in theory I could have been on that happy path.)
As long as you're willing to use unsafe, you can write things exactly as you can as in C. That's of course, not as satisfying as not needing to, but by encapsulating that in a library and providing a safe interface, downstream users still get the benefits.
... Well, maybe you could be right. I'm not sure. I do know that when most people say "lisp," they think of scheme, clojure, etc. as in that category.

I like to think that I can admit I may be wrong, and in this case I think I might be wrong.
It matters to some degree which players he picks, but in the case of GPPs it matters much more that the lineup is unique. There are lots of lineups that have nearly the same expectation.
Well, yeah, but Persona/BrowserID didn't fail, YOU (Mozilla) failed. BrowerID was the right concept, and it was insanely stupid to create a different frontend branding, to not build the browser integration, to not explain anything well, and then to describe the project as a failure when it hadn't even been implemented at all on your side.
The big loss in mir is ubuntu itself. They had some of the finest people working on it, and now many of them are leaving to go to google. Ubuntu lost focus with the phone.
Hey msackman,

Pretty cool looking stuff. Where'd you get the design for object/graph structure? It is what we are using for our database, http://gunDB.io/ . Although we take the opposite approach to CAP than you, and have no support for serializability (I don't think this belongs in the protocol but instead in the data, like git).

What's you're take on concurrency? How do you handle conflicts (I assume this is easy for you with a master)?

Would love to jump on a chat too, being DB guys. Shoot me an email mark@gunDB.io welcome arounds!
People aren't downvoting you because they disagree with you, they are downvoting you because your comment was poorly written and unconvincing.
He doesn't need to come up with a better lineup. An inferior lineup with a higher payout could lead to a fighter expected value. For example, if he has a lineup that wins 1/5 the times the best lineup does but pays out 10 times as much he would double his returns.
My boarding pass has been scanned by a machine with a cat5 coming out the back at DIA, LGA, JFK, ORD, MDW, PHL and DFW this year. This happens at the podium when presenting ID and boarding pass.

Although not directly at the time of scanning video surveillance shouldn't make it too hard to match the records up.
>You can go to, say, Poland. It's just slightly more expensive than Thailand. No Visa renewals.

Is that meant literally? And for how long can one stay there as a foreigner? How about working remotely from there for companies outside Poland - allowed?
I remember seeing one set of probable targets I think our house was close to 3 targets within 3-10 miles.

Observer Corps Bunker
RAF Twinwoods
Cranfield

Chicksands (aka the USAF spook base) would have got one but that's almost 15 miles away
You don't actually need to match up to the individual, you have roughly say 100 or 1000 possible candidates for each scan, based on people you processed in the last X minutes. You can just save that then all you need is 2 scans to be able to match.

If you're tagging face when they get processed and running face recognition at the scanner, (which is either already possible or will be possible within a couple years) you don't even need to do that.

On a related note, I feel like people dont factor in the (exponential) progress of technology in their threat assessment. For example sites that tell people their password strength don't count Moore's law into password difficulty calculations. Nobody uses post quantum crypto. The NSA has played this by storing as much interesting encrypted data and then decrypting it when technology progresses Or vulnerabilities are discovered. Most of our encrypted data is plain text in some X number of years.

Anyway going back to scanners, you could just store data and wait until computer vision gets to the point where you can do it with computers. Anything a person can do a computer will eventually be able to do. If a person could watch a bunch of camera feeds and track each person from the point he presents ID to the point he is scanned a computer will eventually be able to too.

IMO they already can.
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This kind of puzzle falls under a general class of problems called Constraint Satisfaction Problems. Sudoku puzzles, map coloring, and cryptarithms are all examples of CSPs. A CSP is defined by a bunch of variables, each of which can take on some values in their domain (In this case each cell is a variable, and initially their domain is all 26 letters.) and a group of arbitrary constraints over the variables (the regexes).

One method of solving a CSP is to keep a set that initially contains all of the variables. On each iteration you choose a variable from the set and remove all values in its domain that are impossible given the constraints containing the variable and the domains of the other variables in those constraints. Then you add all of those other variables to the set because they are now restricted more than before. You keep doing the above until you get stuck (which may or may not happen). You then start guessing. There are a bunch of heuristics about how you should choose which variable to guess (eg the variable with the smallest domain). Once you have made your guess, you then add all of the variables back to the set. If you find out the puzzle is impossible, you backtrack to the last guess you made. I believe there are ways you can determine which guess was the problem and immediately backtrack to there.
That statement is indeed absurd on so many levels. I only hope it doesn't not come from someone who is IFR rated.
Yes, but after that, you enter a queue of maybe a dozen people in no specific order to actually go through the scanner.

They could pool results saying "these 10 scans are potentially from these 40 people" and cross reference against every airport visit, but are they that competent?
Definitely. The chances are so low that I'm not worried about it. The same concern applies to any other mode of transportation and we don't have to deal with the "security theater" measures for those other modes of transport.

Do you constantly worry about "unhinged" drivers while walking on the sidewalk? Are you constantly worried that you would be the victim of an intentional attack like what recently happened in Las Vegas? Do you believe we need to go through the "security theater" motions in order to "mitigate" the, for all practical purposes, negligible risk of something similar happening in the future?
For sure. These days people in the 160s range are breaking 400. It's not something advisable from any sort of health perspective, but it is awesome and it's not that risky.

http://www.criticalbench.com/Claude-Bouyer.htm
You're being downvoted because your reasoning is pure nonsense. Yes, cells can divide only a limited number of times. And then they die. But guess what: your body is capable of creating new cells. This is in fact what happens when you lift weights: new muscle tissue is generated.
If memory serves, it is certainly possible to get up-and-running with CLJS without needing Java, but I cannot remember how. There is this tool, which might also be helpful: https://github.com/oakmac/cuttle
I don't see the need for a word beyond "translator" for what you describe. It's a well known word and used correctly, I think, if I say "this program translates Lisp into Javascript."
If they have cameras that can track people via facial recognition, then why would they need to track people via body scans?

If they really wanted to use body scans to track people, they'd arrange the checkpoints so the body scanner is the first place you go after they scan your boarding pass and/or ID. And when questioned about why they rearranged the checkpoints that way they'd just say "TSA security evolves to counter ever changing security threats, and we can't speak specifically about what prompted this reconfiguration." End of story since security theater is not to be questioned.
In fact, we removed language features in order to gain a zero-cost interop.
This is not a duplicate. The post is about a new lawsuit filed due to the change in rules, the suit has not been previously on the front page.
Also, people share email addresses.

Really, they do.
The backend was called BrowserID, and it was supposed to integrate with your browser and be supported by email providers not be some Mozilla service. It's only a service because they didn't get around to implementing the actual BrowserID design, so they run a service for now, and then they halted development before they even tried to build the actual design!
Technically? I've done it for a few years now and am happy. I daresay, ...it just works.
I think Dustin makes an excellent point that Ubuntu doesn't really have a way of expressing 'users' unlike other OS targets.

I also think Ubuntu has successfully hit the 'fat spot' of Linux users, which is to say appeals to the widest possible set of users given the choices it has available to make. That is something which is pretty amazing given the fluidity of Linux users.

I also think Ubuntu has a shot at becoming the "last" operating system. I think that because I see Windows 10 and MacIOS :-) moving toward more opaque systems, things you package and app for through a specific toolset and with a company controlled process. This suits the Microsoft and Apple markets which are primarily users of the systems as opposed to developers. And that leaves an opening for Linux to be the primary 'tinkerers' operating system. And of all the Linux distributions I see Ubuntu as the easiest to just slap on and get started with.

Definitely an interesting development from my perspective.
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By the way, I always was wondering why the schemas with consistent hashing maintained via the ring are more popular approach than treating key space as a line (-∞,+∞), maintaining the explicit map from segments and rays of keys to the replica groups and split the group/segment when replica group becomes too hot or heavy.

IMHO the perfect hashing solves the problem of distributing the data but the load may follow completely different patterns. See theInstagram's Justin Bieber problem.
Persona is passwordless. The idea is that you verify with your email provider who supports it. Your email provider may have a password, but there's no Persona-related password (unless you use Mozilla's Persona.org service because your email provider doesn't support Persona directly).
"the annoyance that is "Sign up with a username, email address, and password"."

I know of an easy way to remove 33% of that ...

Email addresses are globally unique, and everyone already knows theirs ... email + password seems like a simple, well accepted and workable solution.

Right ?
w8, I had to provide email address?
This study sort of makes an assumption that increased free radicals causes (at least in part) aging (free radical theory of aging). The relationship between radical oxygen species (free radicals) and aging is not at all clear to my understanding. (this paper is from 1997)

Moreover, it's possible that the tissues most susceptible to oxidative stress during exercise (i.e. muscle) are also most adapted to handle it. So overall, yes ROS increase but mostly just in muscle where it is well-adapted to handle it, and the benefits of exercise (lowering blood pressure, better circulation, etc) trump any detriments of increased ROS.

Edit: Found this review [ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23434764 ] that considers evidence that ROS may actually be a part of a pro-survival signal cascade
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It's still better than not bothering to take a stance, right? Time is limited, I work at the moment, past deadlines, etc. Often if you reply too late, nobody notices. I don't comment for vanity reasons, but for that one person that can appreciate my effort.
You just wake up Rip Van Winkle?
This is one of the reasons shell languages feel kind of functional. But they're not really designed like a functional language so they feel kind of clunky.

On the subject of "oh, I could do that if..." I know exactly how you feel. I really want the ability to pass multiple filestreams to a command, so you could, say, use cat on the outputs of two commands. Assuming the syntax was @`<pipeline>`, It would like something like this:

foo|grep bar|cat @`baz|grep bar`|sort -rn|tail

The above script assumes that the commands foo and baz are generating lines with time signatures at the start, and then checking for the most recent entries. I chose the @` syntax for its similarity to the lisp @, syntax, but it could be anything. Unfortunately, I think the only way to do this would be to monkey-patch either open(2) or fopen(2), probably both, which would be a Really Bad Idea (tm).
>getting nothing in exchange but 'experience'.

Are you assuming there's no pay involved? I didn't get that from the article; it's not saying take a job for no pay. It's saying it's unreasonable to expect to get paid Google money at a startup.

In exchange for not getting paid what you're worth to Google, you get to touch a lot of different areas and get a lot of experience with a lot of things.
I wish someone would take that content and give it proper typesetting; the content is quite good and accessible, but the presentation makes reading quite unpleasant.
Context please. :)
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Thanks for fighting the good fight, Jon. I've been opting out for years, and if there's anything people like us can do to help, please don't hesitate to ask!

They clearly don't like it when you opt out. Things I have experienced while opting out:

1. Being separated from my belongings for up to a half hour while dozens of strangers are walking past them and could easily pluck my wallet or computer out of them.

2. Being asked to wait directly next to the luggage X-ray machines. I think most know that we're specifically not thrilled about that.

3. Got an "extra-thorough" pat-down by a guy who claimed it was in the name of security and procedure.

4. Teasing/harassment for not trusting the X-ray machines.

Between this latest opt-out opt out and the collaboration with the IRS, I'm going to stop flying soon. I should anyway, as flying is one of the most carbon-awful things you can do.
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