skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the other hand, Yahoo is already dead and has only been kept alive by that Alibaba stake. Taxes or not, it's the only thing keeping the lights on.
No need for encryption. Sufficiently advanced compression will give signals apparently perfect entropy.
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>> Unfortunately, if you don't know how to factor p then you can't easily do that.

The link says they don't know where p came from. Presumably someone constructed it as a product of primes known only to them. I don't recall the state of the art in factorization, but if 1024 bits can be factored easily that's news to me. So the weakness would only be exploitable to whomever created p.

Why nobody checked the primality of it IDK.
Slack has IRC gateway too ;-)
Windows-as-a-Service. Good or bad for security?
Of course it's not possible to 100% block ALL scrapers, much like the debate surrounding obfusticating javascript.

The point is to increase the cost of developing a scraper to a maxima where ROI begins to rapidly deteriorate. I'm trying to identify techniques and methods which will:

- identify real users apart from bot users

- increase the costs for the bot
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So how about them balloons tho? PR train running out of steam already? Starting a new one? Pay no attention to ad revenue behind the curtain.
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It also doesn't actually do very much sentiment analysis at all unlike the title says.
I have no problem with drivers thinking it's USB. That's not the same as actively sabotaging it and making accusations ("NON GENUINE DEVICE FOUND!") they can't prove.
While I agree with the idea that nutritionism is reductionist of complex systems, I see price per nutrition to be an improved model over price per lb. Maybe once upon a time price per lb made sense because not everyone could get enough lbs. But now we can get plenty of lbs, but not everyone can get enough nutrition.

On the nutritionism note, I also think we'll increasingly improve the model to a point where something like Soylent v315 will actually be superior nutritionally to any complex diet that a human could eat. Right now its so simple that you can do better with a chicken salad, but someday soylent may encompass phytonutrients, chemical supplements, nanorobots, pre/probiotics, factors based on your genetics, medicines prescribed etc etc... IMO the complexity of nutrition will eventually outstrip the typical human's ability (or will) to eat very complex "meals".
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Well, it isn't known who provided the number in the first place. Whoever that unknown party is presumably knows the factorization they used to construct p. This could be a state, or could be a criminal enterprise. Better not to trust it!
Don't forget the people like myself with learning disabilities that require tech to organize and communicate. If schools were more willing to accept students who needed to use technology rather than writing them off as lazy or 'slow' the world would be a better place.
In the case of humans this is obviously just not an issue, though, since we're perfectly capable of existing healthily without killing/eating meat/etc (in fact, it's way more efficient). For other animals, I don't know that we have an obligation to provide welfare for eg spiders and butterflies beyond our own habits, but it's an interesting question.
>> I always wonder if when things like this get found, there's someone in the NSA going "Wow they finally found it, only took them x years"

I would guess they were aware of the problem weather they created it or not. So yes.
So, a VPS on OVH hardware? You could save a little money by skipping the middleman :)

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Because Google?
There is the Funerals Consumer Alliance. https://www.funerals.org/

I think the chapters are all locally run. I went to a local meeting when my mom had terminal cancer. They had a list of local funeral homes with guaranteed prices, and had some agreement with FCA to honor the prices.
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It is good to keep this in mind. For now, I have only plugged the thing in to a power bank, and transferred files to it via scp, just to see if things would work. Next on the list is to put together a customized OpenWrt build (one that actually has everything in place for bridging) and will remember this when preparing the config file for opkg.
The von Neumann probe is an interesting thought experiment, but practically speaking, what reason would there be for anyone to ever create one (assuming it would ever be possible)?
The vast majority of universities are not going to get you a strong network. Additionally, the vast majority of high school students are fed a line that focuses on the academics and minimizes or ignores the networking.
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Maybe this has already been asked, but the part that I struggle to understand is what about TX ? I mean is a smartphone going to have enough wattage to beam a message back to this drone ? If not then what's the plan for solving that 1/2 of the equation.
Thanks for the mention! Mattermost team here, just to add, there's an option to use Mattermost as an IRC server via: https://github.com/42wim/matterircd

So if part of your team wants to stay on IRC and part wants to use Mattermost with file sharing and messaging across PC and phone, and integrate with Mattermost apps (http://www.mattermost.org/community-applications/) all that is available.
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Right, but a phd is a different case than a bachelors. UT Austin is also a solid school.
How on earth could it get more obvious to tick the tickbox labelled 'log'?

How you search the created logfiles is up to you, znc is not a log management system, it merely creates.
The Parse situation is different because many there are companies betting their entire infrastructure on Parse. Moving from HipChat to Slack took a couple of days. Moving from Slack to whatever comes next won't take any longer.

Also, supporting your opinion with a coincidence (Facebook killing Parse) does not give you a "sound position".
UCLA creates graphene barrier to control molecules for making nanoelectronics
Is the reason English is closer to Danish because the Anglo-Saxons spoke something like that or is it because of Vikings conquering parts of England for a while?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danelaw
> “She said there are going to be no layoffs ‘this week,’ and many of the employees laughed at her,” said one insider, who, fearing retribution, asked not to be named.

Isn't this a sign that the modern corporation hierarchy is just a continuation of feudalism with smartphones? At least in Yahoo it seems.
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I dont. I'm not defending FTDI's actions w/r/t their driver, just pointing out that ftdi does currently fill the market niche of "reliable, good usb-serial devices", and while I'd love for someone else to provide equivalent chips without the shit ftdi pulls, no one else has.
It might be useful to make an LD_PRELOAD library that does the translation.
Oh well I underestimated that figure...
> Melissa

Marissa

> I wonder how easy it'll be for her to find a job

Marissa's net worth is well into nine figures. I wouldn't worry about her too much.

And she can always run for president as a Republican.
You missed the point. I'm not arguing that civilizations would be likely to launch self-replicating probes. What I am asserting is that the probes will be out there UNLESS every single actor capable of launching a self-replicating probe chooses to not do so, and that over billions of years and hundreds of billions of stellar systems in the Local Group, that probability is vanishingly small. All it takes is one launch; if it's possible, it'll happen. And it hasn't. So either there's never been a civilization that launched a self-replicating probe, or it's not possible, or we're the first or only civilization to approach that level.
If you have multiple zaps that could be one multi-step zap - do you have a way to merge them?
The author gave users two weeks of advance notice. Some are (rightly) pointing out that this doesn't give the users much time to react, but would a three-month or six-month notice really have been that much better? How likely is it that the set-top box manufacturer would see the warning, as long as things were running smoothly?

The only thing guaranteed to get users' attention is failure. One interesting approach would be a three-month period of increasingly likely failure (HTTP 403 or 410 or 444 or whatever). Start with a 1% chance of failure. Double that a few days later. And so on. Fail enough to get users' attention, so that they visit your website, see the warning, and react -- but not enough (initially) to cause irreparable harm.

Thoughts?
I went to a mid-size state school in Texas for music before switching to CS. The school isn't known for CS, but it turned out that we have a better post-grad employment rate that UT Austin, though I'm not sure if that says much given the size difference. Here are my thoughts based on my experience.

Pros for the more prestigious school:

1- A well-known school will mean that you're more likely to get an interview and an offer fresh out of college, everything else being equal. There are smart people in less-known schools, but there are more that skate by also. A good student that went to an average school could still find a great job, but would need to try harder (and face more rejection) to do so.

2- A well-known school will mean you will have a better network of students, and probably be more likely to start personal and group projects that will look good when you start the job hunt.

3- More research opportunities. Important if you plan on going to grad school.

Pros of the less prestigious school:

1- Way less money. I can't imagine that going to a great school without a ton of help from scholarships and grants would even be remotely worth it.

2- Smaller class sizes. I could go to my professors whenever, and they knew me quite well even though I almost never went to see them. The entire department was on one floor of a fairly small building. You don't have to work to get your name known or get help.

I'm sure that a prestigious college has better students and a better network, but the education given by the institution may not be that different. The tuition difference is huge, and I would guess that differences between two talented students with different educations would disappear after a few years in industry. If I did it again, I would probably go to a different school, but not one that was much more in tuition. Although I don't think my education held me back. I probably would have had a few more interviews and maybe one more offer (that I did interview for) with a different school on my resume.
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Nice catch. Now, the real question is who committed it, and how they came up with the number.

If it is a backdoor, it's pretty smart, because it's very deniable as a "stupid mistake". And if it's a stupid mistake, it's extra stupid, because this committer will have trouble convincing the world that that's all it was. At the very least, somebody needs to be going through all this person's commits with a fine-toothed comb.

The methods of handling situations like this in the face of a known threat is going to be interesting. You hate to ban or hinder a good programmer from a project, but once possibly-bitten, twice shy.
(In over 20 years) I've been laid off 3 times.

I know how much it sucks the first & second time, but once you see the warning signs there is no glory in hanging around.

For me, being laid off (or resigning) is just another skill I got better at (like learning a new tech stack or framework).

You are right, with leadership like that, the environment must be toxic...
Nifty, thanks. I've been lucky enough to be able to default to microcontrollers with usb-serial built in recently, but that's lookkng to be short lived...
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Microsoft’s Project Natick brings data centers underwater
>As for Melissa, I wonder how easy it'll be for her to find a job.

There are only so many logo tweaking jobs.
Yep, when you consider points 1-3 (plus filtering for some intelligence), the schools could basically just have you memorize Pokemon esoterica all day, and it would still look like a "great education".

In that case, college's apologists would still give the same rationalizations about "Pokemon dynamics teach you how to learn, and give you a broader view of the world, and the Pokemon evolution system helps you better structure your thoughts for clear communication, which is obviously why it improves your earnings and is a must-have for being a well-rounded individual who doesn't just fix toilets all day".
Seconded. Excellent book. I read it over a decade ago and was just thinking the other day I'd like to revisit it.
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That does seem pretty efficient for numbers of this size; thanks for the example!
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It irks me that in security advisories that fix a possible backdoor—like here—sometimes no root cause analysis is done or communicated to the public. Who chose this parameter? Who wrote the code? Who committed it? So I did a little sleuthing...

Here is the commit introducing the non-prime parameter (committed by Gerhard Rieger who is the same socat developer who fixed the issue today): http://repo.or.cz/socat.git/commitdiff/281d1bd6515c2f0f8984f...

The commit message reads: "Socat did not work in FIPS mode because 1024 instead of 512 bit DH prime is required. Thanks to Zhigang Wang for reporting and sending a patch." So a certain Zhigang Wang presumably chose this prime. Who is he?

Apparently he is an Oracle employee involved with Xen and Socat. Here is a message he wrote: http://bugs.xenproject.org/xen/bug/19

So why has Gerhard seemingly not asked Zhigang how he created the parameter?
I take issue with the premise that a fleet of perfect self-replicating von Neumann probes is "slightly" beyond our current level of technical aptitude.
I already do that, actually, via Dropbox (shudder). But plaintext based systems, particularly the symbol-heavy ones, suck terribly on virtual keyboards.
When you change locations, your pay rate is also changed, correct?
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It was cheap and Stripe is secure. I could part with $9 to play around with a potentially shitty service. I was going to run an instance of Lenny on Asterisk, so it's not like I was doing anything important with this.
>Latex and InDesign are intended for different purposes

Page layout is what LaTeX and InDesign are intended to do, and that's what Microsoft Word does too. Do you think Word users are only using it for a text editor?
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