skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd argue Comodo isn't a security company. It's a software company that markets software which intends to have a positive effect on one aspect of your security (namely, malware). They're using 20 yearold ineffective techniques to do attempt to have a positive effect on your security, and whether there is a positive, negative, or neutral net effect is to be debated.

They continue to make hundreds of millions of dollars, so they keep going.

Edit: are you talking about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8866784 ? I'd have thought a company like whitehatsec would be able to do a better job with a browser.
Cups of coffee...
> atom, which presents an extremely similar text editing experience compared to the experience the text area already provided

Well, that's just rude. Atom is a customizable, programmable, featureful text editor. You can certainly believe that Vim is better, but you shouldn't think that on the spectrum from browser textarea to Vim, Atom is close the textarea side.
It is not illegal to hunt small game with an AR-15. Many people on Texas ranchland use ARs and similar rifles for pest management.

ARs are a very reasonable general purpose rifle. Medium size rounds, cheap parts, lots of flexibility, highly standardized, easy to maintain.

It's also disingenuous to ignore recreational shooting. Hunting and home defense are not the only uses for firearms.

In the case of militiamen, it's also a perfectly good combat rifle. The US military has been using it since Vietnam with mostly success (excepting a few early issues).
Give me hover text over everyone I talk to that shows their name and I'll gladly pay a couple thousand for that one feature.

Heck make it only for people I've met before, that's fine.
> One thing that we wanted to try but didn't have time was to learn a generalization of convolution. Since convnets are a special case of fully-connected nets with some weights tied and some set to zero, we were thinking of ways to parameterize this weight tying that included both fully-connected and convnets as a special case.

I see, that's cool. So you could define a 'symmetry operator' the defines a regularization term as e.g. k * sum_{ij}[(w_{ij} - w_{i+i',j+j'})^2] (modulo my hand-wavy tensor indexing). Then the dk tells you how much a layer wants to be a convolution and di', dj' tells you what convolution kernel size it wants to be.

(edit: made less badly articulated)
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So you're defending monocultures as virtuous? OK then. Don't feel like arguing that point...

But you're also ignoring the massive amounts of money and legal effort made by, e.g. Apple, in order to guarantee that such a monoculture develops. You have to willfully ignore things (like their choice to make non-Apple text messages green instead of blue) in order to claim that it came about organically. There is a concerted effort to create an us vs. them mentality, which always sucks for "them."

Obv. the same isn't true for GitHub., but I don't want to argue the (de)merits of monocultures in general. I take for granted in this thread that they're a bad thing.
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You can find motherboards and other components on eBay. http://www.laptopinventory.com/ has a very good catalog and excellent how-to videos. I have done parts replacement on a few of my laptops (screens, keyboards, touchpads) and if you have ever added RAM to a laptop the process for the other components is not really any different.
You can use something like Divvy (Paid - on AppStore) or Spectacle (Free - https://www.spectacleapp.com/) to achieve the same effect

I personally use Divvy because Spectacle didn't exist when I first started using mac
> "common-denominator"

Also known as normal people.
Still, I could buy 3-4 of my old eeePCs for the price of a Mac Air, and neither is really in the same form-factor. When you're working an $8/hour work-study job for your discretionary income, that price differential matters. The eee was also great for fitting on those comically tiny lecture hall chair-desk surfaces that a 10-13 inch laptop would swallow up, with room to spare for a honking big container of bad, strong coffee.
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Many top researchers have a grudge against the shortcomings of Nature, especially given its reputation.

They published papers with fairly weak research for overhype many times already.

One example is the infamous Barabasi-Albert paper on the preferential attachment. It contains many false claims, bad math and extraordinary assertions that would be excusable in some vulgarization for TV, much less for a research paper. They could at least have upped the paper before publication.

There are many much worse examples, that you can find on retractionwatch.com among other places.
I'd be more interested in a generic solution that makes a live mapping from webkit internals to files via FUSE.

(I have zero experience with webkit to know if this is a reasonable undertaking.)
In context, I'm sure the parent commenter meant "a random key the same length as the plaintext", not a repeating key or a reused key.
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This reads like a classic sale script. Cut costs(hence the 15% cuts), focus on generating revenue (comments about focusing on core areas), then sell the business. Should be interesting
So had a big talk with the CEO, it seems like I'll go out and search for a new job. NYC is a big city, lots of chances to do better stuff than fight windmills.
Thank you kind stranger. I'll check it out.
I would like to eventually see a "science results build system", where experimenters can register (preferably ahead of time) the analytical methods they will use to analyze their data, expressed as runnable code. Any data sets already available, on which they plan to rely, will be similarly registered and made available to the "build system".

When the study is complete, the researchers upload their data, in as raw a form as technology permits. All analysis performed on the data to achieve the results should be expressed through runnable code evaluated by the build system. Ideally 100% of this code would be registered in advance, though to be realistic, in practice we'd find some of it to be written along the way.

Whether the code is registered in advance or written and registered along the way, in both cases the build system will have the complete code and data set, and will be able to reproduce the results. Ideally the experimenters simply take the output of the build system as their actual results. The scientific community will have complete visibility into the analytical methods of the study, since all data and analysis will have been captured by the build system.

The build system would ideally be agnostic to tooling and data format. Perhaps it is something like a data store alongside a runtime platform, capable of taking a virtual machine image and a data set, and executing the VM with the data set as input.

Tagline: "GitHub for scientific data and runnable experimental analysis"
Why not spend the same money to support free software? If you have the money and time to throw to Microsoft, which benefits no-one but Microsoft, why not give it to the free software community so everyone benefits?
Wrong. It's just not secure in all contexts e.g. your example where you have a known plaintext that you can use to crack the key which then lets you decrypt something encrypted with the same key. You're discovering why XOR isn't widely used in a real-world setting.
Thanks. Yup.
I use and recommend It's All Text as well, but Atom is a programmer's editor, and if someone prefers Atom as their editor of choice, they'd find it a massive improvement over a browser textarea.
Github posted the release for the windows compiled binary with an updated OpenSSH to 7.1p2.
I don't know if I could install Vim on my father's Chromebook (probably yes), but I do know it came preinstalled! That makes it a computer too, right?
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A voting "study" that claims to include in its survey population a grand total of 2.5 Republicans (5% of ~50). I hope they at least surveyed the right half of the half person.
Try the Lazarus extension. It keeps a history of form fields. It saved my butt more than once.
Somehow having 8 gb RAM with no upgrade option doesn't signal high end machine to me.
To my recollection, you could buy a small laptop or a cheap one, but the combination was almost impossible to find until netbooks came out. Before them, it was the UMPC/Project Origami craze, and they cost $700+.

Even in '09, the cheap subnetbook market was very badly served. I got a 12" HP DV2, but it cost me $500, and that because it was on sale, since it originally retailed for $730.
It's interesting that the Alibaba holdings are more of a liability than an asset in this situation.

YHOO is essentially a proxy for BABA, nothing Yahoo does affects the stock price in any meaningful way, and the value of the core business is effectively negative, if you subtract the post-tax value of Alibaba, Yahoo Japan, and cash on hand. But the value of a declining business with billions in revenue each year must be positive.

So selling off Alibaba and Yahoo Japan is the best bet, except you have investors demanding that it be done tax-free, so you can't just sell them, even though the decline of the value of Alibaba during the time it takes to do this process might be larger than the taxes. If Alibaba keeps going down in value, selling it now gives you more money than selling it tax-free in the future. But that might still get you sued by the shareholders, which is stupid.

A reverse spin-off, i.e. selling the core business, has some funny implications as well. Many employees are on work visas, which are tied to a specific employer at a specific address. If this changes, all of those visas become invalid. Obviously, selling the assets and shrinking the market cap, would make it much easier for someone to buy Yahoo.
Very good article. Our humble startup is not hiring anyone right now but we'd certainly welcome you aboard. Great software is built by a great team, not by genders. Keep strong.
If you want to get tricky, you could build a mobile app that can tell what netflix show you're watching based on audio data ala Shazam.

Maybe you could talk to these guys who have done exactly that for figuring out viewership numbers (maybe they'll want to share the tech): http://www.wired.com/2016/01/meet-symphony-the-company-that-...

Or maybe see if you can use http://echoprint.me/ or build your own http://royvanrijn.com/blog/2010/06/creating-shazam-in-java/

[EDIT]: Or maybe a wearable app, so that you don't have to have your phone out? It could potentially warn you about TV/movies too just by vibrating.
I'm just trying to be a pragmatist. I am a staunch advocate of conservation and of the environment. I think those that have downvoted me have mistaken me for someone who is disagreeing with climatologists. However, that's on me for not communicating effectively. I should have made that stuff into a separate post or just not posted at all, lol.

What I'm saying is that it in the long run, humanity may well be doomed for the things we've put into play in the environment. That would be bad. I don't think that we'll kill off ALL living organisms. Earth will definitely survive, and I think that life on Earth will also likely survive. That life may well only be single celled organisms. Who knows.
Oh I see. The title of this post didn't say "for OSX" originally.
How do you back up / replicate? How would you recover from your sandstorm instance failing?
I started to look for sources to refute claim #1, but found several firearms manufacturers' websites that affirmed it. I was pretty shocked.

I would still encourage use of a shotgun loaded with buckshot for home defense, since that same search engine query returned many results of state and federal cases where houses football fields away were penetrated by stray .223 rounds. Buckshot won't have the range to maim or kill compared to the NATO 5.56 round.
Some fitness trackers vulnerable to monitoring, U of T study finds
> Those set top box people would have forked over whatever he asked for a couple weeks at least while they scrambled for a cheaper solution

The cheaper solution is to let their customers suffer the outage. Android-based STBs are not the most profitable of businesses (their business model is to aggregate copyright-infringing streams from the Internet and slap a self-contained UI on top of that). They're like $20 a pop delivered.
Everyone needs to be ham licensed, and you would probably want to identify a mountain repeater you could use. Given those two things, sure!
Do we now need hypervalidation sets?
Fixed.

And yeah, he only won 52% to 46% (w/ 4% margin of error), despite spending 7x.

* Walker Spending Dollars: $30.5 million

* Barret Spending Dollars: $4 million

* Walker cost per vote: $23.10

* Barret cost per vote: $3.49

Thanks for interfering with another state's recall, I guess. You fell for their schtick that the entire country was threatened, when in reality it was just WI public sector workers losing their universal rights.
<Alt-PrintScreen> -> Paste -> Click [Process Whole Image]

Looks convenient, but what is the typical use case?
"This guy was annoying af throwing shade erry chance he got. Ain't nobody got time for that."
Does anybody have any good links explaining what caused the population decline in Japan?
I have tried this extension in Chrome; it doesn't quite do what I'm getting it, as the extension converts the markdown once and doesn't let you edit it afterwards.
> Each of the devices uses Bluetooth technology that emits a signal and a unique ID that can be detected even when the tracker is not paired with a mobile phone.

Can't you do the same thing with cell phones with bluetooth turned on? Or even headsets?
"Using an older version of OS X can create issues as well, if the developer decides not to support it."

I fail to see how this isn't a problem for stuff sold outside the App Store as well.
Google to manipulate search results to deter would be terrorists
Not sure if you watched the video or not. The advice, in context, described what happened after my first startup failed. The first startup was recognized as a failure and I had to admit defeat and let my staff go. This is, to your point, acknowledging when it simply won't work.

However, the message of "Quitting is Lying to Yourself" is that if you have the spirit of an entrepreneur, telling yourself that you'll never do it again is lying to yourself because you know you will find a passion and feel the desire and need to build something new.
Prior to the Internet, cipher schemes existed that could delay or foil the best government analysts, and that took significant government efforts to even attempt to crack. It was never illegal to use such a code and transmit the result on a letter, postcard, or phone. And a government warrant would not compel the decipherment of such a scheme, unless someone had possession of a physical key usable for decipherment.

The two differences now: we've made that technology available to non-experts, and we hope that no amount of government effort can crack the scheme (as opposed to obtaining the key).

I agree with your comment that it's not a "fake crisis", though. It's one with only one right answer, but it's a "crisis" in the sense that no possible path forward will make both parties happy, so we fundamentally need the government to either realize they're wrong or to lose. Government positions don't change easily, and governments do not like to lose.

While it bothers me to see terms like "common ground" used, as they imply that both positions have grounds worth considering, I do think one of the few paths that has a hope of success is to convince the government that there exists a position they can adopt that doesn't look like it goes back on their current stance.
If this isn't ratified, I think a lot of programmers are about to learn why free trade agreements are a good thing.
I am not sure how I feel about this. Responsible or is it opening a big can of worms? What other behaviour will they start trying to deter?
We do feel responsible for the poor of other countries, that is why people donate and participate in charity to such large degrees, and the US spends billions on international aid every year.

However, unless these nations concede sovereignty to the US, we cannot be held responsible for the bad behavior of nation states and be expected to make up for their failings with our own sacrifice.

If everyone wanted to voluntarily join a world government that also provided UBI to every human being I would absolutely be for it, in the knowledge that I would certainly lose a lot of first world conveniences to uplift the extreme poor in third world nations. We could get away with spending a lot less on entertainment and excess and more on guaranteeing human decency to everyone.

But when you start talking about using force of arms to force my own ideals on others and compel them to participate, that is well over a line. It would require the mutual desire and cooperation of everyone to try it.
I know that actually making Windows open source would not be trivial. I am focusing on the freedom to distribute as a first step. And yes I know it is up to MS whether to actually do this too of course.
Which laptop & smartphone CPUs are you talking about?

I haven't kept up with news lately. Could you post some links
Yep. Speaking specifically about developing for OS X only vs. multiplatform, there are big tradeoffs to be made by taking multiplatform options outright. In my eyes, nothing is as great for UI-centric desktop application development as Obj-C/Swift paired with Cocoa/AppKit. It just works so well, and though Qt is probably the best of native multiplatform solutions it’s still not comparable.
Awesome! I'm happy to help test - email in profile.
And lost it, and was looking for a replacement.
> >> I can turn your comment on its head and it works quite well: we can't settle for technically inferior free software if we want to see a world in which users can control their computers.

> > Well, users can't control their computers in that example. They can hope to control their computers, or hope that the developers which actually control their computers don't do anything nasty to them.

> I don't mean to speak for hyperpape, but I think that was the point: it's evident that some users value convenience/features/usability/etc over the control of their computers, so unless free software is as good or better than nonfree alternatives then these users won't have control.

If that is their choice, sure. But most users I've talked to (this is completely anecdotal, and I usually talk to strong-willed people) recognise the importance of free software and will do something about it. Maybe they won't replace all of their software with free software, but they usually are willing to lose some non-mission-critical functionality.

And besides, free software usually has better features, but that's not the pitch we should give. It's the wrong lesson to teach. The right lesson would be "it has almost anything you want and if you want more you can modify it, pay someone to improve it or ask a community to improve it without dealing with a company or developer which doesn't give a shit about you." Why not start the conversation about free software with "it respects your freedom, and usually has more features / is more reliable but you have the freedom to improve it or get others to improve it for you" rather than just "it has more features".
is that perhaps it is possible to find 10 extra resource points in the budget and give them to B so that we finish with 50-50.

The point is that A will very often perceive this as a negative outcome.
That's still distributing a copy. Price is irrelevant
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> "This may discourage some of your potential users & contributors, and that may reduce the quality of your project."

> The exact same argument was made about not discouraging non-technical users who don't want to bother with the arcane-ness that is IRC, and the reply was that they don't matter.

Then they can email you if necessary. If there isn't a mail bot which takes email patches (or just emails) and converts them into IRC messages then that's something someone should be working on.
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All web positions. I hope this doesn't imply that the government avoids native mobile!
The point is we can have everything we currently have without resorting to that torture (killing of cows and pigs in slaughterhouses, de-beaking of chickens). Thats what I am trying to eliminate or abate. Animals preying on other animals is natural, and also something they cannot avoid.
Sure. AOL could bring back the Netscape brand, then after merging they could move to Israel: Net 'n Yahoo.
Interesting! Lee Sedol is not even #1 rated Go player on that chart, he's only #5 as of today.
HN is behind the times, but the Boreal app has made it functional on a smartphone by having a responsive design and some other cool features.
That's precisely why I used the word "some"...

The questioner asked about his brother's track record, specifically the potentially negative aspects of that record...public perception, even if shaped or influenced, remains that...truth often doesn't enter into it, just as you correctly allude...thanks for your response...
I don't think that is a fair comparison. Is it unethical to clone the printed menu of a restaurant? The set of dishes it offers to its customers? A single dish?

If your clone would be used in a competing for profit restaurant, I would answer "yes, it is unethical" in all 3 cases (getting inspired by a dish feels different to me, and can easily be ethical, depending on scale and similarity. Getting inspired by 20 dishes from a single restaurant? Unethical in my book, unless there is a truly tremendous lot of inspiration involved.)

The world, however, sees things different for software. For example, you can legally clone the PC BIOS or fonts, as long as you only look at its outside. That is like cloning dishes from a restaurant based only on looking at what they present you when you buy the dish (= without visiting the kitchen, quizzing the cook, or dumpster diving to discover what the ingredients are)

But that is legally. For the first, most people would agree it is ethical. For the second, you'll find differing opinions.

Now, the open source angle adds a twist that makes my answer "it depends/I wouldn't know". Somehow, cloning, say, a product that isn't for sale anymore or doesn't run on modern hardware, and was produced by a huge company feels more ethical than cloning a $5 product created by a single developer who makes just enough to live from it from that product. In either case, cloning feels more ethical to me if it is done for one's own use, more so the less wealthy the cloner (cloning for own use, AFAIK, is legal around the world. For example, you can create a Rietveld chair for your own home, but not sell it or give it away as a present. The first copy of cloned software that you use for yourself, for me, is in the same boat. I know it doesn't make sense, but the millions of additional copies one can make from that 'for own use' software more or less are collateral damage)
A world with smart cables is a dumb world. I want smart devices/adaptors and cheap dumb cables.
Currently, you can back up any particular app instance (grain) by clicking "download backup" in the topbar -- this gives you a .zip of its data, which you can then re-upload to any Sandstorm server. For full-system backups, you'll need to use a standard Linux filesystem backup solution, configured outside of Sandstorm. We (Sandstorm team) plan to add the ability to configure full-system backup through the Sandstorm UI in the future. (Of course, if you use our managed hosting, we are making daily backups.)