skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The question is whether they:

a) knew it was non-prime, and used it to weaken the crypto

b) knew it was non-prime, and used it because they didn't think it needed to be prime (which is a massive sin of ignorance)

c) grabbed 1024 bits of rand() and didn't check if it was prime (again, stupid)

d) grabbed some rand and checked the prime-ness using a bad method

e) used a "prime number generator" that produced bad output

I agree that making non-prime numbers is not terribly difficult, but the question of how they got the number is only interesting in that it gives info about why.
They work just like any other Markdown file, and you can include a link in the rendered site to edit. See http://ben.balter.com/2015/09/13/github-pages-edit-button/.
"This is what the inherent failure of wikipedia is. It’s that there’s a small set of content generators, a massive amount of wonks and twiddlers, and then a heaping amount of procedural whackjobs. And the mass of twiddlers and procedural whackjobs means that the content generators stop being so and have to become content defenders."

This. Best description of Wikipedia I've read so far.
Bill Gates recounts his early years
I grew up in rural Iowa. My parents are stuck with 3/1 for $85/mo. And it's that or dial up.
Owncloud?
> Why would anyone get mad about that? My wife is a grown adult, she can pay for her own vacation. Farming is my vacation.

All I can say is that you are incredibly lucky if this is a true statement.
This seems to be a contrarian hit-piece with little logic to hold its arguments together, just a series of stabs at Tesla.
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I don't think it's just square footage. Managers also believe (as they have expressed to me) that workers need to be watched.
Love the pebble (3+ yrs). Had an apple watch for a short while but didn't enjoy it all that much. UI was really a disadvantage, but voice control was spectacular (for siri).
Also see http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/02/technology/yahoo-employee-...
The primality test of the original number using gp that archgoon posted takes 6ms on my Sandy Bridge laptop, that's plenty fast. (The new number takes a minute to check, though, so that might really be too long)
Yahoo's core business breaks even. If they would write down their setup capital and shift into "maintenance mode" (which probably involves layoffs, sure) they could generate modest dividends more-or-less indefinitely. Instead they're diving headlong into a downward spiral that can only end in being bought or declaring bankruptcy, and they'll destroy good, potentially-modestly-profitable products in the process of chasing that big hail mary.
Yep, that was my idea at first too! But in the summer I see people in flip flops and shorts :-) Execs still wear suits, but us lowly engineers not so much.
LOL, even the copyright link... which goes to a 404.
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I want to know what folks are doing with their terminal. Can you share your terminal customization? Any special plugins you are using?
Then again, this is wholly academic. It's not like, if it's A, the committer is going to say "yup im NSA u caught me lol."
We don't have any automated tools for combining zaps into multistep zaps right now - unfortunately. Seems like it could be useful though!
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NixOS (or Guix) seems like an ideal platform for building service-based architectures. I don't understand why it's not more popular. CoreOS seems to be extremely popular in that space, despite working against a somewhat crappy package manager (portage from Gentoo) and with all of the declarative stuff slapped on top in a quite heavy-handed way. With CoreOS, you roll entirely new images whenever you have a change to deploy. So, the goals are the same, but the mechanisms are so very different as to make them look like they're solving different problems. I'm pretty sure I prefer the way NixOS is going about it.

That said, I've not used either in production. But, Nix was the first time I've looked at a new package manager and thought, "OK, someone finally improved on RPM/yum or deb/apt." Most of the time, I look at new package managers and just find myself running down a list of all of the ways they've failed to even replicate the power/flexibility/reliability of those now-ancient package managers, and usually without any really good reason. It's a cool side effect of a superior package manager that so much other stuff comes easily or automatically.

Anyway, this is a really cool idea, and something I want to look into more. You get so much of the "declarative and predictable" elements you want in a service-based architecture for free with Nix, while so many other solutions are bolted on clumsily.
Google search tax conspiracy
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Well, statistically, and historically, that has been the case.

Whether it shouldn't be or not, is another matter, but men don't buy Wedding magazines or care to watch rom-coms ending with marriages as much.
OT: I learned about Odin's two Ravens two days ago. Baader-Meinhoff is in full effect.
Is it just me or is there no discussion of the salaries being adjusted for, at least, rough cost of living? I am guessing that all we are really looking at is the effectiveness of the Universities placing people in high salary markets due to cost of living.
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Neither are listed on the site.
Would you say that more recent methods allow us to talk about degree of language similarity in a way that is objective enough and meaningful/useful enough that the results are not "for entertainment value only"?
But note that they can make exceptions to the pay scale (at least, move you around under the overall cap).
> it's also pretty laughable to think that the NSA has an exhaustive list of encryption vulnerabilities

Why not? They have enough mathematicians and cryptographers on payroll that they can analyse the major protocols and software that is used. If you look at the recent attacks on TLS - especially the downgrade attacks to export grade ciphers they would be stupid to not exploit this for targeted attacks.

That being said I doubt they'll have very good mathematical attacks as a lot of researchers look at this stuff but implementation bugs, side channel attacks and plain bugs are plenty.

most of the world runs openssl or CryptoAPI - why not spend a few man years looking through these implementations?

Well at least if I where them I'd have some programmers to come up with automatic bug finding techniques and fuzz the hell out of existing applications.

They also likely don't care about your encrypted facebook chat but government infrastructure, mobile telecommunication providers and lots of important enterprises are probably pretty often on their "we need to get in list" if you can decrypt captured encrypted traffic - I imagine this would be a huge net win.
it is the same clear path as unix vs closed source research. perhaps there will be some achievements privately, but all mind and matter is interco-mingled already and forever. secrets are just another way of saying "obscure path" ... feels?
That is pretty clever. We also let you rewrite the "hook" - or shrink it - or even augment it!
Why would that be illegal? There is nothing illegal about having other priorities than maximizing shareholder value. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiduciary#Fiduciary_duties_und....
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We already know that there are likely billions of planets which are likely to be similar to Earth in terms of temperature, size and being terrestrial.

The only question here is that even here on Earth, out of the tens of millions of species, only one is capable of creating advanced technology.

I am almost certain life exists elsewhere, but likely not intelligent.
Ah, I am referring to the use case where the site is rendered clientside via Jekyll, then uploaded to the x.github.io repo. (which lets you use plugins, among other things, which is why I thought that was the more frequent use case). Not the loading-markdown-directly workflow.
I remember when this was a breaking story.

At first, they claimed that some bodies had been improperly stored as they were awaiting repairs to the retort.

Then, when the scope of the issue became known, I wondered the same thing. How long did they think they could keep stacking bodies without anyone noticing them?

I don't believe they ever thought that far ahead.
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Finally managed to kick my Clash of Clans habit the other day. I realized I had been logging in 1-2x/day for multiple years with maybe a couple weeks of breaks after buying shields around the holidays.

My life has become increasingly cluttered with feeds, needing to login to games I like to get bonuses and such, and it has started to pile up so I decided I needed to make some changes, starting with CoC.

At first I had a lot of anxiety because the mechanics of the game would penalize me pretty harshly if I was away for a few days/weeks and wanted to come back. The lizard part of my brain started urging me to play it in a way that was so urgent it felt like I could almost reach out and touch it.

But I had deleted the app from my device, and I sat myself down and told myself that those urges had no weight because the consequences would never be felt since I wasn't going to play the game again.

Now I'm past the hump, and while I still have many more things on my list to extricate from my life in my path towards simplifying things, I definitely feel a bit better. One less responsibility.

Don't get me wrong--I'm still a gamer, and likely will always be to some degree. But I'm so jaded by games with super transparent mechanics like this that they are starting to lose their hold over me. Started playing Pillars of Eternity last night and it was refreshing to get into something story-driven that didn't devote a significant chunk of the initial gameplay to introducing me to various IAP mechanics.
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Come on, it's not that much of a stretch from where we are today. We're basically talking about a 3-D printer capable of printing itself, solar panels, an ion engine, and whatever it takes to grind up asteroid surfaces to gather raw materials for the printer.

In another comment, I described the odds of these probes arising as

P(probes) = 1 - (1 - P(a civ can launch a probe)) ^ N(civ)

and unless P(can launch) is zero, not just really small, I think that we can conclude that N(civ) is not a very large number.
There was nothing "obvious" about it.

If anything the "common obvious wisdom" was the exact opposite: that you should "think positive".

Besides, proving the obvious is part of science. It's not enough to see that something holds, you also need to prove it.

You'd be surprised how hard proofs for "the obvious" in math can be, and even more surprise at how useful they can turn out to be.
I worked at a startup where we had a few people from MIT and Stanford.

When investors came visiting they would be introduced "this is Mike from MIT" where other people who were at least as qualified as the ivy leaguers would get ignored. The VCs seemed impressed. They didn't even need a network. The name of the school was enough to stand out.

Result is that the Stanford and MIT guys would often start their own VC funded companies.

Elite institutions are a very powerful brand. And their reputation gets amplified in the media with headlines "Yale researchers discover...", "MIT develops..."
> I mean like, how does a binary decision select for things that are not even correlated to survival or reproduction but merely comfort?

If you're referring to

> For example, lets say the human anorectal angle was specifically "evolved" for pooping while squatting. Is it a "just so" story or did the exact anorectal angle contribute SO MUCH to survival or reprosuction that it became the standard for bipedal humans?

I don't think you need to assume that the particular angle and arrangement of organs there was evolved "for comfort", any more than we need to assume that fingers evolved for efficiently typing on keyboards.

The simplest explanation is that the particular angle is just one that happened to work - and then, given the way our bodies work, we try to find the most comfortable posture to poop in. It could have easily been the case that any other angle would also have been the default, and maybe we'd be most comfortable pooping while standing, sitting, or some other posture.
"Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products" by Nir Eyal and Ryan Hoover is a really interesting read on this subject. For me it was eye-opening to think about app development from a behavioral and psychological perspective, albeit manipulative.

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You know, I never know what to make of that logic - what if that tiny probability was exactly this one time? It's not like we saw it happen twice, and it could happen at some point. To my gut it seems you can't really know until you have other positive or negative observations.

I wonder if someone has compiled a list of very improbable events that have been observed.
Like everyone else says, "good" is a state of mind. For my exceedingly meagre needs I find GNOME's "Planner" to be, at the very least, a good way of knocking up Gantt charts quickly.
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>Really? This is an extremely easy bug to write, and given the way Microsoft APIs tend to work, I'd bet the layering of their code made it difficult to spot.

Their APIs work that way due to ineptitude.
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Someone should really write a set of unit tests available in every conceivable language, marked as "Please copy this unit test into your test base, and use it to verify all your primes are prime".

You can even make it a bit fuzzy- Miller-Rabin uses random numbers, right? So make it that every time the unit test is run it generates new random values. Your test won't be deterministic, but it will fail at least some of the time which should be enough to raise an alarm of a problem.
Semi-related, it's hard to imagine being defrauded out of cremation remains, but it's apparently quite likely to happen during pet cremations (due to the cost to run the machines, multiple smaller pets are processed at the same time and you won't necessarily get back what you sent).

This Freakonomics episode goes into more detail:
http://freakonomics.com/2013/10/14/the-troubled-cremation-of...
Hearse to transport the body to the crematorium. The ashes were put in a styrofoam box.
Also check out John McPhee's Control of Nature on the topic.
You have an account only 947 days old.

While I can attest that HN has always had a significant amount of startup stuff, that was nowhere near the entirety of the site.

I remember when the front page was filled entirely with Erlang articles, for example, and I'm damn sure no more than a tiny fraction of HN was using or considering Erlang for production at that time.
Ask HN: Any Opinions on the X-Team Freelancing Platform?
Today I came across X-Team (https://x-team.com) for the first time and was surprised I'd never heard of them. I've been a freelancer for 2 years now and still struggle with building a sales pipeline and the "feast or famine problem".

My first impression is that they look similar to TopTal, which makes me slightly apprehensive since TopTal was fairly uniformly slammed on this Ask HN thread from ~6 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10107448

So has anybody used X-Team? Or am I just chasing an illusion with these "freelancer platforms" because by definition they are a huge middleman that will suck the profitibility out of all the gigs on their platforms?
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Moore's account is ... largely fictional.

That's a pretty strong statement to make -- but you aren't providing any specifics to contradict (or weaken) any of the claims he's making. At best you seem to be providing side arguments -- that is, counterspin. But you aren't giving us anything that would help us evaluate what the guy is actually saying, one way or the other.

Other than the fact that he's Michael Moore, and you apparently don't like him.
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> But one doesn't stay a part of the Triple Comma Club™ if they spend like she was spending as CEO. (without some sort of replenishment)

Her net worth is around $300 million. I'm sure she could maintain her spending habits off interest alone.
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I doubt he means it for someone to actually use...