skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Though I'm not who you responded to, I'd like to say that I certainly did see warning signs. Sometimes we fought over it, sometimes it made me seem petty (she'd tell me all about her day, but when she asked it seemed more of a token, and she'd get that 10,000 yard stare and eventually tell me she didn't need that kind of detail - and I'm not a long talker). In one instance she left me abandoned at school (frozen door at school), she wouldn't risk the 2 mile or so drive and told me to walk instead (situations being reversed she would have probably left me and I'd have been ostracized for abandoning her). There were many others, but the signs were all there, I think I just ignored them hoping things would get better, etc.
What exactly is the back door that was left in place? Making the secure enclave firmware writable?
https://www.supertasker.com/ by http://www.peopleperhour.com/
And it most definitely is! From the privacy perspective, Apple was foolish to contest the order since this phone is vulnerable to Apple - a storage unit owner unlocks the unit for the police, what legal basis does Apple actually have to resist? Our values are driven by visions of ideal systems that can only be unlocked by their owner, but that is not what Apple has created!

Unfortunately, Apple is peeing in the pool for all of us that actually care about digital freedom. This case will set a terrible precedent, and prime government to preemptively address hypothetical devices that are secure.
In fact, for an ideal cryptographic 256 bit hash function, modeled as a random oracle, it takes an average of 2^128 iterations before reaching a periodic point. The average cycle size of the reached periodic point is also 2^128. There exists a fixed point for your set of files only if the cycle size of the periodic point is 1.

Using the big-step, little-step cycle detection algorithm to avoid using gigantic amounts of memory, you're then looking at an average of 1.5 * 2^129 iterations of updating your graph of 256-bit cryptographic hashes in order to discover you've hit a periodic point.

Offhand, I don't know the probability that there's a fixed point for a given starting point for a random mapping of 256-bit values to 256-bit values, but my intuition is that it's vanishingly small. If anyone has an elegant derivation of the probability, I'd love to see it.
Nothing stops you from dumping the PDFs on the bay afterwards.
Too bad this didn't make it to the front page - this is really incredible; both from a technology and art perspective.
Parallel Iterators Part 1: Foundations
> the day we get an industry-wide standardized versioning system

Never. A hobby project nobody touches, an internal project at a Fortune 10 company, a huge open source project like WordPress, and a moderately successful SaaS app do not need to have identical versioning systems behind them.
What's with the ellipses? Always so awkward reading messages from people who always do the ellipses thing.
Yes, that's the most impressive bit. My best efforts in building a heavily microcoded tiny 16bit core resulted in a minimum of 700 ICE40 cells. Now I know that it's possible to go even further down.
That still doesn't really help the libraries though. It just makes the content more accessible through illicit means.
Three to offer network level ads blocking
Negative interest rates are a non issue if you have any debt, just pay down your house etc faster.

The problem is errors are random so your 'solution' is to keep huge amounts of cash in your checking account to deal with random error.

But, if I max a CC I would still have the cash in my checking account to pay other bills. If I don't have a CC and my checking account is empty I am going to have issues paying rent etc.

PS: Think of a CC as a financial firewall. You still need the cash to pay your bills, but keeping a redundant CC with an unused 15k credit limit is cheap.
I agree with you but that didn't come across well in my comment. My point was to say that it is indeed the same thing, only it sounds different because it took more steps to accomplish.
If $500 seems expensive you might not be ready to start paying somebody $5000 every month, not to mention all the additional expenses that come with having an employee.

You could advertise for 10 months for 1 month salary and it might take that long for an employee to get up to speed and actually contribute anything useful. If you hire the wrong guy it could take longer before they are useful. Not to mention the additional drain on your time as you teach them about your codebase and how you do things.

If you hire the wrong person and have to let them go after a month or two you are out of pocket $20k and back to square one. (And if its not working out I suggest you be prepare to make this tough call)
No content is being given or taken. This is restriction on distribution / copying. Massively different ethics than stealing despite what the Copyright Cabal wants you to think.

The only loss is the energy/bandwidth/cycles WSJ servers spent answering your request. Which, I believe, has been basis of computer "fraud" cases.
Nothing is going to help libraries except local community action to protect them (which I fully support). But that's a separate issue from this archival initiative.

The libraries of today are the community meeting and learning spaces of tomorrow.
The fundamental problem with Semver is that the jump from a 0.x.x series to a 1.0.0 is incredibly difficult to call, and often gets delayed almost indefinitely.

0.9.9 -> 1.0.0 means the opposite of 1.9.9 -> 2.0.0 - the former is an observation of stability ("things are so stable we can leave the 0.x.x series"), the latter is an active statement of a breaking change ("we can't honour the 1.x.x API any longer"). Lots of projects miss the window somewhere around the 0.3.0-0.7.0 versions.

We badly need a Semver', which is identical to Semver but starts from 1.0.0 and removes the 0.x.x rule. React is basically retro-fitting Semver' into their project.
In a years time we'll forget about it and the result of what will happen. And Apple may do it anyway in the quiet so they win customers by publicity and win the government.

If the government want something done, surely it will have to be eventually? What do apple have to win by going up against them? Gov could make their life pretty difficult?
Then what? People, who are reading Daily Mail, will say 'oh nooo it doesn't have the stamp'? No, doubt you care about these things if you're reading it.

And you know what? It's fine. If we don't like some things and don't see them right, doesn't mean that everyone else should. Some people like tabloids and that's alright.

We can't force people to like The Right Thing.
> That's a shame really, we need diversity in tech

Diversity for diversity's sake is not the goal (seems what you're implying, unless I misunderstood).
https://web.archive.org/web/20140625075722/http://www.libres...

> This page scientifically designed to annoy web hipsters. Donate now to stop the Comic Sans and Blink Tags

All the OpenBSD presentations I've read have been in Comic Sans. They really like that font :)
Bitcoin Core v0.12.0 was just released.

From the release notes,

Starting with Tor version 0.2.7.1 it is possible, through Tor's control socket API, to create and destroy 'ephemeral' hidden services programmatically. Bitcoin Core has been updated to make use of this.

This means that if Tor is running (and proper authorization is available), Bitcoin Core automatically creates a hidden service to listen on, without manual configuration. Bitcoin Core will also use Tor automatically to connect to other .onion nodes if the control socket can be successfully opened. This will positively affect the number of available .onion nodes and their usage.

This new feature is enabled by default if Bitcoin Core is listening, and a connection to Tor can be made. It can be configured with the -listenonion, -torcontrol and -torpassword settings. To show verbose debugging information, pass -debug=tor

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/release-n...
“If you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you’ll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks,” Finch tells his daughter. “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view . . . until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.”

Excellently put! All sides of the political spectrum should learn from this, if not to get along with the, to them, despicable other side, than to beat them. Case in point: Until we stop calling Trump backers idiots, racists, etc. (http://thedailybanter.com/2015/09/a-new-gop-poll-proves-trum...) we will be plagued by the likes of him.
That does not follow. RI has to pass the same constitutional muster as CA. We share the same basic ( constitutional ) law, so it would make sense that one provides a basis for another's law because they are under the same purview of the federal courts system.
It's pretty unfair to say Mayer ruined anything. She didn't save Yahoo, but there is no evidence it was ever in a position to be saved by her.
I never said Travis and his team has any control in China. I said I believe in them and that they partnered with strong local investors like Baidu.

My statements aren't "laughable" or "totally naive." You just want to be right huh?
And I call the Justice Department's insistence on getting unfettered access to all communications criminal.
Your quote compares the combined wealth of Chinese politicians with the median wealth of American politicians. That's a misleading statistic if I ever saw one.
Apple airdrop Question
Hi, I have a question regarding airdrop and the awdl process.

It is based on looking at the airdrop process in a similar way to the following https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8656055

I looked at the log files during the transfer during airdrop from my MAC to an iphone and noticed the statement:

“MacBook-Air kernel[0]: ARPT: 296240.061997: AWDL Sync Enabled 1”

I’m wondering if it is synchronizing the bluetooth and WiFi apple wireless direct link some how.

Does anyone understand what this is doing? Thanks for any help.
1970 documentary about Hunter S. Thompson's run for mayor of Aspen
Real-world applications require backend systems with access control, mutable data, certain information being kept secret, and so on - something that seems fundamentally at odds with the design of IPFS.

I don't think that's at odds with the design.

If you want to keep something secret, you encrypt it. If you want to manage access control, you sign it. A client application can discard information that cannot be decrypted, or isn't signed by an authorised key.

You don't get atomicity guarantees of course, but you can often get away without them. I don't see a system like IPFS as a replacement for all of the web, just a sizeable percentage of it.
Holy fuck people get confused. Or maybe it is intentional.
i'm inclined to agree with the justice department here. we need a compromise before govt just takes over and we have a technologically ill-advised government body legally mandating a bad solution (ie crypto of a certain strength becomes illegal for U.S. companies).
I think similar to what mike rogers proposed, a two key system, is an acceptable compromise.
However, instead of the govt having the other key (and reasonably every other government that might want it, which is the primary problem with this system), the manufacturer instead is required to maintain the key. Then only under legal coercion of servicing a warrant would they decrypt a message.
The manufacture has a fiscal responsibility of maintaining their key, as customers would otherwise not buy their products. While the manufacturer is not given the undo burden of recording every message (it is presumed law enforcement has this, but needs to decrypt it). This system gives people access to simple security, while allowing legal action to proceed as it otherwise has prior to widely available encryption. In addition other countries can seek similar legal action, keeping with the laws of their respective countries.

It's going to happen, so lets not fumble like we usually do with progressive shit, and leave it up to the idiots in congress to stumble through an unworkable solution to. Which means, instead of companies playing hardball and just denying requests (basically for PR purposes), they instead proactively design some kind of a compromise system.
So their next move is check if IP is from Google
> Second, our devices are becoming effectively cybernetic extensions of our minds, and this cognitive intimacy definitely warrants a new discussion of boundaries that is not burdened by awkward analogies to historic traditions of the courts.

I guess I just don't believe this.[1] Courts have always been able to compel say your friend or girlfriend to reveal your darkest secrets--stuff that you'd never even write down--but your text messages should be treated differently? It's not like cognitive intimacy didn't exist before electronic devices.

[1] As far as sci-fi philosophy goes, my go-to is WWHIS (What Would Happen in Star Trek). You think the Federation can't compel someone to assist in decrypting a computer?
There are two problems with this.

First, they don't want to. In fact, if a search engine can figure out that a link is going to lead to a paywall, they'll probably want to reduce the ranking of the result, because the user is not going to want results they can't actually look at.

Second, it would be a massive antitrust violation because it would prevent access by competing crawlers. The only way around that is to allow access to anyone who claims they're a crawler, which was the original problem.
You are confusing an engineering process with a legal one.

Unfortunately, when the prosecutors come, they will only care about the legal process.
Merchants can't always charge more. The amount of the charge that's passed on to the consumer depends on the good/service being sold and its price elasticity of demand.
It seems the Justice Department admits that Apple's reputation for privacy and security is of great value to the company. I wonder how it intends to argue, then, that forcing Apple to create a corrupted build of iOS which harms that security and that hard-won reputation does not place an "undue burden" on the company.
Yep, definitely understand that, which is why I specifically pointed out I don't have an issue with Paypal (or any clearing house/bank) enacting an initial hold, even for an existing and ongoing business when the transaction volume is vastly different then say some rolling monthly average as that is a potential sign of fraudulent behavior.

What I have absolute contempt for is after going through business validation with Paypal (sending incorporation documents, owners details, passport copies proving US citizenship etc), proving the orders are real and even having suppliers provide signed notarized documents proving product is ready to ship, Paypal will still hold the funds. They will also ask for tax documents and many other banking documents that in all fairness they don't really need to make a determination, but they will still hold the funds. Hence, IMO, the policy stops being fraud protection when the business has proven it is legitimately charging clients for services provided or products shipping.

Paypal is a business that has frankly been totally dishonest with their customers as the lawsuit has highlighted. Which is, at least in part, why they are being forced to change their terms of service pointing out they will freeze funds for 180 days if they deem the transaction to be potentially fraudulent. A point on this, IANAL, but from how I read the findings the transaction doesn't have to be fraudulent to be held, just if Paypal "feels"/"deems" it could be, they can hold the funds for 180 days, as long as their TOS say they do this.

It also doesn't take a financial wizard to figure out that Paypal is almost surely profiting from the funds they place on hold. Just think about it, its not $50k they are holding in mass, it can be easily millions of dollars day to day that they have full control over, it is essentially a no interest loan they get to have. And do you not think it is interesting that Paypal was (don't know about now) sending out pre-approved loan emails to the very same businesses they were actively holding funds from? Seems like double dipping and a totally immoral business practice.

In fairness, I think these policies were originally created to protect consumers and implemented in good faith, but they found it to be an easy profit center which has created the problem.
Your first paragraph deserves to live in a poster.
Oh, yeah, I know what you mean. I certainly wasn't saying you're NOT meditating for 1.5 hours a day. Just was trying to convey that when most people meditate for 90 minutes, they're tend to spend some portion of that session utterly distracted by something, even if only briefly. Or so I've been led to believe. It's certainly true for me.

I was more responding to hellofunk when they said "1.5 hours per day is a very impressive accomplishment. Even some serious gurus don't pull that off on a daily basis." This make me think that meditation is viewed as something you can check a box for, or as a goal to be achieved, which isn't really quite right.

Particularly the use of the word 'accomplishment'... If meditation is something to be accomplished, then if you thought about that noise your transition is making on steep hills for 60 seconds in the middle of a sit, you got distracted, and thus you did not successfully meditate today. I don't view it that way.
How? How does the software get locked to a specific phone?

And while it's certainly possible that someone could figure out what Apple's signing keys are, it's incredibly unlikely given how big the numbers we're dealing with are. Which means, sure, somebody else could modify the source code, but getting it on to devices is an entirely different question.

Based on what I've read of what you've written, it seems like you genuinely believe that software is some magic cure-all that can do anything and everything you want, regardless of the practicality and effort required, and actual known constraints.
For those who don't want to do the math

463.8/(106+97) = avg of ~2.28 billion per china congress critter

Edit: as pointed out below, the math is more complex as there is 2987 seats in the NPC and I can't quickly find numbers for the number of total seats in the CPPCC, so the average is certainly drastically lower than the above.
I think that deal was expiring, and they split revenue on that traffic with yahoo, 30% of yahoo's revenue comes from that deal. So could add a couple more Bs to Microsoft's top-line.
If they actually downloaded and republished your dikes, then that is clear copyright infringement. Which is both a crime, as well as cause for civil action.
You could report them to the DA (or whatever is the equivalent where you or they live.)
It would be interesting to see how that went!
Any non-Chinese company that insists on tying its fortune to the Chinese market is taking on tremendous risk. The goal posts are always changing , you need to constantly worry about IP theft, you can easily get on the wrong side of the government, and they strongly protect local interests. Investment is welcome, but as soon as you actually start making a lot of money and recouping your investment some barrier of sorts is bound to appear and you'll be phased out in favor of a local player. This is going to come back to haunt China at a time when growth is slowing and when they are going to need investment the most.
Sam Harris' Waking Up presents a non-woo-woo look at meditation. His background as a neuroscientist really gave the subject the scientific perspective that I appreciate. https://www.samharris.org/waking-up
Gives the opposite impression to me. If I see a component using semver at version 15.x I'd assume it's very unstable (unless it's very old).

So, contrary to what spicyj is saying, to me it seems to create the most confusion in the long run at the expense of addressing some short-term concerns ("people already call it React 14"). I'd much prefer they switched to 1.0.
It Makes Sense to Fear Aboriginal Companies
I dunno, honestly I think she failed on the e-mail overhaul. Did they actually get more users, or make existing users happier? Or use e-mail to drive traffic to other products?

I have a Yahoo mail account, and it seems like it looks a bit different, but not even good. And it's kinda unreliable still. It seems worse in all respects than Google's offerings.

As far as I know, back in 2012 she was saying "Yahoo has e-mail"! If that was the centerpiece of her comeback strategy, and it was so poorly executed, that doesn't leave me with a great impression.
Indeed, it's enough for a cheap notebook plus a Raspberry Pi, connected together via a remote desktop connection.
Yep - and they probably got there eating out a lot, opening a tab at the bar, buying the latest and greatest electronics, traveling etc. There is no concept of living within your means.
I wonder how many Google Cloud customers use the servers to run spoofed Googlebot crawlers from the Google IP range in order to bypass paywalls and scrape large sites (like LinkedIn) without hinderance.
I think that's a valid point. TV is quite a luxury item, I spent more than half of last year building up my emergency fund without a TV or couch (still missing couch: I'll get that soon).

But I recognize that I personally like to live on low expenses, lower than other people. For the spenders out there, even just saving up enough for an emergency fund is a big deal.

The important thing is that piles of money are a tool, as is credit (including credit cards). Use the tools as you see fit, but there are definitely "best practices". If you have a large pile of money (ex: Emergency Fund), it makes more sense to buy using that money rather than to dip into credit.

After all, you could always use your credit card in an emergency. Spending available cash first will be cheaper in the long run (as long as your spending habits remain in check)
Um, what? If they didn't take a stand all their claims would be worthless. Their new phones are vulnerable as well, though I would not be surprised for upcoming products to make more use of private keys. (It's a tradeoff between usability and security.)
The article talks about harvesting them by freeze drying them and milling them into a flour. Ultimately this is protein as a dietary supplement.

People are willing to pay high prices for meat because meat is tasty and features in numerous delicious recipes, as well as being a source of protein. Crickets would have to be much, much cheaper than meat if the intended market is cricket flour for protein supplementation.
Designing APIs with Customers in Mind
https://cloud.google.com/
Except you can get discounts if you pay in cash. I'd never pay more than 60% of what they're asking for a couch.
I don't understand why requiring an action which is feasible today implies that this action must be kept feasible in the future. If the FBI demands that you open a door for them, does that imply you're not allowed to brick up the entrance later on?
Unless you were being tongue-in-cheek, you've completely sidestepped the intent of my comment and continued with the linguistic silliness.

Obtaining paywall-protected content by faking your user agent to purport yourself to be a Google Crawler is quite clearly fraudulent. This isn't a point for debate.

PS. To play along with the linguistic theme, can you provide a source for the definition of a malformed request? My original intent when using the word malformed was not to invoke it's technical definition but rather it's dictionary definition. But, having said that, I just had a 30 second Google hunt and couldn't find anything to corroborate your position.