skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, yes. It's the basis for the machinery of the US government. As time goes on, how do you know what a document means if it uses words and textual shorthand that are no longer in common parlance?
I don't think I'd have any interest in every buying a house if it weren't for the insane tax deductions for mortgage interest. Why be stuck in one house when your living situation changes over time (new kids, kids get bigger, kids move away, job changes).
I'm not sure if this is meant to imply they don't have to offer the source in some form or just a clarification of my prior comment, but I think it's pretty clear from GPL 3.0 section 6[1] that it is required, and the most recompense you can get from this is "for a price no more than your reasonable cost of physically performing this conveying of source", as if it's network accessible it must be free. So, at least part of my prior comment was incorrect, you do not need to provide it free of charge, but the only charge you can require, and then only for providing it on a durable physical medium, is the reasonable cost of doing so.

1: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html
Compiler Warnings: Treat Them Right
A rooted android is even less secure.
PHP is usually deployed in a FastCGI multiprocess setup, so the server will keep handling requests on the other processes while the hashing process is blocked.

I wonder whether threading really saves you, given that there are only so many cores in a system and password hashing is CPU heavy. Naively it seems a DoS would involve sending as many parallel requests as there are cores, which is not a lot and can easily be done from a single machine.
Yes, that's my understanding. Deeply disturbing news IMHO.
Early, or late. One of Iridium's problems was that by the time they actually became operational, a huge chunk of their potential customer base had been eaten up by terrestrial cellular phones. The number of people who needed something more than a cell phone was a lot smaller in 1998 than it was in 1987.

Iridium service was also unbelievably expensive and not all that useful. (For that matter, still is.) If you had a choice between Iridium and a cell phone, the cell phone won every time. Iridium was a product for those with no other choice. If they had come in earlier, they might have had enough people with no other choice to make it. Later, and they might have been able to offer something that could actually compete with terrestrial services. As it was, their timing ended up being really bad.
This actually exists in some countries. E.g. in Europe there are (were?) several companies selling modem/ISDN+satellite bundles. All the upstream and parts of the downstream would travel through land-line while larger downloads would be routed via the satellite. This also saves you from needing to have relatively expensive satellite upstream equipment.

Otherwise, with GEO/GSO satellites there is no way to get below ~280ms round-trip times.
All of the past versions of "space internet" have been geostationary orbit, which is around 25,000-26,000 miles above sea level. The new iterations, such as SpaceX's idea, is to use many many more microsats and put them in LEO. Low Earth Orbit is closer to 750 or so miles above sea level. Since the ping latency of geostationary sat internet is around 500-700ms, it would be massively less for low earth orbit.

The two technical issues I'm aware of are the sheer number of satellites required for LEO internet, and the fact that you can't point your dish at a single place. There would need to be some sort of actuator or omnidirectional receiver for tracking to satellites at every client site. This makes the installation a bit trickier, but the ping times should be entirely reasonable provided someone gets the funding to put hundreds of satellites into an internet constellation.
It wouldn't shock me if Starbucks over-roasts because people (incorrectly) believe that the bitterness is the caffeine. It tastes "strong".
> most banks in Sweden have today a continuously maximum of $1500 limit per week on cash withdraws

Wait, what? Are you seriously saying that if you want to pay cash for a $3,000 notebook computer, you have to make 2 different withdrawals a week apart to do that? How is that workable? What happens when you have an emergency and need more cash than that all at once? I mean, it doesn't come up frequently, but it comes up from time to time. Does writing a large check count? Or only physically withdrawing the money at a teller?
Not all of their cash reserves are denominated in US dollars.
Along these lines, I start out with very broad questions. Something like, "tell me how you'd troubleshoot a web service that's suddenly not accepting connections / suddenly performing badly." Different candidates will focus on different aspects of that problem depending on their background: low-level networking, cloud environments, application-level problems, databases etc. Based on their resume, I like to see if their expertise matches up with their experience. I like to see that they don't consider ONLY things within their expertise. I like to see if they can make reasonable guesses outside of their expertise without BS'ing me. I like to see if they have a good approach to exploring areas they're unfamiliar with and general problem-solving. I like to see if they recognize how valuable it is to have diagnostic / monitoring / change control tools in place and to have done pro-active testing. This can be tough to do with coding problems, but I still try give problems that should be familiar to experienced low-level C developers as well as high-level Python web devs and tailor my expectations to their experience. I'm more concerned with how well they've learned based on what they've done than if they've already learned what I'd like them to do.
Previous relevant HN post: "Strong Legs Associated with Healthy Brains in Twin Study"
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10594516

IMO I think squats are superior to running for overall health.
I stumbled upon Google's whitepaper on Dremel. IIRC it explained how to store the data in columnar format, but I didn't quite get how that translated into quick queries. Happen to know where I can look to better understand how it works?
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Here's yesterday's discussion for the exact same post (maybe the duplicate search failed this time?)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11108481
Questions like these are why I don't love the Password Hashing Competition.

In reality, PBKDF2 is fine. It's not the best thing you can use, in the same sense as AES is probably not the absolute best round-for-round, cycle-for-cycle cipher you can use, but it gets the job done.

The answer for "what password hash should I use" can accurately be summed as "put bcrypt, scrypt, Argon2, and PBKDF2 on a dartboard, and then throw a dart".

In 1PW's case, PBKDF2 is even more reasonable, because 1PW actually needed a KDF, and bcrypt is not an especially good KDF.
The new services are set to use satellites in low Earth orbit. That only adds a few hundred miles to the distance your data has to travel. The added latency is measurable, but not very high.

The problem with existing high-speed satellite internet is that the satellites are all in geosynchronous orbit, which is about 22,000 miles up. For a roundtrip, your data has to go up to the satellite, down to the ground station, then back up to the satellite and back down to you, for a total of almost 100,000 miles, or more than half a second at the speed of light.
Hint: those workers who regularly stay out all night drinking alcohol will miss many more days of work.
I don't own, but if I did I'd love a "landlord as a service" where I could just call or email someone about a problem and have them fix it.
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Yeah, agree with you.

Although it was not that I stole some secret key or something.

It was just that there was data in public, and I used it for good.
I disagree. This is all about setting precedents. Once one of the dominoes falls, it's much easier for the others to start falling as well.

Apple is saying the FBI is using this law to expand their power to mandate a backdoor in all devices. If this is successful, then the FBI can mandate that all secure hardware/software companies backdoor their products.

Do we roll over and let the FBI do this because "oh, this is just one case, it's fine" or do we set a boundary? If a child does something wrong, you scold them immediately. You don't wait for them to do it the 10th time. By then it's too late.
>What about the people that sell guns to feed their families?

If someone sold guns when they were illegal and then jailed and then guns made legal, I would say they were wronged by society and should be released from their incarceration.

>Look at how weed is characterized in movies and TV: white, dopey, college kids.

Exactly - whitewashing. Marijuana usage is marketed as fun and carefree while ignoring the reality that many, many people are still in jail for crimes that are now business plans.

My whole point is that a large amount of those who were essentially the marijuana industry prior to its legalization are minorities who are disproportionally jailed and the industry is now run by mostly white people who get to reap the rewards. Legalization is seen as a win for personal liberty yet there are still so many in jail.

I would like to see a startup / org that worked towards social justice for these prisoners using the money earned from legalized weed sales.
I think everyone is getting a little to emotionally invested here. Might be a good time to take a step back and detach a bit. Apologies for interrupting your conversation, I just don't like seeing everyone going for each other's throats on HN.

"Be excellent to each other."
The blog post that HN is reading is served by PHP-FPM + nginx, without any extra special features to handle the load of an unexpected "oh hey we made it to the front page of HN".

It's also hosted on a relatively cheap VPS.
The members are elected from factions within the CPC. It's like having parties within a main party.

Also the CPC is open to anyone who wants to join (provided they are Chinese).

Not exactly western 'democracy' (multiple parties elected into power using republican means), but it is similar.

Not that the US is a true democracy either (more republic). The Swiss are the closest thing out there to a true democracy.

Its like a mix of democratic meritocracy.

I can appreciate readers seeing scorn in this, but I would advise studying the Chinese system in more detail before jumping to rash conclusions on what it is.
The court order specifically requests a firmware update that can only be used with that particular device ID.
Porting a Graphics Engine to the Vulkan API
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This logic isn't quite right though your intuition is easy to understand.

The thought behind these studies is that exercise leads to the release of certain chemicals, in this case BDNF (brain-derived neurotropic factor) that leads to new neuron growth. This mechanism is a physiologically reasonable way for exercise to improve your brain without directly using/engaging the neural circuits in a way that would modify learning and memory.
One possible answer to your "real question":

I want to disclaim that this is pure speculation. I have no insider knowledge or indeed any particular familiarity with the institutions in question.

The FBI may want this authority and this precedent and think that this is a good chance to get it. They may say, "Well, the San Bernadino case is a high-profile case that may sway people, including judges, who would otherwise be less inclined to back our request. Who knows when the next nationally-publicized case will be in which the likely perpetrator carries an iPhone?" They may also believe that the current political climate is good for their case.

And they probably also believe that there's no harm in trying. If the courts rule against them, they haven't lost anything. If the courts rule for them, they get a brand new tool.
Pretty much all tech jobs, by definition, have automated someone out of a job, but they aren't included in these statistics.
The Xeon D-1540 is running 73 watts under load according to anandtech
http://www.anandtech.com/show/9185/intel-xeon-d-review-perfo...

Across all the SKUs in OP the TDP is 35-65 watts. 20 More watts for the new 1587 SKU compared to the benchmarked 1540 in the anandtech article. So a rough estimate would be maybe ~95 watts at under load? Assuming the board is the same and only the CPU has changed that should be a pretty good estimate.

You're right it mostly doesn't make sense to compare machines in that way due to all of the variables surrounding colo costs, max load wattage is the metric I should be interested in.
Their iMessage encryption is fascinating. It basically makes it impossible to retroactively decrypt iMessages. With a court order, they can start MITMing conversations, but unless they intentionally generate a MITM keypair they are cryptographically locked out of the conversation.

http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/27/apple-explains-exactly-how-... (Link to Apple's paper is in the article)

(Yes, Apple could add this key for everybody at the beginning, but if their intention is security then it is a brilliant system.)
Storing passwords is like storing credit card numbers - just don't do it
You do not redirect to PayPal to login but give me a on site form? Any reason for this? Your service looks great, but this seems sketchy :)

Edit:// Sorry i just saw you answered that already. Fucking banks. Trying since years to find a local one with a read only api with no luck yet. They just offered me read/write APIs based on expensive business accounts...
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The tax deduction is baked into the price.
Exactly this, the most basic example is an operation on a single column. If the data for a single column is mixed in with other data in a row-oriented layout, you are going to have to bring a new chunk of memory into the CPU cache sooner to process a given amount of data. If all of the data is packed together tightly you can read many more values out of the cache before you need to go get more from main memory.
Only in the most technical sense: cycle for cycle, PBKDF2 gets you the smallest amount of protection from that group of password hashes. PBKDF2 is still vastly better than non- password hashes like salted SHA.
Wish there was a site where it lists algorithms and gives a table, and an ability to compare it to x years ago:

algorith | fairly safe difficulty (all variables) | very safe difficulty without incurring too much performance cost.

pbkdf + sha1 | completely unsafe | completely unsafe

pbkdf + sha2 | 100000 | ...

pbkdf + sha256

bcrypt

scrypt

argon2
The hardest part, at least the fiddliest part, is getting all the little plugs right for the front panel: power buttons, usb, audio, etc.
I hate to be "That Guy", but how is this relevant to Hacker News? Is it just because people who write code also drink coffee?
I mean, look at their byline... "Original. Student Reported. Your Daily Dose of Right-Minded News and Commentary From Across the Nation"

They emphasize "Right" which basically means it's just another conservative rag. And then this article fits there quite nicely.
> This is a really dumb semantic argument. You're arguing over the meaning of what I said upthread. I will spell it out for you:

No, I'm not. And never was.

Someone replied to me splitting hairs over the term. I never even brought it up.

Did you reply to the right post?
Has anyone released a halfway-decent 'Rate My Landlord' site? Asking for a friend.
More here: http://www.orc.soton.ac.uk/962.html
They will probably be able to convince the service providers not to offer service within China. Flying the satellites over the country is fine, various international treaties take care of that, but once you start actually doing business in the country (even at a remove) then you'll run into trouble. It would be interesting for an outside company with no ties to China to just say "screw it" and ignore Chinese demands for restrictions or bans, but no company large enough to provide this service would start a fight like that in the first place.

You can see this at work already with existing services. Random example, check out the satellite coverage map here:

https://www.united.com/web/en-US/content/travel/inflight/wif...

Note the distinctly China-shaped hole in East Asia.
I agree with you that this will be difficult or maybe impossible to implement. However the court has foreseen the upthread argument as the order shows.

As many here I believe that once this backdoor exists it will be somehow exploited (at the very least by further orders).
The burden of proof lies on the accuser...

Or so they say.
Yes. That's why nearly every web framework is threaded by default. That includes everything you'll find in Ruby, Python, Go, or ASP.

Not serializing IO, but them stopping every worker just because one of them has some hard work to do is not a sane working model for web backends.
Having the hardware require both the signature to pass as well as a valid PIN/fingerprint can't be that difficult.

Die space is cheap nowadays, especially stuff that doesn't need to be on all the time because of the death of Dennard scaling.
> Corruption in Russia and China are a matter of policy. They are bold-faced and completely open about it.

From my personal experience, you're mistaken: the corruption is not a matter of policy. Rather, the policy is a matter of corruption.
Sure, but the signed firmware could be written to delete any stored keys when it accepts an update and the phone's passphrase has not been provided. That's assuming that it manages it's own update process, has the firmware securely stored within it's own die, etc. It's entirely possible ... but only Apple really knows.

I would not actually be shocked if they originally did wipe out stored info on firmware update, but had some issues with people updating their phone and losing everything, so they ifdef'd that particular bit out in the name of usability.
By that logic, shouldn't the other mice have had increase in brain cells to control breathing and metabolism?
We don't have mortgage deductions here in Canada, but the home ownership percentage is nearly the same as in the US.

There's many fine reasons, including customizing and fixing a place to your liking, which you can't do with rentals. Personally, what I'd really love to do is build my own house.
Do you know under what conditions the stream is higher than 128kbps? I've only done a small amount of digging around on their APIs and have not found anything but that.
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This was his employer's phone, right? As in, it was government-owned property being used in the course of terrorism. Were they using Apple's Mobile Device Management (MDM) framework or some other form of key escrow? If not, why should Apple bail out a government entity, at the expense of its own customers and security, that couldn't even be bothered to follow best practices?
>Its useful to the individual if other people spread the ideas, but its often a classic tragedy of the common situation.

Not at all -- tragedy-of-the-commons situations depend on freeloaders being able use that freeloading to further amplify their ability to freeload -- e.g. the guy that overgrazes the field produces more sheep than the restrainers, leading to further overgrazing (until collapse).

Under the assumption (again, with non-obvious implications) that voters intelligently reject bad ideas within the marketplace thereof, there is no such self-reinforcement -- they reject the bad ideas in favor of better ones. It would be like a magical commons that poisons any sheep whenever the blade of grass it eats is beyond its quota. Or, more realistically, like a commons whose polity has set up rules with punishments for those who defect from the solution to such a collective action problem.

>(Also, rational agents -- by the definition of rationality -- don't act on the social consequences of options, but on their personal costs and benefits.)

That's not the definition of rationality, but of rational agents with a particular set of preferences (i.e. of caring only about themselves). You can be rational and still care about starving kids in Africa.

But irrespective of semantic games, the relevant distinction for this issue is whether the voters are rational in the sense of identifying and rejecting bad ideas. To the extent you claim they meet this definition then (irrespective of how much altruism you want to insist is "rational"), the destructive propaganda of the wealthy would be stopped dead in its tracks by intelligent voters, rendering campaign finance moot -- but that obviously is not true, so it's hard to come up with a model that has it both ways.

(Of course, FWIW, the intelligent-but-dont-call-it-rational voter has to have some altruism in order to vote in the first place.)
Larry Summers, former Treasury Secretary, recommends that the US eliminate any denomination over $20 to reduce illicit activities.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-larry-summers-wants-to-...
What exactly counts as "added sugar"? Would, say, juice count as "added sugar"? What if it was juice concentrate? What if it had very little of its' own flavor?

How easy would it be to get around this division?
Most are business oriented people. I never met anyone particulary not nice.
PBKDF2-SHA1 is safe.

That's the problem with a chart like this. The gradation will go from "completely unsafe" salted hashes to "very much safe enough" with only marginal changes after that.

Another problem is that these functions are all parameterized, so the chart needs to capture the safety level at specific parameters.
Apple says the FBI is using this law to mandate a backdoor. And that's exactly what I don't buy. The FBI's demand here is merely to use an existing security hole, which Apple created.

I simply don't see the leap from "this device is insecure, pleas unlock it for us" to "all devices you make must be insecure."
Also you never talk to your landlord for good things. It's almost entirely for bad things like late rent, etc.
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Wrong choice.

https://h4labs.wordpress.com/2016/02/09/should-i-use-objecti...

You are placing too much emphasis on compatibility. You'll do less work writing in Swift and fixing any changes than writing all that Objective C code.
I'm using Firefox 44.0.2 on Linux with a mouse and it appears to be fine too...
You can dissolve up to 2 grams of sugar into every 1 gram of water, Starbucks is just trying to help push the boundaries on that science.
Wondering what information encoding in five dimensions is about, here's a bit from the abstract: "The two independent parameters describing birefringence, the slow axis orientation (4th dimension) and the strength of retardance (5th dimension), are explored for the optical encoding of information in addition to three spatial coordinates."

http://spie.org/PWL/conferencedetails/laser-micro-nanoproces...
3 of the 4 highest voted HN posts feature Apple
That's disappointing; the article mentions that Mozilla is happy with Debian's patch set, but I don't think they'd be happy with a patch that disabled mandatory extension signing. I was looking forward to Iceweasel sparing us from that anti-user nonsense.
Anyone with Python experience should know how easy it is to translate any other language experience into learning Python.

They would've been better off saying they just couldn't hire anyone at the time.
I use the web to build applications and very much need to set scroll points and capture key input thank you very much.