skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Since cryptosystems designed by experts virtually never use cipher cascades, having one is a pretty good indicator that your system hasn't been designed by an expert.

I don't like this argument at all. Nobody is doing it so that means it is "bad"? As the grand parent said, there is no reason to not do cascading if you don't care about speed performances.
With a lack of religion, people naturally seek idols to look up to and create a focus in their lives. That said, it can go too far and look like a cult. The more I read about behaviour, history and psychology, the more I realise just how specialised religions were at keeping civilisations sane.
They still push Microsoft products pretty heavily in universities. I was very happy when I went off to university to be able to easily get keys for products like Windows, Office and Visual Studio. Our CS department had something set up and the impression I got was that Microsoft was footing a good bit of the bill to make sure that they were the easiest choice for most students to get professional software.
One thing to bear in mind is that the UK is having a referendum on continuing its EU membership on Thursday 23 June. While I sincerely hope we stay in the EU, it's not 100 % clear that we will (although it seems likely). I know hardly anything about doing business outside the UK but within the EU, but it might be worth looking into what the change in situation would be if the UK did leave (such as changes in the need to charge the client's country's tax rate, rather than the company's country's tax rate).
I pay for various kinds of Google services already. Making a business case for secure paid email is not hard.
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Exactly. You described it much better than I did.
We are talking about abuse of DMCA related to takedowns and copyright, and you are muddling the issue by stretching into privacy. Is privacy covered by DMCA? Is the DMCA something that an OP could use to request takedown of data from a site? If it is, then that would be what you should be speaking about, not grand visions of "how dare they copy and then host things that were on the public internet because some of those things might be privacy-sensitive!"

To play devils advocate against myself, I have made mistakes in the earlier days of the internet, that I am glad the archives failed to keep. I do understand that there is a need for privacy friendly user sites, but I am sceptical about what tools are allowed to actually perform this structure. Right now, the internet is a threat to the power that be, which is why we will see an ever increasing attempt to legislate it into the ground. If we allow government corruption to seep into the internet anymore than it already is, the real concern will be one of censorship and propaganda, and user privacy is less to do with publicly posting things you shouldnt, but more to do with the corporate/government merger and data sharing that is going on around us. Loopholes everywhere for suppressing dissidents.
Here's some code I wrote years ago using a different algorithm called Zeller's Congruence[1]. The advantage of this is it doesn't require a lookup table:

public int dayOfWeek(int year, int month, int day) {
day += month < 3 ? year-- : year - 2;
return ((((23 * month) / 9) + day + 4 + (year / 4)) - (year / 100) + (year / 400)) % 7;
}

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeller%27s_congruence
OK, my father deals with people with ODD and Conduct disorder on a regular basis, and I think this article is really miss-characterizing the condition. You don't have ODD if you have a reason for defying authority, even a bad reason. ODD is defined as having problems with planning and inhibition. I was actually talking with my father just last night about ODD, and he described an experiment to me. Imagine you have a patient play a card game in which they have the chance to win money or lose money. Initially, the game is rigged in the patient's favor, but as the game goes on it gets harder and harder for them to win. Most people will figure out that the odds have changed and stop playing, but people with ODD or Conduct disorder will continue playing far longer than anyone else because they have poor planning skills. Describing people with ODD as simply anti-authority is really missing the crux of the condition.

EDIT: I shouldn't criticize the article, but rather the people who are doing the over diagnosing. Just thought I'd give some context to the condition, so people understand what ODD really is.
In the sea. When conducting a beachhead assault, these amphibious light tanks will come out of some giant amphibious assault ships, which are typically parked far away from the beachhead so enemy on land cannot see them. So the effect will be that a swarm of floating tanks suddenly appears and quickly approaches the land. This concept is obviously designed for an island invasion scenario.
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So it should be AT LEAST as strong as the first cipher used in the chain. This is still a good reason to use cascade.
Yeah, the only purpose of that account is to make me laugh.

However, this isn't just gratuitous. Here the issue is similar with the sci-hub one: there's a fairly legitimate motivation for piracy, so there's a lot of comments over "free knowledge so copyright is theft", and a bit of "piracy is theft". But not all piracy is equal, and sharing knowledge (research papers, etc) is useful and participate into making people more informed, but the bulk of piracy is part of the problem.

1) It's diverting considerable effort that could go into free software. If you had to either pay for Photoshop or use a free solution, Gimp and Krita would get insanely more resources. In other words, piracy is a key element in closed-software dominance.

2) Popular movies and TV shows are made to keep people as uneducated imbeciles. So sharing research papers is not the same thing as what commonly falls under the "piracy" moniker.

That's what that snark meant.
Permission-based email. It's an established solution. IM works this way because it doesn't have spam filters.
I think this comment is not very compassionate/overly harsh. But you have some good nuggets in here ...

> The reality is that the government is not collecting all of our data. It is collecting most of the data that we publicly broadcast.

There are some recent troubling moves towards collecting "telemetry" about offline user actions in operating environments like Windows 10, but this observation largely rings true. Where I think you need some empathy is understanding how some people wrestle with the knowledge that "stuff I/family/friends broadcast is stored, indexed, and could be used against me/family/friends."

The knowledge that to broadcast one's thoughts exposes one to possible tyranny can only squelch discussion, and that drives people apart. We're social creatures, so that's not healthy.

Techies are especially cognizant of what "broadcasting" means in today's landscape. Celphones broadcast one's movements, audio, images, and store personal information that could be secretly stolen. Yeah, I can see why some people are anxious.

You're absolutely right that people need to write down private thoughts on paper and keep journals that they don't share. That's good for mental health in any case.
religion as humanising? seems to be the exact opposite in my opinion, and experience

also, if giving is your metric you'll be better off looking to capitalism and secularists

https://youtu.be/4eBmyABeAa4?t=270
Square-Enix has experimented with using textured discs that approximate the scene geometry.

Imperfect Ray-Bundle Tracing for Interactive Multi-Bounce Global Illumination

http://www.jp.square-enix.com/info/library/
Thanks Adam! It's nice work and it seems like there's a pretty epic dataset to analyze at x.ai. My main confusion was what the visualized vectors represented, but I guess you've answered that by saying they're the first layer in your model (if I'm interpreting correctly). What I don't quite understand is how you got the word vector from the inputs. It sounds like you represent each word as a one hot encoding (similar to indexes), and then you pass this one hot encoding through the first layer giving you the word vector for each input?
That's not the lesson at all. Even if you follow the TOS those terms can change overnight and your business will die in the same way.

If you are 100% reliant on another company you're entire existence depends on that relationship.
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Not necessarily. The rules don't say "similar" they say "substantially identical."

It isn't clear how they treat two index funds from different issuers (e.g., Vanguard and Schwab) that track the same index. While the IRS has not issued any guidance to suggest that such two funds are “substantially identical,” a more conservative approach when dealing with an index fund portfolio would be to repurchase a fund whose performance correlates closely with that of the harvested fund, but tracks a different index.
For more info on index funds, and Vanguard in particular, there's a great podcast by planet money (with transcript) at http://www.npr.org/2016/03/10/469897691/armed-with-an-index-...
That sucks then.
Definitely not defending them, but sometime's initiating contact can be a tricky thing. Because they may not have paid attention to you, and now you're basically told them "Hi, I exist!". Then later in a meeting, someone in Amazon says "Oh hey.. this site exists. I didn't know that... isn't that a violation of our TOS..??"
Why not hire a book keeper or accountant on contract? 100 payments twice a month is not a high volume.

But I'd add that close attention to the inflow and outflow of a company is a critical management function. It's the sort of knowledge that should be very detailed and up to date not vague and requiring grepping of logs.

Good luck.
Howard Spira
> There are very few situations where performance is not important in cryptography

source?
> A mental disorder means a stable cluster of symptoms in a population such that it is (1) statistically abnormal, (2) distressful to a degree (clinical significance), and (3) not ameliorated by a reasonable change in environment.

1) Every individual is statistically abnormal. That's how they're identifiable. It's debated amongst professionals because there are absolutely no consistent criteria for behavioural normality that wouldn't include wide swaths of undistressed people.

2) is incoherent in practice. Mental disease is diagnosed in people because they are not distressed by things that "should" distress people. Mental disease is also diagnosed if people are distressed by the reaction of others to their symptoms, not by the symptoms themselves.

3) "reasonable change" is a hint that 3) is completely arbitrary.

The context that the concept of non-physical mental disorder is bound in is a historical accident, non-physical mental disease doesn't translate between cultures (entirely culturally-bound and fashion-following), and most of our current concepts of mental disease have origins dependent on things like the order in which we happened to discover certain neurotransmitters and superstitions about epileptic seizures making people sane.

Mental illness is defined as when you don't get your work done, or you make it difficult for other people to get their work done. All of the handwaving around it, and the fabricated physical theories applied to a wide range of "disorders" that largely amount to disobedience and differing opinions and values, corrupt our society and undermine democracy. You take the drugs and you do what you're told, or you will be medicated for your own protection. It's also class/race-based - the range of behaviors a suburban white girl would be medicated for are largely different than the ones an inner city black boy would be medicated for, even though they would get the same diagnosis (since diagnoses are based on "distress.")

This is not new. Every third rebellious kid I knew in high school 25 years ago was diagnosed with Oppositional Defiant Disorder or Bipolar Disorder, and had month-long stints in mental hospitals that began when they stayed out all night that one time, or flunked a semester, or got caught drinking or smoking pot. ADD wasn't quite as trendy then, and the range of products being sold to parents for it was narrower.
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It's 1,000 because you need to try 10,000 PINs, 10 per "fresh" NAND chip. So the article was referring to doing the NAND "reset" 10,000/10=1,000 times, not the total number of possible 4-digit numbers.

And it's a real shame that comments like yours get downvoted because it's not as if you were trolling or being an asshole.
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If you find this interesting, I recommend the thriller Noriko's Dinner Table [2005]. The film's plot revolves an agency "IC Services" that rents out people to play roles---they play roles as family members in family life.
In fact, the typical way to visualize word2vec embeddings is t-SNE.
If they ran out of e-envelopes, why couldn't they just go online and order more from Am... oh. I see the problem now.
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From the parent comment:

Whether other businesses have or haven't been slapped down is only a secondary question.
“I credit Snowden for having a great deal of courage, because he’s ruined himself forever,” he told Salon.

“I don’t think he has a future,” the former Bush administration official added.

I'd say it depends on the American citizen/voter. What future do we want?

Not pressuring the government to bring him back means giving the government a clear thumbs-up for ever-increasing mass surveillance. And it sends any potential whistleblower a clear signal to turn a blind eye to corruption and out-of-control government activity.

Is that really what we want?
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It's time for smartphone manufacturers to improve smartphone's EMI shielding and improve key entropy!
If at any point in the process they need to bill you for something, they have to ask for your first and last name because that's exactly what the credit card companies require. So there are use cases.

Personally, I don't see why any company is asking for a name if they aren't billing you for something or they aren't a social network.
Although the visualization is similar to what you might see from a word2vec demo, they haven't run word2vec here. There are many ways to generate word vectors, word2vec is one, but the method used here was a Recurrent Neural Network (RNN). More specifically, the type of RNN was a Long Short Term Memory Network (LSTM). Since word vectors can have very high dimensionality (in this case, the dimension was 50), this makes them difficult to visualize. The t-sne algorithm reduces dimensionality to the point where you can visualize the initial vectors and still compare different data points to some useful extent.
Yeah, I meant combine less in the "concatenate into one large new module automatically" and more "someone as put out what is rapidly becoming the de-facto standard for all OS high level actions in a comprehensive single module."

I don't see automatic combination of lots of small modules actually making this situation better in any way. Quite the opposite, actually...
looking good so far, will be checking on your progress!
What about cases such as http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/korean-american-in-north...

That's the sort of example where the US may intervene (and the State department's quote here suggests protecting US citizens abroad is a key goal here). According to the law of that country, these people have committed crimes, but the US interprets that law to be 'wrong', and may negotiate for their release.
As a rule of thumb I tend to intensely dislike Plato, but that is surprisingly modern.
Every replacement I've seen proposed for CSS has been worse. CSS has tons of mistakes, but the common complaints people have with it are mostly just fundamental tradeoffs CSS made and aren't fixable by just complaining--we need real proposals, ones that understand deeply how CSS is the way it is and how it works at an implementation level.
These are not. But they belong to the same unit of those amphibious light tanks, so used the same camouflage. During a landing operation, these long range rockets are likely deployed on the decks of flotilla as artillery support for the beachhead assault.
They probably just haven't been caught yet. Amazon is massive and has tons of people who use their Affiliate API. There's probably a small enforcement team that looks at stuff like this. Price Zombie might have just gotten large enough to show up on their radar.
Thanks for the links. You are right, these projects seem to have some extensive test coverage.
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>Imagine what a great society we would be if we were all free thinkers.

It's tough to herd cats.
That the government collects all of our data and wants to take away encryption that it can't break? You also agree with that, or you are in radical opposition to the government's opinion on its own positions.
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Thanks, good to know. What are the options for banking and card processing for a HK company? Why did you choose HK?
I don't think that would have mattered here. They were generating revenue from the Affiliate API. Even if they made a scraper and used that for price data instead, they're still violating the TOS for the Affiliate program. It wouldn't matter how they go the data.
Isn't that what compulsory 'sensitivity training' is?
I spend at least $2000/year on things that break in my car (and I've never owned a car new enough to know what is or isn't covered by a warranty), because it's a Range Rover and replacement parts cost more than you think they should. That's still far less than I'd be spending on monthly payments if I had a newer car, and insurance is cheap since I don't have a loan company requiring me to sign up for the expensive comp/collision package, so I feel like I'm coming out way ahead.
Interesting overview. What about Stripe?
A text entry field on what? A browser? A native android app? A QT interface?

What language is processing the text? Java? C? JavaScript?

Where is the data going, what is the transmit format, what is the data store?

Answering these questions for ascii text is easier. Answering it for utf-8 is harder. Cobbling something together for a character encoding format that can handle the median human name is challenging.
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arxiv makes it virtually impossible to publish unaffiliated but stuff like this makes it on a supposedly reputable website
I think of word vectors in the opposite light. Words stored in a dictionary have 1-dimension (their index), making comparisons more or less random. Word vectors augment the information you have about a word by continually examining the context that the word appears in a corpus of text.
in eclipse you can check show annotations which shows commit comment , not quite there but has possibility to be enhanced
It works in Austria because of how many people use Geizhals: basically everybody in certain categories who is a regular shopper. They have a huge reach.
> building a business model around the availability of a third party is a recipe for failure.

Rather, I think it's that a business model that is not complimentary to the third party is the problem. E.g. Amazon doesn't want historical price tracking for as it could lead to folks discovering price manipulations and a decrease in margins. So, that's the issue--the business was not a compliment. Let's imagine a startup that was generating new sales from a long tail market segment too small for Amazon to target directly, then that's a good business model as it compliments Amazon and leads to new sales they wouldn't otherwise see.

TLDR if you rely on a partner, make sure your business helps their business.
This is pretty cool but obviously you can optimise a microbenchmark to fit your case perfectly. Is like creating a statistic in your favour because it doesnt tell anything about how speed compares to php7 for example overall. Still interesting implementation but I am skeptic about if you can make a whole application this much faster.
Top developers love fixed pricing
This is the primary issue I have with our treatment of mental health.

Physical disabilities and illnesses come about due to clear actions, and are generally recognizable as universally bad.

These sorts of things either happen near-arbitrarily (birth abnormaility, blood clot) or via an accident (falling down the stairs). After the fact, you're less able, in general.

By contrast, many mental illnesses are triggered by society, and some make no sense without a societal structure.

People go to work, become stressed at the lack of reward or meaning in their employment and get depressed. Now they have an 'illness', because they no longer want to turn up for work. Cyclical reasoning.

There are certainly many mental illnesses that aren't covered by this, but I think that when comments are made about 'declining mental health in society' - it's really just throwing diagnoses at the fact that we're becoming more cut-throat....
I don't think authority is the problem, what bothers me more, is how passive consensus somehow reinforces some ideas more than others, and that can make them difficult to challenge them.

So in a sense, I think that there is a transparent "consented" authority, which is harder to challenge. Of course most people are happier in such a society. That's true, you can't really tell if the person is insane or just having an opinion about something.
I recently did a fresh computer build for the first time since 2005. I was use to using PriceWatch for parts and buying from smaller stores. I've actually been out of the country for four years, and upon my return, I see most of the small shops are gone. The lowest prices seem to always be Newegg, Amazon, SuperBizz and Microcenter. They've pretty much squished out a lot of the market, and it seems like Newegg allows other vendors to sell through it just like Amazon.

It's kinda sad really. The last city I lived in still had computer stores. The one I moved to doesn't...at all. There are some recycled PC stores, but the only new parts store is a Frys way out of the city. Fuck Frys too.
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Is the DMCA something that an OP could use to request takedown of data from a site?

Why not? Forum posts are copyrighted at the moment of creation just like any other work, and while one certainly gives a license (implied or not) to the forum, there's no reason why that license would extend to the IA.
And where do the keyboard and mouse plug in?
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Saying fail is a lowercase fail.

Saying fail with code is an uppercase FAIL.
"Mesosphere started in 2013 and is based in San Francisco. The startup has more than three dozen customers, a spokesperson told VentureBeat."

Hope those "three dozen" customers are paying a lot. Its quite hard to make the numbers add up on an 'open core' business model.
Makes me think of the god meme, which reads "makes sex great -- forbids it".
Salaries. Low in Oklahoma. High in San Francisco. Come back with the budget number in terms of median employee salary, and we might be able to start to compare the two.
It's the FizzBuzz.