skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> if the government started making its own computers then private suppliers would raise a fuss

I imagine they'd be designed and built by Boeing or Raytheon or some other major military contractor, just like all the other specialized government equipment.
People who are saying that you should be able to work on software from anywhere are underestimating the importance of IRL network effects.
MITM requires a man in the middle. For the most part, a state level adversary is required for a generalized MITM attack.
Forget surveillance data -- we have a veritable treasure trove of zero-day exploits. The US Gov (and many other's) are very active in the zero-day market with an impressive stockpile.

We have so much effort into offence that we ended up forgetting about defence, and losing the latter makes the former largely ineffective. This completely destroys the credibility of the NSA's argument that they deserve ever-more expanding powers to reach around the globe, especially given that we will have hands following the neat trail that we have behind ourselves.

Why do we give them the power to act with impunity and without oversight, trusting them to reach around the globe, when we expose ourselves the whole length of the way?

It's like leaving the door open at Fort Knox because we're too busy spying on our neighbours.
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Hanging a lampshade on your comparison to Nazi experimentation by Dr. Mengele does not make up for the fact that the comparison is not apt at all. Let's keep our fingers off the launch buttons, please?
That is what the OP said. I was quoting him. Where is the harshness?

Really the auto industry moved to SV? I'm pretty sure they are all in Detroit still, but I guess that doesn't count because its not Tesla? Who I don't believe moved there but actually started there.

Funny that you should mention Hollywood because Hollywood isn't thriving in Los Angeles, California any more and hasn't for some time. Hollywood is in Vancouver, New Orleans, and Atlanta now. So much so that there's a push in Sacramento to try to get it back.

Also interesting that you bring up "the most money" as testament to how much its thriving. You need to get paid a much higher salary in order to live in a place that is "thriving" and as a result are able to take home and substantially less.

Incidentally salaries in NYC are on par with those in SV and the rent is significantly cheaper.
I think there's a lot of luxury condo development going on in Austin, but actual homes? Even our existing home inventory has been hit hard by investors looking to set up STR2s with AirBnB. The properties they prize are the exact sort of starter homes first-time homebuyers are looking for. There was just an article recently on the dearth of 3/2 houses available.

I'm looking to buy a home soon so the recent municipal prohibition on STR2s gives me hope that the inventory will increase and allow some downward pressure on prices.
The FBI has, on multiple admitted occasions, ran both honeypots for CP, and on seizing a CP site, continued to run it for multiple months to get more suspects.

I have no issue with the intent, and such things are - in a restricted manner - allowed for, see prostitution stings.

But the fact that they -do- distribute CP is verifiable fact.
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Hi Harperlee

I ran the question you asked --

"Are they playing tennis?"

and following is the result

99.93 % yes

00.05 % no

000.0 % right

000.0 % left

000.0 % black and white
Can you list a few?
Couldn't you use VPN ? On the other hand so could the scammers if you could.
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Path length limit is 32767 characters, do you need more?

See: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa3...
>If you're so easily annoyed

What's "easy" about it? My annoyance is the age old popup annoyance, something tons of web users have lamented for ages.

Ever heard anyone say they LIKE unsolicited popups? Even if it is to ask permission for something?

>The reality is that sites can do any number of things to annoy you because you are giving them permission to execute code on your machine. If you don't trust them with this permission then don't give it to them.

Sounds like a slippery slope. I don't understand these kind of half-thought arguments.

I never said I want webpages to act as simple text. I like dynamic pages and apps -- I just don't like unsolicited popups and dialogs.

The same holds true for the desktop, and countless people have expressed their frustrations with such popups there too. Starting from Clippy, the most annoying popup of all time, to the backslash against Windows (Vista?) "asking for admin permissions" dialog, which made them tone it down, and all the way to today...
"How do we know he doesn't operate the node for the very purpose of watching kiddy porn go by"

Why would anyone do that? If he knows how to install Tor, why wouldn't he download it through somebody IP instead of his own? I can't see any technical advantage to downloading it using your own IP when you could use somebody elses...
AMG (base price of 130,000 USD) and S are not in the same price league, no matter how much you trick the latter out. Sure, extra 40-50k usd can buy you nice leather trim..
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"But for a variety of reasons, the momentum has been in SF's favor as the world's dominant technology hub."

I know this is ancient history, but I keep having to remind folks that the fetish for locating tech companies in SF didn't start until the late 1990s. Then it crashed, and didn't pick up again until the mid/late 'aughts.

Viewed dispassionately, the "momentum" of SF as a technology hub looks more like a fad that happens at the peak of VC consumer investment cycles.
I hate that reimplementing the open dialog is an acceptable practice on Windows. I have one dialog in Acrobat, another one in AutoCAD, another for AGI32, and (I think the standard one) in Chrome. Probably others that I'm forgetting.

Each of these has its own special list of "favorites" on the left, so if I want to add a shortcut to a commonly used folder, I find myself doing it in 8 different places. Or in some cases I can't; Acrobat has a sidebar with large icons of Recent Places, Desktop, Libraries, Computer, and Network. If you wanted to add somewhere more useful, you're shit out of luck.

Anyone know why this happened? Was there a period around Windows XP where the built in dialog was just godawful and everyone said "Fine I'll make my own" and then they never went away?

Compare to OS X where any time someone rolls their own dialogs for system features (especially Open and Print), I immediately assume the developer is an asshole. And for the most part, nobody does it. The only one I can think of off the top of my head is printing from Chrome, and theirs even includes a "Print using system dialog…" button.
In 10 years (if you don't stop working in the industry first) you will look back on this and realize how green you are.

- working wins, always. How many people do you know who drive cars but can't change their oil. The only people who care about the code, are engineers, and business people when it costs them money.

- You found a blind spot after you were done, but there was NO means to get the changes needed into your code. That says your code isn't as good as you think it is.

- Realize that though you can write code you don't know what good engineering looks like, if your going to whine about it, find another industry.
It solves the problem of illegal tax evasion, by making it legal. See? Problem solved!
In regards to this clickbait title: That's what a discovery is: It's a thing that exists, but nobody know about it yet.

This whole study seems extremely pseudoscientific. Coconut Ketones aren't "the cure to Alzheimer's Disease". Perhaps they may have potential in helping understand it, but nobody is going to cure themselves by consuming coconuts...

It's really hard to take a "study" seriously when the author uses an AOL address and tells you exactly where online to buy coconut oil...
> not only wasting storage space but also wasting bandwidth when transmitting

Such an utterly minuscule amount though (especially in the modern times when storage and bandwidth are cheap and ubiquitous), I think you typing that sentence has wasted more storage and bandwidth.

I think a better reason is to avoid issues when working with code files across systems and version control. This actually causes major annoyance.
Yes.

One project is SeL4, which is a provably correct microkernel. I listened to a talk by one of the developers and it sounded like they were getting funding from DARPA.

https://sel4.systems/About/seL4/

I also remember reading on Wikipedia about some proprietary closed-source OS that's used by the US government to work with very highly classified information. Apparently the requirement was that the kernel and every program be formally verified, so it had very limited features. IIRC, it still maintained, but newer versions support a Linux environment for less classified work.

Unfortunately, I don't remember what it was called so I can't link to the page.

edit: found it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XTS-400

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Computer_System_Evalua...

> Examples of A1-class systems are Honeywell's SCOMP, Aesec's GEMSOS, and Boeing's SNS Server.
What's crazy is that the cops knew this was a TOR exit node and they still crashed the party. Makes you question their motives and tactics. A simple polite knock would have saved everyone the trouble but I suspect the police wanted to make a point.
A wild idea: a string of distinctive emojis (distinctive: I mean, not allowing emojis that are too close, like too similar face expressions where only smaller details differ)

They're unified, they're mostly language-agnostic, and there is shitload of them so the representation would be much more compact than hexadecimal or base64-encoded string.
Signal is a protcol not an app!? Sweet jesus yes!
We actually have a fully-functional, mobile optimized web app – that's how we started!
Zig Zag was good, but if just starting with Ben Macintyre, I'd start with the Philby book. It's the better of the two. I've read both.
This is a moot point to anyone running GitLab CE though.
I learned so much while training my dog; wish I'd known that stuff before becoming a parent.

(no sarcasm or joking intended).
Those defenses - whilst valid in many cases, and for many reasons - also are a core part of the "reasonable" in "reasonable doubt".

Many conflate reasonable doubt with "any doubt whatsoever", and think that any excuse that can be concocted which is technically feasible is an alibi. "But Your Honor, it is possible that someone snuck into his house, spoofed his MAC address to get on his Wifi, used that to download this and that, and then left undetected!"

So there's a standard of reasonability, and there should be corroborating evidence.

Should, at least. In theory.
I'm not suggesting that you have to have a distributed team -- though, you certainly can, and $10-$15k is trivial compared to the economic penalty of hiring good engineers in SF.

I'm just saying: consider locating your company somewhere else. There are great engineers all over the world, and most of your customers are not here.
off-the-wall (and highly unlikely) suggestion: GH unleashed an aggressive Chaos Monkey today for the purpose of testing DGit's reliability claims in production.
I wonder if transient response would be better with the low COG, although of course I'd expect it to be penalized even more heavily by the added mass.

I've not driven a recent CTS-V although I've spent a bit of time behind the wheel of a 660+HP ~2011 CTS-V wagon. My experiences with the Model S are back to back with E92 M3s with the dual-clutch transmission, and of course you feel the added mass, but in terms of performance, I find the sheer size to be the biggest obstacle on a narrow course.
I always liked "Axolotol" because axolotols are a type of salamander with the amazing ability to regenerate parts of their bodies (including their brains!), and the Axolotol protocol, like OTR, is "self-healing", meaning it's capable of recovering from a compromised session key (https://whispersystems.org/blog/advanced-ratcheting/).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11428776
"while in Silicon Valley, tech is the scene." Yes that about sums up a monoculture for me.

Contrast this with a city like New York where you also have publishing, finance, advertising as well as solid tech.
This is a pretty nice project. Can't say I have anything large to use it for but, I'll definitely study the UI design of it. Well done~
Gerrit is the reason I rarely submit MediaWiki patches back to the Wikimedia Foundation. Gerrit is a giant pain to use, has a terribly designed interface, and requires a command line plugin that makes it trivial to screw up patch reviews. I can not ask other developers on the team here to do it either since I can not justify having them hours just to learn how to not screw up using Gerrit.
No they can't because scylladb can't do the stuff druid can (and vice-versa). While mysql can (even though it's a completely different way).
It's true. There are two specific forms which have 10,000 USD late fees which can compound at least three times per year each. So doing your taxes late could cost dozens of thousands of dollars. These are specific to controlling CFCs, not applying for the FEIE though.
> On cable tv alone, there are two channels (NFL Network and CBS) that both broadcast the game.

The big one there is CBS, meaning that the game is already accessible even for cord-cutters, assuming they get acceptable reception from their local CBS station.
> It would be irresponsible and neglectful for law enforcement not to raid this man's home.

Common sense doesn't dictate a "RAID" here. A simple knock and a 2 minute conversation would suffice. No need to kick down a door at 6am for something simple. People get shot that way.
Why are they still releasing laptops that top out at 8GB? It feels like the PC manufacturers have some rule where they must have at least one major deficiency preventing me from considering their laptop.
Well, it boots (and runs) in the background. I don't think any modern nav system can be truly switched off, even if the display to the radio/nav/etc system is switched off. Again, because of boot times, it makes sense to have it begin booting as soon as the car is unlocked, and to run in the background the entire time the car is running.
It's not a Linux distro thing, all Linux, BSD, Solaris, etc systems are case sensitive because it's the 21st century.

The only widely used file system without case sensitivity is HFS[1]. NTFS to its credit is case sensitive, but Win32 is not, for legacy reasons (same reason as why MAX_PATH still plagues Windows).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems#Fea...
that I understand...but many is it spendy
Thanks for the illumination. I get desiring stability.

Good luck to ya!
It's bullshit. Cops (and the media) will repeat and exaggerate the most preposterous nonsense they can find if the subject is drugs. Doubly so if it lets them excuse things they were going to do anyway, like beat the shit out of a black dude for giving them lip. What this article is describing is such a typical moral panic that it should be in a museum somewhere as a type specimen.

http://www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/jenkem.asp
> The CLK430 has a 275 HP V8 and the car weighs nearly 4,000lbs. That's not a lot of power for a vehicle of that size and non-AMG models aren't geared for acceleration.

I alternate driving a Honda Odyssey and a recent base level Hyundai Elantra as a commuter every day. I'll tell you flat out this is not a problem with too little horsepower or torque. I've also recently driven one of the AMG Mercedes variants for a few days, and seemed to notice the same issue in that vehicle, but much less pronounced.

> The surge you experience is probably the transmission down-shifting.

What I'm experiencing seems to be slightly different than what the original commentor started out with. I'm referring to starting moving forward from stop, such as a stoplight.

> Glib solution: Buy an AMG and smile when you put your right foot down, but cry when you go to the bank...

Naw, I still have my 240z sitting out back. It was fairly tricked out prior to it becoming basically useless most the time when I had multiple children. I get most of my jonesing for fast cars satisfied by the fantasy that I'll one day fix it up again. I think it was way more fun to drive than most the modern fast cars, because it's not so much about how fast you go, but how fast if feels like you are going. Driving a small early 70's sports car serves that up pretty well even without actually going all that fast. :)
Somewhere in the depths of my brain I recall IBM developing a "secure" architecture from hardware up a long time ago, but the project was killed for some reason. Pretty sure HN user nickpsecurity originally posted about it.
You say that, but just a few days ago the Panama Papers were released. I don't buy into the worldwide conspiracy thing, but there's clearly stuff going on that others don't want you to know about.
Honestly? Start looking for another job. (Don't quit this one until you have another one in hand, though.)

That kind of quality in embedded systems is frightening. That kind of corporate culture is demoralizing and is slowing down your career development. You'll grow faster somewhere else.
>Such an utterly minuscule amount though

Sent a bazillion and one times all day, every day. I'm sure it adds up.
You mean like the kind of highly classified information that Hillary Clinton kept on her home server? :) was she running a probably secure microkernel?
>If people didn't want web notifications, they wouldn't have been explicitly added in to the specs.

People rarely design specs. Corporations do, and they push their own agendas, like, all the time.

That's like saying "If people didn't like DRM we wouldn't have W3C's Encrypted Media Extensions".
The absence of Lexus from the list is deafening. It is the highest quality brand in this group (not an opinion, a fact - please check a couple of rankings, most notably JD Powers Initial Quality survey, etc.)
Probably no source other than: there are 1B+ Windows users (like me) vs. maybe 100M Mac users + a few million Unix-y users.
The NSA has their own fab at Ft. Meade [1] and pays IBM to run one in Vermont [2].

[1] http://www.militaryaerospace.com/articles/print/volume-9/iss...

[2] http://www.manufacturingnews.com/news/04/0203/art1.html
To condemn one's actions, and to judge a person are two separate things and are not mutually exclusive.

Given that my comments are 'idiotic at best', I think you've proven the point that you are quick to judge.
Because the introduction of GPU's didn't come until 30~ years ago ;-) also it's a single physical item. It's more of a collective piece than actual art, at least today.
Sorry - by 'well' I meant that the stream wasn't stuttery garbage.

Good point about the Yahoo game being exclusive - it'll be interesting to see how the viewing figures pan out
From the first sentence of the page you linked to:

> In the Windows API (with some exceptions discussed in the following paragraphs), the maximum length for a path is MAX_PATH, which is defined as 260 characters.

Reading comprehension, do you need more?
> How is it possible I didn't know that? Thank you. Does anyone know the history of it? I did a little research:

According to the history, DOS 2.0:

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/larryosterman/2005/06/24/wh...

[begin quote] Here’s a little known secret about MS-DOS. The DOS developers weren’t particularly happy about this state of affairs – heck, they all used Xenix machines for email and stuff, so they were familiar with the nix command semantics. So they coded the OS to accept either “/” or “\” character as the path character (this continues today, btw – try typing “notepad c:/boot.ini” on an XP machine (if you’re an admin)). And they went one step further. They added an undocumented system call to change the switch character. And updated the utilities to respect this flag.

And then they went and finished out the scenario: They added a config.sys option, SWITCHAR= that would let you set the switch character to “-“.

Which flipped MS-DOS into a nix style system where command lines used “-switch”, and paths were / delimited. [end quote]
A site is a site is a site. Whether it serves incomprehensible text or comprehensible 'content'. When you decided as a site owner to open up your entire content to the world for all to consume as is without authentication or some sort of DRM strategy it's available to everyone. And I mean everyone. You can freely close your site off if you want but stop lying to yourself that you're entitled to make your site profitable. It's like saying you're entitled to ROI if you make a product regardless of how people view it (as useless or bad). You're not entitled to profitability. You're only entitled to the chance to become profitable and no more. Please etch that idea into your forehead because from my POV you're the one acting as if you're entitled to free money.
Thanks, we're trying to do a better job communicating everything we have and can do and will definitely do so in this case!
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It's an expert-authored modern framework for designing fast cryptographic transport protocols that have (depending on the options you select) forward secrecy, peer authentication, and resistance to key compromise.

The notion of a cryptographic protocol framework, rather than a complicated negotiation scheme for a kitchen-sink protocol, is also somewhat novel.
> 3.) Corporate prop-trading desks, parking corporate profits in tax-advantaged long-term assets until its needed. Google, for example, is a major owner of affordable housing developments.

Very interesting as Google will be expanding their offices in Boulder over the next few years. I believe they've broke ground on the campus here.
I just hope its well marked.

I don't think the future of ads will be well marked -- because being well marked means it can be blocked easily.
Amazon should use it's bank to get these kinds of deals for Twitch.tv.

They already have the platform, community, and infrastructure to do this kind of thing perfectly.
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I think it's pretty naive to think this wouldn't happen if no one block ads.
Because sane and non-intrusive defaults matter.

And also because "always deny" or "turn off" is too blunt a tool.

And because the HN crowd is full of people that design and code such defaults in their apps (including lots of browser developers), and their webpages.

It's not a forum with people merely looking for the quickest solution to solve a personal problem with how their browser behaves.

But why think about those issues when you can instead post snide, edgy, holier-than-thou snark on the internet?
Would your reaction be different if he were a sysadmin snooping on emails, didn't ever do anything from the snooping, just snooped?