skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bad crypto in the Owncloud encryption module
Ofcourse not. They can't put a backdoor code in the open source. Some people would build from source, resulting in the corporation not being able to access their messages when needed. Not really acceptable for the main shareholders.
> 80k for M4 is also totally overblown

Really? Even though it was still missing features that a Chevrolet had? Like satellite radio, a heated steering wheel, and ventilated seats?

You can easily get an M4 up to $90k ($100k+ if you make it a convertible).
I think the argument (one I'm not expert to make) is that the source may or may not be helpful to someone who is competent enough to validate a encrypted message application, but it is not what you need to verify.

You must verify the binary because you cannot trust the source, so it is a basic skill of anyone who has the competency to validate an encrypted message application.

Now, its possible, that the source along with repeatable builds make verifying the binary easier for someone with the skills necessary, but even with those things, they still have to verify the binary.
Not in California it isn't. Prop 13 limits property tax rates for owners.
Nvidia creates a 15B-transistor chip for deep learning
I sometimes wish my company had more competition so that we could improve the product.
"Signing each commit is totally stupid."

Linus Torvalds http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/GPG-signing-for-git-commit-t...
Project to drill into 'dinosaur crater'
From a personal safety standpoint, that is what I would suggest at least. Running a Tor exit means that you're the one who's going to get the knock on the door when a crook uses your connection for crookery.

I'd rather not deal with the police at all, in any capacity.
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Oh, excellent.

(Last I checked it was still AES-128 and SHA-1, but that was before the name change and I wasn't sure if it had changed. Glad to hear it has.)
Well he's outlined the baseline: 215 mile range for $35k. And it looks like it'll have the touchscreen and the safety features from autopilot. It probably wont have free supercharging. In the unveil he said even the basic model will be a 'really good car'.
Please open-source this!
DOD invites you to “Hack the Pentagon” this month
Art-List: A Music Licensing Platform for Filmmakers
Yes, but I'm guessing if you want to see the twitter feed, you'll need to have an account (of course, I should probably read the whole article in case it talks about that too :)).
Great, now I want to try Flakka. Thanks Obama.
Then you can set your consent to always deny. This isn't that hard.
Wow nice improvements, i hadn't noticed this. Gitlab.com seems a lot snappier.
I don't understand why Runnable didn't start with dumping requests straight into RabbitMQ from the beginning.

It's the obvious right solution for this kind of scenario.
What if there was a cure for Alzheimer’s disease and no one knew? [pdf]
For evidence of this, just look at where all the damage was during the '89 earthquake: the Marina district, not the skyscrapers.
From a personal standpoint I can honestly say that I am far more competent at what I do now then when I was younger. That's not to say that younger people aren't as capable, it's just that through many years of working in different market sectors and with diverse companies and groups of people, the breadth of understanding that it imparts truly helps to fine tune one's business acumen, something that is hard to replicate if one is just out of university or college.
Also available on Opera Developer Edition (what I use as my primary browser these days). It's pretty sweet!
That's the case for most implementations, just clicking "Block" will forbid the website from asking ever again.
> If people care enough for notifications, they will find a way to enable them. If they don't, no harm done.

If people don't care enough about notifications, they will find a way to disable them. If they don't, no harm done.

I appreciate that you have your own preference on this matter, but do you really think that most people don't like notifications? Most people want them.
I own the highest customer satisfaction Auto GM makes Chevy Volt. The instant torque and a very practical AER, and they do it for 33K (without tax credit) for a car available right now.

I have 2014 Volt am extremely happy, and do recommend the 2017 Volt which is a much better version retaining its original identity.

But TSLA is the darling of the press, rightfully or other wise. But at a Pound for Pound level, Gen2 Volt is an excellent choice. Unfortunately now those 250K people who reserved a Model 3 could be driving a EV right now and making an impact instead of waiting for 3 more years.

One thing is sure, Cars are not like Phones, you see People with Phones but you see People in the Cars, so once there is a bit of saturation of Model 3 on west coast, people will look around and "discover" Bolt EV or who knows may be Volt.
Sure, cross-platform (read: supports also Windows) is a big plus for grunt, gulp and the likes.
Apologies if I misunderstood, but I think you are asking me to clarify that I'm making a distinction between (a) one person allegedly having dishonest intentions and a conscious motive to do X and (b) that same person having better intentions, and doing X by accident.

The phrasing of the parent was "You are doing A so that B can happen.", which I thought was presumptive and unfair towards the other party.

I've known a lot of people who participate in the subculture of SJWs, and I'm confident that many of them have no conscious desire to be enablers of hatred and bigotry, not even hatred and bigotry towards white males. They simply don't understand the consequences of their beliefs.
So you think it's cool to offer "bargain prices" (i.e. lowball) when hiring people from discriminated groups?

I understand the moneyball angle, but in this case it's not one I'd be comfortable with.
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Okay, first off: This is great. The most popular messaging app finally gets the security it needed. And we've just rolled out E2E to 1b 'monthly active users'.

However, I have always wondered one thing about WhatsApp: How does it generate any kind of meaningful revenue?
Apparently they've ditched the old $1 subscription model [0], and even that was so loosely enforced that I have never paid a single cent for WhatsApp in my life--and never will (got it while it was free on the iOS App Store and now have a 'Lifetime' subscription, if they don't change those at some point).
And even back then, maybe half of their 900m monthly active users [1] were iOS users who paid only once, and the rest may have dodged the fee in various ways. I have a really hard time believing the revenues so gained could ever actually cover the cost of R&D (especially for so many platforms) and infrastructure (which should be huge, given the amount of data they shift). Now they say they want customers to use WhatsApp as a platform, the way Facebook Messenger is doing it, but I'm not seeing any of those features implemented anywhere.
I always assumed there was some heavy data analysis going on behind the scenes--which would have been fair, I guess, since we're neither being shown ads nor really paying. Facebook's involvement added to that conviction. Now that they're encrypting everything (which, again, is wonderful), they can't analyze what is really, really interesting data anymore (keywords, etc.). And it's not like there was a public outcry for them to take this step--I would guess that not many end users actually appreciate the importance of E2E encryption.

So the question remains: How are they making money? You still have metadata (I presume), but then again, how do they use this data to make money if they can't always match it to a Facebook profile (where they can show you ads), and also, does this data really provide such a big improvement over all the data collected by Facebook and Facebook messenger? It just seems strange to me that WhatsApp apparently does not want to make any money.

Does anyone have any insight on this? What am I missing?

[0]: http://www.cnet.com/news/whatsapp-kills-1-subscription-fee/
[1]: http://qz.com/495419/whatsapp-has-900-million-monthly-active...
Personally, I'd reinstall everything after they left.
I find it interesting to see how people react to this article. I try my best to see what can be learnt from this - he is offering insights into a private world that we don't 'get to see', and yes the alleged murder is a caveat to the whole thing - which should be treated (and is) treated differently to the rest of the story.

I do find your comment quite judgemental and vengeful. I'm not condoning his actions, but simply saying that I think we benefit as a society more from learning from this man, including learning from his behaviour rather than spending our energy and resources hating on and wanting to punish someone for essentially an act (excluding the death) of which had no effect on the people being watched.

To punish him in my mind is to say that we should keep these things in the closet (or attic in this case), and the lesson from that is only to hide what really goes on in the world instead of sharing what really goes on. I'd rather know about this and encourage others to share their stories.
Yep, they showed a diagram of how it fits together: http://i.imgur.com/xk1daFG.jpg
I'm curious if you've lived in the Bay Area for any length of time.

I used to live in Boston (which at the time was the #2 tech scene in the country, but has probably been eclipsed by Seattle/NYC/Austin by now). There were startups and meetups and hacker spaces as well, including a number of famous ones.

The Bay Area is a huge difference in degree. The difference is that you had to find the "tech scene" in Boston, while in Silicon Valley, tech is the scene. If you go out for coffee, nearly everybody in the coffeeshop will be working on some tech startup. If you sit down at a restaurant, there's a good chance that the table next to you will have a group of engineers from some large tech company, or an investor being pitched by an entrepreneur, or a group of friends planning a startup. If you go to a random party - even ones thrown by non-techies - half the people there will work in tech.
you should probably mention what state/city/whatever your ballot measure is intended for...
AI-based de-lamination algorithms, which this seems to be, are useful. You'd like to be able to take video frames and break them down into layers which reflect what occludes what. This is not necessarily depth; a single object that recedes into the distance, such as a railroad rail, belongs in one layer. It's relative depth; what's in front of what.

Systems for this should be trained on data with lots of things moving in different directions, occluding each other. Football games, for example. Pedestrians in busy intersections.

This sort of things is a good front end for many image understanding applications. You can also do frameless video compression. Framefree did this a few years ago, but the de-lamination front end of the compressor needed more work. We have more CPU power now; it's time to revisit that.
Thanks for that link for a visual comparison. It actually looks cleaner, too! And perfectly pleasant to live in.
Tesla doesn't have apologists, it has enthusiasts. Apologist would imply there is something that needs defending.

http://cleantechnica.com/2015/02/18/many-awards-tesla-won-in...
We use a very aggressive page caching, so that all of the text and statistics are pre-rendered when the page is requested.

The visualizations only initiate when they are visible in the window. When that happens, they make an API call for the data and then initialize the D3plus visualization.

All of the visualizations use shared attributes, for things like location names and industry colors/icons. Those API calls are stored in the browser using localforage.
https://github.com/mozilla/localForage
My vague understand is that he held a carefully undeclared stake in the blatantly felonious Icelandic bank that he procured a bail out for.
The laws on child pornography are obviously formulated with pedophilia / child molesters in mind. Unfortunately, the laws ended up being a typical moral panic mess and ended up being overly harsh and broad. Minors charged with child pornography for sexting each other completely undermines the original intent of the law, in my opinion.

I'm curious what the laws / regulations would be for general social media, image hosts, and other businesses that host user content. It's pretty much a given that at some point, there will probably be some illegal content uploaded onto it (including potentially child pornography). In some ways, a Tor exit node sort of falls under that same boat: you are indirectly passing information generated / requested by users.

Now, Twitter or Facebook doesn't going to get raided / computers confiscated every time an illegal image passes through their network. But I'm sure the police may ask questions during investigations (and I'm sure the companies comply as best they can). So I honestly think what happened here is fine. (I'd think differently if the police automatically confiscated computers and trashed houses of Tor exit nodes for no reason.)
Wow, cheap, great for startups!
> I think the sentiment the author is sharing is that a lot of women feel social pressures to appear outwardly successful, popular, etc, and this creates a very difficult situation where its perceived that asking a question that might make you sound stupid causes you to lose social status.

I think this is true of both genders and I believe her story illustrates that. She describes her experience in the lab where the TA was getting frustrated, that is until she proclaimed "I DON'T UNDERSTAND," and suddenly everyone was at ease. I think this shows how everyone, be it student or TA, is silently judging themselves for not knowing.
simple observation shows us that it doesn't work

Quite the contrary. A pretty simple reductio proof demonstrates that more housing lowers prices. All you need is to imagine a market in which there is one more apartment available than there are people to rent it.
Yep, sorry. Meant to say that's the first thing I looked at from the announcement. 215 mile range is probably good enough. I think the definition of "really good car" will be the question. I think it could easily be argued that the smaller battery model S was a "good car" but the market spoke differently.

Really exciting regardless.
Much better idea than the... in browser thing they had before.
The problem is discovery. How are normal users suppose to understand the web as notifications now?
I haven't got to try this yet because I haven't received any email yet.

Can you explain some of the technical details - how/where are signatures stored? Are they encrypted when stored?

For example on OS X, Preview.app has had the ability to add a signature to a PDF (t's part of annotations) for many years, and the actual signature is stored in the OS X Keychain (which also means it gets synced if you use iCloud Keychain).
Streaming is a poor user experience compared to cable with a good DVR. In some ways it hits sports especially hard. Streaming is inherently rewind-unfriendly, that's something you want more often with sports. The whole smooth rewind/pause/fast-forward ability is a priority for me and would keep me on a Tivo forever. Even on a local bluray it's less convenient, with streaming it's a dealbreaker.

Also, streaming is inherently risky in the sense of random pauses, buffering, dynamic drops in resolution. For a live event, especially during a dramatic moment, that's not something I'd deal with. Twitter has no control over my network connection. I barely do.
This country isn't just carbon neutral – it's carbon negative – Tshering Tobgay
MHG sounds like a really good hacking group name.
most of the 6 figure cars people are talking about in this thread are 5 figure cars before you spec them out, just like the model S.
Not really the expac is utter grabbage in it's current state regardless of the SJW stuff, I've pre-ordered it and I didn't even get to that part (and didn't even knew it existed till today) because I didn't wanted to ruin the good memories I had of BG1 and BG2.

That said I understand why people dislike the "transgender story" It just seems utterly out of touch with the rest of the game It doesn't impact the story, there isn't some interesting content behind it it's just there as a "BTW I'm a transgender" if they cared so much why not actually make a side quest about this that would actually flesh it out?

This is almost as absurd as Dragon Age 3 being hailed as "SJW" (not in a negative sense) dream while The Witcher 3 was criticized for "sexualizing women" while utterly ignoring the fact that The Witcher 3 not only has 3 fully fleshed out and very strong main female characters and as well as many more strong female supporting roles it also tackled various issues from homosexuality to general racism and prosecution in quite deep, meaningful and impactful ways while DA3 was shallow and in your face about it.
Where should we spend our time instead?

Definitely not novel at this stage, but once we modify the AWG to achieve water reclamation from urine, would that be considered novel?

The next milestone is to create open source designs for larger-scale, commercially available machines that are prohibitively expensive, and improve upon them. The machines exist and there is a market for them. Is it not worth the time and effort to increase access to technologies like this?

Not just knowledge of chemistry, but actively developing eyedrops to cure cataracts :)

http://www.viewpointtherapeutics.com/team/

EDIT: Wording. Added question.
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That's what my original comment was about - the "harassment" might not be because of their gender, but just "normal" tech discussion that they aren't used to.
Check out the specs here: http://images.nvidia.com/content/technologies/deep-learning/...

though I'm most curious about what motherboard is in there to support NVLink and NVHS.

Good overview of Pascal here: https://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/inside-pascal/

1 question: will we see NVLink become an open standard for use in/with other coprocessors?

1 gripe: they give relative performance data as compared to a CPU -- of course its faster than a CPU
I lived in NYC and frequented it's tech scene for about a year, ending mid-2013. Unless it's more-or-less quintupled in the last three years, there's no comparison.

The first python meetup I went to in SF (back in 2013) had 300 spots and a waitlist that I doubt got cleared. The NYC meetups I went to managed maybe 80 RSVPs and a couple dozen who actually showed up.

Once you get to anything more specialized than a programming language meetup, it's basically non-existent anywhere else in the country, but the bay area will still manage an active user group.

I really wish this weren't the case, and I really resisted moving here. I had every expectation I'd hate it and the city has more than lived down to expectations (easily higher rent and worse crime than NYC - or least the tech enclaves of NYC where I spent my time - by healthy margins). It is absurd and frankly unjustifiable how densely tech is concentrated here. But that it is so isn't really debatable.
We are already considering that and given past experience it is a quite simple process: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/14926

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My position is exactly that the dichotomy isn't a false one.
What's your company? I'll see what I can do for you.
If you pay two taxes instead of one, as everyone else, then it IS double taxation.
Yep. The government and people of San Francisco and Silicon Valley could wake up tomorrow, all with the simultaneous revelation that OMG we need to build a massive amount of new housing and all the associated transportation and other infrastructure needed to support it. And you might start seeing the initial fruits in a decade.

Meanwhile, in the real world, if attitudes and policies were to start shifting, 15 to 20 years is probably a more realistic planning horizon.
It would be nice to see support for the native Windows 10 notifications at some point too.
fyi: As far as I know, Paranoid Android development stopped last summer, after OnePlus hired away key developers in February 2015. Here's an article with much more detail, including its prospects going forward:

http://www.androidauthority.com/paranoid-android-calling-it-...
This only effects on the iPhone 6s / 6s Plus because they have 3D Touch.

Details on how to work around this bug are here: http://9to5mac.com/2016/04/04/new-iphone-6s-passcode-bypass-...
The problem is that it's all very uneven. A lot of people would love to live in the bay area, or Portland, but not so many people want to live in Lakeview, Oregon. But building more housing in the Bay Area is very difficult due to NIMBY rules and regulations.
It isn't "mentioned" that the character is transgender, you have to ask. And if you ask the character answers (probably because the writer thought it was something the character wants to answer).
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I believe what he meant is that it takes 15(to launch the software) + 5.4(0-60) = 20.4 seconds to get from getting into the car to 60 mph.
Forward slash has worked just fine on Windows for a LONG time. Backslash will probably still be around in the year 3,000 for backwards compatibility though.
Please stop using HN to conduct ideological flamewars. The other comments are bad too but at least they aren't hauling in entirely new barrels of talking-point petrol.
Thats what I said. You have to trust them. As far as we know they can not read it. Its fully possible that its not true but its far more likely that it is true.

If the work together with the NSA then its more likly that they deploy bad updates to individuels rather then deploying a backdoor to everybody. That is to easy to detect and it would be a marketing desaster.
It is not, or was not? Did this issue get rectified by Telegram?
I wish that made that information more accessible. I wasn't able to find it on the site and it was all I really cared about.