skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So you'd start off by hassling legitimate riders first so that in the future it would be easier to spot a stolen bike and prove that it's stolen.

FWIW: Around here bike registration exists but is voluntary.
Why was something like this ever implemented without permissions anyway?

If such a big mistake is made – releasing info about devices in the LAN, de-anonymizing people, and releasing location data – then what mistakes will be made with WebUSB or WebFilesystemAccess?

I seriously don’t want anything to ever have access to anything unless I grant it.

There’s a reason UNIX has no execute permissions by default for files, and a reason why I use SELinux.

This whole browser shit destroys the whole security model.
> All the attempts to easy the burden of the low income people by development of the better crops have gone directly into increasing the population instead of increasing the wealth and well-being.

Do you have a citation for this opinion?
I suffer from migraines. Paracetamol helps me most of the times when taken early allowing me to function for the rest of the day. Otherwise I'm a zombie hiding in the dark for many hours waiting for the pain to go away. It's not life threatening but it still feels necessary to me.
I wasn't referring to factoring. I quite like lattice based and ECC systems. I was referring to 'if it's hard for me it must be hard for you'. ALL cryptography is based off of that assumption.

edit: I can't seem to reply to you again, so I'll edit. This is all a big miscommunication. I was more confused than hostile, though I recognize how it came off poorly. I genuinely thought he had some fundamental understandings due to the combination of things he said. I was mistaken and my response came off poorly.
> factoring numbers is deterministically achievable in sub polynomial time

Am I missing something? I thought that the whole point of using the difficulty of integer factorization as the strength of things like RSA was that it's not known to be solvable in polynomial time. "P==NP" is one of the unsolved problems of computer science.

I think that the state of the art is that we can factor in sub-exponential time.
I don't think many - if any - physicist believe that there is a real singularity within a black hole. The existence of singularities in the solutions of our equations more likely just tells us that the equations are just good approximations that break down at the center of black holes.
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I think the best way to look at Capitalism is as a popularity contest. Popular products win. When technology advances to the point that it doesn't take as much labor to produce them, there are high barriers to entry, and distribution and communication of popularity are frictionless, you end up where we are - massive inequality.

Technology, i.e. 'increased economic efficiency' is the cause. It leads to a world where small players either become popular quickly or lose. And 99% of small players fall into the latter category.

People don't see this. They complain about inequality while they sport their iPhone apparently unconcerned that they are contributing to inequality by buying a popular product from a company that is sitting on more cash than some nations. But will they buy a phone from a small hardware startup, allowing a diverse phone market to thrive, employing an order of magnitude more people? Nope. And yet they complain about inequality, totally ignorant of its systemic nature and their part in it.
autoconf _shouldn't_ be relevant to building, rather than maintaining the project. (I know you can't always get a proper release in this day and age.)

In some cases you do need to re-autoconfiscate, which is why EPEL6 has autoconf268 (from RHEL7). Otherwise there's a software collection with up-to-date autotools, though you might expect them in the devtoolsets.
Obviously it would be impossible to continue doing what one was doing. So, one should just stop, do something else, learn something new and it'll pass in a year.
(Landlord here). From my perspective for a residential tenant a shorter lease is typically better. Mainly because you aren't going to want to spend money on legal action so with the tenant tying the property up you have less flexibility (note most of my tenants are commercials and credit worthy so it's the opposite).
Pat Lynch will defend his gang members no matter what they've done. No matter what (alleged, hah!) crimes the gang member has perpetrated, he will come to their defense. No questions asked, uncritically and always on the side of the gang members. In his book his gang never does anything wrong.

Unarmed citizens die in a hail of bullets, no problem, not his gang's fault.
A month in south East Asia.
Then another month simply learning something new. Get excited about programming again. Make programming your hobby again, and not just your job.
It doesn't work for large jet lags. When I go from EU to West Coast the toll on me is very high, whereas when I go to NYC I can adapt in two to three days.
Sorry to use this tragedy for an opportunistic but related comment.

If you have had past struggles with suicidal thoughts, or depression combined with addiction, then you should not own a gun. You might feel fine today, but relapses happen.

Other ways to attempt suicide are less fatal and more complex, giving you more chances to back out.

Harvard on the, powerful link between gun ownership and suicide: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/magazine/guns-and-suicide/
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By "things like RSA", you pretty just much mean "RSA". A lot of progress was made on integer factorization over the last 35 years, so that key sizes we'd have thought totally reasonable in 1995 are totally inadequate today. That is not similarly true of non-factoring systems, and so it's legit to point out the relative weakness of IFP crypto compared to other approaches.
systems-admins-we-need-to-talk

https://offensivetechblog.wordpress.com/2016/03/29/systems-a...
Well calibrated AR glasses seems to be what you'd want to target.
It's like if someone suggested how to improve public transportation and you answered "I found the best improvement - just take a cab everywhere."

Re: local transportation: What if it ends up being an improvement of the transportation market, to the point all middle class people can afford to pay for a ride in a car when you really need it? Virgin Atlantic started off with Richard Branson chartering planes across the Atlantic.

How could one disrupt transatlantic travel in a different way?
i have a similar routine with a sprinkle of melatonine. i found that melatonine makes all the difference, but i also heard that it doesn't work at all for some people.
"(thankfully I'm not a Javascript programmer)"

As being a js programmer, i had to laugh at this :)

Nice article anyway, the sad part is, that i nearly had all those points at once, at one job(unpaid overtime, the management part, and so on...). The last 3 months i spent there was only because they asked me, and i was dump enough to say yes (they actually offered a 'bonus' to stay, but don't think anything big).

Something i would add, which i read somewhere, is when you begin to work somewhere, look around at the other people, how they behave and everything. If i knew these things a little earlier, i probably would not have ended up (a little) broken, and unemployed.
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That's a reading of the original comment so uncharitable as to seem tendentious. The commenter was specific about factoring; they were not calling into question the entire idea of a trapdoor function.
>What will the robots build, sell or manage if noone has any money to buy anything? I don't necessarily buy that robots will remove all work.

I believe we will witness the rise of the leisure economy. Most people who still hold jobs will perform them in fields related to tourism and leisure activities, such as yoga teachers, tour guides, climbing, diving, boxing, golf instructors, etc. Basically robots/computers will eventually perform all tasks which do not necessarily require a human. Or in other words: The leisure industry will always require humans because it's catering for human experiences and not human needs.
Not affiliated, but I found the paper. First link to gitxiv is the abstract of a paper on arxiv. Here is the paper with more detail:

http://arxiv.org/abs/1603.06653
Wait wait wait.

Someone proposed the rhetorical question of "what politicians do you support" as one of the "ways you can affect climate change". The poster is not saying "You should vote (in a particular way)", nor even generalizing what positions the respective parties take, just that voting affects climate policy, which affects climate. The poster literally only said "the way you vote affects the way climate is handled", and -you- are inferring a bias, and a political motivation, and crying foul.

By that logic, we can't talk about voting being a means to -any- end. "How can we prevent the TPP" "Vote out those in favor of it" "NO NO NO, POLITICAL COMMENTARY, GTFO!"
To see all potential security issues, you need to look at the whole tech stack. A single USB device can have multiple drivers, and although only one is active at any given time the decision over which one to use can be influenced by applications.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/windows/hardware/hh...

"A USB configuration defines the capabilities and features of a device, mainly its power capabilities and interfaces. The device can have multiple configurations, but only one is active at a time. The active configuration isn't chosen by the USB driver stack, but might be initiated by an application, a driver, the device driver. The device driver selects an active configuration.

A configuration can have one or more USB interfaces that define the functionality of the device. Typically, there is a one-to-one correlation between a function and an interface. However, certain devices expose multiple interfaces related to one function."

So let's say I want to exploit this new WebUSB API. If I infect your computer with malware that installs a second USB driver for the hardware I want access to, and this second driver has support for WebUSB, I could theoretically control the driver being used by making a WebUSB request for the device, thereby exposing the hardware for further exploits.
Apologies, I mistook your typo/mistake combined with the odd phrasing of different difficulties to imply you really thought factorization could be done in subpolynomial time by some actors (i.e., NSA or something) as opposed to a misunderstanding.

I should have phrased my response differently regardless.
Actually sleep deprivation has been proven to be equivalent to being intoxicated. I can't find the resource unfortunately.
Politics are the primary enemy of progress. Right now incentives for renewables are being cancelled at a state and national level across the US. That is unacceptable low hanging fruit. NASA, the NWS, and even the NHS (see Zika) should all be studying this actively (edit: and coordinating this research, and publishing/sharing data). Carbon taxes shouldn't just be on the table, they should be in place and should form the basis of tariffs.

This is happening right now, it's not a future thing. We're dealing with it whether we want to or not.

Sadly, your natural gas heater is currently more carbon friendly than electric heat. In an interconnected grid, what you are using is probably offset by a mix of coal and gas generation, and to get to you it's suffering transmission loss. Solar hot water is a big win, though, especially if you are electric there. Same with insulation. Eat less meat. Repair vs replace.

Good luck to all of us.

edit: full disclosure, I replied to you without reading the article. I just read it. Holy shit. I wish there was someone that could comfort me that between ocean acidification, conveyor current shutdown, Greenland/Ross shelf based melting, threats to krill lifecycle, precipitation changes, and changes in farmland suitability (among others) ... we are looking at mass human die-offs over most people heres' lifetimes. When you look at the level of interconnection across the world, specialization, fragility of our complex systems... it's hard for me to not come up with a back of envelope figure ~6 billion deaths from starvation & conflict. Based on our resource extraction rate, it could easily make this the peak of human civilization.
Here's a thread about depackaging the CPU. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7479582

http://gaasedelen.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/depackaging-nintend...
IoS is a highly enjoyable Twitter and also writes longer articles well. I don't know how you are, IoS author, but keep it up, I enjoy reading these
Anyway, I figured it out by comparing the means of the columns to the tables in the paper[1]. I was wondering about the claim that "the magnitude of an individual’s Pe correlates positively with omission errors", since they do not show this plot.

You can see it by plotting "pe.diff.meanpz.cpz" vs "percent.omission.errors" from the data.sav file at the OSF link (I used the R "memisc" package). There is a correlation, but just slightly (eg the subjects with the highest error had middling Pe).

Also, the error rates correspond to the control group not clicking (on average) when they saw an F instead of an E 1-2 times out of 60 vs 3-4 times for the acetaminophen group.

They say "the effect of acetaminophen on errors of omission, while robust, was unanticipated". So this was the result of exploratory analysis. Personally I wouldn't put much stock into the idea that acetaminophen "hinders the brains error correction mechanism" based on these results.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26892161
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Gigabit internet will have the same problem. It will be very fast to download all hard disks data.
Agree. Virtually there are many people whom you can look up to, Linus Torvalds, Brian Kernighan so on and so forth, but having a mentor with whom you can talk face to face is something I really cherish.
This post is like that mentor telling you what to do and what not.
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Fuel injectors are also quite dangerous. They operate at sufficient pressure to break the skin, and high-pressure fuel/oil injections can require amputations.
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Is this the correct link for 61a as referred to by grand parent?: http://wla.berkeley.edu/~cs61a/sp11/
While there may be a baseline level of risk for falling and hitting your head as an accidental occurrence in most sports, it's not much higher than in other areas of everyday life. But some sports (football, boxing and some other combat sports, and vert-ramp extreme sports of all varieties, among others) all put participants at much higher risk for repeated head traumas, which has in recent years been shown to cause long term, degenerative physical and psychological effects. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_traumatic_encephalopat...
It sounds a bit like you think there should be one antimatter particle for each matter particle in the universe and we don't know where all the antimatter is but that is not the case. There is just a lot more matter than antimatter in the (observable) universe and we have no good explanation how this came to be because there is no obvious asymmetry in the equations and one would then naturally expect equal amounts of matter and antimatter in the universe. So we don't know why we see so little antimatter, but we don't really think that it exists and is hiding somewhere, we think it never came into existence. And that is a good thing, otherwise all matter could just have turned into radiation and we couldn't exist.
Do you run it in async mode ? Why do you have nginx in front of it when you can use the http-server directly (like many do in go,java land)?
I did not know that. That is interesting!
This is why none of my business, and none of my personal data (outside browing with PrivacyBadger enabled), goes to companies residing in the United States.

(written on an rk3288-based ARM laptop from China, over a VPN from Iceland)
I'll also assume JBoss installs its services as SYSTEM, instead of creating limited-permission accounts.

Microsoft historically hasn't done a good job of making it easy (and the default) to set things up this way though they take it a lot more seriously now.

NTFS supports permission execute on ACLs and the system enforces them. I wish they had made a policy decision to default that to off and require you re-auth with admin credentials to set the bit. It would work more like +x/chmod/sudo does and prevent a decent number of such things.
The studies that led to those drugs being pulled also led to stronger warnings for other NSAIDs:

http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DrugSafety/ucm451800.htm
Taking notes is usually considered a tool for paying attention.
> I know a guy, a sales guy, who "worked from home" for a large multinational while earning six figures. He spent most of his time doing home improvement projects. He replaced his roof (himself), he built and installed new kitchen cabinets, he remodeled the entire house and painted it all.

You seem surprisingly judgmental about this given how upset you were about others not recognizing the effort you put into the business in your garage.
From considerable experience of building unixy packages, I wouldn't use "cmake" and "pretty good" together :-(.

Fedora EPEL6 has had to include two new cmake versions so far to be able to build more packages.
For me, learn something new, is the only think that relaxes me. ( for example if you don't use vim, learn it.. Or learn Emacs... )
Housing is also expensive in SF because of height restrictions on the buildings. It's funny that such a progressive city is always looking for reasons why housing is so expensive, but refuse to believe it's one if their own laws.
And you'll have no choice but to connect it to your network? Or no way to interfere with whatever wireless tech they use ? Seems a little far fetched
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I hated it since I knew it was wrong when I used it for an paper in 3rd grade
In fairness, if economics is the study of allocation of scarce resources, which is implicitly a study of human behaviour wrt a limited resource in individuals, slightly larger functional groups (families and firms) and then large populations as a whole, then surely we are within the realm of psychology and sociology.

The thing is that psychology gives us ideas that shows how humans can be influenced individually (think foot in the door or an incredible offer that ain't really an incredible offer). Sociology gives us ideas of how humans can be influenced in groups that, in literal terms, will give away their freedom and rights with tears of happiness in their eyes to a charismatic speaker who says the right things in hard times.

How does supply and demand fit in all of that when the assumption in the model is that we behave rationally? How does the work on habit formation fit into that? How does peer pressure?

I smoke cigs. I pay for take out food and chocolate. Before I got a car, I'd get a cab to work even though I had a bus pass. Now I'm not holding myself up as a model of the actual man but that's the point: the homo economicus is like the description of someone's ideal of homo sapiens. Ideally, that's how we should make decisions about resources. In actuality, I think it's just far off the mark to cause what would be sound decisions to work out not so well.

Economics to me is like a social science trying to be used as a hard science and in a position to be quite dangerous.
Many consider it a mistake (I sure as hell do), hence everything else being behind a permissions model.

I could ask you why SELinux is necessary in the first place, but the fact is that mistakes are made and learned from, and additional software is made to fill in the gaps.

If you want that amount of control, there are plugins that grant it, and using a plugin is much like using SELinux to fill in gaps or mistakes in the platform.

Software will never be bug free, and that's not an excuse to never write anymore software.
(4) Tax land

Land is the largest source of unearned revenue (rent-seeking).

The more you tax of something, the less you get, usually to the detriment of society. The one thing this does not apply to is land.

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In theory I'm in support of taxing wealth and much prefer that to taxing income, but it's just too unrealistic. Wealth is so easy to hide (eg. offshore) and hard to value (since it's more than just counting money in the bank). The only plausible way I could see us taxing wealth effectively is if the world collectively got rid of physical cash and implemented negative interest rates on currency, but obviously that's not happening anytime soon.
The point I've seen made about bike theft is that although the reward from a successful bike theft is small, the risk -- the probability of being caught times the likely consequence if one is caught -- is extremely small in most places. So the reward/risk calculation easily supports committing the theft.

But if a municipality devotes even a small amount of resources -- an officer or two, full-time, I guess -- to prosecuting bike theft, that can raise the odds of getting caught for a single theft, I don't know, maybe three orders of magnitude -- from 10^-6 to 10^-3, let's say. Someone who steals hundreds of bikes a year is then looking at a real chance of getting caught for one of them.

What I've seen argued, and I seem to recall there's even experimental evidence to support this, is that that's enough to reduce the reward/risk ratio to the point where bike theft as a career, at least, is uneconomic. You might still get occasional opportunistic thefts -- leaving a bike unlocked would still not be recommended -- but the bulk of the problem would go away.

Coming back to the topic, the same principle probably applies here. You don't have to even try to solve all the ransomware crimes; you just have to solve enough of them, and come down hard enough on the perpetrators, to change the reward/risk calculation. That will probably be a lot harder to do, though, since they're unlikely to even be in the same country as the victims.
Red Hat would be.

Consider the amount of funding RH and Sun Microsystems have put into the linux desktop. Imagine if they were now required to provide technical assistance to people attempting to surveil through the tools they've invented.
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I'm wary of ever using the term "Capitalism" in any discussion, it's been misused, abused and overused so often it hardly ever means anything specific anymore. Nowadays it appears to be just a cue for people to engage in wild accusations. Let's rather talk of methods of allocation; for example a market based versus a state controlled distribution of goods.
One thing future malware might do is to encrypt the drive using the BitLocker API/command line, since BitLocker already knows how to do this reliable and with minimal system impact.

Or change the key if it's already encrypted.
"I don't have a problem with the whole inheritance thing."

Lowering or eliminating estate taxes results in extreme concentrations of wealth in only a few generations. The inheritance tax ("death tax") in the USA should be revived; it was a mistake to reduce it.
Personally I'd consider 1 and 2 character variable names as a form of obfuscation. eg what's the point having a "pseudo-constant" for size if it's named in such a way that isn't immediately obvious that it refers to the size.

Nice code though.
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Are lists comprehensions (the proposed alternative) less "functional" than map/reduce/filter?