skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't believe the above post. Its a trick to brain wash and keep the technical guys to not enter the management. Just look at any blog post by Bill Gates(has animation in most of the posts), so much work is went in to creating animation, how is that possible? money. Having enough money gives a lot of freedom, don't fool your self or any one saying you can do whatever Bill can do. Also its good for other programmers if programmers left their safety net and went in to management.
Libraries on CDNs have drawbacks as well, like the additional dns-roundtrip.

I think what's needed is a heuristic webpack-loader, where you can specify both a self-hosted URL and a cdn-URL. It could work like this:

* Load the CDN version and fallback back to the self-hosted version, if it doesn't exist or takes too long.
* In certain cases (probability, origin of request, etc.) load the self-hosted version first, but load the CDN in the background, so it get's cached.
OK, your CMS, AKA your blog, should not have the data of tens of thousands of customers in it...
This is a bit weird. I don't believe WhatsApp are lying but there's absolutely no proof they're not.

I could release a closed source app with a bunch of padlocks in it and copy/paste their white paper and have exactly the same level of proof of security. Would I get a 7/10 from EFF?
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No but to blindly trust in it is silly. Even openssl had a heart-bleed bug that persisted for years without most people realizing it. All it takes is one bug for the entire thing to be useless.
The word "participating" there implies intention, which is a lie. Care to re-phrase?
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Lately got interested in DevOps and learning/working on Chef and AWS migration.
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Oh gosh, you're really convincing me.
Agree. Reluctant to be critical of the topic, given how much those involved have managed to get done, but it is very concerning to me from what I'm able to tell how low priorty this issue appears to be.

Second issue that to me is pressing given the volume of users is that in my opinion a commitment to execute an audit of the code/crypto/workflow/etc needs to be made; I'd start a campaign to fund this, but such a campaign would be much more likely to succeed if offically acknowledged and more importantly, resources are provide internally to enable it.
I hope I can get my friends to switch to actor IM [1] or some other open source solution that doesn't suck. In the end all these chat systems turn into crap full of ads even if they aren't spying on you.

[1] https://actor.im/
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No swiping, no selfies, no nonsense
So it protects you from bad turbulence but in a catastrophe you are still screwed.
Perhaps by knowing that the distributed binaries will be disassembled and inspected? The same way it would have to be examined even if there was a GitHub repo out there claiming to be the code used?
> The reason we don't do that is that a sales tax obviously hits people in proportion to the benefits they receive from society

Really? I buy perhaps 2x what the average American and maybe 4x what the poorest Americans who are not on government support buy. I'm pretty sure that I get more than that ratio of benefit from a stable society.

Warren Buffett gets some massive multiple of the benefit than I get, but I doubt he pays more than 10x in sales tax what pay.
The 3D printed element is the least interesting part of the process because it's literally superficial. There's no reason you couldn't set up a robotic brush painter next to a robotic pigment factory to recreate all of the above.

However - what's interesting to me is that the only way to make this work was by defining the features that were going to be included, analysing and averaging them separately, and gluing them together to create a whole.

This wasn't a "Throw everything into an RNN and see if something useful falls out" project. It deliberately separated specific target features.

That works well for an artist with very consistent and narrow clothing, lighting, and background choices, and limited model poses.

It might not work so well for artists who included a much wider range of imagery - which is probably most of them.
If you had the credibility of a billion dollar company behind you saying that you're not making it up, then probably.
I am so cynical (or is that realistic?) these days, that I would not trust the encryption on WhatsApp as far as I can throw a large, adult saltwater crocodile.
> The PRISM program collects stored internet communications based on demands made to internet companies such as Google Inc. under Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 to turn over any data that match court-approved search terms

I can't imagine it's a simple task for a large company to unintentionally comply with a court demand, there needed to be some wilful choice between attempting to fight it or rolling over
I may be being overly-cautious, but does anyone have a summary of this that isn't a PDF from blackhat.com?

edit: Thanks for both responses!
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At what level does this make sense for the HN case of two college grads founding a startup in California? No US lawyer specialising in paperwork for small businesses would tell you "never mind Delaware, you should go offshore!" So what are the short term benefits of being incorporated in the US?
And then when people start artificially building vertically rather than laterally in order to avoid paying taxes? Then you change your tax calculation to be based on square-footage of space-available, and then you're back to square one where 'taxes impact supply'.
Yeah I was hesitant about this one. At least it will be consistent with other methods (we’ll add getInclusive(), getExclusive() etc).
On that note (and I know slightly OT) - I think they're really missing a trick with the new "Robot Wars" by not going fully autonomous. I wonder if any level of autonomy is allowed?
Been using Google Photos happily for almost a year now.
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The goal is not to be perfect, but to kickstart encryption adoption by a large non technical audience I believe.

Sure that's no excuse for potentially bad crypto but it's worth it if this gets proper infosec into the public reach in the end. I'm confident this is a first step to having trustable encryption "in the real world" even if it's another client/company providing it later. Call me an optimist :)
I like it. If I buy some futures, can I sell them to anyone else down the line? Would also be super cool if investors could have access to early copies to gauge quality/value.

What are the legal needs in order to sell these? what kind of investment instrument would it be precisely?
And heartbleed is also than example of open source not being totally secure. It was a bug that persisted for years before it was found - and OpenSSL is open source.

It's just as foolish to blindly trust OSS. There will always be holes - the main point to OSS is not to combat these, as they will exist regardless. Rather, it is so one might know exactly what they're installing/using, without having to trust the corporation behind it.
Hello everyone,

Recently I, along with my amazing colleagues, won the Google Startup Weekend (St.Cloud) event (it's basically a hackathon). After winning that hackathon I came to the realization that if one of my colleagues hadn't pointed out that this event existed, I would have never known about the event. I began to look at the App app store the following day to find an app that provided a comprehensive list of hackathon events with an attention to detail and great organization. Unfortunately, I couldn't find one. What I found was a pile of apps from different universities and non-profit organizations for their own hackathon events. I needed something with all events from various organizations, and so Hackathons was created. I created Hackathons in order to find local hackathon events around me and to also find events around the globe in the event that I may someday travel to participate in these wonderful events.

The Hackathons app currently allows users to search local and global hackathon events, save events to their calendars, find location information, find out whether or not a particular hackathon event is free, and register for events.
1. This would occur with a GUI as well.

Can't comment on the rest as we have yet to get Python installed.
It's great that WhatsApp can't see my cat pictures anymore. But there are 2 privacy and free speech issues that are not met.

Firstly META DATA. They know who I contact, when I contact them and how frequently. So people could derive information about me based on who I talk to.

Secondly, they can ban me.

Perhaps the EFF need to add more criteria to their secure message score card. https://www.eff.org/secure-messaging-scorecard

But on the whole, a positive move.
The documentation says this is faster because the browser does not have to compute reflow during DOM construction. But is this also true if the DOM tree is built "bottom up" (i.e., first the leaves, then their parents, etc, and then finally hook everything into the document body)?
another good gui is this web-based one: http://www.alltubedownload.net/
Preposterous. It might work for you, and it might even work for FuzzyZeus, but it's quite clearly impossible for everyone to "earn" themselves a bigger piece of pie.
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This is what happens when someone that do not know anything about internet architecture tries to make something illegal. Good luck in enforcing this law.
Thank you Anushaanand.

www.madgigs.com - review of the site as it were today will give you a bit more understanding of the solution/platform.

I could provide more details on the market size and opportunity.
Get the sense that EFF didn't even talk to any of the parties involved before posting their review, and to me, given how much weight they carry in the community, it's unclear why they didn't.
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Nice - one thing that would be nice is the description text under each title. Often the title doesn't really tell you too much about what the idea is about and you have to click on each title to read. I would love just one long list of all the titles and description that I could scan through.
They don't seem to have asked a lot of human experts for input. I think if they had done, the finished article would look different.

In fact it's nearly impossible to nail down provenance of any painting without an historical paper trail.

Auction houses regularly pay academics to make statements about provenance, but the statements are always questionable if there's no definitive record of sales and ownership.
Not a hardcore racing fan but I have a casual interest in all forms of motorsport and I share your sentiments.

On that note, I wonder how "self aware" the robot drivers will have to become before people start raising similar ethical concerns about their welfare? Really interesting to ponder.
How does this work with state? Isn't it inefficient to transfer the state of the actor to another node compared to just letting the actor run on the same machine?
I hate to be the one to break this to you, but it is very likely that your teenage kids already have access through someone to marijuana [0], regardless of its legal status in your state.

The question you need to ask yourself isn't whether or not your teenage kids - soon to become independent adults - will try weed. The question is, do you want them to be educated about potential harms and get ID'd until they turn 21, or risk them getting an illegal product that isn't tested from a violence-ridden cartel (that doesn't check IDs, by the way)?

I highly recommend that you educate yourself about this drug, as I'm not sure of what scale of harmfulness cannabis can be classified as a "hard drug" [1]. The New York Times' 2014 editorial board's writeup on this issue is thoroughly documented and excellent [2].

[0] https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/high-school...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_harmfulness#/media/File:2...

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/07/27/opinion/sunday...
Thank you qopp. Your suggestion is most definitely appreciated.
Silliness. Here's me building a production php server:

1) `apt-get install php5 apache2`

2) upload index.php

3) There is no step 3
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism

"Economists since Adam Smith have observed that, unlike other taxes, a public levy on land value does not cause economic inefficiency. A land value tax is often said to have progressive tax effects, in that it is paid primarily by the wealthy (the landowners), and it cannot be passed on to tenants, workers, or users of land. Land value capture would reduce economic inequality, increase wages, remove incentives to misuse real estate, and reduce the vulnerability that economies face from credit and property bubbles."
DuckDuckHack is the public contribution part of DuckDuckGo. Most of our Instant Answers are created by developers submitting code to repos on GitHub which we then review and publish. Many of these are programming-related but a bit different to what Bing has announced.
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So basically, I install a browser extension, do social sign in so you get my friends list, and now any time I go to a page not previously in my browser history, it's anonymously added to the feed of any of my friends who also have the browser extension installed? And the hope is this stream of passively broadcast stuff from your friends is more interesting than Facebook or Twitter's streams of stuff your friends have curated and chosen to share?

Ignoring all privacy issues and ways to deanonymize, one big area of risk I see for you is in your ability to filter content. One of the main benefits of people actively sharing is that they tend to add context as they do it. They comment on it, add tags, editorialize the title, and even based on where they're sharing it you can assume a little more about the content.

Without all of that, your only option for "applying filters" and determining "type of content user wants" is to do some kind of machine analysis. How reliably are you really going to be able to provide that? Especially for images, which on platforms like tumblr and imgur are often shared without any context (even titles or tags).
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Go is used on many low-level performance-intensive databases, InfluxDB, CockroachDB and etcd just off the top of my head.
Ask HN: How do you feel about conferences charging speakers for talk?
I recently had a bitter sweet experience where the conference organizers charged a hefty fees for speaking. They were already charging the attendees (quite a lot!). Although my employer was ready to pay for me, I thought it was not fair of them to charge external speakers.

What has your experience been? Do you approve/disapprove?
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nah dog, Apple has said they are free to make an Apple TV app. But they won't for some reason. They don't even have to sell items through the app and incur Apple's cut.

They're just shitstains
Or you could not tax them more, or at a lower rate that accounts for the sunshine they block out and the airspace they occupy. That would encourage the density that every wealthy technocrat is gagging for.
Is the backend for the Signal's messaging server open source? If so, they should open source the build script too.
I don't believe Erlang goes around magically imposing it's own timeouts on message handling.
I would expect that those conferences are rather huge advertisment events than fun and learning events with a little ads on the site.
Here is the opening paragraph from the pdf:

Since their inception, captchas have been widely used for preventing fraudsters from performing illicit actions. Nevertheless,
economic incentives have resulted in an arms race, where fraudsters develop automated solvers and, in turn, captcha services
tweak their design to break the solvers. Recent work, however, presented a generic attack that can be applied to any text-based
captcha scheme. Fittingly, Google recently unveiled the latest version of reCaptcha. The goal of their new system is twofold;
to minimize the effort for legitimate users, while requiring tasks that are more challenging to computers than text recognition.
ReCaptcha is driven by an “advanced risk analysis system” that evaluates requests and selects the difficulty of the captcha that
will be returned. Users may be required to click in a checkbox, or solve a challenge by identifying images with similar content.
In this paper, we conduct a comprehensive study of reCaptcha, and explore how the risk analysis process is influenced by
each aspect of the request. Through extensive experimentation, we identify flaws that allow adversaries to effortlessly influence
the risk analysis, bypass restrictions, and deploy large-scale attacks. Subsequently, we design a novel low-cost attack that
leverages deep learning technologies for the semantic annotation of images. Our system is extremely effective, automatically
solving 70.78% of the image reCaptcha challenges, while requiring only 19 seconds per challenge. We also apply our attack
to the Facebook image captcha and achieve an accuracy of 83.5%. Based on our experimental findings, we propose a series
of safeguards and modifications for impacting the scalability and accuracy of our attacks. Overall, while our study focuses on
reCaptcha, our findings have wide implications; as the semantic information conveyed via images is increasingly within the realm
of automated reasoning, the future of captchas relies on the exploration of novel directions.
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This might be true for a software engineer role at most companies, but if you're seeking a management role, especially if you're to be the first manager at a startup, then you're probably being hired specifically to address these people problems.
> one bug

Everything can have bugs. The problem with this software is that it's a centralized single point of failure. Only a proper federated protocol can be resistant to subversion by business, government, or other interests.
@Archio I hate to break it to you, but I was a teenager myself in to the so distant past and I am fully aware of the opportunities available. My point is that I don't want my kids being turned into stoners and that the law should be on MY side, not the guy pushing drugs on them.
I've always presumed that the point is to encourage the company to spend money and get cash recirculating through the economy, which of course you can further tax through the VAT system, PAYE system, etc.
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For years now Statvoo.com has been doing Website Analysis and Statistics, originally from it's Realtime Website Analytics origins over at https://analytics.statvoo.com to the overall stats it provides at https://statvoo.com.

A new Statvoo Ranking system has been implemented on each site it analyses e.g. https://statvoo.com/website/news.ycombinator.com under the "Website Ranks & Scores" subsection.

It combines numerous sources to come up with a final ranking system that is globally correct.

This metric is now available through an API over at if you'd like to test it out:
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It is also available as a Chrome Extension:
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Give it a try!
EFF should stop with this silly scorecard. I hate the thing because it's inaccurate and incoherent (arguments I've made ad nauseam elsewhere on HN), but on this thread you can see another good reason: it makes EFF the ref, and crowds always try to work the ref.

So whatever "score" WhatsApp gets, it's the wrong score, because: not open source; because: runs on iPhones; because: metadata; because: Facebook is evil, &c.
So, does this make (for example) visiting a website over HTTPS illegal? Or does it compel Hungarian ISPs to MITM their customers? It seems to imply one in one sentence, then the other in the next.
It's important to point out that all the Whisper Systems code is open source (https://github.com/whispersystems/). So if you have concerns, go read their code. Some of the best minds in security have, and they've come away with good things to say. There's a desktop version of Signal coming, which I'd personally be inclined to use over WhatsApp, but this is still a fantastic move.
Also, a lot of times I'll quickly grab videos from my youtube subs to listen to while I jog: if it's a video then the screen would stay on, so I just grab the audio with `youtube-dl -f 140 <URL>.` This downloads just an m4a that works on my iPhone. It's not ALWAYS format 140 (-F to see them all) but usually.
The “Singularity” would be the end of humanity, if it ever happened.
Seems centralized and doesn't rely on a standard. If I were you, I would forget this solution as well.
When the client is a phone and the service is rapid messaging, how do you even begin to solve the metadata problem?

Even with opaque routing the phone company can correlate activity times.
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True, forgot about that.

Even if we could see the code, it might be possible for google or apple to send certain groups of people modified software updates?
However this comes with the interesting caveat that the English upper classes don't like to appear too French, especially when it comes to pronunciation, where using the foreign pronunciation can be considered rather lower class. This is reflected in class shibboleths such as:

Upper class: valet [val-ett], fillet [fill-ett].
Middle class or lower: valet [val-ay], fillet [fill-ay].

Upper class: claret [clar-ett] (from French clairet).
Middle class or lower: Bordeaux.
it seems reddit has always been disconnected from a proper mobile experience.
both of their mobile versions of the site have been abyssmal, i'm not surprised the app sucks too
You can almost hear the ghost of Warren Buffet pitching Geico echoing through Bezos' prose.
Do you honestly think that drug prohibition is working WELL in this country?

The current POTUS smoked cannabis regularly in his youth. Can you imagine how his career might have turned out differently if he was stuck in prison for a few months or years, because hey he's a criminal and he's broken the law? Which would have done more harm there, the drug or the criminal charges?
> I think it's pretty clear where his second wage is coming from. Or he's absolutely stupid and doesn't have a clue about economy and prosperity.

Look into his relationship with lobbies and consumer rights' organisations some time. Also, his speech about the Taliban-like evils of net neutrality (yes, really).

EDIT: And if you understand German, there's even a great remix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkORC6FcSH4
What the iPhone has done to cameras is completely insane
That's true of all analysis. We can't even calculate 1 + 1 if we are not going to agree to the definition of the plus sign.

See my other comment describing what a perfect answer looks like.
I was told that driverless cars would not be in my lifetime, and that a machine would not beat a human at Go in my lifetime. We'll see.
That's nice. What I really want to know is, can Mark Zuckerberg read my messages? Do WhatsApp servers have access to the private keys needed to decrypt my communications? If the answer to those questions is "yes", then it's great that we are now protected from most cybercriminals, but the NSA is probably monitoring our messages. If the answer to those questions is "no", I may actually decide to start using WhatsApp.
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