skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know, they tried that with Windows Phone apps...
Excellent insight, but it is bigger than that. By weaving FPGA fabric into their products, both internal facing and external facing it will enable a higher engineering velocity.

1) less SKUs, differentiation is in the firmware (bitstream). Can serve a market that wants 4 sata ports w/o having custom silicon.

2) infield bugfixes and updates that go deeper into the product. The whole TSX debacle could have been avoided.

Just like in a code, 80% doesn't need to be fast yet it takes up area. Using an FPGA fabric could reduce die sizes (profits up).

Intel has always wanted VLIW, adding FPGA to the mix could get them their dream.

Just how everyone wanted to add GPU compute to the CPU, the same thing is happening. Eventually a mix of scalar (cpu), bulk parallel (gpu) and dynamic (fpga) will be available on die. Your basic blocks might just be jitted into a bitstream.
My uni runs a systems class that does the SIC/XE architecture linker/loader in forward and reverse depending on the time of year.

FWIK from classmates who made the decompiler, your post is the jist of it.
You are not trying to prove the thing, just trying to encode it, The assumption is that the proof already exists.
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In the community of the theorem prover Coq, a proof obtained by running a proven correct decision procedure is called a "proof by reflection".

There is also the "proof by certificate" approach. You generate a potentially large proof certificate by an unverified program. Then you run a proven correct (small) checker on the certificate to concude that the theorem is correct.
> I was nearly expelled for "hacking". They placed me on "academic probation"

This reaction makes me very, very angry.

I would love to push it back on them: it's unclear under what laws/regulations this would fall, but if you (as the student who found it) can get in trouble for finding this info, they can most certainly get in trouble for posting it in a location it can be found in.

Further, because you were actually punished for it, it means one of two things: they were in fact in the wrong for publishing it (and thus should be punished -- whether it's a criminal offence or merely a professional reprimand); or if they can't be punished, neither can you -- which means the principal should be in trouble for a giving out a groundless punishment.

In my mind, it ceases being an "honest mistake" when they attempt to punish the person who points it out.

I realize that the real world is much more complex than this: you were a kid, your parents don't necesarily want to put you through the doubtless retaliation the administration would put you through anyway (even if not official), and the people with the authority may not see it the same way (in the same way police officers rarely charge other officers with crimes).
There are many improvements needed on Issues; this one is certainly not the first that comes to mind.
I was hoping this would reference the Berenstain Bears thing. I thought that was stupid because someone was obviously introducing a psychological impression when creating the theory.
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I had a similar thing happen to me. In high school our user names were first letter of first name and last four of last name. The passwords were the last four digits of our phone numbers.

I figured out that the teachers had the same schema for their accounts. They also published a directory with all the names and phone numbers of the students and teachers. So basically I tried accounts until I got a teacher who didn't change their password. Then I used their ability to place files in shared folders on the network to distribute Quake2 across the different servers. I told a friend and they told people and inevitably the school blamed me for it and kicked me out of all my electives that had computers in them. I was the first student to ever fail touch typing because I couldn't complete the class.

Standardized learning and I have never been friends. I'm glad they tought me the system doesn't work and to work/learn outside of it.
This app is awesome, i love it already - best of these i've ever used.

Would be nice if we could set the idle to < 5 min.
Also sorting the columns when clicking as well
Maybe, but they're succeeding at the wrong things. The difference that they're making is "learning how to make everyone else shut up", which is not a life skill that contributes to the progress of civilization.
"Then the team noticed that they were connected to periods of time when the bright spots in the Occator crater were visible from the Earth."

Maybe they know when they are being watched?
Good point. It's clearly based on a real thing, too.
Google has internet searches. As well as often locations and journeys (Maps; Android). What a user watches (YouTube). Their emails (Gmail). What they do online (Analytics).

Facebook knows personal details, mood, etc for people who explicitly choose to share these things with their friends, or participate on Facebook in other ways. This may be an oversimplification, but I suspect Google is able to learn much more about a user passively than Facebook is.

Of course it'll differ for different people, but on balance I'd say Google knows _a lot more_ about me than Facebook does.

(...And they probably both know more about me than I do.)

So yes, this news may affect Google, but I disagree that Facebook has an advantage over Google when it comes to knowledge of users.
In the meantime, companies like Apple and Google are deleting users' files without their consent and infecting computers with malware through ads yet I don't see Tim Cook or Larry Page being woken up in the middle of the night by a SWAT team. What a fucking joke our legal system is.
I never had a FB account, and I've tried to discourage people from using it every since Beacon came to light, back in 2007/8. FB is a scourge on the web.

That said, I never really understood why here of all places he gets grilled over that phrase. I mean, he was right - they were dumb for uploading personal data and pictures to some unknown site owned by some unknown kid. Should he pretend otherwise? Is hypocrisy or stupidity a requirement for running a social network?

It reminds me of the quote from Red Mars, "It was a mistake to speak one's mind at any time, unless it perfectly matched your political purpose; and it never did."
"From 2020, all scientific publications on the results of publicly funded research must be freely available." is not "All European scientific articles".

I've got at least three papers that wouldn't fall under that heading.
If our Secretary of State and would-be President can't be bothered to learn how to read email on a PC, even (especially) for the sake of information security, I think that deserves a little bashing.
Some differences in rendering or printing would be acceptable - what is not acceptable, however, is unintended corruption of existing documents.

E.g. if I open a word document in libreoffice (to do e.g. review and commenting), save it without any changes to the layout, then I'd expect the original author to have the same document layout as before... and that is not so. The same applies to LibreOffice Calc - opening and saving the document produces changes.

Can't you just have a unit test that verifies that reading and immediately writing a document should keep it completely unchanged, except possibly for metadata?
Nonsense. It could be as a easy as printing fliers at home and dropping them in an appropriate space, or mailing letters with the return address the same as the mailing address, or using Tails 2.x to email hippa and the police using a throwaway address.
But contacting them in person? NFW
Is Time Linear, or Can the Future Influence the Past?
Bran Krebs (Krebs On Security) breaks these types of stories, though he's a journalist so would publicly disclose it. Very possible he'd contact them privately prior to a story though in the hopes they fix it before publication.
I dunno, you pitched it well. It functions as a scale of fiscal policies for the left from "free market" to regulated to outright distribution of wealth; thankfully, since "the left" is already a maddeningly huge political affiliation in the US. I can think of no better sign of this than the current democratic nomination campaigns.

A stable, well defined label? Hardly. Useful? Very much so.
It could hurt Google, but Google's biggest draw is their search PPC, which would not be effected outright. Google DoubleClick and extended networks will likely be effected (Adsense.) It could effect their PPC or CPM prices.

I welcome all competition, I frankly have found Google's dominance in this space to be frightening. I never understood how both Microsoft and Yahoo failed so miserably in this space. It's still possible that Facebook could fail here too, but they have more data and a huge advertising base that they can draw from. Something Microsoft and Yahoo didn't have...though they did have big advertisers, it was hard to get the SMBs, etc.
> 'Apple "argued that VirnetX is improperly trying to secure an overly broad injunction so that it can be used to extract a massive licensing fee," Law360 reported.'

That's the usual dance. Normally, a non-practicing patent owner such as VirnetX would FAR prefer to have the infringement continue, and thus get a bigger payday, than to have the court order the defendant (Apple) to stop the infringement. So, the patent owner pushes hard for just such a shut-down order, to try to bulldoze the defendant into settling. Outside observers would be forgiven for thinking that there's a certain element of "playing chicken" involved. To a first approximation, this seems to be pretty much what happened in the NTP v. Blackberry case ten years ago. [0] [1]

[0] http://money.cnn.com/2006/02/24/technology/blackberry/

[1] http://money.cnn.com/2006/03/03/technology/rimm_ntp/
A cartoon pair of breasts squirt cartoon milk at the end. Are we talking about the technology or the art? At least one of the the creators seems to have a very R. Crumb aesthetic. Is cartoon lactation just part of the art or is it more tech industry misogyny in a project launch? It is interesting for sure on a few levels

Analysis: http://imgur.com/a/gCj8R

EDIT: stranger, you are going to need to defend your down-vote. Watch the video, see the cartoon milk squirting breasts. Click on the creator links. Look at their tumblrs. Look at their aesthetic. Discuss the issue. Sorry if the content that they put in their video makes you uncomfortable, but it is on-topic for this post and I'm pointing out that it is there
"The tumors were gliomas, which are in the glial cells of the brain, and schwannomas of the heart."

I know these are real words, but you gotta admit they sound strikingly fictitious.
Would you do this to a company that has a clearly stated responsible disclosure policy and respects your efforts? Especially if it involved commonly used desktop software that would harm many people by ignoring an existing policy?
All the examples you mentioned are productivity apps in which an optimal workflow which needs to be learned is more important than a familiar but not necessarily ideal workflow.

If I use an app 5 minutes a day, i want it to be familiar because I don't want to muck around learning how to use it. Whereas if I'm using an app all day to make money, I will assume the initial learning curve if it means increased efficiency.
Is there a market for email server software with UX akin to Sandstorm, then (i.e. easy to install / self-maintaining), or would this apply to EC2 servers just as it does to email?

If so, a simple physical mail server with a battery / cellular network connection for power or network outages seems like a good technical solution.

The more reasonable solution is a legal one, of course: treat treat third party email the same way one treats a third party mailbox (PO box). Safety deposit boxes are a good comparison, as well: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/12/microsoft-tells-u...
Annonomous email through a few proxies from a one time email address should be sufficient.

"I accidentally discovered this when I miss typed an IP."
> I was told by the county IT administrator "Did you ever stop to think if maybe this information was public for a reason?"

Absolutely jaw-dropping.

People's reactions to this kind of thing just blow my mind. If you are about to walk away from your car, having parked it in a high-crime area, and a passerby points out to you that you haven't locked it, do you call the police and have them arrested for looking into your car? If they were going to steal your car, would they have told you about it???

My wife ran into this back in 2001 or so. She had visited some Web site and noticed that the URLs followed a familiar pattern -- I think related to the Microsoft Access database. She wondered if some internal files were accessible via paths analogous to those she'd seen on the intranet where she worked. Sure enough, they were. She told the company about it, and of course they yelled at her.

Unfathomable.
Well it was certainly true of me and I think it's true of a lot of people who want to buy Office because it's what they use at work and are familiar with. I think if you cared more about a Mac-like experience you'd buy Pages and such (although it is not as feature-rich, to be fair).
Thank you, please check the settings for the idle time adjustment.
I did the same as you. For instance, when I do webdev I'm mostly unhappy (web frontend sucks big time for me!), but when doing desktop or other, I change my "happiness" numbers.. Don't know if it screws the metrics as well..
Not to pick on the place that invented "Sweet Tea" and BBQ, but in the south, ya'll just need to drag out those vowels....
So leave it to the assigner to decide.
And now I'm wondering what the repercussions of Apple actually shutting down FaceTime and iMessage with a notice saying "This feature is unavailable due to a lawsuit filed by VirnetX, Inc."

I don't think they'd actually do it. It would probably be kinda stupid to do. But it's fun to imagine.
I don't understand the distinction you are making. If you are capable of identifying all the malicious software that's most of the way toward removing it.
Whaaa?

Government can't stop all crimes, therefore we shouldn't even make the slightest effort to check if there's a reasonable chance somebody put into a position of power over others is likely to commit violent crimes? That's utter nonsense.
> By some, nuance is denounced, absolutism is glamorous.

We humans have been here many times before.

The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

(William Butler Yeats, "The Second Coming")

I find these lines comforting. Society for the last few centuries has muddled through, often ungracefully. I predict in a few years we'll look back on articles like this and wonder what the fuss was about.
Gmail explicitly ignores dots in email usernames[1].

1: https://gmail.googleblog.com/2008/03/2-hidden-ways-to-get-mo...
I get that, and I'm not really upset about this particular lie. But the author tries to generalize this to "history is malleable now that it's online", and I just don't think it does generalize. Because as you said, people are going to distrust sketchy sources for information that's more important.
It's no secret that commenters on the internet produce a lot of lame, negative comments. If you filter for those, you're basically trolling yourself at a meta level.

I bet if you collected the best and most insightful comments about Twilio over the same time period, you'd find they go further in the positive direction than these ones do in the negative.
Coders needed
Hey people i am looking for coders who can help create a website where if you ask "how do i cure headache", it connects you to 100 people and how they use remedies to cure it.

There is no dependable document on efficacy of home remedies.

Need sexy people to get the world together and make people live longer effective lives
Many of those don't explain all the married couples electing not to have children. If cost and time investment are the concern, we might surmise that the urge to rule the genetic pool is not really so innate and irrepressible after all.
> Also, why aren't they being charged with what is almost certainly a HIPAA violation?

Foremost among the many reasons, because investigation of HIPAA Privacy and Security violations is almost entirely (if not entirely) complaint-based rather than proactive, and probably no one filed a complaint to the HHS Office of Civil Rights.

Which I think should be the immediate and first act on discovering something like this with PHI, if for no other reason that doing so makes clearly applicable the whistleblower protections of 45 CFR 160.316.
They do! But as i see it, with personal details, interests, location data,mood and apps connected(FB connect), FB has a most comprehensive view of a user.
Ask HN: Why do so few hardware vendors opensource their drivers?
Often you have to either pay or somehow obtain the hardware specification directly from the vendor and sign an NDA. Furthermore, drivers are often proprietary and not opensource (not sure if those are mutually exclusive).

Wouldn't it be in their best interest to opensource their Windows (or other operating systems) drivers so that the device can be ported to other operating systems, and improved by its users?
That may be so, but if all you want is a nice interface I think there are lots of non-WordPress options.
Ads, Facebook and many a times google display network irritates me not because they demands my attention, but they do it by tracking my behavior, and hence usually shows me what I already know, used a million times, and can write review of ten pages. They take away discover-ability of internet from me, and I hate it.
Not necessarily. I've spent the last few years fighting various hacking charges in Finland and will most likely continue to do so for several years to come.

The law enforcement here will consistently take anything the FBI tells them as a fact, even when the information provided by them has been consistently shown to be false or even maliciously fabricated.

I spent 3 months in jail in 2014 because the FBI emailed the Finnish NBI and alleged that I had perpetrated various attacks against large US tech companies, they provided some information vaguely connecting me to the crimes and claimed to have further evidence they'd deliver shortly. They requested that the Finnish police arrest me and seize my equipment, they did so without question.

Based on that single contact from the FBI the Finnish NBI held me in jail for 3 months and banned me from using the phone or in any manner communicating with anyone outside the jail. After the 3 months had passed the FBI had still failed to deliver any evidence, and the Finnish police had failed to discover any. In fact, they had unquestionably discovered heaps of evidence against the aforementioned allegations since the very day they arrested me. Just a few days before Christmas they were forced to very reluctantly release me.

Now it's 2016 and I just recently got a letter stating that most of those charges have been dropped as the FBI has failed to deliver the promised evidence. I've also received letters informing me of various covert surveillance techniques utilized against me after my release. These are supposed to require an even higher standard of proof than keeping someone in investigative custody, but obviously they're hard to contest when you aren't told about them.

Incompetent fucks desperately hoping to score big wins for their careers or with personal vendettas are hardly an US only problem, but at least in the US I could've fought the FBI in court. That's hardly an option here. The only thing that's better here are the sentencing policies.
I have heard talks from one of the politician that wrote the directive , and they did not view "continue browsing" as a valid method. They are however only the writers of the directive, and they used the concept of "consent" as it was stated in a different directive. The interpretation of that directive was radically changed by most of the larger corporations as a direct reaction of the cookie law, and none has yet to challenge it.

Tha politician was not very happy about the company lawyers change in complying with the "explicit informed consent" requirement, as that is the strongest from of consent that EU directives uses, and it basically is a ticking time bomb until someone abuses this new interpretation. "continued browsing of this website mean that you give a explicit informed consent that you agree to buy our service" is a major concern that I got, but maybe we will need such thing before it get thrown to the courts.
The National Baseball Hall of Fame is located in Cooperstown, NY, a tiny village in the middle of nowhere. Cooperstown was chosen because a man named Abner Doubleday invented baseball in Cooperstown in 1839. A baseball field, Doubleday Field, stands on the exact location where baseball was invented.

Of course, that is a totally made up story.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doubleday_myth
It's exhilarating to have a long-held belief broken. Thank you!

Two-photon absorption becomes an important effect at high intensities (if I understand the wikipedia article). How do "high intensities" compare to the intensity of radiation from a phone?
I agree, though I think the most important distinction was that WordPress had an audience and core ideas in mind, whereas the likes of Drupal tried to be a generic 'everything to everyone' solution. The former was designed to be easy to use for average Joes, the latter seems like it was designed to be fun for developers while being rather awkward for normal users.

Points 1 and 2 here basically sum it up:

https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/11/wordpress-cms-crown...
Reading this, I had an idea for a new law that could counteract this stupid reaction to security research:

Particularly for protected patient information (but maybe for other classes of sensitive data as well), it would be interesting to somehow classify having this information breached as a crime by the holder of the information (I realize this might be hard to do given the reality of security these days, so there would need to be some nuance of course). The crux of my idea would be to automatically count any access that results in prosecution as a breach of said data, thus meaning that prosecuting a security researcher would automatically put the information holder under separate prosecution. I wonder if something like this could be feasible.
And you don't think a consistent interface is part of that seamlessness?

Anyway, at least in 2011 it failed in that metric too, because documents would look quite different on the Mac version than on the Windows version in many cases.

What I really wanted, at the time, was the exact same experience on both platforms, from feature set, to way of use, to the look of documents rendered, and since it didn't really deliver that I was disappointed.
Unless there is more to the story, he won't be prosecuted for accessing an anonymous FTP server. However, they will scour the computers/drives they took (for months or possibly even years), looking for evidence of this or any other technically illegal misdeed. In the unlikely event they find nothing that they can take issue with (this being a security researcher's computer equipment, they'll find all kinds of hacking tools and possibly evidence of other research that could be construed as hacking attempts), in a year or so, he might get his stuff back. If they find anything, he'll face charges for that.

That's how law enforcement in the US works. A crack in the door, in the form of a ridiculous accusation, is all it takes for one's life to be destroyed.