skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Click the web link. Then click news on the Google search page.
I have the opposite experience. Font rendering in Chinese seldom work, and dragging the slider of a large MP4 or MKV video results in noticeable lag. I have since abandoned it.
Logic is professional music production software from Apple: https://www.apple.com/logic-pro/
ninite.com

Your one stop shop to get a Windows PC back on its feet after a wipe. Ninite always works great for me. The application packages are a single click to install, and it really helps minimise the clammy, sticky feeling of using IE Explorer while you go download Chrome / Firefox / Opera.
I second git and Make, but I'm not sure I agree with the single .bib file thing. That works if you're writing a lot of documents on the same subject that use many of the same sources, but that's a very specific use case.
nationalizing them due to malfeasance and selling them directly back to new shareholders is very different than the policies of the Chavez regime.

To suggest otherwise is disingenuous.
The paper linked in the article: "Phonotactic Reconstruction of Encrypted VoIP Conversations"[1] specifically works in a situation without padding because the compression scheme affects the length of packets in a semantic way.

[1] http://www.cs.unc.edu/~fabian/papers/foniks-oak11.pdf
I read it more as identifying which cultures were to blame, rather than which people (or there descendants).

Because being able to do so is the first step toward figuring out which aspects of those cultures need to be debugged.

However, please don't mistake my position as one of moral relativism, or that I am advocating postmodern deconstruction.
Microsoft backs off click-the-X trick in Windows 10 upgrade pitch
LabVIEW was my first programming gig, back in high school. For the unfamiliar, it's a data-flow programming environment designed to drive data acquisition hardware. The programming interface is almost entirely graphical, in which you draw something between schematics and a block diagram; the usage interface looks not unlike laboratory equipment.

I always loved how it made such difficult things so easy, while other languages' "simple" matters like loops required mental gymnastics. It's a great tool for its job.
Germany to further curb activities of spy agency in wake of NSA scandal
DailyDrip – Second Elm Remote Meetup
Replay attacks don't work because of the nonce, so that's handled successfully.

But an attacker with an active man in the middle position might change the outer (unencrypted) src IP of a packet. However, that src will need to be able to produce authentic replies; otherwise the session will quickly be deemed invalid, so that mitigates any potential very oddball amplification attacks you could dream up. And regardless, an attacker with this kind of active man in the middle can already drop packets at will, so this isn't a vulnerability.
I can say for sure I am not in Chicago. But at least it got the right country. Incidentally at one point it circled almost my exactly location and then proceeded to walk elsewhere.

Update: I tried a second time. The second time it actually nailed my location pretty closely. The circle actually enclosed the state I'm actually in. The third time it was off again but at least close than the first.
If patterns appear in random data, and no patterns appear in encrypted data, then it's trivially distinguishable from random data: look for patterns.
Just from watching the video, they're not exactly saying the existing internet is broken, they're confusing terms.
They're claiming the web is broken (that is, tim berners lee's http web), the hardware-internet-network is fantastic (that is, all cables, routers, everything but the software layers).
For some reason, they also claim to dislike tcp/ip.

All I can gather from their video is that they're trying the internet again with a different approach (built-in encryption, tools to far more easily build decentralized applications, your data is yours, and a point about API stuff that I don't quite grasp yet.)

Their goal is to be a self-governing digital republic, whatever that might mean.

As the guy says in the end, it's not up to them what urbit will become, it's up to us (the people who develop for urbit).

That's how I understood their video

Soooo... I'm not too sure why building (arguably?) better tools would result in a "better" internet. Additionally, I'm not too sure what the advantages are for end-users for decentralized applications.

So to conclude, it's up to the developers to find valid use-cases for urbit. Just like how it's up to developers to find valid use-cases for ethereum. Decentralized toolchains (like ethereum, other blockchain-things and urbit) are in their infancy, nobody really knows if they'll sprout useful use-cases or not.

Tl;DR Experimentation and uncertainty
I agree that it is speculation, but the evolutionary advantage is pretty clear there: getting extra learning during fights increases your chances of survival in the next fight.
Hm, I came up with this idea independently, 5 < years < 10 ago, after reading the first third of Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software.

Neat!

I just figured that you could redesign common ICs so that they had a new wire akin to the "carry" bit. I called it the 'done' wire, and I figured you could just tie it to the CLK of the next IC. Ya know? So 'doneness' would propagate across the surface of the motherboard (or SoC) in different ways depending on the operation it was performing. Rather than the CLK signal, which is broadcast to all points...

(I know that my idea is half baked and my description is worse. I'm glad I found this PDF!)

I knew the big advantage would be power savings. I called the idea 'slow computing', and I envisioned an 8-bit style machine that would run on solar or a hand crank and be able to pause mid calculation until enough power was available... Just like a old capacitor-based flash camera will be able to flash more frequently when you have fresh batteries in it.

You'd just wire the power system up with the logic. Suppose an adder fires a "done" at some other IC. Now, put your power system inline, like MiTM... When it gets the "done", it charges that capacitor (a very small one? :) ) and only when enough power is available does it propagate the "done". ...Maybe the "done" powers the next IC. I dunno.

As I said, half baked. Glad to find out that I'm not the only one that dreamed of 'clockless', though!
Activisions' DMCA claim on ORION is legit - devs misleading
Not to mention the color balance is noticeably off for Nvidia graphics cards - and no amount of trying to rebalance them ever quite gets it "right". I also prefer my video player to let me know if a video file is corrupted rather than attempt to play it anyways. I find that to be a bug, not a feature.
That is a lot of questions.
- Could you find that one or two bottleneck questions that could solve your problem?

Secondly i am from Europe and Amsterdam was properly the only place in Europe i wanted to start one. It.s such a fantastic and crazy place. Amsterdam has momentum, craziness, but filling you with joy every day..

If you believe in the mission take the jump!
Lebanese proverb - "If a rich man eats a snake, people call it wisdom; if a poor man does the same thing, people call it derangement."
Theories and Hypotheses
> Machine learning is like money laundering for bias.

Bahaha!

The entire article seems to have a Luddite like hatred for anything tech.

> The response of the tech world to death has been enthusiastic. We are going to fix it. Google Ventures, for example, is seriously funding research into immortality. Their head VC will call you a "deathist" for pointing out that this is delusional. Such fantasies of control come with a dark side.

Someone wants to cure dying and you ridicule them? How is that helpful? Seems like the exact opposite of helping out the rest of the world.

It also seems to suggest that creating and maximizing leverage is harmful to everyone else.

> We pretend that by maximizing our convenience and productivity, we're hastening the day when we finally make life better for all those other people.

We're not pretending. Technology is one of the primary means of advancing standard of living. Sure the inventors get a significant advantage in the meanwhile that can cause gentrification, but in the long term nothing has done more for the human race than technology arising from the selfishness of people wanting to better their lives.
Already have this scenario. Nuclear powers are unwilling to go to war since we already know the outcome.
git is such a great example for OP. It's become so ingrained in my workflow that I forget it's there. It really is a perfect application.
With data analysis, performance can really help even when it isn't paramount. If I am doing some exploratory analysis and it takes 20 minutes to run instead of a couple seconds, I can iterate much, much faster. This is huge.
> I wonder if we would have gotten such an honest description of awe from Wiesel's contemporaries. Would Sartre, Camus or Orwell have been as impressed? I couldn't say for certain, but I can say that no one had experienced more atrocities to contrast the experience with. That says something big about the magic of Disney's creation.

Sartre and Camus were almost certainly less compassionate, nostalgic or otherwise prone to being guided in their writing by emotion; I would also say they were more serious authors than Wiesel, one cannot really imagine them being excited by as an adjacent commentator pointed out:

>> “Futuristic man will live such a wonderful life! Everything will come to him so, so easily! If someone knocks at the door, you won’t have to go to see who it is: He will appear on the screen of your television. If the telephone rings, you’ll be able to see the person you’re speaking with and not just hear his voice. And a thousand other such conveniences will turn your house into a royal palace and transform you yourself into a lazy, fat, lonely king.”

> Quick, someone put this into an Internet-of-Things sales pitch!

Consider Wiesel's words in this article:

>> Wiesel understands why: “If one wants to calm his nerves and forget the bitter realities of daily life, there is no better-suited place to do so than Disneyland. In Disneyland, the land of children’s dreams, everything is simple, beautiful, good. There, no one screams at his fellow, no one is exploited by his fellow, no one’s fortune derives from his fellow’s misfortune. If children had the right to vote, they would vote Disney their president. And the whole world would look different.”

There seems to be an immediacy, and almost childish sincerity to them and his own willingness to suspend reality (including his own personal experience) and believe in the Disney world. Constrast this to e.g. Sartre's No Exit - in the later there is also the suspension of reality for illusion if you will, but rather than being immediate or sincere the reader is faced with it unraveling into something Hellish. Which is to say that I cannot imagine a serious author calling Disney a genius - but take this with a grain of salt if being serious means being unable to suspend your own reality for a brief moment of childish happiness.
My personal experience: yes to the NI hardware, but no to LabView. I used LabView during my graduate work and as someone who came from a traditional programming background, I struggled with it. More recently (almost a decade later) I had the opportunity to migrate a LabView project to Measurement Studio (NI's .NET libraries for interfacing with their H/W) and it was night and day. The NI stack works as it should and it is so much more manageable with C#.
Your concern (1) is valid, but fortunately that's an over-simplification in the casual introduction part of documentation, which I'll fix. Sorry about that. This should read more like, "Encrypt entire IP packet using the symmetric session associated with peer ABCDEFGH." Thanks for pointing this out. As for (2), WireGuard indeed does padding; see the protocol page or the paper for details.
Are non-competes somehow acceptable when the supply of potential employees is higher? If the answer to that isn't "Yes" it's clearly not a market failure.

This isn't just theoretical by the way. There are quite a few cases of companies with non-competes forced on low-income employees often without them understanding the ramifications.

Non-competes prevent competition and therefore stand fundamentally in opposition to a free(-ish) market. There is no reasonable response but to either ban them completely or force companies to pay employees an income for as long as the non-compete is in effect.
Certainly Shockley would've used them and sued if he could.
Awesome work, team. Great to see this on here!
Perfectly good analogy. Not living in the exact place you want does not cause unreasonable suffering ("nearest starbucks is 2 miles away, oh horrors" ?), so it should be subject to market forces.
Atom, Slack, Steam.
> can easily be produced by nuclear reaction

> That's expensive, of course

You need to pick one.
B. Victor was Caltech EE BS and Berkeley EE MS(http://worrydream.com/#!/cv).

V. Hart did a music BA at Stony Brook, but has lots of mathematics background from many sources(https://www.quora.com/What-is-Vi-Harts-mathematical-educatio...).

D. Ingalls was physics at Harvard and PHD dropout (MS) in EE from Stanford(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Henry_Holmes_Ingalls,_J...).

Y. Ohshima was BS, MS and PHD at Tokyo Institute of Technology, in information science (http://vpri.org/html/team_bios/yoshiki.htm).

A. Warth was BS in CS at U. Miami, MS and PHD in CS at UCLA (http://tinlizzie.org/~awarth/).

So of the HARC folks, the empirical best way is to go all the way and get a PHD.

The basic income PI, E. Rhodes, is BA. Gov and Economics, Georgetown, and a MSW and a PHD at U. Mich(http://ssw.umich.edu/phdstudents/profiles/political-science/...).
I've been a subscriber since nearly the beginning but I'm not renewing. The service itself has become incredibly subpar and they've screwed up quite a few times. Add in the fact that they force you to use points or they expire and the products are always overpriced. They had a bunch of customers and I imagine I'm not the only one who no longer sees the value. This tells me more about their product no longer holding the same value more so than the current technology situation.
Even with Private Insurance, Out-Of-Pocket Costs for Hospital Visits Shot Up 37%
For me personally, this is less exciting because AI jet pilots have a natural advantage.

Human pilots are limited in maneuvering by the amount of force their body can take. Computer pilots are limited by the amount of force the airframe can take. The later allows much more aggressive and radical maneuvers.

That means, compared to playing Go, the robot pilot can be comparatively much worse than the human and still win decisively by taking advantage of high g maneuvers.
Sounds nice in theory, but in practice the greater part of offers at the high-end employers, like Amazon, Google, Facebook, is made through referrals or internships. Everyone who signs up has the full picture already. I just can't see this work.
No, he's saying you compress CBR, then encrypt. Not compress CBR -> gzip -> encrypt or something silly like that.

CBR audio codec, then encrypt gives you a constant-bitrate stream indistinguishable from randomness. That's pretty much the gold standard.

(Of course, that still only encrypts content, not metadata. You can encrypt a phone call in such a way that a watcher gets mathematically zero information about what's being said, but the watcher still sees who is calling whom, when, and for how long. Hiding that is much harder.)
I've been wanting to learn C++ (as a data scientist), but never know where to start. There are so many books that were about modern c++ when they were written, it's impossible for an outsider to know what's up to date. Is the book the article mentioned a good one for learning modern C++?
I always wanted to be a juror in a marijuana trial so I could educate the other jurors about nullification.
Have you tried MPC-HC? I haven't put it up to the test with KMP, but I do know it beats VLC for H265 playback.
Yes, this is one option that we proposed back in 2009 after we first pointed out the VoIP traffic analysis attacks in 07 and 08.

If you want more information, see our paper on traffic morphing from NDSS 2009 [1]. It works pretty well for VoIP; not as great for trying to counter similar attacks on web browsing traffic.

[1] http://www.internetsociety.org/doc/traffic-morphing-efficien...
Trello. Occasionally, on spotty cellular connections, the sync messes up, but that's rare. Overall, it's a great-looking app, super simple to grok and use, and saves me tons of cognitive load every day.
I definitely don't agree when it comes to GCC. While it does its job well and, importantly, has helpful error messages, its command line arguments are a mess. -Wall enables all warnings right? Yep, except for the ones that you need -Wextra. But don't forget there are more that aren't covered here. And let's not even get into the appropriately-named -pedantic.

Like I said, GCC gets its job done well, and once I've got what I need spelled out in my Makefile I'm good. But it's a headache to work with when you go off the beaten path.
The cipher suite is part of the Noise preamble, so all operations are crytographically bound to the cipher suite to prevent against related-algo attacks. WireGuard itself has no plans for cipher agility, something that is considered an anti-feature. If these ciphers are ever considered problematic, we'll change them and release a new version (with an incremented preamble), and the new set of ciphers will be similarly non-configurable.

Fortunately AVX2-accelerated (and soon AVX512-accelerated) ChaPoly is super fast in pretty much all hardware.
These things aren't inevitable, scaring people into exercise won't work. But even if they were, it wouldn't be terrible to die '"on my back, lying on my many rolls of fat, scarcely uttering a word, taking labored breaths, and eating my fill," for of all the ways a man might die, an excess of luxury was the only truly happy death'. (From http://www.dimensionsmagazine.com/dimtext/kjn/people/heavies...)
I wish paywalled articles would link automatically to the web link, it would save time.
Turning EMU Turing Complete
Corel PaintShop Pro is a professional quality program that's almost as almost as full featured for a fraction of the price. I create content for virtual worlds and once I moved past the beginner's stage of using free programs (of which I believe Paint.Net is the best) I bought PSP and found it has everything I need.
did a google search and found this

Why Stripe Atlas is Bad for Foreigners?

http://flagtheory.com/stripe-atlas/
Wait, so in some states you can be prevented from working in your field, and the company doesn't even have to compensate you? That's insane! Why would you agree to that?
If this is the case, raising funding based on ever increasing valuations sounds like a Ponzi scheme to me, albeit a very inefficient one.
I think this is in reference to the attacker already have 'stolen' 30% of the available funds. Without a fork, the remainder of the DAO is at risk, so the same attacker or copycat attackers could take the remaining 70% leading to the 30% - 100% range.
MIT Moral Machine – Decide How an Autonomous Vehicle Should Behave
As someone who's young enough to have never used anything but git, I get the impression that knowing how a different VCS works makes it hard to learn. Git was super intuitive when I learned it, I think just because I was never taught any other way of doing things.
I think I have this board laying around actually. A friend is working on OpenWRT packages so some benchmarking on there should be around the corner.
Not for Fiber
It's really going to depend on what kind of data you're dealing with.

For VoIP, if you're smart you can even fool the attacker into guessing a wrong answer of your choosing. See my comment upthread for a link to our NDSS 2009 paper on traffic morphing.

I'm not familiar enough with the CRIME attack to say how well such a defense might work. Maybe someone who knows more can chime in.
> PulseAudio has traditionally limited the maximum sample rate to 192 kHz, but it seems that there is some use for rates as high as 384 kHz, so the hard limit has been increased.

I can think of a use: plug a long wire into an audio out port and use it to transmit very-low-power AM radio without even needing a mixer. 384 kHz is enough to cover a decent chunk of the AM radio band :)

Of course, I bet your average "384 kHz" soundcard does some "direct stream digital" or similar garbage and has a truly atrocious SNR that those frequencies, so this might not actually work.

EDIT: Brain fart. 384 kilosamples per second is too low for normal AM radio unless there's a nonlinearity you can exploit. It would still be a fun experiment, though.
> That reduces, but doesn't eliminate, the amount of information you're leaking.

All cryptographic systems save the one time pad do leak some information, in the sense that they are not information theoretically secure. For instance we know that the output of standard block or stream ciphers (with fixed plaintext) is distributed over an exponentially small fraction of the possible output space.

So really the question here is whether one can pad to the point where it is computationally infeasible to launch this kind of attack, and whether this padding amount is so large as to defeat the compression entirely.

For example, two normal distributions with variance 1, means ~ 2^(-k) away from each other to each other can require ~ 2^(2k) trials for a constant probability of hypothesis test success (say 1/3).

Has there been any work analyzing this rigorously, taking the length leakage as side information available to the attacker?
> people enjoying themselves while committing horrible acts

Now I'm kind of curious about sentiment analysis of something like Fight Club.
I recommend Debian for similar reasons. It might not be as magical as Ubuntu but it still works out-of-box for a variety of common hardware and is built on a great free as in free philosophy.
Does Python web has a cleaner code base than Ruby rails?
Is Python for web is a cleaner code language?

cleaner code = other developers understand what happens and can pick up, where the earlier developer left off.

- Nico
Default rates have just hit their lowest point in eight years:

https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/chargeoff/delallsa.h...

From this halcyon point, there's more downside risk than upside going forward. Unless the cyclical nature of debt defaults suddenly stopped after centuries.
Being a writer is easy: (1) hire a good editor, (2) remix existing stories (3) be famous.
Disagree on ffmpeg. It certainly gives you a great degree of control, which is great if you know a lot about video formats and codecs and such, but as a casual user my first step for ffmpeg is always googling "ffmpeg convert X to Y" and copy and pasting from Stack Overflow.
That may technically be true, but if the author was to sue anyone based on that argument, this project itself would be in violation of copyright law, since all the code seems to be distributed only as a Linux kernel module (with all files #including kernel headers and such) and so it actually has to be distributed under the GPLv2.
I've found this quite helpful:

https://github.com/Akagi201/learning-cmake
At least you didn't say iMessage?
In my experience, RabbitMQ is close to the opposite of reliable.

When I think of reliability, I think of Postgres: it works well, and it's hard to make it not work reliably. With RabbitMQ, it's hard to make it work reliably.
From watching their video i couldn't understand anything it was utter techno babel.

From reading the whitepaper it seemed like they were building a distributed network where everything is somewhat abstracted.

I thought Ethereum was silly and pointless but I at least somewhat understood what it tried to be, this is like literally something that looks to me that came off https://www.reddit.com/r/VXJunkies/