skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
She did great on that social engineering attack. The crying baby on YouTube was a nice touch. The overall segment illustrates many aspects of psychological manipulation that can be used to successfully con a support person. A believable scenario, something people might sympathize with, a sense of urgency, further but brief engagement with questions/answers, and gratitude for their participation.

This stuff was always tricky to train people to defend against. I need to update my links to good presentations on this subject for attack and especially defensive training for employees. So, what do you people have to go in that collection?

Note: OP video led to autoplay of No Tech Hacking by Johnny Long. I recall someone recommending me read the book by same name. So, nice accidental reminder.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4kfsxF8Tio

Note 2: Bejtlich's comment on NTH on Amazon reminded me that we should probably always list Mitnick's Art of Deception and Abignale's Art of the Steal in these threads for useful examples they had. They each extracted much mileage out of social engineering.
Or maybe the article is trying to calm nerves by saying that the markets were already prepared for this, and so the stock hit is done and over.

Hard to predict, but I like that the article is trying to calm people, rather than freaking people out.
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Matt, do you know the author?
>> 6

Twitter, Pinterest, Facebook and Discourse ignored that. They didn't prove it wasn't significant to their users, they just don't care.
Its been a slow boiling frog ever since the Palladium debacle.
All that versatility and adaptability comes at the expense of various kinds of boilerplate, most of which can be avoided by employing other styles. In other words, it's not more versatile, it's only "Turing complete", and versatility would mean using a number of different styles and being efficient in each.
From "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency" by Douglas Adams, for anyone curious to read the whole story: http://theelectricmonk.com/ElectricMonk.html
Thanks tshtf! I will keep learning on Tor before making any decision.

Personally I think it can be great to go with Tor, having a great excuse to support it too.
There's an accidental similarity between the groups SO(3) and SU(2), which works for spin. There are other quantum numbers such as flavor SU(3) for there is no mathematical coincidence and such analogies won't work.

The differences between SU(2) and SO(3) go beyond just "rotate 720 rather than 360 and you're back where you started".

While I understand the urge of expressing new things in terms of what you know, sometimes, analogies aren't helpful and distort reality, and you just need to accept that there can be things in the nature that doesn't correspond to anything in your daily life in the real sense of the word.

That being said, the original parent post (which I quoted, so it's actually there) is total nonsense.
Yes, the US government's founders explicitly hated democracy, and were slavers.

Only after president Andrew Jackson transformed the language in a PR stunt (maybe like calling yourself "anarchist" nowadays), did people imagine the US as a "democracy." (Which of course it isn't, just look at the guys who made the US government.)
Well if the patch of land is the European side of the strait that's the only direct naval entrance to Mediterranean from the Atlantic.
As an aside, fiberglass (similar to carbon fiber) is used frequently (but still not much, relative to steel) in many applications. We use it extensively in underground applications.

The problem with fiberglass reinforcement is that it does not undergo ductile failure like steel does. Steel will yield and, in addition, has strain hardening behavior. Fiberglass just fractures and that's that. Extra precautions must be taken when using fiberglass in failure critical members.
$70 million in funding to "counter the threat of Going Dark".

https://www.justice.gov/jmd/file/822286/download
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Lambda Calculus returns (\z.z) AKA the Identity Function. Which kinda sounds like 1, except 1 is usually represented as (\sz.sz). Which means 0^0 is NaN? I wonder if division by zero also gives (\z.z), but I don't know what division in Lambda Calculus looks like.
That promise was not in any way made by Farage, it was made by Boris Johnson and co.[1] [2] I don't like Farage, and I hate the leave vote, but his criticism of it was honest given that he was definitely not the one who made the promise.

For what is worth, he was criticising them (though not sure about this specific point) from before.[3]

1. http://leftfootforward.org/2016/05/boris-johnsons-brexit-bus...

2. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3584627/The-Boris-bl...

3.http://www.politico.eu/article/nigel-farage-ukip-leader-vote...
Then what the highly trained research scientists and engineers need to do is apply their scientific training to fleecing rich people of their money.

Which is actually what is happening, and has been happening for the last 2 decades with the entry of a large number of physics, math, and CS Ph.Ds into hedge funds and tech entrepreneurship. Stage 1 is a massive wealth transfer from dumb old money built on relationships to smart new money built on technology. Stage 2 is increased funding for STEM research & applications, as the new money diverts capital into their interests. Stage 2 takes a generation or so - it doesn't happen until the new money feels secure enough in their wealth that they can divert attention to becoming powerful. But we've seen the beginnings of it already, with Tesla, SpaceX, Blue Origin, Calico, Google X, YC Research, Breakthrough Starshot, and the Gates Foundation diverting some of that money that was redirected into scientifically-trained hands back to actual scientists.
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I think numbers speak for infinite scroll to keep users on the site.

No matter how bad it is: Either the problem is wider or there is a benefit.

A wider problem would be tying people to services with annoyances and playing on addictive behavior.

A Benefit would be an undisturbed flow of skimming over content or using the edge of the screen as a reading aid (I hate it, when I scroll down one screen on HN and the site bottoms out. I than need to find until where I read and where the previously unseen content begins¹).

¹ ok, might need to write an extention for a red line fading away after you skipped a page :). A bit like the "read until here" lines in irc clients.
> The very fact that risking (domino-effect) the future of the EU via this referendum just for some political self-interest (internal power struggle Conservative Party ) illustrates this use-at-will mentality.

If the EU is really that unstable why blame the British for it?

And if the British were holding back the EU, maybe we should be happy that they finally got off the fence.
Interesting. I've made a quick search over Runet, it seems that basalt / basalt-plastic rebar is in large-scale production:
http://nano-sk.ru/stekloplastikovaya-armatura/bazaltovaya/

They claim it's better and cheaper than steel rebar. No word about disadvantages, which I assume exist (edit: found, see below).

Edit. Oh, they carry a price: http://nano-sk.ru/price-list/ -- 1m of d=14mm rebar costs ~$0.60. But I don't know the price for the regular steel rebar, though :)

Edit2. There's a list of disadvantages here (sorry, in Russian): http://www.tdbazalt.com/category/materiali_dlia_stroitelstva...

1. Can't stand high temperature, as basalt rebar has polymer as a binder for basalt fiber.

2. Can bend easier than steel; will break easier than steel

3. Can't stand alkaline environment (there're claims that some newer types of the basalt rebar don't carry this issue)
Former JPMorgan trader built an app that sends custom financial signals to phone
....becuse the entire fabric on the internet is based on the exchange of thing of "value".

Your email has value, and they'll exchange their hard work (software) for your information (valuable for marketing, and understanding their users)....
Funny. JS is my main language, and I personally also don't know most of the intricacies of JS, and we seem to share the same mindset.

I mean, I do know common pitfalls and I can use `this`, etc., it's just that I find it's easier to avoid them entirely and leads to more readable code IMHO. In a way my JS tends to just be very scheme-like.
The EU is just a political union. It can break apart without necessarily destroying the economies of its member states.

You are suggesting the EU member states would be willing to sacrifice their economies (by punishing the UK) to save the union. I believe the opposite to be the case.

Why would access to the single market need to be paid for? All things being equal, the UK would buy more from the market than it would sell into it.

If anything, the EU should be paying the UK to join the single market.

Such is the absurdity of EU officials pretending they can punish the UK.
Generating Integer Sequences at Compile Time
GLL is fantastic! Unlike Earley and GLR, implementing GLL parser combinators is pretty easy. It's pretty fast and has some other nice features (it can be implemented to produce a lazy stream of possible parse sequences).

It is, IMO, the current state-of-the-art in parsing general CFGs. Derivative parsing is very interesting and may overtake GLL and related algorithms.
Why should Scotland join the Euro? As you've outlined it's not in their interest.
Yeah, that's a risk. However, I'm less afraid of the robots that get us there and far more afraid of the applied psychology (propaganda/advertising/politics) that could trap the entire species in that state. The Culture demonstrates a future with similar robotic capabilities where the exact opposite happens, with people gaining nearly ultimate self-actualization, the difference being in the application of intelligence.
> In a way my JS tends to just be very scheme-like

Mine too! I've felt for many years that we were lucky that Eich happened to have read SICP not long before those fateful two weeks in 1995. For all that we all love to hate JS, the language of the web could have—and to judge by all historical precedents, should have—been much worse.
Proofs?
So you would load the symmetric key into the enclave out of band i.e via the BIOS or IPMI? Could this be use the encrypt filesystem or block devices using something like LUKs I wonder?
If there are people inside Apple selling these SCBO files, I don't think they're doing so because they believe in subverting the control Apple has over their products, they're almost certainly just doing it because it's a simple way to make some extra money.
I think(hope) you just chose bad examples there(aside from that community leader one). I feel that the right reaction is to get as much information on what actually happened and act accordingly. If there is actual evidence that such allegations are true, and it sufficiently outweighs the evidence against, then the outrage is well deserved. However, what happens far too often is that people read an article from buzzfeed, gawker, or some shady source and feel that they have gathered all of the necessary information, when in fact the way such an article will portray a situation is not anywhere close to an accurate description of what happened.

I generally am suspicious of any article saying that someone did something super illegal/inappropriate/outrageous if it doesn't provide any real evidence for the allegations. 90% of the time the truth is far less interesting...
"Provide" isn't a good word here - if vocational training is connected to this program, the only connection possible would be forcing people to use these vocational programs (I mean, you might just send a brochure to people but that's not a real connection). Present day social services abound with various "workfare" schemes. Even more prison labor, they tend to be failures on all levels - neither preparing the participants for jobs in the real economy nor producing things of value nor giving the participants a feeling of worth.

The idea of universal basic income is to eliminate social services bureaucracy - basically that the money spent deciding who is or isn't deserving could be better allocated by just giving something to everyone.
I suppose. Though I'm sure requiring excessive insurance would be attacked as too much regulation.
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Okay. For those down voters this... for those of us without the time, skills and money for expensive solutions or free solutions a Reasonably Priced appliance would really, really be great. That market is pretty much everyone with an internet connection who conducts business or confidential communications online.
Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11974873
Related - "What makes DosBox on web.archive.org so slow despite JIT?"

http://stackoverflow.com/q/35361954/1091116
Should we stop using Telegram?
Explain how people will gain "ultimate self-actualization"?
He and I have chatted. I know he is fixing things. https://github.com/julienschmidt/httprouter/issues/149
Silicon Valley can't stop innovating around pizza
It's definitely common.

I'm not sure about the relative likelihood in the US vs Europe, but they certainly do exist. I've personally had my card stolen via skimmer before.

My suspicion is they're more prevalent in the US, since more merchants will accept legacy magstripe cards there.
Sorry, you are in almost everything wrong. Deficits are not really a problem. Currently, the lack of a deficit is the main reason, why the ECB set the interest rate to zero. Almost all European governments cut spending and remove money from the economy. The results are awful is most economies, except those which can export more than import. They live on the deficit of other countries.

BTW Germany is currently the country which suffers the most from the low interest rates of the ECB.

The problem is that countries like Greece, Spain, and Portugal are being forced to cut spending, which doesn't end their crisis but will prolong them and make everybody poorer in the process.

There is certainly a point in which the deficit is too high, but where this point is, is unknown. It is the same with inflation, a little bit inflation is good for an economy. It gives incentives to spent money and to invest now and don't wait for lower prices. But too high inflation will hurt an economy badly.
What are “actual pictures” of atoms actually pictures of?
Paid by the tax payer, used against the tax payer.
All recent new members have been required to, I believe.
>This argument could go on forever, but why create a design that necessitates a footer to begin with?

Because a footer, like a header, are staples of web design since day one, and work well as anchors that the user knows and expects to find at the top and bottom of the page.

They also leave all other (layout) options open.

Whereas a sidebar for example, while good in some situations, it prevents e.g. to have full side-to-side images and other such content, or distracts from the main text when reading long form, etc.
This is being called a close vote.

However, 52 is 8.3% larger than 48.

Not that close.
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Natron was a mixture of salt and baking soda that egyptians used to extract moisture out of the body during mummification. Perhaps in this context means extracting out relevant parts of the video for superimposition; just a guess.
Range isn't an issue (any reasonable scheme won't assign codes to scores that never occur), but you're right that qscores are both precise but not necessarily accurate. Quantization of quality scores is a common solution (it is optional in CRAM, mentioned above). There's also recent work on better methods for doing it [1,2].

The problem is that if you have to maintain BAMs for regulatory reasons, lossy q-scores may not be sufficient for compliance, because you 1) have lost part of the original data 2) may not be able to exactly reconstruct your analysis results (unless, of course, you did the analysis on the quantized scores).

Thus, it would still be interesting to see better lossless compression methods.

[1] http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2014/...

[2] http://web.stanford.edu/~iochoa/publishedPublications/2015_q...
Ok, we changed the title above to try to communicate that.
That's correct. The UK, inside the EU, could have vetoed the admission of Scotland to spite them. But now, that's not the case anymore...
It is known that any fast CFG parsing algorithm can be turned into a fast boolean matrix multiplication algorithm.

So if CFG parsing was n^2, so is boolean matrix multiplication :)

See http://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0112018
> defends against any access by the owner of the machine, even though that is not necessary to achieve application security

Sure it is. Why shouldn't a laptop be able to protect itself against a nation-state the way an iPhone can? The only real way to do that is to make the enclave keys write-only. Anything less (e.g. giving the user master recovery codes) is vulnerable to the nation-state's favorite tactic—rubber-hose cryptanalysis.
I worked for a CIO who liked to be no more than one major version behind on software. He explained that he had been burned too many times by upgrades that had to go through several versions. If you are going to have to do the work anyways, why not reap the benefits for a while as well.
> Politically whiny, want the independence but keep the access to free market, have a lot of preferences already etc.

So .. According to you other european countries should get a referendum about UK being in the EU
‘Brexit’ Aftershocks: More Rifts in Europe, and in Britain, Too
> However, the numerical value of K is notoriously difficult to calculate to high precision, so computation of more digits get increasingly slower.

It can be calculated to n digits in O~(n^2) time, which isn't really that bad. Something like Brun's constant or the area of the Mandelbrot set is probably a better example of a real number that is "notoriously difficult" to compute.
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Warning - auto-starting video with audio. Bloody annoying.

Having said that - brilliant idea if the privacy of those participating can be guaranteed. On the other hand, why not get every hotel owner to send in photos of their own rooms?

Still, great idea, hope it succeeds.
There is no such thing as a factory with zero workers. Fewer workers, but not zero. This is not a paradigm shift; the cycle of increased efficiency destroying jobs has been going on for hundreds of years.

There are so many problems that need solving. I don't think we are anywhere close to a world where there is not enough for people to work on. There is currently a mismatch between the skills needed and the skills available, but we should try to solve that problem first rather than giving up and saying that some people just cannot contribute anything.
Being a regular developer how does this help me?
These are good points and I don't understand the downvotes. Silicon Valley is great ecosystem for startups but once they start to grow big, they do need financial services from the many many firms on wall street. That is a different kind of talent and I think SV (and perhaps HN as well) fails to understand the importance of the availability of capital instruments and prudent financial advice that is available so easily just across the country.
Design is primarily about presenting information according to its relevance. A footer is a way of presenting unlikely-to-be-relevant-but-still-necessary information. It is a tool that accomplishes something that is necessary for just about every webpage.

"Footers" (or related things like captions) exist in just about every design, and they almost always function the same. Art galleries have plaques. Books have footnotes. Food packaging has nutritional info. If your design doesn't have a footer, then it's probably a mistake.
Really? Because I explicitly remember that running a company and dealing with other European countries has been hell of paperwork, lawyers, different standards and protectionism which made running a company that sold goods or software across Europe extremely complicated before entry of the coutry into EU in 2004. Just the standardization of financial (global VAT system, unified taxes, etc.) and regulatory (if an item is legal in one EU country then it's legal in another) has brought so much more commerce, jobs and startups that I doubt people in this topic born after EU can even fanthom.
I fail to understand a reason why someone would use this... right now it seems to only work on a few LG watches, and isn't Android open source as well? Why would someone choose to implement this when they can implement Android?
In my personal experience, the best engineers I've encountered (and learned from) have understood every system, subsystem, and interaction, all the way down to the most fundamental foundational level. And this understanding allows them to make the best decisions (because they're equipped with the best information). This knowledge doesn't come by sitting down and studying how CPU architecture works when you're building a web application. But it does come from diving as deep as is required for any given task. So maybe if you're dealing with a web app performance bug and you have to crack open Chrome source code, trace it down to something that is compute-intensive, learn whatever C++ code is involved, understand how it utilizes the CPU, and learn about the specific architecture you're using that exhibits the problem, then you have ultimately obtained a significant depth and breadth of information, but at the end of it, you know and understand exactly why your web app performs the way it does, how to workaround it in your app, how to fix it in Chrome (or why you shouldn't), and how the CPU architecture affects the Chrome source code. Now you can apply Chrome, CPU architecture, and C++ to anything that is built upon any one of them (independently or otherwise). That's not to say you know everything about each of them, but you've learned things that will help you in the future in some cases.

The most important skill here is being able to diagnose a problem and fearlessly, relentlessly employ the engineering discipline of solving whatever problem/task is at hand, and not because of observed symptoms ("hey, I turned that knob and everything was OK! I don't know why, but I can close this JIRA ticket and move on with my life. I'm a 10X engineer!") but because you understand precisely what's happening. I made the mistake of the first decade of my software engineering career learning from trial/error and observations, and while those skills are useful in some cases, the best engineers are extremely disciplined about understanding the full depth of a problem before writing a line of code.

In a nutshell, I guess what I'm advocating for is do not blindly study man pages. The reason is because without a practical application for the knowledge, it seeps out of your brain and you forget it quickly. The exception (case in point, GP's example) is when what you're studying does have a practical application or is relevant to what you spend your time doing. This has always been my problem with academic curricula (sure, some people can learn well this way, and there's definitely a minimum foundation necessary that must simply be committed to memory). Even in basic subjects like maths -- the work is rote, and we maybe get a passing grade, but often without the understanding (or the depth of understanding) that is really the most important aspect of learning the subject matter.
Probably vm.