skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just enter the 16 digits without much trouble.

Then I get to the expiration date and the first column is a drop list of Jan, Feb, Mar... wat?

Now my brain has to convert 07 to Jul instead of just picking 07. Why?!

Are developers trying to make users angry?
More info on the attack vectors mentioned:
http://thehackernews.com/2016/08/http2-protocol-security.htm...
Was it called "Rocky's Boots"? That's what this brought to mind. You could take components from room to room to solve puzzles. As I recall it was kind of self-documenting, in that you just had to figure out from examples what problem they were posing.

edit see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12239171
For now, and only if the CA feels like taking an existential risk. Browsers requiring Certificate Transparency should make it impossible to subvert the CA system secretly, and subverting it openly kills a CA.
Not type of developer, I mean type of VPN. :-)
One of my criteria for assessing a logic simulator is whether it can simulate something nontrivial like an entire CPU, so I was pleased to see there's a 6502 here...

https://github.com/jdryg/dls-schematics/tree/master/6502

...but it seems to be only a 6502-based system showing that you can use a 6502 as an opaque component, and isn't actually simulating its logic with the siulator. On the other hand, the 4004 here is mostly the real deal:

https://github.com/jdryg/dls-schematics/tree/master/i4004
Because she told them she did. Noor Mateen told the FBI she was with him when he bought ammunition and a holster and that she once drove him to the Pulse nightclub because he wanted to scope it out. She told federal agents she tried to talk her husband out of carrying out the attack against the nightclub.
Keyboards of this general sort are cheap enough that I wouldn't mind trying a few different ones to find one that works for me.
Really? They are in a market that's so unique that nobody else has similar business problems?
The author is a well known crackpot - just in case anyone cares.
How to [Procedurally] Generate a Religion
You've suggested that I made a claim with nothing to back it up. I challenge you to name just one thing from what I said that you can show has no proof.

Funny enough, the article itself was about how physicists cannot find the proof to sustain their development of further theory. Doesn't it seem even slightly suspicious to you that the person who points out that fact about those scientists is being accused of the very thing they do?

You intimate that I do the same kinds of things as a clown. The only reason you can suggest that is that you exclude everything I said aside from a few words. That's quite obviously a deception tactic and if you included actual proof in your own words, you would have had to reference the rest of my words. But you can't do that because it won't support your point.

In fact, if you can disprove anything I said, I'll wire you all of my money immediately. Furthermore, if you can show that anything I've said cannot be verified, I'll do the same. Or if you prefer, you can take my head. But I'm quite certain that will never happen.

By the way, your reaction is also the proof of what I say. The problem is you don't understand what I said. It would be better to admit that instead of attacking one of the people who can solve your questions.
Of course there is the occasional website that requires the spaces to be inserted.

Bonkers.
You need to think of .NET Core as libc.

It is a standard .NET base that maps to and updates the ECMA standard in a portable way.

Anything else is supposed to be made available via NuGET packages.
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In the case of a quant, they probably just have a much higher desired salary to move over to your company.
Then I get to the CVC code. I have to turn the card, there are two numbers, printed such that they look unimportant. Which one should I pick?

Banks are making users angry really.
Gunmen abduct octogenarian father of Bayelsa lawmaker
Honest question. What's wrong with that in many cases? I want to buy a widget. I don't want to try harder or learn the peculiarities of your website.
That would make sense, except that most Indian Internet users use English online. Especially those who have been on the Internet long enough to have used Orkut when it was around.
Would your idea include small form factor external media as the "card/chip"?

What would be the negatives to this approach?

I have been doing this for many years and have still not found any.

Currently I prefer RO space embedded in the kernel for the "core" OS and mfs/tmpfs overlay for a RW, larger "additional" OS.

If RW portion crashes, the system falls back to the RO portion.
"Our Team of Engineers track public IPs across a wide scope of popular botnet networks."

How do you track botnets (along with the other collection you do) with a team of three? How many botnets are being tracked and which malware families? This is an especially dubious claim when coupled with another statement you made: "We do not rely on external sources at this time".
>Users don't care about what some developers may perceive as a sexy UI. Honestly, most don't really even want to "learn" the UI. They just want to get stuff done without having to think about it.

Very much this. Users aren't stupid, they just don't give a shit. They use dozens, maybe hundreds of user interfaces per day and your UI has no right to be a difficult POS.
I was responding, perhaps my misinterpretation, to your assertion that it was unclear what the 'nightmare scenario' was. I asserted that if you had been following the recent developments of the LHC (or had some idea as to what the worst case scenario was), there would be no ambiguity as to what this article was about. The reason why this is the case is that this article was not written with the HN crowd in mind.

The primary response to this article, given the comments, is "what do you mean you're not talking about black holes" rather than an actual discussion of the ideas of the article (the failure of "naturalness" and "beauty" to make predictions for the LHC). Which leads me to conclude that HN is not a good place to talk about this (since most people are complaining that the , as we're arguing about the most boring, superficial part of the article.

My statement that people are complaining about "This article doesn't cater to HN", is my summary of the idea that 'I am not familiar with the context associated with the headline, and to me it sounds sensationalistic, and therefore it is clickbait, and the author should have picked a better title'. You obviously, are not advocating that position.
They didn't inherit enough money to not work? In part because their inheritance was taxed by laws that the 1% is working to dismantle?
I operate two non-exit tor relays. They have both return risk_level: 4 with the "threat" being "tor_tracker". What threat is posed by a non-exit tor relay? What does the "tracker" part of "tor_tracker" mean?
Are these production systems? I'm a bit blown away that this can work with R.

http://adv-r.had.co.nz/Performance.html
Such debates are always a funny move.

It's like saying "let's have a national talk over encryption versus ethernal peace and harmony". Arguing for encryption in such a frame is determined to be a failure.
They still need a RCE to alter the firmware of the monitor als far als I can tell... Cool hack, but if you have a RCE, there's better stuff to do...
Not sure, but I've been put on an IP banlist for simply operating a non-exit relay in the past. Had to switch my home IP. The myth that is perpetuated that if you run a non-exit relay that you'll have no problems with IP bans is definitely wrong.
I actually have a very different feeling when I watch users struggle with my app. I feel slightly ashamed and very grateful. Most of the time I realise I've made too many assumptions about the UI, and i start getting ideas on how to maybe fix the problem so that other users don't encounter it.
I should quantify my question more. How many $30B+ companies are older than 50years old? Only about 3 [0], but how many retail companies have come and gone in their wake? Why is Airbnb the retail company that survives against all odds?

URBN is down 40% from their high stock price and analyst estimates are bad. That's the thing about retail your sales could be good, but your long term outlook bad. See my original comment about wall street hating retail.

Look at Target, they're killing it right now, but wall street still shits on their stock price.

[0]https://nrf.com/2015/top100-table
I was frustrated enough with one user that I made RTFM part of his password. Some time later his son logged onto his laptop and asked, "Dad, do you know what RTFM really means?"
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I think a big part of the answer is not to care. Or rather to just silently auto-discount.

Imagine the 60s-90s and advertising just overwhelm with sexualised figures. We don't notice, because we just silently pass by.

I don't see any way of turning back the tide of hyperbolic titles on articles. Better to just ignore them and move on.

Buzzfeed headlines worked on me the first few times, now I know not to go there.
Is maintaining smart phone encryption after the commission of a crime, when the Gov. otherwise has a lawful right to search and seize evidence used in the commission of a crime an essential liberty?

There is another famous quote from John Stuart Mill, "Your liberty to swing your fist ends where my nose begins."

For example, take the Constitutional Right to bear arms. Obviously we have limited individual liberty to bear arms for safety through both regulations and criminal statutes. I think that trade off can be pretty reasonable in some instances (say, no guns at the airport/on a plane) and since I don't mind sacrificing a little liberty for safety I don't think that trade off makes me undeserving of either liberty of safety, does it?

Please note, I am not trying to take a position other than public awareness and conversation about these things is always good; whereas, quotes about not deserving liberty or safety only serve censor an open conversation from a position of moral authority.
Are you saying users read error messages? People come to me for help when things break, and ~60% of the time I save them by reading the error message and doing what it says.
The brain's reward circuitry regulates immunity
libinput and disable-while-typing
Thanks for the heads up. It's fixed
No excuse! ;)

(I love this spirit of this project. If you have any way others can contribute, I would be interested!)
"The greater fool theory states that the price of an object is determined not by its intrinsic value, but rather by irrational beliefs and expectations of market participants.[1] A price can be justified by a rational buyer under the belief that another party is willing to pay an even higher price.[2][3][4] In other words, one may pay a price that seems "foolishly" high because one may rationally have the expectation that the item can be resold to a "greater fool" later."

:-)
People don't know how to handle boredom anymore and it's taken a huge toll on society.
and it seems trivial to add too that they're just trying to get things done, one in a huge pile of never ending obligations and difficulties to plain old living in the world.
Fair enough. He was specifically speaking to 'naturalness' as technical designation in physics. I am getting a little more general.

The scientific method seeks to be entirely empirical - which makes sense for understanding what we can observe.

But what happens when what you are trying to understand is not observable? You fool yourself if you think you are being empirical when you are not. (His comment about moving the yardsticks applies here).

Any endeavor to understand the universe, especially origins, ends up involving philosophical presuppositions. Science aspires to avoid that, but can it?
I think that comment may be in relation to tool software such as a CAD program as opposed to service software.

In tool software it is often impossible to always know what the operator is looking to achieve as it is often novel. Service software is quite the opposite where there are likely a few well defined goals the software is attempting to help the customer achieve.
"Well whatever it is, we probably have 1000+ years to save ourselves right?"

No. That time has already passed. If we see signs that the star will go nova "in one year", we have one year, not 1481.

The popular idea that we see "the past" in the sky is not really the best way to think about it. It is far more accurate to say that there is no such thing as "the" present, and what we see in the sky really is our present. The view that we're seeing "the past" is ironically perhaps less sophisticated than the more naive idea that it is simply our present we are seeing in the sky. (And at the moment, there aren't any other "presents" that we much care about.)

The thing that really saves us is that even supernovas that far away can't really hurt us because of the inverse square law. A quick Google search shows one site estimating that a supernova would have to be 50 ly or closer or so: http://www.howitworksdaily.com/could-a-supernova-destroy-ear... Something would have to be beamed specifically at us, and the only natural phenomena I know that can do that are black holes and pulsars, neither of which seem to be what is at that star, and probably still wouldn't be powerful enough to hurt us at that distance.
Don't those VAIOS only have 600px height screen? Ugh
Record-breaking logic gate important milestone on road to quantum computers
Realtime raytracing on a 16 Mhz computer from 1992
How is Delhi doing good?
I use the 3 pedal foot switch. Left pedal is escape. Right pedal is move to the end of a line in vim. Haven't decided what to do with the middle one yet.
Ask HN: My infosec auditor rejects open source. What now?
Our company has recently started courting clients who demand more robust security policies and we’ve opened our doors to third parties to validate our controls.

We're obligated to complete a new proprietary audit and we’ve hit a snag: the auditor doesn't accept open source, but her disapproval is inconsistent. pfSense is questionable. Elastic fails to meet her standards. OpenVPN passes. AlienVault OSSIM fails. Linux generally passes. Firefox fails.

She suggests that open source projects can disappear without notice. For instance, instead of AlientVault OSSIM, she prefers AlienVault's premium USM, despite USM’s reliance on the same open source projects.

Is this any better? Does AlienVault have the resources to maintain major components of their system after my auditor’s worst fears for open source are fully realized? Is the OSSEC project in any danger of collapsing soon? Are the linux kernel developers getting ready to close up shop?

Risk calculation is tricky, but I would accept those associated with these projects disappearing any time soon.

We invested in infrastructure upgrades this year in response to this audit. We don’t have the resources to acquire more commercial solutions when there appears to be acceptable (and popular) free and open source alternatives. We’ve already deployed AlientVault OSSIM at our sites, along with a few Elastic stack nodes. We use these systems to satisfy log aggregation, HIDS, IDS, IPS, and vulnerability detection requirements, etc. She shelved the discussion for now, but the issues on her tracker have yet to be remediated.

How do I move forward? Are there any resources I can share with her making my case for open source software?

tl;dr: Our auditor arbitrarily objects to open source for remediating security risks. How do I convince her these software solutions should be acceptable?
I was going to comment the same thing, and this is a good reminder

Never make the user do what code can do, unless you have a good reason for it

And no, making them take the spaces manually (or spaces/dashes/parenthesis in a phone number) is not a good reason
Tabby's Star for the Perplexed
"the inverse of the mean of the latency
distribution is [...] the throughput!

i.e. Little's Law?
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When the original Air came out in 2009 or whatever, I was amazed that they got the machine so small. When the 11" came out with the same keyboard I was amazed again. And seeing the latest MacBook it amazed me again.

Not sure what's coming next but I'm sure I'll be impressed
Compare to the cost to society of having daft pigs running around shooting people, and generally violating the rights of citizens.

Or maybe I'm still angry from that time I got arrested for cycling on the footpath, or that other time the cops turned my house upside down and stole a $1000 from me and charged me with drug trafficking, all charges for which ended up getting dismissed.

There are real reasons lots of people think the police are barely tolerable. It's high time the police were encouraged to act like professionals, and face the possibility of having their license to operate as an LEO revoked for misconduct rather than the present state of boys-club-protectionism.
It is dismissed here: https://twitter.com/Astro_Wright/status/761383565259055106
I don't recall the previous discussions, but without outright ruling out possibilities for things...

* If it is some structure being built at/around the star, has anyone done the math on the rate of such a structure occluding the star from us to match the observed rate of change?

* On a similar line of reasoning, what if the star were either being drained as a power source or caught in some kind of SG1 (that stargate TV series) level disaster?

To be clear, I don't think that they're likely, but I'd rather they were eliminated for an obvious actual flaw instead of simply being unlikely.
Coincidence? I only recently learned about Secretariat from Bojack Horseman, which released a new season just a few weeks ago.
Bitfinex Interim Update: Generalized losses across all accounts/assets
>> The minibook's ultrawide aspect ratio also works better for movies, which have the same aspect ratio of 21:9

I usually watch movies while working on something else - I don't want the aspect ratio to match my screen. Stinks when it comes to utilizing the available screen space
I bet he is using maltrail and firehol.
Yeah, that's not good. Tesla's usually does a good job of gently encouraging you to help before things get bad. And with practice, you can learn the situations where it's likely to have trouble and take over preventively or just be ready to.
Does anyone disagree that UEFI has the capability to be an OS itself?

If it is only used as a "BIOS" then is it unreasonably adding the surface area for bugs and attacks? Is it much larger and more complex than legacy BIOS?

Is this trade-off proportional to the benefits it provides: obviating need to for developers to understand backwards compatibility?
They don't have a communist government.
Making changes of this scale takes time, and it takes a unified will to make change. The hardest thing in the world is to say "25 years from now, if we do all these things, this will be greatly improved." It is made hard because people cannot easily see slow change, and they often are unwilling to wait so long for change. Making the change instant is very expensive and also hard to pull off.

Imagine some group that could decide to take about 15,000 hectare of land and decide to build a city[1], from the ground up, with current building standards and codes. They would have to start with a way to power the city. So building infrastructure to bring fuel to power plants and assuming a modern city of 2 million souls, call it 1.5GW of reliable power (so closer to 2GW of capacity so that plants can be off line for maintenance and you still have power). You'll also need to develop a water source, and water treatment facility. You can go the Israeli route and desalinate water for this city (constrains locations) or pump it to it (adds to the power budget). At this point it would be easiest to add a subway system (you can do it by digging trenches and then covering them up, easier than boring tunnels under existing buildings) which means you also have to have some of the basics of what your city is going to look like laid out, residential areas, industrial areas, high tech areas etc. Since you have the benefit of looking at problems in other cities, you focus on making travel within the city as "car free" as possible so that individuals can either walk or take transit. You maximize people space. Now you build an airport, something which can handle both cargo and passenger traffic at the same time. To start bringing in people and materials while the rail system and a connection to the highway system is built.

Anyway, you can follow this along and realize you'll probably need a couple of trillion dollars worth of GDP to go from bare ground to "modern" city, and it will still take years. There are examples you can look at in China of cities built from the ground up. There are probably things you can learn from that. Someone more logistically astute than I am could come up with a "molting" approach where you first cover the area with tents, then as you build things you remove the previous layer and replace it with a more improved layer. You might be able to go through several re-development cycles to get to the final product.

Or you can try to take an existing place and go over it from the ground up and make it into something awesome. That latter path takes a lot longer, decades.

[1] That is a bit more land than is available in San Francisco
While we are discussing context, it is also good to consider your sources. The person quoted by NPR may have an agenda; consider the below.

It should well be noted that Benjamin Wittes, the person quoted in parent by NPR, is a noted proponent of increased national security at the cost of encryption.[1][2][3] While he is a Fellow at the Brookings Institute, which is generally considered non-partisan but liberal-leaning, Wittes and Brookings' stance on matters of national security have been quite pro-government / pro-"security", and he is also a member of the Hoover Institution's Task Force on National Security and Law. The Hoover Institution is generally regarded as right-leaning[4][5]. His positions are consistently in line with the FBI's, believing that end-to-end encryption with no backdoor is bad for national security and worth the tradeoff.

[1]: https://www.lawfareblog.com/encryption-living-will-think-you... ,
[2]: https://www.lawfareblog.com/quick-question-apple-hr
[3]: https://www.lawfareblog.com/very-definition-digital-age-chut...
[4]: http://www.csmonitor.com/1980/0327/032756.html ,
[5]: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Hoover-Institution-on-War-R...
The same point can be made about gun control, but there are definitely "true believers" who think that limiting access to guns is the most important political issue _because_ it would save lives. There are even people who are scared of mass shootings, which have killed ~700 people in 35 years[1] in the USA. I've seen blogs use that statistic as an argument for stricter gun control! There are people who are scared of flying, when 429 people died in 2013 from aviation accidents[2] (albeit overwhelmingly in GA, not commercial). Yet these same people happily drive to work every day, even though ~32,000 died in automobile accidents in 2014[3]!

Everyone knows that humans are terrible at estimating small risks of large dangers. The really scary thing is that humans are also by-and-large incapable of updating based on that knowledge.

[1]: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/12/mass-shootings-m...
[2]: http://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/data/Pages/AviationDataSt...
[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_i...