skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I should have just assumed it existed already. Is it yours?
"Why Americans are bad." written by some self-loathing Americans at the New Yorker Department of Puffington Host-Style Clickbait Generation.
A Look at Yuzo Koshiro's Studio
I didn't know that about you. However, I would say that you probably fall under UNIX-Hater nonetheless. Not that that is a bad thing, it's merely a statement about your opinions and ideals.

I will totally have to check out some of those project now. Although I do wonder why Cyclone, the project that inspired Rust, wasn't on your list for memory-safe C.
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file -k may give different results, but binwalk [0] is probably a better choice

[0]: http://binwalk.org/
Are you aware of the upcoming KEXP breakdown of 3 Feet High and Rising?

http://blog.kexp.org/delasoul/

> On Friday, August 26th, KEXP will dedicate 12 hours to celebrating De La Soul‘s classic 1989 debut album 3 Feet High and Rising.

> Starting at 6:00 AM, KEXP DJs will play every song sampled on the album, as well as all album tracks, rarities, b-sides, and interviews.

You might be interested in contacting the station!
From the title I assumed we were talking about glandular fever.
Nice trick! I'm interested in encoding other kinds of data in images in order to share apps/music/etc between mobile devices.

Unfortunately, your HTML gets lost I try to save the picture on my phone.

iPhone > Safari > Save to Camera Roll

Copy off the picture; it's been re-encoded and has no JPG comment field.

Any solutions to this are welcome! The re-encoding makes patterns impossible to decode as well (they degrade after being shared a couple of times). See Cemetech's jsTified emulator for an example of a ROM file as a JPG - he uses B/W and it still requires the file to be synced from a computer, not saved from the browser.
I wasn't really able to get the details on that page, but it seems like they do verification by checking personal information like name, birthday and address against a database and ask a few multiple choice questions related to them. How is that not easy to circumvent if the attacker has that set of information? (can probably be obtained by a social attack on the victims bank)

I'm assuming there's something I missed there.
Exactly, banks are wanting to create a cartel here to define industry standards so that they can roll out their own silos. Each bank having its own shitty payment app. As if the ridiculous Poli payment stuff was not enough. My bank does not even have 2FA; will never trust them with security more than Apple.
It's not just the technical problems with SS7 - it's a business issue.

The Telco's prime motivations are to make it easy for their customers to make more calls and send more text messages - that's what make them money. Making it difficult to port phone numbers away from competitors, or making it difficult for customers to redirect phone calls or text messages is bad for business, and will lose them customers and/or increase customer support costs.

There's absolutely no upside to a Telco for doing any of that - they don't really care if that makes their product less secure for use-cases other 3rd parties who aren't paying the Telco - the Telco's never signed up to provide a secure channel for your bank to send secrets to you - and the banks aren't offering to pay them for it. The Telco's customers are paying, and to an overwhelming degree they demonstrate that they prefer convenience over security - you get pissed off and potentially change carriers very quickly if you cant call them up from a friend's phone when yours get broken/stolen and get your calls/texts redirected to another number immediately. The fact that that same ability give access to social engineers to get hold of banking pins and internet service 2fa secrets is a vanishingly small concern for the people paying the Telco's.

So they just don't care. Not their problem. Sucks to be a bank.
Time is very easy to define naturally as long as it's always "local." Local noon is when the sun is at its highest. Local midnight is halfway between noons, come up with some subdivision, and you're done.

It breaks down once you need to synchronize distant events of course...
Why would a landlord even want to offer this deal? Are they getting a kickback from the companies involved or something?
I'm sure Minecraft does a lot of impressive things on a technical level.

However, I remember running it just fine on an old XP machine with a 32bit, single-core pentium III and 2GB of RAM. In addition, this game has been available on smartphones quite some (phone model) generations ago.
DWDM on commercial equipment is up to >24Tbps per fiber, long haul is about 8-12Tbps (trans-oceanic). I haven't looked into the details yet, but earlier this year Nokia announced a system that can do 70Tbps per fiber.

New Sub-sea builds are usually 6 fibers, some large-scale terrestrial builds are up to almost 8000 fibers (euNetworks did this across europe).
Indeed. Hell, I apply it to life in general (and I wish people would do less talking and more e-mailing). I often get friends and family make random requests in the middle of me doing something, and at some point I started telling everyone - if you want something important, write me a goddamn e-mail. Otherwise there's a good chance I forget.

... aand since people think it's weird and antisocial to communicate via e-mail, I end up abusing org-capture. I.e. I have a quick hotkey (C-c c t) to input and save a task directly to the self-organizing system I use, so if people absolutely refuse to send e-mail, they get an "uh, ok, thanks; I've noted it down and will deal with this later" from me, and I don't spend even 5 seconds thinking about it until the time is right.
Wall Street flat as investors pause after record-setting day
Sierra Nevada. So basically completely limited access highway with no at grade crossings or notable traffic. Not exactly stressing the system there.
But then knowing something is X feet in the air only gives me an approximate floor number- I'd have to guess at the storey height and divide.
Successful QUIC Deployment Outside Google
Another vector is I won't really be able to respond to requests from law enforcement because as soon as the chat is over (or on request of the creator of the chat) I wipe the key from memory. Leaving only encrypted blobs in the database that are then purged themselves at a later time. The key is never written to the disk to prevent forensic analysis there as well. As a bonus, I can handle a decent number of users with a small amount of hardware as most of the hard work is done client side.

Lastly, I'm planning on implementing all of the best protections we have against man in the middle attacks currently like subresource integrity and HSTS. If the browser committees give me something better (maybe some sort of resource signing that can be verified on a secondary secure channel?) I'll implement it. So it may protect against more in the future.
The FPU achieving mass adoption maps pretty well to the onset of "multimedia hype" (CDs, digital audio and video, and of course 3D game rendering). That content doesn't strictly need floating point, but it became an affordance along with 32-bit desktop architectures and their increased memory and storage.
U.S. court blocks FCC bid to expand public broadband
. If Gordon is right, sagging productivity figures simply reflect
. the fact that scientific progress doesn’t have as much impact on
. the economy as it once did. Rather than waiting for productivity
. growth and wages to rebound of their own accord, Gordon supports
. policies designed to expand the size and quality of the labor
. force, such as raising the retirement age, letting more
. immigrants into the country, and expanding access to higher
. education.

Assuming for the moment that Gordon is right about the diagnosis, isn't this remedy exactly backwards? If productivity (per worker?) is down, than surely increasing the size of the labor pool is exactly the wrong medicine and will result productivity per worker to decrease further. Increasing the quality of the labor force through higher education, etc, makes sense. But how can increasing the size of the pool lead to wage increases in the absence of other productivity gains?
Benchmarking Scalability and Elasticity of Distributed Database Systems [pdf]
I've got a nephew who sort-of does that with an iPod touch. It doesn't even have a cellular data connection - he relies on glomming on to free wifi at school/home/friend's houses/the library/the shopping mall/wherever, and gets iMessage and Skype only when he's got wifi - which is "good enough" for him to not even bother upgrading to a phone with a pre-paid account... (He's even managed to convince his Mom to leave the wifi hotspot on her phone running all the time, so he can make/receive calls in the car...)
I've worked at a few companies where inter-office communication and remote-worker communication was excellent. But that's not the norm. People tend to make decisions, especially when they're rushed, with those closest to them.
> The NSA (or anyone else who can MITM https, such as my workplace, college, etc.) can effectively turn it into http, and see the content.

To be clear, unless NSA has some massive capabilities we haven't dreamed off, properly implemented HTTPS cannot be MITM'ed (via SSL stripping, or other means) by anyone who lacks access to your local machine. Specifically, by properly-implemented SSL, I mean:

1. Serving https only, no http

2. HSTS

3. Certificate pinning

The situation you mention regarding workplace computers is a little different from the NSA, since they have the explicit authority and ability to install root certificates on your local work computer. Without those root certs (like if you use a personal computer at work), they lack the ability to MITM your connection, assuming the above.
Productivity increases when you save people time. When a job used to take 2 hours and now it only takes 1, productivity has gone up.

I wonder if the reason productivity is going down is that the current cohort of 2010s technology companies may actually have the opposite aim: consuming people's attention and time.

Things like social networking, advertising supported businesses, mobile gaming, &c., aren't saving people time at all.
Someone posted this else where in the thread:

> A May 2015 survey by RF Intelligence Group, called ‘Global Payments Evaluation Study’, based on 32,000 respondents in 16 countries found that 66 per cent of Australians are aware that they own a contactless payment card and 53 per cent have made a contactless transaction. By contrast, just 14 per cent of Americans own a contactless card and only 9 per cent have used one for a payment.

http://www.bpaybanter.com.au/news-views/why-do-australians-l...

So only just over 50% have made a single contact less payment.
1) What are you using to create the signature? How can you guarantee that the attacker can't create the matching signature?

2) How do you know they're trying to do that if they don't tell you? Your scenario looks like a regular situation, not an attack..
Aha! This is how Beatport were putting title/artist data in WAVs.

I'm not sure why they did that instead of just sending FLACs, though...
Someone posted this else where in the thread:

> A May 2015 survey by RF Intelligence Group, called ‘Global Payments Evaluation Study’, based on 32,000 respondents in 16 countries found that 66 per cent of Australians are aware that they own a contactless payment card and 53 per cent have made a contactless transaction. By contrast, just 14 per cent of Americans own a contactless card and only 9 per cent have used one for a payment.

http://www.bpaybanter.com.au/news-views/why-do-australians-l...

So only just over 50% have made a single contact less payment (as of a year ago). It looks like you hang around an atypical group.
There's low tolerance for jokes on HackerNews. I'm not entirely sure why, but it is what it is.
> If you get a lot of value from something you pay nothing for, and it doesn't increase your job output in dollars and cents, then there's no reason it should increase GDP.

The funny thing is, Google basically enables my job. Good luck searching even on StackOverflow without it. Of course I could program without it, but it wouldn't be the same kind of programming, the projects wouldn't be the same, they wouldn't move that fast. Google is an excellent engine for browsing distributed documentation (i.e. all those random webpages detailing how to use the thing XYZ you need).
Science publishing needs to be coordinated by the major funding agencies. Those who give the money are the rightful ones to say how the output gets disseminated. If they want to make their own journals and stipulate that I publish there to keep my funding I'm totally cool with it.

The funding agency and general population gets its research, I get my tenure, and the university gets its money and prestige. It's a win-win all around.
> it (the icon on the Command Key) was designed by Susan Kare back in the '80s

No it wasn't. The symbol is very old and all over Scandinavia. Kare offered it as one of several options presented for the icon of the Command Key.
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Do you have a better alternative?

Generally bureaucracies don't have a very good efficiency track record either.
In Sweden the 3G frequencies were dispersed for free using a "beauty contest" method - potential operators submitted buildout and investment plans and the regulator picked the ones with the most aggressive yet realistic plans. They also had to commit to minimum population coverage requirements. The idea being the money was better spent building the networks than in government coffers.
A: It's more productive, and easier to supervise employees.

75% of knowledge worker telecommuters that I've run across who aren't doing tracked tasks are doing very little.

We do have a lot of empty office blocks, especially in midsized cities. Even in NYC, there are plenty of mid rise buildings that are minimally occupied, as automation ate up the armies of clerks who once inhabited them.
Google, FB, and MSFT all essentially migrate huge parts of the internet between continents (Google Search Index, Gmail Inboxes, YouTube Videos, Bing Search Index, Outlook Inbox, Facebook Profiles, Photos, Videos, etc). This is a ton of data, and they want to keep cost low and bandwidth high. Getting in on the construction keeps the long-term costs down.
"We're using industry jargon rather than the popular meaning" just doesn't cut it when your audience is the populace, not industry. This is not Hollywood's fault, it's Tesla's.
Grow a set? sigh

Regardless, everybody chill and just tell me this is not out of this world:

http://i.imgur.com/lIcKou6.gifv
Works for me, 50.0.2661.94 on Windows 7 x64.
The javelin thrower who learned how to throw from YouTube videos
I find it amusing that the line before your statement of distrust around GPG refers to using that bastion of solid, dependable crypto code that ships with OpenSSL.
I have a Volvo XC90 which can drive itself to a certain extent (stays in its lane and can come to a complete stop) in traffic under 30 miles an hour and has dynamic cruise control for higher speed and I feel the same way.

Especially when breaking. The will it break or won't it (spoiler: it does) is nerve wracking.
Use glassdoor.com to research salaries for similar job titles in your city.
If I'm the NSA, I'd already have stolen Protonmail's HSTS pinned cert's private key (possibly by burning a zero day getting into one of their web servers, possibly by "asking nicely" to some tech employee there for whom I had appropriate leverage).

But yeah - short of nation-state or very high level LEO (who're just piggybacking on their local NSA equivalent), HSTS with pinned certs is as close to "secure" as we have right now.
I'll bite. The original article is from the Register. If you work at Microsoft and read HN I'd expect you have a reasonable idea of their average article quality.

I don't think they were trying to make any particular point rather than generate pageviews with a combination of "haha M$" and righteous anti-backdoor anger.

That said, I myself agree with other commenters that your stance "this isn't a backdoor because it requires physical access; if you've given up physical access you're already screwed" is beyond disingenuous. Disregarding a login screen bypass by the same logic would be rightly pilloried. Yes, physical security is the hardest to improve, but that's exactly the carrot Microsoft has used to try and convince the world Secure Boot isn't a pure anti-consumer move.
Indeed, and the problem here is that GDP gives you a nice-looking metric to drive your thinking. Except that the conclusions and strategies you make based on that number will be only as good as the limits of meaning of that number[0]. It's a proxy for some aspects of economic activity, and yet it seems to be treated by many as country's "hit points".

[0] - a thing that nicely differentiates those who understand math fundamentals from those who don't - realizing that all theorems have a set of assumptions behind them, and are not valid outside that assumptions
It wasn't mentioned as a criterion, and OpalRuby, Python variants, and Coffeescript all got significant discussion in the article. The ClojureScript omission on all the axes other than "superficial similarity to JavaScript" is still pretty glaring.
I'd say the bar for writing it off as simply an ambitious phrase is a bit different when you know that particular form of "user error" is literally lethal.
I hope the will accept our pull request for adding secp256k1 to OpenPGP.js enabling interaction with OpenPGP and use of cryptocurrency keys for messaging: https://github.com/Jaxx-io/openpgpjs-secp256k1
Then don't ever fly Delta. Consider this your official notice.
Most people who die due to inattentive driving are aware of their car's limitations.
Uncrackable? The Collatz Conjecture
Read the post-mortem of the Air France flight from Brazil to Paris. The pilots did not even know the basic error recovery conditions of flying the plane they were in (recognizing dual input, recognizing a stall) because they so rarely flew the plane. Auto pilot can handle navigation to destination, lining up with the runway after being given the approach vectors by the pilot that he/she received from ATC.

If auto pilot in Tesla were used like auto pilots in modern commercial air travel, it would cover 95% of the operation time of the cars.
That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying that if factoring were NP hard, by extension a quantum computer could solve NP complete problems in polynomial time (since every problem in NP is reducible to every NP hard problem, by definition [0]).

That's all I'm saying... they're implying that you could reduce, say, 3SAT to factoring, which would be very very surprising.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NP-hardness
The big 4 want to boycott Apple Pay, and want to strong arm others into boycotting Apple Pay too. They want a mafia ruling, not amicable solution.

This is the submission:- http://registers.accc.gov.au/content/index.phtml/itemId/1197...
I read that as in increasing the number of highly qualified immigrants, thus increasing the quality of the workforce.
Tech sector blasts IBM and ABS over [Australian] Census failure
I think he means friends as in a group of people you can get trashed with and their is no expectation of "professional" context. Those relationships will be hard to form as you get older.
Check out Racket's syntax-parse and the "Fortifying Macros" paper for macros with better error reporting:

http://docs.racket-lang.org/syntax/stxparse.html

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/racket/pubs/icfp10-cf.pdf
Surviving ECMAScript 6
Samsung Pay hack lets attackers skim cards to make fraudulent payments
Yep, how does the saying go? Any sufficiently advanced technology will be indistinguishable from magic when presented to a less advanced society.
I just did about 400 miles on autopilot today (and thousands previously) and I find it to be the total opposite. It's infinitely more relaxing than fully manual driving.

You still have to pay attention and decide, but the minutiae of making tiny steering movements is gone, leaving more capacity for higher level observation and planning.

The second guessing you describe simply doesn't happen for me. I'm capable of taking over and driving competently in any situation autopilot can handle. I never try to guess whether the car can see something; if it fails to respond in a way I like, I just take over. If I want to brake for a car and autopilot isn't braking, I brake. There's no need and no reason to wait for the car to maybe do it on its own or maybe not.

Disengaging autopilot, performing some maneuver, and reengaging it takes no significant time or effort beyond the maneuver itself. If you're sitting there wanting the car to react to something and it hasn't yet and you're waiting to see if it will, you're doing it all wrong.
Somewhere else in the thread someone mentioned about what happens when there is a network of hospitals speaking to each other. Some places in New York would call it a regional health information organization (RHIO).

If all your providers are in that RHIO, there will most likely be a central hub/repo where everyone posts their information to. There are a few localized initiatives in specific states, and there are larger statewide programs that try to consolidate all your records.

After all of that, some state funded RHIO's will get incentives for working with specific partners and even the Social Security Administration (SSA), which brings up a whole lot of headaches and having to meet their standards while at the same time meet all your local partners' standards as well.

Because the government has a high interest in ultimately getting everyone on one network they actual spend a lot of time and effort to try and better these connections and improve data transfer. One of those is this Blue Button initiative [1]. They even have multiple github repos [2] so you can see the underling logic of what a patient model comprises of. What they use is per the HL7 spec that was established in 2011/2013. (Every vendor references the same PDF spec. but there is still a lot of ambiguity in it. Essentially it is really hard to apply all the conditional logic of a clinical document into an XSD.) The funny thing is that with a stamped-and-sealed specification that people still fight over on calls, the HL7 organization are now pushing over to FHIR [3], a JSON based clinical item model. That will be interesting.

To answer your question/concern, there are definitely initiatives to try and make this better, but it will take time to get legacy systems up-to-speed and to meet new standards that are stagnated. You can reference my previous comment with my concerns about that [4].

Lastly, if anyone is new to the EMR/HIE/Medical field, Motorcycle Guy [5] will be your best friend.

[1] https://www.healthit.gov/patients-families/blue-button/about....
[2] https://github.com/blue-button
[3] https://www.hl7.org/fhir/
[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12264411
[5] http://motorcycleguy.blogspot.com/