skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see this often discussed, but the DAO always seemed pretty shady, even prior to the hack. This was a system meant to function as an autonomous investment platform, but I couldn't find any details that explained exactly how the recipients of the investment funds were meant to be held accountable for the money they received. Ultimately, the eth would have needed to be cashed out into spendable money so that the business could pay for expenses and grow the company, but an eth contract is incapable of forcing the company to put fiat money back into the DAO and it's not a stretch to imagine a situation where the recipients do not agree to use the money in a fashion that is entirely inline with the intent of the investors or even fulfill any of the obligations stipulated as conditions of the investment.
This was a scam waiting to happen even if the contract did function as intended by the authors.
I think this is too linear. My two cents are that AI, when it cracks one language, many languages will be cracked after that. In other words, exponential growth. With Open Source still being prevalent, I just think the libraries will be shared as it will bring in a new era for humanity. Think about all those languages we don't even have translators for (namely those countries that have only 20 people speaking a specific derivation of a derivation of a .....of a language humanity can translate). There are almost 7,000 languages in the world [1]. Language is a tough challenge but when we find a breakthrough, it's my strong opinion, that we'll bring everyone to the table of communication.

[1] http://www.linguisticsociety.org/content/how-many-languages-...
I think this could be used as a lightweight bloom filter. One direct use-case I see is to build a cache of keys from some _other_ database during initialization.

In cases where the read exceeds write, such as genomic data processing, this can provide additional performance gain, as opposed to querying the database.

While redis _can_ be used, I think that this having a much smaller codebase is advantageous, in case one wishes to implement additional domain-specific requirements. Nice work!
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I think they're holding out hope that they can continue to grow revenue through advances in adtech when their subscriber numbers hit the inevitable plateau. Even offering an ad-free subscription option would eat into their ad platform, and Netflix has recently demonstrated how tough it is to raise the price of a subscription (or expire a years-old discounted rate). With ads, they can at least hope to grow per-user revenue in the future.
With end to end crypto, if the government wants something from me and has acquired a warrant for it, they are still reliant on me to produce the decrypted data, but I refuse it they can hold me in contempt of court. It's not like they lose all leverage.
The ambiguity cannot be resolved in a license, because it exists in copyright law, not the license. If the kernel modules are not derivative works as defined in copyright law, then no license is needed to create or distribute them, and any restrictions in the license are of limited effect.
The problem with that hyperbole is that it begs the question of whether or not this was even an atrocity at all. The ends don't justify an atrocity as the means, but that isn't the same thing as the ends never justifying the means.

Ends justifies the means is just a fancy way of saying that the cost/benefit analysis is favorable to the decider. That is a sane decision making framework. Presumably, you just disagree with the assesment of the cost.
We live in a culture where we invoke a draconian system of punishment as a "justice" system. The idea, which does not translate to software, is that fear will keep the local systems in line. Fear of this battle station. So the fact that certain companies recognize a huge societal flaw and actively operate against it is rare (imo).
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> Your encrypted machine, on the other hand, does not listen to judges.

My machine doesn't, but I do, unless I am willing to face the consequences of being in contempt of court.
Smart points but rsync's comment stands--this article takes a very one-sided tone. It doesn't even attempt to state why so many of the people involved don't think that punishing the "attacker" (their term!) is a priority. So it's also kind of half-baked, actually.
The most disturbing part of this incident--to me--is that Google Search/YouTube/GMail/etc never went down. Not even a blip.

That means that Google is not dogfooding GCE to the degree that I would hope and expect for me to risk my business on using the service. Disappointing, to say the least.

Say what you will about AWS (and I've said many critical things, and will continue to do so, publicly and privately), but when AWS has a major outage it also affects Amazon digital products. They have major skin in the game, while it appears that GCE is a special snowflake service completely separate from the important, money-making services at Google.
That's a bit of a premature optimization. By the time you might have heavy loads, Aurora might support Postgres, or you may decide not to use AWS. If you'd prefer Postgres currently, go with that.
If you want to get an idea for how difficult a career choice open source is:

I'm currently working to monetize my open source project with https://baasil.io/ (with some cofounders) - The surprising thing I learned is that investors do NOT care AT ALL that your OSS project has almost 20k downloads per month and that you spent 3+ years of your life on it and are fully dedicated to it. Employers care, other developers care, but to an investor, it means nothing.

I applied to a startup incubator in Sydney several months ago; I showed them all my project stats (it's probably one of the most popular open source frameworks to come out of Australia). I hussled hard; I even managed to get tickets to a few investor conferences and events and, each time, I would talk to every person in the room. I ended up securing a coffee meeting with an investor (after talking to him at two different events; 3 if you count the fact that I had actually talked to the guy on the phone 2 years before about what I was planning to do; so he knew I was serious) and he recommended that I apply to an incubator in which he was a director.

I applied; but I didn't even end up getting into the first round of interviews (they just didn't understand the product or the market)!
They selected a bunch of other startups (some of which didn't even have a proof of concept to show).

Maybe the experience would have been different in another country.
How does a rubber hose work when the people are talking via Tox or via .onion sites?
You can always mitigate the "failure for everyone" scenario. Plethora of government keys, for example, or rotating government keys, or rapidly expiring government keys... Anyway, they've managed to keep stacks and stacks of information secret for decades and decades. It seems like it could be managed. No one has stolen the cert for *.whitehouse.gov.

Sidenote, why do people call a second key a backdoor? To me, backdoor suggests exploit, not used-as-designed.
> It's astounding, considering both chains are basically the same system

They aren't at all. Immutable smart contracts are the basis of ETC and not ETH. It's only one difference, but it's a difference as fundamental as the difference between gold and dollars.

ETH is now a centralized currency. I have trouble seeing any purpose to using ETH now that it's centralized, given that existing centralized money/contract systems are much more mature. But given both ETH and ETC are too buggy for me to use, I've no skin in the game, so I'm happy to wait and see if some benefit to a centralized cryptocurrency emerges that I wasn't aware of.
Sorry, do you mean the defendant's lawyer hadn't noticed it?
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B) The FBI is certainly not talking about only defaults. They have said that they don't want unbreakable encryption anywhere.

> They aren't meant to have their own will and goals like "power".

Yet they undeniably do. Pretending that they don't is sheer naivety.

I'm not much of a political theorist, but we have government because we tend to trust them more than the average mob. They aren't infallible though, and we need checks and balances to keep them in place.
I think you missed the point of the question - people install adblockers typically because they find the ads are intrusive (full-screen graphic overlays, etc), or their machine gets infected with ad network-delivered malware.

If you presented ads that were respectful to the visitor (i.e. weren't offensive) I expect the blocker escalation war would cease.
Did your revenue go back up to what it used to be?
> You've got it backwards.

You two are now arguing about which side is better represented by a particular strawman. Both of you seem to be assuming that "the other side" is far more monolithic than realistic.
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It won't remain a taboo when someone proofs a functional computational model for it. It seems that will need to occur to silence the idea that its quackery. Nothing short of that will suffice. Seeing will indeed be believing.

I was partly inspired to pursue the path I took in R&D by observing that the industry didn't seem to want to consider someone thinking different or working on the true foundation of A.I (the hard problems).

I figured, if I was able to write software up and down the stack for the billion dollar network infrastructure equipment that powers and services the internet, I probably knew what I was doing w.r.t to engineering.

A networked system with a missing foundation...The rest is history and I look forward to making disclosures about my work in the near future.

In the meantime, you should know that there are quite capable and industry proven individuals working on this. They aren't quacks, maintain graduate degrees from the top universities of America, and have a proven track record in the industry. The spotlight just doesn't shine in their direction. Of course, once a functional model is proof'd, I'm sure that will change. Such is the history of new paradigms and those who, through deep and new understanding, seek to usher them in...
It's called random optimization or random search depending on whether you sample from a normal or uniform distribution for the random direction. MC typically refers to any algorithm that computes approximated solutions using random numbers (as opposed to Las Vegas algorithms which use random numbers to always compute the correct solution). So, yes, RO, RS and gradient descent are MC local optimization algorithms.
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I don't have much knowledge of many cities, but Milwaukee always seems well designed to me.
I assume people removed overly negative comments (or they were removed for them?), as at this point there's not a lot of negativity at all, and the top two comments are both pointing out that the Show HN guidelines, which are predominantly about being civil and avoiding negativity. It makes for a somewhat surreal reading experience.
It's an interesting technique that I haven't seen before in the context of a queue.

It's not without drawbacks, relying on handling sigsegv is a pain to make portable (libsigsegv helps!) HotSpot handles sigsegv, but I think it's possible to install your own handler as well by setting it before loading the JVM. When the JVM loads it will chain pre-existing signal handlers behind its own, and they'll be invoked if the signal doesn't pertain to HotSpot. LD_PRELOAD can be used to accomplish that. My information may only apply to an older version of HotSpot though, I don't know if that's still the case.

The other thing is relying on the TLB here becomes trickier with huge pages. It seems to me that the section and queue boundary trap pages are set just once at queue init and then never changed - so one could do the same with 2mb huge pages, without wasting memory, if the sections are sufficiently large. The problem is that requires the producer and consumer to be at least 2mb of queue apart, which is probably too much delay for many applications where latency is important. But I really don't see the need for huge pages here. A queue where both producer and consumer are repeatedly touching the same page seems like the ideal use case for the TLB anyway.

Not all applications can tolerate a sectioned queue though, for example what happens when the producer writes less than a full section of items to the queue and then pauses for a long time? The consumer won't be able to access that data until the producer finishes the section.
I had to stop using resharper on my work laptop (i7-4610M w/16g ram) because it was so sluggish. I've been trying every EAP build that they release for Rider and so far the performance between it and VS w/resharper is night and day. (On my laptop at least) Rider runs absolutely flawless with all of the resharper functionality built in. I don't know how they managed to have such a difference here.
The interesting thing is, this represents a snapshot of Earth lifeforms over a period of a million years. If there is a mass spectra of such ejecta out there, who knows what it may yield ..
> If you're compiling firefox on the same single disk that stores your mail, mu4e is going to take multiple seconds just to go to the next thread.

I don't know what kind of machine you're using, but that's not true for any CPU/disk from the last 8 years or so.
That's like saying there is no middle ground between product X being free and being infinitely expensive. Even if product X has a price I can afford, I have to consider the trade-offs between buying it and other uses for my money. If it's free, though, there are no trade-offs. If somebody can break my crypto, fine, but I want them to expend valuable resources on it so they won't do it for shits and giggles.
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This is tax jargon. Death and taxes, everyone should care about those two.
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You can get Termux on Android and run Emacs! I even run Spacemacs.

https://termux.com/

I don't think Termux comes with an X server though... However, looks like X server is available on Android for a while now:

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/03/06/1837245/x-server-no...
The book "To Engineer is Human" by Henry Pertroski describes many, many examples of this. Every software engineer should read it.
Really? It doesn't like my phone. And every time the train enters a tunnel, Twitter tells me my connexion is unavailable and ruins whatever I was doing at the time.
Oh, a purely tool based solution to privacy has failure built in to it. It's a necessary component of a larger system.
I really enjoyed Age of Wonder. Good to see a Nobel Prize-winning scientist enjoyed it, too.
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Are you seriously suggesting that you can awk a makefile and get anything useful out?
I have found colorspace transformation to be an important factor as well. My current problem would not require fixing 3D deformation, but I am finding it really interesting thing that I'd like to be working on in future.

Thanks for this additional information, much appreciated!
Interestingly enough the common joke about Counter Strike hacker/trolls is that they are also far more likely to have anime avatars than the general population.

Here's an only half joking list about how to identify a hacker without even seeing them play:

http://www.hltv.org/forum/708362-hacker-cheat-sheet
Doesn't mean they had the capital to do it or that their business strategy / growth strategy at the time allowed them to do it. Just looking at the logistics of merging two companies it is completely reasonable that the experience and talent to make it work (like a few really good office managers) weren't there.
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I saw the photo of two guys standing in the lab. Somehow I thought it is from Breaking Bad or some other show (I'm not watching it so wasn't sure...). Then I read the description:

> Soylent scientists at work in the food labs refining Coffiest's flavor.

Well, not even close.
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Customer support are the people who know which words in the software should change to confuse customers less. When I say "copy change" I mean changing some words in the software. The barrier to entry I'm talking about is the one preventing that support person from making that change, instead of having to ask their boss to ask one of the engineering bosses to ask one of the engineers to do it.
Also, why not import string and use string.printable instead of hardcoding the characters? Or even:

chars = string.ascii_lowercase + string.punctuation + string.digits
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Can someone shed some further light on the hough transform image used in the article [0]. I can't seem to make sense of why the hough transform of the canny edged image looks like that. Are they using an adaptive hough transform?

[0] https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2016/08/fast-and-accurate-doc...
> The correct answer to the DAO mess was never to get into it in the first place.

I don't think this is true at all. The DAO is (and was) a very cool idea. The only problem was that the code was complex enough that those who casually reviewed it failed to notice the vulnerability that the attacker noticed.

As for the financial crisis, it was a combination of an unexpected event and entrenched interests scrambling to benefit as much as possible from it. By definition, entrenched interests want a continuation of the status quo, and that is what happened. We think about how bad it would have been if some homeowners would have foreclosed, but we fail to think about the people who would have been able to afford a home at a great price.
I miss Grantland... The Ringer is such a pale shadow of what it is supposed to be a reboot of. Even in the final days as a dying ship coasting along under ESPN's baleful glare, it was more consistently decent, and sometimes put out some truly great long-form pieces. Now it's just kind of meh - and it's on Medium, so it's got all the weird navigation and paralax jumbotron image flair.

And Simmons still hasn't written a fricking mailbag. He's becoming the GRRM of homer sports blowhards.
Not negligible at all. I have to wake up 30 minutes earlier to have a bowl of breakfast before going to work.
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There are lots of examples of governments maintaining the integrity of keys over the long term. The e-Passport system is an example of that. Another would be that the NSA had the ultimate insider hack - literally a sysadmin who dumped their entire internal wikis and document stores - and yet it appears that no key material was compromised.

You can repeat "a backdoored system is no system" mantra to yourself if you like, but there are a LOT of threats that aren't governments and those are the ones people tend to care about the most.
> There is also speculation of using the KALI as an anti-satellite weapon and as a space-based weapon system, although it is unlikely...

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This point is a tired falsehood. There have always been phenomena with physical rules that supersede any human decision. The legal system recognizes and works with such boundaries - some even end up codified in our highest laws such as the 5th amendment.

We're only in this present quandary because of professionally irresponsible "web 2.0 services" that siloed up user data for their own surveillance goals, creating enticing targets for governments' desires of control.
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> A marketing firm's job is to "wow" you, not be efficient.

Glassy offices work in the segment for which that is true. There is another segment, which wants maximum ROI ie customer-wow-per-dollar. And that's the segment hindered by glassy offices or oversized trade booths.
It's more of a situation where you've been informed well in advance that this person will be building a giraffe, and that your castle is in fact funded by their giraffe-building activities -- but once they've built the castle, you try your damnedest to prevent them from completing the giraffe.
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Useful to know. Of course, batteries get better and electronics gets lower powered - I can imagine in the near future implanted devices being effectively passive (such as RFID)... but your point about the body being a hostile environment is definitely something I hadn't considered before.
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Yep, we turned RGB into LUV space before extracting edges, which helps a lot on contrast and keeps essential edge information that could've been lost if converted to grayscale.

Agree with that 3D deformation is a difficult open problem, and we haven't gotten into that yet. Currently we assumed the document is a flat rectangle, which maps to a quadrilateral in image space. A homography is then applied to rectify it, and it seems to work quite well if the paper is slightly curved or folded.
Sorry, there's not really a lot of evidence here. I'm a believer; and I think it's super-cool and it enhances my appreciation of the artists. But saying his eyes are focused off-center and that he painted mainly at life-size ... that's not much to go on.
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I would love to say all of those words correctly if someone taught me the correct way.

Example: Recently visited France. Learned "framboise" ends with 'z' where as lots of English speaking people some how think the correct French pronunciation is fram-buwa. It's not it's fram-buawz

http://forvo.com/word/framboise/

If someone says Bay-Nay-Nay for Banana or Hey-Ker Neh-wass for Hacker News I'd expect people would correct them. There's a reason we correct people's pronunciations. If we didn't they'd eventually stop being able to communicate. You might have been able to excuse it when it was harder to communicate world wide. now you can talk to at least 1/2 the world from your pocket. No more excuses.
As a recruiter (who is highly critical of most of the recruiting industry), I don't think the issue of off-topic LinkedIn memes and stupidity are solely a problem with recruiters. The top post on LinkedIn almost every time I log in is a notification that someone in my network "liked" a post featuring an attractive woman. After that, a mix of memes, those "only a genius can solve this" nonsense, etc.

You can unfollow people on LinkedIn just like Facebook. Upper-right hand corner of post should offer unfollow as a dropdown.
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Even better, form an ad blocker company, get successful, and charge large advertisers for white listing their ads. https://adblockplus.org/acceptable-ads-agreements