skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if they do this to limit the potential of rolling breaking changes out to their enterprise Google Apps accounts and the like? The servers running the Google Apps accounts and applications probably have a different update policy.

It's frustrating for sure, which is why I ended up making my Google Apps (old/free version) account just an alias for my Gmail address.
Usually wrought iron, not cast iron. I have a blacksmith friend who made a large amount of iron nails when he was starting the trade, since it was good practice. He still makes them in demonstrations at Ren Faires. They're still used occasionally for horseshoes apparently, though that market from what I know has been using more and more mass-produced steel instead.
>To improve system performance

How can they say that when this improvement effectively brings performance to zero for Linux users?
Enter Inspector Inception: Let's See How Browser Developer Tools Work
> The original photon was in fact destroyed, and only the information about its state was transmitted.

Isn't that how teleportation works in, for example, Star Trek?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQHBAdShgYI
This is not really related to WhatsApp but I feel like it was also a mistake of Oculus VR to be bought by facebook. When I first read it, I thought that VR in general took a big hit, and I still think that, simply because the motives and incentives of facebook are not aligned with that kind of stuff.
Aware of that issue (asked moxie about it on HN) and other issues too, but it doesn't change that there's zero reason to believe Moxie's intent is malicious and it's a stretch by any means to claim his contributions are anything but positive in sum.
I would be interested to see if the downloads of Kali Linux have shown any significant spike since Season 2.0 was released.
There is nothing else about a photon that could be teleported.
Awesome. So a quantum network would have the photon act as a data stream, in a way it would act like a physical security key. So with a lot of work, this would be amazing for 1:1 communications. But what if I want to send my dick pick to hundreds of people at once(1:100 distribution)? Is it possible to entangle one photon with multiple?
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What I said was "Math isn't majorly needed and you can learn what you need on the fly."

You said "Have you tried interviewing at game development companies"

These are two separate things. It's like saying "Most people can learn how to fill out their tax forms on the fly. You don't need anything special you can just read up what to do when it comes time to." and then you coming back and asking "have you ever applied for a job at H&R Block? You need to be well versed in the tax system to be a full time tax filer"

This is not at all what I was referring to.

The question at hand was "Which areas of math are practical to programming/algorithms and why?" Would you say that game development is the representation of the entire programming field? No it's a small portion of our profession. If you want to do that professionally round the clock then you need to prepare for what you will be doing in that field but that doesn't mean that if you want to get into programming or algorithmic thinking that you should learn game development. That's just one small element.

> Honestly I'm not sure if I'm be able to handle a modern graphics programming jobs unless I studied and practiced constantly for at least six months straight

What you have to ask yourself is what is it that I'm practicing for this job

You didn't learn the maths first and said "you know game development looks good let me go there" and sit down and start to learn how to program and think algorithmicly. You sat down and said "I need to learn everything that directly applies to this field" which in most cases (for rendering) is vectors, frustum view angles, Eular and maybe Polar coordinates, an understanding of how to use a quaternion, what a matrix is. The remaining, and much more important part in this equation, is understanding how to interface with OGL/DX/Vulkan. This is what a graphics person does best, not math.

It boils down to what our field is: understanding, in great depth, the systems of computation and how to interface with them in a structured, maintainable, terse, and fast manor. Math is a cart and programming pulls it to the goal post.
Even Gandalf and Galadriel, who are the very pinnacle of "good" power, fear to take on the ring, knowing they would succumb to its temptations.
So why do they store indefinitely? If they stated a retention period openly they'd get much less criticism over privacy.
> ... more subtle

Subtlety != non-magical. Confusing subtlety and depth with rigorous thinking -- or even worse, scientific thinking -- is a common confusion people fall into when engaging with economic theory. Both professionally and as a side interest, both on the left and on the right.

Existence of a large literature base, a big set of jargon, logically rigorous arguments, and mathematical models and theorems does not preclude fundamentally magical thinking.

If you disagree, go read some Christian Apologetics. Portions of the field are more rigorous and have far more subtlety than most economics. But sorry, it's still fundamentally rooted in (literally) magical thinking.

> priest-kings... alt-priests

So we've replaced magical thinking with jargon-y name calling. Progress...?
What's recommended is not posting anything you absolutely need to be secure through some instant messaging app...
EU Unveils New Plan to Scrap Mobile Roaming Charges
Funny you say that. When I read this for the first time, I had a flashback of Bones complaining about having his molecules scattered over space :)
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They say that the bcrypt hashing takes 100 ms on their servers. If we take that as our limitations, it means we can try 10 passwords per second. So if you had a dictionary of common passwords, plus the salt, you could try 36000 passwords per hour. If the password is "password12345" (hence "weak enough"), you could feasibly crack that.

(I should say I'm not a professional security engineer so I'm probably wrong about everything and would appreciate corrections. )
You absolutely can take AP courses at will. I did.

Just go to http://international.collegeboard.org/programs/ap-recognitio... . Pick your country, you can then see a list of schools that administer it. Just contact whichever school you want and they should help you.
Can you imagine the New Identity fraud!
I'm going to play fan boy here. After almost finishing the second season I have to say Mr. Robot is the best TV show I think I have ever watched. Even better than Homeland.

The funny thing is if it didn't even involve hacking I would still consider my favorite show. The psychodrama existentialism of the show is so good. The plot is so damn good. The acting is so damn good.

Th music, the timing of title screen and the font used. I love it all.
Quantum teleportation requires classical communication from the sender to the receiver of the state. Whether the teleportation itself happens faster then the speed of light is up to your interpretation of Quantum mechanics. The important part is that it does not allow information (classical or quantum) to be transmitted faster then light.
Haha wow. I don't know what to make of this. Is being an apple user this important now a days?
Yes, moxie "knows it all" wants to control his apps so much he doesn't want them to be on f-droid
https://f-droid.org/posts/security-notice-textsecure/
On the earliest data, nope! Very likely I had some or many flipped bits.

I did have the backups on multiple discs and comparing the two they had the same data so I guess that's almost as good.
Why not "ls /usr/local/Cellar >> myInstall.txt" ?
No, the information is transferred classically to the location, but copied quantumlly.
I totally agree and am so glad to see someone else here to feels similarly to me.

There are already good text messaging apps. For a general messaging solution, I don't want something tied down exclusively to my phone. If the emphasis is on photo sharing (e.g., Snapchat), then that can still make sense. But if the emphasis is just on text, then I want to be able to use a desktop or web app whenever I'm using a laptop or desktop. Not being able to do so is honestly a dealbreaker for me.
Doesn't Foundation require jQuery? Seems like it's a non-starter for anything written in the past 2 years. Maybe Bootstrap does too, I haven't used it in ages.
How's the battery life?

Genuinely curious. I'd like to use a phone with a hardware-keyboard as my daily driver too, but the only ones I can find are so old their batteries have worn down to the point of being functionally unacceptable.
"The data for 2013 and beyond reflect the implementation of the redesigned income questions."

https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/newsroom/press-kit...
We'll learn something. That's always a good thing.
> Teleportation is not possible. Quantum teleportation is the transmission of the exact state of a photon from one place to another. Still, even this happens at less than the speed of light. Otherwise it would violate causality.

Maybe I'm remembering my QED special topics class incorrectly, but I thought the state teleportation is believed to be instant. The problem is to extract the state information, the transformation operators still need to be communicated. So you still have to get on the phone to tell your colleague across the planet what to do to see the entangled result. It's been years, so maybe I'm a little off on that?

Causality also isn't a hard-and-fast law. We've just never seen it violated before. It's one of those physics problems that is really hard to find evidence to support or discredit it.
working a managerial role?
One thing that has helped me is a "digital purge." I do mine on New Years Day, and I go through every app and ruthlessly un-follow/unfriend anyone who doesn't isn't contributing positively to me in some way (sometimes deleting entire apps).

At the end of the day I'm offering these people direct access to me multiple times daily. If I don't get a positive outcome from these interactions, why keep them around?
1 star for every KB it takes up?
10 picoseconds is "one millionth of one millionth of a second"? Damn it, I must have been misunderstanding engineering units all my life.
So then how is it any different from what most people already do? We already use assets liberally in development, specify everything in documentation, and then use linting systems to tell us if we violate our rules?

This just sounds like another name used by people to sound like they are doing something that was already being done in the professional.

Edit: I'll read through that book, thanks!
Why would you post marketing material and then have a problem with it being marketing?

Google X is this kind of thing 1000x.
>> the only sensible conclusion is that the deluded person isn't the brother who thinks that he is a chicken but the guy who thinks that a chicken is in fact his brother.

That's one possible interpretation- another one is that both the man and his brother are delusional and the joke is absurdist (there are no eggs). That's the one espoused by the author.
According to a comment there, it's not hardware, it's a BIOS setting.

> I've been able to successfully get past Lenovo's lock through direct bios flashing. I'm looking into better solutions, hopefully I can find a way to do this without an external programmer. I was going to keep people updated from the Lenovo forum, but as this is no longer an option I will keep people updated from here.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/53ri0m/warning_micro...
The "people in power" don't want unarmed black people getting shot. They get no conceivable benefit from that. It's tempting to blame government and rich people for everything, but the fact of the matter is that the police are abusive because ordinary people want it that way. The bulwark propping up the police are local property owners.
So I have to login to my email every time I want to login to something using passwordless? Doesn't this just move the problem and create a few others?
We definitely need to find a balance between a record of accounts and what accounts can be acted upon.

The difficulty here is the mismatch between what people are normally capable of maintaining in their consciousness either individually or local community and what we get from information systems who can record minutiae indefinitely.

Before when records were not accessible across jurisdictions for example, there are now reconstructed records of someone being chased out of town for some misdeed and goes and invents a new life for themselves. This is not possible in today's world, unless you're willing to move to third tier countries.

Now, there is good and bad in that. But there is also good and bad in everyone's history pertinent or not being available to everyone curious enough to execute a search.

People are not machines and I believe should have the right to have some kinds of information about them remain unavailable to other regular people for whom that information has no legal consequence to them.
Book: "Why Isn't My Brain Working?" by Datis Kharrazian

Good introduction to general brain health.
It'll matter in 3 years when you have an app that's full of rejected ideas.

That's the problem I have with the Babel-everything mentality of a lot of developers, they don't realize that they are essentially created their own quasi-language that they'll have to support on their own.
It's not that hard to understand. This guy was preventing cops from doing their jobs effectively. A job they felt was important. It's easy to see him as a trouble maker that is enabling other people to more easily break the law without punishment. So they sought out a way to prevent him from doing that.

I'm not saying what they did was OK. I'm just saying it's easy to understand why it happens.
I cannot see any obvious weaknesses in this scheme.

It seems to address a known pain point in bcrypt (max length), implements a pepper in a secure way (which cannot inadvertently degrade security), and is otherwise doing things which are best practices (high work factor, per user salt, etc).

I know peppers remain controversial (some people claim they're pointless, and make a good argument). But ultimately nothing Dropbox is doing with peppers in this article makes your password easier to break, only harder.

I'd call this scheme 10/10.
It's a real stretch to argue that taking a camera has any connection to do with asset forfeiture, horrible and unconstitutional as both are.
Indeed, it's someone else's right to free speech that allows them to dictate what speech occurs within their jurisdiction.
Detecting emotions with wireless signals
Thanks, any plan for the android client?
I posted this in a duplicate thread:

For those thinking that this is a step towards faster-than-light (FTL) communication: As far as I know it's fairly certain that quantum entanglement will not allow for FTL communication. Basic principle is that while measurements between both sides will be correlated, it's not possible to tell how they are correlated until both sides compare measurements.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superluminal_communication#Qua...

http://physics.stackexchange.com/a/203893

Given that, it seems like the touted benefit of using quantum entanglement here is in securing communications, since your measurements will no longer correlate if a third party is also measuring? At least, that's what I gathered.
Mongoid embedded collection drawbacks
A lot of the points you raise aren't much to do with it being dated IMO, merely the style in which its written. You say "we'd do this, we wouldn't do that" (where "we" is presumably modern day fantasy writers), but he made those artistic choices. It sounds like you consider writing fiction to be a technological domain, where advances are made that make old forms obsolete. Maybe fantasy writing is -- I don't read it, although I have read LOTR -- but that makes fantasy sound like an even more limited genre than I thought it was. I'm an avid reader BTW, but of literary fiction, for want of a better term.

I absolutely agree that no one can write sincerely in the style of a bygone age. But having been written in the past doesn't in itself make, say, Anthony Powell's books (to pick someone writing in a different style at a similar time) dated. It's not like we learned more about how to write novels since then, or novelists of today would be easily able to do better than Powell, which I don't think they are.

Your points about racism etc do make sense though, things like that can be jarring, and it's always a bit disappointing to me to remember that our favourite writers were subject to the reality tunnels of their time.
Specifically, mathemagickal thinking.
Finally posted my initial comments on the verification implications of all this here: https://blog.foretellix.com/2016/09/21/verification-implicat...
This is very impressive finding and it highlights sophisticated planning and design done long time ago without any modern technology. Doing a Laser Scans not only help in creating a digital footprint but also digitize it for future generations in-case of any natural disaster.
You got the wrong idea in the first place, I think. For the first few years after the IBM split, Thinkpads were of pretty good quality. Now they're pretty poor, and Lenovo's other offerings are generally crap.
Really surprised to see they are not using a HSM yet for the global pepper. What kind of physical controls put in place for global pepper currently?
Thanks for this. Didn't work for me due to the "update bug" at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12547579 , but the fix there worked.
> And would you really be worried for people drinking several cans of lemon juice per day?

Yes, absolutely. It's pretty damaging to teeth if consumed regularly, AIUI.

(Personal experience: I once started drinking a few glasses of orange juice (weaker than lemon) daily, within a year I needed four fillings. Stopped drinking it immediately afterwards, haven't needed fillings before or since).
Correct me if this sounds noobish. So they have teleported state that has Information that can be decoded to bits and bytes(?) Forget about human teleportation for a sec, isn't this a big deal in a not so far future for telecommunication?
I don't follow. How is it teleportation, if they used a fiber optic cable to transmit the photon?
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To quote Terminator 2: "Erm... all of them, I think."
May I ask a potentially dumb question? Why store my password at all?
Purely anecdotal but this is the massive, major reason I've not seriously considered starting my own business as well. Hell, I don't even have kids but generally, it's the lack of "stability", whether real or imagined, in health care and other less formalized forms of insurance (likelihood of stable income over 5-10 year period) that keep me away.

I do all sorts of work with photography, video, multimedia, and that general intersection of tech and the arts. In my case, do I want to start up a production company or identify a market for people who want or need these sorts of services and contract with them?

Or do I find a gig with a company or university that pays a decent salary, includes health insurance, retirement investment, and the usual benefits? It's pretty obvious from my post which way I've gone despite the fact that the work isn't always inspiring or challenging or terribly lucrative.

Because at the end of the day, it pays me that middle-class salary and offers some promise of stability. Could I be laid off or my position cut? Sure. But if I had to put a wager on it, the odds of unemployment/underemployment are much lower this way.

Anyway, I don't intend to complain. My field is one of those where you may consider yourself lucky to have steady, non-gig work and I do consider myself fortunate to have a steady income, benefits, and some savings while doing something at least somewhat related to my interests and skillset.

But if we're looking for the psychological picture of why people might be trading entrepreneurship with the potential for even greater earnings and contribution to the overall economy, I'd say the major issue by far is stability. There's not a whole lot of "safety net" in place for someone who wants to start a small business.

When you constantly hear about them shutting down due to competition from big corps or dips in the economy or just shitty luck, the effect it has on most prudent adults is to make the prospect of entrepreneurship seem awfully risky and likely to leave you back on the job hunt within a few years.
Since the sibling comments already explained the Finland-Swedes, I'll just add a bit of trivia relevant to this crowd: Linus Torvalds is one of them. His first language was Swedish, and apparently he's never spoken Finnish particularly well.
http://stromberg.dnsalias.org/svn/base255/trunk/
Programming Pearls and Python Fails
Thanks. If I wanted to read Reddit comments I'd go to Reddit.
>this happens at less than the speed of light.

Why can't it happen simultaneously? Why is distance relevant in this case?
Verification implications of the new US Autonomous Vehicles policy
Can you explain a use case where wrong usage of a pepper actually degrade security? (just curious)
Falaco solitons in a swimming pool [pdf]
I've heard before of it just being stored in the codebase. Doesn't add much security but it does mean both the database server and at least 1 of the app servers or the codebase have to be breached
> This isn't linux's fault for not supporting some non-standard raid driver,
> this is lenovos fault for not allowing users to change the bios settings to non-raid.

Lenovo made a computer that exposes hardware to the OS for which Linux does not yet have drivers. They could have exposed a more standard interface, but they didn't. I guess this is their fault, okay. But again, what's the big deal? What's next? You'll be upset when Synaptics releases a new touchpad with a different protocol, for which Linux doesn't yet have a driver? You'll scream and complain, "they could have supported the other protocol! they could have unlocked it! it was just a few bits inside the internal SPI flash!" Okay. But they didn't. Now write a driver if you want it to work.

I'd be upset if they used some kind of crypto secure boot situation to lock down the device. This seems very far from that, however.

> Also, just because you are been using a Thinkpad sucessfully
> (which is largely been immune from the issues we are talking
> about compared to the rest of lenovo line), to use that to
> dismiss the very real issues regarding lenovo's recent moves
> is disingenuous at best.

I didn't mean to dismiss anything except for some comments I've seen in which people said Thinkpads are awful on Linux. Thought I'd chime in to offer a differing experience.
The easter eggs and hidden details are great too.
And when it does stick, half the time they ignore it while it oozes down the wall anyways. Hangouts was a success but they treat it like a failure.
That's a huge factor. It's anecdotal but it's one of the factors that I feel prevent me from considering it and coworkers I've talked about entrepreneurship states similar concerns.
Second (in terms of stars); "FreeCodeCamp" has over 170k, because part of its onboarding encourages you to star the repo.