skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got that e-mail today. Maybe I'm old. Maybe I'm grumpy. Maybe I'm not hip, but conversational language for a matter this serious comes across as flippant and doesn't help me feel better.

When I then read that they were "protecting" passwords with MD5 and no mention of even a salt my blood tends to boil even more. This is a serious situation and the fact that they were apparently only using MD5 as recently as 2014 makes me wonder how serious they've been at protecting any data.
Hacker News ranking algorithm weirdness
What service do you use?
Would you be willing to share any tips for how to get an interview with Initialized?

(edited to remove my pitch after realizing its not needed to answer my questions and to remove a redundant question)
We've already seen what happens there with Soylent
FYI: This post is not about your personal 2-reader a month Wordpress setup but for sites scaling to the size of TC.
This ebook goes into the details of the why - http://www.confluent.io/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Making_Se...

(authored by the creator of this tool)
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Narwhal's Guide to Bayes Rule [pdf]
Kinda weird too considering you can run GSM in the HSPA guard bands without a large degradation of HSPA performance.

Typically HSPA is 5mhz+5mhz FDMA, but the carrier is only 3.6mhz+3.6mhz and can be slimmed to 4.2mhzx4.2mhz on Ericsson equipment. NSN equipment can go as low as 3.8x3.8.

In a slim HSPA situation you can run multiple 0.2x0.2 GSM channels.

LTE I've seen all over deployed in 5mhzx5mhz, but I've never seen the 3mhzx3mhz or 1.4mhzx1.4mhz configurations in the wild (they would overload easy).
Comodo offers free S/MIME certificates.

https://www.comodo.com/home/email-security/free-email-certif...

EDIT: A quick google showed me that there are also others that offer S/MIME for free

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Getting_an_SMIME_certificate
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Bah every time I have a good idea it's taken :)

I recently went through the pain of setting up a simple static website for a math professor[1], and it really is depressing how polarized the options are considering you want the site to be easily editable by the party in question once it's all set up. Either monolithic Wordpress-like engines that are really hard to bend to your will for first-timers (even me, a developer), or FTPing static files to some shady host provider.

The solution I settled on was hosting everything on github.io[2] and teaching the person how to use the GitHub interface sort of like a file browser/editor so they can tweak little things without having to e-mail me.

Anyway my approach seemed to work out, but I would for sure have given this a try first if I knew about it. Congrats on getting it out there!

1. http://piotrkrasonmath.com/
2. https://github.com/dougkoellmer/piotrkrasonmath.github.io
Your phrasing made me realize, this is probably why I listen to things on loop a lot while working. I really am hearing it a thousand times... so it isn't overly distracting.
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FSA is also tax advantaged, so you can pay out of pocket and invest for retirement or whatever, when you are more likely to have health costs.
Not sure I'd come across this particular rights / negotiation case in the past but I'm grateful to get a chance to read this article posted here. Quite useful to stay in the know. I hope all the parties are pretty satisfied with the terms and processes now.
People retrospectively don't like it because it didn't live up to some of what the trailers promised (in terms of how large or open the city was) and the dimension tearing mechanic robbed it of weight for some ("If this is just one version of how things play out then what's the point?" Missing, of course, that THAT is the point).

Personally, I really enjoyed Bioshock Infinite including the so-called "Twist" ending. I did not see it as a Twist since they very obviously foreshadowed it. But to each their own.
I believe GP comment suggestion was to re-use the same code on a different domain/template for devs.
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I find it interesting this reversal of the argument versus when the iPhone originally debuted and people were questioning that decision to go to almost nothing but touch for the device.

Touch is one of the most natural forms of interaction to people. A screen without touch, to a young child, is "broken". The more screens with touch in our lives (such as say the iPhones and iPads), the more that seems to apply to any age that a screen without touch starts to feel "broken".

This is what I find strangest about the arguments by people for the MBP Touch Bar: so many people that support agree how useful touch is. Wouldn't it be more useful just to make the whole screen touch capable than to stop part of the way there with just a tiny strip?

The boldness of the original iPhone at the time was relying entirely on touch. The MBP Touch Bar seems a strange hesitation relative to that.
It was Xerox. http://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres_...
Email is free, like HTTP. Whatsapp, for example, isn't free.

I'd call it open, but the point is clear enough.
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Seems to me that the core of insurance is actuarial analysis of the potential risks and costs... and I don't think anyone has a good model or good data for when and why security problems occur. For the time being (and perhaps for the rest of time) we need a security crash reporting agency, analogous to a transportation crash reporting agency, e.g. the US NTSB. Getting standard reporting on security breaches might be a good start. I think the National Vulnerability Database [0] is honorable and well-intended, but the reporting there is uneven.

[0] https://nvd.nist.gov/
Ironssh – Secure end-to-end encrypted file sharing over ssh
I filed a complaint with the FCC regarding a suspected jamming device. I'm pretty sure they didn't even read it. They forwarded the complaint to my wireless carrier, who sent a reply saying that the complaint had nothing to do with them and that my original complaint had reported a jammer. The FCC closed the complaint and considers it satisfied.
Best i can tell, stingray is a passive device.

It just use a directional antenna to listen for the "keepalive" exchange between cell tower and device, focusing on a specific IMSI.

Also, even if your device is currently using LTE or similar, the GSM (or whatever 2G radio it has) will still be on and talking to the relevant network (unless you specifically tell the device otherwise, and the OEM allowed you to). This to provide a smoother handover should the LTE signal drop too low.

Hailstorm on the other hand is basically a jammer tuned to 3G and 4G frequencies, thus forcing any devices in range to drop down to 2G. For the general public a jammer would be a big nono, but law enforcement is a different matter.
I have a domain with a catch all account that I use for these things. I give "thisdomain@mydomain" as email, random password from lastpass (and before that, just random banging and storing in browser list or not storing at all).

Well worth the minor hassle in setting it up, and you get an indication about which site leaked your password or was hacked. I use thunderbird, which even lets me type a from address for emails to make this more useful.
It's very similar for me. My music is EDM like many other coders, but it's more live performances, as they just don't end. Generally i'll grab a playlist of like 3 or 4 live shows from the same producer and i'll play them back to back.

But the multitasking thing is a bit different for me, it's more one-sense-at-a-time for me. My wife has laughed at me before because she'll come home and i'll be watching a youtube talk on one screen, playing music over the speakers, and programming something mundane all at the same time, but if 2 people are talking at the same time I have trouble hearing anything.
How to ensure smart cities benefit everyone (by listening)
Is it worth visiting Split and Dubrovnik?
Continue to Enjoy Sex as You Age
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1) Grasshopper

2) Google Voice (although you can't port your number I don't think)

3) Vonage

All of these have an app you can install on your phone and as long as you had a WiFi you could use the app. Grasshopper doesn't have a desktop app that I am aware of though which locks you to using an Android/iPhone device for calls.
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Its so easy, waving other opinions to the wind.Completely impossible, that somebody else might be right, in another partial part of the world.

Have you ever tried talked to someone from china? Not about them, but with them? Watched how they educate there children? There may be exceptions for the upper echelon, but for the lower tiers, the good old rules of enforcing conservative views and respect for the elders is still applying and valid.

This authoritarian attitude creeps into a lot of minds and from their into science, military and finally fiction. Not only in china, but in a lot of other places in the world.

There are minds and works who transcend that, i just ordered the three body problem, as it seems one of those. I do not deny the existance of those works.

I also dont claim the mindset that confuciusim propagates, to be superior or inferior, it is a adaption to a very long existing one-state organizing hierarchy, through good times and very bad times. I still think this mindset applied to non-reflective science fiction, will always result in rather boring tracts.

If that logic makes me brainwashed, then be it.
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No, my argument was not about spending money. I specifically noted that I don't much care about the pricing.

My point was that adapters are something that I have to think about, carry separately, and sometimes forget or lose.

I don't know why people keep repeating "USB-C works with X" (replace X with whatever). It might work if I get all the dongles. For the moment, as I said, out of ~40 devices around me there are exactly ZERO that I can plug into the new machine.

Also, let's not get into extremes here: I would not complain if they at least kept at least one or two USB 3 ports.
Hi there, one of the WHATWG HTML editors here.

> Meanwhile, W3C HTML5 has defined releases that are thoroughly scrutinized, reviewed, and debated in endless committee meetings.

While this was true in the past, these days it's not really the case. They mostly just copy and paste our work without scrutinizing it, and usually without understanding it (as can be seen by the bugs they introduce during the copy-and-paste process). There aren't really any technical deliberations or committee meetings, and they don't follow a well-defined process; the most recent fork (from which HTML 5.1 is based) was actually done without the knowledge of the membership, and broke several aspects of W3C process while doing so.

Why do they do this? Well, it seems to be largely an issue of institutional face-saving. See e.g. https://github.com/w3c/charter-html/issues/14#issuecomment-1...: "When the HTML WG co-chairs and Team presented our proposed After HTML5 plan to the W3C Advisory Board earlier this year, we received a clear message that it was not appropriate to delegate or assign the maintenance of a W3C Recommendation outside the organization." In other words, since they started copying and pasting back in the day with HTML 5.0, they can't stop now.

Meanwhile there's actually a lot of interesting deliberation between web developers and browser vendors over in the WHATWG HTML Standard's bug tracker. https://github.com/whatwg/html/pulse might give a reasonable overview. Compare to https://github.com/w3c/html/pulse.

Some relevant corroborating links:

- https://annevankesteren.nl/2016/01/film-at-11 when this all started

- https://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Fork_tracking monitoring the ongoing copy-and-paste-induced confusion

- https://github.com/w3c/html/issues/364 wherein they monitor our tree for things to copy and paste over

- https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/19fcaf241f4417b2078bc26bf... example commit of them copying and pasting our work en masse (Spot the bugs introduced! It's a fun game!)
Every time I've looked at a hot function across x86-64 and arm(64), x86 needs more instructions too. Really the only thing x86 does more in one instruction that compilers actually use is memory operands, but they'll readily split them if it reduces the total number of loads. Which is quite often. (probably a bad choice though with modern cores)

Lea too if your arithmetic fits in it... but then that has issue restrictions... Three operand and the various conditional stuff in arm64 is worth more overall.
http://webassembly.org/ should have the information you want.
Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS)
This is an unbelievable mix. Non vocal electronic music with perfect tempo and transitions. Thank you so much. I bought my brain.fm subscription but I didn't think I needed to. Please share if you have any other mixes like this.
Yes, definitely. Safari is more responsive, scrolls better and is overall faster.
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Hmm, comparing Liu to Clarke is fair, but I don't think it's so hard to find more recent western SF bristling with ideas, Iain Banks, for example. Liu does have a very different feel (the 'different perspective') other commenters have mentioned, which certainly makes it worth a read, in spite of the flatness of characters etc. Some of it may be down to the translator, I found Dark Forest to be much more fun, though some of that is developments in the plot, not just Ken Liu's translation, I'm sure.
Some games go a bit too far in the other direction (though it is being fixed):

https://www.reddit.com/r/skyrimmods/comments/59u0iw/the_skyr...
I could be wrong, but I understood that with the first Tesla crash death, it had issues because of too much light (was facing the sun) so apparently also another issue is sensors being blinded.
LIRR and Metro-North are actually quite fantastic. You can now buy tickets on your phone; the trains run on time for the most part; and they're fast, comfortable and fun to ride.
Current Signal fortunately doesn't make this apparent to the end user, it's install and go message whomever advertises support.

I'm ditching Pidgin-OTR today actually because of the OTR usability issues needing to handshake on every laptop restart. Will be going over to bitlbee terminating OTR on a server and then accessing my ZNC supporting push through TLS. Much less jarring.

OMEMO would be better than OTR for this, but not much supports it yet.
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> What laptop does have Ethernet, infiniband, USB-A/B/C, thunderbolt 2.0, miniDisplayPort, MiniUSB, MicroUSB, RS232, Centronics, PS/2, VGA, EGA, PCMCIA, SCSI, eSATA, S-video, etc?

Yes, "every" port is ridiculous. In particular, I think most people would happily do away with anything that hasn't been in wide use in new hardware over the last decade.

I like machines with a port for wired network, a port or two for wired video, an SD slot, and 3-4 USB ports in a mix of USB-A and USB-C. For a Mac, I'd argue that some Thunderbolt ports would make good sense, too. I'd rather have my laptop be a self-contained system than have my bag filled with the half-dozen converter dongles that I'd need to provide the connectivity that I use with my current machine.
Sorry, but I'm not interested in argumentum ad internet points. You can, of course, flag my comment, or mail hn@ycombinator.com about it.
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I get that, and carriers are definitely stupid. But preventing people from gaining SS7 access is much easier than fixing a broken protocol in use by many devices. Blocking SS7 access is something carriers can do. Fixing 2G is just not possible, and anyone can break it, right at this very moment, with a tiny bit of hardware.
I signed up when they first launched. I cought lifetime membership for $25. The beta version ran my CPU to 200℅ because some funky animation on the website. That added ab ambient white noise layer from the PC fan. It's was a feature :-)
Best i can tell, it is for cost reasons.

Non-phone GSM devices are widely operated because of low cost and low data speed needs (most of them just ping a SMS in some direction or other).

UMTS deployments are more likely to be for bandwidth needs, and thus more likely to have moved to LTE setups already.
Some cola potentially, and Coca-Cola isn't the worst offender in their sample: http://hub.jhu.edu/2015/02/19/soda-caramel-coloring-cancer/ (reached by clicking the link in the article)
Not a single mention of "child" or "children" in the text. Nor in this discussion so far.

I'm wondering how many of the people advocating working at home have children and how they deal with them.