skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not entirely true. LTE is authenticated. If you force your device to not allow any base station using an older protocol (to prevent downgrade attacks), you should be fairly safe. The problem is that most phones will accept a base station that says "No, sorry, can't do LTE, how about this unauthenticated 2G AP instead?" If you are ok with your phone not having network in rural areas, setting it to LTE-only is a reasonable mitigation (assuming your device supports this).
I think best comparison is to RIAA in United States, back in 1995-2008 or so during lawsuit years. They have a tantrum and scorched earth policy.
This is quite wrong.

Read http://blog.erratasec.com/2016/11/debunking-trumps-secret-se... for the actual story.
What I don't get about this is how the new system is discovered in the first place, assuming the attacker is not already on the network. Sure, gain fast access, but why would you let the traffic on to the local net to discover the machine (except for examples). I can see a box stuck on a home connection getting pwned quick, but surely a Uni network would be blocking rdp traffic, or external pings, or whatever it was that was being used to find and pwn XP computers so quickly??

Wouldn't multiple attackers have to be effectively flooding the network with pings or service/port access attempts to find a new computer so fast?
I don't think it is. It reminds me of something I've read before. I immediately thought of Hitchiker's Guide, but can't find the reference so it might not be. Still, I have a very distinct feeling I've read this before.
But without 32 GB of RAM the fast SSD is useless! /S
Hold on a second. We're still in the very, very early stages here. We haven't even started to connect those networks together to make hierarchies.

You're speaking like someone watching the Wright brothers testing some of their earliest models, and going "supersonic flight my ass, you guys can't even fly across this football field".
Steam is bleh compared to Gog? Huh?
Biggest advance in JavaScript since ... I don't even know. XHR? Reasonable GC performance?
Why is it a win for most ordinary people that GEMA is so handsomely rewarded for limiting content? It is not a good thing at all, it emboldens them. Who does GEMA think that they are?

You give Netflix as an example, that isn't going to be resolved any time soon following this deal. GEMA shouldn't exist.
I thought this was well-known? Microsoft invented it for OWA but didn't realize what they had. A few years later other people realized how transformative it was and evangelized it. Other browsers added compatible implementations. The rest is history.

It is amusing to see the take in Avalon since we now know how that turned out. His complaints about HTML/JS/DOM are spot-on but it turns out the solution was to improve HTML, JS, and the DOM.
Yeah, same here, while I had a cert, now I encrypt all my personal self-hosted stuff just because LE makes it free and easy (and this last part is not to be underestimated!).
Every time I see something on Ada, it seems like a really nice language. Easy to read, easy to write, performance seems to be there with C++, easy (?) to interface with C, multi-threading seems to be somewhat easy too...

So, what's the deal, where's the catch? Why people aren't jumping on it like they do with, I don't know, Rust?
I would love a benchmark comparing this with and without compression! Very interesting possibility to deal with the 4TB game library problem :p
The language is pretty old. I'm not sure it needs a huge amount of extra features. They added full OO support awhile back, although its probably not necessary for a lot of embedded projects. There's a company (Ada Core I think) that keeps their products up to date.
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Given that most of the ddos attacks come from China, isn't it a reasonable assumption that the Chinese manufacturers are complicit in keeping the system broken?
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The Precision 7510 weights 6 pounds, which is about a half pound lighter than what the 17 inch macbook pro used to weigh. (750 grams heavier than the current 15 inch macbook pro). So... it falls squarely into Macbook Pro range. Now.. if you're looking for a Macbook Air, of course, this won't come anywhere close to to that.

This is not to say that you'd accept this as a Macbook Pro, but your statement about it not being an alternative to the Macbook Pro is clearly not true.

Personally, I often carry around a 40 pound weight (4-year-old daughter), so for me the difference is negligible.
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A quick read of the paper shows it's mostly focused on systems with discrete levels; IIRC there's already plenty of thermodynamic weirdness in those, like "negative temperature" states in the Ising model and so forth. They touch on a continuous system in the final section, but that also includes a system with a finite upper bound to its energy (phonons). Wonder if that's related to the potential for 2nd Law violations.
Posted yesterday with 32 comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12841993

First posted at least a couple of years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9365520
Ada is like Smalltalk or Lisp at this point. It's not new and shiny. It's not being marketed. It's seen as outdated, or even extinct (how many people know an Ada developer or project)? Like it or not, people bandwagon technologies. Not to say anything against Rust, Go, etc. But how many people who have jumped on one of those bandwagons did so after examining Ada, and found it wanting in comparison, do you suppose?

There's also the expectation that a more modern language will have modern tooling people today need, and community support easy to find (if it's caught on).
It's old so it's unfashionable.

Before that it was expensive and that thing the DoD made by committee.

Concurrently with both it's pedantically typed which wasn't very popular until last year.
My further thoughts on this, from 2006, are in this blog article, “Design Patterns of 1972” http://blog.plover.com/prog/design-patterns.html
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Do most of the ddos attacks actually come from China? I thought they came from botnets of pwned PC's all over the world.
* No feature list
* No game list
* Confusing as to what this has to do with "rooms"
* Demands I download a web app!?!??!!?

Go home FB. You're drunk.
Here's a Dockerized version of NGINX that does just that: https://github.com/occrp/watchful-nginx it also generates the dhparam file if there's isn't one and handles proper log rotations.

disclosure: I work with OCCRP and have submitted pull requests on this.
It doesn't have that novelty factor. One could ask similar questions about D, which has for a long time positioned itself as a friendlier C++, but hasn't had any of the buzz that Rust or Go or Nim, etc have garnered.
We're talking about who controls the ddos. Where the devices end up is different.
the big thing for 2012 was adding more design by contract support and (as a consequence) added limited support for control structures to be expressions instead of statements (which I expect will slowly expand in the future).
Well think about it this way, if a corporate executive like Thiel were caught saying much of Trump's campaign rhetoric, he would likely face consequences.

Just a few that come to mind

"When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're not sending you. They're not sending you. They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people." [0]

"26,000 unreported sexual assults in the military-only 238 convictions. What did these geniuses expect when they put men & women together?" [1]

"Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on" [2]

Considering that this last one would be considered hate speech and banned on Facebook if it were not made by a major US politician [3], I think openly supporting the candidate and going out of your way to help his campaign is fair game for criticism

[0] http://www.newsday.com/news/nation/donald-trump-speech-debat...

[1] https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/33190738377114828...

[2] http://www.amny.com/news/elections/donald-trump-s-memorable-...

[3] http://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-employees-pushed-to-rem...
Its already happened, there is crud like the HP Stream on sale for a tiny amount of money and most of the market is stagnant with cancerous 1366x768 TN panels and truly mediocre hardware.
Signed integers in C don't wrap around. That's undefined behavior. Unsigned integers behave modulo 2^n, so if you want wrap around in C you should be using unsigned integers. Any C compiler to WebAssembly would have to implement unsigned behavior regardless of the semantics of WebAssembly's native unsigned operations.

For information on the semantics of WebAssembly arithmetic, see

https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/Semantics....

For other information about WebAssembly start here

https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/
Which is kind of shame. D looks like a really nice systems language.
I do copywriting and I have been a military wife and had annual training in information security when I worked for a major insurance company for over five years. That company also talked a lot about its ground-breaking marketing that made its name a household word and I learned a lot from exposure to their marketing.

I have gone through some of your links and cannot readily see where or how to contribute copywriting. So I am leaving a comment here.

I went to your website. I will suggest that instead of saying Umbrella: Security made easy that you change that to Umbrella: Security at your fingertips. Security is never easy and anyone who has dealt with real risk will likely have trouble taking you seriously if you position yourself as making security easy. Plus, the phrasing evokes those push-button little umbrellas that rapidly pop open while also more literally referring to having your tablet in your hands.

Edit: I will further add that you should change Digital and physical security for people at risk in some way. "People at risk" evokes poor people and abused wives and children born in the wrong country. It implies that this app is not of potential benefit to anyone and everyone, just certain people that you would likely think of as losers. You need to update that, to something more along the lines of "Digital and physical security information for an insecure world."
Do you have to sign up for Apple Music to listen to these radios ?
I wonder if this has Unity webplayer & Flash runtimes built into it so it will work even though browsers block those plugins now.

Edit: yes! https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2016/11/01/unity-e...
What if you can't ever find someone who truly likes you? Being a short and unnatractive male I've completely given up on dating or meeting someone who actually likes me. I've experienced so much negativity around my height and overall looks that it's just not worth it anymore.

Nowadays the only way I can have intimate relationships is via prostitutes; however I don't visit them often as I can see through their acting, for once I would like to have an intimate relationship with someone who is truly into me, but then I am 33 and my libido is fading (yay!) I know that I will regret not having sex in my 30's and 20's in my 40's but I feel powerless.
Mo users. Mo data harvesting. Mo money.
I've run Novell servers on machines that have less power than your phone just fine; even a stale Mac Mini will be fine for your hypothetical ten users.
To be fair, the article says "few urban conflagrations can compare" and then you compared a few. Seems reasonable.
so, you're saying i should still wait?

not sure you understand how this is supposed to work.
Games are less playable in the browser now than they were 2 years ago though. Unity webplayer and Flash are both getting blocked by browsers now. I imagine this Gameroom app supports both of those.

Edit:
Yeah, look at this: https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2016/11/01/unity-e...

So, now we have a way to target the web before web assembly is live and adopted.
In a similar vein, I found Alex Martinelli's talk on design patterns very level-headed and instructive: https://youtu.be/0vJJlVBVTFg
Just checked and iPhone does not seem to have LTE only option.
previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8500970
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I don't have the impression that serious researchers regard them as a One True Algorithm, or as sufficient in their own right for development of human-level AI. Why do you believe that?
>Its a failure in the development industry to have basic security awareness. //

Is that really it? Surely even a high-school level developer will realise that having a device connected to the wild web with a default user:pass will be hacked easily.

I'd have thought the problem is not wanting to support customer calls saying "we changed the password and now can't access our device". So default user:pass and no prompt to change it (and a backdoor just in case) means lower support costs.
They could just display the recipient on the screen, like they do currently without the Touch Bar.
> RF blocking paint

Isn't really a thing. These paints realistically manage 30 dB attenuation at around 1 GHz, which sounds great as a percentage ("99.x% reduction!"), but isn't sufficient to actually deny cellular service. [Paint also normally doesn't cover things like windows etc. which pretty much nullifies them anyway]

You can in fact dump a phone into a fridge or freezer, which (at least here) have steel sheets all over them. Phones still get cellular service.

What you would need is screen plating and windows with RF screening meshes (and of course special window frames and so on). This is a) extremely expensive b) can manage >60 dB attenuation.
Except you could then add a few more, Dresden, Berlin, etc... and then a few more. And a few more.

The article is chock-full of sophistry, and the lead-in just sets up the mindset.
Just remember how Feynman described how he was opening military safe during los alamos project (one of the most super highly sensitive project of WWII) : 25% of the safe where having default combinations.

I guess we can draw a conclusion here: security assumptions about who the users are is not in sync with human nature.

Security is failing the same way as architects would fail making the assumption stairs with one meter high steps are okay.

IT security is failing because their model of human beings is plain and flat wrong, hence, computer security as designed by our brightest mind is wrong.

Don't force feed to human requirements of fuck given they don't have.
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I've intentionally been keeping myself ignorant about async/await in JS until it's common enough I can consider using it natively without any great concern about cross browser compatibility. Why is everyone so excited for it? From the example it looks like a thin syntactic sugar layer over normal promises, what's so great about saving one level of indentation?
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excellent! now someone make an app out of this.
Not sure how related this is but seems like the right crowd to ask...

As a photographer who also does programming full time I've been wondering what would need to happen to synthesize skin texture to remove imperfections. Example, removing small scars, wrinkles, etc. Currently I just use the healing brush in Photoshop but wondering if ML can be used to automatically do it.

Does anyone have any recommendations on what sub-fields or papers I could read to get a better idea of what would be involved to create a solution like that?
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Hey, I'm really digging the Focus music. I was wondering to what headphones are you guys tuning it. It sounds awesome on my studio monitors, but it sounds like crap on my ATH-M50 cans due to the bass going over its limit unless I keep it to a rather low volume.
The "reputable EMS companies" part was an important qualifier. But, as the guy I originally replied to demonstrates, counterfeit risk is a lot higher. I order parts for my projects from Digi-Key.
Well, a quick search gave me 380,000€ per year for the chairman of the board of directors in 2011. [1] (Do not be confused by the mention of the "Belgian GEMA" in the title!)

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As the ease of use and zero cost of LE prompted me to use way more certs this year they get a donation.
Very cool of you, I was debating the $149 price tag, but at $30 I just paid before I could think of a reason not to.

Quick question: is there a way to use an audio player (e.g., Audacious, RhythmBox, VLC) to stream the music without using a web browser? The animated light curves in the background make the browser use 100% of a whole CPU core, which isn't ideal, especially when using a laptop on battery.
"I know how it needs to look."

Check Squarespace creator or Logodust.
More than good for MVP and from there is much easier to iterate with designer.

[0] http://logo.squarespace.com/
[1] http://www.logodust.com/
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Think of a constitution as guardrails about democracies, the constitution nails a couple of very basic rules down hard and leaves room for interpretation and variation. It's a good principle, the constitution guarantees long term stability and the 'basics', the parliaments/congresses/whatever the local variation is called deal with day-to-day variance.

So 'the people' will want both, depending on whether they have the long or the short term view and those two views can and do contradict at times.
It look like these jobs are all contractor roles through UpWork. Shouldn't this be on the freelancer thread?
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Is there an article or book where the major "ways" of doing concurrency in different languages are explained and compared? E.g. thread process mutex semaphore etc. in Java et al, callback promise async await in JS, goroutine channel in Go, task async await plinq in C#, asyncio in Python, etc. It would be nice to have a general overview of these, what their pros and cons are and why.
I get multiple Xcode crashes every day, usually when manipulating storyboards, the whole application just bombs out.
Knowing their business practices makes me not use it at all.
Please don't say "no re/mote" because people search for "re/mote". Instead say "Onsite".
I have bumped into his name so many times , but never once though it was a made up name ! Is he a game dev himself ? Can I ask for the list of games he made , would love to check them out .
Ability to use asynchronous functions without pulling everything depending on them into a closure, which comes with a lot of baggage in how you have to structure things.