skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except the Russians have been implicated by more than just the government, its been backed up by multiple independent internet security firms. Also, the Bush administration that supported the Iraq war has kinda been out of power for a while now.
Everyone knows that nothing outside the USA really exists
ptrs: Ben Adida worked on a cryptography-based open-audit voting system called HELIOS in 2008 -- could be used as part of anonymous yet auditable open-source polling / voting system:

http://ben.adida.net/research/
Jolla was formed by devs that left Nokia after they abandoned Meego. I had an N9 and currently have the Jolla phone with Sailfish. They're very similar.
The problem is that Nate Silver went against his own model, and then got every predictions about Trump wrong, so far.
On the outrage at the new MacBooks
There are certain devices like this, right? A similar thing happens with the HP-15C calculator, it was so sought after in eBay, etc., that HP even made a special edition a few years ago.
"Facebook Reports $7 Billion Revenue, Beats Market Estimates"
http://www.inc.com/associated-press/facebook-third-quarter-e...

stock down 7% after hours. WTF

edit: ah, see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12859949
Yeah, sometimes companies understand that paying above market rate increases retention and this has pays all kinds of dividends for the company.

But they have to be fairly on the ball, and many people just aren't.
Hi! Can you tell us your experience with and opinion of GIMP?

(P.S. I am interested but would like some public discussion first).
That screenshot is almost entirely text. It doesn't give a sense of the actual KDE ui.
I wear these types of shirts under other shirts, and I think they're priced correctly for basically being underwear, but I would be very surprised to find a $2 t-shirt that's good for more than that.
I flicked through the article and couldn't see it written quickly - what information could be extracted from my SSH public key and how?
I really wish the restrictions can be reduced or removed so board of directors (like @pmarca) can tweet more on public companies.
Mentally replace "voter turnout" with "church attendance" and you'll gain a clearer understanding of our society.
dupe, not the original announcement.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12847287
I have to admit I was thinking this was the more classic "penetrate networks" use of the term "hacking" as opposed to the modern "creatively overcoming limitations" usage. Took a moments of browsing to offset the confusion.
I’ve had a Surface Book for five months or so and used it heavily, detatching it quite commonly; I’ve had it BSOD from detaching the screen once, 22 days ago. But I’m in the Insider Preview so I’m using pre-release software, so my experience is not necessarily representative. (It could plausibly crash more or less commonly.)

But on the build quality thing: I got a Surface Book because, as David said concerning the sword of Goliath, there is none like it. It’s not just build quality (which is really solid), it’s also the touchscreen and pen input and detachability.
Speaking of people picking up refurb last-gen models, I'm going to post two links here for your consideration.

Before the MBP 2016 announcement: https://web.archive.org/web/20161028012214/http://www.apple....

And today: http://www.apple.com/shop/browse/home/specialdeals/mac/macbo...

Notice any differences?

Get them while they're still in stock. That's all I can say, it's what I just did. I cannot stand the new microwave-keypad feel of the new keyboard, and the lack of useful ports and price hike is just the extra slap in the face for me to wake up. This is probably going to be the last Mac laptop I buy.
1) TJSON imposes precision requirements on parsers which JSON lacks. It gives you guarantees where JSON doesn't. JSON may or may not lose precision when you go outside the RFC 7159 range [-(2^53)+1, (2^53)-1]. This is a potential silent failure that mangles data and is unacceptable in a security context, and one present in popular language environments such as JavaScript and Go.

5) The set of scalar types provided by TJSON is not too far off from that provided by protos. As I explained in my previous response, if you want to go beyond those, use a non-scalar type:

https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/proto3#s...

This is par for the course for most typed languages and serialization formats. You don't magically define new scalar types de novo: you build them as sum/product types from scalars and other non-scalars.

TJSON's objects are self-describing product types.
Clicked it, tried it, impulse bought. Seems worth it so far :)
Oldest known evidence of Aboriginal settlement in Australia found (49,000 years)
These are all obviously terrible, but at least this one comes with a little bit of cute skeumorphic charm.
I think you're being pedantic. Let me explain why.

Given a choice between two alternatives, one with high variance and low median return, and another with low variance and high median return, it is perfectly sensible to use the English language (as opposed to investment jargon) term 'riskier' to describe the first alternative, if maximizing return is the goal.
A Bayesian election prediction, implemented with R and Stan
>To help solve this serious issue, Enigma Bridge is proud to have developed a cost-effective, ground-breaking hardware security service which is based in the cloud.

Uh huh.

So https://dan.enigmabridge.com/re-investigating-the-origins-of... has some more details, and the paper is at https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity16/technical...

It took me a couple of reads through the article to work out they're not necessarily talking about key strength, but fingerprinting the software / hardware that created the key in the first place.
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Auto downgrade. That's a first.
> mining, construction, sanitation, logging, or deep sea fishing industries

Given that we're talking about "tech", I think your argument would be stronger if you used examples where physical strength is seldom an important factor in job-performance.
And outside of interviews, you will, with high probability, never, ever, have to code one yourself. You'll just call sort(), or OrderBy(), and rely on the battle-tested and bullet-proof standard library implementation.
Can't wait for this election to be over so we can stop seeing these posts on HN.
It seems like they won't say unless you are willing to pay

> Enigma Bridge has expanded on the discovery and built a tool that can with great accuracy tell which security mechanisms companies use for their https key generation.
> ... so badly fooled while obscuring such a small amount of the face ... may go completely off the rails when presented with data not close enough to their training sets.

Older research has looked at this, in the context of neural networks in self-driving cars. The nets take the easy way out: use just the most significant features (like road markers) to solve the problem. However, training sets may not contain roads where snow or fog is obscuring these significant features, which makes the nets fail, because they haven't learned to rely on other features too. In contrast, human vision is remarkably robust.

http://repository.cmu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1176&c... [pdf] "FeatureBoost: A Meta Learning Algorithm that Improves Model Robustness"
Good Support from  Microsoft (??)
"They should be. Unfortunately, most people don't understand what a Turing machine is, and so it is difficult to explain why it is important to fight back against the people - like you - who are waging a War On General Purpose Computers[1]."

You people are utterly deluded.
Paper at http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v539/n7627/full/nature2...
> "If there were good candidates being passed up, they would certainly congregate elsewhere and create success."

BS, that's a dodge. I've seen plenty of people (regardless of their background, ethnicity, or gender) who've been screwed by the system and have spent way too long in crappy jobs where they were unable to make much of a difference. Some people get lucky and early on they find jobs where their talent can shine through and they get on a train that just keeps going up. Other folks may have things line up for them that way only much later in their career, yet others maybe not at all. And if the less lucky decide to switch careers instead of continue struggling and getting frustrated with their ambitions being constantly thwarted then you may never know the potential that was lost from that change of careers. I've also known many extremely talented developers who happened to stumble into the career by accident, and if even some small thing had been different along the way they would have been doing something else.
This is a really good question. It seems a non-disparagement clause waives one's right to the first amendment.

http://www.jaburgwilk.com/news-publications/what-is-a-non-di...

Is this right?
I would like to see some voter turnout data for comparison from other "democracies" (e.g. Russia, Egypt) before jumping to that conclusion.

I get the distinct impression that voter turnout is low because no matter who gets elected, voters have become accustomed to politicians not representing their interests in any meaningful capacity.
If you follow the links, you'll end up here:
https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity16/technical...

Can bits of an RSA public key leak information about design and implementation choices such as the prime generation algorithm? We analysed over 60 million freshly generated key pairs from 22 open- and closedsource libraries and from 16 different smartcards, revealing significant leakage. The bias introduced by different choices is sufficiently large to classify a probable library or smartcard with high accuracy based only on the values of public keys. Such a classification can be used to decrease the anonymity set of users of anonymous mailers or operators of linked Tor hidden services, to quickly detect keys from the same vulnerable library or to verify a claim of use of secure hardware by a remote party.
> Neither of those are pleasant, but neither is as bad as T-Mobile

They aren't any better, if not worse, because in contrast to T-Mobile, AT&T and Verizon are asking for money from other services if they want be exempt from caps. In my view they are all bad when Net Neutrality is concerned. It can be fixed only with better law which ban zero rating, and as well bans caps as a method of fleecing users.
if only someone would think of the men!
Really? I thought it was that it smells a bit too much like communism.

Which seems to be gradually becoming less of a problem over time, even here in the USA.
The three greatest drivers of the human psyche, fighting, fun, and sex.
I was replying to this specifically:

Being politically motivated can very much be a form of abuse.
When you have the ability to significantly hinder or tear down public organizations through leaking [...]

If there is no (major) wrongdoing, you cannot just tear them down. The organization needs to be corrupt in the first place.

it's whether we should inspect Wikileaks itself,
given that its position gives it strong incentives to do shady things
without any transparency.

I don't see anything suggesting strong incentives to do shady things, can you elaborate please?

I see the opposite, however, they got strong incentives NOT to do shady things, because if they are caught even once doing shady things, their reputation is in the gutter and nobody will ever listen to them again.
That is not to say that they got no political bias and even political bias. When the emails you obtained contained Hillary asking why they cannout just "drone him" (aka Assange), you might take that a bit personally too. But political bias and personal bias is in no way evidence for "shady things" and wrongdoing.

But yes, wikileaks too should be scrutinized, and I think it is, by pretty much everybody, the government, it's agencies, the media.
Still, so far, after a decade of operation, there is no proof wikileaks did anything sinister, and the best attempts so far to discredit wikileaks was coming for their leader with rape charges instead of discrediting what the organization is doing.

And yes again, we the public should not stop to be vigilant and continue to scrutinize wikileaks.
Oh, man, I forgot it had that FM-Transmitter. That was so cool.

So many of us miss that phone.
I think this new MBP is all a trap. Apple released a shitty product on purpose to identify all the brilliant designers, engineers, marketers out there who spent the past week writing blog posts explaining how Apple sucks at designing, engineering and marketing.

Now, they have a limitless list of awesome people who really know their shit to approach and try to hire. Nice move Apple!
That's an interesting perspective. I suppose either could be true and it would be hard to discern without a more direct conversation with the government liaison (in any circumstance, not just this one).

I'm not used to seeing this pattern with the agencies I've consulted with, so maybe that's where my bias comes from.
Most of them have innocent sounding names. You just give the name of the actual company. They don't have anything online that you can find about them. When asked what you do... "internet marketing".
Good job totally fucking up their discreet little process for helping women out of awkward situations by posting the fucking code word on the fucking internet.

Y'all are A number one assholes to the max.
The point still stands, if people really cared they could get someone elected that would change things.

This is still a real democracy if we choose it to be.
Anyone on HN ever seriously questioned popular democracy? (genuinely curious)
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Physical strength tends to be an extremely important part of being a nurse. There's no shortage of women being represented there.

As for the above: my garbage "man" is a woman, so it has nothing to do with physical strength. The truck picks up the can and has for at least 5 years in even the most Podunk town.
Let. us. fire. people.

The current environment in tech is as follow: Someone goes through an interview process. Depending on the result, they get brought in or not. If they are brought in, they accept an offer. Usually it will contain some kind of language about blah blah trial period 3 months blah blah, sometimes in precise terminology, sometimes vaguely.

If someone is absolutely useless right off the bat, immediately everyone's like "but but we need to coach them, they just started, they'll get better". If after 3 months they're still useless, then it's "Blah blah it's the company's responsibility to keep them around and coach them because we hired them and we failed at interview".

That can only happen so many times (and can ruin teams or entire companies) before you start getting downright paranoid when interviewing. Maybe you have a lot of false positive and false negative, but if your interview process is Google-like enough, on average you'll turn out okay-ish (source: Google/Facebook/Netflix/whatever other company with such an interview process. They have some pretty strong teams in there). But since it's so hard to get rid of a bad apple, you can't take risks (Im being told Netflix is good at getting rid of people).

Change the game a bit: make it easy to get rid of bad apples early on. You know the interview process is bad anyway. Give people a chance. If they're actually competent, they have nothing to worry about. They'll get hired, prove their worth, and stick around. If they're bad, well, bye bye. Then we no longer have to rely on excruciatingly stupid interview processes.

A lot of people think this is inhumane/heartless. That big evil corporations MUST provide people with jobs and must keep them no matter how bad they are because they have bills to pay. I say its heartless to not give people a chance to prove themselves (or to fail while at least trying).
Sadly, more and more physical stores are starting to charge for the costs of shopping there, too. "Credit card surcharges" were the beginning; now I'm seeing "debit card surcharges," a $0.25 fee to write a check, charging for bags (and not just in cities with a disposable bag ordinance), and so on. I can't wait until my receipt includes an "electric company usage fee" and "background music from Spotify contribution charge."
I like your imagery of a downward spiral.

Other industries have higher costs for employment and pay less.

For example, teachers often have to spend thousands of dollars out of pocket to take tests to get various levels of certification just to start teaching.

I'm afraid our industry is moving in the same direction.

It will start becoming more and more expensive just to get the damn job. It's already hard enough.

Soon all costs of training an employee will be pushed off onto the employee themselves. "You must be able to jump this high (and spent $$$) to work here."
>alex jones is not an equal but opposite voice to chomsky

That's my point! Terrorism isn't a reason to run mass surveillance on everyone, yet here we are. I'm saying that by going after the crackpots, the establishment gets to contain critical adversaries.
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Ah, element.dataset is an interesting case. It's a _lot_ slower than normal DOM calls, because it needs to map a different underlying data structure: the data in the dataset needs to be reflected in the element attributes. And the set of names it exposes is not fixed.

So you have to implement it as a Proxy, so it can capture arbitrary property assignments, including for properties it doesn't have yet, and do the corresponding setAttribute calls. Unfortunately, once you're a Proxy your gets end up somewhat slow too. Partly this is because JITs haven't optimized proxies that much, and partly it's because they're rather hard to optimize in the best of circumstances.

I expect that the actual implementations of dataset are not as fast as they could be if they used scripted and inlinable proxy handlers _and_ the JITs had implementations for those. But there's still a lot more work involved in dataset than a plain object, especially if you have a small number of property names in practice so the plain object doesn't have to convert to dictionary mode or anything like that.... Even if dataset were implemented on top of a pure-JS DOM implementation (which exist), it would be a lot slower than just a simple object, unfortunately.
Can a Reflect employee take 6 months vacation?
> What if I don't love writing web apps in RoR and just want a friggin job?

You don't need to say you love writing web apps in RoR, but you should at least say that you are good at writing web apps in RoR (if that's the position being hired). If you have real world examples you can point to of things you have built as well as approximate site load/scale stats, even better.

You don't need to love the work, but you do need to be able to solve the problems the business is facing. In my experience, the better you are able to convey that, the better your likelihood of getting an interview and then a job.
Yep, also using an external charger to keep mine going.

My batteries are swelling. I suspect it's no longer safe really.

:-?
The culture around software development is unfortunately very misogynistic and/or off-putting and exclusionary toward women, so they find themselves pushed away from the dev education/career track from an early age and onward. It wasn't always this way, it used to be that women made up a larger percentage of software engineers, but the culture changed over time. Not that dudes in tech are willing to accept this, for them everything about the culture is part of its charm, and the industry is a perfect meritocracy.
It really is remarkable. You wouldn't think that an editor based on the same engine would be this significantly better than atom, but vs code continues to defeat atom in performance and native features.
They'll convince themselves that it is standard practice, comparable with what others in the industry are doing, conformance is critical for attracting investment, etc. etc.
Have been using VSCode for months now and I like it a lot. Only thing I am missing coming from PhpStorm is a good merge tool. For some reason I found JetBrains' one really appealing and I struggle to find 3rd party ones that do not feel clunky.
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Disclaimer: That's a random recruiting firm.
Well said. Men are never on bad dates or in awkward social situations they'd like to get out of gracefully. Why, the very idea is just absurd.
which software (e.g. ssh-keygen, puttygen) you used to generate it.
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I think that studying anyone in fire/EMS that works 24 hour shifts will show you the same conclusions.
I don't want any corporate involvement in our election system. I don't care if you're a startup.
Considering that exhibition catalogs are a commodity in the art world this is huge.
I feel similarly, yet I'd agree with the parent that I'd do worse on a technical interview by virtue of not practicing the common toy problems.
This quote stuck out to me:

"Abovitz wants Magic Leap to stay in Florida; one of the benefits of manufacturing there is that it allows the company to keep its secrets. If it were headquartered in Northern California, that would be nearly impossible, given Silicon Valley’s job-hopping culture and well-lubricated rumor mill."

He's actually trying to pass off one of (the?) SV strength as a weakness.
I don't agree that voting on a cell phone is the right solution here. I live in Colorado, we get mail-in ballots and a book describing each of the issues.

I got mine last week. I sat down read over each item, did some research on the internet, and filled in my vote. It was a long ballot (2 legal-sized pages front and back), and took about an hour. Mailed it in earlier today.

How does doing that on a cell phone improve this? In fact, it sounds more frustrating, because my phone is tiny, may need to be charged, internet connectivity issues, etc.

And really, if we're going to talk about how flawed our system is, this is like one of the more minor points. If you want to get to the root of it, let's talk about how to get rid of the 2 party system, and allow more diverse parties and ideas. That's the real problem.
>And as time goes by, that return on tangible equity should increase quite a bit for Facebook, while it is highly unlikely to improve all that much for JP Morgan because of competition in the banking industry.

But Facebook is also much more likely to disappear due to competition than JP Morgan is.
"Fully open hacking device" - I expected something like a Backtrack / Kali Linux ROM for Anddroid
Remembers me of http://romain.goyet.com/articles/free_shipping_from_china/

Where the author wonders how a single button, costing less than 5 dollars, can have free shipping from china to france.