skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uhm, you should roll your own crypto. Just make sure it's not the only layer of crypto -- i.e., that there's a standard layer too.

Not going to rehash the arguments, but this was discussed recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13199471
So, Twitter VPs aren't company officers?

Edit: Twitter's bylaws suggest that a VP is a company officer.
Yes. The general term these days is tracing garbage collection. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracing_garbage_collection)

There are all kinds of bells & whistles you can add on top of the general approach, mostly time-space tradeoffs, such as with a copying collector. But the overall time-space complexity generally remains the same. Sometimes it can get worse, like when you add concepts like ephemerons.
I watched a loved one suffer the very same withdrawal. It's no joke.
A couple of the main takeaways below:

Pro users are justified in questioning for whom the Touch
Bar was designed. It's not designed for touch typists.
It's of marginal value for fast hunt-and-peck typists.
Even the emoji browser isn't as efficient as pressing
Ctrl-⌘-Space and searching for the emoji you want (for
Pro-level emoji users ), so it's not better for those
who love Emoji...

More on the Touch Bar:

For the Touch Bar, it's as if a manager told a cash-and-
time-strapped team: "People are nervous about the Mac. We
have to design something new, for the sake of being new,
and make it pretty." And they did just that. Made a
pretty hardware device that offers little benefit over
the boring old function keys it replaced, and jacks up
the per-device cost. And reduces battery life.

I've been primarily using a Mac for years, but even the most die-hard Mac users have to admit it's a second-tier product in Apple's portfolio, judging by the last few years. Some things have improved, but the Mac Pro and Mac mini are just sitting out there rotting right now. It's beyond ridiculous.
Yep https://twitter.com/jack

Hemorrhaging top execs and alienating userbase. Yet his feed is all PC Bro.
Biggest effect from reducing my dose of fluoxetine was dreaming again. It's great.
Yep, I saw your more general list further upthread as well. I'd argue that much of the time these things are bad and essentially a kind of unnecessary, self-inflicted cryptography. In most cases the same things can be accomplished with a secure authenticated channel, someone hanging on to the relevant state and a cryptographically secure random id. A prime example is all the 'state-carrying authenticated/encrypted session cookie' infrastructure typically built into ruby and python web frameworks.
Microsoft got into applications before DOS existed. Microsoft applications like Multiplan were available for a variety of platforms, running CP/M and a variety of other operating systems. You could get Multiplan for systems as small as the TI-99/4 and as large as Xenix!
You can compile and link without XCode too. Apple just makes it annoying to do so, and the documentation frequently says the equivalent of "just use XCode".
You should always seek a second opinion from different specialists. If all of them tell you the very same thing it is probably safe to assume what they recommended is well established. But its far from being always the case. Doctors are not machines and influenced by a number of factors so none of them should be considered infaillible.
Many Jack and Jill Mormons in Utah where I lived for a while, and folks there as well whom had gotten themselves stricken from the records.

I also learned from native Utahns that they had been ostracized in high school for not being part of the LDS community.

It happens, we're all human. All we can try to do is do better. I did meet many fine folks there as well, among the best the world has to offer.
You're talking about AMT, right?

You're right, there are situations when people can't exercise their options simply because of the high tax bill.

In this particular case, with the company I'm talking about I am fairly certain (simply because I'm doing the same calculations for myself) that if he exercised his options it would not trigger AMT.
Don't forget Periscope...not sure how that fits into the company structure though, admittedly
Not that difficult, you just have to understand english isn't everyone's first language. If you've ever taken the time to learn another language, you would have realized it is very difficult to do. Especially later in life. If a child as young as 11 was never exposed to language, they might never be capable of understanding it.
Are you familiar with Ted Nelson's hyperorthogonal data structures [0]?

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZigZag_(software)
I wrote a simple bit of code to calculate the size of index pages with includes (js, css, images) and here's what I get:

page	resource	total url
(b)	(b)	(Kb)
----------------------------------------------
33857	143	34.0	news.ycombinator.com
62690	55975	118.7	arstechnica.com
11844	223862	235.7	seldomlogical.com
218837 765943	984.8	newyorktimes.com
l592771 545304	1138.1 guardian.co.uk

The one thing I notice watching the index page being broken down, is the sheer number of resources requested. Didn't bother with JS/browser interaction which you can check with browser dev tools.
This is brilliant. Can you point us to a repo with MVP to build on?
Take my aviato money and start my own incubator.
"Uptime last 30 days: 100.00%"
> just that they're fast enough machines to make good workstations

Except they're not. The heat dissipation in the thin iMacs is terrible in that it prevents the CPU from working at full capacity 100% of the time.
yes i would agree on that
Ooh, snappy, thanks for the tip!
Are we in a curation age?
Well, that's kind of the point - the default Encrypt(data,key) should also implement padding, combine blocks for arbitrary length messages, and include MAC; so that it's reasonably secure out of the box with the default settings. Key distribution is a different issue, but doing the abovementioned things would be sufficient to ensure that you can just run Encrypt/Decrypt(data, key) and expect most of the common tampering attacks to be impossible.
Thanks; I will try that.
Depends on what you mean by "relevant"... It took in nearly $550 million last quarter.
I'm not sure what your point is?

As if knowledge of me visiting a public site is comparable to Google having an always-on microphone that probably is riddled with 0days and has constant internet activity that can easily mask a malicious connection?

it only takes approximately 10 minutes of recorded audio to interpret individual keystrokes with a ~96% accuracy. [1]

Google / NSA / foreign state hackers / your next door neighbor could potentially find or pay for an exploit to the device and have all of your passwords down within a few days. All of your children's passwords.

It can reconstruct every message you've typed in range of the microphone. Ergo unless you rely on bookmarks and not the address bar, it can in fact track which websites you visit. Furthermore, it could interact with ultrasonic sounds emitted by your computer speakers to track your ad experience, and if you live in a malevolent state, to locate you. [2]

If your kids are a problem to the police state, they will be identified and marked before they even know they want to be political activists.

This is the world you aren't only allowing, but are defending as well.

[1] http://rakesh.agrawal-family.com/papers/ssp04kba.pdf,
https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~tygar/papers/Keyboard_Acou...

[2] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/11/beware-of-ads-tha...
Where is promise.finally?
Are you a Mormon? I'm going to bet yes.
> They planned to start beating H.265 both in quality and in efficient decoding in 2016/2017. Did that happen?

If I'm not missing something, this suggests that Daala's quality will be comparable to H.265. No doubt encoders for both will continue to get better.
Show HN: Gransk mini – A processing tool for when you're fed up arguing with IT
Interesting, I had thought it did some sprite compression also but it looks like I was confusing it with the SDD-1. There's a lot of neat co-processors out there that got used. It's one of the things I loved about the cartridge era systems because it let them get upgraded in ways you can't do anymore.
RansomFree Is the Latest App That Tries to Stop Ransomware Infections on Windows
The title alone brought immediately to mind a scene from childhood of insanely stacked Nat Geo magazines, and the phrase "The Crazy Cantilever". Turns out it the phrase (and I have no doubt the stacked Nat Geo magazines) came out of this book:

https://www.amazon.com/crazy-cantilever-other-science-experi...
It uses Siri, which needs the internet to work. So any Siri command will require the internet.
You can still adjust the volume with the physical controls on the phone, and switch tracks with the on screen controls.

Not defending the AirPods, mind you.
In secondary school I discovered Windows Registry - in particular, the LegalNoticeCaption and LegalNoticeText keys, which let you set a pre-login information dialog. I left a funny message on a computer in the school lab, saying something to the tune of "What a shame it isn't Linux".

Two hours later, I faced an angry teacher (who was also a math teacher and the lead teacher for our class). She said something about the next person after me freaking out that "the computer has viruses". Got a bad note for behaviour, spot-check of math homework leading to three F grades, and she also tried to take away my notebook with notes about Windows Registry -.-
This is probably the best way I can put it too - like a waking limb, but brief and intense - and it's the brain instead of a limb. It's really difficult to describe accurately, but this is good.
An official document that's just a wiki page that can fit almost entirely on a single page. That is nothing more than a very brief outline of what to accomplish with no real documentation of a plan to achieve listed goals.

No surprise this list is so long:

Other topics from H1 underwent only little development and will be copied as ongoing topics for H2: safety, memory management, tooling, improve language stability and specification, C++ and Objective C integration, library additions, smartphone support.
But nobody told me what was happening in the room before I walked into it. I saw nothing but a URL, or maybe I saw some text obliquely indicating what might be happening in there. I certainly didn't see the text of a contract before I walked in. If I walk in, not knowing anything, how can I have signed a contract?

Similarly, if I have no binding contract, it certainly can't be required of me to observe or respond to everything within the room. There is no origin for the musician's claimed right to oblige me to any commercial action.
The comments on this post are enlightening. I use both Varnish and Redis, and the architecture discussion is great!
As an exmo, I agree and for the most part I haven't been shunned. Several people unfriended me on Facebook but that was the worst of it for me. Others aren't always so fortunate, but with how many exmo's there are now it has made the transition a lot easier.
Edit: I missed the "but can be proven with data" part of the OP. I'm not sure if any of the questions I ask here can be proven with data, I have no idea how to tackle any of these questions to begin with. Regardless, I think it's very interesting so I'll leave it here, especially because of the other post mentioning life after death.

Consciousness and everything related to it. Lucid dreams, the effect that different drugs have on consciousness, ranging from coffee to hallucinogenics, the space of human qualia.

Would it possible to add a new dimension to our conscious experience, for example, our best model of human color space is CIELAB, it has three dimensions, L, meaning lightness, A, where negative values indicate green while positive values indicate magenta and B, where negative values indicate blue and positive values indicate yellow, what if we could add another dimension to our color-space?

What would it take to measure qualia/conscious experiences, or, are they really "private" as Daniel Dennet claims?[1]. What would it mean for a human if we could "engineer" their consciousness.

What is the role of consciousness within the human brain?

Are non-humans conscious? Or, does consciousness exist outside of humans? Are dogs conscious? What about worms? Ants? Bacteria? Viruses? What about the USA? (https://www.physicalism.com/)

How can you objectively determine that "something" is conscious?

Was consciousness "recruited" by evolution? Just like how electricity was "recruited" by evolution, meaning it was naturally occurring before, but manifests itself in a far more complex way, being one part of a gigantically complex biological machine?

Is it possible to "share" or "conjoin" multiple consciousnesses? What are the ethical implications of something like this? Should judges be allowed to go "inside the heads" of victims, the defendant and witnesses?

I could go on for a while. I think the implications of finding answers to some of these questions would be unimaginable. I don't think any of this is feasible within the coming few hundred years, but perhaps we'll make some progress.

[1] private; that is, all interpersonal comparisons of qualia are systematically impossible.
lol that's hilarious. I wish that was the case too.
While certainly thought provoking I'm not certain that he is exactly correct. What is going to happen is that there will be a lot of devices where a peer to peer model makes more sense. It doesn't mean that cloud computing is going to go away but it will instead change over time.

I am more in agreement with the idea that data analysts jobs will grow. Also think that a lot of apps will have their own databases but instead of ignoring the cloud they will need to occasionally sync with the cloud as opposed to real time access.

I think that RESTful data services will become more of a commodity and that most developers will need a data service, an authentication service, a telecom service and a payment service (and perhaps a few more) to construct a program.

We're not too far off from it happening and the opportunity exists for an ambitious company to offer a Microsoft Office style suite of services to developers. I'd personally prefer it be Stripe or Twilio as opposed to Microsoft or Google that ends up doing it.
People who use a touchscreen laptop are used to scrolling with a touchscreen. It has nothing to do with skill level of the user.
Your mediocre graphics card may or may not have CUDA support. If it doesn't, or it only supports an old version, then it's the same as not having a graphics card at all. And of course, Nvidia only.

If it supported, then the major difference is GPU memory, which limits the size of the network you can train. The newest models are faster than some 1-2 year old ones, but older hardware does the job fine.
That's funny. I heard it in my head in Daffy Duck voice.
Have you considered a micro-framework? "Thinatra" rolls of the tongue.
RxJs Socket-IO
Wow. Definitely publish the source. Someone will either immediately rewrite it or plugin-ify it, I bet. Either way, you get lots of free labor to work for you.
Well, one of those tabs is graylog and one is gmail. Do you have e10s enabled? (open about:support, check for "Multiprocess Windows")
You should remove zookeeper from 2 and move it to 3.

https://zookeeper.apache.org/doc/trunk/zookeeperReconfig.htm...

That's been out for a while now.
+1000 for authy.
Emoji on Linux
IQ, there has been some controversial research that pops up from time to time. It gets really controversial once race is added to the mix.
When was this? I recall having to use Cocktail with OS X (10.2-10.9) because the system maintenance scripts would never run if my laptop was off/asleep at midnight. In general, Unix users have had to use cron scripts almost since its origin.
FWIW, the article is originally from 2015 but there are several recent updates at the bottom.
To be honest, I'm not sure where I stand on this issue, but it does seem like real damage might be done. I'm frankly worried about him starting a nuclear war. Most of our principles presuppose that the world won't end if we do something stupid. I'm not sure that assumption is valid in this case.

EDIT: In nearly every other case, I am very pro-free speech. It 's an indicator of how shocking this is that I'm rethinking it at all.
I've finally just started reading Snow Crash since I told myself I would one day roughly 15 years ago.

It's excellent.
Part of the goal is to show the church is fundamentally a business.
If I trust someones cryptographic abilities but don't trust their intentions, then I should still use their cryptosystems over my own.

If I use e.g. Bernstein's cryptosystem and he's evil, then he and whoever hires him can read my data.

If I use my own or your cryptosystem, then either the cryptosystem or implementation definitely (with a much, much greater confidence than any trust issues) is horribly broken due to some bug, oversight or side channel, and I just haven't noticed yet. So the end result is that everyone can read my data - sticking with someone evil would have been more secure than rolling my own.
Package & sell.
Disney is mostly ESPN, based on profits.
This just confirmed my belief of the state of choosing a non Apple computer for work. Even with all the shortcomings and all the fat profit margins, Apple sure does make dependable machines. Now, computers do fail. But, the fact that I can take my Mac into any Apple store and claim warranty easily to get it fixed/replaced without Waiting for weeks in despair makes Apple worthy of getting my money.
Would be happy to be proven wrong by some company that provides such quality and after sales service.
General AI will make all of this irrelevant. A General AI doctor never needs to sleep and would never forget anything relevant.

That is, if the government allows it to be used in consumer products. It would make a potent military weapon. Probably more potent than any military weapon invented so far.
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An example from just this week at UCSF:

http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/12/14/ucsf-losing-some-it-staf...
Human Cells Eat Nanowires
This. With 10 years in accountancy you have embedded within you a deep understanding of business problems that a tech person outside your field simply doesn't have.

So seek synergy. Pick a small problem, and solve it. Something useful is far more impressive than something flash, and can be quantified on a CV pretty well. Set a goal, and that should be something where multiple skills are combined.

Could be tough balancing time and conflicting needs, that's probably your biggest challenge. But you have your advantage of knowing something in-and-out, and learning as you get older gets faster and faster.

Don't forget backend. Also seek some understanding of creating RESTful APIs using a related framework, like if you're interested in front-end, probably JS, learn a JS back-end. I picked hapi on node, and really liked it.
FindLectures.com: A Launch Story
You are a troll. Congrats on your attempt to be clever.

I believe that this line is actually quite on topic: "Isaacson's book is not generally accepted as the de facto Steve Jobs biography. That is all."
In that way everything is trivially "reversible", so this is not a meaningful category. What is meant by reversible operation is that you can get its input from just the output.
I tried to taper off venlafaxine for about a month. It just extended the agony. I eventually just stopped taking it, had 2 really shit days, and that was that.

IANAD, YMMV
No it's not. Your attention isn't worth much tbh. But like the other poster said, pay me for reading your post.
> I was just responding to OP's claim that since the protocol doesn't specify

I know. The examples were still factually incorrect straw-men.

> it must be legal and ethical to block them

That's the point; it is legal and ethical to use data that was voluntarily given. If you want control over how things are used, stop sending to everybody freely and require a contract.

> harass those who spend money on them.

Clicking a link isn't harassment.
The historical review of Fischer's life is interesting, but I always found these post-hoc analyses kind of dubious. It's almost like astrology; coming up with a theory that explains human behavior, and then figuring out how to fit an individual case (like Fischer's) with the theory you came up with. In this case, it's instead the apparently scientific-sounding "MLCC methodology to psychobiographical research"
Sadly not, Australia is actually usually pretty far behind. Luckily being Canadian and having lived in the US I have access but it's a pain.
They aren't losing their revenue. They are losing a poor method for generating said revenue. Revenue can and is gained via better methods.
AnandTech Apple Watch Series 2 Review
How to Apply for an Octoparse Free Trial?
Seconding. I totally want to start doing this myself.

That, and finally write a decent Hacker News suite for Emacs.
I really don't buy it.

In every case he described current devices (cars, watches) - they are increasing in 'cpu/storage' - but they always have been doing this.

Is their something that inherently changes the topology?

Not really.

Cars will be able to id stop signs - which is naturally a local function, just like 'backup cameras' are a local function today ... but some things like messaging, gps services, customer data, big data - it's going to be on a server somewhere.

Why would your car need to talk directly to your blender?

'The cloud' has really more to do with local/small/office servers moving into consolidated centres with virtualization.

'Logical organization' has not changed: some stuff on 'servers' , some stuff done 'locally'.
Article and discussion re storing secrets in environment variables: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8826024

The gist seems to be that it's easy to accidentally leak environment variables (which is why I think the top comment is off-base). tptacek, do you think this risk is overblown?
Some further information: I purchased an International charging kit in the UK and gave an email address I had set up specifically for during my travel. I recently bought a Superdrive using the same credit card and the sales person asked if I wanted to send to that same email address.
Great article, shared it on with my coworkers.

- poorly, really.

- for network, and security stuff, absolutely: splunk is the bees knees. For apps, each team tends to run their own mix (graylog2/elk/custom). Have pushed for more security type events from apps into splunk for correlation, but it just costs too damm much.

- depends on the region. I find US / UK do okay, but the more emerging/growth markets where we have employees, the worse it gets.
Thanks, that makes sense — it sounded to me like you were saying Taligent was an example of a NeXT library.
What makes tweetstorms better than just letting people write long tweets? Tweetstorms infuriate me because they totally dominate my feed and ensure that the same tweet keeps being shoved back to the top of the timeline. Much better to let people write long tweets and just hide the part >140 characters behind an expand button. So I can safely ignore the whole thing.
How much would Mike Tyson charge for a celebrity endorsement?
You sound like a child who is trying to sound like a lawyer right now. There is no contract required nor have I indicated there needs to be. I don't know why you lot keep going back to "I didn't sign a legally binding contract!".

Why did you walk in if you had no clue what was in there? Why did you click the link if you had no clue what was on the other side? Because you wanted the content.

I'm not saying to have to observe everything in the room or respond to it. I'm not even arguing against ad blocking as you would know had you read the thread.
I genuinely don't know. There's no motivation for the masses to educate themselves about it. And to complicate matters, there are also the occasional faker or malingerer. It's a difficult field for even an expert, let alone someone who doesn't even have a casual interest.