skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This aspect is acknowledged in the article. I.e. that criticism of Chomsky's linguistic theories are seen as an attack on this political views.

But that's hardly a justification for attacking Everett who has never expressed an opinion on Chomsky's politics. Surely these aspects of Chomsky's work are completely independent?

For example, I can appreciate Watson's work on DNA but abhor his racism. Similarly I can question Chomsky's linguistic theories while agreeing with (aspects of) his politics.

Also, I must say that I find the ad-hominem nature of the attacks on Everett to be quite ugly.
This makes no sense in so many ways. I suggest you read more on exactly how Signal relies on Google. It does not at all compromise the encryption protocol. Also Tox? Good luck with that.
A lot of McKinsey's fees are generated from consulting about outsourcing. The outsourcing boom can be ended with the stroke of a pen.

They (along with a lot of other people) have a strong incentive to scapegoat automation for job losses.
"Scientists found additional similarities between the frog genes and human genes. For instance, genes in frogs have very similar neighboring genes as humans about 90 percent of the time. In other words, the frog genome contains the same sort of “gene neighborhoods” as the human genome. "

It matters.

https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/news/story/2831/genome-sequen...
What wonderland did you move to?
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The desire to protect people's private communication is one of the core beliefs we have at WhatsApp, and for me, it's personal. I grew up in the USSR during communist rule, and the fact that people couldn't speak freely is one of the reasons my family moved to the United States

Jan Koum and Brian Acton, founders of Whatsapp
OTOH, sharing code between different components developed under an umbrella project is not bad per se - if they require the functionality, re-implementing it from scratch for each component would not be a good idea, either. Duplicating and manually syncing the code also has its share of problems.
Ask HN: Business Developer or Sales Dilemma
We have an enterprise software that's been succesful in non-us markets. We are trying to expand our business to the US. Since we have limited budget for US expansion we have this dilemma: Should we hire Sr. Business Developer or Sr. Sales Manager?

The reason we want to hire business developer is we are not 100% sure that we have a product-market fit in the US. On the other hand, hiring Sales Manager would increase our chances of sale as we already have the product that we believe it's ready for the US but we are not 100% sure.

What do you think is the best option for us?
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> do you know whether the software you got from the App Store is the software that's on Github?

Yes: https://whispersystems.org/blog/reproducible-android/
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According to the article however, the notification is given after the messages are resent. There is nothing the user can seemingly do to prevent retransmission on a forced key change. This prevents further information from being sent, but in case of undelivered messages, they could be snooped on.
> who equates being a woman with being mentally handicapped

Literally, or he just used a metaphor?

I can say "black people are like bowling balls, they are both black".

You could respond "oh my god! black people are people, not objects! How dare you!"

But this would not be a reasonable response - The implication of the metaphor was not that black people share the property of being an object. That would be a purposeful mis-interpretation.

Granted, the use of metaphor can sometimes be suspect, precisely because of the ambiguity of implication, but that's all it is - ambiguous in meaning/intent.
>they tell other people who do know systemd that they do not know it.

I appreciate the concern, thanks.

>The journal cannot be turned off.

The persistent binary logging is turned off, which is what people bitch about. Obviously, many of systemd's monitoring features are tied to the journal, and as stated journald still needs to be running, obviously writing to a non-persistent journal for these and forwarding logs (if specified.)

>delegating the job of writing persistent logs to post-processing services that (nowadays) read the journal using its systemd-specific database access facilities.

It's true that syslog-ng pulls messages from the journal, whereas syslog implementations that are not aware are provided with them over a compatibility socket, but this is a performance optimization, to reduce system overhead. Not really an important distinction.

The context was turning persistent logs off and switching to on-disk and persistent text logs with syslog. If you really wanted to nitpick: dbus and udev are totally non-optional.
> Gamecube was quite memory-limited both in main and video RAM

I'm not saying it was a supreme machine without limitation, I'm saying it was the most powerful one. It had by a fairly large margin the most powerful CPU and GPU subsystems.

That doesn't mean there were no tradeoffs, it was all strength and it was necessarily trivial to make use of that power. Think PS3.
This is the kind of damaging presupposition that is the definition of Russian information warfare (disinformation)...

What's the deep state? Does it include a deep judicial branch? Is there a deep military? Where's the deep congress? To assume a cabal of mutinous member of an organization that are hard to find (deep, not surface), is inflammatory and should be have a higher bar.

If the CIA and the democrats colluded here, how is that either deep, or wide enough to be warrant be called the "state" ? We have specific names for these specific branches for a reason. The military is not the CIA, and is not the Democrats.

Who is more a member of the military industrial complex? A. Donald trump that wants to increase military spending. B. Everyone else.

If Russia didn't hack the DNC, and Rex Tillerson wasn't their pick, and Trump wasn't on Howard Stern getting called out on his Russian Hooker usage in 2001, and he had a blind trust, and he released his tax returns, and wasn't a birther, and didn't have trump steaks, airline, university, the art of the deal he didn't write, and like to invite your wife furniture shopping with tictacs in hand, then people wouldn't care about anonymously sourced reports.

Listen to president himself speaking about taking a guys girlfriend from him, like a piece of property, while getting called out on his Russian ties in 2001: http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/314891/trump-russia-girls-ho...

p.s. Panama Leaks reveals Rex Tillerson was director of Bahamas-based US-Russian oil firm, and didn't the FBI help him get elected via Comey? Are we in upside down world?
Probably would be comparable to an AppleTV if Apple did indeed make such a thing.
Do I understand the Y combinator?
According to Steven McGeady, Cunningham advised him in the early 1980s, "The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it's to post the wrong answer." McGeady dubbed this "Cunningham's law".

According to the Cunningham's law, I propose my approach of the Y combinator concept in this page http://epsilonwiki.free.fr/lambdaway/?view=Ycombinator , waiting for a nice/gentle coder who could give me the right answer.

I thank you. Alain Marty
It doesn't matter whether you use WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger "Secret Conversations" or even Signal app (or PGP or any public key based communications system)!.

If you are not verifying key fingerprints out of band, then you are potentially vulnerable to a malicious server MITMing new sessions.

If you want secure end-to-end messaging, verify keys out of band, do not solely trust a 3rd party for key exchange!
http://epsilonwiki.free.fr/lambdaway/?view=Ycombinator
Doesn't this mean that only subsequent messages can be decrypted? i.e. Whatsapp has provided forward secrecy (as long as they haven't been using this trick from the initial secrets that were set up)?
You have 4 paid weeks not to think about what to do next, but to think about where you want to be in the future, and plan your first steps for getting there.
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Hi vadim! Very impressive feature matrix! I'll definitely give it a try! thank-u :)
You don't need to know everything about livers and cancers. There is a lot to know that is irrelevant to alcoholism.

Also, the doc was technically wrong. He should of said "high probability", not "Yes, science is very certain".
I also own a CDI for those horrible jump and run Zelda games...yeah, yeah I know :D
From the presentation. They mentioned it was 2.5 to 6, but expect worst case with battery life. You can plug a USB-C to charge it with a power bank from what I gather.
They did try to sell it for a couple of years but by that point in 2014 I think they had essentially given up already. But the revenue was covering the hosting costs so it seemed sensible to just leave it going, and leave possibilities open.
Spotify doesn't let you use them if you live in the wrong country either, you just happen to live in a right country for them.
'As such I think it's unfair to just complain about WhatsApp here.'

I disagree. WhatsApp have a known vulnerability which they won't fix (indeed they deliberately added this vuln on top of the Signal protocol), and no denial that they have used this vulnerability in the past.

They made a big PR song and dance about this feature only to backdoor it. That deserves criticism.
The Xbox One version actually has a worse framerate and resolution and is otherwise identical in terms of textures and whatnot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHtnktoPLAo
that's not the msrp but very frequently thats the deal being offered. Similarly Xbox has the same heavy discount.

It should be noted that both Microsoft and Sony recoup some loss leading with their subscription services.
He never said it was. Google services aren't isolated like normal apps either, as far as I know they can access other app's data (when installing cyanogenmod, I had to install google apps in some weird way from the bootloader because it has to change protected things on the phone). His point of requiring google's stuff to be installed is valid, even if he wrote it thinking payload gets sent over it.
It's important which bits are different too. The absolute percentage doesn't tell you the whole story.
It's not like using Twitter doesn't come with costs; you need to learn how to use it, you need to follow people to stay up to date, you should probably reply to some of the people tweeting at you; and last but not least, you also need to spend time on actually coming up with things to say. That's a massive time investment. The opportunity cost of that time is a lot more than the $5 app.net used to cost per month.

I assume that $5 a month is only a problem for occasional users -- but I doubt that those add a lot of value to the ecosystem (aside from higher numbers of total users signed up and other vanity metrics)
Given that Chrome itself was often bundled with Adobe Flash and Reader security updates I’m not sure they’ve got much of a case.

https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1053973
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Twitter has no issue making money: They made over a billion last year. Their problem is in growing: They have about the same users they had 2 years ago.
Argonaut works in the field. I'm pretty sure (s)he knows what NIPS is and has thought about AGI some too.
iTunes and other media players have had that exact dilemma...

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/new...
My current beef with Adobe is that they took a perfectly good mobile version of Photoshop for Android, broke it into 5 separate applications, that when combined, don't even reach the full functionality of the application they are replacing.

Oh and they're each the size of the original app.

Who signs off on this?
Noticed they added Facebook to the LICENSE. Facebook was notorious at one point for some unpopular language in their open source licenses. Does their inclusion in the LICENSE file mean a developer needs to be aware of how Facebook is currently (or in future) licensing React, as well as how Rax is licensed?
How much JS do you know? Do you know ES6? Same with python.

If you feel you _really_ understand those languages you could learn a statically typed language. Something like Java might be a good next step.

Another idea is to learn a Javascript framework.
React might be a good choice if you're into web front end.
Using Signal on iOS here - what is the reliance on Google?
Some more background:

This was presented in the lightning talks at 33c3, starting around minute 48: https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-8089-lightning_talks_day_4

Here's the congress wiki with some more links:
https://events.ccc.de/congress/2016/wiki/Lightning:A_Backdoo...

And a blogpost:
https://tobi.rocks/2016/04/whats-app-retransmission-vulnerab...
yup that sound creepy to for more
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCD337Tryy5pEGTTZZmz4c9Q?sub...
> For someone who never uses it, it's going to have some friction.

Remember some people never used the previous init and logging systems. They're new to Linux or UNIX, they may be even young (and growing up with Systemd).

Not just in this particular case but more broadly it is important to note there's going to be opponents who are used to X, Y, and Z and don't want to relearn or adapt. It is akin to the never ending progressive vs conservative argument. Just how large is the group though? Is there backwards compatibility? You see, I just use 3 Raspberry Pi's and I am apparently still able to use /var/log.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCD337Tryy5pEGTTZZmz4c9Q?sub...
I think systemd would benefit from a slower adaptation.

The network and boot issues that practically everyone have encountered are mostly due to incorrect default configurations. This shows that the maintainers are not ready to use systemd as they don't yet fully understand it.
I don't think this is as serious as it seems, this exploit only applies to undelivered messages, which granted is not great, but is at least something.

And any WhatsApp update could potentially include code to snoop on decrypted messages so exploits that can only be performed from the WhatsApp server side - i.e the example in the article about snooping entire conversations - are not really that relevant.

Having said that, it's disappointing and they should adopt Signal's approach.
Does anybody seriously still doubt that all the main US tech/communication products all have backdoors?
There's not going to be another AI winter. I'm sure it will drop down the hype curve, but it's producing too much value already.
Yes, we agree that PS4 as a platform is more succesfull than the xbox. I disagree it has much to do with hardware specs.

Yes, PS4 has a slightly better GPU but even if PS4 and Xbox one shipped with hardware where xbox one was slightly better it would not affect the current market share that much.

Up to a point superior graphics are created by superior artists and animators. Using engine and art assets by superior programmers.

Uncharted is so good because of Naughty Dog, not because their platform happens to be PS4.

Sony has played their part well, whereas Micrsoft fumbled the Xbox one launch and positioning.
This is not about the government "suppresing part of a film that is considered obscene" or "removing news articles that are politically unacceptable".

This is about you wanting to download movies or series without paying money to the people who made them. Movies or series that are completely legal to watch and sell in Australia, as long as you pay the people who worked to make them.

Too many people masquerade their freeloading as political activism to feel superior. Sticking it to the man, eh?

And once again I respect the right to download or upload whatever you want, but making it look like you're fighting the big brother censorship when you just want to watch game of thrones, a show that is completely legal to watch in Australia, without paying for it is... childish
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I agree. Is there any serious effort at making an open source BMC firmware?

At least Intel AMT improves the situation a bit.
Exactly -- plus, the "notify key changes" setting is off by default. When I was looking through WhatsApp on my girlfriend's phone (it's useful to know what popular applications look like to be able to help others, even if I don't use them myself) I was very surprised to learn it was off by default. That's the same as disabling certificate checking on https and hoping that the pubkey you got is valid. It took me a while to believe it was actually the default and she hadn't turned it off herself (probably by accident), but it seems to be true. I just can't imagine how people call Whatsapp encrypted when whatsapp can push a new key à la "here, go encrypt your messages to this pubkey please".
Assume it's everything, because why wouldn't it be? They can't upsell you if they only track your usage of existing products.
Yes, I know that. I'm asking you to keep your GPA up inspite of that :-)
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Ask HN: How to structure a good problem set for hiring
Hey everybody,

for the first time in my life I am not the one to be interviewed, but rather sit on the other side of the table.
My task is to create a problem set that a Ruby on Rails dev would have to solve to solve (or at least: work on, so we can see if they ask the right questions, how they work, if they know what they claim to know, if they think and communicate in a structured way etc.).

Any pointers on how to create such a problem set? Some requirements that it should meet?

Example requirement I made up: It should contain some ambiguity, to see if they just hack away or ask questions to understand the actual problem they should solve.
> Don't hashing functions have collisions?

They do. The text is somewhat misleading and not properly explaining that.

All hash functions have collisions. But from a cryptographically secure hash function we expect that nobody is able to find such a collision. They exist, but the computational power to find one is not available to humans.
From the outset I've always expected that a backdoor was present in Whatsapp. In fact, I'd be surprised if they hadn't granted themselves some special capabilities with regards to the content of the communications. Touting their end-to-end encryption has enticed many people to trust the product, sometimes with strong conviction, while giving themselves a monopoly on access to communication perceived as secure by the end users. It stands to reason that claims about security and privacy of an end product (the Whatsapp app), no matter how lofty the goals that its creator (especially a murky company like Facebook) has purportedly set out to realize, can be verified without being completely open. There is software out there like OpenSSL that is developed by PhD's, and is completely open and available to anyone who wishes to validate its security, yet vulnerabilities are found years after they've been introduced into the code. Claims to Whatsapp's security/privacy are preposterous a priori.
I'm far more knowledgeable and comfortable with Python than JS. Your question about ES6 is well taken. Diving deeper into that might meet my goals.
It literally ends with Everett's MIT collaborator surprising him by saying the data "falsified" his theory and another researcher noting that there was some embedding, contrary to Everett's theory.
That's measuring different things. We can tell whether a particular copy of a gene came from the Neanderthal gene pool or the main SSA gene pool by looking at its sequence (esp. at SNPs), but the overall base pair sequence of that gene will still be 99.9% the same.

When we say that chimpanzees and humans share 99% of their genome, we're looking at base pairs, but when we say that modern Eurasians have 1-4% of their genome from Neanderthals we're looking at genes.
The pricing is on the level of Apple for some reason.
In league of legends you could previously "auto-cancel", and critical hits have different recognisable animations. So if you were about to crit a minion you could cancel the auto-attack and "store" the crit to hit an enemy with it.

I think that's been patched now but it was there for a good while.
> Finally, I'll be able to have one piece of hardware for playing at home and on the go.

Until you're done playing both games, and then what ?
The Windows NT model built on operating systems design thought that happened in the 1980s, that took far too many years to trickle into the other operating systems whose designs such thought was looking at.

However, FreeBSD has had process descriptors since roughly 2010. They have the slightly odd semantics of terminating processes when all descriptors to them are closed. But they can be used as descriptors with kqueue() and the like.
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As your being made redundant, there's nothing untoward about their reason.

1 month for each year served is fairly normal so again, nothing untoward.

Signing a release is also fairly standard. Under these circumstances I would always recommend showing the release to an employment lawyer. For me, peace of mind is worth a couple of hundred dollars but YMMV.

Also, in the UK at least, there are tax breaks on some of the redundancy package so it's worth looking into.

Otherwise, what you do next depends a lot on what your financial situation is. I was made redundant a number of years ago and it worked out great. I was married and had a child at the time but we had enough money for me not to work for a few months. I had a bit of a break, in hindsight I was quite burned out, then got a job at a startup, refreshed and raring to go.

Obviously, it's not always a positive experience but it's not always negative either.

Good luck. Hope things work out.
(from tfa): "Now, let us turn our attention to the benefits that systemd brings us. I believe that these are the reasons that all Linux distributions have adopted systemd."

ahem slackware has not adopted systemd