skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm using the NSA as an example of a foe of sufficient capability, not saying that this is what they do (to our own agencies at any rate.) Someone who can trojan hardware, suborn any given person, etc.

I was hoping to use a very advanced force as an example to show that things that may sound secure aren't if your attacker has a certain level of resources.

Fwiw, most pen-testers would aso be able to bypass any such casually enacted system too, but that's less obvious so I had hoped to avoid that argument by going with an extreme example.
>Tech industry completely ignores it because it's not sexy enough!

Tech ignores it because the profits are razor thin.

It's hard to improve on sun+dirt+human hands.
And you can FAST. What else is there for quick and dirty stuff????
It hasn't made it to the front page. It made it to /newest.
>Precedence/associative ... That's it.

Until you get to hooks and forks.
10 May 2012: https://blog.abevoelker.com/gitlaw-github-for-laws-and-legal...

I assume if my google-fu were better, I could find references to "RCS for lawyers" or "SCCS for lawyers" though, that were decades old.
Salesforce is a great solution for stupid CRUD apps that require some custom code here or there. A year ago I started with 8 users, now I'm at 40 and counting - I don't have to waste time developing a front-to-back web application to keep track of garbage that was stored in spreadsheets, and my users get rapid turnaround on most changes (hey, add this new object or field please!).

And if your users don't need to access a lot of different "types" of data (objects) the $25/mo "App Cloud" license is a cheap way to get going.
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I love printing out an interesting bit of code (usually 3 or 4 pages max), grabbing a cup of coffee and a pencil and working through the logic while sitting out on the back porch in the fresh air.

Edit: I also keep a paper programming journal for writing down thoughts about code/bugs I've worked on.
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Just gonna put an idea out here: what if food was so abundant it was free? How much cheaper would it be to live? How much could be saved on redistribution schemes like unemployment benefits or Social Security?

50,000 years ago, everybody's job was to find or hunt food. If you didn't your kin-group starved. Then the Ice Ages thawed and we developed agriculture, so only about 70% of the people had to produce food, while the others could specialize in the production of tools or the provision of services like health care. Industrialization and the Green Revolution have made food so plentiful, we can have foods from all over the world available to us at any time of year.

So instead of worrying about the future of yesterday's dead jobs, let's make the cost of living as low as possible.
> Tech industry completely ignores it because it's not sexy enough!

More like tech journalism ignores it. There's already been a ton of investment in farm automation.

John Deere Autonomous Tractor - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh2O0c9VBO0

Agrobot Strawberry Harvester - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKT351pQHfI

Ferrari RemoWeed - http://www.ferraricostruzioni.com/en/series/remoweed

Agricultural Drones - http://www.precisiondrone.com/

Lely's Automated Milking Machine - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYg0haya28I
This would definitely work, since the device has color flow Doppler, and the performance of the whole thing would mainly depend on the performance of the underlying machine (spatial & temporal definitions).
Our solution was not tested in the clinical setting yet, though.
Thanks for the link!
Most comments here are like not reporting HTTPS certificate problems/MITM leakage with arguing that it's better to have HTTPS than not.

I wonder what people here would say if browsers would act with certificates the way WhatsApp handles key renewal.

We even discuss certificate pinning etc. in the web space.
> tried to recreate the success with other products. So far they haven't had another hit (some big misses, though)

If you're asking for non-ads products that have done pretty well -- Android, Youtube, Cloud doing pretty well.

Next possible moneymaker is Waymo.
I'm quite opposed to the guy's ideas from what I've read so far, but here's one perspective:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/21/opinion/21Benkler.html

Some of the ways to look at it is that if providers can sell a fastlane to Netflix they can reduce prices for the consumer. Other arguments that have been advanced include having a fast lane for medical devices or emergency services.

I could see an argument in favor if the rest of the marketplace was highly competitive and you could just switch to a different provider if the provider you had was behaving abusively. That's not the case in most of the US where you have a duopoly at best for fast internet.

Personally, I find this guy's proposals to be bad policy for individual consumers, but they're pretty great for ISPs. They would argue that in the end that's great for consumers too, but as far as I am concerned, that remains to be seen.
Correct.

Vanity addresses are popular in bitcoin, but difficulty rises exponentially with each character. Most people don't want crunch random numbers for 6 months. The solution to 3rd party key generation is split keys.

Essentially the addition of keys to get the desired final key.

Generate key X, give X public address to cloud provider, they search for key Y so that X + Y == YourVanityAddress, when found they send you private Y. Private X + Y is your vanity private key.

Vanity address generated by 3rd party in a trustless environment.
This is one area where Azure is leading with both Azure SQL and DocumentDB supporting geo-replication.
I thought the european deregulation of the last mile was only possible because in large part it was quasi-governmental telecoms which owned the last mile infrastructure - so mostly it was governments ordering themselves to setup a competitive market. In the US, most last mile infrastructure is privately owned and you would have a big fight with those private owners (which generally are corporations that start to legislatively meddle when cities try to do things like put in their own last mile infrastructure). Though I agree, public access (and preferably ownership) of the last mile seems like the best structural and low regulation way to maintain a competitive market for internet access.
Looks like it's 9.

Bhautik Joshi, first author on this paper, collaborated with Sébastien Ourselin on e.g. [1], and Sébastien Ourselin has an Erdős number of 5 [2]. So Stewart's Erdős number is at most 7.

Her Bacon number is 2. 'We learned that Kristen Stewart has a Bacon number of two because she and Michael Sheen costarred together in "The Twilight Saga," and Sheen and Bacon starred in "Frost/Nixon."' [3]

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220677921_A_quantit...

[2] https://zbmath.org/collaboration-distance/?a=ourselin.sebast...

[3] http://www.mtv.com/news/2442193/bacon-number-google/
Clarification: our previous collector did conservative root scanning, used a less evolved mark-sweep system for some objects, and used a Bartlett-style of quick-release compaction for other objects.

Riptide removes the copying because concurrent or event incremental copying is sure to introduce overhead. Are a minimum you either need a barrier on all pointer reads from the heap or all writes to the heap, and none of those barriers resemble our old generational barrier so this would be new overhead. Riptide only barriers writes of pointers to the heap, and uses a single unified barrier for both concurrency and generations to get maximum throughput. Riptide's concurrency actually improves end-to-end execution time because the overhead of the concurrency is negligible so you just get to enjoy the benefit of continuing to run while the GC runs, so you run faster overall. The speed-up was like 5% on the splay test, and I measured speed-ups in other things I cared about, like page load times.
Not_notMNIST: Generate your own datasets
[Teaser](http://zafar.cc/images/letters.png)

[Personal Blog](http://zafar.cc/not-notmnist-dataset-generation/)

[GitHub Link](https://github.com/zafartahirov/not_notMNIST)

I wrote a little script that you can use to generate datasets for classification (like MNIST or notMNIST).

It takes fonts that you have, and creates images + label/features pickle that you can load into Python.

A more detailed explanation here: http://zafar.cc/not-notmnist-dataset-generation/ I would really appreciate any critique, issue requests, and pull requests on GitHub: https://github.com/zafartahirov/not_notMNIST

The benefits that I personally see is that if you want to test your classification on datasets that involve Unicode characters, you can. The problem is that you have to have a lot of fonts to be able to generate a decent dataset. If you have a lot of fonts in your language, I would appreciate if you could share the dataset :) I generated some using Hiragana, but I don't have a license for a lot of fonts, so it is more of a demo (check GitHub). I would really love to have a dataset for Chinese, Arabic, Hebrew, Cyrillic, etc.
Does Little Snitch catch process injections (ie: I am currently running in EvilMalware, I open up Chrome, create a new page, write my code into it and create a new thread in it), or is it vulnerable to the same problems of Windows firewall applications before LeakTest and the like. The good Windows firewalls now are able to catch this kind of thing.
You're not recompiling the VM, you're just including a copy of it in the release tarball, so that you can copy the tarball to any machine with the same architecture and run it regardless of whether Erlang or Elixir is installed globally on the machine.

The goal of a release is to bundle together everything you need -- your program, the VM that runs it, your config files, and any instructions necessary to upgrade/downgrade from another version of your code.
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So long dear Wii U ! I'll always play and update you with neat hacks at my place. Seriously though, I don't understand people. For me the Wii U had way better games than the Wii and I would never trade my Wii U for any Playstation or Xbox. Smash Bros is way better, Mario Kart is way way way better (the best Mario Kart ever?)... Just lacked a really good 3D Mario Game.
The idea that law is a kind of code (in the CS sense) seemed like a pretty common idea to me... I remember various jokes revolving around that. I doubt anyone wrote those down, though ;)
Yes. I use this to control what information my Mac sends back to Apple.

My workflow for the first system on a network is to install the OS offline, then install Little Snitch from a thumb drive from a trusted system.

I set it to Silent, Deny All mode and turn off all rules except for the rules that allow software to make (not receive) connections to the local network. Then, and only then, I connect the network cable and try to pull an IP address. If you're using dhcp then this will fail. To deal with that, I create a profile that applies only when connected to my home network and then add an allow rule to let dhcpd/discoveryd (IIRC) to pull IP addresses.

I then try to open up Safari and browse to, say, Google. This will typically fail for two reasons: outgoing DNS queries are not allowed outside of the network and Safari doesn't have rights to connect outside the local network. If my DNS servers are outside of my local network I add a rule to allow the DNS lookup process to connect to only the DNS servers I have defined. I then give Safari allow rules for ports 80 and 443. Both of these rules are added to the home network only profile.

From there, I'll try to access the App Store and sort out what rules are needed for that, adding them and then adding them to my home network only profile. At this point, I'll take a firewall rules backup. Now, if I need to reinstall, I can load this rules backup and be able to browse the Internet, pull system updates, and then evaluate other software that needs network requests.

Software that tries to connect is logged, and each connection is logged. For software that is too "chatty", trying to talk to the network when it shouldn't, I'll add deny rules so they don't spam the failed connections log. Other software will have case-by-case exceptions made for it as necessary.

Generally, all of my allow rules will stay in my home network only profile, but there are a few that I'll always allow out. These are often SSH connections as they should be secure no matter where I'm at.
Look at some of her smaller, more independent role choices. Some smart and interesting choices, very well executed. I don't believe this can be simply ascribed to "handling."

She catches considerable grief for some big, very-well-paid, and "sparkly" roles (thanks, Craig Ferguson). Sometimes, she almost seems to share that attitude herself about them.

But she's also entrenched herself as a very moneyed, A-List actor. I wonder what she may use that for and where she may take it.
In public forum, anonymity is achieved by pseudonimity (one has to go to a trouble of creating account under fake name). But a service that doesn't have logins, the anonimity is default and easy.
I think in part this to me, shows that sometimes, small businesses don't think about long term planning. Being on the web, having a real web presence as others have mentioned, from both having a website, a facebook/instagram/twitter/yelp page (not saying all of those, just examples) to doing advertising on the web (which when done properly, is better ROI at a cost that most small businesses can afford, than say a single billboard perhaps). Thats just not meeting your customers where they are, and sometimes that means future and not existing customers.

Its a lot to take in, to be sure, but you can't beat the scale of the internet for getting your message out.
>You are getting attacked for simply stating your opinion

The replies mostly seem to be saying that I'm equating just the two departures with a declining interest at Google in organic result quality. Of course, I mentioned more than that, but it's an easy way to dismiss me versus educating me on how I've got it wrong.
I have same feeling, one my friend worked at a flywheel (uber but with taxi cabs)...he said that uber dominates this industry. They have figured out the biggest obstacle which is government regulations. This is the big challenge for any startup trying to copy uber.
Have you built anything interesting?
"The world needs a better spreadsheet"

I read this when I was a teen (as that's long ago). It was at a time Lotus was going to launch Improv in 1993! Improv was the attempt made by a very smart team at Lotus to reconquer the crowd that went to Excel.

But as you can guess, the great product never found its market (or never grew beyond a niche) and was killed a few years later.

cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_Improv
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I'd pay more for food that has never been exposed to animals.

This includes humans, birds, rodents, bugs... and their manure too of course.

The store counts too. Seal it before it leaves the greenhouse.
I think they're mostly targeting the people those local businesses ask for assistance with those ads, to be frank :)
Ask HN: Is there a universal icon to represent language selection?
I was just wondering if there is some universal icon for "select language." Like an emoji icon or font-awesome or something like. Many websites have a language selection option but I've never noticed any kind of universal symbol meaning "here is the dropdown to select your language."
I'll offer two theories:

1) Introverts may have a higher default level of arousal, so that social situations overstimulate them and make them tired.
In this case extroverts would be the opposite, i.e. their default arousal is lower, so they seek social situations to raise their arousal level.

2) Introverts process social situations more deeply, and therefore expend more energy in the same social situation than an extrovert would.
Need to be careful about the wording, "strong consistency". I dislike that datastax uses that in their documentation, because it's misleading and really confuses people. There is no commit protocol in place - Cassandra is still an AP db under the hood, so even having multiple replicas acknowledge doesn't mean the data is consistent. For that you need paxos or something similar. This becomes very obvious if you are doing updates from multiple sources to the same key.
You could incentivise more people to audit their banks by eliminating deposit insurance.
That's something I was looking for. It's hard for my audience to find my old live videos. Sounds like a tool I would use.
Does this mean that Atlassian is looking for Trello to generate more sales for their core products? I think it does. Having said, how long until they see (whatever that means in this context) the $425MM they paid for it? How are they defining a successful acquisition?
The “optimized” functions have a bug when the number of remaining bytes is less than the block size.
Perhaps those sentient computers do not believe that mind and body are as strongly tied together as humans do. They may see the destruction of the physical computer they are running on as just an inconvenience as long as there is a backup that can be brought up somewhere else.
I agree with this. You can build an amazing product for the Indian consumer, but if the people can't use it, what good is it?
Late 2012: https://github.com/bundestag/gesetze
Yahoo! became a holding company for Alibaba and Yahoo! Japan. The search and online services are just window dressing.
> We're talking about getting paid something on the scale of millions of dollars here. I don't know about you, but most people I've met wouldn't keep working if they came into that kind of money, at least not the way that a regular worker works. They'd update to mimic the work-styles of the elite.

The context is early-stage startup employees, not white-collar accountants and blue-collar janitors who you are presumably outsourcing to other companies because they perform functions that are not essential to your business. The profits shared by people working for these outsourcing firms are not great because the profits of these outsourcing firms are not great. Your argument is that the profits shared by early-stage startup employees should not be great even when the profits of the firm they were instrumental in building turn out great. How is that fair and why should anyone agree to work with you on those terms?

> These high-level professionals decide to leave the office at 2pm, take every Thursday off for golf, and go on long vacations regularly. They just tell the people who are waiting on them that their needs are going to have to come later. They will also take long, self-financed sabbaticals.

You should really make friends with people who are lawyers, doctors, and in finance. I have friends in all these fields and your idea of these peoples' working hours is a deluded fantasy. They usually work around 50-60 hours a week and rarely take vacations.

I don't want to address the rest of your rant except to say that you should think about why you go so far out of your way to rationalize what to most people is obviously unfair behavior.
I read this article to find out who she was. I had assumed she was a noteworthy scientist I hadn't heard of.
> or useable only in specific contexts or with specific words.

A good example of this is the Winograd Schema. You might think you can figure out a good algorithm for anaphoric resolution (i.e. If you see "Sally called and she said hello.", who is "she"?) that just relies on the structure of a sentence, without considering semantics.

But here's a counterexample:

"The city councilmen refused the demonstrators a permit because they feared violence."

Who are 'they'?

"The city councilmen refused the demonstrators a permit because they advocated violence."

Now who are 'they'?

If you're like most people, even though only the verb changed, the binding of 'they' based on the deeper semantic meaning also changed.

These sentences are called Winograd Schema[1], and there are plenty more like it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winograd_Schema_Challenge
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Lotus went straight to OS/2, because Windows was a toy. Oops.

Around 1991 they had an all-new cross-platform super-product under development, but it crashed and burned and they had to plough on with 123.

I did a lot of the low-level GUI coding for the Open Look and Motif versions of 123. Fun times.
I don't have actual numbers on this, but it seems like most of the last-mile infrastructure was paid for using government subsidies. Essentially our congress handed out natural monopolies to these telecoms, subsidized by the taxpayer.

Assuming that's true, then I would be okay with the government taking the last mile back from the private owners, or force them to open it up to competition while allowing them to charge a small usage fee.
using multi-character tests to speed up the case of runs of 8 or more characters without a space will probably slow it down, not speed it up!

Yes, although there is the option of combining the vectorized comparisons with a branchless approach. I modified his code to do this, and got what seemed to be a flat .40 cycles per character independent of input, which is about twice the speed Daniel illustrated on the input with 3% spaces. I'm sure it can be made even faster (what would the limiting factor be?), but I think this shows that a multi-character approach is faster on all input than would be possible with any single-character approach?
But why build the VM for every release then? What is it that needs to be cross compiled if you're just copying a VM build into a tarball? Why not copy an existing build of it in?
More examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erdős–Bacon_number#Actors
Didn't want to read, at what temperature?
He's the real dingo, not Wheeler.
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A good example of the engineer's puzzle-solving mindset is ice-nine in Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle. Hoenikker didn't particularly care about the Marines, mud, or the general's problem with it. He just thought it made for a good puzzle.
>These enforcement actions have become an unavoidable cost of doing business.

I don't know if we realize the gravity of that statement.

The current environment rewards companies who take these sorts of actions. A bank that did not take these actions would be out-competed.
A fair point but keep in mind that for a long time the vaccine was considered to be only for girls/women, at least in the US.
I imagine their emotions would be largely incomprehensible to us.
It would be interesting to see how well PyPy optimizes the code generated by the Phorth compiler, but it looks like this needs some hacks via the CPython C API to work. Even if it could be made to work, I doubt the PyPy JIT would like some of the odd things Phorth does to the internal interpreter state.