skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure if I understood the issue fully: Assuming both parties have the "show security warnings" setting enabled and take it seriously, but ignore the lack of "message delivered" checkmarks, can the attacker snoop on one message or multiple ones?

As soon as the message is delivered it cannot be resent anymore, but could the attacker refuse to provide the delivery confirmations, then perform the attack (getting all messages that weren't yet marked as delivered, potentially over a large timeframe, while also showing the warning)? If so, I'd say it is a thing to worry about.

A smart attacker could wait until one party is switching phones, so that the warning is not considered suspicious, and since they could swap the new-correct key in immediately afterwards, users would be likely to dismiss the missing checkmarks and double key-change notification (at least before this news was published).

Also, for phone calls, WhatsApp only shows the warning after the call.

I don't believe these are backdoors, but I'm surprised WhatsApp isn't taking it more seriously and trying to address it.
I'm actually going to credit Google's G Suite as being pretty darn good for what you can get for 5 or 10 dollars a month. You can get a domain, immediately start a blog on blogger against that domain, you have great alternatives to word, excel, powerpoint, cloud storage you can use for the business needs (scanning tax receipts anyone?) You can even host an 'intranet' as you scale, and a built in ads platform (granted, not perfect, but thats another thread).

I'm simply shocked that you don't see this being pushed harder, Google could make a lot of money here. Plus, all the 3rd party integrations are nice, and some even give you a discount for signing up via Google.

This is what the cloud is all about, was making this stuff cheaper and more accessible than ever. Google really is missing out on an opportunity here IMO.
The VM is not built for every release, it is copied into the release. The fact that it isn't built for each release is why cross-compilation of releases is not possible.
Certainly possible, but are you looking at the excerpts in his blog post, or the actual code that he links to? https://github.com/lemire/despacer/blob/master/include/despa...
I feel like I'm the only one who has a Wii U and likes it.

There is definitely a dearth of games, but the first party titles are some of the best games available, for any platform: The various Marios, Mario Kart, Smash Bros, Pokemon Tournament, couple of others.

The graphics are a big step up from the Wii and still look great. I don't give a damn about the 'tablet', it's just another controller (and not a bad one at that).
Same here... except it was (Free)webs. Back then, they let you code your own pages as long as you put a little banner that had their logo on it somewhere on each page. Don't know if they do anything like that anymore.
I've seen a few companies using google docs because no one knew excel also has a collaborative spreadsheet mode. All had MSoffice.

Last place had about 60 users. Average load time for the gdocs page is ~90 seconds. Users access the page dozens of times a day, most leave it open as a tab but memory usage became an issue.

Ever-increasing spreadsheet size eventually meant multiple computers were crashing/becoming unusable with the sheet open.

I offered to migrate it to Excel/VBA, was an old tiny codebase for simple calculations. Management bought more RAM instead, made me laugh.
It should be an interesting comparison with Pai, an obviously experienced and qualified individual for the FCC post with perspectives that many find offensive, and DeVoss, who is obviously an inexperienced and unqualified individual for the Secretary of Education post, to see which actually gets more done.
Wife is also a teacher. In addition to the issues with liability, there is also the exhaustion aspect. With 7 classes a day of 37 students on average, trying to take away the phones becomes more effort than it is worth. It takes, say, 2 minutes per person to take away the phone and give it back at the end of class. Say we have 10 students, about 1 out of 3 students, that have this issue with attention (likely a low estimate). That's 20 minutes out of the 50 she has per class. There is a 5 minute passing period. You also have to attend to the other 36 students while the phone surrendering process takes place. You can change those number how you'd like, but trying to do this everyday, 7 times a day becomes, 5 days a week ... it becomes pointless. They talk back, as teenagers do, they start fights with teachers, they refuse to admit they have a phone, etc. The hassle of trying to get the phone out of their hands is useless. Effectively, you are forced to triage those individuals and focus on the students that want to learn.

And yes, the school is supposed to take the phones from the students that have proven themselves to be untrustworthy at the beginning of the day. This rarely occurs as 2000 students stream into their classrooms (you hope) about 5 minutes before the bell. You can call the front office to come in and take the phones away during first period, but they are usually busy with other aspects of running the school (truancy, regular discipline issues, legal drug administration, illegal drug confiscation, planning meetings, grading, etc). If the kind is on a phone, that is less of a priority than fights and other regular school discipline issues, so it gets left behind.
Simple is not easy.

Mailing lists are a nightmare for newcomers. That's why they progressively disappear.
I'm not referring to autism, but rare fatalities from vaccination due to things like anaphylactic shock. It is documented that they happen, and they are also a terrible reason not to vaccinate.
It's always worth remembering that theatre kids are nerds; they're nerds on a level that makes "good at math" look like division winning quarterback.
Have you used LibreOffice's equivalent, Base?
> The main piece of feedback that we got when pitching this idea was that you're going to end up as a master-of-none

Interesting. I'm working on a product based on a similar premise, for end-users, but focused on financial services.

I'm curious, did you try pitching to customers, or just investors?
Quoting: "It is going to be faster as long as most blocks of eight characters do not contain any white space."

Your point is still helpful because it seems that not having whitespace is probably less common, but there is a mention.
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USC Dornsife picked the winner. Other polls did not.

Trump got 46.1 percent of the popular vote:

http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/21/politics/donald-trump-hillary-...

That is almost the same as the 46.8 percent of the popular vote for Trump that USC Dornsife predicted. Pretty close to spot on.

The other polls, including 538, underestimated the size of Trump's support.
Big companies can afford lawyers and lobbyists and they get all the best tax breaks and subsidies. Small companies, not so much.

What does that have to do with business-to-business transactions? Microsoft doesn't care about your subsidies. Oracle doesn't care about your tax breaks. All they care about is how many users you can bring or how many zeroes you can put on the contract.

This is actually what should and would happen in a free market.

This sort of coordination problem is actually a classic failure of free markets (it was even covered in my Economics 101 course). Coase's Theorem only applies when transaction and negotiation costs are zero. In any real world scenario where transaction costs are nonzero, you'll see failures like this.
>If you mean pushing the boundaries of research, yes, then your path there will likely involve a PhD.

Yes I mean pushing the boundaries, but I think it is important to stress that a PhD is not a prerequesite to do that. Anyone who is talented enough can learn the necessary math.

Getting paid for research work is a different story of course. A PhD undoubtedly helps with that, but this is Hacker News. People might figure something out.
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I'm not so sure about that. If the ships can communicate with each other, they can decide to gang up on the humans and prevent the humans from shutting them down. The humans really don't have that much power over the ships; the ships just haven't done anything to limit the humans' activities yet. That could change at any time.

If the ships wanted to be really nice, they could just beam the humans down to a safe planet and take off into the interstellar void and find themselves a new home.
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Yep, a lot of businesses rely on Excel until a certain point and then they try and find a product that fits them or try custom software dev that amounts to "convert this bunch of crazy Excel sheets into a web/desktop interface".

When something like Access (or LibreOffice Base) can be used instead to fill in the gap.
What's a good reason for medical devices and emergency services to use the public internet? I feel like the idea of fast lanes is being imposed to avoid more difficult tasks on companys' part, to our detriment.

Aside from that, Netflix is already cheap.
Maybe it will be better than her acting?
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I hate sublime text's vertical editing. It jumps around when I would rather just have it do actual block highlighting the way every other editor that supports block highlighting does it.

If anyone knows how to force it to do that I'm all ears, it's easily my biggest complaint about ST3.
Abe's piece is definitely notable – many thanks.
...As opposed to, what, a native application? A TUI?

I mean, you can do a lot of amazing stuff in a TUI, but at this point I'm fairly sure that I only like them out of Stockholm syndrome.
I feel like you're addressing a nonissue. If you want to start your own project, you can set the standards for development process, coding standards, language, etc. If I don't like those choices it's no big deal and no slur on you: I'll just work on what I want and folks who agree will be delighted to work with you.

But your note feels like you're saying "why don't the kernel dev switch to Ruby?" Of course when I say it that way it sounds absurd, but really it's simply an equivalent.
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Unlike the vast majority of end users, many HN readers have inside influence over the technology threats - even if it's just lobbying for addressing them in your company and spreading the word to others. That gives us even more responsibility than most citizens. Here are EFF's recommendations:

* Tech Companies, Fix These Technical Issues Before It’s Too Late

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/11/tech-companies-fix-the...

The U.S. (and other countries) will only be free if its citizens make it that way.
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This is the best comment of all time.
Do you happen to have a link?
I don't think I've ever heard the actor in question express anything interesting—let alone persuasive—about the universe. I'd call this a minimum for contributing to research.

This looks like a blatant publicity stunt, to be even blunter.
I had occasion a few years ago to raise this point as a question with a doctor hauled out as a medical expert interviewed on public radio.

His response, simple and dogmatic, was that current literature and understanding (and, compared to my own knowledge, he was behind the curve on this) did not support vaccinating males.

Correlation and suspected causation between infection and oral cancers in gay men was already being demonstrated. As just one point. He appeared to be uninformed on this.

My point? Many doctors are not in the lead on these topics. Much medical practice (in the U.S.) appears to be last in line in terms of adoption.

Currently, there is some thinking that HPV may be tied to some prostrate cancers. I have no evidence that there is a connection. But, another point for men to consider and to monitor for further information/developments.

It so far appears there is no statistically significant downside to being vaccinated. If I had a son, I would have him vaccinated. For his own sake, and for the sake of his future partners (of whichever gender).
> Is there a sympathetic view of Ajit Pai that anyone could offer?

I met commissioner Pai in person last year (he was meeting with groups of founders in the Boston area). IIRC, the primary point of discussion was wireless spectrum policy and ensuring access to broadband internet for the greatest number of people, so I have little insight to offer into his thinking on other issues. However, in my impression he seemed to be a thoroughly decent and knowledgable person who cared deeply about the work that he is doing. I think it is important to separate the policy issues from the person.
For what it's worth I had asked someone the very same question when I started my career.

From the horses mouth take a look at ext4 on ubuntu https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LinuxFilesystemsExplained

Then a 10,000 mile view, I'd take a look at UNIX and Linux https://www.amazon.com/UNIX-Linux-System-Administration-Hand...

There are more books I could list and papers on FileSystems.
I will leave you with three particular books that have guided my career

If you want to look solely at Ubuntu. The Ubuntu Server book https://www.amazon.com/Official-Ubuntu-Server-Book-3rd/dp/01...

Unix Made Easy - https://www.amazon.com/UNIX-Made-Easy-John-Muster/dp/0072193...

Hope this helps
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I must be an idiot because I still don't get it. If the VM is just copied into the release, not built, why can't you do that on macOS for deployment on Linux by copying a Linux version in? Why do you need to do it in a VM or Linux build server?
Also during an emergency situation you may be taken to an out-of-network hospital or be treated by an out-of-network doctor at a hospital, of which insurance may only cover 0%-50% of the bill. So you have no choice in provider, no choice in price, yet have 100% responsibility for paying.
You'd be surprised. There's more customer using the internet than businesses investing in it across many niches. I launched a trades business with my brothers and thanks to seo and social we've grown a real, substantial business. We launched the site and marketing before we bought the equipment. We acquired over 150 accounts in the first two years (businesses paying thousands per year). Phone just keeps ringing now.
I've found Rancher to best way to setup a k8s cluster as well.

Even the "Kubernetes of Children" book made my head spin.
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The articles I have read have made it sound like a Catch-22. They cannot profit while they have to pay drivers, but self-driving cars will enable competition from both software companies and automakers, especially if an automaker reduces the need for capital by renting out self-driving cars. It's unclear how Uber will not be further commoditized by self-driving cars.
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> Just gonna put an idea out here: what if food was so abundant it was free?

The land it's farmed on has inherent value to someone; there's no amount of labor cost reduction or automation that can bring food costs below the value of the land + whatever raw materials go into production (seed, feed, whatever).

> 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.

And yet people starve all over the place; not just in 3rd world countries but here in the USA. So either it's not that plentiful or we have a serious logistical problem.
In my experience traveling, about 2013 Macbook Pros got too thin to be described as rugged. I have sporadic hardware issues with mine (late 2013) due to what seems to be physical pressure while in transit.
Hi, Jin here from Amplitude. You are absolutely right that there are other sources of duplicates. Our real-time data store sits behind an event processor (not covered in this blog) that handles all major event duplication scenarios. This is why the real-time store focuses on duplications introduced by the message bus replays, something that systems such as Druid do not address.
You need to be specific. Most people doing web on .NET probablly use .NET Asp.NET MVC... I've used it a lot, and it's ok. But there are alternatives. For instance using F# and https://suave.io/ Which I think is really nice.
I completely agree with you, but I would put it into even stronger terms. Paid fast lanes are not an experiment worth performing, in the hope that ISPs pass the savings down to consumers. The ISPs have absolutely zero incentive to pass the savings onto consumers when they have no real competition.

Any free-market thinker should recognize this to be self-evident, so if they really want to give ISPs the freedom to offer paid fast-lanes, then they have to solve the competition problem first.
It's probably only that no one's written the tooling for that yet, because it's easy enough to set up a Linux VM or build server.
They even have a demo site now: https://try.rancher.com
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>Who cares what it looks like?

The teenagers that made up the huge majority of the video game market at the time. Teenagers are highly sensitive to suggestions that they're children. They do not want to be carrying around a little purple cube.

As someone who was a teenager when the GameCube came out, I can offer a relevant anecdote. The GameCube was frequently mocked by my peers because it was "too kiddie". The cool kids had large black Xboxes and PlayStations with scary-shootery games like Grand Theft Auto, not a cute little purple cube with a heavily kawaii-ized Zelda game and a funny plumber who washes away colorful paint and saves smiling stars to bring sunshine back to an island of little mushroom people.

This was the overall perception, and it was a legitimate issue. The professional reviews in the gaming press frequently referenced the GameCube "kiddie" image problem, and would often weigh whether a new piece of news made the GC seem more or less "kiddie". [0]

The appearance matters a great deal. It's a piece of furniture, a piece of decor. It says something about you to yourself and everyone who enters the room. Teenagers don't want that message to be "I like playing kid games".

[0] http://www.ign.com/articles/2004/03/17/interview-resident-ev... ; example where the issue of the GameCube's kiddie perception is referenced by the producer of Resident Evil 4, and he's asked about whether Nintendo gave him any guff over his intention to release a violent game on a console targeted toward "younger audiences".
He means why not just include the apropiate vm as a binary for any given arch.
Actually, she's not an actor in the (short) film in question, she is the director as stated in TFA. The ML technique is applied to achieve a specific effect the director wanted to achieve.

Did she submit PRs to TensorFlow? Probably not. Did she contribute to the paper? Most definitely, I think we can even go so far as to say it's plausible she fulfills the Vancouver criteria:

Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or (..)

AND

Drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content;

AND

Final approval of the version to be published;

AND

Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work

Assuming she at some point revised the paper critically for content, which is plausible, there is no denying she's on the author list.
Hi, Jin here from Amplitude. The real-time data store is part of a bigger columnar store we built last year called Nova (https://amplitude.com/blog/2016/05/25/nova-architecture-unde...). In designing Nova, we’ve looked at many existent solutions including Amazon Redshift and Google BigQuery, but none of them sufficiently supports all our use cases. You can read more in the linked blog.
I'm looking at the excepts in his post, which are broken.
"Not on a per mile basis though. A pay cut combined with more hours isn't exciting to me."

But this is highly dependent on your situation. If you're already working full time and/or have a comfortable and stable life style, this might be OK.

If someone has 20 hours available to work evenings during a week, but is only utilised for 10 hours per week, then an increase in hours (e.g. from 10->15), alongside a reduction in per-hour profit (e.g. $15->$12), might be welcome.
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Agreed. I got myself a Braswell (N3160), 4GB RAM, 32GB eMMC (but it has an unused SATA port and bracket, so I will put in a 240 GB SSD for storage and OS and use the eMMC as a backup solution). It's the Acer ES13. Cost me 24990 RSD, or in USD $215. Pretty nice, typing this on it. Using Ubuntu as the main OS with kernel 4.9.0 (the default Ubuntu 16.10 one cannot return from suspend properly) using Remmina to access a OVH Ubuntu server which runs Windows 10 in VirtualBox. It's a decent and very portable setup, if you have Internet ofcourse. The battery lasts me 5 hours, it's a 3 cell built-in LiPo, but I can't remember the watt-hours rating, however the CPU is only 4 W, and I use the screen at half brightness.
It may be that innovations that enable shipping of agricultural products from countries with cheap labor will be cheaper than robots.
For I second I thought this was the world's most subtle vulnerability disclosure via an application that allowed access to every single pay and tax statement ADP has!
Why would allowing developers (maintainers included) to post, vote on, and edit formatted markdown comments make it harder for maintainers to deal with my code?
A lot of crops are mechanized. Wheat, corn, many nuts, some kinds of vegetables, some fruits.

But as the article points out there are some crops that are just too delicate to harvest mechanically without destroying too much (or basically all) of it, so it's not economical.

If your choice is $50k for labor on a $100k of crop or a large upfront investment plus $0 labor and only 10% of your $100k crop is harvestable... the choice is obvious.

(all numbers made up)
We were still having product-market-fit surveys with potential customers, and friends (some of whom are investors).

I think narrowing down to a specific industry like you're doing helps the problem immensely. A true schema builder is a hard sell to both non-technical users (when point solutions offer more with WAY less setup) and technical users (see how tech people view Salesforce, for example). However, Quickbase and Airtable are doing it currently. Very interested to see how Airtable matures.
>> ... or "airline industry is fucked" because pilots pick up stewardesses.

You're right. They don't for the reason you mentioned. They do it for worse things:

http://www.westword.com/news/frontier-airlines-subject-of-ge...

https://bossip.com/1365175/another-one-second-black-female-d...

https://www.change.org/p/stop-the-bullying-intimidation-and-...
I just remembered: also, each class in Java has to be in it's separate file. That might very well be the biggest factor.
Sooo... the workers still doing the work get paid more than they used to and we create new jobs designing and manufacturing the equipment. HN really needs to starting flagging these poor stupid workers will all be out of work porn.

Diagnosing doctors will be replaced way before migrant farm labor disappears.