skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could perfectly encrypt a hard drive such that it could decrypt to anything, but the "key" (a one-time pad) would be as big as the drive itself. All real-world crypto software uses short keys, which are just big enough that it's impossible to brute-force guess them. In general for a given encrypted drive, there is probably no other key besides the real one that would produce meaningful looking output, because the space of all possible outputs is so much larger than the space of all possible keys.
Capitol Corridor improvements from Richmond to San Jose are something that could be done right now to dramatically improve transportation in the region. And all we need to do is nationalize the UPRR. Who would complain, really?
tl;dr; co-ops would be a great idea if they didn't suck at meeting the needs of consumers.
Worse is: never knew my password, and lost my keychain. Happens. :-(
Better workflow would be to cancel the account by contacting customer support.

Some cards offer one-time-use numbers, those work great for one-time transactions but a vendor won't be keen on accepting them for recurring payments as you would have to re-enter a card number every billing cycle.

Typically disposable numbers are easy to identify (for the vendor at any rate), much the same way a Visa or MasterCard are different from each other.

You can see a few parterns here:

https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/vhelp/paypalmanager_help...
It should be fairly easily doable with Gordon (https://github.com/jorgebastida/gordon), and scheduling via CloudWatch Events. Or Airflow.
Exactly. What we need is for money to be put into affordable housing on brownfield sites in and around the cities. People don't want to live miles away from anything. Why ruin undeveloped land when there is an abundance of land (and buildings) that sits unused. The reason is because the real estate companies don't want to lose out on profit by building affordable homes on high value land. If the government actually enforced affordable housing requirements (or heaven forbid actually invested in housing directly) then that would be worth something. Instead they are pushing 'garden towns', which whatever the hell it means will probably result in facility deserts and degenerating estates as well as the unnecessary destruction of the countryside.
Right. Well that changes things.
There is some evidence of the contents.
I wonder if there are hash values for those 20,000 CEM files and if they are still on freenet. If so LE could aquire, via the hashes, from the network, and prove, without opening the drives, what the contents are. At least it becomes a strong circumstantial case. If you were relying on a single file you could claim the odds of hash collision etc, but after a few hundred I think you are well past that.
There is a pattern of behaviour here.

*edit - aquire not require..
Well it was written by Julian Fellowes and that is what he is obsessed with.
Outputting 1m lines to the console is likely to be slow - and isn't really ls' fault?
Maybe. But we don't know whether he looked at CP or not.
I don't believe I have failed to do that. The conversation here revolves around 'coldtea's rather remarkable claim that distribution of child pornography should not constitute a crime.

Were I, though, for some unaccountable reason required to clarify my opinion on Rawls' situation despite it being in no way pertinent to the discussion at hand, I would note that I consider his treatment in contravention of both the right to speedy trial and, although I'm not as sure about this one, habeas corpus as well. The case as a whole, and the prosecution's attitude toward it, strike me as a solid example of the troubling habit of overreach our legislative and law-enforcement communities seem to be developing toward strong cryptography, which is as morally neutral as any other technology.

On the other hand, it's rather difficult to argue other than that a government unable to maintain order is unable to effectively govern, and not at all difficult to understand how, viewed from such a perspective, effectively impermeable cryptography might well seem an imminent danger to the security of the state and of those of its citizens not engaged in the sorts of activities which tend to undermine the ability of the government to maintain order. I understand that, especially since last November, the Overton window around opinions on the United States government has shifted such that mere deep and lasting mistrust seems absurdly moderate. But there is nuance here, and to ignore it in search of easy answers is as foolish in this context as in every other.

And quite aside from all that, there is the strong utilitarian argument to be made that this is not the hook on which to hang your defense of encryption, privacy, et cetera. Pedophiles and child molesters come in for about the strongest opprobrium our society ever brings to bear. Do you really not have anyone else around whom to build this case, so that you might have an easier time arguing against such mistreatment of someone as yet convicted of no crime? If you exclude refusal to decrypt a volume on demand from the permissible causes for a finding of contempt, you solve this fellow's problem, too. Can you really not find any way to do that that doesn't involve putting him front and center, where it is literally impossible to separate the substance of the issue from the allegations of extreme unsavoriness which will be leveled against his character, and by extension yours as well?

Remember, if you're going to make a meaningful contribution in this realm, you must of necessity do so in the world where we actually live, not the one where you'd prefer that we did. In the world where we actually live, pedophiles and child molesters are the lowest of the low, and even the mere accusation of involvement in such activities is often enough to ruin lives. It's already hard enough to sell the argument you're making. Why is it worth your while to make it a whole lot harder?
I'm not sure that's correct.

https://hg.python.org/cpython/
But if you decrypt that then they can still lock you up pending the third layer password. By induction you are not getting out.
It is difficult to read past the potential for bias here though.
Except you probably have a password manager client app on your phone so you can look up and enter any passwords you need for your own convenience.
All of teh above, being held incommunicado for up to 6 months. You can charged with anything someone feels like charging you with. You don't have to be given due process or convicted for that to justify immigration detention. Basically you have zero leverage except through your home country's diplomatic mission and/or Americans you are friends or relatives with.
> The London green belt is so far away from the city center that you'd be better of living in Birmigham and taking the train than trying to get in from there.

Utter nonsense. Vast swathes of the green belt around London are within walking -- or a short bus journey -- distance of rail stations providing very reasonable commute times into central London.

You mention the failure of private builders to meet demand for new houses. Why do you think that is?

Do you think it might be something to do with inflated land prices and onerous planning restrictions? The green belt, for example?
I think the core issue with your response is, unless the project in question is the "conventional tools", why do you seem to think knowing those tools is even germane to the quality of someone's contributions?

I write python and some C++ stuff for fun in my free time. If your project interests me, but I have to spend said free time to learn esoteric tools to interact with it that aren't needed elsewhere in my life, how do you figure that's valid?

It's not that I couldn't learn to deal with that kind of shit, it's that I don't see why I should bother. If everything else works without e-mailed diffs, all that does is make anyone with more then one hobby project do is look elsewhere.
Why don't they sue him based on what they already have. They have to have something strong enough to justify holding him for more than a year already, so wtf?
Not sure what ipython is. Is this some sort of debugger?
But without 100% proof he can't be jailed. The prosecutors don't have enough evidence to prove it, so how can he be jailed for it already?

"Innocent until proven guilty" is the foundation of our legal system
According to a quick look, a flight between LA and SF takes approximately 1.5 hours. So, a train would be 3 hours?

I'd wager a lot of people would take that. Once you factor in arriving at the airport an hour before your flight, along with the time taken to get to/from both airports to the actual centre of the city as opposed to where the airports actually are, 1.5 hours actually starts to sound like an improvement.
Java has `sun.misc.Unsafe`, and Python has the FFI which is remarkably easy to misuse. The point is that you don't use these unless you need to, and you spend special effort when you do - same as `unsafe` in Rust. The rest of your code runs perfectly safely, and the vast majority of code has no need to use `unsafe`. Code which uses `unsafe` and isn't obviously either directly an FFI wrapper or a straightforward implementation of a generic data structure is generally considered bad form.
Aren't decrypt and decipher synonyms? What is their distinction, if any?
This is not 100% true and the situations that "not near anything" is true for are varied. DFW was located "in the middle of nowhare" ca. halfway between two cities when it opened. I visited there more in the past than now but "anything" was building up around it when I did go sporadically. LAX is not close to Downtown LA but there are lots of office buildings out there. San Diego's and Pheonix's airports are very close to Downtown. In the case of San Diego it would be difficult to do anything but reuse the existing railways. I suspect if you look around there are a range of airport distances and a range of abilities to get high-speed railways close to city centers, rather than everything setup like Heathrow vs London.
Except I don't have my phone. Why don't I have my phone? Because I don't want it to be stolen and I have no need for it where I am going. I want to unplug and relax, not be on call all the time.
Why would you want to do Linux Guest with Linux host for CUDA?
While great points, I think it might then go beyond the "Simple" in the S3 name itself. Wasn't the original purpose of the service to have it as a dumb storage, and you'll layer metadata as required? I.e. storing indices separately with whatever functionality is needed (be it date/path filtering).
Get a good designer !
Never going to happen because it would lower the values of peoples' houses. End of story.

I can't afford a house in the city I work in. Everyone I know lives outside and commutes by car which is a waste of time for everyone (add cost of petrol, pollution etc.). This is stupid.
Diffs are an internal part of how VC works. There is literally no reason you would ever have to deal with them in their raw format.
In theory. In practice people have been deported despite being US citizens. https://www.aclu.org/blog/speakeasy/yes-us-wrongfully-deport...
Isn't "Thou shalt not murder" sailing awfully close to a tautology, though?
Basic thermodynamics:

If inputs > outputs, there is net energy storage (as fat or protein)

If inputs < outputs, there is net energy deficit (lost from fat and protein)

Inputs = food and drink consumed

Outputs = Basal metabolic rate (BMR) + energy used for activity + energy lost in urine and faeces

Faeces caloric content varies between 50-350 kcal / day, urine 91–117 kcal / day [1]

Basal metabolic rate is primarily decided by fat-free mass, mass, and age, 26% of BMR is not defined by these parameters. Mean BMR is 1500 kcal/day, and 26% of this represents a variability of 1305-1695 kcal per day.[2]

(350-50) + (117-91) + (1695-1305) = 716 kcal

Therefore two people of identical age, fat-free mass and mass who consume identical caloric intake and perform identical exercise will have, at most, a variance of 716 kcal / day in their energy expenditure from the variance in urinary and faecal caloric loss and BMR

[1]: Rose C, Parker A, Jefferson B, Cartmell E. The Characterization of Feces and Urine: A Review of the Literature to Inform Advanced Treatment Technology. Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology. 2015;45(17):1827-1879. doi:10.1080/10643389.2014.1000761. Section 3.2.5 and Section 3.6.4

[2] Factors influencing variation in basal metabolic rate include fat-free mass, fat mass, age, and circulating thyroxine but not sex, circulating leptin, or triiodothyronine. Johnstone AM, Murison SD, Duncan JS, Rance KA, Speakman JR. Am J Clin Nutr. 2005 Nov;82(5):941-8.
I'm from the UK. The reason the British government can propose such outrageous laws is because a) we don't have a functioning opposition party capable of challenging or scrutinising the Government. The Labour party is completely spineless and ineffectual; and b) that lack of opposition has emboldened the Government to push through some of the most invasive surveillance laws in the Western World. The British Prime Minster, Theresa May, has a nasty authoritarian streak - she had it when she was Home Secretary responsible for domestic security, and she has it now with even more zeal as the Prime Minister.

If you picture in your minds eye the most dysfunctional, deceitful, lunatic-filled version of politics you could possibly imagine, you still won't come close to the giant sinkhole that is British politics right now. Utterly depressing.
> In these cases with encryption the courts have consistently been finding that the password is comparable to unlocking the door to a house to which the police have a search warrant.

What proof do they have that he has the password to the harddrive?
People don't want to live in the London green belt?

Let's lift the restrictions and see if that holds true, shall we?

I think you vastly underestimate the suffering millions of people in the UK are enduring as a result of the housing crisis, and the range of alternatives that would be considered an improvement for those people.
:)
It is true that many managers are afraid of remote working. Because to make it effective as a manager you have to know how to evaluate the tasks and subtasks and that requires also technical skills.
However the modern manager has these skills, remote working is here and it will stay. I believe the ideal teams will have both type of workers.
Unless your friends suffers from extreme malabsorption (which would manifest in serious and constant digestive distress), that is just obviously wrong. If the energy is not leaving his body, it has to be either stored or burned up. And you can't burn 4000 kcals on a small frame, he'd be hot to the touch. People taking DNP [0] to lose weight boost their metabolism by way less than that, and that already leads to serious side effects

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2,4-Dinitrophenol
Don't be so naive
We should jail oj until he tells us he did it?
I've had the same frustration with S3, and the reasons you went over are what drove me to create this. It seems like they made S3 (10 years ago now?) and just forgot about it. There is no way to sort/filter or even list all the objects in a bucket without writing a recursive algorithm using one of their SDKs.
Perhaps true.

I'll never do that though because I'd have to use DynamoDB, which is a technology that is high on my list of "technologies that I am least enthused about".

Also, I really shouldn't have to go to all the work of creating and maintaining a metadata database and implementing a query API just because I want to do searches more powerful than "list all objects" - that's Amazon's job.
Yup... there is even a case on this exact point. TLDR; drug smuggler crossed the board and went through customs. He didn't get searched. Then as he was leaving the customs area, on the U.S. side of customs, the police performed a warrant-less search. Prosecutor argued the search was legal because he was in the process of entering the country and citizens don't have a right against search upon entry to the U.S. The court said that the search would have been legal had they done the search before going through customs. But once he got through customs, the search was no longer legal as he had his 4th amendment protections at that point.
I use 1Password + Resilio (formerly BTSync) in local sync only mode.

It's kind of a pain in the ass sometimes (I can only sync at home) but the upside is no cloud component and it syncs nicely and automatically between multiple machines.

For mobile devices, I use the Wifi sync mode.
That sucks, it really does.

I can only say that I attended a community college, El Centro, and it was pretty shocking for me to watch the 7/7 attacks last year and see a black supremacist gun down a cop by a pillar I used to stand against and another in an intersection I've crossed hundreds of times. Strange place for it to happen, too, because that always was a very diverse place.

Clearly something is off-kilter, but I don't think Trump is the main or only problem (his rise was only made possible by some other ugly societal things we've got going on), and I still think comparing him to Hitler does history and his victims a disservice. It also gives you nowhere to go if he's not Hitler.

If some genocidal lunatic ever does come along, people will just wave it off with "oh, like Trump? lol". I don't like defending Trump but I do believe it is crucial that we keep a level head here and make clear, honest comparisons.
whenever i see an article like this, i am reminded that these authors are forced to take into consideration the timing and appearance of their articles. for instance, they would be unwise to release a scoop before or during the super bowl. in other words, in the fight to preserve liberty in the world, they are reduced to the same tactics as sleazy advertising and PR companies. it is so sad that such an important, fundamental and altruistic cause is so fragile.
Have you honestly done a blinded listening test, comparing 320 kbps Ogg Vorbis (Spotify Premium) to lossless, and concluded that there's a severe reduction in quality?

Audio compression is an old technology by now. Lossless CD audio is ~1200 kbps, and we're only compressing to something like 1/4th the original size. There really shouldn't be much room for error. Even completely lossless CD audio compression can still get to ~50%-ish of the original data rate.

Imagine if you had H.264 video at 50% the data rate of a completely lossless signal. That would be completely perfect.

And if you're listening on a speaker setup, your room will distort the sound orders of magnitude more than compressing an audio signal 4x will.
To be clear, I don't hate e-mail, and you could probably construct a UI for a mailing list that's nice.

On the other hand, doing so would basically just be re-implementing github/gitlab/gitea with a much less optimal storage backend.
>his failure was allegedly looking at child pornography

FTFY

It doesn't matter what they accuse him of, until they prove it, he's innocent.
i do! and my music is on bandcamp too. but i also want to support people on spotify (partly the convenience of spotify and partly just some artists are not on bandcamp).

that interesting/makes sense about last.fm integration, i have about 10 years worth of data on there and the discover recommendations are consistently great.

over the last year i've saved a 5-6 subset of the weekly discover suggestions into a super playlist, part also, part human. i'd love to proportion part of my monthly payment to those artists
Wow, I had no idea, at all. Luckily my most valuable asset when I expatriated was a laptop, so I'm probably safe from capital gains.
The state cannot exist without violence to back it up. Why would anyone pay taxes if you couldn't be thrown in jail for non-compliance?
The profit maximising situation for the large UK housebuilders is not one in which planning restrictions are lifted and the price of land collapses.

Why would they be trying to advance these policies?
It's worse that the US policy makers intervene other countries mainly not because of their own benefit but because of they believe they are promoting the best values in the world. It's more deceptive and often supported by naive American public. Politicians pursuing pure self interest are more detectable. Hitler won't be in power again. But those who with strong ideology will be elected by American people.
Similar situation also happened in Europa. NATO bombed Libya because French supported to overthrown a regime. Now waves of refugees come to Europa because of chaos and war.
If you look at the existing retail software market versus the open source market you'll quickly see that retail is obviously the better choice for a company in terms of product life and revenue. I mean the biggest companies in the world got to their positions by offering software to feel a market need. Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Ebay all the big tech giants, as well as the newer player like Facebook, Uber, AirBnB and just about everyone else who is making money has done so through selling limited access to their software. Sure some of those might offer open source products, but they never make money or have much value.

Open source software is important to our society because it helps people learn, but it doesn't have an impact on the real world where money runs things.

People who want everything to be open source tend to just want it for their own personal benefit and 95% of them don't contribute to that community either, they just like having something to complain about.
We need John ham in that black mirror Christmas episode..
Figured people would be moving on to ARM M0+ chips for new development.
Psychologists Think They Found the Purpose of Depression
Also, for the love of god stop bringing your smartphone with you when you travel.

Is there a risk of bringing a smartphone with no past context on it (e.g. a previously-unused refurb or new phone)? Even one that has been factory reset would give basic prying eyes nothing to find, barring the use of forensic tools.
This guy is a US citizen. What are they going to do if he refuses? He has the right to enter the USA. At worst they can confiscate the phone but without a court order I don't see how they can detain him indefinitely. Can they?
Pay me not the statistician! I'll just take a survey and talk to a sample of individuals over coffee and will likely be able to give you a better estimate of who is most likely to quit. No need for a machine learning algorithm here.

Cool stuff though. I'm not a hater, just seems like overkill to me.
Infrastructure is expensive. For example, the project to upgrade state route 99 in California, which parallels the High Speed Rail tracks for about 130 miles, to Interstate standards was projected to cost $22 billion ten years ago [1]. A lot of the huge costs are from the infrastructure debt of refusing to pay for a rail network, and for destroying a lot of the network that was in place. The HSR system will give a lot of benefits for a substantial amount of the state in terms of giving a modern transit backbone.

[1] https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/planning/economic_development/studi...
I love this. I started on a project to do a homebrew Z80 machine late last year as well. I haven't made much progress yet, but I'm really champing at the bit (no pun intended) to get this going. Reading stories like this is really motivational! And it's always good to learn from those who went before...