skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An awesome idea.

The marketing feels like it is targeting men rather than women. I suspect women would be the group who would benefit the most from this app.
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>Lost count of the number of times a $20+ movie was destroyed after being in a childs hands.

As opposed to a tape or records? I've scratched records trying to remove dust.
Exactly. People are going to slowly merge with non-human elements from biological and machine systems, assuming that we don't wipe ourselves out or go back to banging the rocks together. It's going to be a while before it's at the level of an external interface though.
10bps sounds like a very naive estimation by someone with an agenda

body posture or tone of voice alone must be many magnitudes higher
Yes with no control over what happens to your key and you don't know if your message has been encrypted after it is sent and by default you aren't even told if the key of your recipient changes.
Not even alleged anymore. The account's been shadowbanned (https://www.reddit.com/user/dotnetnews), a confirmation from Reddit admins that they've validated it as a spam/bot account.

And yet this post is back up, which means someone vouched for it.

Flagged it.
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For the sake of an easier communication we are looking for a fluent english communicator based in Europe.
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Why? This is the hardware factor in a two-factor authentication scheme. Someone purloining your YubiKey would still need a PIN or password to proceed in most 2FA schemes. The only thing biometrics would add is preventing someone from physically taking your YubiKey and abusing it along with the knowledge factor gleaned from you. That is a valid concern in some specialized cases, but certainly not the common use case 2FA aims to address.

And even if it was; if someone is willing to physically intervene in your security by stealing your YubiKey, chances are they are willing to 'coerce' you to cooperate with unlocking a biometric lock as well…
There is such an effort for LA to Vegas. Its been setback as it was a joint venture between a US firm and a Chinese partner. The Chinese pulled out, however, because of the requirement that high speed trains be manufactured in the US (there are currently no such manufacturers).

http://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-xpresswest-rail-line...
Three responses:

* Email remains important for middle-class Americans because it's used for business. But that is a small subset of the whole population, including very large numbers of Americans.

* For almost all those users, email might as well be a Google, Yahoo, or Microsoft product.

* Every year, the number of people and businesses that rely on email gets smaller --- in the last 5 years or so, by something like 15%.

There's no trend we're looking at that suggests that email is becoming more relevant.

We should be happy about this, not freaking out. Even if you think the future is decentralized messaging protocols (I like decentralized too; I just think we should figure the nuts and bolts out before we decentralize), email is a boat anchor holding us back.
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The US does not represent 1000 years of civilization
> Setting up my own federated XMPP instance is much more problematic

Actually, I believe it's the contrary.

With email you have to obtain a valid TLS certificate, set up SPF, DKIM, and keep eye on the DNSRBLs so you're in good standing. And if Big Company's mail service suddenly decides they don't like you, it won't help. Oh, and spamassasin/rspamd/milter/greylisting/etc stuff so your email server doesn't get thousands of emails per day few weeks after some bot detects your host is listening on tcp/25.

XMPP has less adoption, spam exists but is much rare, so there's less stuff to do. Install a package, get a TLS cert, publish an SRV record (IIRC that's not even strictly required), and that's it. A bit fewer steps.

Not to say email is MTA+MDA combo (+some fancier LDA, +Sieve if you want more that a simple system) while XMPP is a single piece of software (unless you want transports or external extra services).
Did you also notice that Google's messaging system pretty much died out around that point in favor of Skype and similar?

I used to see people mention GTalk all the time, but I haven't seen anything similar in years. No one has mentioned G+ or Allo. That decision by Google may have been the thing that killed its user base.
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South Ossetia used to be part of Georgia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Ossetia
I'm not sure I buy this. Protonmail has a very polished UI that's dead simple enough for technical people and non-technical people alike:

https://protonmail.com
Its never as easy as that.

First of all, if anything the conflict was primarily between Geogria and South Ossetia, Russia only intervened on behalf of South Ossetia. And before the war started, both South Ossetian seperatists and Geogian backed militiamen were accused of ethnic clensing. Georgian villages in South Ossetia were shelled by artillery, while in the northern central parts of Geogria, South Ossetian families were eveicted from their homes and driven out of the country.

It is notable that both war crimes were not comitted by regular forces but by militiamen, where it is not always clear under wich control they stood, or if the state/army has actually given orders.
I have to admire Elon Musk's ability to tap into the zeitgeist of the intelligent, technical community. Mars, AI... he hits all of the big hopeful/scary notes as though he were somehow riding astride them; truly, a master of PR.
Do they work any better on iPhones?

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I decided couple of months ago to secure entire family. Bought half dozen Neos, worked out all the kinks on my computer + Android phone first, put everything in LastPass (I know, I know, I know... but you have to consider the target audience ;).... only to discover on "go-live" that my wife's iPhone 6s is bloody useless with the thing. Apparently iPhone doesn't fully grok NFC or something? Not sure... :-/
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Kind of useless to have a C-only device this early. An A/C-hybrid would be much more useful, like Kingston's MicroDuo[1] series.

[1]: http://www.kingston.com/us/usb/personal_business/DTDUO3C
Here is a website that also breaks down per-term for ease of viewing/understanding.

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/data/orders.php
> At the risk of repeating myself: I don't have any conclusions.

For someone who doesn't have any conclusions, you're making a lot of assertions that don't jive with reality.

> And yet there is cost. It is unclear if that cost is a factor.

It's a factor... just not the factor you think it is.

> Because they are not useful.

I think you grokked it.

> The memory-central approach clearly wins out so heavily (and the fact we can map-reduce across cores or machines as our problem gets bigger) is a huge advantage in the KDB-powered solution. It's also the obvious implementation for a KDB-powered solution.

KDB is a great tool, but you are sadly mistaken if you think the trick to its success is the runtime. That its runtime is so small is impressive, and a reflection of its craftsmanship, but it isn't why it is efficient. For most data problems, the runtime is dwarfed by the data, so the efficiency that the runtime organizes and manipulates the data dominates other factors, like the size of the runtime. This should be obvious, as this is a central purpose of a database.

> There are a lot of questions here that require more experiments to answer, but one thing stands out to me: Why bother?

Yes, you almost certainly shouldn't bother.

Spark/Hadoop/etc. are intended for massively distributed compute jobs, where the runtime overhead on an individual machine is comparatively trivial to inefficiencies you might encounter from failing to orchestrate the work efficiently. They're designed to tolerate cheap heterogenous hardware that fails regularly, so they make a lot of trade-offs that hamper getting to anything resembling peak hardware efficiency. You're talking about a runtime fitting in L1, but these are distributed systems that orchestrate work over a network... Your compute might run in L1, but the orchestration sure as heck doesn't. Consequently, they're not terribly efficient for smaller jobs. There is a tendency for people to use them for tasks that are better addressed in other ways. It is unfortunate and frustrating.

Until you are dealing with such a problem, they're actually quite inefficient for the job... but that inefficiency is not a function of JVM.

Measuring the JVM's efficiency with Spark is like measuring C++'s efficiency with Firefox.

> If I've got a faster tool, that encourages the correct approach, why should I bother trying to figure these things out? Or put perhaps more clearly: What do I gain with that 10mb?

If you read the documentation, the gains should be clear. If you are asking the question, likely the gains are irrelevant to your problem. I would, however, caution you to worry less about the runtime size and more about the runtime efficiency. The two are often at best tenuously related.
Wechat is what's doing this is China, and it's working fairly well for them. It's obviously impossible to do the same in the West (companies won't be trusted by people in Europe, nation-level apps won't be trusted in US) but it's not impossible to replace email. Note: mobile is gigantic compared to desktop in China, so this might also be a reason.

I still believe email will outlast all the current solutions though, but the crushing presence of a few big providers is not doing any good for the protocol.
Make the price $5 and these will sell.
The thing most singularity proponents are missing is that the human brain produces its amazing computational abilities with a power consumption of about 20 watts. We're starting to bump up against the limits of industrial semiconductor fabrication processes and we're probably still about four orders of magnitude away from that in terms of efficiency.

AI won't take over the world, but I agree with Elon that we are in the process of becoming a cyborg hive mind. We're already hyperconnected, and as computer interfaces become more frictionless, they will start to resemble prosthetic extensions of ourselves. Due to their invasive nature and the difficulty of security, I doubt neural implants will ever be a thing outside of curing disabilities. That being said, if we combined data from extremely sensitive EEG style headwear with gesture and expression analysis we could probably make something nearly as useful.
South Ossetia is Georgia. Which even the Russians claimed at the time.
I'm more afraid of a computer that can't be switched off (no matter the reason) than I'm of AI.
I take a bus in the morning. Everyone is staring at screens. I don't see why another version of Google Glass isn't going to make a come back. Something less invasive and dorkier.

We just want the info right in front of our eyes. Something that augments us as a human directly.
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Fortunately we don't have to cover all shortfall with just PV. Increasing energy efficiency and reducing consumption (including personal car ownership) in the first world can get us there the rest of the way.
It's an authentication key, not a flash drive.
This story is ancient, and I may have written it up before on hn:

In the weeks leading up to Christmas 1998 my team and I were in the process of migrating our web site to a Y2K "safe" complex. Our site ran in two data centers, using Andrew File System (AFS) to mirror content. The new complex used Distributed File System (DFS), which was the new new thing then. The migration got put on hold because a "key customer" needed to use the new complex for the weeks around Christmas, so we were stuck on the old complex indefinitely.

The week before Christmas there was a security update to the routers in use across the hosting infrastructure. Now, it's Christmas, and it's end of the year, so there's not supposed to be any breaking changes, and the bureaucracy of the hosting organization should insure against any stupidity.

However, one of the senior managers decided that it was a truly critical security update, and pushed through a series of changes to the routers on approximately December 22nd, 1998.

Roughly 24 hours later the AFS cell began to melt down. I don't recall the precise changes that occurred, but something to do with the MAC addresses of the routers becoming virtual messed up how AFS communicated across the cell.

Over the next 48 hours my team and I desperately tried to keep the site up over dialup lines and cell phones from a ski chalet, and our various parents' homes since we'd all gone into vacation mode and there was absolutely no reason to expect the site to melt down. And almost no one had broadband at home, let alone at parents' or relatives' homes.

In the end we cobbled together a half–assed simulacrum of the site on the "new complex" based on a weeks' old snapshot and hand–copied over updates, which worked to keep the site up through Christmas Day until the "old complex" could recover from the unexpected router changes.

As far as I could tell it didn't hit the press, and barely made mention in various newsgroups at the time.

The following week, the sysadmin (who worked sort-of dotted line to me but reported into the hosting organization) was effectively fired for telling me that the site had gone down. Seems none of the management chain in the hosting group had any idea, and since I reported more or less directly to the CIO, they were caught short in the weekly roundup meeting. Wasn't the sysadmin's fault, her management declined to keep the management chain informed.

A separate result was that the Y2K migration got delayed until August 1999 because the whole event exposed many, many holes in the hosting group's processes and procedures.
Another counterintuitive result of this effect is that if we could cut in half the distance to a beautiful nebula, we would see it just as dim (though it'd be bigger, of course).

And that is why we need some huge, beautiful telescopes to peek into the depths of space.
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re @tptacek

> Every year, the number of people and businesses that rely on email gets smaller --- in the last 5 years or so, by something like 15%.

Are you sure that's not just the spam decreasing?
I just hope it happens in a subtler way than "implant chip in brain" or "install bionic eyes", or even "plug cable in the back of the head".

I don't think the vast majority of people would go for things like that. Non-invasive procedures would be much more preferable, if this is to happen. Maybe something like wireless communication between the brain and machines, but without implanting receivers in our heads.
"The EU was primarily funded as a way to prevent Europe from being destroyed by inner conflicts again, which makes some sense after two devastating world wars that left Europe in ruins and killed millions of citizens. It's sad that this is sometimes forgotten and only emphasized by older politicians."

This is such an important point.

Whatever problems the EU indeed might have, its role in keeping the peace in a continent that has seen war almost uninterruptedly over the course of its history cannot be emphasized enough.

It is human nature blaming others for our own problems: as soon you cannot blame the EU anymore, you will start blaming your neighbors...
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> I find it curious that it's only Europeans who are worried about Russia and their expansion threat, and the most loud about it are those who don't even have a common border with Russia. On the other hand, countries with a common border -- China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, etc., are kind ho hum about the whole thing.

The Baltic states, Georgia, and Ukraine beg to differ. Three of those six states have seen unwanted interference by Russia in the past decade.
> because of perceived issues rather than real ones

10 years of stagnation or decline of GDP in all top 5 countries of the eurozone (which account for 50% of all GDP of EU) is not a perceived issue.
The same point still applies.
> I find it curious that it's only Europeans who are worried about Russia and their expansion threat, and the most loud about it are those who don't even have a common border with Russia. On the other hand, countries with a common border -- China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, etc., are kind ho hum about the whole thing.

That's because of what the Soviets did after WWII, and let me remind you of the Warsaw Pact countries, which included Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Albania and the vast Soviet Union, countries that have suffered a soviet invasion, suffered under communism and the war reparations some had to pay, along with the draining of resources by soviet enterprises.

I could tell you about Basarabia, currently part of Moldova, a territory that was taken by force under the Molotov–Ribbentrop pact, which is the agreement they did with the Nazis, a territory in which they did what Russians do when occupying a territory, which is to uproot the population by deportation and imprisonment, along with destroying the local culture and forced building of Russian settlements.

To tell you the truth, to see such an ignorant comment on HN fills me with anger that I can hardly contain.
alternative is u2fzero, available on amazon for 8$, and totally open source. the difference is that yubi uses an nxp secure coprocessor, whereas the u2fzero uses atmel. there is the possibility of side-channel attacks on the u2fzero.

but for your family, it is better than nothing and much more cost effective.
> XMPP has less adoption, spam exists but is much rare, so there's less stuff to do. Install a package, get a TLS cert, publish an SRV record (IIRC that's not even strictly required), and that's it. A bit fewer steps.

That's what I thought as well. Please link tutorial on this.
What a shitfest.
Isn't it also true that the people who care about "secure" systems are a rounding error?

Average Joe is perfectly fine with just "100% secure" label. Add some "military grade hurr durr" nonsense (okay, maybe it's a bit outdated buzzword) and Joe's even willing to pay for it. No need for any actual security.
We might only communicate via words at 10 bits per second. We're constantly leaking _way_ more information than that in the form of cranial electromagnetic waves, gestures/body position, muscle tonus, facial expression, heart rate, blood flow, etc.
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And THIS is the problem. Yeah the app is a pain to install, but security is a mindset, not just an app.

I even wonder how many people download an ISO or installer from a website, and do any sort of due diligence to find the signer's key from another 3rd party location, then verify previous builds, or require multiple signers of a key to give any semblance that the key is not fake? Or do we all just download the ISO and the .iso.asc file from the links provided and call it good? Even security minded people can be lazy in this situation.
Apple decided that users cannot use the NFC chip in it except for Apple Pay (for the foreseeable future). You don't really 'own' an Iphone in that sense.
TLDR: Enigmail can be entirely broken due to interaction with GPG.

I've never used Enigmail. Is this sort of thing common?
That's how I filter out turorials. If it is not fast and efficient, or involves weak analogies and too playful with terms, then I simply skip them until one is really factful, concise and to the point.

I am noob, not stupid.

Edit: typo
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Here is a 68000 machine with an ISA bus I built in 1987:

http://www.merlintec.com/lsi/merlin2.html

It originally had an Ethernet interface instead of a bus, but since I couldn't get a PC Ethernet board to connect it to I ripped that out and did a simple ISA (actually 8 bit PC bus instead of full ISA) interface. This allowed me to use PC floppy and HD boards as seen in the picture so I could have a "sneakernet" in place of the missing Ethernet.
If you are an active target of a tier 1 state, your endpoint will be compromised, your decrypted communication will be read, and no cryptosystem will prevent this.
You get automation either way - immigration only buys you ten or so years before the costs fall below even immigrant wages, after which you're left with unemployed immigrants.

And lets not pretend the availability of cheap labour has nothing to do with jobs being low-end.

Medical doctors sure is a funny example to give however - the USA has a lot of immigrants - how well has that worked in keeping healthcare affordable?
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My hope is Magic Leap will be the beginning of that.
In a lot of cases their clients are businesses who bulk buy the keys, brand them and provide them to their customers either for free or at a discounted price.

Those companies are usually financial services, online games with monthly subscriptions, and corporate IT/Security services. So they have a high customer LTV and the investment is worth it for them.

Yubico was smart to go after that market. It is costly to design, mould, manufacture, sell and support a hardware product, even something as small as this. Since you don't want your 2FA company to go out of business there is good value in knowing they have a stable business model that can actually support a company rather than just burning capital.
Until there's a YubiKey 4C nano, I'll wait. Having something of that size sticking out of my computer is not really practical. Not having it inserted defeats the whole point.
Just install prosody and open up the config file. It includes lots of comments and I believe there's even a web admin interface you can enable.

XMPP SRV record documentation can be found here, if you need to use it:

https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/SRV_Records

If you're finding the documentation to be insufficient, let me know, I might write something more detailed up.
There are a lot of people on here telling you it's not going to happen, but I'm going to assume you have a fundable idea and a track record in the domain needed to deliver your idea.

Submit your deck to angel syndicates. If it's good, they'll invite you to a pitch event. You can find plenty of advice online about what you need to cover in your deck.

A decent angel syndicate could easily do 50K-75K EUR and be able to follow on up to 1M EUR or so.
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Fillon stance against migrants is very harsh and even harsher than the far-right on some aspects, apparently, having a hard stance on immigrants is not enough to prevent people to vote for the far-right.
I saw an AN-225 outside of Boston Logan. You see it and you still don't believe it. It's just so large it feels like an optical illusion.