skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not at all, it seems to me it's more like whether it's 1 or not 1. Expressing any skepticism gets you branded as a "skeptic" and then a "denier".

Of course what the "not 1" crowd tend to miss is that you don't need 100% certainty about something before you take action on it. If you're in a plane with a 50% chance of fire on board then the procedures are pretty much the same as a plane with a 100% chance of fire on board.
If you are solving an easy enough problem, then sure, you can use a crappy technical foundation. You can use anything if the problem is easy enough.

The point of engineering is to solve actual hard problems.
It's distressing that it's small, but I saw it on many of the lists, including the top one from right now.
This is far more powerful than just bookmarks. Pocket succeeded in getting clients everywhere, even on eReaders.
And the A-Team could land on the roof with a helicopter in the middle of the night, take control of the building, breach the data center, and physically steal and leave with all the servers.

Yes, if one is determined enough, they will find a way to steal data.

> It isn't worth the security cost.

That's up for the company to decide... and apparently they have decided that it is worth the cost, regardless of what zrm, random person on the Internet, thinks.
I don't believe everything I read in any publication, especially not one that employs Paul Krugman. I also don't believe conspiracy theories that don't have hard evidence.

There is plenty of criticism of mainstream media done by people who cite all their sources and have intellectually honest arguments. Don't conflate the absence of unfettered trust in the media with flat-earthers. Skepticism is healthy.
There is something called "lying by omission" or telling the truth, but not the whole truth.

Also, if you are told to resign or you will be fired, that's not resigning on your own terms.
> Why would they retain a competitive edge when other platforms like electron are attracting all the developers to enhance their application with native access goodness, why indeed.

Be careful with generalizations, I am surely not part of that list and know quite a few others that want their computers Electron-free.
Just like you don't hear about all the miles an automated car drives safely.

Even if a self-driving car drives perfectly for 10,000,000 miles before swerving in to a crowd of people, no one is going to buy one.
> It was so large there was no feasible way to even transport such a device other than maybe building it on a suicide ship.

Why is that not feasible? If they could get it on a submarine they could detonate in most of the worlds major cities.
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I agree that something drastic has to happen to show goodwill to Uber's current employees, but I think what you are asking for, practically speaking, is for them to shutdown. I don't know what the best option is, but shaking up management that much, from what I have experienced, is a death sentence for a company.

I feel bad for Susan and Amy; I also feel for the good employees at Uber. It would be good to get a little more context from Susan and Amy to see how systemic this harassment really is/was. Some of it reads like lots of people were complicit, but I have to imagine there are/were a good portion of good people there who were not. As a man I embarrassingly feel like I am completely oblivious to harassment of women in the workplace, because I'm not complicit in it, and I don't have close enough relationships with woman colleagues for them to divulge this kind of personal information. I would hope there are a lot of people that were innocuously oblivious to it... if not that would be sickening.
Pocket has clients on more exotic platforms, such as the Kobo eReaders.
Personally if I was going to "flee the country" and was worried about DHS I would just paddle across the St Lawrence river and report to CanBSA as required. Exit visas aren't a thing and there is no requirement AFAIK to report that you are leaving.
Have you published any papers on this? Where can I get more information on the algorithm used?
Thanks, this is valuable feedback. We're in an awkward transitional phase in our marketing material / landing pages.
> someone held accountable for their behavior while at Uber

You mean "alleged behavior" and "while not at Uber".

None of these Uber claims have been substantiated at all, and he was fired as a face-saving move, rather than having anything at all to do with the current alleged scandal.
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Sorry, no. TLS is explicitly designed to allow smooth upgrading like this. This proxy is supposed to (in response to a client hello w/ TLSv1.3) respond with TLSv1.2 if that's what it supports. This is still a rigorous parsing of the input being given: nothing is "not understood": version negotiation is an inherent part of the protocol and is supposed to allow for painless upgrades to more secure protocols.

The RFC (which if you're implementing TLS, you should have open at all times) explicitly calls out exactly this behavior:

> Note: some server implementations are known to implement version negotiation incorrectly. For example, there are buggy TLS 1.0 servers that simply close the connection when the client offers a version newer than TLS 1.0.

The quality of this vendor's implementation is extremely suspect.
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I find it odd to that this document is on the frontpage of HN.

200+ pages, no clear summary, unclear what it is it? Other than appearantly it is confidential who has written it, seemingly academic and it is about Chinese and/or China being racists.

Where is this document from? And why was it written?

"Racist" is probably the most damning word that one can use in politics (here international politics) and can be used justify a great deal of wrong doing.
> It's ineffective against insider exfiltration of data unless you're also doing body cavity searches for USB sticks ...

I dunno. I know plenty of people who might want to work on an Excel spreadsheet at home over the weekend and so might e-mail it to their personal e-mail account. They would almost certainly reconsider, however, if it required copying that spreadsheet to a flash drive that they then had to hide in their ass, though.

In that case, it sounds like the device is effective after all.
I've seen the same. There's a stunning lack of nuance in public thought. Thinking in degrees is difficult, so things get reduced to good vs evil, black vs white, all or nothing. Even amongst friends I respect, I have a hard time getting people to do the hard work of looking past high level simplifications and enumerating specific costs and benefits of any decision or proposal.
This is precisely the conclusion Google reached and has used as they work on QUIC.

Even protocol state (equivalents of TCP FIN/SYN/etc) is encrypted, to ensure that middleboxes don't get ideas about what the protocol is 'supposed' to do - ideas which make it hard to change the protocol in the future.
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Sassy, but I'll allow it.
Sure, but having to do so is pretty much inevitable. At best, Uber was fighting a short-term delaying action with a blatantly untenable interpretation of what constitutes an autonomous vehicle (they've also repeatedly contradicted it with their marketing, press coverage and releases, and even Levandowski's own emails from the article). Eventually, they'd have lost and had to file anyhow. All they accomplished was guaranteeing that Uber filings will likely receive additional attention in the future.

It's Don Quixote, tilting at windmills. My only question is if there's a Sancho Panza at Uber to take note.
I'm astounded by the state of denial we Americans are in! The biggest problem facing this country is obesity. 2/3rds of Americans are overweight or obese. And it costs us 300,000 lives/year, and hundreds of billions of dollars.

It's getting so it's unusual for me to see other people who aren't overweight or obese when I'm out shopping, etc.
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Can I find out more about the patents here?
That's awesome! Great to know there's such work going on in India too :)
I am actually not sure what to think. If you look at Amazon, it does say 1964, but list Derren Brown - the magician - as the author and even give his biography. The confusion grows even deeper as one of the reviewer is referring as Derren Brown - the magician - as the author as well.

[edit] Amazon US got the date wrong. Amazon UK is giving the publication date, 2016, right. Derren Brown - the magician and mentalist - is still also a stoic. :D
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yes, things are finally getting interesting around here.
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I agree that this is how they see it, but it's a losing battle. There's no filter for people's minds, or for what they write down. The owner of a company cannot approach this problem from the perspective of technical bandaids; they absolutely must trust the right people, and only the right people.
IDK, seemed pretty capable when it hit that ice/snow patch coming down the hill.
> off the books?

It's counted as a 'cost' but over the big picture it's not.

It's like this economics teaches us that labor is a cost to be minimized. All good and well except if workers have no money they can't buy anything.
Moving into the future only makes an audio bank more dangerous with technologies like Adobe VoCo which only require a modest amount of recordings to synthesize in the child's voice (~20m IIRC)
He resigned. So for whatever reason, he agreed to leave of his own volition.

Whether that's because he is actually guilty of the accusations and knows it, or the CEO forced him to for publicity reasons (or both)... who knows. But nobody has been branded officially "guilty" of a crime in terms of the American legal system.
Ask HN: I'm an expert in my field, how do I negotiate internship offer?
So there is an internship position on one of Apple's team where I'm an expert in that specialized field. I am by far the most experienced intern they've ever seen, and I say that as an understatement. I developed something, let's just say everyone uses, that is the best in the world in its category.

I'd like to negotiate my salary to reflect my skill and my value to the company. What advice would you recommend for negotiation? This is sort of special because I can't really say "well, ______ offered me a job of salary X", since that would be a normal team where I wouldn't have my massive skill advantage.

Thanks
Guess we should be building our own ... to respond in kind.
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President Trump and his administration, we can all debate till we are blue in the face why he was elected but he was in a, what's a good word for a reverse miracle? a disaster maybe?

His administration seems likely to kill constructive politics, increase distrust & conspiracy theories and spread racism.
In what way? I'm wary of some of Mozilla's decisions, but their allegiance to their mission & manifesto doesn't seem at stake.
I've written a similar rebuttal to your sibling's comment here[1].

This isn't "failing closed", and this isn't a whitelist. TLS allows you to whitelist to certain versions of the protocol during the initial negotiation at the start of the protocol; that is the opportunity for either end to state what version of the protocol they'd like. It is not permissible in the protocol to close the connection as Blue Coat is doing.

This isn't a downgrade attack, either: both server and client are free to choose their protocol version at the beginning. The client & server will later verify that the actual protocol in use is the one they intended; this is what prevents downgrades.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13751737
Which Gmail APIs? Has there been an update to IMAP that I'm not aware of?
Which is also the record for Farthest Humans From Earth. Any chance they can pass up the chance to break that record?
Maybe it's a lie. Maybe it's not. Either way, it's definitely plausible though and that's not good.
Conspiracy theories are sort of a hobby of mine - I've gone from feeling disappointed that they almost never turn out to be true (since they often make interesting claims) to fascination with why people believe them.

Most conspiracy theories start with a false premise to which logic is then applied -often correctly. A trivial example popular among geeky music lovers is that instruments and whole compositions sound better tuned to 432Hz rather than the more common 440Hz. Much effort i devoted to showing why 432 is more numerically interesting than 440, and since 99% of music is about the juxtaposition of numerically interesting frequency rations, the arguments are superficially quite convincing, especially from an aesthetic point of view.

Where it falls down is right at the beginning - not in the idea that 432 is an interesting number (it is) but in the idea that 432 cycles per second is important. People tend to forget that the second is a pretty arbitrary time division; we're just used to think about time as a fact because it is convenient in everyday life. Pro musicians and sound engineers are constantly thinking about frequencies to the quantity of a second comed to seem as real as the pull of earth's gravity to an aerospace engineer.

In my experience, the longer the argument between an initial false premise and the conclusion, the more firmly the proponent will resist attacks on the theory, perhaps because it has required a higher initial investment of work to validate all the logical steps.
> That's the intention but unless they brought all their family over they'd probably find a need to leave at some point.

No, they won't. If the overstay was on purpose, you can bet they are not leaving no matter what.

> So preventing re-entry is a plausible cause.

Which is something that's already done. When you leave, the airline reports that information(if by plane, no idea about other methods). It is a flawed system, but skewed against the individuals, as the airline may fail to report (not sure how often this happens).

I was actually scared the first time I left the US, because there was no exit stamp. I had only been to countries which stamp your passport when you leave.

If you are using the system for this purpose, you're using it to replace a cheap stamp, plus human verification.
Yeah, I think this is tricky. There's the individual accountability thing, which I agree with. If you are in that room and say nothing or laugh it off, you are complicit. But I think that the systemic misogyny is also something that needs to be addressed - the fact that the entire Uber culture seems to be saying 'this behavior is okay if you're a high performer' us up and down the chain and extends to people who aren't in the room where it happens.
This is not a US discussion though, it's about the whole web.
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I want to come back to this on my computer at home and don't know how to save comments on HN.
Got a job at MS via LinkedIn, as well as my current job, which I really enjoy.

I ignore recruiters if I even get a hint that they're not employed directly by the company they're purporting to be with. It's become less of an issue within the last year or so.
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Can you give an example of Krugman lying (not failing predictions and not personal opinions)? I agree though that he writes in offensive way to conservatives.
> Expressing any skepticism gets you branded as a "skeptic" and then a "denier".

Usually I see (and throw out myself) these terms when someone bandies around any of the common denialist talking points like "we used to be concerned about global cooling" or "it hasn't cooled since '98". Unfortunately the "ladder of knowledge" is more of a mouse wheel and the same people will end up using the same arguments, even when they're shown to be wrong.
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Nopes, locate is where I am at (after trying gnome-do for a while)
On the other hand, it's not surprising that a lot of people have a feeling that everything is "rigged". Because it is; there is real conspiracy in our world, and it has always existed, but it is the invisible kind, and it exists in many forms, some less innocuous than others, some rather insidious. For example, racist bias of the kind exerted upon African-American citizens since the days of slavery is a kind of social, systemic, tacit conspiracy.

There are of course plenty of kooks out there (like Alex Jones and his followers) who miss the point completely, but some of the anger and anguish coming from that direction seems genuine, even if it's misdirected at actually credible institutions like the NYT. (Not that NYT doesn't share some blame in propping up the establishment, but their elitism (which is not that egregious) is mostly a problem of monoculture, not politically reactionary ideals.)

What happened with the 2008 financial crisis is that a lot of people woke up to the idea that the very fabric of a large part of the US was a kind of conspiracy of wealthy elite versus everyone else, and this feeling was confirmed when almost nobody was punished for causing the largest economic upheaval in many decades. It came at a time when a wave of globalization made it apparent to people that "the American dream" was becoming pretty unrealistic.

At the same time, this apparent conspiracy is sufficiently elusive that it's hard for people to assemble in opposition to it, because who and what do you attack? Most people don't even understand how any of it works. Occupy Wall Street tried and failed because it didn't have a specific goal it could reach. It didn't surprise me that Trump was elected, because it was the one thing an ordinary person could do that could change anything (or at least feel like changing anything). For the worse, it turns out, but still.
You lost me at that last paragraph. Slinging mud as one minority does not make a strong case for how little mud-slinging-at-minorities happens around you.
> But here we are.

The terrorists are winning. sigh
I haven't used thunderbird in a while, have they not added an easy setup for people using the popular online mail servers yet?
More state police with FBI like powers
We did send plenty of robot missions that wouldn't have been possible in the seventies and produced very valuable science. Rosetta and Curiosity for example are very cool missions.
Is it just me or are we seeing a trend almost before the "new" role SRE has become mainstream that SRE is turning into support technicians because that is what is needed at most places that are not Google scale. The devaluation of the sysadmin took some time, this is happening much faster. What will be the next title when SRE can't get you a decent salary anymore? And why don't we see the same with the SWE role? Is it just that business leaders sees Ops as cost no matter what name it has?
While I support this sentiment while doing science, I also think it is one of the reasons scientists have a relative small influence on public debate.

If the scientist says climate change will be a big problem with probability between 95% and 98%, what most people hear is that "We don't know if it will be a problem, so we might as well not do anything about it." It is as if it doesn't really matter if you say the chance is 0.01 to 0.99 or 0.99 to 0.999. It is all just probabilities and it comes out as not actionable.
Microsoft adding a way to only allow software from the Windows store
Thanks for reaching out! Just plain FireFox on Windows. Automatic updates are on, currently at version 51.0.1.

Let me know if there's anything I can do to help!
For Firefox on Linux you need to install a speech synthesis engine such as espeak
Just upvote it, it will be saved in your profile, upvote stories.
Probably, but it can be a convenience to make some small modifications to try out things without saving them.

From a performance standpoint the win comes from not having the compiler start from a blank state for each file but keep the compiled objects in memory and only update the changed files. I suppose a modern reimplementation of that idea (that has more memory to spare, after all the official BC++5 requirements were 16MB of RAM) would be able to have a more fine-grained approach.
Id rather land behind bars than code in IE6 again....
Lol oh the cultural Marxists and SJWs are out in force today. Interesting how the paper says racial solidarity is a strength of China without recognising the current divisive identity politics played out in the US as a weakness.

Add some racial IQ data to this and then we will have real fireworks :)
If I were to start a new venture focused 100% on the law enforcement market, these skills would be extremely valuable. However, I'd probably prefer to partner (in equity) instead of paying cash. Perhaps taking on this kind of person as an advisor.

Assistance earlier in the product lifecycle would be useful too. For example, right now I have vague ideas about how deep learning image and video processing could be applied to law enforcement, but I'm not familiar enough with specific use cases to build something. It'd be valuable to talk with a domain expert about (1) what's now possible with the technology and (2) specific problems such tech could solve in the industry.

Once the technology has product/market fit, catalyzing distribution via warm intros to prospective clients would also be super helpful. If I know we have something people want, I'd spend money to get more customers so long as the lifetime value math worked out.

Hope that helps!
Good point. There's no third party requiring you to do so, though.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13745262
I was thinking of the Wheelers from "Return to Oz": https://youtu.be/2MLVfQOknYM
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> You seem a lot more concerned for the harassers' well-being than the people being harassed.

The main, and most important point. Nothing has been proven. An unsubstantiated, unrelated leak has gone out and you're already assuming that something bad has occurred. If you replace "harasser" with "communist", you get the McCarthy trials. If you replace "harasser" with "witch" you go all the way back to Salem.

You should share the ordering of priorities that you're innocent until proven guilty.

> As far as I can tell, he says that the harassment wasn't harassment

You're already making a value judgement here. He completely denies that anything untoward happened.

> Yeah, if someone left a company because of a harassment complaint

He also said that he left on his own free will, and Google threw him a retirement/departure party.

> Sorry, not clear on how it makes me cowardly

By dropping somebody who hasn't been proven to do anything wrong at another job because it looks bad for PR means you're a coward. Being swayed by public opinion on unsubstantiated charges makes you a coward, instead of standing up for your own employees.
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Experts (particularly world leading ones) get jobs not internships. If they aren't hiring you based on your expertise then it probably isn't particularly valuable to them.
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These fundraisers happen? Are they common?