skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
gosh, nevermind you're right, I just checked and on a 'recent' Linux VPS that I had spinned out and indeed they are. But they weren't on my Mac and I had never noticed that detail on new machines. All of the other ones where I looked into ~/.ssh/known_hosts had plain hosts there.

on a side note: it's great to know that it's supported :)
While you are correct about the enforcement applying to Google Apps the Google Play Services has all possible permissions. I don't know if they could do something with the kernel from that alone though.

Personally I trust Android as much as I'd trust iOS... Which is to say I expect the government can get at either with physical access but only at the highest levels of government (CIA/NSA/FBI).
"Ryzen 7 is definitely not suited for gamers"

The underperformance in gaming was tracked down to software issues according to AMD. Namely:

- bugs in the Windows process scheduler (scheduling 2 threads on same core, and moving threads across CPU complexes which loses all L3 cache data since each CCX has its own cache)

- buggy BIOS accidentally disabling Boost or the High Performance mode (feature that lets the processor adjust voltage and clock every 1 ms instead of every 40 ms.)

- games containing Intel-optimized code

More info: http://wccftech.com/amd-ryzen-launch-aftermath-gaming-perfor...

Furthermore hardcore gamers usually play at 1440p or higher in which case there is no difference in perf between Intel or AMD, as demonstrated by the many benchmarks (because the GPU is always the bottleneck at such high resolutions.)
Still breaking!
This isn't science, this is art. Specifically, this is like making Pollock's Autumn Rythm out of play-dough.
Agreed. All this fuss gives Russia more prestige/soft power.
All you are really saying is its impossible to know anything for certain.

Having a citation from a well regarded source is better than having no citation. Peer review is better than no review. There is probably a higher correlation for a statement from an official state agency being true, than a random statement with no attribution.

So yes, a statement can satisfy any of the things you mention, and still not be true. But that doesn't mean those factors can't be helpful in assessing the likelihood of a given assertion.
That front remains to be seen. However, 128 lanes, 8 channel ram;
It will make a mess out of Intel in the vm hosting arena.

I'm glad I don't own any Intel stock atm :)
Have you read the announcement? iPhones are wide open for the 3-letter-agencies, too.
By default Google encrypts it. Its clearly in that picture
That's surprising, but really has more to do with the failure of JavaScript's standard library than with being functional. For example, the same is true for OCaml (using `==` reference equality instead of `=` structural equality), but `[1, 2] == [1, 2]` is true in Python (a dynamic language, one that most people probably wouldn't call "functional").
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Similarly people use the word "science" even if there isn't actually any evidence or "science" behind whatever they're arguing for. Their just using it as their argument's firewall. Unfortunately it's basically a trick you can't get around as us humans don't have the intellectual capacity to know "all science facts" to take down the argument.
You don't think all those fake facebook/twitter profiles trying to follow/friend you are just for the lulz do you... They're mostly for mining your personal information. This extends to transaction processing agreements with advertisers and merchants for the purpose of analytics and tracking, as well as information sharing from credit card companies themselves, and peering agreements for data.

Just your email address alone, let alone combined with IP information can result in being able to find a lot of information about you... then you take that and correlate it to public information, cc purchase history, online profiles, it's a treasure trove. That doesn't even count extra data gleaned from all the tracking cookies.

All said, I'm still far more concerned about government use of similar data than I am private businesses.
Outside of some very exotic scenarios you are IOPS bound on writes and not CPU bound.
Except Amazon refused until defendant said it was OK.

It's often easier to coerce single person rotting jail on contempt charges than a huge corporation.

Point being, like everything, it is not as b/w, not as simple as you imply.
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> because it implies that Signal was broken

It does mean Signal is pointless to use however. Why encrypt if your communications are picked up prior to encryption? Akin to putting your seat belt on after the car has crashed.
Well, why singling out the two services in the headline when this applies to basically every application ever?

Luckily, they've realized the mistake and apparently changed the headline.
Public universities have done that for most of the significant discoveries in the past few decades.
> Huh? What permissions are you referring to that the Gmail app has?

Maybe he was referring to these privileged permissions: http://android.stackexchange.com/a/17874/104563
OMR is the Open Managed Runtime. Basically, IBM took their Java implementation (the J9 JDK), or more precisely, J9's Java Virtual Machine implementation, separated all the language-specific and VM-specific parts from the language-agnostic and VM-agnostic parts, broke it up into independently re-usable modules (memory manager, JIT compiler, garbage collector, profiler, debugger) and released it as Open Source Software under the umbrella of the Eclipse Foundation.

Ruby+OMR is the proof-of-concept project that aims to show that OMR is indeed language-agnostic and VM-agnostic and can be used as drop-in parts not only for newly-designed VMs but also easily integrated into existing VMs. The Java 8 version of IBM's J9 JDK is already built on top of OMR, but you could consider that cheating, since that's the very VM OMR came out of; Ruby+OMR shows that you can also do that with languages other than Java and VMs that have a different design than J9.

I believe there is also a Python+OMR project which does similar things with the CPython VM, but that project is not (yet) public, AFAIK.
Thanks for posting the sheaf talks a while back, been getting into em. Also found this he made https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.01446
"consistent" is exactly what you'd hope for when attempting to systematically demonstrate an improvement that a class of regulations prevents; "consistent" here means alignment with a clear goal, focusing on the things that achieve that goal, and treating every restriction preventing that goal in the same way.

The article suggests, and I'd agree, that the problem wasn't Uber avoiding or ignoring taxi regulations; the problem was them applying that same gleefully transgressive attitude towards other areas that had nothing to do with their goal.
We've kind of had the hat-trick of weasely-ness going on recently. They get overworked, underpaid, and then the promise of a big payout at the end is diluted away by investors who were barely involved beyond sloshing a bunch of other people's money in their general direction.

I don't like industries that institutionalize the consumption of individuals enthusiasm or altruism. We've essentially lost medicine to the latter and it sucks to see the startup scene consumed by the former.
Have you seen the new paper, “Human Decisions and Machine Predictions”? http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/sendhil/files/w23180.pdf

I'm wondering if their methodology is reasonable?

From the abstract: “Millions of times each year, judges must decide where defendants will await trial—at home or in jail. By law, this decision hinges on the judge’s prediction of what the defendant would do if released. … Yet comparing the algorithm to the judge proves complicated. … We only observe crime outcomes for released defendants, not for those judges detained. This makes it hard to evaluate counterfactual decision rules based on algorithmic predictions. … We deal with these problems using different econometric strategies, such as quasi-random assignment of cases to judges. … A policy simulation shows crime can be reduced by up to 24.8% with no change in jailing rates, or jail populations can be reduced by 42.0% with no increase in crime rates. Moreover, we see reductions in all categories of crime, including violent ones. Importantly, such gains can be had while also significantly reducing the percentage of African-Americans and Hispanics in jail. … While machine learning can be valuable, realizing this value requires integrating these tools into an economic framework: being clear about the link between predictions and decisions; specifying the scope of payoff functions; and constructing unbiased decision counterfactuals.”
For all those companies the largest and more profitable market is the US, the country of domicile doesn't have much relevance for this discussion.
I'm excited to use VS 2017 and generally very pleased with their C++ language support and integrations like git and cmake.

It's a minor nitpick, but I must say I was disappointed to see this issue unceremoniously closed: https://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-stud...
I think the part that's misleading is that with a loose/typical/casual reading it sounds like the bypass is at the application level as opposed to the OS/host level. By suggesting specific apps/services may be "bypassed" they fail to make it crystal clear to all readers that any breakage is likely app/service agnostic.

Of course this source is part of the same media that continually calls the election "hacked" despite there being no known technical irregularities with voting machines or vote recording or the actual election itself [^1] (that I'm aware of, at least). (Yes, computer systems were compromised, and data was exfiltrated from the DNC/related parties and released by foreign state actors. Unfortunately that is not "hacking an election." It's just plain and traditional information ops.)

So it's pretty par.

Mainstream news sources seem to continually get worse at reporting tech related stories, and I think there must be an even greater level of confusion when it comes to typical non-techinical individual citizens.

[^1]: Whether anybody is actually interested in actual elections running in auditable, effective, and functional way is apparently another question entirely, and the answer from most seems to be "nope."
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Is anyone monitoring this page?
It has multiple power settings, rather than just heat-to-boil until the water has steamed off and the temperature jumps like in a rice cooker (which, admittedly, is a simple enough profile to be useful when cooking a lot more than rice - I lived on my rice cooker through college). These power settings can be controlled electronically by a timer.

And, regardless of what it looks like, it can be set up as a pressure cooker. This makes it an all-in-one rice cooker, pressure cooker, and crock pot/slow cooker.
I have to fight against this tendency to believe past was better almost every day. My mind seems to try to trick me every time i'm making progress in life, bringing memories of a better past, showing why today sucks.

The solution? Reason. I just ask myself: Ok, that was the good part. Now, try to remember the bad ones. Oh you can't? So it's obviously a fake memory pal. There were no such time in my life without difficulties.
It's not really that savvy people would be switching away; it's that non-savvy friends/family of savvy people who read this article now will have a slight negative connotation to those product names, so if their savvy friend/relative tries to convince them to switch to either of them, they might say no for stupid reasons.

This is the point of the majority of propaganda, really: it's not to convince the people who know anything about the issue; it's to prejudice the people who don't, so that it'll be harder for the people in the know to communicate the facts to them.
Or even just "CIA managed to hack into Android phones."
In Python, the actual equality testing operator is `is`, not `==`. The fundamental property of equality is that equal objects can't be distinguished in any way. (Indiscernibility of identicals, aka Leibniz's principle.)

xs = [1,2,3]
ys = [1,2,3]
# are xs and ys equal?
ys.append(4)
print(xs == ys)
# no!
as in, if the text changes with some new "facts" what kind of new level would that take the USA to?
If all of your friends jumped off of a digital bridge... You know the rest.

It WILL be used if it isn't smothered in its crib.

It's the nature of both government and technology.

Today, it's about convenience and whiz-bang "Look at what we can do" demonstrations but if allowed to continue, it will become a tool of the surveillance state. It's too powerful a tool to be ignored.

When CALEA was up for debate, those of us who feared that it would lead to widespread surveillance were ridiculed. It turns out, we were right. We're right about this too.
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I believe they've edited the article:

"Among other disclosures that, if confirmed, would rock the technology world, the WikiLeaks release said that the C.I.A. and allied intelligence services had managed to bypass encryption on popular phone and messaging services such as Signal, WhatsApp and Telegram. According to the statement from WikiLeaks, government hackers can penetrate Android phones and collect 'audio and message traffic before encryption is applied.'"
If your investors have liquidation preferences, that's not true and can leave founders with nothing depending on the exit.

If there are no liquidation preferences, then you are correct.
From the article: "He was flying above his skill level"
I ABSOLUTELY agree with this, and this is completely lost on people. For every study that says coffee is bad there's 10 more that say it's good, simply because people want it to be good, NOT because it's actually good. The problem is, we humans play right into that as if the number's game actually means something - 1 out of 10 studies says something is bad - the other 9 say it's good. So rather than actually work off the truth (the objective fact of whether coffee is good or bad) we go off the numbers instead. Now take coffee and replace that with any number of other things.
Greg Brockman:

Went to MIT

Went to Harvard

Was CTO of a 10 billion dollar company for 5 years, starting the year it was founded

Yeah, I'd take a cofounder like that.
Actually, that was the claim, but once people started undermining the story they had to shift to the word "influence" to save face. This kind of shit is why middle-class rightwing America cheers when Trump calls out fake news. A complete inability to honestly say, ok, we don't know, or ok, we fucked up. Nope, the story always was X... sure it was.
Yeah, every single release since then has had work done on scaling Postgres up on a single machine. They have been working on eliminating bottlenecks one after another to allow it to scale on crazy numbers of cores.

I've seen benchmarks on the -hackers mailing list with 88 core Intel servers (4s 22c) in regard to eliminating bottlenecks when you have that many cores. So even if it's not 100% there yet, it will be soon.
You do realize this is same company running AWS. One of if not the largest network of cloud services. They can probably do that with idle capacity of one region.
I should have made it clear that there's never been any doubt about the initial infection. I had the bull's eye and was diagnosed correctly. The point I am making is about what happens once you finish your initial 10-30 day treatment and the symptoms continue to persist.
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This point can't be emphasized enough. Sophisticated operators always assume they're being listened to, and take precautionary steps.
Goldmont probably has them because it doesn't have the wide AVX pipelines necessary for fast software crypto.

Skylake can compute SHA1 at 4.3-3.4 cycles/B and SHA256 at 7-9 cycles/B [1]. That's ~1GB/s SHA1 and ~500MB/s SHA256.

1: https://bench.cr.yp.to/results-hash.html#amd64-skylake
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Because the reality is humans don't really "know" anything the absolute certainty, but there are still ways of assessing which beliefs are more likely to be true than others.

There is always the possibility the findings of a peer reviewed, journal published, replicated study are wrong. They are just more likely to be correct than assertions without such support.
This is fundamental to science though. Nothing is ever proven to be true. Scientific facts are contingent and corrigible. Science is just more rigorous than our other methods of establishing facts about reality.
The security tools are all new to me and nice way to get my feet wet. Thanks tummybug!
I am the King of the Internet. I hereby give you my official royal permission to go ahead and blog, even though you may write something wrong.

Oh, wait, I'm not the King of the Internet. Nobody is. There's nobody to give you permission or approval... except you. Go ahead and give yourself that permission - permission to write, and even permission to be wrong.

The thing is, everyone who writes on the internet has been wrong. Everyone. You aren't going to be this horrible exception, the one person who said one thing wrong on an otherwise-perfect internet. So go ahead. Write. Make mistakes.

But, as others have said, learn. When you discover that you have made a mistake, say so. Correct it, in public, because the mistake was in public. And don't feel horrible when you do. Instead, feel smarter than you were when you made the mistake.

You'll make mistakes. Do it anyway. Forgive yourself for the mistakes, learn, teach your readers, and move on.
The headline here was the headline in the article. They've changed it after the submission and I believe mods here are going to do the same.
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This is not part of AES-NI and has never been released in a mid-range+ server/desktop CPU, only part of some Atom parts (Goldmont). Therefore software support is poor (I think OpenSSL does not support it). It is said to be included in 2018+ Cannonlake, though.
> It uses the OS level encryption

So all the NSA/CIA needs is a XNU kernel exploit which they need anyway for iPhone root exploits. Then, intercept the securesettings API or just do a raw memory dump of the browser process.

And the NSA has another card they can play, and that way easier on Apple than on the fragmented Windows ecosystem: all the tiny chips on your motherboard (EC, or any chip on the PCI bus which has DMA) can read and parse the RAM. Given that there is a highly limited number of different Mac EC chips and even then Apple likely uses the same firmware across them, it's easier for CIA/NSA to develop an exploit for these and don't care about kernel at all.
In Python you can do this:

1_000_000

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0515/
Do you have data to back this up? Cancer treatments cost a lot per dose because they usually have relatively tiny markets (in any given year), are some of the most complex to develop, and treat an acute disease without the potential for long term customers. Also, much of the cost of cancer treatment is the cost of complications, clinical face time, and end-of-life care, not the drugs.

If I remember correctly, the average number of prescriptions for someone aged 65-79 is about four times the national average and since they treat chronic conditions due to aging, people take them until the day they die. Since Medicare isn't allowed to negotiate bulk prices for the prescriptions, the pharmaceutical companies pretty much get to charge whatever they want for critical drugs.

Just one of my 80 year old neighbors heart medications costs >$3000 per month and she's been taking it for almost 20 years, along with half a dozen other drugs. Cancer pills may cost a lot but the sheer scale of our aging population is much more relevant to overall healthcare costs.
Well, they are now :)

(my ssh autocomplete ceased to work [ofcourse] though..)
On highly concurrent PG systems by when using parallel queries you are sacrificing throughput for better latency. You really don't want to use more than a fairly small number of workers per single select.
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Aside from the ones that hacked somethinf together themselves: how much did you pay? What did you get? Was it worth it?
If grandstanding to out a secret program when he knew the answer and was supposed to be asking that question in private I'd say it was fine, and it seems everyone else thought so also hence no charges.
I'm also super excited about VS2017.

But excuse me this HN comment (last line, with the insensitive remark) is super cringe-inducing. Horrible.
That hardly matters if people's response is to use other, less secure things, as was the case with the Guardian and Whatsapp.
It is going to take some time to absorb all these resources but I will do my best! Wazanator, thank you for taking time to give a clear and elaborate answer.
You've clearly spent some time looking up links to support your cause, so it's unfortunate that you've cherry picked only the ones that support your beliefs. Here are some others that say the opposite.

"Sentence Enhancements Reduce Crime"

http://www.nber.org/digest/oct98/w6484.html

"Longer prison sentences deter re-offending, study shows"

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/8504923...

Longer sentences deter crime up to a point

http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2016/03/criminal...

"Longer prison terms really do cut crime, study shows"

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2012/jul/07/longer-prison-se...

"the average add-on gun law results in a roughly 5
percent decline in gun robberies within the first three years"

https://www.law.upenn.edu/cf/faculty/dabrams/workingpapers/D...

Note also that 2 of the 4 links you provided are comparing certainty-of-punishment vs harshness-of-punishment. This is a false dichotomy. There's no reason you can't have both. Having harsh punishment doesn't reduce the certainty of punishment in any way.

Is there a lot of contentious debate on this topic, and a lack of consensus on this topic? Of course. But given the lack of clear answers, I'd much rather err on the side of preventing victimization.
I'm looking forward to the benchmarks since the performance per watt of the desktop parts (Ryzen R7) seems to be really good. Quite curious how it will compare against Skylake-EP.

A quote from a anandtech forum post [0] reads promising:

"850 points in Cinebench 15 at 30W is quite telling. Or not telling, but absolutely massive. Zeppelin can reach absolutely monstrous and unseen levels of efficiency, as long as it operates within its ideal frequency range."

A comparison against a Xeon D at 30W would be interesting.

The possibility of this monster maybe coming out sometime in the future is also quite nice: http://www.computermachines.org/joe/publications/pdfs/hpca20...

[0] https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/ryzen-strictly-technica...
Evidently there were at least 2.
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