skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rhinos are notoriously hard to breed. And I guess you could set up a farm: Build a fence, put Rhinos there, provide food and water. But that's very similar to the reservations that already exist. And those are already hard to defend against poachers, but how would you defend your farm?
So those with the money to do so should be free to break them, while those who can't need to obey, and that's just right and proper?
I have two jobs, the one without Slack is much harder to stay on top of.

I just mute the gif-sharing channel.
Fukushima is worse than ever
I'm definitely in the camp that takes whatever the distribution gives me. Of course, the choice of distribution is heavily driven by what I want from it (e.g., KDE desktop, etc). I've honestly never given any thought to what audio subsystem it uses.

Fortunately, OpenSuSE Leap appears to be a PulseAudio distribution.
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Let's hope this isn't niagra again: it needs to have decent clock speeds as IPC is still worth something today. But yes, I totally agree, this is an exciting chip.
Also, the "17 agencies" statement came from James Clapper, and not individually issued from each of the agencies themselves. It also bears mentioning that the "17 agencies" include groups that I really, really doubt bothered to investigate ANYTHING to do with a politician getting his emails hacked - do people actually believe that the coast guard was tracking down Russian hackers after DNC secrets? What about the department of energy? These are some of the "17 agencies" mentioned.
They'll eventually add Web Extension APIs that allow new-style addons to put tabs on the side. So even if they don't enable tab nesting in this first-party feature, it will be reasonably easy to add that in a future extension.
Corporatism.
Generic manufacturers don't spend money on R&D
Hangouts doesn't use WebRTC, it uses a NPAPI plugin on Firefox and nonstandard APIs on Chrome.
Travis fits the mold of a ruthless kind of CEO, always pushing the ethical line as far as he can get away with. Bill Gates in his first incarnation as ruthless CEO has engaged in all sorts of questionable behavior. For example, interview a bunch of people from a rival, figure out who's key, and hire them all away at once. Or structure the agreement with IBM to eventually own the rights to Windows, then screw IBM over by slow-pedalling and malingering on OS/2, and then release Windows in co-ordination with the newly created clone PC market, which he relentlessly encouraged behind IBM's back.

Note that I'm not judging - I have come to realize (sadly) that a certain ruthlessness may be necessary for large-scale success in business, especially in the tech industry.
It would be the first mass transit system without windows. My point is simply that solving the hard vacuum chamber safety problems might be easy compared to fixing psychology.

Early research on airplanes and windows ran into the same issue. Nearly every row has a window to themselves despite the incredible added cost and weight to planes.
And yet you claim not to understand why people hate doing more work ?

This is really the key. Lifestyle articles romanticize anything they want for the sake of clicks, and if you take them at face value, you can end up feeling guilty for not getting deep satisfaction from shopping, cleaning, and every other kind of drudgery imaginable. Going to the grocery store is supposed to be an opportunity for social connection. Picking up your dry cleaning nurtures your ties to the community. And if you prefer to spend your time on a stimulating and challenging task that you actually chose and are good at, you are a joyless drone.

The MO of this kind of writing is to take really nice but unusual experiences -- like when you exchange a few words and a smile with the checkout clerk and it brightens your whole day -- and suggest that these are bread and butter experiences for other people. That other, better people don't often find the grocery store boring or stressful.

It ratchets up the insecurity by presenting idealized versions of every scenario. You aren't pushing a cart through a crowd at the middlebrow grocery store picking up stuff you wish you didn't have to buy and comparing prices because you haven't saved enough this year. You aren't fighting traffic in the parking lot trying to find a space, any space, because you had to leave work at the same time as hundreds of thousands of other people and _had_ to shop because you're out of twenty essential items. You're taking a nice healthy stroll or bike ride to get ingredients for dinner tonight. Everything fits nicely on your bike because you only got what you need right now and you don't have a family that has its own needs and its own timelines.

Of course it only contributes to the malaise and stress because it makes you feel like you should really be having peak experiences all the time because other people are and if you aren't there's something wrong with you. It hits you from both ends by creating anxiety that you aren't keeping up and hope that your life contains a vast untapped reservoir of potential happiness.

Honest social commentary never uses this sleazy self-help formula. That's my tl;dr if anybody wants one.

Finally, think about how sinister it is to equate the desire to occasionally be free from something with a spiritual inability to enjoy it. This is the kind of logic that oligarchs use to romanticize the lives of the people they exploit. You don't want to do this work? It's drudgery to you? It must be because there's something spiritually wrong with you. You don't appreciate how this work binds you into a greater spiritual whole with the rest of society.
"The strongest chain will break at it's weakest point".

If I as a user, believe that a sequence of actions, from my keystrokes to voice input, which I perceive to be a direct interaction with a secure app are in fact insecure, then is the app really secure?

I guess that's the question being posed here
Bypass could be appropriate in the sense that it was "sidestepped", not "broken". I think it's a fine word but I don't think the average reader knows / cares about the difference.
It's not insane. Other animals aren't as intelligent as human animals* but they're sentient and have personality. It's perfectly OK to treat such people who abuse or kill animals with the same disregard they show for others.

* the word animal derives from the same root as 'animated' - we are animals because we can control our movements, n contrast to rooted entities like plants.
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I don't think the difference is so obvious even that far in the future, or even right now. If you targeted an attack correctly, I'm pretty sure you could achieve a statistical range of casualties. Does it matter that you used data instead of bombs?
Intel doesn't have SHA2 acceleration? ARMv8 has had it for like 2-3 years now...

And AMD should dump SHA1 acceleration in the next generation.
Nice. This is the more interesting market for AMD rather than the gaming market in my opinion. 128 PCIe lanes and up to 4TB of ram will be awesome.
They market drugs in the US though.

(I don't think the 'the US bears the burden' argument is especially compelling, I'm just saying that the country where a business is located doesn't reveal where it gets revenue)
Lol at NYT, it says that when jack into an android phone they are able to route the messages to a third party before it gets encrypted
When I read "bypass" I kind of read "go the alternate route. As in around the impasse" which in this case the impasse was encryption.

I think a lot of people in this thread are hating on NYTimes today for this headline because of the inaccurate WhatsApp encryption news stories of recent.

I could see myself being bothered if they had written that the encryption was "broken" or "cracked" as if you destroyed the boulder in your path. Bypass seems fine. Hacker News doesn't normally use bypass as a synonym for break, but for some reason today it i to the commentators
Who cares if Uber is a tad dirty in breaking down down the status quo. The public didn't cared previously about this until they realized that Uber treats everyone(their employees, contracted drivers, customers, stealing from their competitor, the common man driving to work who could get killed by an unproven Uber robot car and more) like trash and steamrolls over all who is not a KalaDick bro!
Because you can put one next to the other and create a neat surface full of those stickers...
I don't have Android Wear. But as he explained it he went to the Google personal data page that shows you the data they've collected on you and said there were audio recordings and transcripts with words and phrases that seemed odd but then he realized where he said them.
The CIA tools to own it were just leaked. You are commenting on the thread talking about those tools and the leak announcement.
Oh for goodness sake...
We already have a system for "research patents." It's called the Patent Term Restoration Program [1] and it allows the FDA to grant 5 year extensions for patents on approved drugs, up to 14 years of exclusivity from the date the marketing application is approved.

Giving pharmaceutical companies the full 20 years after approval, regardless of how long it took, would create a perverse incentive to patent early just to protect existing patent marketshare. It would also be extremely unfair to everyone else like the aviation/aerospace, semiconductor, and energy industries where it can easily take 5-10 years to get from patent to product and cost just as much. It's much better to subsidize research (which the public does on a massive scale already) and drive down the regulatory burden of approval, which we can do without decreasing safety by some targeted reforms of the FDA (mostly by giving it more power to organize clinical trial infrastructure and enforce transparency and trial integrity). Giving pharma more power is not the answer.

[1] https://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DevelopmentApprovalProcess/SmallBu...
I haven't looked into the space recently; how would the UI be attached? The only thing I can think of would be <canvas> (2D or WebGL), which both seem like a ton of work that the vendors don't have yet. Or do a full rewrite to output HTML of some sort. I thought Java applets were popular partly because the widgets are built-in (not always, of course, and the old widgets look pretty horrible now).
I agree but unless every other nation stops doing this there is little value in being the only "clean" country (assuming somehow we stop). And what are the implications of doing so? We used to believe that free and open societies would naturally prosper compared to authoritarian/totalitarian societies but what if that was all a lie? "Five Eyes" dates back to the 1940's, ECHELON at least the 1980's - none of this is new. Maybe we are all just naive to the realities of geopolitics? Is this just the modern version of "We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm."?

Personally, I'd rather live in a world dominated by America/Europe than one dominated by Russia or China. All parties have lengthy histories of atrocious behaviour but the US/Europe doesn't have a "Great Firewall" and critics of our leadership are not disappeared (yet?). I just hope "If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever." remains fictional....
Yes, that is my concern. You mention system applications - I believe this excludes any application which can be installed (with an app store or apk)? What is a local EOP? I couldn't find any info on this abbreviation. I used Google as an example.
SpaceX Moon plans in 2018; here's why that may not happen
In previous threads there was discussion about Intel processors, specifically Skylake (which is a desktop processor), being superior for server workloads involving vectorization.

How will Naples fare on this front?
> Just like they committed to revealing exploits to the tech industry instead of hoarding them?

I think you're letting your cynicism get in the way of truth and understanding.

The US has signed and ratified a treaty committing to destroy all chemical weapons and never produce them again [1], and it has built the infrastructure to do so [2] [3].

It's conspiracy-nut territory to think the US is simultaneously stockpiling chemical weapons in some super-secret program without good evidence for it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_Weapons_Convention

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7u-ACe1CBfA

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wftLydix0Nw
tptacek != moxie
I'm curious if CodePush[0] can be used along side (or integrated into) Mobile Center.

That seems like a no-brainer if you are supporting React Native based apps.

Also, I didn't see any support for platform native Notification APIs for React Native. The current notification service is for pure-JS / Cordova[1]

[0] https://microsoft.github.io/code-push/

[1] https://azure.github.io/azure-mobile-apps-js-client/
You don't even need to necessarily own the phone at the kernel level. Things like the Android AccessibilityService APIs are kind of a huge gaping issue if the app uses standard text controls without overriding the View.AccessibilityDelegate event handlers.

Of course, this is a bit of a balancing act, because many disabled people legitimately benefit from the accessibility services, but they are like a huge vacuum from which displayed and entered textual data from your application can be sucked out.
Not sure about GH, but here are two examples, from the NYT about pollsters[1] and from Nature[1] about red cards.

1: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/09/20/upshot/the-er...

2: http://www.nature.com/news/crowdsourced-research-many-hands-...
The word "effectively" is somewhat clarifying in WL's tweet as opposed to the outright misinformation in NYT's headline, also it's just a tweet and not an article headline from a major newspaper.
Really now? I could think of a few things a lot more "horrific" than not getting your startup funded, dude.
> in-person demo of a verification service nearly a decade ago.

What did their privacy policy say "nearly a decade ago".
It's probably easier to invent AI singularity than to port VS.
"Otto having stolen intellectual property are very serious, it’s worth remembering that the entire industry is basically built on theft"

There's an interesting argument in the article, but the amount of squid-ink being squirted overwhelms it. A big chunk of the article is pretty much "They didn't do it, and if they did, look at everyone else." Which is pretty much bullshit.

Where it lands for me: If the CEO wants to disclaim responsibility for the culture, he needs to step down as incompetent.

If the CEO wants to take responsibility for the culture, he needs to step down for running an institution that routinely breaks the law. (There's a legal term for that...)
File metadata wasn't my concern. Spreading baseless rumors without concern for grieving family and friends makes Sparkling (and his buddies) grade-A fuckwads in my book.
I really don't want to believe it. It doesn't make any sense. But I did see some relatives get well from some issues (none are serious) going this so called 'homeopathic' route after trying out regular doctors. Are some of the regular medicines so ineffective that a placebo is trouncing them ? That probably requires some study.
Not necessarily. To a lot of people encryption is "using Signal" or "using WhatsApp". They don't necessarily understand that these are distinct things and that their communications could still be captured by virtue of simply using a phone.
The first time I read about voice programming (in Heinlin's 'Number of the Beast', the flying car they use is voice programmable[1]) I considered how you'd implement it and figured what they do in the book was too cumbersome - essentially natural language. What they did do though, was create shortcut commands for sequences of commands, then shortcuts based on shortcuts... and this to me suggested a Forth-like language might be a better fit.

I think it's still the case, C-like languages have too much grammar going on to deal with without visuals, forth is grammar-free. Also, it's naturally shell-like; instead of your 'run the code', just say the function you need to execute; you can test and redefine each function as you go.

I attempted to build this on a ZX Spectrum in 1983, based on some voice recognition code from a magazine...needless to say I didn't get too far with that hardware. I should have another go.

[1] Sample:

"Program. L axis add speed vector three point
six klicks per second. Paraphrase acknowledge."
"Increase forward speed three and six tenths
kilometers per second."
"Chief Pilot?"
"Level."
"Execute." Deety glanced at the board. "Gay Deceiver,
H-above-G will soon stop decreasing, then increase
very slowly. In about fifty minutes it will maximize.
Program. When H-above-G is maximum, alert me."
"Roger Wilco."
"If-when one hundred klicks H-above-G, alert me."
"Roger Wilco."
"If-when air drag exceeds zero, alert me."
"Roger Wilco."
"Remain in piloting mode. Ignore voices including
program code words until you are called by your
full name. Acknowledge by reporting your full name."
"`Gay Deceiver,'" answered Gay Deceiver.
He wasn't going to out a secret program in a public hearing.

The folks asking the questions had security clearance and could have asked the question during a classified briefing but they chose not to.
I'll investigate that, thanks. However, the last time I checked I'd have to set up and run a separate account server service as well and since weave still works I had no reason to invest the effort into switching.

Regardless, I'll likely be switching to FF 52 ESR so the point will be moot.
and direct link here: https://search.descarteslabs.com
I created Myrddin (https://myrlang.org). It started off as a fun experiment, but now I'm finding myself using it for many of my personal bits of code.
I know personally I wouldn't be willing to go through this process.

$25 means significant opportunity cost for me. If that is three weeks I'm essentially paying $3000+ to interview. The offer waiting on the other end must be really really good.

Sounds like a great way to get contractors / consultants for 1/6 the price.
Less for open source than proprietary. Draw whatever parallels you wish.
Have a look at this page: http://hexb.in/sticker.html
And amazingly, someone with skin in the game can also be wrong despite years of experience and training.
Stock options and private stock are taken in the hope that they'll be worth something someday, not because they're necessarily worth anything at present.

It's all well and good to say "X is the fair market value of this stock based on factors y, z and a"* . But when no market exists (or severely restricted ones where sellers have to take a loss) then that value is not relevant (or should be discounted appropriately).

* I tried looking up (briefly) whether the absence or presence of a market for the company's stock is taken into account for a 409a valuation but couldn't find anything.
> When it becomes expedient to change our opinion, then we're very quick to do so.

And even deny that ever had any other position.
careful with claims that android is 'owned'.

You want to distinguish between:

- remote takeover (like stagefright vuln)

- ability to take control of the device from within an app sandbox

- ability to unlock a device in your physical possession (FBI was able to do this on prev V of ios)
> WikiLeaks, which has sometimes been accused of recklessly leaking information that could do harm

Nice passive voice there, NYT.
This is why we should not rely on encrypted apps running on top of some other platform.

disclosure: working on an open source alternative for messaging
Google Apps are typically installed as system apps. Play Store is obvious, since it needs to be able to install/update applications without prompting. The need for other apps (e.g. Gmail) to need system-level permissions is less obvious, but most of them fail to run if you just sideload it without the permissions.
Reasoning is a social process as much as it is an individual cognitive process. We're strongly conditioned to be unempathetic when reasoning, but this severely impairs our ability to reason together. Empathy and reason together are more powerful than either alone. The substance of reasoning comes second to the process of reasoning. If the process is hobbled by artificial or cultural constraints, it becomes perverse and harmful to understanding.
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You're conflating public services with private capitalism. Not surprisingly, there is nuance beyond just the surface level view.

Not long ago, before Twitter, Facebook, and even ubiquitous phone access for rural areas, they did those things to keep the locals in the know.

Quite a big difference between that and private equity firms buying all these retail outlets, and slurping up everyone's details to peddle more products for private gain.
These are the most relevant apps to use, it indicates that even when using security apps there is a problem. The message is "WhatsApp is not safe", its not relevant to most people why.
I worked on a similar problem! (But much, much narrower and less ambitious.) It's designed for games like dating sims. It takes a spec, written mostly as dialogue, and converts it to gamemaker code. I wrote it to help some friends avoid tedious manual translation, which apparently saved them a lot of time.
Also make sure no one is looking over your shoulder or listening nearby. "Signal encryption bypasssed by new look over shoulder attack."
This is a dangerous headline because it implies that Signal was broken, which could lead to people moving to LESS SECURE SERVICES because they think the more secure one is broken. When in reality is the phone and OS.

They have similar end result for the phone in question, but headlines like this can lead to people being less secure on the whole.
Yes, EasyAM, a programming language for organizing analysis conversations.

I created it to eliminate:

1) Situations where different people in an organization have conversations about the same thing and reach different results, not being aware of the duplication

2) Situations where lots of people in an organization are forced to copy and repeat the same information over and over again

3) Churning and duplication of effort where various people and teams are learning about how and why an organization works and how their work fits into the big picture

4) All the noise and churn it takes for a team to ramp up on a story that it hasn't seen before
Pharma stocks are never a good buy anyway, they have high liabilities
https://status.slack.com/2017-03/c0923f37c54988ec - basically just said that there was a broken code change which they reverted.
The document covers how they put a good amount of effort into ensuring there's not a clear link back to the CIA or relevant parties if one of these things is discovered. I imagine having hardware level vulnerabilities would much more quickly point directly to the only agencies capable of such techniques.
I have a language that is an experimental pure lazy functional programming language with a type system whose types are unions, not necessarily disjoint, of allowable value constructors. The syntax is S-expressions, so it kind of looks like Lisp but runs like a Haskell/Smalltalk mash-up. Someday I'll write it up, but I'm presently working at a company that claims ownership of everything I ever think about, so it's kind of on hold for now.
Not documentation, but... a former co-worker had done some work for intel agencies. He told me about something that was similar to this (though back in the 2008 time frame, so not using IME). If he can be believed (and I can neither confirm nor disprove what he told me, nor can I now prove that he ever said anything), this approach has been used for a long time.
Are you proposing that every single patient using Thiola or Daraprim was either able to afford the new price or get someone else to pay for it?