skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I can no longer proudly claim the West is free. We are living in a surveillance state."

This has been the case for a very long time.

Nothing is new under the sun - but now lots of people are seeing things for what they are.
Yes! there is an interesting paper on this subject: https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.02943
Yes, that's probably the point of the maker. To prove that they can do a preimage attack.
Perhaps it's confused by the many images and videos of tigers swimming in water?
If this was the case (and there weren't other issues e.g. insturctuon fusion etc) then wouldn't AMD be pushing K12 far harder? It's the same ceneteral core as Zen but they don't seem to have as much confidence in it.
I bet this has something to do with the fact (or so I'm told) that MD5 is broken.
Free Database of Place Names and Coordinates for Geospatial and Text Indexing
It doesn't sound like you went your own way at all since in your second paragraph you discuss getting involved in romantic relationships and love and doing things to improve those relationships. The fact that you're willing to break them off quickly when not happy isn't changing what you're apparently seeking only how much effort you're apparently willing to put into dealing with low points.
The user interface for MediaWiki is poor. It is somewhat challenging for people who are not technical.

For instance, you can't easily upload a picture, or select a text to put as title, or add links. Most of the time you'll be forced to write wiki code manually.
Many sports are running into the issues that powerlifting had to address in the past. Powerlifting used to only involve "gear" meaning suits, shirts, and wraps that store energy elastically and release it when performing the lifts (squat, bench, deadlift). The IPF, the biggest drug tested international federation, limits the techniques used in making the suits: singly ply of material, seams must me made in such a way without adding more material, wraps can only be two meters long, etc. The IPF now requires the manufacturers to obtain approval (with a fee, natch) for each piece of personal equipment as well as for the bars and plates used.

Other feds are attracting lifters by allowing multi-ply gear, not using an approved gear list for single ply, and not mandating the exact shape of your underpants when competing (seriously), and allowing for specialty bars for each lift.[1]

If the IAAF wants to go down this rabbit hole of limiting the assistance that equipment may provide, they might end up with a list of approved shoes if they aren't careful, or breaking the race into barefoot, foam sole, and springy sole divisions. That just increases the cognitive load for fans and in my opinion decreases the prestige of the various champions who have an asterisk by their records.

[1] There's also the whole angle of drug testing: the IPF is the premier drug tested international fed and the USAPL (its US affiliate) is the premier fed in the US. Competing feds without drug testing have actually started adding tested divisions presumably to attract lifters who want to be competitive without drugs.
If you follow the links to from the release notes to the relevant wikileaks pages, you will find a list that also include chrome, firefox, vlc, opera, libreoffice as well as Kasparsky and McAfee antivirus and many other commonly used software packages, many of them open source.

It is also the first time I have seen evidence that they also target Linux, since they have a hijacked "CMD prompt" on Linux, whatever that means. They may also have targeted Linux with the other software packages of cause.

This is really scary.
Only a select few boards were based on ARMv6, the Raspi 2 and above use a modern ARMv7 core. Running Raspbian vs Debian on a Raspi 2 or 3 shows off the massive performance gap between the two, IMO they should have used a single ARMv7 core from the get go.

But the Raspberry Pi is a fundamentally flawed platform, with poor I/O, binary blobs required to make the hardware function, and a community that is toxic towards free software, with its own vaguely supported distro.

An OrangePi Zero ($7) or OrangePi PC Plus ($22) will blow a Raspi out of the water any day, due to each USB port and the ethernet port being directly wired into the SOC, allowing 40MB/s per port. Plus, I can run kernel 4.10 and mainline Debian on it without any blobs, and the only things I'll miss out on are GPU support & WiFi. The VPU has been reverse engineered though, so H.264 & H.265 video works well.
No, that's what it's called now.
Real headline is "WikiLeaks Dumps Docs on CIA’s Hacking Tools"

Russia is only mentioned once in the article.
Why not? That's just one of the ways to measure the "constant" 0 degrees Celsius. What that temperature is doesn't change just because you're at different air pressure. You don't say "water boils at 100 degrees celsius at every altitude," you say "huh neat water boils at different temperatures at different altitudes."
This is incredible, it's like winning the lottery except that you can play incredibly fast with almost no cost for each try.
What is dystopian about having walls around property? It's been that way ever since houses were invented.
Show HN: Pushing the limits of React Native (react-native-insta-photo-studio)
Especially as it has a vicious streak a mile wide
What kind of features do you look at? Obviously I don't expect you to be able to talk specifics, but I'm curious about the generalities.

Also, how did you settle on logistic regression? Have you tried any other models?
Thanks for making the effort to share painful personal things :)
Demo starts at 04:10.
It's a journey. Been creating a media-picker in React Native that mimics the instagram-app's media-picker, cropper, filterer. I've reached a milestone where open-gl is next to be implemented. But this first part has really pushed React Native and it's pixel pushing capabilities to it's limits. My conclusion React Native is fast and capable.
barrons really good at the cyber... cyber means something different to me though.
I definitely read an article after that movie came out about confused moviegoers that thought it was based on a true story.
We don't just live in a surveillance state, it's also an oligarchy.

Don't fret though - the security state has been building for a long time: http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/CIAtimeline.html
But can they grow in Martian soil? Its regolith is missing crucial nutrients, methinks. Otherwise, wow! The Martian's premise might actually be realistic!
The linked press release shows an animal is detected -- tiger etc. It does not say tiger running or hunting, which is where the time component would have been used.
if you read the article as an argument about eating meat, its a lot more compelling than it is as an argument about biking.
So... you want me to enter a conversation with someone who has excused themselves from the conversation??? Am i correct, or incorrect in my interpretation?
We can get most of the way around problems like that, can't we?

If there's no payment, you get an immediately collectable judgment against debtor, or trigger a transfer in other payment streams (from an employer, etc.) or transfers in non-cash collateral (which, depending on the success of block chain, could eventually include block-chain titles to cars, property, other securities, etc.). Usually, banks only lend to the cash poor but asset rich, so that's not so different.

I see blockchain eventually becoming key for short term rental -- hotels, cars maybe. But the legal complexity between the law of hotel rooms and rental houses is huge.
There's a great podcast series from NPR called How I Built This. They recently interviewed Patagonia's founder Yvon Chouinard:

http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/national-public-radio/how-i-...

I found it inspiring. If you're unfamiliar with the podcast, it's focused on makers and entrepreneurs.
The Luddite Fallacy
When “gut feelings” aren’t enough: using data to plan your product roadmap
That's a great, big "Maybe?"

If the collision might have otherwise hit the bumper instead of the spare AND was slow enough to not damage the bumper, I suppose that could happen. More likely to be true if you back into a stationary object than somebody rear-ending you. Most cars are going to be below the spare wheel of a Jeep. This is definitely an issue on smaller SUVs (RAV4, etc) because they are low enough that the spare gets hit by any full size truck/SUV.

In my case, I had a bike rack installed in the hitch. The rack (and bike) got bent up into the tailgate. The collision was bad enough to push my parked Jeep a full car length, bend the frame, twist the rollcage, damage the exhaust, tailgate, floorpan, both tail-lights, left-rear quarter, spare wheel, and rear window (soft-top). I was amazed the car wasn't totaled (probably would have been had it not been well-optioned and basically new).

In addition to the car, a $5000 bicycle and $600 rack were destroyed. And I hurt my ankle.

All by a freaking Smart Car with a driver to busy checking text messages.

Grrrrr.
13 out of 15 senior positions are men.

https://andela.com/about-us/meet-the-team
Very cool. I've been thinking about something like that for a long time.

I also don't mind paid solution if it'll be open source.
which is exactly what the release note said...
IIRC, Jet was handing out equity in lots in order to hide the percentage of equity granted. This typically means a) They want to hide how little piece of the pie you are getting b) They are going to do further shady stuff like reverse splits, clawbacks, etc

Edit: The employee in this thread is still working so not FU money. Maybe "FU for a year while I travel the world" money.
He's using Notepad++.
We recently launched pepperly.com, working with mom-n-pop Indian Grocery retailers in Boston area. Very early stages as it currently works with one local retailer. Order online for either pickup or delivery. Same prices as the store. However, it's not picked up enough traction. Partly it's a behavioral thing. People like to go to the grocery store and talk to the Grocer. Would love feedback or suggestions on how to improve the uptake of the service.
Downvote bad comments, upvote good ones. It doesn't take much to shoo them away, at least so far.
I wonder if it being an animated GIF as opposed to just an image has anything to do with it.
it's been over 24 hours and it's a pretty trivial "fix"
Or sidelined, put out to pasture, by revoking his clearances. He can be reduced to a figurehead if, perhaps, he was implicated in something that warranted a multi-year investigation. That would be more humiliating than being simply fired.
> everybody who can run successfully in these races can afford proper nutrition, airfare, clothing, and entry fees.

And the insane, nearly lifelong training.
End-To-End Testing Vue.js Apps with TestCafe
AH! I get it....

You're a complete dick. Cool - have fun with that

@DANG: just get that I believe this astroturfur to be a dick... and I attemtpted to have an actual conversation to understand where they were coming from... they refused discource on a civil level. so I am calling them out...
MD5 as a cryptographic hash is thoroughly shredded, yes.

It's still fine for non-cryptographic purposes, except that it's far slower than e.g. CRC.
Excited about a '2.0' tech stack for microservices with Kubernetes, Envoy, gRPC
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ss574

Also Google Soil Carbon Cowboys.

There used to be many tens of millions of bison living on North American grasslands.
This. This article touches on a number of the points I've made to friends in the last couple of years. I've had a growing sense of dread about what the world will look like when such tools become easy to obtain and produce powerful results. Every time I read a new research paper, I was both in awe at the pace at which things were moving, and scared that it looked like it would happen in the very near future.

We will reach a point within the next decade or so in which photorealistic video of just about anything you want will be trivial to create. That will have enormous benefits to many people in a creative sense, but will usher in an era of disinformation the likes of which our world has never seen. As the article states, what we are seeing now truly is the tip of a very massive iceberg.

What terrified me most when I thought about it, is that I couldn't think of a way to stop the end of Truth from happening.
The recent Ford F-150s with aluminum bodies were huge news. The frame is still steel.

Personal vehicles are mostly made of steel.
The West, or the United States? I feel like many Western nations wouldn't do this crap if the Americans didn't just politically strongarm them.
Hey Doug -- I see what you are doing, and I reject the premise. Your tone implies that @meddalpal and I have somehow made a sexist remark by referring to a presenter as "the first lady to come out."

She was the first lady to come out, and I would imagine that many watching did not know who she was. Had it been a guy I would have said "That first dude on stage was a train-wreck of a presenter."

There is sexism in the world, but it is not here.
That's pretty fatalistic, there are many quality studies that people disagree with. The soundness of a paper isn't based on whether you agree with it or disagree with it, it is based on the methods and the data.

It's interesting that you require data to change your assumption that there's not a problem.
> We started conducting all-female recruitment cycles and suddenly things really started to change

> I then made the percentage of women hired a KPI of the Director of Operations for every office

Wouldn't that (especially the quota stuff) be considered illegal gender discrimination in the US?
Looks great. May I ask, how can you provide free self-hosting (even if it's free only for <5 users)?

edit: I didn't receive email confirmation yet, after signing up (15 minutes ago). HN server effect?
Yvon Chouinard is a real fun guy. (and a stonemaster of old, so he's gotta be OK..)

Politics aside, I am thrilled with Patagonia's repair policy. They've repaired a pair of jeans for me 7 times now, several hoodies a few times each ... the up front cost for goods is high, but the durability and service life more than makes up for it.
> As someone who works mostly in React I've never found a use for classes.

You can't NOT use classes if you use React. [Edit: For components with state] your syntax choices are:

Foo = React.createClass({})

Or:

class Foo extends React.Component {}

But both are examples of JS classes; it's just a question of whether you use the class keyword or not. Every React component [Edit: with state] is a class.

Edit: Fixed silly error; obviously you can use stateless functional components and I do all the time, but you can't avoid classes with React.
AMD Collaborates with Microsoft to Advance Open Source Cloud Hardware
> On the other hand, "questions of law" are the part that I think can be executed by a smart contract (once the facts are input)

I think if you meditate about what qualifies as "taxable income" you'll be much less sure about this. There are also accountants who are paid $500/hr, and it isn't because computers can't tally a column in a spreadsheet.
I can no longer proudly claim the West is free. We are living in a surveillance state.

That's a little disrespectful to those who actually lived in surveillance states. Is your neighbor watching you, ready to report you to the state for suspected subversive activities?

Even if you were engaged in actual subversive activities, like reading and publishing terrorist propaganda or selling drugs at scale, Tor makes it possible to do this with relatively little risk to yourself. It's still risky, but nothing like it used to be. And even if the government knows that you do these things, how much of a threat do you need to pose before they'll act against you in particular? The governments of old would routinely act against large numbers of their population for far less.

I'm not arguing for complacency, but it's important to keep perspective.
Thanks! It will be open source. The source will be released within a month.
Isn't that more a case of no support promised, none given. Rather than support promised but falling short.
Thanks. Go.
"Especially for indoor venues that seems completely possible."

If so, one could argue they should ban those tracks, too. Modern tracks have nine lanes. The outer eight are optimized for use by sprinters, the innermost one is softer to prevent injuries to 5 and 10k runners.

That is more pronounced in gymnastics. If you held a tournament today using equipment of fifty years ago, I bet half the competitors would break a leg or an ankle.
> So it boils down to this: how inefficient does my equipment have to be in order to follow the rules? Put a number on it, manufacturers can build to it, boom, sorted.

I believe this is exactly what they do in car racing with restrictor plates.
>On all measurable indicators — technical skills, professional soft skills, and psychometric profiles of what correlates with happy clients — our female developers compete, and many cases out-compete, with their male colleagues.

This seems to be going beyond the null hypothesis that female engineers are identical to male engineers in expectation, and claiming that in some areas in expectation they were better. Although I know it's not the focus of the article I'd like to see that expanded on, and would be very interested to know about what areas those were, and by how much the females exceeded males.

As for the meat of the article, I'm supportive of such experimental practices as the all-female hiring cycles to change the applicant pool. If there is a wealth of untapped engineering talent out there then it's in humanity's best interests to find it.
Just so you know, your email for verifying an account signup comes through with a pretty high spam score (for me at least.) The first email was rated 4.5 and the second 5.9 (I signed up two accounts: personal and business.)

I use Fastmail as my provider.
We're a boring planet in the sticks, and we poisoned our planet with radiation. I'd bet we're in a list of planets to avoid.
It will be implemented this week. This a very, very early release.
Agreed. I think you should be able to go to either extreme that is safe.

1. Everyone gets just the equipment they were born with. Its barefoot with nothing beyond basic clothes for modesty/support. In this scenario its all about the human body and training.

2. The other end is springy shoes, aerodynamic clothing.

3. Farther down the line you have safe technology like 100% O2, autologous blood tranfusions. Nothing that permanently changes the body. If you think some of these things are dangerous, I'd counter that the sport itself is dangerous and well known for its injuries.

3a. Even farther you have the things that can cause permanent changes/death for the athelete. EPO, steroids, Perfluorocarbons etc.
The use of "cyber" is good. It draws a bright line between the informed and ignorant, between the dolts who spend all day playing with powerpoint and the people actually running the show.
Here's a link to the Google Cloud Terms of Service: https://cloud.google.com/terms/ (you may be interested in section 5.2: Use of Customer Data).

Disclaimer: I work for Google but am definitely not a lawyer and can't authoritatively speak for Google here.
> Kasparsky and McAfee antivirus

if you had high opinions of those programs, you have bigger problems
No, this almost certainly isn't a preimage attack – it is more likely to be caused by the fact that you can generate MD5 collisions cheaply. Getting the gif animation to show the right frames based on the colliding block is a neat trick though! Looking forward to the writeup.

Here's how a similar thing was done for PostScript: https://twitter.com/teh_gerg/status/838422647193157632
Microsoft's Project Olympus platform design to incorporate the upcoming high-performance "Naples" x86 server processor

On top of the nice features of Naples outlined by hn user "throwawayish" [0] maybe also a response to Intel giving Google and Facebook a few months earlier access to Skylake-E?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13812406
Ask HN: Any companies allow 2-3 months off/year
I genuinely love software engineering and am pretty good at it but am not an internet famous engineer. I also love travel/adventuring and don't want to wait for retirement before I can take long, frequent (annually) hiking/climbing/surfing trips. Are there any companies out there that offer 2-3 month long annual vacations? I'm looking specifically for companies in the US that pay market-rate but obviously prorated salaries.
Maybe it's the size of the grocer that encourages the talking crowd? I can't imagine this being as popular in larger stores, although I did have several repeat customers who I enjoyed talking to when I worked in a grocery coffee cafe.
This particular anecdote isn't particularly useful.

It doesn't generalize and in many jurisdictions (in the US and elsewhere) would expose companies to accusations of gender discrimination (against men).

It also elides significant context: there just aren't as many women with tech backgrounds (be it education or experience). So one company's gain in this regard is others' loss, in some sense. The root causes for this gender imbalance are varied in kind and complexity.

Discrimination that starts early in students' lives discourages female participation in STEM. That is, in my view, the most pernicious and significant problem. A generally sexist culture that is cultivated in tech by "adults" certainly compounds the issue and is in some measure an extension of the discrimination that starts early.

I'm skeptical that the article's "supply side solution" will actually resolve the more severe and widespread problems that serve as barriers to having an equal representation of women in technical roles.
If you don't break out of the sandbox then you can't access anything interesting.

Traditional UNIXoid workstations are quite different. A program running under your user can do anything your user can do. It can access and delete all of your data.

An iOS app can't access or delete any of your data by default. Everything requires explicit permissions granted by the user, and even those are pretty limited. As long as the sandbox functions correctly, a malicious app will never be able to, say, read my financials spreadsheet out of Numbers, or my private texts out of Messages.

I've yet to see any evidence that this process adds security. Given that the review process is extremely shallow (some automated tools are run to scan for private API calls and such, and two non-experts spend a total of about ten minutes with your app) so there's no hope of any sort of useful security audit being done.
The Dark Web Is Disappearing
And steel actually produces even more CO2 to cast. Carbon steel, melting point 1500C vs aluminium, just 600C. http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/melting-temperature-metals...
Schedule (2017)
Wednesday 3/29	Thursday 3/30	Friday 3/31 Saturday 4/1
NOT SIGBOVIK
You don't have to show up; it's your life

SIGBOVIK
But you should

http://www.sigbovik.org/2017/
Thanks for reporting! I'm using SendGrid, I'll make sure it's fixed.
> In my experience with the particular type of situation in the article, stark disagreements come out of a difference in the "reality" that you inhabit. From one reality the claims you make seem perfectly reasonable. From another, they might sound ridiculous. The actual difficulty of the situation is reconciling the two realities, not the assertions themselves.

Scott Adams have been talking a lot about it lately. I'm wondering how much his influence has grow. It seems a lot. A truly master persuader.