skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe...

What's your alternative? Are you suggesting we _do_ fine all the OpenSSL contributors? Or that we do not hold anyone except end users responsible for software/hardware security?

I'm not sure metaphors or comparisons between software and lemonade are entirely helpful - although they do push the discussion along, which is at least interesting... (So if I didn't _make_ the lemonade, but published my "4 lemons pulped, 1/2 a cup of sugar, and 2 teaspoons of rat poison" lemonade recipe on github - then you made it and got sick... Who's in the firing line then? What if the README says "this recipe is satire"?)
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
> And you know what? I have not been to that library ever, and I've lived in this neighborhood for years.

This is the "I don't have a use for it, so no-one else possibly could either" mentality.
I tried to use mine as a media box, but as the article notes, rpi can't power an hdd over usb. And I am too lazy to get a powered usb hub and arrange a power cord for that too.
Maybe, but in general in the West it isn't a problem to let a 7 year old walk to school on their own. In fact, the few cases where someone makes an issue out of it are so rare they actually make national or even international news!
I'm in Philadelphia and for a few months drove ~2,000 business miles for Lyft only, 0 for Uber. Not sure how much that's worth. I considered driving for Uber as well, but only if I planned to drive tens of thousands of business miles, which I decided not to do at all (got a job).

As a passenger, I exclusively use Lyft.
https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B019Z8T9J0 this is not Atom but a proper Broadwell core -- obviously a bit on the slower side but still it'll wipe the floor with any Atoms especially in single core performance. Look at http://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare.php?cmp[]=2506&cmp[]=272... for example. It has HDMI and four Ethernet ports (not a switch, see my review down below), serving as router and media player both. My review https://www.amazon.com/review/R6U6MT4R6SQS4 here.
50W would appear to be a maximum, the article shows a meter at 20W which is presumably total power from the wall socket. Once power consumption gets low enough it should cease to be a consideration. Everybody will have their own threshold for "low enough", but I personally wouldn't stay awake at night over 20W.
It's a feat that could be leveraged, but the likelihood and work to do so would outweigh actually pulling it off.

If this attack occurred against, for example, the CN government, they may step in and force miners to invalidate.

This scale is world-wide, there's no loss of public image and the amount of BTC is very small in the scheme of things.
One day someone is going to write a filesystem filter driver that does this and build in a much longer delay, which will allow the malware to spread for a lot longer before dumping the keys and demanding ransom.

The filter driver would ensure access to the files continues transparently even though the underlying data is encrypted.

Things will get much worse.
I have a similar one, but it gives up two NICs for an HDMI port - not ideal, but it was much cheaper at the time, and I have no need for a DMZ and no shortage of switches. It makes an excellent pfSense box!
Underfunded State pensions are an even bigger problem. Insurmountable actually.
I think the discovery of new types of exploits could be considered akin to wear-and-tear of physical things you buy. At the point of sale the software was safe, but over time problems were discovered.

When you buy a house you have a whole battery of inspections performed to make sure that you're buying somewhere safe, but over time the small things that got overlooked (like a small crack in a roof joint) or were considered safe at the point of sale become worn, or are discovered to be unsafe (locks susceptible to bumplocking for instance).

It's a tenuous analogy to be sure, but I don't think it's reasonable to think that Microsoft should refund people who bought XP. Are there any Linux distributions that back port all fixes to version 0.1?
Maybe it would have, since Uber was exploring their own program and would love to own the whole stack. I see the Uber investment as a hedge, where Alphabet can afford significant stakes in all the horses in the race.
How to be "proactive" with widely accepted discriminatory practices and affirmative action?
Ya I understand that, if you can get in the door. Those same companies are also the ones I've found more likely to automate rejections of applicants who can't check the right boxes though, making it harder to get in without experience.
yup. thanks for posting.

PS your safe sharing tool makes a lot of sense. email is nonsense for sharing sensitive docs.
The only reason it's partisan is because the previous government addressed it. Nothing else. There's nothing inherent in the values of either party to strongly side for or against net neutrality.
I suspect (I have not read that much NLP literature) that BLEU is typically used as evaluation only, not as the training loss. eg Google's "Google’s Neural Machine Translation System: Bridging the Gap between Human and Machine Translation" mentions directly optimizing for BLEU, but again via RL and not supervised learning. It certainly is a quirky example of RL, though... guess that's the pace new ideas/approaches are introduced these days.
Thats a very good insight that didn't occur to me right away actually.. Android dev has lots of opportunities in general.
No way to have a GPIO daughter board ?
Based on the NYC taxis I see roaming the streets, I'd guess that they last longer than six years. Plenty of cars look 10+ years or older. I'd guess that that the average age of a NYC taxi is around six years.
WannaCry ("the attack") didn't target Windows 10 installations (probably since most Win10 users have updates enabled), but Windows 10 is still vulnerable without the patch.
I asked about conservatives, not Congress, and at any scale of governance. Please don't switch the terms of the argument like that.
US Government Fears Another Explosion Of The Ransomware Plague It Helped Create
The conversation is about very advanced math topics (advanced undergraduate or graduate level). At some point in the levels of abstraction it becomes hard to show concrete applications of the ideas, or rather the applications of math is to do ever more advanced math.

I find more deplorable the fact that even basic math topics are often covered in the same dry way, without discussing practical applications or introducing topics through real-world scenarios. Many math books take the attitude "You have to know this, because I say so." Whenever I write about math, I try to start with a concrete example or a useful application of the theoretical result—it's always possible to come up with something for most of first year stuff. Seriously, you'd be surprised how much better reading UX is if you start each chapter/section with a motivating example.
I'm part of a large upcomming group on the net that has been pushed into a tiny corner that started with the original net neutrality. Many of these people supported trump, but now are joining in rallying against the FCC change.

This does not include that the new net neutrality we have now is not a true title 2. And has many loop holes inside of it. So what should be the conversation is getting a true title 2 on the books. Not a us versus them. As people I was talking about in the former do not hold the same beliefs of establishment Republicans
Also, a real time clock is probably included on the FX160. And sleep states.
Higher reward/effort?
Personally, there are nicer touches in the Lyft app- the colored signs, color-accurate picture of the make and model of the car, and generally friendlier driver instructions make getting into the car and riding more pleasant for me.
Wait until you have a few children.
WanaCryptor File Encryption and Decryption
I don't have a citation I can point you towards, just the word of a coworker who's a malware researcher, sorry.
They are both losing money at such a tremendous rate, it's hard to tell how far Uber is ahead of the competition. wWe'll only know once the VC and PE money starts to dry up, and they'll be forced to go public and release much more information. Then investors will start demanding at least a path towards profitability.
form factor is a bit annoying, I do this with an old thinkpad and I'm thinking about finding one with a broken LCD to remove the screen assembly altogether and put the base onto a book shelf.
Lyft have a deal with Grab here in Southeast Asia. As I understand I can use Grab to book Lyfts in areas where Lyft operates and Grab doesn't (and vice versa).
I would also agree that ISP are mostly monopolies. You can always decide to use FB or not. But you have to use Internet now, and it all goes through the same pipes.
I've seen USB GPIO breakouts, but not very cheaply, and I suspect driver support might be an issue. Certainly controlling GPIOs via /sys is extremely convenient! Between that and the built-in Ethernet interface, I suspect a Raspberry Pi makes a better GPIO interface for a PC than almost anything else on the market.
Why do you think communism was so appealing? Years of hostile discussions left both business owners and laborers at odds. Greedy companies refused to lower profits, and labor felt they deserved an equal share - especially after the world wars.

Ultimately, it's American business owners that were responsible for the rise of revolutionaries in the US. Early on, corporations restricted the political rights of labor unions while buying their own politicians. When laborers demanded fairer working hours, better working conditions, and fairer wages, businesses refused to compromise. When peace fails, people are left with the choice of abandoning hope or fighting towards revolution as a last resort. The USSR simply amplified existing legitimate anger.

I want to point out that the mainstream labor resistance was not about communism; citizens were fighting for equality and fairness within capitalism. The press always misuses scary words like "communism", in truth social ownership was secondary to being treated humanely. The government could have easily kicked out the USSR by stepping in as a mediator between business owners and employees.

> More broadly, I don't think that being in an open conflict with a world super power is the best time for rational reflection. Notice how democratic countries suspend most of its values during the war (i.e. they can take your property if it'll help the war effort, they'll put you to jail if you refuse to fight etc.) - they're just impractical when under attack.

Hahah, what? We don't suspend our values during war. Drafts fall under the social contract, all citizens are expected to defend the nation if called upon. The IRS always seizes property due to tax evasion. Industries always remain in private hands, we set production quotas because profit is not a right. We have interned people during war, but that's an artifact of ignorance rather than an intentional suspension of values.

Why do you think war isn't a good time for rational reflection? The battlefront requires action, but there's no reason for civilians to worry during a superpower proxy war. The US is massive and our enemies are oceans away.
In Chicago and Richmond atleast the drivers I've talked to that are doing it for a full time job tend to drive Uber, Lyft and every other small start up in the area. The drivers that aren't just getting started said they use Uber for volume but will take a Lyft over Uber because of the better pay. The only drivers I've had that are Uber only are just getting started/trying it out.

The drivers I've talked to that just do it for a little extra cash overwhelmingly prefer Lyft. Most said it is because of the better pay but I've also heard more than once that Lyft customer's tend to be more well behaved in the car for whatever reason.

To be fair, this is all anecdotal and I usually prefer not making chit-chat but if the driver insist I always ask them their preference since the driver's always have an opinion that is interesting enough for the duration of the ride.
Did you really use Rync? I figured there might be something more modern.
I've wanted a locked down computer ever since every program that I installed in 1995 wanted to put a useless icon in my tray and take over every file type association. General purpose computers are great when I'm writing the program, but awful when running someone else's poorly written program that wants to take control over my computer.

I like to think of a general purpose computer like a giant truck: great if you like that kind of thing, but not for everyone.
Insight datascience
Did not digest the paper yet. Does it provide nested transactions?

My understanding from 2012 paper was that it doesn't support nested transactions, even at the storage layer.

Can anybody provide insider-knowledge if it was even a requested feature from Google devs internally?
Wow! This is really illustrates a theme of the talk. I was completely blind to the 2nd "the", even the first two times I read your follow-up comment.
The Korean War Continues
When will it end?
Isn't that basically already done as a taxable nexus?

The problem is what to do about people who live in locales where there aren't a lot of sales? So they don't get much money and don't increase sales. A catch-22.
How to Live on 24 Hours a Day: Arnold Bennett on Living a Meaningful Life
99% of the time I can easily thow together a simple Python script with the BeautifulSoup and requests libraries to do any kind of basic scraping, form text to images or to API endpoints. And most of the time if I need a to store the data nicely I can either use the built-in csv or json modules or use SQLite database as a single file (which I believe is also part of the standard library)
I wish Lyft didn't have tips, it's the one thing keeping me from rooting for them to win.
Yes in fact it does. Those are all considered "heterodox" economics and are basically ignored.

They are moreso discussed in sociology and philosophy and to a limited extent graduate courses in economics.
Sure, but they could sell 1% of their company (loans, equity) and have one percent of a gazillion dollars.
Why not run it closed?
> Conventional recycling (or better yet: avoidance) can reduce new landfills, but ha zero impact on stuff that is already there.

Every day, we are putting tons of waste into the ocean. With better recycling/avoidance programs, we may reduce that by 20%, greatly reducing the amount of waste we put into the ocean each year. I don't know the details of this tech, but it could remove far less than that same 20% reduction.
True, but if anyone has a lot of dollars it's Alphabet.
Honest question: why there is no reverse type bidding system for picking a ride?

Let me tell you when im going and where to, where i am and what time i need to be there. Then you have x amount of hours/minutes to bid. The lowest bid gives me ride, unless i want to click few more checkboxes like [x] verified rider [x] minimum 4.5 star rider, etc.
I doubt it. WebAssembly is a compilation target [1]. Python is interpreted. Maybe you could compile the CPython interpreter to WebAssembly, along with every native library you need, and then run your Python code on your recompiled interpreter - so you would have Python being executed by an interpreter being executed by a JIT compiler running inside a browser. Execution would be even slower than on CPython, and I would expect download size to be impractically large. You'd be better off transpiling Python to JavaScript.

[1] http://webassembly.org/docs/high-level-goals/
How to Avoid Burnout by Ali Schultz
I find that almost all books I read do discuss "applications". No mathematics is an island. But as you say, the problem is that a lot of those applications don't really count, because the domain of the application is as foreign as the original concept.

For example, knowing that the snake lemma, a purely categorical statement, is most useful in homological algebra (such as, for example, simplicial or singular homology), is utterly useless if you don't already have an interest in algebraic topology. There really is almost no other motivation for the snake lemma, so now we're faced with the problem of trying to convince you that it's interesting by trying to convince you that algebraic topology is interesting. It can be done, and maybe we'll eventually bottom out in something like financial statements or bridge-building, or another topic that is widely recognised as "useful" and very far-removed from the snake lemma. Either way, it will be a long and arduous path, and I hardly think mathematicians can be blamed for this or be dismissed as elitists for the inherent difficulties of the subject.

But even for "first year stuff", the applications are kind of pointless. Do you really want to learn calculus because of physics? That's the most obvious and most historical application, but calculus is so foundational that you might as well motivate addition of real numbers by saying that numbers are added in physics too. More likely for the HN crowd, you want to learn calculus because you want to know how a neural network's backprop algorithm works, but how is the first year teacher going to anticipate that this is your particular interest in calculus?

At some point, I think there has to be a little "trust me, this is useful" and you just struggle through the subject until you can see on your own, after the fact, what the struggle was about. First wax on, wax off, Daniel-san. Then you will learn how you really were learning how to block karate blows.
Microsoft's support policy says they will only provide security updates for 10 years. Any company who wants more than that can pay them extra for the privilege. That's not extortion anymore than extended warranties are extortion.
The point of the killswitch is to detect if the worm is running inside a sandbox. Some sandboxes will resolve any domain you try to ping, so an easy way to detect this is to ping a non-existent domain name. I'm not totally sure how pinging an existing domain would give you the same behavior, but doing something like checking a handful of random non-existent domains from a large list could do the trick.

From the sounds of it, it seems like the researchers didn't expect the killswitch to disable the malware outside of the sandbox any more than the author of the malware did[0].

[0]: https://www.malwaretech.com/2017/05/how-to-accidentally-stop...
I hate the 2.x / 3.x python split so much ... don't get me started.
So this story at then end suggest that the human intel is out dated and we should rely on technical means. This is what we did and it ended up being a major cockup that led to failures to understand and predict issues, Iran and Iraq being some of them. We are still rebuilding our human intel assets. The Russian who lacked the technical expertise have always relied on human intel and it shows (trump, et.al)
I think you and grandparent don't agree on the meaning of the word 'partisan', and ended up talking past each other.

Parties don't have inherent values at all. They're just factions of people who hang out at the same clubs. Their values swing as the people attending the parties change over time.
No, you don't need to exploit the bug to run the software; this involves running it manually.
If you run your code on Google Cloud Platform, you should get the same benefits, no?
>In an infinite universe everything is in some sense the same, interchangeable, meaningless.

That something would be "meaningless" if it existed is not a valid or true argument against its existence.

>Physicists are naturally fairly conservative people when it comes to belief. They require evidence and experimentation before they say they believe something - so you can see why the theory of an infinite universe has not gained much support.

Actually, it has quite a bit of support. The universe appears flat, which tends to connotate that it would also be infinite: https://books.google.com/books?id=KhTJZG-U3ssC&pg=PA161#v=on...

This is another one of those Christian apologists trying to use arguments against "actual infinity" to argue that the universe is finite and therefore had a beginning and therefore had a creator. You know, William Lane Craig-esque mental gymnastics. You know, like the Kalam Cosmological Argument or something.
First of all, SMB is a network protocol for sharing files. It's sometimes known by the name samba, which is an implementation of the protocol. If you have a remote drive mounted for sharing documents with your coworkers there's a good chance you're using SMB.

This exploit worked in two stages. First, there was a massive email campaign. Then, when employees would click on the attachment, the malware would worm its way onto other computers on the local network using an exploit in the SMB file sharing stack (which orignally came from leaked NSA malware). Then it would encrypt the user's files and demand the ransom.
Intel’s Mark Bohr on the push into multi-chip solutions and issues at 5nm/7nm
One leg at a time
These seem to be terrific new features, I am surprised that Cloudflare announcements get such a muted reaction on HN these days.

To really hit it out of the park, and get people excited again, Cloudflare should introduce a $10 per month Extended Validation SSL cert, to sit alongside the $5 per month dedicated SSL certs they introduced last month.

It may seem trivial but, when recommending Cloudflare to non-technical clients, that green bar would be the perfect starting point to perk up their interest and carry their attention through to the other advantages.

My hunch is that EV certs, priced reasonably, would be the tipping point that persuades an unprecedented number of sites to shift over to Cloudflare and, once onboard as paying customers, it becomes a no-brainer decision for them to pay for other features too.
MS also has to share some blame here for updates that break things, and updates that restart at random times (such as when you're doing some really urgent work). This has trained a whole lot of users to believe that windows updates are a risk to their use of the computer, and now just click away any update prompts.
I doubt CIA Technical Services was burned down and reconstructed for every mission. Seems like intelligence agencies are always going to want some shared, reusable resources.
The recent figure for what it's worth (end 2016):

revenue $6.5 billion

losses excluding China $2.8 bn

$7 billion of cash on hand, along with an untapped $2.3 billion credit facility (bloomberg)

So they are not going bust tomorrow but whether they can build a real business from that is quite questionable.
For one thing it hit UK hospitals in a major way. That's not something that happens every day. If this was just hurting some random people we probably would hear a lot less about. It's not the technology but more of the impact (though those two are related).
Worth a quick note that Doctorow moved back to the EFF in 2015 fight DRM creating exactly this doomsday scenario (project 'Apollo 1201').

Donation link for those interested: https://eff.org/donate
I am hoping (perhaps wishfully) that 5G wireless technology will make much of this conversation moot. The reason why broadband companies are even theoretically able to get away with throttling certain sites is because there is so little consumer choice in broadband; few in this country have a choice at all.

Assuming 5G delivers on its promise of broadband quality internet (far from assured), most US consumers will immediately have far more options. Competition between service providers will be a much better check than regulation.
Like the other reply said, Lyft's strategy is partnerships with local companies.