skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This paper -- the CRLite proposal -- is wonderfully well thought-out, experimentally tested, and meets the design goals much better and more elegantly than any other attempt to solve the certificate revocation problem.

Looks like it was posted here and got very little traction [1]; a shame. But it will be presented in a few days at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy [2]. I hope it will get the coverage and examination it deserves.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13982861
[2] https://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2017/program-papers.html
One major complaint I have with powershell is just how completely horribly slow the UI is.

Compared to what cygwin’s bash does, it’s like an entirely different world.
Even a hypothetical taxi monopoly faces close substitutes: owning a car for locals, renting a car for travelers. I still don't see that much room for price discrimination.

The "Standard oil strategy" of losing money to drive your competitors out of business doesn't really seem to work. If Uber declares victory and jacks up prices, presumably they will have a dozen new competitors the next week. How long did it take substitutes to pop up when Uber and Lyft left Austin?

What an actually evil Uber does at this stage is climb into bed with the regulators, suggesting all kinds of new regulations to kick the ladder down behind them. Uber doesn't seem to be going down that route so far.
FTA:

"He set off from La Gomera in the Canary Islands on 6 April, but returned after concerns about his boat’s seaworthiness.

He explains: “I wasn’t really in too much danger, [but] there was a weak point in the boat that was concerning me. The emergency floatation system component that was on the rudder assembly was getting hammered so hard in these really close together waves. The float was getting jammed upwards so fast and so often the boat’s movement couldn’t keep up.

“It was the worst, most unpredictable and erratic conditions I have ever sailed in with that boat. When it started gusting 45 knots I decided that I shouldn’t keep going with such an obvious weak link.”"

Actually, the boat sounds very cool. It's 5 feet deep, but sits low in the water and has extra storage; 40 gallons of water with pump-operated purification, and 6 months worth of food. I have to think it would have been worth it to go just a little bigger in order to have enough room to fully lie down, though.
Note: If you have the Washington Post app installed, there's an Augmented Reality feature that puts acoustic tiles on your ceiling.
Search and Summarize Tags in Google Docs
How I Stopped Checking My Phone and Started Using It with Intention
42 inch = 1.07 m
Not defending grandparent, but what is the intended antecedent for your "it" here?
There are a few approaches, usually via a standalone node.js service. I've seen similar architectures for ruby and python web servers as well.

I'm working on a project now that uses airbnb's hypernova service[0] with a php client[1].

Edit: not suggesting this was used in this case, just that it's a viable option for react ssr + php.

[0] - https://github.com/airbnb/hypernova

[1] - https://github.com/wayfair/hypernova-php
Release notes for Desktop Beta
Maybe a better thing would be to use some of the energy to convert the rest to hydrogen for more stable storage?
I first thought, oh cool project; an autonomous drone boat must be pretty hard to build and manage. Probably a final for school or a robotics group.

...Nope. The kid is actually trying to pilot it himself. 48" boat. Honestly, wonder which challenge is harder. I know which one I'd prefer.
So, to check if I understood.

The generated key is encrypted and the user has access to it.
So, you send the encrypted key and pay the randsome to get the unecrypted private key. Is that so?
>I basically rage-quitted PHP years ago, after repeatedly inheriting a series of Wordpress wrecks.

Every language can be abused - the degree to which it can be abused is an indicator of its power.
That looks on-demand to me, I'm struggling to see the relevance?
Looking at the images of this "unappealing box" and the "colorless surrounding" in form of the hamburg harbour and the old warehouse city I have to assume you are trying to be the "devil's advocate" you proclaim to be in your profile. By the way, what is the difference between a devil's advocate and a troll?
Please AMD: Just contribute to GCC and Clang.
Why WhatsApp? It is closed source (Telegram has open source clients). It belongs to Facebook. And Zuckerberg doesn't look like a person who can stand against government, while Durov has been saying several times that he is not going to cooperate with any government.

The disadvantage of Telegram is that it requires you to provide a phone number (and this is much more important than some rare cases when encryption could fail). It means you cannot stay anonymous while using it. If there is an error in Telegram server code then your phone number can be leaked.

A messenger that cares about privacy should never require a phone number and should not have history enabled by default (because your history will be used against you as an evidence). As I understand WhatsApp doesn't match these requirements.
Can you expand on how capitalism is an outcome of inequality?
Neural networks don't do anything as sophisticated as self-referential introspection. They just fit the outputs you train them with. The training data you provide would have to include the desired explanations.

Consistency is enforced by the dataset, and also by the model. Both outputs would read from the same hidden layer--the one that encodes the desired transformation.
There was no 'Industry agreement' or compromise - the whole DNT thing was a slice of cake thrown to us by the advertising industry to keep us quiet for a while.
Hyperion attacking Cloanto's Amiga trademarks
> Go read the comments on the "My Family's Slave" article from a few days ago. A large proportion of them were supportive of slavery, or at least identified strongly with the slavers rather than their victim. Furthermore, the admins apparently disabled downvoting of comments, and detached strongly anti-slavery subthreads.

Both of these are outright lies. You can dress them however you want if you dare to reply but these are lies.

And why bother? It's not as if everyone can go check the discussion and see that these are lies. Weird.
Agree. I have a Mac for the sole reason that I can boot into any OS I want and thus run/debug any app I want.

If there was a Windows laptop that allowed me to boot into macOS with relatively simple set up (meaning as simple as Bootcamp setup) I would strongly consider it.
Lots of dried foods like ramen, beans, mashed potatoes, etc will hydrate without hot water. It takes more time, but works well. These no-cook setups are used by many long trail thru-hikers that choose not to bother with stoves and fuel.
"There is no kill like overkill"
They are not. They sold me VS knowing well it will be obsolete in couple of months time and won't refund or discount upgrade. Absolutely vile company.
I'm sorry, the accounting is meant to be public, but I can't find it. It might be too early, or google is failing me.

On a related note, the total budget for the candidates had to be less than 17M€ all included before the first round (then they could spend 5.6M€ more for the second round). A lot of that goes into organizing rallies.

edit: I guess they are meant to be here http://www.cnccfp.fr/index.php?art=584
Contrary to what the article states, the acoustic design of the hall have been widely criticized by audio/acoustics experts. In fact, after the premiere concert many (experts and casual visitors alike) have even described the acoustics to be a major disappointment.
Korean Drama free online with subtitles – Viki
Learning to break ciphers
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14379781 and marked it off-topic.
A federal appeals court shoots down the FAA’s drone registry requirement
That's disconcerting that they still don't know for sure what caused this issue and if it could happen again.
Show HN: Telegram Bot API into Each Home with Payments Platform [Node.js]
The Rare Archival Photos Behind ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’
A bit strange, completely understandable. I've seen people mention kotlin everytime I read something about Java and/or Android. It's also a good swift alter ego at least on surface level.
If you'd like to see more about how the Svalbard Seed Vault works and how countries including North Korea have seeds stored there, Veritasium has a great video on the subject: https://youtu.be/2_OEsf-1qgY
Very little of the internet in North America is 'bad', and in the US very little is metered beyond mobile. There are ISPs who technically have data caps, but very few people ever come close to them.
A belief too, or in your words a way of thinking about things that makes you comfortable.
> I'm the first person to admit that if I was to run a company, I wouldn't allow people to work remotely only.

Why not? I work remotely and if I was to run a company I would hire remotely too. Given that I've coded myself I expect to know how long tasks should generally take. And I would want to give that benefit to my employees and attract talent as well.
It's great to lean other languages.
Legalization would help with the problem.

Let's make an analogy with alcohol. When alcohol isn't illegal, there is a quality supply of it. When you buy a bottle of 40% whisky, you're not getting something that might be 25% methanol due to some criminal doing an improper job with the distilling, because he only cares about money, wiping out his competitors, and evading the cops, with your health being at the bottom of his priorities.

(Which is not to say, of course, that legal alcohol eliminates the public health problem of alcoholism.)
Case in point: Aleppo.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10255821
So they touch on 4-dimensional theories only briefly, but one thing I'm very curious about is if higher dimensional theories provide a richer computational structure, in any of several senses.

Every 1-knot has a sort of 2-knot analog (actually, a whole family of them) made by "revolving" the knot, but there are 2-knots not generated in this manner. (The same holds true for higher dimensional knots.)

As we go higher, there are knot moves not even possible in lower dimensions (such as twists).

Just a thought.
Well if the company is publicly traded, secrecy of internal matters is a legal requirement and contingency of employment.
Mobile-friendly video: https://vimeo.com/218041604

(mods, can you please update the OP link?)
That's a fantastic question. There's a few strategies we've used to build a service design that deals with those things:

1. After the initial application, the next step is a phone interview where they're going to ask many of the same questions and verify information anyway. So what we do is focus on the 10-15 questions that make getting someone to that interview as quick and efficient on the gov't side as possible, as well as prepares the interviewer with the best information.

For example, there are complex rules around income and expenses (earned/unearned, self-employed, utilities, child care expenses) but we basically have found that the best situation is — since they'll be talking with someone who knows those rules extremely well — focus on the basics: who's in your household, do you qualify for expedited (emergency) service, etc.

2. Many of those ~200 questions really CONDITIONAL on some (eg, do you have a felony? do you have a felony for DRUGS?) —— but candidly many online gov't forms are just the digitization of paper forms (which obviously can't do conditional showing easily.)

3. We've found that there's a ton of low-hanging fruit. For example, we have an easy way for clients to take pictures of documents they need to submit from their phone (these days, these are often SUPER high quality, even on low-end devices.) We send those to counties via secure e-mail, which means it comes instantly. This has been so successful in one county that they're now using this document feature across ALL programs (health insurance, cash aid) and actually asking clients to send in documents WHILE they're on the phone with them, meaning they can hold for a second, check the email, see the pic, and issue the benefits immediately (rather than waiting for them to mail/fax/scan and upload after creating an account.)

Overall, we've found that despite that "intrinsic complexity," there's still a huge space for simplification just using what computers — and web sites — are good at.
If you're not playing on Lichess, you're on the wrong site. I am USCF 2100 and have played on almost every chess server. Nothing comes close.
In this context, dealflow equates to opportunities to invest in startups. To have 'dealflow' means you've got access to a pipeline of promising, stage-appropriate startups looking for capital.

I believe in other contexts it simply refers to being in on deals; I think I've heard it elsewhere, too.

[Edited to add second paragraph, generalizing a little bit.]
Big Layoff. IBM must be in big trouble. Tell everyone to short that stock.
It probably does to a pair of 16 year olds in eastern Europe.

The problem with these tools being made and leaked is it lowers the bar of technical expertise needed to run a scheme like this.

If it still took massive knowledge and experience the likelihood is that person could earn more legitimately thus there is a smaller pool of potential attackers.
This is really fascinating and informative. Thank you!
I'm quite surprised that someone had enough will + time to develop seven implementations of the same thing.
French press (~35g of beans) or 2 consecutive double espresso shots in the morning. Another double espresso shot in after lunch.

I drink a fair bit of alcohol; probably 3-10 servings during the week and 10-20 servings most weekends. Not drinking would affect my social life.
Hmm, still no generics...
https://github.com/wsargent/docker-cheat-sheet/pull/91

Please don't misunderstand this. I know from reading your postings on /r/scala that you are a humble person. Originally I actually didn't even knew if there was a contributor to the security section besides you and only wanted to tease. :D
Any chance to get review apps for GitLab and/or Bitbucket? I'd love to see that happen, but I don't believe it is high on your roadmap currently.
That's not evidence that its encryption algorithm is well designed or secure.
Relationship to FlashFill feature in Excel: FlashFill is a popular feature in Excel that also uses the example-driven paradigm to automatically produce transformations. While FlashFill supports string-based transformations, Transform Data by Example can leverage sophisticated domain-specific functions to perform semantic transformations beyond string manipulations. For examples, see:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...
I think your second point of the harder one. The optimization of a cow is not toward making meat. Rather, it is toward making more cows. In vitro meat does not need to have a digestive system. It does not need to have skin, or teeth. It does not need to avoid necrosis. All it needs to do is taste good and provide nutrition.

If the end goal is meat, I think there are a lot of places where gains in efficiency are possible.
Didn't Google, GitHub, Valve, and some others used to pride themselves that most of the product owners/project managers/etc were also developers?

That's not necessarily something that companies couldn't adopt if it turned out to be a good way to run a remoting-based organization.
I once took over a certain repository that builds a dozen or so disparate external libraries with dependencies between themselves. The original developer of the repository did it by manually remembering which library had which dependencies and running .bat scripts to build them in order.

When I took over it, I wrote a PS script to automate the whole build. The script contains a description of each library's dependencies, so it knows what order to build all the libraries in. Each library is built in its own "job" using Start-Job, so the builds are also maximally parallelized; the script is essentially a loop of two functions: `for each library -> if library's dependencies have all been built -> start parallel job to build library` and `for each job -> if the job has finished -> mark the library as built`.

I would not write it in C#. Most of the build steps for each library involve running other processes, so using a shell DSL rather than multiple Process.Start()+Process.WaitForExit() is convenient. Even things like copying files is more convenient using Copy-Item than C#, especially since the PS versions support globs.

I would hope a build tool counts as both rigorous code as well as justifies PS as a programming language.

Aside: The repository was forked by some other people who did not like / could not read PS, so they rewrote it in Python. The Python version is several times larger than the PS version, though to be fair to it it's also more generic and has more features. A lot of that verbosity though does come from the more verbose code for spawning processes from Python compared to PS.
Review of Amazon Connect
I wrote a review of Amazon Connect. I hope this helps you in determining if this is something you want to use. If you have any questions let me know. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/review-amazon-connect-gordon-campbell
You're missing the point. Some programming languages (Lisp family in particular) allow you to build DSLs directly, with the tools the language itself provides.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/review-amazon-connect-gordon-...
There's private, and there's Google.. I work at Netflix now, and we are quite open in my area. Eg, I can tell my wife what I'm working on, ask her to proof-read my presentations, show her the office, etc.

Before Google, I worked for a privately held company, and it was quite a bit more open as well.
This sounds a lot like Simonyi's "intentional programming"

Code stored as AST in a database, text representation in a specific language is just one of many possible views
It is disconcerting. I do take some heart in the fact that there's thousands of safe operational hours on the flight computers in question. That said, I'd hope that behind the scenes, there's some engineers pouring over data and test units to find exactly why it happened and what needs to be fixed to ensure it can never happen again.
Thanks for Mark Ames link. TL;DR: They were always hucksters for hire.

I recently read a magazine article that covers same history as Mirowski's book. Hayek's motivations and strategy for pushing his ideas (take over economics depts in higher ed) are fascinating, instructive. Sadly, I can't imagine how the left could replicate that effort for reality-based polcies.

On mobile, sorry no link handy. I'll edit if I can find it.
Those people ruin it for everyone. They could rent their own office to escape their wives, but are likely not paid enough to really escape. Modern office slaves.
By default, certainly.

Btw: In February I spent some time looking at the then about 100 committers to Fuchsia/Flutter. Some quite impressive names. I think Fuchsia is a really serious effort in the Chrome team.
Reminds me of my compiler class, and how I cheated by picking as a project symbolic differentiation and convincing the PhD to let me use Lisp. Needless to say, a single EBNF->lambda macro from a library, and the project became trivial :).
It looks like an engineering flaw that lets outside water into the vault. “A lot of water went into the start of the tunnel and then it froze to ice, so it was like a glacier when you went in,” The fact that the water froze as it entered is good as that means the vault was still very cold. Likely this has an engineering fix. It would be nice if the article discussed if the vault temp was rising faster than expected and if/when passive cooling would fail in the future. This should be the real worry about vault failure. Sophisticated click bait, really.
Granite Mountain would be just about perfect.

http://perpetualstorage.com/
Jesus, that article contains an ungodly amount of annoying padding.

TLDR; Plane makes two steep dives within 3 minutes without apparent mechanical failure or pilot intervention, injuring a number of passengers. Plain manages a safe emergency landing.

Dives were initiated by a flight computer, which could override pilot input, reacting to faulty data. No one died, but some persons have lasting physical damage.
What does marketshare have to do with how advanced the tech is or the lineage of their architecture? Especially marketshare of just their public clouds?

All 3 majors have great tech but Google has been doing much more advanced stuff which can be seen directly in their products. Everything in GCP is seamless from scaling without warm-ups, per-minute billing, automatic discounts, custom vm shapes, live migration, truly global load balancing, etc... and that's just in their compute engine product.
Of course, they chose to bake the cake out in the open, with an air of mystery about the purpose.
This is fantastic. todoMVC always lacked many features of standard apps, such as making an async request.

I wonder how fast a standard server side, non-JS version compares.
I'm sorry, I was being sarcastic. (Rather irresponsible here, where it's justifiably uncommon.) Part of my sarcasm stems from the fact that non-human models very often do not translate well to human models, yet people are happy to celebrate health victories in those species. So I always think it's funny to celebrate any victory in the non-human model as though it were the goal. "E.g., cancer cured in rats! Finally! Those poor rats suffer so much." (Which brings up another issue about the actual suffering that animals endure for our immortality...)

Regarding dwindling population, that was sarcastic too; while human population growth has subsided in some areas, there's still a net explosion of humans on this planet. So that makes advances in fertility seem absurd when looking at the big picture.

Finally, for those of us who believe that humans are responsible for many of the ills we're seeing in our habitat, a logical conclusion is that more humans equals more problems.
My heart sinks every time I see foo.bat next to foo.ps1, where foo.bat is just `powershell -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Command foo.ps1` so that it's double-click-friendly.
Betsy DeVos hits hard reset on student loan servicing contracts
Just curious, how much money is this in today's dollars (or Euros)?
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_racism#United_St...

Jeez, that entry needs heavy rewrites. "Racism in the housing sector can be seen as early as the 1930s"? Really? Couldn't it be seen earlier?

And that's not institutional racism anyways; there's no public institution enforcing racism in the US. There's plenty of racism at the societal level, but it hasn't been backed by law for a long time.
They did that for the investigation and couldn't find any probable cause. At some point you have to admit defeat and accept that the cause will not be found.
Am anarchist, can agree
Wonderful, I hope that they move toward more durable solutions to the problem. The registration solution is susceptible to unidentified homebuilt drones and deliberate interference with other aircraft. We need to build resilient defences against these things so that when organized criminals and terrorists use them, we aren't left wondering why they didn't register.

The Navy has microwave laser weapons and similar which might be useful, it'd be a bit pricey, but a drop in the bucket of any major airport. And unlike registration, that actually solves (some) of the problem.