skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One more thing... while it is good to switch it up every few years - don't do it too often. When your 5 years out of school, and have 2 jobs of 2.5 years each, it's perfectly acceptable. When you are 15 years out of school, and have been with six different companies, in the same city, and they all have the same responsibilities, it doesn't look that great.
If this isn't handled carefully, it might devolve into the attack of the killer tomatoes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_of_the_Killer_Tomatoes
I haven't heard of one single confirmed case where paying the Wannacrypt ransom actually resulted in the files being released. Other ransomeware, yes. Not this one.

There is no way to associate a payment in bitcoin with a particular infected computer. To do that, attackers would need to have provided unique payment addresses for each computer or unique payment amounts. The only other way would be for the crooks to use the honors system. Don't count on that.

Clone the drive in case a master key gets leaked in the future. In the mean time, start fresh and dont pay the ransom.
I bet Cockroach Island doesn't have a great tourism industry.
NantWorks is basically doing this. You could get a job there. Otherwise academic labs and Cedar Sinai maybe.
"Are peoples files really so worthless, or bitcoin really so hard, or people so untrusting of unencrypt."

I think that is super small subset. Average people use a ton of cloud software nowadays: google docs, dropbox etc. Let alone use a desktop for anything besides work. The files they super care about (photos) are usually on their device or scattered all over facebook. Work files/computers, well they don't care about, that is some IT's guys job.

So the probability to get paid = [their ability to get bit coin] * [inability to have it already backed up] * [value of file[s]]. That does seem like a high bar. I also don't see an IT guy convincing a corporate attorney / accountant that wiring money to obtain bitcoin as an easy feat.
I can't make any sense whatsoever of it. Does ANY scenario exist where this stops unintended access?
Of course it reduces security. It makes you resort to either

1.) typing it out manually while you can't see if you made a mistake

2.) using developer tools to set the 'value' attribute directly

"SPP" discourages use of a password manager. End of story. I also see this pattern used on banking websites for inputs like an account number. This drives me crazy as well for the same reason. The computer can get it right more reliably than my eyes and fingers.

Whenever I see a website that blocks paste I immediately assume it's built by incompetent people and trust it with as little as possible.
Perhaps, but we don't love it when others do this.
I think there is real convergence. All serious new languages have some form of static typing augmented with some form of type inference. All are lexically scoped. All have first-class functions and map/reduce/filter. None have unchecked manual memory management. None have checked exceptions.

There are still areas of debate, but at the same time I think there is real progress; we have learnt from past mistakes and they won't be repeated.
Keeps on showing the spinning art for me, for couple of minutes.
> There is no requirement or guarantee that an array or an object are the top-level value in a JSON document.

Alas, if only that were true.

RFC 4627:

> A JSON text is a serialized object or array. The MIME media type for JSON text is application/json.

RFC 7159:

> A JSON text is a serialized value. Note that certain previous specifications of JSON constrained a JSON text to be an object or an array. Implementations that generate only objects or arrays where a JSON text is called for will be interoperable in the sense that all implementations will accept these as conforming JSON texts.

IIRC, Ruby's JSON parser was written to be strictly RFC 4627 compliant, and yields a parser error for non-array non-object texts.

Since JSON isn't versioned so no one has any idea what "JSON" really means, or what "standard" is being followed.
For me it's this specific piece, I just hear two kind of separate and bland melodies. It wouldn't feel out of place in a B movie scene that goes on for way too long, where people shuffle around with no real motivation or aim. I don't know as much Bach as I should, but I love the obvious ones like "Air". I can't listen to air and imagine a straight-to-VHS movie with some 80s kid and his dog walking around in the fog, or dozens of similar thing, as I can with "Dearest Jesus, we're here" (even the title I find lame). Mind you, it's because of course I do adore Bach, in general. I think the master can take some snark from some random nobody :)
At any time in your life has someone been close enough to you to influence you? I don't think anyone can answer no to this honestly, if they could I'd think them quite unfortunate! Really it's nice to have friends and partners who understand what makes us tick. Obviously we would hope these people are trustworthy only using this influence for our own good.

But to suggest that a wife, husband or parent cannot influence our choices is naive. Even if we were perfectly rational actors these people have far too much insight into our inner mind and too much control over what information we observe.

Surveillance capitalism of the type google and facebook are currently trying to engineer is about putting this level of understanding & control over information sources in the hands of people with a massive incentive for you to make bad economic decisions.

With machine learning & big enough data sets it would be surprising if their ability to manipulate you wasn't eventually orders of magnitude better than the average partner or parent. You think playing Go against a top ranked player is harder than feeding lies to your average rube?
if you're referring to wannacrypt, don't.

hypothetically, though, use localbitcoins.com if you can find someone in your area, otherwise coinbase. the problem with coinbase isn't just the purchase limit -- banks frequently flag coinbase purchases (and other exchanges) which can result in a drawn-out process that lasts more than five hours.
I've lost track of how many times Facebook has done this, including all those times it was resetting people's privacy settings to being more public.
Err... FLIF is intended for lossless compression, but can be lossy (it doesn't perform as well as intentionally lossy codecs, although that might also be a matter of optimising for it).

However, it also has a kind of adaptive ML-ish approach so it might be technically similar.

> FLIF is based on MANIAC compression. MANIAC (Meta-Adaptive Near-zero Integer Arithmetic Coding) is an algorithm for entropy coding developed by Jon Sneyers and Pieter Wuille. It is a variant of CABAC (context-adaptive binary arithmetic coding), where instead of using a multi-dimensional array of quantized local image information, the contexts are nodes of decision trees which are dynamically learned at encode time. This means a much more image-specific context model can be used, resulting in better compression.

http://flif.info/
It was Nginx + Golang + Cloudflare + Mongo, i managed to have so little resource usage because most of the request were served from CF edge nodes.
Because like many other people, the EC made the mistake of trusting Facebook on its word.

Don't do that. Ever.
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I had a dream once where I was holding an iPhone, and every time I looked away and back again, it would be one form factor bigger (iPhone -> iPad -> MacBook). That was a really cool dream.
This thread is turning into a set of recommendations related to Bach. So here's mine.

Zhu Xiao Mei is a Chinese pianist who teaches in Paris. She grew up during the Great Leap Forward and spent 5 years in a reeducation camp, never giving up her spirit and illegally importing her parents' "bourgeois" piano at great risk to her and their life, via friends doing her favours, storing and playing it in a freezer. Teachers stored the Western scores that had been banned by Madam Mao in a room on the 3rd floor which they never dared visit again.

Out of the camp, she emigrated to the US at the merest sign of the border opening, having heard Western playing and realised the gulf that stood between her understanding of what great music was and what was actually possible. She did small jobs like cleaning houses to survive until she ended up in Paris where she was noticed and her career could take off. [1]

She discovered Bach's Goldberg Variations almost by accident. The person in whose house she was staying could not stand hearing piano being practiced, except for that piece, so that's what she practiced for hours every day, gradually learning it inside out, and it became her favourite piece. Her performance on an Asia tour shocked a friend by its sensitivity and wisdom and he recommended it to me. Maybe you need something a little different from Gould.

I recommend reading the book before listening to her playing the Variations [2], there is an entire world in that performance and the knowledge makes it more personal.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Piano-Labor-Goldberg-Variation...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0F5VRgKK1g
I guess I didn't explain it very well, or then the idea doesn't have merit, but I still think it's only n^3.
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Local bitcoins https://localbitcoins.com/

No documentation needed, just meet someone in the street. Use a public place for your own safety, you'll need cash.
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Did I say they are forced?

Do you claim that everyone always needed what they are enticed to buy by advertising? Because I'm pretty sure there's a boatload of psychology research that says otherwise.

Put yet another way, if ads weren't effective at making people buy shit, then why would companies make Google and Facebook obscenely rich?

If people would merely be informed by ads about the existence and benefits of products, why would the ads have such strong emotional messaging and be so free from actual solid information?

If you want to get informed you don't read the ads, do you?

Ads have one primary purpose: To make people make more irrational decisions.
The big question is how much you need to pay in ransom. Most random ransomware is in the $300 - $1000 range with certain more targeted installs getting hit for lots more [1].

Someone else already suggested Coinbase, but as you're asking here, that might not be an option for you for some reason.

Alternatively you could try and see if a Bitcoin ATM is near you:

https://coinatmradar.com/

or meeting someone in person to swap cash for Bitcoin

https://localbitcoins.com/

Lastly, double check the Ransomware ID sites:

https://id-ransomware.malwarehunterteam.com/

https://www.varonis.com/ransomware-identifier

Maybe there is a decryptor.

1 - http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-me-ln-hollywoo...
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Not just for topics that you're knowledgeable on, but also if you pick up on the patterns that writers use or read tvtropes it also ruins the watch-ability. I can't watch anything made by broadcast TV or TBS/TNT/USA or that Marvel stuff, it's just so boring and repetitive. Although, I do wonder what it says about people that the most popular movies involve creating a fantasy where the main character has some type of calamity during childhood then goes on to save the world with superpowers.
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I can see some logic behind number 3 of having your password in the clipboard. It could lead to users pasting their password somewhere else where it was not intended. However, if you have malware on your machine that can read your clipboard, it can also simply read your keystrokes anyway.
> A similar model had worked spectacularly well for EBay Inc., which had made money for 21 straight years...How, Wunder asked, was Etsy not making more money?

Because EBAY was already in that market! It's really no wonder Etsy has tanked as a community, sellers fleeing in droves, as the company works hard to destroy what it was, something unique, successful (even if it wasn't eating the world) and highly responsive to user's needs, into YET ANOTHER EBAY CLONE full of sweatshop manufactured crap.

Hooray for Capitalism! Race to the bottom!

/rant
It seems like there's a market for an insurance product where the provider holds bitcoins and the payout is in bitcoins for just this use case.
Nope. It's not far from the truth.
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Mikko Hypponnen of F-Secure says they have confirmation of some (1st wave) Wannacry victims getting their files back after paying ransoms (but still doesn't recommend it).

https://twitter.com/mikko/status/864107673146490880

Edit: Updated to clarify some victims, and for the first variant. But he goes on to recommend against paying, especially for new variants:

https://twitter.com/mikko/status/865122274164318208
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It drives up the cost of living for regular people because of higher real estate prices in big cities (due to limited space).
This benefits the rich (landlords and big company shareholders) and drains resources away from smaller suburbs and less wealthy citizens who are forced to move to big cities to find jobs.
No , inhertiance is not a key part of oop. Look at Rust and Go.
https://lwn.net/Articles/548560/
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It's good that he found something useful to do with his life.

But there's more relevance to this story: the Dutch government is in the process of buying a new plane. The old plane (a Fokker 70) is mostly used to fly members of government around, but is getting old, hard to maintain, and the range is too short to fly non-stop to many countries, which is obviously a rather important role for the plane.

So the government needs a new plane with better range. The Airbus ACJ319 is a perfect fit, and 15 million cheaper and more modern than a Boeing 737. The government has still decided to buy a 737 instead, because the king was already training to fly a 737.

I was wondering why he didn't simply switch to training for the Airbus, but apparently this is the reason. I suspect KLM has plenty of 737s for him to fly, and not the right model Airbus. So the government is basically paying 15 million extra to support the king's hobby.
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Forbidding copypaste is equivalent to forcing one to recite his address and credit card details loudly in public every time he wants to enter his own house. In an age where videosurveillance is trivial to set up, it's just stupid; there is a reason every cash machine/atm asks you to cover the number pad as you type your PIN.

If the problem is the risk posed by password vaults and clipboard managers, promote better vaults and better utilities. Personally, I'd love a password vault that could check which application or website I'm pasting to, blocking transmission if it looks wrong. But it's not the website's job to tell me how to manage my secrets.
I don't want to give away the plot completely, but for the truck to leave Manahttan, they go through the Lincoln Tunnel. In decent traffic, that will give me 5 minutes to separate/overwhelm guard cars, as well as hijack the truck en route. With my large team of crack drivers and action heroes, a bunch of panel trucks and vans can obstruct the view of all the civilians driving in the tunnel.

By the time we're outside, the GPS is now in my truck, the driver and data of the real truck are under my control.

(The most unrealistic part of this scenario is that someone would have their main data center in Manhattan.)
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On Chrome you can use "Don't Fuck With Paste" to override these bad forms: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dont-fuck-with-pas...
Really funny "interview" of the actress/actors @GoogleHQ https://youtu.be/QOXup8chEoY
"Justification 2: 'Pasting passwords makes them easier to forget, because you have fewer chances to practise them'."

if you can remember your password, its probably too weak
Sadly, those low counties in South Dakota line up with reservations.
Work for profitable companies. The company that can barely afford you won't give good pay raises and will have lousy practices borne from the need to make ends meet at any cost to technical debt.

Also some aspect of your job will always suck. Even if you find the perfect job the manager can change or even company gets taken over. For control you need to run your own biz.
I also worry when a site doesn't work with autocomplete. It's rare these days that the developers have actively tried to prevent it from working, but more common that an unnecessarily intricate sign-in flow makes the existence of the password field unrecognizable to the browser.

This makes me wonder about the personal security practices of the team that built it -- it's unlikely they typed strong passphrases hundreds of times a day during development -- and whether a secure site could come from such a team.
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Her punishment was illegal under the 8th amendment, and her "crime" was protected whistleblowing.
It's as safe as you are. I've been using DO for quite a while now, running droplets for DB, Web, cache (mem/redis) and plenty of other stuff, no issues - all downtime (maintenance) was minor and was pre-communicated effectively.

You can manage your own SSH keys, software updates, and you can enable 2FA on your DO account. It's definitely safe enough, if you're safe enough.

Happy to answer any questions, but tbh their support/docs section is some of the best on the web - I often find myself referring to some of their docs for non-DO stuff in my day job!
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No, they cut your service when you get too much traffic!!!
Why the hell can't I click shit in random emails?

It's a friggin email and data transfer for crying out loud.

Stop blaming users.
Thanks submarines! :)
ads are great at increasing the likelihood that you'll pick their product over the competition, and they might encourage people to impulse buy in the future. But there's no way an ad can get you to buy something you genuinely don't want. That's nonsense.
Trackers already do a lot of work in keeping peers up to date. Adding a subscription system would probably overload many trackers and make running one of those extremely expensive. Granted, I would have loved a system like that to subscribe to new torrents that get announced to a tracker with peer updates every so often, but that sort of addon would be incredibly high resource intensive.

A better way IMO is to allow the DHT network to query a little bit more information and have arbitrary data attached to a torrent. BEP 44 [1] should really help with that and actually might be a start with truly decentralizing the whole system. With a large enough DHT node base, you don't need to run a tracker to get peer information. On top of that, if you created an immutable record for each torrent with the torrent information (or ran a lightweight torrent system to pull torrent information from a single peer) you can easily get the torrent information to store in the search engine, and then query the DHT for unique peers to get peer information. You can then create comments or ratings with mutable data signed by your server to keep track of good / bad torrents.

I built the first half of that (DHT Crawler essentially) but it was always the peer information that was a pain. It was easier to grab the information from a tracker

1: http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0044.html
At the same time,

> Sellers who developed successful products were prohibited by Etsy policy from hiring employees to help them expand

Isn't that cruel? Your XYZ craft is amazing and people love it, but you can hire someone to help you make more. Then, the demand is just absorbed by copycats.
The interconnect hardware is present on the dgx-1 board.

The point of my previous comment is that it doesn't make sense to compare an entire TPU module (containing 4x TPUs) to a V100 board.

The closest comparison to a TPU module (with 4x TPUs) would be a dgx-1 board, which contains the nvlink bus that you mention, but also contains 8x V100 boards, hence why in my previous post I said you should compare the compute performance of a Volta DGX-1 (8x V100s) to 2 TPU modules (8x TPUs).

At the end of the day, it is simple, in a given area of space, you can get more compute performance from provisioning that area with V100s (in the form of using dgx-1s) versus provisioning it with TPUs (in the form of using TPU modules).
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Industrial wind turbines just use power from the grid to start up.
Given the level of activity on [Fuchsia's project repos][0], I find it very unlikely that it's just a hobby project. That amount of activity is on-par with Android itself. If it is just a hobby, it's an extremely expensive one.

[0]: https://github.com/fuchsia-mirror
I was hoping this would also prevent websites from messing with the input to the clipboard. It's a bit annoying to copy a sentence from a website only to have "Read more on XYZ!" appended to it.
"Back in the 1990s MS was a good company."

Umm, isn't that precisely the period when they were charged with antitrust violations? Such a short memory we have.
That was 10 years ago. Last year he tweeted "I still love groovy (jenkins pipelines are so groovy!), java, go, typescript and kotlin. I don't use scala anymore."[1]

[1] https://twitter.com/jstrachan/status/784333918078169088
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I can't help but think that the buyer appeal just isn't there. Looking back at the last couple of years I've bought a handful of items off of etsy. Come to think of it I probably buy more from EBay that from etsy, which is totally weird because I hate buying things on ebay.
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Oh, you can. Just like you can inject any random substance given to you by a stranger.

Being aware that both are high risk activities is the point, methinks.
I know someone who went to NYU who now makes $15/hr and is $90k in debt because they majored in media studies. I am not trying to make fun of them as I love them but they believed and still legitimately believe the lie that going to an Ivy League should have been enough for them to live comfortably. Problem is that doesn't matter when your thesis is literally based on playing Second Life. Not that there's no value in her thesis but the reality is people are not hiring for that.
I couldn't agree more. I've never been a customer, but my girlfriend won't even go to the site anymore. Perfect example of a company that should have stayed private, and been happy with what they had.
Everyone's talking about password at sign-in or credit card numbers but that's not the only use case for paste restriction.

The more common place I've seen it is email address confirmation (or PW confirmation), which while probably unnecessary, is not the worst thing in the world. You are retyping an address that's displayed in the field above. Less intrusive than a captcha.
I'd like to know how it's different from that at all.
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