skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's really clever. Using social media feeds as a control channel, hiding in plain sight. It's reliable, practically undetectable until you reverse engineer the malware, and it probably won't be blocked very soon. I don't think the big social media sites have measures to detect or prevent this yet.

You could easily increase the complexity and variety of the comments, use multiple channels at once etc. I'm expecting a lot more 'hijacking' of public social media systems in the future.
Yes (partially). See the table in this article:

https://www.kitguru.net/components/cpu/anton-shilov/intel-sk...
I use git-annex which satisfies almost all of those requirements. I don't back up whole machines (why backup the OS when I can reinstall faster), but it otherwise has all those things.
The image is supposed to be a teaser?
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Wait, how's it masquerading as what?
At what point do we chalk up behaviors to sexism vs biological tendencies?

IF being more assertive is proven to be a naturally masculine trait, then shouldn't discriminating against men for a natural behavior be seen as sexism as well?
Dallas native here who goes to school in LA!

Yes, Dallas is much more similar to LA in that regard compared to New York, although still a magnitude less spread out than Los Angeles (and traffic is nowhere near as bad): I would say geographic distances in Dallas proper (not the exurbs, which I don't consider Dallas as most are in their own counties) are one-fourth to one-half shorter than Los Angeles.

Also, Dallas has been increasingly developing their Downtown/Uptown scene to mimic Austin, and is where most all young professionals / startups are located, as the past generation's upper class still prefer the centrally-located neighborhoods of Highland Park and Preston Hollow just outside of downtown for their large single-family homes, meaning high-rise apartments in Dallas go for about $1.5-$2k and are located next to work.

Also, the mayor in Dallas is all for the rapid development of higher density housing, which greatly helps with housing supply (though single-family home property values in these desirable neighborhoods are increasing about 10-15% year over year due to the influx of new people and no more space for single-family homes in Dallas proper).
Something fishy is going on here. I don't have a ton of experience with hardware, but enough to be pretty sure that the 2012 iMac is under-performing its specs here.

(edit) For example, if you just look at CPU benchmarks, the processor in the iMac is not far off the i7 7700k that someone posted a benchmark for elsewhere in the thread, yet the 7700k supposedly thrashes the iPad while the iMac doesn't. Maybe both the iMac and iPad have thermal issues that a standard PC desktop would not.
Yes. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/teaser
I've concluded that I don't have enough data to be sure but wouldn't be surprised if it's a mixture of all three - testosterone levels correlating with assertiveness/aggressiveness seems sufficient to suggest biology may play a part, and I've definitely seen the latter two happen.

I don't, however, think it's contradictory to say that "women are less likely to interrupt back" does not automatically mean that the person interrupting them is therefore sexist, even though the results of the behaviour end up impacting a higher percentage of women than men - they may simply be oblivious to the consequences, even if from the sounds of it in this case that wasn't it.
Ridiculously small? That could take 10 s to download on a 2G network.
"will be seen as stealing the point." - no, it is stealing the point.
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What has that got to do with the article? Facial recognition isn't crime detection...it's recognising someone who has an arrest warrant (or in this case, perhaps also checking against a list of banned hooligans), i.e. it either is the person or it isn't.
iow a 2ar garden for every human being currently living on our planet with still plenty of room left and this with only using land that's already deforested.. (+ we could easily grow a lot food on water. the tech is already here, waiting to be assembled - although not needed) .. this is meant to be a philosophical-kind-of-post, and its appropriate to recap that the 2 most important limiting factors in terms of population growth are (low)childhood mortality, (freely-available)education and a (working) social safety net (if an educated woman could have children without risks in her late 40s and live an active live up to her 90s ,,)
Sadly this is too often a valid heuristic.

At the same time, my friends and I did "pretty well" as employee 3,000+ at this crazy search engine company that couldn't make it because "nobody clicks on ads."
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I don't want to jump into a debate on a clearly biased post, but I feel that a few things need to be clear:
- Many employees prefer options to cash, as it provides the opportunity to make a lot of money. The chances that happens are very low but many people want to take the chance. Just because it's not your preference doesn't mean it's not attractive.
- Salaries increase over the life of the company, so if you join a startup today with a lower salary but many options then in a few years you'll have the salary you want AND the options. So the question is whether the difference in salary for those years is worth the opportunity for a big return.
- There is a different feeling of working somewhere where you have ownership vs just a paycheck. In the early stages of a company this is important to employees who really believe in the mission.
- Most companies do sell shares to investors for cash to pay employees, that is where the money for salaries come from. However, that investment comes with many terms attached, including liquidation preferences, which reduce the returns to employees long term. Giving employees options is the most direct transfer of value if the company does have an exit.

Overall, it's a more complex issue than this post presents. If you don't want equity, don't accept offers that include equity. If you do want equity, then do. Simple.
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That sums up most of iOS's ML-ish features vs Android, slightly less impressive, but on-device so privacy is improved
No, that's not how Google's scraper works. They only follow publicly-exposed links, and they check your robots.txt file to see if they should ignore any links they might have come across that you intended to be private.

If you accidentally put a link on your public website to content you didn't want public, and Google indexes it, then someone else fetches it, yeah, that's your fault for exposing it. It's also your responsibility for telling Google to remove it from their index. But if someone is poking around to see if urls are valid (eg: the /.ssh/id_rsa requests my website gets) that's breaking and entering, even though I'd be negligent for leaving my keys on the webserver like that.
Of course, we all agree that criticizing the efficacy of the Higher Ed. academic-bureaucratic axis is de facto anti-intellectual.

Where else but Higher Ed. would we find intellectuals?!

I am also unclear that the headline "wreaks" anything.
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Naming chunks by their hashes is not a new idea, but this technique along does not give you a practical backup tool. The deletion of unreferenced chunks becomes a hard problem, and the center piece of lock-free deduplication is the two-step fossil collection algorithm that solves this hard problem.
Ants are physically incapable of getting into "anto-accidents" though, and they are not physically relegated to a thin, poorly maintained, and often at times, poorly planned/engineered, two dimentional ribbon that does not have their best route at heart.

Cars are only like ants in that they are discrete objects moving along set paths, but similarity in capability ends there.

Every car has a completely different universe of goals, objectives, plans, destinations, etc from each other and they lack the ability to communicate, inform,or teach other cars anything.

Further, ants do not posses the ability to get frustrated with heavy ant traffic triggering ant-rage, they simply re-route as required.

Humans driving cars can act irrationally based on nearly infinite input possibilities...

Autonomous vehicles driven by AI which mimics ant movement logic can do well for traffic, but so long as a human consciousness is directing the vehicle... not going to get better any time soon.
And with well-designed self-driving cars, pretty soon they will.
> This kind of behavior is extremely common in STEM, and happens to everyone. If you don't talk with confidence, purpose, and animation, you're going to get talked over by the alpha nerd of the group. Man, woman, or purple elephant. Problem? Yes. Sexism? No.

I thought about this argument a bit and I disagree on multiple grounds.

1.) These fields used to be refuge for actual nerds - shy introverted awkward people who could not really cut it elsewhere. What changed and why do we think it is ok that it changed?

2.) How come that loudmouth with half baked ideas who don't really know what he is talking is somehow nerd? Nerd used to be people who knew their shit. Alpha nerd is literally a dude who is pretender - fake who wants to be seen as nerd for social status points.

3.) If this is true, then these fields can not be possible meritocracies. Good ideas from shy and introverted people will be ignored and loudmouths with bad ideas are rewarded.

4.) The moderator quality should be judged on moderation quality. If the audience is so annoyed that they clap over the interruption, then the moderator failed miserably. Such moderators should either learn or be replaced by people who can do it better.

Panel members should not have to do anything special to not be talked over by moderator - it is literally his job to facilitate them talking.
For some projects, yes. The biggest well known US examples are the 18F open source efforts and http://code.gov / http://code.mil open source efforts, most of which are public, open source on GitHub.
If Apple used fMP4 for this video, that gives them no excuse not to support other browsers. They can just ship a JavaScript HLS client built on the MSE web standard on the web page.
Not contributing, am I? But that kind of voting is contributing, so much so that you have to get a bunch of karma to be allowed the privilege, right? Dear god. Yeah, I'm not allowed to talk about votes, but if you're going to give random people the ability to grey out comments of others anonymously, that's just tough luck. I don't care about the POINTS, I care what they're trying to say, and to that I will respond without fail.

In case of someone getting confused by my handle, I was going to reply "Not on the first date though" in response to the sentence "Most people would prefer to hear something along the lines of 'I love you and want to marry you.'" in this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14499533 earlier today, but then thought better after I had already made the account, but didn't bother to log out either. If you don't understand something, assume there's a super cool reason that's not for you to know.
There's a distinction between scripted public speaking in a venue where all interaction is controlled and initiating real conflict in a public place with no such control.
Streets are made for driving upon. If people don't like people driving on their streets, they should vote to get rid of them.

To boot, most people in those neighborhoods SHOULD be going to work anyways, so they shouldn't notice people going up and down their streets for the most part. We haven't hit Japan's retirement-age population level problem, yet.
What kind of work are you interested in? I have a few web apps that I'd like to get up and running if you want something that fits your schedule. My e-mail is in my profile.
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Oops--I guess I misread. Cool idea, regardless. Good luck!
My 11-year-old auditioned at Juilliard, we learned a lot about how to practice
Not to go off on a tangent but I find it disappointing that printer manufacturers choose to spend time and money on this instead of providing up to date firmware.

I know of a line of printers that you can netcat firmware into. That's just terrifying.
> We're effectively killing our unborn offspring by refusing to procreate.

No we're not.

Killing requires something to exist and be alive first.
I shouldn't have put "citations" in parentheses. That's what I'm most interested in-- recommended readings from people who study this stuff for a living.
Part of her experiment was to move out of her social network. And carpooling doesn't work unless you know other people who also needs to move from point A to point B at time C. She didn't know such people.

Besides, she worked as an hourly employee which meant that she, as most hourly workers, didn't have a fixed schedule but would receive one on a weekly basis from her manager. Making car pooling even harder.
You can also easily write pipeline() (which is just a reduction over callables inside a lambda[0]) such that:

process = pipeline(partial(filter, even),
partial(map, inc),
sum)

process(some-iterable)

I'll grant that it's not syntactically ideal (this is the tradeoff the thrush combinator (pipeline) running as a function instead of working as a macro. The benefit of being able to follow down the program as it works remains.

(def process [xs]
(->> xs
(filter even?)
(map inc)
(reduce +)))

(process some-iterable)

If you compare a function-based approach[1] (instead of a macro) you might get:

(def process
(pipeline
(partial filter even?)
(partial map inc)
(partial reduce +)))

process(some-iterable)

[0] A sample Python definiton (python doesn't have compose to reverse):

def pipeline(*fns):
return reduce(lambda f, g: lambda *xs, **ys: g(f(*xs, **ys)), fns)

[1] A clojure implementation:

(defn pipeline [& fs] (apply compose (reverse fs)))
While I agree with you, I still want to give them points for admitting their failure. It's a cute image, with a cute line that tells you exactly what the problem is.

Compare that to sites where you just get a blank page.
Which isn't evidence of much; millions of people assumed Darren Wilson was a racist murderer even after the facts were known. There's a very strong temptation for some people to perceive injustice everywhere.
I wasn't clear when I said "multiple machines" - I'm definitely not backing up whole machines!

It would be a case of multiple machines each backing up their /etc, /home, /var, etc to one place.
The name is very similar to the GPL software Duplicity, and the license is not a free software license.
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My only other option is a 3Mb DSL line.

For the past few years I have subscribed to DSL, just to avoid feeding Comcast. Comcast/Cable Internet should be regulated like a utility.
Facebook posts are more or less unreadable to me without a Facebook login. This is what it looks like to me: https://i.imgur.com/ZQNexgi.png

Does anybody else outside Facebook space find it annoying?
Certainly. It's probably something worth looking into. Regardless, watching a lot of television will influence the development of a child's brain. This could be in the form of moral instruction, social norms, cultural affectations, and more. Also it takes little physical coordination to watch television (from a high-level viewpoint)
I'd argue the harm to a neighbourhood street far outweighs the needs of people in cars.

It creates noise, discourages kids from playing outside, basically it decreases the quality of life generally when the street you live on becomes a river of traffic.

Basically, this new innovation disrupts a balance that has been achieved incrementally over time.

Go into any neighbourhood and talk to people and you will find that over time they have called the city councillor spoken to each other to come to an agreement about how their street is to be used, from parking issues, to street furniture to common access to some areas such as school parking lots off hours for example.

Some of these agreements are formal, others informal and unspoken, but they always exist.

I don't buy your argument that waze, by optimizing for a single variable, and which ignores all of these agreements between residents can be a greater benefit 'overall.'

Also, by solving the congestion problem this way, they actually divert attention away from proper solutions being implemented at the city level.
> In the valley we only seem good at solving single isolated problems...

I'd suggest that's precisely because that's how engineers are taught to solve problems (and not just in the valley). Reduce a problem to it's simplest representation (by abstracting everything else away) and solve.
Ratchets are a thing, far less common in the valley in the last decade than the decade before, particularly at earlier stages. Founders can put them in as well. Don't forget warrants as part of a deal too.
Is there no documentation of new features and changes?
Dilution is only a positive sign if your stake is increased to compensate. Otherwise it means you're working for less than you agreed to.
>Here's a thought, treat them as people and not "a black" or "a woman". You don't have to ingratiate yourself in the fear that some random person will think you're a racist.

I think you need to read through this thread. People are assigning motivations to the host: "He is sexist". Maybe he is, maybe he isn't. I'm sure he'd say that he is not, but plenty of people here are saying he is. Is it crazy to think the same thing can happen to, say, the OP?
Don't tell people what they should do. Maybe they work from home, maybe they don't work at all, what the heck does work ethic have to do with it?
An example is much more effective in a lot of cases. I really wish there were more of them in man pages.
I don't understand this quote. Does he mean that you have to choose ONE of the three? Or that you have to do all three (which means his "or" is misplaced)? Or that Amazon.com chooses for you, rather than you choosing yourself?
Are you a kid in school? If so, I suggest approaching companies in your local community and specifically saying you want a job "for summer vacation". IMHO the biggest risk for an employer is getting stuck with someone that's no good and has to be fired later. By coming in as a freelancer, intern, or summer employee, you take that risk away. And given the desperate shortage of good IT people out there, if you prove yourself better than terrible you'll very likely be asked back.

I would not target "software companies" but rather ordinary companies that lack IT talent. Lots of businesses out there need simple edits to their web pages, or SQL queries from their ETL or CRM (systems they buy but don't know how to work with "under the hood"), and could use your h elp.
Interesting omission of iMessage here... since it's not encrypted at rest on their servers.
Android O will sharply reduce the amount of location access an app has in the background unless the app displays a user-visible notification.
I thought 3rd party browsers have to use the system HTML renderer, which means Firefox can't support extensions like uBlock, Toggle Animated Gifs, etc.
You don't need lidar for autonomous driving. Musk has made this clear, as does the fact that we drive fine with just 2 cameras in our heads.

Once you can solve the computer vision challenge, which they are going to do, you don't need lidar.

Also lidar may pose a greater security issue due to potential interference.
You know, I think you might be on to something.

https://youtu.be/Ro1ROeKbZhM

My opinion, probably worth less than the time it takes to type it, is that the moderator was clearly being very clueless. Therefore I definitely would have wanted to holler "Let her speak please." I'd have been annoyed, and perhaps a little angry.

But sexism in this case is really a stretch. He didn't seem condescending, just excited, and clueless, with just a touch of jackass. As a man who gets talked over by everybody, all the time, I know that you have to be very assertive to get a word in when talking to these donkeys. I think it's much more likely that the woman simply didn't reach that assertiveness threshold.

Notice that "Let her speak please!" works perfectly well, without the leap to the conclusion of sexism that followed here.
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Drupal is opensource and doesn't require a licence. It can also be hosted on premise or in cloud. My org uses a multisite setup of Drupal. https://www.drupal.com/
I'm a pilot and I'm terrified of heights. I get vertigo even thinking about looking over the edge of a cliff. I would also really like to try skydiving one of these years.

I think that a better way to express it for many people is we're not afraid of heights, we're afraid of falling and dying. Removing the falling aspect "cures" the phobia.
I've seen a physics analysis which indicates that being very tall is actually a disadvantage for shooting free throws because the ball approaches the hoop at a shallower angle. Essentially they're aiming for a smaller target. Shorter players have to throw the ball up in a higher arc.
I'm grateful for your perspective and your values.
I haven't looked at Crashplan in detail yet, though one of my co-workers uses it for his Macs and is happy with it.

A quick Google search gives me the feeling that it runs under FreeBSD's Linux emulation and the port seems to break occasionally. I could run it on a real Linux in a VM on FreeBSD though, so that's a potential option.
Cash is nearly always better for the employee. Startups like options because:

1. They can "pay" people with "free" pieces of paper that effectively cost nothing from a cash standpoint

2. It helps keep staff onboard by slapping golden handcuffs on

3. In the event that these paper options turn into something with actual value that only happens if the founders and investors make a ton of money first, so at that point they don't really care what the options "cost". It's like writing a paycheck that can only be cashed if the founders/investors get rich. A great deal for them, not so great for you.

Net net all these things benefit the founders/investors and not the person receiving the options. In nearly all cases people are getting options as part of core comp because the company can't afford to pay out all that cash. It's important potential employees understand that when agreeing to a base package that is heavily in options vs cold cash. Options should be treated as a bonus that may pay off but very likely won't, not base comp.
As we saw with the recent Ransomware attack malware doesn't behave differently if it realises it is in a sandbox, however to date that has usually been to deactivate itself to reduce the likelihood of it being analysed. I imagine a virtualbox 0 day would be useful in these situations but probably only to state level actors or malware authors looking to get one up on security firms.
> machine crippling JS malware is a click a way

I have been using the internet nearly daily for about 20 years now. I can't recall a single time I clicked on something that gave me "machine crippling JS malware".

Barring some serious security gaps, JS isn't even capable of doing anything more than lock up the browser and maybe send some extremely minimal information about you back to someone elses server.