skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"the idea would be to hide data by using different amounts of spaces in text files, in the least significant bits of pixels in images, or in the access pattern to a certain service" is not appropriate for the claimed use case, i.e. activists in totalitarian regimes.

In such an environment, the traffic of suspected activists will be analyzed.

Assuming the kernels are open, it's possible to see in analysis of certain data that "amounts of spaces in text files, in the least significant bits of pixels in images, or in the access pattern to a certain service" have encoded information, even if the extracted information looks like random/encrypted data. At this point you don't have plausible deniability and rubber hose cryptoanalysis can be used.

Switching to new kernels happens too late since you don't know when they've identified a kernel until they start arresting people - it's not like they're simply going to block it immediately.

i.e., the described service is resistant to mass censorship and automated filtering, but these use cases actually need to be able to resist attribution and retaliation, which are quite different problems.
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Interesting, thanks!

I was going to ask who buys them but they I remembered my neighbors don't even have a computer. Just smartphones and tablets...
THE FUTURE OF MILITARY ROBOTICS LOOKS LIKE a NATURE DOCUMENTARY
Well, the romans didn't die when Rome fell. Just don't associate yourself with any of the crazies and stay out of harms way when the consequences of denying truth finally catches up with the masses.
> curved to boot (which you may not care about, but it does affect cost)

Not too long ago the curved models used to be cheaper with big discounts, at least for TV's, because nobody wanted to have a curved TV.
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If you sit next to a big window like I do, having the extra brightness is extremely helpful.
Thanks.

Ultimately, I think I was referring to the Taylorist aspect.

There's also a philosophy that I've seen labelled as "teamism" and which seems to form the basis of methodologies like Scrum. I'm not sure teamism is quite the same thing as Taylorism -- but it shares the same distrust for individuals working on problems without near-constant oversight.
It's always interesting to me to see how various people discover the basic advantage of function-oriented programming on their own.

There's also eg the copy-on-write filesystems, and git---whose main on-disk data-structures are conceptually immutable despite being implemented in C.

You might enjoy reading "Out of the tarpit" (https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love/blob/master...), a paper that deals with approaches to master software complexity.
How would you raise money for a boutique hotel?
I am raising capital for a crowdsourced boutique hotel in another country. Anyone have an idea on who I should approach for investment? Any guidance would be awesome.
I think the issue here is that there is a huge distance between merely believing in God and being an orthodox Christian. It's easy to see why the Church didn't like Descartes' work, because it upended the scholastic metaphysics that much church doctrine rested on. But there is really no evidence that Descartes did not believe God existed. This is especially so given that one of his arguments for God's existence is original. If he was just trotting out some arguments to keep up appearances, why would he bother coming up with a new argument?
> Why keep this stuff secret? Because none of it is fair and we all know it.

Bingo. It's also why offshore accounts is so prevalent amongst the wealthy.

> So you should piss off everyone else by rubbing it in their face that X was pretty lucky on timing? Or give everyone a raise the company can't afford?

Don't forget the other kind of "luck". So and so's father /friend/etc is X so they get better pay/access/etc.

This isn't just a problem in the private sector, the public sector is a problem too.

> Privacy is quite unfashionable nowadays.

Selective privacy is quite fashionable. The peasants don't get privacy.
In my experience, what matters most is good communication. Whatever tool you use, what matter most is making sure your team are diligent about updating it, and about responding to updates by others. If you can get them doing that, then using a spreadsheet or a wall of post-it notes will give you 80% of the benefits of using the most advanced dashboard/kanban/IM tool. If you can't get them doing that, then even the most advanced tools won't save you.
Sadly, I have found that almost any new feature of browsers these days is like using a crippled opera from 10 years ago.
Product Hunt for real estate investment for boutique hotels?
Is there a Product Hunt for real estate investment opportunities?
Odd this is down voted. This comment is basically correct and the GP is utter trash. sRGB provides no advantages for pre press work that's for fucking sure.
The reasons are more to do with political interests and willingness to invest into specific technologies.

For example, do you think the whole Web 2.0 with JavaScript everywhere would ever taken off if it wasn't for companies with the engineering resources of Microsoft, Google, Apple and Mozilla into fighting for JIT performance?

Without it, JavaScript would still be used for form validations and dummy page animations.

Or Java on Android, with Google's goal of making it succeed whatever it takes.

It is all a matter how much money a company is willing to spend into making something become reality.
In real estate, the public are the buyers.

In job hunting, the employers are the buyers.
> the best thing to do is to never respond to the letters

Yeah I tried that strategy for a while and got pissed off with how many letters I was getting. Then I filled in the web form and it's a once-in-two-year thing for me now. Much better!
I had the same experience with the same model. Never again, Dell.
I guess the MBA is there to facilitate your professional development, not to make you more productive.

And what you have to do in order to look good to your manager or manager's manager's manager is different than what you have to do to be productive. Your boss was perhaps just doing the former?
12 "character" words of 36 bits.
When I see that one of the requirements for privacy-preserving software is to have been in the same physical location as the person I need to connect with, while running said software, I immediately stop reading and move on to other things.

I've done this for roughly five years.

Assuming I've never wanted to become a Debian developer, is there any important piece of privacy-preserving software I've missed out on? Is there likely to be any important privacy-preserving software I will miss out on in the next five years?

Edit: clarification
Keep in mind that the death toll from Fukushima was zero.
Ask HN: How to get good at workplace politics to get ahead?
I am working as a manager for a large tech company (20k+ employees). I am wondering what are the ways to become best at workplace politics. It's not that I am naive, but I am not the best either. Of course, I want to support my team and help them grow in their career. But, at the same time I want to make sure that I am also progressing up in the management.

I read the book The Prince. I am going to read Gervais Principle next.What are your suggestions in terms of blogs,videos, books and also any personal anecdote how you got better at playing games?
Salary comparisons happen anyway, with the same effect, although you typically have to do it in secret because in many company's, sharing salary information is against company policy.

In my anecdotal experience, the angst doesn't last long, unless you are actually severely underpaid. And that's a problem regardless of salary disclosure.

In my opinion, I like the idea of open salary information because I suck at negotiating, and this would help. Why penalize people that haven't specialized in salesmanship? I became a developer to concentrate on solving problems, not trying to outwit and out-politic my co-workers, managers, and potential hiring managers.
> Always one for facile comparisons between China and developed entities aren’t we paradite?

Why are you attacking him rather than the argument?

> Perhaps change it up so your work isn’t immediately recognizable? Even sounding the least bit neutral would probably be enough to blend in.

You don't sound very impartial either.
Xiaomi requires registration with SIM card and binds account phone to specific user.

Request is placed on Xiaomi web site where the user needs to explain why he wants to unlock the phone.
Upon receiving permit from Xiaomi, one can download a specific application for Windows that won't work until 72 hours passes from the initial request.

I'm blown away here.
> And the practitioners would not be paid enormous sums for doing the impossible, they'd be paid moderately well for being ordinarily competent.

That's an awesome description of where we should move management to, hopefully. (Same for programming, marketing etc.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Keen#Minsky_software_pro...
Picture combinators and recursive fish – generating Escher woodcut with F#
FWIW, the source code looks fairly solid to me, considering that it's a bash script meant to be used on trusted inputs.

To illustrate my point, look at the elaborate loop to iterate over *.gpg files: https://git.zx2c4.com/password-store/tree/src/password-store...

This looks to me like the correct way to do this in bash, as long as you can guarantee that $PREFIX does not start with whitespace (which may be a valid assumption here).

From what I can tell, the code quality is way better than what you see in your average bash script.
It's less of a problem with 2560xN than 1920xN, in my view. I also prefer 16:10 to 16:9, but 2560x1440 has enough pixels vertically not to be disagreeable, and 1440x2560 is wide enough not to be cramped. I'd never buy a 1080p monitor, but I've found 1440p a most worthwhile upgrade from 1200p.

So perhaps sit it out and wait for 5k? ;)
I was going to point out something similar. Scientists can also detect the pollution from coal plants in China in California[1].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/21/world/asia/china-also-exp...
Think about it as daily car crashes and pollution-related deaths versus an Airbus A380 full of people exploding live on prime time TV. I bet my ass people will keep talking about flight safety for weeks, non-stop, which is absolutely nonsensical. How many times you noticed people talking about the fossil fuels at a waiting line of a random place?
One problem is that 'agile' has been taken over by management types.
> Economic eugenics in the service of higher GDP is no better.

I have no sense of a difference between economic eugenics and capitalism; I'm too ignorant of econ theory to tell if this is a feature or a bug.
> with optimal placement of code on the drum being seen as a major programming skill.

I remember reading an article/blog post from a programer of that time detailing how he optimized some code by taking into account the physics of the drum (such as mechanical inertia, angular momentum, etc.). I don't know how to locate it now but it was amazingly low-level.
The drum stored 16384 36 bit words, equivalent to 72 * 1024 bytes (72 kb).
Wrong. When you sign a transaction off-chain, you're signing a real bitcoin transaction, which you choose (or your software) to not broadcast to the network for convenience reasons (as you will likely sign more transactions later).
Have people left because of this? Was it a loss or a gain for the companies culture if these people left?
So now it is not being discontinued anymore, it is merely going away.

I wonder when it will return.
Both. To make a project deadline, the department head signed a waiver to bring on personal without security clearance.

Apparently, companies may subscribe to the vehicle registry. One batch contained people with protected identities. Instead of asking customers to destroy the registry and sending a new, without sensitive information, the Transport Agency sent an open e-mail with all registration and chassis numbers of all those cars owned by persons with a protected identity. The companies were then asked to clean the sensitive data themselves.
Or as feynmann described... pseudoscience.

https://youtu.be/tWr39Q9vBgo
It's interesting to see the variety of monitors people are using - and especially the variety of pixel densities, all the way down to 69 pixels per inch on a 32" 1080p panel.

For anyone who is curious to compare the pixel density of a variety of monitors and televisions, I have a spreadsheet with about 120 different display sizes and resolutions and their pixel densities:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1K4bCgr-VjMmeCjHf6Udy...

Email me at the address in my profile or use the chat box in the spreadsheet (to avoid cluttering this thread) if you have any other displays you'd like to add.
Thrift is popular and it "supports" more targets, but I found a lot of bugs in some of its lesser-known implementations. This may not be an issue if you're using a widely-used Thrift platform, but if you're choosing Thrift because it supports the target you want while another RPC doesn't, do watch out for weird bugs and issues.

I haven't tried to use Protobufs or gRPC in a serious way so I can't say if it's better or worse, but I would hope it supports fewer targets because it takes stability and QC more seriously.
Now, in Python3... :D
Considering the investment and banking industries are built on the claim that finance is more more careful with other people's money than its own, I'm not sure what you're basing that on.

Of course you're correct in that it demonstrably isn't. But does that make your point about the politics of finance right, or wrong?
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The problem that I see with your theory is that it would be very difficult for so many people to keep this a secret.
Why is this down voted?

I was gonna give the article a skip then I thought "What if they actually engineered a dinosaur into existence", felt I had to click it just in case.

Instead I got an, albeit interesting, article about 3D.
Would it not be more likely that we Scandinavians would have to use the mainstream system? I'm not Norwegian, but my nation Sweden does this similarly.

If we accept giving our internal revenue services to the EU, I very much doubt that we will be able to keep this sort of thing, such as the principle of things being public (sv: offentlighetsprincipen).

For reasons like this (giving up what is unique about our culture for the mainstream continental one) I can't help but be sceptic of further involvement with European political unity, and am anticipating that Brits of 10 years from now will be satisfied with their decision to leave.
Policy is also data. I don't know why you don't acknowledge that. In fact most data sets are tethered to their context. So I don't actually get your point, other than that trying to analyze data sets contextlessly won't work.
My problem with the brightness is that it pulls up the minimum brightness available. Most of my devices are too bright for me at their minimum settings at night time.
I've had the Dell U3415W (3440x1440) since it was released two years ago, and it is the best monitor I've ever used. The resolution is great, and avoiding the DPI scaling needed for practical use of most 4K screens is key. As a bonus, it is absolutely perfect for movies in 21:9.

If you haven't seen one, a more familiar comparison might be that the U3415W is essentially the same as a 27" IPS panel, only wider. It has 1440 pixels of height at roughly the same physical height as the 27" IPS panels.

Many people argue that curved screens are unnecessary or a gimmick, which I would agree is true for TV screens with multiple off-center viewers. From my own comparison of several 32"+ monitors, I do think the curve is very useful in reducing neck/eye fatigue.

The new 38" does sound appealing, but at 2-3x the cost of the U3415W on sale I would probably still recommend the 34" to most people.
You're a bit enthousiatic about that, but it's basically why many animals from groups (are gregarious), including humans. Groups are stronger than individuals.

Lone hunters can get one individual out of a herd but they'll never be able to kill the whole herd. And some herds of certain species can kill a lone hunter.
Here's a "review" of the steps from a Twitter user:

https://twitter.com/zchamu/status/888076067168301056
In other news, man builds paper mache airplane for $5,000 after being flabbergasted that Boeing quoted a price of $10,000,000 for a new jet.
Your strategy means that you need 10x more working algorithms. Harder to find 10 than 1.
I work for AWS since 2014 and I am in a building that arguably has highest density compared to other Amazon buildings. I have not seen a single instance of what the author describes, on tens of floors except that during peak times one may have to go to the next floor to find an empty stall. Specifically --
1. I have not seen anyone take laptops to the stalls
2. No conversations in the bathroom, at most a Hi when washing your hands or a 'excuse me' at the door. Definitely no cross-talk across stalls.
3. No one is using bathrooms as a meeting place or a place for long conversations.

Since last year, there are also unisex bathrooms on each floor. While I am here, might as well dispel some other myths. Occasional WFH is the norm, not an exception. I haven't seen people work long hours as a norm. Most people come in between 9-10:30 and leave between 5-6:30pm. Some come in earlier and some later. Almost everyone I know is driven by their own passion for their work, customer obsession, immense learning opportunity, do things that have never been done before, increasing stock value and increase in their own market value, to name a few.
I hacked my body for a future that never came
Yes, "quants" tend to have undergrad math/physics backgrounds, but "quants" aren't the ones writing academic papers in the Journal of Finance. You, and many others in this thread, seem to have a painful lack of awareness that there are things called PhD programs, and that they select and train students to specifically do research. Here's an analogy: a random comp-sci undergrad/master's isn't going to be publishing in a conference any time soon. Most of you have no chance of getting into a PhD comp-sci program, just as most random econ students have no chance of getting into a PhD econ program. Both of these select heavily from mathematics.

Here's the editorial board of the Journal of Finance:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1540-62...

You can feel free to check their affiliations for yourself, but almost every single person has a PhD in Economics or a PhD in Finance/Financial-Economics from a top department. PhD Finance programs are structured like PhD econ programs (you take the usual micro/macro/metrics), and were historically rooted in economics departments. And for what it's worth, almost all of them will have a bachelor's in mathematics, or a master's in mathematics, or in the case of international students, a master's in economics.

The topic of this thread is about academic economics, yet you and everyone else are attacking it by citing the irrelevance of undergrad economics in the U.S.. Which we're all painfully familiar with. But believe it or not, the best aspiring comp-sci academics in the United States rarely take a full major of comp-sci courses at the undergrad level either, because U.S liberal arts majors are frankly geared towards students who have no interest in academia. This does not imply a single thing about graduate-level comp-sci, economics or finance research.
Poland appears to be dismantling its own hard-won democracy
> Closed salaries only benefit the other side of the negotiating table - the employers - who then divide and conquer.

Closed salaries might also benefit some employees. I think most people will agree that across any job title, or team, there are people who're favored in some way - better at their job, fun to be around, great motivators or mediators, whatever it is. It might be possible for these people to get better pay for themselves because the company doesn't have to give a commensurate increase to everyone.
> The ideal of scientific rigor is certainly laudable

There is no scientific rigor so there is nothing to laud. Economics is on the same level as astrology in that "math" is used to gain the appearance and legitimacy of "science".

> The discipline raises the questions of philosophy of mathematics and logic (and thus we should say language). How do mathematical models relate to the world? Is it the Tractatus, or Philosophical Investigations?

The problem has nothing to do with mathematical models. It has to do with testability and reproducibility.
But businesses aren't states. If a business makes the wrong decisions, it can fail and be replaced. It is too dangerous for states to go through failure and replacement, but as you note, it's also bad for there to be no mechanism to punish of bad decisions. The goal of a republic is to bring the fail-and-be-replaced mechanism to state governance, but in a controlled way. But this is less efficient, so if it's ok (with respect to society at large) for an organization to fail, it makes sense to just use that mechanism directly.

There's definitely a loophole with "too big to fail" companies. Maybe those should be run more democratically. I'm not sure, I've never worked for a company that couldn't just fail if it persistently made the wrong call.
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This definitely blocks divide and conquer from working for employers.
That article is several months old and I've never heard of it on mainstream media.

This disgusts me. It's like those people are being dehumanized like the Jews. Maybe this is part of a wider conspiracy so when another another oil, resource grabbing led war is started. People will say and do nothing to stop it because people have sub-consciously brainwashed.
> Mostly for switching apps

But if your hands are already on a keyboard isn't clicking alt-tab faster than lifting your wrists and do sliding gesture?
The most delicious flavour has a toxic secret
The History of Histograms (vldb paper)
http://www.vldb.org/conf/2003/papers/S02P01.pdf
Only if there will be a complete and enforced transparency, so no one would be able to do anything with secrecy.

Sort of "The Circle" setting.
Quick summary:

They are putting a little over 50mL of a weakly radioactive, fast decaying isotope into the ocean. It will be undetectable within a few years.

Natural tritium production (from cosmic rays) occurs at at a rate 3 orders of magnitude higher [0] than is occurring at Fukushima [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tritium#Cosmic_rays

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tritium#Fukushima_Daiichi
Probably the fact that you flatly ignored the remark about stuffing your post with opaque technical terms--I know a lot of maths, but I can't make heads or tails of what you're saying. Who are you even talking to? I assume it means something to you, but it doesn't even look like you're trying to communicate your point in a clear manner. Just that you enjoy using words. When trying to read around those technical terms, what is left has a rather nasty and arrogant tone. Therefore, doesn't add much to the discussion = downvote.
Ask HN: #1 problem you have/had raising seed money from Angel or VC?
Anything from having trouble finding the right investors, getting warm intros, geography, etc.
Radiation safe robots could be a plus in space one day.
eventually we are going to fall back to a google glass style device when people realize how stupid it is to have to walk around with a phone up