skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not aware of academic studies on the subject (I think that would be hard to do, because it's virtually impossible to know how many proprietary algorithms exist, how many are trivially breakable and how many have been broken).

However, this point is featured as 101 material in basically every cryptographic textbook. To put it very succinctly: there are conditions in which it can be beneficial to use proprietary cryptography, especially when you require very unique interoperability constraints. However it is almost never a benefit for the safety of the algorithm.

I've come across a proprietary algorithm and successfully broken it, in a black box setting, with differential cryptanalysis. This algorithm was deployed to disguise the sequential order numbers for a very large delivery company. It took me about a month, but it was done. The challenge in proprietary algorithms is shifted to figuring out what's going on because it's unrecognizable. That is a significantly easier challenge that identifying a vulnerability in an algorithm like AES, which has never had a meaningful vulnerability in a decade and a half of cryptanalysis.

If you use a proprietary algorithm it might be safer than a known unsafe open algorithm, but it's virtually guaranteed to be worse than widely studied algorithms, and most likely in a trivially breakable way. They can be safe, but that still means you're going to be working with professional cryptographers at a company like Riscure to assure it's safe.
http://openrefine.org/
Maybe request that in the comments or contribute by searching for it and posting it?
> A core problem for Stack Overflow is the lack of people willing to curate material.

I think the word "curate" is interesting here, as in, pick for emphasis. I think maybe a mistake that SO makes is to close or remove topics, rather than "deemphasize" them.

Instead of closing things, why not just make poor answers and poor discussions lead to less likelihood of being found in the search engine. (I suppose this might take some coordination with Google et al..)

One thing I don't particularly like about SO is that the questioner must select the "accepted" answer. Quite often this isn't the best one, or there isn't a best one, or there is too much discussion in the comments and not in the answers.

What is missing imho is a meta vote. Individual questions and answers have votes, but I think the "selection of the best answer" should also have a kind of "confidence vote". This might help to make the most interesting questions and answers more visible.

On the other hand maybe it's so "meta" that no one would use it, and a recommendation engine is only as good as the willingness of users to recommend things..

But in any case my overarching point is that there are too many "binary" evaluations of goodness on SO, instead of letting things bubble up to the top when they're interesting. (The difficulty of course being to define "interesting" as useful and accurate, rather than just clickbaity.)
From what I remember of arguments in 2015-16, the differential between "% of violent crimes" and "% of people killed by police" for POC is huge - much bigger than the one for purely "male" (which obviously has an overlap anyway.)
Nope, they are not particularly well documented.
Watson reminds me of Timewarrior. https://taskwarrior.org/docs/timewarrior/
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Well the fact that it disappears after the first download makes it similar to what snapchat originally was
Not to mention "20% discount." Discount on what?
An injection attack on a download is not one of the problems we're actually talking about here. That's a problem that affects any package manager.

And it's patently false to say that the deploy plugin documentation encourages you to include that information. They very clearly preface that with "if your repository is secured" and use the explicit example of an internal repository within a corporate context. People smart enough to read that documentation in detail should also be smart enough to determine when it is and isn't a good idea to do that.
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There was a recent discussion on it
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14897457
I get it's just a joke, but people making comparisons like this is a pet peeve of mine.

1 USD is 110 Yen, but you'd be paid (for the sake of the argument) 110 times as much Yen as USD. What matters is the changing relative purchasing powers of the currency in your bank account.

Fun fact that shows that the number itself doesn't really matter - France revalued the Franc in 1960, making 100 "old" Francs worth 1 "new" francs. People weren't suddenly 100 times poorer.
“It’s a voluntary tax on the wealthy.”

How can we install more of these type of things?
Someone on the internet wrote something but you don't like it. The appropriate reaction is to be quiet and go read something else.

Slagging the author for giving something to the world for free doesn't help anyone and it's almost certainly going to discourage the sharing which everyone on the internet has benefited from.
> The company burned through $1.16 billion in cash in the second quarter by spending on capacity for its cheapest model yet and boosting battery output.

This makes me very happy. It's very rare for a large company to literally risk their existence to bring a new product to market. Most prefer to just sit in the pile of cash and profit from margins...
If you google the headline, you will see places that have the article but no paywall.
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Stack Exchange moderators needing to constantly delete comment threads with "use chat" has to be one of the biggest case of desire lines online I've seen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desire_path
http://archive.is/FTeOQ
I highly encourage you to start a blog for yourself, not for any assumed audience. You'll gain important skills.

* Better understanding the topic by trying to re-teach it

* Improve writing skills. Programming is basically writing but with even crazier grammar freaks.

* Employers interested in possibly hiring you will have a better idea of what you know & enjoy

* Provide yourself (and possibly your company) with documentation for the future.

Lastly if you need encouragement by someone more established than me, here's Troy Hunt at NDC Oslo 2017 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MUhcgXBj_A
Soooo... They were the original StackOverflow ;)
I'd posit it's an increase in per-sub utilization vs total sub count. Users aren't motivated to limit their LTE usage with these plans, and in some cases eschew Wi-Fi entirely.
That's interesting.

We will think how to make our brand more memorable, thanks.
Depending on the algorithm: yes. I'm not saying all algorihms that are widely used and well known are extremely unlikely to be broken.

I would happily bet $10,000 that AES will not be broken in the next ten years. I'd make the same bet for several hash functions.

And as a corollary to this point: I think it's incredibly foolish to try and combat the threat of an encryption algorithm being broken by double encrypting a plaintext, including with that algorithm.
Python actually discourages using map anf filter. Which is kind of weird to me but whatever.
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I don't think you would get away with a one minute pause before answering each question without risk of potential sanctions if the lawyer felt you were simply driving up costs, etc. Of course to get sanctions the court would have to agree that your intent was to needlessly drive up the cost of the deposition or to harass the other party. If you are simply answering the question as asked the court would not grant any sanctions. However, if you ask for clarification on a question occasionally and only answer the question as asked you can get away with quite a bit.

He could have answered yes when asked about owning a ranch and made the attorney inquire further. Then upon further questioning he could have said I have multiple ranches. Then made them ask about each one in order to get to their intended question. Depositions are discovery so if they want to uncover, or discover, something then they have to ask the right question in order to get to the information.
“You’re holding it wrong”

Wonder if Tesla will have that moment. Recalling the Model 3 is probably their greatest fear. No product is perfect and they’re about to ship tens of thousands a month within a very short period of time
Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/949/
Pass the paywall: https://t.co/evMDPWlEHx
The size of the cpu registers don't matter here. What matters is that 'int' is a bigger type than uint8_t and smaller than uint64_t: the resulting unexpected behaviour is mandated by the C standard regardless of the register size of the cpu (for instance both 32-bit i386 and 64-bit x86_64 will behave the same, because both typically have 32 bit 'int').

More generally, reasoning about this kind of thing by thinking about the CPU leads you down the wrong path -- modern C as implemented by compilers today is an implementation of a standardized language, and they behave as that standard says, which is not always as you might expect from the hardware behaviour. (Simple example: left shifting of negative numbers does a simple straightforward thing on practically all hardware, but the C spec says it's UB and if you write code that assumes the h/w behaviour you'll get bitten.)
How about the Morgan Bible?

The book consists of paintings of events from Hebrew scripture, set in the scenery and customs of thirteenth-century France, depicted from a Christian perspective. Scenes are surrounded by text in three scripts and five languages: Latin, Persian, Arabic, Judeo-Persian, and Hebrew.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_Bible

http://www.themorgan.org/collection/Crusader-Bible/thumbs
So there's nothing stopping a mixer service taking 50% of the incoming bitcoins, or even all of them.
I've been using this lately http://serializer.io/
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Actually in most countries there is a lot of laws for landlords and tenants that regulates who is in the possession. A landlord can not just hand out keys to anyone.
ComputerCraft has turtles you can program in-game in lua. Eg http://computercraftedu.com/.

IIRC FreeMiner may be better in this respect? Minecraft had fallen out of vogue with my kids so not played around with this for a while.
I don't think it's much of a risk. They created a product that is way differentiated from every other car out there and people want to buy it. It's like seeing the iPhone for the first time, and all the other flip-phones out there is simply just not enough anymore. They will succeed. If I'm in the market for a new car, I would totally line up for this one.
The only real problem I see is that comp. levels in Canada are not as high as the US while COL in most of the major cities is similar to NYC. As a (legal) immigrant to the US, while Canada definitely sounds very attractive, I don't want to take a major hit to my quality of life just to escape Trumpland...
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That's great, but that's not what I'm telling you. I'm telling you not to develop and deploy them with human passengers, in a production environment, on a trip to orbit. If you get collaboration from professionals with significant expertise and audit the design and development extensively, then sure, go for it.

Even were that as accessible as developing and deploying your own cryptography, I'd still advise against it.
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Right, but that has nothing to do with a lack of intelligence or hard work.
I am glad to hear that VCs are supportive and are showing that they can do what you are trying to do, give someone a second chance. Again, kudos. I hope your venture is a huge success.
Uber but for X demonstrates how a lot of startups are trying to reinvent stuff that already exists, but works around labour laws on a technicality.
I've been a happy Sprint customer for a long time. What do people dislike about it?
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My regional carrier, US Cellular, recently started an unlimited plan. Right there in the small print it says it's capped at 1.5 Mbps from the beginning, and drops to 2G speeds after 22 GBs used. Unlimited plans are just a marketing move, with no real substance at all.
Cutting the issued cards in half seems a bit of the wrong focus point in this bill and creates a lot of controversy/doesn't really get the intended effect (i.e. merit based policy); so I would can that and the "English" requirement.

Don't a lot of other countries implement a merit-based immigration policy? I say that but also knowing that a lot of other countries also prioritize refugees (Canada) in addition to merit-based immigration. The system I would prefer would be : prioritize refugees, merit-based skills & financial stability for employment and allow spouses and children to come along (preferably allowing spouse to live and work as well). Some countries, like Switzerland, prioritize EU citizens first for employment for instance before considering employment for immigrants from non-EU states. France, another one, is pushing forward with a tech visa program that is a bit enticing since your spouse can also live and work in the country. Overall, this proposal seems to fall closer in line with how other countries are doing things (not exactly the same) but somewhat closer.

I would be curious to know the numbers in terms of population growth percentages to what other countries capped immigration numbers are; also taking into account people migrating out of the country or in the case of the EU, to and from a given country that works with the EU (i.e. Switzerland).
I think a slower roll out would be prudent. If you burn all your cash and you are forced to raise cash it puts you in a bad situation. This is brand new car. Companies like Toyota have issues with their cars and they generally only make incremental changes to each model, and Toyota Production System is probably one of most taught and studied system for production.
I've found some helpful guidelines, but I know it is by no means an exhaustive list.

https://cryptocoding.net/index.php/Coding_rules
They're giving up control of their bitcoin for specific purposes. Coinbase can't just do whatever they feel like with it, any more than your bank can one day just declare "Hey, we decided to keep all of your deposits, FOAD, thanks."
I am aware of the usual (and strong in my opinion) argument.

Every time this discussion does the rounds, though, I do wonder whether the hypothesis could be tested.

Most vulnerabilities do not come from breaking the core algorithm but rather from a flaw in how they are implemented or applied. Standardisation can lead to monocultures that become tempting targets for those with plenty of resources to throw at them.
He mentioned IQ and industriousness, not level of education. There is only a weak correlation. (And you are not likely to successfully make it from Sudan to Canada if you are lazy and stupid.)
Microsoft has an excellent writeup on how one could approach multi-tenant architecture.

Helped me a lot when I did a project with multiple tenants.

Link: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa479086.aspx
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Eh, sounds a lot like the overblown "Welfare Queen" syndrome that so many in the US worry about so much. Yes, there are most likely people who abuse the system, but most people who get assistance are genuine refugees.
I disagree. The way you get experience is by trying things. If everyone followed that advice then nobody would learn anything.
i strongly disagree with this. half of my posting history on here is evangelizing FRP in javascript (in my case via bacon.js).

it has dramatically reduced the amount of time i spend on these and many other sorts of problems. honestly it makes programming way more fun. maybe haskell is a bit extreme for most situations but the concepts are not.
This is a bummer; using Safari:

Your browser is not supported.
Unfortunately this browser does not support the web technology that powers Firefox Send. You’ll need to try another browser. We recommend Firefox!

It would be nice to know what web tech they are using that isn't supported. Whatever it is, Chrome works.

EDIT: It requires support for the AES-GCM key type, with a size of 128.
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So it is not only that you don't find it funny (which is a common thing about jokes - many jokes are bad in the eyes of many people), but also that you want someone else to therefore remove this part.

Where does this idea come from that just because one doesn't like something or finds it stupid/silly/inappropriate/not funny, it has to disappear?
Nothing except it takes a long time to build up trust as a good mixer service. If you were ever closing, you could indeed steal all coins from the final round of use.
True! Also like one commenter said on the original article, if I have to share a file with 3 users, I will have to upload it 3 times and also there's the case of failed downloads.

Not sure if this is viable.
That's far from what I'd call "doing crypto as a side-hobby".
If you haven't seen a review on the model 3 I highly suggest MKBHD's review. He goes over how a lot of pieces of a standard car are stripped out (I.e. No physical buttons) this was to reduce manufacturing complexity and increase production speed. Toyota does not build cars like the way Tesla has engineered this end to end.
agreed. Though the problem of no work beign there isn't as bad as a lot of people think / make beleive it to be. Humans will be put to more intellectual tasks which will still in the forseable future be impossible for machines to mimick.

On a larger scale, there exists a problem of people now being dependent on a job to live, this dependancy needs to be eliminated before such broad automation of all human repetitive / robot-replacable tasks can be implemented. If this will be managed before that time is debatable, but if it's not, it will just self-destruct and we'll have to start over again :D
Thanks for pointing out that it's a Levine article. I need to remember that bloomberg.com articles on HN are likely to be him, and actually click through.
I don't see how anyone can be against this. Should we really take an unskilled immigrant who can't speak english over an AI researcher? This is a similar merit system as used by Canada and Australia.

Reminder that people who couldn't work or speak english were sent back at Ellis Island. People who came here knew they were going to have to work and wouldn't be getting handouts. The idea that we just took in whoever wanted to come here is revisionary history used to push agendas.
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Only if they get caught.
Yeah, that's the key new info for me too, something I missed during the previous discussion - I think it wasn't mentioned at all then. The key quotes from the OP article:

"Runway 28L was closed to accommodate construction; its approach and runway lights were turned off, and a 20.5-ft-wide lighted flashing X (runway closure marker) was placed at the threshold. Runway and approach lighting for runway 28R were on and set to default settings, which included a 2,400-foot approach lighting system [...]

Both pilots said, in post-incident interviews, they believed the lighted runway on their left was 28L and that they were lined up for 28R. They also stated that they did not recall seeing aircraft on taxiway C but that something did not look right to them."
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> “He’s going to need capital,” said Ross Gerber, chief executive officer of Gerber Kawasaki Wealth & Investment Management, which holds Tesla shares. “That’s the one part of the financials that are a little bit troubling. To underestimate the cash burn over the next six months will be a mistake.”

It's not that troubling. Even massive companies (AMZN in 2014) need to raise big capital. When you have something you want to do, you get the money and spend it.[1]

This seems to be constantly framed as negative ("they aren't making any money!"), but that's the correct growth strategy for what Musk wants to do. Nobody adds tons of debt just to not use it. Cribbing from my comment yesterday:

I've owned TSLA a long time and I hope they don't start making money, and continue the Amazon model and actually build something with years of minimal or no profits, re-investing vigorously. Amazon had almost 20 years in business without "making any money" except a few quarters where they accidentally eked out some non-trivial profit.

But without their spending, they wouldn't have become Amazon. Without Tesla's spending, they won't be a future company, they'll just be a tiny car company.

For some historical comparison: Amazon added $6bn in debt as recently as 2014. Even very large and very successful companies take on debt to fuel growth far beyond "bootstrap" numbers. Both companies leverage as much investment money as they can to build and expand as fast as they can. If you look at Amazon's raises in the late 1990's you'll find something more comparable to Tesla today relative to revenue. In 1999 Amazon raised $1.25 billion, and their revenue for the year was $1.64 billion. So they raised proportionally way more money than Tesla has so far this year. And spent it all!

full comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14915317

[1] The flipside of this is that it's an indictment of companies that hoard huge amounts of cash, like Apple. That they can't find a way spend it building future stuff is a signal that they are out of big ideas, and (in the case of Apple) have been for some time.

Musk and Bezos, on the other hand, have clear ideas of what to spend money on to build something.
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To sit in your pile of cash and profit from margins, you need to make money and have positive margins. You make it sound as if they could have chosen that path...
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Absolutely true what you say. I feel the same way.

Now in the case of Venezuela the minimum salary (July 2017) is 97531 BsF. The (black market) US Dollar is at 14760BsF per USD (as of today).

So basically the Venezuelan minimum wage now is a bit more than 6USD a month.

And just like you mention in France, Venezuela also removed 3 zeros from the currency about 10 years ago. So today's min wage would be at the many millions :(
> you assert that you have no problems - based on what?

The software works as intended and I know that my dependencies have not changed without me explictly changing them.

> Your deps.txt is barely different than a lock file here.

That command produces a tree of all dependencies and their dependencies. I don't know what that has to do with a lock file.
Kinda sorta depending on what you think of as a C64 and what you think of as Doom.

Proper Doom on extended C64: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZzivzuDOls - even then the framerate is horrible.

Doom with heavily simplified graphics and stuff (M.O.O.D. Doom) on a proper C64: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQcK527rYJI