skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even with ringsize 10, it does not help if someone does BTC->XMR->BTC with the same exchange (or an exchange that shares records) without adding some XMR->XMR churn steps inbetween.

My future freedom depends on me getting this right, so I am a bit sensitive on this topic. It took me a while to cut through the fluff and figure out how to churn enough to make it safe. Fortunately I also used multiple Bitcoin mixers on both sides and didn't originally get our Bitcoin investment in a way that's directly linked to any of our identities.

It is somewhat irresponsible of Monero's marketing to make such grandiose privacy claims at the moment. I say this as someone that loves Monero and thinks their team is fantastic, and I'd bet Monero will be the privacy currency winner if it isn't already.
Speaking of which ...

http://www.sfgate.com/local/article/Those-who-have-received-...

$300-$900 TPCA settlement. You can query their form for your phone number to see if you're eligible.
Some of the more interesting AI research is being done in the area of developing very accurate models of the real world. This way the many varied iterations needed to develop the AI model can be done without the same physical limitations of aggregating human data. Games are definitely in this same realm, although it's not always practical to make a human playable simulation-game and an AI playable simulation game given development constraints.

What I find fascinating is what AR might do for training AI models. To execute on AR we'll need to digitize a model of our physical surroundings so the software can interact. At that point we'll have a compelling pipeline of actionable data in regards to machine learning - especially for robotics.
It was probably a weekend project that was over three full weekends.
Yep. Pat Meenan's herculean / ultramarathon support of WebPageTest is a remarkable exception. (Speaking of WPT, after just a cursory glance at this thread on my phone prior to thumbing this comment, it surprisingly hasn't been mentioned yet? shrug)
It feels like we're pretty far past the point where there could be a "Spotify of movies" or TV.

Instead we have streaming companies getting into media and media companies getting into streaming. Multiple platforms each with their exclusive media content, each with their exclusive software and streaming protocols. Not exactly what I had in mind...
The Dark Side of Resilience
> Twitter sat ladies that cry bullied this big IT companies to deny service for Daily Stormer caused webpage to not be accessible.

It's no different than a club cancelling a comedy booking because they don't want that type of comedy at their club, because they don't think their patrons will support it.

> People who enjoyed this style of humor cant enjoy it anymore. This is very definition of censorship.

No, it's not. They can go somewhere else. They can find a different provider, or publish a pamphlet or go to a street corner. You know what it means as a comedian when you can't book a club? Not enough people are interested in what you have to say to make it worthwhile to give you a pulpit, or at least not enough people to offset the distaste you cause in others. That's not censorship, that's social pressure.

Censorship is about ability and rights. Nobody is restricting the ability or rights of the daily stormer. It's still legal to post what they want, and they have avenues to do so (with enough money, they could become their own host). Freedom of speech is just as much about letting the daily stormer say what they want as it is letting cloudfare and others decide they don't want to support it.
I guess another possibility is his editor suggests some changes, which is a reasonable thing to do.
I'm not that stupid you know.
Thread status: Godwin'd.
I agree. It sounds like they decided to do a cleanup ahead of an investment and not much of a real business case. Your migration path seems much, much simpler - and that's assuming the cleanup is even needed in the first place.
Songbird: Spatial Audio Encoding on the Web
When they receive an email, they encrypt it with your public key. The private key is stored on their server encrypted with a passphrase only you know.

Assuming they don't backdoor their client to find out your passphrase, or log emails as they receive them, you're fairly safe from having an employee browse through your emails.
Is there anything from stopping someone having a backpack full of phones and pretending to be the whole crowd.

Okay, they'll probably work that out pretty quick and ban you. But three or four accounts you might get away with?
Honestly there are loads of projects where people don't analyse the existing solutions and just start, you know, from scratch.
I think every adult who uses FB is aware of this and they don't care. FB users self-select for people who don't care that a company productizes them.
Because they are cutting ties with Netflix streaming [0], so people who rely on Netflix for that service will have to fork out additional $$$ for anything Disney.

[0] https://www.geekwire.com/2017/disney-cut-ties-netflix-launch...
Well, I moved over the last years across several time-zones and continents. There are people that I knew back then and lost contact now. Do I care if they got babies, found a new job, like/dislike Trump, or are doing Toga on the beach ? No, I don't. I moved away. Having that knowledge does not make my life better or worse in any way. I can get the illusion that we are still in contact, but in reality I will never move back to these places. So why should I care?
Does the SSD let you read the raw ciphertext to perform that attack? Or does it only expose the decrypted data?
> this is a risk that you also have when you use React or other frameworks

React isn't a good analogy. When you use React, you can get 100% of the value of the library, even if Facebook disappears overnight.

By contrast, much of the benefit of AMP is the caching aspect, which relies on Google.
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> I think Aaronson's dismissive attitude is unbecoming and disrespectful amongst colleagues.

I would invite you to read his earlier blog post on the same proof and then think about why he said what he did.

http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=456
This subthread wasn't really restricting itself to writing games in assembly languages. Multiple ancestor posts were talking about "tools" in general, including approaches and IDEs, like sdrothrock expanded in an ancestor post.

If you're arguing specifically that using an assembly language is less productive than a higher level language, then I fully agree with you.
You may have just been trying to make a point, but in case you were actually hoping to get contacted via this comment, it would help if you had your contact information in your profile. :)
Late follow up, but also NYC based & could potentially split driving.
This sounds more like random speculation than informed commentary.
Don't forget Disney is also launching an ESPN platform as well
Nah, I'm a cynical fucker, I had...

$x = $x > 9000 ? 9000 : $x;
$y = $y > 9000 ? 9000 : $y;

I also had checks for negative values and that what I got actually made sense as an integer, since well it's the internet and a get request, they can put anything.

Tbh even 81MP was pushing it but I got to put the comment

// check and limit maximum image size
// it's over 9000!

As someone who was around online back then how could I resist.

EDIT: Just remembered, I had to really resist the urge to change the returned image to a raised middle finger if either parameter was out of limit, not because I didn't think it was funny but because with my luck it'd be me that fat fingered it.
Over-fear of God can lead to outright rejection.
> Several qualities of Kubernetes stood out from the other platforms we evaluated: the vibrant open source community supporting the project, the first run experience (which allowed us to deploy a small cluster and an application in the first few hours of our initial experiment), and a wealth of information available about the experience that motivated its design.

It's interesting that the reasons they cite for choosing Kubernetes over alternatives are entirely driven by 'developer experience' and not at all technical. It shows how critical community development, good documentation, and marketing are to building a successful open source project.
> It may take 5 years. It may take 20 years. It will invariably require a huge amount of other research, only some of which will appear relevant. Then all of a sudden the intermediate pieces are all understood and the first practical attack becomes possible.

Except that the NAND flash that's vulnerable to these attacks is being phased out of production as quickly as the fabs can be converted. Coming up with more plausible ways to obtain the oracular knowledge necessary to properly target this attack is of no use if the underlying storage medium no longer has the failure mechanism that's being exploited.
I'm curious why this information is better than Glassdoor? Is their data suspect?
> a racist political party that panders and dogwhistles to them for (at least 5, more like 20) years

Closer to 50; the Southern Strategy started with the 1968 Presidential election.

And, really, it was longer than that, in a sense, the Southern Strategy was just the Republicans taking up what LBJ closed the door on Democrats ability to exploit in the South when he backed the Civil Rights Act.
> If you don't maximize shareholder value you can be ousted, if you don't where others do you will lose in the marketplace and cease to exist.

In theory, there is nothing logically inconsistent about a CEO both advocating for a better society and protecting shareholder value. Indeed, the former can sometimes help achieve the latter. If your country becomes Venezuela, that's not going to do your stock price any favors.

In practice, it doesn't matter. For better or worse, it is basically impossible to definitely measure the effectiveness of a CEO. Board members use their best judgement and the limited data they have.

You can be ousted whether or not you maximize shareholder value, as no one knows if you did or not. CEOs work for a board and that board can fire them for, in practice, any reason they want to.

In turn those board members work for shareholders that can choose them for any reason they want.

> Isn't that competitive ruthlessness exactly what people like about our current system?

I wouldn't guess so, no. I would guess people more like the effect of said competitiveness, which is an efficient market with lower prices and more stability than the other systems that have been tried.

> Citation needed, I guess.

Basic reasoning? Corporations are tightly interwoven with society. Their customers and employees are all members of said society, for one thing. Burning society to the ground is not going to work out well for any corporation.
With this kind of spending, they must be planning to monetize beyond the subscription fees.

Get ready for the ads. Cable was ad-free in the early days too.
I'm still utterly perplexed as to what Tectonic actually -is-. I kinda get that it's a kubernetes setup, but is it a GUI over the top of it? The website is pretty confusing and I think I gave up really quickly when trying to set it up.
Those aren't your friends buddy.

>No, we didn't, because 99% of our friends use the very useful party organizing app with integrated chat and picture sharing, Facebook.

My friends will actively invite me (I don't use facebook) to events if they want me there.
Ask HN: Lispers: Which dialect of Lisp do you use and why?
Okay, so deleting or renaming a file is considered a change of the directory information. Therefore, a user's ability to do that to a file is dependent upon the directory's permissions. And one can avoid that by setting the immutable bit. Got it... I think i was distracted by the parable.
I'm with you on that boat... let's hope we never get sued :)

I'm not lawyer, but generally providers can't hold us to a contract if the provider didn't think we would read (bad faith contract).
However, we can't void a contract by choosing not to read it. hehe...

You can't outsmart the law -- so unknowingly being stupid might be the best defense :)
Any particular reason you've ruled out an iPad Pro?
> Yes, everyone brings their own personal interpretation

It is fascinating (and illustrative) that you are apparently unable to even imagine something that isn't moral relativism.

You are missing the point. What if everyone doesn't bring their own personal interpretation?
It was only a matter of time before large scale streaming tech got commoditized. That was Netflix's moat early on and now it will have to be their content library. They clearly saw the writing on the wall long ago.

The golden age of streaming is over IMO, now content will be increasingly divided into their own streaming services. I wish that streaming video were regulated like radio, with a flat rate per minute that gets paid back to the license owner. I can dream...
The Southern Poverty Law Center is notoriously biased [1] against any non-progressive ideology, which includes alt-right and libertarian ideals. If this is indeed their actual opinion, it is wrong. I suspect even they know it is not true. Alt-right traces is lineage back to Ron Paul and the tea-party.

[1] http://www.dailywire.com/news/8967/7-things-you-need-know-ab...
Most peoples' success comes down to an overlooked factor
Building large data sets doesn't necessarily mean from personal data. Look at open-data initiatives such as http://open.canada.ca/en/open-data . Lots of potential for useful tools to be created if the data is there, which won't happen if even benign data like that are kept under wraps/not collected.
Aborting a child is a decision for the parents, some abortions occur because the child has health issues sometimes because the parents are not in a position to raise the child. It is not about eugenics but about the choice of the parent/parents who will be responsible for the child. So no future generations will not look back in horror because we allowed people to decide whether they were ready to raise a child, future generations are likely to look back and think "thankfully they allowed this to be an option" because we are currently over-populating a planet with finite resources.
How to Beat Digital Overload with a Bullet Journal
Cloudflare CEO on Terminating Service to Neo-Nazi Site
Free as in beer, but not free as in free from annoying ads!
You're welcome to not defend yourself, but this discussion is about whether the government gets to enforce your ideals with force of their own.
> Edit: downvoters please explain why

Maybe because there is no "investing in IPFS". I mean there is Filecoin on top of IPFS, but you can love IPFS even if you don't give a damn about Filecoin, as it has been a well maintained project for the last ~2(?) years.

Disclaimer: I don't hold any file coin, but I enjoyed using IPFS for some hobby projects.
I just rejoined facebook. I call it giving in again, but really, I see a lot more of what's going on in the city than I could otherwise. There are some websites that try to fill this gap (sites like Meetup or do512.com) and physical bulletin boards at the coffee shops, but FB is by FAR the easiest, and sometimes the only, way to find out about things.

And yeah, you can text, you can call, but "if" everyone is on facebook, it's a lot easier. I still have friends texting, but esp. for bigger group events, Fb is "just there" for most people. It's useful to be a part of that.

I don't like it, I don't like their views on destroying privacy or discouraging pseudonyms, and I wish there was something that was better at Facebook than Facebook, but there isn't.
The service I'm working on porting to kubernetes has bandwidth requirements that far exceed a single machine, and though we're on AWS, we can't use ELB for various reasons. We ended up with a ReplicaSet of haproxies using HostPort, and a separate app that watches for haproxy service changes and updates Route53 round-robin DNS. We're somewhat fortunate that we only have a single service that needs to use the http/https HostPort.

We could have just left our haproxies outside of kubernetes, and may eventually end up doing so if the network performance doesn't meet our needs. As it is, it all works but there are a ton of sidecar services all over the place.
>I feel like if I applied the logic you're using here for that, I could say the same thing about buying food in a store.

Well, a grocery store isn't really harmful in the way Facebook is. Grocery stores aren't tracking you in every other store you go to and selling that information to the highest bidder, they aren't tracking when you're asleep and awake and everything you use on your phone and they aren't designed to keep you addicted and in the store for as many of your waking hours as possible. You could point out that they might do things like put sugary foods in prominent places but you can always exercise self control and go to the healthier choice - but there's no equivalent Facebook "lite:. Even if grocery stores were all of these things it'd be a lot more reasonable to suggest the farmer's market before hunting. Facebook is demonstrably harmful, grocery stores are not.

>I'm curious what era you grew up in - were you around when literally the only way to get a hold of someone was hope they're home for a phone call? It sucked.

I'm 25 years old, and I definitely lived through and remember a lot of time when the internet was not ubiquitous and calling your friends up was the best way to reach them (I remember the rise of texting, too). It really wasn't bad at all.

>Back then, my only friends could be the ones that went to my highschool, or lived in my neighborhood. In a city like Houston, that's quite the restriction - my sister can have friends from all over the city, as far as Pasadena or even Sugarland! Impossible when I was a kid.

I don't use Facebook today and I still have friends around the world. Hell, in two weeks I'm flying out to Tokyo and crashing on a friend's couch for two weeks and seeing a concert - and we managed to arrange that without Facebook.
Author here, I would like to set the record straight.

We do not claim to have an attack on SSDs. The journalist seems to have misunderstood and not read the paper. The attack demonstrated is not on an FPGA or SSD.

The main point this paper makes and demonstrates is that if you can cause corruption of a full block (i.e., completely garble contents of a chosen block), then you can
elevate privileges (with some assumptions, like using ext3). Note that this result does not depend on whether you are using an SSD, a disk, or any other storage for your filesystem.
I watched several of the course videos and was struck by how long it's been since college and I did anything with matrices. I kept pausing to go look up what things meant and meanwhile some of his students were catching errors in real time in class
I could be convinced that P=NP, but that would also mean that Co-NP=P and I just couldn't wrap my mind around that one.

Co-NP just seems so much harder than NP.
Heh. "There's no field more studied!" That's great, but still... I think it's such a bad strategy to be hostile about people who are learning about SJ. If you think that Social Justice is persuasive and morally right, then wouldn't responding to Alex's blog post be a great starting point for an introductory post about SJ?

This is one of my favorite XKCDs: https://xkcd.com/1053/
I appreciate your comment and your decision not to obfuscate your identity. Thank you very much.
The EFF is supporting Dreamhost. Was that what you had in mind?
Early in the rebellion the confederates were determined to establish the legitimacy of their secession, which would include respecting property. The camels were the property of the U.S. government.
It's a fairly important factor, there's quite a few companies I'd be unlikely to work for due to qualms about how they operate. There's others I'd be more inclined to work for because of their mission. Ultimately the work has to be engaging though, I'm unlikely to take a job working on something that doesn't interest me just because I believe in the company's mission.
Netflix has 100M+ subscribers, so this doesn't seem like a problem.
But there's a difference between confusion that arises because something is complex or inconsistent and confusion that arises because people have the wrong mental model.

"I assume that SQL tables are basically just fancy CSV files. Therefore strong invariants are obviously confusing."
Or in the arts, the claque: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claque
Maybe you're not aware that in English there is a difference between saying "You're an idiot." and "This is idiocy."
> Their love and devotion to purely intellectual pursuits should really be appreciated every once in awhile.

It's not purely intellectual pursuit. I am sure, eventually, there will be some applications of it.
UPS and FedEx are "common carriers".
I completely agree. As a programmer, I don't like it. As a user, I love it. I'm often on a crappy data connection or on an older device, and waiting for non-AMP pages to load is ridiculous. I'd usually choose the 10th search result over the 1st if the 10th is the first AMP one. (Provided that it looks suitable for whatever I was Googling.) It's that significant of an effect.
Building more freeways will deliver transportation to more people. HN thinks this is a bad thing because driving is inherently bad, so facilitating more driving is bad.

Fewer believe that people-living-in-homes is bad.
I am male engineer and I often get same treatment. I consider myself quite experienced, often more experienced than people getting preference. What I lack often is ability (and willingness nowaday) to prove myself in the eyes of others. Solution to that - side projects, businesses (which are still being dismissed by majority of people I know,) etc. If anything - it made me more resilient (but also pissed off often :))
Not that I agree with GP, but:

> You are essentially saying that about, or slightly less than, half the US is nazies?

Republicans are only a quarter of Americans. [0]

> you have already lost the fight (in 33 "only" about 30% voted for Hitler)

Weimar Germany had a different electoral and political structures than the US, which directly contributed to the Nazis ability to take power with that little electoral base.

[0] http://www.gallup.com/poll/15370/party-affiliation.aspx
plus acquiring data is trivial compared to devising a good model
I wasn't alluding to magic. And I meant to point out ToE as a formula that is not simple by any means, rarely referred to as God formula.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_everything
The problem is that those assistance & speed-up effects are directly tangible, but the addictiveness, echo chamber, and privacy effects aren't quite so apparent.

It's not a clear net positive just because of those conveniences, and there are no current "solutions" to give as everything you list is far more relevant to network effects than technical feature set. (e.g. in the past, using Facebook made you an outlier, why not just use email lists/myspace/phone calls/etc like everyone else?) A path to an alternative would be through Facebook collapsing (unlikely on their own), another social media site out-marketing Facebook, or establishing your own small networking effect under different assumptions.
I believe it is included in "50 in 50"

https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0312877900/ref=nosim...
Andrew NG is mostly talking about society powered by current techniques, which Musk also likes. Musk's worry is over the potential once/if we've advanced the technology enough (which given current progress and open avenues for research isn't too far-fetched of an expectation).
Fed Starts to Wonder If Cornerstone Inflation Model Still Works
You can use a blog.
Bitcoin is more anonymous than electronic banking.