skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>developers may prefer to strictly verify X.509 certificates, but websurfers want that page data.

I categorize that scenario in a different bucket because novice users don't understand the security implications of broken TLS. So, the users don't want that data but they don't know it. The developers in this case are looking out for the user. (Same security situation as developers helping the user by restricting cross-site scripting or address bar hijacking.)

To me, that's not the same as the forgiving parsers of HTML and PDF. Whether the HTML is missing </p> closing tags like this:

<p>This is paragraph 1.
<p>This is paragraph 2.

Or is 100% compliant like this:

<p>This is paragraph 1.</p>
<p>This is paragraph 2.</p>

... the websurfer just wants the page rendered in both cases.
This is a great idea, and something I always wished existed - kudos! Seems like there's some great opportunities for SEO and advertising here as well - keep rocking!
Anybody else seen a massive increase in the latency of graphical Emacs on recent versions of OS X? Please don't reply if you only ever use Emacs inside a terminal emulator: I'm very much attached to my mouse.

The latency problem began when I upgrade from 10.8 to 10.11. (I use Mitsuharu Emacs, but would be stunned if the problem were absent from plain-FSF Emacs.)
Also looking at it for Madrid:

https://championtraveler.com/dates/best-time-to-visit-madrid...

It's completely wrong. Highs of 22c in August? Try 40c!

If you can fix the data then this will be super useful!

Also, maybe it would be a good idea to let people add their own tips (that people can then vote up/down), because it may be useful to know, for example, that in August in Madrid most bars, restaurants and shops are closed as everyone flees to the coast.
Looks like only thing that changes is label name which doesn't matter.
I suspect Active Directory integration might make this actually have legs. Especially in the educational industry.
It was called Chivalry, and it was not part of King's Quest. It was like a board game and you had to roll the die or spin the wheel to advance a certain number of spaces. Each space you could land on had a different minigame.
Do Comcast throttle torrents for you? Perhaps the traffic to rsync in some way looks like torrents to them. Or like spam/DOS or something like that. Or like a competitor. The things I've read about Comcast are not pretty, alas.
This is indeed a tragedy, because it could have been easily avoided by including LCG in microbenchmarks. LCG is less than ten lines, so even for very short microbenchmarks including RNG is very feasible. Alas, I guess such reasonable people don't write microbenchmarks in the first place.
Have you looked at the search?

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byPopularity&prefix=false&page=...
GNO/ME – Unix for the Apple IIgs
Seeing down votes but no comments? This is why Reddit beats HN in every single way.
Professor O'Neill (mentioned in the article) has written a PRNG [1]. The jury is still out on how powerful it is in general. There continue to be fights between what it means to be random for cryptographic purposes vs. numerical analysis purposes.

That said, the PDF on that site that serves as a writeup for PCG contains a nice discussion of the links between the size of the state held and the strength of the algorithm, including a discussion of the state of the art for crypto- and non-crypto- PRNGs.

[1] http://www.pcg-random.org/
Lots of seeds remain viable for more than 2 years.
No, one thing that has been a partial remedy is that the token sale creators give the new token to the people that sent money to the wrong address anyway. It isn't really dilution to the founders so its easy to remedy.

Case in point, Enigma was trying to raise $50,000,000 which they haven't even initiated yet. This was only going to result in 50% of the tokens in the hands of the public. So buyers would have new tokens and trade that amongst themselves and other people, Enigma would have $50m a lot of that for the founders, and Enigma would also have the other Enigma tokens which would also be valued at $50m which they could use for rewards or selling into the market in the future, all depends on how the market grows.

The hackers get their $500k bug bounty and would have to have equally as bad OPSEC to get caught.

The deterrents aren't really there right now, it isn't necessarily a problem, I don't really think the state is necessary here and I wouldn't want them to use my pooled resources on this given the cost of their investigations.
Has the NR ever made money? It seems that for the first ninety or so years it was owned by people who had made their money elsewhere and (I infer) at best broke even.
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Your suggestion is effectively a suggestion that anyone who wants to not implicitly agree to such terms simply doesn't participate in the developed world.

This makes zero sense. It's on par with saying "dude just turn off javascript".

Is the answer to political corruption buying a boat and taking refuge in the pacific ocean, or is actually correcting the problem?
The problem is that there are two very different contexts: users and developers. If a developer is testing their new program by having it interface with your program, you want to be strict in what you accept; this enables them to make their program strict in what it emits, and helps bugs surface early. But if an end-user is hooking your program up to some other program, then you want to be generous in what you'll accept, so that it'll work.

Compilers solve this by having an intermediate levels of strictness: warnings, which a developer who's providing input to the compiler is expected to fix, but which an end-user doesn't have to. This captures the benefits of both strict and lax input checking.

It helps to make similar distinctions in other contexts, whether that's having an explicit notion of "warnings", or just putting messages in log-file output. It also helps if a format has a well-known extra-strict checker around, which developers can test their programs' output on.
This is similar to Yarrow / Fortuna (internal state is a counter, output is the hash of the state) so I'm guessing it's not breakable, at least not trivially.
I'm not sure it would be worth the extra clutter

Not likely. I mean, for like 99% the current parameters are ok, stuff is easy to use, why bother changing it :]

are you aware of any dataset that would help locate rare species

Not directly but there's sites like observation.org, not sure if they have APIs. Be warned though: it's a lot of information because there are so many species so making crawling through that handy and useful would require quite the interface.
Heads-up for anyone considering IDrive — there's a "90% off" welcome promotion for the first year that's not really obvious on their website: https://www.idrive.com/idrive/signup/el/welcome90
> The mushroom philosophy of management: keep 'em in the dark, feed 'em shit, and watch things grow.
Oh the irony. At my last job, we setup 3-4 salesperson's laptops on a CrashPlan consumer account. Once we hit the storage limit, we'd buy another account, and then add a couple more laptops to it. It was marginally cheaper than buying the small business plan and WAY less of a headache.

It was such a shortsighted way of setting things up and a pain to administer. We're talking $10/month for salespeople that are paid 6 digit salaries.

They're going to have to migrate now.
The amazing thing about Twitter is even though it really is publish/subscribe for celebrities, many people following celebrity feeds feel like it's two-way communication.

Which is crazy.
Your comment gives me an idea: perhaps YC should make all the video pitches public when their companies get funded. It would be both entertaining an educative
This may be a dumb question, but were all the dinosaurs reptilian and avian? Were there no mammalian dinosaurs pre-66M years ago? like rodents?
on reading experience of their Keyword blog: Absolutely agree it is great to read it on mobile. However, I subscribe to 'Official Google Blog' email updates and the reading experience of these blog posts is terrible on Desktop and mobile email both. Sometimes the pictures are not scaled-to-fit in email and need to scroll endlessly on horizontal side. Also the text size is too small when reading the email on Gmail Android app. Something Google needs to work on how to display their own blog newsletters on email.
The hoarding problem source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/francescoppola/2017/07/26/the-f...
The search needs some work :) Sadly it is not popularity-based at all.
Please do check:
https://unfix.org/projects/chromeos-openvpn-onc/

which is a WebUI thingy I wrote to solve exactly that problem.

[disclaimer: "advertising" tool I wrote]
I've always had the belief that the Microsoft juggernaut would continue its slow decline in relevance as mobile and web devices removed the need for Windows, and the improvement of apps like Google Docs, OpenOffice, etc. would eat away at Office from the other side.

But I really think now we're approaching the point where their fall might happen swiftly. Chromebooks are fine for the majority of corporate users. And if they catch on, there is no need for any of the Active Directory / Azure tie-ons that MS has been hoping would pull enterprise customers towards Azure, Office 365, and all the rest.

And even if Microsoft can convince customers to stay, they simply won't be able to charge the same prices they've enjoyed for decades now with the overpriced Office, Server, and Client access licenses.

And once an enterprise moves away from Active Directory and Office, I don't see any benefit of using the very expensive Sharepoint, Outlook, OneDrive, and other apps that have always been overpriced, but worth it as they integrated well together and saved companies more money via lower IT costs.
Norway’s Sovereign-Wealth Fund Closes in on $1 Trillion Valuation
War was prevalent in primitive societies as well, it hardly appeared with currency. Currency and in a more general way, an organized society makes you better at waging war, hence their success. If anything primitive societies' wars were bloodier compared to the population base.
As for crime and law enforcement, it's the same, people have killed for some gold or cows since eons.

I still fail to see how bitcoins would let us get rid of either crime or war, nor downsize the army or LEOs.
Same for the "conventional power politics", it's hardly a new thing, put a 100 random people on a island and you'll see the same mechanisms at play.
Treating video bits differently from image and text bits is exactly a net neutrality issue, it’s content-based filtering
I don't think they are valid in most jurisdictions, explicit consent is required.
So no carrier anywhere offers true unlimited? It all comes with some form of slowdowns, either right off the bat or at certain usage thresholds, and throttles video to some arbitrary max resolution?
The fact that it's been done is some evidence that it's required. If it weren't, it's hard to imagine why limited resources would be wasted on it!

Almost every modern device running a browser has multiple cores, and that trend is almost certainly going to increase – so it definitely feels like allowing a core part of the web platform to expand across cores will be beneficial.
You can search HN for other comments from the mods regarding the algorithm, but the short answer is that ranking is not a simple, transparent algorithm, nor is it independent of mod input. Ranking is dependent on time, commenting rate, user upvotes and flags (which don't result in a '[flagged]' tag until a threshold is reached), as well as mod input. Too much commenting activity can trigger the "overheated discussion detector", which can push a post down. Given that this has 213 upvotes and 319 comments (at the time of this posting), I'd say the latter is likely, though it's hard to say.

In my experience, the quickest, most reliable way to contact the mods is via the Contact link in the footer. You might want to try that as well if you're looking for an expedient response.
There were proto-mammals then, similar to possums.
https://www.thoughtco.com/the-first-mammals-1093311
There is a calculator on this web page:

https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage-pricing.html
(Scroll down to "B2 Cost Calculator")

If you type in the size of your hard drive, that will be the "predictable bill" you will get each day.
IT departments tend to exist in two states: pre-a-hole, and a-hole. The state transition is triggered by some screw up that may or may not be their fault but they take the blame for.
https://github.com/badaix/snapcast/blob/master/README.md

Not a solution, but snapcast is a useful part of the puzzle for the actual streaming and multiroom sync.
Twitter's Trust and Safety Council is a little bit SJW, but mostly it's there to keep celebrities from being bothered so much they stop tweeting. You can be as mean as you want to a nobody, but tweet something even a little bit derogatory to a celebrity and your account is history.
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This tool doesn’t know about winter destinations. Enter Salt Lake City or Denver.
As incredible as it sounds, when I was 12 I did not have "the ability to immediately have police or paramedics" and by some great miracle, I seem to have survived into my 40s! And the country was actually a much more dangerous place then than it is now, given violent crime statistics. I would leave my house at the crack of dawn, ride my bicycle for miles, and return home for lunch and then when it got dark. All without a mobile phone. I know, totally insane, right?
As there is a Linux kernel underneath, basically anything could in theory work; but non-standard options require 'developer mode' operation which kinda destroys the security model of ChromeOS.

Android apps (on some models of the laptops) might work though.

Having support for Wireguard would be pretty neat, but afaik not possible yet.

OpenVPN works quite fine for my use cases up to now.
How can we make Tasers safer?
I saw this article today on Reuters, which talks about incidents in which an individual died during or following a police response when the police used a Taser to subdue the individual. The article asserted that mentally ill individuals, frequent drug users, pregnant women, and individuals with heart problems are all at higher risk for serious injury following a Taser shock. Another cause of serious injury following Taser deployment is trauma resulting from the subject falling and hitting the ground.

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-taser-911/>Reuters

Further reading about how Tasers work and affect the body here:
https://spectrum.ieee.org/consumer-electronics/gadgets/how-a-taser-works

So, to prevent needless deaths and give police an even better tool, how can we make Tasers safer?

My thought is that the shock of the Taser could be improved by tailoring it to the recipient of the shock and the location of the probes, using computer control. The device could decrease the power of the shock for at-risk groups or when the probes are close to the heart. The device could also increase the power for larger subjects, or those who are more resilient. If the device detects that a Taser shock could be lethal to the subject, it could emit a warning of some sort, allowing the user to proceed or abort the shock.

In this line of thinking, would it be possible to use the Taser probes as sensors to briefly analyze the subject? The probes would need to have good contact with the subject to get any results. And in most cases this analysis would have to be very quick, I would say 1 second or less. Would useful information be gained from such an analysis? Many factors, such as mental illness, cannot be assessed this way. But perhaps others, like proximity to heart, can be? Perhaps the device can determine the distance to the heart based on the perceived strength of the electrical signals the heart generates?

Any other ideas for making Tasers safer?
https://blog.mozvr.com/webvr-daydream-support-lands-in-servo... for one, though that doesn't do a very good job of using Servo as a separate module.

I can't seem to find the original example I'm thinking of that showed how to build an Android application (using cargo-apk) that embedded Servo.
Perhaps GP is trying to say, that, in contrast to "just a blog", it's a blog with really good, technical content. This makes IMHO a great difference, since basically anyone can "just write a blog" with buzzwords bingo, but to write a competent, high-quality, relevant, technical blog, is really hard and takes time to do properly. Doing so might mean that they care for their product, that little extra love. That in itself is marketing yes, but also an indicator of pride, which in itself _might_ indicate a well-greased machine with lots of love spent on it.

I'm a bit partial though, as that fits us quite well in what we are doing at our place.
If it's not UL listed, you're getting bupkis from insurance if it catches fire. As simple as that.
Yes, it's a coincidence, that's why I find it curious :)
Not to mention that Pica is an eating disorder where you eat dirt and other assorted things.
TL;DR: Can we use the probes of a Taser to briefly analyze each individual, via a smarter Taser device, then tailor the shock with computer control to induce muscle paralysis but not cause serious injury?

Any other ideas for improving the safety and efficacy of Tasers?
My thought is that you understand the 'system' better and if you can do that you will probably be a more efficient programmer for them.
People who consider words to be violence aren't worth paying attention to, particularly since these are the same people who think violence in the service of their own ideology is speech.
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The problem here is that, for certain types of data, statistics obtained exclusively from users who opt-in to data collection aren't very useful because they're heavily biased in favor of the type of user likely to opt-in (which often isn't very well representative of the average user).
Waterlooo based startup. Maybe you can find an older pitch online searching for Velocity fund. I think it's a major from their first direction though :/
>Because we are programmed to do everything to make sure we survive and our children survive.

Makes sense at first, but I don't think we are. I see other cultures (including western ones), and even the US at 70s and earlier, that don't do the same "everything" at all.

I think what we are, in some countries, is conditioned by hysterical media and hysterical society, to over-protect our children to the point of social pathology.
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That's very surprising, perhaps a compiler bug? Does it perform any differently?

Just tried gcc 7.1, both post and pre-increment compile identically.
>> Unlimited mobile hotspot, but hotspot speeds are capped at a maximum of 600kbps

I see this as a bright spot - unlimited hotspot is great, 6mb isn't 'fast' but it's enough to be usable. And the other plan has the first 15GB on LTE speed.
Continuous Discussions (#c9d9) Podcast, Episode 76: Container Orchestration
No, my torrents routinely saturate my connection. It's definitely rsync.net. In the past they have tweaked their settings and been able to get it to work, but it has never stuck.
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They're traffic shaping to certain MBps, not re-encoding according to some of the articles, so a vpn wouldn't help depending on how they detect "streaming video".
"Note also that Bitdefender’s engine is licensed to many different anti-virus vendors, all of which could be affected by this bug."
1. Offer a service

2. The enterprise is skittish to adopt because there's no support, so when users get locked out, they often have no recourse, which is bad for business

3. Address this—fill in the missing piece and introduce support

4. People react as if you didn't just announce you would be offering a solution to the very thing they're complaining about
*

I reiterate a former reply to this exact article.

I am unbribed. I suspect this is an example of Troll Science for economists.

1. The question becomes: if it is economical then why isn't it the case from the start. Why do nations exist? Why do they have borders?

What of the question posed by a famous economist: why do corporations exist? Why not a market filled with nothing but traders? The answer isn't obvious but there is an answer. Perhaps free movement has similar invisible overheads that are being conveniently ignored.

2. Ignoring what I've said above for a moment. Let us suppose that free movement made us richer. Then nations would be competing, offering incentives to all.

They do not. Only to a tiny percentage of the population with obviously valuable skills or assets. That implies that there is a very high price before externalities are sufficiently alleviated. It at least means governments think that is so for whatever reason.

3. Within nations we have rich and poor zipcodes. It is true that workers from poor neighbourhoods travel to richer ones for work, it is basic time/money arbitrage. Yet few people think of installing poorer workers in richer neighbourhoods as a means to improve the economy. Why is that?
> I still mind paying taxes and always will

Fair enough.

> anyone who doesn't is a doormat.

Don't be ridiculous. Can you really not imagine any other reason for a rational person to approve of government programs, at least in principle?
They're separate apps, not sure why you don't get them from messenger.

I've left that one's notification access open because at least for now it only uses them for someone sending me a message. Fingers cross they don't move the "SOMEBODY JUST WENT LIVE WITH VIDEO!!!!" over to that.
Well, that's not 6Mb. It's 600Kbps == 0.6Mbps
New FCC refers to the party switch in the WH changing the FCC voting commissioner makeup from 3D-2R nominees to 2D-3R.

The old plans and the new plans both defined “unlimited” as a number of GB of full speed which could degrade after so much use, so that’s never been at issue. That was a usage plan but the network traffic was not treated differently (or wasn’t supposed to be). Now the plans also perform content-based network degradation at all times, regardless of data usage, which is a shot at net neutrality for sure.
Seconded, I'm regularly opening FDE these days and never noticed anything odd on my mac.
How do you go about marketing this? I would imagine advertising on driver forums. I'm curious if pitching in the car would work, but I wonder if you would get bad reviews.
While login happens with a Google account, guest logins are possible.

The advice given typically is to have a separate account for the device 'ownership', that way, even if your main account gets blocked you still have access to it.

See for instance this blog article which talks about that:
https://blog.lessonslearned.org/building-a-more-secure-devel...

'factory resetting' a device is easy too so that you can get rid of the device in a nice pristine state...
I'm amazed that no one in this thread has yet mentioned Waterfox as an alternative - it uses Firefox as a base and then strips out telemetry, "pocket", and more: https://www.waterfoxproject.org/
> So far it doesn't look like they're keeping the free peer-to-peer backups, which I was using for the less important computers, so this would more than double the price if I went for the SB plans.

Yeah, it seems that not only would the peer-to-peer backup process stop working, the already-backed-up files would be rendered useless too.

Relying on user accounts and "backup codes" stored on CrashPlan's servers sounds like it was an additional point of failure.
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