skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's worth repeating: This is a C++ codebase. It listens to open ports on the public Internet. One single remote exploit and you lose all your money. The author basically threw code over the wall and the open source community where contributors come and go all the time took over. And one single remote exploit is all it takes.

(This causation is perhaps less true today when it is more common to use encrypted or even hardware wallets, but before that everyone just used the standard wallet.)

Yet none of this has happened. The odds of this seems vanishingly unlikely. Then there's the risk of consensus problems that would enable double spending, which is very difficult to test for.

At the same time original Bitcoin was far from perfect. Someone wrote up a summary of important changes Hal Finney did which I can't seem to find. He pointed out a lot of problems which would have made Bitcoin not work at all which resulted in some early redesigns and the removal of many opcodes.

Parts of Bitcoin also went nowhere, notably the marketplace, pay-to-IP and payment channels. The ideas live on as Openbazaar and Lightning but completely redesigned from the Satoshi origins.

In so many ways it is an enigma.
Or an actual use of weapons.
Google AMP is an attempt to racket the web by stealing content and traffic while bribing a poor victim with "increased SEO" factor.

How dare are you, Google? Open and decentralized world wide web is the thing that allowed you to exist in the first place.
What is this "force" you call nature that you are plotting against intellect?
> I am suggesting that the laws are unjust because they cripple a superior service to allow vastly inferior (local) competitors to compete, thus contradicting basic decency.

And I and the EU both disagree with that notion. Monopolists all use the same defence.

> And all that ex post facto, too. Laws that only applies to one player are by definition unjust.

And these laws apply to every company that might reach the same position so again, I'm not sure what point you are making.
I notice there are no pictures
* Photo Editing (https://blog.photoeditorsdk.com/deep-learning-for-photo-edit...)

* Different variants of CNNs

* Business

* Own solution

* Own infrastructure (local training machine + on-device inference)
Just how low level _are_ these graphics?
Some time ago in gamedev subredit someone asked for font with ligatures, I made minimal working sfd file (internal format of fontforge) from which you can generate ttf font:

https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/6nrpvf/how_would_i...

the sfd is at the bottom of the thread (in the middle of thread is how to make custom ligatures). But I agree that FontForge is horrendous (and that comes from someone who made moderately sucessfull (50k downloads) font with it)
"Never Attribute to Malice That Which Is Adequately Explained by Stupidity" or something like that
Free markets allow monopolies. Actually it is the dream of all producers, but in practice they cannot live long. Reason there are monopolies or very high barriers to enter some industries is the state granted rights (eg. IP rights), regulations and restrictions.

Also you are avoiding the actual "social" side of the Socialism. In Socialism, there is always a forced redistribution mechanism in the name of "exploitation of the labor class". Which makes the "free market" impossible.
Just normalize ratings. If the average rating is in the 50th percentile of all ratings on the site, convert the rating to 50%. That way it carries the maximum possible information. If someone rates something 60% that just means it's better than 60% of similar products.

School grading systems serve a completely different purpose and are a terrible comparison.
Don't want to admit? Self-destruction is a pretty common posited solution to the Fermi paradox.
CISO vs. The Board: Putting an End to the Forgotten Voice
I don't mean this to come across as disparaging, but for people saying things along the lines of "Its a hassle, but no moreso than any other requirements we deal with on a daily basis.", I can't believe you have any experience with data recovery at a large company.

A fundamental axiom of data recovery is that you don't really ever "delete" anything, because accidentally losing data is considered such a horrible problem. So virtually all backup systems consider backups fundamentally immutable, because everyone knows how just one small bug in something designed to modify a backup could fuck the whole thing.

I don't really disagree with the spirit of the law, but I think the backups problem to honestly be pretty much a technical impossibility for large companies, it will basically just get ignored (the backups part at least).
> However for .NET, since you can use reflection to load any type in an assembly and call any method dynamically, removing a method is isn't statically called could cause you to fail at runtime.

Indeed. it's not that common, but I would expect it to happen. One example is that many IoC Containers allow you to scan assemblies and register all class + interface pairs that match given rules.

There has to be some safety-hatch to express "yes, I really want to keep that class and its methods. Don't strip them out".

This seems to be documented here: https://github.com/dotnet/core/blob/master/samples/linker-in...
As far as I can tell, its primary purpose is to act as an ingestible food lubricant, designed to smother the taste and texture of what it goes around with as much sugar and salt as they can get into vinegar without a crust of salty sugar spontaneously forming.
We Created “F You” Suits in 10 Days and Made $23,000 in Our First Week
We actually moved from Mattermost to Zulip. Mattermost and Slack work fine for highly specific project teams but when used in an Enterprise for the day to day operation the poor threading solutions in both become a drag. Especially the ability to react outside of a thread created chaos for us.

We've switched to Zulip which has a real nice messaging threading model. For us it was really a productivity saver and I really recommend anyone to try Zulip!
MakeMKV Website has been suspended?
Cheapest Cloud Server
F(x) Data Cloud is the company based on OpenStack to provide the public Cloud Services at the cheapest prices starting at $1.99/Month.
https://fxdata.cloud
> little benefit to breast milk over formula

Apart from shared immunity during the first few feeds. Also being better for the babies development.

> definitely formula is better when the mother is malnourished.

In cases where the mother can't afford food it send a little abusive to also try to sell her formula.

The only reason not the breastfeed is if you can't. But it is not as easy as it looks so we should not judge mothers either way.
Impressive. I tried it on a couple comments in the thread as well as paragraphs from news sources, translating English<->Polish and back, and it indeed produces much more readable (I might even say: natural) translations, than Google Translate.
It's already a combination of sweet and savory snacks.

Personally, what I don't like are the kits where you have to mix things with little cups of water and such. They're never satisfying, and I think they include too many of them.
Also you just aren't the demographic for zootopia. If you have kids then it probably is worth buying and they will watch it many times. There are so many genres of films, it's best to compare within a single genre and not between.
Show HN: Beeem: Drag-n-drop a mobile website in 2 minutes
You're right that Chinese "confections" aren't sweet, at least in the way westerners expect. But they have a spectacular range of flavors and textures.
You make it sound as though the majority of Facebook users were making a conscious decision to trade personal information, whereas the usual thought process is "it's free! and everyone's doing it!".
That's not true at all. Yes, you can say that the theory of evolution can't predict what man will be like in the year One Million or other pop culture ideas of how evolution works, but you can make the same claim about physics -- you can't predict what a given particle will be doing then either.

But there is lots of predictive power in evolutionary theory. The core of modern evolutionary theory is population genetics which is as mathematical as physics and can make predictions of whether certain alleles will increase or decrease in a population, for example.
Usually entrepreneurs enter a market because they find current solutions deficient and they have a novel or exciting way to solve a problem.

Flock isn’t solving a problem. It’s just a me-too product — almost a copycat built just to cash in. Utterly uninspiring. “But it’s better!” They will exclaim. Perhaps. But if it is better, it is only marginally so. I can’t imagine any 10x innovation they have developed. Slight business model tweaks aren’t innovation. A super sales team isn’t an innovation. Nothing in the article even suggests they have done anything special to differentiate their product.

The the nonsense about the same clothes every day is just a Jobs and Zuck affectation. It’s completely drole. Even if you did wear a daily uniform, it isn’t worth mentioning in a Bloomberg piece. It’s like saying your office has a Nepresso machine. Big deal. I wear the same clothes every day but I’m not having my PR person mention it in interviews — it’s mundane. Nobody gives a shit unless you are some uneducated villager than somehow things such habits are relevant. It wad a bit interesting when Jobs did it in the late 1990s, but even then, it was a personal thing and not something Apple PR wrote about.

The bit about identical offices down to the last detail; just nonsense, just building an image of “quirky productivity monk” rather than “visionary tech leader.” As far as the custom desk built into the car; not even the President of the United States has that in his limos. If you are in the car long enough to actually need a desk, that’s a bit absurd or your day is badly organized. An actual desk? How about a fax machine too? They are “billionaires” — one would think their commute wouldn’t be that significant.

I don’t know these brothers and I am sure they are perfectly nice and smart people, but this emphasis on being hyper productive is just weird.

The photo with the founder in the back of what appears to be a Bentley just reeks of Rich Kids of Instagram but targeted to common people in order to protect an air of respectability and credibility. But to me it seems like the entrepreneurial equivalent of a photo of a solid gold toilet.
Get some pocket money by deceiving affiliates
Hi Guys!

In the following I'll show you how you can easily earn some pocket money without much effort.

First step:
Sign up on: http://affiliates.crakrevenue.com/registration?r=5567

Second step:
Create a freemail account. Setting up an AutoFill function could be useful, 'cause you're gonna create a lot of Freemail Accounts. But don't use common Trashmail Providers, that's too conspicuous. If they figure it out you get banned.

Third step:
Open your Smartlink from Crakrevenue and register on the appearing page.

Now you should have earned about 1 - 3 $ :)

Repeat these steps and make some pocket money. You probably should use different IP adresses. ZenMate is very suitable for this purpose.
Yes, they should use modern kernels but that has not happened yet. I am appalled by the practice of keeping customers on old software and sometimes even without proper security patches.

I hope regulators (EU in particular) will act on this and require manufacturers to provide support for products for a reasonable amount of time.

Devices should be clearly labelled with a "best before" date, until which the vendors should provide (at least) security updates. Right now the situation is unbearable, you buy a phone for $200 to $700 and you don't know how long it is good for. A technically oriented or security minded person can deal with the situation but almost everyone has a smartphone. Billions of unsecure devices out there isn't good for anyone.

It shouldn't be unreasonable to assume that a smartphone should be good for 5+ years.
From the FAQ: "Is Sarahah a hacker?!
Sarahah doesn't steal data but websites and apps impersonating Sarahah could do that". Just weird. Why would a 'personal suggestion box' app need your contacts anyway apart from the developer's own dastardly plans? It seems they are sent in the clear as well. I think this upsets me the most. How did she expect to get away with it?
Mystery surrounds malware attack that forced German state parliament offline
Strangely, Patricia's Green is now fully fleshed out with paths and green (at least on iOS 11b8.)
Obviously, you can't keep insisting on immutable backups. Instead, you'll have to modify a single key in the backup file to become invalid.

This does make your backups slightly less reliable, because it's one more thing that touches them, but if you do a sane implementation and exhaustively test it, the risk is manageable.

I'm also not sure you really need to keep that many backups of this file. Replicate it and make sure you can roll back when your replication is borked, but if you really need to restore your database from months ago, using a newer list of encryption keys shouldn't be a problem.
Startup founders, is your CAC under control?
Since you were around in the early days, how did you get involved with Bitcoin and how did Satoshi get people interested in it since he was anonymous and did not have any social media following or email list?

It's incredible that he has managed to stay anonymous for so long, how on earth did he manage to do that?

Any thoughts on the scaling debate?
So, to clarify, if I self-host services (e.g. XMPP or mail or Git repos) and I give user accounts to my friends (whom, like me, live in the EU) for free, I'm not subject to GDPR because I'm not a business?
Ask HN: What novel and smart growth hacks have you seen recently?
The work of Karl Popper suggests than human knowledge also progresses in an evolutionary manner, by conjecture and refutation. So something resembling natural selection must be going on in our brains.

http://www.the-rathouse.com/CRContents.html
In medicine it's called the Cochrane Library
HipChat is a much better and cheaper alternative to Slack.
yeah, not been updated in some time, but it earns him buckets of traffic.

some of the stuff on there is outdated. for example flux is now pretty redundant on Windows 10 because of the new "Night Light" feature
With our luck it will turn out to just be an alien microwave.
'Bucurestii lui Caragiale'
Yes, this is a PR piece.

But no, WhatsApp, for me - and many of my colleagues, is a complete no-no for professional communication. I have refused to join the team group many times and I am unapologetic about it. While I really don't find Slack much useful, to be honest is's another source of distraction, I definitely see its use case in a professional set up unlike WhatsApp.
Maybe the people saying that js is insecure were refering to the state of crypto on js. Like random number generation etc.
All scientific theories should have predictive powers, otherwise they wouldn't be falsifiable, and, as such, not science.

Sometimes, as with your example, it's less obvious, but say, if a new species is discovered, evolution predicts there will be genetic differences to its closest cousin or ancestor and that the differences will be related to its fitness to thrive within a particular environment.

Also note that "predictive" doesn't need to be about future events. It can also mean new discoveries within existing records (like a feathered dinosaur).
Moneygram?
Yet it took up all these years until clang for anyone to start taking static analysis seriously in C

In some circles maybe, but some industries have decades of experience applying static analysers to their C code, and companies have been selling static analysers throughout.
I puked at the countless clothing references. Just another paid for article which didn't even showcase the tiniest detail of Flock or whatever the hell it is.
The truth isn't obvious. In the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, it was 'obvious' to many people including doctors that bottle feeding with evaporated milk or formula milk was more scientific, more hygienic, and better all round.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2684040/

>By the 1940s and 1950s, physicians and consumers regarded the use of formula as a well known, popular, and safe substitute for breastmilk. Consequently, breastfeeding experienced a steady decline until the 1970s (Fomon, 2001)
Why on earth would they think invoking a new interpreter each time someone hits "tab" would do anything except perform suboptimally?
The dunning-kruger effect: how your level of competence affects self-confidence
Spambot: 711M targeted by Ursnif, a really vicious malware mails
GTFO out of HN you paid scums.
> If they require kernel X, and a manufacturer doesn't support it, they'll either get their shit together, or they'll get left behind.

This leaves Google with a version of Android that does not run on anything. There are less than a handful of relevant SoM manufacturers that are capable of delivering consumer grade SoMs capable of running hardware accelerated Android; Google can not alienate these.
Cool. 88 more pages of functional specs on every project.
Would there be a way to get it to work with App Engine?
Thumbs up for Fusion 360 - for a fully fledged production ready CAD/CAM package you can't beat the price, and it's easy to get starting.
> It all boils down to companies simply don't believe the fines will be enforced given just how expensive the fines are.

It sounds like a goldmine for the EU government. If they install a group of people chasing for noncompliant companies, they will pay for themselves.
It was exactly like that, man. Dirt cheap hardware of these days could view web easily. The same is not true for today. Maybe you worked through specific areas or simply was tired to death and now deromanticizing it, because I clearly remember when things went downhill in general.
Levels?

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.StackOverflowError
at com.ycombinator.news.Comment.reply(Comment.java:480)
Are we talking about automatic type inference then?

Otherwise you'll still have to work out each type before it becomes "automatic". Which is not entirely dissimilar from working out a test suite.
The Agile Transition: Scrum Master vs. Project Manager
Building Collapse in Ebute Metta This Morning – ANKAURSPEAKS
Buddy of mine started a whole business around the rules regarsing shipping live frogs.

Even wrote a book about his adventures: http://www.onemillionfrogs.com/
Agreed about scikit-learn. Anecdotally I've found that most "deep learning" and "big data" problems I see in industry could be trivially solved using scikit-learn on a reasonably powerful laptop.

Also if you want to really understand neural networks I can recommend Andrew Ng's new deep learning course on Coursea. You start with deriving the underlying math and implementing a simple (but fully functional) neural network using just basic numpy, so that when you get to tensor flow and the latest cutting edge techniques you actually understand what's happening under the hood and how things actually work.
A ₹1 Crore Fund to Support Open Source Projects in India
Fail Fast, Fail Often: Can Losing Help You Win?
Does it support inline code formatting yet? It has only been years since that feature has been requested. Have they fixed the performance problems? How about notifications across devices?

Obviously “better” is subjective, but other than HipChat being installable in premise, Slack wins in terms f features that actually work.

I know of a really large company not far from San Jose that uses HipChat for the single reason that it’s on premise despite a number of teams that are practically begging Slack to create an on premise version.

I don’t know a lot of people that actually want HipChat. It usually used because it’s an afterthought add-on to all of the other Atlassian stuff.
Nevertheless, a 4% fine is very low, given the low frequency of fining. Tech firm margins are much larger than this; so while it's clearly unethical to do so, it may be more profitable to simply accept the fines as a kind of tax for as long as possible, and to continue to profit from all that data until things get really dire. In actuality; a firm wouldn't need to choose quite so starkly to flaunt the law; simply failing to invest and dragging your feet looking for impossible have-it-all solutions might well be enough to get away with a few fines until you really try to get your act together.

If you will; it's the difference between the VW approach and those of (as it appears anyhow) all the other carmakers. They're all cheating; most simply were wise enough to avoid doing so explicitly.

Data protection is also harder to enforce than emissions; and just look at how laughably incompetent emissions enforcement is to get an idea of how seriously you're likely to get caught if you happen to collect too much private information.

I expect the same here as in emissions: no real compliance for years (if not decades), and when enforcement comes, it won't be the regulator that actually catches even egregious wrong-doing. I mean; the high-profile players will play lip-service of course, but that's it.
Could you really write a short book -- given this happens to be this complicated? :)
This has to be one of the best self started little projects I've seen that has the biggest throw back to my childhood growing up when polaroid cameras were popular.
Yes, if you capture IPs/anonymous user IDs, perhaps user agents etc.
Simple Mathematical Description of Classification in Machine Learning
Evolution is probably the wrong example. I think a better example would be something like inflationary cosmology.
Moved from Perth to Melbourne last year with a nice 30% bump but rent is significantly more expensive here and it takes a lot longer to commute to the city.
The Dirty Truth About Hand Dryers
Do you use it in the context of technical documentation? Does it make using Docbook a bearable experience?
Access and hijacks are two different terms, one implies to use and the other implies to sell customer data. What the article says that the app accesses contacts for a future 'find your friend' feature.

What really bothers me is when the author says ' it’s possible Sarahah has harvested hundreds of millions of names, phone numbers, and email addresses ". I believe I remember Snapchat and other social media apps done before.

What Sarahah should have done is to communicate with their users about what their data and how they plan their security (being an anonymous messaging platform). But, let's not forget how Snapchat dealt with their security and data at its rise.
A Manifesto Against the Enemies of Modernity
Actually when Let's Encrypt will provide free wildcard in early 2018 the later will be much more easier !
interesting points, thanks. also thanks for your contributions to the project.

i wonder if stylometry could be (was?) applied to C++ code to have better evidence about authorship?
Totaling up the public infrastructure costs of one specific user of resources is non-trivial. What are the additional road repair costs? How much extra money and time do local firefighters spend to be trained on how to deal with data centers?
For Amazon (and equally large companies) I usually tempted to put the proverb "don't attribute to malice which is adequately explained by stupidity" on its head. There's definitely a financial reason behind this.
Caterpillar Inc. (CAT) Lands $663M Pentagon Deal
I'm in UK. You should be an employee if you work in a single company for 2+ years. Contractors often only work in 6-12 month contracts so you are not definitely an employee if you only come to work on a project for 6 months and then go work somewhere else.