skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Project Zero is exclusively concerned with security: when they say "bug" they mean "security bug"; when they say "fuzz" they mean "fuzz with an intent to find exploitable security vulnerabilities", etc.

IMO this restricted sense of "bug" is clear from the second sentence of the article ("in the recent years the popularity of those kinds of bugs in targeted attacks has somewhat fallen in favor of Flash (which allows for cross-browser exploits) and JavaScript engine bugs (which often result in very powerful exploitation primitives)"). Even the first sentence becomes questionable if we interpret "bugs" more broadly (Historically, DOM engines have been one of the largest sources of web browser bugs); the example given is a CVE, etc.

So IMO I wouldn't call it the fine print. And in this context, the remarks about MemGC also make sense (Microsoft considers these bugs strongly mitigated by MemGC and I agree with that assessment […] useful mitigation that results in a clear positive real-world impact) — "mitigation" is the term for something makes it hard to exploit a [security] bug, not something that makes the bug go away.

A similar question about general bugs (as in "the last bug in TeX…") would be very interesting, but I don't know if we have a way of measuring it.
A cynical view would be that the schools are just preparing those kids for the world ahead -- where the same rules apply (e.g., Bailouts)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novarupta link for the lazy
This is awesome, I really like the interactive components. Great work!
To use anything that's less symmetrical than a sphere as shrapnel, the munition must be designed to propel the shrapnel facing exactly one specific angle, because the shrapnel will have a bigger impact profile at any other angle. Ball bearings do not require such considerations.
Interesting premise (the info bottleneck) and a well written (long) article.

I particularly enjoy attempts to understand basic black box mechanisms in the space of learning or cognition.
Thieves are using force or fraud, and that's obviously wrong.

I agree that we should include the negative externalities in any product, and that can be done by adding taxes to products. And that we should have a healthy civil court system. And I agree that companies often get to settle for far too little. But the way you phrased your previous comment was _really_ putting the carriage before the horse.
Not OP - but you get that error in Microsoft Edge on windows 10. Demo works on Internet Explorer 11 on windows (but without map option using Crime in LA example) and in Edge all the demos appear to run, map and graphs get populated etc, then page looses the db connection.
How do you figure that that's what their website indicates? The site you linked says that backups are encrypted in transit and on the server and they specifically say that the encryption is end-to-end so "only you can access your information, and only on devices where you’re signed in to iCloud. No one else, not even Apple, can access end-to-end encrypted information." That's quoted right from the page you posted.
Liberty goes open
Jigsaw was approved in the second ballot.
ASAP Rocky Album Leak
Heaven forbid his favorite lost. Don't worry, they'll censor it next time around.
The Pine A64 board was a 2015 Kickstarter. The Pinebook was announced November 2016, and apparently starting shipping last April. The "you order it" step sounds a little convoluted, though. You sign up to their waiting list, and when they've got a production slot for you, they ask for Paypal information, your address, etc. You'll apparently receive the device a short time after the production date.
That's a very fair point, that is probably just as "real" as it is "cynical."
Then who insures the insurers? Are insurances the next "too big to fail" type of companies?
Super fun thought experiment and project! Did you simulate n-body gravity, or just the Earth's? I couldn't tell from the project page or comments.

My son just asked me yesterday what would happen if the moon went away, and he hasn't even read any Stephenson yet.

Good question - another side to this though experiment! What happens if tides cease to exist? Could that cause enough change in the oceans or weather to pose a threat to life on earth? What if animals can't hunt at night anymore? What else do we rely on the moon for?
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Nice appeal to authority you got there.
> long, healthy lives.

Whose? Most people seem to be dying of cancer at 50 these days.
you can also use inline assembly on certain platforms. (last i checked anyways)
Either way, the code must follow some sort of conventions or use patterns -- and if you invent your own conventions other people are less likely to understand them. Although if no one ever invented their own conventions we'd never innovate. I just think people should at least try out a bunch of frameworks before deciding they want to make one.
3) I was under the impression that if he passed while still pending appeal, he technically became "innocent." Meaning that the money owed to him by the Patriots would go to his family. I've heard the theory, never heard it verified though.
It is incredible to see that prestigious academic institutions have to bend over instead of promote true meritrocacy. Not only this further the notion that the well offs are getting an edge in everything but also, adding insult to injury, no matter how hard you work, there is no way you can win this game by meritocratic means.
That sounds utterly terrifying. I'm surprised you still recommend the visit!
From the article:

> JDK 9 downloads are larger than JDK 8 downloads because they include JMOD files so that you can create custom run-time images. To learn about JMOD files see the Project Jigsaw Quick-Start Guide and JEP 282.
"another heretic thought"

I'm curious why you keep presenting your opinions as extreme outliers when they aren't particularly outside mainstream scientific thought?
I think your last statement only holds true if the _only_ people coming out of Harvard that have any chance in society are those with straight A's. I'd argue that anyone at the school is already "winning this game."
Yes. Jigsaw was approved with some voters abstaining. https://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/results?id=6050
Citus seems really cool (this is not a critique of the product), but probably not something I’d use. They seem to be very close in feature set to bigquery, and if I have to choose between the two bigquery wins for me. There are definitely situations where citus is a better solution, but I think the scenarios where I could need a scale out analytics platform, I’d choose BQ. Still, very supportive of what they are doing at Citus. It’s great.
> But most of my friends i met in this system ended up finding a job, despite being promised permanent "universal income".

So this experience stands against one of the most common arguments against basic income, "nobody is going to work anymore". It validates my belief that people will still seek purpose (and monetary rewards) even when their basic needs are fulfilled.

> I've heard this is to encourage people to work and I've heard (from the people who work in the system) that it's successful so far.

Always good to hear of policy that's actually working. At times, watching the news makes it feel like all of politics is just a smoke and mirrors game without any positive outcomes.
Right that is the process of money creation. However it does not change the accounting identity that asset and liability are the flip sides of each other.
CNN and Fox news have accredited journalists. I'm not sure why you would group wikileaks which dumps data sometimes adds editorialized comments.

Judging them on fair and balanced reporting misunderstands there role.
In much of TX you won't be able to dig a three to four foot deep trench due to limestone. It's one of the reasons we don't have basements.
Conveniently there are already C++ compilers bootstrappable with C.
I'm very happy that there are people out there calling this stuff out and fighting the good fight because that's how progress is made.

It makes me especially happy because practically speaking, day to day, I really don't care. At all. And I'm not being sarcastic or cynical, it's just an approach to daily life.

Stress about the stuff you can control. Luck, privilege, timing; some people have them some people don't. All you can do is work hard. Keep taking shots and hope for the best.
This is a good piece but I have one nit: it is incorrect to say "thermite [...] will not detonate."

I was shocked to discover this first hand some years ago: http://olivernash.org/2009/11/12/fun-with-thermite/index.htm...

I can still recall the echoing boom of that (copper) thermite.
Their behavior during the response has been chock full of negligence, and I don't need to prove it in a court of law. I just need you to concede that point, and I can go on with my day. :-D

They should not have been in charge of the response, but there was no way for us to know that for sure until they had already flubbed it so badly.

They are guilty of handling the response very poorly in a way that has been hashed out and rehashed at least six dozen times on HN until the culmination (so far) yesterday, when we found out that their site was so easy to spoof it fooled even Tim, the Twitter guy from Equifax, who tweeted links to the spoof site out to eight or nine customers over the course of the response.

That was possible because of their initial poor (evidently hasty, and negligently so) response. I'm not asking to make anyone criminally liable, I'm suggesting that next time a company leaks sensitive records on 140MM Americans, we should remember this chain of events and somehow all do better. (And not have another repeat of this shit show, if possible... but who am I kidding, it will repeat.)

The poor response was probably made worse because of their internal culture that resulted in the CIO and CISO being canned (that sounds like all of their top technical leadership put out the door) right as the response was just getting underway. That too, in my opinion, was probably negligence!

I know we don't put companies in "time out" but it seems like we had better think about doing exactly that in this case, lest we soon find out what it will look like when the (next) other shoe drops.

The Equifax story will only continue to get worse! Just wait until their new free credit monitoring systems are breached, and we get to find out exactly what that mandatory class-action arbitration clause we've all heard about is actually intended to do!
Just look at what Christian groups are doing in disaster zones this very minute: feeding, sheltering and clothing the needy. Terrible!
The top income bracket is 3% of the population. You're still increasing the income of 97% of the population, which is what causes inflation on income-elastic prices like housing.
> It's not the managers or capital owners that have been driving these productivity gains either

Citation needed.

I'm under the impression most of the productivity gains since the early 1990s were due to large capital improvements, which aren't paid for by employees. And productivity increases due to decreased costs thanks globalization and open source software.

> yet they have been the ones benefiting from the gains

I think lots of arguments ignore the fact that health care has outpaced wages and CPI by more than 100% in the last 15 years. Companies still pay the lion's share of health insurance costs for employees. You don't see your paycheck getting bigger, but your total compensation (if you get employer sponsored health insurance) has risen.
Certifications or compliance?
To those saying e.g 10 Mbit/second is enough: Do you live with other people?

Get a family on one of those lines, and 10 will not be enough.

And the problem is, even if you think it's a fine solution to ask such cases to pay more for a higher tier of service, in many areas, there is no higher tier of service.

In my area, the phone company's line was too poor quality to support DSL when I moved in, 16 years ago. And I am not in a rural community. I'm in a dense sub-division, in the middle of suburbia.

Forward to 2 years ago, when I had a chance to talk with one of the linemen linemen regularly assigned to my area. AT&T still had not replaced that line. And, as far as I know, still has not.

It's not that a 25+ expectation is "too hard" or "too expensive". It's that many incumbents aren't even trying.

Then again, whenever a municipality wants to move forward and roll its own broadband deployment, then AT&T rolls out their lawyers.

They won't roll the trucks for upgrades. But lawyers, to stop competition? Sure thing.
We don't need thought experiments to analyse UBI. There's data on trials of it going back half a century.

The book "Inventing The Future" by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams gives a detailed explanation of how to use UBI to move beyond neoliberalism.
Ridiculous, people have been anti-nazi forever.

The Nazis being louder and more out in the open than before is new.
Who is making strides in fixing the underlying business model problems that are driving the increasing virulence and frequency of these moral panics, and undermining the integrity and function of journalism? Or at least providing alternatives that are equally profitable yet less pernicious.

Because barring the entrance of one of these as-yet-unimagined alternatives, it seems we'll need to lean on regulation...but then we get into messiness of regulating free speech.

There was Beacon Reader, the crowdfunding journalism platform, but they shut down. [1]

Then there's Google's "Fact Check", but its reach is limited [2]

[1] https://www.poynter.org/news/beacon-reader-journalism-crowdf...
[2] https://www.blog.google/products/search/fact-check-now-avail...
I tried this too, but there appears to be no way to swap caps and control. This is simple on macOS and Linux and something I am so used to that I can't really work without it, especially in emacs.
"A lot of the extra liquidity is being sopped up directly into real estate"

It doesn't really work that way. People who buy lose liquidity but people who sell gain liquidity. Cash just changes hands. The question is what are the side effects of these transactions. In this case lots of apartments get built. Many of them empty. You may not regard that as the real economy. But is digging up gold to put in a vault or mining bitcoin any more real?
Acid Attacks on the Rise in the U.K
I tried to sign up for Coinbase back in July and kept running into problems during the id verification step (at some point, they thought I was under 18). I tried to work through their customer support, but only received automated messages.

Eventually, I gave up and went somewhere else.
Whenever someone tells me that they believe the world is going to end on a specific date, or during a specific period of time, I offer them this bet:

I will bet you my house and land against your car. If I'm right, and the world doesn't end, you owe me your car. If I'm wrong, you can have my house and land.
Thank you for this correction. Do you know whether Al + Fe2O3 thermite as normally prepared (meaning, not ground up into nanoparticles) will detonate? I'll update the piece accordingly.

Moreover, are you sure this was a detonation (shock wave) rather than a deflagration?
Even if it's an offline wallet, who said a physical attack isn't an option? Governments get nasty sometimes.
previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15288168
As someone who has boxed I can assure you that if you practice a lot you will get hit in the head many many times. We generally went decently light for punches or kicks to the head in practice for this reason. It's a pretty safe assumption that pros go harder than we did in practice so I bet they are getting hit decently hard tons
Wow, everything I think of already exists. Nice.
That still doesn't explain why you think people are saying that money is created out of thin air.

Increasing the income for the vast majority of the population inflates the prices of income-elastic goods and services.
Java performance optimization tips: how to avoid common pitfalls
This is highly theoretical research. It's not surprising Bitcoin didn't include something like that, on top of everything else.
U.S. Navy Investigating If Destroyer Crash Was Caused by Cyberattack
This was more of a commentary on the political polarization we face where belief in the message of a chosen political party is accepted in the same way as a religious belief. Essentially there are people who worship their political affiliation. In the way religious beliefs are not often questioned neither are political beliefs. This is why we call them beliefs.
As a HYP alum (don't want to be more specific than that), this jives with my own experiences, both at college and in high school (where some students kept their heads down and worked for their grades, and others worked but also had the temerity/privilege to go ahead and ask for a better grade).

In some sense, you can't really blame the students for asking. The system allows for it (may even encourage it), so from a game-theory perspective, the better strategy is to exploit all the advantages you can.

The unfairness comes from the way such things are handled unevenly. Student A who's richer/better connected/more famous/etc. will get better outcomes from asking, compared to student B who's maybe just a regular smart person who went to public school and managed to squeeze past admissions but isn't connected to anybody important. Just regular old privilege, pure and simple.

For the record, I graduated with a 3.2 GPA that probably would've been lower at somewhere that somehow magically didn't have "grade inflation" problems... and that was after my school went through implementing a controversial "grade deflation" policy. I feel like I benefitted from being part of a system that was afraid to harshly grade its students, but I also never asked any professors directly to revise my grade higher.

I did receive indirect/unsolicited help, such as a dean who showed concern after I failed some midterms the semester I broke my ankle and missed weeks of class and became depressed and unable to socialize, or a professor who graded a senior project much more generously than I felt the work deserved (a B+ for something I crammed together in the last 4 weeks, when my roommate who did something much more involved and much better researched, also got the same B+).
Better withdraw it until it was btc-e-ed away :)
>That's why I added "despite consequences". Ok, now they're in jail and they still refuse. Now what?

This already happens without block chains.
And now for the follow-up from Channel 4 and other media outlets: "hacker forum tries to find the best shrapnel for home-made explosives".
Popehat has an article about "fire in a theater" and the court case. It's very illustrative: https://www.popehat.com/2012/09/19/three-generations-of-a-ha...
I agree with this response. Those aren't very big either though. The Dell DSS7000 series servers[1] support 90 x 8TB drives (We run a ceph cluster on 4 of the DSS7500 storage nodes).

[1] http://www.storagereview.com/dell_announces_availability_of_...
> So be very careful what you wish for with regard to limits on free speech, you just might get it.

The case you cited is an example that we already have limitations on free speech. That case is tragic from my perspective because I would likely try to petition people to avoid a draft, too, should it happen now.

Nitpick: "shouting fire in a theater" is protected speech. It's not protected if you lie when you shout it. The risk of injury to others is possible either way, but your intent is what protects you.
As said before, this 70% of the local population would represent, lets say, a mere 10% of the total population.

So if one of each ten people voted for "yes to A", and the other nine people voted for "no to A". What should happen in a democratic system?.

Well, the idea here is that you has the freedom to choose among two nice options: "yes to A" and "repeat the process until yes to A is achieved" or "start negociations to circumnavigate what people really wanted". But this is not a dictatorship, of course; we are a democratic modern society unlike the spaniards, those savages.

And talking about semi-naked savages, this reminds me that extra-nice 2008 campaign launched by Catalonian independentists: "support a spanish child with more money from Catalonia". It seems that this is how they see the other spaniards. Nice image. It isn't?.

http://img.rtve.es/imagenes/apadrina-nino-extremeno/12174362...

Because poor children is a perfectly fine theme to make some good laughs (They are poor, ha-haa!).

To finish, and taking in mind several harassments and repeated BS like this in the last decade, I think that a lot of people in Spain would vote enthusiastically about sending this people out of Spain, even better, why not to Mars?, to build the New Castelldefells and live their futuristic utopia happy forever in the red planet.
Of course it isn't.
> What about the SEC

Butterymales! What about Hillary!

My credit history is still in the hands of Equifax and I have no control over that fact. That is problem number one for me. I want to get off of Mr Bones Wild Ride.
Search Engine Optimization en vogue
There's plenty of information here: https://z.cash/technology/zksnarks.html
I'm sure they have thought about it, I just don't think they have a workable solution.
So what this may be telling us is that sleep is required for beings with nerve cells, rather than solely for those with concentrated and clearly defined brains. This would make sense. All animals with brains sleep, but diversity of brain configuration and design exhibited across all of these different animal species would indicate that there's no single aspect of a brain that demands sleep, and therefore sleep is not an emergent property of collections of neurons forming brains but something the neurons themselves demand in order to function.
Some interesting products appear on CNXSoft:

https://www.cnx-software.com/
Chaplinsky is quite outdated. It's not clear that the Fighting Words doctrine even still exists at all, but to the extent it does, it requires a physical presence inviting to an altercation by being directed at someone. Prohibitions based purely on content of speech are not constitutional. (IANAL and this is not legal advice, of course)
You do if you live there. Vote pro housing candidates for city and regional government.
I feel ya. You have no idea how much I've paid in bribes to do even basic things in Thailand.

And a company I used to work for frequently had the same problem with Mexico. Traveling two and from on business led to frequent searches and impounding of very expensive equipment unless a bribe was paid. We started writing it off as an "airport tax."
> there is no one in your family or circle of acquaintances to teach you to learn [how a job works]

Sounds like you're having the wrong discussion. It shouldn't be about "UBI" or "not UBI", it should be about educating teenagers and young adults from poor families how to make a living and climb up the social ladder.

(I'm going to make a guess and say that this part of the discussion is ignored because it's evident that there's only limited space in the upper and middle classes of society.)
For Gmail, I'd add http://mailinabox.email (free)
On barely related note, I immediately thought about Three Moons Over Milford, in which the moon breaks into three chunks and rains meteorites down on the surface. As it turns out the tile comes from Seveneves, which has a similar concept. The TV show focuses on the life of the townspeople, while Seveneves focuses on the science and drama of the exploded moon. Stephenson started working on his book in 2004, completing it in 2013. TMOM came out in 2006.

Again, these are two completely different stories with only a common catalyst, but I wonder if the idea for TMOM may have come from someone that knows Stephenson (ie, he mentioned the idea in 2004/5 to someone that ran with it), or if the creators are even aware of the other.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Moons_Over_Milford

https://www.nealstephenson.com/seveneves.html