skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems like the compromise (dispose of the more lightweight versions while retaining the "most robust" version) still leaves the possibility of an NSA-known vulnerability.

Maybe the "most robust" version is harder for the NSA to break, maybe the NSA doesn't know of a way to break it, or maybe the NSA just proposed the lightweight versions so they'd have room to negotiate, and have just achieved exactly what they hoped.

I'm glad other countries are suspicious of the NSA, but I'm not sure that distrust goes far enough.

Bruce Schneier's [thanks tptacek] 2013 opinion on the presence of an NSA-known backdoor: "maybe, but I don't think so."

His post today is also interesting, saying the ISO "rejects" (which seems a bit stronger than the source article): https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2017/09/iso_rejects_n...

He concludes [2017]: "I don't trust the NSA, either."
If people can be productive and efficient with VSCode or Atom then it's not the wrong tool at all.
GPS is probably trusted above the rougher Wifi derived position.
The alternative is the two other credit agencies that haven't (as far as we know) given up all of our personal information to hackers, and who haven't responded to the news of the breach by linking some of their customers to a parody/phishing site that was nearly indistinguishable from their own (very bad) breach response website.

There is no way out of this (the cat is out of the bag) but we can go on about our lives without Equifax. They need to be unplugged.
Just a year ago I'd have thought it'd obviously land him in hot water, and probably get him impeached in short order if he refused to divest.

I no longer think that. Even massive, wholly overt corruption is apparently fine now. Along with a bunch of other stuff. There are no rules now as long as you can get elected, you're useful to one party or the other, and that party retains enough seats to block impeachment.

Berlusconi is precisely the kind of person who's in power now, and it's taking months of slow, grinding work to maybe, maybe catch him on something bad enough he can't ignore it, while he's plainly profiting from the office and hasn't attempted to avoid actual conflicts of interest, let alone the appearance of them, and that's not even the thing we're trying to throw him out over.

At the highest levels of American power, you can now openly be as corrupt as Berlusconi and... no one cares enough to do anything about it.

So yes, Zuck totally can. Which makes the prospect of his presidency all the more worrisome.
I don't know about this situation but I'm willing to bet one could find many examples of law enforcement doing that very thing in various different cases.

Law enforcement is about enforcing the law, not protecting law-abiding citizens from criminals.
We used two convolutional neural networks, one for each side of the weld. Features extracted by these nets are then concatenated, as well as the meta data. Two fully connected layers are then applied on this vector, giving the final prediction.

Everything was trained on the raw images resized to 20x150 pixels.
https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/responsible_disclosur...

Constructive criticism welcome. This is a first draft, work in progress, request for comments.

Responsible disclosure is a hot topic in the news because of the recent large security breaches.

My professional work in software development involves responsible disclosure often.

I'm open-sourcing my responsible disclosure notes.

I use these with consulting clients to help them learn about responsible disclosure, how it works, and how to help their users do it.
let accumulator = 0
for (let item of array) {
const value = await item
// your code here
}

Is identical, doesn't use 'cool' reduce features but is much easier to read in my opinion.
>don't be surprised if military guns are less decked out than yours they are built to costs

A quick search suggests M16/4 barrels are chrome lined - just like a good AK
This piece from American news is surreal: it reads like the Soviet politbureau propaganda from the past century; "see inequality is not just discrete to America, rich Germany has the same thing, so it's not unfair and there is nothing to go out on the streets and protest about". "Special war tactics" book from the former Yugoslav republic army describes it as tactical information war.

But the mistake is on you, CNN: we have networked systems which provide instant information at our fingertips, and some of us aren't illiterate, we read lots and lots of books: you are attempting to manipulate the American public at large by attempting to prevent protests about inequality and fairness using communist-like tactical war methodology. Oh my, how the times haven't changed.
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I really don't know much about radio, but I have never experienced that the microwave have noticeably affected wifi or bluetooth.

Is it something that is only likely to happen with older and less isolated microwaves?
I have seen no one doing as much as Apple for privacy along with a good user experience (though it might look restrictive to those coming from Android or desktop PC backgrounds). I'm willing to trade off a little bit of convenience for better privacy preservation. Many security researchers have stated that the desktop philosophy of letting any program run, access any resource it wants, etc., is outdated and harmful to users in the mobile era. That's one of the areas Apple's start with a restricted system that slowly expands to fulfill needs in a better way comes from.

If the users "could have done it themselves", we should have proof that someone did it in a way most people could use it. Where's such a system? Which mass market usable mobile OS does not put users in a prison? If the choices are between one that puts the user in a prison but protects the user better vs. another that doesn't, the decision for those who value this and can afford such a device is quite clear.
How to rotate geometries in PostGIS
> I'm firmly convinced that having to learn something as straightforward and well documented as golang's contributor flow is a pretty good litmus test for potential contributors.

It's just as much a litmus test of how much time you have in your hands to spend and space in your head to stuff peripheral stuff in. If you did not notice, there was a workshop about how to contribute to Go since, in contrast with its design and philosophy, it has a contribution method as convoluted as for Android/CyanogenMOD/LineageOS, which only makes the ridiculousness of it all the more poignant.

> Using a programming langauge does not make you a compiler hacker

Again, there is much more to Go than just the compiler, which is only a fraction of src. What if I want to contribute a substantial fix or improvement to say net/mail[0]? Or the documentation? Besides, how ludicrous is that a contributor wannabe should have to prove {him,her}self worthy of contributing by passing a supposed test entirely unrelated to the contribution {s,}he's intending to make?

Trivial fixes should be trivial to submit just as well as complex ones to review, and not require anyone to bang its head against an artificial wall.

[0]: https://golang.org/src/net/mail/message.go
> I really hope something like Java, or even better Kotlin, will replace Javascript ...

Have you tried Kotlin's javascript backend?

https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/js-overview.html
I think PG is right.

Trump is dynamic and loves attention. He is energized by the audience. When attacked in debate he goes offense.

His message has little coherence or intelligent content, but that's not the point. It's not what he says. It's feeling he evokes: hate and anger. He was constant center of attention from left and right. MSNBC might have been supporting Clinton, but they could not avoid flying into the flame of Trump. He was the center of the every media.

Populist politicians talk directly to the 'Id' and Trump is instinctively doing that. He is "the Id". His campaign was like David Lynch movie. Messaging directly into the unconsciousness.
it's more related to the nature of your wording and framing. no group of humans is being abused or discriminated against.
I WISH I could do this. You have a rare gift.
One problem we've ran into with it, is tables with > 400 columns.
I just got into Unreal Engine with the VR template project, which includes grabbing/teleportation functionality by default. It's been really easy to get into and if you have a headset, I'd really recommend trying it out if you've had a VR development itch.
Multiple years, here's why: you need to decide what will work and what will not, as you don't have time to go the wrong route. And that takes experience which it would be difficult to gain in 6 months.
Thanks for your view. However, it is important to see this event also for what it is. It is a way for Arcelor to think out-of-the-box, and get input from people that are not directly linked to their business. Secondly, it is a way for students to get a glimps of what the corporate projects and challenges are.

Additionally, for us, as professionals, it is a way to show, although in a very rough fashion, what is possible, and where we can help. We saw this event more as a team building than work.

The result we got at the hackathon is a very rough prototype, not a finished product. In no way, this can directly be implemented on the floor. As such, input from experts is still required, either us, or other experts in the field.

Therefore, these hackathons are useful, in my opinion, not only to the company, but also the participants :)
> I usually am forced to take 3 benadryl and hope for the best.

Which would help because...? Acrivastine doesn't really have any sedative effect at all. And taking three at once is quite an overdose.
Pimba: Minimalist CLI tool written in Go to easily publish static files
This is why I was very careful to say "well-defined subset". I wrote a full CSV library[1], and so I'm well aware of how deceptively difficult CSV is to deal with. However with a well-defined subset (and perhaps not using "," as a separator as well) it should be editable for at least simple changes.

[1] https://github.com/Chris00/ocaml-csv
It's occassionally cheaper to provide poor with a huge Uber voucher than with rent subsidy. Two rides a day, 20 days a month is still just $800 (perhaps cheaper in rural area, bought in bulk).

And by doing that you're making economy healthier. By propping up big cities you're contributing to feet of clay situation.
Which is more likely, that Mark is experiencing a genuine, and highly publicized, spiritual awakening, or that he's meticulously crafting his public persona based on unprecedented troves of information about modern society?
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"New algorithms" for tilemap generation?

Maxim Gumin’s WaveFunctionCollapse is fast and produces nice results. A recent paper has been published outlining its technique.

WaveFunctionCollapse is Constraint Solving in the Wild

http://isaackarth.com/papers/wfc_is_constraint_solving_in_th...

Combine WFC with a touch of "domain distortion" to add some organic panache:

http://www.iquilezles.org/www/articles/warp/warp.htm

Or if you have space for several terabytes of high resolution NASA satellite imagery, you can always use that as a training set ;)

A step towards procedural terrain generation with GANs

https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.03383
This ties into the Buffet might be evil discussion last week [1]. The short version is, he prefers a company that "takes no capital, and yet grows", as well as having a moat to ward off competition (m-word). I think both are equally evil in this discussion. Basic R&D investment used to be the leader-makers of the US, but now it's scorned by shareholders.

[1] http://www.newsmax.com/Finance/StreetTalk/Warren-Buffett-Ber...
Wealth is irrelevant - it just shows house prices.

GDP per capita is important, but not the only important indicator. Total GDP is also important, and it justifies the "Europe's richest country" headline.
> The solution to all of this is clear.

Little people aren't able to recoup their losses when disentangling the tremendous inconveniences of identity theft, mistakes in credit reports, and so on. You're only addressing losses by lenders, which are a tiny fraction of the actual problem. You're not offering any practical way for the general population to seek redress.
We click through them now, because the message is techno-waffle, or boring: "This site uses cookies. Read our policy."

If, instead, it said "Every click you make on this site is recorded and sent to four unrelated companies" the public might just have taken a bit more notice.
How do I vote? I click on the buttons and nothing happens.
Fish seems to work wonders for me. I've been using it for more than a year and it works well. I welcome new developments for sure.

Autocomplete that was a little bit laggy on zsh simple works super fast on fish. Other features are also very nice. I think people who might be interested in this, might find fish interesting.
If you're the only one using Tor on a network, you can be easily singled out and identified.
But he didn't fire Jony Ive
Jobs had the vision, Cook had the business smarts to make it happen. Since Jobs passing, Apple has frequently felt like a rudderless ship. Cook is a great manager and a great businessman, no doubt at all, but he doesn't have the passion Jobs had and it shows.
You can backup/restore Signal Desktop conversations from the Dev Tools console:

`Whisper.Backup.backupToDirectory()`

`Whisper.Backup.importFromDirectory()`
The Scandalous Friendship That Shaped Adam Smith
Great work! Your clean code is really enjoyable to read and learn from!
How does it relate to OSGi? Also, if just one library uses modules, does it force modularization of everything else or can these two coexist in a reliable fashion?
> I honestly do NOT believe that I owe anything to poor people. And I'm saying that as a person who born in Uzbekistan and lived in extreme poverty (my income in 2003 was ... 10 USD per month).

May I ask you why you moved to Sweden? or Amsterdam? Where they also have the "Doe Normaal" mindset which you say you take issue with.

You say that you don't believe that you owe anything, but immediately afterwards say that you were poor not even 15 years ago.

Are you absolutely certain that you are 100% responsible for your success, or is it possible that the luxuries of both these "socialist" countries awarded you the opportunities not found in your (original) homeland?

I don't doubt that the tax brackets could be improved, inefficiencies in government could be ironed out, etc, but it's a bit much to criticize two systems that awarded you such success, don't you think?
Just can't stop posting paywalled crap? Yes, NYT is paywalled after a certain low number of free articles.
not sure whether this gives much advantage over just listing the results in order of travel time? It gives an indication of direction, but is that really useful?
What progress are blockchains hindering?
Apache Arrow and the “Things I Hate About Pandas”
> Searching phone and on computer ("Spotlight") BY DEFAULT sends that data to Apple and third parties

So turn off Spotlight Suggestions? Obviously if you're searching the web there will be traffic to the search engines.

> http://bgr.com/2015/04/01/iphone-location-tracking-map/

Frequent Locations is on-device only.
So, you want the inspector to enter the burning house to make sure it won't catch on fire, risking the lives of firefighters?
I welcome the onslaught of Zuckerburg in politics. He will get chewed up and spit out as he openly advocates for illegal immigration amnesty, universal basic income, and whatever else the socialist utopians envision. He will get raked over the coals with these ideologies in the states he has to win (Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Florida). That is assuming the Clinton Machine doesn't destroy him first. He's way out of his league here and better stick to Facebook.
If the state is footing the bill for everybody to cramp into Munich area, it's no wonder rents will grow.

It's like if they subsidized everybody winning at auction for a limited supply (real estate is an auction basically).
The area of SPI flash used by the ME is read-protected from the main CPU. In order to detect a malicious backdoor, you'd have to literally take your computer apart and hook up a hardware SPI flash programmer to the chip.
I would think the average user visits Facebook through the Facebook app, not through Safari, so that should very much affect them. Google is a different story...
> I suppose this might be useful in situations where you are querying an API(s) with multiple requests and some will certainly return seconds before others.

But it's still a serialized operation so the parallelism is still limited. What's really needed is a "parallel reduce" using something like C's select function that will reduce in an arbitrary order using any promises that are ready at any given step.
Presumably this relies on Zcash's Trusted Setup which was likely compromised:

>“Morgen, why is your phone playing the audio from our Google Hangout?” asked Wilcox, bemused, curious, and slightly alarmed.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/networks/the-c...
Ok, good to know. This only gives more reasons to increase taxes on inheritance and capital return...
Benadryl in the US is diphenhydramine, which definitely does have drowsiness as a side effect. It's also pretty hard to OD on.
A Great article with a lot of difficult self-disclosure, much better than most of it's genre.
Reflectacles – Anti-surveilance glasses
More paywalled garbage. Yes, NYT is paywalled after a certain low number of free articles.
"Benadryl is a brand name for a number of different antihistamine medications used to treat allergies. In the United States and Canada, it is the first-generation antihistamine diphenhydramine. Diphenhydramine can also cause sleepiness." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benadryl
That's a straw man argument, clueless people that stay clueless are hardly a downside.

However, these banners have also clearly caused millions of people to ask the question "What's a cookie" which leads some of them to start caring about this issue.
>I can't see how defining 'substantive' images could ever work

You can't? Seems pretty straight forward, so long as you remember first and foremost that 100% accuracy is completely unnecessary. The "load all images" option can still be there, so all that's needed is a solution that's good enough to suffice the majority of the time and shape norms and standard-case. That leaves lot of low hanging fruit. To start with are basic heuristics like that there is no need in email for 1x1 or 2x2 or 3x3 or whatever pixel images, or images where the pixels are entirely set to transparent. A lot of tracking stuff, particularly mass scale efforts tied to multiple parties beyond the sender, is pretty blatantly content free for even a totally dumb static rule set. Slightly more smarts could be used to discriminate based on simple sender trust heuristics, such as whether the email is cryptographically signed, they're in your contacts book, whether you've ever replied or clicked through, etc. Finally this could be another area where, just as they did here with cookies, Apple applied some basic ML to answer the "likely substantive" question. Again, remember that failing here doesn't necessarily matter because it can still be an improvement over the status quo.
Blockchain the currency and blockchain the equity/bond/token were inevitable. The crypto world isn't concerned with traditional finance and their legacy rules. The future is decentralized companies financed with decentralized currency. It seems the people most offended by this realization are those with authoritarian complexes with a desire to control the voluntary spending habits of their peers. Which is exactly why there's demand for this new freedom money. Stop telling me how to spend and how to invest. I'm not your child and this isn't your money.
It's "Schneier", not "Schneider".

This is one of those things where, if NSA can break 128/128 SPECK, we probably have bigger problems than SPECK.
Well, don't do that, normalize your scheme.
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>It's just as much a litmus test of how much time you have in your hands to spend and space in your head to stuff peripheral stuff in.

If you don't have time to learn Gerrit (which is not a difficult tool to learn), then you probably don't have time to be a good contributor - responding to patch feedback, engaging in discussion, and maintaining your changes in the future should issues arise.

>there was a workshop about how to contribute to Go since

Just going to append my own conclusion to this sentence:

>since the entitled GitHub generation of programmers can't be arsed to spend 10 minutes learning any proper tooling
I don't see a java9 sdk on http://java.sun.com, do I need to look elsewhere? Will the normal Oracle distribution be updated later?
Apple's FaceID – Schneier on Security
Do you mean LLVM 5?
Those things are nice, but how would I work with third party libraries like Paper.js? I feel that the difficulties would outnumber the benefits in my case.
I was agreeing -- just adding that some people are getting slammed with bills for a mandate that was put in place after they purchased their property.
I think you misspelled "best possible outcome"
Why do they need to use encryption mechanisms that were invented by an organization which has been known to abuse these mechanisms?

"The Americans distributed a 22-page explanation of its design and a summary of attempts to break them"

That doesn't really sound like a peer review :)
The cry of the neo-liberal: "The market will sort this out!", usually in response to an event demonstrating the exact opposite.
> Not everyone draws the line at the same spot.

Which is correct, but not a justification?

> Everyone's constraints in life are different.

In which case those constraints might be the justification, not simply the fact that their contribution is a small contribution, wouldn't it?

> Also, talking from a position of "I know I am right. Why are you not thinking the same way as me?" is generally not effective at getting other people to see things from your perspective.

Nor is staying within the constraints of the preconceived notions that make it impossible to see the problem with someone's position. But feel free to suggest alternative approaches to this problem that you have experience to be working better.
This is my main argument against Universal Basic Income - if UBI is X/month, then monthly rent for anything will grow to at least X/month because why wouldn't it? If you know that 100% of your renters have a guaranteed income of X/month, then why charge any less?
Stallman simply values other things than most users, as you correct point out.

You can view a castle as either a prison or a refuge, depending on your political inclinations. Apple has built a very robust castle -- whether that's a good or bad thing depends largely on your personal views. Stallman detests all castles; empirically, most people seem to find them comforting.
Curious, how does this impact Amazon?