skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would be highly skeptical of any claim that any access control is so interwoven with the DNA matching algorithm that it is not a trivial problem to separate them. Furthermore, if the OCME fears that there are passwords in plaintext, and given that it presumably knows what the administrator's password is, it shouldn't be hard to find them. Furthermore, this presumably is not (or anyway should not be) a publicly-accessible program.

The second argument would be using 'security' to disguise a proprietary-software claim, and if it is what the quoted sentence actually means, the OCME should say so specifically, instead of making vague claims about security. I don't think there is any valid reason for the OCME to have proprietary rights over software of this nature: it is not, or should not be, in the business of selling software or software services, and such concerns should definitely not trump the need for such software to be thoroughly audited.

If the claim that it is proprietary software comes from a vendor, that should similarly be stated directly.

If either of these claims are the basis of the quoted sentence, and the judge accepts them, then it would provide a de facto immunization of all software against public scrutiny. Does this matter? I think so, as anyone convicted through the use of poorly-verified software has, in effect, been convicted by heresay according to rules that are not known by anyone, and with no way to challenge his accusers.
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When I get sick, I wear a surgical mask. You can buy them at any drugstore. You might get weird looks, but explaining that I'm sick and don't want to spread it usually turns those into thanks. It's apparently common/expected to do this in Japan, it would likely help if the practice spread elsewhere.
Interesting. From the web page:

"This domainname, is DNSSEC signed with this algorithm."

Yet:

dana@araman:~$ whois ed25519.nl

Domain name: ed25519.nl

Status: active

Registrar:
TransIP BV
Schipholweg 9b
2316XB LEIDEN
Netherlands

Abuse Contact:

DNSSEC: no

Domain nameservers:
mango.plexis.eu
pdns-public-ns1.powerdns.com
pdns-public-ns2.powerdns.com

Record maintained by: NL Domain Registry

...

I'm inclined to believe the claims of the web site without checking. It's just interesting that:

1. The whois data for .nl is taking some interest in DNSSEC

2. That they are wrong about it being DNSSEC signed.

My (weak) guess is that whatever they are using to get the DNSSEC information doesn't understand Ed25519.
And i can imagine, when they just doubled the amount of possible characters, they just correlate these tweet buckets now. Like, maybe each tweet already had space for attributes/opcodes, so one can express things like "deleted". Maybe there is another attribute now: "has successors". And in the API one just return many tweets as one. In that way, one does not have to rewrite history. But who knows!
On the other hand, it’s exactly what I wouldn’t say if I was building an interplanetary colony ship.

Not if I thought it had any realistic chance of success, anyway.
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It would be a bit of a learning curve, but certainly doable.
Especially if you find a schematics that you want to assemble and try to follow the instructions and assembly. It can be like a giant puzzle with too many rules. But doable. If not on the first try, then on the subsequent ones :)
Safe harbor is generally used for user generated content. How do you propose running a pastebin that's GDPR compliant?
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Is this what Tesla dreamt about? It's incredible.
the echo buttons seem potentially very interesting if paired with an API. they could effectively generalize the amazon dash buttons, which let you shop with one press of a physical button.

maybe the buttons will also one day display editable text/images to minimize the need for users to remember what each button does.
Exactly that. One of these days, someone will give me a choice between a normal, horrifyingly-grown slab of meat and a slightly-more-expensive-but-ethically-grown one, and then we'll see who's a hypocrite!
German here. Whow, what an uninformed and misleading article.

The FDP remains irrelevant and its "politicians" are mostly show-offs nowadays (a trend that started with the ineffable Guido Westerwelle) and some were outright criminal or supportive of white-collar crimes (see the Flick affair for details). The times of the old FDP, with old-style liberals - not "liberal" economists like today - such as Gerhart Baum (who still posts constitutional challenges at the age of 85!) is long gone.

There are also a number of factual errors. For example, the minimum vacation time guaranteed by law is only four weeks, though the average is quite a bit higher. The situation regarding the selection of students is also far more complex than described (speaking as a CE professor coming from a working-class family, I know what I'm talking about).

If you are visiting Germany, try the Ruhr area - e.g., Duisburg-Marxloh, Dortmund-Nordstadt - or any of the small deserted villages in the eastern states and maybe Berlin Kottbusser Tor for some glimpses of a different German reality - poverty, crime, drugs and xenophobia. Munich has the highest cost of living of all German cities, though far cheaper than SFO and Silicon Valley, and is hardly representative.

And don't get me started on these neo-nazi assholes who are in the Bundestag now. Horrible. A well-known saying in some academic circles is "It's a great time to emigrate from Germany - but where to?". That might sum up the current situation here quite well...
"Nobody uses DNSSEC" illustrates the tragic failure of imagination among its main critics. This is the same thinking that causes venture capitalists to destroy loads of modestly successful businesses every year determined to have a one-in-a-million smash rather than make an honest living quietly succeeding.

DNSSEC works fine so long as the people doing the resolving have, or are given, a reason to actually care about the thing it delivers, ie security. Ordinary users are here to see the dancing pig, they aren't going to enable DNSSEC or switch off JavaScript, or use a password to lock their phone, but that doesn't make any of those things useless.

So, two actual applications, of DNSSEC being used today. One, SSHFP. Instead of TOFU with all the risks that implies, or the "fun" of pushing out current key lists to all users if we have DNSSEC we can use SSHFP to put those keys into DNS without anybody tampering with them.

Second CAA. Unlike most DNS records, CAA has deliberately small audience and we can mandate them to implement DNSSEC. Indeed if there was a compelling reason to do so we can mandate that they implement whatever new ECC schemes are making the usual suspects wet themselves this week. You can try this for yourself, set CAA issue to a commercial CA of your choice then try to order a free Let's Encrypt certificate. It says No. Without DNSSEC of course bad guys able to pass a validation can also forge the CAA answer. But with it their forgery is detected, we don't care whether my mother has a working resolver because my mother isn't a trusted CA.
Lol, I like how no one is talking about DSW in the replies to the comment about DSW.

> [F]ind middle, use it as root, recursively build two subtrees.

That's not DSW. DSW should be way more efficient.

> With a singly-linked list, it's much harder; I don't know [...] if a more efficient [...] algorithm exists.

This is DSW. DSW starts with a sorted linked list--called a "vine"--and builds the tree from that, in place. The vine is a singly linked list in the sense that you only need the successor pointer (though each node obviously needs space for a predecessor pointer since it's being turned into a tree).

The algorithm is O(n) time and O(1) space and is actually very elegant. Essentially, you treat the list as a completely unbalanced tree skewed to the right. Then you repeatedly apply a `compress` routine that scans down the far right path in the tree to balance it.

From Wikipedia

routine vine-to-tree(root, size)
leaves ← size + 1 − 2^⌊log2(size + 1))⌋
compress(root, leaves)
size ← size − leaves
while size > 1
compress(root, ⌊size / 2⌋)
size ← ⌊size / 2⌋

routine compress(root, count)
scanner ← root
for i ← 1 to count
child ← scanner.right
scanner.right ← child.right
scanner ← scanner.right
child.right ← scanner.left
scanner.left ← child

Both the naive algorithm and DSW are O(n), but the naive algorithm has a time complexity of about 2n while DSW has a time complexity of about 0.63n, assuming we start with a vine.
A little Self promotion: TRust-DNS Resolver and Client support ED25519. Currently working through some issues on the signing logic in the Authority.

https://github.com/bluejekyll/trust-dns
Typed from laptop or phone.

Both complete with front facing cameras :)
I don't get the impression you understood what I said.
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The AppleTV was similarly blacklisted by Amazon until they made the deal to have Amazon Video on AppleTV.

There was nothing stopping Amazon from writing an app for the AppleTV 4 or for that matter working with Apple to make one for AppleTV 3
The middle class doesn’t want a tax cut. It wants better government
What is the quality of the screen? exact circle, resolution, colors? and what is the angle of the camera?
Nah, but was until not very long ago.

Thanks, I contemplated whether I should disclose it, but given that I have currently have no stakes in the game, decided it's unnecessary.
People don't seem to undetstand this.

DirectX, PSGL, NVNAPI, and Metal are already available where Vulkan will probably never be.
I'm going to assume that as long as you have a clearly defined backup policy and don't keep backups unreasonably long or indefinitely then telling your users that "Your account has been deleted. Once the deletion filters though our backup system in 30 days all your information will be gone forever." would be in compliance.
Correct, Google requires Play Services nowadays for Chromecast.

How does that explain ChromeCast support for third party IOS apps?
>That's fair but a major problem with US healthcare is that there isn't really many options around cost trade-offs. We have them in every other consumer industry - a loaded luxury car offers different trade-offs than a used subcompact. Why don't we have the same choices in health care?

Plus, the bizarre system of "You can only change once per year and in specific windows or for a major life change".
A lot of how Wallaroo handles state mirrors what Pat Helland wrote about in "Beyond Distributed Transactions". It ends up having a number of nice features for stateful applications. You can see it in action in the 15 minute "get to know scale-independence" video that I did:

https://vimeo.com/234753585

Thanks for your comments.

- We are pairing down the installation procedure. We couldn't do everything we wanted before we did our first release.

- The compiler was changed from upstream. We are in the process of getting back onto mainline ponyc. That should be happening in the next couple weeks at which point, we will be taking the first step in pairing down the instructions. When we were first developing Wallaroo, we wanted to be able to rapidly evolve the Pony runtime as well as Wallaroo itself. To do that, we needed to fork the project. We've gotten almost all of our changes back into the mainline ponyc.

- It works on other distributions. We currently only provide instructions for Trusty and Xenial because as you said, it's a somewhat involved process at the moment that we are working on simplifying.

- We went back and forth on if we should use docker for the UI. Its written in Elixir and requires that Erlang be installed. After working with some clients, we decided it was easier to provide a docker container.
I think it only points out a problem with the science-policy interface.

Science has correctly identified that dodgy results were being published, and they're being retracted. Ideally peer review would have picked up those problems before publication, but this is the next best thing.
Was in Germany & Austria - for the first time, over the summer.

Wonderful, and highly recommend Europe to visit. I think I'm permanently done with the Caribbean.
Agreed on all points. The system demands that you learn to play the game quickly, lie about certain things, etc.
Thank you! That makes it much more legible!
Thanks, that's very interesting. Seems like it'd also be "interesting" to write a compiler for though, especially since you have to manage stack hygiene for four stacks simultaneously. And I'm not sure, but doesn't allowing each functional unit to directly read the top four entries of the other FUs' stacks reintroduce some of the kind of potential hazards that the Mill belt (with its SSA-style usage) tries to avoid?
Wow. I'm sure every dev looked as this and thought. Dammm

That's a lot of visual resizing and messing to get it to a circle display.

There is a reason we don't have circle TVs
One great thing I foresee with lab grown meat is that the discussion changes. Suppose you can get your labgrowns to be cheaper yet indistinguishable from the meat that was once part of a sentient being. In that world you have to be especially sadistic to still want slaughters variant.

Investors seem to notice too.

"Why Bill Gates And Richard Branson Invested In 'Clean' Meat" https://www.forbes.com/sites/zackfriedman/2017/08/25/why-bil...

"Richard Branson predicts the world will no longer need to kill animals in 30 years" http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/indyventure/memph...

By the way, if anyone who reads still consumes dairy: that stuff is undermining your health. Replacements are getting close, and given that the replacements are WAY more healthy it is just not the same story as meat. (Similar, but less convincing, case can be made for eggs)

If lab grown meat can "in the future" make a dent in slaughtered meat consumption (can attract "us" away), then plant-based dairy alternatives should be able to do so today.

And they do -- https://www.google.nl/search?q=dairy+consumption+is+down -- all over the western world. Their best strategy: sell it to new markets of people that are, unlike those of European decent, much more likely to be lactose intolerant.
Most NOSQL databases are non-relational such that you have to deal with "impedance mismatches". They can have duplicate columns and duplicate rows, for example, which SQL itself is not designed to handle without adding ugly kludges. It's even messier for writes. I didn't mention it due to posting size limits, but each Dynamic Relational table has an auto-generated "ID" column so that each row is unique. Good question!
That is a serious accusation. They have had outages during peak traffic.
http://www.techradar.com/news/amazon-echo-2-arrives-packing

> Amazon is also improving its Alexa API, so it will be easier for the speaker to talk to gadgets in certain rooms without actually having to say that room. So, if you want to turn off a light in the dining room and are in the dining room, only that light will turn off. This is a big thing for Alexa, as it makes the process of using the digital assistant easier.
Idk, I'm not convinced. You're comparing two very different processes--- artificial flavors are a matter of organic chemistry and if we [humans] are guiding the process, then we have to get every single fraction of chemicals exactly right.

Whereas, when you have cells, you already have a system that grows and does the chemistry via it's own enzymes. The dream is that you "just add sugar / water / salt" and it'll grow. I'm not saying that there won't be problems. (Like, maybe the meat tissue think that it's stressed or has been cut, if it's exposed to water/air? Maybe stressed tissue will taste bad or produce bad hormones?) But they will be very very different problems.
I have "fight" in me. Fight is good. The trick is applying it. I am trying to write an article, but provisionally we find "contours of adversity." There are tons of examples like "HVAC power consumption" for servers or "inflammation" for North American eaters. Once we map out stakeholders in the current "state of adversity" we find human specific institutional obstacles in our supply chains habitually feeding off the adversities. Those become the de facto "enemies" of better new options absent much moral theorizing or imagination. A very sound and shared 1980-90's Netizen principle was "IP routes around obstacles." In the field, those obstacles fight back like crazy and often enjoy political allies. Separating those concerns between "problem space" and "solution space" makes for better shared strategies for early teams and growing companies. I am trying to lay down schematic methodological formulations for better conceptualization of value adding and enduring entrepreneurship channeling that beautiful "fight" of human progress.
This is why I usually throw in comments with myself as the recipient for understanding where complexity exists.

I've heard people debate over whether comments should be in well written code, including some that argued comments should never be used at all.

Party A: Code should be easily understandable so that comments aren't necessary.

Party B: Comments should exist where complexity exists to save a developer's time when determining what is and is not important to them.

Sometimes though, you just can't avoid it. The few times I had to write PERL are prime examples.
Even though it happened during peak usage it can't be a scaling issue?
How large of a device do you have in mind? 100 mA is more than enough power for the Photon module, but would require a relatively large solar cell -- probably at least 3 to 4 inches square under ideal conditions.
So is Chrome “Apple’s browser” since it is a fork of WebKit? Android is open source.
Nobody is questioning whether dentists should be payed more than fast food workers, it's just how much more.

Another example: brain surgeons have an average salary in the US of $450 000 [0], in Sweden it's $65 700. I would agree that there is some room for higher salaries for people with advanced degrees in Sweden, but I also think that the income inequality in the US is way too high. It's a cultural thing.

[0] https://www.payscale.com/research/US/Degree=Doctor_of_Medici...

[1] http://www.lonestatistik.se/loner.asp/yrke/Hjarnkirurg-5131
CNN is doing live shots every hour.

Hard to say how much of the island they are covering, they are there.
While this is true factually, the practical benefit of the US registration is the social benefit of being able to flout rules. For drug runners, they have an easier time just radio'ing down passport numbers if they have an american flag on the tail.

You may recall the hubbub about an american plan in Tehran a few years ago (https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/18/world/middleeast/mystery-...). That was this scheme at work.
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«gives up consumer protections such as chargebacks»

True. On the flip side, most merchants are honest so chargebacks are rarely needed. It's a different tradeoff: credit cards open you to ID theft, which is a lot more prevalent than the need for a chargeback, so personally I prefer Bitcoin.

«accepted approximately nowhere»

Any new technology, such as Bitcoin or Apple Pay, has to start from zero. So it is an irrelevant argument anyway. Today Bitcoin is in fact accepted at about 160,000 merchants.

«very little incentive for merchants to add support»

Not true. The biggest, and arguably most important, incentive for merchants to accept Bitcoin is that it allows them to avoid chargeback fraud (payments are irreversible.)

Apple Pay & similar technologies are a huge step up from plain credit/debit cards. Really, it's important to recognize this. But they still have multiple drawbacks. For example, (1) it has transaction limits, (2) it isn't usable for person-to-person payments (eg. paying back lunch money to a coworker), (3) purchases are still subject to authorization so in a way you don't have 100% control of your own money (eg. the system could accidentally flag the transaction as fraudulent and prevent you from buying something.)
If this is basically push-to-talk, then I wonder if it might have some good applications as a walkie-talkie / handheld radio?
Interesting, didn't know that!

I found myself reading this list several times. Intriguing how we have "no wilds" left for soo many of our "favorite" animals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_domesticated_animals
There's a good book about this whole complex of themes, the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis [1] that basically your language determines the way you think (100 words for snow, more/fewer words for colours, etc.):

Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages by Guy Deutscher.

TL;DR: no, language doesn't determine how you see the world. There might be one notable exception - there's a tribe somewhere (forgot the details) that doesn't use front, behind, left, right, but the cardinal directions (they'll actually say, "oh, there's an ant on your northern leg"). As they grow up with this, they have an uncanny sense of where north is wherever they are, even in buildings etc.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity
There's a catch to it. They register "motivational talks" as one of the things the company does. So the expensive material success is subtracted from tax under advertising costs. A lot of those guys are management consultants who are good at this kind of thing.

It's not illegal or too irresponsible, just extremely cost-ineffective.
What's your startup horror story?
I'm partial to giving my address as 1060 West Addison St., Chicago, IL 60613.
Now the government wants to fuck with Reddit? No thanks.
People don't want ads, don't want crypto-currency mining and not not even "popups" asking for emails, want free trials.

Frankly, you just have to click the "x". How hard it is ? I do not understand why does it bug you so much.
I think you'll have a tough row to hoe to establish that I don't care about security.

More importantly, you haven't addressed the concern I just raised. Whether or not you want your SSH keys to be part of a global PKI whose tops are controlled by world governments, the push for deployment of RSA-only DNSSEC software today does in fact make it harder in the long run to deploy ed25519 DNSSEC.

Here are a bunch of arguments against DNSSEC, most of them rooted in security. Which do you find flawed, and why?

https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2015/01/15/against-dnssec/
Sure. I was just saying the cluelessness goes the other way, too, so putting it on devs is at least one sided.

Maybe a product genius can come up with better ways to sell shady stadium seats. But the technical contributors would be able to tell you that the shade-o-matic feature is layers of bad hacks that cost the company $X million a year in dev costs and astronomical security and maintenance risk since it is still running (partly) on old hand-configured Windows XP boxes using a hand-rolled UDP server library backed by an Access database. And that's for a key differentiator for the company.

Profit and success doesn't happen until both sides of the story are accounted for.
I wouldn't mind using a cable if it was fast and went somewhere useful on my phone. e.g. not get stuck in a shitty Canon app. My Canon 6D "has" WiFi but it's so slow and terrible to use it may as well not be there.
Curious how you came up with the name... Wallaroo is a town in my state, and it's originally an Aboriginal word (though I don't recall the meaning).
Photo above the comparison with a plug.
> TouchID can be easily tricked. From december of 2014 at CCC: [1]

While I am sure it is not impossible, nobody has been able to provably "trick" the current-generation Touch ID sensor. Only demonstrated on the first revision (found in the iPhone 5s, and possibly the iPhone 6 too).