skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NSA /CIA and our National Security is as secure as the weakest link. They need not be traitors, just people that got too complacent...while Russia never sleeps (Like NSA does when Russians and others screw up.)

It isn't easy but if tens of thousands people have access to something, it's just a matter of time. And they need access "to connect the dots" so it's a losing game.
Why? When I design a page, I know what I want it to look like. I don't want to have to waste a bunch of my time in compatibility hacks to get around crap that they do different.
Thanks! A note: go incognito if it doesn't work on its first try.
User #5825 here. Here are a few of my favorites:

The whole anti-Microsoft movement on /. Thy were the evil empire and Google was saintly. It’s funny how times change.

The weather station we sent you in hopes of doing a promotion for our weather equipment site, weathertools.com.

OOG THE CAVEMAN. He was DevOpsBorat at least a decade before Twitter.

The launch of Mac OS X and the launch of the first titanium PowerBook.

That CPU startup that Linus was a part of. Most disappointing build-up ever. LOL
I hope NSA is doing the same with Russian Cyber Defense systems. This is what NSA should be focused on and not on turning its eavesdropping capabilities towards the homeland.

What if an adversary where to hack the NSA warehouses were all communications swept up by their eavesdropping efforts are stored?
Traditional filesystems will let files just sit on the hard drive, untouched.

ZFS is a lot more active... checksumming and caching mean that important information is spending time in RAM. It's not good if that information gets corrupted.
So we're labeling people as mentally ill with a view towards criticizing them and their opinions now?
Can you explain why you don't want your photo on Facebook?

It's one thing to chose to abstain from social media, but it feels more invasive to ask others to change what they post.
> Regarding 2.7.13 - you might find it surprising, but it's actually SLOWER than 2.7.2, there has been no speed improvements and quite a few speed decreases, so we decided to keep the faster one.

I don't find it that surprising, but do find it disappointing that you would run benchmarks against the current version, but not post them online for perusal, nor provide any sort of explanation for the use of the older version in head-to-head comparisons. For me, at least, it produces the impression that PyPy has something to hide, and I doubt I'm the only one.
If the US is any example, it is the worst-trained scaredy-pants who walk up to every traffic stop with their hand on the holster, and the cops most "up to the job" who are willing to engage suspects with words, time, and humanity.
> Slashdot was awesome right up until the point that they forced the redesign on everybody and drove away all the users that made it great.

The redesign wasn't what killed it. The constant astroturfing and (what I assumed to be) collusion between astroturfers and site maintainers killed it real dead.
Even if they are an ex-user of Oracle products, they would have had to benchmark the software at a time the were using it or have someone who is using it benchmark it. Either way a benchmark would be made at some point while an Oracle product user, which taking kuschku's word for it, is against the license agreement.
Interesting. After seeing the gloves come off in the last month or so, it hit me just this morning that one could make the case for it being a bad idea to have a system with root access to thousands of US systems in Russian jurisdiction.
I hope this doesn't come off as dickish but it's not intended as such:

I was really expecting more... well... history. As soon as I get interested "he's gotta upgrade for the onslaught of users! How will he handle it?", the article stops.

p.s. Just realized Mr. Taco submitted it himself. So let me add, "Hope your having a great day, and thanks for contributing to the internet and hacker culture." ... But I still want to hear more about your history. ;) I've thought about starting my own IT-centric social site so I'm dying for info.
The C++ bashing season is back
Another damn NSA contractor took confidential information home. Epic fail.
> Printing, or playing by means of some graphics software, seems safe.

emphasis mine
What USB keys are available that have a keypad to type in the password? The only option I know of is OnlyKey:

https://crp.to/

I wouldn't consider an option that didn't have a keypad. Are there any others?
Show HN: A ridiculous counter using only CSS and &lt;marquee&gt;
If you're speaking of something that you have to actively use, that in order to use it your computer will have to decrypt it, rendering it vulnerable to all attacks that a locally stored key would be.
I agree. r/boardgames is awesome if you are into board games.
No, you don't, at least in many ag-based US states. You can own and operate a truck without a license or insurance on private property. Which means nothing would stop someone doing that, and then driving it on the roads and running people over other than a cop being lucky enough to pull them over first.
I imagine that a good portion of HN's readership (and probably MathOverflow.com's) were intellectually gifted as children. Or at the very least, remember themselves that way.

I would therefore caution people on two things: (1) your personal memories of early childhood are often quite distorted, and (2) it's not fair to impose upon a child today the expectations that come from your own ego-distorted memory.

This post caught my attention because I happen to be the father of a 5-year old son, and I myself have been searching for interesting mental exercises to share with him.

It's been an exercise for me as much as for him, teaching me about patience and tempered expectations.

Five years is YOUNG. A generation ago, early childhood educators in the U.S. didn't even typically introduce reading until age six. We start reading in kindergarten now, but typical 5-year olds can generally be expected to recognize repetitive words and basic arithmetic concepts (e.g. 1 + 2 = 3). Even that is limited to short periods of study in each sitting.

Children may vary, but I believe that many of the suggestions on that MathOverflow.com page (as well as comments here about chess, etc) would be better suited for around 7-8 and up. I think it would be unrealistic to expect the majority of 5-year olds to handle much of this, and it would be a mistake to push too hard at that age.
Interesting perspective on speed up neural networks https://semiengineering.com/speeding-up-neural-networks/
what are the benefits of the thinklight over a backlit keyboard? my old thinkpad had the thinklight and i hated it.

i found that while using my laptop in an unlit room with the thinklight, the blue function icons were impossible to distinguish and the top-left and top-right corners of the keyboard required straining my eyes. i was 18-20 years old with 20/20 vision at the time.

i would actually be very tempted by this release if i hadn't just bought a dell XPS because i love the trackpoint (and lenovo's was always leagues ahead of dell's) and i love having dedicated volume controls and a hardware mute button (i can let my function keys be function keys without missing out on single-key volume control).
Journalists.
I currently use a git repository for this purpose. It would be nice to have a better interface for it.
We shun a browser, some other company sees that, and decides not to become a monopoly? Sounds implausible.

MSFT has new leadership and is cooperating much with open platforms more than ever before. Let's encourage that.
Netflix is raising its prices
"An NSA contractor brought home documents about U.S. offensive cyber capabilities.

He used Kaspersky on his home computer.

Russian government hackers stole the documents."

https://twitter.com/ericgeller/status/915983591737319427

So, yah, avoid Kaspersky AV software.
Google admits citing 4chan to spread fake Vegas shooter news
I do not understand why they're still putting GPUs in laptops under 17". Sell me an external thunderbolt 3 GPU for the rare occasion where I need a GPU, use the space you save for something else.

The difference between entry-level to mid-tier mobile GPUs and Intel's integrated graphics is too small to justify carrying it around with you 24/7.

GPUs are the new DVD drive.
I really appreciate both of these comments. Thank you both.
> Microsoft Edge for iOS and Android brings familiar features like your Favorites, Reading List, New Tab Page and Reading View across your PC and phone, so, no matter the device, your browsing goes with you. But what makes Microsoft Edge really stand out is the ability to continue on your PC, which enables you to immediately open the page you’re looking at right on your PC—or save it to work on later.

If you use Edge on your desktop, this would be a good companion app. Similar to Chrome on iOS.
I dont know how to put this.

Inequality, is simply the cause of all these problem. That is everything from Spain, Brexit, US ( Trump ), and Hong Kong.

Housing prices is a big part of it. Because of QE, US has exported inflation around the world, along with China getting very rich since joining WTO, Pushes Asset prices to level unheard of.

Now some of you may think all these are irrelevant to the post above. Most people protest and wanted democracy not because it is a noble thing to do. They want better living standard, or for Hong Kong they simply want a place to live. Hong Kong housing prices / income is 50% to double of Vancouver. And people were calling Vancouver's prices insane.

They wanted their voice to be heard. And then hope some changes are being made. It was that simple, so they have hope, somewhere along the line in their future, they have hope some of these issues they have will be resolved.

Look at the world right now, politician in modern world is 10 times worst then what it was 10 - 20 years ago. They act a lot slower, but thanks to technology information flow has gotten million times faster. People's patient are wearing out. What do you expect them to do.

Read this pieces which descirbe the problem, and why some in Silicon Valley dont get it.

https://steveblank.com/2017/08/12/working-outside-the-tech-b...

At the end of the post.

I don’t know how the people I listened to and talked to voted, but it’s easy to see why they might feel as if no one in Washington is living their lives. And that the tech world is just as distant as Hollywood or Wall Street.
Looks a bit weird in Edge.
My apologies. I misread your original statement.
Don't take this to absurdisms. I take it you're not American? The stereotypes about us are no more true than the stereotypes about your country.
That's funny because one of the biggest name in the Litecoin community is also one of the biggest names on Steem.
Sad to see postage becoming unmaintained shortly after the first time I heard about it.

That said it seems there is little to gain except nice words for smaller open source efforts.
Like most of us, I drifted away a long time ago

I just checked and was shocked I remembered my password there.
I always thought we had this backwards. We should abandon sending the UA altogether and design pages according to the standards. If a browser doesn't render then correctly, then tell the browser to fix their shit.

I realize that nowadays this isn't as simple as that, but if we had started along that path, things would be much better now.
Edge means offloading cloud computation to thick clients.
What on earth could possibly be the point to this? Bookmark sharing between mobile and desktop Edge? Is that what we have to thank for more fragmentation?
Why the need to talk about it? It's never occurred to me to go telling everyone I meet that I don't use FB. My friends already know that if they want to contact me, they can call or E-mail, so it generally never comes up in conversation.
You’re right, the Turks invaded before the Greeks managed to do so. I suppose the U.K. might have been the closest to sincere of the signatories to the Treaty of Guarantee. Let it be noted that the Turkish invasion was a response to a Greek government backed coup of the Cypriot government.

Fuck nuance. Never give up your nukes and never trust anyone for your vital interests.
Because Facebook will still run its face detection algorithms etc., thus allowing them to build a database of information to resell to advertisers even if you don’t have an explicitly created Facebook page.

I don’t see how asking friends to not post pictures of you online is invasive. However, posting pictures of someone online if they’ve asked you not to is extremely rude.
This makes me wonder if previous versions of OS X and macOS store encrypted volume passwords in plain text as well or if this flaw is storing the entered password as the hint when setting up the volume, but that doesn't seem likely if unlocking the volume is possible with the password.
Remember that one-bit errors aren't necessarily small errors. A single one bit change when working with 64 bit floating point can result in a very large difference in value.

0b0111111111101111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 == 1.7976931348623157e+308

0b0011111111101111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 == 0.9999999999999999
The word families page is great! I'll have to sit my daughter down with it today.

I should probably bite the bullet and get comfortable enough with javascript to take your approach. Here are some pico-8 demos I made with similar ideas:

https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=3846

https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=3259

https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=3136
Interesting. How do you use it? Like a key-value store?
Kaspersky preempting (presumably) this story:

"New conspiracy theory, anon sources media story coming. Note we make no apologies for being aggressive in the battle against cyberthreats"

https://twitter.com/e_kaspersky/status/915946040561487875

Edit: Kaspersky press release https://usa.kaspersky.com/about/press-releases/2017_kaspersk...
Do you encrypt your keys before exporting? How do you ensure you'll remember the passphrase, if so?
Lets encourage that if it is due. It looks like Edge is still proprietary. If they opened it up, I'd give it a shot. As it is still closed off, I'm personally not interested.
> (only 5000 units produced)

Jeez, that's as bad as Nintendo's latest retro gaming consoles.
Yep you misunderstood, I was saying WireGuard has similar code complexity to the Go VPN implementation linked here :)
But if you also short the worst performing stocks, you still have massive drawdowns. That is somewhat more surprising. I would like to see an explanation for that.

Is it because the top decile stocks are higher beta than the bottom decile stocks?

Is it because of the selection of rebalancing periods? I.e. if the big crashes happen towards the end of a five year period then perhaps the bottom decile stocks have already dropped significantly and have nowhere to go while the top decile stocks have risen significantly and have plenty of room to fall.
You know what's even easier? Zfs snapshots and zfs send/recv.
This is my first time filming a major conference. My prior experience is competitive eSports streaming, so LinuxFest was somewhat of a jump. Looking forwards to 2018, most/all issues should be ironed out.

More info is in my blog post: http://www.muffintech.org/blog/id/4/
Thanks for the book recommendation! Just bought it. Agreed that smart contracts and technology in general could be used to reduce transaction costs.
I was with Slashdot for 8 years. There are a lot of memories I could share, but the thing I appreciated most about my time there was just how much Rob (and the core team of engineers and editors) really cared about the site and its users. It's rare to see such conviction from tech companies or leaders of large, user-centric websites.

I'm not sure Slashdot's users ever really understood how much time and energy Rob expended defending the site from user-hostile changes tossed without concern from the upper echelons of the org chart.

Thanks Rob.
There’s a certain incredible postmodern truth to this.

News, even though sounding really important, is really just entertainment. This is such a hard idea to wrap your head around sometimes. That being said I just got off of The Daily Mail / NY Times, but in a way that was just entertainment and calling it anything else would just be an illusion.

What then is news? Well first the newsworthy is in direct proportion to your ability to get involved. So local news is almost always news, followed by State, then National, the international. The internet does indeed exist and has changed news somewhat but the hierarchy above is still important.

Also news is a lot of context. So if you want to be an informed citizen reading about what’s going on now is one of the worst things you can do sometimes. Free Speech, racism, violence, the limits of power, the philosophy of law, capitalism, etc. these are tough concepts that you have to read about if you want any chance of understanding.

The “Very Short Introduction” series is one of the best ways to get started:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_Short_Introductions
Depending on how you plan to use it, a bitset may be more efficient (at least memory wise). E.g. https://gist.github.com/cslarsen/1590498
Is PyPy ideally plug'n'play, i.e. is it supposed to be able to seamlessly replace the CPython interpreter (ideally in that it may not factually be completely compatible, but is it aimed to be completely compatible)?
What reddit communities do you consider "toxic"?
Bridge: just a joke

Maybe the Burry list, in order:

1. The intelligent investor, Graham & Dodd

2. Common stocks and uncommon profits, Fisher

3. Why stocks go up and down, Pike

4. Buffettology, Buffett and Clark

but of course a lot of it is trends in accounting and legal issues. Which may be hard to learn on your own.
Google Clips Uses Intel's AI-Enabled SoC
>if you folks use it and grow your app to be successful, we make money. If you use it and really like it, you're more likely to use Firebase and Cloud's other products,

the issue is the inverse is also true: If you folks don't use it, we don't make money, and we deploy these resources elsewhere. See Parse
ZFS snapshots don't handle the same use-case as streaming replication, I've got backups handled quite nicely with barman.
Sure: except that rule isn't useful. You can't _rely_ on undefined behavior, so preserving the rule that "memcpy(x, y, n) is undefined if x or y are null" isn't helpful. OTOH, preserving the rule that memcpy(x,y,n) is defined for all x,y when n==0 really is useful.
I really started to like instagram.

Basically I realized at some point that:

1. Facebook was family, and I really don't care about their constant drama.
2. Twitter, for better or worse, is so political. I care, but I just can't handle being outraged 24 hours a day.
3. Linkedin is a cesspool of wannabe self-help gurus.

Turns out that the only thing that I'd like to share that other people might actually be interested in or understand is pictures of the pretty places I hike to, or my kitchen experiments, and Instagram is great for that.
It's not just the companies behind it that are a problem.

The concept of civil debate and discourse is, in large part a thing of the past. Issue any opinion, politely, well reasoned on facebook and you most likely be savaged.
Norway certainly can't import Chinese drills at 0% and then re-export them to Germany under the Norwegian tariff. Those drills are still of Chinese origin, and re-labeling them otherwise would be illegal. Only Norwegian drills can benefit from Norway's 10% tariff.

As for goods of mixed origin (manufactured in Norway but benefiting from Chinese inputs/components), that is indeed where things get complicated. And that's one of the reasons why trade agreements typically run many thousands of pages and take years to negotiate! But the WTO has pretty comprehensive "Rules of origin" to use as a starting point.
For memcpy(x,y,n), x and y can refer to the last byte on a page. What are you going to do, prefetch that one byte?
So hundreds were beat up in Catalonia and many here said it was justified. Spain is sending their army to Catalonia to squash independance there.

Yet everyone jumps on HK for arresting activists who knowingly and intentionally broke the law...
I have an x230t and it's amazing. Core i5, SSD and 16 GB RAM. Plus it has a touch screen with a pressure sensitive pen.

It was like $1200 less than all these computers people are talking about here.
> even those who know their algorithms are at a risk of bias are more interested in the bottom line

There's more to it than the bottom line, the trouble is that nobody wants to take responsibility trying to change the world that they think they've distilled into a model - there's a lot of fitting decisions to past patterns than actually changing society.

The algorithms are inheriting biases from the past and hiding them - your zipcode affecting your repayment potential, that's good old redlining in action all over again. Change can happen, but the algorithms will hide the bias, where it can't be challenged.

And then there's carried-over sample bias - if most people who sign up to clinical trials for cancer are those of a certain level of wealth, with adequate help to drive them to the chemo, then the uncovered genetic samples that come out of the research program will reflect the economic inequality advantages which was offered to a geriatric during their earning years.

Algorithms which rely on past information to be incrementally better are in fact conservative towards their underlying model. Anything else would be self-destructive to the algorithm and in effect, be a problem to the user of the algorithms.
> There's not going to be a next one, there's going to be 10.

I don't agree. People tent to congregate on online forums that achieved critical mass, and tend to flock where everyone already is. Plenty of slashdot alternatives, including slashdot clones, were already launched across the ages, and they never succeeded attracting the same level of content and same sort of community. Well, except HN which, at least to me, represents a far improvement.
You should stop using the internet if you're concerned about other people knowing your IP address.
McSweeney's Decorative Gourd Season: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/its-decorative-gourd-sea...
Five digit slashdot here and star post name, but I have most switched to Hacker news. HN updates immediately, raises highest voted topics to top. I notice both cover the same articles. The slashdot ads are a lttle annoying.
URL or HTML to PDF: https://github.com/tecnospeed/pastor
Ahh, memories. (I'm slashdot user #9784.)

I remember when our tiny company (with a 2 Mbit/s uplink, iirc) was slashdotted:

https://ask.slashdot.org/story/00/05/27/2227209/thoughts-on-...

I was running (our homebrew) web server with debug output in an xterm (with timing details for every request served) throughout this ordeal, just to be sure it didn't screw up. (We didn't really have a thorough testing regime, ahem.)
Has someone yet curated a list of All Slashdot Polls Concerning or Mentioning Cowboy Neal?
It boggles my mind they don’t require source files for things running with administrative privledges on government computers, so they can audit it and then compile it themselves. Though in this case it wouldn’t have helped, because apparently the information was brought home to a personal computer.