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October 6th/8th, you mean?

I found it interesting that, in his article, he said:
"With our novel attack technique, it is now trivial to exploit implementations that only accept encrypted retransmissions of message 3 of the 4-way handshake. In particular this means that attacking macOS and OpenBSD is significantly easier than discussed in the paper"

but elsewhere it said recent versions of OS X and iOS are not impacted. I wonder if the "safe" OSes are only vulnerable to the blocking/replay but not the decryption of data?

My UniFi AP-PROs show up today so I'll make sure to update them first thing.

Also, I'm having a bit of a hard time understanding the attack. It sounds like he forces them to connect to his AP, performs the attack, then allows them to connect to the intended network with the zeroed key, THEN is able to sniff that client's traffic because he knows their key? If I understand correctly, this means he cannot sniff the whole network's traffic, only the traffic between the attacked client and the AP? This makes me wonder about the meaning of a pre-shared key, but I'm guessing the PSK is only used to setup the relationship between client and AP, and then after the initial connection/pairing the pre-shared key is no longer used...
What I find symptomatic is that everyone takes Rick being the superior genius as granted - while there is little evidence of his real superiority. In most likelihood, he was slightly more experienced then the rest of the team and knew slightly more at the beginning. The evidence of them being actually capable is there in the subsequent work. Which was better then Ricks, but note how they don't get to be praised for skill at all. Only Rick is.

The pattern I have seen multiple times in IT companies is that if you act the way Rick is described to act, you will create aura of geniality around you. If you are the slightly more experienced and a lot more confident, you rejecting other peoples ideas or criticizing their work will be unconditionally accepted as truth. And once aura is there, it is also pretty easy to frame every difference of opinion as objective truth that they are wrong.That gives others little chance in politics.

Describing experience: it does not matter that those slightly less experienced needed maybe two-three months to get up to speed, it does not matter that what they proposed was actually equally valid solution to the problem at hand. It does not matter that Rick saving day from someone else bad solution was may Rick rewriting equally valid code to another equally valid code.

What happens is that Rick acted arrogant and therefore everyone in leadership and in comments assumes he was the biggest rock star there was in the company. Other people cooperated well, therefore they are clearly less skilled than Rick was.

As for working 12 hours a day 7 days a week - it is irrational and invariably leads to inferior results. However a person who has discipline to go home, sleep, exercise, take rest, say no will not be praised as a role model, despite making better more rational decisions. Nope, the one who does irrational decisions is fallen genius hero.
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This line is much more concise as

let a = check(param0)?;

or possibly

let a = check(param0).map_err(|_| Err(""))?;

depending.
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That's weird. I bought two YubiKeys on amazon.co.uk about 1.5 years ago and was able to use the replacement form on Yubico's site (the one that asks for three OTPs) to order replacements directly from them.
Hammer has always looked cool on paper but it's a hard sell to switch away from the battle-tested options like ZFS for a v1.0 codebase. Filesystems are not really an area of the system that is amenable to flavor-of-the-month, and the dustbins of history are littered with one-man-show filesystems that didn't make the cut.

btrfs is fighting much the same battle for adoption and frankly has a much better chance of seeing success since it's not tied to a niche OS like DragonflyBSD. ZFS-on-Linux finally being available+stable was a massive milestone in terms of adoption since it finally broke away from the tight ties to the Solaris/BSD ecosystems.

So yeah, regardless of how amazing Hammer is, I do have to ask whether there's really space for another filesystem out there. Kudos to Dillon for going ahead and doing it anyway though ;)
this is awesome. there's also progress being made on compiling to nvptx so soon-ish it will be possible to write CUDA kernels directly in Rust.
Show HN: Free Bootstrap-4 UI Kit with 8 Templates and 100+ Components-UnderExpress
Where are the job postings if they exist? I'm interested.
This is exactly why punishment is so important.
I wonder what kind of people use SL nowadays.
Sure - if you want to raise from US investors you will probably need to be a DE-company (outside of exceptional circumstances). In any case I am happy to help, just enter your info into the form here: https://atriumllp.typeform.com/to/uTAYKJ
Rust with https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/2000-cons... should be better positioned to pay physicists real dividends than C++. Fingers crossed!
Why do many people (including bitcoin fans) assume that bitcoin must replace the world's currencies to be successful? Does anyone judge PayPal on that metric? I just think bitcoin can fill PayPal's niche in a more open decentralized way.
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> If you go as fast as the sign says, you will most likely cause traffic.

Counterpoint: creating traffic by going at the speed limit requires that other people on the road are going over. Both parties are to blame, but only one party isn't increasing their energy at a exponential rate (1/2mv^2).
This seems like a really impressive effort to make sense of all this!

Would the original game have been written in assembly? And if so, would the source have looked similar to this?

Having never touched assembly language (aside from learning some very basic cracking many years ago swapping JE for JNE in the serial check routine, haha), it seems like a true dark art to me, so I’m really curious to know!
Just the traffic between the impacted client and the network, right? Because each client is using a different key (has to be, if we're able to reset just one client's key to all zeros)
https://crocs.fi.muni.cz/public/papers/rsa_ccs17 covers that aspect of the issue. Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15482441
It sounds like only Rick worked that much. While there is management to take part of the blame, I have seen multiple times developers working that much because they wanted to. Sometimes they thought it "must be that way", other times they wanted to pretend they are heroes to save the day and did things that could easily wait. Yet other times, they had no life out of work or messy life and this allowed them to pretend it is not the case.
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Price transparency is a lingering issue in American retail, period. How many advertised prices have surcharges, taxes, tips, fees, additions, etc?
Bitcoin isn't the internet of money, it is an internet for money. With this distinction in mind, it would be foolish to think that the first cryptocurrency would be the last. It took many implementations and iterations of wide area networks to arrive at the Internet Protocol we have today.

While Bitcoin doesn't share the same set of problems as fiat currency, it has its own burdens, and has proven completely ineffective as a functional money system outside of speculation and fraud. The novelty of Bitcoin is supposedly its 'immutable ledger', a phrase used so frequently in defending Bitcoin, that it has become divorced from its meaning, and divorced from the reality that solutions to distributed logging existed long before Bitcoin, and many more solutions to this problem will be developed with no regard to the blockchain.

Bitcoin itself will never replace anything -- cryptocurrencies will remain monolithic in purpose and function for a very long time. The underlying ideas to the Bitcoin protocol will be iterated on, and we'll see these ideas implemented in distributed software, but to incessantly hype Bitcoin as the singular platform for cryptocurrency is to live in a bubble.

pls buy litecoin
That's a nice feel-good position to express, but is there any empirical evidence for it? There are plenty of very smart people (in academia) who are narcissistic, paranoid of potential rivals, and generally the opposite of cooperative and collaborative.
I do believe that I will never feel as rich as I did when I went from negative net worth to zero. That liberating feeling was amazing, as it's all upside after that.

You'll get there, and it'll feel so good when you do.
People are bad at judging value. Facebook might be valuable for them but they dont want to pay for it. People barely pay $10/month for news or music, let alone social media. There are also plenty of alternatives, both free and paid, and not much advantage in any one single platform.
Heh, we have a similar experience here in the bay area from all the wild fires.
I'm in London for the O'Reilly Software Architects conference and I looked out my window at one point and was like "woah" that's an ominous orange sky. It was really cool and weird.
A prefab home designed by computer algorithms
>>> PayPal wouldn't use this approach if you were right. They'd have a 0% use result. They have billions of dollars in transaction volume at stake, they're not going with an approach that guarantees a 0% outcome.

Doesn't mean anything. They could have not thought of it at all, or tested it on some platforms were it worked while some others don't.

Billions dollars companies are not immune to bugs and typo. I have seen some by my own eyes.
Gravitational wave detectors like LIGO (https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/page/what-is-ligo) are very precise laser range finders used as rulers. They can measure extremely small expansions and contractions of space itself.

Discovering a quantized theory of gravity is possibly _the_ major open question in physics atm. We presume there's a 'graviton' of some sort, but have not observed it yet.
Traefik 1.4 is out
Good question. Here is one I like that my friend Suhail used to raise $ for Mixpanel: https://mixpanel.com/blog/2014/12/18/open-sourcing-our-pitch...
My day job matches that description!
It's all in there. Probably start with PlayerCtrlRoutine.
I think this is great. Existing products/sites aren't always kept up to date and you never know if they are still functioning.

Before working in an office, when I needed to fax a document I would have to drive to a Staples/Post Office or find a friend with an old fax machine.
Many of the cloud services now offer FPGA acceleration hardware. Maxeler Technologies (maxeler.com) offers both hardware and software which allows exploitation of data flow engine acceleration on private hardware or on Amazon's AWS.

If this sort of thing interests you, take a look at Brian Boucher's Sept 27, 2017 talk given at Stanford in EE380: Multiscale Dataflow Computing: Competitive Advantage at the Exascale Frontier [YouTube VIDEO https://youtu.be/Nwdu7QlFUnA].
Author here. From our perspective, CapnProto has similar characteristics as Flatbuffers and the reasons to prefer Arrow over it are the same: We would need to develop a mapping from Python types to CapnProto from scratch and Arrow has many facilities that are useful for us already built (Tensor serialization, code to deal with some Python types like datetimes, zero copy DataFrames, a larger ecosystem for interfacing with other formats like parquet, reading from HDFS, etc.). And it is designed for Big Data. So Arrow was a very natural choice (and it also supports Windows). Wes is doing some amazing work here!
Yep, and BTW that link is on the Youtube page Bleeping Computer DID link to...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewMZCxi8l8A

As a side note, it seems from the video that the "rolling code" is 4 digits, so maybe the device could be used also for "brute-forcing" in a "reasonable" time even if you haven't recorded "last code".
I like how the bar chart has a shadow 'total' behind the two groups
> unlike fiat which is counterfeited as a matter of course by the central bank to pay the federal government so it can buy bombs

While I agree with your underlying premise, you're comically off mark in your criticism. Fiat (in this case we're obviously talking about the US Dollar) is mostly counterfeited by the US Government to buy votes, pay for welfare programs, shore up hemorrhaging entitlement programs, and to pay military salaries & benefits (the vast majority of military expenditures).

Bombs are a low single digital factor in the dollar debasement party from the last ~45 years.

The US budget deficit is approaching such a permanently large scale in non-recession years, that you could wipe out the entire US military and not balance the budget, while still running a real deficit on needed spending for things like infrastructure, Social Security, healthcare, et al.

Bomb (weapons) expenditures are near the bottom of financial concerns. The US has a massive, system-wide cost imbalance on nearly everything (all entitlement programs, all healthcare programs, all infrastructure programs, all education). In government we spend more and get less, on basically everything vs other developed nations.

Want to slash $300 billion out of the military? Ok. In ten years, we'll still have a $600+ billion perpetual budget deficit just due to ballooning entitlement programs alone (and about $27-$30 trillion in public debt at that point, most of which didn't come from bombs either).
[Citation needed]

US federal + state + local governments spend an obscene amount of money on healthcare. Including extra funding to keep many rural healthcare facilities open etc.

Other countries spend less government money per person on Universal healthcare than the US spends right now. Considering it's far from a universal system it's already subsidizing healthcare costs.
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Filesystems are not really an area of the system that is amenable to flavor-of-the-month and running v1.0 of a new codebase doesn't sound appealing.

Just as a counterpoint to running a v1.0 filesystem, Apple just rewrote from scratch their entire filesystem (APFS) and force updated their entire userbase of hundreds of millions of iOS devices and macOS to use a v1.0 of APFS.

They haven't seem to have any problems running a v1.0 filesystem and I have to imagine way more people are now running APFS then ZFS ever.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_File_System
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I guess it depends on what you think micromanagement is. I know devs who think "you can work on any item in this list of things but no others" is micromanagement.
How come? Now, they just sell more I.O.U.s to pay the ones that reach the due date. They could do exactly the same in BTC, gold, tulips, or whatever.
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Even the smallest possible population reduction is 25%. It's hard to see that and not ask for a reason.
> My experience in over 60,000 miles in those parts of the world through more than 30 countries would say they are an order of magnitude less crashes there than in US/Australia/Europe, in the towns and cities.

Do you have any statistics that indicate that there are 90% fewer accidents in Latin American and West African cities than in Western, adjusted for the number of drivers? Seems rather optimistic.
What happens when you lose your wallet, or someone steals the peace of paper with your private key? Credit cards and atms get stolen all the time.
Driverless cars could let you choose who survives in a crash
Chihuahua or muffin? My search for the best computer vision API
If your work computer is not also your home computer you can just edit your hosts file to block social sites on your work computer.
> I think OkCupid must have fallen victim to getting bought out and watered down

I'm betting that they run tests for everything and change into whatever direction the results tells them. If people like "slide to the left/right" and a simple UI, no walls of text, quizzes, etc, so be it.
Nice. How do you fund this without taking emails or requiring a subscription?
Quantum Communication Demonstrated in Real-Life City Conditions
>Maybe the author lives in some magical wonderland filled with good drivers, but this is not what I observe at all.

The author of the article has not said those words. They were said by Karl Iagnemma who is a scientist from MIT, and the CEO of a company that makes software for self-driving cars.

It didn't sound like something a reasonable person would say so I tried to track down the context of the quote, and it seems to be a mystery. My guess is that the quote came out of a larger interview, and it obviously meant to highlight the fact that 'standing out' by following rules in a way that other drivers are not expecting you to, makes things much more worse. That makes sense to me, as opposed to your interpretation.
That's awful, in your situation I'd be afraid to have kids too. You can live far away from them or not have kids or both. I hope you can find peace and not feel like you need to defend your choice to anyone, you have all the right in the world to deal with the family that was inflicted on you in any way you see fit and without worrying what other people think.

To be clear, the question was about personal experience, and I'm only sharing my own experience and not suggesting mine works for anyone else. Clearly your personal experience is very different from mine, and different choices are in order.

FWIW, I was a 12 hour drive from all grandparents when my first was born, and living in San Francisco. We didn't have any grandparent support, and even after moving closer, we haven't had a lot. What we have done is hire babysitters now and then, and also play and travel with our kids a lot. The realization that my fears about freedom before kids was unfounded didn't really depend on having family support.
From TFA:

Although websites or apps may use HTTPS as an additional layer of protection, we warn that this extra protection can (still) be bypassed in a worrying number of situations. For example, HTTPS was previously bypassed in non-browser software, in Apple's iOS and OS X, in Android apps, in Android apps again, in banking apps, and even in VPN apps.
I once read that the way SMB was able to pull off the physics engine on such limited hardware was that it used lookup tables for physics instead of actually calculating velocity. My assembly-fu is weak but it looks like your link is to the section that contains all the lookup tables. I think JumpMForceData for example is a series of offsets for each successive frame after you hit the jump button.

https://gist.github.com/1wErt3r/4048722#file-smbdis-asm-L611...

This line shows the calculation that makes use of the JumpMForceData.
That, or... if enough AI drivers are out there then maybe humans will just learn to live with them.

While crashing into an AI driver I may be able to blame the AI, it's still a huge pain and possible loss for me as a human.

If the reality is that AI is not leaving and they have peccadilloes, then the human drivers and legal structure will just need to adapt (something we aren't bad at).
The only real way to drive down prices is competition.

I honestly don't understand why we can't make the military's medical system available as such a source of competition; if government waste is so rampant and procurement so expensive, surely private companies can easily beat them on price if they are also in the market.
I understand your point, but I think people put too much into the actual act of getting married. For my wife and I, I realized essentially nothing changed between us. The only real change was that I was no longer "living in sin" according to my family, and people pester us more often about having kids.

Also people make the mistake of thinking getting married will change things for the better. It never fixes issues.
Assuming you have people around that can locate you/dig you out (beacon/shovel/etc. you mentioned), and you manage to have some breathing space (that could allow you to survive for a few hours in the best case). If not, then probably those stats with lightning strike might be comparable, i.e. you rarely survive. There are plenty of "lone wolf" tourists/off-slope skiers. I used to ignore these when I was a reckless teen, now I try to be super careful.
Any random full stack engineer off the street could apply to any government contract, reply to RFPs, and bid on anything.

Everyone is already doing it. You can make $200,000+ a few years out of college as a software engineer if you go the TS-SCI clearance route, from any third tier state school. Oh look and now you can also apply to Facebook with that skillset and clearance.

A company with thousands upon thousand of full stack engineers getting work for full stack engineers? Wow sound the alarms lets speculate on what the contract is!

And yes, they probably also are trying to leverage their broad infrastructure for department of defense applications.
Ask HN: Aging and transference of dichotomy – the expense of attention
HN is ripe with many articles and posts and shows of "look, how, I did" etc...

As i get older, I see such amazing things posted to HN, and a worship of tech and even our understanding of tech in general.

Every engineer at every company wants to think they are "making the world a better place" because the tech industry is an endorphin game.

People sit and "produce" and feel like they are making something great (as they are able to use their minds and imagination to build something) but the output of their work is utter bullshit.

Humans used to "escape" the hardships of manual labor via entertainment vectors such as movies...

Yet now we elate ourselves in consumption of entertainment.

The only escape I want is in reality; sans surveillance, technology, social, whatever.

My whole career is "cloud" -but my humanity is anything but.

I don't want "work/life balance" I just want 'life'...

If you're a cyberpunk futurist then you should be able to look objectively at the current state and find a better path forward.

I'm starting to find that path, what have you found/thought for yourself to find that path?

(Written on my stupid smartphone on a whim on the sidewalk, so not as articulate as a diatribe I may have written from a how quaint keyboard. When I said 'computer... I saycomputer' - my tricorder didn't respond)
On the contrary, I'm a lot more uptight about it when I drive frequently, because I eventually get tired of people nearly killing me or breaking my stuff because they can't be bothered to put the least bit of effort into their driving.
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Developing a browser with web3 api support, what do you guys think?
If anyone is interested in learning more about serverless, AWS lambda, etc. There's a webinar this Thursday:
https://read.iopipe.com/announcing-the-things-to-know-about-...
I don't think any version of Facebook that bills their users would be viable. None at all.

There's something that could be viable it bundled with other products. That something would be much more like email than Facebook (what is good). Yet, ad-based Facebook would beat it all the time.
Arguably, most of the woes of capitalism are because IT also depends on a better version of humanity than currently exists. It depends on greed and self-interest (largely correctly), but also assumes informed rational consumers, which we definitely don't have. In particular, the built-in corrective options of capitalism depend on a large number of such consumers.

Not saying it's better or worse but ignoring this aspect of capitalism invites problems. (IMNSHO)
It's worth mentioning that there is a very common confusion around what is meant by a theory. It isn't the same as a guess. It has to be well supported. We've had good reason to think gravitational waves existed based on the well supported math of gravity.

Last year we got the first expirmental confirmation of this.

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