skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
„submitted for review on 19 May 2017“ ... „OpenBSD was notified of the vulnerability on 15 July 2017“

Can anyone explain the timeline of releasing such significant security findings? Why is it disclosed to the public 1/2 year after submitting to review? I'd guess the (publicly funded) research behind it is a lot older than that.
I can imagine flying cars, and have been promised them for a century now. (As for autonomous motorcycles, I don't see a use-case)
They might not be popular with the companies, but I flew regular cattle-class on a 380 to Dubai and it was better than premium economy on some 747s.
Why is a random VPS provider's ISP more trustworthy than your own?
Then quit your job and become a plumber...
Mysql would fall back to a disk based sort once the data set is too large.

Perhaps it's his client that is OOM-ing? Back in the day, I remember the PHP mysql client loading the entire result set into a local buffer unless you explicitly asked for the output to be streamed.

Edit:
Found reference to PHP behavior I mentioned:
http://php.net/manual/en/mysqlinfo.concepts.buffering.php
I've heard horror stories of supposedly quite serious software modelling programs behaving quite differently when their input problem was rotated a few degrees.

Sounds perfectly normal :)

The standard advice here at work for one of our modelling packages is: if it crashes try rotating your input model by one degree and try again. Most of the time that will fix it. If it doesn't fix it try one degree in the other direction.
Do I have to update the both the AP and the client or is one of them enough?
This depends on the type of avalanche. I know,because I was caught in one. The one I was in was relatively minor and made up of a large part newly fallen snow. I had stopped for a break and managed to get my skis back on, but the thing overtook me hundred meters later. I had managed to get to higher ground relative to the rest of the slope, which is probably what saved me. I broke one leg and both my arms and got a pretty bad concussion.

I managed to walk/ski (one ski was still on me, but badly broken ) to a nearby village and driven on a stretcher to the hospital.

I am lucky to be alive. It is amazing though how clear you can think in life threatening situations. the moment I noticed the avalanche I knew exactly what to do and where to go. When I was buried I remember rocking back and forth to get some wiggle/breathing room and when it stopped I waited until my mind cleared up, struggling hard to defeat the panic and pain, until assessing g the situation.
> CAT5 and duct tape are your friend.

That's heinously ugly though.
Just from witnessing what people are looking at on their smartphones (in Spain), couple of years ago it was all facebook now it's all whatsapp - even older age groups (60+).

Only people I know ever mentioning facebook are (as mentioned in the other reply) middle-aged upwards.
This feels like some kind of prisoner's dilemma game theory problem. By defecting from the embargo, OpenBSD gained potential security for its users at the expense of all other users. Overall, this is a loss, unless you use OpenBSD. I have to agree with the researchers on this one; OpenBSD acted selfishly here.
Sometimes signalling your virtues is what you want to achieve. In the twitter example, Twitter decides that Trump hasn't technically broken a rule (debatable), so you signal that your virtues are more important than Twitters rules by leaving, a perfectly valid response.
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Never went into rapids, but I went into a beach between caribean sea and atlantic ocean, known for having a bit more waves (nothing like a class V rapid, maybe 1m waves max.). I failed to catch one at the right time and got swallowed into the crashing tube, it was hard to describe how being embedded in a fluid with enough internal energy feels.
Between the chaotic directions and the actual strength I turned into a wooden puppet. I ended up eating the sand face first while my heel knocked my head from behind. Something I cannot do on my own, its just the wave that folded me backward. I'm lucky I didn't breath water I'd have finished that day in a hospital or worse.
A bunch of dudes on a linux mailing list lack the authority to prevent openbsd from fixing things.
> My two and a half year old Moto E has the October 5th security patches for Android.

But it has very few kernel security patches: https://cve.lineageos.org/android_kernel_motorola_msm8610
QA is like linting, having a style guide, having a strong type system and so on.

QC is looking for bugs for in the usual suspects for every output and fixing them as you discover. This can be automated and/or manual.
You should check out the Celeste project [1]. Julia is a more than viable option for HPC.

https://juliacomputing.com/case-studies/celeste.html
Those "expensive luxures" are cheap. Mandatory things like education, healthcare and rent on the other hand are very expensive.
I wonder how well Google's database would work in an interplanetary setting, where due to high relative velocities the property of simultaneity does not exist.
They probably did at some point in the misty past. The problem is that running relevant experiments is often very expensive (otherwise they wouldn't need to do it in software) and they can only test a tiny handful of cases. More often than not your calibrating your model against another model that was calibrated against another model that was calibrated against a set of simple experiments done in the 60's.
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Do people publish work based on this thing?

Is correctness somehow assured provided it doesn't crash? Or is the whole thing just a joke?
Festo has other amazing bionic robots (flying, jumping, swimming, diving ones) and usually creates a new one for the "Hannover Messe" ("Hanover Fair", an important trade fair in Germany) every year. There is a lot of footage on Youtube, check it out!
Even when the author states that now as a result of that selfishness OpenBSD won't get notified about vulnerabilities until well after everyone else?
The important thing here is 'chip scale'. This is a device that can be integrated into relatively small packages, enabling a number of use cases.

To give an example - direction finding of the source of a radio signal using multiple drones. This requires the drones to have extremely good time synchronisation so that the time of arrival at each of them can be compared. With a CS atomic package that can be a trivial exercise, without it you need to rely on an external timing reference of some form (e.g. GPS).
Depends on the phone. I'm using a ~ 4 year old phone with LineageOS. I also have a Russian phone whose userland source code was never released, and no open source ROM exists; this phone is swimming in vulnerabilities and languishing in Android 6.
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It's a pity this didn't completely break WPA2 like how WEP was broken, now it will be years before there's any new security developments. Things like management frame authentication and dynamic client keys for open networks would be big improvements for the majority of use cases.
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> unit of value

Nope, it's a unit of human work. Value is a subjective measure.
Doesn't Facebook own whatsapp?

They're not leaving Facebook, just switching from one Facebook property to another.
Also it's relatively hard sci-fi for what you can find on TV - it tries to stay very close to the real physics, including orbital mechanics. I second the recommendation!
This is great, in enterprise software we often have to resort to a bunch of front-end integration using iframes and this set really helps.
Not really advocating for any specific political platform here. If someone gave me absolute power, I would be more of a tweaker than a revolutionizer--this shit gets complicated!

I just think you're overfitting the age into a MMORPG-farmer/warrior/lord-duking-it-out-for-GP model.

Good debate though.
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Read that again. We asked to commit without revealing details, he said yes, that's what happened. I guess he changed his mind about that after the fact, but nobody promised not to commit. We didn't "defect" from an embargo unilaterally.
> Relativity is not just some abstract mathematical theory: understanding it is absolutely essential for our global navigation system to work properly!

I wonder if we could get away by just building it and accounting for the error using some multiplier, without understanding the concept of relativity. I.e., how we would build it if we invented satellites before relativity.
Somewhat pointless remark as WPA only protects up to the access point. Any vulnerability after that has wider implications regardless of the WPA status.
Because they single-handedly forced the market against its will to accept electric cars, and we're all better off thanks to it, now that regular car companies decided to join the party too.
Nope, because they made a car without a combustion engine and still managed to convince some people to buy it.
Ask HN: Do you think autonomous vehicles = AGI (Artifical General Intelligence)?
The hype around the coming of the autonomous car is very strong and it feels like it's just around the corner. Millions of miles driven already with few disengagements etc.

Yet when I think about it while driving I keep noticing situations that seem to me to require intelligence to solve. By intelligence I mean a deep understanding of human behavior and social norms. Something far beyond the capabilities of any AI system I know. This happens often.

One example: If a human standing by the road hold his hand to you with the "stop" gesture, you would stop. But only if you judge that person to have "authority": If they looks stern, have a uniform, do not smile, etc. Otherwise, you would ignore them (e.g a teenage prank, a drunk, a shady character etc). Erring in both directions could have dire consequences. Of course we can theoretically build an AI to measure "authority" and "gestures" but even if we could do that well enough, that's just one out of many.

So to me it seems that real AVs (level 4+) would have to require AGI but if/when we have that, the world would be so so different, that AVs would be the least of our concerns.

It seems though, that I hold the minority opinion, at least among my social circle. I'd be happy to hear what the HN crowd thinks?
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If it crashes to earth, wont it release large amount of debris in the atmosphere?
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Client may be enough. Depends on the AP and only the manufacturer can accurately answer that question.
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Facebook do own Whatsapp, but if people are staying in Whatsapp then they're never engaging on the Facebook platform, and thus never generating ad revenue.

It's strictly a loss for Facebook, unless they can figure out how to monetize Whatsapp to the same extent as their main platform.
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Why is this on HN?

Guy goes to a group tour and is suddenly an expert in auto manufacturing. "Sees chaos" and stock piled parts.
This is great! I will bookmark it. I really like two things: first, the progression from simple to more complex figures. Matplotlib's documentation has the tendency to give very complicated examples. Second I think it's great it spans several libraries.
Not intrinsically, but the VPS providers ISP has less knowledge about me than my home ISP. And I have a lot more choice between VPS providers than home ISPs.
I never joined any social media site, but you don't see me making useless blog posts about it.
I think if you're using a VPN tunnel or SSL or SSH already, then this doesn't really affect you (based on an article I read earlier today.)
Alastair Reynolds wrote a short story with this as an element. I think it's in Zima Blue.

Greg Egan goes into such things at length in Permutation City.
Tell them to use SSLEverywhere (or equivalent) and/or get them onto VPNs, I think.
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Homework assignment?
How many drivers/customers do you have signed up?

How do you deal with bootstrapping, that is getting customers without drivers or drivers without customers?
Would you trade your digital privacy for free pizza?
Except Whisper is not anonymous:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/16/-sp-revealed-w...
Can I use MAC whitelisting to mitigate the attack?
Users of Eggler pay twice

1 - they pay eggler (who in turn pays the driver) for the delivery

2 - they pay Walmart for the groceries which the Eggler driver will deliver.
I think because the guy is jean louis gassée, former ceo of BeInc , which did built their own computers ( as well as an ex apple high ranked employee). So he has experience both with high tech and manufacturing issues.

Granted, he's not an auto industry specialist but he's not the average joe either.
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"As a compromise, I allowed them to silently patch the vulnerability."
The way I read that they broke no embargo
and force me to use some propietary-built webkit? Nah, thank you.
The researcher’s lack of full disclosure may have lead to this vulnerability being discovered and exploited by other people.
"I Quit Facebook", do you want a gold star?
If I would have listened to people who ,,advise me'x financially without taking risk himself, I would be broke.

If you're so sure of your knowledge about the crash, you can short Bitcoin, and start advising selling it _after_ you are in a short position (and make a lot of money at the same time)
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That is remarkable, buttery smooth on mobile too AND really informative.
True for the self-driving part, false for the electrification part. Tesla seems to be the first company to solve the range problem of electric cars, thus delivering something practical for almost everyone.
It's not really pointless. MiTM attacks become much easier to accomplish with something like sslstrip once access to the network is gained.
If this helps any, the 757 was the result of the availability of new engine designs. Engines affect everything, and one thing led to another, and Boeing decided it was worthwhile to design a new wing, and a new wing led to a new fuselage, and pretty much a ground up design.

Airplanes just do not have interchangeable designs.

Boeing tried to save money by sharing parts between the 757 and 767, but this didn't work out very well. The designs were just different enough that the 767 engineering group had essentially nothing to do with the 757 engineering group, I don't remember even meeting my counterpart there.

The assembly lines were in different plants and completely independent, the tooling was all custom designed/built and so different, the testing/certification process was all different, and on and on.

And besides, a design study is mostly an outline that survived enough wind tunnel testing that one knows what the performance would be.

When I joined the 757 team, we started with a hole we were allocated that the machinery had to fit in. It's true that there's a family resemblance among Boeing designs, because they like to continue with what works. Design studies, though, are not proven designs.

> legal lawsuits

That is common among all highly competitive industries, whether they have merit or not. There's certainly enough of that going on in the tech sector.
See how every big countries got rid of the gold standard during World War 1.
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Exactly, this particular sentence seems to overly dramatise the situation.

Is this issue any different to using open wifi at a cafe, which many many people do, relying on HTTPS for their security? (This is an honest question)
> Re price stability: A cryptocurrency adopted on a mainstream level (at tens of trillions of dollars market cap) for means of everyday payment would be very stable, more stable than any fiat today.

This sentence sounds like preaching. Do you have any evidence of this ?

IMO this is really unlikely because you can't dynamically adapt the supply of money. See my other comment in this thread[1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15481953
Mozilla employs about 1000 people and has revenues of around 300M-400M, so there's been a miscalculation there. 1/400th with 1000 employees doesn't sound very high at all.

The numbers are probably from the Mozilla Foundation, which only employs a few people, so obviously they're going to be remunerated highly percentage-wise.
Note that in the demo video they use SSLStrip to cancel attempts of websites to switch to https.

The only protection here is HSTS (which is not enabled by most websites, but major ones like banks will usually have them) and manually typing https:// in your address.
facebook is just a piss up planner now, and i share funny memes. that's about it.
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Working with sensitive personal data is difficult at best of times, and anonymising such data properly devilishly tricky.

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The challenge works pretty much like a normal bug bounty only that in this case you get paid for breaking the anonymisation rather than for finding security bugs. We pay up to 5000USD per successful attack.

To make it easier for you, and harder for us, you also get full access to the raw unanonymized datasets that we are claiming to protect as well as the ability to run as many queries as you want through our system.

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Are people, who can't be bothered to send you an SMS, email or give a call to invite you into a party, actually, your friends?
The current title "I Quit Facebook" make me also unsure if it was about resigning or closing.

But the true article title is "I Quit Facebook—and You Should, Too", that is more obvious
I also expected a developer quiting after the recent FB news with the election.
It gets worse when you want to allow sorting the paginated results by something other than the integer primary key, such as a name. Duplicate names with different ids means having to use GROUP BY.

I typed out the example queries below from memory, hopefully I haven't made any logic errors. Note:

a) Requires additional indexes to make it efficient.

b) Accounts for inserted and deleted rows.

c) You cannot use page numbers. You can only do first page, next and previous pages, and last page.

d) Example is for 20 items per page. The query pulls 21 (+1) items, so app can determine whether there is a next or previous page.

e) In a web app or api for example, your parameters get crazy, such as: /users?page=next&sort=name&sortId=20&sortVal=George

-- first page
SELECT name, id
FROM users
GROUP BY name, id
ORDER BY name, id
LIMIT 21;

-- next page (ex: last item on current
-- page has id 20 and name 'George')
SELECT name, id
FROM users
WHERE name >= 'George' AND id > 20
GROUP BY name, id
ORDER BY name, id
LIMIT 21;

-- prev page (ex: first item on current
-- page has id 21 and name 'Harry')
SELECT name, id
FROM users
WHERE name <= 'Harry' AND id < 21
GROUP BY name, id
-- need DESC, reverse order in app for display
ORDER BY name DESC, id DESC
LIMIT 21;

-- last page
SELECT name, id
FROM users
GROUP BY name, id
-- need DESC, reverse order in app for display
ORDER BY name DESC, id DESC
LIMIT 21;
What is a "unit of human work", and how much is it worth?

Why are people paid differently for the same work?
So the argument basically comes down to that crypto is too volatile and not usable as unit of account?

1. Crypto is still in its initial stage, where capital is flowing into it. Once it is there, it will be less volatile. You can already see this in Bitcoin[1], where relative volatility is dropping every year.

2. There are projects coming that will enable decentralized trustless peg of fiat currencies into blockchians[2][3]. So you will have usd/eur in blockchians. Similar like Thether, but without central issuer. This will be very convenient for pricing (unit of account), but with all the benefits of blockchains.

And as author admits fiat is terrible as "store of value" - so with this combination - fiat pegs in blockchain for accounting and native crypto as store of value (keep bitcoin for your grandchildern instead of dolar that looses 95% value over century), it might be the best combination of both worlds.

1: http://woobull.com/bitcoin-volatility-will-match-major-fiat-...

2: http://cryptopeg.org/

3: http://www.getbasecoin.com/basecoin_whitepaper_0_99.pdf
Sounds like a "we technically respected the embargo, just not in principle" sort of thing to me.
Why limit it to women and sexual crimes? Isn't it a bit sexist to assume men never are victims of sexual crimes or that it isn't important enough to be reported?
> No wonder Musk tries to demonize AI.

Ockham's razor suggests it's more likely Elon Musk simply got convinced by the Yudkowsky/Bostrom view on the problem of Unfriendly AI (I particularly recall Musk starting to talk about AI only after reading Bostrom's Superintelligence, but that might have been just a coincidence).

Also note that Musk is "demonizing" advanced AI that doesn't exist yet, but is huge on self-driving.
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MACs are easily spoofed.
The problem is that they are Mozilla's competitor (Google - Gmail). It's not named explicitly but the dots are pretty damn obvious to connect, I think.
Unfortunately, Google has given app developers a quite powerful tool to disable the use of their apps on non-official OS images, in the form of SafetyNet. So even if you can install an open source version of Android expect a bunch of stuff to no longer work afterwards.
There are project like MakerDAO that indeed use smart contracts (plus fiat price oracles and some other things) to implement monetary policy without any "pilot".
Even the most stable currencies of developed world can be influenced by a black swan. For example, see Swiss Franc or British Pound. If some cryptocurrency is adopted for mainstream use (big if), it won't have this risk, inherent to a centrally controlled currency.
90% of the debris burns up in the atmosphere. The remaining 10% -- who knows where they end up, but it is said that it's unlikely that the debris hit anything important.

This isn't the first time something like this happened. When NASA's SkyLab fell to earth in 1979, an Australian town fined them $400 -- for littering. https://science.slashdot.org/story/09/07/14/1556228/nasas-sk...
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Reminds me of the "no free lunch" theorem from ML. To paraphrase, there is no language that is better than every other language on all tasks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_free_lunch_theorem
Yes, you've moved the trust to the user's computer.

Now the question becomes "which would you trust with a large chunk of money, a regulated financial institution or the information security of a personal computer", which for me would be the institution. For most people I know, it would definitely be the institution, because personal computer security is terrible.