skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So to me the answer there might be to address the complacense which is the real problem and not remove obscurity ...

The idea of revealing all to improve paranoia rather sounds like the idea of attaching a sharp spike to your steering wheel to encourage safe driving :P
Like with `json_pp -t yaml'? Why would anybody need a service for that?
The operative quote from the article is: "no Arabic-speaking officer had read the man’s Facebook post."

This reminds me of the kind of alarmist, ham fisted policing we often see in America, where police will barge into an elderly person's home and trash the place because they forgot to double check the address.
This is scary and 1984 ish. A man was arrested because of a bad translation.
Given how ridiculously common the phrase "Good morning" is in Arabic, (I mean, look at any Arabic 101 textbook, the Sabah Al-khair / Sabah al-noor exchange is one of the first things they teach you), it's puzzling why Facebook's translation algorithm didn't see that as a fixed phrase, rather than trying to translate it word by word.

So much for machine learning.
Apprenticeships Could Narrow the U.S. Skills Gap
Corporate taxes abroad were also often higher than the US rate at the time. Now they are much lower. If you sell X in, say, the UK -- as a company you often have the option: book the profit in the UK, or in the US.

There's not much laws can do to change that, that is just the way having the flexibility to structure your business in whatever way you prefer works.

If you were to reduce the US corporate tax rate to 10%, a lot more profit would be booked in the US again.
But the title of this page was noise. The title was embedded in the pdf.
Why I did my master's in software engineering instead of computer science
The friendship test
It sounds like you know a lot about this field! I'll confess that I'm a neophyte. I'm working on audio research right now, but all I know about hearing aids is my one conversation with the whisper.ai CEO.

> Cite me a paper and we can make billions.

The relevant paper is Hershey et al., 2015 [1]. There are some audio examples here as well [2]. The idea is that a deep NN can apply a spectral mask and isolate a single speaker when many speakers are talking (or there's background noise). Of course a standard hearing aid has pretty limited hardware, which is why the hard part for them is developing a small enough device that can do the inference in real time. (They cheat a little bit and actually do all the processing on a larger device that you keep in your pocket --- it's not done locally behind the ear.)

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.04306

[2]: http://www.merl.com/demos/deep-clustering
We already are, slowly but surely:

https://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/sites/rita.dot.gov.bts/files/pu...

You can argue that you want that rate of improvement increased, but progress is being made.
If you're a naturalized citizen, you can get a clearance. Just be prepared to have a lot of rocks turned over
From the article, describing its use in pastry

> tasted like nuts and crackers, coffee and grass

I imagine you could make a killer amber or brown ale.
WHOIS embarrassed about security? APNIC, after database leaks
I don't think it gives you nothing. As an example, say a 0/1-day gets dropped and someone starts compromising systems.

You're trying to get round your estate ensuring patches are in place, but that takes time.

The bots are starting with the low hanging fruit, systems on default ports.

Being not on a default port helps, by buying you more time to react.
I agree - didn't feel it was worth mentioning considering the original and the criticism I linked to :)

I like drawing parallels between economics and ecology... monopolies are farms, massive artificial monocultures that suppress natural competition and extract value for the profit of a few. They embody a cycle of growth and stagnation.

A healthy economy is more like a jungle, innumerable smaller competitors with diverse approaches to survival... an extremely resilient and constantly evolving ecosystem that leads to fascinating innovation.
Jeff Garzik Says New Coin to Work on Many Blockchains
This is why I love HN! Talk soon.
GDPR compliancy depends on third-party service providers – inside the EU and out
It depends on how comfortable you are developing a monitoring and failover system for something stateful. Right now AWS handles failover of our redis instances. With Faktory, I’m not sure what that looks like yet.
Yeah, I still remember the basic laws of thermodynamics ;). If only they taught those in high school too.

Aside: sometimes I wonder if spending some time to teach more advanced concepts of science in more "conceptual" ways wouldn't be a lot more useful for the general public than the current style of education.

You can get a perfectly fine intuition and "first-principle" understanding of laws of nature running the world around you, without ever worrying about calculus, and it's quite useful.
Well you may believe me or not, but this was in circulation at one of the Serbian BBS around 15 years ago.
I always enjoy the Eureka moments:

>“My seemingly inconsequential moment came one night while washing dishes and using a bristle brush to clean a tall glass,” said IBM’s Edwin Pednault. “It suddenly occurred to me that if one looks at the gates applied to a given qubit in a grid circuit, the gates form a bristle-brush pattern where the bristles are the entangling gates that are being applied to that qubit.”
He then took this idea and applied it to simulating qubits.

So let us all applaud Louis F. Kutik who after inventing the plastic bristle brush in 1964 could not have surmised it's inspiration for advancements within the quantum computing domain.
This is both the fault of Facebook and the police. Unfortunately, not all police forces require evidence to arrest people. I would argue that the larger problem is actually the way in which the police handled this and not so much Facebook's inaccurate translation.
This should be uncontroversial. Anything that increases the amount of work needed to carry out a successful attack increases its security. The only concern is whether you end up being overall less secure because of a misplaced trust in the obscurity layer.
feudalism

n.

A political and economic system of Europe from the 9th to about the 15th century, based on the holding of all land in fief or fee and the resulting relation of lord to vassal and characterized by homage, legal and military service of tenants, and forfeiture.
This assumes computing power will remain constant; it won't.

Also, it's highly likely that flaws will be found with the hash algorithm long before 12 million years are up.
Facebook often asks me if I want to translate posts that are already in English. I'm not surprised that "mistakes may happen".
We made our own small library to glue together Google Cloud's KMS and GCS while using the built-in service accounts. Fast, easy and cheap.

Option #2 here: https://cloud.google.com/kms/docs/secret-management#choosing...
A Reddit User Spots a Troll Farm in Action
This headline got a chuckle out of me, not gonna lie.
A technique for using automatic memory management (RAII) with C libraries
There are two levels to answering questions like this. The purely mechanical is that enough HN members clicked the "flag" link to cross the "[flagged]" tag threshold. The second level answer is to speculate why those members chose to click "flag". That's tougher, though in my experience one of the reasons is because some members observe that unfortunately some topics are difficult to constructively discuss on HN, regardless of the importance of the topic. I think the current discussion is a pretty good example of that, in generating more heat than light. Note that this doesn't mean these topics shouldn't be discussed, just that there are likely better places (both online and off) to do so.
Do you think there's any benefit in reduced log noise making a serious attacker more obvious to SoC analysts?

I.e. if I run SSH on 24956/TCP and start seeing attacks, it's a fair bet this is targeted (someone has taken the time to do 65K port scans, not common for untargeted attackers), so it's a stronger signal for the blue team to look at that activity more closely than the noise on 22/TCP.
Using it as an oxidizer, even at some energy loss, likely makes lots of sense. It's relatively easy to handle, not that nasty, etc.

It's probably not an energy loss though:

http://www.energytrendsinsider.com/2016/02/23/a-critical-rev...

(But still not enough of an energy gain to be acting like it is a good energy source)
If you like it you can put the lazyness of attackers in your threat model.

Most attackers are just systems that are scanning parts of the internet for the low hanging fruit. They want easy targets, they don't want to spend time on your systems, and they like using their usual tools that work for everyone else. They aren't going to put in the effort to work out your slightly different hashing method and make a GPU based cracker for it. They aren't going to employ a giant network to bypass fail2ban. They arent looking for nonstandard ports. Etc, etc.

Yes, you can hypothetically have an attacker that works around all your obfuscation, but it simply requires much more effort. By employing these kind of techniques, you beat the script kiddies and the automated systems, which in my experience is 99% of attackers.
Ahh, I see. Unfortunately, at this time we only collect questions from our in-person audience that attends as well as the comment section from the Facebook live stream player. Apologies about this!
I don't think that's what he's saying, but c'mon; it's a pretty dumb mistake. QA should be hauled in as well.
self driving and electrification will explode the number of vehicles on roads but with proper management the increase in mobility would be good for society and especially those who cannot drive or reach other forms of transportation.

I do question the idea of trying to use autonomous cars in cities first when limited access roads are a far better choice for early uses of the technology. Giving new purpose to HOV and Express lanes would be far simpler to develop for and easier for governments to accommodate. The idea of entering an limited access road or any road with a protected lane and being able to let the car do the driving has many advantages to both road use and over all trip times plus the previously mentioned ease of implementation
Ha, maybe I exaggerate a little! But the ML part seems much more tractable than the hardware side for me! (Mostly because I don't know much about hardware and it seems, well, hard!) :-)
nexmon: Firmware Patching Framework for Broadcom/Cypress WiFi Chips
Note that in Arabic there are no vowels. Also note that it's not the common "good morning" (Sabah Al-khair), but a rarer term: one word, 6 letters, no vowels. The equivalent in english would be "gdmrng".
Depends on what country. If you're a dual citizen with China/Russia/hostile power, you'll probably be forced to renounce or be denied a clearance. Folks from allied countries (NATO) often don't have to renounce it; I believe they ask if you'd be willing to, but you don't have to do it unless they ask
What do the basic laws of thermodynamics and intuition do to inform you about the EROI of biofuels?
Saying Goodbye to Firebug
If the first worker isn't actually idle, then the scheduler will assign the next incoming request to an idle worker. Am I mistaken? If not, what's the problem here?
How SWIM made thousands gaming the EOS crowdsale
Yes, we mandate a percentage of corn based ethanol in our gasoline, and the crop insurance system is set up for monoculture. We also don't make any attempt to price in the externalities of resource intensive industrial agriculture.
Aren't there, like... 3rd-party chat or emoji apps or something now? I don't use any of that stuff, but if only some people on 6-series iPhones are experiencing a multi-second delay opening the iMessage editor, my first guess would be they have some of those installed and one or more of them have shit the bed.
Pasprase with TPM works only when you boot your computer (smart phone).

It is okay to use fingerprint to open the screen. But there should be shut-down finger.
Do those verification clicks come from the same ip address as the initial order?
MIT to Issue Diplomas Using Bitcoin Blockchain
The predator will not eat a bad tasting butterfly, but we can trick it to do so.

They talk about a "linguistic translation" error in the attempt to deflect focus away from the meta data triggers that this person generated.

Cyber phrenology is real.

https://www.cultstate.com/2017/10/13/The-Butterfly-War/
Rochester LGBTQ 'Gun Group' Prepares for the Next American Civil
No they won’t do it by themselves, they will only do it under pressure from the population.

I’m also pessimistic but that doesn’t mean we should give up. There’s nothing about this that’s writ in stone.
That's paying for a service, not rent-seeking.
Show HN: Understand how good a leader you are
Ooh neat, yeah I bet that could be awesome in a brown ale.

Rather off topic, but you might be interested in this:
https://www.sprowtlabs.com/2017/02/23/how-to-malt-at-home/

(One day I'd like to try it, although first, to improve my basic beers :)

Not sure how easy it is to get this grain though... ;)
> Government can improve infrastructure, but cannot literally hand out cash to build a factory, or anything like that.

Yes, because such "subsidies" would create competition for companies from more developed EU countries, the same countries that drive the acceptance of new EU members. Removing these obstacles crushed local industry, which is why less developed countries ended up with close to zero industrial production after joining the EU (thus starting the social, employment and competitiveness problems most smaller EU nations are facing).

Nevertheless, EU nations keep subsidizing "selected" businesses, especially for big foreign companies outsourcing their operations, using tax benefits.
While all of that may be absolutely true, the title of the group of that source doesn't instill confidence as unbiased historians. It makes me wonder if they're promoting team edison. Can anyone recommend a better source?
I don't think this counts as damages anymore than Burger King could sue McDonald's for damages for offering a coupon on Big Macs. Uber actually booked time and fake rides with competing services so they couldn't pick up legitimate riders.

A more apt comparison would be creating fake companies and renting out Knotel so a location fills up and real companies can't rent working space. Then never paying Knotel.
Consume Remote API Data via HTTP in a Vue.js Web Application
This is also why I usually ignore news I hear about Nikola Tesla. That Oatmeal comic, aside from the fact that it's just immature and nasty, I believe kicked off a weird kind of Tesla fanboy-ism which just seems useless.
Really good obscurity is hard to come by.

Using Symbolics machine, Commodore 64, or Amiga 500 is probably safe from most automated attacks and tools. If someone breaks in, they earned it.
Automated AWS AMI Builds for Jenkins Agents with Packer
I've never heard of it.
Bitcoin Gold a Scam?
It should be uncontroversial but I don't think it is.
It was interesting that the FBI was taking the last 10 years of Telsa's life as possibly serious. Man people figured he went mad in his early 70s and didn't really do anything for the last 10 years of his life scientifically significant.
I'd pretty strongly disagree with the notion that stack or static-allocated arrays (especially `std::array`) aren't idiomatic C++; rather it's (unnecessarily) allocating everything on the heap that's the anti-pattern, since it defeats the whole purpose (fast, fine-grained, deterministic memory model) of using C++ in the first place. (And implies lots of memory leaks and global state).

Also, `new`/`delete` aren't unidiomatic when strictly adhering to RAII and

- Writing exception-safe code (with the `new (std::nothrow) T` form).

- Writing custom smart pointers or data structures, or high-performance containers (especially with C++17 aligned `new`/`delete` and C++14 sized `delete`).

- Using memory pools (with placement `new`/`delete`).

`[std::]malloc`/`[std::]free` aren't necessarily unidiomatic either, such as

- When using a C API (or one in pre-standard C++ or a third language) which is incompatible with `new`/`delete`.

- When you need `[std::]realloc`, and for whatever reason a `std::vector` isn't an acceptable substitute.

- In embedded or other environments that don't provide a STL.
I've seen a few similar stories. "11 year old kid creates artificial brain". Translation: 11 year old kid copy pastes and runs tutorial code for OpenCV image recognition.
"...pilfer Knotel’s proprietary information and trade secrets"

I really want to know what kind of trade secrets a co-working space uses to its advantage
This is a configurable option in nginx. You can have it wait until the entire request is recevied before passing to the upstream (backend) or have it stream as data arrives. I seem to recall there is still a manageable buffer when streaming too, though it's been a few years since I looked at that in detail.
Yes, the C and C++ standards allow compilers to eliminate loops which have no side effects (It's actually slightly more tricky than this but whatever, check the spec for the exact details). This can be tough in situations like you say, but also in other places: for example, Rust's semantics do not allow you to elide them, but because we use LLVM, we incidentally inherited this behavior: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/28728

LLVM has since added a new intrinsic: https://reviews.llvm.org/D38336

This will allow us to fix the bug.
Yes, the optimizer is allowed to completely eliminate side-effect free infinite loops.

Example: https://godbolt.org/g/md86qX
No, seeing as there are no vowels in Arabic, the equivalent is not an English word with vowels, with the vowels removed.

It is a shortened form though, and is equivalent to "Morning!"
So if Soylent changes the label, they're fine?
>If you were to reduce the US corporate tax rate to 10%, a lot more profit would be booked in the US again.

Until other countries lower theirs, then it's just a race to the bottom, no?
I wrote a joke filesystem that does nothing but provide 1x1 PNG files[0]

(I was bored and asked for dumb filesystem ideas on IRC)

0. https://github.com/sector-f/colorfs
This was an inside deal. Looking at the partners page for Fontinalis (VC firm), you've got Bill Ford Jr. and Jr. Jr.

All of their other investments are unremarkable.

I work for one of the big three - this autonomous stuff is way, way further out that what anyone is saying. I can't put a year on it because markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay liquid but it's all a head fake/game by upper management, who have finally found the Silicon Valley playbook of making wild ass promises now they that they've largely shed their pension obligations (my Dad, a slightly below classified level engineer at GM, will be taking the cash buyout instead of pension. Who can trust GM at this point? They've gone bankrupt before).

Big Three company with that's poised to actually make real profits? FCA. New Wrangler/Grand Cherokee/Ram/Wagoneer/Grand Wagoneer in the next 24 months. Today, those vehicles make the lion share of profits and its not even close. And all of those vehicle redesigns will have mild hybrids for their launch, as a hedge against oil going up. FCA improving quality by going upmarket/simply charging more. Dealer model isn't ideal, but that will change over time.
Ask HN: Free options for backing up database dump(MySQL) periodically
> Obama took the imperial Presidency to new heights

By what criteria?
More like the movie Brazil, during the opening of which:

> a fly gets jammed in a printer and results in the incarceration and accidental death during interrogation of cobbler Archibald Buttle – instead of renegade air conditioning specialist and suspected terrorist Archibald Tuttle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_(1985_film)
You also seem to be repeating your reply.

And the bumpers aren't proof of anything except perhaps marketing; they could have just decided that the cost of giving everybody free bumpers was cheaper than any brand damage they might otherwise have sustained.
They are out to earn money. Period. You can`t fix anything with soya and sunflower oil.
Disrupting Tech Monopolies and AI Tycoons – Part 1
It's important to keep in mind that near the end of his days, Tesla sure seemed to be experiencing some mental illness. He made wild claims that were never quite backed up by proof, claims that even now no one seems to believe were actually possible.

It's a sad end to a brilliant mind.

But then, when you're the FBI and WW2 is ongoing, you pay attention when a famous and brilliant inventor claims to have death rays and super weapons.
>you just move to the country that won't do that.

The US leverage is limiting access to US markets for companies that do that.
1947 Texas City Disaster
I would consider obvious it'd be enormously advantageous for Israeli police to have, at least, a basic understanding of Arabic.

It's like a Miami policemen without any Spanish/Portuguese knowledge.
Does e.g. failtoban help with detecting port scans and autoblocking the IP?

Not that this would help against a distributed port scan...
Yeah. Almost every time I watch a Marvin Minsky or Alan Kay video of any kind I'm surprised with info on some awesome technology or research from the 60s or 70s.
Right, though this was the slightly less textbook (but just as common in day-do-day language) "Yisbah-hum", a shortened and less formal 'good morning' greeting.
From the article: "There is nothing wrong with the Soylent product you are consuming, this issue emerged from regulatory compliance, not product quality."

Is that not what regulatory compliance is about? I wonder what Soylent thinks regulatory compliance is for.
People have been building websites for more than 20 years. There are a lot of developers who are capable of building straight forward CSS and vanilla JS websites. The only 'problem' is that they're experienced and cost more than a bootcamp graduate.
Persona xtrabackup
Hey folks

I’m Alex, one of the creators of Manager Assessment and co-founder at Teambit.

While building Teambit, we’ve stumbled on tons of research about what makes a good leader good. But unless there is an established culture of feedback in your team, it’s hard for a leader to assess how well you are doing.

Manager Assessment is a short, research-backed questionnaire to help each team leader understand how good they are at their job and what areas they can improve.

Take an assessment, share your results and tell us what you think. We are all ears

You can read a bit more on what the assessment is based on here: http://help.teambit.io/what-research-is-the-manager-assessme...
In which a path is charted through the coming apocalypse
Mars has lots of water ice, which is made (almost) exclusively of - you guessed it - hydrogen and oxygen.

So yes, both of those things are plentiful on Mars. Maybe not to Earth standards (or the standards of, say, Ceres or Enceladus), but certainly abundant compared to our own moon (at least as far as current information tells us).
You know, you may be right, but it looks like they are more frequently chained together. For example, unlocking the phone means both a fade up from black of 300ms plus a screen swipe away of 300ms plus however long the print recognition takes.

Also, the animation happens after whatever loading needs to take place, so if you just saw 500ms of still image while loading was going on in the background, the animation starts after all that.

Others definitely feel a lot longer than 300ms, such as opening the home screen when in an app. (I have reduced motion turned on, perhaps they have been slowed slightly for that).
Ask HN: Why it took Google so so long to add ES6 native modules to mainline?
New York City’s future storm risk dominated by sea level rise
What's the problem with endorsing Segwit2x?