skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since you are looking for ideas to explore in a new library: You may already be aware of it, but it might be worth looking at SCUMMVM's reimplementation of "iMUSE" as well, which was LucasArt's similar engine used in their games, for interactive MIDI control based on game actions. (There were some really clever LucasArts' three composers did in the first iMUSE game, Monkey Island 2, especially, that decades later still hold up as gems.)
> the limited memory classical computers have compared to their quantum counterparts

It is a bit misleading. Holevo’s theorem states that it is impossible to reliably extract more than n bits from n qubit system.
I have always been amused that folks who say "security through obscurity is stupid" are never willing to give me their passwords.

It's all about threat prioritization and defense in depth.
Very few children of billionaires become notable people themselves, outside of usually philanthropy or keeping the family business in much of it's original state (millionaires kids as well to a much lesser degree). There are some very clear human and biological reasons why. Even in the tech industry with hyper progressive parenting it's rare to hear about the kids outside of capital raising circles.

Regardless I was talking about talent and achievements here not personality, and I don't think there's much use of discussing that here. It's been discussed to death elsewhere.
Yes... This is well known and not actually at all controversial. The only people who are against adding an additional layer of security are the ones who don't actually understand the concept, they only heard "security through obscurity is bad." Those people shouldn't be securing systems.

For example shutting up chatty webservers is a good and well established security practice (stuff like removing x-powered-by response headers)[1]. This is one of the security policies of the government systems I work on. but... it's security through obscurity, however, it's far from the only practice a website used to keep itself secure.

I don't know if its true but I also heard that the NSA doesn't publish some of their physical addresses and the highway exit are unmarked - that's security through obscurity. Again, that doesn't mean they go ahead and leave the doors unlocked.

Another recommended security practice, don't use usernames like 'root,' 'admin,' etc.

In meatspace there's the advice of "don't leave valuables in your car in plain sight," that's uncontroversial but its also security through obscurity, covering up your iPad when you leave it in the car doesn't mean you don't lock your door.

But, the prerequisite is really, actually understanding security, as a concept, including understanding tradeoffs. Without a good understanding you aren't ever going to succeed in securing any systems.

[1] https://www.troyhunt.com/shhh-dont-let-your-response-headers...
This thread is confusing State granted monopoly with Market granted monopoly. Economists usually talks about the former.
Well duh no matter how good your lock is hiding the key hole itself will improve security.
Whatever reason modern games have for looking like shit, it's not good enough. The end effect is that they look like shit.

Maybe a little snark is good. These big studios have been pumping out bigger and louder games for a decade, and each one is more soulless than the last. There's a reason Minecraft took off the way it did. It's because it was a return to the visually appealing age when pixel colors were in some sense manually selected, resulting in a pleasant palette. I can say without a hint of irony that I prefer the look and feel of the original Doom to any modern blockbuster game.

Are you here to tell me that Minecraft and Doom are paragons of bad gameplay?
Having exactly the same issues on my iPhone 6S. Camera randomly takes forever to load, and sometimes doesn't load at all (black screen).
Since iOS 11 it's a 50/50 chance that accepting an incoming call works. I press the green button but it keeps ringing until the other person hangs up.
Even physical home button becomes unresponsive, many times a day I have to do a forced restart (home button + sleep wake button pressed).
This is infuriating!!
We are allowing users to use their money in one and only places. I told one thing to my co-founder which was: « People want to put their money in a strainer». What I mean by that is, for me, people want to put their money where they can easily and quickly withdraw it to exchange for some goods. My conclusion was then, why not allow people to send money, buy goods directly where they store their cash?. I cannot speak too much about the features etc but this is what we believe in.
Good, they should ban DRM in general.
I guess SF’s recent experience, where years of rent and owner move-in eviction increases ended the same year we built a record number of housing units, belies this.

Sure we may run into other problems, but right now a third of California renters are paying more than half their salary in rent. I’d take my chances with a lot of other crises to help with that one.
It's possible, but we weren't testing 48 clients at that time, just our normal workload, which had much less parallelism than that. The person in charge of setting up the systems explained the performance issues as being due to NUMA.
At Manhattan densities, San Francisco could house 100M people
For small cities with the privilege of topography, it's ok. For cities with population more than 1M+ and heavily complicated topography, it's delusional.
Haha just visit this page: https://insomnia.rest/download/

> "Download Insomnia so you can finally `GET` some `REST`"

I actually laughed out loud at that one.
This example is good, but my problem with obscurity, especially in legacy products is this: complacence.

A product's perceived security /= a product's actual security. Obfuscation can lead to complacence, whereas transparency leads to paranoia, which is no bad thing in this domain. By adding an obfuscation layer, we give bad code a place to hide.
One of my all-time favorite talks. The IT industry is pretty bad in general at knowing what problems have previously been solved.
Yeah, that would be my first thought as well. It seems like a challenge to attach users to something like this when it exists outside of an application they already use (eg. Facebook et al). I would be interested in an update down the line to see if you are able to capture regular usage and how you did it.
njarboe is trying to get the silver, don't let him!

https://www.ngccoin.com/price-guide/coin-melt-values.aspx
Unless I'm missing something here, "Watson" was definitely not positioned as a catalog of services when it famously played jeopardy.
It's a little odd of a comment as well since there is a plethora of small business incentives that the big guys don't get.

It's much more complicated that what the OP laid out.
Very valid points.

Reminds me of the oft-repeated phrase, "Goto considered harmful!", regardless of its valid use-cases or of the context in which that original paper was published. I mean jeeze, even the Linux kernel uses GOTO on occasion for error cleanup.
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Whenever I need to draw something, I open https://www.Photopea.com in the browser (loads very fast) and draw the thing. Then I press File - Publish on Imgur (the new panel opens with the PNG image on Imgur). Then I just copy the URL and paste it into a forum / chat.

You can also paste the screenshot into Photopea and draw into it, crop it etc.

BTW. I am an author of Photopea :) It has an API, that allows embedding it into a website (https://www.photopea.com/api/playground), but I am not aware of any large website using it.
> We have become a rent-seeking society

It just dawned on me while reading the article that this accurately describes the shift from licensed software to SaaS that has been happening in the past decade.
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The target market thinks it’s clever.
Same here. I had bought my 6s after my 6 got stolen, so it was my first time using iOS 11. My two-day old phone was absolutely unusable, freezing for over a minute every once in a while. Apps wouldn't open at all! I couldn't change the volume while the phone was locked. I couldn't listen to musics, or use the lock screen music handler, while the phone was locked.

You have something really wrong when your smartphone can't open apps...

After one week I got tired of this shit and downgraded to iOS 10, which for now is working as expected. I really hope apple won't force me to update to iOS 11. (So here's what I did: I intentionally filled my phone space. Good luck fitting iOS' 1GB here).

Frustrated disappointed and utterly angry at Apple. This is definitely the last iPhone I'll own.
If any other celiacs clicked this out of curiosity, it contains gluten. From another article -

>It has a funny cylindrical shape that defies conventional milling machines, and also contains a weird amount of gluten — too little to bake well with, too much to be marketed to people who avoid it.
Edogawa Rampo , a famous Japanese writer of mystery and crime stories, named himself after Edgar Allen Poe (pronounce Edogawa Rampo a few times and you'll hear it)

He wrote quite a few essays on Poe and Poe's reviews, here's one on how Poe essentially predicted the twist ending of Dickens' Barnaby Rudge while it was still being serialised and spoiled it in his reviews, and how that book may have been a major inspiration for Poe's Raven:

https://books.google.com.au/books?id=TCpeDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT113&l...
It's _one hundred_ times more difficult for women?

No. That's hyperbole.

It's more difficult for women? Reasonable, if debatable. But not _one hundred times_ in any possible case. That's just an exaggeration aimed at derailing an argument into the realm of emotion.
> $500 a month supports low-touch sales and software which costs more than $5,000 or so annually requires high-touch sales

Am I parsing this wrong? $500/month x 12 = $6,000. $6,000 > $5,000. So wouldn't both of these examples require high-touch? Maybe that was a typo and it's supposed to be $50 not $500?

Or is the focus supposed to be on monthly vs annual billing?
Contact me at sygauze@hiswyft.com if you leave in Montreal and wants to take on this project. My co-founder Christian is focusing on the back end. I made the design and elaborated the UX. So we need a good front-end iOS dev to help us.
SDMX was designed by statistical agencies for this purpose.

Instead they created a non-standard API. (SDMX has a standardized REST API.) Next they will create a mobile app.
That’s not what “security through obscurity” means. It specifically refers to security based on the secrecy of the system’s design details. Like many terms of art, the meaning is not exactly the literal meaning of the words.
In that case the institution should unsubscribe and point their members to sci-hub.
Think of it this way: it's not that the larger companies are breaking the laws or simply not paying taxes that they owe - they're just being more innovative in how they approach those things. In a global economy, when there's pressure to pay lower wages by outsourcing labor, pay lower taxes by organizing some or all of the company abroad, or exploit loopholes in domestic laws for greater efficiency, that's just what you're going to do (given enough expertise and resources).

It's laughable to think a country could solve any of those things through stricter legislation; that will simply encourage those companies to move more of their operations to jurisdictions with more advantageous laws/taxes/labor/etc.

So how do you "level the playing field"? One way would be bringing those advantages to smaller companies through businesses that exploit those same loopholes / tax strategies, providing them as services to companies who otherwise couldn't afford doing it themselves (i.e., exploiting legal loopholes as-a-service, international tax strategies as-a-service, etc).

Or, you embrace the global economy, specialize in what your country can do most efficiently (hint: it's not manufacturing anymore in the US), and make it advantageous for companies to keep operating domestically. You lower taxes for everyone, so even the companies with few resources can enjoy the eased financial burden of taxes that normally only the big guys could avoid. In short, you compete globally rather than stick your head in the sand pretending that your country is somehow isolated from the rest of the world and you can fix everything through legislation.
You can still use services like http://shipito.com to forward it to you in Canada. I'm using this to get Soylent to Europe and it works really well (it adds ~$3 per bottle for air freight, but we don't have any good replacement here yet).
Their initial setup was filmed. https://pando.com/2013/11/12/vice-investigates-soylent-finds...
This very problem is also an eternal struggle in game development when it comes to player character animation.

There's some people who wish to start blending into the next animation the moment a new player input comes in. This is great for responsive gameplay, but causes wonkey looking animations, feet sliding etc.

Then there's the people that simply want to always let an animation complete. It looks great, but obviously is very frustrating as your inputs get ignored and you can't react to things when you want to. Buffering inputs is not viable either.

Sadly, it seems in modern games the latter group is winning more and more. For example, in the Witcher 3 (which is otherwise an amazing game) orienting your character such that it is looking at (and the right distance from) a pickup is almost a minigame, since every time you tap a directional key to move in the a direction, an animation plays, which inevitably moves you too far.

I can't really resist playing games like The Witcher 3 anyway, but if I could I would "vote with my wallet" and not play any games that prefer animation fidelity over good player controls. Sigh.
SSR is fairly common nowadays.
Most attacks are just scripts that constantly scan everything looking for services on well known ports. This sort of attack isn't dangerous if you've got the basics right, so obscurity gives you nothing very useful. I guess it might result in less noise in the logs which is nice but it's not 'more secure'.

The far less common but much more dangerous attack is a malicious third party intent on gaining access to your servers specifically. Hiding a service on a different port isn't even going to slow that attacker down - they'll use a port scanner to find every port that's listening. The service is going to be found regardless of whether or not you've changed the port. You could certainly mitigate the problem by modifying the service not to output anything until the user is authenticated, and you can use a port knocking strategy to stop it connecting on the first try, but those aren't really 'obscurity' per se.

That's not to say you shouldn't do it if you want to; I'm just not sure it actually makes anything more secure.
In reality, these days member states will introduce laws for certain players that then anyone can use. It's not state aid then, but the result is the same.

For example, Belgium recently updated certain tax laws to reduce the amount of withholding tax payable by certain major foreign investors, to keep the AB Inbev holding company in Belgium instead of letting the shareholders move their holding entity to the UK.
IOCP on Windows would use a thread pool to dispatch work after async sockets come due for some action. And after work for any given socket is completed, it's possible for work to start on a different socket's completion, with the "context switch" (or rather, continuation callback) happening in userland, rather than requiring a context switch. This inversion of control acts a bit like work stealing.
>more irregular in size than wheat berries

Wheat is one of those plants that humans have mastered. One person can farm thousands of acres of wheat. Generally that's only true of plants that are very uniform and that you wipe out each harvest. It would be very hard to replace it with a plant you can't use the same techniques on as the labor would be 100x probably.
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Under a Communist party dictatorship, you don't vastly consolidate power, purge tens of thousands of people on supposed corruption charges, disappear prominent business leaders, curtail numerous freedoms, alter the power structure of the party and its influence wings (such as the youth league), and build yourself up as the new Mao or Deng Xiaoping - if your intention is not to seize control for yourself. Xi Jinping was never doing all of that just to hand power to the next leader and it certainly wasn't for the benefit of the Chinese people.

He's their new dictator, most likely until old age removes him. He'll rule China for 20 years.

The short list of people that should be terrified of what's obviously coming next: Jack Ma, Pony Ma, Robin Li. The next step in power consolidation, is to begin taking over greater government control of Tencent, Alibaba and Baidu. It will be necessary to reduce Jack Ma's economic power in China, ultimately these giants are a challenge (or potential challenge) to Xi Jinping's dictatorship. Alibaba + Alipay is increasingly becoming the center of China's economy, more and more of that economy is flowing through those entities.

Prediction: Jack Ma won't last more than another three to five years in his current prominent position. Economic power always falls by necessity to the kind of political power that Xi Jinping increasingly wields.
Same problem, tried this and did not work. The only solution for me was to downgrade to 10.
No, that was a Motorola.

The Nexus 9 (tablet) was the only htc-made Nexus. And it was a piece of garbage. The first-gen pixel phones were both htc-made through, and seemed to be well made.
And what exactly makes you uncomfortable having 170MB sitting?

OS must be crazy for you.
I like Simon Tatham's "How to Report Bugs Effectively" - https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html
I still don't get why younger generations should shoulder the burden of the mistake that was Prop 13. Start by jacking it up on those who have benefitted and profited the most.
> So, given this highly effective armor, would the danger to the tank somehow increase if it were to be painted the same color as its surroundings?

If there were a crowd of script kiddies rapping on the armour of every tank they could see, then yes, making your tank less visible would endanger it. The internet is different from the battlefield.

> Is anyone willing to argue that someone unleashing such an attack would be equally likely to launch it against non-standard port vs. port 22? If not, then your risk goes down by not being there, it’s that simple.

Yes, I'm willing to argue that. It sounds like you were being attacked by 17,995 dumb bots and 5 somewhat less dumb bots and/or genuinely sophisticated attackers. The former aren't going to pick up the zero-day.

> at some point of diminishing return for impact reduction it is likely to become a good idea to reduce likelihood as well.

Disagree. Obscurity-based methods have such a poor cost/benefit that they're likely to never be a good choice.
As I'm sure someone else on this thread has observed, this is a silly example, because the SSH example forgets the denominator, which would show that even with 18,000 attack requests, the probability of a compromise on a properly configured system is nonexistent --- and if your system isn't configured properly, SSH becomes an example of obscurity layered on "instead of" proper security.
GOTO considered harmful is talking about spaghetti code with no higher order control structures, not about GOTO as a language feature. There are appropriate cases for the use of the latter.

Lots of quotes get abused like this. Another favorite of mine is "premature optimization is the root of all evil." Lots of people take this as "never think about performance" or "performance doesn't matter" when its true meaning is "don't let premature concern for performance blind you to other concerns or short-circuit your creativity."
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The last wristwatch I wore regularly was a Swatch. That was back around 1994. After that, I either used stationary clocks, the time display on the computer I was using, or a cheapo toy-quality digital timepiece thrown into a pocket of my backpack--the sort of thing you might get in a cereal box or a Happy Meal.

Starting around 2001, that last one got replaced by my mobile phone.

I'm not really seeing the use case for smart watches. But then again, I was never a fan of purses or fanny packs or any kind of jewelry either, and never understood fashion, so I'm probably never going to see the point of smart watches either. If I'm going to strap anything to my body all day, it has to be clearly useful for the entire duration, to overcome the discomfort and inconvenience. I'm just not seeing that yet in any of the available options. In every case, I'd rather put a wrist strap on my phone.
I started to love "meat alternatives" the moment I stopped expecting them to taste like meat.

I'm a thorough meat eater, but I also eat loads of Morningstar Farms Original Chik Patties because they fall in a pretty optimal place for me in the price/nutrition/convenience/taste coordinate system. They don't taste like chicken though.
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When Mike released Sidekiq for Crystal-lang, I thought this might be in the works. From the readme:

> The Ruby and Crystal versions of Sidekiq must remain data compatible in Redis. Both versions should be able to create and process jobs from each other. Their APIs are not and should not be identical but rather idiomatic to their respective languages.

It makes sense to unify the protocol for background job processing, making them language agnostic. Some languages tackle different problems better than others, so this will be a really useful tool.

Great work, Mike. Keep the hits rolling.
Yeah, the price makes a huge difference. My grandmother was last quoted $10,000 for hearing aids in Australia, whereas at US $500 & no medical visits I could maybe buy one as a gift, if I could be convinced it would be moderately helpful & get semi-frequent use.

(I worry that the smartphone / bluetooth connectivity is too complicated for tech-averse elderly, and that the inline volume controls are too small for arthritic hands. But I like the idea and I love my own QC25s.)
That's not what rent seeking means in this context.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking
I think, but don't know for sure, they are arguing that "elite, progressive professors are indoctrinating our kids." Limbaugh has been making this claim since '89 at least when I first heard it.
can you explain "rolling mental institutions" ? Like crazies using public transportation ?
I don't think people comprehend how dense Manhattan is until they have experienced it.

I find West Coast Cities to be more like a big suburb outside of Seattle and San Francisco. LA is just one smallish center city with hundreds of miles of homes. http://i0.wp.com/metrocosm.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/CO...
AFAIK, the jury is still out on high far does, too.
In what way is writing text on GIFs a meme? It's not even on the GIF, it's above. If you want to caption an (animated) image for social media, please just use normal text comments. They are way more accessible.
Please don't get your history from The Oatmeal. If you want to read a real account of what Edison actually did, the opening chapters of this classic are great:

https://www.amazon.com/Networks-Power-Electrification-1880-1...
You're ignoring the data silo problem. Of course the Web is decentralized in terms of accessing web pages, but-- the majority of data is not composed of pages, and the majority of actions on the Web are not composed of hyperlink traversals. For the applications on the Web to be decentralized, the data and behaviors have to be decentralized as well, and they are not.