skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Outside of the office walls in Cupertino, who knows?

What does it cost to join as a governing member? Money? Apple has an unbelievably big pile of it. Spending it relieves their tax burden, so why not buy the most expensive level of membership?

Cynically, maybe they want to influence it so that it sucks, so while Apple does support it, Apple's going to have their own proprietary code, so Apple videos on Apple gear looks great. Everyone else gets the AOM code which, for some reason, everyone else's looks (and sounds) ever so slightly worse.

They could influence the codec so it works better on Apple hardware, so they get an advantage while designing the GPU that will go inside the iPhone XI or XII.

They could use this to see what the codec will support, and then decide not to support it out of spite, just like the iPhone X does't have USB-C, even though their laptop team has discovered that technology.

Point is, why knows? Yes, it is reasonable to think that Apple joining AOM means they'll put AOM codecs on their devices, but unless you work at Apple at the executive level, it's pure conjecture (and even then, executives are allowed to change their minds).
AngularJS refers to major version 1, Angular refers to 2.
Oh I do agree that the UK position has consistently been silly, all the way back from the very day they joined with their ad-hoc "rebate". I am not trying to portrait anything in an evil light, it's just as it is: UK voters, by their own free will, materially reduced their sovereignty in commercial matters. They put themselves (and us EU citizens in UK) into this situation, although it's not too late to forget the whole thing and go back being a peer.
I think the average Joe does not understand fully how financial markets create value through price discovery and risk transfer. These two elements allow society to more efficiently allocate resources and engage in activity, which can (and I would argue does) create tremendous value. There is also plenty of trading that is malicious or rent seeking and provides little value to society.
Presumably that reflects the 1.x / 2.x split. They're arguably different enough to be treated as separate frameworks.
Larry Lessig agrees: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_and_Other_Laws_of_Cybersp...
Don't even look; just poke a finger through your palm. When dreaming, the rendering engine is still turned on, but clipping is off, and the physics engine is switched to a simplified model.

You can also breathe without an open airway, so the Valsalva maneuver does not work. As I need to do this several times during the day to relive underpressure due to my crap eustachian tubes, this is an immediate tell for me. Then I poke my finger through my palm, and usually get so excited about figuring out that I'm dreaming that I wake myself up. I've heard that you can spin around as though you were trying to make yourself dizzy to avoid waking, but it never seems to work for me.
It's not "just a sketch on a stone" - I think you didn't read the whole theory?

1. They found a specific nebula in the position of the stars depicted by the constellations on the stone.

2. The supernova that created the nebula would have been daytime-visible (and brighter than the moon at night).

3. The time that the supernova happened lines up with about the time that the stone etching was been made.
The first link is pretty much my impression. This looks like the usual trick of people playing games with definitions (lucid dreams is such and such score on our "LuCiD" scale). The main part of the trick is to measure something that sounds similar to what people actually care about, then draw conclusions about that thing cared about.

By definition a person knows when they are having a lucid dream or not. If you will not trust their self report of that info there is no reason to trust anything else they report about the dream either. This scale is pointless for the purpose of identifying lucid dreaming.

Where is the result: "% of trials that the person reports lucid dreaming"? Perhaps that is in supplementary figure 1 where they show "Nb. of dreams rated as lucid"? But what does it mean to "rate as lucid"?

For this paper I see this is based on the scale:

"Lucidity was assumed when subjects reported elevated ratings (>mean + 2 s.e.) on either or both of the LuCiD scale factors insight and dissociation."

Going back to their earlier paper about creating the LuCiD scale all I find is this:

"Dreams were treated as lucid dreams if they were rated as such by the participants."
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23220345
That won't stop all the XRP owners from posting this everywhere to pump the price.
For anyone interested, there's a really excellent book on the history of the problem as well as the AH proof, going into quite a lot of detail. Very highly recommend.

"Four Colors Suffice: How the Map Problem Was Solved" by Robin Wilson.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/450635.Four_Colors_Suffi...
Cool, I have been playing with Elixir over the last few weeks! It seems really interesting but I know elixir might not be the right application for it but I was wondering if anyone would have a good strategy for making a CLI application handling (non blocking) user keyboard input, not using the IEX.
> That doesn't make them "not currencies".

When currencies experience hyperinflation, people stop using them. Even the people required to use them by law (wherever there is hyperinflation, there are always capital controls). They can still nominally be called currencies, but they are not much of anything.
They don't block EU users, so they do business in the EU.

As it offers goods and services to EU citizens, it has to operate according to GDPR as far as I understand it.

And it does do sales in the EU, there are plenty of SO jobs being advertized (and paid for) in the EU.
Anything sensed can be transmitted but not necessarily in its current form. It can be used to train some ml algorithm about you and the parameters can be transferred. Privacy should start at the sensing level.
Is that rise due to people's genuine connection to those right-wing ideas or a reaction to all the externalities of neoliberal economics? I would argue Europe's neo-fascists are largely gliding on a cloud of resentment left over from austerity measures, combined with the general disarray of many left-wing parties.

In the US things are more complicated: we have gerrymandering which keeps the house Republican despite Democratic candidates winning more votes overall. We have governors that were largely propped up with corporate money. The supreme court is large a side-effect of those structural issues (Obama would have picked a liberal judge of the dems had the house in '16)
> It's extremely selfish, IMO, to hold back a child from their full potential because the parents have their own irrational issues that they're not dealing with.

This really resonates. My kid for example has wanted one of these little scooters which you see toddlers riding around everywhere. I've been refusing up until recently when I realized that by denying her access not only am I excluding her from a valuable social experience with her friends who own scooters but I'm quite possibly harming her ability to master and safely ride the thing.

It's important to realize that sometimes when you're saying to your kid "I don't think you're ready" you're really talking about yourself as a parent.
Security is an emergent property of a system consisting of users, software and hardware. Thus, a programmer cannot prove security of a system but merely assert its certain behaviour. Langsec does just that. No, it can never be used to build secure systems. Yes, it can be used to solve practical problems making things more secure.
They said they only did this for US based IP addresses. (Not that it makes it OK...)
"Would this entire Meltdown/Spectre thing count as the biggest mess-up of computing history?"

This title is held by autorun.inf which has caused over 20 years of broken, vulnerable behavior and, AFAIK, is still going strong.
Security by proof, model checking, semantics is still a good, effective tool!

Leveraging the type system is a good communication channel for programmers maintaining the system.

Proofs and models of the protocols are still important.

But yes... we still need to fix CPUs. And the class of errors (those of omission) are still worth removing from our code regardless of spectre or meltdown.
Its been on the US s8 ever since I got the phone. You just need nextRadio app to use it.
> computers are strictly deterministic

Maybe in theory, but I haven't found my computers to behave that way.
That's what's written in the article.
Instapaper have a send to Kindle option on a daily or weekly frequency.
Every crypto is trying to position themselves as the survivor (by way of real world 'utility') for when the bubble bursts. They all want to be Amazon, rising from the ashes of a crashed market.

Ripple's underdog challenger, Stellar XLM, is trying to claim the same mantle. So are thousands of other 'utility coins', of course, including ETH, XRB, VEN, ICX, and even the "privacy" coins, like Monero.

The fact is this is uncharted territory. We don't know for sure whether we're at the leading or trailing edge of a bubble, and we don't know for sure that any, some, or most crypto will still be around in 5-10 years.

Interesting times!
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There are CPUs that are immune to these attacks, including spectre.

The CERT recommendation was to throw away affected CPUs and use alternatives.

Now this isn't very realistic today when the in-order alternatives are slow and not comparable performance. But it does say that CERT is not giving up on langsec.

(Team Mill - we're immune too and will put out a light paper on how these attacks apply to in-order processors that support speculation and what we're doing to prevent them)
Hacker news flags anything from non liberal sources.

https://www.projectveritas.com/2018/01/11/undercover-video-t...
The author does not seem to mean "the end of langsec" as in "everyone will give up on it", but rather the end of a period characterized, and not incorrectly, by the opinion that a safe programming language guarantees the absence of unintentional unsafe behaviour. In short, that things which, within this "langsec framework", one could prove to be impossible, turn out to be possible in practice; in the author's own words:

"The basis of language security is starting from a programming language with a well-defined, easy-to-understand semantics. From there you can prove (formally or informally) interesting security properties about particular programs. [..] But the Spectre and Meltdown attacks have seriously set back this endeavor. One manifestation of the Spectre vulnerability is that code running in a process can now read the entirety of its address space, bypassing invariants of the language in which it is written, even if it is written in a "safe" language. [...] Mathematically, in terms of the semantics of e.g. JavaScript, these attacks should not be possible. But practically, they work. "

This is not really news. The limits of formal methods were, in my opinion, well-understood, if often exaggerated by naysayers, brogrammers or simply programmers without much familiarity with them. Intuitively, it is not too difficult to grasp the idea that formal proofs are exactly as solid as the hardware which will run the program about which one is reasoning, and my impression is that it was well-grasped, if begrudgingly, by the community.

(This is akin to the well-known mantra that no end-to-end encryption scheme is invulnerable to someone looking over your shoulder and noting what keys you type; similarly, no software-only process isolation scheme is impervious to the hardware looking over its shoulder and "writing down" bytes someplace where everyone can access them)
It's funny that you mention buffer overflows. An interesting thing to point out—and I'm not sure if anyone has; I've looked before—is that if you follow Meredith Patterson's line of reasoning about langsec for protocols in particular, you end up at the conclusion that C-style, NUL-terminated strings are the right way to do things.

This doesn't mean there aren't other defects in the apparatus where C exploits thrive. It's just that (if you adhere to the langsec school of thought) you are required to confront the conclusion that it's been pinned on the wrong thing.
Feels like the people who still listen to radio are the people who don’t have smartphones: age-based. I only have one friend whom I know listens to the radio, and that in his car.

I guess I just assume that radio is just for the elderly.
They have no reason to use XRP though, they could just use the technology to launch their own token.
> Sure, if. Which I can verify, but I don't want to have to.

Wouldn't that be a risk even if this feature didn't exist? How do you know your phone isn't currently listening for music/speech and sending that data to the cloud without your knowledge?

> And it's possible that vulnerability will be discovered

Again though, that's already true regardless of whether this feature exists or not. Is there any reason to believe this feature is more likely to have a vulnerability than any other feature on your device? Why would you trust this code less than, for example, the code for your WiFi driver?
Lots of people pay for strava - i guess its about vertical markets
Can't really tell if you are joking, or just don't know that phones have actual FM receiver build in.
Right!

It's not the technology in question, it's the decision to use it for this specific purpose.
yes, you are correct, if you change the words in a sentence you change the meaning of it.

The rest of it...not so much. There is a discussion of a belief "I won't say violence has no place" There is not a discussion of 'The use of intentional, indiscriminate violence as a means to create fear to achieve political religious, or ideological aims'
Unskilled and Unaware of It (1999) [pdf]
Not explicitly, they might have been just using US data as an example in this blog post.

Even if they aren't, I still wonder that if they're checking everyones IP addresses against that database, essentially sharing our access of SO with a third-party, would it still be an inappropriate use of personally identifiable information?
> How do you "Undo" the damage? Really interested in that part.

Lost time is lost, but you can get in touch with old friends, apologise to people you ignored because you were busy, find new hobbies, travel... At least that's what I'm trying to do. I also lost 2 close family members during that time and deeply regret not having spent more time with them, but that's just how it is.

> As you grew older, you came to realise how little money actually means.

I'd still disagree, it means a lot and makes life so much easier. It's just something you tend to take for granted when you have it and other things you don't naturally become more important.
He's been saying for a long time that he really wants them to be able to stay.

Here's one example: https://www.gponline.com/hunt-confident-eu-nhs-workers-will-...

Here's his tweet announcing the deal: https://twitter.com/Jeremy_Hunt/status/939052992736751616

> This deal gives our brilliant EU doctors & nurses binding guarantees about their residence rights. NHS staff please spread the word to European colleagues: this is your home, we value your life-saving work, and we want you to stay.

(I strongly dislike Mr Hunt, and I'm struggling to keep a neutral tone here.)
> The qualification here mostly means "not Chinese".

Well, and not Islamic. The West is 'European,' so Roman North Africa & Roman Anatolia were Western. 'Near East' or 'Middle East' mean the now-Islamic world (much of it was Western pre-conquest). 'Far East' mean Chinese or Japanese. At one point I think 'Oriental' (a word just meaning 'Eastern') could also apply to folks from the Indian subcontinent, but that's pretty rare to nonexistent nowadays.
I only remember one lucid dream, when I was a kid, and it was fantastic.

I researched a little and found this book, may be you find it interesting, so here it is:

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Lucid_dreaming
It's unwise to speculate of things you know nothing of.

I've lived for years in areas where incidence rates of giardia push upwards of 30% - alongside numerous other 'sicknesses'. And there are literally enforced no sanitary standards on food establishments. A big part of the reason for my views is because of my own life experience. Have I had giardia? Almost certainly, though I couldn't tell you for certain. When I first started my travels stomach upset was typical though hardly intolerable. But as I adjusted to less than sterile conditions I'm vastly healthier than ever before - far moreso than my time before in the US where a million rules and regulations tryied to protect me from everything, yet inevitably failed.

There was an interesting study a few years back [1] that sought to study a connection between dust/bacteria and asthma. The results proved to be completely the opposite of what they went in hypothesizing and perhaps even more remarkable. Want to have kids with healthy immune systems free of respiratory disease? Who doesn't? Then make sure they're exposed to all sorts of dirt, bacteria, dust, and all these sorts of fun things - because exposure there is linked to a substantial decline in the risk of later allergies/asthma/etc.

Our immune system is, by far, the most sophisticated tool we have against illness. And priming it is not exactly a new idea - it is the fundamental basis of operation for vaccines. A vaccine is generally just injecting a weakened or otherwise 'handicapped' version of a virus into your body training the immune system to make it more likely to be able to resist the real thing should it encounter it in the world.

[1] - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/keeping-too-clean-a-house-may-r...
I don't agree with your reasons, but it's irrelevant to the question of whether "the left has been on a killer run of cultural victories in recent years".
Yes. He has a point with the circle though.
oh look, it's up again.
One way of measuring demand is to look at how long the average job search lasts. In that context Stanford MBA's often take a rather long time between jobs as in 12-18 months is not uncommon.

Various euphemisms exist, like taking a break or the ever popular consulting. But, getting a job in school or being poached while employed is the happy path. Get off that path and it can be very hard to get back.

PS: I don't think demand changes the average much, but it's often outliers that stand up in the first place. So, I do think demand is meaningful as it reduces the burden of ethical behavior which impacts people at the edge.
> "On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

> "Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I see where you're coming from. When I was first learning how to do it, I would go from being in trippy, vivid non lucid dreams. Then I'd become aware of the dream. Then all of the craziness would immediately drop off and I'd just be standing in a room or something.

What I came to learn is that expectations drive the dream. When not conscious of the dream, it's almost like those Google deep dream images. If our mind thinks something strange could happen, well then that's very likely to happen, and this reiterates and can converge on strange and fantastic mindscapes.

When we're aware of the dream, then our expectations become much more dry and realistic. Also, I think there is a difference between being lucid and being lucid and in control. Simply being lucid in a boring dream would not be so great.

However, being in control is wonderful. You get to explore and experiment with what is possible. One thing I'd enjoy doing is talking to someone to see what they'd say (not knowing what they would say while being aware that it was my brain coming up with what they were saying). Those were some of my most memorable dreams. Also, I've definitely have had dreams where I've maintained the richness and trippiness after become aware.
Don’t fear the robopocalypse: Autonomous weapons expert Paul Scharre
Why are C style buffers any more correct than Pascal strings?
Why People Really Quit Their Jobs
Signal partners with Microsoft to bring end-to-end encryption to Skype
So you're saying you'd prefer that your phone not have a microphone? Because that's where this information is ultimately coming from. (At the "sensing level".)
when driving in radio is great for traffic information and up to date weather as some weather apps seem to drag when it comes to being current other than active RADAR maps.

considering the number of billboards and other advertisements there is a big following in the general populace. many rating services would dispute that it is consumed only by the elderly.
Post-mortem of this weekend's NPM incident
To be fair, these are the same developers who moved files and renamed folders in SVN without using "svn mv".
10 people/sites to follow for insights on online media
Current endgame employee here. Yes. In R&D our data science team has published a few and the vulnerability research & prevention team has as well. Some of these were in the form of talks.

IIRC the most relevant to this blog post is here: https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-16/materials/us-16-Pierce-C...
It's not obvious, but the graphs on this page are interactive. You can drag the nodes around, and click them to change their colors.
jmp jmp gadget

ps: what a lovely name you made
To pay US tax obligations on BTC transactions.
> And I could go on and on and on and on.

True, it's enough to say "websites became big and slow". Additionally you can say "now we are after cross-platform native apps - set money aside for a device upgrade".
You can, but it will be really, really slow. And one-way only of course.

HAM operators have been using that since the 80's (maybe earlier?), broadcasting data, pictures (i.e. SSTV) or text (i.e. hellscreiber)
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2017/01/time-mozart-...
There is this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Data_System

In some cars i can see display of the song name.

It's also possible to turn a raspberry pi into an FM transmitter.
http://www.icrobotics.co.uk/wiki/index.php/Turning_the_Raspb...
Switching to Subscriptions – The Story of Ulysses