skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could also save A LOT of time by making others realize that idea has no merit.
This works the same way as any other cloud based password manager but less secure. Most work like this:

- Store a AES-256 encrypted database blob in the cloud

- Hash your master password using a slow/expensive hashing algorithm, and use the resulting hash for encryption/decryption.

- Offer 2F options to restrict who can requested the encrypted database blob/test the master password.

- Ask for the master password, try to decrypt the header of the blob, if it works return the blob.

This solution stores an AES-256 encrypted database in public, therefore cannot offer 2F, and is only protected by the quality of your private key (and I cannot even see which hashing algorithm they're using).

Someone unironically said in this thread they "never trusted LastPass" (implying this is safer) but technologically you don't specifically need to trust LastPass.

Regardless of if you're using DropBox, Google Drive, or LastPass for Cloud Storage the primitives are the same: AES-256 Encrypted Blob, Cloud Protected Storage (w/2F options), and a hashed master password.

If you want to roll your own LastPass, use KeePass and DropBox with 2F. Not this.
To anyone else confused, I think the statement refers to http://www.piedpiper.com/ and not the folk legend.
> An alternative that comes with much less exposure and much less runaway complexity is to poll from the inside.

How exactly is it much less exposure when you are presumably handling the exact same information?
Store it with some scheme like TripleSec https://keybase.io/triplesec/ and put it in a private gist on GitHub, so you'd need three encryption algorithms plus GitHub account security to be broken before anyone can get to it.
We made a serverless backend with an API builder based on aws lambda. We have hundreds of production system running on it, so we are pretty happy with serverless :)

Https://cloudbackend.appdrag.com
I've been using Cyberduck for the past year and it is great. It was my replacement for Filezilla.
My machines?
I was surprised by the consumer behavior until I learned that it's motivated by a common design flaw. I am not surprised that such a design flaw exists, but I did not anticipate it specifically. Clear and consistent now?

TV remotes are pretty low-drain, to the point that most people probably wouldn't notice their battery runtime unless asked to observe it. A more compelling argument for NiMH in devices like that would be that alkalines often leak electrolyte that can corrode and damage a device wile NiMH is nearly immune to that kind of problem.

None of which matters if the device won't actually run on NiMH.
> Also Blender and OCW don't need peertube as their content is very unlikely to get censored on youtube.

Maybe you missed the news, but Blender had all their videos blocked for several days.
The largest danger is not the key getting hacked IMO, it's the service that you are backing up to going under.

If you had a yahoo email account twenty years ago, and emailed yourself a encrypted password vault, and decided to try to check that email today, how confident are you that it would be there?

What about in 10 more years?
No, encryption is for keeping secret a secret, even if it ends up public.

But this misses the point. Blockchain is an implementation of a specialized
cryptographic primitive called "document timestamping". Nothing this primitive
provides is useful for a password manager. About the only thing that would be
useful is much better served with a DHT, and much cheaper, too.
Warning: Polynomial regression via the normal equations tends to generate the badly conditioned Hilbert matrix and, thus, numerical problems. But can also do the fitting using some orthogonal polynomials that are much more stable numerically.
How can an arrow move if it needs to get halfway to wherever it going first?

Lots of paradoxes you can construct with infinitite recursion or self reference in the absence of time.

In this case, interesting is fundamentally a temporal concept and there is only a paradox if you pretend that it isn't.
This "future of programming" was very widely announced in 2005: http://www.gotw.ca/publications/concurrency-ddj.htm
> Ethnic cleansing and ethno-religious conflict with Rohingya has been happening and accelerating since before Facebook existed.

Just because the problem existed before Facebook doesn't mean Facebook is completely free of responsibility. It amplifies existing prejudices in those echo-chambers we know so well from American politics; and it provides practical help to the organization of "grassroots" violence. From this New York Times article on the similar Sri Lankan situation:

> “We don’t completely blame Facebook,” said Harindra Dissanayake, a presidential adviser in Sri Lanka. “The germs are ours, but Facebook is the wind, you know?”
Labo is super cool, but my kids' attention has waned. It doesn't sound like it's been much of a success. On the flip side, we've cleared Mario Odyssey 4 times already. And when we get tired of it, we fire up Lego Star Wars on the Wii.
I didn’t read anything on reddit.

If you believe bitcoin can’t be crashed by a handful bad actors I fully encourage you to put your 401K in.
I checked mine when I read yours. It was 20:30.
> Because the gain relative to just polling more frequently is very small here, and the risk is enormous.

What is that enormous risk that you see?!

There is nothing inherently more risky in handling "inbound" connections vs. "outbound" connections. Either you are doing stupid things with untrusted data (i.e., anything not from your own trusted systems) or you aren't. How the data comes into your system is completely irrelevant. If you have too little clue to know how to build a secure listener, chances are you shouldn't be building a poller either.
I routinely find linked YouTube videos that have been removed, sometimes with no indication as to why.
Don't get me wrong, I love Nintendo, own a Switch, and will happily shell out hundreds of dollars each generation just to get the chance to play 2 or 3 new Mario/Yoshi titles. But from the Wii era on, their hardware and success seems largely based off of gimmicks. Maybe that is what is needed to stand out in an age of increasingly homogenized games and gaming platforms, but for me what makes Nintendo stand out is their 1st party titles that consistently combine nostalgia, excellent gameplay/mechanics, charming visuals, minimal (if any) storytelling, great music, and recently multiplayer co-op (bring your wife and kids!). Ok, I'm a sucker for Mario-type games and have not much been into Zelda since Ocarina, but I struggle to find games with those qualities and quality on any other platform, if at all.

It has nothing to do with the hardware and their gimmicks. I can count on one hand the number of times I've used the Switch outside the house, or seriously played a Wii motion-control game, or a WiiU game that effectively used the dual/touchscreen features (does Mario Maker count?). If Nintendo released Mario Odyssey for PC I'd never even think of purchasing the Switch and very happily play the game at 4k 60fps on my puter. Being able to remap "shake your controller like an idiot" to spin-jump to a button in Dolphin made various Mario New's tolerable.

But yea, that'll never happen. So as long as Nintendo keeps producing on the games front, I'll happily keep biting. Plz take my money.

But how could I go on this rant without diverging into lionizing the glory of the SNES days, when Nintendo and videogames themselves were at a peak which shall never again be reached. The SNES was inarguably (though not at the time, Blast Processing and all) superior in graphics, audio, and control compared to other popular consoles at the time (that being Sega Genesis of course). And developers took advantage of all this power in spades. I'm still impressed by Mode 7 (what, you don't pause SMW when Bowser's clown-ship is zoomed to the max?), and many SNES game music are still among the best examples of VGM, before compressed digital audio removed all constraints on composers (with all due respect to the glorious SOTN and Mario Galaxy compositions).

Many people have stated that early 2d games have aged better than early 3d ones, and I think that is true. The SNES shows this well, with vibrant, colorful, glitzy graphics, and excellent music. But what I think has been lost with the new generation of consoles is unique character. One could tell at a glance whether a game was was produced for the NES, Genesis, or SNES, and even the PS1 and N64. Now that characterness is left up to the developer, and the consoles/PC mostly interchangeable. That's fine I suppose. But there is something impressive, especially as a programmer, about taking these limited machines to their absolute limits, and eking every bit of unexpected power out of them.

I remember once my friend messaged me, he just had to play FF3 (or FF6) like RIGHT NOW. So I sent him the ROM. We then both marveled at how it was only 4 megabytes in size. Kefka is truly rolling in his grave, laughing maniacally.
> Someone unironically said in this thread they "never trusted LastPass" (implying this is safer somehow?!) but technologically you don't specifically need to.

There's something to be said about perception. A big corporation making money off a centralized service that uses the money to employ people to get things right? Seems sketchy. Some people on GitHub with a Chrome extension that can read and write all data on every web page you visit and intentionally syncs your passwords with ... AES-CTR with no integrity protection??? please tell me I'm misreading this ... to some random altcoin? Sounds great, these people must have my best interests in mind, hack the planet, fight the power, &c. &c.

The question is, how do we change these perceptions?
"Committed socialist"

Ouch.
Yeah, that is total BS. BTW they are not "undocumented" as if their dog ate their passport: they are illegal immigrants.

The total local, state, federal burden of all the benefits they receive, greatly outweighs the pitiful amount they pay in taxes. 2017 stats indicate $19B paid into the system, $135B in services taken out: a net $116B loss to America. https://www.scribd.com/document/359997156/Cost-Study-2017-We...

Even if you say that "FAIR is biased", and discount the numbers by 50%, you still have a negative impact of over $50B a year.

California, ALONE, spends over $30 billion a year on services for illegals.

$10.6 billion in paid taxes: according to your link "overall effective tax rate of 6.4 percent". Explain how that is fair, please...
GetFire.net
In general though driver support may be a tad better in linux than windows for sometime now, because of the huge gamut of drivers now part of the kernel, so most devices are supported by default, whereas in windows it is quite common still to have to download drivers for ethernet cards, printers etc.
> It’s over.

This depends on which philosophic overview is correct. If the physicalists are basically right, and conciousness is a result of chemical processes, self-exterminating would indeed end your predicament.

But if the animists are correct, self-terminating your current physical body won't actually solve anything for you. You'll go through a period of "confusion", then a life review. Eventually you'll have to start over: gestation, birth, a few years of being basically helpless... Hopefully you can avoid the pitfalls you've experienced this time, next time around.

Sticking with your current body, and figuring your way out of your predicament, is actually much easier than starting over from scratch. Help is always available, if you seek it out: 'ask, and ye shall receive, search and the door shall be opened to you.'

Recommended reading: Far Journeys, by Robert Monroe.
You're being down-voted, and I disagree with your use of the word pedantic here, but I believe your answer is mostly correct. "Browse wrapped" usage agreements are very real and enforceable under certain conditions. At best this is presently a legal gray area.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browse_wrap#Summary

Remember, anyone can sue you for anything and it is then your burden to defend yourself if they are persistent and wealthy enough.
Management and false certainty
It's not really comparable. Labo isn't actually designed for VR, everything in VR has to be really precise and fast or it's incredibly noticeable.
I would ask if you have kids?
"The Dogma of Otherness insists that all voices deserve a hearing, that all points of view have something of value to offer."

This might have been a dogma amongst most Americans in 1986 (though I seriously doubt it, considering the rampant anti-Communism, sexism, homophobia, and conservatism of the time), but these days, with anti-Muslim and anti-Mexican xenophobia being virtually the law of the land, with a neo-Nazi sympathizer in the White House, with all branches of government and a huge percentage of the electorate controlled by his racist, bigoted party, it's hard to read this sort of essay without laughing, crying, or raging.
Once in a Blue Dune
The problem you have here is that in order to continue listening to songs more than just a couple of times you'd have to able to classify the song versus an ad. Otherwise once the system heard the song a few times it would start blocking it too.
Good effort, buddy, but no.
CollapsingLogo
Most services, including LastPass let you export your database. In LastPass's case you have the choice of CSV or their own format for "LastPass Pocket" (designed for USB Sticks) or any SQLite compatible tool.

Plus what happens if this Blockchain provider goes under? Unless you have the last version of the chain stored or know someone personally who does, then you're just out of luck. There's no service to even help you find peers to locate a working copy.
Cash also costs retailers money: counting and delivering it, dealing with fraud, etc. – it’s just a cost of doing business and businesses balance those all the time. Right now most places I go are pushing credit cards / NFC because it’s faster and doesn’t suffer from counterfeiting.

The reason Bitcoin hasn’t seen much usage is that it’s worse on every one of those metrics. There just isn’t a non-ideological market for a slow, expensive system with no fraud protection.
I'm glad that Nell Painter found good things in those classes, but as someone in their 40s who has come out of academia, the idea of studying at a college again is a bit strange to me.

Like, I quit a PhD program between passing my quals and defending a dissertation, but even with my "incomplete" education, I feel like I have enough authority to learn whatever I want to learn outside of the framework of academia.

For instance, the lesson about being able to just erase 10 hours worth of work... that's something that all of us who have ever worked on about any large project probably already know-- as a writer, I suspect that the author of this piece already knew that lesson, even if she hadn't felt authorized to apply it to a field where she wasn't credentialed.

So I wonder about the value of returning to an undergraduate education. As a musician, I still learn new instruments, but my education has gone from getting weekly lessons and being in beginner bands to playing low-rent shows and getting single lessons from masters (Floyd Domino, if you are reading this, I will call you back Monday).

After we have a good humanities-based education, I wonder if we ought to be able to teach ourselves.

I'm curious what other folks thoughts about that are: it's not that with a good education in "learning how to study" I don't ever need input from masters, but more that I'm skeptical that I'd need an entire undergraduate course to motivate me to carry out enough work to learn a craft.
3D Bouncing Ball with CSS3
Meet the women lead engineers behind the supercomputer
Alas,the fault is with our profession. The risk is too great to assume the ACD properly routed the (effectively) out-of-band account details in lockstep with the voice traffic.
Particle Effects for Buttons
Wouldn't it be possible to make a tunnel, such that the users can use internet, while Facebook receives essentially zero information?
I considered buying labo for my kids but I thought the cardboard would be destroyed in a week max.

How does it hold up?
I have two, one is three and the other is seven.

We've cleared odyssey at least two times as well, and I catch the older one looking for moons from time to time. Kirby seems to be the current attraction though :)
I didn't say you work for Microsoft. I have no way of knowing that, and it doesn't seem likely. But you can't use HN exclusively to promote one company over others. The reasons ought to be obvious.
I don't understand your comment. Is this spam? Can you explain?
Thue (esolang)
Except that it almost none of the GNOME applications do. To give some examples:

Files (Nautilus) shows some icons and 5 actual menu items. You have to guess what the icons do, only the zooming icons are somewhat clear. There are no keyboard shortcut hints.

GEdit has just a couple of items and two menus that also contain almost no items. There are also no shortcut hints.

The GNOME Web Browser has items distributed over two menus, a hamburger menu that has virtually no items and a single menu in the system tray with some more items (why are menus even in two different places?). No keyboard shortcuts in sight.

GNOME Software does not have any menus at all.

gnome-terminal is still sticks to the UI paradigm with six menus, plenty of items and shortcut indicators.
https://joinpeertube.org/
This will be horrible. Like applets rendered on a CSS style web page. Some young people will experience this for the first time, but the old devs will remember :)
I am aware that there was a bluez-alsa adapter. I am sure it worked, but with pure ALSA there was a lot of issues that made hotpluggable audio devices tricky. I often had to mess with asound.conf and alsamixer to get things working correctly - and that sometimes also meant that I had to restart all my audio-using applications if I wanted to switch.

And all of those problems occurred WITHOUT Bluetooth being thrown into the mix. I had multiple audio devices, including Intel HD Audio, an Audigy LS of some kind, and a USB microphone that presented it's own audio device to the system. (This was a while ago, I have no setups that look like this anymore.) I'd often have the devices come in a different order, and when this happened my mixer levels would be all messed up, and often times if I booted with the microphone plugged in... it'd be the default output device.

With PulseAudio, I have less trouble - things do generally get setup how I expect it, and when they don't I can switch everything at runtime to be correct. It's worth noting that the trouble I have had with stability is heavily tied to hardware. Of course that doesn't mean it's not a PulseAudio issue, but I think a lot of people have trouble that they may not realize is not actually the normal PulseAudio experience. Even latency varies per hardware, in what I can only assume has something to do with how the audio hardware handles timings.
self pruning mechanism ?
I remember reading a paper a little while ago that stated that experts are better at their craft because they're better at ignoring unimportant and irrelevant input.
3D printing in science
Something like that was exactly what I was afraid of and that certainly is a dealbreaker.

These are private videos (though nothing necessarily embarrassing or inappropriate) and making them public must not be possible from a client point of view (other than downloading and manually uploading to a different service).
> The problem is that educational excellence often selects for agreeableness, as there is no real reward of contrarianism in education.

Simply not true. Perhaps at second-tier and below schools this happens, but at a good university you are rewarded for contrarianism that can support itself with good arguments. You aren't rewarded just for being a contrarian, so no one is giving you free points just for saying 'you're wrong' without a coherent argument supporting your case.

If your education history is being scrutinized then the filter usually consists of 'I have heard of this university' && 'did graduate'; if your grades actually come into the discussion then you either are probably not qualified for the job or probably don't really want take the job even if they make an offer.
Two Vortex Rings Colliding in Slow Motion [video]
My current password file is almost 1 MB.

So wouldn't the blockchain become unweildly pretty quickly?

Especially when people start base64 encoding their mp3 collections and storing them in the b.lock chain?

At least with a normal ledger system, you can collapse chunks of history and hash them to validate. But it seems that if you are storing data that needs to be accessible, you can't do that.

I don't have a TB or two to spare on most of my devices.
> I wonder if that's easy to adapt to Linux?

I believe using CUPS could be a simple way to implement it in Linux.
Isaac Asimov asks, “how do people get new ideas?”
There's also 12 hours of footage of all of the stages of the experiment on his second channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cm9l8-qngjM
For those who have a switch: https://www.switchbru.com/dns/ is a simple hosted DNS server that lets you browse the web. And the web browser runs webkit!

https://i.imgur.com/0h803Ux.jpg shows a Chart.JS demo running in a canvas.

Unfortunately the File API does not work: https://i.imgur.com/GA5kNGp.jpg
The Rise of the Video-Game Gambler
I don't think Zuckerberg is trying to stir up existing ethnic hatreds in order to seize the oil wells and install a new Burmese government that does his bidding...
Ratpack: Netty framework for Java 8
It breaks the site guidelines for you to post that sort of comment, so you don't have "every right to ask why". The rules are the way they are for good reasons, based on over ten years of running this place, and users who want to post here need to follow them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> AES-CTR with no integrity protection???

Seems to be the case, with non-random nonces... If I read the documentation of the used library correctly, it starts the counter always with 1 by default. Game over?
IIRC all the new Marios had a dedicated button to that spin, z I think.

I think Odyssey is the first that has enough variations that you can't just use button combos for some. I tried playing it with a wired controller without accelerometer support while a nunchuk was out to get fixed, it was had to do a lot of the moves.
I'm pretty much with you. I could use a little more structure in some areas probably but that's really on me. So much content and study material is available out there. What's missing I guess is interactions (which are probably more important in something like art than in other things) but you're going to be somewhat of a fish out of water.

In any case, I can't imagine having the patience knowing that I don't care about the credential to not only really focus on the parts I'm interested in but in all the things I'm not interested in because they're part of a core curriculum or whatever.
annddddd.... patched.

Seriously, though, it's gonna be very easy for Nintendo to patch this particular DNS out. While running a browser doesn't really hurt their bottomline, a browser is typically the weakest link in any console and thus is often used to find an exploit and run homebrew. The Switch as of now doesn't have a non-intrusive exploit, but allowing arbitrary javascript could result in one.
It's an article from 2016. What's the point of sharing this?