skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a german guide to privacy I read that has some real issues with Wire, most that I agree with [0].

I will Google translate it for you (ironic):

> "10/06/2017: Wire.com operational Security

> Wire.com is referred to as a new star among crypto messengers. I briefly looked at the (experimental) Linux version of Wire.com and found some significant security flaws:

> Mannings Bug: Wire.com has good end-to-end encryption based on Axolotl. The chats are all but unencrypted (!) Logged on the hard disk of the computer. The logging can not be switched off.

> The unencrypted storage of encrypted communication is not a bug but an epic FAIL!
> Access data: (Account name, password) to Wire.com account are also stored somewhere unencrypted on the hard drive. When starting the person does not have to authenticate in front of the screen but is automatically connected to all accounts.

> This is not a bug but a FAIL!
Remote Code Execution: The Linux Wire Client contains a lot of Javascript code. Updates for the Javascript code will be downloaded and executed via HTTPS from the Amazon Cloud. After a superficial examination, the authenticity of the executed code is not additionally cryptographically verified (this is a guess, not checked in the code!). Security therefore depends solely on HTTPS encryption.
The HTTPS encryption of the contacted wire servers app.wire.com, prod-assets.wire.com and prod-nginz-https.wire.com does NOT meet the BSI's requirements for secure HTTPS encryption. These servers are Amazon Cloud Server and Cloudfront Server (not your own infrastructure).

> DANE / TLSA or HPKP are NOT used to validate SSL certificates of HTTPS connections. In addition, no CAA record is defined in the DNS, which should actually be mandatory for HTTPS for a month. The security of the transport encryption between client and server thus does not correspond to the feasible state of the art.

> Potent attackers could attack with fake but valid SSL certificates as man-in-the-middle the communication to the wire servers, in combination with the remote code execution possibly also attack the end-to-end encryption (assumption!), and there are enough potent attackers who want to attack the encryption of crypto messengers.
The domain wire.com is not signed DNSSEC.
Instead of the privacy-friendly OCSP.Stapling, OCSP.Get is used and several CAs are contacted to verify SSL certificates via OCSP. OCSP.Get can be easily tricked, as M. Marlspike demonstrated in 2009.
It contacts third party servers that are not under the control of the operators (maps.googleapis.com, images.unsplash.com) to download anything.

> Conclusion: The operational security of Wire.com is not (yet) suitable for security-critical applications after a small, superficial test. In particular, whistleblowers should learn from Manning's example and not use it.

> Disclaimer: this is NOT an audit but a short test of the Linux version."

[0] https://www.privacy-handbuch.de/diskussion.htm
I can’t speak for anyone else.
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Never had a proper look at the documentation until now. This language is very interesting!

One thing I found is that types in Julia are first-class values [0]. You can put them in variables, pass them around, inspect them, even produce new ones in runtime. Opens up all kinds of metaprogramming opportunities. Very Lispy! (Well, Julia is Lispy). It's also interesting that types are optional, yet they're significant for the optimising compiler. Like, if you do type the arguments of a function, the optimising compiler will have less work to do.

It also looks like much of the compiler pipeline is exposed to the user [1]. You have access to the parser, can tweak the AST. Macros also there of course.

[0] https://docs.julialang.org/en/stable/manual/types/
[1] https://docs.julialang.org/en/stable/manual/metaprogramming/
In my experience, 0-based indexing is way more common in mathematics. Maybe it depends on the field you're working in. Off the top of my head, dimensions are numbered from zero in relativity and particle physics, Fourier series only make sense with 0-based indexing, coefficients of polynomials are numbered from zero, Taylor series, indexing by taking the modulo ...
I love 1980s tech ａｅｓｔｈｅｔｉｃｓ. Even the graphic design associated with 1980s Transformers toys and cartoons has it.
It does, which is why highway expansions generally fill up a few years after opening. http://cityobservatory.org/reducing-congestion-katy-didnt/
Saying the other political party has “ideological resistance to helping each other,” is ridiculous. That kind of bigoted dismissive ignorance just fuels our bitter partisan gridlock and helps nothing.

Of course are fringe nutters in the world and unfortunately some of them even get elected, but the vast majority of Americans, Republicans and Democrats, are just ordinary people who care about their kids and their neighbors, want to see everyone prosper, and even agree about a lot more than they disagree about.
Looks like Lambda school’s charity arm is handling this. And he will be on his way to a better life in no time. https://mobile.twitter.com/AustenAllred/status/1027170602031...
The links to APIs I see on that page are https://developers.google.com/resources/api-libraries/docume... and https://developers.google.com/api-client-library/python/ , both work for me. The latter in turn points to https://cloud.google.com/tasks/ (Tasks Alpha) which also works for me. Maybe it only works for customers enrolled in the limited-access Alpha and as a Googler I'm automatically enrolled without knowing that...? But, I can also see the latter in an incognito window in Chrome...
Huning is one of the most underrated and understudied people right now.
Of course this quote also suggests that maybe people who go in to PhD programs have higher rates of mental health issues. I would definitely argue that PhD programs are both bad for mental health and also attract people with poor mental health in the first place.

I have known plenty of people who didn't feel like they had the skills (both technical and/or social) to go in to industry so they applied to grad school.
And yet for some reason, plenty of people do mix and match. I have a bunch of Facebook friends who used the Twitter -> FB transport; part of their network is on Twitter, the other part is on Facebook, and they want to use a single entry point that's more convenient for them when posting.

The outrage isn't just about Twitter though. It's also about that you now can't do IFTTT->Facebook, Buffer->Facebook, or whatever other app you were using (including your own)->Facebook.

(Speaking of Buffer, did this move just kill their business?)
I'm surprised that STEM research doesn't attract more "freaks" and free-thinking people.

At least when I was at university, those people generally didn't have the focus to graduate with good grades (or graduate at all for that matter). It's one thing to sit around and talk about all the 'out there' implications of quantum physics. It's an entirely different thing to get your quantum physics course work in on time and study enough to pass the exam.
> So, in tech, do people not go to strip clubs anymore?

Worked in the industry for the last 15 years or so (in Ireland). Never heard of this. I'd think it'd be a HR matter if someone suggested it in most decent companies.
Not sure what happened there; perhaps the submitter got confused with a different article. We've taken 1970 out of the title.
You can effectively achieve most of that with just tap cards and all-door boarding.
Insulin is incredibly expensive and is manufactured by some of the companies making these devices. I wonder how much less insulin people use with these devices?
It could do that.
> An open-source server is certainly a step up from Signal

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server.

You are spreading a lot of incorrect or misleading information about Signal in this thread. That makes it difficult to assume that you're arguing in good faith here.
I have had the opposite experience. I've had symmetric gigabit for a few years now and I monitor my upload and download rates in my bar on Linux. YouTube 4k videos can saturate around 500mbps (if you are scrubbing thru), backblaze can saturate all available bandwidth (but you need extremely high concurrency), game downloads can usually go to around 700mbps (on Steam, Origin and Epic launchers actually go faster). All in all I find it is useful day to day, but not quite as useful as you'd think. There are still way too many web servers that throttle download speed per connection or IP, however I've noticed there are less now than 4 years ago as gigabit consumer internet is becoming more common.

Worth noting this experience is from Phoenix, AZ (which is especially relevent because backblaze servers are in Sacramento and Phoenix).
I'm not in marketing or advertisement, but I seriously wonder if honest grassroots support can be "purchased" through ad spending.

For example, I see HSBC's ads incessantly at airports about how they value customer service, but 5+ personal interactions with the bank proved otherwise and no amount of ad spending can get me to suddenly get on message boards and support HSBC. They could spend 10x for all I care and I still wouldnt use their bank...and certainly would never get on message boards to support their product.

What ride hailing apps did is make rides available to a giant sector of the population who didn't previously have any reasonable alternative. That makes me (both through my experience, and that of my mother) spend my valuable time on message boards arguing in favor of ride hailing apps.

A one line summary of my mom's very limited anecdote: for a frail elderly POC frequenting hospital trips in Manhattan and traveling back to Brooklyn -- there was life before Uber and life after Uber. For excited consumers, it has to do with the product, not ads.
>It will for sure hurt adoption.

Reminds me of the complaints my friends had about Linux when I first showed them a fantastic window manager.

"This will never get anywhere. It has no Start button."

If I were in a team that refused a language just because it is 1 based indexing, I would really worry about the abilities of the team.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17723634
So some possible hypotheses (in what I would consider most to least plausible):

1) Whatever causes the higher overall rates in Utah (altitude and/or other variables) that interacts in a non-linear way with whatever is causing the national increase.

2) Whatever factor that is driving the national increase is more influential in Utah for whatever reason. (e.g. maybe social networks are more harmful to more-judgmental Mormon communities)

3) There is some recent change in Mormon culture that has driven a change in teen suicide rates.

4) Mormon culture has caused a change in suicide rates despite not changing.

Do you have any support that would make (3) or (4) sound more reasonable? Or do you have another hypothesis?
Every day I am at home for weather, timers, lists.
Your bank statement is available to somebody who's threatening you, because it's available to you. That's the problem with being able to verify your own vote, somebody else can force you to show them who you voted for, so they can threaten you to make you vote for who they want. It's the same reason you can't take a photo of your ballot.
What real world value to long buyers add? Sure, if you invest and the company takes that investment and does really well with it, the world may benefit from an increase in productivity/wealth. But if you invest and the company does poorly and tanks, then the world loses by something because you could have taken that money somewhere productive. The kind of market that produces the most real world value is one where companies are valued accurately. If you think a stock is undervalued, you go long. If you think it's overvalued, you go short. Both actions affect the market value of a stock.

Seems like two sides of the same coin. I can't see where an argument against one doesn't work against the other.
It's only not a thing because you've defined it as such. You can make the rule that "commenting on a girl's looks or whether you could get with them is disrespectful" and then the loophole is closed, but my argument is that that's not a truthful or helpful way to organize the world.
Its pretty standard in the US (at least in the fields I am familiar with) that if you quit a PhD program you can still leave with a Master's if you've been in the program for long enough.
Well, I dunno about that... that might be snobbery :D

I take your point... jazz is one of those things where that interplay is super important and can be enjoyable to see.

Also, I really enjoy playing in a string band / jam band. Essentially it's jazz, but with bluegrass instruments. But then, it's not clearly not "Jazz".

A lot of the musicians I know who are super talented don't like a jam. They want something totally un-jazz -like... they what Joseph Haydn, et cetera. In that realm, there is a whole lot of interplay between the musicians that is even subtler than what you get with jazz.

As a musician or as a listener (and, this is even more true for the better musicians that I know), I feel like there is a lot of road to explore outside of jazz even just in terms of the interplay between musicians.
Pre 1.0, we've generally provided backwards compatibility for one version with deprecations. Somewhat ironically that has often led to people just living with walls of warnings until the version that actually broke it came out, which led to a worse experience. We also have automated upgrade tools now, which can do many of the simple (and some not so simple ones) automatically. The situation on 1.0 is slightly worse than in previous releases because we released 0.7 and 1.0 simultaneously to avoid having to ship 1.0 with active deprecations. Of course that means that people will have to fix their packages now, rather than waiting until next year.
Money is the source of evil when it comes to corrupting graduate school programs. This has been especially acute since the late 2000's.
Speed of light affects how fast information (force) can be transmitted through spacetime. The expansion is spacetime itself growing - so it should be completely linear. This is the basis for the Alcubierre warp drive.
Agreed. Not sure how they concluded dividing the denominator was a good idea, seems like this exact problem (minus original float bug) shows up all the time.

The solution is clearly to multiply by 1000 before performing floor division:

`t=(now-start)*1000/freq`
The speed of light is nothing special when we are talking about galaxies receding from each other due to expansion. You can go beyond c.
I think, in this case, it's the fear of the known that is the problem. "Dirty" is the concept used to describe all the reasons to clean stuff. But, real-world issues like MRSA are scary and the root of this slippery slope. Combined with the fact that my spouse works in a highly contagious environment doesn't help.
I took 2.5 years of ASL in University, and I've always been annoyed by this, but had a hard time describing what I mean to others. You have just summed up the problem perfectly in a few sentences, and I thank you for that.

That said, I think the OP is still on the right track here:

> I put it together so you can train it on your own set of word and sign/gesture combos.

A Deaf person should be able to train the system on each command they want so that it works for them automatically in the dialect they want.

> there are local bindings where you make up a sign name for someone on the fly and then use it during a conversation

My very favourite thing about ASL, having learned programming beforehand, was that I could assign people to variables/registers in space. "John point at spot to my left said to Susan spot on right bla bla bla" and then later be able to just point at my left and everyone knows I mean John. And then if John moves to the right, I've just moved him into that register and can reassign the left one to someone or something else. And with a group of experienced Signers, everyone just comprehends this perfectly.
I don't know a single reputable program that makes you pay for a PhD. Typically the salaries are subsidized through the school, that gets it's money from taking a cut of stem grants, donations, masters tuition, and undergraduate tuition. Saying that most humanities professors get their salaries by doing some sort of ponzi scheme of charging their advisees is just spreading misinformation.
I understand your argument, but it cannot be shown to be more valid than the complete opposite: the less centralized a system is, the more complex it is in terms of protocols, and you need to trust many more people to design it correctly than you would need to trust to operate a centralized system. In fact, it could be argued that beyond some complexity level, an unbreakable design is virtually impossible, even in principle.

Your argument about an appealing target could also be used to show the exact opposite: decentralized systems are much harder to upgrade, and so they become attractive targets which you need to break much less frequently (especially considering that the internet backbone itself is pretty centralized), and so it makes even very expensive cracking more affordable. The argument about open-source applies pretty much equally to the centralized and decentralized case.
My keyboard mappings must be off then.
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1. The HTTPS infrastructure is downgradeable and relies on DNS and a multitude of certificates. And not all the ciphers are safe. Yes it can be done securely-ish, but unless you're layering another level of encryption over HTTPS it isn't fully secure. Layering is what the CIA does, according to the Snowden leaks.

2. As for the rest of it: Cool man, that sounds like you want a normal chat app that is more usable and less secure. I use Messenger too for things that don't matter.
No, just need to wait for IJulia to be updated. I imagine it will be a day or two.
> Given how long the movie industry has been around and how many studios have gone bankrupt through competition, I would think that any cultures that significantly impeded productivity would have been stamped out by now.

A movie studio is generally either very successful, or soon dead; there's not that much middle ground. So relatively small optimisations (such as not creating a hostile work environment that drives away employees) may not have much of an effect on survival.
In my own personal experience, professors and academic advisers have consistently given me the worst advice (about choosing a path or personal development) when I have asked for it. It takes a certain temperament to become a professor. There are a couple exceptions, but most of the professors and academic advisers I talked to seemed to be unable or unwilling to connect with people who were not there for academia qua academia, and very few had enough experience outside academia to give any kind of credible comparison.

Find someone who got a PhD and works in industry, or who got a PhD and works in an unrelated field, or someone who didn't finish their PhD. More viewpoints will give you a better picture.
Your „in a way“ is totally opposed to what normal users see. They will blame OWS when their Signal client that hasn‘t been updated in two years won‘t work.
The average company in the video games industry isn't like what's described; it does seem to be especially bad.
I haven't had any recent issues. I know to support net neutrality they recently had a blackout of sorts (https://mastodon.sdf.org/@SDF/100254429655079937) and some thought it was an outage.
I think the issue is, many regions in the U.S. operate on real time energy pricing markets. Generation companies get paid for what they produce based on these energy prices. When prices go below zero, they have to pay to produce.

The only groups that can afford to do this, are one's who can use clean energy government subsidies to bid in their cost of production at below zero, and essentially pay to produce energy on the power grid.

If you think clean energy should get a preference on the powergrid for dispatching energy, that is fine, and many places in Europe do it well and reliably. However, in this case, real time energy markets are probably not the best reflection of what incentives are truly at play.

An example of this is that clean energy gets an unfair advanatage in that it's weaknesses are not exposed. It is good to provide an economic incentive for the generators to need to perform better.

An example of this is wind plants in NY. They get energy subsidies for producing power, but not necessarily producing power on the power grid. So they can create energy, and never supply anyone with it, and get subsidies per MW for this. You might think the best way for them to double their income by

1. getting subsidies and

2. actually getting paid back the real time energy price on the power grid

would be by supplying power when it's needed by buying batteries and putting that energy they create (when the wind is blowing at night for example, when noones needs it) into the power grid when demand is high, at maybe 5pm on a hot summer day when everyone has their ac cranking, but it turns out that costs money? And they are already getting free money. Some power plants are starting to do that, but they could have easily done that a decade ago.

I believe we should have clean energy, and do what it takes to get there, that's why I specialized in Electric Power, but I think the way it's currently set up in the real time markets creates some preverse incentives that hinders optimisation in the field.

While clean energy is nice (solar panels, wind turbines) they could use alot of improvement on their efficiency and integrate batteries into their substation design. Many do not because it is too profitable as it is.

It's also important to note the people getting paid these subsidies are venture capitol firms funding these clean energy substations. They are not green tree hugging people, and most of the companies have an incredibly diverse portfolio that does not reflect a loyal dedication to clean energy cause. The profits they receive from these government funding go back to VC firms to be reallocated to...well.. whatever they see fit and many times it has very little to do with powergrid stuff at all, much less clean energy. This is free money for venture capitalists...think about that.

It's a very interesting market because people's idea of ethics and moral rightness are able to blind some very basic abuses in the system that degrade the performance, reliability and overall amount of clean energy produced on the power grid.
DNS failures were almost certainly related to all the k8s system services on the cluster not having CPU or memory reservations, and KubeDNS was flaking.

In general AKS is a vanilla k8s cluster and expects you know what you’re doing. MS arguably should enforce some opinions about how things like system services have reservations, etc, but none of this is vanilla. The trouble is that K8s defaults are pretty poor from a security (no seccomp profiles or apparmor/se profiles) and performance perspective (no reservations on key system DaemonSets).

We’ve had this interesting industry pendulum swing between extreme poles of “we hate opinionated platforms! Give me all the knobs!” And “this is too hard, we need opinions and guard rails!”. I think the success of K8s is exposing people to the complexity of supplying all of the config details yourself and we will see a new breed of opinionated platforms on top of it very shortly. It reminds me of the early Linux Slackware and SLS and Debian days where people traded X11 configs and window manager configs like they were treasured artifacts before Red Hat, Gnome and KDE, SuSE, and eventually Ubuntu, started to force opinions.
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