skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's like an invitation to the precautionary principle.

"When the occurrence of any damage, albeit unpredictable in the current state of scientific knowledge, may seriously and irreversibly harm the environment, public authorities shall, with due respect for the principle of precaution and the areas within their jurisdiction, ensure the implementation of procedures for risk assessment and the adoption of temporary measures commensurate with the risk involved in order to preclude the occurrence of such damage"

I like it.
>At that scale you will not see anything. But that doesn't mean nothing is happening.

But then you can't say such things like "red line is rising scary fast", which is another example of manipulative language. With enough Y-axis magnification you can make anything rising or dropping "scary fast".
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What if ideas are cryptographic-ally encrypted and posted publicly, and the keys released at a later date?
It has surely gone through quite a paper trail. "Final rejection" dated 13.07.2012, but that wasn't the end of it:

https://register.epo.org/ipfwretrieve?apn=US.201113244836.A&...
She got cease-and-desists from New York City. She's expanding outside of New York City. So the expansion is not in violation of the cease-and-desists.
I am quite aware that the clones quickly became, in effect, the real thing. In spite of the way people apparently are interpreting, I meant my comment as a compliment; this system, in no small part because it is a clone, is perfectly in line with the original PC ecosystem.
As far as software related patents go, yes, there are so many patents granted on trivial or obvious techniques that the system seems to benefit lawyers and patent trolls to a much greater extent than it benefits the actual inventors.

I do see a need for patents on pharmaceuticals, where the costs of gaining FDA approval is much more significant than the cost of reverse engineering a generic version of a medicine. But software? No.
I got the same in SF at first, but it worked after refreshing. Maybe an issue with getting location permissions on the first run?
I'd be happy if it did it just for bookmarked pages. I have often wanted that in bookmark search and it could be incorporated directly into the bookmark searchbar.
This feels tricky to me.

Sidewalks are public right-of-way, and an important piece of transportation infrastructure, and there is a civic interest in ensuring that they can, first and foremost, be used for that purpose. In a city as dense as NYC, that is naturally going to lead to rules limiting what can use the space, and then those rules are naturally going to be given exceptions for things like sandwichboards and sidewalk cafes and newspaper stands, because everyone wants to have those things, too. But that's going to be done by creating specific exceptions, which may require a permit, in the interest of not throwing it to the wolves all over again.

Which means, in turn, that there are always going to be uses that at least some people like, which don't fit cleanly into any of the official categories of exemption.

I don't think there's any perfect answer here. Lean too far in one direction, and you get news articles like this complaining about entrepreneurship being obstructed. Lean too far in the other, and you've got people who use wheelchairs being unable to easily navigate their neighborhoods.
> Getting rid of patents will just lead to trade secrets getting lost, like so many have been through history

I never thought about this benefit to a patent system. Thank you.
This is not how any of that works. It's one thing to be a startup and get some seed money from the government supportive of small businesses. It's another thing to just claim public space as your own, without any permits. Restaurants need permits to put sidewalk seating and tables; they can't just privatize the space in front of their property, because it's not theirs.

Just because the government helped pay to develop drones doesn't mean you can use them anywhere, at any time, on public property without any restriction. The same goes for these doghouses.
The irony being, entirely possible the birds are providing valuable services in the form of pest control. In other words, maybe they really do deserve a share, & everyone is the better off for it.
Oli here from the team building Memex.

Yeah as mentioned the tool allows you to do bookmark full-text search.
It's open-source, so it will stay no matter what.
We build for resilience and for us as the WorldBrain.io company not needing to stick around in order for the service to survive. We see ourselves as the stewards of this tool, not the sole benefactor or proprietor.

Hope it will be helpful to you :)
Have you tried that?

In my experience we switch more often, and codi is not in a shape to be committed - it wont even compile.
A human, again?!
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Here's Sean Devlin explaining ~85% of the same detail in a general introduction to invalid curve attacks:

https://toadstyle.org/cryptopals/59.txt

I like Sean's definitions best and find them the most accessible way to get a the topic. Don't think about curves as geometric objects and don't think of points as coordinates. Think of the curve as an equation y^2 = x^3 + ax + b --- come on, you did this in high school --- and a point as an x,y pair that satisfies the equation (pick an x at random! solve for y!). Now host that equation in a finite field, so the x and y needs to be an integer mod p. You can code this in Python or Ruby, right now, and get an intuition for the basics of how it works.

For invalid curve intuition, I also think Sean is right: understand DH and subgroup confinement first:

https://toadstyle.org/cryptopals/57.txt

I think the fundamental thing to get your head around even if you're not going to take the hour or two to code the attack up (do that, though! it's a fun couple hours!) is to notice that, if for prime p a curve has order q < p points, most combinations of integers mod p can't be valid points. If you've got a "sage" prompt lying around (always have a sage prompt lying around), make a curve E = EllipticCurve(GF(17), [3,4]). Look at the length of E.points(), and notice how much smaller it is than the number of possible x's and y's.

Then, the interesting part about the attack is that if you send an x,y pair that doesn't satisfy the curve, it might satisfy the equation for some other curve. If you're smart you pick a point that lands in a curve that's insecure, for which you can quickly use brute force to solve the DLP.

I agree that the hook in this blog post title is misleading; you would not have found this attack. But it's misleading in a sort of empowering way: you are not a graduate course in mathematics from grasping the intuition of the attack or coding a model exploit. You might not even be a day away from it.

If you read this blog post and Sean's posts and you're stuck on something, I'd be interested in knowing what and seeing if I can push you through it.
Weird. I haven't compared byte sizes of CF templates and Terraform code, but just as far as readability, HCL works a lot better than YAML. YMMV.

As for state, I'm not sure what you did to corrupt your state, but we use Terraform to manage thousands of resources across dozens of AWS accounts for the past three years and haven't had any state corruption, except when a human messes up editing a state file by hand. Obviously in that case you back things up first (or hopefully you are using remote state with some kind of versioning). But the fact that you are _able_ to manipulate the state with the CLI tool, or by hand in extreme cases, is itself a huge advantage over CloudFormation, which has no such capability.

As for coverage, my experience has been that Terraform often has coverage of new resource types and properties _before_ CloudFormation. And it's extremely rare for any new features to take very long to show up in the AWS provider. Anything significant is usually picked up in 2-3 weeks from the API release at most.
Source? That's contrary to everything I've seen.
There are still trade secrets all over the place. Patents are an idea that has through evidence been proven to be more harmful than good. The rate of horsepower in the world exploded once the original steam engine patents expired.

The case for patents needs to be made empirically -- lets see where they actually drove innovation. In general you will see massive innovation as soon as a patent expires.
Because they didn’t have a presence at that point in NJ?

Cool, tax fraud!
Even so, it seems that tech patents need to have a shorter time frame. Things move faster now than they did 200 years ago.
Looks like 500 errors on posts to https://justgetmefood.com/api/get-suggestions, may have hit Yelp API limits already?
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2018/07/doggerland-europes-los...

Doggerland was submerged 5,000 BC because of water rising due to the ice cap melting...
This is just a proxy for yelp API, same thing can be accomplished by opening their app and selecting the first thing you see. My friend and I made almost identical app with their api at CalHacks and it had the same options and app flow and returned one restaurant at random. You could also say no and it would give you another random restaurant.

Quite low useability in the long run considering there's no unique dataset here and the app is trivial to build in a day.
If I'd figure that one of my employees does contracting on the side, I wouldn't be happy. If you really need more money for a serious reason, I'd prefer people to chat with me about that during 1:1.

It's absolutely none of your business what your employees do in their free time. You'd be unhappy in this situation because it's a demonstrated failure on your part to exclusively capture their labor potential. You should react with an apology and a promotion (or silence) before you even think to furrow your brow.

This is business. You want loyalty? Show me the money. You want absolute disclosure? Show me your books. We're not family. Back up and earn your keep, buddy.
This seems awfully close to a No True Scotsman argument. The Fowler quote was,

"Yagni only applies to capabilities built into the software to support a presumptive feature, it does not apply to effort to make the software easier to modify."

If we exclude features we definitely do want from consideration, so we're only talking about presumptive features, and if we exclude actually implementing those presumptive features, so we're only talking about "capabilities built into the software to support a presumptive feature", and if we then further exclude things that "make the software easier to modify", then how much development is really left for YAGNI to affect?

I can't speak for anyone else, but when I write new code, it is generally either implementing some specific functionality that we want right now or improving the common foundations of the system in some way. The usual reasons for the latter would be either gaining some immediate benefit, such as improved performance or robustness, or making the code easier to modify so we can then gain some benefit. By Fowler's argument, I don't see much of a middle ground where YAGNI would mean anything, unless maybe a developer is in the habit of starting to develop code for some specific feature when there isn't actually any requirement for it yet, but why would anyone do that anyway?
Maybe they are not interested in optimization for the sake of optimization? For my use case it has been plenty fast anyway (not that it's a particularly intensive use case).
Well, people eat for comfort and pleasure, as well as for calories, and some people get addicted to food. So I think if we understood addiction and how to cure it then this might automatically solve the obesity epidemic as well as the drug problem.
My understanding was that WZ leaseholders got a free pass because their case was high profile during the property boom: if they were going to be charged market rates for extending the lease, then people would begin to doubt that their 70 year leases would eventually be turned over easily as well. The government wants everyone to think that the leases are just like buying.

I think China will abandon the entire leasing system once they get a national property tax in place. The current system is unsustainable at the local level, and localities need the continuous income a property tax can provide, rather than the windfall of leases every 70 years (if that).
Interesting idea, but what if the company goes bankrupt in the meantime?
As other commenters, and the article itself, have pointed out, there's already plenty of stuff on sidewalks. The fact that this even needs a new law to be passed points out how ridiculous regulation is. There should be a law that talks about who has de-facto right to approve/object to it (probably business/residence which it is in front of), some law on the minimal amount of side-walk space that should be left, etc, and not have to re-license every single thing people might want to put there. You can always pass laws to exceptions that people don't like, rather than having a policy of default-deny.
Seems to me that intentional infringement should be the only path available to plaintiffs. If the next person who has the same problem arrives at a similar solution without needing to refer to the patent's teachings, then society arguably obtained no benefit from granting the first person a temporary monopoly.
Assuming apps composed of light weight micro-libs I tend to find apps:

1) Miss taking advantage of browser capability to parallelize downloads, leading to lost real time in most browsing contexts.

2) Make it difficult if not practically impossible to leverage before domready cycles in the event loop.

Is it stable to detatch from the load event in the case script is not the initiatitor? Yes, unless one can reasonably expect document body to close (no more writes) at some real time after external downloads complete. But that potential pitfall, in any case, can be controlled with a deferred bound to the domready event.

What I have witnessed, however, is the browser tends to do a better job optimizing for scripts loaded over HTTPS in a way fetch cannot when controlled by the implementation.
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> In a thick atmosphere like earth, heat radiation comes from all sides, so no chance at radiating off very much heat.

Desert nights, without the thermal mass of clouds and wet ground, cool quickly.

Earth is doing "barbeque roll" thermal management. Sitting between bright hot Sun, too hot, and dark cold deep-space sky, too cold, Earth spins, mixing too hot with too cold into not too bad. There seems an opportunity to improve the clarity of science education explanations, down to kindergarten, as the cooling half of that balance is pervasively left unmentioned. I wish I could find a forum where opportunities like this were discussed.

Also fun is using photonic structures to engineer your thermal emission spectrum to concentrate energy at frequencies where the atmosphere is more transparent.[1] So you couple more directly than usual with the deep-space sky.

[1] https://news.stanford.edu/2017/09/04/sending-excess-heat-sky... https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2016/12/cooling-by-radiating-h...
Yikes, I stand corrected. But it's also missing basically every restaurant on North Avenue and most of Oak Park.
Everyone should watch the bitconnect crazy guy high on pyramid scheme premises: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21kGmCsJ5ZM
> Global warming skepticism has [...] everything to do with people having functioning BS detectors. To wit: [...]

LOL. Notice that none of your points address any specific studies. I've never met a self-identified climate change skeptic who reads the journals of the American Geophysical Union[1], like I have since the 1990s. But you people have "functioning BS detectors", "common sense", etc. -- just like all the creationists I've met.

[1] https://publications.agu.org/journals/
Uhh, that's basically any application that a network connection is critical to its function...

Yea, how on earth was this patened.
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The value of a currency is not directly, or even indirectly, related to growth of the economy. They simply have decided that a loose inflationary currency works best for them, as did the US, which is why they haven't changed that much wrt each other.
Cross-browser testing. Sorry for the jargon.
Unfortunately, it didn't work for my city.

The idea reminds me of "WHERE THE FUCK SHOULD I GO TO EAT?"( https://wtfsigte.com/)
Its pretty clear from context what it means
Is it shorter than the Terraform for the same thing?

resource "aws_s3_bucket" "x" {}
Interesting. What other languages have you used and what are your thoughts on them?
Where did the city development group she worked with want her to put them? Outer space?

It is trivial to see they wanted them installed in Manhattan in the sidewalk. The fact that there is no method of permitting at all is the problem.
Frink is like 80% of the reason I passed first-year physics. It's like a typechecker… for science!
Nutrition "science" caught again perpetuating findings based in assumption and hitting the data until it fits, not solid research? Oh no, nobody could've expected that... also "scientists who are on a crusade to reduce our salt consumption to near zero". Like pope Urban II always said, no better place to do sound research than on a crusade.
You definitely didn't do the math for invalid curve attacks in grade school, since you also need CRT and the notion of group order. But I think your first sentence gives a great charitable interpretation of the title.

A way I like to think about these things --- from the perspective of a vulnerability researcher, not a cryptographer or mathematician (I am neither of those) --- is that there is a very little bit of math you need to put some extra tools in your belt, and then the rest of it is programming; working through these kinds of exploits feels a lot like implementing heapsort or a spanning tree reduction for the first time feels like. I find that empowering, because while I can't bang out Kruskal's algorithm off the top of my head, I know if I sit down with it for 20-30 minutes I'll get it working. After a little bit of reading (an hour or two tops), same with this attack.
Hey eloff,

Oli here, from the team developing Memex.
Memex is open-source, so the browser extension will always stay free to use.

What we will charge for are some of the services that require us to host stuff. Like backups, multi-device syncing, API calls etc. We will run it as a completely modular pricing model, where you can upgrade on only those features you need. We don't like those usual 3 tier model, where you have to upgrade to the 'monster mega plan' in order to just get one feature :)
But you can also completely self-host that, as we will make the server software open-source as well.

Hope Memex can be useful to you.
We are running a crowdfund to support its development, where we offer some good discount on the future features in return: worldbrain.io/pricing

Let me know if I can be of more help.
This happens because the USPTO has no incentive not to rubber-stamp everything that comes across their desks. For some time now, their position has been to accept claims at face value and let the courts (read: the taxpayers) deal with the fallout.
Social security (the large majority of the payroll tax) is highly progressive when paid out and then taxed.
Should be working now -- there was a hanging database transaction. I've had to do a bit of live debugging.
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dissent is punished, whether carefully argumented, politely constructed to avoid hurting sensibilities, or blunt.

I have noticed a comnon pattern here that leads to high praises: on the negative aide: being dismissive of cryogeny, of crypto currency, of China ; on the positive side: being pro regulations, pro social programs, etc.

My exploration is that the arguments are unsound, and emotionally driven. I remember someone explaining without shame that their hatred of Huawei was because of Nortel problems in Canada (!!) It seems very weird to me.

I believe a lot of people here are in technology because it is trendy. They have limited passion on the subject. They have links to their websites on their profile, and seem to mostly seek networking, and parroting generally accepted things to avoid any objections or controversy.

I respect that difference. I am here to read thought provoking innovative content, and write interesting discussions with interesting people. I do not wish to lie about my sensitivies, but I take no umbrage to different opinions. Difference leads to innovation! I find that mostly in the "new" section.

Good enough for me.
there are dog kidnappers, unleashed aggressive dogs, lots of reasons not to leave your pet unattended.
In my growing-up-in-the-prairie attitude, dislike of prairie life, particularly if there are mountains visible off to the west, may reflect a short attention span and chronic cultural overstimulation.
I was reading the Wikipedia article about "The road to hell is paved with good intentions", which I found after translating the idiom from my native language. I wanted to make sure you'd understand the quote but guess what?

Here's the first sentence of the first section (Meaning):

>A common interpretation of the saying is that wrongdoings or evil actions are often masked by good intentions; or even that good intentions, when acted upon, may have unintended consequences. A simple example is the introduction of an invasive species, like the Asian carp, which has become a nuisance due to unexpected proliferation and behaviour.

Why do you think we are the only species that feel the need to save others? Have we ever tried to save one that wasn't threatened by the consequences of humans' wrongdoings?

We act like we don't know what we're doing. Perhaps we should calm down and observe before destroying our fragile environment and rush to save it (often destroying it further in the process). Just. Calm. Down.
Serious question: how do you go about debugging a CloudFormation stack that's in a broken state, without involving AWS support?

I mean, it's weird, because I agree with your statement that "The most important part of infrastructure engineering is being able to debug and fix things quickly by isolating issues to the smallest possible domain." And that's why I so strongly prefer Terraform, because I actually have control over the state file, how Terraform interacts with it, and I can move things in and out, and change things in-situ if necessary.
Your argument doesn't really make sense: regulation is bad because it regulates some stuff... but since some stuff is regulated then we should be able to do some different stuff?

Things are on that sidewalk because they were "analysed" and accepted, they are regulated. They are sidewalk-legal things. Just like on the road there are road-legal cars and what you're saying is that illegal cars should also be allowed because they're cars and we already have plenty.

So regulation is bad because you're not allowed to do illegal things that are sorta' like legal ones but not really.

Regulation can't cover everything perfectly from the get go because it would imply that the people making it can know with perfect accuracy every single issue that might come up in the future. So you make it more restrictive and then adjust case by case. The genius idea can be covered by a permit unless there's a real blocker somewhere.

If you're in IT you'll understand this example: try writing a RegEx that matches all those words and only those words (strings?) that I will be using in my comments over the next 2 days.[*]
That should've been figured out first. It's not as if the city is opposed to changing the regulations. She just didn't bother getting it sorted out before she actually did anything.

Ignorance of the law excuses no one.