skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
trackerjacker also provides a simple python plugin system that makes it trivial to extend to do all sorts of interesting things (e.g. to look for anomalous wifi devices). One of my original use-cases was to trigger my sirens if a security camera detected motion (based on a data thresholds that uploading a video triggers).

I demoed this at Thotcon and DEFCON this year and will be demoing it at Derbycon in October.
Or.... you could stop using Tor?
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There are problems with evaluating people all around. I had a recruiter flat out tell me I'm simply unqualified for the position. Had I not been so passionate about the product and company, I'd have moved on. Instead, I did an end run around the recruiter and accepted an offer within a couple of weeks.
Considering how militant US politics is I wouldn't be too surprised if the people in power are actually OK with cyber-attacks as long as they go their way.

Coming from Germany I don't even comprehend how the US is not able to run elections in a way that can be trusted. The 2000 Supreme Court decision should have been a big warning. I really believe there are a lot of people who don't want to fix the system because it would take away the opportunity to create more theater and conspiracy theories along party lines
"Never heard of it? what was it?"

A very nice lesser known blog with a surprisingly high signal/noise ratio compared to more common places.
Here's the archived thread announcing the shutdown.

https://web.archive.org/web/20110120135534/http://www.plasti...
You may be behind a corporate firewall that is blocking access to the site.
Those Google captchas are horrible. Often they do not let one of through despite giving seemingly correct answers. One is prompted with captcha after captcha after captcha. They not only require cookies, but JavaScript turned on and are a real affront to the whole idea of a usable, open web. On tor, I just give up. There is nothing I want to see on the internet badly enough that I'm willing to spend ten to fifteen minutes (this is not an exaggeration) trying to guess what I'm supposed to click on. I do blame cloud flare, ignorant website creators, but most of all Google. Out of the many atrocious products they have created, nothing is more infuriating and frustrating than these stupid captchas. They are not logical and quite often simply unsolvable. I support the creation of bots that can guess (because that's what the process is, there's no solving these) these even if it comes with all the downsides of having such bots roam freely on the internet. I hope the ai of the future is able to deal with such nonsense to the point where Google gives up on this atrocious technology. I'd rather have spam and ddos attacks than this.
You need to provide fiscal value or convince the operations team of legitimate companies to not treat Tor as a bad apple. It may not be right but money is the only motivating example that matters to companies.
From an interview with Domino's CEO Patrick Doyle in 2015:

"We believe by transaction counts we’re in the top five of e-commerce companies in the world. We know we’re behind Apple and Amazon, but we may be as high as third."

Domino's has wildly invested in their tech: https://www.marketplace.org/2015/09/24/business/corner-offic...
Try the wayback machine:

https://web.archive.org/web/20170215003338/http://pcwalton.g...
In this story, it sounds like they just didn't understand how bad it was. The parents might not also be very good with technology themselves, and so some easy options might not occur to them.

I'm not a parent, but in friends of mine who are, I often see the scenario play out in reverse. They use technology as a way to pacify their rambunctious kids or otherwise get a few moments of respite - and so they foster that tech addiction without knowing it, until its really taken hold.
But VoterID!
Super markets fall into the vanishingly large set of services aimed entirely at well-paid young urbanites who haven't matured into basic life skills (growing food) yet.

:hmmmm:
For one thing it keeps the media sweet.

For all those years in which the Archer Daniels Midland corporation ran ads on Sunday morning political talk shows, ADM got to scam the government and consumers for billions thanks to subsidies they were able to get.
Especially if they shook hands in Texas.
Of course it is. Advertising and it's sibling propaganda have always been about psychological manipulation, at least in part.

The main difference in the cell phone era is access and engagement. It's an interesting question, I think, as to whether this constitutes merely a difference of degree or a fundamental shift.
Ask HN: Should I stay at a job just for the money?
My story:
I have over a decade of experience as a professional software engineer.

I started as an engineer here, then was promoted to manage the development teams. The company has grown, but their focus is not on technology. No one in senior management has a technical background. I'm the highest-ranked technical person, and I feel there isn't any room to grow within the company or learn from a mentor.

However, the owners take very good care of me. I want to be clear that I'm super grateful for them and can make no complaint with how I've ever been treated. This is a great job, I'm blessed to have it. Tell me 10 years ago I could ever make this much money and I wouldn't have believed you - it's nearly $200k per year (USD). I again want to be clear this is not a "poor me, please feel bad for me" story... I'm astounded with how lucky I have been.

Where it gets complicated:
I have a hellish commute. I spend 3.5 hours a day commuting. And telecommute work here is frowned upon within the company.

If I were to leave this job for another software engineering position, it'd be for around $130k per year, with either a better commute or full-time remote work. This completely covers my living expenses.

But... a $70k pay cut is an entire salary. I don't know if my future self would look back and think I did the dumbest thing when given the best opportunity.

The ask:
So I'm seeking advice... do I stick with the job that's treated me well, despite the fact that I've outgrown it or it's outgrown me?

My real life goal is to be financially independent and not have a terrible commute.

Thanks, all.

(I'm a regular HN user, just made a throwaway account for confidentiality.)
It would be great to get a personalized RSS feed of torrents. This way, knowledge of at-risk torrents can be distributed efficiently. It even allows prioritization.

I wonder if you can set up a distributed-hash-table sort of thing that lets you reliably query for less-popular torrents. Like a magnet-link system that supports top-k queries.
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If I had a dollar for every time someone behind Tor tried to screw with my saas app...
How do you verify that the machine is running the same source code?
America’s new supercomputer beats China’s fastest machine
From a network abuse perspective, any individual ipv4 /32 that is a TOR exit point is an immense source of abuse, spam, shit, automated password attempts, etc.
This relates to another mathematical "oddity". Some regions in the EU measure fuel economy with km/l, while others measure in l/100km. Years ago, when the EU first released fleet fuel economy standards, there was a bit of confusion as some manufacturers averaged the fuel economy of their fleet and then converted to the appropriate units. Which gives a different result than converting to the appropriate units and then averaging.
> collect all your data, making their marketing platform even more valuable

I think the oily rags metaphor applies. They collect all your data but it's not worth much individually. But yet they want all of it ignoring your needs and rights for privacy.
From what I remember all sorts of iPods were available for years (close to a decade?) after the iPhone was released, so I don't think that kind of lock-in played that much of a role.

There was a point where I got a Touch version of the iPod because it was much cheaper (thinner) than the equivalent iPhone at that time, and I was fine with whatever other phone I had. I'm pretty sure this was at a time when the iPhone was already extremely popular.
MISMO to develop standards for conducting consumer mobile  transactions
I agree, that this was not the point of the article. Nonetheless if a child doesn't have access to a phone/the internet that child won't have access to all these Skinner boxes and whatnot.
I guess the bigger picture I'm trying to paint is that parents don't seem to be doing their job.
>"Here honey, here's your phone back. Please don't kill yourself. We cool?"
Mother/father of the year award right there.
Turkey accuses US of 'stab in back' as currency woes persist
> I would argue that psychological manipulation is at the heart of all 20th century media and advertising.

The difference here is the incredibly tight feedback loop and a unique, detailed psychologial profile of each user to work with.
Yes, options A, B, and C are technologies that shouldn't be used where user privacy is highly valued. They violate the fundamental concept of end-to-end encryption.

In practice, a rented VPS or dedicated server that terminates its own TLS connections can be considered very private. It's not impossible for the hosting company to acquire the private key but it would require real effort, business risk, and potential liability.

Even if you're not worried about rogue employees, you have to worry about mistakes like the infamous "Cloudbleed" bug that leaked private user traffic.
The ability to make your own vote public is a bug, not a feature: It allows people to demand you to show them that you voted "correctly", whether for straight out vote sales, or plain old intimidation from a group. A pastor/union boss that can be sure that a bunch of people really went to vote, and voted they way they want, is pretty powerful. At some point you make the "voluntary" part of giving away your hash to not be so voluntary, as only traitors would keep it quiet.

In many environments, secret votes and public votes lead to different outcomes: requests to make regularly public votes secret is not that uncommon in elections for private groups: Everyone knows that there's a big percentage of people that want to vote in an unpopular way, and suddenly either an old leader is ousted, or a very corrupt choice is made.

So no, the ability to voluntarily make your own vote public and verifiable is a dealbreaker for elections in a modern state.
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Colleagues from the EU countries who relocate to the US generally tend to have a two-fold reaction - excitement at the lower tax rates and dismay at the filing complexities.

Would be amazing to have the cake and eat it too - lower taxes and a simple filing system!
I'm annoyed that there is no simple system for the IRS to tell me what I owe, and let me pay or dispute.

Instead, we play this game where the IRS provides a bunch of complicated documents, I guess which ones to fill out and submit, then wait 3 years to see if I was randomly chosen to see if I was correct. So it's very easy to make a mistake for dozens of years, then suddenly be penalized at random. It's the worst kind of selective enforcement - random enforcement.

And this is to help H&R Block and others sell "tax insurance", just in case you're randomly selected for audit and H&R Block was also wrong about which tax documents to submit.

The IRS have all the data - from employers, banks, Social Security, unemployment, and other government services. I might have most or all of the data, and could verify or contest items they have on file. Edit: So the IRS may not always have all of the data, and would still need a way for us to submit documents in some edge cases.
In the context of sentences involving the word "never", it does not matter when the thing that supposedly never happened did happen.
It's not that simple. Depending on how you spend your money you can have access to some tax saving measures. You can also make money cash that you have to declare when filing your taxes.
Wow, I didn't even realize how big an impact it makes. It literally outperforms everything else on a large margin except for one test, and gets like 117% more performance in ebizzy than the 7980xe.
Also check out his "Art of ..." books (art of deception, illusion etc.). Chronicles and details of various cyber crimes. Very interesting books.
Having lived in New Zealand where the IRD does this, yes. Yes I would.

If they owe you money, you can file. If you owe them money because they screwed up, you don’t need to do anything. This assumes pay as you earn, standard employee status, not entrepreneurial revenue. Easy for the common case.
“Your taxes” is such an overloaded term that it’s almost comical to refer to it as if it means the same thing for everyone.

There is basically one straight-forward case where the IRS preparing taxes makes sense: that of full time employees whose only income is from their job which issues W2s.

For everyone else — which includes:

- People working multiple part time jobs

- People with non-standard investment portfolios or real estate holdings

- Contractors, with or without an LLC

- Full time employees who are also contractors

- Dual residents

- Small retail businesses

- Small internet businesses

- Megacorps

— there is a different set of requirements. The idea that the IRS would be able to optimize everybody’s return so they pay the least amount of tax, is absurd. And that’s not even considering the moral hazard of misaligned incentives, i.e. the IRS has no incentive to make sure you deduct as much as legally possible from your return.
I would absolutely let the IRS prepare my taxes... if this workflow or one like it is followed:

Jan, I get a 1040 form, prefilled out.

If I don't agree that it states my financial position correctly, I can correct it & send it back by Mar 1st.

If I do agree, I place it in my file cabinet.

But as patio11 noted, at least once, the IRS enforces taxes to the amount Americans will tolerate. What he did not say, but I have heard elsewhere, is that tax evasion is enormous, and pervasive in the cash economy.

which is part of why I favor abolishing cash. :-)
This article really barely touches on the issue, even with regard to earlier influential architectures by DEC alone (plenty of others contributed as well, though in this regard the most influential were DEC, Intel and IBM in no particular order). It also ignores Gordon Bell, possibly the inventor of the ISA as an idea with his profound design choices in the early DEC architectures.

The most important machines to DEC were PDP-1->PDP-6->PDP-10->DEc-20", PDP8, and PDP-11->VAX, and from an ISA perspective the -10 and -11/Vax sequences had pervasive influence until today.

The 36-bit PDP6 architecture (unfairly called a "dead end" by another poster on this discussion) was highly influential: it was highly orthogonal and what we would consider today almost RISC, but was easy to program in both assembly and with a compiler. This is the architecture that gave us the Internet, Lisp machines, the bitblt instruction (ever used a bitmapped display?) and other technologies that led to today. The PDP-11 gave us C[+] -- there's a little PDP-11-like machine in every C and C++ compiler, and pretty much every other CPU-targeting compiler these days, and as a result, almost every modern ISA looks like a PDP-11 if you squint a little.

(The article also ignores what a barn burner Alpha was. Its biggest misfortune was to be born at the wrong time into a family that had fallen on hard times).
Wait no. I went from a Linux work laptop to a Mac laptop about five years ago and not having a dedicated modifier key (Mod4) for working with the window manager was a huge pain and a pretty steep un-learning curve.

On my personal laptop, the Mod4 key is just for me to use for customization.
Can anyone on HN provide me a good article or explanation as to why digital voting machines could be considered better for democracy?

My intuitive reckoning is that making the "verifiability check" for a given vote something that non-technical people could carry out would increase the number of eyes on both sides which could point out inconsistencies.

EDIT: added/removed words for clarity
He has always done that going back for many years.
I work in a place where my boss is an engineer, his boss is an engineer, and his boss is an engineer. I've found this feeling is helped a lot by your superiors actually understanding what you are doing and why. I'm still a pawn, but I feel appreciated.
They already do prepare your taxes. They just make you do the same work twice.
13 million in lobbying over five years to prevent more efficient tax filing for an entire nation and protect your business model. Sounds like an amazing deal for a company with 5 billion in revenue. I'm consistently amazed at just how little money it takes to buy off the government effectively.
> all the venues where I publish use double blind review.

But you still need to have your paper sent for review... Couldn't the editor reject it outright?
I think it's because lenovo really isn't a brand you buy for gaming. Sure they have a gaming lineup, but they are more business and production oriented, and the Quadro cards back that. The Quadro cards aren't bad for gaming per say, you can still do quite a bit with them. I have a P51 mobile workstation with what I think is NVIDIA Quadro M2200 4GB GDDR5, and it lets me play anything I've tried so far without issues. Granted the CPU and GPU get extremely hot on these things if you so much as think about loading up a game. My internal temps are constantly between 80-90 degrees.

Also, gaming rigs and mobile workstations have differences in how the hardware functions. I don't have an intimate explanation, but gaming laptops are not meant for virtualization. If you have a gaming rig and mobile workstation with the exact same specs, the workstation will host VMs smoothly while the gaming laptop VMs will be slow and clunky.
Fair enough. I was almost going to suggest signal jammers from China or Faraday cage wallpapers but then I remembered that taking the phone away might have done the trick as well ;)
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Then they go an get a list of countless http or socks proxies and the solution is to...?
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Does the 30% lost efficiency bleed into the environment as heat energy? While it's not as damaging as greenhouse gases, we should try to avoid adding more heat to our environment if possible. Especially when considering planetary-scale space power production and transmission.

I remember reading about a way to radiate heat energy from AC units directly to space.

"The panels do this by emitting heat at infrared wavelengths between 8 and 13 micrometers. To these waves, the Earth’s atmosphere is transparent. What’s more, the panels reflect nearly all the sunlight falling on them." [1]

Perhaps the same general concept could be used to transmit energy from space to earth while lowering interaction with the atmosphere.

[1] https://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/green-tech/solar/effici...
Ask HN: What is your favorite gym motivation video?
I stopped filing my taxes starting in 2011 for 2010. I had always hated the process, but in 2010 I had switched jobs several times, and had misplaced one of the stubs mailed by an employer.

I have almost always worked as an employee, not a contractor or business, so I did not owe money--they probably owed me.

I decided that rather than get the couple hundred bucks I would receive as my return, I will forgo the stupid process altogether.

I have yet to hear from anyone about it, and I have become a little bit happier by not having to deal with that crap.

In 2014, I gave up income altogether, so I am no longer required to file. Before then, I guess you could call it civil disobedience.
Furthermore, as an expat living in Russia at the moment, it is quite surprising to one day be in an EU country and able to access any wide variety of sites, and the next day get a friendly message from Роскомнадзор telling me this website has been blocked for my protection or some other non-sense.

I'm not involved in politics enough for it to be something very dangerous for me -- it's just non-sense things I want to see that I cannot because of silly regulators wanting to look important. But at the same time, trying to browse around via Tor to bypass these restrictions make it impossible at times to access information that Роскомнадзор has decided Russians shouldn't be allowed to access.
Incidentally, inverting your mpg figures to gpm actually makes your conundrum much clearer and helps to explain why many countries use the latter.

100 / 10 = 10

100 / 12 = 8⅓

10 - 8⅓ = 1⅔

100 / 30 = 3⅓

100 / 60 = 1⅔

3⅓ - 1⅔ = 1⅔
But perhaps you need a motivating example, since you don't think there's any value in supporting Tor!

I never said that.

I do think that the onus is on you to explain to whatever company you're railing against here why its in their best interest to welcome Tor traffic, particularly if it will make them more vulnerable. And sorry, to me you're not doing a good job of making that case. These examples seem like edge cases for the vast majority of websites. If I was blocking Tor (I'm not), I wouldn't reconsider my position from these scenarios. The cost is simply too high for too little benefit to too few people, probably none of which are my target audience.

And just to be clear, I truly understand the value of Tor and similar projects, and I hope we get more of them and they're more widely supported. But they come with real downsides too, so it's not surprising to me that many businesses and governments aren't going to out of their way to support them. That's the price you pay.
I never thought about it in that way, but my dog trained me too. When she's done with her business outside, she will scratch the carpet, I learned to open the door when I hear that noice, I never taught her that, so she trained me.
This article is flamebait. The legislation passed the state Senate but is not expected to even get a hearing in the state Assembly before the expiration of the current legislative session.

Even if passed, because the law specifically mandates sexual/gender preferences it will face a constitutional challenge and be suspended pending full review/appeals by the CA court system.

Finally, if it survives all that...it would apply to any business that is incorporated, HQ'd, or otherwise does business with California. And would promptly get struck down by a federal court...
Also with writing music. For many years I've repeatedly said, word for word, "you have to write about 10 songs for each really good one you end up with."
There is also the Slug library[0] for anyone interested. It is based on this paper[1].

[0]: http://sluglibrary.com/

[1]: http://jcgt.org/published/0006/02/02/
Grüu and blan?
Isn't it humorous to see actual fake/false news, in a historical context, labelled with the modern nomenclature?
I wonder if this comes down to Linux being more adept at handling "exotic" NUMA configurations compared to (desktop) Windows. Even if the "server" editions of Windows could handle them Microsoft may have left that functionality out of the "desktop" kernels for product segmentation purposes.
Hah no, I honestly have no idea why I wrote that accidently. Maybe as someone mentioned I was thinking of TMBGs or something.