skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
California cracks down on Internet of Crap passwords
"Trust me, we know a thing or two about adding malicious chips to systems."
- GCHQ, probably
> This isn't how gag orders (or, in the case of online services, NSLs) work. A gag order can compel you not to share data, but they cannot compel you to lie, let alone lie elaborately

Is there case-law to support this? I've heard the argument often, but I don't believe it has yet been tested.
In the Seattle far-suburbs I'm renting at 3.36% by your metric. And people keep asking me "why don't you buy?!?" THIS. :)
> Plus it feels like every day is Christmas when a new random Amazon item is coming in.

I feel bad doing this, because I know these packages are coming in via air, truck, boat, etc and batching is significantly more efficient.
The pitch of the blades is fixed (if I believe the photos from their website), so the variations in lift is simply controlled by the variation in speed of the given rotor. This is just like any hobby quad/hex/octo/younameit-copters out there.

That means you can't reverse the pitch to gain angular momentum from a fall, and therefore, implement autorotation like a "traditional heli" can.

You do have multiple rotors for redundancy (in case one of them fails), but that's not going to protect you from a complete power failure of course if that power source is global.

You can increase safety by providing each rotor with its own independent power source.
This is great and I'm really quite impressed and pleased to hear about games I've worked on (Need for Speed) being played this way.

Accessibility is something that can be really difficult to get enough focus on during development even when a few people are aware and care.

For my own sake I'm just glad that some recent games (such as Battlefield) have added colour blind modes.
I wouldn't if I did not want to be found.
Nah, this is no different from what brick-and-mortar retailers have been doing for decades.

Buying private-label items in supermarkets over name brand has been recommendation #1 in personal finance circles for at least as long as I've been alive. Hell, some private label products are better than brand... I'll go out of my way to buy Kroger's private label ice cream and sodas.

And it's not just food. Half the stuff you see in Walmart is private label, including clothing and pharmacy products (and I've found that I actively prefer their private label sleepwear over name brand). And whenever I buy OTC meds at CVS, of course I always take the private-label bottle, which has the same ingredients yet is half the price.

> I've seen this happen in a couple product lines over the year and is one reason we pulled off Amazon

Oh, I see. You have a personal financial stake in spreading FUD against private-label brands because you operate a name-brand business.
And they didn't even have data!
I should have clarified: my macbook is out of the 1 year warranty. However the keyboard has problems for which there is an extended repair program (I'm not sure if this falls under an extended warranty or whatever).
I think the Command and Control traffic will be much harder to spot. In fact it might be dormant until an operative is on the same network and wakes it up.
An opinionated list of skills you need for a DevOps job in 2018
Given what you say about wind farms being placed on traditional farms, I wonder if the localized warming the paper discusses would actually be a benefit to the crops. It could extend growing season just a bit more and maybe help buffer against frosts and cold-snaps.
What an Audacious Hoax Reveals About Academia
Based on what deep knowledge of Chinese courts cases?
If anyone is looking to exit their relationship with Moviepass, I recommend signing up for http://privacy.com or similar and changing your Moviepass card limit to one with a $1 limit - this way the charge is declined.
Well, I suppose that's the key question. But I think that yuo might argue it is, because there's a huge "long tail" of goods that you can only really hope to sell online.
Much of this strategy was developed by Wal-Mart.
The roman map is supposed to be around 200 CE, so 1600 years later would place the story around 1800.
Making sense of the alleged Supermicro motherboard attack
Funnily enough, even a 5S can, in fact, change that. For all its terribleness, it doesn't seem to mess with reader view at all.
> By your argument a content slave owner could by proud of his thriving cotton economy, and justifiably believe his political support for this system should have no consequences.

This is the strawman. I said nothing about slave owners. I'm talking about your average, middle class citizen (since that's who's being accused of taking a political stance through inaction).

> If you know you're supporting people that actively try to suppress the rights of your fellow citizens, how can you complain when you are judged for it?

I and many other people don't "know" that we're supporting people who actively suppress rights. In fact I'll say that I definitely do not.
Only if you don't have a data-parallel workload. Message passing is often a nonstarter for data-parallel workloads.

Another way to look at it is that the hardware has a very efficient word-level message-passing interface built-in, via shared memory. Why not take advantage of it?
It could also be possible that these companies are legally bound by some sort of investigation-related order to maintain ignorance to the presence of the chips and that Bloomberg have just sunk an ongoing investigation/counter-espionage operation, potentially putting an associated intelligence network at risk.
GP did say 'adoption', not 'adaptation'. I think the meaning is conveyed: they consistently tried to build a business of creating games out of existing franchises. But it was every time the same kind of game.
What if it was the 5 eyes who are responsible in the first place (knowing that the targeted services are used all over the world) and now they want to

a) officially deny anything happend

b) unofficially shift the blame to China

Whatever happens, my popcorn is ready.
Knowing which keys to press translates loosely into an understanding of theory (even at a very simple level)

Think of the piano keys (chromatic scale) as the alphabet, and theory as the language that makes words from it.

Tbh a little theory goes a long way. It’s all related and your understanding will build over time. You’ll start to see patterns.

Just start off learning how to play a simple song. Then, try to think about what key is this song in? What chords make up that key? What intervals am I playing? How would I transpose this song into a different key? Etc.

You can teach yourself, but a teacher or good course will accelerate the process.
Not surprising that these kind of things happen in social studies and it's easy to make fun of.

However, lots of junk is also published in science and engineering, it's just not as egregious and apparent.
I agree somewhat; it's pretty difficult to create a COMPLETELY different game. However the second act in Witcher 2 was quite different depending on your choice in the first act to the point that replaying it adds a lof of depth to the overall story and presentation. I heard the 3rd game is just as impressive but I haven't been able to experience it myself

Meanwhile, Deus Ex was revolutionary because it gave you a lot of choice in terms of gameplay variety. Your mission could be to enter a building and just some of the ways could be:

A)Sneak Inside through vents
B)Bribe a guard
C)Impersonate an employee finding a loose ID card
D)Use your high jump to go through the roof
E)Shoot your way in
F)Use a keypad by overhearing the password from a guard
E)Use an explosive to break down a wall

Telltale games did neither of these things and got left behind pretty quickly when it failed to innovate off the success of the Walking Dead
I generally find your comment such quality that you don't deserve downvotes, but I've just two comments: (1) the chances of any investigation having any guilty/innocent resolution, given that the alleged crime happened 35 years ago and even very recent rapes basically boil down to he said/she said, is very low, and (2) unfortunately, I've seen no blow to credibility to anyone, despite there having been quite a few highly-publicised rape cases that were proven to be false.
What is the practical difference between contributing under a CLA to a project that's currently under an open-source license and contributing under a non-copyleft open-source license while retaining the copyright yourself?

Most non-copyleft open-source licenses have their own requirements that must be followed even when re-licensing.

Also, technically if you don't pay for code the copyright holder can revoke the license at any time. So if you sign a CLA the project can retroactively stop you from using your own code. Unfortunately, this is a major argument for projects to require a CLA in the first place.
Ugh, he'll still be a Federal judge with a lifetime appointment.
Wow indeed. I'm impressed that Apple has managed to create and maintain such an insane lead in ARM performance for such a long period of time.

Does anyone know of more technical reasons for Apple's ARM processors outperforming everyone else's by such a large margin, and for such a long period of time? Seems like there's some fundamental difference in what Apple is doing, and I'd love to read more about it.
>> if you are contributing to FOSS qua FOSS, then you want it to remain FOSS

>Not necessarily.

Perhaps you missed the "qua FOSS"? This is latin for "because it is", in this context "contributing to FOSS because it is FOSS".

the osd guarantees the relevant right for an individual to change the software. if you apreciate this right, then you should work to preserve it.
A “known bug” is still a bug
Car Registrations May Point to Massive GRU Security Breach
It's gotten harder to get a free month of prime (I used to take advantage of that, whenever a package was late). Now they tend to just apologize, when before they offered you compensation immediately.

I've found that now what they do is just give you delivery dates that aren't 2 days in the future, even when in stock. Sometimes I've had orders on Monday with ETAs of Friday, with prime, in stock (no notice on the page saying extra processing or out of stock).
I don't know if I'd say that. For instance, the Fan Bingbing case made a splash, but there's little doubt she was actually evading her taxes. The only reason people are surprised is that "everyone" is evading taxes and has been able to get away with it.
"$" ?
Machine Learning is much more nuanced than people seem to understand. You can't just throw data at a net and expect results-this field requires a heavy degree of intuition, and engineers must be prepared for nets to pick up on patterns not obvious to humans, which can lead to unintuitive results.

Neural nets are basically black box heuristics, with unpredictable edge cases. Much like human reasoning, I'd warrant!
My father told me long ago: "After you've done the work the only thing you should sign is a check you're about to deposit."
Mono used to have a CLA to Novell. There were GPL and LGPL parts. It turned out to be beneficial because it enabled Xamarin (made up of mono developers) to acquire licensing rights to redistribute and relicense it after Novell dropped support for the project.
Wouldn't your article then more accurately be "Don't sign a CLA without reading it and making sure you agree with what it says", which reduces pretty cleanly to "Don't sign things unless you've read them and agree with them"?

Your overall point seems to be one I agree with, which is "CLAs can be (and often are) used to enable maintainers to make decisions that contributors wouldn't want to be made, and contributors should thus be careful in what they agree to", but in making it an imperative headline it's lost the nuance.
I don't know about where you are, but in my jurisdiction that is definitely not the case.
Same here. Amazon used to be convenient but it slowly has turned into a stressful experience. Counterfeits, 20 listings of the same product with totally different prices, advertising, fake reviews and so on. Now I prefer eBay where at least the search function works or specialized stores with one listing per product.

Newegg went the same path like Amazon and I have stopped using them. They used to be my favorite store.
Wouldn't ROA (return on asset) be the appropriate metric?

For example, a house worth $500,000, with a 5% ROA, would need to net $25,000 a year. Assuming expenses are 1% of the value, you would need to charge $2,500 monthly rent, to get a 5% ROA.

The question is then, how does that ROA compare to other options? That answer to that question determines whether the house is overvalued.
I cancelled mine a few months ago. Tomorrow is my last day. They've been harassing me on their site constantly with popups and notifications on every single page since I cancelled. It's gotten to the point where the harassment has firmly cemented my distaste for their user experience and I actively search for alternative sites first now.
What evidence is there except testimony (i.e. the most unreliable kind of court-admissible evidence)?
"Literally just a friendlier name" is more-or-less the OSI's spin on the split; those remaining with the FSF were concerned about a shift of focus away from principles. (With the obvious caveat that these are generalizations about a lot of individuals.)

But in practical terms, "free software" and "open source software" as used by the FSF and the OSI describe the same set of software. Consider their respective license lists:

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html
https://opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical
>But what if somebody was changed the license from BSD to proprietary after you've contributed to the project? Would you still be happy about it then?

If you signed a CLA then presumably you're either happy about it or you've just signed a contract you had literally zero understanding of.

If you're more concerned about getting your fix in upstream or the kudos that comes with being a committer to "x project" then yeah, you probably wouldn't mind.

I personally view Microsoft's use of CLAs as a trap that highlights just how disingenuous their "turning over a new open source leaf" was but I don't really have a problem with open source projects using them in general. The maximalist approach to open source would mean a lot of really great open source would never get written. Authors have gotta eat.
yes. the entire thing.
I would like to see the issue tracker at Apple.
These glasses react to live speech and stage cues. The ones developed for movie theaters can be much simpler technology since the pacing of a movie never changes. You just have to sync to the subtitles once and then they are synced for the entirety of the movie. Theater performances can vary from show to show and therefore these glasses have to be able to continuously react and adjust in order to keep in sync.
I wish people would give more examples of what they're talking about or even citations before making sweeping blanket statements about the character of the Chinese state in discussions here. Many of their accusations may even be well founded, but how would I know?

I would not want to live under CCP rule, but it seems like skepticism goes out the window and people will believe anything if the story is about China.
It's the "maximum price the market will accept" pricing you describe the only possible pricing method in a free market in your opinion?

Over-valued could be that players in the market are able to raise the price through, for example, manipulation of scarcity (actual various types of scarcity may be the only way?).

Or it could be that the seller seeks a certain profit that is [viewed as] excessive compared to the labour and material costs. The product is desirable, but the capital holders control the price ensuring large profit whilst keeping low wages for those who are actual creating the value.

House prices in the UK were hugely inflated by the buy-to-let market which increased scarcity of buying options whilst simultaneously increasing rental costs in order to cream off more wealth from the poor tenants and pass it to the middle classes. Rentals became overvalued because now the cost includes not only the cost of provision of a home but the unnecessary cost of paying your absentee landlord an investment premium. The middle class cornered the market, by generating an artificial scarcity of affordable housing.

The more wealthy can buy high street property -- keep rents high, occupancy doesn't matter because they get a reasonable return in asset value just by sitting on the property. High Street rentals are over valued.
Could an artificial intelligence be considered a person under the law?
The GPL family of licenses certainly provides the strongest guarantees to the contributor. But let's consider a "weak" license like MIT. Here's the text to refresh your memory:

https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT

If you change the license, all of the original work must still be distributed under MIT and only the work done after the cutover can use a new license. The GPL differs in that the new work must also be licensed as GPL.
Is there anyone who the Chinese government punished for tax evasion who turned out to be not cheating on their taxes? Selective enforcement is one thing. Fabricating charges is worse.
How true is this... and there are products with false ETL and other certificates and Amazon is not removing them from the marketplace... in the last 2 months I've started looking on Amazon like a bit better Aliexpress - at least for electronics...
>Also, technically if you don't pay for code the copyright holder can revoke the license at any time

I'm pretty sure this is a myth.
Security includes availability and integrity, not just confidentiality.

DNSSEC is a literal textbook case of the trade-off between C and A.
D-Wave providing free access to full 2k qubit quantum systems
Here's an example: I wanted to have decent hashing performance in JavaScript (large file uploads protected against bitrot). There are a hodgepodge of different JavaScript libraries with inconsistent algorithm support and performance characteristics; SubtleCrypto is becoming more standard but has limited algorithm support and doesn't support efficient operations on large inputs.

With https://github.com/acdha/wasm-hashing I was able to use the high-quality Rust hashing system to support all of the different algorithms I needed with a consistent interface and performance was actually competitive with or better than the browsers' native SubtleCrypto implementation.

That's a really nice capability to have in your back pocket, especially since it comes with Rust's usual assistance for code-quality.
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And is there anything in that denial that has been shown to be technically incorrect?

My understanding is that there wasn’t involvement from google, that data was extracted without their knowledge from links between data centers.
well spotted. both should be addressed now
Wouldn't Developer Certificate of Origin serve the same purpose? Especially for projects with Apache 2 licence.

As far as I can see DCO is more lightweight but doesn't allow relicensing like CLA.
Show HN: Gallery of iOS controls
Who is going to know if you do or don't?
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Indeed, "audacious" is not word I'd use for these kind of games, "lazy", "shooting fish in a barrel" would be closer.
I suppose, if you want to argue on explicitly racist grounds, that you might do that. I wouldn't because the states where those things happened don't even exist anymore.
I don't think this could be a winning design: it's inefficient because it's really like a helicopter.
IMHO, the ones with some sort of small wings and horizontal propellers have way more chance to succeed. Efficiency during horizontal travel is much better - and this is position where you spend most time - as well as increased max speed and lower noise during travel.
Something like triggering a memory-read of a specific address the moment you see a TLS diffie helman exchange on the wire?
The idea being that you can recover the session key, and thus break the encryption retroactively.

That requires more than just access to the network, but it is rather simple.

With just access to the network, perhaps one could do spoofed DNS responses that are never seen on the network? A very simple '1% of the time, set the gmail.com A record to the chinese gmail IP' might be enough.

One could create mayhem by sending false ARP or DHCP responses, but that is only mayhem. Perhaps if it is externally triggerable it is useful offensively as DoS.
I'm pretty skeptical of this. 3 W mobile CPU outperforms 165 W desktop CPU? If it was the case, they would have those things in macbooks already, and would boast tens of hours from one charge... If you go to the article that is mentioned in "recent figures", they tested single-core performance. So it was single core of a 28-core CPU (with boost though). It's still impressive, but not unbelievable.
This seems preposterous to me. We are not in China here.
Just speculating but surely it must have something to do with the entire stack being designed under one roof, no? Having the kernel devs be able to walk across the campus and ask the hardware guys what a register is for must speed up development immensely.
“We are aware of the media reports but at this stage have no reason to doubt the detailed assessments made by AWS and Apple,”

This is a pretty mild statement, would not say it backs Apple and Amazon.
If you stick to walking, why even bother to track you? You're not going very far from your house that way. If you board a plane, rent a car, etc, you get tracked.
If you're 34 by most (all?) date ranges I've seen you ARE a millennial. The most common range I've seen is anyone who turned 18 on or after 2000.

I'm also an older millennial (33 born in 1985) and I feel like I share almost nothing in common with the younger millennials but unfortunately I've accepted that is the group I'm in.

I had the opposite experience as you though. I started off really conservative like my parents and moved further left as I aged and experience a more diverse group of people.

Though I consider myself firmly a Libertarian I am left of the center on almost all social issues. And a lot of the people I know are the same. Left on social issues but right on economic issues.

I can't see myself ever going so far left as to be in socialist territory though.

Edit: fixed a minor typo.
I would say that is less than the going rate. Look at salaries for DevOps in London I would say more like £60k-80k
Yes, Qt: https://www1.qt.io/contributionagreement/
True. I mean in reality though, there would probably be very few countries on the UN HRC if the position required being holier than though.
Sure, but for this argument I think the most recent Chinese Civil war to present (1927- ) will suffice. I don't give the KMT a free pass either just because they were buddy-buddy with the "West". Different sides of the same autocratic coin if you ask me.

edit: And before this devolves any further, no I don't give the "West" a pass for its tyrannical tendencies either...
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Or, 3rd option, they did it (not china) and are trying to play it down as a non-event.

"Nothing to see here - move along!" while thinking of a new means to hide this stuff in the server hardware...
This seems the most likely scenario to me. The official response definitely does not pass the smell test, and this is the simplest way 5 eyes has to benefit from lying.
An international body that shuts out China can't really claim legitimately to represent "international" consensus, can it? Globally, one in five people is Chinese.
I love that "Data Scientist" has become such an inflated and meaningless title that now we have "Machine Learning Engineer".