skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For anybody who hasn't yet, pick a target percentage of your income that you want to save for retirement. If you're late getting started, this could be pretty high (20-30% in some cases).

Set up automatic withdrawal to a 401(k)/IRA for whatever percentage you can afford next month (say 3%), then just increase it by 0.5% per month until you get to your goal. The slow progression will give you time to adjust your hedonic treadmill down in line with your increased savings.
All for the cost of a coffee cup.
Content Marketing Services India Company [Business Content Guide]
I was just trying to be direct. What would be a more polite way to say that?
May I ask who is it that has made this? Looking through the website and twitter but unable to find any humans attached to the project. I do appreciate how it says a human will read a response to any of their automated emails.
As a person living in the current world, I want to thank you for both standing up against these kind of requests, and for leaving money on the table, which other companies like Cambridge Analitica easily grabbed.

I don't know if there's any way for people/companies like you to defend against unscrupulous companies.

I can only say thank you.
Would be interesting to see if genetically engineered rodents with similar neuronal characteristics have improved intelligence (for some measure of intelligence).
There is only reverse voltage and over voltage.

Ground is basically your reference, if your ground has potential above your voltage input, you're in reverse voltage, if your ground is too far below your voltage input, then you're in over voltage.

Both can be detected and prevented from causing damage via various means on both sides of the usb plug.

Overvoltage can usually be solved by having a Zener diode within acceptable overvoltage short the thing to ground and blow out a fuse, this will cut the circuit and prevent further damage.

I recommend this video from GreatScott: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Tk5ghH_U2s
My guess is that this is a marketing ploy designed to convey the message that the author's skills are above the NSA's and as such his software should be bought by anyone and everyone interested in great security. Considering the shareware version was 40bit encrypted, I highly doubt the NSA couldn't crack it before making that phonecall.
those are exactly like what i had in mind. thanks!

qmv even handles swapping filenames which ranger doesn't.

greetings, eMBee.
None of that is true.

Since you either can't or won't stop posting like this, we're not going to unban you after three months, because clearly this problem is just continuing. But if you can go three months without posting any abusive, off-topic, meta comments, we'll consider it. In the meantime, we're continuing to unkill good comments that you post, if the community hasn't vouched for them first.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18289284 and marked it off-topic.
You're right that it is a representation, but also an instance of the vector space model of language. Coupled with a linear model for prediction it is a strong baseline for text classification problems. See e.g. http://scikit-learn.org/stable/tutorial/text_analytics/worki...
It's a mixed-signal, general-purpose ASIC done in wetware. Combines both digital and analog traits. Some of most interesting research I saw in hardware CompSci does the same. Never goes mainstream since industry prefers things that are easy to automate and scale up for obvious reasons.
Could be confusing Bethesda (which afaik only has the Navy hospital and admin offices, not a base?) with Ft Meade?
It's very easy to assign blame in hindsight. "Web 2.0" (i.e. data aggregation) was a fantastic tool and most of us did not have the imagination to see how it would be abused (just as any tool can be abused).
I mean, Bethesda is like 20-miles away from where the NSA operates. So straight up, the location is immediately wrong.

A funny thing about people who live in Maryland: the NSA has a big sign that says "NSA" on the highway. We all know where it exists, and there are funny local stories about ignorant criminals taking the wrong road and ending up in the NSA checkpoint. Its a famous local landmark.

http://www.capitalgazette.com/news/ph-ac-cn-carjacking-suspe...

People tell me that you can even drive up and go to a public gift-shop they have out front, by the National Cryptologic Museum (which is run by the NSA). Its literally a public place and they let anyone in to see some cool stuff. https://www.nsa.gov/about/cryptologic-heritage/museum/

----------

The thing is: the guy seems to have been called by Naval Support Activity, Bethesda.

https://www.cnic.navy.mil/regions/ndw/installations/nsa_beth...

This is a "different" NSA, and not "THE NSA" that people talk about.

Whether or not its actually part of protocol: I dunno. But maybe "Naval Support Activity" dudes like to pretend they are "the NSA" as a prank. Or maybe they really are part of national security (I mean, the US Navy is still... technically national security, right?)

---------

In short: my expectation.

1. Naval Support Activity called this guy up to ask for a favor. They misrepresent themselves (but without lying: they are the "NSA" after all) to kinda encourage this guy to do something for them.

2. They feel bad about pranking the dude. So they drive to the Cryptographic Museum and buy him the first "real NSA"-branded gear that they find. Then they ship it to him.
I prefer the peach pickin' jams of the Allman Brothers Band
Why not? The decision first comes from management, but engineers are the ones who implement it.

I think things would change pretty quick if engineers responded to such requests with "I can't do that, because my professional association would remove me from their membership, which would revoke my license to write software in this country at all".

That's how (AIUI) law, medicine, (real) engineering, etc., work today.
They presumably make it slow ("conservative"!) to limit server resources, to limit costs.
No. Air is a fluid. Like all fluids, it exerts pressure equally in all directions. A pneumatic tire is not simply a shock absorber, nor does it need to deform for its internal pressure to change the ground pressure. It is transferring force to the entire tire that would be transferred to the ground if you used a solid wheel to contact the ground. You are applying X pounds of force to Y volume of air, which is distributing that force across the entire internal surface area of the tire. It is not the contact area of the tire to the ground that has force exerted on it, it is the surface area of the interior of the tire. This is not hypothetical, measure the ground pressure, change the tire pressure and measure again. It is trivial to verify for yourself.
Yes, human civilization has been doing this for quite a long time. I'm not really sure what your point is relative to inflation.
What about hiring minorities in the US from HBCU's? I came here on an HB1 myself but they are so many talented diverse candidates that could be hired in the US.
Assuming you are part of those people:

Have they seen ONE such project from start to end that made real difference? Like I don't know, here's something egotistic: help one family -- buy them a beach house, supply them with tech and some financial reserves, AND help them build a profitable consultancy so they don't hang on your neck until you die?

Something communal: or just build a well-funded school where they personally pay the fair wages of the teachers? For 10 years?

I've been hearing a lot about the wealthy thinking of how to help. IMO it always stops at thinking only. At this point I've come to think they want to feel good about themselves but not really make a difference.
On an unrelated note, dbfz is actually quite a good game and one I prefer over other fighting games. (As a casual player).
That's what I thought too, then I saw my company use an H1B to fill a junior web developer job at 70k in the DC/Metro area, which is basically the area's going rate for a 0 experience, straight out of college software developer.
Making a docker container to run the command in is a good idea, but not helpful if the container doesn't have the same filesystem. I love the idea of something like this, but I'm not sure if I would ever use it out of fear of unintended actions.
Digital Ocean Managed Databases
Hey HN! I started working on this after my old cloud backup service (CrashPlan) announced they were discontinuing their Home product. My cofounder Cory and I built this to meet our own needs, and also for our families to use, most of whom are non-technical. We're working really hard to make Relica the best backup solution for a broad range of consumers, from everyday users to more technical professionals with specific needs. Besides ourselves, my mother and my brother are among Relica's first users.

We're really excited to share the beginning of our product! I'm personally a bit terrified, too. :) We have a lot of great features planned, besides the ones we've already implemented. (Coming soon: back up to your own cloud destinations such as your own S3 account or SFTP destinations.)

Feel free to sign up, give it a spin, share your referral link with others to get discounts, and let us know what you think!
> The chemistry, however, is sound that each 1 ton of olivine will sequester 1.25 tons of carbon.

But what's the total CO2 cost of the olivine (extraction, processing and transport to the sea) ?
Perfecting Crops with AI-Powered Indoor Farms
Bit ironic response to a "Show HN" post made by a clearly identifiable human, isn't it?

EDIT: https://www.lightcodelabs.com/ lists a second person
It's not a master key, it's a blueprint of the lock with no combination or exact pin layout.
Then why don't you share with us what is wrong about it? It seems a fairly legit way to prove identity (I was thinking about it and the easiest would be to suggest the wrong number as directory services, hoping the person doesn't use DS and doesn't know the number that well, or is to sleepy to notice). Some parts are a little overdone, like, "Was Dave even his real name?" (of course not), but I don't know any better so instead of just making a short remark, why don't you share your wisdom?
Many of our larger clients use https://www.splunk.com for enterprise-level monitoring, alerting, and log analysis. It's proven effective to debug issues in environments where I don't have direct log access.
I don't understand what the base price is supposed to cover... Why would I pay you $60/year to back up my files to thumb drives and friends' computers?
Yeah it spretty genius, the food is overpriced and bad but it doesn't matter because all the rich Thai customers come for the virtue points not the food.
This is why I think much of Christian thought is actually quite intelligent.

(Summary by a very intellectually and spiritually deficient moron): I am pathetic, my desires are all almost certainly evil, I can probably not even think one good thought let alone have a good intention without divine help. God, please please please please have mercy and grant me some very much needed horror of self and conformity to your will and help me to not become a puffed up moron who is full of himself if one seemingly desirable thing happens to me, which is certainly what is going to happen unless the literal creator of the universe helps me to do it a little bit less.

Of course none of the American Protestant Christians I know will like it if you say that since they seem to think Christianity is about being a millionaire who gives 30% to charity and doesn’t have premarital sex too much
Intel has made quite a few contributions to Hotspot, including AVX support.

ART started supporting SIMD on Oreo, and it was further expanded on Pie. Naturally very few devices have gotten those improvements thanks the state of Android's updates.

So on Android's case Renderscript is still the best way for a JIT like approach for SIMD.
Underrated idea
> This will result in more people choosing to enter those fields.

I think for skilled labor in the US there are way better ways to accomplish this. Lower the cost of education, and work to improve education on the whole.

But your idea is punitive of people in poor countries who have skills, yet are limited in how much they can improve their lot in life due to lack of demand for them.
Don't Make Squirrel Burgers (2008)
I don't agree with them, but increased density is absolutely a "threat" to the character of any neighborhood, not just something they "view" as such. Having more people live in a neighborhood changes everything about it, I don't understand why people neglect this point, like it isn't real or maybe doesn't count because everything NIMBYs say is invalid because we all want cheaper rent. But I am not saying you're doing this, it's just what I see when people talk about NIMBY.

As a result of denser housing, rent should go down N%, but your quality of life (if you're not fooling yourself) will also go down slightly as you have to deal with the reality of living near more people. (Longer waits at local stores, more crowded sidewalks, etc. We can pretend this is a "good" thing and that humans are social creatures, but there is a point where it becomes less tolerable to most people.)
Does that even work on 4chan? On /b/ threads can vanish in less than an hour. There used to be specialized sites such as 4chanarchive to fill the gap, but last I checked most are dead.
Arguably, the salary (and price in general) is measure of marginal utility. Hence if one job pays 140, 000 over 70, 000 we can argue that the one that pays more provides more marginal utility to society. That is, the United States as a whole gains more value from that job.
If anyone's trying to figure out what the "Haruhi Problem" is, logically, because it took me awhile to grok:

You have a `n`-episode show, and you want to watch every episode in every possible order. However, if one series-watch-through ends with episode `x` and the next series-watch-through in sequence begins with that same episode `x`, you don't have to watch episode `x` twice in a row. Given these constraints, how do you find the "ideal" way to watch through the entire series, in all possible combinations, in the shortest number of episodes?
People use encryption so that their files are secure in situations where failure would be disastrous. Ranging all the way from protecting your credit card number to protecting your sources from being tortured and killed for talking to you.

Offering broken encryption that appears to work is dangerous, unethical, and stupid.

The author ought to be ashamed and people ought to be smarter.
not the master key, the schematics to the lock maybe. Assuming no bugs, I don't see how the source code could help in any way, they may as well have downloaded the source code for openssl.

He also didn't bother to verify whether it was a matter of life or death, he just immediately assumed he was helping break into a file containing the deactivation code for a bomb or something, who knows what the NSA was actually doing.
That's pretty problematic. A major reason for the rise of nationalistic movements in the US and Europe is that a lot of middle class people feel left behind. If people realize that the elites of their countries prefer to invest somewhere else while letting their own countries decay we will see a lot more social upheaval and rightfully so.
You mention a single counterexample, but is it "definitely not true"? I think there is a strong publication bias: papers will report when they improve on the baseline, but that's likely not representative for the common case (e.g., limited data, no pretrained model available, no time for extensive parameter tuning).
Furthermore, if the government calls someone a criminal, their target may well be a dissident, journalist, whistleblower, etc. Things aren's so black and white any more.
So you as a user are going to take a backup of os version N, then upgrade to N+1, live on it for a long time, then both want to pay/keep the storage costs of N AND potentially months later downgrade and lose all new data to go back to N?

It sounds like a terrible user experience.

If you told me it was a fresh OS with no ability to recover your old data, then maybe I could see it. But even then we’re assuming you didn’t use any cloud services that migrated your data once all devices had been upgraded, which isn’t true for either major platform. We’re also assuming that you can downgrade all firmware that’s changed successfully (which is expensive new QA).

I’d rather just have companies really prioritize performance to begin with.
Why doesn't Google just start buying the music companies. It would cause them less pain. At one point Google had enough cash laying around they basically could have bought the entire industry. The music industry has way too much clout for what they actually financially produce, and a chip on it's shoulder of how important it really is.
But then you make a loophole - ah, yes we know we crippled all old phones but we found people wanted us to benchmark their system simultaneously with each user action. 90% of people asked wanted us to check their devices performance!
Much of the green card process has to be redone though.
Hi, I'm Cory. I worked with Matt (who introduced himself above) to make Relica. I can confirm that two humans are attached to this project.
It's almost as if democracy is about balancing competing self-interests. It's also easier be more enlightened, as long as it's not impacting one's own self-interest.
People are stupid. Seat belts that appeared to work but didn't actually keep you safe would be illegal even if labeled.
I don't see any country adopting these policies, considering they want more and less expensive skilled workers, and depriving another country of their skilled workers isn't a deterrent (and may even be viewed as a positive, depending on if they view the global economy as a zero-sum game).
Yes, but offering non-broken encryption was illegal at the time.
In Go, there's a lot of common terminology reflecting the concept of "evaluate your own move independently of your opponent's move", from direct terms like "tenuki" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenuki) to strategic koans like "play away from thickness[strength]" (https://senseis.xmp.net/?PlayAwayFromThickness). I think this type of thinking is something that all journeyman-level Go players learn in order to progress, more so than in Chess.
Nope, he does the opposite. Here is his own words from a Chinese conference.
“The theme of this conference -- developing a digital economy for openness and shared benefits -- is a vision we at Apple share,” Cook said. “We are proud to have worked alongside many of our partners in China to help build a community that will join a common future in cyberspace."

Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-04/cook-kiss...
* In the United States
The inmates have taken over the asylum: DNS founder on DNS over HTTPS adoption
That's the membership subscription: unlimited backups to local and remote (meaning "peer" or other computers) destinations, automatic software updates, and for as many devices as you have. Some backup services (especially those with unlimited offerings) limit you to just one or two computers.

And your membership subscription can become free if you refer others each year (they also get a discount). 3 referrals per year will keep your membership totally free.
Can you elaborate? I'm not very familiar with GC via employment.
Speed. You can look through disassembled code and find the algorithm in due time, but having the source code could make your job take literally five minutes if all you need is the right parameters (e.g. bcrypt with cost factor 11 as input for DES). Knowing those, and assuming it's reasonably small, you can just fire up your cracking station at that point. If it's too strong, you'll have to look for weaknesses in the code, which is still much faster to do with source code than with assembly.

For backdooring, getting it to compile might take longer than putting the right jumps in and linking the desired dll, depending on how standard the compilation toolchain is and how experienced you are in backdooring.

This is all assuming that they have the program in the first place and not only the encrypted file, though it sounds like they did.
NDA upheld in 'sexual harassment' / #MeToo test case in UK
With 20/ton of olivine it’s still around a 20 trillion dollar industry (just that cost alone)!
What a dingus. Maybe there was no emergency, they just wanted your original source to look for imperfections in your implementation. Maybe 256 is secure, that doesn't mean your 256 is secure.
The post talks a lot about how MOOCs can be sufficient education for AI/data science; I disagree with that approach since although MOOCs can teach people the concepts, they don't teach people the soft skills behind the tech, which is much harder and a major bottleneck to using it practically (full blog post on the subject: https://minimaxir.com/2018/10/data-science-protips/)

That's not even considering getting employment in a relevant position, which is much harder than it was in 2016 due to increased competition, and the requirement for Masters/PhD nowadays (https://towardsdatascience.com/the-economics-of-getting-hire...).
For anyone confused a bit, here is the author's thesis on Helvetia that goes into a lot more detail:

http://scg.unibe.ch/archive/phd/renggli-phd.pdf
That's amazing to me. Not arguing you're wrong, I'm not interviewing people, just amazes me that anyone with degrees in CS would not be able to solve such a basic problem.
Or you could argue that the U.S. gains more from allowing 20 lower-paid civil engineers than allowing 1 private sector executive buy their H1B.

The point is that switching to an auction with the H1B causes more problems without really solving any, at least within the scope of the program's purpose.
You never disappoint me in your recorded presentations or now apparently timely HN comments. I am starting to like you just as much as tptacek here bc if someone invokes your name I will expect a witty, if not only informative, rebuttal!
> horror of self

Not being obtuse: what do you mean here?
Licorice and coke.
It's the same thing, it's just the barriers are different.

Silicon Valley is successful partly because noncompetes don't get enforced in California. It makes things slightly worse in the short term for each company but better for both the individuals and the world overall.

The US has been successful partly because it's attracted so many skilled immigrants. It makes things slightly worse for other countries in the short term (though remittances!) but is better for both the individuals and the world overall.
The authors of FFTW published a paper about their computational method, an early example of "cache-oblivious" array traversal order. (In this method, uses of elements noodle around in small areas, getting a free locality boost. Typically they use a Hilbert or Peano path.) They refused to cite Todd Veldhuizen, who had done it (with plenty of publicity) a year before. They refused to discuss why, but it is apparent that it was because Veldhuizen had published in Dr. Dobb's Journal of Computer Orthodontia ("Running light without overbyte").
This is very true. I have been a paying customer of Fastmail for many years, and in my opinion, they are the best in the industry and very small to boot.

OpenBSD is yet another example of a small(ish) team of people making some truly great software. On the Windows side, Fookes Software comes to mind, again small operation, great software.
You mean a low carb diet for t2?
This is likely to turn into a UK test case for NDAs in sexual harassment cases ... one to watch
That is, I think it's more proactive than reactive.

I'm definitely willing to concede that in many cases it's a little bit of column A, and a little bit of column B. Probably.