skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A number of years back, I was trying to learn about network programming and SQL and decided to try and build a a kind of randomized port scanner that would generate IP addresses randomly, then scan semi-random ports on those that were pingable, and finally store the results in a database.

I quickly found a couple (not a lot, but I was kind of shocked to find any) of printers that were totally exposed to the Internet. While I can proudly say I even resisted the temptation to make them print out something clever like "Wer das liest, ist doof", I figured it was only a matter of time before somebody with less self-restraint would come along.

At work, all our printers still respond to the default passwords one can so easily find on the Internet, but at least they are not reachable from the outside. Printers are not considered a security problem, because once someone is on our internal network, they could do much worse things.

But still, exposing them to random people on the Internet is begging for something like this to happen.
So, given you all my password details, am I expected to give you everything you wish to know about me and my closest friends?
Once again demonstrating that "deanonymized" data is anything but.
>Similarly, just because you can technically put the entire scene into focus all the time doesn't mean you necessarily want to!

Sometimes you technically can't put the entire scene into focus. Even if you have unlimited lighting, there's only so far you can stop down the aperture before diffraction wipes out your depth-of-field improvement. Citizen Kane famously used composite shots to achieve extreme deep focus that would have been impossible as a single shot.

I'd love to see another attempt at a photorealistic 100% CG movie like Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. We'd be free from the limitations of real world optics, and could produce a "hyperrealistic" style even better than what you can see with the naked eye. I find shallow depth of field almost as annoying as low frame rate.
>I listen to quite a few podcasts, and I'm increasingly annoyed by ads being repeated word for word in each episode.

Leo from twit.tv has always been good at doing more than just following a script when it comes to adverts on his podcast. It makes them a lot less annoying
The point they are trying to make is that you can sniff the exchanged information during key setup, but knowing this does nothing for the attacker. That information is not required to be secret. So " the information exchanged can be revealed." means 'it can be revealed without concern for security of the key generated by the process'. The author doesnt mean that the eventual messages will be revealed.
12mbps is a crappy 4K stream. UHD movies are generally 50mbps+.
As someone who has watched a lot of Let's Plays, recordings of games done above 30 FPS kind of weird me out. I don't usually have an issue playing them myself, but if I watch a recording of someone else's session (which is interesting to me from a game design perspective -- where did they get stuck, what did they breeze through with no challenge, etc.), I get that same surreal "something's not quite right here" feeling as higher frame rate television.
wikipedia is nonprofit so it is not affected.
Does anyone know how data taken in data breeches is used by attackers? I’ve always been curious.
Ethereum Developers Are Quietly Planning an Accelerated Tech Roadmap
>"And it’s where we should all be looking: gradient descent plus symbols"

how about no gradient descent at all
Scott Johnson: No Hangouts Shutdown Date; Transition to Hangouts Chat and Meet
Why is one prejudice and the other inference?
I've noticed this phenomenon seemingly distilled down to its purest form when fundraising especially.

Once you accept it for what it is, the process doesn't become anymore sane or reasonable, but it does at least become less disorienting and demoralizing.
Right, but the size of the screen is irrelevant if you don't also take into account the distance you sit from that screen.

An 8k 360 degree immersive environment might not be quite enough resulution to get fine detail if you were looking at it through a VR headset.
How our 1,000-year-old math curriculum cheats America's kids (2014)
She added that, probably in response to my comment and others like it.
Yes. But the term is not ambiguous as the parent seemed to indicate.
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High-Resolution Direct Ophthalmoscopy with an Unmodified iPhone X
You don’t get to pick an arbitrary “sphere of influence” that includes the sovereign territory of other nations and then claim you’re being purely defensive when you demand total control inside it. China’s actions re: Tibet, Taiwan and the South China Sea are as bad as anything the United States is doing, just more geographically localized.
Someone may have a more technical reason, but my hunch is that NHK is pushing the next-gen button in the interest of the domestic panel makers.

Part of it is Olympic pressure to be "first" and show off. We saw this with HDTV in the Atlanta games, with streaming during the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, and 4K during the Vancouver games. All mediocre tech demos from electronics companies looking to impress a global audience that includes a heavy dose of political and business decision-makers.

But Japan, and especially NHK, has a long history of being a wonderland of tech demos that never go anywhere, or take decades to go mainstream, even at home.

There's something of a "Hey, look what we can do!" ribbon that runs through the culture that is marvelous and charming. There aren't a lot of societies left that, metaphorically, shoot guns at the sun just to see what will happen. (Apologies to A Fine Frenzy)
With respect to [2], this is what the tokens represented:

>>The ruling came in a criminal case against a man charged with promoting digital currencies backed by investments in real estate and diamonds that prosecutors said didn’t exist.

That's a traditional security, with the tokens representing physical assets. It is not like most token sales, which are pre-functional utility tokens, which do not purport to confer a legal claim to any asset.

Moreover, the individual selling these tokens was blatantly lying about the existence of the real estate and diamonds.

So your initial comment is wildly off the mark with respect to what has been "settled" with respect to token sales.
I think he's saying that in the persuit of security, Google has engineered the usefulness and useability out of this application.

There are good, sane, safe ways to hold login credentials. Instead of those ways, Google has picked one that is incredibly inconvenient, and with opening a server on your machine, also opens a new attack surface... I hope they deviated from their aweful coding practices and made the server right...
Also known as the "soap opera effect": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_interpolation#Soap_oper...
That's why some refer to it as the "soap opera effect".

And although I remember 60fps being very noticeable at first, I don't think I notice at all any more.
Refactoring with and without types feels so different. I'm surprised the book so lightly made the switch.
That doesn't tell us much without knowing what standard of living you think everyone deserves, and for what level of effort. And if I'm more kindhearted than you and think that everyone deserves a standard of living twice as high for half as many hours, what then?
The problem is that people want open source software to be like their own software. That is, it is written like they would have written it, and in such a way that they can go through the source code and understand it and modify it, but without them having written it themself. Necessary for this, I think, is that the software is legally indistinguishable from software they wrote themself.

Many people license their code under a "public domain license". What's interesting is that such a license has no requirements of placing a copyright notice anywhere, and allows someone to freely relicense without modification. This is precisely as it would be if you had written the software yourself.

Your license recognizes the value of freeware as a marketing tool - the more people with their hands on the software, the more likely some of them will stand up and pay for it. But I think the personal ownership aspect is more foundational.

In advancing that, the license I would write would be one that places the software under a free license after some fixed date. You might state, for software released in 2019, that starting in 2024 it will be licensed under the GNU GPL. Until then, it would be licensed under some proprietary license, perhaps the one you propose.

This forces people who use the software to pay for it's development, under whichever terms the proprietary license requires. Simultaneously, it ensures that those paying for it ultimately own the software, and therefore any improvements they make to it.
Basic Income FAQ: Where's All the Evidence?
dont you love it... idiots still want them... in house surveillance... 1984
So, given you all my password details, am I expected to give you everything you wish to know about me and my closest friends?

Do please point out to us, how your regime differs from the Nazi regime of totally ignoring/subjugating anything everything your opponents have to say?
A sharper picture

a) helps immerse me in the movie/game, by strengthening the illusion of a "window into another world"

and b) is simply prettier. Most people do like eye candy.
RDR2 starts out almost as an anti-game, then progresses through a phase that feels like a stereotype of old westerns. I think it jerks you between the two extremes to set up the second half of the game, which involves much more drama, racial overtones, and more examination of the death of outlaw life that the game’s promise is built on.

There are two main criticisms to me.

(1) the dialogue is very cheesy and superficial too often when it would be better to just not have it at all. More segments of deep sparsity, even when other characters are around you (think Shadow of the Collossus) would make it even more desolate and impactful.

(2) The mechanics of the controls and indicated special instructions are sometimes clunky to the point that you fail missions or miss out on things accidentally just due to the control system. I know this will never be perfect, but it is frequently so bad in RDR2 that you are very aware of it and frustrated by it as you complete tasks.

Despite this, it’s easily one of the best games I’ve ever played on multiple dimensions.

It makes me very excited for Death Stranding as well, which I think will be something of a sci-fi / dystopian variation of what RDR2 is.
> However I can see a single pixel illuminated at about 25ft.

Can you distinguish if that pixel is illuminated at column 1279 vs 1278? Or two pixels at (gamma correct) half brightness?
Or giant screens. The problem is density not resolution.
The requirements are unreasonable no matter the size of the company. A perfect copyright filter is impossible. No matter how many resources you throw at the problem, content will spill through the cracks.

The directive outlaws content sharing websites, regardless of who's running those websites.
Actually the last advantage is very convincing, especially in the technology industry.

The equilibrium R&D investment level depends in a very complicated way on the relationship between your market share at any point and the entire history of your investment. I won't be surprised if that equilibrium level goes up as IP protection period shortens.

Of course, there is no objective way to decide what the socially optimal level of R&D investment is in the first place. I guess we can just assume that the higher the better, as long as the economy still produces some food :)
This is a really useful insight into podcast advertising. I've often wondered what it costs to advertise on a podcast and here is the answer (in part at least).
Not to downplay it but my email shows 3 breaches in haveibeenpwned.com, and I haven't had any problem till now, apart from probably more emails in spam folder.
Tangentially related is the recent documentary "Three Identical Strangers", triplets separated at birth who discover each other like you wouldn't believe.
i don't know a single other forum where you can converse with "EU citizens" other than /r/europe . I also follow other local reddits to find out the odd news that are not typically reported. And reddit is fun, entertaining, that's its value proposition and is based on the community, with posts being generally just a conversation starter. I would need an alternative to it.

I also bet a lot of publications are going to miss the traffic it gives them.
I found my biological family through them. Mother, father two brothers, nieces and nephews and an aunt. Definitely woth it for me.
Title shortened due to character limit. Original title from Android Police article:

> "Hangouts executive rebuts rumors of shut down, users will be transitioned to Hangouts Chat and Meet"

Scott Johnson is "director of product management and realtime comms product lead for G Suite (i.e., the guy who runs Hangouts at Google)". His tweet:

https://twitter.com/happyinwater/status/1068861340800958466

> https://9to5google.com/2018/12/01/google-hangouts-shutting-d...

> Hey @hallstephenj, I run Hangouts and this is pretty shoddy reporting. No decisions made about when Hangouts will be shut down. Hangouts users will be upgraded to Hangouts Chat and Hangouts Meet. Your source is severely misinformed. You can do better.

Previous frontpage discussion of the 9to5Google rumor: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18572510
As much as I think Trump's idiotic anti-media rhetoric erodes our democracy, when I see the NY Times publishing articles like this, it makes me cringe. First of all, it's a complete non-article -- marketing firms used correlative data to make inferences about political affiliation? No way!

Second of all, instead of being a smart and pointed analysis as to why this might be bad, it somehow draws political conclusions from a fashion conference and displays a large header featuring the green-haired Christopher Wylie making fantastical claims about "Bannon's insurgency" -- even an iota of research would clearly show that today's "alt-right" movement was a decades long project started by Newt Gingrich (among others in Republican leadership) in Georgia, escalated during Clinton's impeachment proceedings, and fully developed during the Tea Party movements that preceded Trump.

But of course, these are complicated political machinations that have many moving parts. Instead, the NYT insults its readers by pandering technically- and politically- incompetent drivel like “Fashion data was used to build AI models to help Steve Bannon build his insurgency and build the alt-right” -- give me a break.
You dropped the /s there.
You can get pretty far with precursor in-person (or video call in a pinch) personality profiling as a screening, some informal probing for motivational biases, a half-day or so of pairing w/ a couple different teammates on the problems they're actually working on, and including the candidate in a directed meeting.

This assumes as a hiring manager you've done your work to fully understand the need you're hiring for, not just the skill set. That you know how this need fits into the composite model of the team and the company. And, that you've prepared and trained the team to be able to assess and give you the specific kinds of feedback you need to derive from tbeir working alongside the candidate for such a limited amount of time.

There's no better similation or signal for reality than reality itself. You can't ramp a team or company at "hyper-growth" speed this way, but I'm of the opinion doing that sort of thing is almost never a good idea anyway.
Lost Idol: Myanmar Youth Activists Look Beyond Aung San Suu Kyi
it is useful for the self interested.

The game theory but is that if some stereotypr, they will come out ahead in the short term.

If all stereotype then everyone loses due to the stereotype killing off any that buck the stereotype. That is, the stereotype forces its own truth, which may be bad by killing diversity and adaptation.

Obviously allowing some to do it to get ahead in the short term will inevitably lead to everyone doing it, that’s why we should discourage all from doing it.
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Except the Xs, Xs max, the X, and the 6/6s/7/8 plus variants.

And about every mid to hi-range Android phone that came out in the past 5 years.

I haven't seen the Xr yet but the lower resolution is extremely obvious on the non plus iPhones.
When I was out of the room, there was apparently a gas leak in it, and the fire department kicked in the door. The replacement door cost $1300.

I didn't use the stove/gas, and the power didn't work at all the night before this happened, it was a poor experience.

The host was great, and told me it was fine, they'd get an insurance pay out.

I was asked to provide evidence I didn't do anything, and wasn't given any information about the price of the replacement door, the extent of the damage, or why the apartment supervisor couldn't just unlock the door.

Anyways. The host sent me an image of her insurance payout from AirBnb and AirBnb asked me to pay them for the damages, so I refused, and was banned.
Agreed. An 8K monitor will be great. The equivalent of a 300DPI colour laser printer. Genuinely letter quality text. The quality is good at 4K, but there's still room for visible improvement. I can still easily distinguish individual pixels, so we're not yet down to the Rayleigh limit. To be fair, there will still be room for improvement above and beyond 8K, but the gains will likely be marginal, not to mention the image itself getting prohibitively expensive to render and send to the display.
so real

When I start to actually give a shit about politics I know I’m unhappy

It’s also a great way to rationalize why I write off all politically minded ppl as simply unhappy — when I am politically minded it is always solely the result of personal unhappiness — when I am happy I don’t care about politics
That (quoted) is a bubble statement if I’ve ever seen one.
Toxeus magnus
This is the best thing I’ve seen on HN in a long time
Does anything about ePub prevent renderers from putting footnotes at the bottom of the physical page to which they logically belong? I find navigating them by touch in their usual placement so cumbersome (requiring tapping on tiny targets, which is usually registered as a page flip since it's in a margin) that I wonder why no alternatives have been explored.
Instead you could also POST to /star-construction to get back a link to a /star-construction/foo resource, representing a long-running creation process.

This resource could be polled to get progress updates, and eventually a link to the created star resource, or perhaps an error describing why it didn't work.

The advantage is that you don't have to deal with two different types of resources being returned at the same URL, which complicates parsing the response. If creations are queued you also can get a view on the workload still in front of you.
You may be joking, but I'm tired that everytime neural networks comes up this unfortunate conflation of different aspects of AI occurs; one based in accurate biological modeling, the other based in tractable statistical methods.

Whereas it is true that both are inspired by neural activation and that both can produce a complex, yet coherent mapping from input to output, this is like saying that birds and aircraft are similar because both fly and have wings.
GDPR is good
You should watch the movie Three Identical Strangers. It's a documentary about triplets adopted into three different families.
I'm sure there are Chinese words that can serve the same purpose. The point is that they aren't mandatory.

So, to an English learner coming from these languages, a sentence like "I was cleaning attic and found book" is perfectly understandable. Exactly what attic and what book we're talking about should be apparent from context.

On the other hand, in actual English, "I was cleaning the attic and found a book" portrays a different picture from "I was cleaning an attic and found the book." Use one when the other is warranted, and it sounds weird and confusing.
I'm sure you're serious but that's not the standard here. Nor is it based on opinions. We moderate users with opposing opinions just as heavily.

Flamebait is a matter of effect, not intent, just like tossing lit matches in dry forests. It's our job to prevent flamewarring users from burning this site down, thereby ruining it for the majority who want to use it as intended. The site guidelines distill long experience about what kinds of comments do and don't have that effect.
Ha, I'm the same, I was thinking I fit into all of those descriptions in some way or other.
* Mixergy discusses the company with the guest.

* Masters of Scale ads are a short story about a problem. The ad is broken into parts throughout the episode.

I still skip both often but it's harder to skip than a predefined time slot. I also listen more often than ads that are the same everytime.