skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From what I can see this protocol is compatible with TLS 1.3 clients. It makes clients believe perfect forward secrecy is in effect while in fact it isn’t.

The risk isn’t much about internal networks, it’s when this starts leaking onto the open internet.

Also the fact they call themselves “eTLS” to use TLS’ reputation when actually it’s a voluntarily degraded version of TLS.
Lol $60

If you get the commercial version out of college it is thousands of dollars for base and thousands for each "toolbox". Want to have database functionality? Thousands of dollars, optimization functions? Thousands of dollars.

That might be worth it for national labs that like how the native IDE, plotting, GUI, widgets, ability to put into commercial projects (they've secured licensing for the math solvers for you)...etc. It is all better integrated than Python even with it's nice Spyder IDE.
I don't think people are watching random torrents. Well, I am not.

I see a film review, or someone will tell me about a program / film / documentary / series. I will grab the torrent and watch it at the weekend once the kids are in bed and have a couple of beers

> Besides, I have all Netflix, Amazon Prime, Twitch Prime.

Sounds like it would be more hassle for you to find out which service has the content you wanted to watch, then just going to a torrent site that is 99% sure of having it ;)
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Most places you’ll have to submit a PDF (or sometimes Word doc), so start with that. Having your resume also hosted on LinkedIn or elsewhere won’t hurt you, but it doesn’t add much value.
Octave strives to be 1:1 with Matlab, while Scilab aims to be close to 1:1. A subtle distinction there :)
It now has free original series as well. Just search for YouTube originals
I like the way this is written. Very clear and to the point, with a tone of "Hey, check out this cool thing".
>What do you mean "nothing inherent."

There's nothing fundamental about a ride share company that requires high driver acquisition costs. They are a result of a bunch of companies trying massively grow in the same space. Once Lyft stops trying to grow so rapidly and the industry settles they will not have to spend as much on driver acquisition. Indeed, it's already happening as their cost of advertising as a percentage of revenue is dropping dramatically.

> Support needs are naturally high and things go wrong all the time because you're dealing with real people in the physical world - it's not just some bugs here or there on a computer screen.

Why do you think support needs are naturally high? Higher than say what Ebay provides to sellers or what Dropbox provides to their enterprise customers?

>Companies like Lyft/Uber also have a much higher % of their full time staff in "ops" roles that are driver-facing (support, onboarding, offboarding, marketing, acquisition, etc.)

Higher than who? And what are you basing that on?

>So long as their business is extracting maximal fees from each fare (thus keeping driver pay low) this cycle will go on as long as it can, and acquisition costs will continue to be high.

If it does, that's only because it's more profitable for Lyft to cycle through drivers than pay more to retain them.
Ever try MicroPython for embedding?
> Note, this data is almost certainly biased since AP can only be engaged in certain circumstances and is mostly used on the highway, where accidents are much less likely overall.

I don't disagree but highway accidents have to be the most dangerous as well due to the speed as well as other factors. I'm not as worried about fender benders as I am a 3, 4, 5, 6.... car pileup on the highway.
This app looks like it could get alot of people into trouble if they interpret it as giving them some kind of permission to expense all their travel, meals, etc.

You're only supposed to expense the items which were actually for business purposes, and no app can figure that out for you if your record-keeping throughout the year was sloppy. I don't think it will fly when you're sitting down uncomfortably with an IRS auditor if your defense is that some app told you to do it.
Probably a mix. Most if not all Dutch have one normal bicycle. Multiple per household. This would probably be an addition.
Why wouldn't they? That group is trying to standardize a protocol that effectively negates a whole lot of progress and even tried to piggy back on the TLS name. Their stated requirements boil down to snake oil and laziness. If companies or groups thereof want to use security measures that aren't on par with the state of the art and intentionally ignore recent learnings, they of course still have that capability but I don't see why they should be given an opportunity to hide that fact behind a known bad standard. That'd only lead others to be forced to use a broken protocol for reasons like compliance.
I am working in a startup and can definitely say that aesthetically better and modern designs help attract better talent (specifically techies). People judge by the looks.
Fair enough. I thought it was replying to the comment by ellard.
Early on, their deal was that when you called, you always got a human. 24x7. I called early Sunday morning. Human after 2 rings, transferred to the correct dept within 15 seconds, to another real human, who took acknowledged and took care of a tech problem within a few minutes.

I'm not sure there's any place you can get that sort of service now, which is part of the reason I run my own servers and dug more in to sysadmin stuff. Yes, my stuff's in a remote data center, and I can't physically touch it. Assuming there's a dumb pipe coming in, I can handle everything else (or find someone who can) - I don't need handholding service bundled in to a price.
I think this is the difference between what some people are saying (us) and the others.

I cannot speak for anyone else, but I guess I am older than most here, have kids and not much spare time. I don't just sit down and consume media for the sake of it.

There will be something that I want to watch, so I download it and specifically watch that program / film / whatever. Torrents meet this need perfectly. I can always find what I want. Good quality, no streaming issues (I have crappy internet).

If I had all evening, every evening as my own, to do as I wish, how I wish, then perhaps all these new services would be better, as you could just find "something" to waste a few hours watching. But I don't. I have a few specific hours where I want to watch something I have specifically chosen.
Is the Linux client native? Discord and slack have > 1gb footprints bc they're just web browsers and its awful.
> netflix content is crap in a lot of countries outside major western countries.

It's crap inside a lot of them too.
From Eric Berger's twitter[1]

>If the first stage lands tonight, SpaceX will have successfully landed 35 of its 69 launches, meaning that MORE THAN HALF of its rocket launches will have safely returned.

[1]https://twitter.com/SciGuySpace/status/1101752352317628416
Yes, this property of a language is called agglutination, and it is not at all uncommon even in completely unrelated languages.
PySyft will also (soon!) have features for Differential Privacy built in as well - which will facilitate making sure the model doesn't memorize things (technically it's an upper bound)
Lyft doesn't provide any services. They connect riders with drivers and provide the technology to make that work. Whether or not that merits a SaaS label isn't really the point. The point is that Lyft has the same cost centers as SaaS companies.
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Very accessible, essentially making just one strong point with excellent examples and an easy-to-understand explanation. It does leave me with questions - doesn’t the number of trials in e.g. the kidney stone example count, as well as the relative success rate - but that can only be a good thing!
The optimization functionality for linear programming, mixed integer linear programming...etc is pretty much non-existent in Octave. At least the kind of optimization common in Operations Research and used in production in thousands of companies world-wide. Python and Julia have libraries to call out to dedicated solvers like CPLEX, GUROBI, GLPK, and CBC/CLP that are written in C/C++. I'm not sure if Octave has a decent interface.
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Agreed. I love retros too. Amazing that some people in this thread don't want to hear it.
Ive done this for more than 20 years too and i dont think the article is as wrong as you seem to think. In general designers seem to think that design is a much more important aapect than it actually is. Sucessful redesigns arent about improving the percieved value or respect the work outside your own department. They are about solving specific problems that hinder business to be optimal. When you start asking people to respect your work as a blanket statement, you lose mine.
Man...it sucks because they used to be so great.

I could make a call and be instantly connected to a Linux tech that was often a better sysadmin than anyone we had on staff, which was why we really encouraged clients to pay the premium for their service. The choices then were a) host cheap and pay $150-200K in sysadmin salaries to keep it going while passing on these costs to clients or b) host at RS and use their economy of scale. Easy decision.

Then they got bought by Apollo and I hoped what I"d seen happen with other companies bought by private equity wouldn't happen. The PE model only gives a shit about profit, which is at odds with a service focus. Rather than seeing profits as the by product of a good model, excellent service, and loyal customers, profits become the measuring stick by which operational costs are measured.

So that Linux tech that cost $120K+ per year gets binned and replaced with two juniors who cost less but together are unable to accomplish in thrice the time what the binned guy could do. Hold times start to creep up because shit isn't getting fixed. So they hire more juniors who still can't get things done quickly.

Guys like me put up with this for a brief time and then bail because the pricing can no longer be justified.

I'm sure it's true that the bulk of their cost is support, but it's not fanatical anymore because the folks that really were so have been gone for years.
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I think UI's are the main factor in the average user's perception of quality. While re-designs may be annoying to old users, they're necessary to avoid potential new users thinking the product is outdated. The UI should always look brand new.
YouTube is as bad as any other tube when it comes to content you don't want you cold to be exposed to. Algorithms suggesting videos make this even worse.
Children have "a basic right to be a child" because we live in prosperity. If we didn't, then we would be doing what our ancestors did: kids start helping out on the family farm when they're old enough to do any useful work.
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I've got some old projects running on Rackspace. Did you move away from Rackspace? If so, where'd you move, and how do you like it?
I haven't wrote it yet because I doubt ill ever want to write another book after this considering i dont think ill ever be able to come up with a better story premise than this one.

The major problem in telling a story like this, is that it is hard to force the plot to reveal itself because there are so many pitfalls you can fall into that turns the whole personality of the story into feeling like its kind of a bit of a cliche or just poorly executed.
Absolute quiet provided by a white-noise sound machine, plus darkness provided by blackout curtains, was/is crucial in helping my toddler get healthy, successful naps. Without them, he would not be able to sleep with the afternoon sun pouring in the window while listening to Mom and Dad putter about the house.

It does make me worry how we'll wean him off the sound machine.
The red screen error isn’t about the color. It’s in reference to the uninformative error screen that often pops up when developing with React Native. The amount of information you get from the error, stacktrace, etc. is not all the dissimilar to seeing a blue screen of death on Windows. It could have been any color and the issue would have been the same.
Not having to wait 5 to 10 minutes to download it first? Is the user interface easier for non-technical people?
Computer engineering is new. We're still at the phase where bridges collapse and ships sink regularly.
I'm not arguing for or against this - however I'd feel significantly more comfortable and at ease for the safety of China's citizens of such programs if there wasn't also their layer of censorship.

Re: Downvotes - I'm really curious how you're all comprehending what I said as a negative? Do you think the censorship isn't a worse component of China's systems? Or are you projecting and think I'm saying more than that? I'm sure I'll be downvoted further because of how uncivil having a system of downvotes actually is - lazy and doesn't allow or promote civil conversation, just promotes someone being able to get a dopamine reward by clicking a down arrow instead of digging deep into understanding their feelings and putting them into language, developing critical thinking, and if the impulse isn't strong enough then you just won't comment - perhaps better off for everyone if you haven't put enough thought into it yourself - or maybe you'll even share a perspective or reasoning or point out that my wording wasn't as accurate as I meant.
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Technically they do reach the stations velocity. In fact they exceed it. The lower orbit is slightly faster. Total energy is lower, but they are moving faster than the station.

A counterintuitive part of spaceflight is that often you have to first accellerate in order to slow down.
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I wonder if there’s room in the market these days for a new managed dedicated hosting service like Rackspace used to be, where you paid significantly more than for an unmanaged server (or a “managed” server that basically just gets OS security patches) so you could instantly reach an expert sysadmin to fix any problem with your servers.
That level of service is definitely available when you're talking enterprise-level contracts, but those are worth much more than $1k/month. At only $1k/month you aren't going to get that kind of service in many places.
Why? He's not promoting the pirating of any particular movie like Popcorn Time was.
This sounds awesome. When I was in the market, I would be overjoyed to work on something like this. And I am in Chicago :). Anyhow, good luck.
> I would guess the perceived gap is also popular processed foods that would hurt the Whole Foods brand if they carried it.

I used to think this, but Whole Foods sure has a lot more problem with the 'popular' part than with the 'processed' part. If you actually look at the nutritional content of some of their products, it's pretty dire. (Not so much for processed food, but my wife noticed the other day that one of their cake slices, for one slice of cake, had 1100 calories and 100 grams of sugar.)
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George Orwell is best known for 1984 but he was a prolific essayist. The collection of his narrative essays "Facing Unpleasant Facts" was one of my more interesting reads last year.
Can confirm - in many industries regardless whether one works in Germany, Czechia, Slovakia, or Poland, the directory will be German. The difference being in Czechia, Slovakia, and Poland the cost-cutting will be more aggressive and the decision making will be more strictly top-down. Something among the lines "just write this bloody thing, you C/Java/Angular whore".
I am not sure I could ever advocate the restriction of the right of movement on "unsocial behavior/associations". That generally only happens to people on parole who have committed actual crimes. Censorship just makes this even worse...

So I don't see how you can be so neutral on this. Honestly, a lot things from what I have read this evaluates should never be in the purview of any government.
To all contributors, thank you for Octave!

I used it successfully in my EE degree in 2010 for all my Digital Signal Processing assignments, instead of MATLAB.
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Digital Ocean for stuff that absolutely has to have its own sandbox. Support is slow and ticket only but it's cheap enough you can build out a cluster to mitigate outages.

Pantheon for most Drupal sites. Amazing service. Should have made the move years ago.

Platform.sh for some Drupal sites and for various NodeJS projects.

Various CDNs for asset serving.

Almost everything is available now "as-a-service". The case where a custom server that you manage via SSH is the best solution is now the minority.
> China proper has over-extended itself with the BRI

Unsubstantiated conjecture. Only time and history will tell. It is quite likely that the long-term strategic benefits to China will be (to use your favourite word) massive. Witness the outcomes of the Marshall Plan for a direct historical analogue.

> massive internment camps

A mainstream media falsehood one would be wise not to parrot: https://off-guardian.org/2018/09/19/no-the-un-did-not-report...

> massively expensive surveillance systems

Given the Snowden revelations it is clear that China is unexceptional in this regard. Also, source for "massively expensive". Define "massively".

> massive number of police officers

Source for this claim? Define "massive". But even if they were to have a large police force, what would be inherently wrong with that? Isn't law and order a good thing? Or are you assuming that just because they're employed by the Chinese State that no police officer can be good? That would be painting with rather a large brush, wouldn't it?

> expensive great firewall

Source that the Great Firewall is expensive. Is it more expensive than the enormous NSA Utah Data Center and the innumerable data pipes which feed it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center

> Look China is at war. It's just at war internally and spending a lot of money on it.

By China, you mean the Communist Party of China I presume. Because otherwise you'd be talking about a civil war which is clearly not the case. It's true that the CPC brooks very little outright dissent, and it's true that the CPC's regime is virtually totalitarian when it comes to political ideology and expression. But to say that the CPC is at war with its own population is bonkers. It's well documented that there are tens of thousands of demonstrations a year so it would be incorrect to claim that the regime is 100% totalitarian (like N. Korea, for instance) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protest_and_dissent_in_China

> This internal war is likely more expensive then USA's many foriegn misadventures.

Unsubstantiated balderdash. We can see from the USA's ever-increasing deficit mountain owing to the enormous and ever-increasing Defense budget that there is no Earthly way this claim of yours is true. The USA's many foreign misadventures (a lovely way of articulating something that has destroyed millions of lives and caused untold suffering) are collectively easily more expensive than the CPC's ongoing dissident surveillance, suppression and security apparatus.

“The bill, which passed 85-10 in a massive show of bipartisan support, represents a considerable boost in defense spending across the board – roughly $82 billion just for next year.

The annual increase by itself is bigger than the annual defense budget of Russia ($61 billion) and the two-year jump of over $165 billion eclipses the entire defense budget of China ($150 billion).”
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> Thus China needs to go to Hong Kong to use their money and connections. China has no choice.

Given the incorrect premises undoubtedly your conclusion is incorrect.
Previous layoff discussion from feb 2017 (~200 too): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13593416

Supposedly this is an annual thing now: https://www.tpr.org/post/third-year-row-february-rackspace-l...
Intuitive descriptions using words have a place, and I do wish there were more of that. However, if you favor words over math notation, at some point you still have to call it something. What would you call it?
How do you use the old Gmail? I hate, hate, hate the new one.
I wonder, where do you draw the line between your private data and just a model update (federated learning)? E.g. if I would analyze all the model updates from an individual person, you probably get a good understanding about exactly the private data which you wanted to hide, or not?
I don't get the complaints. As far as I understood (and ietf appears to agree), eTLS is not a protocol, it is a (server-side) implementation variant of TLS.

And it is a universal construction: For any cryptographic protocol, one party can replace its random number generator by a deterministic CSPRNG and store or leak seeds. This is undetectable from outside. There you go, backdoor for later reversal of forward secrecy: Forward secrecy is obtained in the moment you erase from memory the internal state of your CSPRNG, and the server can just not do that, without violating any protocol assumptions.

Specifying how to implement this in practice is worthwhile; it is not a weakening or violation of TLS, instead it is an interesting description of inherent properties of TLS.

The naming (eTLS) might be unfortunate. Better to just make it an RFC on "Cryptographic backdoors for TLS".
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