skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A fundamental difference between online "property" and physical property is that you can never fully protect physical property. Build a stronger wall and someone can use a bigger bulldozer to break it. But build a secure website and you might find that it doesn't get hacked no matter the resources of the hacker. If it does, you have plans to limit the effects.

I wonder if people are so busy rushing to do things online they don't want to pay the cost of strong security, so they let themselves be vulnerable and need laws to protect them. As a few people have said, foreign government hackers aren't bound by such laws and even they can't get in to many sites.

If we stop seeing hackers as guilty people to blame, and think of them as an unavoidable natural presence on the internet, just like data corruption or power failures, then we won't need laws, instead we'll need safety standards and licenses for IT workers just as we do for, say gas plumbers.

Every day, spammers "hack" my web forum by solving the captcha. I don't want to find them and send them to prison. I want to build better defenses to prevent them doing it.
There are too many mature renderers and the competition is intense.

The current popular actively developed ones are: V-Ray (which we use in http://Clara.io), Arnold, Maxwell, Pixar's RenderMan, and KeyShot.

Less popular but actively developed ones are: RedShift, Furry Ball, 3Delight, NVIDIA iRay, Octane/Bridge...

And then the ones that are integrated into the 3D packages themselves like Blender's Cycles, Modo's renderer, Cinema 4D's renderer, Houdini's Mantra, Mental Images (included in most Autodesk products.)

Then the smaller opensource ones: Sunflow, Lux, Corona, Mitsuba, Pixie...

That is a lot of renderers and I am sure that I am missing quite a few.
For all the stupid of the tech news cycle, BS companies, sleazy stunts, sleazier people etc. the Bay Area has awesome people of all kinds working in many different functions in the tech industry, many awesome people outside of the tech industry, a vibrant cultural scene across all types of art (east bay rap to SF opera to burning man), and beautiful nature.

This is just a small part of it.
If you're worried about the infrastructure, MediaCrush can host them for you and is very developer friendly.

https://mediacru.sh/docs
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We hope users will consider our enterprise security services, naturally. As more than 10,000 businesses already have. That business far eclipses the money we were making from ad revenue and has the nice side effect of directly aligning user-experience with the people paying us the dollars.
Not of Arecibo, of the satellite. Do you need to authenticate with the probe?
The Richest Man In American Medicine Seeks To Forge A 'Cognitive Revolution'
I try not to let stuff like this get me upset, because you can never fix people. Now I just need to keep working on having a positive outlook while realizing that there are a ton of terrible people out there.

Of course, Chahal (and most terrible people) probably considers himself a good person. Raises the question as to how I can objectively make sure I'm a good person.

I'll start with not abusing women (or anybody) and treating people how I want to be treated.
Articles with a lot of flags will disappear from the front page.
This is incredibly awesome, it deserves more upvotes
Do you remember screamline rendering from Intel? Way before its time.
Your analogy is right. Thanks for the note on DNSCurve. Expect more work here and with DNSCrypt in the future.
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Ask HN: Can anyone help with our website logo?
Anyone interested in helping us create a logo here for our website DistroGeeks.com (DG) ? We can't pay for it but we can link your website of choice in our sidebar at least for a few months :-) Proper credit will be given. Thank you so much.
He wants the practice to not be allowed, not the article.

My point is just because he's not single and not the target market, he shouldn't be asking for a ban on a dating scheme.

I'm single and find the whole idea of "flying in women to meet geeks" to be a bit strange, but this idea that it should be banned is ludicrous.

There's too much "I don't like this" or "I don't understand this" so let's have some entity ban it.

I have nothing to do with whatever these people are doing.
> How could they destroy hundreds of small businesses, if they themselves were not profitable?

Not OP, but small businesses have to use operating margins to make payroll and pay for capital goods. 'Startups', through what essentially boils down to predatory pricing, can burn through investor cash to acquire customers leaving the entire market at a loss.

NYMag actually does a decent job explaining it a bit:

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/04/problem-with-pr...
There's a potentially nasty lawsuit waiting to happen there if Vivint has solid tracking/referral records, since the standard in civil trials is only 'preponderance of the evidence.'
in this case dang/kogir or whoever is a mod should make an exception and unflag this article as it is clear that those who flagged this article are 1) people who didn't even READ the article and/or 2) are femnazis with less tolerance than ...you can imagine what I mean.
I used to work for an NLP startup, we focused on stuff you could do with Romanized names -- names that were original not written in the Latin alphabet and ended up being written in the Latin alphabet using some kind of transliteration scheme.

For example, we could take a name and generate a pretty comprehensive, and culturally aware, list of variants.

Jennifer -> Jenifer, Jen, Jenny, Jennie, etc.

Richard -> Rich, Richie, Dick, Dickie, Ritchard, etc.

Rho -> No, Lo, Loh, Noh, Roh, Ro, Nho, etc.

The intention of course was to build up lists of name variants that could be used during identification checks.

We also had some pretty significant statistical models that could guess Gender and provide a descending list with confidence levels of the most likely country of origin for a name. It was surprisingly accurate and could account for different Romanization schemes popular in different countries. It could even guess if a name was a surname or a given name.

What did we build the models on? Somehow, one of the founders was able to swing access to U.S. Border Control Data. Even though it was names and country of origin data, it's de-identified (having a list of names doesn't mean we know who the names belong to). There was something north of a billion names in the collection, and included place of birth, country of origin, gender, etc. Names were mined for digraphs so we could build CFGs that could be walked to generate variants. There was lots of manual work as well. Endless regex writing and testing, QA, that sort of thing.

For some countries, we had pretty poor data to be honest. I think we had a couple dozen North Koreans, but for most of the world, our coverage was surprisingly good. It turns out all that work boiled down into a surprisingly small library just a couple dozen megabytes in size and was pretty fast -- I don't remember how fast, but something like a few thousand names per hour. It was pretty niche, but eventually the company was acquired and I went on my way.

I always assumed that technology like that would find its way into more applications, but I'm constantly surprised it hasn't.
Garbage in Garbage Out, Why Data Quality is The Foundation of Good Analytics
Soylent Taste Test
No way, I didn't even know that existed. Just reading up on it now: http://www.creativeplanetnetwork.com/dcp/news/intel-screamli... How did you know about it? I don't think many did.

A similar current company is http://ZyncRender.com, although even today with great bandwidth, cheap cloud computing, and an amazing sync system, they still found it a hard market to crack.
Why would they track Google and then ignore other large DNS servers?
You know, its good when says "On a side note, the website's font and layout are not optimized for the mobile. If the author's seeing this, please do something about it". It's even better to comment on the blog post, the author can see it!

But not when someone wants to start discussing about it. It's been a headache to many since months now. Responsive websites are not always perfect. And HN's not the right place to discuss about it.
Somewhat related, here's the latest NIST results for age estimation based on face photographs (PDF):

http://www.nist.gov/customcf/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=915238
The fourth time I write this, THEN you claim to have answered!

Strange that you forgot to link, troll...

I am just going to note that in five^H^H^H^H six^H^H^H seven comments you carefully avoid discussing how I motivate that you are a bad troll: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7809359
Edward Snowden responds to release of e-mail by U.S. officials
What are you talking about? Are you reading the same page as me?

Let me quote http://fvue.nl/wiki/Bash:_Error_handling Caveat 1:

#!/bin/bash -e
echo begin
(false)
echo end

Executing the script above gives:

$ ./caveat1.sh
begin
end
$

This has nothing to do with "ignoring the '-e' on the shebang line."

This is bash ignoring the exit status of the explicit subshell, even though `errexit` is set.
Did you realize that the article was going to be such a hit piece? And do you agree with his implication that the "laundry space" is bubblier than an overflowing washing machine?
Thanks for at least attempting to contribute! If you'll point me towards the patches, or at least the bad docs, is be happy to help get them fixed.
KeyShot is more for static product rendering and not the animation market where RenderMan is targeted towards. So I am not sure there is direct competition between the two.
Strange characterization given OpenSSH is everywhere so it isn't a dead-end.
Show HN: I wrote a secure-ish distributed P2P chat system in Go
I like the cute penguin cartoons on your About page, why not just use the two of them side-by-side for right now?

You need to work on proofreading first - you provide resources, not recourses, and help people with their Linux distribution issues, not there. Sorry to be pedantic, but when you're doing tutorial/documentation stuff clarity and comprehensibility become even more important than usual. I got quite confused trying to work out what sort of 'recourses' you offered, at first.
> Using pointers also means that clients of the library will need to perform their own nil checks where appropriate to prevent panics.

In practice, as your Rust comment alludes, I find working with nil properties in Go types (used to shuffle between the DB and JSON) to be quite painful. I end up keeping track of a lot more state than I really want to, and errors can be introduced subtly.

In Go, you can usually use a type's zero value without doing anything special. But if that type contains any nil properties, you can't presume this anymore. If I have:

type Thing struct {
ID int
Bad *string
}

I then have to do nil checks in every method that might handle Thing, or I have to make it accessible only via functions which perform those checks for me in advance. Either way, much less convenient.
We support DNSCrypt which will encrypt your DNS traffic between you and us. That's the last mile, at least. We support DNSCurve for the other hops, but almost nobody else does.
Ask HN: Why jsfiddle.com is not owned by jsfiddle.net?
If you go to jsfiddle.com it does not redirect you to .net, why is that? Who owns it?
Ask HN: Accounting Software for startups that isn't quickbooks?
Having written Intuit API integrations for a couple of years now, I have no desire to run my own business with them.

Not looking for anything super complicated, just invoicing and accounting, preferably with an API we can plug into.

Thoughts? Freshbooks seems pretty good.
Simulation class: 2D wave equations (in browser)
Well, the Weev case showed that accessing unsecured data that doesn't belong to you is punishable under the law.

He was released on appeal over a jurisdictional issue, not a statue or misapplication of the law.
This is based on the unjustifiable assumption that the author knows better than the VC's and other investors. In particular, the author somehow knows that these company's won't be able to turn a profit, even though the VC's and investors surely believe the company will.
yeah. There is a lot of wierd downvoting going on.

I know of two new accounts that went negative recently. I think some downvoters may seek out new accounts specifically.

I've been very disapointed with the downvoting for disagreeing with someone's point of view as well. To me its antithetical to the point of an online community if you stifle all opposing views, e.g. a recent marijuana poll. I mean, it was a poll. The point of a poll is to count all the points of view, not identify people you want to downvote.

I think some people obtain downvoting rights by posting random articles, basically just trolling for stray upvotes. For example, i see a lot of irrelevant wikipedia articles posted. People who got the downvote that way could easily explain the poor form to their downvoting.

Hacker News is also, in my experience, a fine place to promote OSS but a horrible place to promote any non-VCfunded company or endeavor. Basically, if you don't have funding then you are just spam and people don't want to see your ads here no matter where or when.

I hope this helps. Fortunately, there are lots of ways to promote your software so you don't need HN. Best of luck on your project.
Nothing quite so stark and sublime as hacking away with registers and memory alone, eh? Ring 0 is pretty cool place to be, I'll grant you that.

I think perhaps what I long for is the knowledge that I could gain a _total understanding_ of the hardware, ROM, timings - things were simple enough back in the day. The commodore 64 and other 8-bits are like that, and I've seen talks given on the c64 that seemed to lay bare every secret. I have so much respect for those hackers that know a device through and through with history and anecdotes related to the thing to add color to their own vast understanding.
Most unions in the US are associated with their particular trade, not a particular company, as far as I know. There is SEIU for service employees, UAW for auto workers, USW for steel workers, etc. In addition to these, there are federated organizational bodies such as the AFL-CIO and Change To Win which determine certain union strategies/positions.

I don't understand why you draw a distinction between "white collar" and "blue collar" labor. All wage labor is fundamentally about an individual or small board of directors dictating the terms of production for everyone else. The Board then makes all the decisions about what to do with the output of that production, and what to do with the profits which come from selling those outputs. Under the current economy, workers have no right to make any of those decisions, which are critical to their lives.

Wage workers should not be divided as 'blue collar' and 'white collar'. Instead, they should be united against this system of wage work. Their interests are the same: shorter hours, a better standard of living, and more personal autonomy.
Yes and no.

There are universities that offer degrees in Software Engineering here in Canada, and it is officially an engineering accredited degree, but in practice I've never met a P.Eng in software. This is relevant since one of the steps in getting a P.Eng is apprenticeship... and if you have nobody to apprentice under? Then you've got no P.Eng.

I'm sure they exist, but I've never met one.

/Systems control engineering grad, but no P.Eng and I just do code-monkey work.
I assume its the 25 most popular names of the living. But either way I would have expected the most popular male baby name for 14 consecutive years to make the list.
Really? The whole article had such a thick layer of sarcasm and derision about the whole start-up world it's hard to imagine any start-up paying for this.
Have your kids ever used that? Because I know growing up (I'm 23, so not that long ago) that was my parents policy as well, but neither my sister or I ever used it. a.) We were both responsible enough to make sure if we would be drinking we'd have a way home and b.) If it came to driving drunk/riding with a drunk friend vs. calling them, I would have called them. But I was never put in that situation.

It is a good policy though, the hard part, is actually following through, because I am quite confident my parents would have been pretty mad/upset if I called them at 3:00 AM hammered asking for a ride, but they would know they couldn't actually show they were mad because then the worry would be if there was a next time, I would choose to drive instead of calling.

These driverless cars need to hurry up and become mainstream!
Thankyou. I was trying my payload but couldn't get it to work. I'm sure there's a better way to do it.
I doubt it's more complicated than knowing the language and having the proper transmission hardware. 1978 seems a little early to be worrying about hacks of that variety. That said the hardware could also have some kind of encryption built in. I'll ask if I get a chance, though - I hope to get some details from the project soon.
Ok, I'll bite. What's a "sarcastic mustache"?
I must admit, that one hits the nail directly on the head!

That is often times, how management sees programmers: Dudes that must have experience with rocks and brown to fit the job. And that is also the way, they want to pay them.
"I'm an electrician"
"I'm a teacher"
"I'm in the military"

.. It's weird.
A few examples:

Tabitha
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=tabitha
Rise begins right around the second season of _Bewitched_ when the character Tabitha was introduced; peak (maybe coincidentally) appears to be around the short-lived 1977 spinoff series.

Michelle
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=michelle
The rise in popularity was probably influenced by the Beatles song (released in December 1965).

Shirley
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=shirley
The peak appears to correspond to the height of Shirley Temple's film career in the mid-to-late 1930s.
Google is by far the largest public one, next to OpenDNS. The rest are provider DNS servers, which can't be tracked that easily (NSLs and other "pseudolegal" stuff aside).

It is a shame that the Internet has descended from a place where everyone could implicitly trust everyone into a hellhole of spammers, hackers, spooks and other retards. One cannot even trust that private two-way communication STAYS private because our own fucking governments have done everything to erode that trust.

It is bad times that one can trust Google to keep your data half-way safe, but your government not. It should be just the other way around!
As a carpenter and programmer, I think this stretches it a quite bit, but still funny.
Apple agrees to buy headphone maker Beats for $3bn
Before You Can Think Big Data, You Need to Think Big Clean
> a $40,000 a year salary (coming out to ~$30,000 post-taxes)

Seems like a lot going to taxes especially considering the low income.
iirc flash ads with malicious payloads were the vector used to infiltrate the networks of NYC and other newspapers by Syrian Electronic Army, Anonymous and other public scale hacks.
Baby Boomer generation.
I'd say Perl Dancer is more the Sinatra of Perl.
The attempt to put a positive spin on the ad-version is kind of absurd.

Translation: "We tried to serve ads in a way that broke basic functionality for many people. But we didn't make that much money, so we are going to stop being malicious actors, and we're going to start following the protocols we're supposed to follow."
The regex is case sensitive. That's how I solved it.
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Imagine there was a microphone in your house that could detect events using complex machine learning techniques and can be applied to home automation?

e.g. if it hears the jingle of your keys (and not your flatmates) after 6pm and it hasn't heard you turn the shower on in the morning, it turns on a warm bath for you.
Thanks for your comments. Fixed! If you find any more mistakes please don't hasitate to tell me.
Have you seen Canva?
This is only partially related, but ad quality is just so bad, that it's becoming nearly a moral issue (as essentially is here) making ads the business model.

I wonder if there isn't a business case for highly QA'd ads? Or is there too little visibility into that for the average consumer to appreciate the value?
Reading through the posted diff, a couple of things stood out to me.

1. The release date string went from "February 7, 2012" in 7.1a to "5/2014" in 7.2 . Might be nothing, but it made me wonder if someone other than the orignal author changed it due to the date style change - I'd've expected it to be changed to "February 2014".

I also wonder why no specific day was given - makes me wonder if the release was automated and the author didn't know exactly when it would happen (possibly a dead man's switch triggered it?). Again, could be nothing.

2. Pretty much every reference to truecrypt.org has been removed - even the licence now states "Your Product [...] must not present any Internet address containing the domain name truecrypt" (instead of truecrypt.org), and there is no requirement to link to it anymore. It might just be a change in licencing stance to encourage forks, or, if the release was made under duress (NSL/threats/blackmail etc.), it might be a way to try and signal that truecrypt.org can no longer be trusted.

Edit: Something is bugging me about this line on the site: "The development of TrueCrypt was ended in 5/2014 after Microsoft terminated support of Windows XP." IT might just how the author writes, but my reaction on reading "was ended" was that something external forced it to stop rather than it being a choice.

Also, why mention XP's EOL? The message doesn't say support for TC stopped _because_ of EOL, just after, and I can't think why the end of XP support would effect TC greatly.
It's a 16.6% CAGR - very good, but less astronomical than looking at simply the multiple of the original purchase amount.
Businesses Being Excited About Being Acquired
Distributed Representations of Sentences and Documents (word2vec followup)
It wasn't the factory owner who was innovative.

- Did the factory owner build these labor saving machines?
- Did the factory owner design the circuit boards or software powering these machines?

Wage Workers designed and built these machines. The factory owner has a certain skill set. These include administration, accounting, marketing, perhaps economics. But these skills are certainly no more difficult to acquire than those of an engineer or doctor.

The only reason an owner is able to extract so much wealth from his workers is the exploitation of private, productive property. He owns the factory, therefore he owns everything produced in that factory. This is the logic, and I believe we should oppose it.
This is an incredible engineering feat, I've developed on Android so I really appreciate the amount of work this likely took.

The only unfortunate thing is the design, it's not a pretty app and it deserves a design as well-thought as the backend. I'm not a great designer but if it was open source I'd contribute to a design refactor. OP if you made the app I'm happy to help.
If we can transfer information FTL, (backwards) time travel necessarily follows.

See Kip Thorne's time machine schematics (mentioned e.g. here: http://www.andersoninstitute.com/wormholes.html). The only problem is that you need a wormhole to build it.
I think I got confused and thought you were thinking of switching to OpenDNS for the NSA and not Google.