skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While this idea has potential, I don't really see it taking off.

More and more colleges are being ran like businesses and the idea of spending time and money developing and running assessment centers does not make sense financially. Right now, candidates can be screened by a computer for test scores, GPAs, and key words on resumes. Alumni volunteer to interview potential students. The only paid staff are those reading essays (if they aren't graded electronically) and those making the final acceptance decision.

Universities may band together to create these assessment centers to share cost and upkeep, but even then costs are going to rise because the university still has to keep the yes/no admissions gatekeepers on staff.

Large universities seem to be doing fine with alumni donations and I'm not sure this method suggests enough of an increase in donations to make it a worthwhile investment for universities.
Disk encryption will only stop a targeted attack (someone physically gets their hands on your phone) anyway. All this does is raise the cost by a bit.
oops missed a zero, but you get the point, there is an order of magnitude between FRB and peer-to-peer like lending.
> After a certain (relatively low) point it becomes prohibitively expensive

Look, vote secrecy is nothing new. Let's not have a discussion about the basic tenets of voting systems unless you have a grasp of the fundamentals.

I'm not saying it is an axiom of democracy that must never be breached. I'm saying if you advocate against it, the very least you must do if you want to be taken seriously is to counter the basic arguments why we have voting secrecy in the current system, and what there is to be gained and lost with an alternative system.

The common vote secrecy is not to protect from large scale manipulation, although it does achieve that as well. It is to gain legitimacy by protecting against many small ones. Only then can it be argued that a vote is truly vox populi.

> What the fuck does tradition have to do with it? This is about security.

Please try to keep it serious.

Security is not a one dimensional variable. Traditionally voting security is designed to obtain legitimacy, not protect against a corrupt voting administrator. The latter is not ignored though, it is merely achieved by other means.

If your system cannot offer voting secrecy, and has no other benefits compared to a publicly auditable pen and paper system, it is overall less secure.
They sell goods across the ocean but are unable to have a bank account? And why should the same surcharge not apply when paying with Bitcoins?
Experienced that to in France. Since we also use Bitbucket for code review, I just put a box with a good network connection as a secondary git server that synced code at each push.
Hackers of all the world, help us!!!Attack the Govern!!
If you look at the incentives for Apple in this scenario: It's best for them if we all think their phones are secure. And it's also best for them if they dont piss off LEO.
So the rational thing for them to do, is convince us all they have strongly encrypted their phones, while continuing to provide some type of back door, but hiding it well. Parallel contruction etc etc
10% of cell sites examinated violate FCC radiation regulations
If the key is kept across a battery replacement or repair procedure, then it's going to be hard-wired/fused into the chip. SRAM needs to be powered constantly to retain data.

Credit cards/smartcards include self-destructs that will erase the nonvolatile memory (flash) in certain cases if power is applied while a tamper signal is asserted. They cannot erase data while in the "off" state. One of the problems with fuse-based memory is that it's easier to dump off the silicon than, say, Flash.

Although I haven't decapped an A7 yet (as soon as I get my hands on one, rest assured I will) adding flash to an IC fab process is very expensive and adds somewhere around a dozen new masks, so OTP fuse memory (which doesn't need any new masks) is typically used instead of flash for on-die ID codes etc.
'Course, most people need protection against Paul The Pursesnatcher rather than the Mike The Megavillain.
Agreed. I have to admit, I'm pretty lost as to what interesting things I can do with this.
Those intelligence budgets aren't going to get smaller, almost no matter what. The general US population has no idea how much is spent, their best guess would be: a lot (and it'd be a correct one); so there can't hardly even be a voter push-back based on expenditures.

As such, the best option is to make it so expensive to carry out mass surveillance, their only choice is to be selective about who they target and to focus on specific individuals rather than a billion people in general.

The cost should be drastically increased in all regards: time, electricity, water, monetary, etc.

It's very likely this will happen. The NSA was sitting at the ultimate sweet-spot in history, but windows like that are only open for extremely brief amounts of time. It will close and there is nothing that the NSA can do to stop it.
This Man Creates a Free School Under a Bridge for Poor Children in India
Appears they can

http://www.janes.com/article/42425/darpa-awards-boeing-contr...
Why do you say it is terrible advice? The only thing I would add is the qualifier "intellectually" before "interesting". The other kinds of interest are not such a good fit here.
Exactly. I wrote it to set the record straight: Apple's crypto is intended to guard against a limited class of attacks, and "the KGB is after me" is not one of them.
How about nutrition profiles? We've seen huge vegetables and fruits at the super markets, but their profiles suck compared to conventionally-grown, but usually smaller plants. If we only focus on rapidly growing biomass sold per weight ignoring the main reason we need plants - their nutritional benefit, we're going nowhere. Also, we know from some research that the more a plant has so struggle, the better its micronutrient profile is. Such example is the connection between grapes, climate, and resveratrol content.
Good point, and how often are the blogs and podcasts overflowing with news about IBM and Fujitsu? I discovered long ago that there is a huge difference between generating news and generating the things companies are created to generate (money, products, services, employment, research, etc.) One consequence of this difference is that our unconscious estimates of the comparative scale of what is going on at various companies is wildly distorted by news coverage.
"June 21 is World Giraffe Day — the longest day for the tallest animal" :D
What animal should be celebrate on Dec 21 then?
The submitter of the current post did just fine.

Reposts are ok if it's a good story that hasn't had much attention [1]. The duplicate detector is deliberately left porous to allow for this. Otherwise the luck of the draw would prevent many—if not most—good stories from being seen.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
This isn't the first array of this type; it isn't even the tenth. There are two major commercially available systems. Neuronexus is based on printed circuits and is used mostly in rodents. The Utah array is micromachined and more robustly packaged, and is used mostly in monkeys and some humans.

http://neuronexus.com/products/neural-probes
http://www.blackrockmicro.com
surely p2peer is just that. If I have $100 and you want to borrow $100 I lend to you. I get a rate of return on this and the p2peer company take a cut on that rate for being the middle-man. They don't act as guarantor, if you fail to repay the $100 I loose out (and they loose their cut of the interest).

When you "lend on" money you yourself borrowed in peer2peer lending at this point you cede access to that money. Unlike when you save with a bank where your money is lent out (except the 10% reserve) yet you have a demand deposit for the full amount. Hence the multiplier effect.

I think your description above is totally wrong. Banks in the UK had leverage at over 20 times assets to capital. It was precisely this high level of gearing which meant that our banks collapsed very quickly when there was a shift in the economy.

Banks lend most of the money out back out based on the probability that most loans won't default. Your 1+2 isn't correct.
> The article that the author cites the possibility of the "Secure Enclave code being able to read the UID key"; as comex mentioned yesterday [1], this isn't true.

We don't know that, we just know Apple says it's the case and nobody's broken it yet. Without a full reverse engineering of the Secure Enclave firmware, plus the IC, there's no way to know if there's a hidden backdoor, bug, or debug mode allowing the data to be read.
That's what happens to a market driven entirely by speculation and adding tools like shorting in addition to the lack of interest from the general population. Prof. Bitcorn might be right, just not right about the date, I guess. We saw that outside of a short-live spike, even the PayPal announcement couldn't help it. I won't be surprised if the Chinese oligarchs already moved their funds outside of China via Bitcoin and now there's not enough demand to fuel the increasing price like before.
The first thing I thought when reading the headline was:

Yeah, let's give the most intrusive facebook app ever access to creditcard details wcgw!
That's what I meant. I'm bad at talking, I mainly just play with quadcopters and "study" their flight. IMO, I like them as they're really cheap, much cheaper than fixed pitch or collective pitch single rotor nano helicopters, and coaxials are really slow to respond and are incredibly bad at handling even minor wind.
This is utterly fascinating (regardless of whether they're genuine, forgeries, or something in between). But this quote strikes me as key here : "As Olshin is first to admit, the authenticity of the ten maps and four texts is hardly settled. The ink remains untested, and a radiocarbon study of the parchment of one key map—the only one subjected to such analysis—dates the sheepskin vellum to the fifteenth or sixteenth century, a sign the map is at best a copy."

Which raises the possibility that the maps are forgeries from the sixteenth century, not the twentieth. It seems like a giant logical jump to conclude that the carbon dating to the 15th/16th century just means that these are copies of older, authentic maps rather than fakes from the early modern period, when knowledge of the Alaska coast would have been more likely via Spanish or Portuguese expeditions in the Pacific. Sounds like an interesting book though, regardless, and it does seem like the author of the book (if not the article) goes out of his way not to claim that they're genuine.
In that case self-destructing chips seems total overkill. Everything beyond simple full disc encryption seems - at least to me - only to make sense if you expect a sophisticated targeted attack.
They would be mostly managers handling outsourcing contracts...
The guideline is to use the original title unless it is misleading or linkbait [1]. It's astonishing how often that qualifier gets dropped from these discussions. It's pretty critical, and makes the reason for most title changes pretty obvious.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I've enjoyed the idea of self-destructing data for awhile now, but it always leads to the possibility of DoS attacks against my own data.

This smartphone app and token, how do they communicate with the drive? Does it use cryptographic signatures to make sure that it's actually my phone talking to the device and not someone else, or just a passcode?

Does the drive send out an alert if it receives more than X SMS messages, where X is configurable? What's to stop someone from sending random texts to it until it self destructs? Simply the that they don't know the phone number?

How long does the battery last?
Reminds me of how during the last bubble, HP spun of its unsexy device and medical equipment making divisions (as Agilent) in order to recast itself to the public markets as a sexy Internet company.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agilent_Technologies

> In 1999, product lines not directly connected with computers, storage, and imaging were grouped into a separate company (Agilent), the stock of which was offered to the public in an initial public offering. The Agilent IPO may have been the largest in the history of Silicon Valley at the time.

Since 11/26/99, HPQ is -24% and A is +40% (both pretty lame 14Y returns)

http://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&c...
I can imagine that if you are very worried about something and you learn to achieve a state of not worrying you have a useful capability. No worry be happy. Perhaps the simple fact of been able to focus in something trivial and transform it in the center of our universe is a great feat.

Objects are merely objects. The soul and meaning, the creative act is what gives essence and significance to life. I have never meditated but perhaps is something related to this feeling. Just my 2 cents.
Hewlett-Packard plans to split into two companies: WSJ report
When I saw the headline, I remembered making this joke ~10 years ago, and then I said, "wait, they're breaking up again?"
Darpa “Safeware”: program obscuration
Given how security conscious Google is, I'm surprised the security personnel were ever outsourced.
M-Pesa depends on the mobile carriers obtaining special licenses to operate as banking agents. AFAIK, very few countries in the developed world allow this.

> don't have bank accounts and credit cards have internet and computers though.

Yes. Think of "nigerian scammers". Think how easy it is to get prepaid cell phones in most of the world, etc, etc...
RiftSketch: HTML5 Live-coding Environment for the Oculus Rift
Hewlett-Packard Said to Plan Split into Two Companies
This sounds neat, can we see pictures somewhere?
You have to realize that most companies can't really say what they think on most issues. It's a lot easier to pay lip service to an idea that you consider stupid than risk public opprobation by saying what they actually think.

They care as much about diversity as NBA owners - which is they don't give a toss.

That said - I do think they do want to have the best people working for them. So if the best candidate for a position happens to be a disabled black lesbian - they'll gladly take her. But she has to be qualified in the first place - simply having the right 'diversity' points won't help.
This is not how banking works. I give a shot at a better explanation here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8413408

> A $100 deposit generates slightly less than $1K in loans

If that were true, the amount of money in circulation would be infinite, because loans also end up as deposits.

Edit: More to the point, look at actual numbers in bank balance sheets. The amount of loans tends to be roughly equal to the amount of deposits (the precise ratio varies with bank business models).
Maybe content marketing to the Quora community? If the goal was to drive traffic to his blog, he could have posted just an excerpt on Quora.
I can't really see the usage scenario. If you want to transmit data securely between A and B, use public key cryptography and the internet [1]. If you want to protect data at rest, use full disk encryption. If you want protect the data on a running PC against theft, then you also have to consider all the data in the RAM (caches etc.). And if you, somehow, can prevent the attackers from getting that, then you can again use full disk encryption.

[1] If you are really paranoid and don't want to connect the devices to the internet, or if you don't have an internet connection at the target location, send a messenger with a random symmetric key first. If he/she arrives safely, send the hard drive with full disc encryption using the symmetric key next. Via any means. You can even FedEx it.
If there's an increased bandwidth bill, I'm sure John will be grateful for the check you send him.
just throw out the entire college system. the whole thing is broken.
The largest nocturnal animal, though i can't seem to find which that is, possibly the snow leopard: the largest night for the largest night animal.
From wearables to invisibles
You have commented elsewhere in this thread with this same rant but I simply don't understand the point you're trying to make.

Of course stereoscopy is part of what the oculus does (although there's also head tracking, so talking only about the stereoscopy is misleading). You say it's a flawed direction, so what's the right direction then?
my guess would be a difficult to fuckup encryption substrate for application programmers, but I don't see how you would ever make money...
> Deposits are what are used to "lever" up in the first place. If a bank lends out $125 for every $100 that it gets in deposits, where is the other $25 coming from? The answer is that it comes from equity.

That's not entirely correct. Those $25 mostly comes from other banks with other business models, e.g. banks holding treasury bonds instead of loans.

That said, I really like how radmuzoom's comment contained the kernel of real-life data that should help people realize that the typical money multiplier explanation is just wrong: if you actually look at the sum of deposits and the sum of loans that banks have, you'll see that they are more or less equal.

Yet, if you believed the typical money multiplier story, the amount of loans would have to be at least 10x higher than the amount of deposits (even infinitely larger in countries where no reserve requirement exists!).
It's been a real shame to watch the decline of HP.

In the early 90's when I was just starting out in IT, their brand was very highly regarded, especially their laser printers which phenomenal workhorses.
It's cool seeing register renaming in an early microprocessor. Doubling up all the registers takes a lot of silicon, and is unusual for that era.
Yes, it is MUCH easier to get internet access than to get a bank account.

> And why should the same surcharge not apply when paying with Bitcoins?

Suppose you buy services from someone in Argentina and you pay USD 100. Paypal/Banks will give the recipient the "official rate" of the USD to Peso (as of today: ARS 8.45/USD)

Now, suppose that you send the equivalent amount of USD, but uses BTC. The receiver will sell the BTC (if so desires) at the rate established at the local market, which is mostly pegged to the Blue ("unofficial") Dollar. Exchange rate: ARS14,50/USD.
Yes it was. There was an Mt. Gox bot which was consistently buying bitcoin over a long period of time. The reason we know it was an Mt. Gox bot is because when Gox's API went down, the bot was still able to execute trades on Gox even though no one else could.

Of course, Karpeles will never stand for his crimes, because they weren't crimes. This is just what happens in an unregulated market, and everyone who buys into it is along for the ride.

Here's the rub: A price fluctuation at one exchange will always affect every other exchange. If Bitstamp drops by $50, someone is going to buy at Bitstamp and then sell at some other exchange in order to take advantage of that. That means any exchange that manipulates the market will literally be manipulating the entire Bitcoin market. There's no way for outsiders to know the difference between an artificial, manipulated price spike and a true increase in value. So if you see bitcoin rising sometime in the future, beware buying into it: you may be buying into a manipulation.

I don't know whether this problem is solvable. Even if America enforces regulations for American bitcoin exchanges, the rest of the world won't be playing by the same rules, and it only takes one dishonest exchange to mess with the global price. I'd like to know how the regular stock market deals with this. Are all stock exchanges regulated worldwide? Is there such a thing as a dishonest stock exchange? If so, how is that dealt with?
They also sell devices called Data Security Protocol Switches (DSPS) which completely prevent your method from working.

"A Signal Proximity (SP) option means that any registered AutothysisDSP computer hard drive that leaves the vicinity of the DSPS signal will automatically self-destruct. This protects against theft and someone walking out the room with a computer. Likewise if a jamming of the DSPS signal is tried in an attempt to thwart the security protocol the registered DSPS hard drives will self-destroy."
Huge problem with these schemes:

If my data is valuable, I have two fears: (1) theft, (2) loss. If my drive is built to self-destruct, it decreases fear #1 but increase fear #2. What do I do then? Back up my data elsewhere? But that defeats the purpose of the high security drive. Do I get more than one high security drive? That still puts a lot of trust in the design -- if there were a systemic flaw that caused them all to fail or self-destruct at once I'd be out my data.
Fun to play with, but I haven't yet found how to create a wire that carries a signal around a corner without introducing instability or oscillation. A series of 'or' or 'xor' gates will carry a signal from input to output, but the other two output directions from any of those gates lead to cells that feed into the previous cell, so placing either an 'or' or 'xor' there introduces feedback.

The inability to change the direction of a signal makes it difficult to create non-trivial circuits. I can create an oscillator for use as a clock signal (3-on-3-off that can be disturbed into a 1-on-1-off by placing and removing an adjacent cell). The outputs of those together would produce a two-bit counter (00, 01, 10, 11), and combining those bits with logic gates would produce a 2-on-2-off oscillator or a 1-on-3-off oscillator; however, I haven't yet figured out how to bring two outputs together.
As a human, without a colon that thing is ambiguous.

It can be:

tomorrow at three thirty, people are coming over

or:
tomorrow at three, thirty people are coming over
For a second I actually imagined that this might be the start of what in 10 years will become Google Security Forces, people safegurading Google micronation/underwater colony/Mars establishment.
As to why someone posts on quora:

http://www.quora.com/What-s-my-incentive-to-post-answers-on-...

I'm sure that some of that also applies to HN.
Iowa to Tesla: Stop test-driving your cars in our state
In 1960 I read The Way of Zen and was moved to quit college and run away to sea. Also, since reading Watts I haven't been constipated. Is this enlightenment?
Brian R. Hannula sunbreath@wildblue.net
Bezier.js, for doing bezier curve things
Austria in the list of very high proficiency countries is surprising to me. The other countries in that list speak a small language which explains the reliance on a second language.
Good lesson to remind my developers to stop putting WIP of unannounced features in release builds.
Truth is not to be found by picking everything to pieces like a spoilt child. -from this very article
This will be the first of this scale. On both those sites the most channels I could find was 64. This program is planning 10.000 channels for unprecedented resolution and scale.

Since 16 channels is enough to predict if a subject is looking at a face or not, it is exciting to research what this large-scale system is going to be capable of. Next to neuroscience, it could help with healthcare (research into dementia, epilepsy and schizophrenia).
Hamburg Could Be the Next Major City After Munich to Ditch Windows
Yeah man. Let's throw out all of society as well, start anew. Everything's broken.
Giraffes are heartless creatures
You just found a great advantage that exists for investors that put money in "old" companies. Many of these old companies will make more and more money for decades to come. But most retail investors are only interested in "big growth" from companies such as Twitter, FB, Gopro, etc.
>IPv6 is now turned off on new interfaces by default. Assigning an IPv6 address will enable IPv6 on an interface.

Why?
Depends. Maybe the production version is used for testing the feature, but is only enabled for certain users.