skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have not (yet?) evaluated this device. I do however have a couple of initial comments.

Only the (TI) security processor itself had a FIPS 140-2 Level 3 crypto engine. However this device as a whole has no certifications I am aware of, FIPS, CESG or anywhere else (let's leave aside for a moment the flaws of the certification processes). Given its claims, the threat model and what it tries to do, that is actually surprising. It should be aiming for 140-2 Level 4, with claims like that. There are not a lot of 140-2 Level 4 devices around at all…

They say "flipped". Do they mean "zeroized"?

There are a few pitfalls with disk encryption. They mention AES-256-CBC. That is not a wide-block mode. So how are the IVs defined? Do they use an encrypted salt-sector IV? A plain one? Is any diffuser used? Is there any integrity protection?

I do not see that this provides a meaningful level of security which is even comparable to, say, (the late) TrueCrypt.
Why are there so many random NY Times articles ending up on the front page lately? Back 6 months ago I never remember seeing these articles and now there seems to be one hitting the front page every day. I could understand if they were relevant technical articles but one about giraffes?

The worst part is they create very poor discussions where most of the comments get down voted because what can one really say about a story about giraffe evolution?
Isn't this SSD also vulnerable if the key is compromised?
Exactly.

The money supply is expanded by stuffing the top end, the middlin-and-below credit consumers are already stuffed and/or maxed out, so, unsurprisingly, the high end is trading stuff back and forth and higher and higher prices.

This is one reason that, despite the fact I lean anarcho-localist, I tentatively support a citizens dividend: if we are to have a fiat monetary system we could at least make the expansion thereof equitable and eliminate the early-receiver advantages in New York and D.C.
I've been away from OpenBSD for a while, and was just googling to try to get a starting basis. Thank you for pointing me to the 4k alignment issue. This thread (http://openbsd.7691.n7.nabble.com/SSD-disk-alignment-td75046...) seems to suggest that OpenBSD will try to align to 4k boundaries by default. Is that correct?
Interesting, but I prefer the simpler, emergent logic of Wireworld: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireworld
There's lots of ways to steal a little bit from people in ways they don't realize or can't do anything about. Stealing $5 bucks outright is of course the obvious thing; disproportionate overdraft fees or ordering transactions to maximize overdrafts is another; selling something with apparent X% risk and real X+Y% risk is more subtle still.

Information asymmetry isn't a theoretical construct--it's the basis of a lot of different ways to steal from people without their knowing.
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It is sad seeing this happening.

I used to enjoy HP printers and HP-UX was the only commercial UNIX I ended up using across multiple employers.
I think another part of it might be that units are inherently less intuitive to us than numbers. Your mind sees the choices and reads "4 7 30 90". And look at that! The 4 option is about $4 and the 7 option is about $7! Both seem quite reasonable!

And this is all great until you realize that 4 hours is quite different than 7 days.
That's why I was writing about a "messenger" specifically. I was thinking about someone you can trust, if need be, yourself. If this messenger assures you the key wasn't spied upon, you can use the key. If you can't even get a courier with a sealed envelope to the location, then you probably won't get any encrypted or otherwise protected data in there, anyway.

This level of security is ridiculous for almost everyone, of course. But we are talking about a self destructing SSD, which you want to send via courier to initiate the destruct, as an alternative. So I think this is a fair comparison.
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This is the crux of the matter. Stated differently, why would universities want to shake up their proven business model? For vaguely defined virtues like creativity, wisdom, and well-roundedness?

They are interested in the bottom line, first and foremost, and in any case are being run by executives pulled from the same executive pool that other large corporations are drawing from.

The author needs to first carefully define the problem without reference to Steve Jobs or academia golden-age idealism, and then posit a roadmap away from the current business model.
Didn't not already make this years ago.
Italy and Greece most likely rely on tourism to a greater extent, and speak languages not spoken in other countries, so based on that one might expect them to have a higher position than Austria.

Subtitles might help some but putting effort into actively learning a language is more important; I've seen many subtitled French, Italian and German movies, but I haven't picked up those languages by osmosis... I wish it were that easy.
Sounds cool. I think the most crucial part is really the data (or feature) set. The choice of classifiers makes a difference too, but having good data (salient, invariant, discriminatory) makes the largest difference.

One think about naive Bayes and kNN: Although the performance may be similar, I would consider Naive beneficial if the data set is large. kNN requires to re-evaluate the data. Naive Bayes makes the classification computationally cheaper and with "on-line" learning, you can still improve or adjust it over time
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Here are some examples, from small to large, of approximately how many openings several well known colleges have for first year students each year, and how many applicants they get. First column is number of openings. Second column is approximate number of applicants:

200 1200 Caltech
1100 9200 MIT
1300 13000 Yale
1700 18900 Harvard
1700 17000 Stanford
4200 18000 UC Berkeley
7500 14700 UT Austin

Even the smallest in that list dwarfs the operations given in the article as examples of successful use of assessment centers. I wonder if anyone has the resources to do that kind of in-depth assessment of, say, Harvard applicants?
I assert that by the time it's gotten to the point that you have gone out, slogged thru hundreds of job postings, had interviews, negotiated a new position, YOU'RE DONE AT YOUR OLD JOB. And there's no going back.

I could be alone here, but I never stop looking at job postings. If I ever see something more interesting than my current job, why not explore it. Chances are you would miss the most interesting opportunities if you weren't looking 90% of the time. The best time to search for jobs and interview is when you already have a comfortable job. Then your desperation doesn't force you to take something you don't love.
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I gave the phone number "0".
Because someone submitted them and others up voted them. Don't compain just flag it or ignore it.
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I don't understand what fraction of respective countries' population did they test. A country with a lot of subjects may get worse results because more unskilled people try themself / versus a country where English is a rare skill.

Also note small country preference - no country with more than 10M population has Very High index.

Anyway, seeing nordic/germanic countries on top is unsurprising.
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I can understand not supporting tape installation (although aren't tapes still used in large, serious, high-power businesses as backup media?), but why remove FTP? Granted, it's objectively a horrible protocol, but is the FTP client code more likely to be an attack surface than the HTTP client code? If you're after security, isn't it more secure to remove all network installation and force people to use only physical media which they obtained from a secure and trusted source?

http://mywiki.wooledge.org/FtpMustDie
The article wasn't clear on this, what is a "channel" in this sense? What is actually measured, from a physical perspective?
Despite what the author continually says, the interface does not say "Real Name" in the author's screenshots. As far as I have heard, no one has been prevented from having an account due to a "Real Name" policy. This is in stark contrast to Facebook, the major player in the "Real Name" game.

I don't like Firechat requiring a signup, but the facts of what is required should not be confused. Pseudonymous use appears to be accepted.
One of the worst things about the internet is folk who

1. Make a bad/irrelevant joke

2. Get downvoted for it

3. Assume that the downvotes occur because people didn't get the joke

That goes double on a place like HN which discourages such posts, but even on reddit, sometimes folk just won't think your damn joke/reference is funny!
Thanks for this awesome idea!
Believe it or not something relevant just popped up - I'd like to connect you if you're interested. I'm at "tom" at [my hn nick] dot net.
We have had our security guards as employees (not contractors) since the beginning. Not sure how this is news and how this isn't the norm.
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This is a roundabout way of saying that google's hiring standards are often a total mystery
The first wasn't thought about, it was done to save bytes, not because people weren't going to be using the software.

IPv4 was enough, the use case changed.

640K should be enough is an urban legend.

This isn't meant to come across as rude, but you're missing the forest for the trees.

Everyone needs the post office, how else will you be able to send a letter.
Everyone needs news, newspapers will be around forever.
Everyone needs a travel agent, people like to travel. They'll be around forever.
Everyone will always have a land line.
Video stores will exist forever...
Everyone needs a watch...
Etc...

For every example you come up with, I can come up with three in which the majority of the population no longer complies. We progress more than you realize. A commercial windowing computer interface has been around for 30 years next year, it's still in it's infancy. Touch interfaces have transformed digital adoption to numbers greater than I would have ever been able to comprehend back in 92 when I sent my mom, who worked at the University of Calgary while I was at the University of Alberta, an email. It was magical. And yet, in no way did I think it would ever grow to a point where every person would hold not only email, but the internet (which existed, but not really at that point). If you're under 30, it'll be a lot harder to see the rate of increase.
and non-government backed non-commodity-backed currency

I think hashing power is a commodity, just like electricity or bandwidth.
Not defending it, just mentioning why it might be that way at large corporations. Also note that it'll take the interviewer extra time to do their writeup afterwards, so it does amount to extra work on their part.

At smaller companies they'll probably have less bureaucracy, so they can make hiring decisions quicker with less paperwork. Also team members will care a great deal more, since they'll be personally working with the candidate.
The NeuroNexus Matrix array can be configured with up to 256 contacts. It's basically a Utah-style array with many shanks arranged in a rectangular grid. The difference from the standard Blackrock Utah array is that each of those shanks has multiple contacts along it. This is their newest product and you can buy it now, although I have no idea how well it actually works.

This technology is in principle extensible to much larger channel counts, if you increase the size of the array, the density of the shanks, and/or the density of the recording sites along each shank. I know that the Boyden lab at MIT has been working on this with the goal of simultaneously recording from >1000 sites. I'm not sure if they've met that goal yet, but they've been presenting on their progress at the annual Society for Neuroscience meeting since at least 2012.

One problem with standard microelectrode array technology is that it only works for targeting a small proportion of brain areas. You can only record from regions on the surface of the brain. Structures in sulci (folds) are difficult to reach because you'd have to pull apart the sulcus to insert the array, and many sulci contain blood vessels that will be ruptured if you do that. Targeting deeper structures like the thalamus (probably the most interesting target for schizophrenia) is intractable with this technology at least in primate brains because the electrode shanks have to penetrate a couple centimeters into the brain. Even if you could engineer an array with long enough shanks and manage to insert it without destroying it, you might do so much damage to brain tissue between the surface and the target that the resulting data would not reflect normal brain function.
Thanks for the comment, and I agree! I rephrased it a little bit to

"Empirical comparisons provide evidence that the multinomial model tends to outperform the multi-variate Bernoulli model if the vocabulary size is relatively large [13]. However, the performance of machine learning algorithms is highly dependent on the appropriate choice of features. In the case of naive Bayes classifiers and text classification, large differences in performance can be attributed to the choices of stop word removal, stemming, and token-length [14]. In practice, it is recommended that the choice between a multi-variate Bernoulli or multinomial model for text classification should precede comparative studies including different combinations of feature extraction and selection steps."
> Legos

Does the NYTimes not employ sub editors anymore?
Increasing the cost of surveillance means it becomes easier to constrain the intelligence agencies by simply not allowing them endless budgets.
Maybe something flat, like a flounder or a manta ray.
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Hewlett-Packard and Packard Bell have never been associated.
Not just a vector of attack, it also causes performance and connectivity problems when misconfigured. As long as there is no critical mass for IPv6, it's not worth the headache. I know that if everyone had that attitude, IPv6 will never get critical mass, and that is exactly what I'm rooting for. I don't care for toasters with IP addresses.
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That is probably a fair hunch. However I was thinking.. there may be a way to do this with stock iOS without tipping off the target device in any way.

Whenever an iMessage client wants to message the target, it gets a list of target device public encryption keys from Apple. It then sends a separately-encrypted copy of each message to each of those recipients.

What Apple could do is to "bug" the lists that are sent to the devices wanting to sending something to the target, without modifying the list that the target device sees. So all incoming messages to the target would get cc'd to law enforcement. This could probably be done completely server-side.

As for outgoing messages, Apple could do the same thing in reverse: whenever the target device asks for the list of recipient devices, just add the monitoring device to it. Again, all by simply modifying the device directory server, no client changes.

The bigger point here is that Apple claims their hands are tied due to the design of the encryption. But as long as the directory service is still under their central control, there is still a technical means for complying with law enforcement requests to monitor iMessage communication.

Perhaps law enforcement just needs to get more specific with their demand. Don't demand "decryption" anymore.. demand a wiretap.
You're citing yourself??? Fuck dude, go outside for a bit, get some fresh air.
so, let's pretend everything's OK. after all, "ignorance is bliss".
I really want to visit Estonia. It seems to be in the top of nearly every positive national ranking I've seen.
I am not making the argument that natural childbirth is a superior form of childbirth, nor ought it be preferred in all cases because it is the way things work normally.

I am making the argument that saying that that particular form of procreation is 'arbitrary' is ridiculous. It's clearly not arbitrary: it is the way healthy, normal humans have children, and is the form of childbirth that was selected by evolution. That may or may not mean that it should be preferred by couples (though in reality, it certainly seems to be) but that's a far cry from saying there is nothing particularly unique about it.

Of course, by assuming it is an arbitrary form of childbirth, which it's not, you fall into the trap of claiming that it should not be given undue weight for couples looking to have children. I'd argue that the burden of proof is on you to show this to be the case, since after all, you are (most likely) living, breathing proof of the multi-generational long term effectiveness of this method.

edit: Also, as an aside, your citation of an appeal to nature logical fallacy is only relevant if the argument being made is that something is inherently good because it is natural, full stop. When it comes to something like procreation, you can clearly make the argument that humanity itself is an existence proof of the effectiveness of that natural mechanism, therefore for that particular case (or really, any case where evolutionary pressure has resulted in a objectively effective solution to a problem) that logical fallacy does not seem to apply.
Thanks for your answers.

Why do you think Haskell is fine as long as the system "isn't important enough to merit lots of manual verification"? That sounds puzzling to me. I'd say one thing complements the other: automatic and manual verification seems the best option.

Is lazy evaluation your biggest issue with Haskell? How about languages like ML or OCaml, which are arguably safer than "restricted C++" and do not default to lazy evaluation?

Or is GC your main problem with these languages? This would rule out most dynamically typed languages as well.
While object-based UIs have failed to become a success, the video does show some interesting UI features, like inertia scrolling, that have only become widespread quite recently. Surprising to see how ahead of its time this prototype was 22(!) years ago.
> You don't need to down vote if you disagree.

I'm not sure if that was aimed at me, but if so you can't downvote replies to your own comments (at least I can't, maybe there's a higher karma threshold where you can but I doubt it).
Mostly right, except for global warming. Although it's proven that it happens, it's still yet to be proven that humans cause it, or what part of it is caused by humans.
Yes, logic programming and probabilistic programming are closely related. See http://okmij.org/ftp/kakuritu/logic-programming.html
Would definitely be interesting to see it being used for entertainment purposes. But it appears its a "last resort" kind of app, especially with Hong Kong's situation.

If people are growing more and more concerned with privacy that could be the nudge. Or if they offered something standard SMS cannot (speed, feature, etc.)
This is huge. Social payments could be the biggest business model for Facebook and even blast their revenues way past $100B. Lots of startups, many great ones have attempted it before, but all failed due to lack of traction. Facebook doesn't have this problem and could thus bring social payments finally to success.

This is where we will now be able to see how much TRUST affects a company. The Facebook brand is currently viewed as very negative and could be the reason, why this business model could be completely rejected by its users.
When we really liked some movie, we tended to geek out by picking up phrases from them and repeat them with friends. It helped in picking up words that "these are not the droids you are looking for" etc. were not dubbed.
Hashing power may be a commodity, but does it back Bitcoin? Hashing is used to create a new Bitcoin, but that seems more like a resource consumed as part of production, not something that is backing the currency.

When a currency is backed by a commodity, such as a currency backed by gold, you can exchange the currency for the commodity at a fixed rate. The currency is a proxy for the commodity. When you hold a unit of a commodity backed currency, the appropriate amount of that commodity is being held for you somewhere.

When you hold a Bitcoin, there is not someone holding a fixed amount of hashing power in reserve for you somewhere. The Bitcoin represents not hashing power available but rather hashing power that has been expended. In terms of gold coins, hashing power in Bitcoin is like the labor of mining the gold. I don't think that there is anything in Bitcoin corresponding to the gold.

I suppose you could argue that Bitcoins themselves are the commodity, but that seems to me like calling USD a commodity-based currency based on its physical paper and ink. We don't count that because the commodity is essentially worthless compared to the value of the currency. The currency doesn't derive its value from the commodity.
I don´t trust our election system.
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Stopped reading at "Intelligence and experience offers no protection against scammers, says Modic."

Come on.
A high voltage surge would be simpler to implement.
Do they check the internals of a laptop's hard drive nowadays? :-)
Couldn't agree more with you and the parent comment.
instructions take too long,
A "channel" usually means an individual contact on the device from which you can record a signal. A single channel may record "spikes" (action potentials) from dozens of neurons, but of those typically only 0-3 are distinguishable, depending on how close the electrode is to the neurons and how close the spike shapes are to each other. With ordinary metal electrodes, one can usually isolate action potentials from an average of 1-1.5 neurons per electrode.

However, not all channels are created equal. High channel count arrays typically have high contact densities. If the contacts are very close to each other (<100 microns or so), adjacent channels may record signals from the same neurons. I'm not entirely sure how this will affect the actual number of neurons one can isolate, but I'm eager to see. The contacts will record signals from fewer neurons than if the density were lower, but the increased density may make it possible to isolate signals that would otherwise be lost to noise, and will certainly make the process of determining which action potentials came from which neurons simpler.
True, but that won't change the fact that anything better but different from that old XP will throw most users so off they won't even care.
Ouch. They used to offer some awesome workstations a few years back, but the restrictions on peripherals were insane - I mean, what idiot decided to implement whitelists on processors and PCIE graphics adapters?
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Well I noticed today that some random hotel in Germany I was thinking of staying at was on ipv6, and it is way more popular than IE6... People want connected devices, in way more numbers than there are ipv4 addresses, and end to end connectivity is the internet.
People can not audit the votes. How can we trust the machine?!