skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are so many people involved in the design and manufacturing of a processor, that I don't see how it's possible to hide a backdoor, either in the microcode or during manufacturing. We're not talking about some secret government agency, we're taking about a place with many workers around the world, with different agendas. Eventually someone will find about about the backdoor and leak information about its existence.
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How much did you sell Texts.com for, and when did you sell it? Assuming you've sold it.
If millions of people can shut down SOPA/PIPA, millions of dollars can make this not happen, sadly.
You should be upvoted way more. I also worked in healthcare IT for three years and security was basically an exercise in checking boxes to claim HIPAA compliance. So long as everyone could avoid fines or being sued by the office of civil rights we were considered secure.
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It's not unrecommended, but it's definitely not where it shines most. It's difficult to get below the 100 KB not gzipped size. Although if you use jQuery in your JS hello world, you also gather up 33 KB just for jQuery, so it's still the same order of magnitude.
I have a friend who lives in a house near a mountain top, in the middle of a forest. There is a road leading to it, but you need a good 4x4 car to get there(no, a BMW X6 or Audi Q7 will not get there without destroying the underbody), and between November-March you can't drive at all due to snow - to get anything up the mountain they actually use a horse-drawn sled(and the horse if nearly drowning in snow anyway).

And you know what? He has electricity,and internet, and fresh water. He managed to convince the utility company to lie down cables all the way to his house, and uses a well for water. He has house insurance. As for roof/maintenance problems - he just brings the workers up in his own car during the summer. He even gets post(in the summer, but the postman is a seasoned hiker) and has an actual address.

Compared to this, I think owning a boat is actually less trouble.
> You want to impose a tax on people when they create something?

The proposal seems to suggest the tax applies to those who want the government to help them exclude others from using their creations, which isn't quite the same thing.
I agree more would be better, but aren't there several now, such as the Free Software Foundation, the Software Freedom Conservancy, and the Apache Software Foundation?
> it wears out my SSD

No it doesn't.

Reading doesn't cause (much) wear on an SSD - writing does.

(To be technical - it does, but it only requires 1 write / 100,000 reads or so. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_memory#Read_disturb )
This is a straw man. I said nothing of the like.

So you're against the income tax?

What if the author can't afford to pay? Does being poor mean you don't deserve to own the work you've created?

How can (s)he not afford to pay, if it's "a fraction of what they make from profits from that work"? In any case, that sounds like a poor objection to the general idea of a tax - it could simply have a minimal cutoff, like many taxes.
After the todo in the news thread about the case yesterday, I thought that this well-written summary of the position in his philosophical defense was fitting.
Interesting -- does anyone know what the moving dots are? Are they other viewers or is that data being updated?
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I am curious to see what people should expect as the output of the service.

Does the interviewer return back a single "hire/no hire" bit or is there a more detailed assessment of the candidate's strengths/weaknesses within the topics covered?
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Just filled out the Trans Union site with dummy data to check, and none of the transaction is over SSL. So, to kind out if my child's identity has been stolen I have to expose them to identity theft....
I agree. I shouldn't be able to sell rusty vans with the Mickey Mouse logo on them claiming that they are made by Disney. Or claim that my shitty b-grade movies were made by DisNEY (TRADEMARK)
as are squatters.
Someone else posted this but here is the bluemix pricing page: https://console.ng.bluemix.net/#/pricing
Don't understand the patronizing tone here. For a start, the BBC Q&A I've read on this says that it's basically the Swedish prosecutors saying, "No, because of circumstances, we want him here", not "It is legally forbidden". The prosecutor saying "We want him here, and we aren't going to tell you why" doesn't exactly radiate fairness and transparency.[1]

Maybe I'm wholly mistaken, but it stands to reason that should be a legal possibility that an individual can be questioned over video link. For example, consider a Swedish invalid who is in delicate condition in a London hospital and is medically forbidden to travel.

[1] http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-19426382

"Karin Rosander of the Swedish Prosecution Authority told the BBC on 21 August 2010 that "because of circumstances in the investigation, [the prosecutor's] opinion is that it is necessary that he is present in Sweden".

Ms Rosander said the prosecutor had not made clear exactly what those circumstances were. "At this stage of the investigation, [the prosecutor] does not want to specify," she said."
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This is the perfect place for my "schönfinkeln?"-Shirt :).
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I submitted a request for quote for hdd.com They replied back and said they'd accept nothing less than $100k. Seems ridiculous based on the numbers I'm seeing here.
I've been uploading the easiest photos I can find to the visual recognition demo[1], and its yet to get one right.

For example, I searched Google for "photo of girl", and found this image which seems very easy:

http://www.wagggsworld.org/shared/uploads/img/rachel-s-p-pho...

Watson says:

Color	71%
Human	67%
Photo	65%
Dog	59%
Person	57%
Placental_Mammal	56%
Animal	50%
Long_Jump	50%

Huh?

This isn't me cherry picking bad results; aside from their demos I'm not finding any photos that are accurately classified. I even tried a headshot of a person isolated on a white background, and Watson told me I uploaded a photo of "shoes".

Seriously - how is this data useful? What could I build with this level of accuracy?

Watson team - do you agree? Is this product about to get a lot better, soon, or is this considered "pretty good"?

[1] http://visual-recognition-demo.mybluemix.net/
Agree completely.

For me its all about OTP, thats the difference maker with Elixir/Erlang, without that its just another functional language, with it is an incredibly powerful tool/framework for building impressive distributed fault tolerant systems.
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I'm still baffled by your arguments. We live in a modern democratic society. Professionals in the law system examined the Assange case and decided that there was a case to answer. Just because someone on the Internet is "dubious about it" doesn't change that, and I would never want to live in a society where it did.
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And now we're back to value structs.
Semantic image data now available through Cloudinary’s Media Library UI. Details include the image’s respective Exif, IPTC, and XMP metadata as well as color data, that is automatically extracted. The Media Library UI now also automatically indicates face coordinates, where a single face or multiple faces are automatically detected.
Given that our strategy is to expose most Watson technology as cloud services we will keep updating the hardware underneath in a way that seamless to the user. We try to leverage the Power architecture as much as possible.
Because due process doesn't apply when your rulers don't want it to.
Even coming in with a few years experience in Clojure and having spent time writing macros in Elixir I have found this to be a really worthwhile read (so far).

That said, this should not be your first Elixir book (as Chris points out in the book's introduction). It should be your second, especially if you are interested in writing libraries.
Aren't there just as many problems with cutting and pasting python and getting either slightly off indentation or mixed spaces/tabs? If the IDE fixes the problem, I don't see why it's any different for braces as it is for whitespace. There's easy ways to identify both.
I've been complaining about this on HN before; lot's of startups built chat apps on top of GPG during the whole Snowden thing and Werner can't raise $120,000.

I'm really glad Pro Publica picked it up, but I also think we need to change to way we think about critical software like GPG. The GPG Tools team (GPG for Apple Mail) recently stated they need to charge for the tool in the future because they simply can't handle to amount of work anymore (it's still GPL) — the response from us was nothing but outrage.

// I just realized all of this is mentioned in the article. My bad.
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I'd certainly be interested in having myself interviewed at the listed price. I think I'd also have someone who I didn't want to hire be interviewed to see how the results compare.

At the price listed it certainly seems viable.
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Article title is wishful thinking. There's no sign the TPP is failing.

If they're arguing about a last chance of salvaging legitimacy for the TPP process, I think that was a long time ago.
Interesting stuff & congratulations on the raise - having good persistence support around containers is indeed greatly needed!

What do you see flocker as adding to kubernetes? k8s looks like it is aiming to take care of networking & persistence, so I'm interested to hear what flocker brings to the table!
Are you saying that Scala.js ships with a Scala VM in JS, like EMScripten?
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One would hope UTF-7 was also a joke, alas it is not. I had to implement support for it once. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-7
Yeah I plan to ta, to be honest I like what I've seen/used of TypeScript too. However I'm thinking the big win will be in the longer term when JS picks up some of the ideas.
Well, I don't think the technology is that bad :-). But I agree with you. We have to solve the problem of poorer quality audio input, and the sooner the better! But there are also many scenarios where good audio input is feasible and would like feedback on those sorts of application ideas too.
This is sad but not super surprising. Historically, if you had money and wanted a reasonable UI and cleaner integrations, you bought PGP (now from Symantec). GPG was always for people unwilling to pay.

For the record I donated. I'm just pointing out that writing something that's bundled and distributed as part of something else means nobody thinks about your project, or in many cases even realizes they're using it.
Wait a second.... You had $15,000 to drop on a domain in HIGH SCHOOL!? That's crazy, and incredible. Ha
They're fantastically better than any other insurance I've had. What they cover for my family is easily another income every year. What did you have before?
Wow, that's like the entire microelectronics class I took in undergrad compressed into an hour, just without any of the math and (obviously) light on theory. Impressive.
No, you're about right. On the bigger corporate side, security is at least the big buzzword. The VP- and C-level positions want to be sure that action is being taken to improve security, but day to day requests to poke holes in the walls come in. That is not to even mention the huge, ancient systems that are in the middle of multi-year replacement processes that began before security was so important. That means at best the replacement will have the security best practices of the last few years stapled on awkwardly, but more likely nothing will change given the millions poured in already.
That's just not true. The direction of IT certainly is set by upper management, as well as the budget. If IT says 'we need an IDS' and management says 'it's not in the budget', what can IT do about it? If IT says 'it will take this long and this much money to change our password policy' and management say 'work on new things, not changing old things', what can IT do about it?

Senior management might not directly set the password policy, but they do say what you should work on, and by proxy, what you're not going to have the time to work on. And besides, what is the role of management if not keeping track of their employees? If an employee fucks up that bad, it's their managers fault.

And yes, if the accounting department was that incompetent, SOX says it's senior management's fault. That's what the yearly attestation is for.
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We'd expect the police to do their best to catch the filthy criminals, just like in the movies!
While it might feel the "it looks cool" projects, I hope no one is plugging such servers into a network, other than on micro-controlers.
I bought pmn.org for 4k (my initials and username most places). I'd just sold a domain set (.com, .net, .org) for 10k and felt spendy :)
There are plenty of better ways already. A simple public/private keypair would go a long way towards this goal.

The problem is that everyone working on crypto products focuses on just developing technology, often attempting to make existing crypto systems easier to use for ordinary people. This is fine, but it's only a partial solution. We need to educate people who don't know and don't care about proper security. Nobody is going to use the most secure and easy to use crypto system if they don't see the benefit and think that a SSN or a driver's license is a good way to show their identity.

There is a lot of hand wringing about how hard it is to get ordinary people to take security seriously, but honestly this is a problem that will solve itself given enough time and enough breaches such as this. Until people understand that only secret information--which they and only they know--can be used to authenticate them and protect their information, this will just keep happening.
The feature I care about most is interoperability of components written in different programming languages, which doesn't seem to be a priority for either camp.
I don't understand why compilers can't simply emit global variables containing structural descriptions of types. It seems like such a trivial thing to do. It would increase the size of the binary, but it would be possible to disable in projects that aren't using reflection, even automatically if the code never imports the reflection package.

Maybe someone can explain this.
How do I signup and pay them money?
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To better understand the comment above you need to understand stiffness. When you take a wire of steel, which is very strong, you'll find you can actually bend it very easily. If this kind of stress is what the material will face, you could replace the wire by a thin tube which will be much more rigid -- you probably don't want your structure bending and deforming. In this case, where stiffness is more important, it's more important that the material is light so you can make it larger yet proportionally stiffer per unit weight by using an adequate structure -- e.g. a tube or large diameter (this is because the bending stiffness increases more-than-linearly with diameter).

Now suppose instead you were trying to traction the wire (pull it). There's no structural change that will make it stiffer -- in this case all you may want is that it is very strong -- in which case you simply go for the best strength/weight or just pure strength.
I bought joypath.com for 450, personal project.

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I felt the same way, but for me the story about the solar brick-making robots made the whole thing worthwhile.
The top 3 classes in your example are actually correct - it is a color photo of a human. But we expect it to get much better over time. Only real world usage will allow us to make real improvement - and that's why we are eager to release early.

We are also believe that the first applications (e.g., classifying animals or plants or landmarks in dedicated apps) will have narrower use case that give better accuracy.
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Kinsella's response to pro-IP libertarians is pure hand-waving. He simply asserts that the focus should be on scarcity rather than creation, and proceeds from that premise. His scarcity argument is itself flawed: he focuses on the fact that copies of an intangible good are not scarce, and glosses over the fact the originals definitely are. If you don't already believe his premise his argument is very unconvincing.
It sounds like CAH is holding the land on behalf of the people who actually "own" it, to prevent the taxes thing or something similar from happening? Interesting, either way, to see the possible ramifications. I still think it's a cool idea, though.
My main issue is that they've become the only place (locally) to shop for a lot of music gear. With things like musical instruments or sound gear, I don't want to order from Amazon, not get to play/hear it in person first, then pay for shipping a large item where I need to be home to accept delivery.

If I want a guitar I've actually got some OK options with a handful of pawn shops (the thrift store solution where you have to hunt but can get a deal) and maybe one or two smaller music shops with limited inventory. Then there's craigslist where I can look around and hope someone's selling what I want but at least I can go check it out in person.

But for stuff like PA systems and amp cabinets I don't want to just read reviews and order some massive shipment from Amazon or hope someone is selling the thing I need on Craigslist. New, current model audio gear isn't always easy to find that way and it's just too big and expensive to ship conveniently. I want to drive to a shop, listen to the different options, feel their build quality, and ultimately load something into the car.

For the past several years, GC has been the only place in my area where I can get that stuff. Granted it's not a problem I run into often since I don't go buying PAs with subwoofers every year but when I do need that stuff, I hate only having one store with any chance of carrying what I want.
Why would Sweden make an exception to their legal processes just for Assange? He's just another person wanted for questioning over allegations over sexual assault. He's not the messiah.

Anyway, as another poster said, these facts were pointed out years ago. But I understand that facts and logic are of no interest to the Messiah's disciples.
I think the biggest problem is visibility for these projects.
They need to be louder.
In the case of openssl, I had no idea that they were severly underfunded (until heartbleed).

Same for GPG until now. I didn't hear they asked for donations.

And I doubt I'm the only one. So I quickly checked if maybe this was big on HN at a point and I just missed it.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=GPG%20donation&sort=byPopulari...
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=GPG%20fund&sort=byPopularity&p...
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=GPG%20money&sort=byPopularity&...

Nope. It's not just me.

If not even the most technical people (that actually know what GPG and openssl are without looking it up) don't hear about this, how are regular people going to find out where to throw their donations at?

I think people would donate if they knew about it. I'm going to send this guy $100 and consider it a license fee, because he deserves it.
That shocked me as well. Doesn't exactly give you a warm fuzzy feeling about a major credit reporting agency's security measures. Do some of these companies just view these breaches/vulnerabilities as a joke?
I made this today to help speed up and simplify unit testing of backbone views.

It basically just turns a view in to an instantiated object with injected dependencies.

It is very quick and agnostic to test frameworks.
> Another language that supports this is Julia:

As does, for example, scheme (tests done in racket).

> (- (+ (/ 1 10) (/ 2 10)) (/ 3 10))
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> (= (- (+ (/ 1 10) (/ 2 10)) (/ 3 10)) 0)
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If we combine the Check Point firewall job posted on the Anthem Inc's website on 1/30/2015, add in the "discovery" on 1/29/2015, and think about Check Point's vulnerability to Heartbleed and Shellshock last year, one might also guess that a VPN stolen-credential compromise (like the major CHS breach last year) or a generic firewall compromise (via shellshock) are in the running as possibilities.
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During an auto accident & court case everyone- doctors, lawyers, insurance- used my SS# as a case identifier even though I never gave it out. If a few percent of these are sloppy, them one could be screwed. Some meth people like to dumster dive insurance companies and the like.
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That gives the pricing for running compute instances on BlueMix, but at the moment there's no pricing for these Watson services, since they're free-while-in-beta. Presumably post-beta there will be some kind of charge per N queries, like the other out-of-beta services (e.g. the Business Rules service charges $1.00 per 1000 API calls), but there's not currently an indication of when that's likely to happen and/or the likely price range.
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some of the folks in the US believe a national ID that is needed to buy, sell, or get a job would be a little too close to the Bible's mark of the beast.

You're exaggerating a bit into a strawman.

I strongly oppose REAL ID (which, by the way, was around for a while before the DHS existed). And as a "tooth fairy agnostic" as Dawkins would say, I'm not the least bit concerned about the number of the beast.

What I am concerned about - and this goes the same for anyone else with whom I've discussed the issue - is, why is it the federal government's business at all when and how I "buy, sell, or get a job"? This seems like a tool for the federal government to get its grubby mitts into more stuff that's not within its enumerated powers.
>But of course, selling musical instruments is different, for unspecified reasons

There is a difference, because people like to try out instruments before they buy - otherwise it's like buying a car without test-driving it first.

It's not the same process as jumping on Amazon and ordering a book or a DVD, especially considering instruments can cost thousands of dollars.
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ECOOP may be a good place to look. IIRC last year at ECOOP there was some work by or with Laurence Tratt.
I offered $15k for a 4 letter non-english word domain and was turned down. That was 10 years ago. Now they want $42k. Still sitting on it. It's some sort of broker.
If people like this are still falling through the cracks, clearly there aren't enough.
Charging property tax would be an interesting approach... it would at least address the orphaned work problem if unpaid intellectual property taxes meant that the work reverted to the public domain.
This probably isn't crystal clear from this post alone, but for PageRank the 42GB working set has a good mix of read and write. Specifically, about 14GB of target rank vector gets +='d all over the place. If they got hammered randomly, then lots of paging and writing would happen.