skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Chinese view is that an attempt to subvert their control, which typically amounts to some form of censorship, makes you a viable target. They are following: best defense is an offense. (It's interesting to compare this to the legal 'attacks' from European demands on google "freedom to be forgotten" and restraints on freedom of speech surrounding holocaust denial) One suggestion is to daily and publicly publish, in a simple format, trans-national internet attacks and to link those to imposed trade tariffs. Following outrage and denials, this might result in either complete Balkanization or a retreat to more defensive measures (e.g. the great internet wall of china)
Here, have some free upboats. HN some days... :)
We're talking about images, so if you take the pixels for example they're just {0,...,255}^n, integers.

You can if you have the original file, but then what's the point?

Otherwise, take image a=original+f1, image b=original+f2. Then if you e.g. average them you still have c=original+f1/2+f2/2 -- so both signatures are kept (theoretically if either you have a large number of sources you could average the signals out of existence, or perhaps the system isn't robust and can't detect multiple sigs). This assumes the introduced signatures are indistinguishable from the source (quite reasonable).
HN allows moderators to change the titles in an ad-hoc fashion.
Developer, Automated Trading Systems – Toronto, Canada
Our company has developed an automated trading system that has been tested with positive results. We are looking for a mid-level programmer to assist with our automated trading system that is an intelligence-based trading tool for capital markets, on any capital market around the world. Your job will be to improve on this system using existing statistical models and performance metrics.

Our Offering:
This is a full-time role working as part of a software development team. Our work environment is fast-paced and staffed with innovative and a “roll-up-the-sleeves” attitude to execution.

Qualifications:
•	At least 3-5 years of experience in programming Microsoft .NET applications.
•	A general understanding and capability with statistics and statistical models.
•	The ability to translate complex mathematical concepts into program code.
•	A relentless focus in constantly improving the algorithm to generate a consistent and positive expectancy.
•	Experience in application design, development and implementation of medium to large database projects.
•	A basic capital markets background would be helpful, although expertise is not required.

To Apply:
1.	Provide a URL to a website that was written by you in .NET.
2.	Provide a university transcript showing at least two statistics courses.
3.	Provide your current resume
4.	Write one paragraph describing why you want this job.
5.	Apply via email to aj.ostrow@stealthtrader.com

The deadline for submissions is April 24, 2015.

Our Business:
We are a growing fintech software firm that is well-funded with a pipeline of partnerships and customers. We develop algorithms that enable day traders to have a significant competitive advantage in trading every capital market in the world.

Epcylon Technologies, Inc.
34 King St. E., Suite 1010
Toronto, ON, M5C 2X8
416-479-0880
They never actually say that the peering agreement results in 2x faster performance, just that they use SPDY for 2x speed (which is something they've been doing for a while now).

>2x Web Performance Speed - CloudFlare uses advanced caching and the SPDY protocol to double web content transfer speeds, making web content transfer times significantly faster.
One thing that radiation can do is demagnetize permanent magnets. If the robot uses permanent magnet motors that aren't shielded against radiation this could cause the robot to stall. But I'm sure they've planned for this already.
More recent studies seam to lean towards once you get a minimum level of protein in your diet, the rest of it is just calories... though ketosis vs carb burning is another difference. That said, most people are not on a keto based diet. So, get your protein in (1/3 to 1/2 your lean weight in pounds as grams of protein), and from there have whatever you want to hit your caloric needs.

Even when trying to lose wieght, making sure you hit your minimum protein requirements is important... my only suggestion to someone taking a reduced amount of soylent is that they really should supplement extra protein into their diet. Especially if exercising as they are likely losing a lot of muscle with the fat loss, which is probably not the desired result.
> “It goes beyond image classification — the most popular task in computer vision — and tries to answer one of the most fundamental questions in computer vision: What is the right representation of visual scenes?

Can someone knowledgeable in graphics research explain the context that this question comes from?

If I am reading the question correctly, I infer that the question suggests that there exists a right way to reproduce the visual experience of reality. To me, this sounds like a question that is equally valid to have no answer (or many answers) in aesthetics, art, and philosophy, etc.
I find myself with some cognitive dissonance. This makes perfect sense.

But selfishly, I've worked for many corporations that operate an http proxy that they scrutinize and they proxy https which they cannot scrutinize (without detection), so I feel comfortable that they are not. (Yes I periodically review the certificate store for changes).

If the vast majority of sites were https, they might decide to do MITM for those https connections and either instruct everyone to ignore the warning or install their own certs on all of the computers. Indeed I think many corporations may already do this. I would probably not use many websites if they made that change.
Like Oil for the Great Fire Wall of China.
Anybody else notice that Automattic (the wordpress company) now owns the github account for Socket.io? (https://github.com/Automattic/socket.io/) As well as mongoose, kue, expect.js and others... when and why did this happen?
Still Wanted: HTML/Front end programmer for a small project/task
I submitted this earlier but it got no votes and no replies, I thought I'd give it one more shot.

I need someone to code the following:

* Given a collection of "nodes" which contain text, and

* given a collection of pairs of nodes indicating arrows,

* draw the network with dynamic layout, such that

* the user can

* * drag nodes around,

* * pin nodes in place, and

* * the network adapts its layout.

I have a specific use in mind and would describe the objective. The programmer/designer would have a free hand to meet the agreed objective.

So:

* How long "should" such a thing take?

* What tools would you use?

* How much would you charge?

* How formal would you want the spec to be?

* How formal would you want the paperwork to be?

Feel free to email me, web site in my profile, email address available through the web site. I'd be interested in seeing the discussion as to why people might think this is a completely ridiculous task specification.

Thanks!
Ask HN: Where do you find good tech jobs?
Obviously other than HN. Niche and specialised job boards are highly appreciated - e.g. machine learning, deep learning, devops etc.
It's also worth remembering that proven reserves are thought of in the context of current and projected global population and consumption. The thought experiment begins with a "post-global calamity/collapse" situation, in which the total population is much, much smaller.

So even what we currently think of as "small" or "negligible" deposits might be more than enough for productive use within the now-smaller population.
Ask HN: Any Freelance ReactJS jobs?
Part time availability for the next two months for any ReactJS jobs.
http://www.ketosoy.com/

It isn't zero carb, but it's low enough that you can maintain ketosis.
>The case of a leaker getting her hands on 2 copies is however highly unlikely.

I'm not so sure about that. Some groups used to have a general practice of always getting at least two distinct copies from a supplier to avoid burning sources. And I doubt they just averaged either, but detected discrepancies and manually eliminated potential areas of interest. A few releases of cracked software were even actually compiled afresh from source, or were object code before a wrapper protection was added. Some suppliers were developers themselves, who weren't always seeing eye-to-eye with their publishers.

Of course, perhaps the 'race' to be first has all but eliminated this from modern practice. I couldn't say.
The One-Time Pad and the Index of Coincidence
Advice on CIA website: “Your security and well being are our primary concerns”
Did anyone else stop reading the minute they saw it wasn't using the One True Brace Style? Are these people barbarians!!??
Yes, it's narrower than watches which have to be round by the nature of their engineering. Someone made the design decision that a rectangle looks nicer on your wrist than a perfect square, and I'm inclined to agree with them.
Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9363496 from yesterday.
It seems your complaint is that it's not Linux or some other OSS project. As far as what I want from a server, Solaris is competitive with everything. When something goes wrong it's very clear about what has happened. Out of the box and with no fiddling required, it supports all the reliability features of the hardware. The ZFS filesystem is state of the art and they've utilized it's features quite ingeniously to provide some of the cleverest OS patching and boot drive administration anywhere. And, in my experience, Oracle support is vastly better than Red Hat support. The pkg system is well thought out.

Sure, it's "different" and not "cool", but it is a good product and has some really solid engineering and design behind it. People just need to understand that it's not a desktop OS.
Filipino maid rescued from alleged rapist after Facebook plea goes viral
It's easily defeated for the same reason that netflix's geolocation stuff is easy to bypass.

The entire point of the scheme is more subs, not not pirating GoT.
Do you know for a fact that the leaker is the same person (organisation?) that has received the official HBO material? Maybe it is more like this: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/expendables-3-online-leak-two-arres...
tl;dr: The Apple Watch is different from what I'm used to.
Computer Criminals Brought to Justice – Timothy Lance Lai
This Was Not Looting
The database or the Docker file? Depends on the software, but locking down the database system is probably easy. I'll bet that is all you need. Locking down Docker is harder and makes less sense to me.

My application uses a secure HTTPS connection and does the decryption on its own. What this means is that the executable is useless to anybody else but that one enterprise customer.
No, but you can cut them off and say "I'm sorry but we need to move on, you have 5 more seconds to finish what you're saying".
That's a lot of trouble to go through that I don't today. Everything in production is fronted by a load balancer that terminates SSL, so I never have to worry about SSL certs in the course of a normal day.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but -sha256 during CSR creation is meaningless in regards to the Chrome issue as Chrome will never see the hash that was used then creating the CSR.

All Chrome cares about is the signature used by the CA.

Now of course a CA could (and should) complain about sha-1 signed CSR, but this has nothing to do with the Chrome sha-1 deprecation.
Reason being that with SSL you can't read the contents of the Request/Response (including page content) without MITM, which would require you to install a certificate on the user's device. That may be an option in some situations.

With a browser extension (which you would also need to get installed on the device in some manner) you can inspect the pages as they are displayed.
Ah, if you see it like that I understand, thanks!
I wish it were rare, I've seen it in a lot of projects I've had the privilege of dropping in on. They will often check for an error and log it, then "throw;".

edit: to further clarify my objective, I was thinking of a way to make the stack traces better, without risking the maintainability of the code now that I'm aware of the difference. I guess in all it would be best to just remove it. In my case, we've found some strange things in unexpected places and I prefer to not change stuff, unless I understand how the underlying portions work.
How do you mine rust? Or thin surfaces of precious metals on electronics without the availability of chemicals which take a lot of fossil fuels to manufacture?
Seriously? Take a bunch of do-nothing office drones, can them all and get a maintenance contract with some consultant in eastern Europe. What's hard to understand about that?
Kaspersky and INTERPOL Say Blockchain Is Vulnerable
I haven't meditated regularly in over ten years. I really am planning to pick it up again because it works. I find myself constantly engaged in thought. I'll wake up in the middle of the night not sure if I've even slept because I still have thoughts racing in my mind. I think I need a vacation, but short of that meditation would probably really help me once again.
> the losses from the discovery that he was applying stenography would exceed the ongoing loss from piracy.

A very likely correct conclusion, and there an additionally logical error with the assumption that privacy would disappear if they used it. Just because the copyright owner can sue whoever distributed the first copy doesn't mean piracy would stop after that. In order to get any effect at all, they would have to tell every customer about it, and the effect would likely not be 100%. It only take one person who upload the song to make it a permanent resident in torrent swarms.

If someone were to use this, the profit calculation is 1: Can winning lawsuits cover the costs, 2: Can informing (accusing) all your customers be worth the decreased rate of uploads. If neither of those 2 sound attractive to your business model, then spending money/reputation on personalized watermarks is completely pointless.

(edit) additionally, lets look at a typical scenario. Let say a file is being spread unlawfully and you track down it to customer 40#. The customer is a hardcore fan, studying for a music degree, and has no idea how the song "got out" when confronted. Customer 40# is against piracy, as can be seen by the major library of lawfully bought copies. However, they are also a member of a small fangroup, and did share the song with its 10-20 members. The customer was sure that everyone in that place would never think of uploading it to a public place. The question then becomes, do you continue with the lawsuit and put this student, this great fan in debt for the rest of their life?
Well when the president of YC speaks openly about apposing remote work I think it's safe to say there's a huge bias to asses in seats [1]. That said I know of at least one YC alum that supports remote work [2].

I can't stress enough that remote work is not an organizational tactic. It's a cultural one. You must design and grow your remote working culture just as you would your product. Half-assing remote work and having 10 people in house with 2 people remote just doesn't work. It's in that scenario where I think remote work gets a bad rap.

1. http://blog.samaltman.com/how-to-hire
2. https://zapier.com/
Considering that they have a model called the Kindle Paperwhite, I am assuming that the use of white light is a deliberate design decision on their part, not an accident.
I'm surprised by the ridiculously broad conclusion (headline) based on the narrow conditions of the experiment and how little emphasis was placed on the factors that lead to success. It's no surprise that work that's extremely limited in scope and may actually benefit from limited collaboration could benefit from remote work.

As a simple example, working on the wrong thing for a few hours can easily have a negative effect on real productivity over the long term. "Amount of stuff produced" is therefore a terrible measure for that type of work, where collaborating continuously can help to cut off unproductive paths at their root.

I don't think there's anything here to suggest that similar results would transfer to more creative work such as software development.
Right ok.
Is it safe to leave South Beach?
Well, because in this HTTPS world, the web browser is the only entity that will be able to view the content being given to the user.
No flex zone: The case for the codeless Internet startup
In the context of this article's thought experiment, fission's probably out of the question.

However, for other scenarios, it is indeed a viable option, considering that it's statistically the safest (last I checked), very clean, and packs a high energy density.

The problem, though, is that fissile material is subject to a lot of the same availability problems as fossil fuels (if not worse), plus quite a few safety concerns (particularly when it comes to radiation, though coal mining poses this sort of risk, too). The energy density is much better, so we could probably get by for a very long time (especially with things like breeder reactors, increased use of thorium instead of or alongside uranium or plutonium, etc.), but ultimately, we'll need to transition to something like fusion power at the very least.
How to Use Gmail to Grow Your Blog Traffic
The real reason open source startups fail
A Project to Turn Corpses into Compost
I generally call these guys "non producers". Not much value to add to a project yet always seem to be hanging around either taking credit, giving input where its not needed, and usually both.

I would throw most project managers in that lot as well as non hands-on middle managers. I'm finding there's an additional skill that engineers/programmers/producers need to obtain in dealing with these types and their politicking and not letting them run you over during tech projects. I believe it falls out of the normal realm of what we call "people skills".

I feel your pain
At what point do you recognize that the model you want to be best is not the best? PHP dominates the landscape because it's the best tool for a large portion of developers (ostensibly newbies). For being concerned and critical about, computer scientists seem to ignore the data that already exists.
sounds cool, but what about non CRUD operations like, animations, modals, toasts...
Does that mean when I make a request to reddit or HN, CF fetches the data and I get it through their proxy? Or am I missing something ...
Communities are capable of organizing. Further, I submit that the needs of the larger community are served by a flexible dump. Subreddits and social circles are not the larger community - they're small, highly active communities.
... and then you click the "Advanced" link and click on "Proceed to x.x.x.x (unsafe)"
Marginal User Stories Create Bad UX
I think it depends partly on implementation and partly on their use case... The way ES works probably doesn't do well past a couple hundred nodes, max and even then likely has some real issues. Though they could have several independent clusters and shard out their users. What it looks like they implemented will scale better (to thousands of servers), and probably work better with their design.

That said, I'm somewhat surprised they didn't just try doing custom index/word counters against a larger cassandra cluster, which would scale well while still being somewhat out of the box as a software approach. I didn't thoroughly read through the article, but not sure of their use of stemming/mapping for word bases either.
>That's what bothers me. HTTPS Everywhere means MITM Everywhere. Terminating HTTPS connections at a CDN means the CDN is the man in the middle.

CDNs are already Men In The Middle.
The article has a real-world picture of the watch face in use.[1] The display looks blurry and low-resolution. (It's not the photo; the knurls on the knob are sharp.) It's so different from the ads that Apple may be in trouble with the Federal Trade Commission for misleading advertising, for showing renders on their site that look much better than the actual product.

[1] https://d262ilb51hltx0.cloudfront.net/max/1330/1*cTTsFgbXbah...
Why not show an Apple Watch screenshot at its native resolution, or even scaled up 2x? That would be a more honest way to demonstrate the resolution of the Apple Watch (which in my opinion is the least of its issues).
I'm no expert, but afaik probabilistic programming isn't a new method or technique. It is just wrappers around existing statistical techniques, as an attempt to divorce the details of inference algorithms with model specifications.

I'm not buying in just yet, because although it's nice to talk about model specification as completely independent processes, the availability of fast inference algorithms sometimes dictates what models you should choose. Sometimes less exact models with a larger parameter space that allows you to crunch orders of magnitude larger datasets (with approximate inference algorithms) yield more useful results than better specified models...and sometimes not. The thing if one still needs to know the whens and whys of picking certain models over others, and can't just gloss over the inference details.
So is that like load-balancing out from reddit.com to all those IPs, is that the purpose of so many?
Makes perfect sense to me. And re: simulation—absolutely. The rest of the universe would be, in comparison, pretty boring.

Also, I have to pick up Accelerondo. Sounds like a good one.
I thought this was a good read and I'd be interested in reading a longer piece on the topic. Hopefully the author will continue writing on this theme.
Only domain/IP-level blocking would work for public/free WiFi-style connections. The filtering wouldn't be able to inspect the contents of the pages that are transferred without perform MITM decryption/encryption, and to do that you need a certificate installed on the user's device.
Is that correct? I setup a certificate for www.healthlabs.com last week, and we found that we don't get the EV (browser green bar) on Chrome browser in ChromeOS. No other browser is complaining, and I've been scratching my head why. It would make sense if Chrome is complaining about the CA and not us, unfortunately it's not a point that I can argue with customers
That's a really great point, too! :)
Because the OP is a "watch guy". Ordinary people do not want something that bulky on their wrists.
What if I'm a skilled worker coming from France or Germany, with no education debts and I get the same job you have?

How would you feel?
The fundamental premise that we're running out of fossil fuels is erroneous.

Engage dorm-room palaver....
You pay the rest in Time, basically. The $3 internet is so slow that you'll spend an eternity waiting for any page (other than google's homepage) to load. Its for the most basic of internet messaging and email. Youtube? Forget about it.
It is the photo. It's an extremely low quality grainy photograph. The Apple Watch display looks much better than that.
It's a bit of trouble because no project has made it really easy yet.

All-in-all, this is something that could easily be made into an app and automated.
We're looking for remote people at Catalyze and have several non-tech jobs open. Shoot me an email ryan at catalyze.io

https://jobs.lever.co/catalyze?by=location
Trusted filters (such as ad blockers, parental censorware, network monitoring) must to be inside the trust boundary to be effective. That is the best way to ensure they are not imposed en masse against people's will.

In-path filters outside the trust boundary are, I'm afraid, the very first casualty in our efforts to mitigate the threats of nation state adversaries, as they resemble the attacks used there too much to survive. I, for one, will not mourn them.