skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh where to start.

* Primarily, compiler technology leap frogged it to where you can do at _least_ as well with a fixed set of registers and a global allocator.

* The windows were inspired by SPURS (IIRC), where it allowed a much finer granularity whereas SPARC's window is always exactly 16 registers (8 are global, and 8 overlap with the next or previous window).

* Windows turned out to be a real PITA for super scalar implementation.

* Windows assume a constrained model of computation and makes efficient tail recursion hard and co-routines impossible.

etc etc

Give me more time and I could make the list longer, but the crux is that it's another example of a misguided shorted sighted optimization (like branch delay slots, shared with many RISCs).
And you think NSA with their enormous budget and a mandate to collect "everything" looks askance at the CA's and go "Nope!" ?

Really ?

How many of the root-certs that are in your browser by default do you actually trust ?

What objective evidence is there, that any of them can be trusted ?
Awesome writeup, I crave this type of content.

My question to sec enthusiasts and pros: isn't the whole point of security to disclose as little as possible? Security through obscurity?

I realize that most of this information is public knowledge and there are all kinds of double agents, but this really seems like a lot of information!

It just seems to me as though we have everything wrong. China raises children to be hackers and hires criminals to do their bidding, or subs it out to whoever while you can't even get a government job if you have a DUI?
We don't have an active editorial policy as far as I know, but we are limited by resources. It can take a lot of time and attention to "birth" new providers (as we like to call it internally). We pay a lot of attention to detail and want to make sure articles look the best they can in Blendle, keeping the authentic feel of the newspaper's/magazine's brand as much as possible.

In the beginning, we obviously had to actively seek out publishers. Marten and Alexander (our founders) spend a lot of time convincing publishers to come onboard.

As you can imagine, the deal we signed with The New York Times and Axel Springer gave us more "street creds" and made it easier to communicate with new publishers.

Still though, it's a large world out there, with a lot of publishers, each with their own wishes and doubts, so Alexander and Marten still have to convince them, just on a much larger scale now.
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I'm going to go out on a limb and assume this is the battery system that Tesla has been working on. Just from the picture I certainly hope that the system is fully modular. A major factor for me is that the storage system is easily expandable.
That is already available: https://micropython.org
I have the PyBoard but one can get it running on ST Discovery boards as well.
It's an interesting technical challenge, but as a user I find this "People Who Like This Also Like" feature totally useless, especially when items of interest are generally less popular.
"Dear Elon, please take all our money. Sincerely, The World."

Thanks for the shiny new things that also help the environment and are awesome engineering feats! Keep fighting the good fight!
It seems like a real world exploit of the IOS Wi-Fi bug discussed here a few ago.
OfficeMax has 11.2 billion per year in revenue. Staples has 24.38 billion a year. Not bad for life support!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Depot
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staples_Inc.
> Your mind changes

I'm very suspicious about that. Every new experience has the chance of changing the way you think, it's natural. But for something to have that much of an impact it has to involve a lot of brain chemistry. And I don't trust in being intoxicated by hormones, I'd rather use other, safer drugs for this.
It's the other way around! DRM is a specific form of copy protection. Read the DRM article on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_rights_management

"The term [DRM] is also sometimes referred to as copy
protection, copy prevention, and copy control, although
the correctness of doing so is disputed."

And read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copy_protection
> "perfect pitch" is simply memory.

Too bad not every teachers will tell you this.
The only way I could have done more would have been a second body and a time machine.
You mentioned you have plans for expanding internationally. Any comments on that? :-)

(I like the idea and I wouldn't mind to pay for things I read that interests me, unbundled. So you'd be welcome to sign up some Swedish papers!)
This explains the deluge of dubious advertising at the top of twitter pages.
From a linked article in the OP.

> He urged the next generation of software pioneers and entrepreneurs to take a break from developing killer apps and consider a tour of service fending off Chinese, Russian and North Korean hackers, even as he acknowledged that the documents leaked by Edward J. Snowden, the former intelligence contractor, “showed there was a difference in view between what we were doing and what people perceived us as doing.”

So our 'defense secretary' thinks that being capable of writing ruby on rails apps means that someone knows what a NOP sled is. Fantastic!

Screw all of these idiots in suits. I'm not afraid of North Korean hackers. I've not been afraid of Russian hackers throughout the past decade and I'm not afraid of Chinese hackers now. And even if I was, I can assure you, there's nothing at all that the US government could do to alleviate that.
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> My question to sec enthusiasts and pros: isn't the whole point of security to disclose as little as possible? Security through obscurity?

Security through obscurity is considered a bad idea, not a good one.
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on linux you can mount procfs with the option 'hidepid' to similar effect.
https://github.com/justincormack/ljsyscall is just that, but for Lua.

FFI to the kernel on Linux, NetBSD Rump kernels and even bare on Xen.
Apple Watch heart rate sensors have trouble with some tattoos
Active attacks, like ARP spoofing? Sure, there are environments where that won't work or will quickly be detected, but in many it will.
Nothing changed. Bleak ideologies are still really common.

You must serve God even though he built you with sinful urges and generally behaves like a tyrant. If you deviate you will be tortured forever in hell. Serve or burn. Pretty miserable cosmology if you ask me.

Popular skeptical materialism is not much better. You are accidental meat. There is no afterlife. Consciousness itself is possibly an illusion. Your personality, intelligence, and general worth as a human being is genetically predetermined. We understand most of physics now, and we know mostly what is and isn't possible, so not much left to learn. Space flight is basically impossible beyond tiny capsules here and there, so there is nowhere to go either. Pretty soon we will all run out of resources and die out. The end. Boy does that suck. It's like dull puritanical Calvinism without heaven.

I suspect there are cognitive biases at work here. Perhaps paranoid pessimists tended to live longer in a violent, dangerous past, or made better warriors and so conquered more. Or maybe it's some weird side effect from other cognitive adaptations or some kind of runaway selection artifact.

But whatever the reason, we do seem to find it easier to be pessimistic and paranoid. Negative emotions seem easier to feel, easier to induce through art or rhetoric, and generally more accessible. Happy music is trite, while dark music (that is no more musically sophisticated) sounds deep and profound. Tall dark and handsome is sexy, while happy and carefree is not.

Take the recent spate of thought about AI that's been tossed around here. I have yet to see any discussion of how AI might turn out well. No, Skynet will kill us all. No other possibilities are on the table. So let's ban AI research or something.

I see it everywhere. It's enough to make you depressed, paranoid, and cynical.
No need to worry, if that happens we will just reactivate Jeremy Bentham.
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You probably want to realize your wife has the key immediately, not when you are home miles away from the key :)
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You swam in Lake Michigan regularly? I remember it being bracingly COLD, even on a hot summer day.

This was on the western (Wisconsin) shore of the lake, though, which may have been colder due to upwelling from the prevailing westerly winds.
Only for cryptography. People often mistake the 'security through obscurity' slogan has good for every system.
Ha, This is awesome.
As I said, in my country you have social plans and associations helping every kind of person, helping them so much that the beggar down the street actually has a better salary than me for being a beggar, that an immigrant with his 4 kids not working wins 4 times my salary and so on. The only kind of person for which there are no plan, to my knowledge, is the one I described before.
> 11) Go out of your way to be around smart, interesting, ambitious people.

That is hard.
Forget the need for technical capabilities, it's the cyber policy that sucks. They want to "secure the infrastructure against hackers" and then try to promote weaker systems, remove recommendations for encryption from their own guidelines for people, and promote crypto backdoors.

That's policy is completely backwards if what they really want is security. But they don't want that. What they want is hackers that can hack foreign states as well as develop malware to infect or spy on everyone. Nothing to do with security.

Also, screw NYT for promoting this crap. They've been promoting the cyber-threat sharing legislation as well.
What are the resources you used for learning Game Development with Swift?
Adding this study as a brief follow-up to anyone interested in Coleus Forskohlii looking for a source on contaminants;

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22729658

Long story short, the study (6 refs) found dose-related hepatoxicity in mice, and also concluded Forskohlii's main mechanism of action was not directly responsible for the decreased function.

While not conclusive, it suggests to me that the industry surrounding it allows for a lot of "anonymous" stock to be packaged and sold (meaning, no heavy metal or contaminant controls).

Being an African plant potentially harvested w/o controls, and with supplement vendors looking for optimal prices, the incentives aren't tipped in the favor of transparency; an example of this actually happening was with Eurycoma Longfolia (tongkat ali) harvested from Malaysia that contained varying and dangerous levels of heavy metals. The context was similar.
The book 'Progranming Collective Intelligence' covers this topic and related ones really well.
Fun fact, the Telekom US has a better Coverage then the mother company in germany..
What do they think about the men they killed? Especially Stalin.
That's not auto convert. Scala implicit is auto convert.
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It is an established fact that humans cannot be trusted to handle warnings responsibly.
Ask HN: Does anyone have a Terms and Conditions template for a SaaS company?
Security through obscurity is good. Security through obscurity only, is bad.
Strigi desktop search and NEPOMUK semantic desktop extensively relied on D-Bus. The D-Bus background daemon often hung and NEPOMUK itself was known to be slow and wasteful on hardware resources. Maybe it wasn't D-Bus fault at all, but the years long problems lead to a bad impression. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strigi , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEPOMUK_(framework)

Comparing a PPC (WinCE), iPhone1 and N900 with the similar hardware specs - there was no clear winner.
you're not the target market - every scientist and mathematician initially and recently home hobbyists. BTW once you leave uni, paying to be productive is the easiest decision you'll ever make - half arsed and free isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Its quicker if you don't need a tuner.

The key (forgive the pun,) is to listen for the tell-tale signs of a slight discord.

Most people can get within 2hz on the same note. With practice you can use one note to tune another.

For example when I worked in a sound studio, I could tune a guitar using a single reference note(e, a, d, g or b) (without harmonics or similar) More skilled people could use other notes.
Basically all of the potential of the Facebook API can be represented by one idea: building applications on top of the social graph. Now that value proposition is dead, so the API is now little more than Microsoft Passport. I'm not really sure why Facebook is even keeping it around.

edit: To be clear, preventing private friend data from being shared is a good idea. But they did more than that, an app you install can't even see the list of your friends that haven't also installed your app. This effectively kills any app concept that expects you to have a 'friend list' screen populated even if your friends do not have the app yet. In other words, most interesting social app ideas.
Perhaps we are in a bubble-bubble, where the idea of being in a bubble is so popular that many investors are betting on being in a bubble even when there isn't one.
I think it would be a great model indeed.

A black and white webcomic I read runs a patreon page, and get $3k a month with only 800 patrons. The author was previously unknown, and managed to reach this point purely on the quality of his/her work and the readership it gathered. Looking at some of the major skyrim mods with millions of downloads, I suspect they could easily gain more than 800 patrons.
I have never seen a community that did not get ruined by assholes, whether physical or virtual.
If you're asking, then either:

* you've never heard of air pollution and global warming,

* you don't experience air pollution every day for it to register in your thinking, or

* you disagree that polluted air will within decades encompass the globe.

Far more people live in places like Beijing China and Delhi India than Adelaide Australia or Anchorage Alaska, and the only trend they see wrt air pollution is an ongoing increase. A decrease is only talk by people whose other hand is milking the machine.
Nobody says that.
We are all aware of that.
But we shouldn't make it easier for our local ISPs or WiFi access operators to spy on us.
Because those very probably don't have the CAs compromised.
As I understand it the point isn't to prosecute for those drugs, as the recipient would have the defence of no guilty knowledge. Instead its to justify the search warrant, which merely requires probable cause that the drugs are on site.
That's data on opinion, not data on success
>With a stack, things are much simpler. You don't need those clumsy memory registers or parentheses

You can prefer RPN all you like, but to think it's objectively better and that parentheses are flat-out bad is crazy. It's a tradeoff. The action of each key is slightly simpler, but you are forced to reorder your equation to change operator application. Sometimes this means keeping track of fewer parts, but sometimes it means keeping track of more.
As someone who wasted time and sanity with that ginourmous piece of crap called Clearcase, I'd rather flush money down the toilet than ever give money to IBM/Rational again
> Original NES developers probably had some sort of toolchains, but whatever they were, they have been lost to history.

"Lost to history"? Really? The developers are still alive, you could have, you know, sent them an email and asked.
I too am puzzled by what the defense industry thinks Silicon Valley is going to be able to produce, but that's the point of Silicon Valley - huge amount of creative potential and ambition. It's not likely that all of the solutions will be cyberweapons.

One of the largest and most impressive responses to cyberwarfare to date are the US's information sharing programs. These programs and formats (STYX, TAXI, etc) enable patterns from detected cyberattacks to be rapidly shared across industries so that exploits and tactics, command and control centers and so forth can't be repeated. This raises the cost to the attackers, aggravates them, and slows them down. Some of these programs have automated components with minimal human interaction in the loop.

So I think it is these sorts of solutions the DoD is likely looking for.
are you sure its the pairings of tattoos and scars causing misreadings? parasites are a very common health issue, its probably possible its picking up a tapeworms heartbeat.. i wonder what their bpm is.
The argument was money -> bubble
It's not very good
Move to Houston.
Well, some beliefs are choices. "I will choose to believe you." seems like a sentence that can actually be true.

I'm not sure that with enough practice, one wouldn't be able to simply choose to believe whatever they wished to believe. To be able to believe, if they so chose, that the moon is truly, and not metaphorically, made of cheese.

I am fairly confidant than one can create emotions within oneself, which are simultaneously both sincere, yet also not the ones that they would have felt by default, had they not chosen them.
I don't see why the same would not be the case for beliefs as well.

That is not to say that most beliefs people have are by choice, only that some beliefs are, and probably any could be.

I think it is likely that one can believe Falsum.
I've been wanting something like this for a while. But it looks like your implementation is not that great.

- Using your real identity is an extremely bad idea. Write something stupid once and it will haunt you forever. People will speak their mind only when protected by anonymity.

- The topics and replies seem pretentious. Most likely because of the real identity thing. Everybody just tries to sound smart, eloquent and philosophical.

- Unless you have some truly smart people initiating ideas and discussions, it's just the topic of the day kind of thing. It gets boring pretty fast.
apps can still get the list of friends of a user, so building on top of the social graph is still possible. (e.g. to discover friends using the same app)
> it encompasses the technical and the artistic domains

these days, the amount of knowledge required in those two domains are such that no one person can be an expert in both ( at least,for a non-genius!). Think about 3D artists, and think about people who write the pipeline and tools etc for them - one does not know anything about the other really. I wish there's a way to simplify it all so that modern games can be made just as "simple" and intuitive as the old 2D bitmapped graphics.
Other than "stay tuned", not really.

If you're interested, visit https://launch.blendle.com and leave your email address.

We'll let you know once we launch in Sweden :)
Its difficult to compartmentalize your job so that the negatively doesn't seep into all parts of your life.
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Right. And the point is, none of what you are describing requires perfect pitch or is even helped by it.

Just another example of a non-musical writer with no understanding of the difference between absolute pitch, and relative pitch.
Are you speaking here about international or domestic cyber policy?

There's certainly room for improvement in both, but it's starting to look like the international case is doomed not to be led by US initiatives.

I think one thing that could be done is a sort of cyber disarmament - countries could declare cyber free hours, then days, then weeks - and they could trade owned networks with one another like they do today with spies as shows of good faith. This would be a starting point for collaboration.
asking to learn: what diff does openVZ make over other options?
Only users who have your app.

I have an app that lets users mail postcards to their friends. Open app, see friend list, pick friend, enter address, mail card. This idea no longer works (and has to rely upon phone contacts.)

There are a million other ideas like this that aren't spammy/unethical/evil. This was basically the main pitch Zuck et al made for the API when it was launched, that you could bring in your friends and make your apps social. It's hard to imagine a way to bootstrap an app up from nothing if you have no way of knowing who the user might want to socialize with in the first place.
In all fairness the dynamic nature of LISP is an advantage for the people using it. Yes you can talk about having bombs in production that would otherwise have been caught by the compiler, but unless you have a really expressive type system, like Haskell, then it's not going to help you much. If you're into static type safety, than Go is a really poor choice.

And this is one of my problems with it. Either a language is statically type safe, or it is dynamic. You can then fully embrace the mentality of those languages.

However Go is in the league of languages created to be popular with the average Joe and just like Java before it, it's neither here nor there.
It's likely an omnidirectional antenna on the satellite and a (very directional) tens-of-meters ground station (or series of them) following the satellite's position.
You really need to update your facts.
CPU overhead is already less than 1%.
https://istlsfastyet.com/
You can't really communicate with children. I agree with yetanotheracc. Getting up and leaving is the most sane approach with the least stress,
My mother is schizophrenic and exhibits symptoms of the Cotard delusion (claims of being dead, of having no heart, rotting inside, of having to die). The symptoms aren't as bad as some of the described patients and improve when she's on antipsychotics. Incidentally, she also had symptoms of the Capgras delusion, believing that my father, me, and other. family members have been replaced by strangers and that we're not the real family members.
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You can do that "by hand" with buffers (and the HFT guys do) but yeah it's not easy or fun. C#-style struct types are supposedly coming in the next version.
Especially if your significant other's career takes you from a university city full of smart, interesting people to an industrial town in the middle of nowhere.

The internet is a poor medium for motivation and learning compared to real people.
Good riddance.

If your app relies on "viral channels", it may as well be treated like a virus.
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I thought there was already news that he's reported a battery pack was coming to analysts?

Oh yeah: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/apr/25/tesla-batt...
Those "life necessities" in a relationship are not so bad because the goal, i.e. the relationship is (usually) very important to us. The same goes for a job. If you are working on something that has a great value to you, even the boring tasks are usually not so bad. However if you are in a job where the final goal is of no interest to you things change. If tasks are boring and mundane, you will burn out quickly. In effect I believe that anything we do has to have at least something that is important to us, whether it is the journey or the goal it self, otherwise it would be very difficult to keep being satisfied with what we do.
I suspect they're talking about the unladen climbing distance, that would be a lot closer to the ballpark.
We are working on it. But we have to reach agreements with all individual publishers, which takes a lot of negotiations and time. We also need to reach 'a critical mass of publishers', before we can launch in a new country.

But as listed in the article, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and the Washington post are coming. So we are beefing up our international outlet.