skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't know the name Vlad Krasnow (I'm not that familiar with the crypto world), but from looking at these [1], [2], it seems that he would know what he's talking about from both a crypto and performance viewpoint.

> attempting to make them part of the official Go build for the good of the community

Would be interesting to hear what Adam Langley thinks about this, but I couldn't find anything recent on the golang-dev list.

[1]: http://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/k/Krasnov:Vlad

[2]: http://stackoverflow.com/users/1516766/vlad-krasnov
In fact, this blog author had published a paper pretty recently on scene understanding.

http://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/deepimagesent/

This got a lot of press:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/18/science/researchers-announ...
It's Star Wars Day Celebrate with fan and star pics and video
I was going to respond to this, but then I realized I'm not sure how your post relates to the parent. Plus I'm not sure about the last part, are you really saying that print as free speech is a legal fiction?
People should really be upset at the first girlfriend who tipped the Feds about the manifesto for immunity.

You really have to keep most people on a need-to-know basis.
The whole draw of Oracle for the last 20+ years is how well it can replicate across a cluster over a network. Maybe it's not quite the same as how modern KV stores work, but it's still guaranteeing consistency across a network and is therefore a candidate for jepsen testing.
Soon We'll Be Seeing 1-Person Startups Valued at $1B
hmmm, I feel if anything tech people are more optimistic then warranted about AI. I found it refreshing this made it clear there are still a lot more to intelligence then just recognizing a face in an image. Now the tech industry being pessimistic about many other things, sure, but in my experience that hasn't been the case with AI.
Thank for a real answer. Do you have a source for that assertion. Is Microsoft the same?
The OpenSSL AES-GCM and P256 assembly code was also written by Vlad. There's no better person to write the Golang version.
From other comments:

cnvogel: it's assumed that materials with about 130 GPa of tensile strength would be needed for the "rope" of an space elevator

e12e: nanomagic spider silk: 5400 MPa (5.4 GPa)
What I am really looking forward too is RVs with this technology.

Simply load up the family, drive to freeway, and let the RV take over, and hang out in the back for 8 hours while going to your destination.
25% of Cars Cause 90% of Automobile Air Pollution
Hey, do you believe everything that you read on the Internet? Because I might have some bad news for you, that will blow your mind too.
In Safari, the blur effect should not extend over the boundaries of the object.

Is that a bug or a feature?

Btw, there are some interesting ideas for sliding captchas.
From what I can see, the only way they differentiate themselves from their well established competitors is by not charging commissions. Yet I don't see how their costs of running a brokerage would be lower than their competitors, and they don't seem to have any revenue streams their competitors don't also have. So how will they eventually be profitable? Discount brokerage isn't an especially profitable industry to begin with

Competing on price alone doesn't seem like a good strategy to creating a valuable company.
Users hate him! Local man discovers one weird trick to get people to follow links to your Web site.
Differentiation and Integration of Audio Signals
Some of these advertising-related problems seem to be related to Twitter's ad delivering mechanism offering too much transparency into the effectiveness of the advertising, while other networks profit from opacity. In other words, by letting advertisers be more efficient, Twitter should have a better handle (and perhaps later, collect a premium) for the value inherent in better matchmaking and conversions.

Is there a path for an efficient social network that has the right buyers and sellers on it transacting in highly efficient ways, but which isn't beholden to conquer-the-world MAU metrics that have it scrambling to attract the masses at the lower end of the Facebook curve (e.g., old high school acquaintances who find it the perfect outlet to display their self-betraying views on conspiracies, politics and race?)
Lessons learnt from Material Design implementation
The perfect is the enemy of the good.

It's not like all pilots without that much glider experience are 'unsafe' because they can't recover in that extremely particular set of circumstances.

Even if we ignore the possibility of remote control, you don't need an autopilot that's better in every way than every existing pilot. You just need one that's better than the average pilot.
Have you tried their advertising products?

https://ads.twitter.com/login?ref=gl-tw-tw-twitter-advertise

I have on a very small scale so I can't speak to the effectivene4ss, but it's (advertising options) been available for quite some time.
A couple points on this.

First, as some have noted, serious crypto primitive implementations are written in assembly. This is both to achieve state-of-the-art performance as well as data-independent execution times. The latter is important to prevent timing attacks.

Second: I'm not sure if this was your point, but some have invoked Heartbleed and other native code disasters. But the kind of problems that lead to Heartbleed aren't likely to be a problem in low-level crypto implementations. This is because they tend to operate on fixed-size buffers using algorithms with little or no conditional logic. While there could certainly be mathematical flaws (i.e. producing the wrong output), something like a buffer overrun is not likely here.

If you look in basically any crypto library, you will find important primitives implemented in assembly. This is even true in the main Go repository, where AES is implemented in assembly.
Unlearning Helplessness
C51 voting split down party lines. Cons & Libs for, NDP, Greens and Independent against. Many MPs abstained.

https://openparliament.ca/votes/41-2/395/
NSA phone records program illegal, court rules
I should write a script where any link to an article whose headline contains the words "you", "your", or "you're" is changed to a link to a random book on Project Gutenberg.
I disagree. That could be automated exactly like 'self-parking cars' which has been a feature in some luxury cars for a while now.

The most challenging part mentally is accurate trip planning. Drivers try to predict exactly when to move to ensure an on-time delivery and have too many variables to do this with high accuracy. Then they will typically falsify logs and run illegally to make the logs match the date and time stamped documentation (toll reciepts, times stamped on delivery reciepts, etc).

I think that you'll find large trucking companies are happy to keep using cheap expendable labor, who will willingly bend the rules, as this gives the companies the plausible deniability they want.
PDF rendering engine for .Net based on the Google's open-source PDFium Project
Lenovo Systems Update Flaw Could Allow Hackers to Swap in Malware
> I won't mention anything specific, as some HN karma is not worth the slightest chance of these weapons being used.

Thank you. I have seen far, far too many people - including myself, at times - instinctively choosing to be clever in conversation rather than using appropriate discretion.
From reading the comments here, I keep thinking Stackexchange. A lot of people don't use SE this way, but it's possible to ask a question and right away answer it yourself, before submitting even. I do this sometimes when I learn something. Let the upvotes speak and mark the answer as "wiki" to make sure it's future-proof, so others can update outdated/bad info.
I read the title and assumed it would be some sort of sensor fusion with accelerometers. Anyone know what kind of price/accuracy you get with that? My experience says a good 9-axis IMU costs $1000 which is a lot more than they're aiming for, but for differential movement it seems to come down more to a high-frequency hardware integrator. I've seen some compelling things just using cellphone hardware.
The Space Shuttle was expensive and this was apparent even at the end of the design stage. It was hobbled by the partnership with the Air Force, where it needed a large minimum payload and specific dimensions for the cargohold. Design considerations and technology limitations also made it not very reusable.

It was expensive as a human and cargo launcher and eventual savings from learning (many launches) weren't feasible to begin with. The Air Force realized their mistake and went on to develop their own separate launchers.

The Shuttle continued because it had acquired momentum and had large constituency support, it was a jobs program. Nixon also favored doing one thing over and over (i.e. Earth orbit) over potentially more risky one-off deep space missions. The ISS was eventually pushed through as a way to give the Shuttle something to do, absent any other US deep space aspirations.

Mars Direct lays the trail for a continued program of exploration, not just a 'footprints and flag' operation. It has interesting savings and synergies even without necessarily having reusable launchers (except for the NERVA-style hopper). Technologically it's also very conservative.
The article nicely illustrates the complexity present in a single image and I agree that we are far from automatically and fully understand images like this. I believe we would need to replicate the full brain to do that. But still, there are many interesting applications that are possible with state of the art computer vision. The question is whether state of the art is useful for industry, not whether the ultimate goal is close or far.
> So before I accept an offer I need to know that they will be flexible about taking unpaid leave.

Just as long as you understand that some (many? most?) employers will not hire you once you tell them this.
When are they coming to the UK?
So each bad comment would require a large comment thread? Seems like the opposite of what you'd want.
They don't raise the cost. They raise expenditures, but the benefits of capturing banking regulations are so great that the net gain is astronomical.

> In other words, the bad actors are still bad, but there are fewer of them left,

No. They can recruit. Any personnel shortfalls are temporary.
I can see a Mario Kart ride utilizing technology for an immersive experience - either as augmented reality with a stationary yet reactive 'kart' or actual kart-racing.

The idea's have been around for a while like this (way back) mentioned from Randy Pausch's lecture:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo&t=26m32s

Are the parks slow because it's hard to change or are they being cautious? Wouldn't they want to try outlandish things?
Stunning Photographs of Fractals in Nature
Your imagination is failing you.

Twitter is an excellent medium to share links to tools with others who may find them useful. An example from today: https://twitter.com/izolate/status/596262146553597952
OVN is 0.1 fairy dust and unicorn horns at the moment, looks very promising but you're most likely going to be waiting another 12 months before its solving your problems.

SocketPlane was bought by Docker and is now DEAD, to become whatever Docker decides is good enough to silence their critics. "See we bought these network guys, we swear we're taking networking and plugins seriously!"
I was going to say, just start reading some recent fiction on the subject and your bound to find many ideas rooted in science and industry that could set you on the right path.

any manned landings are going to follow years of sending robots to make a home for them and redundant supplies already there or on their way.
The strongest argument against communism is "How could a man plan economy if he can't plan his todo list app without producing bugs?"

People tend to fail in simple predictions but communists and hardcore socialists still believe they can manually control systems of enormous complexity.

Number of failed communist regimes confirms they can't. (But these regimes are quite good at producing death and starvation.)
So if some serial killer type were to discover an easy way to make a nerve gas from products bought solely from Wal-Mart, you'd rather that they have the right to widely publish the recipe than it be repressed due to the entirely reasonable fear of many deaths due to the discovery?

This does not occur in a legal vacuum; for example Hit Man: A technical manual for independent contractors is an incredibly detailed description on how to commit a murder, hide the body etc, and was found to be used as a manual in a triple murder. It was found to not be protected under the first amendment (although it never reached the supreme court). There was a genuine concern that this book carried a risk of consequences and had already inspired a multiple murder.

It raised clear issues which were never settled conclusively.

Censorship is easily abused, but it would be a strange person who would campaign for free speech without limit. The argument that is usually made is that of a slippery slope; we've been going down that slope for hundreds of years and still have no Ministry of Love or thoughtcrime.
I loved the idea and got my invite also late 2014.

And then I discovered that you needed a US address and an iPhone, none of which I have.

I hope that, someday, they (or someone similar) will come to Europe.
SSH shenanigans
we are really, really far along the path

Except the "along the path" the path part is neither stated or implied. Rather then just being a grammar or language issue I think people are projecting their optimistic opinion of AI onto the title, with no basis for it based on what's actually written. Objectively if you read the title how it should be construed as negative, we have a long way to go, etc.
From the paper:

"In this paper, we assume the only information a firm has is its own cost function, the decision it made
on the previous time step (increase or decrease production), and what impact this decision had on its
profit levels."

I wish that people would stop citing papers based on the abstract and complicated looking math, when the entire paper is based on a completely ridiculous assumption. That companies can collude without direct communication is not in doubt - they can just do a tit-for-tat strategy. What is in doubt is whether this is stable - new entrants can come in and use a different algorithm, play a different game. This paper does not address that issue.
CSI: Cyber Is as Dumb as It Seems
> Were a Lockheed Martin worker to send the plans for the F-35 to China, they'd be put in prison.

Not for speech. Let's say that employee worked on those documents, and was presumed to have knowledge that would enable her to recreate similar plans.

Now suppose they defect to China. They could lose their clearance and, I suppose, be prosecuted for misreporting travel plans and foreign contacts.

But what prior restraint can legally be placed on this person?
>The truck might not know what surface it's on

The truck should have a notably better feel for the surface than a human.

>say a bird hit the laser sensor on top

Say a bird hits the human driver in the face?
On the page where the ssh finger print is listed, can you list the RSA finger print too?

I am not well versed in working with git over ssh, but after following the instructions on GitLab to generate a key, then git would keep showing me the RSA finger print which doesn't match the one provided on the website. After looking around a bit, it looks like the one listed is ECDSA.

tl;dr: It was late. Finger prints didn't match. Only logical assumption was NSA. :P (Not really, obviously, but the finger prints could be more clear.)
"German privacy laws" : who is going to take this seriously one week after it was discovered that the BND (German Intelligence) was spying France for the NSA ?

I'm not targeting Germany here, I believe there's no good guy in this domain. These secret agencies will always spy no matter what the law says.
Denmark proposes cash-free shops to cut retail costs
At Brazil we have a related (and extremely creepy - have you ever seen a spiders swarm?) but harmless species.

Yes, one can break its web with the hands, but not without a conscious effort.
I strongly suspect that at the time they signed the deal (5 years ago), Twitter didn't have the technical capability to resell data (the site itself was going down lots!), so they had to do deal with DataSift and others.

DataSift previously ran TweetMeme, and did have good technical / scaling capabilities.

(I think I read that there was some other scaled technical thing DataSift did for Twitter too, but I can't remember what - so take this comment as a hint rather than facts)
Babel - this is why https://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/
First - apologies. There is a point to this. I apparently like taking the scenic route to get there.

I'm at the tail end of roughing out the high level design of a pretty large (as in complexity, not number of users yet), Enterprise SaaS thing.

In any case, I've had to probably glance at 5,000 things and of those, look at 2,500 things, and of those play with 1200 things, evaluation 700 things to end up with about 300 things (currently) that will turn into probably less than 150 things in production.

At the front end of this process, I probably unfairly dismissed some possibly viable candidates for technologies or services. Which is unfortunate and ultimate unfair to the vendor.

The two top things that made me go away (unless HN or somebody pointed me back) was:
- The front page, the about page, and the top blog post don't really tell me what the company is or the product is. IF I get pointed back to look, I'll poke around github to see if some brilliant marketing maneuver made them put their "about page" from their website into the github Readme.md. (I'm looking at your, Weave)

- I can't find a way to put the right number of zeros behind the price in my estimates. Now. 6 Months. 12 Months. 24 Months. 36 Months. It has to be easy-to-understand (because I am very simple), and look thought-through and stable.

I am 12 months away from having to embed on-boarding into our project, and I will come back and see what you have at that time. But, please, for the love of getting anything past the CEO/CFO/Board ... let me rough out a guestimated cost (for us; pricing for you).

N.B. 1) Our use case probably isn't in your sweet spot, but who knows, you may shift.

N.B. 2) Not trying to be harsh, but I was up to my ass in alligators 2~3 months ago, and I would have tossed the link and not looked back.
I'd love if there was a universal way for me to pay a central distributor e.g. 10€ a month and then distributes the money to the websites I visit, with the same financial result for the website operators.

Like an optout for ads, because let's face it I won't be buying a Porsche because of an Instagram photo or a tweet. Ads are just fucking annoying, and it sorta works for pay tv.
I wasn't saying that farming is no longer viable anywhere as a business. I was saying that there are places, like my home state, that have seen a resurgence of forest as farms have disappeared due to competition from elsewhere.
The point here is the question of what comes after far:

* We are really, really far along the way

* We are really, really far from our objective

It seems clear that most native English speakers in this thread have seen the ambiguity and started by assuming the first option, whereas non-native English speakers seem to have assumed the second, and may not have noticed the other option at all.

But see also: Contranym/contronym/Auto-antonym:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-antonym#Examples
Nothing gives 100% yield.
It's not small server stuff like Apache that they are missing. It's stuff like distributed failover, exotic driver support, SAN, management etc. that they are missing. Big data center stuff, the kind of thing companies like Red Hat make.

Those kinds of products are huge investments. Sure Apple might be able to market towards the enterprise, but they simply don't think there is any money to be made. They used to have for instance Xserve that tried to stay afloat in that market, but which made little money. Since they canceled it, Mac OS has only been developed as a small to medium server (which it isn't half bad at). But big time data centers are a different world.

For instance, as a very basic example, does Mac OS support Infiniband or the more exotic high-speed ethernet network interfaces? For Infiniband, the answer is no and in the other case the answer is "kinda, but not really."
I'm not comparing it to any idealized world; my point is that the "voluntary trade" card is being played as justification for all types of abuse in the economy. Because it's not abuse if both participants consented, right? It's also used to support the viewpoint that if only we could further deregulate things, "remove the barriers to voluntary trade", things would be better.

Except that the ideal voluntary trade seldom exists in practice, especially when you're lower or middle class. There is so much power and information imbalance that the employee or customer rarely has any choice but to participate in the trade. Companies like Uber know this and exploit it on purpose.
What's crazy is that the accomplices in the Boston Marathon bombings faced less jail time than Aaron. That's right people, copying documents is a worse crime than being an accomplice to terrorism.
Just think of all the terrorist attacks that were caused by HN information not already on Youtube or PirateBay or I2P.
I think the movie conveys pretty clearly that she shows a lot of remorse and anger about how she was treated and the information she gave up under duress.
You can also dissolve gold in lead, as my great-uncle discovered when he thought he'd hidden his money somewhere safe when a UK Nazi invasion seemed imminent during the second world war...
I would bet that in 20 years time many other social networks will not be standing yet Twitter will.

Maybe it makes less money and grows slowly, but I check Twitter every day and can't see myself stopping. On the other hand, Facebook is a ghost town. Many social networks explode into the scene but most burn out quickly.

It's nice to find a way to make a quick buck, but I think they should be thinking of the long-term, too.
Can money buy happiness?
I agree. Blogs were designed to be "web logs", after all, and I think in a lot of cases trying to shoehorn technical writing into a blog's inherently journal-like format is a bad idea.

I much prefer it when people simply maintain a "writing" page with articles grouped by topic rather than their (rather arbitrary) age.
Bocko – simple, low resolution graphics with Clojure
You can get up and running pretty fast with Eve in Python: http://python-eve.org/.

It has OAuth2 out of the box.

Currently using it for a personal project.

EDIT: formatting.
It's pretty simple - most people do reject such businesses. You never see the businesses that people researched but gave up early.

Some people take the risk.
And the government gives a fuck when suppressing dissent?
First ask yourself if the project really needs its own REST API server. 9 out of 10 times I end up using a BAAS service like parse.com where: user management (auth) is built-in, there is cloud code in case something must be run server-side, the free account is resourceful enough to get you started and then scaling is automatic. There will be limitations of course but if you need something faster than a pre-cooked API repo, that's the way to go.
I've used the filter effects for a lot of really useful applications. I'm always surprised though that sepia is an offered filter. It seems pretty kitsch and not that useful, it is effectively grayscale with an additive color overlay of only one color. I don't mind that it is there, but it doesn't seem like a primitive operation like the rest. Perhaps if you could change the overlay then it'd be a lot more useful.