skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
passwords generally suck. I prefer a physical (paper) notebook with my passwords (actually diceware[1] passphrases) in obfuscated form. IMO the only way to reduce attack surface (single point of failures) from services such as LastPass or offline Password Managers. One would need to get physical access to my home or bag (then make sense of it).

[1] http://world.std.com/~reinhold/diceware.html
Or just stick it into a usb, run LaZagne that's on the flash drive, then pull the flash drive out and walk away.
I think the vast majority of the confusion in this problem stems from the ambiguity of "if (but not only if)" versus "if and only if". In normal speaking people use the word "if" for both meanings, but logic puzzles always use it for just the first (having developed the "iff" shorthand for the second). I really doubt that the "socio-cognitive niche" of a cop in a bar is substantially more effective than simply adding "(but not only if)" to the original problem.
VPN may sound archaic to those outside of health, but there are quite a few intra- and inter-hospital links that rely on VPN. Even with hospital SaaS vendors, it's not uncommon.

It's not like surgery robots move around the network and come online at unexpected locations. Those installations are planned ahead and the IT considerations are part of that deployment. Also, encryption is important but so is available bandwidth and bandwidth quality: a jittery link could be as dangerous as a compromised one.
Thank you everyone. I'll check the suggested options.
This is really cool. I've thought of doing something similar. What are you using for the back-end?

Edit: The real story clearly is (c) 2010-Flippity-Floppity-Floop. :)
Very cool. The best projects aren't the ones that are ultra-complex, but the ones that generally interest those who make it. Keep it up!
[I'm the guy behind Arq] What's buggy? I'd love to fix it.
Mobilizing SQL Injection Attacks
How can I get an invitation. Please let me in ;)
It looks interesting
PressureNet updates to 4.6, improves P2P weather and sensor data crowdsourcing
Ask HN: H-1B Visa holders, how did you get the job?
- How long had you been working before getting the offer?
- Are there any new grads here who managed to get an H1B by any chance?

Thank you!
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One of the more popular and long-standing cosmetic procedures cosmetic procedures is the eyebrow lift; this eliminates wrinkles and sagging in the eyebrow and forehead region. During your consultation with one of the best plastic surgeons in Miami, you will choose between two types of surgeries, and one is more invasive than the other. Once you review your wants, needs, medical history and health with your surgeon, you will choose a detailed surgical plan and begin moving forward. The recovery lasts a couple weeks. You will experience a little bit of bruising and swelling, but you should have little to no scarring and a revamped look, thanks to a talented surgeon. http://myrontanenbaummd.com/blog/take-years-your-face-one-cosmetic-procedure/
Machines, Work, and the Value of People
Wow, I am a little baffled by just what kind of chain of failures could result in a bug like this. The token lexing stage should be eliminating whitespace as the very first stage of compilation.
Hardware is hard because it's slow and expensive to iterate. Furthermore, it's hard/expensive/impossible to update products that are in the field.
Darnit, I missed out on the $43,264,000 postdoc at MIT in 2008.

http://data.jobsintech.io/companies/massachusetts-institute-...
> Freemium wouldn't work. There will be unofficial builds available with this kind of stuff removed available for free within hours of the official release.

Why? Anyone who would go to the bother of downloading a separate build (and worrying about whether it'll update itself properly) can surely click on the gear in the top right corner of the new tab page and uncheck a checkbox? (Or be like me and keep the new tab page blissfully blank. Far less distracting.)

I highly doubt the revenue from the ads will be significant compared to what Mozilla gets from Yahoo, at least not for a long time. This isn't about revenue; it's more like the old Firefox sync thing where it avoided sending unencrypted data anywhere. You could only decrypt client-side. Similarly, this is about trying out an ad model where the privacy-sensitive data stays client-side.

Perhaps it'll do better than old Sync did?

(full disclosure: I work for Mozilla on the JS engine. Sadly, though, I'm not one of those world-class JIT geniuses mentioned elsewhere in this thread. In fact, I'm a complete idiot. Please don't tell them.)

(And no, we can't survive on donations alone.)
Thanks, now I understand what's going on! Great explanation!
I live in Europe, and I give way over 50% of my income to the State. How is that liberalism?

It is not. This is a socialist State. And it is broke by the way.

The European or Federal Reserve printing money is not liberalism, it is Central planning.

That people in power try to maximize their personal profit is not liberalism, it is the rule of power on any ideology, institution or religion in the History of Humanity.

Look at any social animal out there and you will see them fighting for becoming alpha males or females. The difference with humans is that they rationalize it.
Restated: People are good at following an implication, but bad at deriving the contrapositive.
People buckle because they are victims of NEEDS. If I didn't have marketable skills, or if I existed in a market which was oversaturated with people as skilled as myself, sure, I could argue with my boss or exercise my powers, but that means risking a job loss. I'd be replaced by someone as capable, but with less inclination to argue. My 'wants' might include such things as, "being able to eat," and, "not sleeping on the street." Sure, it's possible to get overzealous with one's aspirations for physical goods, but I think that overlooks the authentic fear that many people have over being in a precarious financial situation.
We're currently building a tool, which uses Linkedin API, and I performed a fair amount of customer interviews about their use of professional network and, well, Linkedin.
A popular opinion of what I've heard is "Linkedin is dead", cause it's very old-school and not flexible to adapt to changes.
People use it for just adding contacts, sometimes randomly, and then they rarely do anything with them.
Recently they announced the restrictions to their API program, meaning that new cool tools, which try to make more sense of Linkedin data, will not be able to use Linkedin data anymore.
I guess, that will make it even more unpopular for users.
This the most sophisticated Map Solution out there. Mapbox is simply awesome
Neurofeedback seems to work very well and reliably with ADHD, but it is often not "enough"!
The fact that this information is available to citizens is a purely exclusion measure,

No it's not. The records in question aren't public because they involve foreign workers. They are public because the records involve a program run by the government.
More bang for your buck: How new technology is shaking up the oldest business
I bet the bought an employee and his product.
Good to hear you like GitLab. We don't have any plans for code review improvements at the moment. Your proposal sounds interesting. We normally try to refactor the code before merging the merge request. If there are any loose ends we make an issue out of it.
Banks Will Keep Doing FX Stuff That Got Them in Trouble
Personally my disdain for them is that currently they are mostly telling the same basic story with different window dressing.
He just says Stallman is wrong, wrong wrong...

People have been saying that about Richard since he started being a public figure. While I'm pretty sure he's not batting 1000 he typically is proven correct in the long run, or at least partially so.

As I grew older I lost a lot of my initial enthusiasm and fanboyism for the FSF and Free/Open software in general but I still have a lot of respect for Richard and am disheartened at the negativity that's constantly pushed on him.

He definitely seems to be one of those public figure that people either love and respect or hate and despise.
Almost comically, at the same exact time the pronouncement has been: 'we wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters' - we are in fact on the cusp of vast, important technology revolution everywhere you look. Peter Thiel lamented at exactly the wrong time; his statement will, fittingly, coincide with a new epoch of forward progress.

- Robotics everywhere

- Virtual reality

- Stem-cell tech, organ growing, a leap forward in drug breakthroughs (eg Sovaldi)

- Transportation (self-driving, electric, hyperloop)

- Energy (rapid solar & wind build-out, rapidly falling battery costs)

- Artificial intelligence

- Nanotech & materials

- Indoor farming

- Drone tech, which will soon touch everyone and every thing in some form
You could ask Slack if they would mind you open sourcing it?

Just make it clear that the only reference to Slack is when you say its "Compatible with the Slack API".
LLVM OpenMP Support
The best thing happend to Chrome
The issue with renewables has always been cost, not theoretical efficiency limits. I recall computing (and then finding that others had computed on the Internet) that a 50x100mi array of solar panels in the Arizona desert could power the U.S. with energy left over, and that was at efficiency levels of a decade ago.

I talked to a couple founders at this year's startup school that said that solar was poised to reach grid parity with coal this year, i.e. without tax subsidies it would become cheaper to install solar panels than to buy that electricity from the electric company over the life of the panels. Pretty exciting times, if true.
Nothing you can't work around if you're willing to roll your own code. That said, I agree 100% if you're dependent on someone else's framework...
As I understand this problem, the challenge is determining the unclear phrasing of the task.

It could be non-commutative, which is how the professor set it up. (Even = blue on back side. Flip 8)

It could be commutative (I have to prove above + blue = even. Flip 8 and blue. How most people interpret)

It could even be strict (even = blue && odd != blue && green != even. Flip all)

As phrased, it's super vague, and since it's implied the problem is tricky, most people select the goal that at least includes the words (even + blue). The double brain mumbo-jumbo in the article seems like garbage. It's just a statistical goal assignment task with fuzzy bounds.
They were pretty clear that they didn't want European countries saying saying either 'yes' or saying 'no'.

Up until very early 1900 it was the US's lifeblood to not involve itself politically with Europe (or the rest of the world) at all.

It's probably the case that the founding fathers would have different opinions were they born today. Today you can travel around the world several times than you could travel across the (extremely small) country then. Things are different.
I really doubt this is the case. I don't think there would be any confusion if before a roadtrip I said something like "If we get hungry, we'll make a stop along the way". Nobody would assume that that precludes the possibility of making a stop to pee or something like that.

> I really doubt that the "socio-cognitive niche" of a cop in a bar is substantially more effective than simply adding "(but not only if)" to the original problem.

You might be correct about this, but I think that would be more of a function of specifically highlighting part of the problem and thus making it harder to skip over it in one's reasoning.
That seems like a sensible solution to beating part of the problem. I would agree - does anyone have any insights on this method in regards to TOR?
No, but it means they must comply with relevant regulation - like accommodating disabled people.
Where can I learn the basics about Windows's internals/kernel?
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I'm not being facetious, but are you backing me up? This bolsters my point. Equating the US subprime crisis and the vast entanglements that existed therein to the current situation in SV is exactly the kind of monomaniacal thinking that that SV engages in all the time.

My point was that there aren't any entanglements, there isn't any exposure. Prince was making the point that there was complicated entanglements that existed at Citigroup so it would be hard to predict what would happen, but hopefully their lack of exposure would help (which, by the way, it did).

There simply isn't enough public exposure to SV to make a bubble popping important to the overall economy.
They only have 50 Toshiba drives, which have only been used for a couple of months.

With 0% failures over the 50 drives, you've got a statistical nightmare. You really have _no_ idea how reliable or unreliable the drives are. So the "confidence interval" is huge.

The other drives have thousands and thousands of samples, and have been used for many years. They are confident in the measurement of the reliability.

Toshiba has taken over the former Hitachi factories (along with HGST). So I'd expect Toshiba drives to be highly reliable. I hope that Backblaze can purchase more Toshiba drives so that they can gather some better statistics.

For now, I'm confident in their 50 hard drives that haven't failed. That's a pretty good measurement, even if its not statistically reliable quite yet.
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Epic comment on the thread - http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/5161#comment-85861
If you were hiring a post doc for a two-year position, would you choose the person who had managed to convert research into a published paper in 3-4 years, or the other guy?
I find that you can get the same types of programs on Windows, but you have to deal with every UI being a unique snowflake and the (subjectively) high chance of malware from my experience.

Also the installing of CLI programs seems to be really hacky through powershell.
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I helped fund this project on IndieGoGo, originally set for delivery of June 2015. I was super confused when they went to Kickstarter after already raising one crowdfunding round. Then I realized - they just used IndieGoGo to fund their prototyping phase. I have yet to receive my Flow/Nuimo/whatever it is they call it, or even an expected ship date.

It seems a little duplicitous to me that they presented this concept as largely complete at the start of the IndieGoGo campaign and then turned around and started crowdfunding again. I know, they're saying "we're making the product better! It will ship so much cooler!" So what? You said it was plenty fucking cool up front. I thought it was plenty fucking cool up front! But I'm really frustrated as a customer - I felt a little bait-and-switched.

On top of that, it kind of bugs me that Senic seems to be focusing a bunch of their energy on writing a ton of self-congratulatory blog posts instead of getting product out the door. Sure, they went through this really hard, grueling design and manufacturing process to get to where they are. So what? They haven't moved the dial on their total users at all in doing so.

/rant. Mostly frustrated that I haven't gotten my Flow/Nuimo/whatever it's called yet.
"Having this information public denotes a second-class citizen measure"

Actually it denotes "not being a citizen at all"? It's got nothing to do with being second class. If you are here on an H1B, you're not a citizen.

A google search shows: "The H1B visa classification permits a foreign national to work in the United States for a temporary period".

You can debate whether the information on this site should be public or not, but it is not reasonable to think that a foreign national should have all the same rights as a citizen.

I would not expect to have all the rights of a citizen if I went to work in a foreign country either.
Can I simply ask 'why'? It seems like if Firefox has no method of guaranteeing that an add will be placed, there is no financial gain for the mozilla foundation.

Why would you even perceptually compromise user privacy. You have to realize there are many using your browser with expectations of privacy. If you perceptually damage this notion, you're going to loose mind share.

If this goes into firefox, I'll be looking for an alternative.
I actually have a tip for async programming on small projects. Consider storing as much of your state as possible in a central location if it's feasible for your application. As much as possible, avoid relying on closures except for data hiding. This makes it easier to think about what is going on in your application even if the code flow is not exactly linear.

For example use a global object called State that contains information about the list of build tasks to be run and the state of each of the stages for the tasks.
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Cheers.
Arguably unrelated to GNU or the Linux Kernel - so maybe this isn't what you are asking for... but I hope it's close enough.

Focus on the UI and UX of software that runs on GNU/Linux to promote mass adoption. Great, reliable programs don't help when the casual layman can't use them (no UI/all CLI) and things that look better often sell better than things that function better.

More users (and thus a larger market target for programmers) may mean more talent to improve GNU/Linux.
Temple University physics professor accused of passing tech secrets to China
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Seems like a valid point of view. Not sure why it got downvoted.

Though there are very big kinks to work out in getting Hadoop production ready.

So the thesis of the parent article is valid too and not just propaganda.
Comments suggest so-so with expresso but OK with Moka pot. Will purchase on the grounds (sic) that it will be better than my food mixer grinder add-on.
> And video encryption probably isn’t practical over the kind of network links envisaged for remote surgery in extreme locations. That may not be a security concern but it does raise important issues of privacy.

That's a curious statement. How does encrypting video increase its bandwidth requirements?
Would it be overly pedantic to point out that the syntax is CSS syntax? You seem to have an issue with vocabulary and semantics, not syntax.
I love GitLab at our company but really want the keyboard shortcuts [1]. Especially the file finder

[1] http://owenou.com/images/posts/github_shortcuts.png
>>>not something that a lot of people in the tech space have spent their lives tinkering with in the way that they have with computers.

Its one of those 'truths' that are so true that people just don't want to deal with it: you can upgrade your software within seconds, but it takes - at least - a few minutes (if you're lucky) to upgrade your hardware.

I've also worked for hardware companies, over the years. Hardware is hard because you're pushing atoms around. Not electrons. The difference between the particles is reflected in the difference between the kinds of engineers: you can express, in words, mere electrons - in seconds. But it takes a lot longer to make that same expression in hardware.

>>>We shot ourselves in the foot by paying for tooling for castings before we'd validated it beyond 3d prints.

We need better tools, and this is pretty clear to the hardware engineers who are trying to bring the design and production of hardware products to the same level of software.

Imagine if, one day, we can build new hardware near-as-rapidly-as new software. In many ways (e.g. OpenSCAD: http://openscad.org) we could compile hardware components as simply as we can software.

When the gap is closed, we will have a new class of society: simply, wizards.
Can anyone submit a letter of determination to the IRS asking them to determine if Uber is operating legally with regards to its independent contractor worker classification?
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Thanks a lot for the 'official' answer. Appreciated, not unexpected, but sad.

Actually that link DOES look quite interesting..
Serious question: if I made a computer with the purpose of booting Mac OS X, noticed that it aborted after trying to read some bytes from the firmware, then wrote a program to iteratively test longer and longer sequences, would I be committing copyright infringement? What if I never look at the output of the program as text, but only as hex values?
Yeah, dumb go kids enjoy the Nothing...
Sadly? Good riddance I say. There's so much textbook cynicism here.. the more we can get rid of the better!
The only effective counter against a proper DDoS is to bring more bandwidth than your attacker has.

A small site is unlikely to attract a proper DDoS, but will get hit by the usual misbehaving web scrapers, broken clients in a silly loop (I'm looking at you, iTunes) and keyboards with super sensitive F5 key. In those cases, serving an occasional 503 might work better than the alternatives.
Fair, but ultimately it's not so much about the money as it is about the publicity. The money is just to catch people's eyes and to keep things interesting-isn.
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It is true that one of the motivations is to diversify our revenue stream; almost all of our revenue comes from our Search (advertising) deal with Yahoo.

The real reason we are doing it is because modern digital advertising sucks, and we are going to change how it works.

The current ad-tech 'environment' invades your privacy, robs publishers, and delivers deplorable performance for the brand. The only winner right now is the middle-men; the 'programmatic' exchanges and the various money siphons that trade your personal data.

We want to fix that. We are starting by building an ad targeting mechanism in the browser that you can easily control and that doesn't leak your data. Currently, ads will be shown only on the Newtab page, though one could imagine a generalized future version of this capability opened up to all internet publishers.
Starbucks says gift card hack was 'fraudulent activity'
Two out of four demos on that page don't run on IE11. And all 4 have ugly scrollbars. Nice for demos but not yet for anything real.
Worth checking out Cory Doctorow's YA novels... they tend to be more varied than the typical fare - a good example of what you can do with the genre.

Yes, there's a "coming of age", "figuring out what you want to do with your life" common element to them - but then one might argue that many alleged adults in today's world have not actually come of age yet. Maybe we need more of this stuff in our literature.
I always enjoy a good energy discussion, but I'm a little dismayed when someone claims to come to the conclusion that we can have a renewable energy economy without lifestyle changes, and then doesn't deal with any of the really hard problems. National grid? Electric cars? Pfft. We already know how to do the first, and the second is closer every day. What about electric over-the-road trucks? Container ships? Jet airliners? Trains we can do. What about bulldozers and all the stuff we use to shape the earth to be the way we want it? Will we be able to use electricity to heat asphalt for road repair? For some of these things the answer is surely yes, but for a lot of stuff centrally generated and transported electric power just won't cut it. There's a staggering amount of energy in a gallon of gasoline, and part of why we are where we are as a species is because you can carry a gallon and a chainsaw five miles into the woods and clear half an acre in a day.

And then we could talk about rubber substitutes, plastic, ammonia fertilizer from natural gas, pharmaceuticals, etc., etc. That tasty carbon-rich brew is in fact the underlying basis for the entire Western way of life.
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