skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I was the bad guys I would definitely do that. In fact, it's not enough to have a risk factor because there are many types of risk (terrorism risk, standard crime risk, political risk, and even whistle-blower risk, for those with access to classified information).
I felt like Alice down the rabbit hole after getting sucked into reading about TempleOS. Quite an unexpected side-effect of reading an article on neural networks!
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If I were inclined to twist the copyright tiger's tail, the way I would do it would be to encrypt the plaintext with a one-time pad and them publish the cyphertext and the pad anonymously in two different locations (preferably on two different domains). The key and the ciphertext in a one-time-pad are mathematically indistinguishable, so both publishing parties have plausible deniability that what they published was the key, i.e. just a string of random bits, which if course they have every right to do.

An even more interesting experiment would be to copyright the resulting key and the ciphertext, and put in the TOS for getting either one that you will not sue the publisher for any copyright violations.

That is, if I were so inclined :-)
There are optical-domain attacks for CRT monitors (including diffuse reflections off walls from the "blue glow"), likely similar for LCDs. And there are Van Eck attacks on CRTs and LCDs. Cables don't usually leak by definition of twisted pair and coaxial being solenoids (the ideal model of solenoids emanate zero net EM flux at distance and immune to external EM fields), but connectors, unshielded traces, straight wires, untwisted ends of twisted pair and component joints tend to be the usual suspects.

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ieee02-optical.pdf

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/pet2004-fpd.pdf

http://www.hack247.co.uk/blogpost/van-eck-phreaking/ (unscientific/not peer-reviewed)
So you are saying I can't opt out of both?
Or will they take XYZ_nomap_optout ?
I wonder what finding life away from Earth would do to the creationism crowd.
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The fact that the DMCA could criminalize the act of inspecting the contents of an executeable file acquired legally and running on your personal computer and then telling other people about it is pretty good evidence that the DMCA is an immoral law that should be violated as much as possible. Kudos to the article's author.
Google captured and stored traffic from unencrypted WiFi connections. It is not really similar at all.
It's not about the how but the why. Social welfare is a matter of decency, not a luxury. What good does it do to couple that with a sense of sponsorship other than to elicit a feeling of guilt? This is just sociopathic Ayn Randian bullshit, not beneficial to anyone at all.
That's an interesting reply. Just because a situation is f'ed up doesn't necessarily mean there's a clear evil entity responsible. To push it to that would be scapegoating.

We can find a source for this particular topic though: the long disgraceful history of racism that leads people to think that Indian hair (being straight like lots of European hair) is more beautiful than curly African hair.

There are so many problems, socially, economically, etc. with this situation; and I'm annoyed at anyone who describes the situation as something other than messed up. It's messed up that many black women think their natural hair isn't attractive enough; it's messed up that many black men think black women's natural hair isn't attractive enough; it's messed up that capitalists figure out how to continue promoting those views and profiting off of this; it's messed up that there's still enough economic inequity that black hairstylists work on tight margins and credit… and it's messed up that the jerks who wrote this article are brainwashed into thinking this sort of capitalism is the best economic system we could ever have. It's also messed up that they think it's reasonable to publish something that says effectively "X is the best we can have, except that it is horrible" without any sense of irony or other nuance.
Part of the problem might be experience. A number of people seem to have come to C++ from C, and the transition can be overwhelming.

PHP is on of the few languages I've met I truly dislike, but I have had only very limited contact with it, and that was about 11 years ago, so I cannot comment on the current state of affairs. (I do remember it did have good documentation, though.)

I have had to take on other people's code a few times, but I was very lucky in so far as the applications I inherited were written and organized in a very sanity-preserving way.
It's an interesting idea, but the fact that the Rust compiler is an AOT compiler with an extremely minimal runtime makes it seem like a poor fit for Clojure which is very much an interpreter/REPL-driven language.
Yap, insulting all the users of a platform is not trolling, it is a high intelligent debate using the same old topics.

> but even those feel very broken, it's something about how the app scrolls and i think in combination with the screen feels on your fingers, it's like a steampunk phone, you know there's gears inside that might need oiling more regularly.

And more trolling
You won't be able to emulate the secure enclave, no. That'd sort of defeat the entire point.

It is supposed to be impossible to RE the code for anything useful - the keys are encrypted using the public key of the secure enclave. You'd need to break the chip itself to win, and since Intel knows this, we can assume they'll make it incredibly hard.

Of course, since MS wants this to work on current hardware, not "shipping sometime in the future" we can assume they aren't using Intel SGX. But in theory it's fairly strong DRM.

https://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2013/09/26/protecting...
There is a posting requirement. You have to prove that you had the job opening advertised (newspaper, website, ...) and that no qualified Americans applied.

As usual, there are ways around that though.
Private Whois services, at least the implementations I've seen, have a big drawback: You surrender your domain registration to the company providing privacy.
+1.

I love that the android store does not make you wait.

Having said that, I hate Android Studio, and Eclipse, and I hate the android simulator too.

It makes the development process slower, feels clunky.

To each their own, of course.
Finding and prosecuting the guy would give some sense of justice, but unfortunately the cat's out of the bag since the source code is out and constantly being updated by engineers that are likely just as good or better than the original author. The real answer is going to be better security practices so that these attacks are less successful. Not that I know exactly what these updated practices are when we're talking about attacks this sophisticated...
It's a joke ok? And have you never heard a lawyer joke before? A lot of lawyers laugh at them too.

This part was funnier though:
Many people try to compare Rust to Go, but this is flawed. Go is an ancient board game that emphasizes strategy. Rust is more appropriately compared to Chess, a board game focused on low-level tactics.
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Hi I'm making some studies with metric learning and using Python to test some cases. However I'm doing some heavy calculations and my console is failing to deal with the values (I'm in an environment configured with Anaconda + Spyder). I want to convert the code below into Matlab to optimize the calculations. If there is someone that master Matlab and would be willing to convert the code, I would be grateful.

https://gist.github.com/mikebotazzo/2c7931586d1d8a32dd7b
You sound like if you're going to build the binary manually (using an axe or something). Just compile the latest version for your system. Your distribution's package manager should be up-to-date by now.
Snowden didn't create any flaws in NSA's internal systems (or at least, none that anyone's described publicly), but his actions certainly demonstrate that they were there. All Schneier is saying is that someone else could have taken advantage of the same flaws -- and that he thinks, given the givens, that someone else almost certainly did. He's not the only one who thinks the odds stack up like that...
On the contrary, dealing with captive portals is quite annoying, especially since they just generate browser warnings with HTTPS. You have to go out of your way to open a plain-HTTP website so that it can be intercepted properly, just so you can click "I accept" again. Additionally, these things have short memories - if you're at a coffee shop you frequent, you might be clicking through the captive portal for the 150th time.

Apple deals with this somewhat by opening a Webkit view of apple.com (unsecured) and displaying it the user if it's not in fact apple.com. But an even further level of automation would be great.

Let's be honest, no one reads these things anyway. If you're one of the handful of people in the world who would decide not to use a WiFi network because you didn't like its TOS, then you're 1) probably not running Windows anyway and 2) could turn this feature off.
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Indeed, they already do it right now:

http://www.fms.treas.gov/faq/moretopics_gifts.html

They obviously don't take in anything more than a trivial amount of money. If you think that people would donate an equivalent amount of money if their taxes were eliminated - then you must have an awful lot of faith in people's inherent generosity in the face of their own self-interest. The economically optimal decision for any one person is to not give, but in the aggregate that means we don't have funding for infrastructure, research, etc.
So, isn't this basically a massive distributed attack on wireless security by Microsoft/Facebook? Similar to what Google's done in the past?

And of course, all this data is open to .gov subpoena, yes?

EDIT:

Oh boy!

Some WiFi hotspots ask you to accept the terms of use in a web browser, provide additional information or do both before you can connect. WiFi Sense can do these things on your behalf to get you connected quickly.

Yeah, this isn't a fucking trap at all.
That would presume that the dictionary in question was a copyrightable work. The US has weak database copyright protection due to Feist. There is also Assessment Technologies to consider, but I don't believe that involved the DMCA.
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Would you agree that the TL;DR of this is ultimately, since things are so easy right now, you won't learn skills that you pick up only when things are less easy?

Not sure where I see the mistake. Sort of reads like its a mistake to not get experience from having things go badly?

How would you fix? The bullet points at the bottom, like "build good products" are pretty vague and don't really give the reader much.

I can't imagine some of these younger entrepreneurs don't want to "build good products" and "building teams", even if they have a lot to learn in those departments with regards to weathering bad times.
Someone with a bit of UI design skills should make a mocknup of this. A visual idea conveys so much more to the general public than words.
As other said, it's crazy because we don't mine fossil fuels and then have them to use and keep and recycle. We go through this intense stuff just to burn it up and it's gone. Not so with those minerals and such you're talking about.
I think we're getting there though. There's more and more of us who see that and are trying hard to do something about things. Not just OCLC, but with Open Access and FOSS as well. It ain't easy, been watching the tide slowly turn for about 20 years now, and it's starting to get better.
Eurisko is definitely part of CS and hacker folklore - but it is not really science. It wasn't reproduced (or for that matter, produced again by Lenat) - it's not clear, out of the described Eurisko output, what was really Eurisko and what was Lenat's contribution.

Lenat's "next gen Eurisko", Cyc, hasn't been nearly as impressive as Eurisko is supposed to have been.
If you read my other comment you can understand that I mentioned the bitcoin scene as part of the security scene and I was not talking about the bitcoin use but the excellence of people working on cryptocurrency projects. People who can do state of the art security reviews and provide good feedback about electronic voting systems.
You can't copyright a random number although I suppose you could insert some deadbeefs for "artistic" effect without compromising the pad.
Wouldn't it be easier to just dump the entire process after the database is loaded and decrypted in memory, and pick out the words?
Can you do it in C? Because if you can, then you can do it in Rust.
How can you copyright a wordlist anyways? I'm really not familiar with scrabble but doesn't it just contain plain English words without any context? They could of course copyright the order but couldn't you just shuffle the list and publish it.

An explanation how copyright works in this case would be great.
The only mounted police I've seen are horseback police in the States, but it seems like they have similar, positive effects, even in urban areas. When they aren't galloping down one of the busy avenues, horseback NYPD are almost always surrounded by people wanting to see the horse up-close. The high vantage point can't hurt either. Even though I still laugh everytime I see a horseback cop waiting at the traffic light and then sprint down the street, it's still a more welcoming site than cops on motorcycles or Segways.

The last day of the California state fair often breaks out into a mild riot...a cop told me that having cops walk directly into the crowd is often enough to break up the disturbances, while not putting the officer or the crowd at great risks...I guess for mischief-level riots (think of kids wanting to go crazy the week before school starts), the crowd might be willing to bang up a police cruiser, but might draw the line at hurting a horse.
Yeah, I used to think it was wrong to drive past the speed limit even if everyone else was. I hate when functional rules and norms break down. But you know, we live in the real world. It's not wrong to drive the speed of traffic and be safe, and it's not wrong to try to find the best and most sensible way to support things you care about, have a positive impact on the world, and take measures for yourself to protect your privacy and sanity.

If everyone used an ad-blocker, it would change the way the market works. It would actually reduce overhead where advertisers are fighting for attention in a noisy world. It would restructure how the flow of money works. We'd figure out other and better ways to deal with funding things.

So, I don't think it is wrong to use an ad-blocker. I think it is socially responsible. Even when other people fail to use adblockers, it gives more power to the advertising industry, and thus hurts society. I say: Thank you for doing your part and using an adblocker!
Spying is a good thing. Real information keeps people from second guessing each other and prevents cold conflicts from becoming hot.
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There's really no winning here. Had Sam's school prevented her from competing, there would probably be a comment addressing liability and blaming the litigiousness of US culture. Sam's behavior is not an indictment of American society or her parents. In the article, her parents care deeply for her. They were extremely concerned about her health, and only allowed her to run again once doctors deemed her fainting benign.

I agree that allowing her to run is a little dangerous, but it's important to compare it to other risks we accept in high school sports. It's not worse than say... pole vaulting. On average, pole vaulting kills one high schooler every year in the US. Dozens suffer traumatic brain injuries. Football casualties are even worse. Distance running is quite tame in comparison, even if one is predisposed to fainting.

Now if you're wondering why someone would subject themselves to fainting, you should also wonder why anyone competes in athletics at all. It seems crazy to spend so much time training and suffering just for a silly medal. I ran competitively in high school and college, and I agree. It is crazy.

That's why you see this sort of behavior in top athletes. There is a huge selection effect. You do not get to the top 0.01% without the right combination of genes, training, and borderline-monomania. Well-balanced people don't win races. I once asked my high school coach what the best personality for distance running was. He grinned and replied, "Sadomasochist. You have to enjoy pain and enjoy inflicting it on others." He was only half-joking.

So take it easy on Sam's parents and US culture. Both seem quite interested in letting her pursue her desires as safely as is feasible.

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Side note: If you're curious just how competitive my running was, my high school PRs were: Mile: 4:18. 2 mile: 9:07. 5k: 15:09. I also ran a 3k in 8:32, which was (for high school) the 11th-fastest time in the US that year. I was captain of my high school's XC team, which was the best in Washington state[1].

In high school, 3-4 hours of each day was lost to training. By college, it was almost a full-time job. I was running 100+ miles a week. It wasn't long before I was constantly fighting overuse injuries, so I quit competing. NCAA Division I is a meat grinder. Despite all that, I still enjoy running today.

1. http://www.jcrawford.net/boys4a02.html
the limit is that training cannot force abstraction. you can only reach abstraction if you have enough neuron space and the data set is big enough to avoid over-fitting textures.

the problem is.. human vision doesn't work just by feeding a bitmap. we have structure to decode space relationships, shapes and maybe even shadow/light relations. no way we gonna see classificator working on color arrays matching our vision capabilities
> information security are very poor

this is necessarily the case. people are the biggest flaw followed by technology itself which is expected to be cheap and easy.
Being able to thrive and do well at something physically demanding in spite of a disease is very empowering. Her mind being on her next medal is probably better than her mind being on her next fainting spell.
Actually, there is quite a context here. IOCP had been a headache for quite a while for Unix programmers. Two examples:

- libevent 2.0 was created exactly to support IOCP https://blog.torproject.org/blog/some-notes-progress-iocp-an...

- apache 2.0 again, was created to support windows threading model and IOCP

- this particular article was in the context of libev not supporting IOCP, which was needed for decent node.js performance on windows: https://nodejs.org/codeconf.pdf

(correct me if I'm wrong!)
Looks very nice, although I'd like to see one in person. It's a shame it isn't mechanical however, or at least that there isn't a mechanical option - especially as there are lots of good quality, affordable Japanese mechanical watch movements (e.g. Miyota) that could be used.

Would be interested in hearing more about how it will be made (and where it will be made). Always interested in hearing about the stories and manufacturing techniques behind watches, especially those made by independent watchmakers.
The main disappointment would be that it would make us more likely to disappear as a civilization, since life is then less likely to act as the great filter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter
Yes. I find it hard to keep reading after that statement.
Probably the former.
Because on weekends anything that happens to pique the curiosity of hackers has a much better chance to float above the usual mix of industry news, release announcements, and startup hype.
I assume folks using a smartcard for their everyday encryption are safe from these kinds of attack?

Can anyone confirm that?
> feeds data into another system that does the real-time portion

Well of course that's a technique but "another system" isn't Clojure. It does so happen that a Lisp language is especially fluent for programming audio processors because of its compiler-like expressions and macros.
it better not go more than one hop, 99% of FB users are only ~5 hops apart.
My wife has NCS, and a titanium pin in her skull from her worst fall. First, her doctor does clear her for exercise as well, the benefits outweight the risks. Second, there is no cure. It gets better with age, over decades. If you're going to restrain yourself because you're sick, well, it's forever. I can certainly understand those who choose to live with the restrictions for increased safety. But I bet you can also understand, if maybe not agree with, those who choose to face the risks rather than the restrictions.
Again you have not actually addressed my comment.
Next they'll be putting crossword puzzles in the New York Times! Of all places!
Why would they need to spend $1200 in India when they have a CTO? Cant their CTO program?
Everyone with updated software is safe from these attacks since the authors disclosed them to the effected software beforehand.

As for smartcards there is no reason to assume they would do anything to mitigate this.
I pay £10 less than that a month with my own room, not in a third world country.

No thanks
Because skewness.

Skewness is what brings some toward riskier propositions, in hopes for a small chance of huge success. Those of us that start companies also don't like the middle of a probability distribution (i.e., predictable returns for a predictable amount of effort).
The Microsoft page says it has to contain _optout, not that it has to end with it.
Oh, please.

She had a goal and she was pushing herself to reach it, despite the fact that she has an abnormal medical condition. I'm failing to see how that's a failure either of parenting or American society.

The article states that, "All of the doctors they visited cleared Sam to run." The father notes, "If we didn’t have the utmost medical clearance for her to run, she wouldn’t be running." So apparently doctors don't think her medical circumstances should preclude her from racing or racing hard, and the parents are taking all of the precautions that they can and listening to the best medical advice they can find.

Describing it as "Depriving one's brain or body of oxygen" is accurate, but very misleading. Depriving a brain or body of oxygen is quite literally exercise, just phrased to sound more scary. That's like saying, "Would you want to put chemicals into the body of a developing child?" neglecting the fact that H2O is, in fact, a chemical.
What if you took these same Neural Networks as they exist now, and tweaked the input and the parameters slightly. For the input, use individual frames of an hour long video of a leopard (in order), and instead of having it just identify whether or not there is a leopard, have it identify what in each image is the leopard, and have it try to predict the next frame.

It seems that this is more like the way that we learn to identify things. Then once we establish an understanding of a base class (big cat) we can apply that same model to new cats that we have never seen before with just a picture.
Which always surprises me. How is it that something as reactive as water, and as important as it is to our biology, that we don't have sensory mechanisms to locate it? It doesn't even have a smell.
It's odd, I see a clickbait headline like "why (this and that)...", I start reading and expect an answer to the question right away. If there isn't one in the first three sentences, I scroll down and see 'this shit is long', and I'm not so interested in finding the answer.

Point is, the title will get me to click on the article, but it's probably very detrimental to my desire to actually read it.