richard_mcp

I find it to be the exact opposite. Replying in-line is great when it's a short email between a two people. But if the email is to a wide audience, has multiple back and forths, or new people get CC-ed later, in-line posting is much more difficult to follow. It takes so much effort to read the email to figure out who said what while also keeping state of all the different threads.

Top posting takes more effort to do well, but makes it much easier to follow an email chain.

Maybe I'm biased, but this whole article is heavily premised on investments and development in cryptocurrency systems being important, which is not a view I share.

Still, is it VCs' fault for not continuing to dump money into cryptocurrency development even though no great use cases have come out of it in the last 20 years? You would think that if there was something here, the insane investments would have resulted in more than just trading apps, prediction markets, and meme coins. Personally, I think the less money and time invested in this tech, the better we all are for it.

I'm confused how this was able to give out money before the new code was submitted to production. The author claims that both she and her coworker tested it before the code was submitted and they ended up with the extra $25k. Was this code only executed on the front end? Were there no checks in the backend to prevent employees from just pulling out whatever money they wanted?

This news about not trusting some software is posted on a news website that hijacks your back button for more ad views.

I'm glad to hear that! The style is very popular in the drawn maps I've seen. I haven't been interested in maps for long and don't pay too much attention to digital map programs. I associate the style with Dyson, as that what I've heard other people do. I first saw you tweeting about the program after I saw Dyson's tweet and the Dungeon Scrawl site says the development began on May 8th, which is why I thought the timeline looked a little suspect. I'm happy to hear that's not the case.

I never read those magazines and I can't say I'm an expert on dungeon map styles, but it's the hatching done in the dungeon walls that Dyson is known for (e.g., https://dysonlogos.blog/2011/09/03/dungeon-doodles-a-crossha...).

It looks like the person that made this program started playing around with the idea May 9 (https://twitter.com/probabletrain/status/1259172635776294912) a day after Dyson started tweeting about his program (https://twitter.com/DysonLogos/status/1258797586464542723).

I think Dyson's program is just a Photoshop extension and Dungeon Scrawl looks way more powerful, but it's worth pointing out the very similar timelines and styles.

The "old school" style they're advertising is mostly based off of Dyson Logo's maps. I think it's interesting that this seem to come out after Dyson started teasing a similar program for his Patreon subscribers. On one hand, it's a great looking piece of software, but it feels a little scummy to write software that heavily leans on Dyson's style and then directly compete with him.

Facebook Messenger also used to check if you were sending an image uploaded by one of your friends. If Alice uploaded a photo, but didn't share it with Bob, you wouldn't be able to send that photo to Bob. It would also check if a shared photo was embedded in another, like a screenshot.

I like how a site with autoplay ads is reporting this.

Why would they do that? Are you assuming these companies will want to block Linux users out of some random, malicious spite?

The NYT bestseller list has been a horrible indicator of what's selling for a while. You can often see well-known authors make the list weeks before their books are out due to massive orders by big box stores.

A much better source are Indie Bound's Indie Bestseller lists: https://www.indiebound.org/indie-bestsellers. While still able to be gamed, these lists are compiled based off of sales by independent booksellers. I've often found the books here to be better quality than the NYT bestsellers.

I created an updated version of that repo for a research project. Submitting a PR is on my to-do list. The changes needed to get search working aren't too bad once you figure out how the system works and where everything is. Updating the whole thing to more recent versions of Meteor was a little more annoying, in my opinion. There are also a couple of critical bugs in the code that need to be fixed before using it in production.

I was part of a group that analyzed some of the security claims of the Mylar system. You can read about what we found here: https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/920.pdf

Location: New York, NY

Remote: Sure

Willing to relocate: Yep

Technologies: Security, Python, Research, JavaScript, Torch, C/C++, Linux

Resume: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~richard/rmcpherson_resume.pdf

Email: mcphersonsec@gmail.com

I'll be graduating with a PhD from UT Austin at the end of the month, although I've been doing research at Cornell Tech in NYC for the past year. My research focuses on security and privacy with a bit of deep learning thrown in for good measure. I've spent most my time breaking things, but have worked on some censorship resistance technology as well. I'm looking to transition into industry. My ideal job would entail some research.

But Uber and AirBnB are giant companies that actively flaunt city policies. I imagine OP's friend probably doesn't have an army of lawyers and probably wasn't aware he was violating any.

This is embarrassingly bad. I know memory is cheap and mostly plentiful, but to have this as a bug for 5+ years is horrible. It's as though Chrome is going the route of web pages and not paying to the size of itself.

One of the authors here. There was some great work from the Max-Planck Institute that came out recently which looked into this[0]. They examined images that used black or white boxes to cover faces and found that neural networks could pick up on cues like body posture and the surrounding environment to identify individuals.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.08438

One of the authors here. I couldn't find any library that carries out the P3 operations, but it was pretty easy to modify existing software[0] to achieve this.

[0] http://www.ijg.org/

I think that was the sentence where you promise not to cheat.

Last I checked, YouTube still does not support encryption when broadcasting a live stream.

This is probably partially in response to some of the issues that were discussed here: https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37

I think there's a difference between 1) a city being a "startup hub", 2) a city being saturated with startups, and 3) a city being completely run by tech companies. I see this as indicative of #3 and not of the other two.

The article makes it seem like fans bought his ticket because it was easy. I wonder how many tickets he sold due to his site decisions and how many he sold due to his popularity.

Why would Hillary need to rig anything? It's been pretty obvious that she's going to win the election since the start.

Regarding the author's points, he doesn't mention anything I find particularly compelling. Most of it seems to be built on shaky logic or draws weak connections between points. If the exit polls were really that big of an issue, we'd see political analysis (aka the experts) reporting on this.

They still publish in conferences. A lot just happen to put their stuff on arxiv first

Reviewers work for free for a few reasons reasons. First, it's prestigious to be a reviewer for a top journal and very beneficial for getting tenure. Second, it allows you to create connections with other top researchers. Third, it's giving back to the community by doing a service that needs to be done.

This sort of open communication is great way to start to build trust of users (both relating to security and otherwise). I was thrilled to see the devs responding to comments positively in both the HN and reddit threads.

I'm looking forward to seeing Kite expand their security support and I can't wait to try it out on Linux.

What was the other hack?

I assume you're concerned about floods in New Orleans. The French Quarter is actually pretty safe compared to a lot of other nearby areas. It was build on the old flood plains and so it's on higher ground than a lot of the city and surrounding Parishes.

Can someone explain what she means by "table flipping?"