jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
If we have to make a choice between attacking their ideology and attacking their absurdity then I agree with you. But whats wrong with doing both?

Even if someone is ideologically driven, they might think twice about joining an organization where they are more likely to kill themselves and fellow believers rather than the infidels.

Point is, its not one or the other. All approaches can be used in unison to decrease recruitments. Not to mention that its hard to sow terror when you're being laughed at.

However, I do agree with your point below. Getting this message out will be difficult because you need to make sure you target terrorists and not Muslims (which, as you say, will create more enemies).

Edit: There is also the point in the article about how to use resources to defend the people. If you know the competence level of your enemies, you can defend their likely targets. This doesn't remove the need to protect high profile targets, but we might be able to change the distribution of defense to take into account likely targets.
Yup, here's an article dating from 2009
http://www.sananews.com.pk/english/2009/03/08/chinas-thirst-...

China's already built roads to the area, and US soldiers are protecting the Chinese construction effort
To be honest, I am actually looking forward to install this OS into my system. I saw their feature video on this stating that turning Google Chrome bypasses the BIOS startup. A few of my colleagues said this is impossible, but for what it's worth, this is Google we're talking about.
Presumably if robots ever become that productive there will be no need for most people to work, since the robots will produce plenty of goods for everyone. Jobs are not an end unto themselves. Work is required to consume only because of scarcity. In the world you're imagining, that won't exist for most of the things people need to live. So it will be provided for free.
Can you tell me how to deal with people who bring up unsourced things that I feel aren't (fully) true, or are "fake news"? I agree that I can sometimes get stuck in a discussion, but I also feel like it's harmful to let unsourced claims spread. In this thread I mostly wanted people to source the claims they were making, and for that I got downvoted and called a shill. How should I approach this in the future?
but this submission did not get enough upvotes nor was on front page. Why so
Thank you for posting this, it's both informative and highly infuriating
You have the privileged position of having something to lose. To a significant portion of our population, fighting over scraps is already the reality.

What exactly is irrational about a kid with 300k in debt and no job hoping that a collapse could lead to a real future for himself and/or his kids?
You don’t need targeted advertising to achieve that. You don’t need FB, Google, and a thousand other lesser-known companies tracking every step you make in order to know that you might be interested in cycling. Instead you, as a small advertiser, would target the right context and would only show your ads in articles specifically-dedicated to cycling or whatever other niche you are after.
These hacks have been around for years - they're standard practice in mass casualty incidents (e.g. a lot of the research on ventilator-sharing was done after the Vegas shooting) where sudden surges of requirements outpace local supply. We're just in a situation where well-known and -studied emergency procedures are becoming standard practice.
No. Microsoft wants to control corporate and government identity, client compute and server compute.

Google is mostly about the consumer.

Between Linked-In and O365, they have the ability to target their B2B marketing or facilitate surveillance more than any other organization on the planet. Google knows all sorts of things about me, but Microsoft knows who the government official handling a critical matter is, knows who their secretary is, and knows who the lobbyists, applications or service providers.

Google may be evil, but Microsoft isn't some white knight. They are hard competitors well placed to unseat traditional enterprise players.
Earlier discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22660533
"The systems", would be highly unlikely to work at longer range. Small peturbations to down-ward arc trajectories are what make artillery pinpoint accurate (essentially GPS-guided shells or even better). You can't "Back project" a long-range guided munition, and even if you could, how would you map it to topology?

A defense system in nullification phase needs to know really one thing: Bearing. Once it knows the direction to the incoming munitions, it fills the air along that direction with metal as quickly as possible. Some distance information is important for timing and relative velocity is important for acquisition of targets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trophy_(countermeasure)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phalanx_CIWS

Now, I speak from relative ignorance of a whole bunch of possible technologies that actually could back-project and actively sense shooters. I'd welcome an education on that. I base my assumptions on the "payload" model that most military aquistions take, in which you can't necessarily do the integrated sensing, computation, and real-time display that would be required to back-project an incoming shell or rocket onto local topology to provide an actionable estimate of the firer's location. I'm less skeptical of close-in / nonballistic, especially given TFA's claims, and very skeptical of longer-range / ballistic attacks.

On this, I'm fascinated by the smart-munitions arms race described in the future pistol duels from Count to a Trillion, where a series of countermeasures, decoys, and guided munitions would be pre-loaded in an attempt to outsmart your opponent.
Looks neat!

End-to-end encryption in the browser is not perfect security, as other comments are saying, but it’s significantly better than having user data in clear on a MySQL database somewhere.

PS. I’m the founder of Userbase.com — an open source service to help you build end-to-end encrypted web apps like this.
Thank you for your effort. A comparison with a summarizer could be interesting.
React is a component based UI framework, so I find it natural that common components that might exist in some other framework need to be re-created for React.

IMO, the fact that React components can be easily shared with an interface that follows a common pattern is a major strength of React, rather than a weakness.
Discrete gradients are always available - you can step in random directions and re-evaluate giving an approximation. If your space is smooth(ish) (and usually it's "smooth enough") then you can use the local approximations.

Yes, sometimes it's not possible, but usually local random search gives enough to use the concept of "gradient" to help. Mostly I find that people doing the optimisation/search don't know enough about the techniques they're using to adapt them and transform their problem to get the best out of things.
>The purpose of a teaching language must be to show students core concepts of programming.

Wrong. If the student isn't inherently interested in CS, teaching them all of that up front will mask the fact that it actually takes very little to get basic programs up and running.

For example, a sysadmin might want to learn some programming to automate some basic tasks. You don't need to learn about polymorphism or type systems to learn enough to become productive.
I run Linux on a VM on my MBPro, and I honestly can't tell the difference between that and another dedicated laptop running Linux .. VMWare (and the newest Parallels) is pretty good at running Linux these days, and - unless you need raw metal performance - is performant enough that I don't even really notice the difference. Its like having two machines in one.
There isn't always enough entropy to uniquely identify a user - you can't rely on that to provide accurate tracking. If people are coming from a corporate environment using terminal servers then every single browser will identify as one user by that method.

Most browsers are now taking steps to stop the CSS custom styles hack working - for example this doesn't work in Chrome anymore. The website can show you which websites you've visited with the change in colour for the link state however it can no lonqer query it.
So the "problem" is, exposing SSH as a Hidden Service exposes your fingerprint. This is obvious, since the fingerprint is visibly shown before authentication when you first connect with SSH, so should be no surprise this is public information. Another way to reveal the server is to successfully log into it. There may also be other ways to learn about the server through particular ways that instance of OpenSSH responds.

So moral of the story, OpenSSH is not hardened to minimize information disclosure. Probably 'spiped' as a first step would be a better plan.

From a comment on Reddit;

If a user wants to hide their activity to an SSH server that is on
the internet, there isn't a need for a hidden service. They could
just connect to it over Tor, using an exit node to connect to the
SSH server on the internet, and verify the fingerprint to ensure
there was no MITM done.

That's an interesting perspective. But I think it also discloses too much, because the target server is visible to the exit node, and the connection is obviously SSH, and SSH doesn't protect keystroke timing.... so intentionally wiring your control traffic through hostile routes which will flag your traffic as interesting is not a good plan. Note 'spiped' will also not conceal keystroke timing.
That's the same reason why there are so many sales organizations in Salt Lake City. Nothing trains you to get over rejection like trying to sell religion door to door.
> Oftentimes, I notice how pets (esp. cats[0]) are looked after 24/7 by their owners, groomed, given food, shelter, etc. and pretty much do nothing but continuously solicit pleasure.

Cats continually police the household to detect and eliminate vermin and other such pests, as well as acting as a deterrent to keep the pests and some other animals away. This function used to be more relevant in the past than it is today, however.

That said, I agree that cats are certainly in it to live a comfortable life. There's not really enough cognitive ability for there to be an exchange of comfort and labor, so humans just took advantage of cats' inherent nature. They require a pittance of food for performing a valuable service that humans struggle with doing directly.

These days, many households no longer require the services of a cat. In those households cats provide companionship. It might sound silly to compare the companionship of an animal to that with other humans, but unlike all relationships with humans, animals are nonjudgmental and always present and affectionate regardless of the circumstances. This might be the pets' adaptation to gaming the humans, but the humans nevertheless still find it to be a valuable service. There may be health benefits as well. I don't have any studies to reference, and I haven't researched the topic, but I've heard it mentioned a number of times: http://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/featur...

Describing cats as semi-domesticated seems accurate. They make eye contact and many cats are clearly interested in having a relationship with you individually (not all of them are aloof). They will come to you and meow for help solving problems. They're smart enough to "ask" you to open doors and perform other actions for them. But they don't really have a dog's attentiveness and perceptiveness toward the person, nor the dog's body language and subtlety of interaction. People like cats in part because they are independent and not needy. Owners don't need to worry about a cat going crazy if left alone in a house for a few days. However, I suspect that cats would score somewhere in between dogs and wolves on the tests mentioned in the article.
We use them for tests where we a) need representative data that has some sort of interesting format/dependencies that could be tricky (or slow?) to capture in factories, or that we need enough of that writing out ~100s of factories would be a bit nasty to maintain.

I don't think we'd miss them a lot if we didn't have them for this, but they are handy for this. We use setUpTestData and factories or models directly for most of our testing.

That said, I've just written a new tool for exporting a subset of production data for local use (we have a 2TB database but want a <5GB realistic looking dev database, we export a subset, anonymise, maintain FK integrity, install a bunch of Factories for special test cases). I initially started with loaddada/dumpdata but found them inflexible so I'm using the same de/serialisers with custom code around them. That has been somewhat useful, and if that's the level that this compression code is written at I'll probably use it.
Good point. I've never played a steam game on anything but my pc so I wasn't aware I could just log into my steam account on a different computer.
If I wanted to do a High Frequency trading Startup, would I have to be self funded?
Excellent points. Its why I joined a SF startup remotely instead of working for a local Chicago startup.
The Novena is pretty good in that its schematics are entirely open source. It also has plenty of expansion headers, a FPGA, removable RAM and wifi cards. However, I don't think modularity is as important, because it's hard to make something modular, performant, AND low cost. If you have the sources, you can always make a customized version to suit your exact needs yourself, without the need for it to be modular.

(typing this from my Novena)
I would say that's exactly right. Unfortunately, it's almost always framed as compensation. Which I think is ridiculous...since you have such a low chance of getting value out of it at all.
We just published a conversation with Alex Polvi (CoreOS CEO) all about Rocket and the App Container Spec. Check it out if you want to hear more:

http://thechangelog.com/138
I don't know. The Wikipedia article is pretty short and sparse. There is a short list of "examples of alleged predatory pricing," but that doesn't seem to support the certainty with which the economic theory is generally presented.

Even in non-empirical economic theory, the idea doesn't sound particularly obvious or sound to me. Obviously predatory pricing by a large firm can drive small firms out of business, but the large firm doesn't actually make profit from that until they raise their prices again, which sends a signal to others to start competing. And yes, there are barriers to entry, but it doesn't seem like the resources a small firm spends to enter a market would be destroyed when that firm gets driven out of business by the large firm's predatory pricing. Assets will get liquidated, sold to someone else, and potentially used to start competing again when the large firm raises its prices.
Nearly $2000 for a laptop I could have bought for that price in early 2008?

Sorry, call me a stickler, but I just don't see the value here.
Not bad, quite nifty interface as well. I'd use it for a quick site.

Perhaps the next step in the evolution of this logo would be to add some CSS selectors to the text (shadow, glow) for readability purposes against img. backgrounds.
Almost everything. He doesn't have a city on Mars.
I think that is the point the original author is making yes
Think about why, in a world with LiveStream, UStream, & YouTube Live Events, people see Meerkat as revolutionary. Also apply that question to Spotify vs Rhapsody.
Hey, someone else here knows Langbroek!
His work and writing on tracking US reconnaissance satellites is very interesting, I'm wishing more people here follow it in the near future!
Could Amazon put the squeeze on Dropbox by raising the price of S3?

Would that be a shot in the foot due to a reduction in sales for S3 but worth it to get into cloud storage?
Without trying to be a luddite, what happens in a self-driving car crash? That is, in court, not physically. This is yet to be tested; also, what happens in a meaningful concentration of autonomous vehicles? I'd wait at least for these to be tested before declaring autonomous vehicles "essential."
Hmmmm. I've got about a dozen.
Well, so is Richard Lewis.
... to stop someone forging gold bars?
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... I can't believe they hired her back.
There is also mg: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mg_(editor)
This is essentially blog-spam. The WSJ link they provide in the source has a lot more information: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870477460457603...
What's so worrying about that University?
See nivertech's comment below: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2038790
I think this data is for Hindus in US which would be primarily families who have immigrated from India. Primarily the families who immigrate already in upper-bracket of income in India and furthermore their education level would be superior to most Hindus too (think IITs, etc.). I don't think the Hindu group considered here is representative of global Hindu group.
I just tried it and the workers were, indeed, unique. However, it seems that the feedback was somewhat of low quality, as, for the "would you use it?" question, almost everyone (understandably) said yes (why not, really?). Those who answered no cited privacy concerns, but nothing integral.

For the "why would you use it?" question, they mostly repeated the use case I stated above. This was only 10 people, as I wanted to test it out first, but there's my data point for you.
This rule change makes it potentially very expensive to sue large corporations. They are already more likely to win because they can afford larger, better resourced legal teams. Now the little guy also needs to pay for that legal team when they lose? You might see most people opting not to sue Comcast, McDonalds, Amazon to avoid being financially ruined.

It’s probably just best to leave it to the discretion of the courts to decide whether one side pays the costs of the other. Better than legislating that the loser always pays.
Normally, TCP waits for the buffer to exceed the maximum segment size before sending any data. This creates serious delays when the two sides of the connection are exchanging short messages and need to receive the response before continuing. For example, the login sequence at the beginning of a telnet session begins with the short message "Login", and the session cannot make any progress until these five characters have been transmitted and the response has been received. This process can be seriously delayed by TCP's normal behavior when the message is provided to TCP in several send calls.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_Control_Protocol

Basically, there's a bunch of large TCP buffers between you and the rest of the internet, which can fill up when you're trying to transfer large amounts of data. When these buffers are full, important packets get queued up for long periods of time, causing latency. This is why running something like bittorrent causes your ping time to go up.

It's especially a problem when uploading, because upload speeds are often capped at a tiny fraction of your download speed, so it takes much longer to drain the buffers and get to the important packets.

See also this post:

http://gettys.wordpress.com/2010/12/03/introducing-the-crimi...
These are some of the things I thought could be improved -

* What's the difference between FB Share and FB Like? Even if they are different they should probably sit together.

* The background color of the slideshow could be something different - at present the whole site looks blue. The slideshow doesn't get the visual focus that it should be getting.

* Also the images in the slide show should be bigger without any rotation - as it's not required. Since this is a visual app it's best if the images have all the focus. Also maybe add a couple of more slides?

* The icons of the bullet points are not pleasing at all. Get better ones.

* The navigation in the footer is huge. Try to tone down the list or maybe shift a few items somewhere else. Maybe a top-right navigation bar?

I like the direction in which you want to take the site but I don't think it's quite there yet. All the best with it. :)

P.S Take the suggestions/advice with a grain of salt. ;)
Our community is filled with sexists, that's just how it is. The reason there are no women in tech is because we're all misogynistic assholes. Devops community, point in case. Every time I see a programmer or a sysadmin refer to women or their employees as "bitches", I put a note, "Never hire this lawsuit waiting to happen" into my addressbook entry for them.
I use SugarSync and it is quite good. They were a little flaky on the beginning but now they are quite fast and reliable.
Yeah, I just threw out the general agent string. This was before IE9 was something that looked rather nice.

Consider me shamed and learned!
Does anyone have any experience selling wepapps? Something that sits on a database, memcache, solr, etc? I've got a few sites that use various frameworks/technologies that were fun projects that I no longer maintain. I've always thought about selling them, but have always hesitated due to the fear of having to spend time supporting them.

Are buyers generally technical? Could I just say, you get a huge performance boost when you turn on memcache, and they'll know what I mean?

Do they expect me to host the application, or do they want the code/database/domain all transfered over to them? If transfer, do they expect help setting it up?

Flippa has always perked my interest, but every time I look at it I just see a bunch of wordpress blogs that auto generate content. I'd love to hear some stories that involve apps more sophisticated than content blogs.
Certainly, if the apparent cure (which I hope and I'm sure the rest of the world hopes it is) came from embryonic stem cells, this would deplete any political capital held by the opposition to embryonic stem cell research.

As the cells came from an adult donor, though, the talking heads on both sides of the issue can rest assured that on a slow news day, they can still fall back on dogmatic opinion pieces!
It's in both the book and the movie.

I watch the movie often.
Type inference (Haskell, C#) can be handy. Optional typing (many Schemes/Lisps, e.g. Gambit-C, SBCL or Clojure) is also an option.

I see your point, but dynamic typing is not the only way to get (most of) these benefits, and both of the above show significant performance boosts.
The author uses "the role of very low interest rates in stimulating economic growth in the software industry" as an example, with a number of details that are relevant to us.
It really is 99$. Now I've noticed that Amazon is giving a significant discount.
If I understood correctly it should be as simple as having an extra file setup to replace your hosts file say /etc/hosts.override and put all your blocked hosts there along with your regular hosts file.

Then you just add a 30 minute cron job to do

cp /etc/hosts.override /etc/hosts
PyPy works with most Python code
Agreed. Best expression I've heard to sum up this concept is "This is not an after-school club". Playing with shiny new technology is not the point. The point is to make money for the company and you use the best tools for the job. Most of the time that means solid tools that everyone understands.