skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a rather unfortunate interpretation to take, from the way I look at things. Although one could disagree about the nature of his disclosure, which would be a fair argument, to bucket that under "acting to the detriment of your employer" as the transgression seems shortsighted. This would place nearly all whistleblowers under this same category, and I'd certainly hope if you have some evidence of malfeasance (or negligence, as it could relate to a vulnerability), you would not hesitate to go public with it after appropriate due diligence exploring more controlled avenues of release.
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It would be nice to have a settings button on the notebook, along the side with the publish/delete buttons, instead of having to go to Help -> The link to environment variables, or the link from the homescreen. Just a thought :)
Maybe this will help: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_ylo=2011&q=%22THE+ARCH...
> Package it as an uninstallable extension

That is in fact the plan now, after the feedback Mozilla received on this:

> "Folks said that Pocket should have been a bundled add-on that could have been more easily removed entirely from the browser. We tend to agree with that, and fixing that for Pocket and any future partner integrations is one concrete piece of engineering work we need to get done." https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/firefox-dev/2015-July/003...
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boucher: Did you release this now as a response to the release of Eve (version 0)?
>Why would you care?
>
> Because unlimited recourse to view, then withdraw payment, torpedoes the system.

This sounds a bit like saying libraries are bad for authors? Why would this torpedo the system? Do we know that people would "freeload" to the extent that the system would break down?

> Also noted that you've failed to address access issues for the poor, children, researchers, and creatives themselves, all of which a general fee would cover.

How so? A child can use a parents account, researchers and creatives can certainly pay? Researchers might get remimbursed of course -- but that's immaterial.

Certainly poor can pay some -- granted, many will not be able to. Let them read for free (by "abusing the refund") -- and start paying when/if they're no longer poor?

I don't see how a flat tax would be any better for the poor, than direct payment? If a person can afford to spend a dollar, or a thousand dollars on content each month -- that doesn't change just because you collect a fee based off of bandwith rather than per-item?

Re: payment fraud -- sure, that's a real problem, and fraud is something every pay system need to account for. I'm not sure that credit cards/micropayments would be more expensive in this regard than tax -- there's plenty of tax fraud too.

I'm mostly concerned with that your model would appear to me to extend the status quo -- where a lot of low quality content get a lot of views, and generate a lot of the profit -- while it'd be better to have a system that promoted more diverse and "better" content -- generally that'd be a slide towards more decentralized publishing/more personal publishing.

This is of course entirely subjective.
The response to this this on Twitter would be beyond fucked- up if it weren't so completely predictable.

People are posting direct links to the dump, screenshots of lists of emails, and statistics for classes of domains. The general reaction to the availability of the dump is reasonably characterized as "glee".

But no matter what you think about Ashley Madison --- and I think A.M. is so comically scummy that I had trouble believing it was a real thing before the breach apparently proved otherwise --- there is nothing ethically acceptable about publicly gawking at and sharing data from the leak.

The people doing this aren't victimizing Avid Life Media; they're re-victimizing the real victims of what is clearly an actual crime. If it's O.K. to hack into someone else's server and mass-out people for having profiles on a dating site because you suspect most of them might be "guilty" of the crime of "marital infidelity" --- and come on, 98% of the people talking about this on Twitter barely recognize that as ethically problematic in the first place --- how do you make a case that it's unethical for dragnet traffic looking for people who want to blow up civilians with homemade bombs?

Pungent hypocrisy isn't even the worst of it. By amplifying the drama and pageantry of the leak, people are altering the incentives attackers have to pull stunts like this. They're helping normalize a crime that most of us think really should be illegal. The people who created this dump are very unlikely to get caught for it. So what's really going to happen is that the next dumb kid who gets captured as the one unlucky DDoS "protester" in a group of 40 on an IRC channel, that kid is going to deal with a prosecutors who is further radicalized by events like this.

It's just a toxic, evil, repulsive scene.

"Avid Life Media" is gross and creepy, and apparently totally incompetent. I'm not saying everyone has to take a vow of silence about their getting completely owned up. I'm just saying you cross a line when you start circulating people's private data.
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I don't understand the distinctions perfectly, but as far as I can tell, Favor is a service of people who will walk into a restaurant and order whatever you want.

Grubhub is, I think, more directly connected with the shop. I think they put the onus on the shop to do delivery. Favor is their own delivery service.

It all blends though- I think Caviar is basically Favor, and they're pretty close to TaskRabbit For Food Pickup...
> The C book is terse and not really aimed at beginners or students.

At Caltech ~1990 it was the textbook for the C programming course that was the usual first course in computer programming. And it seemed quite good in that role.
>It is much harder to change IP address

Turn on and off the airplane mode while on 3G or 4G data - and you will have a new IP address. It's that simple, takes 5-7 seconds.

From experience, legitimate users with a dissenting opinion will leave after an IP ban. Determined trolls however who want to deface the service will change IPs and come back with vengeance.
We had a great time talking to David Yang and visiting Cybiko in Moscow when I worked at Palm. Cybiko was an amazing combination of Russian hacking genius, genuine software innovation, and extremely misguided business thinking. Like many failures, it was a Frankenstein combination of like 60% of a great product--for 2010, not 2000, though. Yang was really fun, he showed us 100 kids writing Cybiko games and 250 linguists making NLP software for his other company, which I think still exists. I remember high speed driving around Luzhkov's Moscow, lots of pretty girls, and lots of vodka.
Google's model of how it wants computing to work is fundamentally flawed and now it's infected Microsoft. Really the only shelter is Linux, when will the ignorant masses wake up and realize this?
Err on the side of caution, friend.
DL4J co-creator here: we did a tutorial on restricted Boltzmann machines last week that people might find helpful as well: http://deeplearning4j.org/restrictedboltzmannmachine.html
Ah, EB1.
I don't know, but I would assume it's similar to setting CPUTYPE in your make.conf so binaries are built with some cpu-specific asm for your specific flavor of x86 CPU: you'll get a performance boost, but nothing mind-blowing.
Yes I did, and thank you.
> It's not the DevOps philosophy that's to blame. That philosophy is primarily about the utilization of automation to drive deployments.

In theory it is. In practise it sometimes seems to be seized on by people who are sick of listening to those fuddy-duddy infrastructure types bang on about security and firewalls and ug, so boring bro. Crush code!
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Why my dissatisfaction with Mozilla is increasing
This was very awesome!! Thank you!
The “Food Babe” Blogger Is Full of Shit
Ask HN: Considering the privacy discussion about OnHub, what DNS do HNers use?
Most HNers are worried about the privacy implications of using OnHub[1]. That got me thinking: I'm using Google DNS, which basically gives Google almost all of my traffic anyway. The alternatives (OpenDNS, ISP's DNS, etc) aren't much better. In that case, what do HNers use?

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10080065
Those are all dev kits, rather than consumer devices. I don't have hardware experience, and have no interest (in my current professional context) in ordering casings, mechanical buttons, or anything else. I just want to feed it a webhook URL and mail it out.
Wonderful production value and nice presentation. Looking forward to more of these.
i highly suggest you don't put personal info into this webpage.
There are official images http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/arm/armv6/ISO-I... . This project seems to be aiming to be the PC-BSD for arm-based boards, with different defaults for people new to FreeBSD, etc.
I wonder…

My suspicion is perhaps someone said "Make them free! We'll make _heaps_ more out of the sales than they cost!", and someone else (probably a greybeard with enough experience to remember) said "Hey, remember CueCat? Maybe we need to 'sell' them for at least enough that when someone works out a good use for them that _doesn't_ result in retail sales, we won't be too unhappy with people flocking to grab them from us..."
"a device which ensures your 'home automation' data stays in your home"

I have one of those, it's a Linksys router with OpenWRT acting as a firewall.

But if you can make it more user friendly and sparkle some hype all over... sure, go for it.
[Responding here to the parent flagged comment]

While logicrime's comments may be wrong and a bit over the top, I don't think this comment should have been flagged. We've seen a well-explained criticism of a potential, if unlikely, future. These comments are much less inflammatory than other comments that have been left alone on HN.

I still plan on embedding LuaJIT into my automation software, so I personally look forward to to seeing what CF and any LuaJIT successors produce. So let's take logicrime's fears into consideration instead of just shutting them down.

Thanks for looking after LuaJIT, jgc and CF!
You yourself point out an important difference - plant patents cover a single variety, utility patents cover every variety with a particular gene, no matter how it got there. (And the ability to save seeds is not "irrelevant for hybrid crops" - yes, you lose most of the benefits of having a hybrid variety, but farmers do it anyway because for some plantings the cost saving is worth the loss in yield.)

What's more, there's also quite a nasty patent thicket covering the techniques used in creating GM crops, so you can't just dodge the problem by going out and creating your own GM plant. It's one of the reasons golden rice was doomed to fail - it requires patent licenses from something like 30 companies because of the techniques it uses, including all the big biotech corps. Its creator managed to get heavily restricted free licenses for them because it made a good PR weapon against anti-GMO activists (his explanation), but the conditions make it pretty much useless. Only subsistence farmers or countries which can't grow enough calories to feed their population are legally allowed to grow it, and out of the latter I think only the Philippines even has the right climate to grow rice.
Keep in mind that the typical life span of a lab mouse is about 2 years. If your criterion for "curing cancer" in humans is based on the cancer not returning for just 2 years after treatment, then we've also "cured cancer" in many humans.
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I don't think there will be a significant market for your idea. One of the most rapidly adopted technologies of the 20th century is Color Television [1] and it still commands 36% of our attention [2].

Consumers have made it crystal clear that they are willing to trade their time and data for lower prices and more convenience. Watch the commercial on that landing page. It couldn't be targeted less at technical people.

[1]: http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/mt/assets/business/technol...

[2]: http://www.emarketer.com/Article/Mobile-Continues-Steal-Shar...
Thank you for the explanation. That is not really a problem, as there is information about drives known to work (you can reach it e.g. via Google). Also, USB pendrives are cheap, so just trying with pendrives you already have it is probable you find many already working properly.
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I have used Elm for a couple projects recently and the main benefit is it forces you to program in a maintainable and correct fashion. The community is active and tries to find the right patterns to use without compromising these core principles. I think the potential of a language like this for testable UI's could revolutionize and simplify client side development if it gains enough momentum.
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It can't just be information presented to you. You also need to apply critical thinking to your own assumptions and thought processes. There are tons of cognitive biases you can attribute to a lack of critical thinking applied to oneself:

The status-quo bias, functional fixedness, anchoring, the endowment effect etc.
The settings UI is pretty... bare bones at the moment. We'll hopefully have something much better in the near future.
I love your perspective on the current obsession with cloud computing. Hit me up sometime if you would like to talk more about this topic.
I use OpenDNS, primarily for it's content filtering capabilities (but also because I've benchmarked it to be faster than my ISP's DNS responses).
I'd say that the post very accurately describes the problem of self-esteem based on comparisons with others and/or current trends. Which is a big problem indeed.

However it's a problem only partially connected to Impostor Syndrome, which is defined as an inability to attribute own success to own competences. People suffering from IS attribute their success to luck or "faking".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome
"Probability of getting a positive result by chance" and "probability of getting a positive result when there is no effect" are the same thing. This is what the p-value measures. (The full phrase is generally a combination of the two: "probability of getting a positive result by chance when there is no effect"; but that's so long that people shorten it.)
Nope. That team is doing really interesting work.
1. Overall-- this can, theoretically speaking, integrate all- WiFi IoT, Zigbee IoT, Thread IoT, Weave IoT. Whichever way the market picks-up, Google can.

2. On top of that, the specs are good enough to stream multiple IP cams.

3​. Shot in the dark, but with all the "six 2.4GHz antennas, six 5GHz antennas, and a congestion-sensing antenna"​ they're probably trying to fix the classical WiFi congestion and star-topology range issues that comes with WiFi IoT. Especially because it supports 128 devices in WiFi.
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4. Rumors are, it already runs Brillo, their IoT OS they showcased at IO.​
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5. Its bridge mode support be something they can use to have "multiple BRs" as promised by Thread? ​

[4] http://nextmarket.co/blogs/smarthomeweekly/29309313-google-i...
[5] https://support.google.com/onhub/answer/6275097?vid=1-635755...
Also:

$ ping 2130706433
PING 2130706433 (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.043 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.106 ms
^C

Dotted quad is just a convenient representation of an unsigned int.
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Why don't more people use encrypted communication like ProtonMail?
ProtonMail is almost as convenient as Fastmail and GMail, with the added benefit that if you email someone else on ProtonMail then the email is encrypted.
Until this moment, I had not realized I would find such a book interesting.
Try being a bit less myopic

Personal attacks are frowned upon on HN.
Very cool, undersampling of color still exists in modern codecs, if you see something like YUV420 that means there's 2 chroma (color) pixels for every 4 luminance (brightness) pixels:

http://i.stack.imgur.com/U7hxZ.png

Since our eyes are more preceptive to detail rather than absolute color, you can lower your bitrate without perceived video quality.
> So, if you love your spouse and you want to have kids, then have kids.

This is a great takeaway for ambitious people who worry about the impact of having kids on their career.
No, seriously degrades, obstructs or repeatedly interrupts a radiocommunications service is illegal under the law.
If you're able to tell, which division is that? Is this really inner-Google product development, or mostly/partial/somewhat outsourced via a prod-dev consultancy?
Here is the torrent: http://thepiratebay.la/torrent/12247171
Would love to get your feedback on the Singularity framework: https://github.com/HubSpot/Singularity

Currently in use at HubSpot, OpenTable, Groupon (last I heard) and EverTrue.
There are lots of reasons you could get a false positive result that have nothing to do with chance: e.g. non-representative sample, miscalibrated equipment, biased methodology, researcher fraud, flawed statistical analysis, etc.

C.f. http://blog.minitab.com/blog/adventures-in-statistics/how-to...
I don't see how this gratifies intellectual curiosity whether it's real or it's fake.
A more fair comparison: the drafts of the ISO C and ISO C++ standards on my system (both from 2011) are 701 respectively 1325 pages, of which 180 respectively 410 describe the language, and the remainder the support library.

That difference isn't as large as I would have expected. Part of that may be style or formatting; C++ seems to have about a third more lines per page and smaller text, so I guesstimate it has about 50% more text per page. Looking at the descriptions of the preprocessor that seems about right; C needs 19 pages to do that, while C++ manages it in 13.

That would make the C++ language description about 3 times as long as that of C.
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As someone who spends most of my time in vim/ screen/ tmux I moved to xmonad recently as well (albeit on debian).

It felt very liberating to suddenly be free of all the Gnome3 / Unity politics, developer fragmentation, and complex desktop systems that still feel inferior to the commercial OS-X/Windows alternatives.
Somewhat related:

In the university I work the students must fill an anonymous poll about the teachers at the end of the course. It has a part where they can choose a number from 1 to 9 in each question and an open comment anonymous part. A month later the results of the polls are published in a web page.

The day they are published is very expected. Most of the teachers (T.A., professors, ...) just ignore the number part. They go straight to anonymous comments part. The worse comments are filtered, some comments are interesting but many of them are just a good source for gossip.

The takeaway is that people like to gossip.
Libraries don't allow for unlimited frictionless reproduction. Digital data does.

(Libraries providing content in digital form also do: CDs, DVDs, eBooks).

I don't see how a flat tax would be any better for the poor, than direct payment?

I feel like I'm repeating myself. Oh, because I am. Information is social infrastructure, benefitting all:

● Information goods typically have very high positive externalities -- they benefit those who don't directly consume them.

That is, a tax, particularly one scaled to income:

● Captures the otherwise uncompensated benefit to those who benefit by information even without directly paying for it. Among the benefits I'm referencing is living in an accurately informed public, which requries accurate, relevant, and timely news. Problems with compensation of news media are an ongoing problem. But entertainment matters as well: here's looking at you kid, whether you've paid to watch Casablanca or not.

● Is scaled to income/wealth. Just as the wealthy have benefitted more from society, they're paying on that basis. Dittoes for information.

● Information is raw material. Any denied access is lost social potential and deadweight cost.

your model would appear to me to extend the status quo -- where a lot of low quality content get a lot of views

That is a concern, and something I'm concerned with. It's addressed in a follow-up article (not listed above):

"Specifying a Universal Online Media Payment Syndication System"
https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/2h0h81/specify...

"Some level of price tiering. Seems that there should be a recognition that some content is considerably more cost-intensive than others. I've been pondering how to address this, and don't have a good metric, though assigning either authors or works to specific categories, and setting compensation tiers appropriately, could help. This might also be a way to avoid the Gresham's Law dilemma of crap content driving out good. If crap content has zero (or even negative) prices, then there's no (or at least less) economic incentive to produce it. Rewarding highly complex work based on its inputs would also be of benefit. To be developed but several models exist."

There are a number of related articles found searching for "content sindication" on my subreddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/search?q=content+syndic...

At the very least, you're breaking out of the blockbuster model and restrictions imposed by advertisers or agents on what gets created in the first place. We're already seeing this to some extent now. Sturgeon's Law applies: 90% of everything's crap. But with sufficient filter and recommendations systems, the good stuff can be found (though addressing that is another challenge).

There's also the issue of addressing quality and especially truth/relevance in informational content (news, research results). That's something else I'm kicking around. It's largely independent of content syndication, though possibly not entirely so.
I'd agree with this assessment that it's just a customer doing due diligence. I will say that these customers tend to be more enterprisey with all the implications therein
It was the entire point of the story. So it is something that is up for discussion. I see almost no reason why the child didn't stay with his dad during that time.
This is pretty huge news out of Waterloo, Canada today.

They raised at a $1B valuation (http://venturebeat.com/2015/08/18/tencent-invests-50m-in-kik...)
YC Fellowship Invites out yet?
Well, you also don't feed people hamburgers, steak, and bacon for every meal either if your goal is to "feed the world" and "keep humans alive." That doesn't stop people from doubling down on meat at every meal.
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I sense some of the same angst over Firefox as the author.

I used to only use Chrome for using Google, Twitter, and Facebook -- most everything else was using Firefox with the usual security and privacy extentions. Now I just about always just use Chrome with Privacy Badger and other EFF recommended extentions.

To be fair, one reason I went back to using Chrome more is that I now have a Chromebook thaat I use (surprisingly) a lot and I just got used to Chrome again.
That wise man is going to be fooled a lot; humans are easily tricked about what we think we see, and our memories about what we saw are not very good. Believing what we see might be a bit foolish.
> Google's core is still about serving you information

...of their choosing.