skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
you are right about privacy, but if you follow the thread the parent already makes a good point of user already having been desensitized about app security permission by them being confusing and only really understood by few

I agree that the current browsers represent an exceptionally good model to run remote applications securely, far better than the app store / play store 'sandbox' and 'vetting processes' model, since has been used since forever and tested again loads of different attack vectors.

but I don't know if this is the reason for non nerds not to use native apps
In Japan it's more prevalent (and more kinky).
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I have become slightly obsessed with the bloomberg article, http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-click-fraud/

Can anyone point me to some php scripts / git / gist or pastebin that generates this traffic. I just built one in php, I'm getting the session cookie and the page downloaded, but not sure if it's counting as a hit?

I really should be working on other things, but creating a 100 twitbot army is what got me into programming in the first place.
You are, the slug on the url of the post:

/gallery/presentations/dennis/2015_AsiaBSDCon/BSDNet.pdf
Sure, and I agree. But that's not what they're doing here.
Paper is available online:

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1412.3756v3.pdf
Why not? Did anybody said that catholics, including priests, don't use porn and don't feel sexual attraction?
I think this is the Spanish talkshow mentioned in the post which is quite a tl;dr for what went wrong with HBP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhsZll_P1iA
For doctors that really really don't want to switch:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk_hardware_emulator
It does some really weird stuff when I zoomed in. It put the map centered but drew all symbols in the right, bottom. Its like the overlay had bad x,y.
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The problem is that "Methodological monism" has never been a real approach of science as Feyerabend shows. It's just an idealized approach one can cull from some philosophy of science theories.

The idea that you can get some more robust idea of truth from fuzzier learning approach is interesting but doesn't have any relationship to Feyerabend and little relation to science as such.
Should've formatted them with ZFS or something j/k :>

Confirmed from my experience too. Luckily, archives with recovery records sometimes saved the day.
>the code usually doesn't even pretend to work

It does pretend to work for a while, often failing in another function, in another file, with a cryptic message. All preventable by a simple type check.
I believe that a field needs crackpots as much as they need fundamentalists for the optima-breaking reasons you outline. I'm not sure if you could institutionalize crackpottery – seems like the kind of thing that when measured, goes away. But I do think that one should take it upon oneself to "take one for the team" and occasionally entertain odd ideas, given that one understands why one is doing so and maintain a high standard of first-order evidence (NOT consistency/coherence/second-order evidence).
What are the benefits compared to make in a unix environment?
How do you “produce pulses of light as short as a femtosecond”?
The Wikipedia article on "Laser" states: "Temporal coherence can be used to produce pulses of light as short as a femtosecond." There is no reference. Is this true and if so what is the physical method used to switch this fast?
Hmmm... you don't seem quite up to date on Silicon Valley. You seem to forget the older achievements as well.

Intel (you seem impressed with them) are right in the heart.

Cisco, same.

Google seems to be unimpressive to you, but they are producing some pretty solid (and new) technology at a pretty high rate.

There are plenty of mediocre folks here as well, but there are also plenty of sharp ones.

(My background, btw, was DoE and NSF funded research. I came to work on California startups when things got much more interesting technically in the private sector)
I think this is just good for Search in general.

If for a moment one stops to think of Search and not of countries\companies, this is the way it should work.

Search needs to be much more decentralized than it currently is. People in different parts of the world think in different ways, express their information in different ways and access it in different ways.

For everyone on the planet to then have to wait for a few hundred people in some ivory tower in the West to decide how they access information is just not the most ideal way Search should run.
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I came up with this idea almost one year ago and it is really awesome to hear some positive feedback (especially from the person who is working on the similar problems) after a hard work. Thanks!
Those functions still pretend to work until you actually call them. I would say that it's a pretty big plus to know that your code is faulty without the evaluation actually having to run through the buggy function.
There is no switching in that sense, at least not necessarily: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode-locking
(Somewhat OT, but...)

Constructive logic accepts the truth of every integer is either even or odd, but only because we have
an effective means of determining which alternative holds for any integer. It does not accept the statement every real number is either rational or irrational; given a real number, say as a convergent series, we have no effective means of determining whether or not it is rational.

I don't understand this. Consider the smallest number N so that any N points in the coordinate plane in general position contain a subset of 7 points that form the vertices of a convex polygon (taken from [0], recently discussed here on HN): is this number, which is definitely an integer, even or odd? We don't know, because we don't know what the number is. Isn't that the same situation we are in with regard to the convergent series? What's the difference? If we actually computed the decimal expansion of the value of the convergent series, we would be able to look at it and see whether it was rational or irrational. There is the minor difficulty that the expansion is in most cases going to be infinite, but so what? We're talking about mathematics here, not computation.

[0] https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2015/09/20/unsolved-proble..., "Fifth grade" section
You keep using that word–“MVP”
Not the parent poster, but David Deutsch in "The Fabric of Reality": both outward-looking and utterly married to Popper.
The two are not mutually exclusive. To say that all scientific progress can't be attained by just following a single scientific method does not imply that following that method is fruitless or wrong. It obviously does work sometimes. The fitness landscape is complex and multifaceted, and different approaches to learning will work to varying degrees at different times.

The danger is in fundamentalism -- in the elevation of a single method or philosophy of science to an absolute One True Way and the (always attendant) purging and blacklisting of anyone who doesn't follow it.

It seems to me that a lot of people, especially CS and math types, are really deeply uncomfortable with the sort of multi-modality I'm talking about. Studying biology deeply made me really comfortable with it. It's really very rational too. If you understand learning, search, combinatorics, and evolutionary theory, the absolute requirement for multi-modality is easy to grasp... even intuitive to visualize. One would not traverse a desert with snowshoes, an ocean with boots, or a mountain with a road bike. Fitness landscapes are also varied and demand a varying set of strategies to cope with different types of terrain. We need an epistemological toolbox with all kinds of different tools in it.
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uhm while WebSQL and IndexDB aren't mature enough, wrapping libraries that grant some cross platform offline storage do exist and are only getting better
What you're talking about is puritanism or something like it. That's different from saying that the sexual needs of people should be emulated with porn. Even if the consequences are similar – less real sex with people and thus functional abstinence – I think puritans were more concerned with the timing and focus of sexual thoughts, i.e. control, over just indulging the whim without sophistication.

A bit handwavy but I'm mainly trying to say that different things are different.
Conversion of linear motion to rotational motion is the loss you're looking for.

To your point about effectively gas turbine/electric drive trains from your OP, the problem is efficency in burning the fuel. This comes from the lack of achievable compression ratio in a turbine system. 6:1 is good for a jet, 13:1 is good for a N/A piston engine (not sure what race engines run exactly).
Higher compression ratio = better fuel efficency.
Any idea how this was actually mapped? It looks like census tracts.
I'm on 5.0 as well and I have no such menu. I have "Apps with Usage Access", but that just controls android.permission.PACKAGE_USAGE_STATS.

By stock ROM, you mean you have a nexus device and the original or OTA upgraded firmware on it?
They already do. I used to work for a company where we would see Internet traffic routing all over the world and the middle east was no different in having several porn sites in their top ten most visited.

Sorry, this hasn't seemed to solve it.
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"Your experience with AWS support is generally correlated with how much you pay"

Can't say I've found this to be the case. We spend a minor fortune each month, have premium support, and get really poor help. I thought mostly everyone agreed AWS support stinks.

Part of the problem, I've realized, is we are not contacting support for trivial, common items. Rather we engage with them on outages in their service (ahem "elevated error rates"). On these and other similarly complex issues, their front-line support staff is ill equipped and they mostly resort to saying "I've escalated to the service team."
Any source for the cold fusion thing? I thought it was all in PHP.
There's something similar going on now called Endgame. See http://www.endgamegold.com/
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Democracy prevails! They open sourced the application which was used to collect and print all the signatures required to make the referendum happen: https://github.com/GeenPeil/teken
Although GCP has some distinguishing technical features like live migrations, based on my own independent availability monitoring, it hasn't been any more reliable than other cloud services including Azure and DigitalOcean. In fact, over the past year, EC2 has been much more reliable than GCE. The most common problems I've observed are network blips that may or may not get reported on the GCP status page.

https://cloudharmony.com/status-1year-for-google
https://cloudharmony.com/status-1year-for-aws
https://cloudharmony.com/status-1year-for-azure
https://cloudharmony.com/status-1year-for-digitalocean
The problem is human nature, specifically that we become emotionally attached to our ideas and our methods/tools and form cliques around them. If that weren't the case, a "crackpot" who followed their own peculiar methods and a systematic logical/positivist type could get along just fine and could even be objective about each others ideas. I also blame monotheism. A polytheist culture might have an easier time with the idea that there are multiple ways of thinking that can prove fruitful in different situations.

I've seen people who can pull this off, and it results in profoundly interesting debates. But most people can't. For most people their beliefs equal their identity and their sense of self, and other beliefs are a threat.
The first myth addressed by makelovenotporn.com (mentioned in the article) regards "facials".
I wonder how much men's desire to do this comes from watching porn.
Any grecian urns with men "dropping loads"?
If you cut off their access to the drugs, you're strong-arming them into accepting treatment or else. Like you said, that strategy doesn't work and is a net harm to addicts and society in general.

Treatment programs should be available and encouraged, of course, but if the guy really wants to continue abusing his prescription medication, that's his choice and I don't see the issue in supplying him.

Doctors encourage their patients to quit smoking, they don't jack up their cost of cigarettes 1000% and then shake their heads and absolve themselves of all responsibility when the patient isn't ready to quit and goes broke buying cigs instead.
Style in writing is about standpoint. Where are you coming from?

Leading with:

> Google Cloud Platform delivers the industry's best technical and differentiated features

Is clearly the standpoint of someone trying to convince you of something and the tone certainly put my hackles up. It's often more effective [1] to adopt the position of someone sharing what they find most interesting about a topic.

Instead of:

> How can a cloud platform be both Better AND Cheaper?
> Easy: it turns out that the same technology ...

Maybe something like:

> What's fascinating is that the same technology that allows cloud platform to perform better for these workloads also allows it to be cheaper.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Clear-Simple-Truth-Writing-Classic/dp/...
I love Paul Feyerabend. I believe that the titel "Against Method" was mainly supposed to be provocative. His main point really is to remind us that Popper's view of science is an idealization and that the process of scientific discovery is much more messy in reality. In other words, he is mainly stating facts about the history of science. Very interesting read with great examples. I also highly recommend his book (actually a set of lecture notes) "Science as an Art" in which he dicusses the similarities and the shared history of science and art.
I'm surprised a plain floppy disk is considered secure because it is in an envelope. Even though that envelope requires an id to pick up, I see that similar as a message in plaintext that has a header: private - please don't read.
This is great stuff.

Given the insane progress in speech\voice recognition in audio in the last 2-3 years, I have been wondering how soon we are going to see the same accuracy levels for object rec in video. Lots and lots of new apps on the horizon...
That's my fear as well, although I've seen a decline in the market over the past few years. After the banner ad crash of '08 it became harder for indie bloggers to make a living. And another problem I see these days is that not only are banner ads paying badly, but money has flooded into the field to back winner-takes-all ventures like Vox or Buzzfeed. So it's hard for the little guy to even get pizza money at this point.
Those interested in the philosophy of science should be aware of Karl Popper[0], and his view that what makes a theory scientific is its falsifiability: If a theory can be false in some way, then you must be able to construct some sort of empirical experiment which could demonstrate its falsehood. This is in contrast to the verificationism that was popular in the Vienna Circle during during his time, which took the view that positive experimental results was evidence towards the truth of a theory. So in his view, science is a process that produce theories that converge on the truth, but never quite get there. For him, "scientific fact" is an oxymoron.

He also famously got into a heated debate with Wittgenstein over the nature of philosophical inquiry. So heated, that Wittgenstein almost beat Poppers ass with a fire poker, or so the story goes[1].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Popper

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBmt2sCdd5E
Can we fix the title? The official title is "Google Cloud Platform delivers the industry's best technical and differentiated features". "Google Cloud Platform" is a meaninglessly vague title, especially considering the source is the official GCP blog.

That'd be like posting an article titled "Washington Post Delivering News to Best New Platforms" as simply "Washington Post". I realize that the original title is too sales-y, but if I knew it was marketing, I wouldn't have clicked.
As Jonathan said: the reason for the compilation phase is efficiency. The information in the compiled database is organized for fast loading and immediate access to the complete dependency tree.

And yes, efficiency is important. The point of s6-rc is to provide a dependency-based system manager with minimal overhead. Time a s6-rc run against an equivalent openrc run, and you will see a notable difference. strace both runs and you will understand why: OpenRC performs all its dependency analysis at run time, every time you run a script, and it has to read the whole database of scripts to do so. s6-rc performs the "read a zillion scripts, do the dependency analysis" part only once, and offline.

There are also other benefits: for instance, simple checking - when you write an invalid set of services, the error is detected at compile-time, not at run-time when it could prevent your machine from properly booting.

The database format is not proprietary. It's undocumented, which is not the same thing; and if people insist, I may document it. In the meantime, the code that reads it is in src/libs6rc/s6rc_db_read.c, a function that you can use in your own code, or that you can analyze to understand the format. It's not a complex one.

Going out of sync is not specific to s6-rc. It's a risk as soon as you compile something. It may happen with OpenRC too, if you forget to rc-update. It may happen with your binaries, if you forget to make install. "Things may go out of sync" is not an argument against compiled designs, it's an argument in favour of paying a little attention.
I haven't read Zero History yet, but I've added it to my list. Thanks for the tip - I'm embarrassed to say this, but I forgot about that book!! :)
I owned a translation of this book as a kid and had no luck (there was no way of knowing, pre-Internet, that the riddle had already been solved). Many years later I got the 1982 paperback English edition, which contained the solution as described by the author. It turns out that the crucial clue had been mangled by the translators.
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What is a shadow ban? Any links?
So true. I clicked the link. Tried to work out what it does. Decided the map had nothing on it at all. Wondered if maybe that's why hn was linking to it, so came back here to see. If I hadn't read your comment above I would never have seen the actual content of this thing.
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Unless the game is letting you explore underwater, why bother? And even then that still seems excessive.
Sorry I missed that, I have been working 16+ hours per day to get ready for re:Invent.
Thanks for the clarification. I was going by this wikipedia page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Websites_blocked_in_mainland_C...

So google.com, which does detract from my point.
I think that's a function of the quality of the disk drives and the media; both of which went into the toilet when floppies stopped being generally useful. (was windows 98 available on floppies?)
Fair warning, Neonomicon has Moore's...usual uncomfortable fascinations turned up to the max.
I think the business side of the invasion, in this case, was the business side of the invasion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamper-evident_technology
Any country having any sense of protecting its citizen's privacy would ban facebook.
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Also of importance in this area is Kuhn's [0] the "Structure of Scientific Revolutions" [1], which not only first coined the term "paradigm shift", but is also probably the best account of how science really works.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Kuhn

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Structure_of_Scientific_Re...
There's a deep technical thread about the Concorde from some of the original engineers and people who flew it at http://www.pprune.org/tech-log/423988-concorde-question.html
It appears to be broken down by counties, I assume. At least, those are the divisions in the New England states.
It's also worth noting that it's shared cpu prioritization so you will get at least your allocation, but can burst much higher for cpu bound loads in practice... though I find that joyent's storage pricing is pretty far out of line compared to gce, aws and azure and that their pricing all around is a bit higher. That said, their technology stack for docker is pretty damned cool.
You can't zfs, grub would already take all sectors.
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# Why I think it was bad

Saying "we're the better cloud" is a frail argument. Both GCP and AWS has strengths and weaknesses. People know that. Saying "we're the best" feels simplistic (and insincere).

Second, some of the things you mention (live migration, scalability, etc) are things that AWS also provide.

# What is good

The last part of your post, So, how can you optimize, was good. It wasn't bashing AWS, it was general, sound advice on how to build things for a cloud platform. More of that would have resulted in a better post.

Nearline is another good offering. You got great publicity on that when it was released recently. I think many felt it had better and simpler pricing, and a better structure for retrieval than glacier. That's what you should focus on.

No need to criticize your competitors or arguing that you're better than them in every dimension. Instead, build good products and let the customer decide.
As bketelsen says, you can use any name format, but that specific format isn't strictly enforced. In Kubernetes, that is the format used when using the DNS addon (which is powered by SkyDNS).
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A shadow ban is where you do not inform a user that he has been banned, but silently hide all posts from said user.

In your profile settings, you can set showdead to "yes" to see comments made by shadowbanned users.
As you say, the straw version of science doesn't come from Feyerabend, it comes from the scientists and philosophers of science who he's criticizing. It's true that the observation that there is no such thing as the scientific method is boring in and of itself (probably about as interesting as the observation that there's no single method for writing a novel or composing a symphony). However, I think there's a bit more to Feyerabend's critique than that. It's ultimately a challenge to the prestige and power currently enjoyed by the scientific establishment. Feyerabend is attempting to show not merely that this or that conception of the scientific method is flawed, but to establish the much more discomfiting conclusion that scientific progress has frequently been driven by non-rational considerations, so that there is no hope of showing that science is in any sense intellectually superior to competing purported sources of reliable knowledge. This claim might be true or false but it's certainly not boring. If you ask a typical scientist why science ought to get lots of prestige, money and power, the answer will typically depend on the claim that science is in some sense intellectually superior.
What? Baidu is already the dominant search engine in China. This deal makes it slightly more dominant.

I'm all for search competition, but this isn't going to make it happen.
JavaMail API itself has a linking exception and it's also dual licensed as the Common Development and Distribution License.