skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mark Twain* said "Keep all your eggs in one basket. Then guard that basket."

A good solution to identification would be a central state operated database. But it would have to be backed by strong laws defining what it can be used for with no loopholes, not even for police of "national security", and a default deny policy. It would help secure taxes, welfare benefits, health care, voting, and background checks. The database information cannot be sold, data mined, or used in a criminal investigation without a non-rubberstamped warrant. The database can be used to confirm identity but the ID number cannot be stored anywhere else. Other agencies, both government and non-governmental, will be required to generate their own internal IDs without recording the national ID so if one database is compromised it doesn't collapse the whole house of cards.

These are common sense policies but they are all human policies. No amount of technical wizardry can stop a human from doing something stupid. That's what laws and regulations are for. However the US has been stuck in a counterproductive attitude of treating regulation as a bad thing. So poorly implemented policies keep screwing up all the best technological intentions of the engineers.

(* Like most Mark Twain quotes there's a good chance this is misquoted or misattributed.)
A lot of it comes down to the mapping problem between the messy real world and nice-ish structured things like relational databases.

Almost all of the "identifying" objects about a person (names, emails, even fingerprints can change over time/accidents) change with time and circumstance. That's hard to encode in a database or program against, so identity is a harder problem to solve than people would like it to be.

People like 1:1 mappings because it is easy to map and report, but those are rare in the real world. There is more than one John Smith. John Smith may have more than one email address (at the same time even).

Credit Reporting Agencies are essentially tasked with doing an ad hoc mapping of the vast fuzzy cloud of identifying statistics about a person to a 1:1 report ID. It should be no great shock to anyone that the Credit Reporting Agencies will get this wrong sometimes. Sometimes I wonder if its the Credit Reporting Agencies that should just hand out identification numbers (here's your Equifax Report #, use it apply for credit from here on out; we will no longer provide results without that specific ID #) and stop trying to corral data that will always be wild and untamable.
Putting hosts (and domains) under control of /etc/hosts and dnsmasq means that there's little likelihood of traffic reaching them from your browser (though Web hosts could provide back-end data transfers).

It's also possible to directly address hosts by IP, though unlikely (Web protocols such as virtualhosts would fail).

I'm strongly favouring uMatrix for now. It takes some tuning, but you have fine-grained control over CSS, images, scripts, XHR, frames, and other bits, by domain or host.

Aggregators and CDNs confound things a bit (Akamai, Amazon's cloudy thing.)
> I'm not quite sure why this Internet-Draft expired without a replacement

Oh, because it was issued as an RFC!

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7627.txt
I've found this a really good discussion of how tech leads' responsibilities differ from front-line developers:

http://madeofmetaphors.com/shapes
Avoid PayPal.

Personally, I have used Wire Transfers as the goto option. I have never used escrow.com but the fees seem reasonable for a smaller deal. But honestly if the deal is anywhere around $20k or more then I'd get an attorney to handle the transaction part and have the attorney make sure to protect you from liability down the road.

And especially since it is international I'd specify US Dollars and Wire Transfer. I know the US Dollar specification sounds crazy but you'd be amazed what games people will play.
If you were going to stream video or work remotely it would be a huge deal.
Can the Internet exist without Linux?
> Due process has no process in combat

The problem with that attitude is how quickly the term "enemy combatant" will be (or was) redefined to mean 'any person we don't like'
That's saying 160 million Americans are better off than 4.3 million Swedes. That is the entire point.
> .. “dark gray” was lighter than “gray” ...

And still is!

<div style="height:400px; background-color:gray;"></div>

vs

<div style="height:400px; background-color:darkgray;"></div>
One question; what protections are in place to prevent some of the problems which plague user aggregated links (which are selected/ranked according to votes)? Is there any anti-vote cheating mechanisms in place? Anti-Spam measures?

One of the biggest problems that digg (RIP) and reddit have been fighting is organized groups of people (and/or their sockpuppets or network of bots) voting up their own links. Everything from SEO companies, marketing agencies to just plain old greedy spammers all attempt to game the system. There's quite a monetary incentive to reach reddit's front page and people have been abusing the system for over a half a decade now. What keeps those people in check, those who discover ways around or through their automated anti-vote cheating code (which is the majority), are the moderators. They're the fail safe. Having the entire thing decentralized removes the mods from the equation and your fail-safe as well. That's the problem; removing the mods may give you slightly less censorship, but you're not accounting for all the good things that come with having mods.

I don't mean to be cynical about this, but I do know for a fact this will never be more than a small experiment. I know this because if this ever got popular, I'd abuse the shit out of it myself and I have little to no incentive too. I can't even begin to imagine the abuse level from people with an actual motive.
Actually in my experience (in the EU) they still outsource everything they can, and outsource 90%+ of everything they cannot outsource. And they put a shiny new remedy instance in between to "help".

And then they wonder, when they have to push out new releases/features, why no one got the capacity and why only half of the features work - half the time (returning maybe confidential customer data of others customers, ohh).

But then it's the "moral duty" (management words...) of the remaining "local" teams to work 20/24 7/7 for a month to try to salvage what can be salvaged.
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I like the idea that the unique identifier comes from the credit agency rather than the individual... Though this requires open disclosure of credit reporting data, which might not be a bad thing, all things considered...

How do they validate you, though? You give them the unique ID, but what's to keep you from reporting someone else's with a FICO score of 800 (top of the chart, for those outside the US).
It is the old rendering path for Google Custom Search Engines:

https://developers.google.com/custom-search/docs/overview?hl...

Way back when Google first got VC, before they invented AdWords and got profitable, they explored a lot of custom business partner opportunities. So there were a number of specialized Google search endpoints like /linux, /bsd, /unclesam (search over Federal government websites). These were maintained until about 2013 - they go through a different rendering path than the one that serves mainstream Google Search. /linux, /bsd, /unclesam, and a few others were decomissioned in 2013, soon before I left Google, but it looks like /custom got a reprieve for whatever reason. It's actually been deprecated by the Custom Search Engine functionality linked above, but nobody's gotten around to removing it.

Incidentally, you can also get a similar page (slightly different, its last update was around 2007 and it shows no ads) by setting your user agent to "Mozilla 3.0".
If you want to debate this from an ethical standpoint, you could argue that the artists might have breached the producers' trust when they bombed the location with opposing and negative messages about the show. In an ideal scenario, these artists are encouraged to return the compensation they received if any because they should not benefit financially from their political opponents esp. when the contract was on a bona fide basis but I don't know really the details of the transaction or incident as a whole to be able to give sound advice or assessment of the situation here.

As with your argument that anti-authoritarian messages are best suited to despotic regimes, from what I was able to gather about this show, I found that it's very controversial and some people believe that the producers constantly push and glamorize a mass-surveillance state and a clueless, extensive, and all-out Bush's style "War on Terrorism", I guess the artists with their act were in the ballpark of opposing and protesting tyrannical regimes as you put it when they attacked one of the propaganda channels of America's Neo-Conservatives with their political message according to at least the prevailing analysis by the proponents of this stunt.
That seems right intuitively, but in existing TLS, there is a way that this can also be used to attack your communications with a third-party site. It is described in papers that were published at

https://secure-resumption.com/

although that site seems to be down right now.

While people can agree that this is ultimately a flaw in the design of the TLS protocol, in some contexts, it's still a reason that it matters whether your connection with an arbitrary site is using a safe Diffie-Hellman group or not.
Seems like you didn't read the article.
> If they're good enough to bullshit their way through an interview, they're good enough to bullshit their way through a whiteboard programming session.

That's not been my experience. I've met a fair number of ace bullshitters who fell to pieces when it came time to write any code. I'm not talking missing a semi-colon here or there; I'm talking closer to "an observer who walked in afterwards might not be able to tell what problem I asked them to code."
On the flip side, whatever the point of failure is, it's probably pretty high up in their stack.
I have to wonder if this "hack" would be so enthusiastically complimented for its cleverness were it not expressing such a popular opinion.
The UK doesn't have identity cards either, but the corresponding system (national insurance number) is rarely asked for outside of tax-related reasons.
What's interesting about USI is that they are funding it all themselves, and growing their fiber installations at a rate that seems sustainable.

One of their founders posts fairly regularly on Reddit with updates on construction, and he's pretty open about how things are going.

Unfortunately for me I'm about two blocks away from being covered, so I'm hoping they expand my direction next summer.
Sounds like you're doing great! Be careful about "Am I ignorant" questions: it's usually straightforward to find others who will tear you down for just about any reason you can imagine!
I asked the recruiter I had been working with about it, and her response was along the lines of: 'We only hire engineers who are capable of tackling any problem faced by the company.' ...
So a General Partner at an average VC makes $4mm per year?
The MSF hospital bombing was pretty clearly not a "terrible mistake", but was in fact "purposeful killing of civilians"

https://theintercept.com/2015/10/06/why-bombing-kunduz-hospi...
There's an argument that everything is a value judgement.

However, you'd only need to show where you defined "too hard" to contradict my statement.
According to this article, YCombinator took the entire Series Seed round for AirBnB -- https://arenavc.com/2015/07/airbnb-my-1-billion-lesson/
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The problem is promoting quality content people want to read. What if hackernews was just all viagra ads from spammers? Would you be fine with that? I sure wouldn't. That's the problem. Instead of quality content making it to the top or 'front page', people who pay the most can make it to the front page regardless of content quality.
The motive is actually obvious. MSF treats all patients regardless of what "side" they are on in a conflict. The Afghans/US felt/believed that MSF were treating wounded Taliban and decided to destroy the hospital as an act of reprisal/total war.
I wish HN prevented new accounts from commenting for one day unless verified by a mod.
If we are to believe the US government, they should release the recorded video from the AC-130 gunship so we can all make up our own minds.
Well, the way they're taking signals the opposite: more and more domain-specific expertise for tackling big problems, so would say that median age (aka training years plus relevant experience) is going to increase. That said, starting with kids can only do good for inspiration, evangelism and first steps. I can see happening both, YC partners and alumni are a pretty heterogenous bunch, other than smart.
http://blog.ycombinator.com/welcome-ali
Its still pretty limited in the rollout. http://www.scribblemaps.com/maps/view/fiberusi

It looks like if your rural phone company is good, you'll have faster, cheaper internet before the cities. Given the whole density thing, that's pretty sad.
I'm guessing you don't really know how TV shows are filmed. There could be dozens of people in the production who speak Arabic, but the odds that they would actually go on set and analyze the props is next to nil unless you are a person who works on the set. Is your argument that a sound man or camera operator speaking arabic would lend credibility to a show involving the middle east?
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You don't need the two follows pointers. That's an anti-pattern and solved by the right query syntax.
Surely this is barking up the wrong tree? The problem is with your phone provider allowing anyone to hijack your number. What Google does is entirely reasonable for the vast majority of people. If AT&T fucks up, that's not Google's fault.
This is insane. By your logic: "I'm inclined to at least consider the possibility that the Russians are polluting American's precious bodily fluids because it suits their own interests..."
One of the founders stated on Reddit that they've wired over 35,000 homes.
> Frustrating as it may be, I think that embracing the reality is the best path forward.

They want you to lick their boots "embrace the reality - its the best path forward!" They want you to spread your asscheeks open for them "embrace the reality, its the best path forward!"

Are you a shill for these companies, or just a resigned loser encouraging other people to be resigned losers?

When some company asks something unreasonable (or even "reasonable", to someone like this especially) I tell them to fuck off. Or you can get down on your knees and hop like a trained poodle like this fellow is telling you to.
This site looks horrible on android Firefox and only loads the first few paragraphs. What a bad trip.
You need to read this...

http://www.altisinc.com/resources/rules/
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It's not generated at birth, but I and millions of other Portuguese citizens have state-issued smartcards with our own public keypair (and signed by their certificate).

Yet just last week to sign up for a mobile contract, I had to print a PDF, sign it and scan it. The adoption has been almost nil.
Depending on the situation, you will at some point, if not often, have someone doing work for you that knows more about a topic or component. Understand that you don't have to know more or everything to be a good leader.
If life gives you lemons, ...
That show is great and it really goes to show how the rest of the world sees 'us'. It is funny to see how accurate they are.
I'm just a user of Dropbox and I don't even have acquaintances there. And I'm not an US citizen, I've blamed the US repeatedly for their external policies, so I can definitely sympathize with anti-war efforts and public shaming of the people that contributed.

But this smells like negative PR triggered on purpose by competition. It also happened with Mozilla's Brendan Eich as well.

One has to wonder, why doesn't this happen with bigger companies, like Microsoft, Google or Apple? I can tell you why. It's because they've got big PR and legal departments. But pumping money to avoid PR disasters is not the same thing as having a moral consciousness.

Plus the idea that Dropbox is more susceptible to wiretapping than the equivalents provided by Google, Apple, Microsoft or Amazon is absolutely laughable given that Dropbox is the only one on this list for which cloud storage is the product being sold and not something complementary. But yeah, fight the man.
I believe large objects are on a shared heap. Source: https://hamidreza-s.github.io/erlang%20garbage%20collection%...
I too quite like Carousel.

Regarding the background upload, I think you can enable cellular in the settings for the app?
thanks so much. your reply really helped me to go in the right direction (looks for music sites with CC license)
Yeah -- it's annoying how many layers there are, sometimes. At first we obviously were worried a couple sites which are CloudFlare customers were having problems due to our service. Wasn't that, moved upstream to AWS; wasn't that. Identified UltraDNS later, and confirmed externally.
And yet "panics" exist, with very similar semantics to exceptions in C++/Java/Python/Ruby.

Sure, there's differences between Go panics and any one of those implementations of exceptions (just as there are between them, or between any of them and Perl 6 exceptions.) But panics are clearly a variation on the exception theme, just as each of those forms of exceptions is.

The strong idiom of not having panics exposed across public interfaces of libraries is a cultural change, which to the extent that it is followed does present a simplification compared to ecosystems where you have to deal with both returns and exceptions in library code. But panics very much are exceptions, and changing the name doesn't change that.
If you are in a healthy organization, even though you verbally credit your team, etc., consistent successes will reveal that you are a good leader and mature leaders (above you) will recognize your value.
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This. There's nothing like setting up a rigid password policy to give the appearance of security, then providing a secondary super weak password like ssn or easy to figure out security questions. For many sites its purely about appearance with little real thought given to protecting users.
This would be great for قلب! It's an Arabic programming language: http://nas.sr/%D9%82%D9%84%D8%A8/

(repl here: http://qlb-repl.herokuapp.com/)

If you don't speak Arabic (like me, for now :<), you might have to look at the source code to figure out how to use it. :)
"That's because as banks mail out the new cards embedded with metallic chips en masse, thousands of credit card numbers are changed in the process."

Something doesn't make sense here. There's no inherent reason they'd need to change the account number on a credit card to replace it with a chip version. So far, I've received chip versions of two of my credit cards (one Mastercard and one Discover card), and they both have the same account numbers they had before.
I agree if you're modeling a symmetric friendship network like Facebook. However, Twitter following can be asymmetric. I could store the directionality on a relationship property, but that gets even uglier.
ETS still gives you a copy of the data when you retrieve it, so it doesn't really help there.
Yes, they breached trust, but it was not courageous, because there is basically zero chance of any kind of negative consequence for the individual, and any possible negative consequence would be extremely minimal.

My point about the courageousness of doing something like that under a despotic regime was not to say that is the only way to be courageous - my main point was that, if your bacon isn't on the line, it probably isn't courageous. For an example within the american system, even though I don't quite agree with all his choices, what Snowden did was courageous, because he had to literally flee the country for what he did.
The effect of an unreliable or malicious leader is fewer transactions than possible or unfair prioritization of transactions, but limited to a single (10 minute) block. Seems like if it were an uncommon event it should be not-very-consequential.

Then again, if the lottery likelihood is a function of hashing power then maybe it's not so well distributed.
lol fuck you dang
I have trouble with that phrasing, but I also have trouble with the phrasing that you suggest, too.

I have trouble with the word "authorize" because if he authorized the assassination, then (to me at least) that implies that the operator could choose to act or not. Was the operator able to choose? If not, then it's more than an authorization.

Maybe "ordered" is more correct, but I have my suspicions that word goes too far in the other direction.
Richelieu: "Give me six lines written by the most honest man and I will find in them something to hang him." How many tweets have you sent? Tweeted by Snowden today.

I think this sums it up. The web is a permanent record of the brilliant and stupid things that you have said and think while at the same time society has become very focused on responding to rather than ignoring the stupid things people say and think.
The RedScript syntax looks really great.

Also, +1 for LiveScript.

It's a powerful little language when combined with prelude:

http://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/livescript/

http://livescript.net/blog/10-things-you-didnt-know-livescri...
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Hah! I can factor any size prime in my head! (If it's not prime, though, all bets are off...)
Thankfully web developers are sharing the goodness and distributing 100MB+ executables using NodeJS & CEF so desktop applications can be insanely large too :^)
A sales weasel from dyn is trying to capitalise on the outage.

Here he is being trolled for it though: https://twitter.com/DynShane/status/654775378976768000
WordPress XML-RPC attacks on the rise and how to protect your site
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Calling policy differences corruption is silly. The US made a choice to favor competition and low regulation over no competition and high regulation. It was probably a poor decision.

But you can't just label it corruption.

Plus backhaul capacity has virtually nothing to do with ISP costs. Almost all the costs is last mile network.
Isn't that still kind of 2FA? You have to link a SSN to an email address.

physical 2FA always provided less security against people who know you (and thus could easily make that link), because those people have the physical presence to steal your token unlike a hacker in Elbonia.
>DTV reception even over a good antenna within 10 miles of the broadcast towers can be spotty.

It ends up being about more than distance. TV is just radio. If there are hills blocking the signal then even close transmitters can be a problem. If both you and the transmitters are on high places then the distance can be ridiculous.

In general indoor TV reception tends to be flaky. If the signal has to go through and refract around a whole lot of objects close to the ground then you end up with so much mush. There are reasons that people back in the day had an antenna on the roof and those reasons have not gone away. If someone is suggesting that their indoor antenna design is somehow better that what existed in the past they are pretty much selling snake oil.

There are sites that model TV reception. TVFool.com is the best one right at the moment.