skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IANAL but I don't think that such schemes have been tested in court. Here in Germany you can get in trouble for just linking to bad content, so it seems to me that storing a chunk of it, however encrypted and inaccessible to you it might be, isn't going to be safe.
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I think it's more of an issue with "marketing" or how IPFS is (was?) presented: It's not a magic web-in-the-sky for all the things -- but it does make it really easy to a) host stuff redundantly, and b) scale out distribution. So you could edit a static web page on your laptop, have a "post commit hook" (or other automagic system) that pulls/pushes published posts to two-three permanent servers -- these could be backed up as normal, or you could just spin up some VMs and have them "restore" from some "master list" of your own content (hashes).

Now as long as at least one device is up (and has the content), you can bring backups on-line easily. And as long as at least one server is connected to IPFS other nodes can get the content, and in theory, any spike in popularity will get distributed and cached "suitably".

An added bonus is that if you publish something like a controversial, but popular, political blog post/expose, and some government throw you in a hole that officially doesn't exist -- your readers, if they're on IPFS, will maintain an active backup of your content by virtue of reading it.

This is a lot more convenient than someone having to explicitly spider it etc (although a combination would probably work/be good idea -- eg: an IPFS "dmoz.org" where authors could register content index-pointers for others to spider/download into their IPFS nodes -- and index for search).
>my city has a "Girls Learning Code" meetup / lecture series that while advertises being gender neutral is clearly not so

The majority of women drop out of the running for STEM jobs before they even go to college - something is persuading them at the primary school level to avoid tech related fields. It's the biggest reason that the idea of sexism in the workplace pushing women out of IT is absurd - because they never got there in the first place. They never even got to the college classes in the first place. Even high school vocational programs focusing on tech have girls wildly unrepresented.

And it's the exact same reason that organizations like Girls Who Code is extremely important. It's the same reason that an organization like Boys Who Teach/Nurse/Other female dominated profession would be a godsend for evening out the gender balance in those fields.

Should there be code/stem programs for boys? Absolutely. Is there anything wrong with programs that exists primarily for outreach to a gender that is underrepresented in that field? Absolutely not.
With most email accounts being provided by gmail, outlook, and yahoo, I don't see auth via email domain ever happening.
me neither. doesn't it break "no cloning" rule?
I suspect that observing multiple generations of ants would give the answers for those questions. My guess is that the 25% which are permanent idlers are the older ants (retired) or injured ones (permanently disabled)
On the other hand, if you're too much of a perfectionist, you might never get larger tasks done because of obsession to detail.

Neurosis don't have much to do with mastery of programming IMO.
OpenNTPD has implemented a clever mitigation to this problem. It relies on trusting various key sites such as Google. You put one or more lines like this into your configuration file:

constraints from "https://www.google.com/search?q=openntpd"

As the man page puts it:

ntpd(8) can be configured to query the `Date'
from trusted HTTPS servers via TLS. This time
information is not used for precision but
acts as an authenticated constraint, thereby
reducing the impact of unauthenticated NTP
`Man-In-The-Middle' attacks. Received NTP
packets with time information falling outside
of a range near the constraint will be
discarded and such NTP servers will be
marked as invalid.

Of course, the devil is in the details. IIRC at the moment this check is only made when NTPD starts up, and not periodically during operation. But the general idea is probably quite solid.
If you can grasp all those things in less than a week, than congratulations: you're a once-in-a-lifetime genius.

If it takes you years to grasp all those things like the majority of us, then that's fine too.
There may be interesting content here, but the website is so badly designed and difficult to use, so no-one will ever use it.
Great comparison.

As a sidenote, basic authentication is part of the HTTP standard, so suggesting a truly open, standards based way of identifying a user for the purpose of accessing a service/system is not such a crazy idea.

It's not a dying concept, so there's scope still there.
If you believe you have it, you'll be much likely to have it.
I never said that the written language is the only encoder possible. However, I am sure you agree that it is by far the most common on the Internet. Even to navigate YouTube you need to read the buttons/know what to search for!

Furthermore, even if we take sufficient bandwidth to watch videos/hear audio for granted (which is a large technical problem in itself), we are still left with the problem that you first need to produce material in a language that the people actually understand (which is, all too often, not English or French or any other major language!).

> Is the Internet not the best (or at least one of the best) medium for the learning of the 'encoders' necessary for wider use?

In theory perhaps, but in practice? How many people do you know of that have learnt how to write and read using the Internet?
Oh, another cloud IoT thingie.

Seriously, this is ridiculous. Privacy aside, once again, this data should not be streamed all around the world just like that, not to mention being saved on third party servers.

We need to have a serious conversation about IoT and the cloud. We need a brain-dead simple protocol for setting up direct connections between devices in the same network and turning some of them into servers. Something that will not require technical expertise to set up if properly coded on devices. And after that, we should start expecting startups to use it. Dependence on third-party cloud services should not be an acceptable business model.
If I remember my final year Gymnasium paper correctly, we've come full circle again.

The concepts for stellarators and tokamaks were invented at about the same time. Although one in the west and the other in the east.

At first, stellarators were all the rage in the west but then were replaced mostly by tokamaks. Historically, tokamaks proved to be more popular because they had simpler geometry and produced hotter plasma because of providing a better confinement. Now, with the advantages of computer simulation, designing a stellarator isn't as hard as it used to be. That's really exciting.

But that's how science works. Even if tokamaks might end up being a dead end after all, there was scientific knowledge and practical experience being gained by studying and running them which also is useful for stellarator researchers.

OTOH ITER might be an expensive dead end, but ITER is also a political project and as we all know, those often go awry.
https://mitmproxy.org/

Works on all major os-es, although it may be bit harder to setup.
Also handles transparent SSL interception.
All I see is a blank page with ads.
> think that the root of this issue is that there are basically two ways to fix inequalities: flattening out the entire system or raising those below up to the same level as everyone else. The technique that has proven most successful was really the type of communist philosophy that was used by lots of these Eastern European states, and that essentially comes out to be leveling the playing system by putting everyone below where they could possibly be. Of course raising everyone up is a possibility, but as a whole it's proven extremely difficult to do.

I disagree there is a binary choice. Educational system in Finland was intended to address the inequality, but in the effect it actually helped the performance.

On the other hand, the U.S. with No Child Left Behind policy failed, mostly because it didn't address the inequality.

I think there are two things conflated here: power and choice. We should strive for equality in power, but still give people the choice. If you have the choice, then no one puts you below. I think the fallacy here is that people actually don't need huge resources to become successful, only modest ones. So you can distribute resources equally and yet the best people won't be topped out.

Contrary to popular opinion, lack of possibility to be rich wasn't the biggest obstacle in Eastern European countries. The biggest obstacle was existing bureaucracy (which actually had more power than normal people, it just wasn't expressed in money). Good innovators don't need financial incentives; they need (at least modest) access to resources and freedom. For example, this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Wichterle
> If it's programmed correctly then it is exactly as secure as a prepared statement.

That's a very big "if" right there. The same could be said for nearly every security flaw ever—if it were programmed correctly, it wouldn't be a security flaw. The reason people harp on prepared statements is not because you can't be secure without them, but that it's much easier to be secure with them. One you have to think about all the time (do I need to escape, do I not need to escape), while the other is almost completely secure against SQL injections by default.
Same thing with using system() vs execve()[1]. One is a minefield of quoting issues, the other has none.

[1] Or multi-arg system(), like in Perl or Ruby.
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Go build a simple web app. Right now. Pick a programming language out of a hat, set up a database, wire up a few buttons, add some logic, and shove it all up in some cloud.

If you haven't given up in a month, you're cut out for it. Persistence and a willingness to constantly learn are more important than your ability to do mental gymnastics.
Yes, you will have to use this tactic for a lot of games (guards in Prison Architect, soldiers in Age Of Empires who need to stay in the base, even when you're attacking, etc.). The only problem for the ants is if they have to feed those idlers.
So I guess it's safe to hypothesize (for now) that when we're not conscious, we are in a quantum superposition?
Furthermore, if the technology works eventually, you may already be retired (if not passed away!)
In my opinion, the motivation rather comes from the fascinating scientific questions behind those projects. Whether it works as an industry may be "just a plus".
Disclaimer: did a phd in tokamaks / experimental data crunching
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What a sexist comment. In this world where equality for men means "avoid the crimes they commit and their languishing in jails", does equality for women means that they will start take a job and not just spend the money of men?

Is the discussion so infected that we can't simply share a goal that every person should be equal in worth, be able to pursue their passion in life, and to have liberty. If we can't agree to such simple goals, then how can we ever have progress beyond political lines than just shout at each other, forever arguing and never fixing anything for the better.
Wouldnt touch neo4j with a ten foot pole.

Between the orientdb/neo4j dick swinging contest and the whole oreilly "graph database" book for pure fluff. I am left with a very bad taste in my mouth.

It tries to do the whole vendor lock-in thing... badly.
Understanding recursion:

If you understand it, you're fine.

Otherwise, go back to the beginning.
There are more issues here that could be discussed - particularly what is pointed out already in point 5, statistical quirks - but I'll stick to this one in point 6 for now:

"Another possibility is that the decline is more recent than we assume, and the result of slack in the labor market is due in large part to the recession."

I haven't studied US data, but in my country (Finland), which is a small country dependent on trade, the impact of recession is exactly the opposite. Recession means that the labor share of income goes up, not down. Labor share of income has been in historically local highs at a time when life was very very bad (1992-1993): high unemployment, falling income, foreclosures.

The labor share of income has gone down here, as well. But it's not because of more money going to capitalists. Their share has been essentially the same since 1970's (23-25%). In my country, the falling share of labor is almost entirely explained by the rising share of state: the proportion of taxes on production and imports has gone up by about 5 percentage points, from 10 % to 15% of national income. So the share of labor has gone down from ~67 % to ~60 %.

I wrote this blog post three years ago but it's still quite valid:
http://ptaipale.blogspot.fi/2012_08_01_archive.html
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Off topic:

Pocket turned up in my Firefox. I don't even know what it is, and why it's there. It weirdly replaced my Readability icon. (Goes off to read).

Okay so it's ReadItLater. Which I assume is something like Readability. Or is it bookmarking or shared bookmarking? What is it and why is it in Firefox?

Mozilla pared down their suite to a barebones browser. With the option of add-ons. Now it looks as if Firefox are adding services/features back in the browser. I think I'd prefer Mozilla work on a better bookmarking/history api.

And hopefully given a good API, I could drop in a provider that I could set up in any browser.
No idea. I wasn't planning to participate after seeing their persistence, with more than a few voicemails (I generally don't answer to number I don't recognize unless I'm expecting calls.) -- so I called the number back, which basically told me to leave my number and message, so I recorded the message with number to not call again.

Then, they've called me, which I told them to not call me again. (Which they've acknowledged.) Then a few days after they called me again, and I told them the same thing and she got extremely personal, telling me she's just doing her job; justifying reason they can call me despite my earlier denial because she (the attendant) was not the person who made the call earlier.

Complained to CDC via phone (which took me to the voicemail) and via their website, but I haven't received any response. I just had to conclude people involved in those surveys are highly unprofessional and incompetent, let alone not trustworthy enough for giving answer to any health related questions.
Love it! This article is the best I've seen so far on a topic I've been writing about for years, ever since Obama said this:

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yIBhg1v4bMo

All those politicians promising the middle class jobs to come back ... they are selling you a bill of goods. Automation and outsourcing has caused wages to fall. David Harvey argues this started in the 70s but was masked by the consumer credit boom and the internet boom:

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qOP2V_np2c0

WE WILL NEED expanded safety nets, preferably in the form of a universal basic income, so laid off people can re educate themselves. This money can come from taxing the gains that corporations make from automation, not enougu to disincentivize R&D but enough to redistribute some of that value to offset the DEMAND SHOCKS to local human labor. Without this we are heading for trouble. We do not have an elastic system right now that responds to increasing automation!

"He who does not work does not eat" - we need to decouple these in our economic system.

And contrary to what anarcho capitalists believe, it will enable more efficient allocation of resources: http://magarshak.com/blog/?p=185=1
This reply, and your perspectives on sharp tools, really make me smile. I'm definitely going to go use your tool, now. :)
don't blink
You're punching air mate.

I think the point was just that if we don't help these boys - then they are more likely to fall into patterns of crime and violence - which is a cost everyone in society would like to avoid. What is there to disagree with here?
$29 for running sending queries to the sql client through sublime? I'll pass.
> If it wasn't a subtle process, it should be easy to point at the problematic changes.

Fair enough.

> When it comes to ESR, my advice is not to believe a word you hear about him unless you can verify it.

Probably sane advice for any polarizing public figure.
For PCs you do control MOKs, for now.

For mobile devices, or for devices like Chromebooks, you don't. It is only matter of time, until PCs change too, with apologies like 'nobody uses it anyway, why complicate things' etc. The frog must be boiled slowly, otherwise it backfires.
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Meteor is an excellent (or: the best) prototyping framework. Getting some idea implemented into something usable that mostly looks and feels nice is a cakewalk of a few hours (once you know a little bit about popular atmosphere packages). It also can be used to get the UX of an idea right in live-coding sessions and to give a try at the hard problems of your idea quickly (atmosphere + the giant clusterfuck of NPM stuff should contain something that does what you need more or less). If you do some small tools or or internal stuff or the like, there is no need to progress any further after prototyping.

If you know there will be pressure, high growth or stability/performance/predictability/maintainability requirements for years to come, by all means, use the appropriate technology to build your product. You should know where the application problems are after tinkering with a prototype in meteor. For the average "90% of current products" you'll end up building, phoenix[1] is an excellent choice to build the real stuff, and you can have the same soft-realtime-sockets of meteor with just a little more thought (but way more predictable, structured & scalable).

But again, IMO nothing beats meteor for prototyping stuff as fast as possible.

[1] http://www.phoenixframework.org/
One thing that's worth adding - Twitter as a corporation might be in trouble, but Twitter as a product is not. If the corporation fails then the product would be bought by Facebook/Google/Apple/etc and carry on for a very long time yet.

Twitter might be hard (impossible?) to successfully monetize to the point where it's actually profitable, but as a platform it still has a huge amount of value that lots of people would like to own. Platforms with millions of users never fail quickly.
"TalkTalk's speedy decision to warn all of its customers that their vital data is at risk suggests that this one is very serious indeed."

Not all its customers obviously.
I left Talktalk a month ago as a customer but I could still login to my account online to download and settle my final bills. I'm pretty sure they still store my bank account and credit card info on their end and they didn't warn me about the attack...
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I agree with all the comments saying there's no short cut to finding out if you have "aptitude" for programming (or anything else). The only way to know is to try it, assessing its suitability is very much an internal matter, really a judgement call.

To cut through the noise, here's a suggestion: pick up a copy of "The Little Schemer", perhaps you'll find it at a library, or possibly on-line. It's a very easy and fun book to get into. Start answering the questions, if you're still at it past page 60 or so, you just might be a programmer. Get all the way through the book, then you definitely have the interest and ability.

As a bonus, if you do pursue programming you will have learned some very useful things, and if you decide to do something else, you saved yourself a fair bit of anguish.
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From my limited knowledge of BrowserId, it feels slightly wrong to me to place my identity in the web browser. What happens if someone borrows my PC, or I have multiple identitiesL This is still a bit of a 'mare for me when swapping between web browsers. Perhaps you should be able to hook an identity into any running app, via an identity manager/authentication agent.
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I don't disagree on any particular points. When I first read about it and started playing with it I definitely felt like my expectations were set to something other than what IPFS actually provides.

That said, I think systems of this nature are worth pursuing and perhaps IPFS itself can be improved for more general purpose use cases. For my part, I think it'd be awesome to be able to write some html, css, make some images, `ipfs add ~/website` and then be able to link anyone my content and have reasonable guarantees of it's existence for the rest of my life. I can host my own websites, but it's not a particularly enjoyable experience.

> This is a lot more convenient than someone having to explicitly spider it etc (although a combination would probably work/be good idea -- eg: an IPFS "dmoz.org" where authors could register content index-pointers for others to spider/download into their IPFS nodes -- and index for search).

IIRC it's possible to follow announcements of new hashes on the network and retrieve them automatically. I picked this up from #ipfs on FN, I believe, so I'm not 100% sure about it. Doing that would make an IPFS search engine fairly robust (and interesting to build, actually).