skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I've always REALLY wanted to see with regards to SSH and the web is an implementation of the SSH Agent API over web sockets or something. That way if I had some Ansible scripts I wanted to run from a web UI (like something similar to Rundeck) I wouldn't need a key sitting on my server to run those commands. The program invoking Ansible would provide an appropriate value for SSH_AUTH_SOCK that would be connected to my browser and tada. Now, I'm not entirely sure it is feasible, but we've implemented enough crypto in the browser lately, I'd bet it is.
The is a great idea, but the usability is probably not good enough to make it work.

What I like: I am authenticated by some proof of ownership, and, unlike with password authentication, the "thing I own" is never transferred over a wire or stored at the server. This is even better than what I have now (unique passwords for every site, managed with 1Password, and 2FA for important sites).

But the SSH callback would have to be automatic - Via a browser plugin, or even better, implemented by the browser itself. I don't think I want to start a terminal and past a string every time I log in to a site.

The "paste this into your terminal" also opens up a completely different can of worms - Social engineering!
Interesting article, but isn't that survivor bias?

All the tumblers seem inept when the only detectable tumblers are inept. You don't see the competent or succesful tumblers.
Charging people big $$$ to read research papers that their tax dollars paid for could also be considered stealing.
Clickable: https://roshan15.typeform.com/to/VzZ4Ib
Presumably the light must reflect properly, otherwise corner reflectors wouldn't work.
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>> It's crazy but people use this and have no problem handling over the keys to their bank account.

Part of the problem may be that people don't really understand where those keys are going. They put the information into their computer perhaps via keyboard. Beyond that they often don't know where it goes or where it gets stored. Perhaps they think it's stored locally in an app. For a while people didn't get the distinction between an app and a web site, but I think that's changing. People think Siri does voice recognition on their phone and freak out when you tell them all the recordings are sent to Apple and stored there.
I didn't read anything related to viruses in this story.
Nobody really wants to be a Comcast customer. Comcast thrives because they're mostly the only choice or the less bad choice of two.

I was a "happy" Comcast customer for years. I was in a condo where the choices were Comcast or Verizon DSL. Maybe. I called Verizon to see what they had to offer and they didn't know if I could get their DSL service or not. The best they could do was to place an order and see if it worked. Really!

Even if I could get service from them, their offer was 1.5Mbps for something like $50/month. Completely ridiculous.

It was like this when I moved out about three years ago, and as far as I know it's still like that today.
Talk to the guys from "Ergon Informatik" for instance - a Java shop from Zurich. Many of their engineers choose to do home-office on Thursday and not work on Friday.
It's not anonymous. All transactions are trivially followable, up to an anonymizer. But anonymizers have to eventually send the money to a destination, so their effect is pretty muted - just track the flow and user the resultant amounts to differentiate.

I think people look at bitcoin and hear "crypto" and immediately think opaque and unbreakable. Neither are true, but first impressions matter a lot.
Bitcoin don't have individual coins. Each transaction is like taking several pieces of gold and melting them together and splitting them up in new pieces.

Mixing multiple transactions from multiple people do not reveal what came from where - you only know sending addresses, receiving addresses and amounts - but no links between which senders are tied to which recievers. Instead of having a bunch of individual historical lines for each "coin" and each person there's a big web of unknown addresses, with only a few known original senders and maybe a few known recievers. Coinjoin lets strangers securely pool together their coins and get the same amount of coins out to several new addresses of yours, except that now nobody knows which addresses belong together and which coins belongs to which sender.
That won't help one bit. You make the assumption that extremism originates from religion while it can originate from any kind of ideology. Religion is not the source of violent extremism, just the most convenient justification. Not to mention banning another religion (a very extremist thing to do by the way) is completely impractical and will only increase the division between religious and non-religious people which will only fuel the fire.
Very cool. Reminds me of _The Soul of a New Machine_, with all the painstakingly assembled discrete logic.
You're mixing money laundering and terrorism funding. Terrorism doesn't need money laundering, they just need the money. They don't hold large accounts in Europe where they send the proceeds from their criminal activities to fund their retirements, quite the opposite.

Money laundering is about moving money from illicit to licit activities. Terrorism funding is exactly the opposite.
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Here's another home-built TTL computer: http://www.homebrewcpu.com
If you're in Boston proper, you can get NetBlazr: http://netblazr.com/ (wireless mesh network)

Unfortunately they don't even reach JP, so I'm stuck with Comcast.
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The only reason I currently use Comcast, is my choices are ATT DSL at 6 mbps, or Comcast.

Not that I like ATT, but when (coming in the next 6 months) they roll out faster service, I will be happy to switch.
This change is also required when sbux moves to using Google internet. I was scratching my head when it worked one week and then stopped working the next.
That's why I posted it here :)
To put things into context:

Companies in Greece have huge problems to transfer money into foreign countries. There is weekly limit and you need approval from ministry for anything over a few hundred Euro. Many of them are moving to Bulgaria or other countries.

There are also many Albanien emmigrants in Greece. Many of them are going back home due to crisis. Many (20%?) people moved from Albania and they really need them back.

And third it is not that bad place to live for Internet based companies. It is near sea, nice weather, cheap etc... EU, Russia, Turkey and Israel are near. Also it is on good path to join EU.
DEC was in the minicomputer and workstation businesses. It got squeezed to death between IBM at the high end and the upward expansion of the PC business at the low end.

A $25,000 MicroVAX was cheap and wonderful when it could replace a $250,000 mini, but not very attractive once a $2,500 PC-based server could do the same job.

DEC also had a bit of a NIH problem. For example, it did its own (expensive) PC, which wasn't IBM PC-compatible. Later, it launched Windows NT machines based on its own 64-bit microprocessor, the DEC Alpha. Then it did its own version of the ARM chip, the StrongARM (which later reappeared as the Intel XScale before being sold on again).

DEC also lost its star software designer, Dave Cutler, the man behind DEC's biggest success -- VAX VMS -- by cancelling his project. Bill Gates promptly hired him, and said he could bring whoever he wanted to Microsoft.

Cutler wrote Windows NT, which ultimately freed Microsoft from its huge problems with IBM and OS/2, and provided a transition path from DOS-based Windows to a real OS.

For younger readers, the top workstation companies were DEC, Sun, HP, Apollo, Silicon Graphics etc. The top minicomputer companies were IBM, DEC, HP, Wang, Data General, Prime, Nixdorf, NCR etc. Not many survivors from that lot, but they were big and powerful at the time.
Japan: http://www.demap.info/tetsudonow/
>I think you're under the assumption that currency conversions are traceable.

I was specifically addressing tumbling services. I'm guessing that you accept those services are easy to compromise (heck, for all we know, various governments might operate the current ones) which is why you bring up currency conversion.

>For example: 20 BTC -> $4000 -> 25000 yuan -> 4 new addresses @ 5, 10, 2, & 8 BTC

Let's turn this around: you have a list of transactions, you know when they took place, you know where the money ended up, and now you're tracing the line backwards, knowing that at some point, there will be a connection (or connections) to other transactions at least as big as this one; why do you think this is so hard to analyse?

>The only way to trace these is to compromise the exchange servers, get bank account information, and get transactions from the banks. Very difficult to do given the international nature of these exchanges.

Not really, given how little is known about some exchanges' operators.
Pretty sure that Comcast's ToS allows this and more.
Latency is pretty important for browsing the web. No matter how much bandwidth you have, making every request take two round-trips to geosync is going to make the connection feel very slow.

If low Earth orbit broadband internet ever happens, that could potentially be an excellent choice. But with the current offerings, it's always going to be the absolute last resort.
I have mentioned US immigration system as broken in many other comments of mine in HN. Why don't you go count that too ?
To be fair the "X1" has a much better UI/UX and digital buttons. Plus the voice search (you talk into the remote) works exceptionally well. There is no lag. I might say I actually like it. I was shocked that it came from comcast.

They actually have some comcast lab product where you can play games using your smartphone as the controller. I think it's beta but it wasn't that bad when I tried NBA Jam.

Source: comcast is my only internet option so I bundle.
That's true. My friend is doing a company to address that now:

https://sourcedna.com/
Where is an example of this. I write Node and Django on Linode since they provide great service, have a lot of flexibility and don't have extravagant and hard to predict prices for a VPS. It seems I have no options of running a C# website or project from my Ubuntu 14.04 without installing Mono. Is this accurate or are you saying somehow I can run an ASP.NET website from my Linode?

And assuming I can, is anybody else doing this? In the past it seems like production Mono makes no sense when Python and Node just work without additional libraries to make it work.
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> Why ? Those reasons aren't going to change, and the past is a very, very bad reason to fuck up the future. It's also merely an excuse: it's not a reason.

The why is incredibly simple - because that's how you stop more of them from appearing. Don't treat the symptom, treat the cause.
You can't write reality into compliance.

But you can make a lot of money failing.
User experience is in the eye of the beholder. My gut tells me the relevant beholder is an actual user and ssh login seems like the sort of thing that could be tested to segment user/application pairs into buckets based on the degree of value it adds. I mean, two factor authentication that requires me to shift my focus from my laptop to my phone and back to my laptop isn't always great for flow...too much meat space involved.

None of which is to say that this is a better solution. I don't think ssh over the web is going to have wide application based on the fact that coordinating ssh is still a devops type of exercise.
That is not the only issue, mirrors don't really work the way one naively imagines. See for example this video [1], mirrors have their appearance between about 10 and 15 minutes into the video. Reality won't match the simple mathematical model even ignoring the corners and having a door is the correct solution in practice.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NumSE2LvSmQ
YouTube to pay the fees of video creators fighting takedowns
Where is an example of this on Ubuntu? possibly a .NET site running on Ubuntu?
Setup OS X for development in few steps with my dotfiles
I assume this is because they found the vast majority of terrorism funding is done through Bitcoin, and not just another knee-jerk reaction to "crypto" - right?!
The Bovril advertisement with the Pope reminds me of Patera Quetzal, the pope-equivalent character in Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. He was often shown drinking beef tea. Given Wolfe's heavy catholic influences, it wouldn't surprise me if he was familiar with that ad.
These are truly beautiful. I know we say this every time there's a post like this but it's worth repeating: I can't get over the fact that these are high definition images of the surface of a planet that's just a dot in our night sky. We see weather, different material, natural formations... infinitely fascinating.
I came to post more or less this exact same comment. BMI does not take muscle mass into account at all. The Rock has a BMI of 31 (260lbs at 6'5") which is classified as obese. Hafþór Björnsson has a BMI of 41 (419lb at 6'9").

I agree with some of the other commenters too in that a full nutritional/lifestyle analysis over a long period of time is next to impossible because it relies on self-reporting which is known to be flawed [1][2]. People under-report their intake and overreport their exercise frequency and duration.

[1]http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2082216
[2]http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/76/4/766.full
Corbyn calls for economic sanctions against banks and countries funding Isis
9 reasons you should be using PyCharm
I have worked for companies making hiring software, most HR people are swimming in a sea of applicants and still do something as dumb as a raw keyword search of resumes from their db and call people with almost no other reference.

That is if you are lucky and doing direct hire work, if you are looking for temporary work the question at the top of everyone's mind is how recently you have applied.

I remember seeing databases with 400k+ employees and they had maybe 200 active staff, always doing work trying to recruit more people instead of using the data they already had.
I'd like to challenge the underlying assumption of NIH's reasoning here:
“We reached a point where in that five years the need for research has essentially shrunk to zero. “

This is not true. The demand for research animals is huge, and growing. Due to extremely restrictive laws and procedures governing the use of animals in research in the US and the EU (source: my own experience), virtually all interesting research (=breakthrough/publishable) becomes impractical.

What has already happened is that all interesting research moved to countries with less restrictive laws, namely China (source: direct exposure to my Chinese colleagues in neuroscience). With their vast and unrestrictive funding (CAS etc.), it is the Chinese who are now coming out with some fascinating results. More than that, some of my EU/US colleagues collaborate directly with them, on the exact same research, just on the Chinese soil (read: inconvenience of relocation, but that's about it).
It's extremely easy to middleman a HTTPS connection.

Many PC antivirus/firewall programs do it right now.
This is going to shock you, but there are a great many studies on this, not all of which come to the same conclusion. From a meta-analysis:

Relative to normal weight, both obesity (all grades) and grades 2 and 3 obesity were associated with significantly higher all-cause mortality. Grade 1 obesity overall was not associated with higher mortality, and overweight was associated with significantly lower all-cause mortality. The use of predefined standard BMI groupings can facilitate between-study comparisons.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23280227
Personally I much rather like the approach Plan 9 took to decomposition vs what SawMill attempted.
X1 is finally a modern TV UI, but the boxes are sooooo slow.
Whoops, I guess I asked the wrong question. Are small integers in Python as fast as integers in C?
Totally—who knew cinnamon was the cure for diabetes all these years! If only Big Pharma wasn't suppressing these kitchen cures!
When I was at a fortune 1000 company and a big project needed done ASAP, a bunch of people from multiple teams were shoved in a meeting room until the project was done. Worked great, but also shows how awful the standard day to day culture was. You spend so much of your time putting out day to day fires and meetings and status reports - that no time is left to do actual work.
Yes. Many markets have literally one option. My options for internet are comcast, or satellite probably? So really my only high speed option is comcast. I don't even think I can get DSL. I think a lot of markets the monopoly is even being protected by law.
When you ask 4000 and get 700 answers, you learned about motivations of the minority that answers surways only. No way to generalise to os population
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No one is blaming individual employees. Quite the opposite, in fact—they're blaming the organization for failing to address issues unless the right individual is reached.

That's been my experience, as well. In two instances (one business class, one residential), I had issues getting their construction department to actually do the work they promised until I was able to get through to the escalation department—once via Twitter, once (IIRC) on dslreports.com back when the Comcast direct forum was monitored. Once the escalation department was engaged, things moved very quickly, with them calling me almost daily with status updates.

There are clearly individuals at Comcast who care about customer service. Unfortunately, they don't seem to be the ones in charge of organizational policies and processes.
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Are you really sure? I think the -1 will be coerced to unsigned int, instead of the other way around. That would make it work.
I'll take that as a no, since you've clearly confused it with Occam's.
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Or you could use LX-branded zones on Illumos, as Joyent's Triton does. Too bad Joyent's public cloud isn't competitive with the others on price.

Edit: So as long as hardware virtualization is dominant in public clouds, a unikernel is a nice optimization for applications that only require a single process.
I agree with you. I'm troubled though by this new era of customer service where the focus is on having a team of people who monitor social media for the loudest complaints and devote resources to solving those out of fear of bad PR.
Did you see the frontpage today? EU clamping down on bitcoin to avoid viking invasion. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10594453
> which we torture them

I'm not sure to which extent this is true. From what I read (for example S. Pinker mentions this in his Better Nature..) these days all research on animals needs to be ok-ed by ethics committees, and the types of famous research from the past we read about wouldn't fly today. Pinker mentions explicitly his experience as an undergrad with experiments that involved rat torture and says that would never happen today. I guess people who actually work at labs would know more about this, but it appears that things have changed even for lab rats (even though we still destroy them mercilessly when they become pests to us.
It’s Time for the Academy to Put Its Pencils Down
Are you a lawyer?

I'm sure a content publisher could argue that by stating that the transport layer does not transform the content, that any such transformation (that the end user perceives) constitutes harm to them.

Such is law. That header gives them a basis for constructing this argument.
"Bacteria becoming completely resistant to treatment - also known as the antibiotic apocalypse - could plunge medicine back into the dark ages."

Probably not, for a number of reasons. The arms-race strategy of antibiotics vs drug resistance was doomed to fail from the start, as many know. The solution is counter intuitive: stop the arms race of stronger and stronger antibiotics completely, and the bacterial resistance to weaker antibiotics will be reduced over time. It's expensive for bacteria to keep antimicrobial genes around, and once the selective pressure of an antibiotic environment decreases, they'll lose the traits that confer resistance. It may even be possible to phase out one drug resistance trait at a time in multiple-drug-resistant populations. The horizontal gene transfer that the article mentions is really cool, but ultimately a non-sequitor when it comes to population-level infection control.

This solution means temporarily accepting uncontrolled drug-resistant bacteria in some narrow cases, which is unpalatable, but this strat works in the petri dish.
That's my perspective. Regulators are heavily incentivized to prevent deaths, even small numbers, that will generate headlines and political pressure. There is no political voice for much larger numbers that would be aided by new drugs that come to market quicker in a looser regulatory scheme.

That said, I understand why the laws have been shaped the way they have.
Actually using a Comcast cable box to watch things in 2015. I can't understand it. An Apple TV with a netflix and hulu account get you 95% of the way, with 100X better of a user experience.

Or if you don't have $100 to spare, you can always connect your laptop to your tv.
A lot of corporate networks block ads at the DNS level I assume. I don't have an ad blocker at this client but I never see ads. Just another point.
I wonder what this will do to the short term evolution of our species.

It's terribly morbid and I really don't think it will come to this but if many people start dying due to once easily treatable infections then it could rapidly (within a dozen generations or so) change how our immune system works.

A mass dieoff of a species due to a single catastrophic event is unlikely to intensely select for certain traits.

A flood amonsgst a non-swimming species is as likely to select for resillience or sleeping late in your tree or some other unpredicable attribute as it is for the "swimming" gene

But constant intense pressure could easily single out favorable attributes and I wonder what those will be and what the side effects or emergent traits of those genes will be.

Of course we are evolving via technology and society more rapidly than genetically so that could change everything.
Programs running on your PC can do it because they have access to your certificate store, and can tell the system to trust their certificate.

Entities not in control of your PC can't MITM an HTTPS connection, barring a catastrophic bug. And it is catastrophic. If you have a way to do this, please tell everybody because it's going to be the next Heartbleed.

The entire point of HTTPS is to prevent stuff like you're describing. And it does work, for the most part. Bugs happen, but they get fixed as they're discovered. It's definitely not "extremely easy."

Please go read up on this stuff before speaking authoritatively:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_Security
Interesting.

I worked with VMS back in the v.late 1980's - it was quite lovely, but that feeling was based on experiences with C64, CP/M and MS-DOS.

Somewhere in the back room I still have two Multias, which you mention, and were famous for running Microsoft NT (albeit briefly).

Are you confident of the NT back-story? My understanding (and I ack that much of this is heresay thwarted by time) was that MS had long since planned their IBM-non-friendly exit from the OS/2 co-venture (certainly pre-dating Dave Cutler's hiring). The timing doesn't seem to match up - though I concede my memory is a bit fuzzy, plus things moved at a different pace back then.