skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You appear to believe the author is making a global appeal and has deliberately put this on the HN front page. Please remember that this is the author's personal blog, the readers there probably know who this is, and some of them shared the link which made it here. Take the content for what it's worth, spare the author the patronising lecture.
I read somewhere that Whatsapp gained a lot of traction in countries where per-text fees were still rampant, and the texting within Whatsapp just flowed as normal data with no per-message charges.
That's even in the FAQ:

But really, I’ll get something, right?

No, we’re not even taking your shipping address. All we have to offer is nothing.
It's not so much the volume that is the problem from what I understand it is the way in which it is drawn. So if that same volume were drawn from a vein then the variability would be substantially less.

> How could Theranos not know about this?

Who says they did not know about this? Maybe they did but it did not agree with their plans, maybe they thought they could overcome it.
I don't know, I'm starting to run into a lot of difficulties writing a system than manages lots of different processes; I've ended up splitting a lot of these things into APIs now that have a rabbit a between them and the thing looks a lot better.

Language level integrated and robust process management/OTP features really are great; you only need to look at something like twisted to see that Python is not a perfect fit for managing this stuff and I'll play with other languages (probably Elixir right now) to see what I can learn.

Maybe the original poster is missing the point that having Python ideas added to a functional language would help? Or maybe I should just learn functional programming properly!
> More importantly, attempting to respond to invalid inputs is dangerous, for two reasons. First, in such a scenario we've already identified that someone is trying to be evil;

Being incorrect is not trying to be evil. smh

> Postel's law states that one should be conservative in what one does, but liberal in what one accepts from others; this is great advice for life, but terrible advice for writing software

No evidence of that either. I feel like this was written just to be argumentative; a living example of "Conway's Law".
HSBC is the bank the americans didn't prosecute because as they said, HSBC would surely lose their banking license and that would be bad for the economy.

The swiss, yeah, profiting from the proceeds of fraud, keeping the proceeds when banking customers die (or are murdered like crime bosses and dictators often are) and their one excuse for their whole private banking system, protection from persecution, lost all credibility when they turned the Jews back at the border to die, kept their money and destroyed as many of the records so the descendants of those they sent back to die couldn't get it back.

So now the Swiss are on the side of HSBC when HSBC have, yet again, been caught out in criminal behavior. Is anyone surprised by it?
Maybe you have a very poor understanding of your systems, or you have given up trying to understand them.

Or maybe you think that because any attempts at understanding systems are in your opinion "difficult", other users should "give up" and leave everything to some company like Microsoft.

Or maybe there is some other explanation. I don't know.

I am not sure why it matters to you how someone else chooses to use their own hardware, or what software they choose to use.

Not sure I really want to know. But I think you are wasting your time.

Your systems are larger and more complicated than they have to be. You have admitted it. You also admit your systems are full of flaws, and it does not sound like you are expending any effort to find and fix them.

Now you are telling me the size of your monitors. Who cares?
If you see all software as "large" and "complex", then that is how you see it. So what? What does this have to do with anything?

I started these threads because Microsoft ran an article in the NYT about greater "security". But it's still closed source. Microsoft does not let users unconditionally review nor trim the size of the code.

If you think Windows is the best option for you, then go right ahead and keep using it to the exclusion of anything else. I'm not trying to persuade you to do anything. Do whatever you want. I wish you all the best.

But spare me the comments. I do not follow your reasoning, or whatever point you are trying to make, and I'm not interested.
How do you request the data to be transferred?
This magical system is starting to get an awful lot more complicated.
object-fit doesn't solve the problem, it is similar to using background-image and set the background-size:cover. Still when the container's width/height ratio doesn't match the image's, there is risk that image could be inappropriately cut off
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So you're comparing the theoretical speeds in lab tests to actual speeds in the real world of older wifi tech? That's not really a fair nitpick.
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> In a recent interview, the judge, who sits on the Mississippi State Circuit Court, was unapologetic about his regime of indefinite detention: “The criminal system is a system of criminals. Sure, their rights are violated.” But, he added, “That’s the hardship of the criminal system.”

There is evil in all of us, I'm sure, and there those who allow themselves to be consumed by it. When I read these words, it's hard for me to see a person but instead, a monster.
What is it with all this stuff relying on server round trips when strictly speaking that is simply not necessary, why all this totally superfluous complexity?
Most other chat systems require user consent before sharing presence information
ARM's the closest spiritual successor I can think of, but it didn't have the kinda traction to make a proper successor to the cheap micros...

... at least then. now, there are. :)
Blog author here.

The beginning of the article praises Udemy's student experience.

Trust me, I'm not a competitor to them. If I were, I would have just hosted my course on my own platform without even thinking about Udemy.
It's scary because that server could be compromised and then your car is wide open.
Wow!

To some people, that article is going to seem like nit-picking, and insofar as it affects most people, it may be.

But my feeling on reading this article is gratitude. Thanks for writing it.

It's good for Udemy. If their business practices end up costing some content creators 87.5% of list price, then it's because the evil and/or lazy forces in the company have gained ground, and this kind of sunshine may weaken them.

It's good for content creators.

It's good for consumers. As a potential customer of courses like yours, I was discouraged at seeing their incentivization of cheaper, spammier courses. Why? Because even if education is turned into a product, it's is still a "buy-it-for-life" product where quality matters, and quality is the only metric I (and probably many of Udemy's shoppers!) really care about. Anything that could result in less noise/spam in their signal is appreciated.

It'll be interesting to see how Udemy responds.
That's almost entirely fixed with this release.

Since I help develop the game, I'm rather biased, but I think that it's as stable or more so than most triple-A titles released today.
But at least that requires physical access to the vehicle, something that is a bit harder to do when you're doing 90 miles per hour on the autobahn. But a server that can give you access to that car bypasses the air gap that would otherwise keep you safe.
Campaigns are on the roadmap. All the required code to support them is complete, we just need to build the scenarios.
There are a few points about de Waal that I think are worth mentioning. A lot of what he does is "adaptive" for someone in his situation: accept flaws, celebrate chance, don't sweat the small stuff. Keep producing. He can seem a bit twee at times and I think that is a problem with aestheticism in general. Once you start finding interesting sensory phenomena everywhere, it's difficult to make decisions about aesthetic value, and easy to start declaring everything "wonderful" and "perfect".
> particularly in a post-Ferguson world

I completely agree that it's absolutely vital in a republic to hold the people's representatives accountable for their actions, but please don't refer to the death of Michael Brown as an example. He assaulted and battered a law-enforcement officer; he was shot and slain in self defense. His death was justified, and deserved.
I think that trying to ding people for being intellectually inconsistent requires showing that the same people are the ones saying the inconsistent things. It's possible that different people are just drawn to commenting in different threads.
In the UK its an offence to handle goods which you believe to be stolen. What constitutes "belief" is left up to the court, but if ebay's primary function was to push stolen things then yes - they would be held accountable under this offence (handling stolen goods).

However, copyright theft is not actually theft for fairly obvious reasons (a pretty good PR win for the RIAA in getting everyone calling it theft)
It's a little different than the simple theft of a TV, although yes you raise a decent point. As I've been saying to people: just a reasonable effort is all I ask.

There is a watermark on the entire video, and you can quite easily tell the voice changes from the intro to the main body (where I also mention Pluralsight a few times). A very, very simple review process would catch this.

Every video I submit to Pluralsight goes through a 3-step review (Peer, A/V, tech) and they catch any possibility of copyright infringement (though yes, things do get through).

Udemy is not doing anything this way, and have admitted it publicly (see the post, I updated it at the bottom). They flatly say that they rely on their users to tell them if something has a copyright problem.
I ask for nothing every year and I never get it.
The article at the top of this page discusses the lack of access to high speed Internet in Palestine.
takeaway: break you lessons up into $5 (to you) chunks and the let them go on sale for $10.
The worst part about this is that it's not even shocking.

Even using something like https://Userify.com (SSH key management) (disclaimer: CTO) can't help if you don't practice basic key management or publish your private key (client or host).

It's easy to say "well, throw up a pfSense fw and done" but I can't tell my Dad to do that. Instead his router will probably get pwned and become part of some botnet.

This is just the tip of the iceberg. What about obsolete devices? Do we really have to tell people to replace their devices (routers, phones, automobiles, drones?!) every few years?

I'm against regulation in this space, but people need to get educated that security updates are required (forever?), or bad things will eventually happen. What's the answer here.. does it simply come down to a liability/lawsuit risk?
In isolate, this is an absurd sentence. If I said "I don't think we should [do horrible thing to group x]", then you could easily retort with "yeah, but if I disagree with you I'm against group x?" in a "screw you" sort of way, and, well, it'd be true, wouldn't it?

I'm not saying anything either way about the GP, but I'd suggest it'd be better to tackle the point, rather than have such a knee-jerk reaction.
So if platforms like udemy, app store, uber, etc. eventually gained monopolistic position (which makes business sense) and then adversely taking advantage from it in the long run, what is an alternative model? Transferring them to a blockain'esque infrastructure of public good? I'm seriously interested in a techno-organizational evolution of the platform model.
An excellent question and you are right, without educated voters and a free and fair press, democracy can fail. However with a strong constitution that guarantees basic human rights and free speech, and first and foremost, separation of church and state, it can help, but it takes some enlighten people willing to go against the majority in Islamic countries today.

I remember what happened in Algeria in the 90's the elections were fairly democratic , and people voted for the worst kind of islamists. Same with Egypt. Tunisia today is an exception. In the rest of the arab world, people will elect Islamists whenever they are given the choice.

But maybe that is a necessary evil in order for the region to evolve. I think the west messed up enough with the politics in that area and actually prevented some kind of "natural" course of action.

I hope Tunisia succeeds in becoming the first true "free and democratic" nation of the middle east.
Because most people have never experienced it, I don't think they realize how much of our legal system is at the discretion of judges and their own personal views / mood.

The chart in this post shows the relationship between court outcomes and time since the judge last ate (tho it is from Israel).
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2011/04/1...

Scary.
I think it's really easy to get excited about this and say it's bad, but we do need to consider the reality of the situation.

Lets say these devices all do the perfect thing and when first fired up generate their very own device signed public / private key pair. So what? How does this make them more secure if the device cannot provide the public to the end-user so they can match it to the one they got in the SSH or HTTPS connection before they establish that connection? The problem here is a chicken or the egg one, plain and simple. You can't just ship root CAs on devices which will connect to other devices because you'd be distributing private keys on the device generating the certificate which could be used by a bad guy to make valid key material.

As it stands with existing implementations, if the end users accepts the security warnings and connects to the device, a man in the middle can simply tamper with the encrypted traffic so that when they view the device cert, it's the one they see in the connection. This I'm afraid is the elephant in the room when it comes to device connectivity over protocols utilizing public / private key cryptography.

Of course this problem can be solved, but I would propose that it wouldn't be cheap in many cases and doesn't really solve the problem. For devices with no display output the manufacturer could fire the device up on the product line and then obtain the public after it is generated. They could then print it out or save it to a USB drive and put it in the box with the device. Ultimately; however, the end user getting the device will have no idea what that paper or USB drive is and it will be promptly ignored anyway and browser or SSH security warnings will be accepted just as they are today.
The assumption for all of these products should be that they are untrustworthy until made trustworthy, even if they are generating their own unique key material. With that in mind they should be configured on isolated, trusted networks until which point they are secured for environments which require this level of paranoia.

The only way to make them secure is if they can generate unique key material or accept organizational key material and then the connections are validated before establishing encrypted communication with the devices. Ideally this means having an organizational PKI program that can issue certificates to devices which are then validated against an organizational root CA or exporting the device generated public and importing it into hosts which will be used to connect with the device. For NAT'd or firewalled networks this also necessitates local DNS.

This I believe is the conversation we need to be having here. Are we in fact fooling ourselves on this one? As I look at the entire market of devices which implement HTTPS and SSH to connect to things like embedded web servers I don't see a solution which really allows anyone to secure anything unless you are in an organization with a solid PKI program and the device allows the use of organizational key material.
We create content in spanish www.oja.la here in udemy
https://www.udemy.com/u/pixelpro/

it has been almost a year since I notified them
808x has no Protected Mode or extended memory until the 80286 (actually the 80186, though hardly anybody used it) came out, beginning the IBM AT generation.

AT&T had an early UNIX PC series, the 6300 (8086, in a rebranded Olivetti unit)) and 6300 Plus (80286). I think the former only ran DOS and Venix, but they had a System V implementation for the Plus, IIRC.
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You're right, I hid the language in the hamburger menu, trying to make the mobile experience less "wall of text". We should think of some ways to bring it out.
He said except life necessities, which a shirt probably is part of.
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Between the use of burglary and the disregard of physical vs. intangible property, this is just a preposterous set of hypotheticals.

Why is it so bad to hold accountable both the company for hosting the content if they have reason to believe it was stolen and also the person who uploaded it? Criminal statutes punish pawn shops for selling stolen goods, criminal statutes punish people for knowingly purchasing stolen goods. Why can't a company be held responsible for knowingly acting as a marketplace for stolen goods?
> If I start a business in Canada (or the US) I can expect minimal to no interference from the government

I already acknowledged it's nicer to live in "The West" than in Russia for example.

But if you start a credit union with the intention of genuinely competing with the banks, the government will "regulate" you out of business for being a nuisance to the banking cartel.

In other words, the true nature of our societies comes into view, and as I pointed out, that nature is the exact same everywhere. The difference is that you live under a polished turd, whereas Russians don't.

> The details matter.

In a fundamental sense, they don't matter at all. A ruler is a ruler, and a subject is a subject, and ruling over people always involves coercion.

Coercion is, by definition, against anyone's will, and so no one is genuinely fine with being ruled.
ICQ (remember that one?) used to show when user logs in, or logs out - without need to add user to contact list and get his/her authorization. I used one terminal client to monitor when I get disconnected to see how "stable" my connection was. So this is not new.
Not sure why this is getting down voted. FDTD is solid work.
"...he had brought his own laptop with him, which the company had no control over. He was able to install his own software on it. The laptop’s USB ports, into which memory sticks are inserted, were not blocked.

From October 2006 until he was questioned by police on 22 December 2008, Falciani used his privileged access to download data including bank account numbers, client names, addresses and dates of birth, and sums held in accounts.

....his actions, including approaches to banks in Lebanon, suggested he had wanted to sell the stolen data.

.... Falciani had given a series of different reasons: that he wanted to “conduct a simple test”, that he was using fictitious data, and that he wanted to test the bank’s security. "

Sounds dodgy in the extreme
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From reading the wikipedia for his company [0] and "Chinese Mobile App UI Trends" [1] a while back, after getting to the part that their app has a web browser, I got the impression that they are replicating chinese apps for a western audience, where every thing you do (chat, browse, buy) happens through one app. I was not surprised to learn that they got 50M from Tencent.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kik_Messenger
[1] http://dangrover.com/blog/2014/12/01/chinese-mobile-app-ui-t...
Few simple suggestions:

1. Don't become outraged about the legal system based on news articles...keep in mind for each and every judge/prosecutor who does something wrong, there is a lawyer on the other side who has discovered the wrong and brought it to light

2. In general don't expect the government to fix systemic problems, and specifically, problems within the justice system (prosecutors, judges, public defenders)

3. If you are truely outraged (which should occur only when you have personal knowledge a wrong took place):

A. File a bar complaint (a disbarred judge/prosecutor will never again have the chance to do wrong);

B. Go on avvo/Martindale and publically rate them.
Every couple of years I hear about this. Then it gets forgotten, and re-invented. Each time it never manifests into a real product. That reminds me, I think we're about due for another rehash of the "Voyager leaves the solar system" article, anyone? Or another segment on the local news where they say "Scientist find [wine|beer|cheese|coffee|nuts|fat|red meat] [good|bad|healthy] for you" article.
is it possible that no one has paid anything and then they're just posting these numbers for attention?
And unfortunately with a much better reason.
Udemy sells courses for about $10 year round and people who obtain the course for free also count as students. Udemy takes 50% as well.

You could speculate that 10,000 copies were sold for $10 for $100,000 and then taken down to $50,000 after Udemy's cut.

I'm sure a bunch were likely given away for free to build early momentum on the course which is a common strategy to inflate your student count and get reviews.

I wouldn't be surprised if they raked in at least 20k.
Ello is not a facebook competitor, it's a Tumblr competitor. Except Tumblr growth has plateau'd and people are content with it. Thus Ello is a solution looking for a problem
These 2 things are created in different semiconductor technology (materials) that have quite different properties. Most communications are either in GaAs for NIR or in InGaAS/InP for mid IR. Visible stuff here is generally a large GaN die pumping a phosphor material. As the size of the die increases so does its capacitance which ultimately limits the rate at which the signal can be modulated or the brightness of the source. Additionally in the visible you use Si detectors which are slow due also to their large capacitance. So I think it's unlikely you could ever realize 224Gb/s unless you were using WDM (wavelength multiplexing).
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Readin the headline I kind of expected that it would be going to a worthwhile cause, but no.

Wow some people are stupid.
That's not necessarily true with Babel 6. The new modular approach requires that you explicitly list which plugins you want Babel to use. So for JSX, you'd need to have `babel-plugin-syntax-jsx` as a dependency.
> international call

It's important to remember that Snowden has confirmed several times that "international" is referring to the physical wire/fiber/radio they are tapping, not the people at each end of the call. In a packet switched world, any call can become "international" if the packets are sent by way of the Bahamas. ("misconfigured" BGP is a traditional method)
There's one quote that I see people refer to quite often:

> William Roper: So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!

> Sir Thomas More: Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?

> William Roper: Yes, I'd cut down every law in England to do that!

> Sir Thomas More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them down, and you're just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake!

-- A Man for All Seasons, 1966.