skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What do you mean by firewall, exactly?

The basic stuff: NAT translation, port forwarding, connection rejection and the like.

For bonus points, doing stuff like traffic shaping/prioritizing (like CoDel) at gigabit speed would be rather interesting.

At the moment the EdgeRouter Lite can do limited amounts of packet inspection using the offload hardware. As time goes on the Ubiquiti folks figure out how to better use the offload chip, but -for now- rate limiting and traffic shaping has to run through the thing's CPU, which -IIRC- gives you somewhere north of 100mbit/s of throughput.

> I think it's a good deal compared to something like...

Oh, for something that I would expect to be able to keep using for 10 years, I think it's quite a reasonable price. :D

Edit: Yeah, I don't really have any perf benchmarks to recommend. I guess -if I had the time and the gumption- I'd do something like set up iperf (probably 3 so you can use TCP) on two machines (each in a different subnet so packets would pass through the router) and adjust the iperf listen port so that my various firewall rules triggered, and compare performance.
I wonder if the robot actually works better than a power assisted wagon or wheelbarrow, perhaps with caterpillar tracks instead of wheels.
What makes defining "income" in a flat tax scheme more challenging (or more important) than defining it for a progressive tax scheme?
I have little to say about this.

It's incredibly sad, whatever happened. I've felt the loss from many people in my life leaving too soon. We all have. Sometimes it's suicide, sometimes it's a car accident. Sometimes it's cancer. Sometimes people just get old and die. Sometimes people get mugged by thugs. Or Police. Maybe there isn't a difference between the last two.

But it doesn't matter right now. The process of justice is a slow-moving wheel. Sometimes it doesn't move at all. Sometimes it moves the wrong way.

For better or worse, that wheel is not in the hacker community's hands. Keep records, remember what you saw happening. But it's far too soon to expect anything concrete.

Instead, I think it's reasonable to think of what the family has to say. At least for right now.

So I offer this:

I use Ian Murdock's work every day at my job and every evening when I'm just playing around with stuff.

Debian has been the single most important technology that propelled and directed my career and my creative life since I started creating things with technology.

This person, who I never had the opportunity to meet, affected my life in amazing ways by giving me tools I never had and didn't have the ability to imagine.

Thank you, Ian Murdock.
Crime is at an all-time low these days, and very few people hunt for food. You're probably much more likely to be killed or assaulted by a cop than anyone else, so it seems to make perfect sense that someone would want a gun to protect them from the cops.
I wish people wouldn't downvote legitimate site-design complaints. A lot of the readers here are web devs, and it's not that uncommon for creators to read the HN comments on their articles. Everyone needs to be reminded that good, sturdy design is important, and that clever tricks are more likely to break your site than provide any real value.
This is my favorite proposal to date. Sales tax applies equally to a pencil and a yacht. It also encourages savings at lower income levels.
I grew up in a coastal New England town. I always loved the call of seagulls, and now it reminds me of home. I dunno if I'm just imagining it, but seagulls seem to sound different on the west coast and in Japan.

Anyway, I've got nothing against seagulls. They're big, pretty birds who have to deal with an expanding human population, like everyone else. I don't find them more aggressive than any other wild animal. Just keep your mouth closed when they're overhead :)
2015 in review – 1 year after I quit blogging
I have had problems in the past with Windows. Every Rails tutorial I tried on Windows I would run in to problems. And spend hours trying to sort them out and find work arounds for windows specific issues.

Try the same tutorial on a Mac and it would just work. The time I save using a Mac is well worth any slight premium.

Actually my current windows laptop cost more than my macbook air. The air has more than enough power for developing web applications.

Both Windows and Mac have their fan boys/camps. I use both, but prefer Mac for development.
Wealth != Income
> A JS framework (likely Vue or React) is in my New Years Resolution.

Looks like if he has any exp, it's minimal at best.
Irish Genome Unveils Familiar Pattern of Migration from Middle East
And how people would be more careful drivers of you replaced airbags with a metal spike.

You would wind up with more careful drivers, but anyone who thinks that's the only goal is misguided.
I'd assume Google isn't doing it because no one at Google cares enough to implement such a feature. Features like site: and filetype: are over 10 years old, and I'm sure site: predates Google's IPO from when they were still figuring out how to monetize.

Infact, I wonder how many new search operators Google has even added in th epast 10 years.
Yay! Thanks. :D

This is undoubtedly going to disappear pretty quickly though.

To anybody reading this:

The original .tar.bz2 would be the ideal source to mirror, because then the checksums match up and you know you have the copy everyone else has without verifying each file manually.

FWIW, MEGA repos let you make directories. They can be up to 50GB so you have plenty of space to upload the original file along with an unpacked copy to browse. Then we just need somewhere resilient to put the link to the latest working repo.

I can fairly easily push this onto MEGA if I can get at the .tar.bz2.

My email is in my profile if you don't want to reply here.

One question though: at https://archive.is/2TTKO#post1058888 someone mentions a small but confusing date issue. Was this file released more than once?
> Could the same be done with government?

I don't think so, just because the goods it provides are so numerous and muddled.

Take one example: the fact that if I sign a contract I will feel legally obligated to follow through on it. This provides tremendous social good (billions of dollars worth), but it's very hard to quantify exactly how much.

Then you have to figure out how much it costs to provide that good. Should you include the total cost of government? No, probably not, because that includes lots of other goods. But the direct cost of say the courts isn't enough because they can only function thanks to the explicit backing of law enforcement and the implicit backing of the military.

It might be useful to start with a comparative analysis for governments though. It's probably impossible to delineate and assess every good the government provides, but you can compare the cost of governance and standard of living between countries.

In such an analysis, I highly doubt the US comes out well. Personally, I am 99% sure that my donations to the Against Malaria Foundation provide more total social good per dollar than my taxes.
Guys sadly he was murdered by the CIA...
It's from the NYTimes piece linked in the article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/30/business/economy/for-the-w...
No matter what business we do, "can do" sprite is the most important element. Look at Uber, Sidecar and Gogovan. I think everyone can generate similar ideas but no one do it. The one who did it succeed.
Start up business is a gamble. Being a pioneer of the industry takes the highest risk but also get higher opportunity to gain market share.
Yes, Wayland doesn't dictate anything, and that's the problem!

It is the moral equivalent of a glorified framebuffer. Number of subjects relevant in today interfaces interactions? I'm not sure there are any. Meanwhile graphic/interaction stacks on other systems concentrate on what is really needed by advances in tech and usages like HighDPI / mixed DPI / responsive GUI while updating their existing tech (e.g. RemoteDesktop) instead of deprecating them.

What does Wayland provides in term of modern usages with modern tech? Maybe I missed something but from what I read it is just backward-incompatible (for apps) low level tech, and for actual users this kind of stuff often have negative value...
That's the problem, too -- it applies equally to necessities and luxuries. Sales taxes are regressive because there is a certain amount of non-discretionary spending everyone has to make, regardless of income, just to live.
Thank for that. I was reading all of these "great job!" comments and thinking to myself that I couldn't be the only one that saw it that way.

This can't be a winning move long-term when companies do this and embrace such wide-scale failure so effortlessly without any consideration for the repercussions of their actions.
They would just have to be a paid informant.
3D acceleration - WIP :)

So will PS4 users who complain that they can't play Witcher 1 & 2, be able to play them on Linux there?-)
No, yachts get a break on sales tax.[1] Really.

[1] http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/business/new-jersey-cuts-...
This is only true if you are an employee, and even then I think there are ways around it.
Ask HN: Is HTTPS everywhere an opening for government licensing of websites?
This came up in conversation the other day. If all websites require a certificate to run HTTPS, what's to stop the government(s) turning that into a license?

Would the government be able to do deep-packet inspection again if they issued the certificates?

Is there any way we can stop this?
In fact, Apple has a fiduciary obligation to act in the interests of their shareholders.
I don't think the GP was claiming it was more challenging. The point is making the tax flat doesn't help solve this key problem, so all you get is a less progressive system overall.
Devs talking about fixing bugs in narrator, the earliest TTS engine in home computers:
https://github.com/amigasource/amigaos/blob/master/v40_src/w...
Oh :(

Here's the quote:

> Like kamelito already said: this stuff hasn't been leaked now, it's been leaked in the late nineties. Rumors have it that Tyschtschenko handed out the sources to a whole bunch of people in Germany (in addition to Phase5, which already had them) to make sure they don't get lost during the next bankruptcy.

> These sources were all over the warez boards in 1997 or 1998.

> It's the original 3.1 sources from Commodore, they require quite an exotic setup to compile (an obscure SunOS/Solaris based Cross-Compiler amongst other things, IIRC), Olaf Barthel had to spend quite a few hours to make them compile/assemble with modern tools before they could be used as the base for OS 3.5+.

Heh.

--

I love this one from further on in the thread:

> AmigaOS is not designed and implemented in a manner which would facilitate testing.

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Also, HN (Arc) doesn't use HTML, and got completely confused by the URL.

Worth reading! http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=80875
Seems to me that it's more about what opportunities will arise to take advantage of higher speeds. Most services aim at the typical consumer, general public, so until the general public has high speed access on average there will be few "reimagine how you do X" type services that leverage it.
How do you know if he will just "rough" you up? Maybe Ian thought the same too. Expecting mercy from a criminal is like hiring a pedo to babysit your kids.

I was pulled over once while carrying and the cop went from asshole to polite in a millisecond once I informed him I was legally carrying at 4 o'clock. Ultimately if a cop is going to draw on me with criminal intentions, then I will defend myself as if he were a criminal.
No idea whether or not this guy is super rich, but annual salary and net worth are two very different things.
uh, you should probably move, instead of complaining about who's president.
It's a real mystery what that piece never explains that the biggest reason for the drop in % of income paid in taxes is just the drop (from 28% to 15%) in the top cap gains rate.
I agree - definitely not saying that we can't use regulation to do some parts of this. But expecting companies to do whatever they can legally get away with is not the answer. Corporate responsibility has to play a role.
It's somewhat infuriating. People get to sit on wealth, watch it grow, and then pay less in taxes on that income than someone who is contributing to society by working for a living.
New year resolution: How to permanently delete your Facebook account?
> What does Wayland provides in term of modern usages with modern tech?

More direct and simpler (and therefore efficient) way to deal with drawing. X is bloated with tons of overhead and obsolete legacy stuff.

Here is a good talk about it: (The Real Story Behind Wayland and X) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIctzAQOe44
Yeah, wireless standards tend to be advertised as the maximum speed you can get with perfect conditions, but WiFi drops the complexity of the modulation the further you get away from the router and/or the more inteferance you have around.

802.11ac can drop all the way back to 6Mbps under really bad conditions!
Apple in 2016: Expected Products and Announcements
I tend to agree with you about the challenges. Even so, I'm now curious to know if some clever researcher has ever made an attempt!
Maybe so, but the outrage for 0% should be had towards the people who made a 0% tax rate: the EU/Ireland.

Being outraged at Apple is like being outraged at the weatherman about the weather.
No way; not another creative suicide. It's like Quaid is saying; and maybe Gates and Buffet dumped half their stuff while they could because the ones after all-power are ramping up their coming for the big fish to get them out of the way before they try their take-over. Sounds nuts, but Robin Williams? Seriously? Ian? Seriously? I don't think so. I just don't believe it. Bless those of you who lost a personal connection to a wonderful time and friend of your life.
It's not a 6502, not even an emulation.

It's a parody.
Most sales tax proposals include a "universal rebate", which is a fixed monthly amount given to everyone that's intended to cover the tax on necessities.
The one linked to from that forum is still exists on Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20151229025031/http://home.evers...

It has a date of 20-Aug-2013 13:35, and the download on rol.im, which is also on Wayback Machine, was identical. So perhaps the date has been modified or this is a copy of a two year old release? I did not catch the FTP server releases - which were on the CCC IP address range, I guess part of the 32C3 guest network - before they went down, so I do not know for sure.
Are Rat Things[0] really viable?

"MMRTG contains a total of 10.6 pounds (4.8 kilograms) of plutonium dioxide (including Pu-238) that initially provides approximately 2,000 watts of thermal power and 110 watts of electrical power when exposed to deep
space environments."[1]

Even if ~110 watts per ~4.8 kilograms is good for legs in agile situations, as opposed to wheels in a slow-and-steady rover, losing one in combat means you've just given the enemy a few kilos of radioactive material.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash#Rat_Things
[1]http://mars.nasa.gov/msl/files/mep/MMRTG_FactSheet_update_10...
It is worth pointing out that your link says 30 million metric tons of CH4. The biggest concern I am aware of (from the global perspective) is the global warming effect, for which it would be more meaningful to talk about all greenhouse gas emmisions.

The EPA estimates that we released the equivelent of 6,742 million metric tons of CO2 in 2013 (scaled to look at the warming effect over a 100 year period) [0]. The standard conversrion of CH4 to CO2 emissions is 25x, so we are leaking 32,500 metric tons CO2 equivelent an hour.

If we assume this leak will last for 1 year, it will leak a total of ~285 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent, or about 4% of our annual emissions.

[0]http://www3.epa.gov/climatechange/pdfs/usinventoryreport/US-...
Witcher 1 is not available for Linux. And good luck running witcher 2 on the super low end APU from AMD with mediocre Amd drivers.
evolutionary trees are littered with branches that have thus far been unable to overcome local maxima-
Our eyes' retinas for instance, have optic nerves that connect on the light sensitive surface, blocking a huge portion of valuable photons, instead of the logical place to connect them- on the REAR of the retina- as squid and octopus retinas have been connected in their completely independent eye evolution.

Once something works "good enough" there's not really any selective pressure to eliminate obvious design flaws if they don't particularly impede reproduction or survival.
Moon illusion
I took away something completely different. The OP gives herself permission to fail not because she doesn't want to put in the effort, or has any less desire to succeed.

The point is she doesn't want to be driven by fear. Fear is a powerful motivator but not necessarily a constructive one. Some people may find they lack drive without the fear of failure, but to me it seems the OP feels it more of a drag. Without the burden of fear she may feel more clarity and actually make better decisions, e.g. decisions that carry more personal risk but are better for the company/customers.
> With ssh you have to go pretty far out of your way to allow someone to log in without having a key or password.

Yeah. It's certainly not the default config. From what I can tell, you can either

* Activate PAM support and have a PAM module that just authorizes users, regardless of credentials.

* Enable PermitEmptyPasswords and have an account on the system that has no password.

So, I guess if you SSH to a machine that lets you log in with no password, or any username/password combo, you might want to consider that maybe your use of the machine is not necessarily authorized. :p

My hypothetical in the previous comment presumed that you presented a username/key or a username/password combo that you knew to the system and it granted you access... but I guess the situation can get a little more murky, if you're accessing a system managed by a pathologically lazy sysadmin. ;)
Heard about it...and mostly good things...
It's an annual salary, not an isolated winning lottery ticket. Even if he doesn't currently have a super high net worth, he will soon enough unless he's spending like a lottery winner.
Sure the mortgage deduction exemption is horrendous, but I think income source discrimination is a bigger issue. We have different rates for wages, long-term capital gains, bonus income. Don't even get me started on carried interest.

I'd also like to see social security contributions get uncapped. After $118k in income, your average tax rate falls until $189k. Even then, your mean tax rate will still be lower than someone earning $118k until you earn in excess of $411k.
1gbit/s is just under 120MB/s - the average read/write speed of an HDD. So yea, maybe you can backup your personal PC or two, but you still won't be using it for frequent reads/writes (latency issues aside). I have 1GbE LAN cabling at home and I'd really want 10GbE.
Also to put things in perspective - HDMI 2.0 does 18gbit/s. PCIE v 4.0 x 16 rounds down to 260 gbit/s of bandwidth.
Now please forgive me for being ridiculous and quoting these figures. :) But I don't think you need to be that crazy to imagine a few cool use cases for such bandwidths. Or the kind of resource wastefulness (in a positive sense) it would allow :-D

My point is - 1gbit/s - not as utopian as it first sounds.
Ask HN: Name a time you faced unexpected bureaucracy. How'd you work around it?
The problem is it isn't a debate about privacy vs security. Backdoored encryption = not secure = bad guys can steal your id, your money, shut down essential services, ...
I think the naming of things comes in to play here a little bit.

I think this piece would not have attracted the negativity it has here if it were entitled something a bit different, and I think, truer to the intent: Permission to be Human.
Edited to add:
I do very much appreciate that you wrote this and made it public. I think there's an empathy in your voice that's sorely lacking in the industry.
One problem with hearing that your vendor is comprised of low-maintenance caffeine fueled super robots that keep their commitments with the stubbornness of a thousand donkeys is knowing that your vendor probably has some slick liar salesmen giving you that line. What else do you not know then?
Apply to experiment with drugs in the cloud
You earn $1MM per year. That means either a) you spend way too much or b) you actually would be, even at an 80% tax rate, 'super rich'. I assume you live in an area where housing is expensive? That's a luxury you're paying for.

Of course people who already have large sums of wealth should be highly taxed as well. But you cannot tell me that the state taking 50% of the income of someone who makes a million a year is too much, right?

Edit: downvote storm! When did HN become /pol/?
phrenology is pseudoscience.
"DEC has it now" was from the late '80s; I can't find the original source, but tech media referenced it occasionally in the following years. [1][2] The "you can't have it" part was Bader's joke, of course.

[1] https://books.google.com/books?id=nBwEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA19&lpg=P...

[2] https://books.google.com/books?id=gx0EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA17&lpg=P...
Not really. Before or after gigabit, I'd throw that file in my Dropbox. It just sucks less now.

A fast connection doesn't mean that I'm deciding to throw more stuff online or make more use of cloud services. It's just nicer that the stuff I have to transfer moves a helluva lot faster now. So I haven't noticed a significant difference in my usage.
Th nuance of flakiness (if you work at a very large company with one continuous build system and one big repository for everyone) is that in order to not break dependent teams with your checkins, you run all their tests before checkin. Sometimes this catches major, subtle issues - out of a run with a million+ test targets, one test fails and it reveals a critical security bug in a widely used open source library. But most of the time, large numbers of poorly written (or neglected) tests fail, and it's not because of your change. The important thing is to show a distinction in the UI between a flaky test and a passing test, so that people don't look at a wall of green and see success, and push broken code to production.
The Library of Congress archives tweets.
He talks a lot about the increase in taxes needed but he neglects to mention the offset of no health insurance payments. Eliminating the insurance company profits will result in a net gain, at least the health-cost portion.
On the other hand, we don't need any more evidence. There is plenty of evidence already. This won't persuade anybody, but maybe it will motivate somebody.
So the appearance of dedication and the platitudes mouthed are more important than the actual results?

Saying something about "permission to fail" and then recovering & excelling < claiming repeatedly you're committed and putting in 100 hours a week that don't solve the problem effectively?
I was talking about income tax at time of exit. If you pre-exercise and file an 83b, you realize profit as long-term capital gains rather than ordinary income. It's hard to pre-exercise if doing so costs you $100k+ in exercise costs (you have to pay the option price). Options on common stock will be set at the price of common, which can be 10x if there are no preferred shares.

Read here regarding common/preferred valuations:

https://www.quora.com/What-were-typical-ratios-between-409a-...
And you are a leech my friend, at least this man provides some service to the world, unlike you ...
Russia's War Crimes in Syria, Amnesty Reported – Infossible
Don't bother. This only applies to the really reach.
Come on guys, don't be so mean!
It is just something for fun!
I may spend money on this but not on the actual Apple watch... At least I can have fun with this toy.