skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While Swartz was surely a lot more of a hero then Eric Garner, both were each in their own way murdered (or left for dead) by the same system of criminal prosecution.
FWIW, I think this has always been the "sticking point". ISPs don't actually want to do quite the horrible things that people are concerned they will one day do (though maybe in some cases they want to come close), but they do want to figure out how to manage the situation of "50% of traffic is coming from Netflix, and Netflix would like to give me some cheaper way of letting all of my customers have access to their product, whether in the form of a cache appliance or a direct network connection to their headquarters; I thereby want to be able to charge people differently for Netflix traffic than for other traffic". It then becomes a philosophical question as to whether you consider this to be a bad thing or not, but this is absolutely the core question: are peering agreements made with content providers who own networks morally in the right? I think the shit actually hits the fan not with companies like Comcast and T-Mobile but with companies like Facebook and Wikimedia: content providers who heavily invest in networks rather than networks who are bound to old content providers.
You know you can host the code behind persona.org your self on say https://auth.myservice.com. IIRC, it is node.js code.
It uses the 3270 terminal (xterm has a 3270 mode I've used), interface is predominantly 'ispf', it's essentially menu driven; you can browse/search the filesystem, edit files, submit jobs (everything is a job ie jcl ie job control language; compile, run programs etc) browse job spools (stdout from a job).

Google will show you images of ispf, browsing the jcl manuals will give you nightmares.
He holds views far to the right of the Republican party. This is enough to explain why neither party would welcome him

Even if he held mainstream Republican positions, the party might reject him on his tone and for not owing them anything.

They also might not welcome him because he's unqualified to be president.
Let's rather say: The deadly consequences were hazarded.
Digital device to help elite athletes optimize hemoglobin levels naturally
LOL.

(this was intended as a joke, right?)
OMVS mapped a hierarchical filesystem onto the dataset based mainframe filesystem. It's one hell of a kludge, imo. It's kind of like how cygwin attempts to emulate stuff windows doesn't have, like fork. Mainframe has the concept of a started task, which is kinda similar, but not quite
The thing is, what that's basically code for and what he didn't admit is: he's an asshole. When some one tells you they're an asshole (or not-quite tells you) you shouldn't go "well that means they're honest and trustworthy" you should go "well that means they're an asshole".
> Are you folks aware that 1000 years is already a very long time?

Geologically? Not at all. It's 0.000022% of the age of the Earth.
Keep trying. Every interviewer has their own standards, and I for one don't recommend against people for minor mistakes when they're on the right track.
I know.

But then I've taken on the maintenance and security of a system that I am not familiar with the internal workings of. That seems riskier than finding an alternative.
Ah. That's nice. Thanks for pointing that out. That's something I've not seen in any introductions to Common Lisp.

Are all of the standard functions documented this way?
The dubious UBI and the delusion that unpaid women's work is about oppression
I think projects like sci-hub are definitely a step in that direction, and the more projects that leverage the legal arbitrage and technical capabilities that exist today the better.

I'd be interested in trying to help someone who lives outside of the US figure out how to come up with something similar but for all the data that is trapped behind the facebooks and the like. I did something like this before, but I got hit with a C&D, but the technical capabilities are still available to leverage to weaken facebooks hold on personality information if one can side step the jurisdiction of such legal tools.
The Cruel Inequities
See also: Ed Yong in The Atlantic, who has a nice story on this that includes some rather fun sentences [1]: http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/01/youre-pro...

[1] Such as: "In 2014, Judah Rosner from the National Institutes of Health drew attention to this “fake fact” in a letter to Microbe magazine. More recent estimates, he noted, put the total number of human cells at anywhere from 15 trillion to 724 trillion, and the number of gut microbes at anywhere between 30 trillion and 400 trillion. Which gives a ratio that can best be expressed as ¯\_(ツ)_/¯."
Why, exactly, can't he ask them if can keep on violating their terms?

I don't get this attitude, Google is well within their rights to shut him down. He's well within his rights to ask for forgiveness and to complain about Google if they don't.

They're a corporation, not some feudal lord that is owed fealty.
The Anthropocene is functionally and stratigraphically distinct from the Holocene
Myths need busting when the myths are misleading. The idea hat there about as many bacteria cells in me as there are human cells in me is not misleading (whether it is less, more or order of magnitude more is not relevant) - it's the fact that I have a Eco-system of bacteria in and on me and recognising that is valuable
Setting up your requirements for heroku is not that simple. You have to create all the necessary information, like your requirements.txt etc. Turn on some level of real postgres, things of that nature.

Most of my time is spent consulting docs.
Your comment didn't argue against anything the parent said. What exactly is "insane"?
Nope. I have dnsmasq doing DHCP duties and it seems to work ok.

You should be able to do a killall dhcp if you don't want to use it.
I like him actually - his initial response paired with this strikes me as authentic, that he really did think they were some interest group funded by Verizon or something.

Unfortunate it was the EFF he thought this of, but his defense of binge on seems well reasoned and isn't surrounded in the normal corporate speak that usually comes from the CEO of a big company.
True. But, if persona has a large and active open source community, it might be better to use that than maintain homegrown solution in the hope of "security by obscurity".

There are some strong auth/auth open source communities - https://github.com/Jasig that serve millions of users.
If you believe in the mission behind Persona—identities controlled by users, not social network silos—then come help us rebuild Persona on top of blockchains. Blockchains never shut down, and you'll be able to keep your identity even if you change email addresses.

Talk to me: niran@niran.org
Canada forgot to plan for its future by leaning on oil and the loonie
Hemoglobin molecules are still only 0.04% iron though, right?
Couldn't agree more. New users I help often get stuck when they run into factors. Skip the whole class! Strings are the way to go.
Does anyone know how to switch from a 9.2 beta to a 9.3 beta? I looked around and didn't see any instructions.
It's not about peering.

In return for zero rating the video data for the video providers in the BingeOn program, they agree to serve video with a fixed highest bitrate, which saves on tower spectrum (which is far more important than whatever bandwidth consumption T-Mobile is experiencing at its peering points).

This makes sense. If you're a consumer who doesn't care about the bitrate being limited (assuming the highest bitrate is based on mobile device screen resolution), its not a problem. You get decent video quality on your device, T-Mobile doesn't have to work as hard at network management. If you want to opt out for whatever reason, there is a toggle switch to do so.

Its a clever solution to limited last-mile mobile connectivity.
He could donate $40,000 directly to me. That'd be a much better deal.
since they removed the 'do not be evil' slogan? just move to openstreetmap and ditch google map api.
Someone actually made a perfectly indexed epub back then but I think HN frowns upon the reformatting of someone's public blog, which I guess is why more people don't upload an epub of pg's blog.
Oh you're right. That chart aggregates values from all the schools. But only Harvard Business School (mentioned in the headline) had a gap of $97,800.
Please tell me that he's not a Nigerian prince.
Being present (at work or personal life)
As long as they can be "digitized or automated" and as long as we make sure IP restrictions won't get in the way.
[Breaking News] Bellagio Curtains Opened New Showroom in Singapore
If this is the case, then that's just sad. What have we done to ourselves?????
There were places around that rent time. There was also a place offering free accounts, I don't even remember the name now. There's one hell of a learning curve, makes it really hard to do anything other than poke around when you don't know the params to code in a jcl to compile a program. My first gig was mainframe cobol, the company put everyone thru a 3 month training program, that's the only reason I know anything about it.
You spend more time caring and hating on systemd than it takes to learn it and overcome your issues.

Most everyone who hates on systemd has this problem; you could blame systemd. Or you could realize you have a problem
This situation is drama.

This isn't news.

This isn't interesting.

This isn't thought-provoking.

It's just drama.

We're not in high school anymore. We can cut the drama, really, without any negative consequences.
>There really is no good solution anymore

Maybe a more secure os? I gather Chromebooks or Linux work quite well

I wonder if anyone's tried making something that looks like regular Windows but it actually Windows running in a VM under Linux. Might be a way to make something hard to hack but usable by people who only know Windows? Maybe it could have something like Git for versioning the Windows images so you could just roll back to when Cryptolocker got installed?
I do not know if telcos in other countries also have this but here in the Philippines, there are promotions where you can use a prepaid SIM and pay a fixed amount per day/week/month which allows you to send unlimited SMS.

While this is beneficial to consumers, SMS spammers equipped with gsm modems and this promowls to send text blasts. Prepaid SIM cards are also not regulated here (no need for ids to buy one) and you can get one for about $1.
"Bacteria don't have nuclei" isn't the same thing as eukaryotic cells not having nuclei, though, as they still are functional cells with genes. The point isn't the presence or absence of a morphological feature, it is that eukaryotic cells lacking nuclei are hardly even cells, as they lack DNA entirely. As for the mitochondria, why would they be "against" bacteria? They are the enslaved proletariat of the bacterial kingdom! When the revolution comes, eukaryotes will be screwed.
So glad that stringsAsFactors exists. Saves me a lot of time.
Indeed. Moreover, if you consider the number of people who die every day, it's almost - no, it's precisely cruel our civilization is mostly ignoring the problems of aging and death. We should be pouring much more resources and people into this.
it would be awesome if the community could really take persona up and fix it up / make it easy to run etc.

i.e. i wish projects like this the best of luck and hope to be using them later :)
Microsoft has been pushing the requirement for the faster processor harder than any other company. Complexity of Applications; how big they are.

I remember when Office used to fit on a single CD... the whole suite

But it's seriously the unseen side of microsoft is their hardware division. If it's slow that means you should upgrade

Maybe if you paid for hotmail it would be faster
linked_list.rs once you strip the comments, struct defs, and whatnot out has 415 lines, of which 64 reside in unsafe blocks, 6x as much code to check.

That's one trivial module. The piston modules and other c bindings have much worse ratios.

When the amount of code that you have to verify manually jumps by 6x (or worse), that's surprising. I was surprised and troubled by that.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10871694
True, but bacteria have an analogous nucleoid, which contains genetic information. Also, the mitochondria have a lot less genetic information than the cells.

More to the point about ridiculous headlines, the ratio of 10:1 is easily within the possibilities, given the uncertainty in both estimates.
Forget about car seats - bring your own vests and don't worry about it: http://saferide4kids.com/product/ridesafer-travel-vest/

Disclaimer: I haven't tried them. But I'd be open to it, as someone with kids who would prefer not to own a car eventually.
>Almost no one does.

That's not even remotely true. Our justice system may be severely fucked in many ways, but it's not completely nonfunctional. But we hear about the problems whenever something goes wrong. The other 99.9 percent of the time when things go smoothly we don't even notice...
The original version used the word clip instead of magazine in several cases.

It has clearly been changed.
I'm still disgusted by the behavior of the MIT officials in all of this. Whenever I see or hear 'MIT' the first thing that comes to mind is: "that's the school that was responsible for the death of Aaron".
Downvoting needs to go away. Upvoting a good comment is a positive action. Downvoting is a power trip, and in many ways protectionist and exclusive. I've seen too many comments downvoted based on unpopular opinions which were perfectly constructive and appropriately toned.

People are very happy to exercise their ability to punish others when given that power. It's gotten out of hand here.

Edit: here being HN, not necessarily this thread.
> It amazes me what our justice system can do to people and not be held responsible.

Just to play devil's advocate here (and I understand this goes against prevailing opinion), but he did break the law. That much isn't in dispute, they had a video of him entering the MIT network closet. And he didn't commit misdemeanors, he committed a half dozen felonies (actually more, but the prosecution dropped a few of them).

The prosecution was offering a meager 6 months in a low-security prison (for multiple felonies, that's peanuts) for his crimes but he rejected the offer (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz#Arrest_and_prosec...).

I understand what he was fighting for and agree with him and his ideology. I support Open Access, but let's not kid ourselves or delude ourselves - he wasn't innocent. He did commit crimes. I don't think this is the justice's systems fault. They were going to go extremely light on him but it was he who chose to fight.
Thanks for sharing, great videos.
> You can react two ways: 1) impotent anger or 2) stand up and continue his fight. Which will it be?

False dichotomy and manipulative, there's many ways to react outside of those narrow choices.
A list of network layer resources written pure JS
My wife has those same pangs of concern from time to time. That balance of the logic vs those pangs of concern is interesting. I think it can be easy to let the concern outweigh the logic.
Marissa Mayer is called 'Evita'
Identity/Persona Shutdown Guidelines for Reliers
The response to his death is creepy to me, like "His name is Robert Paulson". There's so much misinformation, and misuse of his death for ideological and social purposes unrelated to the actual person. The fact that someone made something called "Internet's Own Boy" only compounds this. If it were me, I'd want to come back to life just to tell you all that I'm not your puppet, and you have no clue why I died; you didn't know me, and I am not "your boy". Since I couldn't come back to life, I'd hope there'd be people who would speak against this groupthink on my behalf.
One obvious local sticking point is mammalian cervical vertebrae (a couple critters have more or fewer, but basically you're stuck at 7 whether you're a rat or giraffe)
Not really.

A FreeBSD 4.x system with a (modestly) stripped down kernel and running sshd was not only rock solid in 2003, but would probably be rock solid today.

Just to pick one random example.
Just a minor nitpick, the last line of the build instructions is repeated twice("open the dev tools with F12 and type the following in the console: and type the following in the Console"):

http://docs.superpowers-html5.com/en/development/building-su...
Usually setting the global whitelist to allow *.$currentpage.tld and maybe 10 to 20 others, that become obvious as you go, is more than enough to get 99% of the way there.
Oh it's not a pyramid scheme though. Think of it as more of a circle. A circle of unity.

And in the middle of the circle of unity is us, the early adopters.

All we have to do is give Xenu all of our material belongings and buckle in for the incredible rewards coming our way!
This recent one in regards to an AVG Chrome extension is slightly "less-worse" than this TrendMicro issue:
https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/de...
What is the intuitive explanation of RankNet, LambdaRank and LambdaMART?
The problem is that it's still not directly controlled by you, it's controlled by your key. Certain classes of mistake are impossible to fix with no one in charge.
http://www.guidingtech.com/20562/search-create-edit-notes-si...

for those with an affinity for ios. seems like notes and siri are actually a viable solution. No idea how many notes ios can hold, or how search performance goes?
No he was not murdered; he committed suicide rather than face jail and fight. Using hyperbolic language and calling a suicide murder doesn't do anything useful.
Not sure if I'm crazy here, but I thought that the star ratings they show on the UI are their prediction of how much you will like the movie (i.e., they think you will give this movie 2 stars).

Anyone know?
What's the blockchain offer here?

Like, compared to publishing a public key. Simplicity doesn't seem to be an answer.
I use Flashcontrol on Chrome which stops the autoplays but doesn't have much other effect
There is a huge difference between things going smoothly and things being just. Something like 95% of cases in the US don't even go to trial. They're ended in a plea bargain, which allows the prosecutor to serve as both judge and jury. I do not think that is a sign of a healthy justice system, nor a sign of a justice system that actually pursues justice.
It would be really ironic if that company is Yelp.
Any idea if there is a list of changes?
I'm not sure what the original commenter meant, but some of us (a minority I'm sure) believe that no person deserves arrest, prosecution and jail in the forms they exist today even if that person is guilty of a crime. Things can go "smoothly" but still result in people being subjected to intimidation, cruelty and violence.
And why would that come to mind when none of it is true? Firstly, Aaron is responsible for his own death, it was suicide. Secondly, it's the zealous prosecutor you should be mad at, MIT is not to blame here; Aaron broke many laws and they were well within their rights to have him arrested. Good intentions aside, what Aaron did was illegal and he deserved to be arrested for it; what he didn't deserve was more than probation and a slap on the wrist.
Really? If you don't trust app stores and you end up with malware on your phone, how do you expect to be able to write an incredulous blog post?
So nationalize it? It's not like big brother isn't already tracking traffic trends. Why shouldn't the Dept of Transportation be in charge of directing automated traffic?
There has always been a risk with being "authentic" although some people can pull it off. One of the things I've noticed about people fairly far up in large organizations is that they have filled their brain with all the various aspects of running that organization and have very little space for things they don't normally interact with. I can completely believe he didn't even know what EFF was beyond "something in the computer space" because it was probably irrelevant information until the twitter bomb.
OK, but that is in no way "following" the man, so I don't see the connection.
The same goes for the billions of people to have died of cancer so far.
> The other 99.9 percent of the time when things go smoothly we don't even notice...

Or just don't care if it really goes smoothly.
> Just to play devil's advocate here (and I understand this goes against prevailing opinion), but he did break the law.

Aaron himself said "There is no justice in following unjust laws."

> https://archive.org/stream/GuerillaOpenAccessManifesto/Goamj...

I even go further and say that you can't be good and lawful at the same time - at least not in any currently existing system of laws.
I'll do it for 10k as long as you are ok with me outsourcing it to India.
I think we're muddying the waters here if we equate mobile ISPs with cable ISPs like Comcast.

Comcast would like nothing more than charge people more for using Netflix, because it's causing large load on their last mile connections that they have hopelessly oversubscribed while promising ever higher bandwidth. Netflix will peer and install cache appliances, but they aren't going to dig up the trenches in Kentucky to beef up the cable connections and backbones. As such, everything that will make Netflix perform better on Comcasts network will just lead to more Netflix use and more load on their last mile.

Meanwhile, they can't sell people a Binge-On because who the hell wants to watch Netflix at sub-DVD bitrates at home?
Sadly, I feel this was inevitable. Persona never caught on, and was kept alive only by a relative handful of devout adherents.

SSO will remain the dominion of big players with a lot of money to burn.
Hacker News is far too eager to make martyrs out of suicides in the tech community. It was done with Aaron Swartz, and it was done with Ian Murdock, with ruthless efficiency. The only thing it accomplishes is fomenting impotent rage, and it certainly doesn't honor anyone's memory, or lead to practical solutions or discussion.
(1) Be genuinely thankful that you got the level of detailed feedback that you did. Many employers love to basically go dark on candidates after they decide they don't meet the bar (or don't make the unanimous team vote, whatever). To get either a simple "Thank you, but No" with no detailed feedback -- or, quite often, no follow-up of any kind at all; just crickets -- isn't the exception; it's almost become the general rule.

(2) That said, do take what they're saying seriously, but feel free also to take it with a grain of salt. Generally, interviewers greatly underestimate the effects of stress (the fact that interviews are typically quite dreadful experiences for many candidates) and the sheer cognitive overload of parsing the problem statement, explaining your thought process to a person you don't know very well (and who may be judging you quite harshly) while you are solving the problem, and crucially, guessing the level of optimization your interviewer is secretly looking for (e.g. maintainability versus quick-and-dirty) have on candidate performance.
Maintaining 2 or 3 different init systems is non-trivial and companies do not want to support 3 different init systems for the next 10 years. It costs time and money, so they would rather have people work on things that actually matter instead.