skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Once you have your data restored, you can change the encryption key.

Unfortunately, even if you change it, they still have access to the files encrypted with the previous key.

Also, it's generally recommended to test the restoration of your backups, otherwise you can find yourself in a really bad spot if/when you need to restore - IMHO, this definitely includes verifying that there wasn't an error in the encryption/decryption process (i.e. changing the key would necessitate testing decryption with the new key, which requires giving them the new key).
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The papers I've looked at sequence and measure the on-target mutation rate, and don't have any steps in them that would select for mutants (because that would ruin the measurement). Where do you propose the selection for mutants would be happening?

Unless I'm misunderstanding something about how the experiments are done, your theory would require many groups to be independently committing scientific fraud, which is very implausible.
Hi tamar - thanks for reaching out! I was in contact with multiple members of the support team throughout this ordeal. Supposedly they consulted with senior management as well. Business reputation was never mentioned - it was always about paying a fee to the payment processor. At no point was chargeback reversal brought up. To be perfectly honest, I know nothing about chargebacks (this wasn't something I initiated, it was fraud-related) and the idea of a reversal never popped into my head. I may try to bring this up with them again, but I'm not sure how much I can do half a year after the fraud occurrence.

Still, I think my original points stand. I find Namecheap locking out unrelated domains and redirecting traffic unethical and in bad faith of the service provider / customer relationship. Not to mention that the domains continued to point to parking pages even after I paid up.
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What about the taxpayers they are robbing?
I thought the same thing. Then I thought about some of the subthreads on the Sun2 bootloader article. Then I recalibrated my cynicism.
I believe you're referring to http://www.blinkenlights.nl/services.html (or 'telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl', as it's more popularly known).

On the authors bio page it says he started creating it in 1997.
Ask kids to say "I'm a monster!" in a monster voice. You will hear every non-operatic metal vocal style. If one of the kids does something you haven't heard in metal yet, start a band and rip the kid off.
> I thought the MIT License was always the best license to use.

This community in particular seems to like the MIT License because it is quite simple and perceived as commercial friendly. The truth is, like most things, it depends on what you are trying to accomplish. Open source licenses all have an agenda. If your agenda is "Anyone should be able to use this software, for any purpose, and not hold me liable," then the MIT License is perhaps the simplest option.

In my (non-lawyer) opinion, where the MIT License falls short is in assuming that all contributors, companies, and users share the basic ideal that licensing software for free use and modification is in our collective best interest. Other licenses (Apache, GPL) try to attack this problem in various ways. It turns out it's a complicated and not fully understood domain - which is why those licenses are more complex.

The point is that there is no "best" license to use because licensing is not a technical problem - it's a social problem. Licenses attempt to address the slippery concept of community using a legal framework. In choosing a license, you want to be thinking about not just the community you are currently contributing to, but the community you would ideally like to be contributing to.
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> I.e. you are getting more "cold hands" (administrators, controlllants, bureaucrats) than "warm hands" (doctors, nurses, caregivers)

That's a good political talking point, but it just begs the question. How much good do those two groups do in terms of ultimate outcomes?
Project Philly is supposed to be a GPU platform in Azure that will enable us to run 100's of GPUs. Primary focus is Deep Learning and will be using Nvidia GPUs. CNTK, I think will be the default way to harness the Computing power.

I think that is all that has been revealed. I suspect that this will be announced within a couple of months and this cntk release has something to do with that
it's a fairly common style, when you want to indicate that this is a string of thoughts rather than an essay. the first time I remember noticing it explicitly in techblog writing was "the cluetrain manifesto", but I'm pretty sure it was already prevalent when that came out
And this is one of the main reasons I hate talking on cell phones. Those have a latency up to a quarter of a second, which totally confounds this turn taking.
I concur with TurboHaskai, stop worrying about the next hot thing, focus on building solid applications that are flexible, maintaining, user friendly and solves a business problem.
Just did the same test and I'd say it's auto play videos.

(same setup - current Chrome / current OS X)

I turned on auto play videos, killed the browser, waited for my headphones to turn off and went back into FB - scrolled down and when a video came into view, the headphones turned on.

Even though the video might have no sound, the html 5 video element still needs to allow sound to pass through. When videos auto play without side, it's not that the video doesn't have sound; it's just that the video has been muted until you click on it.

(speculation of course; I don't work for FB)
I've "solved" this by having torrents go to a "Torrents" folder, then symlinking those files into my organized collection.
Whilst this statement is true, the torrent predates the earliest versions of ffmpeg, so it wouldn't have been what was used (which was what the OP was asking).
You didn't counter his assertions at all. The first thing is anecdotal and meaningless: give me a person who benefits from most I can give you someone who doesn't. Overall data is more important. This is about startup companies, though, not individuals.

Back on startups. Sure, it's great that you can experiment. We can still experiment while calling bullshit when we see it. There's a huge gap between "They're trying something we think might be cool or make it but ton of risk here as prior examples illustrate" and "World-changing app here whose initial uptake indicates billions in making and any problems are just a hiccup! Get it today!"

A bit more of the former will at least let people spot problem areas and maybe avoid them more often.
I think maybe it's only in the Silicon Valley echo chamber that not criticizing ludicrous startups is a thing. Everywhere else it seems to be good fun to watch an idiotic idea die.
I love some of Mozilla products, but having seen the failure of packaged WebApps for Symbian from inside and how WebOS went, I never understood how could FFOS have any other future.

Even ChromeOS is an US phenomenon, where the majority actually wipe it to install GNU/Linux over it.
Oh, Sleep is great. I'm also surprised none of the comments (up to this point) have mentioned High on Fire, Matt Pike's other doom metal band. They're incredible live.
You can deal with the renaming issue with a bunch of symlinks. It's pretty easy to script that up.
Holy Mountain is one of their best records
> Lest we forget, Mercurial was offered as the other solution to the Bitkeeper problem, as mpm was a kernel hacker at the time. It got a usable UI at version 0.1, two weeks after the git announcement.

I remember using Mercurial very early on in its lifetime, during my first internship at IBM, because Xen used it.

Mercurial also ran on Windows far, far earlier than Git did. A few projects (notably Mozilla) selected Mercurial for that reason, because they had developers on Windows.

Unfortunately, Mercurial took longer to develop some of its infrastructure, such as a repository structure optimized for performance, fast branches without making a separate working directory for each, and history editing capabilities. Today, as far as I know, Mercurial does have all of those things (some through plugins).

> Some git users relied on cogito for another year or so, as simple things like `git-commit` still had to be manually handcrafted out of `git-commit-tree`.

Many people (myself included) also used cogito as a crutch for a while longer, until really internalizing the value of the git index, because cogito defaulted to bypassing the index. I originally saw the index as an obstacle to the commit model I'd gotten used to from subversion. Today, I find it a critical part of git's culture of making small commits with one logical change each.
The telnet version seems to be from 2001, but the ASCII work has been since 1999 at least.
> I'm a huge fan of Clojure's Hiccup library. It allows the user to make html like the following.

It helps that Clojure's syntax is based on s-expressions, and s-expressions are already isomorphic to HTML/XML.

So in a way, you're still mixing your templates and your code, but you happen to be using the same syntax for both. Which is arguably an improvement.
Matt has done a great job and I wish hg had taken off more than it did, though it would be disingenuous to suggest it hasn't been successful.

I used hg before moving to git and always preferred the clean, single language implementation vs the scripts and general hackish nature that git offered as an alternative.
As a result, it was a nice perk for a long time that hg worked much better than git on Windows.
The next step is to get rid of most of those people and replace them with medical AI. I personally can't wait for Watson or whatever to come along and replace even my doctor with someone simply trained to perform whatever procedures Watson suggests.
Completely agree. Sleeps quality of recording (not shitty, but not overdone) contributes a lot to their unique sound, including their earlier more "punky" stuff.
I wish I could down vote this comment.
Did you listen to this music?
I'm not 100% sure. I think so, possibly in the same way that exposure therapy can be helpful.

On rare occasions when I've forgotten to take my propranolol dose, I think I experienced less severe panic reactions to provoking stimuli compared to in the past. This might be due to higher levels of 'exposure' when taking propranolol without a concurrent onset of panic symptoms, leading to a partial reversal of 'fear conditioning' (perhaps better characterised as 're-conditioning'?)

In my case I've found it to be very effective at treating the symptoms of my panic disorder, which are mostly physical/autonomic nervous system mediated. I think beta-blockers wouldn't be as effective for anxiety disorders where the symptoms are mostly 'mental' (e.g. catastrophic thinking, irrational anxious beliefs etc.).

tl;dr - Propranolol is great for 'physical' anxiety, possibly not as effective for 'mental' anxiety
Good write-up. What we're seeing is something similar to the Gold Rush and Dotcom Boom of the past. There's a bit more reason involved thankfully. Everyone has their eye on the prize and golden ticket to it (tech startups) that they're ignoring every detail that distracts from it. They continue to do this even when the details show they're stepping away from the prize or probably won't achieve it. A chance to pivot or cut losses in favor of different product/service is lost due to how this perspective blinds onlookers.

To be honest, it's a lot like a religion. Creating, pouring energy into, praising, and not blaspheming startups is the religion of Silicon Valley. They need more reason and less religion.
I think the notion that one can own facts will one day be viewed as archaic as the notion that one can own people.
I thought this article was interesting because it was that first think I've read that actually lays out a seemingly plausible case for why Doudna et al. deserve primary credit rather than Feng at al. The "Whig History of CRISPR" article was interesting, but it left me wanting to hear more about the biology.
> You need some sort of logic in your views, no matter what system you use, i. e. loops or formatting dates.

No you don't. Look at Wicket for how to do this right: everything is a component, the only thing[1] your templates contain is a) markup (which is 100% valid, using a namespace for the only wicket-specific part) and b) ids that indicate that a given tag will be replaced with a component. Everything else is handled by the component hierarchy in code, using proper OO polymorphism (it's also a great example of proper use of OO, with classes left with only the correct extension points, and classes or methods declared "final" if the developers don't intend to support custom ones going forwards). You end up making truly reusable components that can be very small - even something like an address input is a component defined in terms of smaller components.

I wish there were Wicket equivalents in other languages.

[1] There are a few other conveniences, but they really are minimal
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I've currently taken a very strong interest in biotech but my majors don't really give me much time to study chemistry or biology in any significant way. What is the percent composition of R&D in biotech in terms of CS and bio? Is there little enough bio that I could get away with self-teaching it?
Beyond this, it's doubly unsurprising when you remember that the brain isn't anything like a context-switching CPU, but much more like a bunch of discrete DSP circuits. Much like computers can offload video decoding to a dedicated DSP "pipeline" that will continue performing each step without being coordinated by the CPU, language processing and construction—word-lookup, grammar, etc.—are steps in an offloaded "pipeline" of brain areas.

Though, highlighting a specific sentence of your quote, the analogous operation becomes quite clear:

> We continuously predict what the rest of a sentence will contain[...]

Speculative execution via branch prediction!

(The important thing to highlight with that analogy, though, is that the brain has multiple "branch predictors." In fact, one could think of speculative execution as an inherent low-level feature of each node in a recurrent neural network. This isn't our executive function "predicting the future" generally; this is each part of the brain going on with its work independently by making assumptions that its speculative work isn't going to go to waste.)
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This is certainly dramatic, but it is important to realize that the majority of automobile safety improvements came before 1960:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_safety_in_the_U...

We've become increasingly safety obsessed and jammed more and more expensive and heavy safety technology into vehicles as the returns have diminished dramatically.

This is one reason why automobiles all look the same these days, with gigantic A-pillars, obscured windows views necessitating integrated cameras, and the universal "fat american" bulging sides appearance.
Hey man, I didn't realize until the end of your (well written) article with your photo that it was you, the celebrity TechCrunch commenter.

I'm a fan. Keep at it!
Meh. The valley needs its naysayers, but it mostly works because a select few can ignore naysayers completely. Unless, I see a reason why this is dangerous to anybody other than private consented money, this is a molehill not a mountain.
Interesting post. So how does this help someone make more money off their media/publishing website? What actionable insights can someone draw from inactive time?
How to choose the right enterprise cloud service provider
Thanks for all your contributions over these years.
> More and more

Same as always, rather.
3 steps to measurable innovation with continuous assessment
Should be crashwebkitbasedbrowsers.com. Chrome didn't like that.
1M Java questions have now been asked on StackOverflow
Performance Budget Builder
Nimrod is listed as Nim, although the URL is still "nimrod".
15 people including a DPO killed in fresh attack by Boko Haram
Ahh! yes decision making in startups, fun times.
Well in this case it may be wise to develop a decision making process or framework.
You can choose from one of these listed here https://www.mindtools.com/pages/main/newMN_TED.htm

Furthermore, it may be worthwhile learning each other favorite stack as you could pick up new skills. Could be a bonding experience as well. Just my two cents.
Facebook's Relay isn't for me, yet
There is a fundamental philosophical difference in European and American approach to law that makes these problems pop up.

America is common law based which in a way revolves around contracts. Two people can agree on anything, even giving up rights. That is why contracts in the US are so long and complicated. If something isn't in the contract it isn't covered. It also means there is a lot more suing in the US.

In Europe common law dominates which typically gives everybody a minimum set of rights which can't be given away. They apply regardless of what a contract says. So a contract in Europe can often be made smaller because what isn't covered in the contract will often be covered in the law. A lot more is implicit.

American understanding of society is about removing government hinderances for your pursuit of happiness. Government is not believe to have a role in giving you anything.

European understanding of society is that governments are there to ensure your rights. That means government will be more actively going after people who try to exploit you, while in America the reaction will be more "well you voluntarily agreed to this, so nothing we can do".

That means American companies can much more easily impose all sorts of ludicrous agreements on you, and you have no other choice but to agree to them or not get the service at all. In Europe you will more often be able to say "I want this service but your demands on me breaks the law."
I don't know the GP intention, but for people who first look through comments here, before investing time in reading the piece this is a crucial information. I wouldn't read the article if not for this post.
Mozilla's New 'Brave' Browser can block almost anything
Now you're getting the idea. QuickCheck is a good example. I was going to drop an example from safety-critical industry but there's too many now for me to find it lol. Anyway, thanks to our discussion, I did find this great page with links to surveys, list of strategies, and listings of tools:

http://mit.bme.hu/~micskeiz/pages/code_based_test_generation...

Enjoy!
Yea. We're only really looking at the criticism of one startup. If we looked at the whole, we'd probably find that a vast amount of startups are simply not even "starting up" because of criticism, which is good.

Perhaps the point here, which we could explore more, is that startups backed by tons of money typically push relatively unoriginal ideas to the forefront that are simply "marketed better" because of $.
Ah, forgive my ignorance. But when you speak of amplitude and frequency, you are referring to wave-like phenomenon correct? Are not waves binary, or "black and white" in the sense that they go up and down and that the these two dualities are relative and dependent on each other for their definition?
Starting out it seems hard just to work 8 hours a day when everyone else is in the office for 10 or 12. How do you balance this?
We Do Not Have “Different Learning Styles,” So Stop Teaching Them
It might be archaic usage, but I agree with The New Yorker that coöperative is much more elegant than co-operative or cooperative.
The article is about culture, but I'm more interested in brain chemistry. Do people on the autistic spectrum have the same gap? People with ADHD? People with Alzheimer's?
Some very good advice here but after reading through the list I had a familiar feeling. Functional, stateless, typed, Redux? Yep, that's Elm.
Doesn't matter what she thinks. Healthcare is controlled not by the health experts but by the money experts. Kinda like when a doctor must call insurance to approve a procedure because it is up to the insurance, not the doctor, to determine what procedures are medically necessary.
Great to read this. I just read a vice article with Billy Anderson describing his work on Pallbearer's new album while learning the bass line for their song The Legend. If you like Sleep at all, you will probably love Pallbearer. Sleep are one of those bands that are greater for their inspiration for bands that followed than the quality of their own seminal work.
Even the procedures will be automated away if we are lucky. Already now testicle cancer is often being treated that way.
I've had it pointed out to me that there's something weird about the show Gilmore Girls in the actors' delivery of lines. The actors don't seem to be speaking particularly fast, but something about the structure of the dialogue still seems to be perceived as very "dense" by most people. I'm guessing the effect is from the actors shortening the conversational gaps between their line deliveries. It seems like the each reply comes near-instantly after the actor "heard" the previous line, which may be a super-stimulus for making the portrayed characters seem extremely "witty."

I also have a feeling that actually increasing verbal velocity would hinder this effect; you wouldn't get the impression of a witty character, but rather a manic one.
A really loud amp in a small room has the added benefit of a nice-sounding natural compression.
It's crazy to me that anyone would lambast companies for saving money and not spending it.

All of the examples given in the article are uber successful companies with thousands of employees (all paying taxes and spending money, which both help the economy).

I would rather have a company that actually lasts and employs lots of people for many years than the silicon valley idea of running a company that spend the majority of their capital and the workers have to find jobs every 8 months because the company goes out of business.
It actually is, because it already provide torrent access to its content. See, for example, the Matrix ASCII (only the sample though):

https://archive.org/details/TheMatrix-InAscii

(1 more point for how terrific the Internet Archive is)

EDIT: it turns out the complete Matrix ASCII is hosted on the IA, making its availability a non-problem for years to come, even though it's not the original torrent anymore
Visibility has really taken a nosedive. Over the last few years I've daily driven a 1962 Studebaker and a 1986 Ford Crown Victoria and both of them had incredible visibility compared to almost any car on the road today. Parallel parking was incredibly easy in the Studebaker especially, because you could actually see the back end of the car out the (massive) rear window.
Silicon Valley Is Falling into the Pacific Ocean
The improvements look pretty constant to me, an improvement of 20% per decade or so. A log scale would be more appropriate here.
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Start with 10^6 cells. Say 0.1% (1 in 1000) are already mutants at that site. Then add something that kills 100% the non-mutants and you will be left with 10^3 mutants without any gene editing. Say it kills 50% of the non-mutants and renders the rest quiescent due to DNA damage (not dividing), then you are left with 10^3 mutants and 5 x 10^5 non-mutants at time t0. After eg 7 divisions you will have 10^3 x 2^7 = 1.28 x 10^5 mutants, corresponding to 25% of the total.

It depends on the initial number of cells, initial proportion of mutants, division rates, and toxicity. I have also noted that the initial number of cells is usually reported without any uncertainty, which makes me think those numbers may be rather unreliable.
The existing puff piece aura of most startup articles has a more simple explanation: selection bias.

Many people have an incentive to write "Startup X launched!"

If Startup X never raised significant funding, no one has an incentive to write "Startup X died."