skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live very close to Hümmel, and, although knowing about the burial ground concept, "Friedwald", its the first time I hear about the Rest of this.
Of course, living in the Eifel brings a special relationship to the forest, after everything that happened here.
None of the forests here is older than 200 Years, and only monoculture. Read about Clemens de Lassaulx, who reforested giant amounts of dead soil, which had been cut down for coal by the authorities, before the rhineland became prussian.
Some of us like reading and understanding other people's sentiment more than contributing what is most likely irrelevant opinions and general noise? Just because HN, Reddit, /., etc are built around the premise of commenting doesn't mean one has to comment to participate.
> ... extradition should require some type of oversight/consensus whereas a rendition [kidnapping?] skips straight ...

Since the Danish government agreed to let the plane sit there and there is an extradition treaty between the two countries I expect there was oversight and consensus.
This looks incredibly brittle. What if one of those dependencies releases a new major version on its master branch that breaks compatibility? It was really surprising to see this done this way. I know go's package management is pretty weak but a serious project like needs reproducible builds. Since all the dependencies are on git they could just use git submodules in a vendor directory or something.
Windows 95 in a browser? What a time to be alive..

I tried loading up Internet Explorer (3.0!) but it crashed the whole thing. This thing is very accurate.
Slack is re-doing Google Wave in such a way that people can understand it ;)
Handspring palm devices (Treo line). The Nokia smartphone.
While the original post was not specific to InfoSec, it does beg the question whether there are any security implications to using/not using "www" in your domain names. Does a naked domain pose any risk? No suggestion to this effect can be found in discussions on the topic I can see so far, but it's a good question to ask in case those of us who do prefer naked domains are missing something.
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An AI judge won't have any empathy or compassion, no emotions at all. There can be a false positive in the judging process because there is no common sense as well.

You'll end up with a ML program that examines behavior to determine guilt or innocence. You end up with a 24/7 monitoring system with cameras and facial recognition everywhere that looks for certain behavior that might lead to crime based on past behavior of criminals.

You want to end corruption but you replace it with a system that gives you no privacy and spies on you without a warrant. Changes in your behavior could get you arrested on a false positive, like say you have a bad day at work and get stressed out. It detects you are angry about something, and are a danger to yourself or others.

We shouldn't joke about this sort of stuff because one day someone might try to make it happen. After 9/11 there has been a lot of domestic spying by the federal government in the Prism system. https://prism-break.org/en/ other governments have done the same thing. They collect a lot of data on people and try to figure out who is going to do what. But so far they have information overload and can't predict stuff yet. All they need is a better ML program to detect behavior based on past behavior and words.

It kind of is like a sci fi movie with the domestic spying done on the Internet and phones. All they need is a ML program that judges behavior based on the data they collect to arrest people and hold them for trial.

Edit: In the James Bond movie "Specter" they replaced the 00 Program with the Nine Eyes program of drones and cameras monitoring things in 9 different nations that would judge human behavior. The drones would then decide who to kill based on an AI/ML program. The movie established that it was better using human beings to make judgments on matters like that.
Or you could, just, you know, build your own API and be in control of your own destiny. Though, I understand that some mobile devs prefer/want to just be mobile and not web devs. To each their own.

Shameless plug: I could use some work right now. I've built a handful of APIs that have moderate-heavy production use (50k users). I'm a good fit. :) Email in profile.
Some folks just ain't cut out for the 21st century.
There's more to right and wrong than strict deontology. What's legal or illegal is only a very fuzzy approximation of what's ethical or moral.

So demands like "name an illegal activity" are missing the deeper moral/ethical point, regardless of whether there are illegal activities in the dumps (I'd also say it's bad form to make such a demand in the middle of an Internet thread where it's highly unlikely that your fellow commenters have the time to review thousands of diplomatic messages/documents/videos/whatever).
That's not the concern. They were worried about manufacturers producing bikes that weren't structurally sound in a race to produce the absolute lightest bike. Imagine frames failing during descents.

There's an argument to be made that the technology has improved, and that the limit could be lowered.
The servers are located in different parts of the continent, and the only one that is capable of acting as a proxy has metered bandwidth, while one is interactive and another is a media server.

I suppose I could set up a system of HTTP redirects but combined with HTTPS I feel that will get hairy quickly. The service-level redirection SRV records provide are really exactly match my needs.
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> so I would give benefit of the doubt to using the extradition agreements in such a high profile case.

Why would you give that particular benefit of the doubt?
a) You are missing that the human error factor is still present in the automatisation itself. Only you don't send one person to prison by mistake for an offense, but maybe a lot of people for a class of offenses. "Ooops, off-by-one error in Judge 1.1, 5 innocent people executed. Patch forthcoming."

b) One cannot encode laws in programs; a judge's task is to interpret the meaning of the words and apply them to a case. This is rarely done in local courts (which mostly really just follow a schema), but higher courts, at least in functional democracies, do actually look at the circumstances under which a law was created.
I frequently use naked domains as they "read back" better in every site I use them in, removes visual cruft and requires recalling less character space in customers memories.

Other websites I frequent that uses naked domains include:

- stackoverflow.com
- github.com
- twitter.com
- stripe.com
couldn't a function's inclusions be determined statically at compile time?
How does HN's duplicate link work? I'm asking this because I saw this thread earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10998103

Wouldn't it be fair for that submitter to get karma points?
This is what my group does and I'm very happy with it. Half the team loves the social chat, while the other half of us safely ignore it.
> I expect there was oversight and consensus.

Right. Except if there was an extradition treaty and they planned on relying on it, they wouldn't need a plane on the ground and a paramilitary team ready to go?
"Technical part" is not as convincing.

P.S.,
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Don't use cookies, LocalStorage is much better.
I don't understand why they didnt't just announce to the public about the bad water.

It would have made it looked like they actually cared about the citizens of Flint, once.
> Name an illegal US activity that was unmasked via the Manning dump.

That was not the point of my post. I did not say or imply that that illegal activities were unmasked by the Manning dump.

I am saying that your prediction that people who think the Manning dump moved democracy forward necessarily believe that basically all secrecy is bad is unhelpful to a conversation about what the whistleblowing laws should be. For instance, some people may think that US foreign policy should all be public while domestic criminal investigations can be private. Some people might believe that the Manning dump was illegal but that some illegal activities (like lunch-counter sit-ins or suffragettes chaining themselves to the White House fence) move democracy forward.
Same here man, I feel your pain 100%. I have to sit in their chat room(s) all day long and be available all day their time zone. I also have to do their morning standup via google hangout.
It's not the weight of the bike. It's the risk of a "stupid light"[1] component failing when you're at the front of the peloton and taking out you and most of the riders behind you.

[1] A component which has had its strength and durability compromised in the interest of saving weight.
Uptime and performance is typically some of the most important things for customers. Definitively way more important in general than whether there's a www prefix or not...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10999352
Are you working with an FLL team by any chance?

I volunteered at my son's school to help with the robotics team. Programming the Mindstorms EV3 sets are an interesting challenge. Teaching 4th and 5th grade kids about programming using a visual language is very new to me.
I used to host at lowmag.net (my old username, still used in places like hn for laziness puposes)

I now use the bare version of my name plus .com.
It's only positional because density is limited. If the market were allowed to build up wherever they wanted each "position" would basically be an infinite resource...
Computers and algorithms have no compassion. It would be very difficult to send someone to prision based on justice bot 2.0.

It's bad enough when companies like Amazon use bots to do their dirty work to ban marketplace sellers.
It is absolutely not. In fact Specialized makes a couple models. They're a lot of fun, but don't have wide adoption because they're a bit clunky and certainly much heavier than many bikes. Plus they're quite expensive. The people spending that much on a bike aren't the casual riding type typically and are racing (where is is against the rules), and the casual riders rarely spend that much on a bike.

I think they get much more widespread adoption when the systems get lighter and cheaper.

http://www.specialized.com/us/en/bikes/electric
My blog has the URL http://boston.conman.org/ (leaving http://www.conman.org/ for other stuff on my website). I had to add a redirect for http://www.boston.conman.org/ because I had a non-zero number of requests.
> Right. Except if there was an extradition treaty they wouldn't need a plane on the ground and a paramilitary team ready to go?

You would if the Danes didn't want to go apprehend him themselves (I wouldn't if I were them, the news clip would look bad). If he were already in custody there would be no need for a plane and a team, though presumably he would get on some plane at some point if apprehended just as a matter of practicality.
> The purpose of moderating a conversation isn't to try to remove technically incorrect arguments, surely?

... and this is why we can't have nice things.

Sadly, mainstream discourse works in exactly the same way. You can utter the most outrageous lies, as long as you whisper while smartly dressed; but if you shout the truth with uncombed hair, you will be sanctioned.
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I am wondering how long before only one bike is allowed for the stage, and there are tamper-evident seals on the bottom bracket for all bikes.

This said I wonder what principle(s) the "handheld detector" was operating under, maybe it could detect the winding(s) of the electrical motor via inductance or something?
I didn't mean to imply that the sailors are cowboys; but that people like Trump and others are cowboys. It is easy to be a cowboy when you have nothing to lose: your kids won't be fighting the war(s), coming home scarred for life (mentally, if not physically).
> Name an illegal US activity that was unmasked via the Manning dump.

I replied separately that this was not the point of my post, but I will reply here in a separate reply (so as no to conflate things) about illegal activities exposed by Manning.

It looks to me that the Manning dump includes more details about the US interrogation methods at Guantanamo than were previously publicly revealed, and I think there is a strong argument that some of the interrogation methods used at Gitmo were illegal under existing US laws against torture.
Very smart comment. I've had a long brake from programming and all this functional and lisp stuff is new, and it is not always clear what is the benefit. But is great to see a diversity and experimentation.
I wish I had taken a photo. It looked like a single tree split in half! Except, they weren't right next to each other, but about 12 - 15 feet apart. One tree had all its branches to the left; the other, all to the right.
So, after the innumerous crimes and injustices commited by CIA abroad and home, since nothing was done to the agency, it means it now turned into a free pass? Justice, like a lot of other stuff in our societies that basically are just common agreements, is actually pretty fragile, if it's not upheld things tend to go down. There's consequences and stuff.
I guess that's why they bought Bild Lilli.
Just like Kinescope!
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You're not gaining much from a Bayer filter over three separate exposures, so you're probably right. Ordinary full-color pictures have to be demosaiced anyway, and it's more complex than laying three colored exposures on top of each other.

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

With three exposures you get to use the full resolution of the camera for each channel, so you end up a more detailed image and fewer artifacts... unless something moves, in which case you'll get strange colored ghosts.

People hear that space images are composites, and therefore somehow conclude that they're "not real."- but all consumer digital color photography are digital composites thanks to Bayer (and Bayer-style) filters, white balance adjustment, sharpening and denoise that are all baked into your JPEGs before you see them.
> Given a clean slate you could possibly make some sort of case for client certificates. ... It doesn't matter how secure something is, if a standard user would find it highly inconvenient...

You obviously missed the point of my comment. I'll highlight the part that most clearly captures the essence of my point:

"Frankly, I wish more sites would eschew username/password authentication for username/cert (or at least offer the option of username/cert). Then the UI for certificate operations would certainly get easier to use."

> ...and it doesn't recognise the modern world of the same user having multiple devices in multiple locations.

Easy fix: issue one cert per device. Does the UI for this suck right now? Yes. Does it have to suck? Fuck no.

> Client certs might in theory be stored in "secure places", but that is not the case in practise.

It absolutely is the case in practice.

Imagine a hypothetical magical computer that stores all username/password pairs in a magical HSM that never lets the username/password outside of the HSM, ever. The credentials in this system are stored in the most secure place that the computer can provide. The fact that the user of that system may have also written those credentials down on a sticky note under his keyboard or saved in a plaintext message in his webmail mailbox does not change that fact.

Does that make sense?
I suppose you're right. After going through some publicly available COBOL salaries in Canada, it seems the salaries for senior COBOL positions were about what I was able to ask for as a junior frontend developer (50-60$/h CAD). I think I would primarily consider a short stint for the heck of it. Maybe some short term contracts to see what it's like.
You can do that, but the redirect will affect initial load times. Might be worth it, might not be.
It took 1 hour of my day to stand up for something. It was very productive, reminded me of how to setup CNAME's and domains very quickly for MVP's, and I made a lot of people laugh (and reckon that they too shouldn't give in to unenforcable nonsense like this, especially with trademarks that are ABANDONED). 2000+ NPM packages, 100's of blog posts, tons of references, and all this was going on for years. Are you really supporting these people? This isn't a debate, it's pure hilarity :).
You can use your Java skills to do something exciting like building Android apps, it's easy to learn and doesn't require much experience.
I would think you could launch a pusher plate using a very large, conventional lift technology. The Saturn V had a lift capacity of 120,000 kg (260,000 lbs). Surely that's enough to get one of these bad boys into orbit?
I think that this is exactly right. I have personally observed users become confused over a URL not starting with www. Occasionally I have even seen them add it, just because it was assumed that all addresses should have it at the beginning.

This might change eventually, but it will change slowly if so.
Self-congratulatory and verbose, gratuitous inclusion of algorithm names and references to make it appear more technical than the actual content, plenty of typos and grammar mistakes(stopped counting halfway through at 10 or so).
And if that wasn't enough for the first 30 years, you'd think the photos of the landing sites from the LRO would have shut them up for good.
there's already several fairly refined e-bikes around, look at the offerings by Haibike for example, only a few models are available in North America, but in Europe there is a very large selection

http://www.haibike.de/produkte_liste_epower_en,3004.html

this said anecdotally I am seeing more and more people on e-bikes here in North America too, bike commuting every day these days at least a few times a week I get passed by somebody riding one of them, did not happen at all until a few years back
If this article ( http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/01/raw-data-lead-... ) is correct, the problem specifically of lead in Flint seems to have been worse throughout the 1990s and most of the 2000s. The recent upward spike only made it as bad as it had been in 2010. So should people have been panicked and drinking bottled water there for most of the last 30 years? Or was downplaying the current risk level - in context - kind of reasonable?
Thanks for the advice. I guess it doesn't hurt me to give it a shot. The worse a recruiter can say to me is no. There seems to be no shortage of available COBOL positions at the major banks and telecoms where I live.
I have used MUMPS and derivatives for most of 35 years. Although my first company produced library information systems, most of the rest of my employers have used it for medical information systems, and for me that was mostly laboratory information systems. I knew one guy who ran a multi-user system for accounting off of a PC-AT!.

Spent 4 years using Fortran on a similar application. I sure missed MUMPS when having to compile programs and having errors caused by moving too many spaces into a variable!

I've also dinked around with Forth and Icon/Unicon, which I used to create small programs, one which created Valentine bingo cards and another which I used to transform COBOL screen descriptions from mainframe COBOL to a version which ran on PC's.

Sometimes I do wish for a change, but overall I've enjoyed my career.

Perhaps someone in the future will feel sorry for those who now work with C++/C#/Python/Ruby/etc.

It's provided for me for a long time. Can't complain. And provided me a way to solve problems and get paid for it.
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You're a robot. What do you care?
I think few people look at URLs. They click on whatever is underlined or looks like a button.
www bothers me for mainly one reason. It is a pain to say.

It is one of the few abbreviations that takes longer and more effort to say than the unabbreviated words themselves——world wide web.
I was addressing a policy and legal question of whistleblower policies. A standard of "exposes an illegal program" seemed to have been the standard that was effectively being used (I would also suggest it seems a reasonable standard). Since I was dealing with that I limited myself to the legal and the policy, which I guess I hinted at and I hoped was obvious but I didn't explicitly state.

Wrt the bad form, the Manning dumps have been out for longer and are much more public than the Snowden leaks; they've been combed pretty damn thoroughly. Suggesting that my comment requires original research of the documents is disingenuous.
Alright. I guess it's not really an original revelation but a followup of some value. I'll meet you halfway and call it arguable.
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I'm not sure I understand why this creates any real issues.
It can: see https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack-python#string-and-binary-...
I don't think there's a single "correct" answer here, since varying implementations do different things.

I've been using fail with all domains I administer for over 10 years without issue.

What really matters is properly configuring DKIM and DMARC.
Sure, but historically something like that wouldn't render a system unable to boot an already installed operating system.
Thank you for suggestions. But I'm not sure I like it
The "having to buy different domain names" to server static content seems like a really minor downside. Cookie point is a good point though.
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I use Lua. It's super light-weight, very easy to get started, and not a lot of ceremony( concise language) and has good integration with C libraries
brand awareness and recall is king for small niche companies. we removed the www to bring our brand, a unique but simple domain, into focus. IMHO if you have a trade and/or trademarked domain name and wish to get more organic traffic using a naked domain is the best choice.
There were fine tablets what was missing was prestige / cool factor / effective advertising.
In the past 18 months I've been back working with my father, building web and mobile apps to interact with hardware devices used for for data logging in agricultural and environmental research applications.

He's been building these kinds of devices for almost 35 years; he basically built his business (and supported our family) on the back of Motorola 6800-series microprocessors, and now uses the Freescale S08 series, which is descended directly from the 6800 (8-bit, von Neumann architecture).

To this day, he codes everything in Motorola/Freescale assembly language.

In his mind, it's the only way to keep his code adequately lean, efficient and maintainable. He's never been interested in C, as he thinks (from observing younger engineers using it) it just gets in the way.

And while the coding and debugging process seems very painstaking, the results are excellent. His devices sit out in the field taking hourly readings for months or years at a time, never failing and going for over 12 months per battery change.

Initially I thought he was just stuck in the past and that his refusal to embrace more modern hardware platforms and higher-level languages was a disadvantage.

But now I see how reliably and efficiently his devices work, and how inexpensive the components are (the microprocessors we use cost just a few dollars each), I see it as a huge advantage over our competitors, whose products are much more costly to manufacture, much more power-hungry and less reliable.
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I'm guessing caching would be prioritized over the improved compression rates, except in very specific circumstances. Though we'll also see improvements there as brotli starts to replace gzip and deflate.