skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> and a retrial conducted

So you admit they are not "obviously innocent," but deserving of a retrial. I agree.

>I have a feeling you want a legal system and do not give a shit about justice.

That's a hell of a lot to infer from my comment which, as far as I can tell, doesn't even disagree with you.
$200/month feels cheap to me considering how much effort and money it would take to get this defense if you are on your own.

Just talking about the bandwidth cost, if it was even possible for me to get the 400gbit/s bandwidth required to weather such an attack, it would cost me way more than $200 per day with my current ISP. And that doesn't yet include my own time and stress.

If the stuff we're running was valuable enough to DOS, I would totally consider the 200/month extra
If you don't like ads either don't use the site or ask them for a paid ad free version.

Blocking ads is actual petty theft. The authors asking price is the ad load. If you disagree with the price, it's not ok to just to take it. Taking something for a price the provider didn't agree upon is out and out theft.

You don't walk into a shop and steal a pack of gum just because you don't like the price. "He was charging too much so I stole it" is not a moral argument, and certainly would not hold up in court. Just don't buy the gum.

I truly want to hear your contradicting world views. I want to hear how taking something and not paying the asking price is OK.
Premium ad slots on premium sites -- eg the ones most people are actually seeing -- can sell for 10x your $2.80 cpm example. Just adding that it does make the math more challenging
Could you say more? I'd love to hear about your search and what you found.
A lot of this revolves around the new business model of using the Internet to lock everything down. Basically half your car, house, whatever will be in the cloud.
Fixed those, thank you!
Maybe it's someone with an investment in CloudFlare? 'Look at these awful DDOS attacks everyone is getting? We have magic techniques to stop them if you pay us.'
Thank you. The article mentions both the DoJ and Weil claimed that the comments were taken out of context, and then the article made no effort to add any context.
I think the original comment was talking about elderly that didn't raise their own youth well. Because the ones who did it successfully do not depend on whole society that much, and can rely on their own children.
> I was hooked on the idea of having a type safe data record that was also immutable

Me too, thus I wrote https://github.com/gcanti/tcomb
Given that Spotify is private, how would you know if Spotify is making money? How about Pandora Radio? They have about 80M users; is that a failure?

What exactly is meant by Netflix not owning their delivery system? That seems like a rather specious argument. HBO GO, Hulu, MLB, Sling TV and the 100s of other OTT services seem to be missing from your industry understanding.
I never used to mind a commute when I was driving it... now that I have to take a train it is the worst part of my day.

It very obviously takes its toll on me.
Far as I can tell, Prop F would have outlawed all rentals between 60 days and having an actual lease. Does San Francisco law make a separate provision for subletting?
Oh drat, another competitor. I am losing track of who I am trying to beat.

Google Contributor, Kachingle, Webpass, Brave, Flattr, Blendle and I have probably overlooked a bunch. There's also a deadpool with Sprinkepenny, Contenture, Readability and -- again -- I've probably overlooked a few.

The core problem is preventing two classes of attack:

1. Visit multiplication by publishers, intended to over-represent them in the monthly scoring.

2. Money-laundering of stolen cards by using bots to sign up and visit an attacker-controlled site.

There is also the matter of preventing a publisher in the middle from tracking users by piggybacking on shared identifiers.

To my very great shame, I've spent too much of my time solving these problems rather than working on the business side of things.

Edit: at least it's another Australian :)
I think what the GP was saying was that it looks like it's possible that CloudFlare is causing these attacks themselves. They can magically block them for clients because they can just turn the attack off.
Kanye Ipsum: Add some confidence to your placeholder text
I always appreciate Cloudflare's write ups. That said, once folks are attacking it, and since you can measure things without black holing traffic, is it possible to identify machines participating ? Specifically to work with ISPs and network service vendors such that such attacks would serve to highlight compromised machines and then working with the ISPs of those compromised machines create an automated channel back to the operator?
Pretty sure they are saying that because they can handle more traffic they can measure the attack now instead of blackholing...
They don't even have to be hacked, just expose vulnerable services.
Death rate within a year is a really odd stat to couple with anesthesia. If you die six months after an operation, it's probably not the sedation.
Icons as Part of an Awesome User Experience
Already? Why?

Community building is a long term thing, not something you get through in a few months or so. I mean yeah, it won't be Product Hunt 2.0 right off the bat, but you need to give it more time than this.
This is apparent in the formal name of the browser: User Agent.

The browser works on our behalf.
> If they have no partners, they still collect money, but have no one to give it to at the end of the month, so they'll have to keep it.

IANAL, but my suspicion is that the law of trusts will make this ugly, unless they write "we get to keep it" into their TOS.

My own approach is to levy a fixed percentage and only pay out to participating sites. Readability tried to do the whole accumulate-for-not-participants as a way to try and create dangling carrots for publishers.

It didn't work: it just tied up a bunch of cash, because finding out who to contact for a lot of websites is difficult. Add to that the relatively small amounts of cash held for a given website, spread across many sites, and it would've created a helluva mess.

Disclaimer: I'm working on a competing product.
Please enlighten me with more information regarding this scam that even Tesla hasnt expunged
I refuse to buy products like that. If it doesn't operate stand alone then you can keep it.
Essentially is a "legitimate" spam pipeline. How many times have you clicked on some weird looking url only to regret doing so? You'd be paying them for that regret.

Every spammer in history will be signing up and the amount of click-bait garbage will increase by orders of magnitude.
[Author here.]

That's very cool! But it's runtime checking only, right? I was aiming for compile-time checking.
Title is very misleading. Here's the actual finding, as stated by the article:

"In other words, providing better physical and social environments for poor kids helps boost their performance relative to their richer peers."

It's been pretty well known for a while that the family and neighborhood environment of young students is a massive contributor to academic performance, so just pouring more money into schools themselves doesn't help things overly much. You tend to get better results by spending money on things like daycare (to help parents) and scholarships (to incentivize students). Example:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/26/us/tangelo-park-orlando-fl...

Edit in case NY Times is paywalled - This is the program's actual website:
http://www.tangeloparkprogram.com/
Segwit will increase capacity to 2MB, if and only if all the creator of transactions (wallet, exchange, ...) switch to the new way of encoding. So it is going to take even more time than classic.
I see free markets as providing the least resistance to unfettered technological progress (which is ultimately what I'm after).

I don't think it's worthwhile to "decide how to structure society". Society should be emergent from individual freedom. Central planning can only cover the needs/ideologies of those doing the planning (and probably not even that).

Admittedly my views are radically post-modern and include a healthy dose of moral relativism i.e. there is no "best" way to serve society's members, just progress and the by-product of that progress.
Yes, but the recurrence rate will be lower if you get an appendectomy.
> http://www.donhopkins.com/drupal/node/69

"Constraints are like structured programming for variables"

Love it! Having been very interested in constraint programming and also dabbled a bit here and there[1][2][3], what do you think is holding back constraint programming?

[1] http://2016.modularity.info/event/modularity-2016-mvpapers-c...

[2] http://blog.metaobject.com/2014/03/the-siren-call-of-kvo-and...

[3] http://blog.metaobject.com/2015/09/very-simple-dataflow-cons...
Pure bullshit.
Writing Fibonacci in LLVM with llvmlite
It depends heavily on the type of attack. In many cases it is not like a syn flood which commonly used random spoofed (i.e. fake) source ip addresses.
Learning Photography by Robert Hopman
Let's code a TCP/IP stack, 1: Ethernet and ARP
Even lots of people that are not directly active in the email space owe a part of their income to them, I find it a lot easier to imagine a world without smartphones or the web than I find it to imagine a world without email.
The Two Mindsets and the Power of Believing That You Can Improve
Thought I'd bump here and mention that I've added the ability to save/load code using the fiddle. Here's the announcement:

http://cljsfiddle.com/#gist=d0c3121fb7083f066273

Yay!
Should you use HDF5?
There are different kinds of immigrants. There are ones who immediately add to the economy, typically professionals, and there are the uneducated undereducated who have low skills no skills whose contribution can take much longer to realize.

Many countries want the highly skilled to immigrate, and conversely countries don't want them to emigrate (brain drain). No one country with low skills emigrants puts of a fuss to keep them, they are happy to let them go and they have no concern about lowering population or concern for potential tax base loss.

In the end the question is, do you want to regulate immigration or just let anyone and everyone in? There is no reason to have two tracks where the ones who want to go the legal way have to wait years while others can just go the alternate route with few consequences.

And, w/re Mexico, they also deport a good number of illegal immigrants into their country, so it's not like they think one way and the US an Europe and Japan and China etc. think another way.
An alternative view is that AirBnb is fighting the regulatory capture that has already happened.
The "paywalled workshop manual" requirements are common to every manufacturer. The only reason service manuals are available for free online for other modern cars is that they're ripped from the manufacturer's pay portal, not that the manufacturer is supplying them out of the goodness of their hearts. And the service prices are pretty much in line with other luxury cars at the price point.

Not that that really defends Tesla, though. Cutting off an owner from dealer parts supply because their car is salvaged is unprecedented as far as I know. And the cutthroat attitude that every part of the car is a trade secret is ridiculous.

I think the biggest challenge for Tesla when they release the Model 3 will be scaling up their service network while scaling down costs. $70,000 car owners are generally willing to pay $400-$800 every few years for a dealer service. $30,000 car owners aren't. And for most manufacturers, scaling dealer service is a franchise : they need to supply parts, training, and certification, not a whole service department. For Tesla, it's a brave entry into a challenging core business.
One is assumed to be innocent, thus if the trail they were convicted under it tainted, then until such time they are retried and found guilty using untainted testimony or actual science then yes these people are in fact "obviously innocent"

I made the statement about you wanting a Legal System because based on the comments you seem to be more focused on the procedure and technical aspects of the law than on the miscarriage of justice that the FBI and their Fake Hair Science has caused. You want to leave it to Judges and Prosecutors to guess at the state of mind of the Jurors to figure out how much the jury may have considered the Hair Analysis, Only a person looking for a Legal system would make that comment.

If you want justice you understand that there is no way to figure out how much that testimony factored into the jury, thus EVERY case it was offered in should be vacated.. TODAY. and everyone person convicted should be released. TODAY. then they can figure out who can be retried using actual evidence and attempt to get convictions with new juries

Further any Plea Bargains that were reached by threatening to use FBI Hair Analysis should also be Vacated, how many people where extorted into pleading guilty by prosecutors because they threaten this "scientific evidence"?
Ads are more like one of those street scammers quickly putting a bracelet on your arm and then insisting you pay for them. Except with ads they also pick your pockets for personal details without asking first, and possibly infect you with some disease.
> there is no way I'm installing their browser plugin

Plugins provide a sandbox which hostile publishers can't attack. It also helps that plugins get a much richer API to work with.

Disclaimer: I'm working on a competing product.
Katrina isn't a good example because it's inextricably bound to the complexities of racism in U.S. culture — much of what the media reported about looting and other crime was exaggerated or outright fiction, those fears and other mistakes delayed aid for long periods of time, and it completely leaves out official misconduct like shutting down evacuation routes, or racially-motivated police and vigilante killings.

The more I think about it, the fact that even after being so badly failed repeatedly the iconic pictures of looting were people scavenging for no-longer saleable bottled water & food seems more like an argument that most people are law-abiding for reasons beyond just fear of punishment.

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/aug/29/opinion/la-oe-solnit...

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2010/08/27/us/27racial.html
^^ YES ^^
I live in New Orleans, and this is my chief concern about short-term rentals. The guests can be obnoxious, sure, but that alone wouldn't have made this such a hot city-wide issue. The rental market has been changing very rapidly here, partly due to a recent influx of well-off young people, and it's causing a lot of anxiety about what the city will look like in the future.
not sure who is trolling whom
If you're up to version 0.171 maybe it's OK to use something like 1.7.1
A true fairytale ending.
There's also stuff like having to carry insurance.
As someone whose dug these holes before - there are tutorials even for advanced stuff, usually when a hacker figures out some paper he shares it with others in a less academicky way and then it's much easier to pick up. I still remember casey muratori gjk video in highschool, i found some paper using math notation for sums and throwing abstract terms arround and then I saw this guys video and it clicked and I had a collision detection demo running in two days.

Academic approach is nececary for research work but when you're just implementing stuff it's already been groked by other people and you can find their blog/notes/code online.
> You cannot get global, cryptographic consensus in seconds.

There is a paper[1] which analyzed the security of the Bitcoin protocol in the case where block propagation delays would be non-negligible compared to the time between blocks. To summarize, this leads to waste of hashing power when blocks are created in parallel and orphaned, thus reducing security.

That paper also proposed the GHOST protocol to fix that problem, by allowing (non-conflicting) orphan blocks to contribute to security and even rewarding such blocks. Theoretically this would allow for 12 second block times. The ethereum devs then implemented it[2], and they have it at 17 seconds now.

Of course, if you need the same amount of certainty as provided by the hashing power currently behind one bitcoin block, then you'll still need to wait for multiple fast blocks to match that. The advantage is when your need for security is somewhere between zero-conf and 1 bitcoin block; faster blocks then provide finer granularity.

[1] https://eprint.iacr.org/2013/881.pdf

[2] https://blog.ethereum.org/2014/07/11/toward-a-12-second-bloc...
As CM30 suggested, the "going away" message is awfully vague. Calling the site an "experiment" might be an interesting way to forgo actual considerations like upkeep costs, but the fact remains that this "experiment" ended too early and without much reason.

At first, it seems at though Product Hunt legal went after them, but the fact they're offering to hand off the domain and the codebase itself suggests otherwise.
I don't think this is the case. Social acceptance has preceded these laws; not the other way around.
There should also be an easy way to disconnect your car from the network, because apparently, newer cars are always connected and reporting on your activities[1].

1. http://www.businessinsider.com/ford-exec-gps-2014-1
i think you will find the vast majority of jobs require physical presence since they involve physically moving things or interacting with customers face to face.

most people do not work in an office environment. iirc about 10% of people work in production industries which means factories, building sites and mines etc. 10% work in social and health care which means hospitals, community centres and homes... 10% work in retail which means shops. 10% in leisure and hospitality which means restaurants, hotels etc. 5% work in agriculture which means farms, orchards, vineyards etc. 3% work in transport and warehousing... thats not quite a majority, but i can easily find around 48% of jobs are impossible to do from home...
This is an interesting topic.

And an interesting idea for a hack: Hacking a Tesla Model S to work without any connection to Big Brother, eh, Tesla, I mean.
"Btw - can't the kids get protection under cruel and unusual punishment?"

I would think so. Particularly after being required to learn US immigration law.
I encourage all open source projects so this is cool. That said, I just open Play Music in a new Chrome window, not a tab, and use the keyboard to switch between Chrome Windows and other apps. Easy enough. I also sometimes have my iPad Pro running music while I work on my laptop.
I agree, lobste.rs (which is like, for those who don't know, a more focused version of hackernews) didn't give up after a couple of months and look where they are now! healthy community of highly tech focused news & commentary.
Relationship Goals and How to Achieve Them
On a server, it's a non-issue. On desktop, likely, too. Modern Android does AOT compilation. Hopefully by the time Frege is ready for Android this will not be a problem anymore.
Qube OS is made by quite good security researchers, who where first to break into Intel SMM, as far as I know.

Qube OS separates domain as virtual machines on top of Xen and you need to do privilege escalation in the sandbox first, then to break Xen somehow. Sure, Xen is still a lot of code to attack, but it's much smaller than Linux kernel or XWindow.
no link. but it was when his Stanford frat house. same place where he start the app with the guy that coded the thing but then got outed, so probably a good indication of who leaked.
All through history offensive weapons have always changed in reaction to defensive weapons and vice versa': why should a media "war" be any different? The tools which allow us to be discover truth can equally be used to generate falsehood or create confusion or affect opinion and policy. Truth is such a slippery concept and can be manipulated like anything else.
If Tesla's longterm business strategy is to build a fleet of autonomous cars that operate in fractional ownership/lease models, of course it makes sense to build a car that has a <10 year product life cycle. They can iterate quickly, release new versions, and not have legacy hardware on the market. If they use a buyback program similar to Apple's it might make sense for their particular demos.

Time will tell, and it will be interesting to see what the Model 3 has for a warranty, considering it's targeting a much broader market than the Model S/X.
very true. more specifically, you generally find what you are looking for. much like trying to google if you have some sort of rare disease.

people should pay attention to how they feel 30 minutes after eating a particular food more than any research study that has ever been published.
Interesting, I work in the wind turbine industry (at the margin, and since one month, I guess I'm an expert), and it's the same, there are interesting sensors and data everywhere, but everything is locked down, and as long as the warranty runs, the owner of the turbine is at the mercy of a very reluctant maker for every maintenance task. The owner can't use any of those very useful sensors to assess the state of the turbine, he has to call external consultants who will re-instrument the turbine with external sensors at great cost, when they could have just downloaded the existing data from their office to give a look at it.
it can work: when you work in an office you just can't wait to get home. When working from home at 5pm you must leave the home :) Go in a park, go somewhere, anywhere. The problem is not that you work from home, the problem is that you stay in the same place all day.
Except cryonics doesn't preserve life. It doesn't work. It's more or less a scam.
C pointers are not hardware pointers
>The person being called hangs up the phone, but the scammer does not. Since the scammer initiated the phone call they're keeping that line open.

Is that a some UK specific thing? Because in Moscow hanging up the phone breaks connection at any side. Pretty sure that it was this way since soviet times.

Of course scammers can easily physically connect to your wire so analogue connections are totally insecure for communicating with bank anyway.
It's the core namespace that is huge. Also clojure embeds all metadata etc, taking more time than necessary for a script runtime. Clojure guys discussed having multiple builds, a lean runtime for fast boot, and more featured one for repl usage (even more documentation embedded etc)
Bash aliases for git
It's organized by the state it's not just random people.