skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which is great until the customer actually needs to access the account.

$CUSTOMER calls in, their nameservers are down and nobody has the account password. Do you think the management at $CUSTOMER is going to accept "hey we need to wait 6 hours to get our site back up because namecheap wont allow us in"?
> you'll still have no idea whether or not a modelled sentience is having a sentient experience of the universe around it, or whether it's faking its responses mechanically

Is there a difference? What is the difference? Doesn't duck typing apply here? If I act like I am sentient I am probably sentient.
I find it a bit ironic that this particular blog has an inaccessible database at this particular time.

This being put aside I find their pricing a bit excessive in comparison to Backblaze for example.
Ceemple (now Zapcc) is doing something similar https://www.zapcc.com/
Don't get the backup complaints, thats bad luck but you can't blame the hoster for not having backups.
Not trying to be snarky, but the biggest lesson here seems to be "don't operate without off-host backups". Cheap VPS providers don't typically offer that sort of thing as a standard feature. Even when they do, the backups would be on the same infrastructure, and easily wiped from the same (compromised) console.

You could have just as easily lost all the data in an accidental way, with no malice or 3rd party involved.

That said, I do empathize, and it's disappointing that a major player like namecheap would be so easily socially engineered.
> End users of Go programs benefit for technical reasons, not social ones.

I see developer benefit if they enjoy the language, but what are the benefits to the end user?
> The only way that it affects you it's because Go programs can be compiled to a static binary.

You could use Cython to create a static binary for a program written in Python.
I don't think MS is "embracing open source" (or even necessarily rejecting it), so much as they are acknowledging that Linux servers are here to stay for a while, and simply grabbing a piece of the pie instead of ignoring it. Much like Oracle having its own Linux distro.

Perhaps enough shareholders complained about a market segment simply being given to OSX (development environment for work intended for a POSIX server) that they simply had to act. No more, no less. Not benevolent or malevolent, just picking up some loose cash :-)
They're cool until they start holding your domains hostage and demanding that you email them a scan of your passport.
The language matters in so much that not everyone can program in every language and not every language is equally easy nor fun to hack in.
I'd encourage anyone in the twittersphere to follow @ID_AA_Carmack. His musings there waste few words and he often tosses questions out there that will get you thinking.

Congrats to him on the BAFTA, but yes, he really is just getting started. I hope to see the fruits of his current labors but I'm not sure if I'm cut out for the VR tech as I'll most likely just puke on my shoes :-(
Advice for Production Team Leaders – Embracing Change
No, and that would be funny.

I generally do not objectively refuse to use something solely based on the technology behind it, but it is an important aspect to consider in the big picture while evaluating the alternatives and the actual necessity of it.
Add CloudFlare? ;-)
Just throw it behind CloudFlare quick, they'll cache it and you'll be set.

They're pretty reputable for free speech and fighting for their customers too, so I trust them to a decent degree.
I'm a strong supporter of nuclear power, but calling Fukushima benign is counter productive. Thousands have lost their homes and there are dangerous amounts of radiation leaking into the ground. The site will remain a money sinkhole of ongoing mitigation measures for a long time. But besides these direct effects, the handling of disaster showed that the responsible parties were trying very hard to cover everything up and thus permanently destroyed any confidence you might have had in them, proving the "human factors make nuclear unsafe" crowd right.
Apache Storm 1.0 released
The medical centre is in no way obligated to undertake the search though. $1.1 million is getting off easy.
You talk like developing on Linux means doing everything in the command line. *nix UX is nothing to be ashamed of, and I personally prefer it over Windows and OS X (especially OS X).
> As long as we don't get complacent

You and, going by Chernobyl's fallout distribution, everyone else within a radius of roughly 2000 km.

Looking on a map, for me this includes Chernobyl itself, the fallout of which is still measurable around here and contaminates dozens of forests to the point that mushrooms and game from there is considered inedible, and everything else between such stable, wealthy nations as Estonia, Tunisia and Syria.

No, I can't really say I'm confident in peoples' abilities to keep nuclear reactors out of harm's way.
Let a thousand flowers bloom, and all that.
Is it not equally likely the other way around - that the Neanderthal mitochondria disappeared because of unsuccessful mixed females or other genetic drift?
>Who cares?

People who are hurt by drug cartels. It is one thing to let people grow their own pot and sell it when they are law abiding (or otherwise law abiding) individuals. But when you get drugs from the drug cartel, the harm that goes into the production makes it wrong to use. We should support legal production and importation from human sources. But we should not legalize anything coming from the cartels.
Most probably the input is not random words, and instead orasis writes pieces aiming to have quality. He just doesn't bleed each and every word and accepts a maximum time per text piece, accepting that some variation in quality is inescapable, and that it is most efficient to allocate less time per piece so he gets more pieces. Note that this "less time" is relative, and probably does not go to zero. It's just orasis has found a level of effort per piece that is effective, and he relies on the algorithm so he does not need to establish a threshold below which he will not publish - as those pieces will be swallowed by the rest of higher quality corpus.

He might have leaned toward a little bit of hyperbole in "just spew out content regardless of its quality" for the purposes of clarity and expressiveness, which most of the readers have correctly parsed, but I don't think you have the right to tag orasis' output as shit based solely on the information of the page. That's a little bit rude, in fact.
Awesome, can't wait to upgrade tonight! Any news on the Linux / CLI version?
"You can roll your own economical protocol..."

Aye, and there's the rub.
Not sure where you see that?

On the features page, https://www.arqbackup.com/features/, under "Limit Network Impact", the image lists whether to use all wireless or no wireless.

I don't have the software so I can't confirm.
> Established procedure was not followed

Why have a procedure if your support doesn't follow it? Even if you have a procedure, everything falls apart when it isn't followed. This is the same as having no procedure at all.
It's not as simple as that. Consider the difference between people who were born rich and those that have worked hard to become rich. It's quite possible to work yourself into an early grave, even if you end up rich.
Hop: a multi-tier JavaScript
Not on Windows 10, but back in the day I had a piece of software whose DRM would cause a manual BSOD if the DRM's service became unresponsive when a DRM-consumer was attempting to use it.

The BSOD contained zero information about what caused it and said it was an intentionally initiated crash. Figuring out that it was this DRM garbage took quite an effort.

This is roughly the 2000 or early XP era.
Hotel: local .dev domains for everyone
That's not good verification. It takes a couple of minutes to produce convincing fake ID scans, and they aren't going to have anything to verify them against.

And presumably they wanted you to send those photos to them as an unencrypted email attachment, right?
An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat)
Surely you're not suggesting this option should not exist at all for who need this (or at least think so)?

For games, it might be about your game running at 30 fps or 60 fps.

If your future server farm is projected to cost $20M, wouldn't you want to try something like this to save a few millions?

> I don't see the economics working out any better for the assembly language solution this time than last time. It won't port across different hardware generations, is hell to write and maintain, and requires super-specialist knowledge.

Sometimes that's the price you have to pay. Such is life.
> There is a large group of people on the internet who never let the Microsoft of the 90s go.

Those people should have a look at research.microsoft.com, and compare their (public) research output to that of companies like Apple or even Google.
I don't know where he got his reference from, but, renewable energy without the hot air, has something similar, it calculates the number of deaths per GWy, for different sources[0]. Coal is certainly near the top (second to oil)[0]. Although I believe it was published after fukushima, and people might be suffering illness not accounted for in the book, I imagine that fukushima won't have dented the stats very much.

[0] http://www.withouthotair.com/c24/page_168.shtml
Maybe they are too late, though. I still like my Mac better than Windows version N, and have largely switched from Ubuntu (formerly RedHat, formerly Slackware) to OSX at home for the family.

The UI on the last few Windows versions has really confused me as to WTH they think they are doing.
I completely disagree. I agree there's an element of disqualifying someone, but I disagree that this is that much of a problem; with a larger dating pool you should find someone you get along with really well.

And yeah, if you're not a Republican and the other person is, that's a very good reason to disqualify them. You're not likely to get along well when you have such a completely different worldview. But regardless, people disqualify each other on Tinder based on that too; I frequently see "Republicans swipe left" on there.

I've found people I really thought were great matches on OKC, the problem is there's too few of them, mainly because everyone's gone over to Tinder, and the other problem is it's hard to get a woman's attention on there since she's getting swamped by so many messages. If OKC would simply adopt Tinder's mechanism of requiring both parties to "like" each other before being able to exchange messages, I think OKC would be the superior platform for mature people who are picky about who they want to date.
Agreed. CloudFlare is a simple way to add some caching power to a site for free. Or for a few bucks a month enable a bunch of other features.
Nuclear power is safe and clean in the abstract, where ideal safety procedures are always followed and mistakes are never made.

But in the real world, human error always causes problems. The problem with nuclear power is that the results of these problems are enormous and long lived. That's why I am against nuclear power.

We have much, much safer alternatives in wind, solar, geothermal and hydro electric. (Yes dam disasters have killed many, many people, I am not in favor of building any more dams where that kind of risk is a possibility.) In my mind there's no need for the risk that comes with nuclear power, we can build out our power infrastructure with safer, renewable sources of energy.
GoPro Isn’t Doomed Yet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J41K2XHpNnE

Demonstration of fake alerting.
> No 2auth can save you from humans who do support.

Well, conceivably the second factor could be used to generate crypto key material which is used to decrypt/unlock one's record, so without the second factor even support couldn't read & edit one's record.

Nothing can stop support from deleting & recreating a record though.
Khao - the matter was addressed and the staff was retrained to close the gaps in procedure.
Steve Miller: The Whole Music Industry Is Fuckin' Gangsters and Crooks
As far as I understand it once you get it going you can use the gas to keep the temperature up, and still have excess. Of course, this is only until the fuel runs out.
Citation? I thought a lot of the waste products, and what they decay into, are chemically toxic. Hardly "harmless"
Full interview over at Rolling Stone: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/steve-miller-this...

Link provided originally has good back-story. Either should work fine though. Quite a read.
Personally, the reason I like OS X over a random linux distribution is the sane keyboard shortcut defaults - CMD+C and CMD+V just work everywhere, as well as things like CMD+W.

Well, almost everywhere. And CTRL+F is still a little wonky depending on the app you're in.
The list of 310 patents Microsoft's asserted Android violates has been available for... almost two years now.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/06/chinese-govt-reve...

Hardly secret anymore. Meanwhile, the last copy of one of Google's secret contracts we have is five years old.
Also let me reiterate this is an isolated event. We handle over 10,000 chat sessions every day without a glitch. I invite people to use our live chat service and see what is and what is not possible, as well as the security precautions we have in place.
Ach, look at it this way. If it was in a proprietary product, you could sleep safely because nobody would ever tell you that your data was insecure. ;-)

We pay researchers and others to check ownCloud for security issues (the writer of this post got paid by us), we have security checks done by various companies etcetera - see https://owncloud.org/blog/hackerone-case-study-on-owncloud/

But it is, of course, still insecure because nothing is secure. I only can say we're pretty much the project with the best security processes and most attention towards security in the file sync and share space. From the open source ones, at least - you'll never know about the closed ones, they keep things hush-hush. Protecting your sleep (not your data).
I would gladly have a nuclear power station in my back garden.

Show me where I can signup to have eg Toshiba 4s in my back yard and I'll sign today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiba_4S

FWIW I have written to my MP and said this.
GNU is like Leonardo DiCaprio few years ago; never getting the Oscar. Microsoft did not bring Linux to Windows, it brought GNU. Linux is a kernel and there is not even a single bit of it in what microsoft brought to windows. It's technically GNU/Windows.
We do something similar at Silent Circle. In your recovery options, there's a page with a high-entropy secret key and a QR code that you can print out to use if you ever forget your password.

There's also a checkbox that says "don't ever recover this account" (i.e. the "I have a password database on Dropbox") checkbox. Checking that box actually disables password resets on the admin interface, so your account is pretty much dead if you lose the password.
Planet TinkerPop: Community-driven site aimed at advancing graph technology
It's also versioned backup, like Time Machine. Not just a clone of the latest.
>looking at the data, I'd say that any "shortage" is pretty easily explained as a rational response to pay, career security, working conditions, and the opportunity to do meaningful work that helps others.

I've said this before, but I think that any "shortage" has much more to do with traditional career paths considered by high school and college students as learned from their families and upbringing.

Just look at the careers you chose - law, medicine, finance. How many times did children of my generation (Gen X - I'm 44) hear "be a doctor" or "be a lawyer", or banker/nurse/dentist? Countless times.

I never remember being told "be a computer programmer!" in my entire life, and I personally had much more exposure to computers than most in my generation probably did in the 70s/80s due to my proximity to a leading university with several professors living on my block.

I don't think decisions to join other fields over technology have anything to do with rational responses to pay/security or working conditions, but are just steeped in traditions. My grandparents didn't know "computer programming" was something people could do for a living. My parents probably never considered it as a career for me until I was already out of college.

My generation may be the first generation of parents to identify software dev as a legitimate and realistic career path.
The UK's Hinkley Point C seems to be overbudget and delayed despite construction not even having started.
1. using a weak password for an important e-mail address

2. not deleting the mail with the login information

3. not having a backup

Yeah. This was just as much your fault.
I believe the technically correct term is "electrotetanized" when the current does not actually result in death.
Let the customer set it during sign-up as part of the password reset process. You set up your email address and password, let them choose $HOURS for last-line-of-defense password reset.

I don't see any perfect answer here. Ultimately you need a way to recover your account when you've lost all of the "somethings you have" and you've lost your "something you know", but then that allows a social engineer access to do the same. So let the user decide during sign-up.
I remember when my kids got the version of MS Office at school that came with Vista/Win7. All the complaining about Open Office / Linux stopped, as they learned that the Win XP layout was NOT God's Own User Interface.
We offer full backups with all managed servers/services

Self-managed a customer is responsible for their own backups. Just like with DO and that full server loss a couple of months back.
It is probably a reference to the (in)famous launch review of iPod on Slashdot: https://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-i...

> No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.
This video is great. It's made me really interested in the new camera, and the relative lack of actual information presented about it, in contrast to what's presented in that video, is frustrating. Are there more details available somewhere?
Why not just run Linux locally? Mac OS X is BSD, not Linux, which means its build tools & environment are subtly incompatible. You're always going to be chafing if you develop anywhere other than in your deployment environment.

Linux is superlative for desktop & development use. It supports things like tiling window managers far better than does a Mac. It's free. The hardware is far more affordable. Although this is definitely a matter of taste, I find Linux far more usable than a Mac. I will grant that Mac laptops are lightweight & thin.

It just seems weird to me to go through all these contortions to develop software for Linux on a Mac or Windows box when it's far easier IMHO to just … run Linux.
Agreed, and not too expensive.
This seems weirdly not insightful to me. Did anyone else learn anything they didn't already know, or which they wouldn't consider obvious?

Given 70 million comments I might hope for something more, like perhaps a proposition as to how to better automatically catch the bad comments without having to have moderators at all, via some sort of lexical analysis of the good ones versus the bad ones from this manually sorted set.

Would the Guardian be willing to release the data set for others to analyse?
>>It's so simple and obvious I don't know how people can argue otherwise.

Most people I know are confused between human emotions and happiness. No matter how much money you earn, you will still feel sad at the death of some whom you cared about, you will have all other myriad of human emotions any person on earth rich or poor will have to go through. And this shouldn't be confused with happiness.

Also I have a feeling that believing money can buy happiness and to a degree about the brutal fairness in the world in many occasions can destroy many people from inside.

People want to believe being mediocre is perfectly ok, they want to believe chance plays a huge role in ones life and that success and failure are always out of ones control.
That simply isn't cool enough.
"Secret police" may have been the wrong term. The point is that the society is closely monitored by the authoritarian government and there is "widespread abuses of political rights and civil liberties". You and the author seem to imply that the problem is they need to lay more pipe, when the real problem is the authoritarian government is forbidding internet access in order prevent an Arab Spring in their country. This is a perfect example of why Obama's Cuba policy is such a fail. He could have easily negotiated freer internet access in exchange for U.S. trade agreements, but he did not, and the Cuban people are suffering as a result.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Cuba#Contempor...
Papers and PhD Theses from the Univ of Alberta's Computer Poker Research Group
Exactly this. Reminds me of this quote:

"If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late."

- Reid Hoffman
NASA has recovered the Kepler Space Telescope from 'emergency mode'
Their recent overtures toward open source are heartening, and for me did start to overcome the reputation of the old Microsoft. I was disappointed that they squandered that good will with the Windows 10 telemetry debacle.
What portion of current nuclear power generation is from these 50s-60s era designs?
RTFM? Release versions are on pip. Unfortunately most distros think they have the one holy package management solution. pip IS a release and distribution system. With the current popularity of Python, it is only going to be a matter of time before apt / rpm / etc support working through it.
Why do you need to connect to remote services using weave? Should the stage environment be separated from you development one?
Anyway nice article.
Thanks
> email them a scan of your passport

What? Why do they do this?
I think it's a great idea, in theory (although Microsoft's use of it here is pointless though, as implemented). QR codes are just machine-readable text. Cryptic codes only accessible visually that are time-consuming and error prone to copy by hand? QR codes were designed for this.

Security issues with QR codes, while they exist, should be considered flaws in the QR reader. Doing anything with a QR code by default apart from displaying its content (not the content behind the URL that might be in the QR code, the actual QR code content) should be considered a security risk. And if visiting URLs = ownage for your device, you've got bigger problems.

If little bits of plain text are too insecure for us to handle, we may as well give up on the whole web, never mind QR codes.
That's a bold claim indeed, especially with that attempt at an explanation.

> You cause a neuron to fire and it fires

Tautology much?

> it does not care why it fired.

That's not even good English grammar. I mean, it's a very informal style, that I only understand because the information is redundant. Of course there are fail-safe parts. I don't even need to study to see that redundancy is a vital feature of the nervous system. In the same way, the ACC probably isn't the only point of failure for certain perceptions of the environment.
I added a screenshot to the README.
You say that like it's a bad thing.