skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I began reading this expecting to find a statement, one way or the other, on whether including ZFS support (such as Ubuntu is doing) was "acceptable" in the FSF's eyes.

There really wasn't a firm statement, but there are a few key points:

> Likewise, the copyright holders of ZFS (the version that is actually used) can give permission to use it under the GNU GPL, version 2 or later, in addition to any other license. This would make it possible to combine that version with Linux without violating the license of Linux. This would be the ideal resolution and we urge the copyright holders of ZFS to do so.

Personally, I don't see that happening anytime soon.

> Some copyright holders choose not to enforce their licenses in specific situations.9 That enables users to operate as if permission were granted. However, this does not alter the meaning of the GNU GPL, and does not cause uses that the GPL disallows to either suddenly or slowly become permitted by the GPL. Such acquiescence is not the case in regard to linking Linux and ZFS; indeed, some Linux copyright holders have said they consider this copyright infringement. We have explained above the reasons why that is so.

> The FSF is not a copyright holder of Linux, except for small pieces copied from programs which we released under the Lesser GPL or GPL plus exceptions, and perhaps an obscure processor port. We do not presume on the strength of these pieces of code to tell the developers of Linux proper how to approach GPL enforcement for Linux, and we won't advocate a choice as if we had a say. However, we enthusiastically encourage enforcement of the GPL on Linux in accord with the Principles of Community-Oriented GPL Enforcement, and we wish the enforcers success in bringing violators into compliance, thus maintaining the GPL's integrity so it can defend users' freedom.

From those statements, I think it's clear that the FSF believes that including ZFS support is a violation of the GPL.

It also made me think (because of their mention of "license termination") that the FSF might consider "terminating" Ubuntu's (Canonical's) license to distribute any "GNU software" (i.e., software to which the copyright is held by the GNU Project / FSF). Such a move would be unprecedented and devastating to Ubuntu.
Not a coincidence - it was built to demonstrate the scalability of their technology to Terabyte datasets.
Here's what I don't understand: You go to a judge for a warrant and the only piece of evidence you have an IP address. How is an IP address even remotely considered "evidence" enough to search someone's home? An IP address is not an identity. It is not a location. It is not even permanent in most cases!

I cannot fathom that police are granted warrants to search and seize people's homes and property based solely on, "logs indicate an illegal file was uploaded from this IP address." That is incredibly flimsy evidence.

At the very least they should create a profile on the individuals and demonstrate that they were present in the home and appeared to be using their computers at the time of the crime. They didn't even do the most basic of police work in this case. WTF!?
Pilots Complain the A380 Is Too Quiet for Sleeping (2008)
no wings are needed at all

In fact, if you watch the video this is the conclusion the engineers reached -- at sufficiently high airspeed, the F15's wide body makes the wings unnecessary.
Yup. Exactly my experience.
This takes some horrific failure to accomplish, I imagine.
I don't necessarily think we're at the end of the line for any skills, just perhaps at the beginning of the line (only time will tell) for a new type of split. Either way, existing knowledge seems not to be EOL, but rather complements skills that were traditionally kept separate.

Additionally, it always takes plenty of time for legacy systems and processes to become forgotten, so even for those who can't or simply don't want to adapt, I feel like there's plenty of work still out there at places where change must occur more slowly, or where long-term investments have been made.
There are a million good reasons why most people are not willing or able to go through bankruptcy twice.
I have noticed a marked change in the quality of ride on Uber in DC in the last couple of months. It makes me wonder if Uber is tracking my engagement with their app and is deprioritizing me as a low-value customer since I only ride about once a week.
Unfortunately shipping at O'Reilly is $49 for my address in europe - literally more than the book + ebook bundle. Amazon on the other hand has the book for €30 and free shipping.
I always wonder why companies like O'Reilly think there is no decent market for them here, would have loved to order directly from them and get the ebook as well.
It would have been interesting to hear Wolfram's take on the debate. The debate revolved around "why would future intelligent beings want to simulate lesser intelligent beings from the past?". But the broader picture is that given enough time, "intelligence", which really means "computation", is an emergent phenomena of the universe at large. Given enough time, the universe will simulate itself.

We perform computations in the same sense that complex weather patterns do - there's nothing intrinsically special about our ability to compute. So it's naive to think that we're the ones being simulated - the universe may be simulated, and we are but one emergent property of that universe.
https://github.com/leo-stone/hack-petya/blob/master/main.go#...

Looks like it used a [1-9a-xA-X]{8} key. Even with a CSPRNG that's only 46 bits of entropy. You can brute force that in 2-3 hours with adequate hardware.
The blade cuts in both directions.

Yes it is a disservice to themselves and others that non-technical people zone out as soon as someone starts talking about technical issues.

But it is also a disservice to themselves and others when technical people don't even try to simplify (in a non-patronizing way) high level concepts for consumption by the general public.

Both sides aren't actually "trying". Both sides should be. Someone has to take the first step toward a halfway point, and history shows it ain't gonna be "joe/jane public".
Yeah but you can refuel ICE in 5 minutes. Not half an hour to an hour, not counting the wait in line for the charger. He explained all that.
> This is pseudoscience/creationism marketed to scientists.

It's not science at all, pseudo- or otherwise. It's philosophy. And I see no link to creationism. If we're in a simulation, it's not turtles all the way down. Somebody's running the simulation. The same ontological questions we grapple with now simply apply to that person instead of to us.
It's statistics 101 to not compare median to average, simply because an average is more impacted by outlier values and so a member of the general population making $15m a year would lift the "average" income far more than it would lift the "median" income. The numbers set "1, 2, 3, 4, 1000" has an average of 202 but a median of 3, and 3 is clearly a better representation of those numbers as a group.

Also we've got multiple data sets at play and so we shouldn't be using a "ratio" but rather a z-score.

A z-score is a measure to normalize all the different distributions and see how many standard deviations away from the average each value is. It's the accepted practice for comparing across two different data sets.

Udacity covers it in their data science course: https://www.udacity.com/course/viewer#!/c-st095/l-81689336/m...
That is an interesting read. They just seem to dump everything they know about how computers are used in relation to child pornography even if it's unrelated to the case at hand.

Even though they mention the hashing and Photo DNA (which is a real system that ISPs use) the warrant rests on regular old reporting of a video by site admins.
I don't know what it's like in other countries, but I think in Austria the "finance police" routinely check random businesses for correct books and compliance with the law. No sign of actual wrongdoing necessary. Businesses don't have the rights to privacy that individuals have.
Isn't startup time painful though?
Cool technology, but interviewer was obnoxious and rude.
Recursive call would have huge call stack.
No, you can/should just do the bad things through Tor, then you're not even a target of suspicion.

If they have some other link to you, the fact that the traffic is coming out of your house isn't doing you any favors.
And this perfect system culminated with the UK going nearly bust. And if Thatcher didn't end that, you just need to look at the other side of the Channel to see what the UK would have become.
They were forced by govt to do that, after a century of resisting.
Vancouver, Honda Civic

Everywhere else in BC mainland, Pickup (F-150/Ram)

that'd be my guess for BC.
Can you or someone else possibly say what the "normal dev hiring bar" is?

I've enjoyed what I've read so far in the book and I get it that there is an opportunity here for Google to market the SRE role b/c they are apparently hard to fill but why didn't they put a chapter in the book of what that dev skill set is?

Or else what dev skill are expected of someone working in this capacity.

Seems like lifting the shroud of mystery would do wonders for marketing a role that is hard to fill.
I did mean python when I said scripting, but I don't know all it's symantics and internals.

this is mostly due to a lack of experience, I guess it's time to really sit down and try to craft some larger projects.
How are people reading this? Are you all lucky recipients of limited preview copies, or is this actually out somewhere I'm not seeing?
I don't think its wise to rely on market forces to ensure labor protections. It didn't work so well for tech workers several years ago [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
We ultimately should be fixing this with BPF, which we'll certainly post instructions for.
I mean that I don't see as great a number of lawyers and doctors having little interest in their personal appearance and constantly referencing science fiction and fantasy, which I think explains it as well as any supposed lack of social status for software engineering as a profession.

Besides that, I don't see how you can really justify calling medicine or law "less intellectual" than engineering or programming.
Turkey asks Germany to prosecute comedian over Erdoğan poem
The API is essentially a paginated list of certificates. There's no "search by domain" or anything like that. Monitors are expected to continuously get the latest entries and check them according to their rules.

COMODO has a site[1] which allows you to search through a dump of various CT log servers by domain (and various other X.509 fields). It's a great tool, but it doesn't provide the guarantees you get when you scan CT logs directly - you can't be sure the information hasn't been tampered with.

I'm currently working on a side-project where I'm essentially pushing CT log data to a pubic dataset on Google BigQuery, allowing researchers and CT monitors to easily query any CT data. As with COMODO's tool, however, you lose out on the cryptographic assurances a real CT log server provides.

[1]: https://crt.sh/
Thank you for taking the time to explain it to me. It took a little bit more Google-Fu after you pointed me in the proper direction to learn about `captioned performances`. I guess I don't see nearly enough performances to not have had that be the first thing to pop in my head. :)
It's unlikely that an exit node operator would be convicted in the US unless the raid turned up illegal content actually hosted on their computers.
Just Like Human Skin, This Plastic Sheet Can Sense and Heal
The problem appears to be the transformer: https://youtu.be/3Hdn0MuCK_0?t=20m49s (and specifically a bit of shredded insulation https://youtu.be/3Hdn0MuCK_0?t=25m35s)
Rene Descartes proposed this question in his "Meditations" essay (the one where we get "cogito ergo sum" from).
Why is it even called hoverboard? Quite misleading.
> If we're in a simulation, it's not turtles all the way down. Somebody's running the simulation

and they are simulated, and so are they, and ..., until you reach turtles. Super smart turtles.

If I'm going to believe something silly it may as well involve super smart turtles.
be sure to drink your ovaltine
Maybe the only universe where we can absolutely prove we're not in a simulation is one where we are in fact in a simulation.
Unlikely. The universe has too much gratuitous detail at the subatomic level. Nothing below the electron level is really necessary. At the macro scale, the universe is way too big and mostly empty. If this is a simulation, it's inefficient by tens of orders of magnitude.

If the simulation oversimplifies on the boring parts, we probably would have picked up on that by now. Although it does make you think about the Copenhagen Interpretation.
Heh - no reason for that to be true. The folks running the simulation could be very unlike us - maybe N-dimensional beings, or they exist across multiple universes, or heck maybe in a 2-dimension world. I can simulate more dimensions on my computer than I exist in! Why couldn't they?

Anyway their ontological questions might not be anything like ours. Perhaps they ARE god, and don't need to wonder about that.
Where in canada do you live? Is there anything specific location wise that keeps you to a certain location? You probably could afford a house in alberta or quebec for example. But toronto and especially vancouver are economic bad ideas. Could you get a job in the USA too? The price/income ratios there tend to be much better.
Compare Sweden and Denmark. All countries around Sweden have lower crime rate.
Big Clive, who makes these videos does some brilliant tear-downs. I recommend watching his other videos.
The Return of Great Power War
Solidangle probably didn't know anything about your personal background. So you have no right to accuse him of being insensitive. Also, it's good that you were able to turn a bad situation into something good. However, the mere fact that you, individually, managed to succeed doesn't mean there's not a problem that's worth talking about. Your personal story is relevant, but anecdotal.
The first 11 sections are available for preview.

https://books.google.com/books?id=tYrPCwAAQBAJ&source=gbs_bo...
Sequoia and Softbank Reportedly Team Up (Again) to Pump $100M into Oyo
> This is going to negatively impact driver supply

All professional drivers, including Uber drivers, already need TLC licensing, as do their vehicles.
DevOps != Ops.

You don't have a DevOps guy, or a DevOps team. You have a team that does both development and operations. The less work they have to do (like the reduction of effort with managed services) the better, but it's still work we need to do.

If you call out DevOps as a specific role, they you're not doing DevOps. Just like those practicing "Agile" are likely lacking in actual agility.
Interesting, because the modern usage is more from the perspective of the onslaughting invaders, panicking that the gate may close before they arrive.
Yeah a lot of people don't understand this distinction. You have your pure SWEs who were hired that way who then were either picked for or switched to SRE-SWE. Then you have people who were recruited into SRE-SWE from the beginning. People in SWE and SRE-SWE job classes can freely move between them. Then finally you have people who were recruited as SRE-SysEng, or were recruited as SWEs and didn't quite make the cut. These folks have to do a transfer interview to jump to the SWE or SRE-SWE roles.
Could you speak to the dev/programming skill set need for the SRE-SWE vs the SRE-SE?
If it was written in Lisp, there would be Cars everywhere.
Regarding "theoretical best", I think that is "in the absence of mitigations". I think you can build a service with a higher SLA than one of its dependencies, but only if you recognize that impedance mismatch and build in defenses.

As a contrived example, if you've got a microservice that provides data FOO about a request that isn't actually end-user critical, you can mitigate your dependency on it by allowing your top-level request to succeed even if the FOO data is missing. Or maybe you can paper over blips of unavailability with cached data.

But, yes, know what you depend on and how reliable they are, then see if you need to take more action than that if your target is higher than the computed target.
> any evidence for or against simulation can be a part of the simulation.

How do you know this for sure?

Also, this does not mirror creationalism. Here is your argument rephrased:

>any evidence for or against God can be a creation by God.
That was my first thought when I saw "Juno" as well.

At the time, we didn't have local dial-up numbers so I used it very extensively. Standard Internet access was very expensive (and I was a young teenager so my parents were paying for it) so I subscribed to dozens of mailing lists and read them all off-line, dialing up to Juno just to send and receive. Most of my "downloading" in those days was facilitated by Juno and "ftp by e-mail".
The interview he gave along with Sturgill Simpson might have been his last.

http://gardenandgun.com/article/legend-and-renegade
To me, the exploitation that occurs in this system are the government regulations involved in someone just wanting to be paid to drive me from Point A to Point B.
As a security reporter I perceived a large technical gap between the developer of warez and most users, who tend to pay a one time or ongoing license for use of some tool. While a developer of illicit tools may adjust in a future release, typically the user does not have capabilities to patch their own tooling.
JavaScript tricks #
Amazon Web Services crushes $10B in sales
Artificial Intelligence Sheds New Light on the Origins of the Bible
Unlikely. The universe has too much gratuitous detail at the subatomic level. Nothing below the electron level is really necessary. At the macro scale, the universe is way too big and mostly empty. If this is a simulation, it's inefficient by tens of orders of magnitude.

Wouldn't that depend on what you're trying to simulate?
Here the crypto used by the ransomware seems to be thoroughly and systematically broken, so while it's certainly possible that a stronger variant will appear, I have my doubts on the author's capacity to do much "better" any time soon.
I'm far from being a cryptographer, but at a glance it looks so weak I have to wonder if it's deliberate.
Good thing that does not apply to the output of the TV and movie industries.

I'd be worried.
Check Your Credit Report BEFORE a Job Search
I thought SMBC had a fun comic in response

http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=3931
Best Flight Simulator 2017 – Microsoft Flight Simulator 2017
They're in a different space / industry.

Trademarks exist to prevent confusion between similar products. Juno, the free dial-up and e-mail provider and Juno the taxi/transportation(?) company are very different.
Thanks, this is exactly what I was missing.
If rents are disconnected from housing prices, you're in a housing bubble. I think you're in vancouver too, so move away!
I use Uber as shorthand for UberX, where the vast majority of drivers (at least in my city) have no commercial licensing or insurance. That's what enables them to be so cheap and ubiquitous.

Maybe NYC specifically is different, I don't know.
Is “the Hum” a scientific fact or a mass delusion?
I assume there is some additional special sauce that enables you to do things that are not possible in a browser, which means you still won't get the exact formatting, index, etc correct.
Dissecting the Myth That Open Source Software Is Not Commercial
Same here. I've always worked more or less 8 hour days with occasional exceptions for emergencies and crunch time to hit a deadline.
That's so cool. Are there any ideas for sales/pitch emails?

That's probably harder to find, but it'd be really helpful.
It just highlights the rubber-stamp aspect of it. How many of the search warrants are reject really?

For example in case of the FISA court:

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

Since 2010 there have been more than 6000 requests and 0 denials.

They could have showed up with anything, and request would have been granted. I have no doubt that both parties see this as "need to follow rules" formality and nothing else.
I am no expert, but I would think "an hour of uncompressed 4k video" would be more like 6TB. Maybe even more.

>>> 4096*2304*3*60*3600/1e9
6115.295232

Resolution: 4096*2304
Colors: RGB (3 bytes)
Frame rate: 60
Seconds: 3600 (one hour)

Even using a lower frame rate like 25 would leave only two bytes for color before we get somewhere near 1.72 TB.

>>> 4096*2304*2*25*3600/1e9
1698.69312

How did you estimate/calculate the 1.72TB?
> It's not enough to control the funding, you have to control the political speech. Basically, candidates would get fixed slots of tv and radio time to spread their message, and all other political speech would be forbidden. Otherwise money can dominate the conversation as it does with the pacs.

So you would prevent candidates from tweeting, or posting on Reddit, or updating their personal blog?
Yes. If Uber is ride-sharing, then I guess factory work is "hand-sharing" and prostitution is "body-sharing"...
In many cases (don't know about this one) they come after the network has been shot down.
I'm guessing it's yet another hostile fork: https://annevankesteren.nl/2016/01/film-at-11

As far as I understand, they (the W3C) do this every few months in an attempt to wrest defacto control of HTML back from WHATWG. They copy the WHATWG spec, strip out the licensing and authorship information, and publish as "their" HTML spec.

Then a few months passes, their copy falls behind the actively edited WHATWG one, so they have to fork it again. And so on, and so on.

It's really pretty pathetic.
Wouldn't it be amazing if some poor grad student in the future had to explain to his supervisor that his simulation of the past failed because the people in the simulation figured out that they were being simulated? That would cause so many moral issues: do you kill your experiment, or do you let it run until big freeze?
Most nations are generally monogamous. The playing field is the same size for all hetero people.
Bought this book last week and intend to get through it shortly. But, I'll also plug this excellent paper by James Hamilton (of AWS): "On Designing and Deploying Internet-scale Services" - https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/lisa07/tech/full_papers/...
There wouldn't be any shelters on unowned land because it would be foolish to improve it if anyone could take your improvements from you at a moment's notice. Now you need a government to enforce exclusive use of the land by a given person, and guess what, that's ownership.
I actually thought that was the general assumption, rather than we, humans, being anything special in the ridiculously vast universe.
Lytro Cinema offers the ability to focus anywhere in your scene. You have the infinite ability to focus and create any aperture or any depth of field. You can shift your camera to the left, you can shift it to the right, as if you had made that exact decision on set, and you can even move your camera in and out.

If I read this correctly, this camera replaces the jobs of multiple full-time professionals. I bet it will revolutionize movie making, especially as the price inevitably goes down over time.
Can you explain to me how you feel exploited by the government protecting someone from being taken advantage of economically? I would genuinely like to understand this.
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2016/04/05/1522200113.abst...
There is an argument that this is an in-demand service that will be practiced legitimately or illegitimately. Thus, instead of providing the atmosphere for a black market, the state licenses practitioners so that some standards can be enforced and so that it has a way to prevent known-harmful quacks from practicing.
This is one of my favorite joke theories about relativity. More mass increases the complexity of the simulation, slowing down time.