skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google's datacenter-to-datacenter links probably weren't going over the public internet, so they didn't feel the need to protect against man-in-the-middle attacks on physical lines that they owned. If you connected two computers to each other with a cross-over cable, would you feel the need to encrypt all communications between them, just in case?
The article is about what they are. Not why they are good or important. Tons of material out there is rambling on about them. Apparently a lot of smart people think they are good and important. But, it's rare that someone explains them clearly without putting on a thesis-defense writing style.

Monads avoiding double-containering is nice because you want to be able to use them a lot without finding yourself working with an Optional<Optional<Optional<Optional<Optional<Optional<Optional<Optional<bool>>>>>>>> at the end.
I love this idea!

I absolutely hated science fairs growing up, and I can remember every one of them as an embarrassment.
Well, that's just it. It doesn't seem more free to me to have to think about getting out my wallet each time I go for a walk...or negotiating a series of easements all along my planned walk to the corner store!

It seems like taking away all common resources (land, air, though ancap says air would remain common) just adds a whole new layer of mental burden to engaging with the world.

Like, for me, going out and buying stuff or negotiating for it isn't fun, isn't how I'd choose to spend my time. Telling me that suddenly I have to do it for literally everything, and that's an increase of freedom, that makes no sense.
It wasn't paranoid in crypto-knowledgable circles. It earned you a tinfoil hat outside of them. That's why Snowden was important.
Ask HN: How do you harmonize user data?
If you have an app you probably have user-related data sitting in a bunch of different places.

For instance, I've seen companies with app-specific user data sitting in a database, user sales info in Salesforce, user support info in Zendesk, user chat in Intercom, user design feedback in a Google Sheet, and the list goes on...

Keeping this info separate is bad user experience. People want things personalized. The support team should know about a user's latest design interview, and sales should know about their recent in-app behavior.

What are some best practices for harmonizing user-related data? I'd love to hear some success stories.
There was a cultural change when Bell was broken up and UNIX became less laissez-faire, a paradigm shift. Software became valuable and not just bundled with hardware.

Stallman saw it coming early enough that he had completed his GNU Free toolchain in time for Torvalds to use it.

A developer community is less likely to arise when your modifications can be closed and you cannot fork. If your business runs in someone elses walled garden it can be taken away.

Without the GPL's four freedoms we would not have the rich public domain of code we have today - a legally protected commons.

Before the GPL the public domain suffered from the tradgedy of the commons, a fantastic legal hack.
Why would life become more unaffordable for the poor even though their wages are steady (which is the case)?

Immigrants and their children now make up more than 25% of the US population. How many poor people can you expect an economy to absorb before wages drop on the low end?
This almost certainly a consequence of pissing off the USG.

It's a pretty rare event to create a situation where the interests of the PRC are directly aligned with the US government's interests.
Everyone's doing it, so it's ok? Barring any evidence about other campaigns - sounds like a Hillary specific issue.

At the very least, it's sloppy that Team Hillary let this slip...
>No. My stance is that innocent-people pay for the crimes of others in your hypothetical.

You say "No" but then you repeated what I stated in different terms. Yes, it's unfortunate that there are bad people in the world who do not respect the property of others. We take measures to mitigate those risks like putting locks on our doors. That does not denote a market failure. Measures taken to mitigate crimes against us surely cannot be considered paying for something you do not use.

When I purchase something from the store, I'm not just buying that item itself. I'm paying for all the costs necessary to get that item to me--which includes costs for operating a business. Me paying that costs does not equate paying for something I did not use--I did use it. I used that business in order to be delivered goods. They paid costs to ensure I would get the goods. No, market failure.

>IE: you get lung cancer when a Coal Power Plant burns Coal. Market failure, specifically an externality. You pay for lung cancer that was caused by other people.

As I've stated previously this is not a market failure because this example depends on the idea of the commons. This exemplifies the failure of the idea of the commons, but not the market.

>If you don't care about efficient markets, then you probably shouldn't call yourself an "ancap".

If you're truly interested in having a discussion about morality and theory, why not cut out all the pretentious, snide comments? In this entire discussion I have only been respectful.
This is fantastic, thanks for sharing! This gives me so many ideas I'd like to fork and try out. Does this support recurring tasks?
Dead Man trailer colorized with neural network
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I don't think they need to care about UX. The "conversion rate" is probably absurdly low given the need for storage, RAM and CPUs to store and process the data...
It was fairly widely known in the network engineering community in 2003/2004 that the "Echelon" system collected an extensive amount of domestic data for each of the five eyes, using legal dodges where a foreign agency (like GCHQ) would siphon american/canadian data and feed it to the NSA and CSE, and vice versa.

Those who knew how much the system had changed from satellite-intelligence gathering (from the era prior to transatlantic/transpacific submarine fiber, where most phone calls and international data were satellite based), to tapping fiber at submarine cable landing stations and "partnering" with major telcos, were totally unsurprised.
> If my ISP controls one of the domains in this list, could it have carried out a successful attack without Cloudflare's help?

No they cannot.

CloudFlare hold the private keys to those certificates. Did you visit the iFrame source directly? Doesn't really see like much tbh.
I have to question how much experience you have dealing with the Fed gov't. There are hundreds of thousands of contractors cleared at the level Snowden was at. It is all very mundane, actually. The government is not composed of superspies, though they do have some. But for day to day operations they do not run a tight ship. It's not unbelievable that Snowden had the access. More unbelievable that he gave up his freedom to let the world know.
That archive link doesn't reference Google at all, or non-consenting data feeds from internal networks of friendly companies.

I too knew about that whistleblower before Snowden. I didn't know about Google intranet being compromised, or things like hostile code uploaded to hard disk controllers, or data exfiltration via compromised in-transit routers, etc.
I swear I've had amazon ask me if it was alright to deliver to a new address on weekends. Maybe that's a recent feature?
For as long as technologically minded folks insist on technological solutions to political problems, we will be stuck in this quagmire. The answer is a political solution to a political problem. Admittedly, that's a hard one for some folks. It requires talking to people and building relationships. It takes a long time and change can be frustratingly slow to present itself. But that's how it is.

Trust no one

With this sort of attitude you might as well give up on life. Society doesn't work without trust between people.
As a factor in a multi-factor authentication scenario it is pretty good.
The Snowden narrative needs to be questioned.

Oh for goodness sake. Reality is too boring for you? You could engage with the real campaign that EFF and Snowden and others are trying to get going, or you could wander off and make up some other story that protects you from having to do anything.

Since when does an NSA contractor working from home in Hawaii get VPN access to all the government secretes?

Since the NSA got reliant on huge networks that aren't understood by their own management and they needed to hire in techies to keep it running.

Essentially: big organisations have to choose between (a) crippling levels of security that prevent them from getting anything done or (b) getting things done with a small risk of leaks.

(a) is pointless so everything is heading for (b) and thats why every major news story of the last few years and the next few decades is going to be based around leaks.
Perhaps I should have been more explicit - comparing local audio traffic to local web traffic, there's a heck of a lot of difference. That would be the stacks.
A Mac in Graffiti Bridge
If only I could run to Fry's and buy a 300TB hard drive.
Don't politicians pretty much buy their votes? Only difference is where the money comes from and how they spend it. I haven't looked into it, but I wonder what the price for a vote is these days?
I had this happen to me in high school. My project won my local fair, at which point I went on to the state. At that point, someone pointed out that I was missing a tremendous amount of paperwork, and I had to go seek, ahem, creative ways to get it done post-facto. My project went on to finish high enough in the state fair that I got to go to the national event.

The issue here is that ISEF, Intel and other organizations that sponsor national science fairs don't want a PR disaster when it turns out that the winning project violates standards for institutional review and consent. That would be a major scandal and PR black eye. The only way to avoid this is by having every participant at every level complete the appropriate pre-clearance for the experiments.

As with any experiment, doing any kind of work with animals (even house pets) is subject to strict scrutiny, and any work done on humans, even siblings, even yourself, is subject to the highest level of review. As others have said, this is a fact of life in science, and learning about informed consent sooner rather than later is actually a valuable lesson.
I guess, when it's an excerpt from a different source, I feel like it's advertising? Like, if Wired were a journal I were paying for, having excerpts makes sense -- the editors found some piece they thought would work well in that issue, so they purchased a license for it and ran with it. But Wired? Given how much they complain about adblockers, their revenue from advertisements can't be that large to begin with, let alone large enough to share. My reasoning, right or wrong, was that the excerpt was placed primarily to drive sales of the book (and perhaps to get some clicks in the process).

In sum, it felt like I was being advertised to in an native format, so I called it native advertising.
Remember when the U.S. government at least pretended to care about things like privacy and human rights internationally.

No. When was that?
Yes:

> “My coauthor (asked): ‘What image do you want to use? How do you feel about the Lena image?’ And, I said ‘Definitely not.’” Her coauthor wholeheartedly agreed. And then Needell half-joked: “We should go against the grain and use a Fabio image or something, a male model.” And from there, they both decided to use the image and “take a stance.”

> “I don’t know if the Fabio image will take off but I think what it will do is… stick in people’s minds. And when they think about using the Lena image, they might think (about) using at least a neutral image.”

https://www.cmc.edu/news/every-picture-tells-a-story
Thinking about Zero
100M...200M core h, 10 W/core, 50 $/MWh and we get 50k...100k $.
The site is clearly designed for people who work in the field, and even then it only took me a moment to find a download link for some data. It even has a workable search function.

I'm not saying it couldn't be better.
It's not just hard to do, it's impossible. For a cloud provider anyway. Given that your software has to be capable of executing Bitcoin transactions itself, and the VM manager sits at a higher level and controls allocation and access to your VM's memory (to isolate it from other VMs), you are at the very least trusting that (1) when your cloud provider says they are using VMware or whatever standard software they aren't lying, and (2) that VMware itself is securely designed to limit its own access (and access of its own operators) to the underlying VMs.

If you don't want to trust your hosting provider with anything, you have to own the hardware.
DMELSEO
You're absolutely right. To be clear, I was not saying that everything can and should be simplified, some things just warrant a certain level of complexity because they're... well... complex and that's absolutely fine (your example of quantum computing is great in that regard, though I supposed it COULD be vulgarized for the masses to some extent, at least more than it currently).

I was addressing the difficulty I've seen in the programming community of trying to make things more accessible when they actually can and should be.
Encryption won't protect you - the cloud provider has access to executables (in ram and perhaps on disc), your keys (ram and disc) and the data both pre and post encryption (in ram).

Because they control the hypervisor, they control everything. That means they have as much access and authority as the code that you are running on their servers have. So the only way to protect yourself from them is to limit what your servers (deployed on their cloud) can actually do.

So for instance you could have a secure backend server on a dedicated host in a trusted environment, with the cloud servers using an API to the backend server. If the API is suitably secure then the cloud servers could be compromised without allowing them to directly issue invalid commands in the same way the backend server could. Then you could use the cloud to scale out your web frontend without compromising yourself.

The same is true of hardware on the dedicated host (such as the "Trusted Computing" Module) that you do not control. If that (or the BIOS) gets compromised you might not even know that your host is no longer secure.
I believe that my joke (perhaps in poor taste) isn't being taken as I intended. I'm a Python programmer, and my favorite feature of Python is the community. https://www.python.org/community/diversity/ I was only trying to make light of an otherwise painful reality.

There's a need for women's coding schools, and their alums will only make our field better. Congratulations to Hackbright Academy on an acquisition well deserved.
pretty much every prince everything is sold out on amazon.com right now.
And to be fair, institutional reviews and consent exist for good reason. Not so long ago it was acceptable to conduct psychological or even medical tests on uninformed participants, sometimes with terrible results.

There are legitimate arguments beyond just "for PR"
Dont worry, a new article on upcoming revolutions in fusion | nanotechnology | cancer | hiv | material science | ai | quantum computing will hopefully hold you over for another few hours until the next one.
I'm not sure we really have a "U.S." suicide rate.

In Montana, you're looking at suicide rates over 20 in 100,000. It's higher than Japan. Homicide is more like 3.7 in 100,000.

DC has only six suicides per 100,000, lower than roughly 100 countries around the world.

These numbers tend to bounce around a bit, but someone should really figure out what Switzerland has been doing right for the last three decades:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_the_United_States#/...
>The commons are where we all live, breathe, work, and play. To say they don't matter is to completely ignore what it is to be human.

I can't speak for your life but I spend the vast majority of my time on private property--including where I live, the air I breath, when I'm at work and when I play--not in any commons.
IMHO if you're doing anything financial and don't own the bare metal hardware that the hypervisor runs on and 100% control physical access to it, and run your own network gear (right up to your border with transit providers), you're doing something fundamentally wrong.
I wanted to see how one of my personal projects compared, so I looked at Groove Basin.

Groove Basin [1] is an open source music player server. It has a sophisticated web-based client with the ability to retag, label, create playlists, stream, browse the library, chat with other users, upload new music, and import music by URL.

I just checked the payload size of a cold load, and it's 68 KB.

I'll just keep doing my thing over here.

[1]: https://github.com/andrewrk/groovebasin
Profits don’t just show up one day and stay fixed. There is always risk, and always opportunity.

This type of move could address both.

One risk is that the company’s ability to manufacture may be seriously affected by the actions of a single government. If their current factories were suddenly impacted by a policy decision, future profits would definitely be hurt. By spending money now (that, incidentally, their competitors might not be able to), Apple can lower that risk; and, they would also be acting on their own terms instead of having to react to someone else.

There is also the investment side. By spending money now, they could end up with even more capacity that will enable them to develop more products for more people and increase overall profit in the future. If they don’t spend that kind of money, their competitors could catch up. The time to invest is before you have a problem.
It's called a sense of humor. You should try it out.
Do they accept transwomen?

How about people who don't identify as either gender?

Do they set themselves up as arbiters of who qualifies as a woman, and, if so, what criteria do they use?
Commodore 64 in a shader
Thank you for ungarbling.
Indeed, except for the first bit being a dependent clause.

And behind that is some politics: our Founders were supremely suspicious of standing armies (we didn't really have much of one until the Cold War) and "select militias", which were groups of armed men selected by some criteria (like being a loyal Tory) instead of "everyone" answering the call up.

Some of the Founders wanted us to depend entirely on a militia system, but others, including the supremely important George Washington, commander in chief during the Revolutionary War, said no way, Regulars are required for serious wars. And his and the other experienced commanders opinions could not be denied, so the dependent clause, very unusual in the Constitution or the Bill of Rights, was a sop thrown to the pro-militia only group.
Formalizing Self
It seems quite obvious that being a women-only school was an asset for them.
it's a blunt dog whistle for "hey libertarian gold hoarders we are your sort of people"
I thought the first one was free - I got lucky, it turns out!

I'll definitely be sending another one, my parents really enjoy these kinds of things.
The stance of "caution and respect", as you put it, is not without its perils.

If we accept that animals are conscious, the amount of laws we'd have to put in place to protect them would very likely have lasting detrimental impacts on the quality of life for the world's poorest peoples.

Given that we know humans to be conscious, I think we must err on the side of protecting humans first and foremost, even if that means to the possible detriment of other potentially conscious entities.
> But it's only an "environment" in the most ecological sense -- it's a collection of ugly hacks, each building upon the other, with the sort of complexity and incomprehensibility and interdependency of organisms you'd expect to find in a dung heap.

That's what every practical environment is. Only the environments which never get used remain "pristine" in the architectural sense, because you cannot fundamentally re-architect an ecology once you have actual users beyond the development team and a few toy test loads.
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> It's obvious they would never be allowed to perform the same exact wiretaps directly for use in non-national security cases.

There is no "national security" exception to the 4th amendment. At least in theory, these are communications that wouldn't require a warrant but for FISA, because they involve communications with foreign non-citizens.
I'm pretty sure it is for nefarious reasons. For the last year or two (maybe more), Amazon has never failed to deliver my free shipping (non-prime) orders in 1-2 days from when they ship. Since this would be a disincentive to subscribe to Prime if they shipped it within a day or so of receiving the order, they just do nothing for 4 or 5 days so that it arrives in the 5-8 day quoted window.

Its clearly in their best interest to push people to subscribe to Prime to recover their costs, their order fulfillment is so streamlined that a standard free shipment and a prime shipment probably cost the same in 95% of cases.
Tldr: Put up and shut up
Sure, I didn't mean to imply that there's not a good reason to have these rules. However, I think it's fair to argue that the driving force to get consent forms for one's friends and family (or even for oneself) for a one-off middle school science fair project is not to protect them from predation by overly aggressive researchers ...
Show HN: Staffjoy Flex – Marketplace Scheduling for Contractors
I have an open order right now they've been sitting on for 5 days. It's fine with me. I don't need the instant gratification and don't make enough orders to justify Prime. Just pretend you're living in the era of Sears & Roebuck ca. 1916 and you get your order turned around in the phenomenal time frame of 10 days with doorstep delivery rather than waiting a couple months and having to make the voyage out to the train depot to pick up your stuff.
Like it or not you are going to have to sleep.
Four Ways to Engage with Your Project Clients
Today we are launching Staffjoy Flex, which is our product for scheduling independent contractors. Last month, we launched Staffjoy Boss, which is our employee product.

The key difference is that, with Flex, we implement a marketplace for scheduling. So, contractors pick the shifts they want - rather than being assigned them. This helps with IC compliance for businesses, while at the same time giving workers long shifts and flexibility.

Staffjoy Flex is the result of our research into how contractor-based startups schedule hourly workers. We found that engagement by contractors falls off with each additional step necessary. Collecting availability doesn't scale, and we found that contractor availability changes quickly. With Staffjoy Flex, contractors pick from available shifts, then immediately know whether they are working.

This approach scales to thousands of workers without significantly changing the time it takes to schedule. Staffjoy Flex is used to schedule the agents behind a popular chat bot, to manage food delivery logistics, and to manage on-call rotations.

The core is Staffjoy’s proprietary algorithms. We match the contractor levels to business demand. This means that a courier company can scale labor to match peak demand for lunch hour, then drop off staffing levels right afterward. We do this while offering configurable shift lengths.

We also opened our API this week (docs.staffjoy.com). If you have any questions, we are here to answer them!
Right. And 10 years ago, this movie would have been about this ridiculous conspiracy theory asserting that the NSA was listening every phone call, collecting data on everybody and forcing companies to install backdoors in their systems :)