skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Between 2001 and the arrival of service pack 2, it was a horror due to virus and worms for sys admins and end users.
The ignore the problem thing was a resident resource hungry program called "virus scanner"
Com & co were great, ms used it,the rest abused it. And Xp feels fast too, it wasn't, 7 was faster, but it felt the other way.
But it appears that only law enforcement have access to the database. It would be much more effective if people were able use it to do a search to see if a bike was reported stolen or not. It may be because it has been around for a long time and was never updated to have an internet interface.

They say they are the "only true national database" (whatever that means), but I'm sure other (non-true) ones popped up because of this limitation.
I believe that this article considers electricity, gas and water as utility, but not utility computing. The business model might be a little different, but information and data processing are arguably utilities to me, in the form of Google Search, Facebook, Skype, Google Maps, GMail, etc. Soon, driving people around using self-driving cars will be an even more clear utility, and one in the very traditional sense.

Electric vehicle will be the utility of the 21st century, but not because of their power train, but because of the comfort of sleeping it off on your way back to home, being able to video-conference with your children on their way back from soccer practice (from anywhere), and never have to worry about parking.
There is no procedure you can run that would show that the RNG was compromised. They would still give you a stream that's indistinguishable from random noise, except it would be generated from a seed known to the attacker.
Ryanair officially doesn't provide transfers and neither does any other budget airline in Europe. Strictly speaking, that's the definition of the budget airline.
Why don't schools teach debugging? (2014)
I was only sourcing the quote, not advocating it's veracity.
You're a good person, and you also shared an effective way of retrieving stolen property that I'd never thought about before.
I bet if you were given six months and high quality recordings of different types of gunfire you could figure out how to do it algorithmically.

It's all about having a large enough corpus of input, both of the type you're looking for and the type you're looking to exclude. This is an undergraduate level problem to solve.
Yes, I think something like this is the future of programming. It goes even further than what you're suggesting. The codebase will no longer need to be unambiguous, among other things.
Edit: I forgot to check if there were other responses already. Oops! Never mind. Also, in addition to being late, I was also wrong (or, at best, partially wrong)

Doesn't it usually at least connotate having large amounts of code, often repetitive code? Especially code that should be split into smaller functions?

I thought that was the case, but I would not be surprised that it is also used more broadly
It may seem unfair that California gets a larger percentage of water from the river than Nevada does, but remember that not only is California over a dozen times larger, California also grows much of the food Nevada (and the rest of the country) eats.
Totally. I live within the city limits, but a somewhat rural area. On Sept 1st every year (when dove season starts), I hear multiple shot gun shots per second (yes per second) from about 5am - 9am for several days.
Can you give an example of an organization that does this screening process properly, as a role model?

My church, grocery store, and local bars, to give a few examples, don't give me an advance lists of attendees to scren before I show up somewhere. If I see someone I can't be near, one of us has to leave. Thankfully, this collision happens only occasional
A cage needs to be earthed - the rubber tyres probably hinder this, however I'm not an electrical expert at any stretch.
They've identified who leaked the database to AWS:

http://www.diariodemexico.com.mx/inemexico-encuentra-quien-f...

The government isn't publishing details, but the article gives the impression that it was some Mexican political party acting out of line who should not have uploaded this data to US servers. It appears that each party receives a copy of electoral registrations.

¿Qué chingados? I didn't know every party got a copy of all voter registrations. This seems grossly undemocratic.
ASMR: The videos which claim to make their viewers 'tingle' (2014)
“Realities of present day food biz. Different device for each delivery service”
It seems like a disaster waiting to happ- oh wait, right.
To be fair, CGI decapitation is a totally different story. Even really grisly "well-done" deaths aren't that disturbing to many people when they're not real.
You've done an admirable job responding to drive-by badgering with open-minded interest, patience, and kindness. Kudos to you.
The Seattle police should be ashamed of themselves.
Homosexuality: Nature’s True Altruists?
If self-driving cars become anything like what armchair futurists are predicting within 10 years, I'll eat my hat. The on-demand car that picks you up and drives you around while you sleep is a long, long way away.
You can buy a cheap chicken today, but we all pay for it in the long run
What is it like to be a bat? (1974) [pdf]
About 100,000 of them, to be more precise.

Your comment made me want to revisit Feynman's Letter: http://www.lettersofnote.com/2015/10/do-not-remain-nameless-...
I worked with WISP in school. My contribution was demonstrating the platform providing sensor data from inside a chemical reaction vessel.

Also, this was the first hardware project I worked on where the community used a wiki as the primary communication and it worked! Kudos to Intel
For an explanation of the voodoo nature of the blocking /dev/random, see:

http://www.2uo.de/myths-about-urandom/

EDIT: or read tptacek's root comment on this very page.
The INE really screwed the pooch this time; 93 million is essentially every adult Mexican!
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Yeah, but that's theater performed by low-wage employees. I think it's extremely unlikely that sending a tip to help higher-level officials isn't going to accidentally get you on some watch list, as long as you're acting in good faith.
This title seems a bit off. Mentioning the hosting provider like this almost implies the leak is the fault of AWS, which to me feels like blaming Lexmark for someone printing sensitive info and then leaving it in the printer for others to find it.
I haven't been invited to any dinner parties with strangers to become friends with. My existing friends invite me to dinner parties.
Essentially.

But I think Clang can actually do better here. The open source project is essentially providing integration with glibc and other libcs and we don't do a reasonable job of being conservative there where we don't know what requirements that layer places upon things like memcpy.
If the government is relying on outside political parties to keep the data secure, it might as well be public anyways.
I've seen 'Friends' and 'Couples' sitting at restaurants staring at their phones, the whole time they are together. It's already difficult with age to make friends, if you add the 'mobile' factor you can dwindle the probability to zero ...
There's a very steep reward curve, though. It's not like, a 10% incentive. It's hundreds of percentage points.

Very rough numbers here:

Generic person might be able to earn $50K working 40 hour weeks in their most optimal career (one that uses their skills).

Same person might also be able to earn $25K working 20 hour weeks doing a similar thing.

They could also earn minimum wage with a rota that isn't really under their control much.

But the real 'work-life balance' option, the one in which the tables are turned and someone decides to 'schedule' work for 8pm on a Saturday or whatever because it's free in the diary?

As far as I can tell this just sort of doesn't exist. I mean you could do piecemeal bits and bobs for neighbours, maybe. But a sustainable source of money sufficient to eat and heat, pay for a roof?

An example would be a 24 hour supermarket. The employees could bid to fill slots and the rate they'd charge to cover periods. But it's not set up that way because the capital owners hold all the cards and it'd be less optimal for them. What you get instead, is 'come to work 6pm thursday or you are fired, kthx'.
In the US, voter registration is completely open. You can walk down to your Board of Elections and look at the full register, including party registration and whether you voted or not.

For contested elections, party inspectors will note active voters who haven't voted yet and report, which generates phone calls or even volunteers dropping by to drive voters to the polls.

IMO, transparency is required for democracy.
My point was that window.opener can be nulled out.

> I'm also skeptical of legitimate uses for controlling the location of another top level window as well

Happens all the time: open a popup, then navigate it to places. Not on web pages much nowadays, though it was more common in the past, but in various intranet apps? All the time.
> You're assuming pointers dominate the footprint.

No, I just wrote:

>> if you have only 8 GB of physical ram, you won't necessarily be able to handle much more than with a 32-bit application

That means, I absolutely know applications that won't be better on a 8 GB RAM computer as 64-bit applications, and they were written using standard C++ libraries. Typically, such applications weren't optimized for cases when they use a lot of memory. If somebody competent spends enough time and energy, even such application can be made to use memory better but it's not something that "just happens."

And sometimes 32-bits application is a good trade-off. See for example

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ricom/2009/06/10/visual-stu...

"A 64 bit address space for the process isn’t going to help you with page faults except in maybe indirect ways, and it will definitely hurt you in direct ways because your data is bigger."

What I'm trying to suggest is that the topic is more nuanced as "64 doublegood 32."
@arcticfox How is good will determined if not through a through a thorough investigation.
Any details on what exactly was the misconfiguration in mongo?
> A cage needs to be earthed

No, it just has to be around the object. Try wrapping your cellphone in aluminum foil. It won't receive or send anymore.
Well, window.open() obviously has the same problem, with the same solution being proposed: the caller of window.open opts in to not allow the thing being opened to interact with it.

We could have different default behaviors for the two cases, of course: opt-in for links and opt-out for window.open.

But I still suspect that even just the link case is not as uncommon as one might wish. Happy to see data proving me wrong, though!
Does anyone know, by what logic are the auctions price fixing? Generally they seem like one of the fairest ways to determine a price - are they doing something odd in their auctions? Or are they just grasping at straws?
Lots of differences that can be pulled out algorithmically. Gunshots are much sharper, as they're mechanical/aerodynamic rather than chemical, and are linear rather than point sources. Receivers placed across the city will record differently dopplered shockwaves based on how close they are to being in line with the bullet's trajectory. If you really wanted to, I bet that you could go around the city after installation and set off firecrackers in a grid to map out the city's acoustics, then reconstruct bullet trajectory down to thirty or forty meters. Which'd be pretty cool.

Of course, all that goes away in the case of subsonic rounds. Then your only real difference is that a gun propellant is going to have a much faster velocity than the gunpowder in fireworks and the explosion is going to be rather better contained. You'll probably still be able to differentiate, but I'm not sure how effectively, especially over long distances.
This isn't a good thing - even if the thief serves half that there is no scenario where that outcome is a net benefit to society. However this view of mine may be venturing too far into politics.
That holds mostly for either a) software that's made by software developers for software developers, and b) software that's utterly trivial. It's not true for most tools for professionals.

To name few examples - there's no decent alternative to Microsoft Office (free or otherwise), there're no decent open source alternatives to most CAD applications, to MATLAB (no, Octave doesn't count) & Simulink, LabVIEW, musical software, electronics design & manufacturing, etc. Essentially anywhere where the problem domain is nontrivial and the potential audience is limited.
"...but now the bitter economics may spell disaster for Massachusetts’ largest commercial crop."

I had no idea that cranberries of all things, fit the bill as the largest commercial crop in Massachusetts. I'm shocked actually.
The "speculation" is the worst part of a science research. It gets the most air play but has but has the least basis in fact.

Perhaps more intelligent people (by IQ test) are more introverted -- more thinking less feeling/EQ, and so are less comfortable with the company of other people they don't know well. That certainly fits the bookworm/ computer nerd / uberhobbyist type of high IQ person.
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Where's your evidence for these high co-pays that Turing did not subsidize? I searched both transcripts for "co-pay" and "mortgage," and didn't find anything like what you're claiming. In fact, I see the opposite. I see the CEO of Turing being cross-examined by a hostile Massachusetts congressman accusing her of causing $6000 co-pays. She says, no, we paid anyone directly who fell through the cracks in this way. He replies, "after 4 days."

Searching for the word "mortgage" yielded no results for me.

I used to think drug companies were a scourge. After researching the Shkreli controversy last year I'm not so sure. But Shkreli, with his (often funny) dickhead antics, certainly would be a convenient whipping boy -- if anyone, like Congress or special interests -- needed a whipping boy to distract the public from what's actually ailing American health care.

For some perspective, drugs are only 1/10 of American health care costs.

Prescription drugs: 10%
Dental care: 4%
Hospital care: 32%
Physician/clinical services: 20%

Source: https://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Statistics-Trends-and-Reports/NationalHealthExpendData/Downloads/PieChartSourcesExpenditures2014.pdf

And as far as Shkreli goes, the reality, as far as I've seen so far, is that no one is paying these sky-high prices for Daraprim out of pocket. Check out Turing's 10-K's; they reinvest their profits in R+D. Shkreli himself seems to be legitimately interested in developing new and better treatments for rare diseases. (CMD+F: "PKAN" on this page: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-04-17/retrophins...)

Serious question. For these super-rare diseases like toxoplasmosis, the current profit model is this. First, charge a high price ($30k-$100k) for a course of treatment. Then, the few people suffering from the rare disease get the drug via insurance. Does anyone have a better way of incentivizing drug companies to create new treatments, or better treatments, for rare diseases?
I don't think it is a matter of not understanding how armor works. It is more a matter of the energy and precision required for martial arts. I've done some SCA fighting, but mostly spent 20 years practicing kung fu, and they are completely different worlds.
This happened the same time a while ago -- at the time it was a misconfigured S3 bucket but the title was worded in a way that AWS to blame.

This seems to be a misconfigured MongoDB server hosted in AWS but details are scarce.

Personally, with the vast swaths of PII data being leaked, I am interested in whether there is a global database of these people yet. Not for nefarious purposes, mind you, but for global legal representation not limited to voting.
Back in college, the rule in the dorms was if your door was open, you were welcoming anyone who wanted to drop in and hang out.

40 years later, I still miss that.
ELK is a very standard stack for collecting and disseminating logs. It's a fairly natural, and i think sensible, step to build a pattern-based alerting tool as a bag on the side of ELK.

If you were going to do it more properly, the first choice would probably be Riemann, which has already seen some adoption in this role. There are already plugins on both sides to forward events to the other:

https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/plugins-out...

http://riemann.io/api/riemann.logstash.html
The magnitude of increase can't be explained by demographic factors. It's far more likely that this is mostly due to a statistical blip with only a minor contribution from everything else.
I would recommend http://www.getchaperone.com, http://whatfix.com, http://inlinemanual.com or http://walkme.com
Some people might, if those fatalities were preferentially "intended targets" as that dramatically reduces the potential for harm to innocent bystanders.
This is spot on.
Most people/groups have some kind of political agenda. It doesn't imply hypocrisy or deceit.
We want to make a utopia. But no one knows or agrees what utopia would look like. And it s very easy to get it wrong and get stuck in a bad or suboptimal system.

I think that (superhuman) AI will help us figure this out. It could model us well and figure out "what we really want". It could propose questions and ideas we wouldn't think of, and help us work out what the answer Is.

However the problem is getting to that point. We don't know how to make an AI that will follow instructions at all. Most possible A Is do everything within their power to take over the world.
Why Belgium might fall apart in 30 years
The Genuine (JavaScript) Sieve of Eratosthenes
That's slightly different because hacker culture creates a public commons that practitioners can use to make money. It is not clear to what extent this actually happens.

Perhaps EDM works like how hacker culture works. I just don't know much about that . But for more traditional musicians it seems harder to... monetize the work. But this was probably always true - it was not uncommon for touring musicians in the radio era before TV to take on sponsors. The span in which people were sustained mainly by record sales was pretty brief.
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Why the Internet of Things Might Never Speak a Common Language
I would be very surprised if you could figure out a way to reliably discriminate between the sound of a gunshot and the sound of a car backfiring given that they're basically the same thing (that is, the sound of a gas rapidly expanding in a metal tube).
+1

This!

Again I think this illustrates the echo chamber some camps can't seem to depart. But I agree with your thinking.
Address and occupation and whether you have any twins is open too, for the whole country? Can you look this up right now for any adult estadounidense?

In Mexico, this isn't transparency, as only the political parties get a copy. This is surveillance, probably used for more effective targetted campaigning, which has historically been used for buying votes.

I'm not sure I will ever renew my Mexican voter registration.
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Why did Java take over in 2000?

Because starting in the mid-late 90s, B- and C-rank universities began adopting Java over C++ or Pascal as a teaching language, producing a glut of graduates who knew Java. As IT needs grew because of the internet boom, companies built their systems with the language that the available programmers knew.

These days, more and more "teach kids to code" initiatives are starting with JavaScript because it's easy to get started with, existing in every browser known to man. With IT infrastructure in for another period of growth/change, especially in startups, it makes sense to build out in JavaScript because it's what incoming fresh programmers know.

It doesn't make much sense to me, but that is how they do in the corporate world.
> My molecular biologist friend's comment on this [...] Manipulating telomeres to investigate aging reminds me of this classic joke [...]

What's your friend speciality? Any link to his telomeres/telomerase papers, or any chance you can point him to Maria Blasco's [0] work (top researcher in the field with 200+ papers [1]) for comments?:

It'd be interesting to see science-backed rebuttals.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Blasco_Marhuenda

[1] https://scholar.google.es/scholar?q=MA+blasco&hl=en&as_sdt=0
He's a good person. Me and a million others would have pressed charges. Are we bad people?
Though with small monopole and cellular rooftop sites, MW can frequently be built in a ring or redundant traffic path configuration. Fiber to many endpoint sites like a cell tower is frequently a star topology network with one cable in a linear path along a ROW either aerial or underground.
If I understood it, this change is supposed to be fully compatible with the existing interfaces and assumptions, it just claims to give more bits faster, using Fortuna would mean more changes at once and would mean the client code would have to change. Which is easier for OpenBSD to do than it is for Linux.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11559555
there is no one particular path way or a one size fits all solution, it depends on your choice and your requirements, instead of asking what to learn next, you should ask yourself should you really learn a particular thing today, or is this a scene from a different chapter of the book and should be done later.

i just have one simple saying about the subject selection which i wish to learn "when you have removed a subject which is not a immediate requirement , what ever remain not matter how difficult it is, must be learned".
From the article: "Today cities have become the world’s dominant demographic and economic clusters."

Seeing that cities are essentially clusters of people, isn't this fairly self-evident?
I would love to make utopia. Maybe some portion of technologists would like to make utopia.

If one is talking about "humanity", it is hard to talk about "what we want".

Edit: The problem I'd see with the "AI can let us reach the utopia whose characteristics we can't agree on" is imo that intelligence doesn't have goals as such baked.

A very, very skilled therapist talking to a feuding family may be able to get them to compromise. But almost all such compromises are going to be predicated on the social context the therapist and family work. If there isn't a social consensus pointing to what utopia for the entirety of humanity could look like, even superhumanly intelligent computer couldn't talk us into such a thing - though it quite possibly could talk us into a position that reflected the social value's its creators implicitly or explicitly programmed in. My hope would be it's creators won't be religious fanatics but naturally said religious fanatic might have the opposite hope.
Not even recent, the US supported Mubarak since he took power after the Sadat assassination.
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"MacKeeper[1] security researcher?" It's good to know that the crapware you have to remove from your parents' computer, which they installed thanks to dishonest pop-unders, is funding something useful.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mackeeper
Not necessarily. The algorithms that do the sorting might be biased toward certain content (for instance, if it highly values quickly upvoted content, it would be biased toward short memes and against long-form articles). Reddit voting isn't just a straight majority vote.