skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"and a rights arrangement has been made with the Internet Archive for permanent archiving"

I wonder why this is not possible in general. Say I offer IA a hash (or several) of my soon-to-appear content, and it doesn't appear in any appropriate registry. Why can't IA then accept a "non-exclusive and irrevocable license to distribute" the content such as [1]?

The way things are now things can be deleted by the new domain owner, or in case the uploading user account is compromised.

[1] https://arxiv.org/help/license
I think it was the inhaler. Google reveals it can cause a mix up.

I added the link on the root level.
> Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

> Please don't bait other users by inviting them to downvote you or announce that you expect to get downvoted.

Consider the guidelines regarding worthwhile contributions next time, please. :)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This is an unbelievably ridiculous argument. Just because the government has something doesn't mean everyone can or should.
That's a good point. People tend to be empathetic to those who they feel like they represent them, so they'll be more likely to forgive corruption as they'll chalk it up to the landscape in which the official has to operate.

How do you get people to focus on the landscape of corruption rather than politicians? Politicians are easier to blame because they have a name and a face. How do you train people to target landscape?

ADDED: How do you get people to focus on the elements of conflict of interest in larger systems rather than people?
Reason looks interesting. I have had a 5 year run of alternating between really liking Haskell, and sometime thinking that my own development process was too slow using Haskell. I am putting Reason on my try-it list.

Documentation suggestion: add examples for string manipulation.
I feel that the additional layers of indirection are quite costly for the convenience of running programs in a Unix environment inside the browser. I can understand the practicality of that for prototyping, but it seems a bit baroque for a production system.

But then, the idea of heaping Javascript monsters upon a mere browser seemed ludicrous to me 20 years ago - so I may not be the best judge of those sort of things...
If a test has a non trivial false positive rate, then a positive must not be treated as a true one without further analysis. Innocent until proven guilty, not the other way around.
I think about desegregation in terms of physics. The basic idea is that, once the legal barriers of segregation where taken down, different groups would begin to mingle together, like in diffusion, and eventually the country will become more uniform. There are, however, two problems with this. First, diffusion will take a long time, I'm guessing on the order of centuries. Second, in highly segregated areas people may not want to be the first to cross those racial divides. I imagine it would be uncomfortable to be the only black person in an entirely white school, and vice versa. So there's this "surface tension" keeping some of the old barriers up. Cultural progress can only do so much: the quickest way to create mixing is by introducing energy. I'm not completely sure what the "energy" is this analogy refers to, but perhaps some sort of incentive for a black person to move to a white neighborhood, and vice versa. I'm curious to hear what other people's thoughts might be on this.
I am not fat because you have failed to point out to me that I am fat
I really like thin clients, but it seems like a solution that really lost traction. I remember using SunRay terminals, with 50 to 100 people on a single Sun server and it just worked.

Jump to today: Microsoft Terminal Server is pretty much what people expect when talking thin clients/remote desktop and it's just no nowhere near as good as the Solaris solutions back in the early 2000s. I really miss those "old" Unix solutions, it just worked.
The bogus part is 10 minutes vs a few seconds just because you change to the latest standard.
Rants like this can be seen as good examples of behavior to discourage. Linus has several positive traits, but compassion and humility are not among them.

Generally speaking, we should not give someone a pass on poor behavior just because they're technically talented.
Talent and Passion will help you avoid burnout from the development process madness like lack of specs, ever changing specs, unrealistic requirements, and super tight deadlines.
In the mid 90s I wrote some A* path finding code for a game and in the process wrote a programming tutorial about it. The page got a lot of traffic and requests for code, so around 98 I wrote a version of it using a simple api but spent a lot of time making it solid and fast. It was used by several major game companies including Activision and Relic Entertainment as well as indie games and student projects.

A few times I've started a game programming job and found my code there already.

Recently someone ported it to C# where it can live on in Unity games.

https://github.com/justinhj/astar-algorithm-cpp
LEP data confirm train time tables (CERN, 1995)
Introducing Juniper – A functional reactive programming language for the Arduino
So, Marauder's Map for the whole world?
> the only other Stephenson book I've read so far is Cryptonomicon

Absolutely recommend "Diamond Age" and to a lesser extent (but more fun) "Snowcrash". I started "Cryptonomicon" right after reading Singh's "The Code Book", and it just felt like Stephenson did a sub-par job with the subject material (perhaps especially because "The Code Book" isn't fiction, but almost reads like it).

Did start "Seveneves" when there was a free teaser out, but haven't gotten around to it yet -- it's on my list. I'm hoping it's a bit tighter than most of the stuff since "Diamond Age".
The article seems to go out of its way to imply that East Side is the maleficiary of structural discrimination. But:

> A mile away, students at the racially mixed Cleveland High have these basics [textbooks, lockers], even though the school receives more than $3,000 less per student each year than East Side does, according to the school district.

$3k/student seems like it should be enough to buy textbooks and lockers. I'd be interested to know first whether the school district's claim is accurate, and second, if so (and given this is the Atlantic, were there evidence of that claim being false, I would expect to see it mentioned), how it comes to be that East Side receives more funding than Cleveland High but seems to be doing less with it. I'm not sure that forcibly upheaving the existing arrangement wholesale is the most effective available solution here.
Maybe start a movement?
Is the moon full? Just ask the LHC operators (CERN, 2012)
How do you know that it is c++11 switch that dramatically increased your compile time, instead of the header file and the headers it includes? Two conditions are changed, and you feel confident that one of them is responsible for the outcome. Why?
That's just one band per slit, depending which one it went through...
I have almost no latency issues with RDP in Azure. I can watch a YouTube video with no major latency. Workspaces wasn't terrible in that regard but definitely not as smooth.

The Azure machine is a bit beefier than Workspaces, so that probably factors into it.
This is a great illustration of why, once you've got a user base of any size, backwards-compatibility needs to be one of your touchstones.

(eg. if you add {macro}, continue to support !macro as well)

Sometimes you do find that you've painted yourself into a corner, though.
In fifty years, Jason Scott should be fêted for this archival work he's been leading. He may not have come up with the idea of the Internet Archive, but by putting in so much work to archive and protect this history—be it mixtapes, old DOS viruses, or playable arcade games—he's making it something that the general public has a reason to care about. This archive has significantly more relevance than it did even five years ago, and that's awesome, because it will eventually represent the internet's past to its future.

It wasn't that long ago that mixtapes like this were thrown on sites like MegaUpload, in a way that didn't do much to take them outside of the moment. (It didn't help that they shut down MegaUpload, either.) By uploading the mixtapes here in a way that catalogs them and makes them easier to find, it makes it so that they're given the same level of respect as, say, something that shows up in a record store.

In another era, this would be a thankless job that wouldn't get the respect it deserves. It's getting that respect, because people are actually using the tools and archives he and other Internet Archive employees are helping to build.
Anonymous hack turkey
Paperspace.io is pretty awesome. I've been using it for about a week now. The specs/ratio are much better over there.
I've tried it a couple of times... it introduced a fair bit of lag that I didn't see with other solutions. Not sure why.
> these residual stocks of smallpox should not be destroyed because some ruthless super-criminal or rogue government might be working on a new smallpox

We know for sure there's such supervillain. We call it Nature.
The 9/11 Cover-Up Continues
By Richard Preston, author of The Hot Zone. Both are recommended.
The worst part was that DatPiff has finally started putting quality control mechanism in the past two or three years or so to get separate legitimate content from artists (wheat) from the chaff and artists continued putting out their content for free.

Apple's, among other streaming services, has impacted this music negatively, and whether you are a fan of rap music or not, it does set a precedent that affects all styles, genres, and tastes of music.

I do not think all is lost - like some Underground electronic music communities, some artists will actively avoid Big Corporations....this has gone back to the days of Prince and before. There are many indie labels that still release their music on Vinyl, even.
>"Open Source" means different things to different people

And those people are wrong. The OSI definition is the definition. Those that want it to mean something else are trying to fool people, which we call "open washing."
My bet is that if/when this kicks off a bit more the next move will be Amazon laptops (these being like Chromebooks).
"from" a normal computer. meaning a terminal, connected to the internet.
The Internet Archive receives an exemption from the DMCA and other copyright law for the majority of the works it hosts.
I think your outlook is unnecessarily bleak.

While you're right DRM certainly contributes to the unlikelihood that all, or even most, of current digital culture will survive, that's not the relevant bar to clear IMO.

If even a single copy of a 20th century encyclopaedia survives (never mind a Wikipedia dump! No DRM there), the 120th century will have a vastly richer corpus of knowledge about the 20th century than we do about the 1st century (probably any pre-Gutenberg century).
I'd say programming requires skill and passion.

The only way to become a good programmer is through hard work and learning new things. To keep on going forward while learning something hard, or while debugging problems that seem impossible, or while making countless mistakes requires passion.

Maybe not passion for programming itself, but for solving problems or creating something from nothing. Without any kind of passion to drive me I'd be burned out and miserable by now.
>Why should corporations and other people be denied the same access & privilege.

Should we be offering that access and privilege to governments? Assuming that we should, your argument seems to be that it's "unfair" not to offer the same to businesses? Bizarre. Perhaps you can clarify.

>The reality is that most people correctly understand the trade-off between privacy and utility.

I would argue against that. However, even if "only" something like 20-30% of people don't understand the trade-off, that's a huge problem. Additionally, those who understand the trade-off that they are personally making in the present may not be giving thought to problems it will have for them personally in the future (the argument of the commenter you are responding to), or problems access to huge amounts of data causes in society right now or in the future.
I built a streaming, lossless audio player with node and electron
I posted this on reddit today, but am keen to get more feedback! I've been working on this project for the past few weekends — I decided tonite to pop it onto github in barebones form.

Basically, it allows you to stream lossless audio files from your own personal amazon s3 bucket. I've been using it as my main player for home and work, and I'm quite happy with the results.

Built with node, electron, webpack, ES6/babel and postcss. I know it's a bit of a steep setup to get an s3 bucket going, but that's life.

https://github.com/mashaal/destroyer

There's a bit of background on the project via the readme if you are interested. thanks!
Can someone explain why it's considered so hard to get randomness? I mean you can take old radio and you hear random noise, is it hard to create tiny antenna in the computer?
Kolmogorov Complexity (2014) [pdf]
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Just like cancer is caused by environmental pollutants, depression is caused by toxic social environments. You learn to be helpless. Shine light there and research funding goes bye bye.
> Why should corporations and other people be denied the same access & privilege.

Why should I be denied the option to keep my personal information private from said corporations/people?
Introducing Falco: open source, behavioral security from Sysdig
You do realize the irony in your argument, considering its the Russian government which has probably the worst track record in recent times when it comes to a corrupt government abusing its power.

What you are essentially saying is that [1] this is bad but a government having a similar tool is fine.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_flesh_search_engine
Is Tesla Motors a Hidden Warrior for Consumer Digital Privacy?
IBM invents printer that checks for copyrights
The Hot Zone is another great book about biological warfare. The first chapter detailing the life of Ebola's Patient 0 from the moment he contracted the disease to when he dies is blood-curdling.
That was with the FGNet dataset... Ntech labs (incidentally the algorithm behind FindFace) beat Googlr on the FaceScrub dataset.

http://megaface.cs.washington.edu/results/facescrubresults.h...
> That space can seat around 40, which works out to 9600 passengers/hr capacity at 15 second intervals, on a single track.

Thanks, didn't have those figures. I used a study from a Hyperloop study group (can't find the URL) who found that the most efficient setup would be to assemble 5 pods together (total ~100-150 pax) , with 1 departure every 5 minutes so ~1500pax/hour.

Now a realistic turnover time (unload, clean+inspect, load, launch and contingency) would be 10' per pod - and this would already be pretty agressive.

So if you launch a pod at 15 seconds intervals, a station would need capacity for >40 pods. Inbound and outbound pods would need to station 3' upon arrival and pre-launch - again, super aggressive figure. Imagining we keep the whole setup on 6 tracks with a swapping device at the end of the tracks and relatively narrow 3m wide platforms, a station would be >40m wide and long, not accounting for circulations etc. Realistic figures would be 100x50m stations - or an equivalent volume if tracks are stacked instead of juxtaposed.

This amount of underground real estate would just not be found in most Europe cities, or at punitive prices, not even mentioning NYMBYism. HSR managed to take off thanks to heavy direct or indirect subsidies and by leveraging existing infrastructure (stations and many rail connections). Hyperloop won't get the same sweet deals.

I'm a Hyperloop supporter for the scifi potential in it, though I just don't get how and where it can get built in this world.
Scientists directly write flexible circuits with high-conductivity graphene inks
Definitely targeted at the enterprise, but it's entirely possible to provision and operate a single instance without any kind of enterprise-level agreement.
"Coin" is a metaphor in mathematics for any process with a binary outcome (a binary random variable, so to speak). These things exist in practice everywhere.
Jeff is definitely genuine here. Can confirm. He's a fun guy.
The big bang is just a theory that is obtained by extrapolating the current movement backwards. For all you know, the multiverse is infinite. And in fact so could the universe be -- the big bang could have happened much earlier and the universe could be much bigger. And when you say that there was only one big bang and there was a finite amount of energy, you are making too many asssumptions.
"wrowd": a portmanteau for "wrong crowd". "Take care, you don't want to hang out with the wrowd".

"aut": a logarithmic unit of measurement indicating the level of automation of a process. "I think we can get another couple of auts out of the sentiment-analysis pipeline."

"settea": a genus of shrubs in the family Settaceae.
Scale Agile with DAD
I wouldn't bet on a money injection fixing anything - I've read a number of reports that show almost no correlation between performance and per-student-dollars.
Shannon entropy is a measure of how much new information each symbol in a communication channel gives us. In the case of a PRNG, if we know the seed then each symbol tells us nothing because we can generate the exact sequence from the seed, hence the Shannon entropy of each symbol is zero (provided you know the PRNG and the seed! - if you don't then you can determine them from a sequence, but that's another topic!).
That's the point exactly. What a weirdly unsatisfying ending. All this emotional trauma over a false positive.

It also really underscores an extremely critical question with society: When the system is inflexible, and uncaring, what recourse do you have when it fails you? Imagine the hopelessness, the bleak future, of the world turning its back on you because of a mistake. I can only imagine this is what it's like to be falsely convicted of a crime... or failing a drug test that you shouldn't have failed.

I think there's even a lesson for us technical folks here: When the systems we design are too automated, and too rigid, we are removing all compassion. Now if the system is "perfect" there's no problem, but even Google hasn't been able to completely perfect their systems. People still become the victim of false DMCA takedowns, etc.

I guess at the end of the day, the moral is to "Remember the person."
The title needs editing, the fancy ellipsis of the original has been eaten. Mods, please? My eeeeyeeees ...
My comments are anything but boring.
Thanks for the excellent idea. I took a note of it. This would definitely scale the project to new heights.
That's not informative. That's an OTC nasal decongestant.

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

She was using an albuterol inhaler. It's prescription only and operates on the lung passages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salbutamol
An AI is a made creature, under rules, which it follows.
If Hitler had made an AI, I am sure it would have loved the so called aryan race and killed other.
That reminds me of the Wiley Coyote cartoon when Wiley makes a smart missile. Written on the side are a few animal names with a dial indicator.
Roadrunner, Fox, Turtle etc, So Wiley dials it to roadrunner, turns it on and presses the big red button = whoosh (cue chase of RR running from a rocket - which goes to slow motion and the road runner writes coyote next to the dial and dials the dial to the written coyote).
Off it goes after the hapless coyote and the inevitable boom and the tattered coyote muttering away...

By this, we do not need to fear research AI, what we do need to fear are the rule changers.
Those who add Arab, Jew, whitey etc to the dial and push the button.

Can we make race selective viruses after an AI screens and analyzes a data base of manking and finds a few hit points to dial the virus to??
Yep. Apple got the rights. You can get it in two weeks for free, but have to buy it to hear it today. The worst part is it's working... I caved and bought it.

It's fire by the way...
Facts on the Nobel Peace Prizes
OP says "useless parents".
For me the trick seems to be to get people to treat the net as if it was downtown during high noon.

Just because you are sitting there typing in your undies do not mean that what you post has the same privacy.

Also the worrying bit is not so much the data, as the actions taken on their basis.

Denying someone a job because they have a few photos of them enjoying a colorful drink is just the tip of the iceberg.

What about the day a kill shot is approved because the computer says the face is above a certain likelihood of being some big bad terrorist? At 70% there is still a 1 in 4 chance of being wrong.
The child has a human right to a family life with its parent. That right should only be interfered with in extraordinary circumstances. Drug addiction sometimes meets that level. But that drug addiction needs to be proved.

Subjecting the family to un-needed intervention causes harm to those children. And it causes harm to the children that do need intervention, because child protection social workers are made busier dealing with cases that they need not deal with.
Azure has RemoteApp.
When Linus speaks, you shut up an listen; he is an incredibly competent engineer and is opinion is always worth something.

Then again, when Linus rants, you take out the popcorns, sit on the side and just enjoy the show.
~10 years ago I was at Disneyland and saw this family all decked out in really elaborate face paint. At the time I thought "How cool!" Then several months later I realized it was Heidi Klum and Seal after I saw them on the cover of a supermarket tabloid. Granted, the face paint was probably to disguise themselves from the paparazzi and autograph requests rather than AI facial recognition. But perhaps prescient nonetheless.

http://media2.popsugar-assets.com/files/upl0/0/88/08_2008/08...
Right. No more useless than workaholic, absentee parents, or parents with depression.

There are no useless parents, only parents who need help.
"Quantum credit cards" sound so much like snake oil (in the computer security context) it hurts. The underlying paper:

https://www.osapublishing.org/optica/fulltext.cfm?uri=optica...

Why? Because no sane attacker is interested in placing his probe between the laser and the card, but in the plain traditional electronics that controls the laser. If I were an attacker I couldn't care less that you send "a quantum state" with the laser in the card reader. It's just the plain classical bits on the level I'd be interested in.

To protect from that, you'd need the full "quantum internet" to every credit card reader! Which is exactly what djb claims is wrong with the "Quantum Manifesto:" making grandiose security claims that can't stand to the scrutiny of "classical" security researchers, as soon as the whole implementation is considered:

"an embarrassingly oversimplified model of the attacker that allows the attacker to inspect photons being sent between quantum-cryptography devices but that does not allow the attacker to interact with the devices in any other way."
That's a good point. But the only generation that's going to be affected is the facebook generation.The current teenage gen will just stick to whatsapp/kik conversations or snapchat and won't advertise themselves like fb gen did.
http://openacs.org/about/what-is-openacs

"Extremely high performance and scalable database backed websites. The technology behind OpenACS powers some of the world's busiest web sites, such as AOL.com, Mapquest.com, Netscape.com, and Moviefone.com."

Wow, how long ago was that written!
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