skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let me tell you an anecdote about Owncloud. Once upon a time, I hosted an Owncloud instance for my family. I had a raid 5 system setup on an old Xserve with around 10 TB of usable space. I was really into learning about encryption at the time, so I figured it would be cool to encrypt all my families files on the server. I made sure that all my family members were properly educated about not forgetting their password, and then enabled the Encryption App[0] by following a tutorial. Everything went smoothly for about 6 months until I was updating Owncloud with a minor version upgrade, and then BAM; nobody (myself included) could decrypt any data on the server.

I posted around about it, trying to figure it, ripped apart the source code to the point where I found that manually decrypting the data was resulting in gibberish. All my backups were the encrypted data, so those didn't really help either.

I still don't know what happened to this day, but I've been eternally wary of personal fileservers ever since.

[0] https://owncloud.org/blog/how-owncloud-uses-encryption-to-pr...
The powerpoint format tells you it prioritizes presentation ( appeal to suits ), over content. A document / paper would have been much better.

https://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/powerpoint
This looks really well thought out and executed. Nice work!
"Proprietary blobs such as Intel's ME that cannot be removed from Intel Xeon systems pose a security risk. If the ARM systems are found to lack them and they achieve the status of being good enough, security minded individuals and organizations will buy them because of that."

Do you expect the above to be anything more than a rounding error of the total server market? I doubt Cavium is going to finance its development from that.
You seem to put a lot of weight into the notion that all these things can be reduced to essentially a search for parameters with in a particular (not all-encompassing) solution space.

Do we have any good reason to suppose that a parametrized model isn't enough for everything we'd want, including a system that has human-level or higher intelligence and creativity? (assuming adequate structure that we don't yet know, that allows for a sufficiently large solution space)

We have good reasons to assume that we ourselves, the sum of a particular person's memories, skills, identity and intelligence, are contained within a particular set of parameters encoded by different biochemical means in our brains, and the process of how we learn skills, facts and habits is literally a search through that space of parameters.

"far cry from understanding abstract logical concepts" is more related to the types of problems we're tackling - symbolic manipulation and reasoning is a valid but very distinct field of AI, but it's not particularly useful for these problems any more than it's useful to having a human programmer craft explicit algorithms for computer vision.

You would expect a computer system "to come up with entire algorithms from scratch to solve problems" if you were making a computer system to solve the general problem of machine learning, i.e., a program to replace the research scientist making learning systems, not the human who currently solves the particular problem. We aren't trying to do that, it is a bit of a different direction, isn't it?
To tell you the truth, i haven't though too much about that, i just assumed that less "friction" is better. But it's not always true.
> Components are very dumb right now, we need smart components that understand their surroundings beyond the window. Then we will have truly portable components!

This is the iceberg problem. Component based programming has been around since probably the 60's. The easy part is making components. The hard part is making them (and this is the Holy Grail), portable. Pipes and Filters in the Unix OS is a simple example of one form of component development that actually works well.
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The SGI Altix 3000 had ccNUMA in 2003, but that was using SGI's ccNUMA technology to connect Intel's microprocessors rather than anything Intel developed. I believe that other UNIX vendors that adopted Intel's chips used their own ccNUMA technology to link them together too.

Anyway, the article's author likely made the mistake of thinking that multisocket implies NUMA. It is an easy mistake to make for those who do not know the details of how systems are implemented.
This should be read by anyone who agrees to this distortion...
http://www.threefolding.org/essays/2007-04-100.html
Are you sure?

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/02/insomnia-t...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal_familial_insomnia
This is an article by Forbes, about an article by Forbes, with a clickbait headline. Nice.
And how being in an office prevents that?
I don't see how it can. Let's say we give out $1 trillion worth of basic income to everyone. Is there $1 trillion more goods and services available to spend that on? No. In fact, depending on how many spend their time on non-productive work, there might be a lot less. So a lot more money chasing fewer goods and services. Classical price inflation will quickly make that basic income have no purchasing power.
Every household will own a virtual reality headset, soon
The group buying idea _is_ interesting though.
Asteroid mining. New startups like Planetary Resources and Deep Space Ventures will want to send satellites and vehicles into orbit or deep space for exploratory research.
I've been wondering what the margins are on mattresses. You see stores selling them all over the place. There's usually only one or two employees in there, and they're devoid of shoppers most of the week (weekends are big days for them). So they have to pay rent + utilities and presumably commission, but are selling these items one-at-a-time to only occasional customers. The mark-ups have to be insane to support that.
Saying all the tech titans are just like Thiel is a pretty obvious fallacy.
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There should be an automatic expiration date, say 90 days, after which the FBI would need to get another gag order. As it is now, the FBI gets unlimited secrecy until proven secrecy is not necessary. Instead, the burden of proof of the necessity of secrecy should remain on the FBI.
> Responsiveness is not a document level problem, it's a component level problem and each component has it's own concerns.

Responsiveness is both (you build responsive pages/documents, but you can only reuse responsive components) and that's very much the issue: the tooling only supports responsive documents, but not responsive components.
We had a POSIX interface early on (via FUSE), but decided to expose a a block storage interface first instead. This is not a "filesystem", it's a storage abstraction, and we've spent more than 6 months on it. Seems like a lot of folks are quickly jumping to conclusions, which is expected from "the internet", but I would have hoped for better from HN.
Happens quite easily at the office too, with all the table tennis, foosball, free food and drink and regular meetings.

Heck I'm doing it right now with just a web browser sat at my desk...
I'm curious to hear if Nextcloud is going to be rewriting the iOS mobile client from scratch, since it's GPL and Owncloud owns the copyrights so is the only one who can relicense for Apple.
In Safari under Develop in the menu bar there's an item "Disable Site-specific Hacks"
You know, it's weird, but for me, not having the buzz of other people around me all the time makes it easy for me to concentrate.... as long as I stay off HN, Reddit, and Imgur.

Seriously, HN is a gigantic delicious timesink that has probably cost all of us collectively millions.
While looking at the cap structure might lead to this conclusion, I would bet the farm on the fact that she's gotten some cash out of all of these rounds, or simply through bonuses. Being the CEO of a high profile company (at least in fundraising circles) she can easily make the argument for it.
I don't think the problem is the fact that Peter Thiel tossed money in the direction of a lawsuit. The issue is that money matters in justice, and that Peter Thiel coincidentally put his money somewhere did not make this so.

People are focusing shame on Peter Thiel today but that's the wrong place. There will always be rich people.
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this is getting too much into "... and he said, and then she said...". was something wrong done? is there some sort of justice being done? no need to go deeper than this, unless it's one's hobby to discuss famous people's private lives
If you are really paranoid, we've done a Python script for "sandboxing" the audio use in Google Chrome: https://github.com/nektra/ChromeAudioSandbox it is a sample to show the capabilities of our open source instrumentation lib.
Interesting. Does anyone know a more affordable electric motorcycle?
Does anyone with an aerodynamics background know more about the holes in the frame?

How do you think about whether this frame on the bike is better for aerodynamics than a more continuous but wider surface?
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Gawker is utter shite and it's a dangerous tabloid. I have no idea why anyone with a sane mind would be on their side in this issue. this is just a revenge story, let it go!
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I know nothing about the mattress business, but many shops, especially those on fancy addresses, lose money and instead function as branding instruments. Its possible that the stores you've observed work as showrooms and have attached warehouses, servicing a wholesale operation where the money is actually made.
In other news a rich person used the law to their advantage.
Pardon my cynicism but the adjective 'simple' has been abused to the point where it repels me when I find it in framework descriptions.

Calling something 'simple' is a subjective statement which is a meaningless waste of words, especially from the author of the framework. Of course you perceive your own framework as simple. Nobody designs a framework to intentionally make something more complicated.

The word 'simple' is repeated 8 times in the first 2 paragraphs of your description. It reads like something thrown together in a thoughtless hurry. Your framework could be wonderful but it leaves the reader wondering if the code has the same level of investment as the description.
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Good work on Gordon, I'm certain I will use it in the future.
Just depends. I believe the average is somewhere between 40-60% for most name-brand mattresses. However, off-brand mattresses probably have higher margins, due to them being cheaper in general.
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Yeah... no.
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Why trust the home business advertiser
Socket.io client disables the core SSL/TLS verification checks by default
Tinder adds 'swipe the vote' tool ahead of EU referendum
Depends what you mean by small-scale. On a US scale, all of Denmark is small scale.
Not so sure what the connection is and why AWS is so special.

Google Cloud and Azure both have compelling offering with a good chunk of market share. Azure is almost 20ms closer to my house in latency, for one thing...
uber's got a solid ability to sell the "driverless car fleet monopoly" dream to possible investors. thus valuation = dream selling while acquired invesment = subsidizing current transportation. all those in uber dominant countries, you should enjoy cheap transportation while you can. all other should pray that uber gets significantly big yet still not all powerful so that there is some competition left to keep the prices in check.
> A planet is like a car -- it's not a toy, it's a tool for a responsible grownup. There are about 4 billion adults in the world. And not all of them are even Internet users.

There's a reason why the IETF decided to switch to 2^128 for IP6. Mainly, because there are more computers and devices that need addressing than IP4 can handle.

I have to question the design of Urbit why you chose to go with 2^32 addressing space?

> Of course, the population keeps growing. Eventually either people have to learn to share, or the price will go up, or humanity will learn how to stop expanding exponentially.

Again, the future is "Pay to Play", just like Ethereum? And, is that a population control argument? How would you propose to "stop expanding exponentially"? Chinese method? Ender's Game method, or something else unsavory?

> Think of a planet as a unit of autonomy and reputation, not of personality. The global supply of autonomy is 2^32 units. That's not perfect in any sense, but if the supply is infinite the network is ungovernable, and the value of each unit is zero.

Ah, so you are the "governor", hence why it must be governed? This is literally artificial scarcity on something that could easily have been near infinite

> It's also an improvement on a world in which there's one unit of autonomy, and its name is Mark Zuckerberg. Urbit does a lot for digital freedom, but we're not in the miracle business here. No one can do infinity for digital freedom.

So switching from one master to another makes better "freedom"? I get being against walled gardens. I'm against them as well. But you make no point why Urbit isn't just another walled garden (using funny language to hide behind it no less) with you at the helm.
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This is interesting there is a definite niche market for small, lightweight electric commuter motorcycles. I think this motorcycle (It's not bicycle), is a good demonstration piece and a cute collectors item. But there design flaws that put this out being a production machine in it's current configuration. The components (wheels, brakes, etc) seem to be undersized for the task at hand. But considering the whole bike weights roughly 70lbs I believe it will work over all over the short term. Braking from 40mph on those brakes and forks would be interesting. Also foot pegs integrated into the frame may look good but in a low slide crash could prove catastrophic.
The impact is a different one though. In that scenario pointed by Hanno somebody needs to have access to the storage which already requires some kind of previous gained access. What could be done by an attacker then is to infect EXE files or so.

In the case of Seafile one could simply change passwords of any user etc.

But yes, crypto is hard and I agree that the way we did it at ownCloud is far away from the best way. :-)
Recovers do the pre-dividend price or to what the price would be had there been no dividend?
Can't Daniel just type "inventory"?
I never use the voice search, so all of mine were background noise of times I accidentally hit the voice search button.
hmm -- no mention here of the rising cost of silence. It is very expensive to purchase 8 hours of quiet in a major city.
I would love to see how this compares to "check" https://libcheck.github.io/check/
What a hack piece. It would have a modicum of legitimacy if it wasn't criticising the status quo of modern media that Reuters has deemed unworthy of coverage for the past forty years. Why the sudden self righteous moral indignation? I smell a rat.

I get the sense that "they" simply don't like Thiel his powers for good, when everyone knows you should only use the powers that come with been knee-tremblingly rich for evil.

And It would be a good thing if Gawker ceased to be. It's a blight.
Nobody pretended so - which is the whole point. Thiel could have given his money to a foundation that openly sponsors lawsuits for media victioms. That would haven been for the public good.

Instead he chose to sponsor the lawsuit (and other lawsuits) against gawker in secret because he feels wronged by them with the intent of punishing them. And that's not in the public interest because it can be considered a form of vigilantism.
Well, sorry about your loss. Then again, please understand that NO, you didn't have a backup.

What you had was a single copy (probably a simple rsync, am I right?)... that is worth nothing in case of corruption or voluntary mischief.

Learn from your mistakes. Either use a solution that has a retention policy, or don't do backups at all.
What do people expect? They are humans with a lot of money and power.
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Is it worth persevering with Golang?
As I mentioned at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11810561 I'm very familiar with the Zen perspective, holding it for about 8 years (brought on by the invasion of Iraq actually). Encountering suffering made me believe that 'life was suffering'. But what brought me out of it was understanding (from Hume) that without a supernatural/supramundane explanation, right/wrong not only could not be located but could not exist, and that same 'suffering' that had troubled me could not be understood to be truly bad.

Additionally helpful was learning, as Edward Leen puts it, that "the chief cause of unhappiness is not suffering". Instead, as Augustine writes, "Happiness is to rejoice in you and for you and because of you. This is happiness and there is no other. Those who think that there is another kind of happiness look for joy elsewhere, but theirs is not true joy." Life often is suffering, but this is not the cause of unhappiness. Unhappiness is caused by not knowing God. As Tozer writes of the supernatural existential "There is a restlessness within us that cannot be satisfied until we rest fully in God."

Humanity really only has two belief systems to choose from: nihilism or the Nazarene, as Carl F. H. Henry puts it. Often, those who most honestly approach the world come to find these two choices and it is not unusual for one to abandon the first for the latter. As former Zen Nihilist and radical convert to Eastern Orthodoxy Seraphim Rose describes it: "Atheism, true 'existential' atheism burning with hatred of a seemingly unjust or unmerciful God, is a spiritual state; it is a real attempt to grapple with the true God Whose ways are so inexplicable even to the most believing of men, and it has more than once been known to end in a blinding vision of Him Whom the real atheist truly seeks. It is Christ Who works in these souls. The Antichrist is not to be found primarily in the great deniers, but in the small affirmers, whose Christ is only on the lips. Nietzsche, in calling himself Antichrist, proved thereby his intense hunger for Christ…"

Either way, I am glad to hear of your interest in the topic and I sincerely wish you well on your continued exploration.
if Mr Thiel wants to raise journalistic integrity standards when it comes to outing people, then the right things to do would be something like opening a public discussion, advocating some change in the law, etc. or perhaps, if he must use litigation, then focusing on suing all media that out people recklessly in this way. that would be a way more admirable approach. but this is not what Mr Thiel is doing. he is instead attacking just Gawker, for >10 years now, supporting any suit against them, and to top it all of, he is doing it secretively.

the lesson the media are going to take away from this is not "we must behave morally", but rather, "we must be careful not to get any rich guy pissed at us". which is where these arguments about how Mr Thiel is hurting the freedom of the press are coming from.
I don't mean to belittle the severity of the bug you encountered -- but the root-cause of your problem was a lack of a backup. A large number of issues, some of them software bugs, many of them not, could lead to data loss.

It that vein, too, your RAID-5 system is/was a disaster waiting to happen, especially when you don't have a backup: http://www.zdnet.com/article/raidfail-dont-use-raid-5-on-sma...
Amazon search was down
The breaking story in the popular press: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/cancer-vaccine-imm...
"Net worth of 0" is still doing a lot better than plenty of people in this country.
Comparing folders with Python's filecmp module
Someone should change the title on the HN story - it's just straight-up false.
Wait a minute. Gawker is no righteous hero here.

Let's see if I understand correctly. Gawker outs Thiel (which is nobody's business, yet Gawker decided to make it people's business). Gawker at some point later posts an illegal SEX tape (again, nobody's business).

Now, we're supposed to feel sorry for Gawker because Thiel wants to help out another person who was WRONGED by Gawker?

Wow. Just wow.
Our use case is not for scaling the cluster up and down, but rather for ensuring cluster size and stability. When AWS nodes randomly go away or are retired, etc, the autoscaling group will ensure that we keep N nodes in the cluster and they're up and running by using ELB health checking.

This is the first version that has the destructive action of removing nodes from a cluster when they disappear and even then it's behind two different config variables: One to turn cluster health checking on and the other to actually do something when bad nodes are noticed. Bad nodes being nodes that are no longer visible in the service discovery backend and no longer pingable by the cluster.
I asked my psychiatrist about it after doing a lot of research on my own.

I have tried all the other ADHD stimulants and formulations but it wasn't that none of them worked for me or that I required a high dose (I take what is considered an average therapeutic dose).

If you think meth is way more potent than dextroamphetamine, you'd be in for a big surprise. Meth is a very subtle and gentle stimulant, so subtle I often forget I even took a stimulant. This is probably because of the lack of PNS stimulation at these low doses. It's also a little bit more effective than dex because of slightly higher CNS stimulation but the lack of side effects is probably the best feature of meth. It just feels really natural, hard to describe completely.

It is considered a second line medicine because it's thought to be more addictive but I can assure you this is completely unfounded and has to be due to the stigma created by illicit meth abuse. IMO, it is a superior medicine and should be a first line treatment for ADHD.