skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think Twitter vs Facebook abuse is a matter of the service itself, but a matter of who you interact with on that service and who your intended audience is when you compose on it.

On Facebook you're interacting mostly with people you know, at least tangentially and who are identifiable as individuals to you.

On Twitter, you're interacting with the public at large. You're welcoming comments from anyone and in large part the abuse comes from arguments arising from discussions of controversial topics which are publicly discussed and are far from black or white. This breeds anger among those who do view them as black and white issues and anger breeds abuse.

These tools inherently attract a different crowd. In terms of both use and abuse.
It wasn't legally correct, at least in the opinion of the appeals court which, as the article states, ultimately reversed the $30,000 award.
Awesome that looks really useful.
Datanectar – project to mitigate friction between data science and engineering
Anyone else find the idea of a central party with absolute control over what addon you are allowed to run more of a concern than the bigots having their own extension?

It seems likely that the bigots will just find other ways to share names of people to harass.
I wouldn't say "anybody with a brain". It still requires a lot of time, motivation, and uncommon resources.

The real question is , should the law take any effort toward minimizing gun ownership by dangerous fruitcakes? If yes, then making it hard to trivially 3d print a gun is kind of necessary, otherwise, like you said, anybody with a brain could do it. Instead of now, where it requires a bit more.
You're trying to find a loophole.

Maybe this kind of sophistry could work on some lawyers or policemen, but it's really not a convincing argument.
The hidden hazards of squashing Git commits
Interesting, are you saying that the increased traffic is welcome because there are now more people around to dissuade crime from occurring?
For Python you just need to do "./configure MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.8"..

I'm creating another blog post with all the info I got from this thread, regarding compiling Python from sources. I'm going to put the link here when ready..

Edit: http://joaoventura.net/blog/2016/embeddable-python-osx-from-...
The Flyboard Air is an extreme sports device. It's really cool, but very hard to fly. It's from the people with the water-jet Flyboard. Here's someone really good on that.[1] The Flyboard Air people insist that people get good on the water-jet version before even trying the jet-powered one.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JhUSu8v2N4
Wow, effective response, yeaaaaaaaaaaaa
We replaced the baity title (in which direction Wired sadly took a noticeable step a while ago) and replaced it with what seems like a representative sentence from the article. If anybody suggests a better (more accurate and neutral) title, we can change it again.
It's probably cultural, but yes, the idea in a suburban area like that is that the drivers are there to drive to/from the houses there, not cut through, and they drive slowly in the development because there's children playing, animals, etc. When commuters cut through, they drive too fast (it's not like there's cops there all the time looking for speeders) and that's dangerous when there's children around. The roads are made small because it's only supposed to be for residential traffic for the houses there; other people are supposed to use the high-capacity streets that are designed for that purpose.

Does France not have differently-sized streets for different traffic needs? You don't have highways there?
I think that, in general, it comes down to opt-in vs opt-out. Facemash got the pics without opt-in. Facebook learned from that.
If people wonder why I'm so obsessed with computers, this is the reason.
There is actually such a thing as city planning and many streets could, in fact, not be operated by the government for broad public benefit but for the benefit of the people living nearby. E.g. in a residential zone in a suburb the streets may actually be intended to connect the homes not for through traffic.
This is a cool map and there's tons of information in it. It'd be nice to see more details, like the actual numbers instead of just a top 3 counties list. Or if I pause the timeline and hover over a country it'd be neat if it listed that year's exodus.

Why do come countries brighten in some years but then dim later on?

Edit: ah I see the associated blog post has a little more info, especially about the brightness question. http://metrocosm.com/animated-immigration-map/
VTOL and speed would be two major differences I see, but I agree with the overall theme that existing solutions tend to get unjustly ignored. I especially liked this bit:

"There is some talk of having two jetpacks on top of every skyscraper in China."

Sure, you could have a near-experimental jetpack which requires significant training to fly safely and which costs a quarter of a million dollars, or you could spend $2,500 on a standard airplane emergency parachute which any random bozo can use safely with about three minutes of "here's how you buckle the straps, and here's the ring you pull."

Same basic thing for a these weird hybrid car/airplane contraptions they call "flying cars." For less money you can buy a great car, a great airplane, another great car for your most frequently visited destination, and have enough money left over for rental cars for all your other destinations for the rest of your life.
Good question. My estimates from ~6 months ago suggested I could sustain 90% drop in price and still be sustainable and profitable, albeit, less lucrative. ($2k/lb -> $200/lb)
All we know is what you use it for.

And maybe that you seem to not be aware of the legal content available on TPB.
Hey, you never know.

Also, I'll bet the American government is a lot more afraid of the people than most European governments are of their people. I suppose that could be argued either way to be a good or a bad thing.
In a very literal way - the copyright to the contents of a particular magnet file is not owned by the DMCA claimant, and distributing that magnet file to others is not a violation of copyright laws.
He acts as his own lawyer in the 123 meritless lawsuits he has filed since 2008. He probably couldn't afford to pay lawyers for this even if anyone would take the case.
Yes... I know. And I'm saying that Google talks about it because patent publication forces their hand. They must either own it and talk about it themselves, or let people wildly speculate when patents are published.
presumably the answer is "hovering" and "VTOL", otherwise you're totally right. And if you want to fly, but only sorta want vtol, then still you should get a powered paraglider for a fraction of the cost and risk.
I sometimes get a blank screen depending on the artist. For example:

nwa - works
blondish - blank screen
I was prem, and my step kid was prem, I spent a month living in the special care unit with her at Sheffield hospital and I've never heard it.
while this clearly does happen, urban residential streets in the UK are usually much narrower and invariably reduced to a single lane by parked cars. They are also less often in a grid pattern which supports rat-runs, and most problem rat-runs have been identified and either blocked or traffic-calmed to death 20 years ago.
We all know. However, this is a legal issue. To my knowledge, TPB has never explicitly stated an illegal intent.

Google indexes both legal and illegal content, and the same goes for TPB. Some examples:

Legal: https://thepiratebay.org/torrent/14396611/ubuntu-16.04-deskt...

Illegal: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=game+of+thrones+s06e07+goo...

Illegal: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=1080p+google+docs
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As of 2015, ICANN is an internationally controlled entity.
And a list of his deepest fears.

Never forget the list.
This does not sound logical at all. Suppose part of complying with DMCA requirements is to remove the offending material - are you suggesting that by being exempt from having to do so they are complying with the requests?
From the judgement (http://www.in.gov/judiciary/opinions/pdf/05231602nhv.pdf):

"More fundamentally, the plaintiff in General Motors Corp. did not ask the
defendant to admit liability 400, 4000, or 8000 times greater than the amount
originally in dispute, as Zavodnik did here. Zavodnik’s misuse of Rule 36 is
plain. He did not send requests claiming $30,000 and $300,000 and $600,000 in
damages because he believes those figures are legally justified and thought Costello might agree; he sent them because he hoped Costello would not
respond, rendering the matters admitted by operation of Rule 36. An important
purpose of the rule is to more quickly and efficiently reach a resolution based on
the actual facts; Zavodnik used the rule as a way to avoid such a resolution. The
trial court’s partial denial of Costello’s motion to withdraw served to ratify
Zavodnik’s blatant abuse of the rule."

Zavodnik was using these admission of discovery as a weapon. Note that these are not suits themselves; Zavodnik is clearly trying to abuse corners of the legal system for his own benefit. It's unrealistic to assume a lay-person will know the full legal ramifications of such things, particularly after already winning a case related to the matter. The most recent judge recognizes this, disagrees with you, and has overturned these admissions.
T-Mobile's coverage has gotten significantly better in the last couple years since they bought 700Mhz spectrum from Verizon. Before this, T-Mobile had no low-frequency spectrum. Low-frequency spectrum has much better range. According to wired:

"T-Mobile customers saw an LTE signal 81 percent of the the time in the fourth quarter of last year, just a bit less than what AT&T delivered. Yes, both still lag behind Verizon (87 percent), but it’s a level of saturation that lets them claim nationwide reliability."

http://www.wired.com/2016/02/t-mobiles-finally-good-enough-t...

They're within striking distance these days.
Reporting it to the police is an amazingly stressful process that requires you to relive it again and again, being tried in the public eye, opening yourself up to claims of being a slut, etc. Just being able to admit you were raped is a strength a lot of victims don't have.
> How do you mean The Pirate Bay is set up explicitly for finding pirated material?

I have a problem with his logic too. I use Pirate bay for finding free non copyrighted PDFs and bunch of non profit free to public copy videos and TPB search engine is the best and the fastest one.

I don't recall using it to search for illegal stuff even once, just because it has Pirate in its name. Federal Express has "federal" in its name, but it doesn't mean its a government entity...
I wish I had a route to a local Wegmans, congested or not.
But that's literally the stated purpose of the extension -- to identify names, nothing more. If someone made a more expansive name highlighter, and the same people used it for the same purpose, should it be taken down too?
"most gun owners are buying fashion items"--thank you, I've never seen it better said.

As for where the line is drawn, well, I think the biggest reason people don't want to draw any such lines is because the US government isn't a tyranny and isn't heading there in any way.

One of the biggest political issues in recent times is, of course, health care, but can you imagine how stupid it would come off as to try and lead a revolution against mandatory health insurance? Likewise for every other hot-button issue--armed revolution because now gay marriage is a thing? Because it's harder to find incandescent light bulbs? Mandated gas mileage improvements?

Wherever you'd draw the line and not have it be 100% asinine, it'd be so far from reality that even declaring "here and no further" would make you look dumb.
The point is to keep trolls like the one in the article from being easily able to serve & sue you. Realistically, they're unlikely to go through elaborate chains of subpoenas; they'll find an easier target.
Is something wrong with Ukraine? At the end there a lot of dots coming from it, but it doesn't changes it's color. And it has same color as Russia.
Show me the money $$$
As a former colleague of mine was fond of saying: "The United States offers the best justice system money can buy."
In Rio some tourists had a pretty harsh reception when they made a turn suggested by Waze.. got riddled with bullets.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/10/05...
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>> The fact that our infants are helpless requires us to be intelligent,” says Celeste Kidd, the study’s co-author. Or you could also turn that around: Our infants are helpless because humans are intelligent.

Yes, but why intelligence in particular? Why don't we have some other advantage, like huge size, humongous teeth, a face like Godzilla? Why are we the smart-arses of the animal kingdom and not just another T-Rex?

"We're smart 'cause our babies are born early and our babies are born early because we're smart", incidentally, sounds like a totally unproductive instance of cyclical thinking.
> I don't think 16 bytes is necessary even as insurance against the future.

The birthday problem comes into play here.

If you have 22 bits of entropy in your salt, after 2048 users (2^11) you will find two with the same salt, with 50% probability. If they also use the same password, this makes attacking your users much easier.

Don't make it easy for attackers. Use 16 bytes from a CSPRNG. Better yet: Use a password hashing library that takes care of this for you.

If you use a 128-bit (16-byte) salt, you have a 50% chance of a collision after 2^64 passwords.
None, which the most recent judge recognized.
>If you can avoid adverse judgements by just not showing up for court //

That's not what the parent said though. If you don't show up IMO the court should not take any default position but should decide the case on the facts put before it. That's not avoiding an adverse judgement, that's just not assuming one side is right just because the other side hasn't presented its case.
That's a bit of an insane analogy. Perhaps if they publish the my name instead? They don't even publish how to get that to my actual address. Instead the clients have to do the look it up in a phone book as they do in a DHT.

An infohash is not exactly revealing metadata. Similar to publishing just your name and nothing else.

Of course, it's still a pretty crazy stretch because a name reveals even more than the infohash does.
People were finding it as a result of MSM advertising for it.

I think you're overestimating the strength of these groups -- they are roundly mocked in social media.
Look like you been sleeping under the rock for the last 10 years.

All what you mention I can find legally in free databases and Facebook, not to mention legal but pay-to-access sites too, or simply firing a PI.

Just give me your full name and age (I don't need exact DOB) and bitcoin me 20 bucks for a few paid sites and I will delivery you a full detailed portfolio on your persona that will be 50 pages thick.
My guess is they would be factored into the rent price.
Good question. It is possible, I think, especially if you can incorporate some craft or skill - like playing an instrument, writing, photography along the way. You have a chance to practice your craft in so many settings, any of which may "push you beyond a local minima", because you are lonely, homesick, inspired by kindness or natural beauty.

On the flip side, every day life keeps you so busy - figuring out how and where to do laundry, what time something opens, where can eyeglasses get fixed, is there a better, cheaper place to stay than the current one, etc. If there is a will there is a way.
>single, strong password for your "vault"

This is pretty much the nature of password managers. That password is only ever entered locally. If an attacker can grab local keystrokes, it's game over anyway.

>they don't offer (at least) 2-factor key for the vault

Neither TOTP nor any kind of push/SMS token can be used to secure data at rest. These are mechanisms to authenticate to a server. You could have "2 factor" for data at rest by storing part of the key separately, but there'd be nothing dynamic about it; copying the key material once would be sufficient to use it forever.

LastPass offers 2-factor to authenticate to the LastPass website, but your vault is cached encrypted on the client side, and such a cached copy can be opened using only the master password. (IIRC there is an option to disable this, which works by erasing the cached copy at the end of a session. Hardly bulletproof, and precludes having any sort of backup resilient to the failure of LastPass itself).
I don't think that's the real answer. Each of your bullet points has some truth to it, but is far from the whole story:

> you only need to borrow if you don't have money.
> you can only save if you have money.

Certainly more income makes these easier. But consider the following impossible-to-conduct-in-reality-experiment:
Set group A to be a set of 100 randomly selected poor folks who are only qualified to be cashiers or stock shelves. As group B, select a random set of people who currently earn 6-figure salaries and doom them to only ever work the same class of jobs as group A for the rest of their lives. I would not be surprised to find that the formerly wealthy would, in general, borrow less and save more.

> healthy food costs more than unhealthy food.

While an optimal diet does certainly cost more than a calorically-equivalent amount of cheetos, you can shop at walmart - buying only eggs, oatmeal, and bananas - with the probable result that your diet will be both healthier and cheaper than those of most low-income families.

> good attire costs money.

Maybe so, but anyone can get a dress shirt/jacket/slacks at a thrift store for probably less than $30 all told. It won't be high-end clothing, but will at least look professional.

> based on whether they sound like something a poor person would write.

Idk about this one. What would a poor person write? Is this just a matter of whether they have good grammar? Nobody (almost nobody?) is conspiring to keep the poor stuck where they are. I don't think anyone would reject a qualified applicant just because they have no money.

I have no hard data to back this up, but I suspect that most of the chronically poor's lack of success, and their poor decision making has much more to do with the fact that their upbringing has not instilled into them (at least not deeply enough) the idea that their current behavior can affect their future wellbeing.
There are proposals to eliminate geoblocking for physical goods sold over ecommerce sites as well.
While this paradox might be a good theoretical tool for theory, I've disagreed that it is a good tool for modeling real situations since first hearing about it.

* It is unrealistic that the mid-route would ever be created as described.

* It is also unrealistic that the capacity of two parallel routes would also vary so much and have a mid-point where that reverses.

* It would be much more realistic to have two routes, one of higher natural capacity, which react differently to increased load (not a static, no matter what, over-simplification).

* Finally; it still does not address the issue of systems that are literally unable to cope with peek load; such as modern metro freeways in the US.
10 years ago would be 2006. In 2006, three of the most popular DNS server softwares, djbdns, PowerDNS (ranked third in a contemporary survey of content DNS servers), and MaraDNS, all had source port randomization. As did mine, although its ranking was somewhat lower. (-:

djbdns had had it since the previous century, MaraDNS for 5 years, mine for roughly the same, and PowerDNS for (I think) 1.
I'm a network engineer for an ISP (5 years now; ~8 years in the same role at a .edu before this) and I am very much in the Cisco/Juniper camp.

When I started at the ISP, I had never even heard of Mikrotik. Having been using high-end Cisco/Juniper gear for years, I was quite skeptical that those cheap little Mikrotiks were worth a damn.

I've actually been quite surprised. While all of my "critical" infrastructure runs on Cisco, I've got several Mikrotik routers running in production, almost exclusively as access concentrators (for PPPoE sessions). I really use very little of their features, but they handle PPPoE and OSPF just fine.

We also have an MSP side, which is mostly our ISP customers whom we also handle managing their local networks for. Our guys have deployed a handful of Mikrotiks at the edge of these customer networks as well but, again, this is just basic office router functionality (DHCP, NAT, firewalling, etc.).

For the price point, they're actually pretty decent devices. I don't own any myself (excluding a couple in my "networking test lab" here at home, but those belong to $work) and wouldn't personally use one. This is mostly on principle -- I disagree with their beliefs when it comes to the GPL and compliance.

Also, I wouldn't recommend using them for anything you deem "critical" or even "really important". Just read through the Changelogs for their firmware releases -- some of the bugs/fixes do not instill confidence in their software engineering.

FWIW, my router at home (on a fiber connection) is (was?) designed and sold as a RouterOS device [0], although I removed the Mikrotik CF card and replaced it with another one that I installed an OpenBSD image onto [1]. It's mounted read-only (except when I want to modify things, of course) to preserve the lifetime but lately, I've been considering installing an SSD into it. It's actually a pretty powerful (albeit low-end) PC disguised as a router. It can easily provided all the basic network services one might need at home (DHCP, DNS, NAT, firewalling, TFTP, etc.). It wasn't cheap, though -- $600, IIRC, but it's a few years old now. I wrote a bit more about it [2] a few months ago.

[0]: http://www.balticnetworks.com/docs/routermaxx%206%20port.pdf (PDF)

[1]: http://www.nmedia.net/flashrd/

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10796573
Incredible especially google docs sources. just press play and enjoy 1080p!
Something wrong with site or my browser. It differs from this video

https://twitter.com/galka_max/status/727895094255190016?ref_...
That would also not be a violation of copyright laws, so his comparison is quite appropriate.

Posting that could violate some other laws, maybe it could constitute harassment, depending on where you live - but it's not a violation of copyright, and if you would file a DMCA request to take that down you would be rightly declined.

You can post a lot of things on the internet that might be bad, illegal, or both - but only a narrow subset of that is a violation of copyright, and all the rest, including magnet data, private address information, stolen credit card data, etc are out of scope for DMCA.
Is there even treatment for unjustified feelings of superiority?
US content is already pretty widely available. Currently, the Danish minority in Germany can watch the 80%-non-EU-made content in the German Netflix repertoire just fine -- but they are blocked from watching the Danish public broadcasters' content online, which is a significant chunk of the content that exists in their language/from their culture.

Remember that US-only services could continue to geoblock all Europeans even if geoblocking was eliminated in the EU. In practice it might give these German Danes access to, I dunno, twice the US content they can watch today, and maybe 5 or 10 times more Danish content. Plus 100 times more Estonian, Portuguese, Maltese, and so on.

I can't follow the argument that this would lead to less cultural diversity, not more.