skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure about books entirely about cellular automata, but Stephen Wolfram's "a new kind of science" has a LOT on cellular automata.

Also check out his papers if you're interested in them
I think the idea is that you enter your username and the site replies with the security image that you've chosen. If the image matches, you then enter your password.

By itself, this doesn't rule out a man-in-the-middle attack, but it might prevent an attacker from setting up bonkofamerica.com and using it capture valid username/password pairs "offline", which could be reused on the real site. Of course, this depends on people noticing (and caring) that the image is missing or incorrect, so who knows...
Human factors are a thing. Ask anyone who works in the aviation industry. (Or, for that matter, Jeep.)
I imagine the likelihood of making incorrect decisions twice in a row is higher in some contexts, though. For example, if you click a button that says it will download a Flash update from some random website, I'm guessing there is a good chance you will then run it afterward.
They must have gotten a TON of downloads..look at the sats:

http://whos.amung.us/stats/pingjse3462
http://whos.amung.us/stats/pingjse346
Why the Litecoin Trademark Fight Matters
Yes, 24-hour-industries need to staff 24-hours-a-day.

Note that air control towers are staffed with air traffic controllers, not aeronautical engineers. Also note that they're being paid to be there, and they don't ATC from their laptops in bed.
negative, if I were to refer to the Big Lebowsky quote (and not care about HN guidelines) I would've posted something like:

He's not wrong, but the parent commenter is an asshole.

But that would of course not be in the spirit of HN and I am sure that they must realize whether they cringe or not RMS is still going to have a pretty consistent view of the matter.

edit: It actually is annoying how correct he is. FB was pretty nice, but I deactivated my account because I disagree with FB and this reminded me to have the conviction to actually vote. I voted against LinkedIn, Bank of AMerica, Facebook, some google services and Instagram so far this year. I voted for Gitlabs, Digital Ocean, Simple Bank and the Apple ecosystem.
They could hash each combination. Probably reduces security, but not a dead giveaway.
> Few languages allow you to just keep diving in deeper and deeper as you desire, while still letting you get to work right away without being a master.

I find it to be the case with most languages.

> Even template metaprogramming alone is gigantic area of ongoing research -- the stuff you can do with it is mind-bending and unavailable in nearly all other languages.

Your are being a bit hyperbolic. Meta-programming is not necessarily a hard thing to do, but in some languages, like C++ it was made impractical at first. Then, templates introduced some metaprogramming aspects with another layer of Turing-completeness.
I can appreciate the usefulness of C++ and how templates contribute to it, though.

> Templates are, after all, one of very very few wholly functional, immutable languages out there.

XSLT too ;-)

> And template instantiation is the underlying force behind many of the modern features like lambdas that allow you to access that power without actually knowing templates well.

Lambdas roamed the earth long before templates.

> ... and if you can accept that you will never know the entire language and can just use those bits that make things easier, it is possible to have a healthy relationship with the language.

Agree.
I'm on OS X as are a lot of people on this site (probably the majority). Not much software written by RMS on here.
Apropos of not much, I like the venerable Beyer DT250 for everyday use -- they're similar to the DT150 studio cans but with a velour kind of finish, that makes them comfier at home but not so suitable for passing around in the studio. They're also in the 100-200 dollars/quid range.
So ... how can it not be exhausted yet, or at least close enough that it's irresponsible for officials to offer blanket denials regarding reuse of defuncts?
I think I am slightly dyslexic, and have immense difficulty correcly transcribing a random string that is more than about 8 characters especially if it has numbers and random non-alpha characters. Logins that don't allow pasting the password often cause me to lock myself out due to repeated errors typing the password.
Applications other than web browsers send and receive network traffic.
Not directly related, but Stallman should be supporting/using LetsEncrypt instead of COMODO...
12 factor is hard because it's a guiding philosophy and has shades rather than just being there or not there. Each factor needs to be looked at for each app. It takes time and experience to actually see 12 factor violations as real problems. Actually implementing 12 factor in an application requires a lot more work than just importing a library or choosing a stack. Developers get more excited about features than they do about infrastructure and so don't spend as much time as they should thinking about making refinements.

At my current job, three microservices exist in one code repository. Because of this, continuous integration makes one build of all three services rather than three builds. The CI service doesn't provision for different environment variables per build, so the app has to take the config for the CI environment from the codebase. This is recognized as a problem, but not enough of one to get a unanimous consensus on doing the work to change it. I want to change it now, because I know from experience that it's better to rip the bandaid off of architectural problems because it's only going to get harder to fix as time goes on. Also because it affects my daily workflow in weird ways.
Take it with a grain of salt: the Catalans will find any excuse to protest.

It's called having a backbone, and not just rolling over for whatever number the system and/or occupying power wants to pull on you.
This was true 15 years ago, I hope it is not true anymore.

I know there was a way to write to ntfs from Linux, but it required to install ntfs driver file from Windows.

I hope there is a native ntfs support that supports writing.
You're right, of course, but my point stands.
Pretty sure that's over. COMODO is releasing the trademarks.
You have to understand the broader demensions of interaction between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, going back at least to the Anglo-Irish war, and perhaps back to the plantation of Ulster.

Ireland is quite literally the first colony of the British. It only recently emerged from centuries of civil war, and the Protestant-Catholic conflict has abated within the past five years.

For the topic of unification to even be seriously discussed is extraordinary, and without precedent.

Forgive me if I don't believe a government funded news outlet, with a vested interest in the outcome, a deep cultural belief in Anglic superiority, that was so sure the U.K. independence vote would fail, when they discuss issues of Irish affairs.

One could be forgiven for believing the government line at the moment. But if viewed through the eyes of Irish history, current events are clearly unprecedented.

In Ireland, there are many people alive who remember the Troubles in vivid detail. For the Deputy Prime Minister, and more importantly several prominent Anglo-Protestant politicians, to even broach the subject is to risk reopening Pandora's box.

Even now there are armed groups operating in the RoI with the explicit goal of finally driving the British from their lands.

Even a cursory understanding of Irish history is sufficient to appreciate that the current discrete (and even public) communiques would be in the realm of fantasy even a few short years ago.

The vast majority of the Northern Irish voted to remain in the E.U. With the loss of their British patrons, as the inevitable loss of Scotland unfolds, Protestants in Northern Ireland already know that the E.U. is their only assurance of security and insulation from the chaotic collapse of Britain.
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I wonder if even highly computer literate users can grasp the scale of overt and covert information leakage that takes place when we connect a machine to an always on internet connection.

Now with the advent of IoT and other always listening voice activated services the scale of this leakage is only growing bigger.

The typical computer or phone user is ready and willing to give up their privacy to get a small discount or save a few bucks here and there.

I wonder how many of Comcast's customers are aware that Comcast is running public Wifi services through their cable modems in their homes.

In the wake of Snowden's revelations, it makes sense that we pay heed to Stallman's seemingly paranoid utterings.

Facebook is just one among many information gatherers that we are feeding daily either willingly or unwittingly.

“Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22
> At a Whole Foods...

I'm curious why did you compare to Whole Foods? They are far more expensive than a regular grocery store and their food is not better.
Oh, good catch. Sorry for doubting you, yammesicka :)

Actually the dynamic rewrite thing has only ever come up significantly with NYT, who do that all the time.
More than a fun fact. BeOS FS is said to be extremely fast and capable (by the view of its time). The cpp API was clean enough so that a newb me could appreciate the possibilities.
Serious question: what value does filesystem checksumming offer for the average user who has no redundancy?

I mean, it'll tell you that your only copy of a file got corrupted, but it'll still be corrupted...
Everything else aside, the first Guardian article linked to under "Miscellaneous" [1] suggests that it will take more than a well reasoned argument to get people to leave facebook.

[1] (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jan/05/facebook-...)
rencently Airbnb introduced Smart Prices.
It's an optional automated system which allows the host to accept prices suggested by Airbnb's algorithm.
They prices are usually very low and I have the feeling they'll make it less interesting for many renters to stay on the market.
Maybe it will bring some balance.
It's completely counterintiuitive but I'm afraid they are destroying the market.
I already know some people going off Airbnb and moving to other platforms because it only brings cheap bookings.
So the idea is that the cloud handle the reliable, APFS is average end-user experience optimized ?
:)

https://i.redd.it/4g8h2vyudf5x.jpg
> On a different note, why is that (as far as non-expert me knows) that nice mics often have eq settings? Is this not a blatant layer violation?

The low-frequency/subsonic content that this switch will remove often consists of wind noise, pops from talking too close, vibrations from the floor/mic stand, etc.
Even if these low frequency noises may be more or less inaudible, they'll contribute to a large signal swing that will decrease the headroom in the following amplifiers. In other words, you won't be able to turn up the gain in the microphone amplifier/mixer as much as you'd want, because the low-frequency but high-amplitude content will make the amplifier clip and distort the sound.
Filtering the signal after the mic preamp won't solve the problem, because the preamp (which can provide in the order of 60 dB gain) will be the component that clips.
By including a low-cut filter in the head amplifier circuit inside the microphone (the amplifier serves only as a buffer, and usually with unity gain), the disturbing low-frequency noises can be removed before entering the high-gain microphone preamp. You can find the low-cut switch next to the capsule in the U87 schematic [0]. It seems to me that they increase the capsule bias voltage, thus changing the low frequency response by electrostatically tensioning the membrane.

[0] http://recordinghacks.com/images/mic_extras/neumann/U87-sche...

edit: tweaked some things. meta: i'm not very good at commit messages.
Maybe consider checking this out: https://www.amazon.com/Years-Watchtower-Slave-Confessions-Co...
How will Brexit impact my startup?
Really? Lived in HK for a long time, had lots of friends who grew up there/were very local.. never saw this happen. Is it regional?
I never said I got an "out of town call center." I said the dispatcher was not a local. Obviously I couldn't tell you where the call center was (though another time I called, I was routed straight away to the NY State Police and I have no idea why).

As you may know, there is a law that New York City employees must be residents. However, I once lived in an apartment used by multiple firefighters as their residential address, but who did not actually live there. Rent in NYC is expensive, city employee salaries are not generally very high, and so people do cheat by paying a small amount of money for a place to use as a mailing address (or even sleep occasionally).

Another story from NYC 911: I called to report live exposed electrical wiring in a sidewalk shed on a busy street. The British call this a hoarding, and out-of-towners often don't know the term, but it's sufficiently well-known in NYC that the NY Times uses it in headlines: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/25/nyregion/the-sidewalk-shed...

The dispatcher had no idea what a "sidewalk shed" was. I explained what it was in some detail, after which the dispatcher still didn't get it, and thought I was talking about a shed like you'd have behind your house in the suburbs. This person may well have been working in Brooklyn, but surely hadn't lived there any length of time. Indeed the city employee residency law doesn't require any "warm up" period--you can move in any time within the first 90 days of your employment.
The EU will treat Britain like Greece
Thank you for this. It's been a feature of UK journalism for a while (Bliar, Gideon, ConDems etc etc) and I haven't been able to put my finger on why I felt so vehemently opposed to it, other than a generic feeling that it was abandoning argument. This is much closer.
Doing daily harvesting isn't that unlikely also not everything is harvested at same hour of the day. And storing inventory is open for just few hours doesn't spoil the veggies.
I bet the produce wasn't so cheap at first. Economies of scale had to get wrung out over decades. This is where the "China" in Chinatown becomes important, the Chinese really value the sort of long-term thinking that makes this kind of endeavor profitable.
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As a corollary to your counter-anecdote, the few times I've had to call 911 were in a very rural community serviced by a volunteer fire department. They've always shown up within 5 minutes or less, though it helps to live just down the road. Heck, even calling the sheriff's dispatcher resulted in no more than 5-10 minutes between first contact and their appearance.

We had neighbors who'd set bonfires under trees during all hours of the day and night in the middle of the forest. It may sound stupid to call for that reason, but if you're familiar with wildfires and how often they're started by human factors here in the southwest, you may be somewhat sympathetic.

I remember one circumstance a few years ago during the dry season at the very start of our monsoons where lightning had caused a transformer across the highway to explode and catch fire. I don't know who called it in first, but they were there within about 5 minutes followed shortly thereafter by the electric coop.

I'm sure there's circumstances counter to this, but we've always had fantastic experiences and donate to our VFD.
ublock block count is 94 on my machine. Seems pretty high for a .gov site.
I didn't mean to attack you or your position.

I'd argue that Maemo/Meego were that system, but I already admitted to know really not a lot about Tizen.

You might be perfectly correct. I wouldn't want to touch anything (Software. Hardware is a different story) made by Samsung with a 10 foot pole and cannot imagine that Samsung would be great as upstream, however you plan to deploy the software.

Again, apologies. My beef is with every piece of Software Samsung published around me, not with you, your opinion or Tizen. I'm extrapolating and generalizing and obviously have a gripe here..
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TL;DR: British Colonization is to blame for the vast majority of muslims hating gays.

I get that some people are stuck in the past, but blaming British colonization for modern-day gay bashing is beyond ignorant.

This is like every other culture & race that has internal problems but doesn't want to admit it and needs to distract you from the issues by blaming another group. And of course, any 'outsider' that points out said problems is obviously a 'racist'.

Some politicians pander to this, while other point it out and society wonders why we're diametrically opposed.

'Dang' ADMITS its a divisive political issue, then complains when someone has a political opinion? or is it that my political opinion doesn't match Dang's? If you don't want political dialogue, then don't put political articles on a technology-driven news site.

Race/religion/poltical issues won't go away unless there is an actual conversation about them - but most people are too scared to do that. The left cries 'racism!' at every turn, while the right cries 'oppression!'
Elephants eliminate African villages by eating their crops, not by destroying their houses.
Are you stating that that's the way it is (because I think parent knows that already) or that it's OK this way? Cause it's not.
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> How do we solve the need while addressing these issues?

I always hoped that something like diaspora[0] would take off. With blockchain technologies and ipfs style distributed filesystems it might be possible without any central organization.

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora_(social_network)
@fiatjaf if possible, can you share any specific feedback ?
same in Italy. Nobody wants to rent long term anymore and lose the apartment to someone who can't pay but can stay for a year or two.
I personally met owners who had to pay gas, electricity and water to a tenant who didn't pay rent for 3 years.
As soon as she left they went on Airbnb and didn't look back.
Managing an Airbnb is not simple many people would prefer a long term tenant but it's just too risky.
How about sugar of lead? It's 100x as sweet as sugar. It was popular with the Romans, who made it from storing wine in lead. It's cheap too.
Yes, writing was the problem, not sure how good it is today

Since my main usage for external media was big files (you know, the ones with extension mov, mpg, avi, etc) using FAT32 was not a big issue (unless it was bigger than 4GB of course)
The term for them is two-click like buttons, or privacy friendly like buttons. There are a number of implementations[0][1][2]

Note that Facebook doesn't like having the loading or function of their like button altered (they want the third-party page loads for targetting)[3]

Note also that some of the share button widgets that aggregate the different social networks into one widget (like AddThis and ShareThis) pitch themselves are more privacy friendly but they are much worse - they will track and target you and sell your data to every network they can.

They also use (or used) evercookie techniques such as canvas fingerprinting or cache-based fingerprinting for persistent and privacy-setting resistant tracking[4].

[0] https://github.com/JonathanMH/privacy-friendly-facebook

[1] http://www.h-online.com/features/Two-clicks-for-more-privacy...

[2] https://github.com/panzi/SocialSharePrivacy

[3] http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=n&prev=...

[4] https://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com.au/2014/08/libraries-are-...
I can accept your description of the context you're coming from, but you need to modulate your behavior when stepping into this context, a considerably different one. That's true for every one of us here.

Given how little information we have about each other, it's trivially easy to make false assumptions about others (such as who is an X and what are the qualities of "you Xs"). By default, that leads to conflict, and conflict on the open internet leads to the wasteland (and I don't mean great modernist poetry). Therefore, we need ways of actively preventing that from happening and we all need to practice them consciously. That's what I'm asking you to do, and stick to.
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Morning Edition and All Things Considered are hugely popular. Broadcast personalities on a national stage usefully get compensated pretty well.
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The slowness of this arm makes it hard/impossible to highlight planning speed.
*breadth <- Sorry but the headline confused me.

There are tech jobs, and then there's tech subculture. It could help to start listening to podcasts or read blogs or watch conference talks by people in that culture.
Democrap and the like are simply derogatory terms. And so are abbreviations like M$ for Microsoft or the German term Windoof (could be translated as Windumb) for Windows. But this is not the kind of terms Stallman uses.

Instead, he usually tells you why he uses a specific term and I have yet to come across a case where he doesn't have a point with his term. Microsoft can be regarded as „Malware“, because it does things you do not expect and may not want it to do (like spy on you). Facebook users can be regarded as used, even though I don't think there is any point in denying that they themselves use Facebook, as well. I'm not educated enough to talk about DRM, but it seems he has a point in calling it Digital Restrictions Management, too.

If I'm not mistaken, Stallman now actually prefers the term libre to the term free, because it is less ambiguous. Or he sees the value in it; I don't recall it exactly.
His point was that it is common for a "new" technology to be used just ... because it's there. There was a lot of very bad music made in the early-80s when digital synths became available, and IBM using an AFM to make an advertising blurb could be considered in thie vein.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman#Popular_legacy: 'In a 1992 New York Times article on Feynman and his legacy, James Gleick recounts the story of how Murray Gell-Mann described what has become known as "The Feynman Algorithm" or "The Feynman Problem-Solving Algorithm" to a student: "The student asks Gell-Mann about Feynman's notes. Gell-Mann says no, Dick's methods are not the same as the methods used here. The student asks, well, what are Feynman's methods? Gell-Mann leans coyly against the blackboard and says: Dick's method is this. You write down the problem. You think very hard. (He shuts his eyes and presses his knuckles parodically to his forehead.) Then you write down the answer."'

In other words, Feynman himself never promoted that. I believe Feynman did extol the virtues of learning things until you can explain them to others.

I have seen many people use the real Feynman technique to good success. While I have to admit I've never quite used it directly, I can also attest to the virtues of trying to teach others to make sure you understand something yourself.

I have seen many people attempt to use the "write problem - think - write solution" method. Universal abject failure. It's a joke and it always was.
Hmm, mine is only at one. Wonder why.
super impressive DIY microscope to see atoms:

https://dberard.com/home-built-stm/
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Yeah. I actually develop on a Mac and deploy on NixOS. Nix works well on both, and my builds are parameterized by system. Cross-platform dev has its issues too, but they seem easier than dealing with desktop Linux.
Orientated?

I wonder whether implementated will be a word one day.