skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The value of Urbit is connected to peoples desire to use it, you are correct in assuming that if an alt-Urbit is started using the same code base it would have value in the same manner.

What gives Urbit address space value is the notion of reputation tie to it's addresses which is current IPv4/6 infrastructure where addresses can be reassigned. If you ruin a Planet (read address) by using it to issue spam (just an example) on the Urbit network, services will likely have been designed to stop servicing bad actors and the Planet will become useless.

You will have to ruin more planets to continue your bad behavior. This can be extended to many more examples like trolling on Urbit-hosted forums for instance.

You may end up getting the benefit of the social pressure that currently exists in our society on the internet, which you currently cannot benefit from (however plenty of people benefit from the lack of such pressure).

Therefore, we can speculate citizens will attribute value to Urbit (and not the Alt-Urbit) based on the fact that we've already done much work in filtering out bad actors. You can imagine automated phone calling machine to push Ads to you on top of a Twilio based service layer on Urbit to have no chance of thriving freeing you from having to waste bandwith and time on such calls in an idealized future.
I would really have liked to see them check whether the gender-blinding actually worked. Even if someone's voice is modulated, they may have gendered behavior patterns that could influence someone's performance ratings. I wouldn't be surprised if I could guess the gender of a voice-modulated person pretty accurately from other cues.

To combat this, they could have asked the interviewer during the performance assessment whether they thought the applicant was definitely male/probably male/unsure/probably female/definitely female. Then you could use voice modulation as an instrument for perceived gender and get a better estimate of the true effect of perceived gender when controlling for actual gender.

Hope they do something like that for the next round of experiments!
Ejabberd 16.06, with more powerful ACL
Umm. They want to commit click and impression botnet fraud without consequences? Do they plan on compensating the advertisers after their studies?
As we keep learning to our dismay, you can't solve social problems with technology. I've got to give them credit for trying, and for reporting the result, but I'm not at all surprised.
They would contend that this is just a wink-and-a-nod way of providing the information you aren't allowed to provide. It doesn't matter if you disclose the information in English, French, or binary, it's still illegal. If you have it in a page called /canary/ and it obviously corresponds with NSLs you'd be in some hot water.

People tend to assume the court system is like a machine when it's very human at its core. A judge isn't going to say "well you technically didn't reveal any info so you're kosher," a judge is going to be pissed that you decided to low-key defy his/her order.
Dividends are not taxed in tax-deferred accounts like IRA/401(k).
I don't think it misconstrues the situation much.

To follow your comparison - sure, we don't say software developers are all toxic[0]. But we like to complain that almost all software is shit. There are gems of almost perfect beauty and usability, and we love them, but there are so few of those. Here on HN we sometimes like to discuss dynamics of what makes most of software shit - and we often find similar sort of economic pressures to those mass media faces.

The thing is, we put extra care in the software that directly affects lives of people. For anything else, we rarely bother. So if the institution of media is so important to democracy, maybe we should put some extra care here too.

(Though I don't know how to do that.)

[0] - also note, that I didn't say "all journalists are toxic"; however, the products of the institutions they form are a different story.
Slabot: A Python Slack-Bot API Using AI Concepts of Sensors and Actions
I was excited about this until I realized the sample size is incredibly small and there are few controls :/
Play roguelikes via SSH with shared scores
I was looking for some other 80x24 roguelikes accessible via SSH and stumbled across this. You can of course play all of these over your own VPS, but I wanted this for high score reasons.

The games and what's shared are:

* ADOM: shared highscores and memorial files

* Angband: shared highscores.

* Brogue: weekly seed competitions, shared highscores.

* Cataclysm-DDA: Shared maps for concurrent play, shared memorial files

* DCSS

* Poschengband: shared highscores.

* The Slimy Lichmummy: shared memorial files.

* Sil: shared scores and memorial files.

Appears that not all are 80x24 accessible, like Brogue. ADOM requires 80x25, also.

> ssh player@roguenex.us (pass: player)

To ramble on more: there are other services like this but focusing on a single game and will be much more populated:

* http://nethack.alt.org/ (ssh nethack@alt.org)

* http://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/howto (a whole bunch of DCSS servers scattered around the world)
Yes, the same thing happened with the NL referendum on the EU constitution. The reason people voted "no" was because they had never been asked before, so this was their first chance to have their voice heard.

That's about the only part of the article I agree with: if you're going to do referendums, then do them regularly. Referenda are only a useful tool if the public feel they really are involved in the process. Otherwise you'll have to answer for every decision that went around them.
What about the platform?
Awesome to see the contributed back their custom allocator that lets you allocate from a fixed block: https://github.com/dropbox/rust-alloc-no-stdlib

Solid stuff from the looks of it.
Near flawless dinosaur bird wings found encased in amber
I really like this idea and I've started using Wallarm.

- Integration is amazingly easy if you use nginx... basically an apt-get.

- Unlike most security packages that just block certain ports or apply predefined rules, Wallarm feels like I have a dev-ops team looking at traffic patterns 24/7. They're always learning and they identify when things seem irregular.

This is definitely the next level of network security
What is your company? Is it a product we'd use here?
Some ISPs here in Germany don't even allow third party routers.
Apparently this(https://github.com/dropbox/rust-brotli) is much faster than the one(https://github.com/ende76/brotli-rs) fuzzed by afl.rs. Like 10x faster. See https://github.com/ende76/brotli-rs/issues/24.
Are you under the illusion that a high-level language cannot "scale"?

Python is a high-level language, a bytecode language, a standard library, and a variety of interpreters and compilers. And a large community of shared libraries, forums, collaborators, etc.

Java is a high-level language, a bytecode language, a standard library, and a (smaller) variety of interpreters and compilers. Given their similarities, why would you expect that one language can, but the other cannot create a "scalable" software project?
They list the benefits here: http://liquidpiston.com/technology/engine-benefits/

Last time this was discussed, the power density was listed at the most interesting feature. Also that apex seals are in the casing instead of the rotor, which I think some speculated could help with wear/maintenance.
Swift on the Server – Where Are We Today?
Apparently there's nothing to see here - check out this as a counterpoint: http://www.drroyspencer.com/2016/06/climate-system-scientist...
if (c.get().length < 8) C.isValid = !1, c.hasErrors = !0, c.errors = [{
message: "Password too short"
}];
else if (c.get().length > 256) C.isValid = !1, c.hasErrors = !0, c.errors = [{
message: "Password too long"
}];
else if (/^[a-zA-Z0-9`~!@#\$%^&*()_=+\[\]{};:'",.<>\/? -]*$/.test(c.get())) {
var e = 0;
/[a-z]/.test(c.get()) && (e += 1), /[A-Z]/.test(c.get()) && (e += 1), /[0-9]/.test(c.get()) && (e += 1), /[`~!@#\$%^&*()_=+\[\]{};:'",.<>\/? -]/.test(c.get()) && (e += 2), 3 > e ? (C.isValid = !1, c.hasErrors = !0, c.errors = [{
message: "Password too simple"
}]) : (c.hasErrors = !1, c.errors.length = 0)
} else C.isValid = !1, c.hasErrors = !0, c.errors = [{
message: "Invalid symbols in password"
}]

Maybe they could've used https://github.com/dropbox/zxcvbn to determine password strength.
Since combustion happens on the three corners of the engine the heat distribution will be much more even compared to a Wankel where there is a heat differential between the combustion and compression side of the engine. Since there is better heat distribution the tolerances may be able to be smaller reducing the sealing issues.
Cool. I was just using ScreenFlow today to capture a video of a bug for my team. This would have saved me alot of time today. Just signed up for the beta!
Universal rendering with SwiftShader, now open source
One non-obvious thing about weeding is that libraries that send books to commercial sellers like Better World Books are helping the Internet Archive build our book collection -- if Better World Books doesn't think they're going to sell a book, and IA doesn't already have a copy, it ends up at our scanning center.
The goal of democracy is not to be good but to be fair. Democracy gives people what they deserve and in the long run they will try to make what is good for them. Making mistakes is the only way to learn (individually or collectively) so we shouldn't care too much for each error.
> The people are too stupid/bigoted/whatever to make decisions for themselves, so we'll make it for them.

You make this sounds like a bad thing. Of course this is true; this is why we have governments rather than have everyone voting on every decision.

Many people are too stupid, or at least misinformed, to weigh up complex decisions. We don't ask people to vote on tax levels and spending plans because they'd tend to vote in lower taxes and higher spending.

This was very similar to what was promised by the Exit team: continued access to the internal market but that they would no longer have to pay for it. This was clearly not a viable strategy.

Some of the Brexit voters may have had a more nuanced view but the above situation was how most of them saw, and were sold it. (Not that the Remain campaign was that much more honest.)

This is why we vote in a government to make decisions for us. It's perfectly reasonable to conclude that some decisions are more complex than the average citizen has the knowledge or time and inclination to research so they can vote intelligently.
For that money you can get IBM datapower.

Which is an all in one very powerful solution... With near wire speed transfer.

I don't know why I should get that?
Windows 10 Anniversary Update coming August 2 for 350M Windows 10 users
(Excerpting from another post:)

Most nations are republican democracies, not democracies. People choose the best of them (or the best person running) to deal with these issues. Direct democracy, where the people decide issues directly, is actually not part of the system. The UK has had 3 nationwide referendums and the US none, AFAIK.

There's a good reason for that: The average person has no idea what they're talking about on most issues. They have other jobs and interests, or no interest. Do I want the wisdom of the crowds deciding how the military should be funded and structured, for example, or do I want elected officials who have hearings, a staff of aids, who study the issue and talk to the generals ... egads, I pay a lot of attention to public affairs, but I wouldn't want that responsibility.

Note also that while elected officials are very human and imperfect, their credentials and experience are far above average.
A step towards safer implementations of standard curves
Why not just use text? There are many speech characteristics of gender that will never be found and masked by modulation.

Simple placements of words, parts of speech referring to the self, and other things are all much better clues to gender then voice frequency and pitch. For example, when speaking to some people who I know who are either naturally very high or low pitch, or are trans-gendered, there is a lot more information that can be contextually extracted from the content of their speech.

Really, just do text-based interviews. It will allow people to revise what they are thinking and really allow them to mask their gender.
I want them to mask my weak technical skills.
On my case that's the opposite, I've almost never heard people pronouncing the official way and always heard "n-jinks", that's how I pronounce it myself. I know about the rationals of the official pronunciation but never got used to it.
That can work for a case of simple unemployment if you can make it sound plausible, but if you can't come up with a single client reference from that period of time you could be pooched.

This is also complicated by the fact that you may have no option to admit that you're a felon and served time since they may have your police report on their desk.

We're living in an era where having nothing more than an arrest record, even if no charges were ever filed, is grounds for suspicion. It doesn't even matter if you were someone walking their dog and rounded up by the police in some kind of illegal kettling, you have a record.
Obviously tooting my own horn here, but our solution is replacing hardware managed caches with software managed caches... You get to have larger, lower latency "caches" of SRAM in our solution, that also use less power in moving data from RAM to the register file through them since we very granularly control the hierarchy.
I saw that visualization back in 2011 and I think it's actually a pretty poor one. It uses shades of red for what are objectively not bad outcomes (return greater than inflation is red, real return between 3 and 7% is pink). IMO that's misleading.

It would be helpful if it compared against the same visualization for other straightforward market investments, like bonds, or savings accounts / CDs. Those asset classes would be red (or pink for long-term bonds, perhaps) across the board. Stocks look great in comparison.

But picking a slightly more reasonable color scale would help.
I would say most jobs or careers have no handbook. The ones that SEEM to have handbook are the same jobs where they'll tell you that the handbook means little in the real world. Think policing, firefighting, paramedic. Jobs with certifications such as medicine or specific highly regulated trades such as electrician, HVAC. These jobs have large ramping up periods, apprenticeships because the 'handbook' is guided experience.

What I don't understand is did the author think that most people new to writing expected it to be more straightforward? Because I would have thought people like writing because the career is what you make of it, where you hustle and for what.
There are many failure modes for encryption that most people rarely think about. EX: If someone encrypts either the US constitution or Hamlet then you can tell based on message traffic size which it was. For a physical example, if collage rejection letters are a letter, but acceptance letters are a package then it's obvious to your mail room who got accepted.

This is probably secure, but non standard password exchanges open up a lot of possibility's.
I wish GitHub had a "close in one week unless there are further comments" button. Maybe make the time adjustable.

That way, if someone submits an inadequate bug report you can ask for more details and then tell the ticket to auto-close if nobody responds in time. I'm sure you could do this with a 3rd party tool and the GitHub API.
How humans drive speciation as well as extinction
I wonder if the voice modulation had any discernible impact on communication ability across the board.
How  Brexit Affects Shipping
I spent a few hours the other day trying to troubleshoot a problem with a Compiz interaction on one of my machines causing high temperatures at lock-screen. I finally found that the problem had been intermittently reported for the last 2-3 years without much traction in finding a solution.

My solution? Bypass that lock screen. It's not an issue for enough people to be worth me bothering them about it, if it was then it would have a fix already.
This work is well known in the crypto research circles. Raluca Popa, now a professor at Berkeley was the lead for cryptDb, an encrypted SQL database that can still execute queries.
GitLab: May 2, 2016 Security Release Post-Mortem
>Our voting system worked well for decades, but now it is broken.

Now that the elites don't get the desired result, it's broken.

The beatings will continue until morale improves!
Picking a file yes, but having a working syncing solution... not a few lines.

UPDATE:
The Obj-C SDK link is still broken: https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/objective-c

But 1 hour ago "A Dropboxer" on the developer forum mentioned: "we are working on it, eta August"
https://www.dropboxforum.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/207430...
Yup! We actually generate ModSecurity rules as well - it's a pretty great WAF, provided you use good rules.
No, this is using the force-directed graph api provided by d3.

https://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/4062045

It's pretty slow on mobile.
> Several of high change frequency components from telephony were moved to platform/packages

What does this mean? The phone manufacturers handle it now? Is platform/packages not open source?
The general argument here is server logs. You'll see the entire url show up for GET. By using a POST and actually putting the data in the post body you won't see it show up in logging.
Yes, that's why I mentioned them. Sorry, if I was not clear, though they also generally have associated fees. So again, nominal breakeven is not the same as actual breakeven.
Somebody, make "image format powered by brotli", please.
danso linked a different article than the one you discuss. The article they link discusses the analysis in greater detail, rather than telling stories.

(which I'm not trying to weigh in on the quality of the main article, just pointing out that they did publish a discussion of their statistics. I can understand the editorial decision to break it into a separate article.)
Alaskan Wildlife
MLab has published a comprehensive guide on migrating from Parse
"Set an alarm for..." was pretty much all I used Siri for and all I really use OK Google for now. On Android at least, the reminder notifications don't grab my attention at all, so I need an alarm.
Sophos Responds to Cylance About Anti-Malware Test Inconsistencies
cool but it's sad to know that this is required to maintain gender equality
I have a project of medium popularity (~4k stars on github). A lot of the annoyance comes from _bad_ issues, or pushy people that want to know why X is done Y way -- after all, only morons do X _y_ way, or just answering the same questions over, and over, and over.

Something like 70% of every issue/email I've ever received could easily be auto replied with "please provide version, platform, code to reproduce, etc.." the number of people that will post an issue that just says "it doesn't work" or "how do you do X?" wears on you after awhile. The open issues for a medium sized project are (I consider) a metric of the project's overall health. So, if you want to keep your tracker clean, you've gotta put on your administrative hat and spend time grooming things, which takes an energy toll. Developing is fun, fixing real issues is fun, repeatedly teaching people how to ask a useful question is not fun.

Also, pull requests can be the most stressful of all. People are extremely entitled about pull requests. The number of reasons why something might not get merged in right away or at all is _massive_ (and often simple: I'm busy). However, a lot of people seem to take it as personal attack that their glorious work was not immediately commented on/reviewed/liked/pulled/etc..

All of that can add up to a lot of stress around a project from which you draw no income.
> That remains to be seen

The fact that it remains to be seen is kind of the point. It is possible that it is at peak, and if it is true, then it is likely that historical data is not very useful in understanding market returns.
Every human is special.
> It's very similar to jury duty. And you'd try to use similar mechanisms to keep the system fair and balanced.

Similar mechanisms to grand or petit juries? Because the latter is what most people are familiar with, but most sortition proposals would seem to be structurally more like grand juries [0]: which are, for structural reasons (including the time commitments involved) far less representative of the jury pool they are notionally drawn from than petit juries are.

And the mechanisms which keep them fair and balanced are different (though similar in one way: for both kinds of juries, one of the important methods is that most of the things they do aren't decisive on their own -- except criminal acquittals -- and are inputs to final rulings by judges; for grand juries, this is particularly true, since they act at the very beginning of the process; clearly, this common aspect of the control on juries is not present in most proposals for lawmaking-by-sortition.)

[0] For California (and some other US) jurisdictions, take this as "criminal grand juries", as civil grand juries may not even be notionally representative.
Faceoff: Android vs. iOS
yes fair point. I did get carried away
Yeah, you're not a lawyer. This is nonsensical gibberish.
With that logic it doesn't make sense to store passwords encrypted in the DB then either. If an outside attacker gains access to a system it would really suck to have a bunch of passwords sitting in logs unencrypted. Security in depth and all...
This. OMeta and Ohm are awesome.
That comment was snarky, dismissive, and inaccurate, but please don't respond with snark of your own.
It's the same underlying analysis. Their github repo contains the same script I linked to:

https://github.com/propublica/compas-analysis

https://github.com/propublica/compas-analysis/blob/master/Co...

It even contains the same weasel words "almost statistically significant" for one analysis.
I always felt they should do something like this for politicians during a race. No names, age, gender, political leanings, etc. Just interviews and debate.
Do Women Really Want Equality?
I think zstd will be better: https://github.com/Cyan4973/zstd.
AFAIK, even a binary "canary" has been untested in court and might not even stand on its own (yet many companies have one).

There are countless loopholes in various legal systems across the world that "get a pass". It's often a matter of finding the right loopholes.

One example is gambling in Japan. Illegal. But if you play at a pachinko slot for a chance to win some tokens you can go next door and there is a business that will buy the tokens from you! It really is convenient someone is willing to buy these otherwise useless tokens. :)

I'm sure if I put some thought into it I could find a few more loopholes that are a "wink and a nod" away of being illegal. Of course, my suggestion might be too blatant and the company would be dragged to the courts. But even a single canary could still warrant being dragged to court over.
Both maturity and strong communication are important for any professional position.
Most likely not - the rights and preferences of the preferred stock will get determined by the deal you negotiate with the VC, so anything you have before that will likely get thrown away anyways. It'd be very unusual to start off with preferred stock at formation.
Makes me want to huff some sulfur hexafluoride or puff out the fan in my laptop with CF4.
Would it help creating a page with "common reasons for closing" and adding a note with a link to that page?