skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
wouldn't normally care to weigh in on Thiel, but his supporters keep using the phrase "he helped fund a legitimate lawsuit" as though that has anything to do with Thiel's motivation or the end result. He's funded maybe over a dozen other suits, secretly, some of which were pretty dubious. His stated goal is to destroy a news agency because they reported on his personal life. I hate that kind of journalism, but I don't think billionaires should be able to use money and the courts to shut down speech they don't like.

>>They want the power of the media without the responsibility
What do you mean by that? "The Media" is not one single thing, but the precedent Thiel is setting could affect all types of media.

Frankly, I find Thiel's anti-democratic tendencies to be troubling. What I mean is that is his attempt to hijack the legal process to stifle speech vis a vis paying for a decade of continuous legal proceedings.
Someone posted a list of protobuf definitions [1] used in Pokemon Go a few days ago. At the time I didn't think the submission was very interesting on its own right, but it seems relevant to your question now -- you can examine the names of the definitions to guesstimate what logic is performed on the server.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12081447
Previously classified 9/11 document released [pdf]
It's clear that Thiel only wants to silence voices who write about and criticize him.
React breaks away from the traditional MVC model. MVC may work great on the server, but I just don't think MVC fits with modern UIs. Component-based architecture is far more powerful and scalable
I would not recommend iTerm2 to a beginner. The iTerm developers believe in the kitchen sink approach to preferences, which is not very beginner-friendly. And there's not much reason to use iTerm2 in general anyway now that Terminal.app has mouse support, I'm only aware of a few relatively esoteric features that iTerm2 has that Terminal doesn't (support for colors outside of the 256-color palette, and built-in support for showing tmux panes as iTerm window splits).
That area of UI/UX is very interesting indeed.

Common misconception is that UI is only about visual side of it. User Interaction may include all other senses/informational channels.

Another common misconception is to think that UI principles are the same on any device that has CPU. Far from it.

As an example: I've participated in initial designs of EverNote[.com] application. From the very beginning it was very clear for us that desktop and mobile versions are very different entities. On mobiles you essentially have no other way to input your data other than using camera or voice.
Size of your finger's touch area on phone screen is comparable with area of average paragraph of text. WYSIWYG text editing in such circumstances is barely feasible. So only buttons of 1 inch size, that's the only reliable options in GUI.

GUI and UI in general are very interesting things indeed.
Paris and the Data Mind
In C# I do this all the time. Not so clear if you can do this in C, especially if statically linked.
Tor and Bitcoin Hinder Anti-Piracy Efforts
you're not using http2 then, since it would never upgrade the connection to http2. So the connections to your backend are all http 1.1.
Analogy
It could be they were intentionally trying to make the IT look bad.

From what I remember about the book, the dinosaur motion-tracking system was programmed to only find N dinosaurs each day because there was no reason for there to be more dinosaurs. It's why the dinos were able to breed undetected, because even though they were being picked up, the system only looked for N dinosaurs.
Never heard of Acme -- can you elaborate?
> Hardening

> We’ve installed ModSecurity, a Web Application Firewall, to help prevent > similar attacks in the future.

> We’ve improved our monitoring of vBulletin to ensure that security patches are applied promptly.

What? They _just_ added a firewall in their forum? What were they thinking all these years then? Either none of their engineers thought about adding an extra layer of security to this website during all these years, or the chain of command in this company is so strict that any suggestion from their engineers is dismissed until a security breach is detected. What a shame, first Linux Mint, and now these guys.
I almost always use gdb from Eclipse but it's nice to be able to ssh into a small system without GUI and still get baseline functionality, kind of like how I use vi.
Using something like this can save hours and win a client over (shallow souls) on some basic web internal business app.
Google closes bug as WONTFIX over Creative Commons license violations
Frankly, if you're so unhappy with HN you should simply leave and find a forum better suited to your tastes.

I don't mean it as rude as it probably comes off, but you must realize that you won't be able to start a huge meta-discussion here that will suddenly change everything.

Just let it go.
Cloud-Storage Ruling for Microsoft Helps Criminals, Not Privacy
TL;DR: Capitalism > Hacker Ethos
Target: 28nm, 4x 1GHz+ application cores, ~8 minion cores (see http://www.lowrisc.org/docs/memo-2014-001-tagged-memory-and-...), tagged memory, USB, LPDDR3. For more detailed specs, that's going to depend on confirming those details and the package design.

Our aim is open source to the RTL. Open analog IP (e.g. the DDR PHY and USB PHY) is a much more difficult proposition - it's process specific, and reliant on NDAed/trade secret details of the particular process making redistribution difficult. Therefore, we will use existing commercial PHYs, and it may make sense initially to use the standard proprietary controller it has been verified against. Over the long term, as I say, we'd like all RTL to be open but you've got to start somewhere. I think there's a parallel to the early days of GNU where they worked on replacing UNIX components piece by piece. It would be great if we could share the place+routed design at zero cost to anyone with the appropriate agreement with the fab.
perhaps I should
What use is the legal right to speech if your neighbors will bash your head in for it? Freedom of speech is not just the right, but also the idea of a society that tolerates it. This is what bothers me: Every time an internet corporation deletes someone's account for wrongthink, a herd of crypto-facists pops up to remind everyone that the First only pertains to government censorship (or even erroneously claim that only governments are capable of censorship). They are missing (and indeed proving) the point. The point is that they live in a society that encourages the limitation of expression, and that they are happy about this as long as they don't like the things being censored.
Is Yelp still using pyleus and Apache Storm? Or have they migrated to Spark and Kafka Streams?
Never forget the 90's love for 3d actually went this far beyond the practical.
It's actually as amazing that Korea beat China. This is only the 3rd time it's happened since both started competing in 1987.

https://cl.ly/1M2O2t1h0p1n
I didn't even know someone died in the latest season of Orange is the New Black >:(
Based on your condescending tone I'll assume you're a confident expert who can easily point to a true "shining example of web technology" for the benefit of the newbs and the brainwashed.
How does this compare in price to AWS GPU instances?
I did not realize he had developed CTSS. Folks in the AI lab developed ITS which was the "Incompatible Timesharing System" that had a user interface which was a REPL to the debugger (DDT at the time). They gave out 'tourist' accounts for anyone who wanted one and I used mine and met several people that way.

It sounds like he was way ahead of his peers in understanding the privacy aspects of future computers.
Judge Not Your Neighbor's Love for Mac N' Cheetos
Crunchbase has a bug
I really do think the same. Actually the crime sera drama "Columbo" worked that way as we knew beforehand who the culprit was. The point of the whole episode was to discover why the victim was killed and not how or who by.
Yes, the RISC-V Foundation will be making slides+video available. Watch http://riscv.org for updates. Rick O'Connor (Executive Director of the Foundation) suggests we might see them the end of next week or early the week after. Slides may appear sooner.
SS7, LTE/Diameter, GRX security testing
Search for "rm/cos 68000"

I remember a little about it:

You could set up "partitions", which mean reserve fixed amounts of RAM for different applications.

It ran on the (8 MB I think) external hard drive for the TRS-80 model 16.

An advantage compared with Xenix is that it was smaller (used less of the hard drive).

Also it had just a single directory, but had a form of hierarchy in that you could use any number of '.'s as separators: like usr.bin.ls. The total name could be long. I think OS-360 worked something like this.

I think the last line of the screen was always the command line, and the other lines were for command (or cobol menu screen) output and worked like a pager.

You could definitely hook up serial terminals.

I found this:

https://books.google.com/books?id=05wAGZQlo9QC&pg=PA694&lpg=...

http://www.1000bit.it/ad/bro/altos/Altos-68000-Systems.pdf

It's the same as "COS990", but for 68K.
The first seven pages of "me, me, me" can be skipped. Then comes the important part - that the number of people behind some major open source tools is very small. Everybody on Github knows this - once you get past the top 50 or so open source projects, the number of active developers is very small, often 1. This paper just presents this for a popular audience.

It goes off in too many directions at once, though. This needs to be tightened up to about 5-10 pages.

(At one time, Python's SSL support was maintained by a World of Warcraft guild. They had security problems organizing raids.)
We joked that Tyrell is another split personality, since the main character never really seems to interact with Tyrell and other people in the same conversations.

Tyrell's wife could know about his personalities and just not care, hence the weird conversation at the end of season 1.
doas(1), sudo(8), hotplugd(8), ...
We also need to hear from an important segment of the math population: those who burned out or dropped out for reasons related to math perceptions engendered by the math-competition culture. We all know people who did great at math or science competitions in high school but just disappeared from the scene after that. One may say that there are other underlying causes that lead them to not live up to some hypothetical promises, but I strongly feel that success and failure at math competitions can be a cause in itself. A lot of space is dedicated to how math olympiad triple-gold medalists went on to become great mathematicians. We also hear about those like Grothendieck and Hardy who weren't big in the competition circuit.

But missing are the stories of those who didn't make it big in spite of great competition performance, and those who fell out of math because of failing at math competitions.

In India, for example, competition math is everything at the high school level. This is because competitive exams like the famed IIT JEE, etc. are essentially variations on the competitive math theme. A few serious math enthusiasts do take up broader math-specific exams for math institutes, but those numbers are minuscule. The worst affected in my experience, are the talented and the enthusiastic who were discouraged and/or dropped out altogether because of failing at optimizing their skills and learning for competitions and similar exams.
what about? https://www.reddit.com/r/MrRobot/comments/4joo75/no_spoilers...
The brilliance of the show is that it portrays dissociative disorders in an extremely realistic fashion.

If you didn't identify with that, then you're obviously not part of the subculture that the show portrays and is really made for. Mr Robot is not about the drugs or computer hacking, it's far more grandiose than that. Similarly to Fight Club, it can be viewed as a social study of a subculture that's operating on the frontier of consensus reality and could characterize where that reality will shift in the future.

Have you had to juggle multiple identities in your head, every day for years if not decades? Have you thought what this does to you?

Have you had to keep secrets from everyone around you?

Have you "felt" what cyberspace really is about? Have you experienced the VICIOUS feedback loop of projecting a thoughtform/idea (what the audience views as "hacking") into that new domain only to have it manifest and achieve its own reality, as if by magic?

The technical aspects of the show are by far the least interesting.
The daily email digest was really good. Gave me links to interesting stories that I would have never seen in my information circle which strongly skews tech-y.
you can always ignore those projects if they make you so tired.
A few of the best battery packs on sale right now for Pokemon Go
Is it clear that CC licenses require sites to make it clear how to save a copy of a work? While there is certainly anti-DRM language in the CC licenses, is there something specific in Google's implementation of YouTube that directly conflicts with the provisions of the licenses?

(I support making it easier to save copies of things, but I'm not sure about the license compliance theory.)
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12098214
A properly configured $5 VPS can handle a massive amount of traffic if it's just serving a single static (cached) page.

But to follow up on your point: I hope the EB script that updates the pages automatically while doing maintenance will not wait for a response to its POST requests before actually letting EB perform the maintenance. Otherwise you create a crucial unwanted dependency on your status server.
It was an editor for Plan9.

Here you go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acme_(text_editor)
If you use react/redux that's a totally incorrect assertion. Views are all dumb and ideally stateless, the model (store) and controller (actions) are completely pluggable at a high level.
I love this idea. I'm kind of sad that there aren't more projects like this.

See also the description of the Memex in "As We May Think" by Dr Vannevar Bush: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-ma...
Ctrl-F template strings... yep, there they are.

So if you didn't know, ES6 added template strings, which are these really awesome things because they have multiline and string interpolation capabilities (and they're safely far away from JSON, which in my opinion shouldn't have such capabilities). They are very pretty and incredibly handy; you write

console.log(`
I'm so ${scared} in case ${ I.fall.off() } my chair
And I'm wonderin' how I'll get down the stair
`);

and this gets converted into

console.log("\nI'm so " + scared + " in case " + I.fall.off() +
" my chair\nAnd I'm wonderin' how I'll get down the stair\n");

Except for one thing: they're called "template strings" because actually this is a sort of "default behavior" which can be metaprogrammed. There is a default interpreter which could be written:

function interpret(text_segments, ...split_segments) {
var out = "";
for (var i = 0; i < split_segments.length; i++) {
out += text_segments[i] + split_segments[i];
}
return out + text_segments[i];
}

but... you can write one of your own, if you want, and put it on the beginning. Therefore:

> console.log(`abc ${[1,2,3]} def`)
abc 1,2,3 def
undefined
> console.log `abc ${[1,2,3]} def`
[ 'abc ', ' def' ] [ 1, 2, 3 ]
undefined

Notice that the side effect of console.log has happened with the arguments given to it, allowing for code execution.

As for mitigation... add detection of backticks to whatever code was detecting parentheses. It's not a very widely used symbol in any context other than shell scripting and LaTeX anyways, so you're probably good to go if you just outlaw that character before calling eval() on the whole.
>(and thus needed no assertions)

Assertions are not meant to be needed. Any bug-free programm should behave exactly the same with and without assertions.

On the other hand, in any sufficiently complex algorithm, asserting the pre- and postconditions generally helps readability, maintainablilty and correctness.
>how much better the world would be

Unfortunately it is not. Issues like this are the reason why government and state occasionally can be useful.
> Writing about incest, necrophilia, sex with children; these are not child pornography. Neither are artistic renderings about such subjects.

In the US and a few other countries, yes, images where no real person other than the artist was involved is classified as Child Pornography.

It's disgusting and squarely in the realm of thought crime, but no one cares because once you think of the children you can do almost anything.
A lot of them. It came across more like the author was trying to show off their vocab than explain a point.

For example:

>Any large and alienating infrastructure controlled by a technocratic elite is bound to provoke. In particular, it will nettle those who want to know how it works, those who like the thrill of transgressing, and those who value the principle of open access.

Okay, it makes sense what they are saying but does that not seem a little clunky to you?

Why not just say like:

> As the world has progressively become more entwined with technology, those providing these services have become more protective of the technology. As a result of this protectiveness, less people are able to fully study and understand how this infrastructure works.

disclaimer: not an English major ;)
Two other examples:

'Law & Order: Criminal Intent' explicitly based its plots on discovering the motivations behind the crime, while the perpetrator was known to the audience from the start.

'Criminal Minds' similarly examines profiles the state of mind of the perpetrator to identify a suspect, with the person's identity known to the audience in advance more often than not.
I'm curious at whether or not Gawker would have any legal standing for a retaliatory lawsuit against Thiel for damages. It seems like a stretch, but then again, if someone has dragged you through the courts at considerable legal cost and publicly stated that it was to drain you of money, how exactly is that not a perfectly legitimate damages complaint. Or at the very least contempt of court.

Oh, and as though it's not obvious, I have less than zero professional legal experience.
The link through to yesterday's Open Letter from tech leaders opposing Trump is actually the most interesting part.
A market with only free offerings will cause a certain category of actors to be absent. I would think that a market with fewer categories of actors would correspond into a drop in quality among some dimensions.
> the fact that so many people are upset is indicative of the growing technological entitlement mentality

A mentality Google fosters constantly with virtually all of their products.

> You can get a 3 Terabyte backup drive today on Amazon

The first words you see when you visit https://www.google.com/drive/ is "A safe place for all your files".

> there are alternatives to using a hosting company

Like what? Deeply technical p2p hosting solutions that are completely inaccessible to all but the most adept readers and publishers?

> there are ways outside of the internet to distribute information

Sure, but as we move most of our communication to the internet, this kind of thing becomes more and more problematic.
HyperTerminal was commonly referred to as "HyperTerm" in the BBS community, probably because the executable was hypertrm.exe. Also possibly because most other dial-up terminal emulators had names ending in "Term".

The free version was bundled with Windows for 10+ years, and although it wasn't a particularly great terminal, its ubiquity came in handy when trying to bring new people into the bulletin board system world.
This is what hacking really is about. The discipline has nothing to do with computers and can be applied to everything. Those who are fixated on the technical aspects of the show are missing the elephant in the room.
I liked the story format and hope it brings more attention to the need for support of open source projects to folks who would otherwise not know anything about it.
And if the artist had bought that storage, and then the storage company said "oh, we burned all your art for a terms of use violation," the artist would be rightly outraged.

Sure, he's not paying, but Google doesn't ask for payment. They provide a service which is backed by Google's implicit guarantee that their web hosting is safe and reliable, and they've broken that guarantee. Google may not have a legal responsibility to not delete everything this artist made, but every time something like this happens, the rest of us should notice it and reconsider whether Google is a good platform to trust with our work.
> It could be they were intentionally trying to make the IT look bad.

Or... Film is a visual medium, and so things have to look gee-wizy, because light grey text on a little black window looks incredibly boring. Have you you not seen a movie featuring computers in the last 35 years?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pe6gGUR3Ga4
eclipse does this as code hotswap
The Death of Expertise (2014)
> "Using GPUs inside of containers is a challenge. There are driver issues, system dependencies, and configuration challenges. It’s a new space that’s not well-explored, yet. There’s not a lot of people out there trying to run multiple GPU jobs inside a Docker container.”

Er, Nvidia itself has an official Docker application which allows containers to interface with the host GPU, optimized for the deep learning use case: https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-docker

Training models is one thing that can commoditized, like with this API, but building models and selecting features without breaking the rules of statistics is another story and is the true bottleneck for deep learning. That can't be automated as easily.
The Rise and Fall of Theranos: A Cartoon History
What he's missed is that hippies and yuppies were the same people.
Same self-indulgence combined with bogus philosophy to justify it. From granola to granite countertops in a generation.

Suggested reading: Bobos in Paradise.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobos_in_Paradise
Maybe the initial point you meant to make was related more to 'breaking the law' rather than 'abusing their power', but the phrasing you used focused on the abuse of power rather than the law. This can be taken to imply that you care about the abuse of power itself (rather than merely possible violations of law)

Apple and Amazon (like most companies their size) have well established histories of abusing their power, so I found it odd that you would explicitly mention their products as alternatives in the very same sentence in which you appear to criticise the abuse of power.
I have 6 terminals open right now and that's my baseline. I often go up to 12-15 terms.
Depends entirely on which state. People have absolutely gone to prison in the US for e.g. owning loli manga.
First-Link Chains in Wikis
As a private company, yes they do. And the article even states people like the writer need to be educated about backing up their work and not trusting cloud storage alone.

On a side note though, if it's fictional stories and art involving under age people, that's actually legal (kinda/sorta/not tested often in court) in the US and Japan but not in most of Europe (including France).

For example: drawing of Bart fucking Lisa Simpson. Legal in the US (and if you argue it right, possibly not even a trademark violation under parody/satire -- depends on the judge really). In the UK, that exact drawing sent a man to prison and put him on the sex offender registry.
Ninth Circuit Panel Backs Away from Dangerous Password Sharing Decision
Do have an example?
The Law You Won't Be Told
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqH_Y1TupoQ