skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What do you need a blockchain for? Storing millions of no more seeded torrents?

There are already magnet links and DHT which is distributed shared database. The only issue is a search function, which is much easier to implement and works much faster when it's done in a centralized form.
> oh look a troll, using a brand new account too, what a great way to add to the conversation.

Calm down, we're not on reddit. Having a different opinion doesn't make one a troll.
Many railways in China aren't profitable, heck only the Beijing Shanghai line is (out of the HSRs), and it costs just as much as flying (often more!). Commuter transit in China (50 Kuai and below) is almost always heavily subsidized.
That's assuming the the y-axis starts at zero, it also lacks numbers for the "spatial queries". This graph doesn't actually tell us anything, besides that there was a drop in traffic after blocking third party access.
So your excuse for this theft of service is that you simply don't want to pay?

It's lucky for you that prosecuting torrent users is so rare, as I really can't see that one holding up in court.

If you can't afford it, don't steal it. It's as simple as that.
Authentication Techniques for APIs
Seems like they started authenticating a key (unknown6) that was previously being sent but not getting authenticated against.

A lot of bot writers are trying to break that authentication. Given that people are paying others to 'walk' their pokemon there is real money in faking GPS movement in the API.
Godspeed Niantic dev-team!!! Really despise the negative press you're getting. Don't think anyone in their wildest dreams would have thought PoGo would have taken off as well as it has and now they are stuck between a rock and a hard place:

Do they suffer the rage of entire countries, and potentially their backers by delaying launching in territories to fix bugs?

OR do they suffer the rage of existing users by delaying bug fixes to keep to their original schedule by launching new territories?

All the while, they are crippled by scaling issues they never dreamt of having and managing cheating/additional traffic from the meta-ecosystem of trackers.

Have no doubt the team are working doubletime and overtime as it is, a shame that redditers are unable to see this. So keep it up Niantic - thanks for bringing us the AR killer app and for showing that there are still opportunities for huge apps to launch![0]

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EDIT: downvotes - really? The post scriptum was obviously a cute joke. Or are the downvotes towards the Niantic support?
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You should add 2006 to the title. The topic is very mid 2000s.
It seems highly unlikely that it was an inside job: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/mena/2016/07/24/the-turkey-c...
Intent matters. The vast majority of people that buy a gun do not murder people. The vast majority of people that download iron_man.torrent only intend to do one thing with it.
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Yes, the lack of a functional Nearby feature - either integrated or with a third party app - really affects motivation while playing.

I was out walking today and saw an unknown Pokemon silhouette in my Nearby list. All I could do was shrug and hope I'd run into it (I didn't). Previously I would have gone significantly out of my way to find it, adding mileage to my walk - which I understood to be one of the design objectives of the game.
How would assisting copyright infringement benefit the open web?

I see the mention of double standards but it seems very odd to me that someone would support copyright infringement (grabbing films etc.) and deem it acceptable yet we'd balk at someone either:

a) not paying for software we were selling, or
b) not paying for a software service we were selling.

It doesn't add up.
I thought you were going to post a segment from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fry%27s_Planet_Word wherein there is a part where there is a test on resisting physical pain between Brian Blessed and Stephen Fry.
The point is people who swear a lot seem to have a lower pain threshold.
Yes it is decentralized, but it relies on central authorities to work, which in turn relies on a stable, cross-border legal system - which many believes is currently not in a good state (see Freak_NL's response for example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12230903 ).

People have different views on this of course, but I think we all can agree that it needs a major overhaul to make the majority happy (the legal system that is).
This is clearly wrong. World GDP currently is ~$77 trillion. You seriously think more than half of that goes to shipping?
Theft is a generous term for something that isn't rivalrous.
Seems like a good place. Ignorance is bliss.

That said, it looks expensive. In my experience, nursing home care quality is correlated to cost.

My grandfather died in a nursing home that resembled a palatial hotel, with lots of staff making sure he was comfortable. He could afford it and it was well worth it.

A fancy village style campus, at the same or higher price, would have not made his experience any better.

Delivering high quality care at a low cost will disrupt the industry, a different high quality experience at an equally high cost won't.
This are some cool unventilated kitchen experiments involving leather, sugar, flour and 99% hydrogen peroxide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i06SnRCQN6U
Yeah, except "just airstrikes" is practically no different. The US is already engaging ISIS troops.

There are no "boots on the ground" in Syria as per policy, but there are American soldiers wearing boots engaging in combat activity in war zones in Syria on the ground. Except as they're not officially "boots on the ground" everybody likes to pretend the US isn't actually involved in Syria yet.

And when it comes to the decision whether to actually send humans who risk their lives and will be held accountable if they screw up, or to just continue drone strikes or bombing raids with no public accountability unless a military plane is downed -- I will prefer boots on the ground any day. War is hell. Drone war just allows one party to distance itself from the hell it is engaging in.
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Braced myself before reading this, but what a pleasant surprise!

> infinite number of closing parentheses

Nowadays, you can express it with finite parentheses using -> macros popularized by Clojure.
Or go middle way and spoof the GPS radio signal near the device: http://www.rtl-sdr.com/cheating-at-pokemon-go-with-a-hackrf-...
Yep. Dapper is far simpler. All the relationship navigation and deferred loading of related entities is clever but takes effort to optimize and is too easily abused.

Every large team I've seen use it (EF) ends up with slow horrible queries generated that DBAs see hitting the database thinking WTF?
I'm sure it's a great editor but it's, to me at least, a bit weird to have to read a privacy statement for an editor to work out what it's actually sending home.

https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/dn948229

I guess it's open source though so if anyone's really bothered they could fork it and take all that stuff out.
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This is great for consumers, but has anyone considered the environmental cost of this?
A constitution cannot grant you rights over things in another country. I am granted freedom of speech in the US but that doesn't permit me to paint crude depictions of 'the prophet' Muhammad in the UAE.
I'm sorry I mentioned rent control, that's a minor effect. The big factor is the lax zoning.
There's a vim key extension that's pretty good too.
There are 3 other issues: hosting the UI, DNS, and monetization.

You can get away with hosting a client-heavy JavaScript interface on ipfs as well, but the URL will be ugly making you reliant on Google not dropping you (central point of failure).

And then there is incentive - even if you manage to anonymously take Bitcoin for ads or what have you, someone will eventually take all the work and strip them. The whole thing will have to be a labor of love. Any lovers out there?
The thing is: this attack doesn't even use CORS. It just sends a GET request to an URL and looks at the timing, which can be done using the fetch/Resource Timing APIs.

Here's a JSFiddle to play around with this[1], based on the code in the paper, using GitHub's account page as an example. You'll notice that the request succeeds and the fiddle has access to timing information. Inspecting the requests will show that there are no CORS headers being sent (like Origin) based on which the target could prevent the request from being served. (There's the Referer header, I suppose, but blocking the request based on that would break pretty much any third-party link to that page.)

I've tested this against various high-profile sites that include sensitive information (Google's account page, Twitter's account page, etc.), and it worked just fine on each of them. Most of them also have a parameter reflection vector (typically the full request URL is included somewhere on the page, which should be enough), so I'm pretty sure each of those sites are potentially vulnerable (though I'm not sure if calling a site vulnerable is the right approach here).

[1]: https://jsfiddle.net/39rsn2kg/
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If intent matters, then guns are doubly problematic. They are specifically designed to kill people. They have no other use or purpose.
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It's much, much more than that. It's the only way to get an acceptable product.

I have ALSO pirated everything I ever bought until very recently.

DVDs included region forcing, and forced, unskippable adverts and copyright notices. Netflix, .mkvs and .mp4s just have the programme and titles.

Usually someone, somewhere, has put effort into making a good quality rip saving me the time doing so, along with synchronised and corrected subtitles.

For games, the major studios still feel annoying and restrictive copy protection is the way to go. I don't want a £30 game that requires me juggling collections of plastic disks, or an always on net connection to a licensing server they may turn off in a year or two anyway. So the noCD, no licensing server release is a necessary download for me. I tend to mostly buy GOG and independent studios putting out DRM free things these days. EU IV being about the only exception I can think of in the last 2 years.

I'm not a fan of being data mined on how often and how far I read ebooks, listen to audiobooks. So first thing on buying a new ebook from Amazon is rip the protection to read it on my non-amazon reader. First thing to do with an audible book is convert to mp3. If either of those became unfeasible or impossible I would stop buying.

Finally for music, we've had attempts with copy protections and Sony rootkits, but mostly my music collection is complete and they gave up on silly DRM attempts. I only need to rip new stuff that's not available in FLAC.
I'd say the opposite with regards to convenience, but maybe I've been away from the scene for a few years now

Nowadays it seems more of a hassle to pirate content, especially here in the UK with torrent sites getting blocked by ISPs (necessitating a need for VPNs or proxy services) along with having to constantly find new sources for torrents as authorities crack down on sites like KickAssTorrents.

I find it easier to just subscribe to Netflix and Spotify, but maybe I have more disposable income now that it doesn't bother me.
I agree, and I have no problem with people having different opinions and stating them. However it is a brand new account and the handle is "provoc“ so I think I am pretty safe in my assertion that this account was created to troll.

I bet it is not active this time next month.
Why is this limited to wealth? Why don't we consider that adeptness at accessing government benefits is a socioeconomic lottery system? As in, those who are particularly capable of extracting resources from public sources teach their children how to do this. I'm not referring to welfare, but rather, stimulus packages, bailouts, SBIRs, business development tax incentives, low interest goverment loans, etc.
so if you are running a torrent aggregation service its illegal.. but if you are running a torrent aggregation service along with a regular web search service it becomes legal? maybe there is an opportunity for pirates here...

looking at google (and any other web search engine)
It's not about making it 'not special', it's about putting it in the category of the other experiences you mentioned.

I doubt people feel uncomfortable or anxious when talking with their parents about eating -- or at least, if they do something is deeply wrong with the parent/offspring relationship. Nobody should feel embarrassed to talk about the bike trip they went on. People shouldn't hide the secateurs under the bed for fear their parents will find out that they want to start gardening.

Thus it can be seen that we treat sex more differently than we do any of the experiences you listed. That does not mean making it less special, or dulling the experience in any way -- rather removing the taboo aspect of it, and allowing people to talk about it freely.

This allows young people to get a better idea of what 'safe sex' is, and makes them more likely to speak up if they have questions or have been assaulted.
Where are the mirrors?
The attack determines the size based on the timing information returned by the Resource Timing APIs and the compression side-channel. This is described in section 2.2 of the paper.
It can be free but not that convenient. Pirated content needs to be checked to make sure it's not fake nor malicious, not to mention the technical downsides of the torrent protocol (large bandwidth consumption, insecure, easy to block, slow speed on non port-forwarding routers etc)

It's much easier to buy and download games on Steam or watch movies on Netflix nowadays.
You are correct it is not. However it is not baseless in this case. You create a brand new account, called "provoc“ then make a deliberately provocative statement. You are a troll perhaps you just haven't realised it yet.
Wordpress.com doesn't allow 3rd party plugins. That is one of the primary differences between it and the self-hosted version.
It's theft of service, so it is stealing.

And uploading many small pieces of files with up to millions of anonymous entities rather stretches the usual connotations of the word "sharing".

Regarding constitutional directives, it's unreasonable to think that "free access to culture" is supposed to imply "steal movies, music and software via the internet".

The idea that musicians make most of their money from gigging is still no excuse to steal their music. That they are getting a minor cut from each sale surely makes this behaviour worse.

And as you live in Europe, there's nothing to stop you ordering CDs and DVDs from Amazon, and paying for what you want to listen and watch rather than just stealing it and making excuses.
I can still see torrentz.eu & https://kickasstorrentsan.com/
> but the URL will be ugly making you reliant on Google not dropping you (central point of failure)

How many people use google to start a search for torrents?

I stopped doing so because the higher results would normally be clickbait links
For distributing all those magnet links of course. Yes, it will be a huge morgue of dead magnet links but not being able to remove them is a required feature. And more importantly it needs to store ratings and not be gameable, or it will be taken over for malware and spam and die a quick death. Which is going to take some thought.
I haven't found anything on the internet regarding idope.se but it seems to be pretty nice.

I suppose you're the admin? How sure are you that "servers never go down"?
Seriously, fuck Unity. It's the indy game equivalent of vendor-lock in, with everything negative about it.

They can't be arsed to fix a simple VSync bug on Linux, meaning even simple sprite games, or even more insulting: TIS-100, a game about optimising assembly on fake retro-hardware, deliberately made to look like a terminal, always burns 25% CPU power on my laptop.

More importantly, as Paolo Pedercini[0] mentioned on Twitter recently:

> I can open my Flash crap from 15 years ago no problem, but a project I made last year in Unity 5.1 crashes silently if rebuilt in Unity 5.3 I'm telling you: today's indie game production is a Unity monoculture that will disappear at the next hardware architecture cycle

[0] https://twitter.com/molleindustria/status/760904169444274176
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"MainLan" - thank you! I'd been racking my memory cells for the name of the product. In the original mid-80's product with the DE-9 connectors, was it RS-423 that was used, or something proprietary?

I too was 19-20 years old circa '86-'87 :)
There is 1000$ bounty for enhacing CHICKEN with native threads. Maybe your work will trigger now someone :) .
Oh, but the morons around here think that using TFA, The Fucking Article , to refer to the link posted is A-OK. Such moronic dissonance...
That's "topography." The topology at Chicago, Harvard, MIT, and Princeton is clearly less boring than the topology at West Coast schools, Stanford included.
May I direct you to the HN comment guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

"What we especially discourage are comments that are empty and negative—comments that are mere name-calling."

Please engage with the substance of comments rather than accusing others of trolling.

It was indeed a provocative comment given the unfortunate HN zeitgeist on torrenting and piracy, but accusations of being a 'troll' are overly negative and insulting.
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In many places this is still not the case.
Since Mozilla didn't shy away to include Adobe Binaries in Firefox to decrypt Movie-Streams, i'm pretty sure for IPNS we're going to get a unmodifiable Blacklist so "Bad"-Sheep can be blocked.
The thread macro is really a treat and allows for more expressive functional piping of data. A lot like dot chaining in your python/scala/rubys or cascading in Javascript - get a lot done with minimal boilerplate
They don't even give me the right recommendations, how can they estimate what I will buy?!
You could kill animals with them or do target practice with live rounds.
No, not the admin. Just been searching around since kat's been gone.
The titles available on Netflix(at least in the EU/UK) are laughable. I have both Netflix and Amazon prime(which has pretty much the same content).
I did too, but I left university, and did pretty good for myself despite that decision.

University is a choice unless you need the paper to be a doctor, engineer or lawyer, or other 'professional'.
I personally do not subscribe to the public education system. I am home schooling my youngest here in East Java. My eldest sone is studying German, and thinking on going to Germany for university, which is very cheap even for foreigners.
My daughter goes to an affordable college.

The days of elite universities and Ivy league tuition are numbered. I had the joy of somebody I met traveling telling me how much debt he had to send his son to Cornell. I simply said why not a more affordable school, to which he replied, "Because you know your kid is set for life with that piece of paper no matter how he performs as long as he graduates." I am almost gagged.

It's elitist attitudes like that I disdain, and frankly, I don't think the programs vary in proportion to the cash outlay and debt for life. I like the 'if you landed on a deserted island who would you want with you', and by that metric, I am very confident in my son, not so much in the elitist's son.

I am not sure how to take your 'snow' comment, since that comes from a comedy routine, and yes, I understand its take on hyperbole. But I can pretty much guess you cannot speak to how deep or inclined the snow was for me ;)
I don't think Crystal is production ready, the language is still evolving and not stable at all, from minor version to the next.
> That said, it looks expensive. In my experience, nursing home care quality is correlated to cost.

Yes, according to the wikipedia article costs are similar to normal nursing homes, although part of the village (the café-restaurant and the theatre) are open to or used by the surrounding community in order to help towards costs:

> The café–restaurant is to some extent open to the public and the theatre is hired by local businesses, both of which help towards the running costs. The cost per resident is similar to more traditional nursing homes at around €5,000 per month.

> A fancy village style campus, at the same or higher price, would have not made his experience any better.

I don't know about that though, this scheme provides normalisation and possibly more stimulation (and more natural socialisation opportunities) than a more traditional nursing home, which according to Atul Gawande (in Being Mortal) can do a lot towards staving off degenerescence.

I have seen significant speedup of degenerescence of the elderly once they're removed from their home and moved to more hospital-like facilities, the kind of facilities shown here can help a lot especially if patients can carry over a significant fraction of their previous environment (decoration, knick-knacks, …). Regular hospital or hospice/care facility visits also tend to be a bit weird and pretty uncomfortable (due to the odd/alien atmosphere) for families especially children, I'd expect this facility to be much more enjoyable to friends and families.

The article notes pretty much that:

> Patients can roam much more freely than in many elder car facilities. Patients here require fewer medications, eat better and live longer.
This seems to be happening since the Popcorn Time days. The projects get shut down and nobody ever knows why and how it happened. Quite strange indeed. They may have figured out how to threaten these guys effectively.