skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Tor restriction is pretty bad.

The hosted servers one I can rather understand and sympathise with, having been woken out of a sound sleep at 3am one too many times result of some hosted-space bot hammering our site and driving us offline.

A policy to institute CIDR-wide firewall rules on first sight tends to ensure sound sleep. Fairness be fucked.

(Vastly better tools for dealing with DoS would be a huge benefit generally, and much as I love Tor, it's really messing up with the Old Way of Resolving Asshats. I haet haet haet Cloudflare's incompetence, but understand why they do what they do. I'm not saying they've got the right answer though -- but again, that problem is hard.)
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Padlocked cases are common on school computers.
Isn't this inverting the burden of proof here?

She made the extraordinary claim that she didn't even need to know who or what people were working on, just that they were there on weekends. She provided zero data.

It's just as likely that the weekend working startups are the one that will fail. Obviously by burning out, but also by losing sight of the big picture. This seems stereotypical of hackers coding the latest greatest features with zero customers. They could be seriously misusing their available time.

Companies (startups or not) should be able to set their own pace. People should learn to use their time well and save their energy for when they absolutely need to burn the midnight oil. Besides, getting burned out or sick doesn't help anyone.
Does this Quanta article contain significant new information to be discussed? If so we'll unmark this one as a dupe and restore it. Otherwise it meets the criteria for a dupe which is: a specific topic having had significant discussion within the last year.
people who drive probably aren't going to eat less because they're walking less. also, walking (to me) isn't just about saving money, it's about good habits and contributing less to traffic and pollution

edit: people travel farther distances in cars than on foot, usually. nobody would replace a 20 mile commute by car with 20 miles of walking.
This is literally how everything was made until the very recent past. Next you'll be telling me that you can ship software on physical media.
This scales to ${number_of_devices_you_can_see}. A hundred or more? Easier to manage remotely. You're also likely to have a very limited number of models in that case.
If I hadn't already deleted my Facebook, this would probably make me do it.
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A ransomware infection is only the beginning of your malware problems: Cisco
I find it remarkable that it took humans so long (1849) to start mathematically investigating something as fundamental as knots.
Ah. Last Friday at work I changed my password. It worked fine when I unlocked my computer after stepping away. On the way home, I noticed that my iPhone wasn't updating email, and recalled that I hadn't changed the password there. But I could not get the iPhone to accept my password. Nor could I get Outlook webmail to accept it. I was afraid that I might have to trouble one of the network admins, but I tried the VPN client. That accepted the password. I RDPed into a machine on the internal network, changed the password to something a little shorter, and confirmed that Exchange was OK with it.

As I recall, the boundary was somewhere around 20 characters.
Except this is at the Whitehouse correspondents dinner - a well known comedy event. AND the threat/joke wasn't made against a rival/adversary.
Targeting trust is among the most disruptive attacks you can make.

Take movies with unreliable narrators (say, "Gur Hfhny Fhfcrpgf") as an example. Who or what can you trust?
I don't think the intent is to convince you to drive. It's just an interesting way to slice the data.
and exercise!
I am inclined to agree with you, but then I remember that people used to say the same thing about chess. Perhaps completely solving language requires strong AI, but maybe we can get 99% there with something like the "chinese room", an AI that works like a well learned parrot.
I kinda get what she is saying. It takes a certain amount of passion and dedication for someone to show up on weekends. They must truly believe in the company or the idea to put in that type of effort.

This dedication and passion will also reflect itself in the product. Many people can make a mediocre product by putting in the minimum amount required, but for something outstanding it usually takes more. Much more. What she has said is nothing outlandish.
Not all fuel consumption is the same. Gasoline is way under-priced in the US when traffic, pollution and road construction costs are factored in. On the other hand, high quality, sustainably farmed produce is overpriced, most significantly from sustained subsidies for corn and the associated increase in the cost of arable land.
Do you remember the time when staff broke the audio ads and they kept looping with no way to stop whatsoever?

And people still go on about blocking ads being unethical
Hi, with all the experiments you made on android smartphones, have you documented the performance of the smartphone over the time?
> "For blockers to get around these changes, Facebook said they would have to begin analyzing the content of the ads themselves, a costly and laborious process."

I don't think anybody at NYT has ever come across 1 of the longest digital battles since the internet became a thing, otherwise known as: P2P

Where there is a will, there will be a way. For every piece of software that will hide ads, someone out there will likely begin to write software to block this, simply cause some shitty ad ruined his/her Mafia Wars/Farmville experience.
Political assassination is a real thing that happens; federal drones attacking celebrities is not as common. The Jonas Brothers are not Obama's political opponents. Our country is not full of weaponized drone owners. These are two very different "jokes".
It's only without benefit if you don't write Python. Otherwise, it's like having tests that take almost no effort to write. What's not to love about it?
I'm solidly on either side of the gap— I collect physical media (because it's fun, satisfying, and DRM-free), and use streaming services (because they're convenient). Digital ownership seems inherently risky to the consumer. Buy the CD: it's permanent and tangible, and the digital copy comes free!
It's not bad. OpenGL 3 level graphics.

But not on Unreal or Unity's level.
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How is this different from http://netsukuku.freaknet.org/ ?
Is there a story behind the pictures accompanying that article?
I've seen a number of people wearing versions of this shirt:

https://www.missionbicycle.com/store/home/gift/53-miles-burr...

Although if Wikipedia's energy figure is right, that's a 2279 kcal burrito (which you could probably find somewhere in San Francisco, but...).
You probably shouldn't even pick up fruit you can identify. My wife and I visited Puna in Hawaii, and she kept eating mangos from under trees. Later that year, I saw this article [1] where a guy caught a nasty case of "rat lungworm disease" [2] from working on an organic farm in the same area. To quote the article, "Something as simple as eating an unwashed strawberry may have been how Reinert contracted the disease."

[1] http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2013/02/17/mn-man-determined-t...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angiostrongylus_cantonensis
I too would like to see the question asked by unicornporn answered: how could this be legal?

Why isn't the FBI raiding them like it did with Megaupload?

Even if it's technically a non-profit, it's still profiting from this piracy in terms of advertising, which in turn is meant to attract funding, which pays for the officers and other employees and their extravagant office buildings, right? There seems to be a lot of money involved!

The Internet Archive benefits from an exemption concerning the circumvention of copy-protection mechanisms, i.e. section 1201(a)(1). But how can it be covered by the immunity granted under the Safe Harbor provision of section 512(g) of the DMCA, when this is not content submitted by an unrelated user, nor isn't the Internet Archive unaware of the fact that it doesn't own the copyrights on these materials?

The Internet Archive seems to be out of control in the hands of narcissistic egomaniacs like Jason Scott, who doesn't miss an opportunity to boast about his antisocial behavior. Just look at his Twitter feed of the past few days: snaps a photo while driving by a bloody car accident, returns from a wedding overseas and takes a photo of the no-photography sign at the customs office...

This is piracy plain and simple, on both the copyright and the trademark front, on a massive scale. Shame on the Internet Archive for doing what any script kiddie could do from their bedroom (i.e. put an existing TOSEC dump online). With their resources, they should have found a legal way of doing it! We need changes to the law to protect and make accessible true abandonware, not irresponsible actions like these, which are hurting future chances of the Internet Archive and others to foster such changes, and benefit from them.

Shame on you!
Not so interesting because they compare food (with highly variable cost and reason for consumption) to fuel. Going by the cheapest calories available, the way you would to fill your car with the most economical gasoline, walking is cheaper. (source is the article)
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It's also interesting to consider this calculation from a carbon emission perspective. From Climate impacts of biking vs. driving :

http://www.keith.seas.harvard.edu/blog/climate-impacts-of-bi...

If you eat a lot of meat and bike, you could potentially have a bigger carbon footprint than a very fuel efficient vehicle.
Why was the DAO as executed not what they signed up for?

The DAO executed was code. The language used to describe it is immaterial. It's code. To understand what code does, you read the code. Reading just the comments doesn't cut it.

The moral question isn't even interesting. It's irrelevant. We have exactly the same issue with existing legal contracts: if I tell you a contract is one thing, but it actually says something else, and you sign it, then you must perform the contract. It's your responsibility to read the actual contract before signing, not just listen to my description.

The only difference here is that the contract is in code not legalese. There's no moral case to answer. If you can't or won't read the contract then don't f*ing sign it!
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But this solution seems to require complicated active elements such as VCOs. Can these run at the frequencies that are of interest in this particular application?
From the article:

"Haggle over precise wordings of communications, minutes, resolutions."

Are you a secret CIA saboteur?
Chicago has one of the craziest histories of any city in the last 150 years that I can think of.
His cell phone. He buys data 5 euro at a time from a shop in the town or goes to cafes to download English and engineering textbooks. That's what my wife's thesis project is about - specifically figuring out the best ways to share useful information with refugees who have cell phones but not much else, especially women who might not have a chance to go out in public much, or have a formal education. It's not my field at all but I find her work to be fascinating.

If you're interested, This American Life just did two whole episodes from a Greek refugee camp. In the second episode they interview a guy who patched into a power line under a tree to charge 6 cell phones at once! The group that both TAL and my wife were talking to is really doing good work, they're called the Greek Forum of Refugees.

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/592/a...
... assuming the biking does not displace other exercise.
The data also ignores the fact that walking leads to a healthier lifestyle which means living longer, which is more costly than not living longer.
This should not really be very surprising as walking is not very efficient. You should be comparing driving to cycling, as both are wheeled forms of transportation. Cycling is up to 5x more efficient than walking (https://www.exploratorium.edu/cycling/humanpower1.html)

So, if you compare driving to cycling, cycling wins hands down. And, this is with the artificially low cost of fossil fuels. If fossil fuels properly factored in all the environmental damage, cycling's efficiency advantage would be even higher.
Except your food expenditures are a sunk cost, and you can't replace them with fuel expenditures.

This is literally comparing apples and gasoline.
> Then you can't do over the wire updates,

Which, of course, is the whole point. If ROMs do cost more, I bet people who want secure systems would be quite willing to pay a bit extra.

It would be too expensive to put an OS in ROM, but the ROMs could contain the hashes of the OS on disk, and can verify the disk image before booting.

And besides, why would I want over-the-air updates to my freakin' thermostat?
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How about the cost of manufacturing a car, which has a cost in fuel? Also, most of the cost of food is labor for its preparation. You're paying for a lot more than just calories. Food is not made to be energy dense like gasoline, it's made to be tasty and nutritious.
Interesting thought. So going to the gym is literally burning your money. Will quit in the morning. Thanks
The math on walking, at least, seems little off: 210 calories per hour divided by 2.5 miles per hour is 84 calories per mile, which is about 23.5¢ per mile.

Also the cost of driving should really use the average fleet fuel economy of a country together with the fuel price in that country. That works out to a hair under 10¢ per mile for 2014 fuel economy and today's gas prices.

The takeaways remain the same, though: Human-powered transportation isn't especially efficient (unless you're burning calories you would have eaten anyway), and driving is subsidized up the wazoo in the US.
What's not the same thing?

Plenty of such tribes exist and have existed without centralized industrial infrastructure.
That's what I hoped this article was about when I saw the headline. I was disappointed it was only about the $ cost of food and not the externalities.

Thanks for sharing. It's interesting to see though that a biking paleo dieter is still 2x as efficient from a passenger-mile standpoint as a roughly average 25 mpg vehicle, and the average US diet is still better than a double occupancy Prius.
The DNS-Query or IP could be used to identify somebody accessing fast.com.
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In the late 1800's knot theory was quite popular with physicists. Now there is the much bigger string theory:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/02/160210170411.h...

On a lighter note I could use some knot theory to explain why earphone or computer cables always seem to tie themselves up, despite my best efforts to keep them apart.
From the link: "Eat 1/4 cup of the same kind of plant part prepared the same way."

My father spent the last ten years of his career as an ethnobotanist (having previously been a government archaeologist) and his advice was increase the amount by doubling it with each subsequent test. Going from one piece of a leaf to 1/4 cup is a little bit too much of a leap, IMHO.
Static files in Go
I've never heard of netsukuku until now, but from a quick glance, they are very similar except that cjdns has a much higher usage in the wild and doesnt have an answer to dns.
Oh, burritos can easily get into the 2000+ kcal range. Burritos from Chipotle get well into the 1000–2000 kcal range without even trying.
Welcome to "modern" Linux where PAM is everything.

PAM is why systemd has its own SU replacement, because their Logind PAM module was mangling environment variables when SU was used.
For the local part, we only accept an RFC5322 dot-atom. However, for practical purposes,
we further limit {atext} to alphanumeric characters, hyphens, underscores and plus signs.
The rationale here being to keep it simple for the software we are validating for (it must
deal with whatever we allow to pass).

ugh The dot-atom production in the RFC 5322 grammar is only for _unquoted_ tokens. There's nothing preventing an e-mail address from, e.g., having two adjacent dot characters in the local-part. Ignoring the fact that in 2016 we shouldn't be limiting local-part components to ASCII, adding more needless constraints is even worse.

RFC 5322 DOES NOT define the syntax of an e-mail address. It defines the syntax of embedding e-mail addresses in To:, Cc:, and similar headers. That's a critical distinction.

If you're using RFC 5322 as your guide, you _must_ handle text quoting correctly. Otherwise the dot-atom restriction is completely and utterly arbitrary. It's being chosen for basically no defensible reason; just to give an air of credibility to a really bad approach to implementing networking software.

FWIW, no finite state machine can parse RFC 5322 constructs correctly because of the way that comments can nest.

If you want to write a parser for mailbox addresses in MIME headers, just follow the algorithm DJB very helpfully explains at http://cr.yp.to/immhf/token.html. It's much more correct; it harms interoperability less (if at all); and it's a great way to learn how to implement recursive grammars.

That said, finite state machines are very powerful. One could do much worse than learn a tool like Ragel. Its syntax supports both regular expressions _and_ state charts. The machines it produces are blazingly fast. And unlike almost any other tool, it supports restartable parsing so you can parse data off-the-wire without having to buffer all of it or even any of it. Most network protocols are line-based or TLV-based precisely because the tooling sucks for implementing restartable parsers. But Ragel is great even when you're afforded that convenience.
More and more i see why Slackware has yet to adopt PAM support.
I wonder whether they will get a better deal through a sale like this than simply selling them on an exchange (or exchanges). Do they sell on an exchange when they need to dispose of other assets that have exchanges for trading?
Another data point: a light electric vehicle (ebike, boosted board, etc.) is about 1-2¢ per mile (~100-200 Watt-hours per mile at 10¢ per kilowatt-hour).
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> If they make that chip I have no doubt that it will revolutionize the entire field.

Ha, ha. Yeah… no. For one thing, there's no mention of its power consumption, no CUDA support, questionable memory design (sure, you can get a million TFlops without cache, now try to get that chip to do anything useful), etc.

Intel probably bought 'em to work on integrated GPUs or Xeon Phi or something.
Not exactly. If you were on a maintenance diet and started biking to work, but didn't replace those calories, you'd eventually waste away.

Your body's signals for how hungry you are will not exactly, but still fairly closely, match the calories you burn picking up your new biking habit.
Another way is to have a jumper that is required to enable the write cycle to the flash ROMs. That enables the manufacturer to update the ROMs before shipping, then remove the jumper.

Anyone trying to compromise the device would then require physical access.
While they're welcome to improve their odds in our imperfect-information game, we should also be allowed to play in our interest by disallowing them information.

This is not about the total gain of both sides: Almost every transaction is positive sum. However; why should I simply accept the 90/10 distribution of the excess in their favor when I can aim for a favorable distribution for myself too?
> Because I am assuming some level of tech expertise. This is anathema to prosecutors and sometimes even to defense.

[citation needed]

Having done some study of voir dire and what people get excluded for back when I was in college, having gotten far enough in law school before deciding it wasn't what I wanted to do to have taken a trial advocacy class, and having actually not been excused, as a tech professional, the only time I've been in a jury group that wasn't excused as a group prior to voir dire, I've seen no evidence that this is the case.

> First, tech people often have a much larger store of baseline knowledge than common people.

Honestly, I don't think anyone except a certain self-important subset of "tech people" thinks that "tech people" have a larger store of knowledge than is common among professionals with similar educational requirements (and technology actually isn't all that high in educational requirements for a white-collar profession.)

> Neither lawyer wants this as you are bringing your own knowledge of what is "true" into the jury and the lawyers can't override this.

Lawyers don't want you substituting outside prejudice for the evidence presented and influencing others in the jury to do so. Neither do judges. Because, you know, this is juror misconduct.

> Second, tech people often understand statistics and error.

Leaving aside that I think there is little evidence that this is a basis for exclusion -- some "tech people" do, though IME (outside of practitioners in the sub-disciplines of technology most concerned with statistics and error, such as machine learning) not much more than lots of other professions that no one would suggest are systematically excluded from jury pools.

> Third, tech people often have very negative experiences with peer pressure and this often translates to resistance against it.

I don't think there is any evidence that "tech people" are, as a group, less susceptible to peer pressure than anyone else. And, again, resistance to peer pressure is probably not in general a negative trait in jury selection. Logically, it would just reinforce whatever positive or negative factors existed elsewhere, since it just means they are less likely to get negated under pressure from other jurors.

> I have never served on a jury in all the time I have been called. I once watched the defense and prosecution play chicken over who was going to burn their strike to get rid of me.

I can see several indications of possible reasons for that in the attitudes you present in your post (starting with the fact that you clearly and proudly stereotype people by profession) that don't relate to either greater knowledge of anything or any of the other factors you point to.
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Yes, and one should also account for the reduced tax burden of dying younger.
I think the math should also include cost of auto infrastructure, vehicle deprecation, and the reduced health care costs if you walk.
Weird. Why not sell them in much, much smaller increments? You stand a way better chance of getting full market value if you don't enforce the artificial liquidity constraint of "only buyers who want a zillion bitcoins right now". Or just legitimately sell them on an exchange. Is there a reason the gov't would be obligated to go about it inefficiently?
He was in a position where he was not really a part of the system. Pixar had its own production and a distribution deal with Disney (at the time). They weren't client-oriented service machine like others. No thin margins for that whale. He could've made an impact, a change in the system other companies were challenged with. Exploitation by studios, which ultimately brought down many VFX houses down and shaked a lot of people's lives. What he did was align with what VFX houses did, where he didn't had to because he was not in the same business as them at all. Lazy approach at best, evil at worst. I still respect all his work he has done though. There is no doubt in that.