skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately, it doesn't work for me behind a proxy (tried with three different browsers). I thought I'd just check it out (https://fast.com - trying http redirects to https anyway), but it says:

"Could not reach our servers to perform the test. You may not be connected to the internet"

P.S.: It also bugs me that it says "the internet" and not "the Internet". :)
Odd, are you in a destination for Ethiopian immigrants? I would have expected something more like the single restaurant serving the entire Napa valley. Most people don't even know Ethiopia has a cuisine, much less seek it out.
Yes :)

https://twofactorauth.org
While it sucks the original work was erased to be overwritten by prayers, I wonder if the book only survived this long on account of being an heirloom prayer book rather than a dusty old math tome.
Ahhh! Thank you! That was my problem as well. I didn't even know NoScript was doing that. >:-(
And yet when it comes to browser compatibility, it's encouraged, nigh necessary, to test for capabilities rather than check version strings and assume that the version string is saying something meaningful about the environment.

"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2228.0 Safari/537.36", indeed.
I tried the calculator at

https://chipotle.com/nutrition-calculator

and added the highest-calorie individual meat (steak), rice (white rice), beans (black beans), salsa (chili-corn), sour cream, cheese, and guacamole, and still got only 1365 kcal.

While adding every single topping does reach 2425 kcal, one would have to order 4 kinds of meat, tofu, 2 kinds of rice, 2 kinds of beans, fajitas, 4 kinds of salsa, sour cream, cheese, guacamole, and lettuce. I would think that should count as "trying"! :-)
Interesting set of articles on the sewage system of SF. I do like tree-lined streets, especially on the wide streets typical of the US, but I left them out from my original list because they can easily live in the strip between the street and sidewalk (or in the sidewalk, if you don't need a strip).
I am confused: they talk about terrorists & critically etc. And they have only 1 site holding their entire system with no backup ? A couple of fibers to cut and those baddies cripple your airline ?

I am pretty sure they would be in a better situation by being hosted, redundant and secure at a cloud provider...

Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.
Elon Musk Announces ‘Solar Roof’ Product
Or you could buy a decent phone from a decent company.
They don't need to, they just need access to profiling data from (latest?) run (could be test run, benchmark run, staging run etc).
Mapr: Technology Integration: Not Just for Your Smartphones
I would love to see your math for this.
How could such a list possibly stay current short of having a web crawler and natural language processor? Or did you not mean an exhaustive list of all websites?
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Assuming you paid with a credit card, a simple charge-back (dispute) would've gotten you the $15 back. Credit cards - especially Amex/Discover/Visa Signature - are really good about refunding in cases like these.
You don't mention platform.

On Win I use HxD (http://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/), which is freeware, but not open source. There's https://sourceforge.net/projects/frhed/ which is open source, but has a few silly annoyances for me.
This is horrible where will all the GS guys go now?
Despite the more upbeat spin, I think the message from Arkani-Hamed is much the same as from Sabine Hossenfelder's "nightmare" post (discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12238197).

Both of them are saying its time to question pre-conceived notions of how to extend the Standard model. And I think both of them are excited about it.

Rightly so. People are unhappy about the Standard Model because it is insufficiently simple and symmetrical. But 20 orders of magnitude lie between our experiments and the Planck scale, there's probably six levels of symmetry-braking, mess-making emergence between us and the real fundamentals.
That is false. A single person making $160k/year and living in northern VA would receive $9k/mo in after-tax income.
> More than 250 people have moved from Google and related firms to the federal government or vice versa since President Barack Obama took office.

Google has over 30,000 employees in Mountain View alone, and that's just a portion of its workforce. The term "Obama administration" in the headline is somewhat misleading considering that the above quote says it's surveyed from "the federal government," which is a huge workforce regardless of where you draw the boundaries.

Statistically, is it really that anomalous that ~250 people flowed between the two in 8 years?
Can someone explain the key differences between this and say gollum, which doesn't need postgres installed just to serve rendered markdown documents?
I've been there. The problem with being a good programmer is that you quickly exhaust the low hanging fruit of interesting things to work on in your career. Remember that time when you knew next to nothing and everything you did was interesting, because it was novel. Those days are over, because you are now pretty good at doing what 95% of organizations need out of Software Engineers.

Don't panic.

Work is going to be a little bit boring for you for a while; learn how to cope with this for a bit. It is going to take longer for you to become an expert at something interesting and important than it took for you to get to where you are now. This may seem counterintuitive as you are quite a bit more aware of what you don't know than you than you were before you typed your first "hello world". That's okay. This is how knowledge works. All those abstractions you've built up in your brain for the the low-level things you didn't need to know at first are massive wells of knowledge that you only see the surface of.

So How do you get good at something? I truly believe you can only get good at something that you can sustain working on for a few years. I find, personally, that I can read one theory book or set of papers between bouts of working on something. That seems to be a good mix for me.

This isn't a race, this takes time. Once you start down the path of becoming an expert at something you'll realize it is the work of an entire lifetime. Enjoy the ride.
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Seems to be the case. Actually some pretty clever wording.
> I'm yet to find a remix of Kraid's Hideout from Metroid 1 that's anywhere near as good as the original.

Trying my luck:
https://soundcloud.com/ace17-1/industroid-r3
Rather than immediately assuming you know more than the people who implemented this, try to consider why someone who is theoretically smart would want to do this. Also consider that most organizations implement multiple layers of security, adding another layer of security can't hurt here.

> In a managed environment you could do it via the BIOS trivially, which is most likely locked as well.

The BIOS may still not be low-level enough. There is nothing preventing a buggy xhci controller, chipset, BIOS, etc, from being exploited by a rogue USB device. It would be prudent to disable USB in the BIOS AND physically disable the ports somehow.

> Pop-open the case the case, remove it, bend down the pins, or cut it and go about your business. Messing with stuff that takes 60 minutes to cure is ridiculous.

You do not need epoxy to fully cure, you only need it to reach a point where the viscosity is high enough that enough of it won't drain out of the USB port when you turn the computer on its side. This can easily be under 5 minutes, depending on the type of epoxy and you could even trivially avoid that wait time by putting a piece of tape over the epoxied port. It may also even be cheaper to implement, since you can pay someone minimum wage to fill ports with epoxy, but it takes a slightly higher skill level to do work inside of computer cases. Additionally, it's easier to visually verify that all USB ports are epoxied than it is to verify that all internal USB connectors have been disconnected. Additionally, consider that many motherboards have rear USB ports directly soldered onto the motherboard, which would take far more effort and skill to disconnect than it would to just fill the port with epoxy.

> It would take two minutes for a stoned teenager to pop-open the case and plug in his own USB connector into the header in this scenario. Less time for a determined attacker.

An attacker who has broken into the government building is not the person who this is intended to guard from. It is intended to guard from employees accidentally inserting compromised USB devices into their computers. If the attacker is opening your computer case, they have many more options than USB ports for delivering an exploit payload. Though it's also very likely that these cases are also physically locked and have case intrusion detection enabled. Not that those protections are particularly difficult to get around either. This may also even help IT avoid support phone calls from users saying "hey, how come my USB port doesn't work?" where epoxy in the ports shows some serious intent.

Additionally, in the case of a real attacker who has physically entered the building, and intends to deliver their payload by flash drive: formerly they could just waltz by some computer, pop a drive in, and walk away. Now they'd need to at the very least open the case, which at the very least makes it take slightly longer for them to deliver their payload, and is much more likely to draw suspicion.
I wonder if there has been a research that tried to incorporate Hangul (aka the best writing system on earth) to Japanese/CHinese lang...just for pragmatic reasons
Why do people assume that this stuff works like a tech job?

The kind of national and global operations coordination Delta does from their center in Atlanta is not a "oh, network's down, work from the coffee shop" kind of job.

Delta + regional affiliates operate nearly 8,000 flights per day on six continents through thirteen hubs, involving around 80,000 employees and ~820 mainline aircraft plus I don't even know how many smaller regional jets, plus codesharing on SkyTeam alliance partners and 13 other non-alliance-partner carriers.

Spec out an ops center capable of ingesting and organizing all the data on that, presenting it for human use, and then communicating instructions back out to all those people, planes, airports, maintenance bases, etc. And then ask yourself if that's something you just build a couple extra copies of (along with on-call staff to come in and pick up the whole thing at a moment's notice, since if the main one goes down it's not like you'll be flying the people to the backup locations).

The answer, of course, is that it's not something you build extras of. You build it once, and build it as reliable as you can, because building spares just is not feasible; the only people who maintain extras of this kind of infrastructure are governments who worry about getting into nuclear wars.
Yes, you should enable two-factor authentication for all your import accounts. My iCloud account was compromised two months ago, after that I turned on two-factor auth for all my important accounts.
The article mentions Flash content slows web page loading and is power inefficient. Flash also has an abysmal security record. Chrome 53 will start blocking certain kinds of Flash usage, and Chrome 55, in December 2016, will go further.

Great news!
Since Roslyn there is a compiler plugin that does something like that for .NET, I don't remember the name now.
The beauty of bitwise OR and AND
“Because they have to worry so much about safety and security, they are constrained in ways that other businesses aren’t,” he says. “Delta can’t just host its systems on Joe Blow’s cloud server somewhere else in the way that another business might be able to do.”

First, AWS, Azure and GCE are not just "Joe Blow's cloud server", they are multi-billion dollar companies, and they all can provide hosting environments compliant with a multitude of security programs including SOC 1, 2, 3, PCI DSS, HIPAA, etc.

If a hospital can store patient records on AWS, why can't Delta store my flight records there? If the government is worried that a public cloud leaves them open to terrorist attacks, then they can sponsor them to run on Gov Cloud for better isolation.

But more importantly, moving a complex high volume legacy system to "the cloud" is no panacea, whatever dependencies or lack of redundancy that caused this failure could cause the exact same failure mode in "the cloud" (plus it can open them to all new failure modes).
Meat-space is no guarantee of contract-performance. It replaces one set of risks with another.

There's risks of theft and mismanagement of funds in crowd-funding companies. Payment has risk - Paypal has frozen and seized many individual and project accounts, credit card companies are forbidden to let you donate to Wikileaks, etc. And hackers could still steal or burn some or all funds. And there's essentially no useful recourse here either. Sometimes the courts get revenge for us, but we're still usually out of pocket.

And a smart-contract with shares would offer a ton of features "for free". People could transfer ownership of their support (and the perk it represents), for example. And users could have total control of their promised funds until each phase comes due, via an escrow with an agent they trust.

As many people have noted, there was no need to pre-fund a crowd-funding site - it was just a novelty that people got silly with. A serious cloud-funding site could be a separate contract for each project. Without a single fat target and without any of the split-the-contract complexity.

This DAO bug-bounty is encouraging simple contracts more amenable to proof.
So he was kind of doing the opposite of what the author of this blog post is doing.

Guy who hates lawn looks down on guy who likes lawn, guy who likes lawn looks down on guy who hates lawn. It's all circular!
Not quite. Every Twitter and/or Facebook user potentially has a public message board here. The page is only created if someone accesses it. They don't have Facebook's user list. But if this becomes popular, they will, over time, acquire it by scraping.

Anyone remember Third Voice?
Your questions posit that you're offering a deal you know is bad because you yourself rigged it.

We have no reason to think that Slock.it took the currency, or intended to (unfairly) get any share of it. Their statements look stupid but honest.

A better question would involve: "... but without me knowing, the banks simultaneously crashed, devaluing our currency so the payout is worthless ..."
Or that you can maintain that IP address if it was directly assigned to you by IANA/RIPE. (And in some cases, even if it WAS assigned to you).

@[IP address] is a really bad idea.
some might do so to take advantage of PSLF
>A video is just a bunch of 1's and 0's, just like text data. A model of video data is not superior in any way to one of text data, they are just different.

Uhhhh... there's this thing called entropy. A corpus of video data is vastly higher in entropy content than text data, and probably a good deal more tightly correlated too, making it much easier to learn from.

Remember, for a human, the whole point of speech and text is to function as a robust, efficient code (in the information-theoretic sense) for activating generative models we already have in our heads when we acquire the words. This is why we have such a hard time with very abstract concepts like mathematical ones: the causal-role concepts (easy to theorize how to encode those as generative models) are difficult to acquire from nothing but the usage statistics of the words and symbols, in contrast to "concrete", sense-grounded concepts, which have large amounts of high-dimensional data to fuel the Blessing of Abstraction.

Nevermind, I should probably just get someone to let me into a PhD program so I can publish this stuff. If only they'd consider the first paper novel enough already!
So this is ask.fm with twitter login support.

opens ask.fm to make sure. realizes that they added twitter login

So this is an ask.fm clone?

realizes this sounds more negative than intended

What would make me prefer corkpage over ask.fm and other similar services?

In addition, why limit this to Facebook and Twitter handles, rather than accepting any URI?
Rear USB ports are not attached to the motherboard via trivially removable connectors.

It also really is not trivial to chip off most types of even general-purpose epoxy with your finger on a flat surface, let alone a tiny USB port which your finger doesn't fit in. If the epoxy was selected with some level of care, it may be very, very time consuming, or nearly impossible to remove, even with the right tools.

No matter what, it's a helpful measure in addition to every other way you can also disable a USB port.
I second this recommendation. "Particle Fever" piqued my curiosity, but watching this series blew my mind. As a non-religious person, the content of the series is about as close as to religion as I will ever find. And as a sports fan, I now have the same anticipation waiting for LHC findings that I do for big games.

Arkani-Hamed has a knack for making things understandable without "pop-sciencing" them, a flair for the dramatic to make them exciting, and a serious background to validate his understanding.

I'm sure he's not for everyone (I'm guessing that physicists that already know the subjects may find him annoying) but for me, the guy is amazing.
Extensive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12254680
A Visual History of Which Countries Have Dominated the Summer Olympics
So, what is stopping this to be the ultimate distributed social media platform?

I mean, I should be able to publish a relatively simple sqlite database that contains:

- my public posts

- my public encryption key

- list of my friends

- my private posts encrypted with the friends' public keys

Then I should seed at least my and my friends databases, so even if some of my friend is offline, his/hers database is still available.
:D AP and other publishers don't recommend capitalising 'internet' and 'web'.

"The changes reflect a growing trend toward lowercasing both words, which have become generic terms"

http://www.poynter.org/2016/ap-style-change-alert-dont-capit...
> We also have code for a hypertext server. You can use this to make files
available (like anonymous FTP but faster because it only uses one connection).
You can also hack it to take a hypertext address and generate a virtual
hypertext document from any other data you have - database, live data etc. It's
just a question of generating plain text or SGML (ugh! but standard) mark-up on
the fly. The browsers then parse it on the fly.

This was surprising to me. When people talk about the history of the web they make it seem like it was only intended for serving static documents, so reading Tim Berners-Lee talking about dynamic web pages in 1991 was unexpected.
I feel okay hearing about improving backups, may be some automation, etc, but "age" should not only imply these things. Age seems can often also imply "understood."
I think you mean redundancy. And yes videos are highly redundant. But I don't see how that's any kind of advantage. Text has all the relevant information contained within it, with a ton of irrelevant information discarded. But there are still plenty of learnable patterns. Even trivial algorithms like word2vec can glean a huge amount of semantic information (much easier than is possible with video, currently.)

I don't know if humans have generative models in their heads. There are people who have no ability to form mental images, and they function fine. Regardless, an AI should be able to get around that by learning our common patterns. It need not mimic our internal states, only our external behavior.
If you haven't heard "3 Feet High and Rising", you're really missing out. It's one of the best ever made. Was the first album I ever bought (on cassette!).
This is why core ISP POPs deploy routers in twin pairs. Each chassis has hotswap fans, n+1 power, dual redundant supervisors and hotswap line cards but is entirely possible for an entire chassis to go belly up.

A single router chassis is not redundancy at all.
Google Cloud has had at least two major outages just this year. April 11, 2016 [1], and Feb. 18-19, 2016 [2].

[1] http://www.serverpronto.com/spu/2016/05/google-cloud-outage-...
[2] http://www.informationweek.com/cloud/infrastructure-as-a-ser...
No it's actually true, and everyone knew from the context I meant commerce monopolies in capitalist economies, such as Microsoft, IBM (in the early days of computers you apparently could get fired for writing a P.O. for a non-IBM machine), etc. Not talking about utilities. I meant commerce monopolies in a competitive market place, a monopoly that develops with 'network effects', 'switching costs', etc.

Here's all it takes for a monopoly to fail:

(switching costs become low enough) + (current monopoly has become a pain/overpriced/etc.) = get thee down satan and the monopoly is gone.

Friendster, Myspace lost their market as we all know. SO WILL FACEBOOK. There is no 'secret sauce' there, just network effects, and minor switching costs of transferring/losing the data you've put on your FB account.

Switching costs for desktop operating systems are dropping incrementally for obvious reasons.

Lloyds of London has been around a long time but that doesn't mean they're a monopoly.
The earliest programming languages were the most creative. APL and Lisp are inspirational.
Is it possible to enforce two-factor authentication for all developers with merge rights on github?

Also is it possible to check if someone has 2-factor authentication?
I could give a shit about the hyperparameter tuning (CV... it Works For Me) but your writeup of Gaussian processes and why they are called kriging in spatial stats is awesome.

http://blog.sigopt.com/post/130275376068/sigopt-fundamentals...
I found it interesting too. I just don't understand why it's on this site. I'd expect it on Reddit maybe.
Right. But each device that uses ROMs is one less attack vulnerability.

After all, if attacks can target A, B, or C, that is no excuse to not fix B.
Desktop is dead!!! The '90's of the past century called and said they want the desktop back!

People don't want a clunky computer any more; except for computer people, I don't know anybody from general population who has one. I'm offended that we're even wasting time discussing desktop anything!
So, in the context of Hacker News, is it an analogy of how we tend to dive head first into new technologies which some times end up poisoning us? ;}
Windows 10 compatible USB WiFi Adapters
Oh, also, for students: https://sigopt.com/edu

I'm worried this is going to be like good Scotch for me.
It certainly didn't mean that this time.
> A final, and salient feature on the key distribution approach is that it allows only prospective eavesdropping -- that is, law enforcement must first target a particular user, and only then can they eavesdrop on her connections. There's no way to look backwards in time.

Actually, its even weaker of an attack than that. Signal (for example) stores a copy of the keys locally on the other person's device after a conversation has been initiated (and notifies users if they've changed). You could augment this with TUF or some other updating system to make additions of new devices (or removal of old ones) also secure. So really the distribution attack only works for first connection. And this is why PGP key signing parties are a thing (and why I ask for two forms of government ID before signing their keys).