skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The entire purpose of playpen was child pornography.

I understand your point and I accept your observation that "mass surveillance" may not be the right definition of what happened in the Playpen case.

However, I invite you to consider the following: once (and if) there is a legal precedent where law enforcement agencies are allowed to hack the users of a given website, that legal precedent will be relevant in future cases, related to other websites that are not Playpen. Today it's Playpen, tomorrow it might be a community of activists. By then, I think you will agree with me, it will be much easier to consider that proper mass surveillance. And if you were one of those activists mentioned in my example above, good luck building your defence on the fact that "this provision can't be applied to me, because it was intended for child pornography websites".

This type of process has already happened in recent history, e.g. with "security" laws that were passed after 9/11. Those laws, in several ways, limit everyone's liberties, not just those of terrorists[1][2].

Of course those provisions seemed like a damn good idea soon after 9/11. Now, not so much. Erosion of freedom, just like natural erosion, has a way of progressing very slowly but steadily.

[1] http://www.economist.com/node/1301751

[2] http://www.economist.com/node/9833041
All else aside, none of that suggests that local food production would be a noble goal for anyone outside your area.
.... For one hour. Your units do not check out.
He just needs to hit the ball ~ 3000 times. Imagine that exploding in your face.
Not even remotely, especially if you zoom out from the Valley Bubble.
Minor nitpick, but it's "gnuplot" (a pun on the Newplot), the program is not affiliated with GNU in any way. It's not even licensed under the GPL.
So disappointing... I'm wondering if they did it intentionally to make room for an upgrade(i.e like the TV industry did with 8K)
The new numbers Intel is claiming, can be met by floating gate transistors that are randomly accessible (versus those arranged in bit lines and word lines like in NAND). Especially for a single level cell. No need for another materials science/physics like "x point", unless"x point" actually is just a PR spin without any new physics.
Doctors stand by as babies perish because they're concerned about their nation's WHO rankings? Citation needed.
One thing to consider is that some provisions (and overall clarity) protect users of your code. The best example is including patent grants in the license terms (like those in Apache v2 and GPLv3) that may not be covered in that one liner.

There's also provisions (or implications thereof) that can protect the community around your project, like how the Apache license includes a clause that specifies that contributions back to the project are assumed to be under the Apache license by default.
Sounds like you are doing a good and important job. Personally I would like to get myself into projects, both to help open source and learn more.

What project is this and how does one start helping?
Gnuplot is one of the reasons that makes me love the open source/Unix world every time I use it. Writing a plot in code, embedding it in LaTeX... all while having the fingers on the keyboard. You get connected to your machine like that.
Those graphs are very misleading. They rank countries from the first (left) to the last (right) for each indicator. Some indicators are such that left is better (hygiene), other are left is worse (war fatalities).

That 100 means that Germany is the 100th on war fatalities. But not! To add confusion to confusion, the number is the position of the USA on the scale. So it's the USA to be at position 100. Germany appears to be in the upper 90s.

Edit: they mislead me too. Check mnc's reply.
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it's an interesting idea. but it still has data caps, overage charges, locks you in a 2 year contract and sits on top of verizons' cdma. the company is also apparently a traditionally structured hierarchical autocratic corporation.

with regard to that, all the carriers have a benevolence wing (https://twitter.com/verizongiving for instance). So I guess cynically one can say this is just traditional capitalism with a different foot forward for a different demographic ... There's a very real ngo-industrial complex and they seem to highlight that that's where the money goes.

The SPLC for instance, has many members who make $100s of k a year in legal fees on behalf of the SPLC on top of their $300k salaries. They were also sitting on over $200 million of unused cash and made it an endowment that they invested in the market with ... these people involved in these charities have taken the donations of their members to propel themselves into the 1%. Splendid.
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that reminds me of randomRambo's story. On stream he was searching for a file on his computer, and a file with a name containing CP. Long story short, police was called, "he molests his kid on stream" (totally untrue), police came, arrested him on stream. took more than half a year for him to get declared innocent.

here is him talking about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzdFOpRTvyU
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I am happy for you spf13, congratulations! And thanks again for software you wrote, like hugo!
Who is "born" is defined different depending on which country. E.g., most European countries will not count premature babies if they don't make certain weight or other metrics and no attempt to intervene, so this sets up some really perverse incentives. These can make up more than 3 out of every 4 premature births so it can significantly tilt the stats:

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/276952/infant-mortalit...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infant_mortality
Thomas Sowell books which stay within the boundaries of economics are all excellent and very readable. I also recommend Applied Economics - which is more practical than Basic Economics.

A funny and probably relevant piece from Joel Spolsky:

"Super quick review if you haven't taken any economics courses: econ is one of those fields that starts off with a bang, with many useful theories and facts that make sense, can be proven in the field, etc., and then it's all downhill from there. The useful bang at the beginning is microeconomics, which is the foundation for literally every theory in business that matters. After that things start to deteriorate: you get into Macroeconomics (feel free to skip this if you want) with its interesting theories about things like the relationship of interest rates to unemployment which, er, seem to be disproven more often than they are proven, and after that it just gets worse and worse and a lot of econ majors switch out to Physics, which gets them better Wall Street jobs, anyway. But make sure you take Microeconomics, because you have to know about supply and demand, you have to know about competitive advantage, and you have to understand NPVs and discounting and marginal utility before you'll have any idea why business works the way it does."

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/CollegeAdvice.html
Hang on, just to clarify: if someone else puts a file on my PC without my knowledge, without me ever having seen or opened it, he could call the police on me, and it would get me convicted?
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In 2012 there were reports that 80% of traffic from Facebook Ads were automatic bots. So this is not the first time Facebook use tricks to get more money from clients.
The first of the numbers (rate of mothers dying) would not be affected at all by what you mention, and the second (rate of children under age of 5 dying), while affected by infant mortality (number of deaths of infants under 1 year old), is a much wider metric, so the effect is also relatively small.

Either way, I'd be interested in seeing some sources for those claims, as it's the first I've heard of it happening, at least in the developed world. And I mean it sincerely, since it's a topic of interest to me.
Great relative to others, not perfect.
> However, the method of calculating IMR often varies widely between countries, and is based on how they define a live birth and how many premature infants are born in the country.

> Many countries, however, including certain European states (e.g. France) and Japan, only count as live births cases where an infant breathes at birth, which makes their reported IMR numbers somewhat lower

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infant_mortality#Differences_i...

edit: other response is admittedly a lot better
Although there is a lot of local variation, after all America is the third most highly populated country in the world, I would broadly agree with this picture.
There should be a website for crummy wages...

I wouldn't mind exchanging some money for a remote job with more (then usual) freedom and a humane team/owner.
Then you compare with the amount of energy in a liter of petrol (~10kW/h). And you realise how we're living literally awash in crazy amounts of energy, equivalent to having all hundreds of slaves working for us 24h a day.
Water can be 0-100 C, both temperatures included. No need for melting/turning to steam. You could start with 10 L of 0 C ice, but he said water.
Any modern advertiser knows their ROI from different channels. As a big FB spender, this doesn't effect us at all.
I still don't get it. Why not just absorb it? Serving static HTML and related data is fast. A single rack in a datacenter could easily serve this with out breaking a sweat.

Sure, this costs Akamai money they don't want to spend, but is such an attack noteworthy? Eh.
I can talk for France. I used to work in a lab depending from the CNRS and arriving there I learned about the French version of the GPL, BSD and LGPL, the CeCILL familly (CeCILL-A, -B or -C respectively) ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CeCILL )

They claim compatibility with GPL, BSD and LGPL and also that CeCILL was necessary for valid open source licenses in France. That made me raise eyebrows on many levels:

- Does it mean the GPL/BSD/LGPL is unenforceable in France?

- Does it mean the CeCILL is unenforceable in other countries?

- The CeCILL allows to relicense a work under a future revision of the license. I know some GPL projects do that, I personally am extremely suspicious of this possibility.

I raised these points but never got good answers from law specialists. The guys I could reach were specialized in "intellectual property valorization" and actually did not know anything about open source. They also made me realize in the french version of the law, the notion that copyright protects a source code is extremely disputable:

In France you can't patent or copyright an idea, and numbers and mathematical formulas are recognized as ideas. It is accepted that a computer algorithm is equivalent to a mathematical formula. Ergo, in a source code, you can't protect an algorithm but an implementation. That is, as I understood when pushing a bit more, variable names and whitespace structure are the only copyrightable things in a program.

My understanding is that an obfuscater or a code formatter would likely remove any copyright claim from a source code when it comes to french laws.

I wish we had an actually active Pirate Party or EFF to try push the limits over that nonsense.
the point is that it's not a useful indicator for stopping random people.

"Oh, to catch the thief we are going to stop 100000 people" sounds absurd, after all.

Of course you can use the clue to exclude a bunch of people, but were you going to go around arresting random people on the street without this? Of course not, so why do it after.
Hands up - who'd rather be in Iceland than the US?
In the UK, possession of Child Porn is a strict liability offence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strict_liability_(criminal)
Yahoo is still big in Asia. The US is just a 300 mil people market. There are giant internet companies that US consumers never heard about.
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Might be wrong but I thought Quake's software renderer does proper perspective texture mapping? (Original Half-Life is based on Quake)
> took more than half a year for him to get declared innocent.

Even if declared innocent, being charged on suspicion of possession of such porn is a life-long stigma that never wears off. For example, it will be impossible for a foreign citizen to obtain a US 'ESTA' visa waiver after such suspicions.
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Why people only rip on Americans for being patriotic? Nobody rips on the French when they say they have the best {food, fashion, history, literature, country, *}. Everybody seems fine with European snobbery in all its variants: French, Italian, and even English snobbery is accepted, but not quite as much as the others it seems.
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The graphics are completely messed up in my opinion, I was trying to make sense of them exactly because of that (Germany having the worst place in "Fatalities per 100k pop." in War? Saudi Arabia drinking like crazy?) and I have a background in Statistics...
There's nothing a captain can do about a bankrupt company. There is definitely a lot a captain can do about a ship that they've been given exclusive control over. That's part of being a captain: your sole responsibility is to get the ship where it's supposed to go without running into things or sinking or injuring the crew.
> If the attacker has more bandwidth than you (and how much bandwidth you have depends on "to where" ) - it's over.

Is there no way to stop such attacks by coordinating with your upstream ISP, or with the sources of the traffic? Why do backbones allow it to be carried? Is the problem that these attacks are too many different individual streams to identify and filter?

It seems like there ought to be some way to hierarchically punt the problem to network operators. "Your network is contributing 10 gigabytes per second to this DDOS attack. Identify the sources and shut them down." - times each identifiable traffic stream.

Is there no way to capture a list of all IPs involved in the traffic and quickly distribute a "shut off this device" request to the origin network? Maybe a good-faith collaboration of different ISPs could result in quick shut-downs. Or if networks don't cooperate, then the next-nearest border does it for them (and if they don't like the policies under which their neighbor suspends the traffic, they can sign up to do it themselves). Imagine something like a mini automated DMCA type request. "This IP is DDOSing me", signed by the operator of a reputable network, having the effect of suppressing origin traffic from the IP when received by a reputable network. (Any abuse of the mechanism causes the network to lose its privilege to participate, and DMCA requests related to that network fall upon its neighbors.) Perhaps the suppression would be destination-limited so as not to be vulnerable to too much abuse of the mechanism.
Elm uses a similar style, with semicolons and commas at The beginning.

The problem I have with it is that prevents easy reordering of lines, in lists or records, because they first one always starts with a curly brace.
Oh yeah, those were the days where we plotted graphs for our bachelor thesis where we were showing how many messages and clients our generic game server written in Erlang and the V8 js-engine could handle: https://jeena.net/t/GGS.pdf page 40 pp
No, it's not. BRF has two components: Generic information about the frequency of events and specific information about the case in question. The item in question doesn't contain these. The item in question is a much simpler point.
Could Verizon be buying every share under a given price, to cheapen the deal? Would this be allowed at this point in the negotiation?
Have any empirical evidence? (I'm questioning the veracity of your observation).
Living in France as a good Java dev, LinkedIn sends me few spam, while it is very relevant to get contacted by recruiters whenever I update my resume. I've found my last 2 gigs in my last 3 years (yeah I'm a software editor who only contracts whenever my income gets low) through LinkedIn. Of course, this doesn't understate LinkedIn's other face which is made of dark patterns, probably-illegal data hunting, massive spamming problems and doubtful security.
It's perfectly fine to use the metric in question if its definition is clear. However, the definition was apparently not clear and Facebook therefore misled advertisers. Metrics are at the core of Facebook's business. If they don't get this right, that's fairly embarrassing, and raises a lot of questions about their other metrics. Perhaps this was not outright fraud but even if it was mere incompetence that's bad enough.
It sounds like you mostly tried to compare the food in Japan with the food you have at home (obviously as you need a frame of reference), but I think the food the Japanese excel at really just doesn't have an equivalent in Romanian cuisine, so it's hard to compare.

Bread just isn't eaten that much in Japan, so obviously it's not as good as in Romania (which is once again far behind bread from Germany or France). Cheese is another product that just isn't quite as popular in Japan (in most of Asia for that matter, which is probably due to an overall much higher percentage of people with lactose intolerance) and doesn't have the same history and cultural significance cheese and other milk products have in Europe.

The sushi you get in Japan (and many other fish dishes for that matter) is far and beyond anything you could find in Romania for comparison, which is once again because fish just hasn't played the same important role in the history of Romanian food.

Yakitori is maybe something you can compare, because you find a lot of grilled goods at corner bistros in Romania as well and usually the quality in Japan is far beyond what you can get in Romania.

Ultimately what I'm getting at is that most countries probably excel at some foods and not at others. The further they are apart geographically and culturally the harder it gets to compare them I think.
Interesting. What ML algos are used to classify packets against DDoS?
I'd say its is more of an institutional bias again costs and perception that drive policies that prevent intervention when babies are born too young or too underweight. That's how the you get the horror stories of "my baby was born X days too early/Y pounds too underweight and they refused to do anything."
I was born over eight weeks premature, in 1989, in South Africa.

I got lucky, sure. But "any other country" letting premature babies die without intervention is perhaps too broad a claim.
YC encourages founders to be concise and get to the point, so if they wanted to say "we are pretty US-centric but you still have a chance", they could have and should have just said in plain language.

> They provide numbers, they assume the reader is intelligent and hope they will learn new things and unlearn wrong assumptions.

This exactly is the issue people here are intelligent and that is why they can see the glaring gaps in the way the data is presented.

I think people are little pissed because the article chose to go the data route and dint provide the complete information for people to infer from.
I think @gravypod actually meant parallel connection, it might be quite dangerous in fact - you don't even need to draw anything from the battery to mess things up. If you connect a 100 cells in parallel and one cell dies creating a short in the circuit, the rest of cells will discharge through the shorted one. When you short a single 18650 cell, it outputs about 6-7 A of current on average. Multiplying by 100 gives you 600-700 A of current flowing through a single cell. That's why people use fuses to create parallel modules.
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Not that I regret having a family, but I miss the time when I could just focus on myself like that.
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If you're interested in truth you should always be skeptical about everything.

But I think it needs stressing that being skeptical is not the same as being dismissive or ridiculing or having a hostile attitude towards things.

I think that the reason people tend to reject new ideas tends to be more on emotional terms rather than for truly skeptical reasons.
Agreed. However this is something that most of the world (aside from Mexico, Central, and South America) collude in. I try to say "the US" in conversations with my European friends, but they will always just say "America" in response. And of course, there is no English equivalent to Estadounidense.
It's a shame they had to funnel the apostrophe budget to the military, though.
It's the intersection of dramatic potential effects on society with skills that HN readers have and understand.

A sibling comment pointed out the loss of life issue. I recall (correctly, I hope) Sebastian Thrun mentioning that a traffic accident was part of his initial motivation. Reducing loss of life due to human folly is a strong motivator, but there are certainly ample opportunities for that beyond just this one.

Self-driving cars have widespread potential effects across society, from shipping to taxis to car ownership to the human angle in hours saved and lives saved. This is big. Think of all the lives lost and hours wasted in traffic in the US every year. (No functional public transit in most of the country, etc.)

It's an area where the challenges are largely technical--once the technology is safer than human drivers, we assume the regulatory issues will go away quickly. (And we probably underestimate the technical issues in getting there.)

The huge potential combined with massive and primarily technical challenges makes this probably the biggest thing since the Internet where a bunch of engineers feel like we can change society in a profound way with a bit of software.

It's partly because the tech is actually so new that we can project our expectations onto it rather than focusing on what is actually here today (which is impressive but far from the goal). Weigh this potential against the reality of what most of us actually work on today, and you may see the appeal.

Of course, reality will take time to catch up to the dream, but it's the dream that generates the excitement.
I am disappointed by FB.
Next we'll learn that they do tax evasion.
Because people have faith in other people not being complete dullards.
Ubuntu is starting to look really good under windows 10...

Who would have thought this can happen 5 years ago?
Data, or it didn't happen.
> Everybody seems fine with European snobbery

That's simply not true. The French, for example, are often seen as arrogant by other Europeans. Also, sometimes their view of being "la grande nation" is ridiculed. Generally, the more snobbish someone behaves, the easier it is to make fun of that.
Got a source for that? Thanks
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-c resumes download where left off, the rate limiting can be used to match the speed of your connection or intermediaries reducing stalls, drops and angry network users. I would often keep a list of URLs in `download-queue.txt` and use the above flags with -i to load the list of urls, letting it run overnight at some much lower speed.
Slightly off topic - I used to participate in several PSP homebrew programming contests too, have you by chance participated in QJ.net or NeoFlash competitions in years 2006-2009? I'm asking because it would be cool to find someone else who took part :D My entries were: PSPSnake, Shoot4Fun, Mandelbrot Fractal Generator, and BlowUp! in the final year.
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