skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 3. Spoof the IP address of a ton of high profile people - hopefully executives at he kinds of places the sue for this crap.

> 4. Download that copyrighted content with the spoofed IPs, and make sure it's "Monitored" by one of the companies that monitor this junk

How do you download using a spoofed IP address? Won't the three-way handshake to open a TCP connection with the server go awry because the server's SYN/ACK response to your SYN will go to the machine the really has the IP address you are spoofing? The server will then expect an ACK for that packet, and that ACK will have to give the sequence number that was in the server's SYN/ACK.

Since you won't have seen the server's SYN/ACK, you won't know the sequence number. If you can guess it, you could send a spoofed ACK to make the server happy, and the server should then start sending data packets. You'll have to send ACKs for them, but I suppose that could be done blindly.

So the question is, it seems, how do you guess the sequence number? It's 32 bits, and I believe most modern TCP implementations chose the initial sequence number for a connection, so blind guess seems a bit impractical.
Average annual cost of inmate is $30K, which is more than $2000 per month.
Criminals get "basic income" already today.

In K-12 education in Europe, lowest-performing students are given a lot of attention (with "special" classes etc), low-performing get the bulk, and little attention is generally given to high performers. The effort distribution is roughly normal, biased toward lower-end because of people with disabilities.

Goal seems to be to bring people to a reasonable average, but not above it.
Education effort seems logical (the bell curve). Inmate "subsidy" does not seem as logical - perhaps a more bell-shaped subsidy distribution would increase the average/mean and also reduce recidivism (if in context of criminal law).

A reasonable imementation of the current argument is to gradually "normalize" the subsidy distribution into bell shape, which will move the "target average" threshold higher along the way.

Generally "normalizing" subsidies along the range of any metric theoretically sounds right.
Sadly, given that value of any one person's life (and possible accomplishments) is not defined (=infinite) science cannot provide a solution. F.e. there is more benefit to aociety to help people with minor disabities, then with major ones, but people feel "inhuman" about supporting such statements and decisions this entails. This will become harder still when AI will need to choose allocation of effort to support/save lives.
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Indeed, I meant "elitist" - elitarian is the false friend of the German "elitär". And I absolutely agree - very often it is just their self-perception as being part of the elite, nothing based on true intellect or capabilities. Just pretty good at playing the game and knowing the symbols.
I don't see the problem, since you can jump to the other question, it means all new answers will only happen in one place. Sure it can be improved, but it's not something that bothers me in practice TBH
That's where AI comes in. Unless there's a human at the ready.
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The government is needed to enforce the laws. This does not mean the goverment needs to redistribute wealth, regulate business or manage the economy. A government which stuck to this role could be funded by tax rates of about 5-8%.

My ideal society would have said funds made by voluntary donations. This is a far-off ideal, but it is achievable - unless you think humans cannot form a society without coercion.
This is really where I think p2p things like torrents can be a big help. There are obvious drawbacks such as verifying your getting the original version, for example. But if we give up the idea that the creator's website should be the gateway to that information, we have the methods to work around ddos attacks.
> I do sometimes disagree with using keys though

That sounds interesting, could you elaborate on that?
Can you elaborate, what aside from bank accounts what else was part of the era of "Swiss privacy."
College students take to Wikipedia to rewrite the wrongs of Internet science
I think a callout the first couple of times is fine (still not my preference, but I think this is a cultural thing - the US style "how can I help you" in retail rubs me up the wrong way too).

But I think after that it'd be very much preferable to taper off - especially the sounds. As another commenter said, know your audience - your icon is obvious and descriptive, so we don't need to be told 20 times what it does.
In the 1800's, having children was a net asset because they were put to work as soon as they could walk. This is not so in today's society, where they are unemployable and do not contribute economically until 22 or 23.

Also, my grandparents came from families with 8 or more children, and many of them died as children. This was normal for those days.
>>Rich investors = good. Rich savers = bad.

Why do each of these tax schemes feel like the poor want a consolation, and they would accept a compromise deal wherein rich would be made poor, just in case they can't be made rich.

Never heard a single argument why some human beings getting ahead of others is wrong.

No matter how hard you try there is always some people who are richer, some who can draw better, some who can compose music better, some who win nobel prizes.

This whole idea that losers will happy if the winners are punished seems to be wrong to even begin with.
The decline of Stack Overflow
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12576124
Uber is researching a new vertical-takeoff ride offering that flies you around
The solution I'd like to see:

1) Put the site behind CloudFlare.

2) Wait for an attack...

3) Force all users to go through a capcha before accessing the site.

Note: The capcha setting can be enabled with 3 clicks in cloudflare UI and it takes 2-5 minutes to propagate. (Yes, I speak from experience)
Yeah, screw that. I wear some cheap blue blockers before bed. I look like Bono but it works :)
Neither Django nor Flask is asynchronous/event loop based. It would neither make sense nor improve performance to run a Django/Flask app on top of uvloop. If you want to develop a web API using uvloop, you should look at aiohttp (http://aiohttp.readthedocs.io/en/stable/).
The Lambda Architecture: An Overview and Primer
> The clan war problem is truly something mutual, but its something we might be able to surpass one day.

What gives you that assertion? We've been trying to surpass it for literally thousands of years.

> Neither of these are rational arguments. For all intents and purposes, scientific consensus is the basis of rational thought, and everything else is emotional response to rationality. It is that scientific process that separates us from the animalistic emotional squabbles.

But yet we still have these arguments, even though they're not rational.

Primarily, I don't think we've evolved much in the past couple thousand years. We are not much smarter than our ancestors. We might have improved nutrition, but fundamentally we're just cave dwellers that think scary things lurk in the dark, and make up excuses to justify our actions that are primarily instinctive.

For instance, a couple of extreme examples. Most people and all scientific evidence points to the fact that if you eat less and work out more, your life becomes exponentially better, and you tend to lose weight. There's a fringe movement that comes in with the idea that you can be healthy at every size (HAES) which goes against all science, just so you can feel good about being fat and unhealthy.

Also, WRT to your comments about population declining naturally, the Catholic Church is a huge bulwark against that. They're even against pulling out. Every time I see a commercial about how somebody had four children starve to death, I think to myself not "What an unfortunate person", but "Just stop having kids and slowly torturing them to death by hunger."

My main point is that we already have conclusions we want to reach, mostly caused by biological instincts, and we use our logical brains to justify the decisions to ourselves, so we can get to sleep at night. We're not really that much more elevated than animals, if elevated at all.
ISP explains data caps to FCC: Using the Internet is like eating Oreos
Pharo – combat complexity in software development
RSA requires two numbers which are big and random and prime. It is the primality that makes things tricky. Generating random primes is a lot harder than generating random numbers.

The other factor (no pun intended) that makes RSA keys large is that there are more efficient algorithms for factoring than there are for solving the elliptic curve discrete log problem, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_number_field_sieve If you crunch the numbers on this you will find that a 2000-bit RSA key has a security level of about 100 bits, i.e. it takes about 2^100 operations to factor a 2000-bit RSA key using GNFS.
Not bigger -- denser.
I remember someone saying that finance is about the future, accounting is about the past.
Very strange, I must have opened the wrong one. I thought I saw it? I wonder why the docs are wrong here, then...
I'd like to see an AI fix my plumbing. I'd say programming will be automated sooner than that is
I'd rather stick with the tried and tested "earn a living" model of human civilization.

How is a machine literally going to do these things? Is everyone going to buy a personal trainer robot? Is everyone going to install a home dermatology kit? I can't see it.
> Using the word "average" to refer to the median is bad writing

It can be, but not necessarily. Otherwise, you'd have to say that the average Joe has 1.9 legs. Median or mode are much more natural in that context.

Other than that, not trying to make any particular point, of course you're right that using the arithmetic mean is a lousy practice for many kinds of data.
This thread is a great example of why not to publicize your revenue or internal systems.

At best, you'll get hate and resentment. At worst, you'll get hate, resentment, and a new competitor.
As the developer who also manages the servers we deploy on, and not a full time PgDBA, things like multi-master replication scare the hell out of me. They really make me worry about what happens after downtime. And latency.

Could anyone here recommend good reading material for scaling out your first database on to multiple servers? How do I know which scheme is the best for me?
The Game Boy wouldn't run a game unless the cart sent it the Nintendo loading screen - a clever legal ploy that meant unofficial games were breaking copyright laws simply by replicating the logo.

Diabolical! I wonder if Nintendo ever used this one in the courts.
There's also Cheat Engine for PC games, which is basically a debugger streamlined for finding memory related to cheating at games. I have to admit I use it from time to time to give myself money or ammo in games.

http://www.cheatengine.org/
> How do you intend to prevent that?

Very very few posts are actually uneditable at all, and editing is open to all users (some need approval).

If a post is locked and outdated it's likely that the question was locked because it was the kind of question that does not provide long-lasting answers (for example a software recommendation list).
Put gardener, housekeeper, personal trainer, and pet care on the 'obvious next targets for automation' bin.

I really don't think the other ones are safe. Just that it's not obvious that they aren't.
Im not sure if you answered my question or that Im not smart enough to understand the answer. I guess I should have added an ELI5 to my question.
From a pragmatic end-user perspective.

1) Disable passwords and only allow keys even for root with PermitRootLogin without-password

2) public-key authentication has somewhat unexpected side effect of preventing MITM per this security consulting firm http://www.gremwell.com/ssh-mitm-public-key-authentication
> Just because you aren't about to die of tetanus does not mean your quality of life has improve at all.

I have asthma and require corrective lenses. My quality of life is orders of magnitude better now than it would have been even 100 years ago.
Right now, a .io domain is ~$30/year which is $2.5/month. Doubling that wouldn't be that much more of a deterrent.
I was never much into fingering unfortunately
Some more information for anyone trying to understand this better: http://bdr-project.org/docs/stable/overview.html

Sourcecode: https://github.com/2ndQuadrant/bdr
I'm somewhat convinced that we still live in Rome.
Yes, and Abigail was one of the more notorious posters for terrorising people with what she considered to be "wrong" lines of discussion.
"An economy based increasingly on rent extraction by the few and debt buildup by the many is, in essence, the feudal model applied in a sophisticated financial system."

The financial services sector adds value to society by providing mechanisms to diversify risk, price assets, and make capital available for productive uses.

These mechanisms are valuable, but are gamed to extract economic rents greater than their value to society. Extract too much, and you kill the underlying economy.
Some fatherly advice from the king: 18th century smallpox innoculation
Omaha has no homes that are comparable to Bay Area homes, because all the homes in Omaha are in Omaha.

Some people like Omaha. That's fine. But if you want a mix of city culture, a range of excellent restaurants, bars, a reasonable public transit system, and the particular outdoor options that the Bay Area has, then Omaha isn't an option.

Maube this sounds facile, but it's important. It's not like San Francisco is expensive purely because of the economy or the government or whatever. It's expensive because lots of people want the things it has to offer.
And I might add, Smart men believe in luck, believe luck is probabilistic, and believe their actions can significantly alter the probabilities, even if they can't guarantee an outcome.
Haha. Me too. They should have included a lightweight debugger or hex dumper with it. I would have had a blast creating my own codes.
I've had it with "warm, yellow" street lights. Redwood City, CA standardized on low-pressure sodium lamps decades ago. Other than the Golden Gate Bridge, almost nobody uses those deep yellow lamps any more. (The Golden Gate Bridge switched to high-pressure sodium in the 1970s, and LEDs recently, but put in amber lenses to maintain the old color.) Redwood City is finally going LED, and streets look much brighter.
Yes. That one is great.
The Q&A format poorly handles the ever growing list of libraries that can do something. A wiki format is better for that. Maybe the documentation / examples that exists now. But sifting through dozens (this was closed before it got there) answers is more noise than signal. People aren't bothered to curate and clean old broken answers in such a format. Try slant.co for such a question instead.
Allow me to say it a little differently, then. As long as profits flow to silicon valley companies from around the world, people from around the world will also flow there, and housing prices will increase.

So I'd say that the heat is being extracted from the world's population (dollars from their pockets) and as long as that source is plentiful, the growth will continue. Since the global standard of living is increasing, the world's ability to buy iPhones and thereby consume Internet advertising presented by Google and Facebook, all continues to grow.

Come to think of it, it may be self sustaining. How many HN readers came to SV with a job offer in hand? The more profitable the companies are, the bigger the delta between what SV pays and what the ROW pays and the more people will be willing to take the plunge.

This could go on for a very long time.

(Google + Apple + Facebook pre-tax profit = ~$20 billion in the last 3 months.)
has anyone tried to estimate how much can finance extract to itself before killing its host economy?
Grand piano vs. Upright piano
The Businesses That Platforms Are Actually Disrupting
Absolutely! Ahah. And even your friends/neighbors, if asked for information about you by some authorities, would say: not sure, they were always nice people, then one day they decided to leave the city; maybe they got brainwashed by one of those crazy guys you know, nowadays you hear a lot about them. Did they do something bad?

:)
SO is also full of opposites: answer vampires. You put efforts into formulating your very specific question, correcting for english language rules, provide working examples only to see bunch of "we never did it like that, you do not need that" answers from old-boys that think they know everything. Ofc, if someone solved that issue the same way, he will show up and put his saving comment, but those beards form the community, force newcomers to think The Right Way.

SO is great to search for snippets and tl;drs, though. Reference manuals fail to contain tl;drs way too often, and that was fixed, thanks SO.
Out of curiosity – would you have gotten much better value for money if you had donated more to Luajit whilst Mike was still at the helm?

My uninformed outsider's impression is that Mike Pall wasn't really widely successful at getting funding for the work he wanted to do on Luajit (e.g. new GC) – despite being probably the world's foremost JIT for dynamic languages expert[1] and the mileage that many extremely wealthy companies seem to have gotten out of luajit (e.g. I understand it plays a pretty important role in your firewall logic, and probably not one that would be easily replaced with some other technology).

I don't mean to single Cloudflare out for criticism, I'm aware that you have in fact funded Mike's work in the past. And maybe there is absolutely no relationship between Mike moving on and funding for luajit.

But since you replied here, I'd be genuinely interested to hear your perspective on this:

To me it appears that apparently even single-developer open source projects which directly affect the bottomline of large companies can struggle to make enough money to continue their work. Why is this?

[1] Seeing how he essentially single handedly wrote a JIT that seems superior in many respects to what the likes of Google have managed to achieve with Javascript after many lifetimes' worth of top developer effort.
> Would be great if the proven natural remedies were compiled into a clean, peer-reviewed database, free to use

'Proven' in this context means 'FDA-approved', but regulation in the US basically only encourages development of novel, patentable pharmaceutical compounds at the expense of everything else.

Because only novel compounds and formulations can be patented, there is zero incentive for any company to do research on plant medicinals: they wouldn't be able to recoup the cost of the research (people can just go buy the actual plant supplement, even if the company patented a different formulation).

Because only deep-pocketed pharma companies seek FDA approval for drugs, the regulatory apparatus has over time gotten more and more expensive and rigid. I believe even getting a drug to Stage 3 trials is in the tens of millions of dollars. This very high barrier to entry further forces pharmaceutical companies to only invest in drugs that will be highly profitable ('blockbusters'). (http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2012/04/25/how-the...)

Because of the close relationship between pharmaceutical companies and doctors, it's often a large professional risk for a doctor to prescribe a supplement to a patient. If something goes wrong, the local medical board can and will go after doctors for not going with FDA approved guidelines for treatment. That's why to even see a doctor who will prescribe supplements, in the US you often have to look for a 'naturopath'.

TL;DR:
regulation that favors new compounds -> no profit incentive to look at plant compounds -> no group that will lobby for change -> regulation that favors new compounds

Just as a counterpoint, herbal medicines in China are widely available, very cheap, and there is a large amount of government-funded research into which plants have what compounds and what they do. Doctors are also allowed to prescribe them and routinely do. Obviously, it helped that there was a developed system of medicine in China before Western medicine arrived.

This is somewhat similar to the status of Kampo medicine in Japan ('Kampo' literally means 'Han prescription'), except Kampo medicine isn't under as active development.

By no means is the system in China is perfect -- there's probably under-regulation of the 'patent medicine' system and a lot of low quality crap sold to the public. But at the end of the day, a large class of pharmaceutically active and relevant medicinal compounds aren't simply excluded because they don't mesh well with the basic assumptions of the regulatory apparatus.
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> I toured an open house in Sunnyvale yesterday to have a look at what $1.7M buys you these days. 1900 sq ft, four bedrooms, two and a half baths...

That seems quite cheap compared to Manhattan[0][1][2][3], and only one of those is in an relatively desirable neighbourhood.

0. http://streeteasy.com/building/richmond-condominium/9a?featu...

1. http://streeteasy.com/building/439-east-51-street-new_york/6...

2. http://streeteasy.com/building/355-east-19-street-new_york/3

3. http://streeteasy.com/building/circa-central-park/5g
> where they compete with overseas workers who are brutal exploited by ruthless dictatorships

Or, in the US at least, not even overseas workers, but prisoners who are able to do the same job for much less because their living costs are paid by taxpayers, not their "employers"
A couple of unofficial cartridges required you to put an official cartridge into them similar to a Game Genie, which they'd use to satisfy the interlock mechanism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIC_(Nintendo)
> Have you actually read any autobiographies?

Way to be that guy on the internet.

Yes, I've read plenty. At best, they're about personal philosophies, at worst, it's self congratulations and excuses. How many subjects cooperated with a biographer and didn't like the outcome? Warren Buffet and Jeff Bezos are two off the top of my head. People don't like that kind of mirror.

Feynman is great and I'll get to Franklin in time. But the way people talk about biographies without distinguishing (like OP) and book stores place them side by side glosses over the wild differences in the two categories.
> I can put a simple "no advertisements" sign on my real mailbox and cut down junk to almost zero.

Fun fact: this isn't possible in the US. I'd never considered how that might influence how Americans think about spam email in general.
The biggest problem for me is which SO site to search. If I've a problem with a bit of bash script to control KDE on Ubuntu then is that Superuser, Unix, SO, AskUbuntu, or ... I don't understand why the site is split up in that manner.

So whilst I'll often choose an SO site I can't use their search.

Try "KDE notifications from bash scripts" for example. Google will show that there are answers on SO and Unix.stackexchange - searching at AskUbuntu (I use Ubuntu with KDE on top) will return zero results and won't even suggest results from other SO sites. SO itself has the best result but seems the least appropriate of the silos to place that search in.

Then there's having to register at each of the different sites on the network. The siloing of the site is PITA IMO. The only reason to do it this way I can think of is to separate computing resources, it seems there are probably better ways around that issue too? Why not a unified site with hierarchical tags such that you can choose a tag as a preferential search term?
If so, it's not a well-known study.

That sounds like it'd lend itself well to a simulation modeled with autonomous agents. That's not a popular methodology in economics.