skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I said this last time but it bares reiterating:

Dropbox circumventing security restrictions is particularly worrying because they have board members who support warrentless surveillance.

In my mind Dropbox became a company not worth supporting when Rice joined Dropbox's board (http://www.drop-dropbox.com/). Personally, with a board member who advocates warrentless surveillance it seems unlikely that we share similar views on the security of my data, and I wont be using their service.
That is basically freifunk.
It is a openwrt router firmware with open wifi and all traffic is routed through VPN outside of Germany to circumvent the legal bullshit.
I wonder about that. Could it use a different let for every user and verify which let it used to track them? Or would that be infeasible due to the cost of verifying the signature?
Describing the behavior of immune cells as categorizing cells in 'self' and 'non-self' is itself an example of engaging in metaphor. It's an example of anthropomorphising the behavior of cells.

You can just as easily describe the behavior of immune cells as categorizing cells into 'healthy' and 'unhealthy' and killing the 'unhealthy' cells. Suddenly the disease is not about internal conflict, but about internal hygiene. And when the immune system kills 'foreign' cells, it's not because they are foreign, but because they are found to be 'unhealthy': deviating too much from what it considers 'healthy'.

This is a simpler explanation. Apply Occam's razor: the immune system does not care about whether something is 'foreign': that's a more complex, and more precise, judgement than is needed to determine whether something needs to be killed. The broader category of 'unhealthy', deviating from the template/norm, is sufficient and that is the only thing the immune system needs to determine.
Perhaps the "disruption value" is not in media/advertising/content (as in the web) but instead in an enhancement that could erode certain attention from the web. Here is a potential example that will probably never see the light of day http://mailmarkup.org/
The disintegration of the European Union needs to accelerate. The non-democratic powerful elite junta known as the EU is increasingly passing policy goals which ultimately serve only the elite minority. Our rights our being eroded, chipped away a little bit at a time like sand being carried away by flowing water. We must resist these policies and rebuild a stronger foundation for our civil liberties, including a truly free Internet. We need to return to stronger local governance and a more decentralised power structure. What we are seeing today is a consolidation of power and the emergence of a singular totalitarian state. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_deficit_in_the_Euro...

Disagree with EU policies? Shut up and tolerate it. http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2009_2014/documents/l...

Arbitrary circuit breakers added to circumvent dissenting opinions. Article 7 TEU. "Far-reaching sanctions" can be exerted, and a country can be stripped of all voting rights in the EU and have funding blocked. In January this year, Frans Timmermans, the first ever unelected Commission "vice president," who is in charge of "human rights," triggered the mechanism for the first time against Poland’s government which came to power in a record-breaking, landslide election in 2015. http://ec.europa.eu/justice/effective-justice/rule-of-law/in...

"If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter." ― George Washington. Or more recently, led straight into the gas chambers for a nice "hot shower."

We must ask ourselves what is the end game here? Dissenting opinions are now often twisted into being labeled as "hate speech" and "racism." Europe has already experienced the suppression of free thought and expression with the fall of the Roman Empire. What followed was a chilling effect which lasted 1000 years. Do we want to go down this road again?
Can you offer "public shares" with that?

I see it has no mobile clients, that's almost a dealbreaker for my every-day use. Syncthing runs great on my Android.
If I remember correctly, Gianluca Martino's trademark registration actually predated the existence of Arduino LLC, because originally there was no company founded for the Arduino project - it was some kind of joint venture between Gianluca Martino (manufacturing, capital) and Massimo Banzi (board design).
What does one do if stopped in traffic? Just say, 'I want a lawyer?' Seems like that would get you arrested (or worse).
Hmm. Great story, although it gets somewhat dark towards the end. He may have started out as a noble forger saving children from the Nazis but it sounds like he kept going for decades and made false passports for whoever wanted them, no questions asked. "I can't deal with the details because all humans are equal" sounds a lot like post-hoc rationalization. Forging passports is all about dealing with tiny details. Understanding why your customers want false papers seems a lot larger than just a "detail". He wouldn't have forged papers to help the Nazi's I assume, but apparently after the war ended he somehow lost his discerning nature.

I'm also 100% not buying his story about never doing it for profit. During WW2, sure, I can buy that. For the three decades he continued afterwards, when it was apparently close to full time work? He was a professional underground forger who made passports for whoever wanted them, no questions asked, even as the difficulty and sophistication of the needed equipment constantly rose. Hell yes he asked for money.
Ask HN: Alternatives to AWS?
AWS has captured an enormous market. As a user I'm surprised there are only few serious contenders (cloud provider with an API and global footprint). Digitalocean has managed to captured the low end of the spectrum for people looking to run a few servers. Any serious alternatives to AWS today? Google App engine is still closely tied to there way of doing things.
So does adblocking. Should that be illegal?
I do a lot of NLP stuff and the Python/Java divide is definitely a problem right now. I'm happy with both languages, but generally prefer Python. A lot of the state-of-the-art tools, especially the Stanford stuff, is in Java, while many of the more modern and experimental stuff is in Python. In theory it should be really easy to use both, but in practice I've always had to deal with bugs in the gap between the languages, whether Jython or OS level integration. So currently, yes, there are some new tools (including this one) that I would definitely try if they were written in Python and I could just do a pip install + import, but never get round to testing out because like this one they are more clunky to set up and require Java.
Seafile is more like Dropbox, Syncthing does much less (but does so very well.).

https://www.seafile.com/en/home/ / https://github.com/haiwen

This is how simple it is to set up the server https://manual.seafile.com/deploy/using_sqlite.html
My inclusion of directory as a downside of email was a poor choice on my part -- I occasionally get swept up in writing something, and the thought's been kicking around my head for a few days that email is NOT based on a global directory, but a directory of directories, possibly hierarchical. This means that if you want to get something somewhere, as with routing and DNS, you kick it off first in the right general direction -- someone who knows more about such things than you do, at a minimum.

So, you're right, the fact that email doesn't have a global directory is a feature. It's a feature that's underappreciated by a great many folks who've suggested alternatives to email that do rely on grand central unified directories.

Which suggests that an email alternative which has a similar directory-of-directories concept might stand a better chance.

I've been thinking along lines of clustered hierarchies of users, with various trust bases within them. If you wanted clusters of no more than about 50 neighbors (well within a Dunbar exhange), then a hierarchy 6 layers deep gets you to coverage of all of Earth's population (15.6 billion individual nodes). Deeper, cross-linked, or other structures could offer greater depth of address use for individuals.

I've also been wondering if perhaps national postal systems ought to take over electronic messaging. I can hear the screaming already, but with privacy-supporting protocols (including metadata), much of the risk might be mitigated. In particular, I'm interested in addressing the "who are you?" question -- identity, and re-establishing it, is difficult.

I'm thinking that a good reputation system, and perhaps a poll-and-fetch method, rather than a straight delivery, could make email much more resistant to spam.

Under poll-and-fetch, a sender would indicate that it has a message for another party. That party would then fetch the message, should it be interested. Fully vetted senders would have their content fetched automatically. Spam senders would have to sit on their spools and wait for (and support) many individual incoming fetch requests. Spammers identified as such would be identified through reputation systems.

Granularity of reputation might be at IP space, domain, mail host/peer, or individual sender basis.

For many sender/recipient pairs, a strong and clearly positive or negative relation would be established early. The hump is to become known as a trusted sender, for which some sort of trust seed or reputation vouching system might work. I'm still hazy on what might work there.
It definitely cares about the propagation of the EU and its associated gravy train.

I learned yesterday that the EU has a wine cellar with more than 40,000 bottles of wine in it. Why?!
How do you mean on that?
One of the more interesting side-effects of this is that, because the Arduino libraries were written by someone else, no-one involved in the project had any experience of porting them to a completely new architecture. As AVR has gradually become slow, outdated and expensive, this has had the result that unofficial Arduino-compatible boards like Teensy are often better ports than the newer official boards.
CloudFlare usually just serve you a cached version of the site to increase performances and reduce the bandwidth.

This is nonsense.
A lot of us work and live for acknowledgment. There are so few brave enough to work and live for effect.
I believe this is called "colored bits" if you would like to read more
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What kind of attack is cloudflare preventing when they block people from accesing static sites?

DoS. The Tor network has quite a bit of bandwidth (https://metrics.torproject.org/bandwidth.html) and we see DoS attacks at L7 (e.g. floods of HTTP requests) that attempt to knock sites with poor bandwidth/servers offline.

There are many, many other attacks that come through Tor.
An immune system that only kills cells determined to be 'non-self' would be woefully insufficient. It needs to kill cells that have become unhealthy, for instance clogged up with misfolded protein, all the time, even when those cells are clearly still 'self'.

See also my comment to ubernostrum further downthread. There is no compelling reason to frame cancer or infectious disease as a conflict or invasion. Doing so is just as reasonable as framing housekeeping as a conflict with 'foreign dirt' or an invasion of 'the outside world into your house'.
A few reasons.

* I can read the code. It's not very complex.
* There are minimal moving parts.
* I can suspend the pump or disconnect at anytime.
* It's changing my basal rates (minor adjustments) not randomly bolusing large amounts. This isn't an "overdose" type situation.
* I'm fully in control of my facilities. I'm not a child or an older person - each of which are more likely to have hypos.
* I have never had a debilitating hypo in 20 years, I'm not planning on having one now.
* The system was designed by diabetics, for diabetics. The closed systems that will come out like Medtronics will be VERY conservative. So much so as to be of questionable use to folks who want an A1C <6%

Because of all these reasons, along with 15+ years of pumping alone and doing the calculations in my head (and getting them wrong) I choose to trust these systems.
If you're sending email, it's trivial to use, if all else fails, a shell tool or application-based email client. Standard unix mail, mailx, mutt, or various mail utilities within Perl, Python, Ruby, etc., can all be adapted to accept patches and some cover text with ease, largely noninteractively.

If you're actually reading email off LKML, that's another story.

But seriously: mutt, pine, Emacs mail mode, or even graphical clients such as Evolution or Kmail, will work just fine. And can be used in conjunction with nontechnical (there's another phrase I'm avoiding using here) GUI mainstream email clients used for other tasks.

If you can't figure out how to install and use mail / mailx / mutt with git, you probably shouldn't be submitting kernel patches. Which in this case is a useful filter.
I like the idea that she wants to look at data, however, I'm not convinced that she'll look at right data and draw the right conclusions.

In my CS class, the women had better grades in general, I was barely passing.

Looking at the data you would expect the high performing women to have amazing careers while I'm drowning in my sorrow on where it went wrong.

Turns out: the opposite happened.

They had better grades, what they didn't have though was: love for the craft. Their goal was to get good grades, they didn't have any love for it.

I enjoyed coding, for them, it was work, for me it was fun. Maybe this is a social construct or maybe it's biological, either way, I feel that who care about this should shift their perspective. If you shut down all programming jobs, I will still code in my spare time, can you say the same thing about people who only care about coding because it makes a lot of money?
There are a lot of good recent books on this topic (I don't know if this area is undergoing a revival) :

1. N. K. Vereschagin, V. Uspensky, Alexander Shen : Kolmogorov Complexity (English draft in preparation: http://www.lirmm.fr/~ashen/kolmbook-eng.pdf)

2. Downey, Hirschfeldt: Algorithmic Randomness and Complexity (http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9780387955674)

3. Andre Nies: Computability and Randomness (https://global.oup.com/academic/product/computability-and-ra...)

in addition to the now classic book by Li and Vitanyi that others have mentioned.
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Social networking sites must be community driven with open source model and public funding.
A small group of people is not going to survive at a modern, first-world, technological level of civilisation, providing itself with oil, coal, electricity, silicon chips, cotton, synthetics, pharmaceuticals, food, lumber, iron, steel, aluminium, glass, etc., etc.

It might manage to provide for itself at a ~1650 level of subsistence, in a favourable climate.

Modern civilisation is a team sport.
I'm a lawyer. Awesome project, but definitely follow the advice from people in this thread. Change the domain name fast.
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Male, 32 years old, 45k before taxes euro, central Europe, C#.

My salary is actually above the average.
> "I think there is a 33% chance innovation in the payments industry has a material impact on SYF’s business in the next 10 years"

This sentence seems very broad/generalized for a conclusion. 10 years is a long time. 33% is a like a sigma (~coin flip basically).

I think there is a 100% chance innovation has an impact on SYF's business over the next 10 years - too soon to say if good or bad impact & too many factors to plot a probability tree with a 10 year horizon.

Also: SYF (Synchrony) still has ties to General Electric even though it is technically spun off from GE Capital. SYF's CEO is just the old GE Cap CEO. I think the article should've mentioned that relationship as it influences the business still.
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I think it is not SCOTUS' job to clean up the congress created mess and Scalia was cranky because of that.

I think that Scalia strongly believed in laws are set in stone. So if there is some abmiguity or stupid language it is the Congress' fault and it is not up to SCOTUS to create laws on the fly by guestimating the congress intent.
CodeValley: software coded not by humans but by F-ing Magic, on the blockchain
Before tax ?
There's simply no money for large, high-powered studies.

Yes there is, the deepest pockets of all are very, very interested in fitness: the military. You can download the Navy SEAL physical training guide for free!

http://www.sealswcc.com/navy-seal-naval-special-warfare-phys...

http://www.sealswcc.com/navy-seal-what-are-chances-hell-week...

"A three year Naval Special Warfare study comprised of thousands of SEAL candidates has identified the speeds, distances and reps that correspond to success at BUD/S. The graphs in the predictive model show the boundaries of smart training to maximize your odds of success without increasing your risk of injury."
Can you please edit your question. Are you offering to work for a month for $100 or for a minute for $100?
For some reason I get a horizontal scrollbar - there's a bit of white background to the right that doesn't seem like it's supposed to be there.
Some parts of the US military have standardized on http://psi-im.org/

There are private networks with hundreds of active users.
I guess the millions of innocent people deported and killed by the nazis in front of him gave him a different perspective on what's a detail and what's not. Perspective probably different than green-pastures-based ones.

I do not endorse breaking the law, and I wouldn't do it myself. But sometimes it is possible to understand where other people are coming from.
Nim, because you can also use it as a real programming language for many other uses.
I was in Austria recently, Starbucks there requires you to register an account to use Wi-Fi.
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The big networks don't use CAPTCHAs in the original sense they were meant to be used anymore. They all moved on to phone verification many years ago. I was a part of some of the discussions in Google on this issue - should we keep using CAPTCHAs at all given that they'd been basically replaced by better systems?

The answer was yes. CAPTCHAs are still present because they act as a throttle. The point of a strong CAPTCHA is to limit the amount of abuse that can get through if the other mechanisms break down, by exploiting the fact that humans are kind of slow. Even though OCR can handle most CAPTCHAs these days, it's still not 100% effective, so by ramping up the number of CAPTCHAs you ask users to solve you can still put a throttle on activity. In this way it acts as a last line of defence.

That's why I'm not sure this is going to work out. CAPTCHAs are not a way to distinguish good users from bad, which is how CloudFlare is trying to use them here. CAPTCHAs are way to slow down and throttle traffic that might be auto-generated when you can't tell if it's good or bad. Building a new way to show you solved a CAPTCHA previously doesn't help if the reason you're being shown CAPTCHAs is specifically to slow you down regardless of whether you're good or bad.
Ask HN: What's the easiest way to get freelance work?
A friend and I have produced the media / programming needs for a startup which has now hit difficulties.

In order to meet rent next month we were thinking freelancing our services might be a good option but we lack existing clients/connections.

Anyone have tips on the best sites / offline methods to get this kind of work quickly?

Thanks!
Optimal would be only needing to trust the Tor Project.
What a silly thing to be outraged about, why wouldn't it? It's got to entertain 10,000s of visitors per year, 40,000 sounds a reasonable number.

Here's a list of the UK parliament's wine cellar, which has thousands of bottles of wine:

https://www.parliament.uk/site-information/foi/foi-and-eir/c...

Are you similarly outraged that the UK own 1128 bottles of coke?
Which browser are you using? It should look like this - http://imgur.com/a/q4f8t
Sorry, that doesn't work for me. Lots of people came out of WW2 scarred but did not go on to become professional criminals. The article flat out says that some of the groups he worked with were rebel forces in Africa trying to overthrow governments, not exactly people who are famous for their cuddly nature.
Something like this https://github.com/google/git-appraise ?
I really don't like it then.
So we could theoretically have 4 or 5 totally closed platforms with small market shares for each and that would be totally fine.

I guess that the issue is that I am not as much against Google using Android to distribute its services (I would be using most of them anyway and those that I don't use (newsstand, spaces, ..) can be replaced anyway) but against being unable to distribute/install whatever software I want on a general purpose computing device.

And AFAIK, sadly there is no law governing this.
>The article flat out says that some of the groups he worked with were rebel forces in Africa trying to overthrow governments, not exactly people who are famous for their cuddly nature.

Granted, thanks for insisting I didn't realize that, missed that part. I think like you that his good intentions might have gone too far and turned into rationalized behaviour.
In case of TCP load balancer, the headers are sent unmodified and backend instances receive the ELB's IP as the client IP. This is described in the AWS docs - http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/class...
its ok as long as people eat it because they like it... it gets worse when people resort to junk food because they cant afford fresh vegetables, and that is the sad reality for a lot of people as of today
Looks good. I hope it's compatible with the emacs Artist package. https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ArtistMode
This is managed VPS, which is kinda convenient if you don't want to manage servers yourself. For the more "normal" unmanaged VPS with root access, there's DreamCompute. It's even cheaper than DigitalOcean — $4.50 for 512 MB. I recently switched https://iwl.me to it, and it works well.
Nope, Lotus Notes takes that prize.
40 years old, 3 years dev exp., 140k salary (no bonus and not counting options). SF. I have no idea why they offered me so much, but I jumped on it.

Wondering what my next move in a couple years should be.
For continued decentralized operations something like https://github.com/google/git-appraise looks good. It's like Fossil-SCM's distributed tickets but for code review. It can also mirror to Gihtub and Phabricator and has a web interface too. Most importantly it doesn't break the decentralized aspect of git.
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