skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or the one I coinvented and described before the leaks:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/03/ragemaster_ns...

There's no direct solution to the subverted monitor problem that I'm aware of. You basically get them from random places under different names or from people unlikely to be spies then use I/O protection both ways. Same with most hardware you can't produce yourself. There's potential to market something here where the monitor is immune to code injection, does I/O filtering, can't store anything, and does these with visually-inspectable chips & board. Add TEMPEST shielding while you're at it since that's an existing market that will drop lots of cash on improving security. See EMCON's products for examples.

EDIT: Forgot to mention that spectrum analysis is often used to try to catch radio emissions. There's techniques to tell if monitor sends out stranger than usual signals. That's just kind of limited and doesn't help if it's black bag job where person can show up twice (eg maintenance person).
>Living off $30-45k/year maybe makes sense for 1 person, but 2 people or a whole family?? I think not, that's called poverty.

Ah yes, the hacker news bubble where $40k a year is poverty.

Sometimes I am just speechless... This is one of those times.
If you're not trusting CAs, there's not much point to DNS over HTTPS, is there? Might as well be DNS over HTTP. Or just DNS.
Someday they may allow custom domains. They were testing it: http://www.zdnet.com/article/google-testing-plan-to-offer-cu...

Sadly that's all I've heard about it.
I'm glad you ran this analysis. I was about to do something similar!
Obviously, it's our ability to consume more rapidly! You know, one-click ordering :-)
Is there an example of a social norm that is acceptable in Iran, but would get you jailed in, say, Germany?
Yes, Amazon is behind that drive-up grocery store coming to Seattle
Sentences are creations. Does this mean every sentence we write on HN or say to each other by default is closed and needs a license?
No surprise, it's a well known fact that Americans in general despise atheists, left to right. No amount of PR bullshit will change that fact, US is a extremely religious country.
Mind sharing a table structure from your db? I'm using ES for a project and would prefer to keep things simple (already use postgres in another part of the system).
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Stoning someone to death? Supporting terrorism? Plenty others I figure.
Abuse of women? Raping your own wife etc.
I personally picked up a 1k account from eBay for $199.

It'll never be used but I'm glad I can say I have it.
CGI 2.0?
Yes, that's an apt comparison. Proprietary APIs for email exist today between parties that trust each other (clients and their service providers). What I'm proposing is to take it further and devise a standard HTTP-based protocol for message transmission between equal parties like ISPs, and for scenarios where there isn't preexisting trust.

For example, today if you use an HTTP API to submit a message to SendGrid or Mailgun or Amazon SES, that's a trusted relationship based on an account you have with the service, typically a paid relationship. Each provider has its own unique API, which is incompatible with other providers.

In the next step of that process, your service provider's Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) communicates with the final destination mail server (`example.com MX`), and that part is a peer relationship between ISPs (quasi-trusted or untrusted). This communication is all SMTP today, and I'm proposing the idea of a standard way to transmit emails over HTTP in this layer too, in such a way as that it would, in the fullness of time, obsolete SMTP.
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Not sure why this is being posted on HN but anyway.

Iran like all countries have certain cultural norms. I am not allowed to chew gum in Singapore. I am not allowed to drink alcohol publicly in places like Dubai. I am not allowed to smoke outside in the city in parts of Australia. I am not allowed to wear full body swimsuits in parts of France. Welcome to the world.
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Show HN: I wrote a simple simulation of the economy to show how money is created
Rather than using misguided phrases like "Kool-aid" its important to consider several reasons why JPEG 2000 adoption has lagged or why there is interest in neural networks:

1. JPEG 2000 is Patent encumbered.

2. Neural Network methods have good chance of getting significantly better.

3. The way similar architecture / ops have been found to be very effective across variety of tasks, its not unlikely that in future, all machines will have a dedicated neural inference chip, e.g. NVidia Jetson TK1 or Google TPU. In this scenario the more mileage you can get out of such dedicated hardware the better.
Wearing a burkini would get you in trouble in France, I hear.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_ban_on_face_covering

Yup. In France. Yet they're agitating.
There is a force not unlike gravity, constantly pulling on all outliers, reverting them to the mean over time. However, that does not imply the outliers do not "sit at the top" and heavily impact whatever group in which they are the outliers.
It'd be cool if someone built a bot that would help you practice another language. I spent years learning Spanish but don't have a partner to speak to in the language.
Here's the write up: http://blog.chewxy.com/2016/09/30/how-to-make-money/

Here're the slides: https://speakerdeck.com/chewxy/how-to-make-money-how-money-i...

Here's a version of the same iPython Notebook that you can play with (choose Python3 kernel): http://mybinder.org/repo/chewxy/economy-sim

the titles were a bit click-baity but that's mainly because we had competing meetup groups for the night.
And as a bonus you would get a Nuclear winter.
the most commonly used application + the most commonly used OS.
this is js for quick reference
I hadn't heard of Samsung washing machines exploding before. Catching fire is what they usually do.

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/95yearold-woman-rescued-from-samsu...
http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/81798360/Thousands...
This is actually a good analogy. Driverless cars will be good, but what one company claims as driverless car technology might not ever be good. For example you need complex machine learning algorithms (Well I guess even a naive bayes will do) for facial recognition. But facial recognition cannot be solved by some hardcoded logic like checking the relative sizes of two circles and a cylinder you assumed as eyes and nose. Like this example, it's possible self driving car is far difficult than just adaptive cruise control, or Tesla's radar looking two cars ahead etc. These are minor hardcoded logic and is no guarantee of solving the problem.

Plus, a bad pharmaceutical drug only harms the user, a dangerous car on the road is dangerous to people who don't want them.
The Matrix defense
My uncle still does inventory for his business (small dancewear retailer) on an Apple II. I believe he recently "upgraded" to the IIgs because he started having trouble getting parts.
Going to Mars is (relatively) easy; coming back is where it gets tricky
"In order for the Management Engine to really do much, you need to have a network card that the management engine knows how to talk to. "

For both ME and debugging purposes, Intel's chips are wired through and through in ways that could do interesting things in the hands of an attacker. ME gives attacker the ability to act. What you just said is you believe Intel's technical statements and marketing claims about that. In reality, you can't know about any digital, analog, or RF backdoors it creates unless you get whole thing torn down at transistor level with analysis by people who understand all those categories. It's normal in ASIC work, for trade secret protection and dodging patent suits, for firms to use tricks to hide I.P. in I.P.. They also reduce NRE & mask costs by putting circuitry in whole families of product while only visibly enabling them in some at factory. Still there, though. The guy that originally taught me about this stuff gave an example where one component they used had wireless connectivity because it was a mobile SOC where they visibly, but only temporarily, disabled some components to make it look like a microcontroller and I/O combo. They were trying to score extra ROI off it without building dedicated product.

Lots of stuff like that in ASIC design. Hell, the firewall industry should've already taught all of you this lesson. Grimes reviews of them showed they often had all kinds of undocumented stuff running that wasn't advertised but was result of poor quality or some internal benefit. He rarely ran into one that did what it advertised and only what it advertised. That wasn't even open-source testing. ;) Intel's stuff is a combo of their specs, their implementation, the analog circuits, the effects of the materials involved on those, and the interactions with other things on the board if you're talking EMSEC. There's no way for you to verify these are secure by reading their public claims. This is neither a new nor uncommon problem.
> The US justice system is one of the best arguments against the US being a first world country.

Also healthcare. It is one of the few "first" world countries where a bankruptcy due to a medical accident is a very real danger. Obamacare helps some but we are far away from having healthcare worthy of a civilized country.
"He’s “hoarding cash” on the chance he can buy stocks when prices dip, as he expects they will"

That's called market timing, and it does. not. work. It doesn't work for professional traders, it doesn't work for algorithms, and it will not work for you. Don't. Do. It.
Sure you could assume that, they didn't say so though.

As an experimental design that would be pretty good, but as a product experience I would not be very happy to unbox one shoe, then wait days for the other one to arrive or find out it was lost in the mail.
But what if you taking the drug for your cancer kills me? (I mean the self driving car you bought for your inability to drive kills me).
Are we talking about social norms or the law in Iran ? because they are not the same thing. Are women required to cover their head in public in Iran, by law?
If someone isn't qualified, then a small bump won't be enough to put them in the job. We're not talking about picking a random person off the street to meet a quota.

There are flaws in affirmative action, but doing nothing about disparities that have self-perpetuating attributes is a pretty bad plan by itself. Top candidates don't appear out of a vacuum.
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>>Iran like all countries have certain cultural norms. I am not allowed to chew gum in Singapore. I am not allowed to drink alcohol publicly in places like Dubai. I am not allowed to smoke outside in the city in parts of Australia. I am not allowed to wear full body swimsuits in parts of France. Welcome to the world.

Need to change slightly.
I, whether a man or a woman, am not allowed to chew gum in Singapore. I, whether a man or a woman, am not allowed to drink alcohol publicly in places like Dubai. I, whether a man or a woman, am not allowed to smoke outside in the city in parts of Australia. I, whether a man or a woman, am not allowed to wear full body swimsuits in parts of France. Welcome to the world.

But I, only because am a woman, and because the barbaric Islamic sharia law treats women as second class citizens, have to wear hijab/burqa in Iran (or other Islmaic country). Welcome to Islam.

edit: typo
Can a female from Papua New Guinea play without wearing a shirt in the "ultra religious" country of the USA?
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> Wearing a burkini would get you in trouble in France, I hear.

No, these city laws have been struck down by a higher authority. You can't wear a burka or a niqab though I still see women wearing that stuff in Paris suburbs, granted in places where 90% of the population is muslim and no non-muslim would dare live in.
It's not clear (though it seems like no?) that the parent used options like LTO that would reduce the binary size.
Well that's just bad hazards risk analysis and engineering. It goes to show that Samsung didn't account for the possibility of the explosions bit or even worse, knowingly ignored the risk of the explosions without putting in some sort of safety mechanism to halt the progression of risk.

Safety can be easily explained by the Swiss cheese model. In order for a catastrophic safety incident to occur, usually you need a series of events to align one after another like having the holes of several Swiss cheese layers match up before you can go straight through.
As someone who lives in Manhattan below 125th street, you could not be more wrong. What you have is transition from Cabs with single rider to Uber Pool, not Subway to Uber Pool.

Also you are using figures of user who live "outside" Manhattan which do not at all benefit from Uber POOL.
200+ since 2010. Even "fixed" machines are bursting into flame, so Australian owners are being urged to go for a return rather than a repair.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-14/samsung-washine-machin...

https://www.choice.com.au/home-and-living/laundry-and-cleani...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3505540/Samsung-face...

http://www.samsung.com/au/washingmachinerecall/
>>How you frame the question can produce vastly different responses.

Here are some of the questions on the GSS:

In our society everyone must look out for himself. It is of little use to unite with others and fight for one's goals in politics or in unions.
67.7 percent disagreed

It is the responsibility of government to meet everyone's needs, even in case of sickness, poverty, unemployment, and old age.
57.3 percent agreed

If social welfare benefits such as disability, unemployment compensation, and early retirement pensions are as high as they are now, it only makes people not want to work anymore.
54 percent disagreed

Note that the GSS is cited more often academically than any other survey other than the US census so it carries some weight.
>> That's pretty obvious to me, it wasn't obvious to you?

There are literally dozens of "how to get rich" books, that are actually "why it's your fault that you aren't rich" books in disguise, which try to explicitly disprove that statement.

So yes, apparently, to a lot of people, it's not actually obviously true.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis - one of the biggest sources of suffering in the world.
Could you expand on the Money Mustache comment?

From what I can gather he currently makes quite a bit of income from putting his followers into bad products he promotes and advertises on his site, such as Geico (premiums going towards massive marketing campaigns, not keeping costs low) and Betterment (layering fees on top of index funds which you could buy directly for no extra fee)
As a 2011 MBA user, I totally understand sticking with old tech that works. T1/T2 isn't really apples-to-apples, though. I came across this random quote from the libgmp devs that made me laugh:

"SPARC chips before T4 under-perform on GMP. This is not because the GMP code is inadequately optimised for SPARC, but due to the basic v9 ISA as well as the micro-architecture of these chips. The T1 and T2 chips perform worse than any other SPARC chips; they compare to a 15 year older 486 chip."

ouch!
> In fact, I know that these machines do have warnings to not overload them. What more could reasonably be expected of Samsung?

Standard IANAL.

Unfortunately companies can't always offload all their liability to the customer in this manner. We will see with the result of this lawsuit whether this is such a case.

They're likely going to argue that a reasonable person who buys a washing machine expects that it will continue to operate safely with any amount or configuration of clothing so long as the it fits in the drum and the machine isn't modified. Sure, if you 'overfill'[1] the machine one might expect the quality of the wash to degrade, but not that the machine will become dangerous.

From a practical standpoint, it's perfectly possible to create a washing machine that can handle any amount and configuration of clothing simply by making a tumbler that strong enough to handle many times the weight of clothes. Or the machine could simply refuse to operate if it detects that it's over weight or off-balance. So Samsung won't get very far if they try to argue that it's not possible to manufacture such a machine and that their customers have no choice but to take precautions. But undoubtedly they will argue that it's cost prohibitive and that their customers are responsible for taking those precautions in exchange for the simpler and cheaper design.

[1] I use scare quotes because for sure they will call into question Samsung's use and meaning of the term.
Why is this a bad idea? You can't just say "it's bad" with no justification.

As a user, I can sure think of some countries with broken Internet access where this would come in handy.
> But while samarium hexaboride does conduct electricity at room temperature, things get strange as it cools.

So maybe the magnetic field undoes some of the effects of low temperatures? Or is that too un-sensational an explanation for modern physics?
http://haskellbook.com/
This works in the military and some public safety positions, but most civilian public pensions, while they might (e.g.) vest retiree health benefits after 20 years regardless of age, have a minimum age to start drawing benefits, and an even later age to draw maximum benefits. For example, one common California state (and local) arrangement, the CalPERS "2% at 55" formula, gives 1.1% × (highest annual salary) × (years of service) at 50, 2% at 55 (hence the name) and 2.5% at 63, but below 50 you aren't eligible to retire.
They do keep records. The article that you were referring to was about how the NY police claimed that the system that they store those records in couldn't handle something like calculating the total amount of cash seized across all records.

Basically, it couldn't handle the equivalent of SELECT SUM(cash) FROM loot but it could handle SELECT * FROM loot WHERE victim = "John Smith"
Thanks for the patience. We've been printing shirts for a year but this is the first day this app has seen production so a few little hiccups. Glad to see it's all sorted.
It's sad that they knew about it, which meant they calculated that:

E{cost} = P(failure) * {expected lawsuit payout} < {cost of recall and actually fixing the problem}

Just like in Fight Club...
I had a disk that failed that had personal pictures that were valuable enough to spend the required 350$ to recover the disk.

While I was looking for someone to do the job, I have had the chance to talk with people that do this and ask them about the pricetag.

There are 2 kinds of people that recover data from hard drives:

- Companies that build and maintain a "white-room" or clean-room that respects a certain ISO standard about the size of the dust so that it won't harm the hardware. They employ highly qualified technicians, and most of their work is for other businesses not individuals. Their prices are high because the cost to maintain all that is high.

The second category are freelancers (like the guy I ended-up using), they only have store fronts, they take disks from clients and when they have enough disks, they rent a "white-room" by the hour from one of the companies I talked about before. Their prices are a bit lower than the first ones, but they're still high because renting the white-room still costs a bit of money.
Not just HTTP but you can TCP-over-DNS:

apt-get install dns2tcp

Pretty easy to use too (though development seems to have stopped)
Why don't the operators add a daily check for skimmers while they do their daily pump checks? And with video so affordable now, even if it's only on a 7-day retention, they can turn over evidence to authorities to catch the perps?
http://www.mei.edu/content/article/irans-headscarf-politics

No, it's a law. You don't just get the side-eye, you might serve some time.
In Boulder, yes; absolutely.
Slavery is a cultural norm. Racism a cultural norm. Sexism a cultural norm.

Just because something's a cultural norm doesn't mean you should accept it.

Social progress is made by fighting against cultural norms that treat groups of people as second-class citizens.
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If this happens to washing machines, I guess it either was a pretty good idea for them to sell their Techwin subsidiary a couple years ago, or they miss working in that field. :)
Awesome news on the added regions.

One issue I've found with GCP is the Support pricing compared to AWS. Next step from basic is $150 p/m for support on GCP (2 individuals) compared to around $29-$39 p/m on AWS (for 1 individual).

Is GCP going to start offering support to 1-man dev teams with side projects? Stackexchange, communities, docs are only helpful up to a point.
Some of the themes have images. We have tried an earlier take on this app with user uploaded content and more control of the design and the results were not pretty. Everybody asks for images and I have a few ideas about how we can do it but we need to get some traction before more effort can be justified on it.

Thanks for trying it out.
Hogwarts isn't even the largest school, that'd be Uagadou.
Or more scarily, have you ever had a passenger in your car and you're not 100% sure if they had drugs on their person? Have you ever had police search your car with a drug dog or consented to a search with a drug dog? Both of those combined has been used to seize cars from innocent people because unbeknownst to them their passenger had a small amount of weed on them.
i wish information density was an option on all these pinterestesque sites.

http://techmeme.com/river
http://hckrnews.com
http://reddit.com

http://digg.com

one of these things is not like the other.
Because I am a man, I am allowed to be topless outside in NYC. I wouldn't if I was a woman.

The hijab worn in Iran is a lot less restrictive than the hijab worn in a lost of other Muslim countries. I would join in the outrage if the chess players were forced to wear a niqab, but requiring people to wear a loose headscarf is hardly oppression of the worst degree.
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I know nothing of any of this. I don't follow him because he derives part of his income from rent, which I deem unproductive and it doesn't scale across the population at large.
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my comment elsewhere is better under you https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12610265
Don't those networks hijack DNS to display captive portals? I always like poking around domains on "free limited-browsing" networks trying to get an open connection to the open web.
I sort of did this many years ago and before the person who advertised "Wikipedia over DNS". I hacked up djbdns and put HTML into TXT records. Then I used dnstxt as the "HTTP client". It was limited to 512 bytes of course.
Yup, and no one got arrested in San Francisco, either (SFW, but barely):

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Go-Topless-Day-sf-nude-nu...
Indeed, this feels like it's just an attempt at riding onto the "Samsung=explosion" bandwagon. A quick search on YouTube shows plenty of washing machines spinning themselves apart, not only Samsung but LG, GE, and a few others, and going back several years too. This failure mode is not new, it's not specific to Samsung, and IMHO it's also partly operator error combined with the increased fragility of cost-down optimisation. I wouldn't even call it an explosion, as the drum itself remains intact --- all the damage is from the extreme vibrations breaking off everything else.

...and just for fun, there's also plenty of videos of deliberately unbalanced machines doing the same, for a bit of sordid entertainment and as a reminder of why you should always take care to balance the load. Here's one rather amusing example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dq6T5BojXc8