skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If payment wasn't for specific websites or content then it wouldn't be a privacy problem at all. But how does that money get allocated fairly to individual websites without putting governments (or someone else?) in a position to say yay or nay to funding pornhub.com or alt.com?

... which is a completely different problem than funding services such as those provided by facebook and the benefits in terms of communication possibilities those services provide.

One problem is the funding of infrastructure, another problem is the funding of the production of "content". Those happen to be intertwined a lot at the moment, but that's not a technical necessity, but rather a result of the current business models that build on surveillance (and the creation of de-facto monopolies and the subsequent potential for vendor lock-in).

It would be relatively unproblematic to fund development of infrastructure with donations or even tax money--think development of open standards/protocols and possibly reference implementations of those protocols. Then, it's unproblematic for most people to pay directly for the operational costs of processing and storing their own data (that is, computers running implementations of those protocols, storage devices, bandwidth). None of that requires anyone to have any access to or control over the actual content that people communicate. For that aspect, there is no need to have "websites". The central entity is completely unnecessary, you simply pay directly for the actual costs of the technology without the need to reveal anything about what you communicate or process or store.

As for the funding of content production: I think we have to have some possibility to pay for that anonymously if we want to keep democracy stable. We can buy newspapers with cash without leaving much of a trace in anyone's database as to which paragraphs of which articles we read. Letting terrorism paranoia destroy that would be a terrible idea. Also, as I have repeatedly said, I don't understand why you seem to be constantly equating advertisement and surveillance. Just because you can use surveillance to make advertisement more efficient, doesn't mean that advertisement without surveillance is useless.
But the part I'm concerned about is that they seem to think that having password-less sudo is a security win.

I thought they were saying they don't want people's passwords. People reuse them, naive people giving up an actual root password, etc.

Not sure they mean always using NOPASSWORD is good for security.
> Given their numbers I wonder if the expected should have been closer to 7x and the worst case at 20-25x.

What numbers? We know that their estimates and their realities were quite different, but not knowing the real numbers we have no way of even beginning to judge what's reasonable and unreasonable here. For all we know, they modeled directly after the most successful game in the Android market at that date as a baseline and then said, "At the worst case we'd expect 5x THAT."

You can write a ton of paragraphs about how cute Pokemon are, but the truth is that the Pokemon AR game was a massive risk. AR games have had extremely limited update. It seems incredibly unreasonable for me to expect that those folks should have realized apriori that they were about to release the most popular mobile game ever created.

I, for one, will not throw stones. I don't get why you feel the need to assert that you (or anyone) could have done a better job by setting a 20x or 25x target. Or that you could have not only forseen it was necessary, but convince everyone around you that the capex was justified.

Why are you so keen on assigning blame and shame in this scenario? Some of our peers made history. Can we be happy for them for 6 months before immediately backseat driving about how much better we all are in our armchairs?
I don't understand. none of those examples are 'self-made'
The FBI? Don't hold your breath...
This is bogus. If the US really thinks that Russia did the hack, then it's not because of an originating IP or company in Russia.

The US probably has hacked Russian communications from somewhere else that actually points the finger. However, they would never give that information up.

Either that or they have hacked a huge chain of these proxy operations, but that seems like a tall order.
Let me human-translate the two relevant paragraphs for you:

> A tesla electric car with activated autopilot rear-ended a bus on the A24 motorway on Wednesday, as police reported on Thursday. Tesla could not confirm any details regarding the crash. Their cars feature extensive telemetry, so the manufacturer usually knows whether autopilot was enabled during an accident.

> The model S sedan rear-ended the Danish bus next to a service area when the bus returned to the right lane after overtaking. The 50 y/o driver was lightly injured. All 29 passengers of the bus remained unharmed.
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True of anything. For instance, are there any acts of violence avoided because someone is a licensed gun carrier?
> There's still only one major PostgreSQL release per year.

Well, due to the delayed 9.5 release (January 7th), there have been two this year ;)
FWIW, in my opinion, the biggest thing that Rust has in `std` that Go doesn't is its iterator API. (I think you might have meant this by "functional tools," but just wanted to clarify.)
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Is there a "reputable" reseller that HNers use? I can find tons of resellers but e-mail is too central to my identity to gamble like this. At least I would be able to transfer my domain again, but if they get full access to my stuff even for a few hours I'm already screwed.

(edit: what I mean is that he can recall the account and get full access to it while DNS still points to Google)
Gum on sidewalk correlated with per Capita Income
He addresses that in the book as well. His goal is to give rough estimates and a framework to reason about energy sources, not provide conclusions.
Yes, yes, as humans we will be able to adapt, and no, it's not the plot of 2012.

For the flora and fauna in the biomes being destroyed, they are facing extinction.
>..imaginary..

um, no

A hostile foreign power hacking a government related server containing potential sensitive data and then spewing that data such as to disrupt a US election is vastly more significant than putting that data on the server in the first place.

One casts light on a candidates decision making process, the other is pretty close to an act of war.
My own opinions on the matter aside, I don't fully understand why anyone who likes dynamic scoping would dislike dependency injection.
"“If the F.B.I. asks, we are ready to supply the I.P. addresses, the logs,” he said, referring to internet protocols, which identify a particular web page or device."

They should create a GUI interface using visual basic to track this so called "internet protocol" that will identify the perpetrators.
Maybe I'm just cynical, but my interpretation was more of "YC's over-arching strategy is to benevolently get a small piece of EVERYTHING, so we'd better convince new markets to come work with us."
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Yes, and yes.

The pam module requires you to forward a remote connection to your ssh agent - when you connect to a compromised server your attacker can authenticate to other machines as you.

An ssh key for root is simpler and safer.
I wanted to make more sense of some of these CO2 headlines, so I put together a scraper that generates live D3 charts of the most recent CO2 measurements from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and keeps them up to date.

Here’s weekly: https://www.numer.al/scripps_data/figures/atmospheric-c02-co...

Monthly: https://www.numer.al/scripps_data/figures/atmospheric-c02-co...

And yearly (avg): https://www.numer.al/scripps_data/figures/atmospheric-co2-co...

And the really scary one, similar to the recent XKCD, is the ice core data from the NOAA: https://www.numer.al/noaa_data/figures/antarctic-ice-cores-r...

(Fun fact, Postgres date fields underflow after 4713 BC, but the data actually goes back another 700,000 years!)
each percent of compilation time is an improvement. 20% is huge success.
I'd guess he's worried about the wood rotting, and the decay process venting CO2 (and, worse, methane) back into the atmosphere.
Poorly worded by me - it doesn't really matter how hard it is to write - it does matter how compact and readable it is - how long it takes to get an overview of what's wrong.

It's nice if it's easy to write - but the real test is read, comprehend, modify.

JSON merges the worst and most redundant parts of C and lisp.
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Some food for thought. These are the first cases that came to my mind:

1) Zero data loss backups (as far as I know, Barman is the first backup tool for PostgreSQL to implement it)

2) Monitoring ('check' command)

3) Hybrid WAL shipping (archiving + streaming)

4) Incremental backups

5) Faster recovery time (backups are stored as plain files, you can have incremental recovery and you can use 'get-wal') - also we are working on parallel backup and recovery

6) Backup from a standby

In terms of management, Barman is very low maintenance, but the outcomes you get are relevant.

If you have multiple PostgreSQL servers, you can concentrate backups in a single Barman host. Every server can have its own settings allowing you to implement hybrid solutions (you can mix versions, backup methods such as rsync or pg_basebackup, WAL archiving, WAL streaming, and so on).

As said above by "amenonsen", with hook scripts you can also relay WAL files to S3 very easily, and create a backup of your backup.

That is why I think having a separate backup server has more pros than cons.

I hope this helps.
The soil has unavailable nutrients in large supplies that get converted by microbes. The biochar is technically inert and doesn't get absorbed, it stimulates microbial life because it has massive amounts of surface area. It's not technically necessary.
I call it a toy, you express indignation and then use children as an example.

The way children use toys is not the way adults use tools. Touchscreens have proven great for "consumption" devices like phones, and have proven pretty terrible for most everything else.

I'm not being too hard on them I should say, but anyone who thinks traditional input devices will be replaced in general purpose computing with touchscreens ignores decades of history and basic physical reality.
Exactly! I use Bootstrap for the auto-scaling to the device, and AlpacaJS for the dynamically generated and adjustable forms... but that's it. That's all I want from JS: form management and validation, and responsive design (and I believe the latter is done in pure CSS anyway?)
this is pretty hilarious!
That G-naming reminded me "G-spot".
>>I did not agree at all. In my experience it's much easier to make 1 million then it is to invest 1 million and make another million.

Really. Let's hear your formula.

Because the stock market returns 7% per year on average after inflation, which means it takes about 10.2 years for $1 million to become $2 million. What's even better is that this happens behind the scenes - you don't have to do any work for it.

So what's your formula for getting from zero to $1 million in 10 years without doing any work?
This reminds me of the video game Factorio.

Is there software that solves this problem of factory layout? Why or why not?
Don't forget the human sacrifice to the crypto-god.

No but in all seriousness it's a good time if you like talking/learning/debating cryptography and general security things.
I totally agree.

JavaScript for dynamic forms and validation, and any responsive design functionality it gives me through the use of Bootstrap/SemanticUI... that's it.
Go to the public library. Get a piece of paper and a pencil. Look up info on internet. Write it down. Ask librarian if you need help.
I've struggled with this for a while. As context to what I'm going to say, know that I've been gravely concerned about climate change for a good while. The rate, quantity and quality of 'bad news' climate-change related data has been increasing exponentially, and I might even be using that word in a literally correct way.

I've posted this elsewhere, but I'll just summarize.

> An earth even 10 degrees warmer than now will be much more habitable than the Moon or Mars ever will be.

To first and second approximations, your statement is spot on accurate.

Mars has 1 or 2% of our atmosphere.
Mars has radiation.
Even under some of the best SpaceX scenarios, it will be something like $100/pound to the surface of Mars.
...many others...

I've come up with two basic advantages Mars has, or could have.
1. Its extremely thin atmosphere makes it virtually harmless to structures, to things we might build there.

I think that it's possible that the climate here on earth will get so wild and so intense that the air itself will become our primary physical enemy, in the form of storms. That is, property-damaging winds and floods might become frequent and wide-spread enough that any kind of large-scale surface building becomes impractical.

I haven't seen any science on this specific to this scenario, and, objectively, it's unlikely, but it's something to consider.

So, assuming it's not possible to build above ground, surely it's still cheaper to build underground on earth than above ground on Mars? This is the second advantage I can imagine for Mars.

2. There will always be (relatively) few people on Mars, and all of those people will be living with pretty intense self-sustaining frameworks/environments.

If things get really bad on earth, it's possible, perhaps likely, that people overall will make the future of other groups of well-prepared people precarious. I don't really need to go into what all that means.

So, those are the two Mars-provided 'survival-level' advantages I have managed to come up with. And both of them are contingent on some pretty extreme stuff happening here on earth.

In closing, I'll say that I agree with Elon Musk's statement about how we may as well get started now, rather than later. Over a long enough timeline, human survival on earth approaches zero.
There's an assumption that having fewer forms of abstraction, or fewer syntactic constructs, makes a language 'simple.' Certainly having to understand and choose between different forms of abstraction can make it difficult to use a language correctly, but the absence of that kind of complexity doesn't mean the language is necessarily simple.
Thanks for the link + explanation! Now that I saw the article, I vaguely remember the story but, at the time, I did not do any further reading.
>Why do you feel that...

As a dead tree decomposes the heterotrophic organisms eating it release a large amount of the stored carbon back into the atmosphere as CO2 as we heterotrophs are want to do. That's where a lot of people stop and give up.

What I think a lot of people forget is that plants naturally spread. If you plant a tree and it survives for 50 years, it's producing seedlings for up to 90% of it's lifetime. If even two seedlings can become trees you have removed the CO2 from the air rather permanently.
How is calling something "athiest" "sacrilegious"? Sacrilege is misuse of something that's sacred -how can athiest banded soles be sacred?

I think that sacrilege is something that takes two to tango, if I don't care that you think my soles are sacred, that's your problem, if you want to treat them specially buy you're own, mine are none of your business, all I can say is "meh"
> didn't know a single person who didn't own a car, and most of them spent lots of time driving.

Really? I know lots of people who don't own a car & many, many people who have never had a drivers license. Its clearly not as car free as NYC, but is anyplace in the USA?

I think one thing about Chicago is that there is a lot of variance in peoples experience. Living in Morgan Park is different than Lincoln Park which is different than Orland Park.
Unless I see monodevelop or sharpdevelop support, I gotta say this project seems quite silly to me.
I rolled my own in ASP.NET MVC, initially using local xml files for persistence, eventually moved to Azure blob storage for both posts and comments. Fun little project.
And that will come with an expensive yearly renewable cloud subscription ...
Ontario generates 93% of electricity from non-CO2 generating sources. They still signed contracts to add 18000 MW of renewable power in 20 years.

Cancelling 1000MW contract in that light doesnt seem so horrible.
Australia's short-lived carbon tax reduced emissions. Despite the overblown media claims at the time, it didn't impose a massive cost on consumers, nor hugely impact GDP.

https://ccep.crawford.anu.edu.au/sites/default/files/publica...
Intermediate developer - Will produce something if left alone, but not necessarily what the business most needs. Needs minimal supervision, but defined goals.
Senior developer - Will produce immediate business value if completely ignored.

The difference between these two do not seem to be related to technical ability but rather being able to detect 'business value' within the organization's general business model.
You vastly underestimate the technology differences between 500 b.c. and 1600ad. The printing press for example. Windmills/waterwheels for another. Did the automation of grain mills result in mass unemployability?

> office and service sector jobs -- because that was another underdeveloped sector.

Or perhaps automation allowed more people to pursue that type of work? Was working in an air conditioned office an option for your average person in 500bc? Doubt it. Instead it sounds like we created a whole new type of work in response to a society wide change in technology.

> software and the internet makes lots of office jobs and procedures obsolete

Some, but fewer than you would think, and it makes many other jobs accessible. Often technology advances are unskilled people + tech/process improvements displacing skilled artisans. The factory worker jobs were an example of technology displacing skilled workers. Computers and the internet allow for unskilled/untrained people to enter fields that they would be unsuited for alternatively. How many retail bankers could do an amortization table without the computer's assistance?

> I'm not sure how anyone in a technology forum can believe...

Precisely the opposite. Technology eliminating work has happened several times in the past. Just never with disaster. We always seem to find new things to work on. The greater efficiency we have the more our horizon expands about what we can pursue as 'work'. If you were a good actor in 500BC, what would that buy you? Some local notoriety? Would it be 'work' that you get paid for in your local town? Probably not. Now it means you get a private jet. New areas will expand to fill the gaps.

Even among the industries being automated, the results are often not that dire. There is a milder version of Jevon's paradox at work here. Once you can produce something with great efficiency and low cost, people will demand more of it. Sometimes demand will even increase faster than efficiency and you'll have net employment growth.
No do not be sad, fortunately we have a robust, state of the art, highly refined and efficient device for removing cO2 from the atmosphere, they're called trees.
I'm not sure what a console that performs the current tasks and spans multiple regions at once would look like, or that it would make things feel simpler.

What's your suggestion for improving the UX?
It would be cool to maintain a fork of the book with updated figures. Is the tex source available anywhere?

EDIT: What seems to be the latest version of the source files is hosted at http://www.inference.eng.cam.ac.uk/sustainable/book/tex/.
I think this is a problem with the common perception that college education is synonymous with being smart/intelligent.

I think this is definitely not the case. I have more respect for the people who "get shit done" that sit around and hold clipboards.

It may have once been that those in high positions of academia where the best of the best but that's not always the case now.
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Hacking local MongoDB installation from web with CSRF and timing attacks
Congrats to the team and thank you!

As always, I've updated my Docker image for 1.12. Both the "1.12.0" and "latest" tags are now 1.12: https://hub.docker.com/r/jimmycuadra/rust/
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also there's julia, which is being designed from the ground up for this domain. if i were working on a scientific computing library that would be my first choice of ecosystem to target.
3 years ago...

Is it still true now?
By not mentioning that Niantic is made up of Googlers, and spun out of an internal project, the post makes it seem that Niantic organically and independently choose Google Cloud from among the top P/IaaS vendors.

The omission of that fact may cause the reader to infer that Google Cloud Platform was chosen for it's technical merits, and not because the company was actually a Google team that spun out.
DNA breakthrough predicts a criminal's face. But can it solve a 1992 murder?
You shouldn't have to hand over control of your domain at any point. You buy a placeholder domain from them, log into the placeholder Google Apps admin settings, add your domain to the account, and then switch your domain to be the primary.
that's not a fair comparison - you would need to "found" many companies (comprising of top grade university boffins)..

This really is a cheap win... for Amazon.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warfarin

Not sure if it applies though because it being severly harmful to rodents hasn't prevented us from looking into this substance closely. Quite the opposite.
This is just letting the perfect be the enemy of the good.