skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why are people born into such disparagingly disparate circumstances? Pretty shitty game. Why are some born healthy, and others sick. This mode of thinking is... illogical. It also encourages an unhealthy, almost fundamentalist disconnect from all thinking/feeling things. The disturbing, fascist aspect of Zen or Shinto (nothing is real, there are no consequences because there is nothing), or the 50 virgins afterlife of the funda'islamism, is all very very dark disconnected thinking. Makes me despair somewhat. Like he says in the article, another form of religion.
Not genetically, surely. I'd think that has nothing to do with it. Stupid to the extent that they can be incurious and rely on their stored capital to avoid intellectually difficult problems, greedy as a self-selecting behavior, and mean because that appears to be an epiphenomenon: no direct mechanism by which wealth makes you a jerk, but a whole spectrum of associations and conditions which make being a rich jerk by far the most comfortable thing to be.

I'm not sure if it counts as a slur. To a rich person, isn't 'poor' the real slur? Surely meanness is sort of orthoganal to what being rich is about, or even helpful?

Also, I'm not sure this alone is harmful to society. If we acknowledge the very rich are evil jerks by nature, all that really means is 'maybe we shouldn't listen to them on moral topics' and 'maybe their opinions on how to run society are not trustworthy, because they're evil jerks by nature and will disproportionately favor themselves even when taking a larger view would be advantageous'.

Just don't let them write the tax code, and they can be evil all they like, perhaps to their neighbors or social inferiors :)
My experience from talking with non-techies suggests that they'll never understand the problem is the lack of security in their devices & network. All they do is act victim and get enraged about hackers. The thought that they should demand security from the companies who sold them the vulnerable devices doesn't cross their mind, and if try to sell them such an idea, they will protest and call for justice on the principle that it is the hackers who are being criminal and it's not the victim's or his devices' responsibility to keep themselves safe. Just as they don't expect to have to live in a bunker with inpenetrable locks to stay reasonably safe from burglary.
It says so in their TOS, but if you're wearing your tinfoil hat you have no reason to believe that they're honest about that.
AFAIK:

Not a limitation, but the notion that the graphical console should replace the text console on the same TTY.

Kind of makes sense, but very consistency/tradition-breaking. One of those decisions that should have been implemented a while back in order to be elegant.
> Ycombinator.com, why do you have a TTL of 12 seconds?

You either meant to say 60 seconds, or forgot to factor your local caching DNS resolver in. Here:

$ dig +short soa ycombinator.com
ns-225.awsdns-28.com. awsdns-hostmaster.amazon.com. 1 7200 900 1209600 86400

$ dig a ycombinator.com @ns-225.awsdns-28.com. | grep -A3 'ANSWER SECTION'
;; ANSWER SECTION:
ycombinator.com. 60 IN A 54.240.184.14
ycombinator.com. 60 IN A 54.240.184.154
ycombinator.com. 60 IN A 54.240.184.206

That said, 60 seconds is still ridiculously low.
Cliff Jumping
> Most ISPs don't start to see a return on their investment 10-15 years after the fact.

I think a fair amount of the anger at the huge ISPs is that they don't invest in many areas' infrastructure while raising rates, reducing the value of services by retroactively adding caps, and otherwise being exploitive in noncompetitive areas. AOLT&T (sorry, couldn't resist), in particular, is also well known to use threats of not expanding infrastructure as a political weapon, while Verizon is better known for pocketing billions in concessions while also not building infrastructure. But both do both.

Now they want to confuse, and of course raise, your bill further, blurring fees for connectivity with content.
This is kind of interesting, in a "history of communism" type of way.

There’s been a sense that communism as a goal in China has been in zombie mode for a while with the system continuing temporarily until an economic crisis or somesuch brings it to an end.

This reminds me of the various “rationalisation” initiatives undertaken by state communism(s) in their early days which formed such a big part of what we think of as communism. These were (attempts at) nitty-gritty policies aimed at achieving the goals of big talking communist slogans and utopianism.

It seems revivalist.

In some ways, this ideas kind of makes “sense’. Digitisation, social media and other features of modern societies lend better (at least in theory, while wearing our 99 year old state-communism hats) to this sort of societal engineering than their 20th century equivalents.
How did you prove that it's not also a security problem? Experience shows that there are often surprising ways to abuse what seems to be a benign bug to break security of a system.
> it's just another profile

I was surprised how they blocked all attempts at modularity. Even though it was evident that they couldn't agree on a set of JSR to include (some people didn't want some things that are included, some people wanted things that aren't included) they were still blocking any attempt to configure which JSRs you want.
Academics realize that when they grant tenure to someone, that person is likely to be their coworker for the next several decades.

This guy may very well be brilliant in his field, but he is clearly not a good fit for the department he was in. Quite frankly, he seems to be abrasive and a bit of a dick. He also seems inexcusably naive about how academia works, considering how long he has been an academic. Why would any rational person in his department guarantee him the job security to stick around for the rest of his career?

Why would anyone want to hire him after the unprofessional and petulant display he just posted on the web?
> Why would nodes in the IPFS network voluntarily act as a load balancer for my VPS?

Why would nodes in the BitTorrent network voluntarily act as a load balancer for your movies?

Same reason. Maybe you and I cannot explain the reason, but that does not mean that it doesn't happen. People don't always act in a 100% rational, for-profit manner, no matter what economics textbooks tell you.

(Edit: Of course the likelihood of your content being mirrored rises with the quality of your content.)
Your ISP probably offers the most basic mail setup you can build with the lowest effort. Your ISP as no reason to give a world class mail service because that's not something they're good at or that they could make money from. It's just one something they think is expected nowadays. I don't think this is wise advice from a privacy point of view, considering your ISP knows all your internet habits including all your connections to any service you'll ever use and that most ISPs don't have your interests in mind.
Just take a look at old torrents of obscure stuff and you'll see just how resilient bit torrent is. (it isn't)
I almost never talk about all of this. Except the detention centers, it's so interesting and emotional that I often tell the stories. That's where I learnt about Christmas Island.
Black Mirror S03E01 minus the government. That show is incredible.
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And if you are using npm & bower in the same project then this other issue is a show stopper https://github.com/yarnpkg/yarn/issues/616
Have you read the whole article?
> "Not everybody is clever enough to run their own stuff"

It's possible to make home servers easy enough to use they're effectively plug and play. I've got my own ideas of how this can be done, others have different ideas, but the goal of easy home server infrastructure is the same. Once you have that, it becomes painless to take part in IPFS or similar.
I'm white British, born here and I don't drink - definitely get the stranger in a strange land feeling sometimes.
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Not so for CDN content.
I went to DuckDuckGo to check out what yarn is. The front page makes no mention of JavaScript at all (at least on mobile). Accordingly to DuckDuckGo the whole site mentions "JavaScript" only three times. The same is true about the GitHub readme: no mentions of JavaScript at all. Before praising something, makes sense to tell people what it is.

/rant

Thanks for the highlight, I use npm solely for global installs, will give yarn a try.
I guess my thinking is that if you own the dealer and the deck of cards, the game is already over. There are bound to be easier ways to cheat under those circumstances than adding a Rube Goldberg contraption into the mix.
The same that way that all sovereign debt problems are solved - higher taxes if possible and default if not.
likely using the following pseudo-ish code:

# possibly done using a session variable
security_questions = []
# first question
security_questions.push({question: answer})
# second question
security_questions.push({question: answer})

forEach(security_questions as x)
if(!validate_answer(x))
return false;

return true;
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The fun bit for me (no real pun intended regarding Bitcode) is following the speculation that the delays in upgrading the Mac line might be tied to a switch to ARM at the low end. Would make a lot of sense for Apple to vertically integrate their macOS hardware line as neatly as iOS-based devices, but would kill the Mac as an agnostic development platform (i.e., no more Docker x64 binaries and so on).

Can't say I find that much of a problem these days (VMs are plentiful in the cloud), so the prospect of having thinner, lighter laptops seems a decent trade-off.

I just wish they'd actually fix their bugs, though.
Yeah. I read the title and thought "isn't that what everyone says -- just go with the market?"
Yesterday I saw this video about the G5 Mac, which gives a good baseline comparison https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SqYMU81l8Y

Now we supposedly have an ARM processor "good enough" to compete with x86 (while consuming several times less power)

The G5 was certainly fast (I'd guess things like video playing wasn't that good because of unoptimized software) but it consumed a lot of power
> Bear in mind you only get to record cards that are shown, so it could potentially take many games to record the full deck, and that's assuming the deck stays consistent.

Depending on what game you are playing, you don't need to mark anywhere near the full deck. In hold'em, you can get a definite edge if you manage to mark two aces.

The primary problem is optics. All optical devices are limited by the quantization of light. No matter how good your camera technology, if there are not enough photons bouncing off a target, you cannot see it accurately. Modern cameras (and even your eyes!) are much closer to the hard limits placed by physics than most people think. In the case of a side of a card in not very well lit indoors, I don't think you can discern enough detail without either a large lens or a long exposure, both of which could be hard to pull off inside a casino.

Even painted on markings, they need a bright IR light to pull this off at a close distance. Similarly, your camera would need a bright light source.
It seem to ignore shrinkwrapped packages as well: https://medium.com/@boennemann/avoid-yarn-for-packages-and-f...
We use BuddyNS (https://www.buddyns.com/) as our secondary DNS provider. They use AXFR to automatically sync their servers with your primary DNS servers.

You just need a primary DNS vendor which supports AXFR, such as DNS Park (https://www.dnspark.com/).
These header files have listed various ARM chips for years. This is expected since iOS runs on xnu!

They even reference sparc, vax, and several more ancient architectures.

Take a look at the full file here: http://opensource.apple.com//source/xnu/xnu-3248.60.10/osfmk...

So this is not a sign of ARM support in macOS.
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The internet's infrastructure is a good example of relatively rich people doing good for everybody. Our digital world is built on tech developed largely for free by people rich enough to be able to afford this unpaid labour. Nobody ever thanks them, yet they go on because work, not complaint, is the only way to make an actual difference.

Keep laughing! It's the only weapon against malevolent idiocy.
I know what you were referring to. It has already been hyperlinked; I had already referred to where M. Cantrill explained that he gave up; and as I have just explained, the people who wrote GNU tail gave up in the same way (for much the same reasons, I expect) and GNU tail does not handle truncation any more properly than M. Cantrill did. There's no doco, but there's commentary in the code observing the problem.

And as I then went on to explain, this whole idea of truncating one log file over and over is a poor one, and not the best way to do logging in the first place. So the fact that both M. Cantrill and the GNU people gave up should perhaps be viewed as stopping when an inferior mechanism is pushed beyond its limits.
It's not a classical open-source project, but what we did with our React.JS koans (and other our OSS repos) was to advertise our React.js book in the README and give a discount code. Essentially, it's an ad for our own book.

https://github.com/arkency/reactjs_koans

Thanks to this solution we've had more money to work on this and other OSS projects.
What you're proposing is a massively worse ddos vector than anything seen so far.

Hacking a webcam would no longer lead to the ability to ddos websites, it would be a direct and total shutdown of the domestic internet supply.
This is not their post mortem. This is just an update now that the dust is starting to settle.

Nobody wants to be in their shoes, but hopefully they will release a detailed post mortem so we can see what steps we might take in the future to defend against such large Internet-scale attacks.

Ideally some PCAPs will be released...
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If you can dump the VMs "physical memory" - even from an AWS VM, e.g. using the LiME kernel module (https://github.com/volatilityfoundation/volatility/wiki/Lime...) you can still use Volatility and I believe libvmi as well to get some details about what's happening and I don't think it would be possible to disable this technique. Also, this shouldn't interfere with any other guests on the same metal.
I owned an iMac G5, and I agree with the relative comparison. The G5 was fast, but the PPC arch was not that efficient, and moving to Intel at the time gave Apple more headroom while lowering their power consumption and thermal profile.
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Which, incidentally, Cory Doctorow considers to be a fundamentally terrible idea: http://www.locusmag.com/Perspectives/2016/03/cory-doctorow-w...
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L3 already confessed to having build a list of >500K Mirai bot static IPs, they used it to .... do NOTHING, because they are in business of selling pipes, and ddos makes good business.
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> It works because artists accept it. If artists refused to sign to big labels...

No, no no. "If only ${members of group X} all decided to do ${something that goes against individual self-interest of members of said group, but benefits the group as a whole}" is never a solution, because this generally does not happen for groups other than family&friends. Coordination is extremely hard to create, and very easy to destroy - it takes just one person who defects, thinking that "I'll stop doing that agreed-on thing; I'll gain a lot individually, but the group is big, so it won't lose much" - because suddenly you'll have everyone following suit and situation will be back to square one.

That's why you always need some changes that make interests of the group align directly with the interests of the individual.

(Might be a good time to start again my habit of linking to http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/.)
> "I think these statements are bogus. Russian government is a much smaller target than Twitter."

It's not about the size of the infrastructure, it's about the size of the political statement. Targeting larger infrastructure first appears to have been a move to demonstrate the power of their botnet.
It's also how Corbyn has an iron grip on the Labour Party without the support of most Labour MPs.
They should be fixing service providers and not blaming google as in couple of days ago. (of course, if a nation state is trying to hack you good-luck!)
you get the agreement quietly, such that when you speak publicly there is a general agreement on the statements you make in the group. hence you do get credit.

also note that if you (need to) push an idea, you shouldn't be the only one pushing it.
You should prevent the idea becoming tied to you as person.

Some people will just disapprove the idea because of the fact that it comes from you (instead of judging it by its merits).
OP here (long time lurker).

I'm hanging around on HN this morning (CEST/Berlin local time), and then again in the afternoon GMT-7/SF local time) to answer questions.

Looking forward to have some discussion on the state of markup languages, and whether the HN crowd considers this still relevant.
Zombie mode communism has been already tried right in the beginning by New Economic Policy in Soviet Union between 1922 and 1928 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Economic_Policy

The end was one of the bloodiest crimes against humanity and one of the most widespread genocides of the previous century.
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I would love to read anything you have to write about being a ne'er-do-well teenager in Iceland back then.
For anyone looking for help. I'm using OpenNIC DNS servers and I was getting ZERO problems accessing affected websites. I would not notice the problem if not whole internet complaining.
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Hope no one thinks you are being snarky, but court cases have come to that conclusion more than once and it includes cases where the pension fund lost money in the market or suffered theft. In all cases the taxpayer is on the hook for the difference.

Now a recent case in California suggests that pension agreements can be adjusted but I expect that to lose on appeal. Regardless more states and cities will have to go to court to fix their overly generous pension agreements (even in my state the number of double dippers or pensioners with 70-100k incomes from pensions is high)
Great leaders bring change by assembling great teams where everyone gets their time to shine and don't take the credit for it.

Yes and no. Let's say your team has pulled off a major coup. As a (good) manager you very publicly say that all the credit belongs to the team. The team are happy and they love you. But the power players understand your real message.
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>performance in the citation game

Am I the only one who thinks that is a cringe-worthy metric to evaluate a scientist?
Mistakes were made, and there are definitely lessons to be learned, but if we want to improve the state of security, we really need to change the way we react to these types of bugs.

If a service has an outage and a company posts a postmortem, we all think: "wow! that was an interesting bug, lets learn from this".
We shouldn't be treating security issues differently.

People who make security mistakes aren't idiots. They aren't negligent. They're engineers just like us, who have tight deadlines, blindspots and mistakes.
Shaming people and companies for security bugs will only cause less transparency and less sharing of information - making us all less secure.

This is a really cool bug. Kudos to the researcher for finding it, responsibly reporting it, and to paypal for fixing it in a timely fashion.
Hopefully - this type of bug changes some internal processes and the way the company thinks about 2FA.

As for security questions - these are obviously insecure, and should really never be relied on. If you can opt out of security questions - do so. If you can't - just generate a random password as the answer. "I_ty/:QWuCllV?'6ILs`O12kl;d0-`1" is an excellent name for your first dog / high school. Just don't forget to use a password manager to store these.
What if Google wanted to support an Open Source project. Would it still be appropriate if the project mentioned Google as a sponsor, then showed a banner ad promoting the new Google Phone (no tracking/banner does not change)?
Well sure, progress may not be made by union fighting for your paycheck[0]. But progress is a force that doesn't care about people; if inventing that bulldozer means for every one man working 50 go starving, so be it. That's why you have to moderate progress from time to time.

Also, not everything that looks like a tech business is progress. Uber, for instance, is nothing but a taxi cab that uses investor money to break the law and get away with it, and they're also pretty douchy about doing that. A sociopathic bully that pretends to be a white knight, basically.

[0] - though lsiebert's caveat about working conditions applies.
Suppose I'm poking around IPFS and unintentionally download some unauthorized copyrighted content. Is my computer going to automatically start sharing this content, exposing me and my ISP to legal action?

Or if there is a way to prevent sharing particular content that I've accessed, what's to stop me from leeching everything and never sharing anything?

(Edit: Ah, now I see "BitSwap" as possibly addressing my second question, but I'm still concerned about the first.)
Earlier discussion (not on the record, but the route): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12738077

Key takeaways:

- This is a new route (started in Dec 2015)

- AI recently got permissions to use the Chinese Air Space for the route

- The jetstream optimisations are a service provided by Boeing, and AI just started subscribing to them.
But in many cases you don't even know if the IP addresses are spoofed or not.
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>Apple indicates that a new ARM HURRICANE chip family is now supported by the kernel. This is likely a custom ARM chip from Apple as the A7 was dubbed Cyclone, the A8 was Typhoon, and the A9 was Twister. It may even be the A10 Fusion processor found in the iPhone 7.

No need to speculate, the big two cores in A10 are Hurricane (the little two are Zephyr).
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"It is striking that developers no longer send the final binaries when submitting an app, but a bit code. This bit code is then used by Apple to convert the application to the specific platform. Which means that Apple can easily make the transition to a different instruction set, for example, switching from x86 to ARM without all apps need to be resubmitted. It is probably also one of the reasons why legacy applications have recently been removed from the App Store."

I guess this is somehow related to the LLVM toolchain. Is now intermediate code submitted and Apple really generates the final one? Can anyone elaborate how this works and how realistic this it is that Apple would generate two/fat binaries?
Looks like a great resource with a number of collaborators. What was the process of getting all the collaborators to agree to advertise the book?

Have you ever been approached to sponsor another product/company? Under what terms would you accept?
I'm a bit surprised that taking the link into Google and clicking on WSJ links from Google don't show the full article anymore.