skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The engineer from roughly half a century ago might consider you to be less crazy if you started by thinking of the number of atoms in a mole, and the number of atoms thus required to produce a sheet of metal. Then you could transition in to the incredible density that a wound up roll of magnetic tape must surely have, and postulate that if you could instead index it from the side like a record player's needle you'd end up with a rather massive storage density.

Then you could explain that, more or less, such a thing had been done in this bespoke black box of highly advanced technology; and just look at these little bits on the circuits, electronic components of a tiny nature like you might see in some scifi film if you took apart a ray gun.

Then you could say something about it either being alien, or more plausibly, time travel from the future being involved. I don't think you'd quite convince a scientist of the day that post-war research had continued at /such/ a remarkable pace of research as to allow that to be something produced by period technology.
I didn't hear a lot of Democrats complaining about a "de facto one-party state" when they were chirping excitedly about gaining a permanent demographic majority a few months back, so forgive me if this sudden concern over the topic does not come off as entirely sincere.
There was a plan to do this back in the 90s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teledesic
Weren't those negotiations with Boehner mainly just intended to avoid sequester? That's a fairly unusual situation. Outside of that I don't recall anything, but I may have just not paid enough attention.

As for the party moving right, that's basically what I was referring to. Having been excluded from negotiations on legislation early on, with the stimulus bill and such, the Republicans became a unified opposition when many were initially willing and politically able to compromise. This is what made room for the tea party in 2010, which has been a big obstacle for them afterwards in my opinion. It's all sort of a lose-lose situation.
Fill your downtime with work to fill your pipeline.

Unless you plan on selling freelancing services related to anti-surveillance work (Security, building an audience in the area) really filling your time with anything but sales is going to hurt in a years time
Really? I forgot all about it. Thanks!
My dream of an off-grid cabin with internet access inches closer!
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Thanks very much for this. Based on the one or two private individuals featuring on both lists, I'm inclined to think your original post was exceedingly strongly worded.
* for IQ (a normal distribution), the mean and the median (and the mode for that matter) are the same number.
> for US regulators to create policies that are encourage the development of self-driving cars.

How much more friendly of an environment do they need? The NHTSA has guidelines, and wants answers, but it hasn't shown a lot of prior restraint in this space.

These companies are slow to move because they know full well that if they kill enough drivers, their stock will fall so much that they'll be de-listed from any legitimate securities market in a matter of days.

This is a complicated space with a lot of new liabilities and civil responsibilities to consider, it _should_ move slow.
I ran into an issue when I first started using WSL. I was able to mitigate it by changing the settings on my text editor to use LF line endings and ensuring that git does not automatically modify line endings upon checkout. I have not had any issues since.
No, phone/dsl lines have very low latency. The latency is purely a factor of time to get to the satellite.

Uplink bandwidth has been an issue in the past (phone/dsl is fairly slow speeds, at least in the places you'd want satellite internet)
>Thinking a little bigger, I can see no better way to combat bigotry and nationalism than to experience life the same way as humans from the other side of the planet, and realize that we are the same in so many ways.

The people rich enough and willing to do this in the first place are usually not that bigoted/nationalistic. Someone who hates the French isn't going to volunteer to go live in a village in France for a month... especially if it means quitting their job and spending a 20% of their annual income to do so.
Programming humour
The cost of the convenience is clearly entry in a reverse-lottery. You just hope it doesn't happen to you. The rarity of the event saps most people of the effort required to implement a backup solution that would alleviate the main pain points (lost contacts, lost google docs/photos/files).
Important point from paper abstract:

>The pathway is up to five times more efficient than the in vivo rates of the most common natural carbon fixation pathway.

Pretty awesome depending on how tight that "up to" bound is. As an aside, this sort of thing is why I don't worry too much about climate change - once the incentives become real I'm very confident in societies ability to invent solutions. Maybe, say, a star-trek-tier global weather control system :) The primary risk with that attitude would be if our best solutions are local in nature - this would likely result in impoverished countries and cities suffering the major brunt of climate change.
So the "makers" of browser apps should be considered to have a more important stake in Apple's product than the users?
Yeah, I would imagine things are milder than they have been in my experience. But I've heard people say the phrase "white people have no culture" upwards of 10 times by several different people, the majority of whom were white themselves, which is a little mind boggling.
There are tools Designed for measuring how many words a young child says & hears each day that ou might be able to repurpose
Versace starling is a commercial product (looks a lil silly since it's meant to be attached to a toddler, but you might be able to repackage it)
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This article about the academic studies of the phenomenon references a tool called LENA.
http://www.babyispeech.com/30-million-word-gap.html
Your favorite one is...
And again you are trying to offend me even when i'm trying to stay calm in this conversation. And it's all just because I recommended to use encryption, lol.
Fuck off and bye.
It's really just a speed thing—it's not worth the anonymity tradeoff for me.

Of course, maybe I should put my money where my mouth is and use it to improve it for people who DO find the tradeoff worth it.
lol he blew up zuckerdude's satellite on purpose for sure
The Rise and Fall of Theranos: A Cartoon History of a Cartoon Company
They also advertise it as "hassel"-free, which is funny.
Maybe klodolph is talking about fresh while some others are reporting on frozen.

Here where I am,
Ordinary chicken breast is $6-8 /lb.
Organic breasts: $8-10 /lb.
Frozen breasts can be $2.50-4 /lb.

I prefer to get misery-free local chickens whole for $4.50 /lb. Then I can make stock. Yum!
Interesting. A startup, BeSomebody, actually just pitched this item on SharkTank. His presentation did not go well at all, and he got no money. But the idea seems really cool. So I'm glad Airbnb is implementing it.
I have used them myself for error handling many times many years ago. When you don't have exceptions and longjmp scares the shit out of you, gotos for error handling are fine by me too. I agree, dogmatic banning of them precludes the useful case of error handling but it is a slippery slope that they seem to be already sliding with got_key:.
That's why it's called "risk arbitrage" ;)
I don't know about that. I like systemd but I think it has a very different culture from classic Unix. (I never liked Unix culture.) It is probably possible to fix many of Linux's problems while keeping the old culture but no one can be bothered to do it.
I lost my account there many years ago due to leaving torrents behind, and I had a few TB surplus ratio, and I've learned many times that I'm not a special snowflake, so I tend to agree with GP, that ratio game really stifled the flow of data(if flow is the metric you want to reach). True of most private trackers.
But do you hold the clutch in when stopped?

I generally don't. I too have driven several manual pickups, and only once had a squeaky throwout bearing. But I bought that one used so who knows what it had gone through before me.
Here is a disturbing summary of potential effects of sea level rise (but be warned that this subreddit tends to be a bit alarmist):

https://www.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/5abz8e/why_rising...
Thats why I use case
To an extent, but at those current draws, you do need integrated cooling in your battery packs.
Google will never do anything that involves hiring O(N) employees to support N customers. They'll always outsource things like support, repairs, etc. so that someone else can handle scaling people, while they just go on scaling machines. Given that, the only real possibility is that "some random dude" is going to end up fixing your Pixel.

On the other hand, the "who's never seen the Pixel before" part? C'mon, the phone just came out—if an i-device breaks on the first day, you'd better believe that if you take it to an Apple Store someone's fixing it who has never seen that device before. That's the fundamental problem of new hardware designs (especially when coupled to bathtub curves); you can't blame Google for it. Give them a month and every repair shop around you will have fixed plenty of Pixels.
I've always maintained that the solution to carbon capture and sequestration would be biological in nature. This is great news indeed.
Lip Reading Sentences in the Wild
I used to use Pragmata, but have since switched to Iosevka. It's similar in width and also supports ligatures.
That's simply not true. musicbrainz tagging is quite poor, to be honest. Properly moderated music torrents (not only what.cd) in general have much better and more relevant metadata for each release. Unfortunately, it's not that available and usually requires a human to be interpreted.

Discogs is vaster, but still quite disorganized. For rather obscure music you still don't have anything better than the metadata that comes with the torrent (and is required on all quality music torrent trackers).
I'm now left wondering what is next and how I can help in creating something even remotely as amazing as what.cd. What and waffles rose quite quickly from the ashes of oink, anyone got any ideas?
That was my point. As a libertarian I would in general tend towards not having the government involved with this stuff, but Russia and the US are two countries which have bad relations at the moment and there's uncertainty if they might have a military conflict in the near future.

Here it's hard to say if it is justified as I do not know what the US secret services and the US military might be able to do with this kind of data in a conflict. (having the passwords of XX million Russians could be devastating in a cyberattack as many will do the stupid thing and reuse the same password everywhere)
Funny, the experience of "Send yourself an SMS to get our new app." instead of just linking to Google Play for people in Spain is that it doesn't accept spanish number format. Instead it asks for one extra number and if you pad it with a zero, it throws an error "Unfortunately, a server error prevented your request from being completed". So much for the Airbnb experience.

Even better that if you turn of JavaScript, then the links open up Google Play instead of the annoying sms popup.
Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aogzAUPilE
Whats the distinction between Integer Programming and Constraint Programming? From a cutlery glance they appear to be the same solution to the same problem...
I'd like to think that as we become a more globalized society, it would be in our best interests to keep every region protected from CO2 proliferation—the 'rising tides lift all ships' philosophy.
> According to the French news site Zataz, the cybercrime unit of the Gendarmerie (C3N) raided twelve servers operated by [What.cd] at hosting provider OVH, and one server that was stored at Free.

https://torrentfreak.com/what-cd-shuts-down-following-report...
> That is ridiculous. We've had gender separated restrooms for the longest time.

Actually that's pretty modern, historically. And thanks for telling me what my gender is, I really needed the guidance.

> Since the Constitution doesn't say anything about sexual relations or orientation at all, it devolves to state rights.

State rights and the People. I don't feel the need to make a moral argument about human rights on this issue, but I am sure one could be made.
> Get over yourself. When a majority of people in a political jurisdiction believe a certain thing, either learn to live with it or move.

The majority is not always right, and democracy does not mean "majority rules". Also appeal to tradition is a fallacy, not a valid argument.

> I repeat points in the media because they make sense.

The triumph of rationalization over empiricism is nearly complete.

> Ad hominem much? I have not attacked you personally at all

Right, that thing where you said all trans people are insane or faking it was not in any sense a personal reflection. You do seem to be persisting in that belief though, which again does not reflect empirical reality. You are insisting that laws be made on the basis of your feelings -- and then blaming your opponents for it.
I think we'll just have to agree to disagree, then. You don't like systemd or journald, and that's fine. To me, it looks like systemd and journald solve the problems they set out to solve in a reasonable way; I don't like everything about it, but I didn't like a lot of things about initscripts and syslog, either, and think we've moved up in the world by switching.

Hopefully, you'll be able to direct your energies into maintaining one of the distros that has chosen to stick with the old way of doing things (Devuan seems to be the most promising one coming up, but I guess there are several others). I'm not opposed to folks having choices, as long as I don't have to maintain them.
> But to answer your question, those languages are no safer than C++. I can write a C plugin in both that contains memory leaks and various safety issues. And in fact, both projects have had their own security problems.

This definition makes any comparison of the safety of different languages totally useless: according to it, all languages are equally unsafe. You're free to want to use that definition, but it's a tautology and thus doesn't actually allow distinguishing between anything nor serve any purpose.

It's true that all languages offer escape hatches, but it's also true that there's a major qualitative (at least) difference between the constrained rarely used escape hatches of Python, Java and Rust, and the "the whole language is an escape hatch" approach of C++ and C.

In mathematics and the verification of programs, proofs will build from small proofs: first show that a function `foo` has a certain behaviour and then use this to show that `bar` (which calls `foo`) has another behaviour, etc etc, until the whole program is proved correct. Languages like Python, Java and Rust are designed with this in mind: prove the unsafe code correct and the language guarantees the rest of the code is memory safe. C and C++ have no such properly: a proof of memory safety requires touching every single line of code, not just the small number that actually need to escape down a level.
I've been a member for over 7 years and considered this my home on the internet. I'm incredibly sad today and the news hit me like a truck. Trying to reconnect with friends on IRC right now but there'll be no replacement for the huge collection of rare music, the collages built for all kinds of niche topics, the notification system that worked better than all other music sites combined and the knowledgeable forums. There were user meetups at concerts and organized camps at festivals and most users probably bought way more music than an average person just because they liked to support the artists.

Most people I know didn't even use the site for it's original purpose but for the recommendations, the discussions about music & concerts and chatting about a lot of other topics on IRC. Even with subscriptions to various "legit" music services there'll be no replacement for that in the near future.

I'm crushed :(

Edit: In case you want to reconnect:

#what-refuge on http://p2p-network.net
This is horrific, this is probably the worst "book burning event" so far this century.

I vividly remember the days after OiNK had just shut down and the effort on IRC to start up replacements (which became Waffles and What). I actually was one of the first 100 users on What, and it was amazing to be able to follow it from the start to the cultural giant it eventually became.

Now there's a need for yet another replacement. Like how What improved on Oink in several ways (most noticeably with Gazelle), I hope the replacement can make things even better yet again.

The future of collabrative archiving/piracy communities are probably not as private clearnet bittorrent trackers though. Someone needs to develop a next-generation solution that's both more user-friendly and more resistant.

#what-refuge @ irc.p2p-network.net seems to be the new place to go.
Right. I'm willing to PAY for better conditions for chicken. Who's with me?!
Sure thing!

Unfortunately I'm afraid that you missed a lot of the content! You had asked for specific documents, not news reporting that pieced the context together (for example following the code names of the various programs together to understand how the system works as a pipeline).

In doing so, I'm afraid you're deeply underestimating the capabilities of the NSA, which expert analysis of the documents in question along with the technologies, related programs and internal customer requests indicate something much more startling than Debian session issues.

To put a point on that: TLS is broken at scale for billions of internet browsing sessions across platforms.

Give the short amount of time you've looked at the documents, I understand the misinterpretation you've arrived at. At the same time it's really impressive that you bothered to try to read the documents at all and should be commended.

Please feel encouraged to continue reading.

A large number of documents are hosted on edwardsnowden dot com and search functionality is provided here: https://search.edwardsnowden.com/

Der Spiegel, The Guardian and The Intercept provided good analysis of the documents as they were being released and that can be found at the websites respectively.

> It's sad, but I'm still saying "use encryption", because alternative is "don't use encryption" and it's obviously worse. So I'm much more responsible than those who are trying to propose second option.

Yes. I agree with this. Just don't recommend this as 'enough' to people who have serious need to protect their communications. If someone is worried about their porn habits, sure. But recommending this for sensitive use (journalists, dissidents, organizers, politicians, administrators) can lead to very serious outcomes.

For these cases, it is important to have frank conversations about the limitations of freely available and widely distributed tools.
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It looks like stealth addresses would be a good solution for bitcoin. There's no widely accepted scheme for it afaik though.

http://sx.dyne.org/stealth.html

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2r07hu/whats_happe...
they aren't telling you to don't touch them, they're telling you to don't touch them FROM THE WINDOWS SIDE. Start a bash instance and use vi/emacs/nano/ed/whatever to edit it from the Linux side.
I added some commands to my .bashrc that syncs my config files when I login.
Which alternative product would you recommend? And I really hope you don't say the iPhone.
Albedo is a measure of how well the earth’s surface reflects sunlight. Snow-covered sea ice has a high albedo and reflects 85 per cent of sunlight. But the open water revealed as ice melts is darker and absorbs more – reflecting just seven per cent.

Yep, that's terrifying.
Went on a couple of these trips in Japan recently. Would definitely recommend to others. They've found some great people.
In a discussion of climate change, on a subdiscussion about whether or not the DoD can convince Trump that it is real, how exactly is posting a list of a large number of Trump's tweets on climate change "spammy"?
I had to pony up about $200/year for belinda.horse for a friend. Definitely not $20.
Lest anybody get the wrong impression, Karagarga was down very briefly but was soon restored and continues to operate at https://karagarga.in/ .
Some of the best airline food I've ever had was on Royal Jordanian, Emirates, Condor, Lufthansa..

seeing a pattern here?

I can't remember the last time that I had a decent in-flight meal on an American based carrier. The foreign flagged ones have been decent.
In Linux, the term "package manager" is loaded with baggage like twisty mazes of dependencies and kitchen-sink repositories. This proposal doesn't have those.
I always struggle with Windows updates, it's not on automatic update and it seems that after Win 10 shenanigans Microsoft is making it harder and harder top keep Windows machine updated. First it seeks for updates without finding anything, then after restart it says there are updates but by that time I have work to do and can't be interrupted with updates. Essentially, the solution is to shut it down and return to Linux machine.
Rails.

You get lots of great stuff out of the box. Perfect for me to get up and running quickly for simple/side projects.

Writing Ruby feels nice and is always a welcome change of pace from a lot of the heavy JS stuff I am doing on frontend atm.
If you don't consider voter fraud.
I wasn't looking for docs on a folder, I was looking for docs about WSL (of which there were none other than the blog post about how to install and enable it, at the time). It's beta software, and I'm not complaining (my review of WSL at the time commented on this problem, without knowing it was a known issue, and I just said something to the effect of, "I won't do that again!" rather than "I'm gonna burn down Microsoft for doing this to me!").

It's no big deal, really. I didn't expect miracles, and it all works much better than I expected. I wish the interop were better, but I'm pleased it's even something Microsoft is trying to do.
I read through this article and was shocked at the level of expectation for constitutional violation built into the police departments "standard operating procedures." Happy to see the court wasn't having it, and hope this trend continues to clamp down on this department and others who believe or behave similarly.
Rand Paul is safe in his ideology. Just like some of the useless liberals on the Democratic side, he can complain and sound moderate because his voice will sway very little.
They already have the passwords. Also, Russia doesn't and won't force any company to store users' data exclusively under their jurisdiction, as this would not allow any foreign company to operate in Russia, making your arguments incorrect.
"commercial aircraft carriers"

That made me stop and think for a bit...
Creating the Philosopher's Stone: The Medieval Science of Color and Alchemy
Spoken like someone that has never traveled with a child.

Kids don't really care for NPR programs. and they won't care for what movie you picked in the iPad, even if they're the ones that picked it out themselves. The seat back entertainment systems are great for kids.
First iPhones, then iPads, then MacBooks and Macs.

Part of this depends on how much of the suppliers are moved to the states. For example TSMC and Samsung could fabricate in the US. TSMC fabs the iPhone/iPad processor as well as the Qualcomm chips in the iPhone, for example.