skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you have a viable model by which the entire human race can plausibly work together to fund and implement this, the rest of us would love to hear it.

There's plenty that's flawed about capitalism, but the thing is that it works better than anything else we've so far thought of for providing actual incentives for people to push the envelope of what's possible and create new things in economically viable ways. If there were some way to equally effectively incentivize regulatory oversight - which we manifestly do not have in existing governmental structures - we'd be in solid shape.
Asteroid impacts could create niches for life, suggests Chicxulub crater study
Very true.

I'm a passionate music enthusiast, buying about 5-10 releases a week, often rare stuff. While I really disaprove of using it as exclusive source of music, what.cd has always been my last-resort-source for music that would otherwise be lost or only available on 3-digit-priced vinyl. There were still a lot of gaps in the catalogue but it's probably the most complete collection of lossless music, organized in a way that is rare for user provided content online. A sublime experience.
The problem is that blinding for sender and receiver is hard to achieve on a route-based mesh.

On the internet you need to know the receiver and sender of a message, otherwise you have no idea where it's going and the best method to from there is to use very inefficient methods.

HTTPS and IMAP over TLS already achieve MITM-resistance, as long as you verify the certificate.

With TLS (and SSL to some extend) you can't snoop on and censor data, not without compromising the sender (assuming you trust their certificate explicitly).
Is there a Risk Adjustment component here?
My original point stands that the person you were replying to did not make the claim you're implying they did. Your response was to equivocate. Claiming that I'm being too literal isn't addressing your equivocation.

Let me put it another way: in your subsequent replies you are implying that what your original claim meant was "If the internet stopped even just a few people from falling for bullshit, "post-truth" would not have been 'word of the year' for 2016." which is clearly not what you meant (and, BTW, would clearly be a false statement) - hence the equivocation.
Bad name. The first thing that sprang to my mind was hepatitis...
Not long ago I realized that the shop I was working for could fit its entire business on a smartphone.
It would be very rare, if the demand would be limited to the preorders. Usually the main amount of buys happens after the product becomes available on the market. So I would recon the preorders are a very conservative indicator for the volume in the first year.
It's probably my ignorance and preconceived notions showing but this seems so bizarre when contrasted with something like medication. If patenting methods is possible could I patent a particular type of high intensity interval training?
News at http://gizmodo.com/authorities-just-shut-down-what-cd-the-be...
Yup, in the US and elsewhere.

It's called "astroturfing". The US military has been doing it for a decade or more (Operation Earnest Voice, etc).

The new technology is to augment bot behavior with "persona management" software. Basically contractors who sit around all day and impersonate simulated people online in communities where messages are targeting permeation.

Militaries around the world participate in this, with the UK and US organized into information warfare brigades.
Why Diamond though? That one is so different from the gb/gba versions. Prob better result just to stick with 2nd and 3rd gens.
> I find it hard to be believe that with Trump getting what over 300 electoral college votes and Hillary having the worst Democratic performance in 28 years, that people for voted for Obama just simply didn't show up

Romney 2012 - 60,933,504 votes, Trump 2016 - 61,000,837 votes.

Obama 2012 - 65,915,795	votes, Clinton 2016 - 62,109,875 votes.

Let's not forget that second term presidencies typically attract fewer voters, and 2012 was a low point for Obama, whose personal record is 69,498,516 votes in 2008.

People who traditionally vote Republican showed up and voted Republican. People who traditionally vote Democrat simply didn't show up.
Here are the examples, in case you didn't see them. They're not obvious in the site (bottom of the github readme)

Basic Bar Chart (ES2015): http://jsbin.com/qopuwerixa/edit?js,output

Basic Bar Chart (ES5): http://jsbin.com/zutise/edit?js,output

Stacked Bar Chart (ES2015): http://jsbin.com/nifoxohuxa/edit?js,output
I assume that both jobs appeal to you, the companies have similar qualities. Both areas are good. But since you already have a bit of experience in mobile(Android) I would suggest sticking with that area.

Typically employers look for 2-3 years experience, so you would be starting from scratch by switching to web front-end so soon. You don't say where these jobs are located: city/country - so it is hard to provide more specific suggestions.
Infinite apple juice!
It does indeed. However not as much as processing a signal may do. I'll extrapolate further. I worked indirectly with satellite systems back in the late 1990s. You've got two ways of handling satellite data:

1. Uplink/downlink. This is the most primitive and I understand still the most common. You RX, strip the carrier off, mix it with a new carrier, amplify it and send. There is no intelligence other than the uplink and downlink frequencies. Bandwidth of both of these is pretty wide. Ergo, latency is minimal, power efficiency is high. The satellite doesn't have any idea what the signal means.

2. Decode/retransmit. This you need to RX it, strip the carrier out, demodulate it possibly thousands of channels individually spanning a massive bandwidth, intelligently decide what to do with it while buffering it, mix with one of many new carriers, amplify, retransmit. Latency high, power efficiency low.

The latter requires some serious routing power which isn't necessarily available either cost efficiently or reliably of the shelf. Getting something like that which is rad hardened isn't likey to succeed and you can't just launch three redundant core 2's to do it like Dragon.

Imagine launching a radiation hardened 4G base station. That's a good analogy.
And as a bonus, if you onsell it, we'll wipe your Google account without warning.
Interesting how people start to see conspiracy theories when their side is losing.

There is no grand fascist conspiracy (unless we use the original meaning of fascism - the intertwining of state and big corporations - in which case we are living in it already)

What we have here is logical conclusion of embracing the identity politics. Because you cannot have only the good side of identity - identity tell you who you are, but also tells you who you aren't. So it is inevitable to have more and more fractures. They are neither progressive nor enlightened.

Economic justice bring social progress - the civil right movement was made possible because it was in the middle of unheard of economic boom post WWII. There was enough to go around for everyone.

And the progress suddenly stopped in the 70s when the economy went sour. And for the masses - never improved.
From the Labour wonks and spads I know, Corbyn was against it, but Burnham was adamant that he needed to support the bill to be seen as "tough on terrorism". Little comfort. Horrible, inevitable news.
>Is the speed through air close to the vacuum speed?

Yes, very close. The index of refraction of air is 1.0003, so the speed of light in air is c/1.0003 = 99.97% the speed of light in a vacuum.

The index of refraction in a doped silicon telecommunications fiber core is around 1.4475, so the speed of light is 1/1.4475 = 69.08% the speed of light in a vacuum.

>Otherwise it's probably just 10-20% which I guess would be slower after considering the extra distance?

Undersea fibers have to avoid these things called 'continents.' For long distance hops this makes satellite the fastest system that's physically possible. https://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/m.dodge/cyberge...
Astroturfing has typically involved people. By far the biggest use of it I've seen has been in global warming discussions.
Ruby 2.3.2 released
Maybe you're aware already, but I'll mention it in case to aren't; the electoral college distorts the results of presidential elections. Hillary Clinton "got more votes than any presidential candidate in history besides Barack Obama, and won the popular vote by a wider margin than John F Kennedy in 1960 or Richard Nixon in 1968, both of whom ended up in the White House."
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election...

Edited in response to rdtsc's reply below:
This comment was in response to "Hillary having the worst Democratic performance in 28 years"
Jeez. Watching this I felt really good for abandoning c# long time ago. no regrets whatsoever.
No, the one you linked to is just charge-only.

I wish to build - or I wish someone would build - a USB condom that passes through USB stick drives, by reading files on one side, and emulating a filesystem on the other.

It's not because I want to be 100% there is no backdoor. Rather I want a minimum of safety when I have to access a USB stick given to me by a stranger.

(Speaking of building your own, simple power-only USB condoms - like you linked to - are actually pretty easy to make. They have been used to teach (SMD) soldering at CCC events, hackerspaces and the like.)
I think it's the audience, the people participating. What.cd had a lot of very enthusiastic, competent, knowledgeable users while Spotify features a rather mainstream, general user base that takes a more passive role when it comes to music and its discovery. Obviously results will differ.

Furthermore, Spotify hardly provides any tools to promote and showcase a high quality, carefully compiled playlist. I can share a link, sure, but that's the most basic of paths to new potential listeners.
This. I get $150 credit with my MSDN account but it never gets used because paying for AWS is a better deal than dealing with Azure.

Azure feels like Microsoft wrote it. Clunky, slow and unreliable.
I though of seven. Is there any significance to the number one Kubernetes?
Thanks for pointing that out. I wasn't aware of it. Seems like it'll be a simple 24 Euro payment in 2033.
And increase security.

Interning at a pen testing company, they're always happy with hospitals and the like. "There's always plenty to be found there" I recently heard someone say. Usually you have to be on the internal network and that's why the state of affairs is that bad, but it's not like you are always accompanied by an employee while in the building.

I'd rather security increases than lowering costs, but ideally both of course. Maybe not even for myself: lower costs means being able to treat more people.
Is it really a big surprise? The legacy media has noticed they don't have as much of an influence over people as they used to after their candidate lost the election, and so they're trying to understand how that could possibly have happened. Clearly they aren't at fault because they're never wrong, so it must that Russian bots are creating fake stories and that most people are too stupid to realize all those stories are fake.

You're watching the last gasps of desperation of legacy media in its attempt to drive people away from alternative sources of media. This will fail spectacularly and further diminish legacy media's influence over people.
I got my Fastmail account set up yesterday. Then paid for the first month so as to have that done when the trial ends. Super impressed with the setup. Now just got to start moving things across..
It looks like that text has just been added to the page.
Who would have thunk? By feeding into biases and helping them resolving their cognitive dissonance for ad dollars is unhealthy for politics.
Right, "persona management" is a technique for keeping track of simulated people with simulated interests, simulated aging (so the accounts can exist for years and be reputable), simulated interests and consistent simulated schedules, and simulated vocabulary.

"Persona management" software allows centers of contractors to maintain the identities of these people in a rotating fashion, with the software helping the contractor to choose the right accents and vocabulary, etc.

The biggest use I've seen it in is in politics, specifically events of national security importance.
Yep, pretty much. It feels like they've gone intrinsically hostile, compared to their old "do no evil" ethos.
Thanks for the link! Twister looks like a really good solution for many other use cases.
> Have you even read the leaks?

I have, yes. Every time I heard about a "smoking gun" in the leaked emails that was going to finally bring down the Clintons, it turned out to be either a total fabrication, a severe distortion, or someone with an apparent lack of english reading skills inferring alternate meaning from words and phrases that a plain reading simply did not support.

Most recently I read quite a few emails with "coded words" that were claimed to be evidence of satanic child abuse, with Podesta, Lady Gaga and other "elites" said to be "passing children around like joints at a Bob Marley concert".

I learned to stop listening to those people, but if you can point me to something truly damning please do.
I'd start with a VPN. I'm personally a big fan of Tunnel Bear as it is incredibly easy to setup and has a good mobile app as well. TorrentFreak has some good VPN reviews. Lots more at https://www.reddit.com/r/vpnreviews/

Some posters in the original thread had reservations about VPNs https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12980878 .

For me the benefit of a VPN would be protection against my ISP being hacked rather than stopping someone with sufficient motivated from GCHQ accessing my data.
AppData is not system.

Very few things are system. In 7+, the things that are system are full of nukes.
I teach a course (at various hacking events) titled "Surface mount electronics assembly for terrified beginners" and the thing that basically every participant reports after is that they expected it to be harder. We go from "never knowingly touched a PCB" down to 0.5mm pitch QFNs and 0402 passives in the space of an hour or so, so what you're saying about novices is absolutely correct. (if you want a course like that near you, contact me)
Reminds me of IBM photorec.
I mapped out the influencer networks for Docker and Kubernetes using the tool Little Bird - you can see here[1] that the Kubernetes network is not dominated by any one subgroup: it's not an ecosystem dominated by anybody (except Google, and not in the same way as most OSS which come out of companies). So don't worry about Heptio in that way -- if anything worry that too many companies are all trying to fix the same problems, and they'll be duplicative and not economically viable.

1: https://twitter.com/jtroyer/status/799451113606893568
> the electoral college distorts the results of presidential elections.

Right but what's the point though? What is it in response to?

Yes electoral college is how presidential elections happen. To win the election one needs electoral college votes. I've heard she had a stellar team and a tremendous experience as a politician. You think they didn't know and instead went for the popular vote?
Just what wongarsu said.

I don't know from the top of my head about USB, but for FireWire there was a hack that allowed a malicious device to access all memory (read-write). Basically, a new device is placed on the DMA bus (for speed reasons) with no authentication and can do whatever it wants. There is a proof of concept that unlocks OS X, Windows, and a popular Linux desktop.

There was a USB bug where you could infect some USB controllers with mal-firmware that would spread like a worm! I believe the NSA was actively using this, but I might be mixing things up.

With a condom, a malicious device would have to take over two pieces of hardware, not just one. This is one advantage of a hardware solution.

The other advantage is, if there is an exploit in the USB filter software, the malware lands in my condom (hihi). It would likely have to be adapted to work on it and to move to my PC (the condom is ARM, has no network besides USB, can have a read-only file system, ...).
For discovery?

- My bandcamp feed - we have a great community of like minded music lovers over there. And while I keep track of new releases anyway, Bandcamp will notify me of new release by my favorite labels.

- Small, human curated, online record stores. Piccadilly Records, Soul Jazz Records, Norman Records, clone.nl, Pacific Beach Vinyl, Red Eye Records, Phonica. You don't have to buy there if you prefer digital releases - I do and still value the selection and recommendations.

- magazine / review sites. Testpressing.org, Pitchfork, Resident Advisor, Fact, Music Is My Sanctuary, Stomp The Wax, Inverted Audio, A closer listen and many more. Of course that's my taste, but there are sites catering to every niche music interest. Find yours.

And when it comes to buying I require lossless audio, which thankfully isn't a problem these days:

- Bandcamp

- Boomkat

- Bleep

- Qobuz

- Label stores

- Physical copies from online or local record shops if there isn't a digital release available.

Pretty much in that order.
Somewhere on the fridge is a bunch of metal that heats up when it's working. If that gets particularly hot, then you have the potential to save power. You could add more surface area or have low-power fans blow air across it. That would make the actual fridge unit be more efficient. The amount of electricity you would save is much more than the amount you could harvest. Any device that harvests power would also impede the efficiency more and make it work even harder.

But either one would be a pretty small amount.

It's fun as a toy, but not much more.

If you want to save power, buy a more efficient fridge. Maybe also get one where the hot part can go outside.

If you want free power, get solar panels.
Campaign strategies are endogenous. That is, if we get rid of the electoral college, campaign strategies would shift considerably -- for example, both parties would spend much more time on maximizing turnout in core states, as opposed to focusing attention on swing states.

So, it is possible that the popular vote with the electoral college would not be mirrored by a popular vote without the electoral college.
Hospitals should be the introductory "show you the ropes" type of companies for pen testing interns.
We Cannot 'Entrepreneur' Our Way Out of Our Problems
I've been dealing with the same issue. I haven't figured out any real trick to it; the best I can tell, a working Linux system is composed of so many different utilities worked on by so many different people, there's a lot less standardization than what you might expect.

For example, if I do something and it doesn't work, I want to see something that went wrong. This could show up:

1. In stdout/stderr
2. In a logfile specific to that software, somewhere on my computer
3. In an aggregated logfile somewhere on my computer
4. Nowhere, but will do 1, 2, or 3 after you enable something in a config file or cli parameter

This all assumes that if there's something you have to look up (like where it logs files to), you can figure it out based on the man page or website or inspecting your filesystem, and then it actually logs some actionable information on the problem.

I've just come to terms with the fact that everything, no matter how simple it should be, is an ordeal the first time I do it. I just set aside time to research and make notes.
International bewafa
> Remember: There’s a reason we gave the %localappdata%\lxss\ folder ‘hidden’ & ‘system’ attributes

So basically "there is a gaping hole in the middle of the street but it's ok, I've put a 'road ends here' sign in front of it so now it's the drivers' fault if something happens"

In this case this results in a lot of files not being editable by windows programs, plain and simple - such as the entirety of /etc and /home. That's a pretty bad situation.
Pentagon Confirms Obama’s Final Arms-Export Tally Largest Since WWII
That's the beauty of art isn't it - it's open to interpretation. It is interesting that you see it that way. My knee-jerk reaction to feel intensely sad for the deer but it is informed by my background as a vegetarian born in a warm climate.

The painting tells me a lot about myself and my biases.
The Chinese has also got a satnav system called Beidou.

AFAIK it currently offers coverage in China and adjacent territories, but is scheduled to go global eventually once the constellation is complete.
Ask HN: How to stop watching porn?
Addition: Do not modify files which where modifyied in another OS that was send into hibernation. A world of pain awaits you.
Fake news - not just on Facebook.

http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/11/16/you-are-still-crying-wo...
I feel like they should have done this under a different name. Or am I missing something and "Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind" is an outdated tome and not relevant anymore?
indeed, first thought was how does it differ from classic d3 charts ? i like d3 a lot, but usually it takes some boilerplate code to setup charts. when working with multiple datasets the d3 commands look a bit confusing at times, so higher level abstractions are interesting to see
What if it was only Wikipedia but it was funded by facebook? I mean, hypothetically.
Just look at the Linux kernel.
> People who traditionally vote Republican showed up and voted Republican.

You maybe right. I think some of traditional Republicans voted against Trump. I don't have hard numbers, but at least from my circle of acquaintances two life long Republicans voted for Hillary and against Trump, and a life long Democrat voted for Bernie then Stein. I would say it is probably not as simple as "simply didn't show up".
I outsource idea creation, execution and spending riches to Elon. Frees me up for other more important stuff.
> I don’t understand how anyone finds this comforting, however.

Why can't it be viewed as a source of comfort? At a longer time scale, even life on earth won't exist as the sun dies.
At a sufficiently long time scale, none of this stuff on earth matters, the universe continues to move on.
As these highlight the transitory nature of life on earth,
there is no reason for why one can't "let go" after a point.
I find that a tremondous source of comfort, as I often face the problem of when to "let go" in many contexts.

I won't get into a detailed discussion of the purpose of existence (a natural counter-question to the above), or why one should still strive in one's own way to tackle issues like climate change up to "one's capacity" (which depends on accepting the purpose of existence).

These fundamental questions are extremely hard to address.
It took me a long time and a lot of thought to have a reasonably satisfactory answer to these questions - though of course what answer one is satisfied by will vary from person to person.
For me, the bulk of the answer came from a study of the Indian Vedantic tradition (chiefly Adwaita Vedanta) through the "Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda" among other such books, and the works of Leo Tolstoy. Mileage may vary of course.