skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure about a toster, but there are benefits to having some household appliances connected to the internet. For example, a washing machine may be able to determine what hour it should operate for maximum energy savings, and ping you when finished. I guess a toaster could be similar; pre-loaded with bread so you could ask it to start toasting before getting up from the sofa.

> Consumers may find it totally cool to design images for toast using a smartphone. Meantime, the resulting data would help food companies understand how people approach breakfast, design new products and market to consumers more effectively.

http://blog.rackspace.com/internet-of-things-why-connected-t...
Based on zero evidence they believed that Podesta and Clinton were molesting children in the bathrooms of a NY Pizzeria.

They then proceeding to post the owners information and make death threats against him and his staff.

Absolutely despicable behaviour. And completely criminal.
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The only "right hands" for a 0-day exploit is the device manufacturer.
The monarchy had repeatedly violated the patriots (uncodified) constitutional rights, their common law rights, and their natural rights. The legal debate became the American Revolution, and America won. Furthermore, many of the sons of liberty had never signed or taken oaths of allegiance to the monarchy.

Some of them did take oaths of allegiance though, so you actually touch upon a very interesting subject that I think would be worth having a more nuanced conversation about. So thanks for spurring me to think further on the matter.

So far, the main thing I can think of is that part of the oaths of allegiance include duty, not just to the monarch but to the laws which create that monarch, therefor I find the view of the The European Court of Human Rights retrospectively insightful in that it ruled that the oath of allegiance to a reigning monarch is "reasonably viewed as an affirmation of loyalty to the constitutional principles which support... the workings of representative democracy in the respondent State."

Now, if you want to advocate against the constitution, as long as it is just speech, that is legal (as long as you are simply a citizen and haven't taken an oath), but I would agree it is treacherous, but not traitorous or treasonous. The second speech becomes action, particularly to assist a foreign entity in that venture though, it does become treason. I highly disagree with the sedition laws which violate the first amendment and have been so harshly abused even in the modern era, so I am ignoring those for the sake of conversation.

You said you "don't want to join any empire, but I would advocate for globalism, which I don't believe is the same thing as imperialism." I would simply say I think you are wrong and provably so on this point, in that the current trend of globalism is indeed an imperial globalism.

That being said, I will admit that I have often had the conversation about the utopic version of globalism, but it is important to differentiate between that imagined ideal which I think you might be referring to, and the reality of the current global geo-political movement of globalism (which is quite different from the economic fact of globalism, which I don't think is up for dispute).

If you want, I am willing to expand on the more technical reasons I think that current global is imperial globalism.

I wish I could edit my gp comment, because I was obviously wrong to say : "Of course, any American who advocates for such a thing is traitorous, "
We're going to need to integrate cryptocurrencies with APIs. Encrypted pay to play is the only way.
I think it's more about the way they express their opinions, rather than the content of those opinions.

Posting in ALL CAPS, posting fake news or insults to other members of the community, posting to incite anger, etc. does not make for good discussion, and hurts the sense of community. That, and bringing that to other subreddits via brigading, etc.
On the other hand, i can claim that the admin edited my comments whenever i 'm wrong.
> It's more concerning that Congress is that stupid

Congress was looking at evidence of what that particular user was doing online at the time, because /u/stonetear posted questions that look rather incriminating in retrospect based on what we've learned since then.

This kind of thing is why it's important to establish a chain of custody for evidence.
Full disclosure: I didn't bother to learn about why the ; is being split. But I can hasten a guess: the python web server treats that as a parameter separator.

... and confirmed.

[1] https://www.google.com/webhp?q=webapp.WSGIApplication+semico...
[2] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/google-appengine/Aai...
[3] https://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/appendix/notes.html#h-B.2.2
I think we're probably transitioning into the stage where the global computing infrastructure finally resembles biologic systems. Malicious agents will be everywhere. Attacks will be carried out all the time, at various scales. Anything that wants to survive in this environment will need to have some sort of immune system. Likely there will be a hierarchy of defenses at various levels, as a matter of business as usual.
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This reveals human nature on both sides ;) When you lose, it sucks, and you want to find a way to alter the results. When you win, it's great, and you don't want it taken away. I don't think this behavior is limited to politics.
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Reading that is both sad and scary at the same time. White Christmas (of Black Mirror) certainly doesn't look so science fiction anymore.
Well, you see, there used to be a network coexistant with the internet, backed by UUCP, because Unix didn't have internet support yet (among other reasons).

And then there were these guys called Tom and Steve. And they wrote Usenet. And all was well until September fell. And then the usenet gradually faded into obscurity, as users moved towards walled gardens, and away from netnews. Some of these users were weeaboos: This is how the -chans made their way here from Japan.
Unfortunately, Fortran standard does not provide good support for generic programming so some level of repetition is necessary :/. I don't see this as a major issue though - boilerplate coding happens once. In any case, pick any language that supports generic programming, and if you dig deep enough, you will run into boilerplate, in one form or another. :)
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> Therein the problem lies. Equating consciousness with thoughts. It's vastly different.

Just because qualia seem "vastly different" to thoughts doesn't mean they aren't reducible to thoughts. This would make the qualitative distinction of qualia from thoughts an illusion, a false conclusion inferred from an incorrect perception.
It's well within his power to change a comment. What's not cool is that he changed it to a lie. If he's the CEO, he's paid.
You could also charge at something higher than 5V, to keep the current manageable. Something like 1.8A/50V would deliver 90W, same as 18A/5V, still be within most of the safety guidelines, and allow a pretty similar connector bulk to microUSBr.

Or looking at what's already popular, USB-C connectors already spec do 3A@5V while handling data, or in PD mode (re-purposing pins) can do 5A@20V (100W).

So the first case of a charge 3000mAh in a minute doesn't seem completely ludicrous, though it's going to be challenging to make everything efficient enough the heat isn't prohibitive.
Even percent-encoding it ends up just including the entire injection as the path (on 50.0). I worked around it for now by editing the element directly in Developer Tools.
Well, yes.

but he didn't mess with any of the content of any messages.

If he did, the entire chan would have gone up in flames.
To he honest, he was one of the founders of Reddit.
Interesting -- this may be the largest foreign acquisition by a Chinese internet company to date? Largest I'm aware of was Riot Games by Tencent, which was on the order of $400 million.
Small planes on some small stretches of open highway. They look like runways but highways aren't. From the perspective of a landing pilot they are rough, uneven and nowhere near flat enough. Many are also built with slants in various directions to facilitate water runoff, which would scare the heck out of any pilot attempting to land any jet.
At least in the case of free (as in freedom) software, the vulnerabilities can be exposed and patched. More importantly (and more relevant to this discussion), software freedom also tends to make it difficult for the original developer to hide malicious features.
Security isn't easy. It remains to be seen whether regulation will actually be helpful in getting it right.

Personally, I don't believe that it will, but that's just my opinion.

As with most things in this field, it's one thing to talk about it, another to do it. Schneier has been talking about software liability for a long time.
Good thing then; that he mimicked what he might otherwise abhor.
Nice work. But as far as I can see this only works for the intrinsic Fortran datatypes, i.e. the various kinds of integers and reals. Any chance for extending this to user-defined types? Looking at the code, all functionality has been repetitively implemented for each datatype -- I hope this has not been done manually, but with a code generator? If so, could the generator be extended to process user-defined datatypes?

It's really unfortunate that modern Fortran has no facilities for generic programming. That's why I'm personally moving more and more to Julia...
Atleast on reddit someone reading the comments on there (usually the top) will be able to figureout that the story is fake.
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Yes. And Tom Scott is amazing. Who else would have built The Physical Emoji Keyboard?
That really seems like a tin foil hat perspective. Sure, in the literal sense, there is no way for them to prove which way their vote was cast because it's managed by an opaque (for them) computer system, but the same is true if it were paper ballets that are handed over to a processing clerk. Once youve cast your vote, the collector "owns" the results, and their counting process is opaque in either case.

And with that said, I don't think it's fair to ,
I hardly feel that sub to be any different than other political subs.

If anything, the insane censorship, hivemind of r/politics is more toxic.

But I guess the latter is "quiet" so it's alright. No discussion makes the best discussion.
You're mentioning an industry funded by about 1/6th[0] of the Federal Budget related to war and consequences if things go wrong (like losing/death/geo poltical problems).

Just cause it worked for the DOD doesn't mean it'll work everywhere else.

[0]: https://www.cbo.gov/taxonomy/term/17/featured
Why would I need 3000 mAh battery when I can charge in seconds ? Just put on wireless charger occasionally that's it.
The problem is that software engineering is hard.

Immensely so.

On a scale of engineering "hardness" (meaning, we can predict all side affects of action), software engineering is closer to medicine than to, say, civil engineering.

We know stresses, materials, and how they interact. We can predict what will happen, and how to avoid edge cases.

Software? Is there any commonly used secure software? Forget about Windows and Linux. What about OpenBSD?

Did it ever have a security hole?

And that's just the OS. What about software?

There are just too many variables.

So what will happen?

There will become "best practices" enshrined by law. Most will be security theater. Most will remove our rights, and most will actually make things less safe.

Right now, the number one problem of IoT security is fragmentation. Samsung puts out an S6, three years later stops updating it, a hole is found, too bad. Game over.

The problem is that "locking firmware" is common "security theater", which, if there'll ever be a legal security requirement on IoT, it'll require locked bootloader and firmware.

And you can't make a requirement to "keep code secure", because then the question will be for "how long"? Five years? 10 years?
That is complete and utter nonsense. Nothing you said is true.

You can visit http://reddit.com/r/all and see that Pro-trump posts are always in the top 10 and at least 2 will be shown in the top 40. So no they don't filter our pro-Trump posts. They merely made the algorithm more balanced to showcase some of the smaller sites.

And the defaults are not political at all:

https://www.reddit.com/r/defaults/comments/4l3svc/list_of_de...
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It might even develop its own alt.right community.
ask friends / family, often you are connected to a lawyer closer than you thought.

If you still don't have a free/cheap resource then start CCing your lawyer on emails. Eg. 'I am writing to provide notice that you are now 60 days overdue on invoice X (attached). As you have refused to pay the invoice under the terms of our contract (attached). I am copying my lawyer on this email to bring this matter to their attention.

Edit: and also make sure your contract spells out what happens for nonpayment.
Similar experience. Once you get to grids and calendar controls it is a hassle with no clear path.

I think two things are require for to solve this:

1. Some way to make it easy to drop in components into an existing view. Global state makes this hard, but it may be possible with some of Haskell's funky features, or even just type classes.

2. With the above we just need people to write some basic controls for Elm and give them more features. We need an ecosystem.
Kinda not within the spirit of the exercise don't you think.
This post is decaying off of the front page of HN very quickly (every few refreshes it drops a position or more), despite have more upvotes and being posted more recently. Reddit is a YC company as well. Is this post being artificially pushed down?
> Indeed, it definitely is one hell of an assumption. Just as "matter is fundamental and consciousness is an emergent phenomena" is.

Well, except you snuck two assumptions in there. I'm certainly not assuming, nor claiming to know definitively whether consciousness is an emergent phenomenon.

> However when we accept the 'panpsychist' axiom, we're free to come up with more detailed theorie

If you assume a false premise you can come up with literally anything, so this is not particularly surprising or illuminating.

> I'm just saying that this whole approach is as valid as the physicalist one.

One is grounded in what can be observed objectively[1] and the other is not.

... and to believe your explanation, I'm going to need evidence that it's as valid as the "physicalist"[2] one.

[1] Well, at least as far as others can confirm that they observe roughly the same things, e.g. "red" or "consciousness".

[2] I think you're thinking of "materialist"?
Not on /r/The_Donald.
One thing is to visibly edit a comment like they do in StackExchange. Impersonating a user is a very different thing.
So let's cut to the chase: is that what they're doing here?
oops, I linked our Go library not our go client. You'll want https://github.com/netlify/netlifyctl for the client!
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Ah, I see. That makes perfect sense, thanks for explaining it :)
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Tencent also bought Supercell for $8.6 billion.
My phone isn't working for some reason, second paragraph:

I don't think it's fair to say that the intent of the voters is unclear unless you're wanting to entirely throw out the results of the electronically collected and processed votes as completely invalid. That seems extreme to me.
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Of course, now any FBI investigation would have to take into account that reddit employees are known to silently edit comments.
Naturally.

I mean, where else would the right-leaning Anarchists, Lunatics, and Terrorists hang out?
People seem to be treating their comments with some kind of sanctity. These changes are most copy-and-replace for humorous effect (message boards in the past have done it). Surely it is obvious that the Reddit staff has the ability to edit or delete comments.

Users might think this is a breach of trust, but I really cant make that jump.

The important thing is that the_donald followers need a controversy to latch onto and will do so.
If spez was going to do anything in retaliation he should have just renamed /r/the_Donald to /r/poes_law.

That would have been elegant and not touched user history.

I honestly can't tell with that sub at all. Its fascinating to visit like the redpill used to be, some very strange people out there.
Reddit has been on the road to becoming digg for some time now, the only thing propping them up is the lack of a decent alternative.
But the problem has been people haven't done that. So here we are.

Maybe some stick (vs carrot) for unwittingly contributing to a DDoS to make people care will work? Not sure. I'm not really liking any of these solutions, but the problem is that it'll get worse.
I have a pet theory that the level of concern towards social issues for an individual, as a function of wealth and well being, is convex[1].

That is, it is highest at the extremes : for the poorest and the wealthiest. The former are concerned because of the tacit idea that solving social problems would directly solve theirs. The latter are concerned because as people who don't have direct problems themselves, solving other people's ones would alleviate a repressed guilt feeling, satisfy their ego, or help with the minor annoyance of having to listen to people's whinning.

Then I'm guessing most people working in tech industry are right in the middle of this curve, and consequently give the least possible F.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convex_function
Don't just write it off. They are onto something! I've seen many redditors solve real life mysteries.
Plus heaps of users browse /r/all and the the_donald community is so large, and the upvotes come so quickly (some insist it's upvoting bots since it's so fast) that the top of /r/all is often the_donald. Right now the nr. 1 post and another one on all are from the_donald.
Had something similar happen with log4j and sending emails on errors. One day the database was down, and one of the categories was such that it would log database issues. You know what happened next.
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Awesome! that totally reads like a future history of post apocalyptic script kiddy explaining the current state of the world.

Usenet was created because "networks" were expensive and "fax lines" were cheap. If you did it correctly machine A could call machine B in its local calling zone which could call machine C in its local calling zone and a message could go from A!B!C!user without incurring any long distance charges (aka "free").

Because you would lose your news feed if you pissed people off, spam was low because no admin would tolerate one of their users putting their system at risk of disconnection.

When networks because "free" and anyone could talk to anyone, there was no impediment to spam and no way to scale, and much of the infrastructure collapsed on itself.

That said, there is absolutely nothing preventing anyone from creating their own peer to peer messaging network. They could re-use the netnews code or write their own with a bit more security built in. The argument to that is "but hey no one will use it." to which you say "Who cares? My friends and I will use it." and since it is free and it is just you and your friends it will be fun and enjoyable. And if you're very unlucky everyone will join you.
Let's not get pedantic! Sales of limited-stock goods will ideally run their course in a super short span of time. For example if I am running a Magento site and am anticipating 100k+ visitors per minute, then I have to start worrying about the need for load balancers, etc. Shopify removes this burden. I think it's clear that that's what they're saying.
Lol. That's what happens after hours of worried discussion amongst candidates at a military medical facility. Lots of information based on shared stories and fleeting comments by doctors in camo. Everyone wants to chat so as to confirm their understandings.
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> Qualia and thoughts are distinct, but to say the former doesn't exist just seems nonsensical to me.

I'm sure it does, just like it probably seems nonsensical to deny that water breaks pencils. I mean, just look at it, you can just see it for yourself. How could you possibly deny the evidence of your own eyes? It's obvious to someone who is ignorant of any broader context, that water simply must break pencils and reconstitute them. We are likewise ignorant of the broader context of what constitutes consciousness, and we're all just flapping our gums making exactly these same fallacious arguments.

Like I initially said, "doesn't exist"/illusion has a specific meaning. It doesn't mean that we don't have perceptions or that perceptions don't convey some kind of knowledge, but merely that perception is not truly subjective, and so qualia don't deserve distinguished ontological status. Their apparent irreducibility is an illusion, a mental trick, like the many optical and auditory illusions to which our brain is susceptible.

I highly recommend reading the paper on the attention schema model of consciousness [1] for an idea of how a real scientific theory might explain this trick.

[1] http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00...
It's well known that HN has anti-flamewar algorithms. Too many comments vs votes (or user flagging too, presumably) causes its rank to drop.
...and in related news, water continues to flow downhill.
Thanks for the explanation. I had some misconceptions about this stuff, clearly.
It might to some people. It doesn't for me though.

I personally want to see more corporate leadership taking responsibility and leadership for backing up their personal views and those of their employees. A good example is how Grubhub's CEO Matt Maloney sent a company-wide email about the culture of the company that I respect quite a lot. http://media.grubhub.com/media/press-releases/press-release-...

Now do I agree with exactly what /u/spez did? Personally, the vindictive part of me likes the idea of fucking around with the morons in that subreddit. But as the ceo of the company, no. If it was any employee that had done it, they would likely have been terminated or at least had a severe write-up, no matter how much the leadership agreed with it. But when its the ceo, I'm not sure what the outcome will/should be.

To be completely honest, we have to remember that reddit is a company and not the public airwaves. There is no requirement that it be a bastion of free speech for all users. If I were running reddit, I would have banned that subreddit months ago. Any users found to be making racist, homophobic, hateful, or any other kind of similar commentary would have been permabanned a long time ago. The internet is a big place and its already too full of negativity. There are no socially positive reasons to provide places for it to fester.
Shit some people do to stay relevant. That's all I have to say.
Posting this sort of garbage is really inappropriate for HN.

Here is a report from the NY Times (an actual respected organisation) who shows the damage this type of Fake News has:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/technology/fact-check-this...
It feels like they are using dyn ddos incident as a 9/11 of the internet. So much fear mongering and push for government involvement, disgusting. Next thing you know you'll need a license to write software for appliances and mandated to put a surveillance API into everything.