skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really - those few thousand nodes are only used for the initial bootstrap, once you've connected to the network or can get a node list from a friend once, you'll have more than that. And it's very hard to act legally against thousands of nodes instead of a single entity. Or to convince ISPs to block them all. Definitely an improvement over a centralized system. Some services will try to improve this further by only sending random nodes to each person who downloads, using the hash of their IP as an rng seed.

Yes, an ISP who's willing to block a few thousand nodes will be able to take your shit down no matter what. That's why Tor uses private "bridge" servers for people in highly censored countries and tries to mask traffic as some other type. There's no way around that. But that doesn't mean decentralization is useless - it's incredibly useful in most countries and with most ISPs.

If you need to scan IPv4 space randomly to find a node, you can easily find all nodes. This takes about a day or two on a cheap VPS.
Except Microsoft provides updates for Windows longer than any other popular desktop or mobile operating system. So if crap gets installed because of an OS vulnerability either you didn't update or it that flaw will be patched as soon as possible.
Announcing PostgreSQL Compatibility for Amazon Aurora
I love that the internet has enabled this.

Watching TV in India, where I grew up, was an absolute, unmitigated motherfucking abomination that I wouldn't wish upon my worst enemy. Bland, unidimensional characters whose only purpose was to act as a loudspeaker for what the scriptwriters wanted to convey. Idiotic moralising basically throughout (obedient daughter in law: Goooood, rebellious kid who wants to live life his own way: baaaaad). A story that you could predict from start to end after just Scene 1.

Fuck that. Out with the old, in with the new.
Set numeric goals and track your progress automatically
what's inflation? less than 1%

way below the bank of england's target of 2%
Apple map is a disaster. Since I can't delete it, I create a folder named "never use" and toss it there. I doubt the effort of using drones will help them to catch up with Google map, which also making huge progress lately. It's still an effort that Apple needs to commit though.
Ardour 5.5 Released (A free and open source digital audio workstation)
Those aren't pure service workers because they also have an obstructionist/rationing role. They have the power to prevent you from getting medical treatment/loans/etc., which raises their social status.
RaspberryPI and Node.js tutorial: Configuration and installation
I'd recommend the same. We paid around the same for hackclub.com and it was definitely worth it (we started with hackclub.io).
Nokia is coming back on Android
You and I have differing definitions of 'subtle'.
Sounds like giftgivers and bugchasers, although that is specifically sexual.

What you're describing sounds like an inverted Munchausen Syndrome. I don't know if we have name for that in English.

I've heard of parasites controlling the behaviour of an animal host to spread themselves, it's not out of the question there are examples of human parasites that do the same e.g. encouraging irrational risk taking by elevating a hormone.
Yeah fighting ads on mobile is the same problem, just on a smaller screen.
Why not agree with the terms and boot up an Ubuntu live CD, install chromium and do the tests

That way they only get the microphone, webcam and physical location which is annoying but not as worst

If you cancel the microphone and the webcam, will they still let you do the test? What if I have a desktop computer with no webcam?
With the recent problems of DDoS's from simplistic devices on the Internet of Things, this worries me. Who will ensure that the devices are paired only with things they are supposed to be paired with? Who will prevent a rogue agent from connecting to your mesh and overwhelming it?

I come from an age when everything was cool, fun, exciting, and everyone played nice. Email didn't have to be secured, messages could be sent directly to terminals, and commands could be executed without worrying that people would strip your machine, take your details, empty your bank account, and turn it into a spam relay.

Where are the security details?
Purely military purposes would need relatively low volumes, though. Even just decoupling consumer demand from military demand would dramatically alter the economies of oil production. It might not fix all oil-related wars and restructure all Middle-Eastern alliances, but it would certainly change the landscape.
Impressive work by Singapore government agency. I heard that they are as competent as private sector.
I'd love to see actual pictures of that truck :)
Feel the same here. I had a terrible experience with Apple map when they first launched to market and never trust it ever since. I use Google map before trying Apple map and after the Apple map disaster until now. Will never change again.
How Networking Is Reshaping Containers
Understanding Aircraft and Designing Courses
> I use uBlock Origin, Ghostery and Disconnect, and Flash Control.

I just have to say, thank goodness for Moore's Law. Without it, we would never have so many wasted cycles![0]

[0] Not saying you're wasting, but the fact that we have to jump through sooo many hoops to stop all this crap is just disgusting.
Sports, as a business, markets entirely on emotion. They want people to get this fired up.
Blockchains: A brief introduction
I feel unusual when I see articles like this. I deploy "workloads" that require instances, auto scaling, Multi-AZ etc. It makes my projects feel minuscule at the scale of other companies that actually use something like this! I wonder how many companies will actually use this in any given year.
This really helps me, personally, abstract the concept of 'data' a lot more. It's not about files or records, data has a 'volume'. A few PB fills up a shipping container.

Next time my client asks me how "much" a PB is, I can just say "about a shippingcontainer's worth".
What my sibling said, but also, this almost happened. It's called "the mutapocalpyse". See here: http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2014/05/13/focu...

In the end, we decided that these are two equivalent perspectives, and decided to stick with the more traditional mutable/immutable distinction.
WeChat Censoring Messages Even Outside China
I love how this is a literal trailer pulled by a truck - see the pictures at https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/.

I wish they gave more details as to what hardware was in there - are there any pictures of what the trailer looks like on the inside?
Gun homicides are down dramatically[0], yet we hear a constant drum beat from the media about terrorists and mass shooters. Guns absolutely threaten the power structure they will be coming for them soon enough.

[0]https://static.ijr.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/guns4.jpg
The metrics have gotten pretty opaque since the old days when an FPGA was a "sea of LUTs" all alike; modern ones include a ton of (semi-)fixed function hardware like multiply-accumulate blocks and embedded dual-port RAM. Even the LUTs themselves can be reprogrammed into small RAM blocks or shift registers, so counting "logic elements" is mostly a marketing exercise.
Wonder if there will be a time CDNs of these will pay you for the visitor data you 'share/leak' with them via the linked resources (to convince you to keep using them).
20% of Norwegians watched all the games yesterday, even though they lasted way beyond midnight local time.
They at least have external pictures of the "rig" on the main landing page: https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/
A strengthening dollar is bad for the world economy
Author here. The project itself is now one year old, originally written to fit exactly the needs of two people, who were frustrated with too much structure with other note-taking or just thought dump apps. So this app does not have any concept of types or even titles. Same way tags are simply extracted without the need to select a category/tag a note belongs to.

Any feedback is highly appreciated.
I'm glad I read this, I just signed up for an EFF membership.
Why does Google's Alphabet (https://abc.xyz) has no GA Tracking?
Reuters built an algorithm to flag and verify breaking news on Twitter
Take a look at PureScript [1], it's Haskell-like but strict.

[1]: http://www.purescript.org/
No, they didn't say it's not allowed. There are environmental laws here. Real ones, that prevent something like a reprocessing plant because those things do still leak radioactive waste into the environment. Especially through water. And I'm pretty sure you know that since you've read so much about it.

> We have had some ridiculously safe reactors for decades, we just aren't allowed to build or use them anywhere.

Why should you? The same thing has been said about those xx years old ones who threaten our lives east and west of Germany while we have so much green energy that we have to sell it.

> We have ways to deal with waste, but we aren't allowed to do it...

Yeah but those ways suck. They are bad for the environment and they cost a hell lot of money those who ran the plants don't want to pay for: https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/kosten-atommuell-101.html

> Seriously. Put your prejudices and patriotism at the door and actually do some research on the subject.

I got the fallout of Tszarnobyl in east Poland as a child and Fukushima on a trip in Tokyo. Spare your idiotic propaganda about how safe this last century technology is supposed to be. It's dead and the sooner the nations who still base their electricity output on it recognize this, the better for the whole humankind.
Because it's a shipping container, maybe eventually they'll do worldwide data transfer?
Twitter handle is public. Email addy can be private.
You kind of touched on it, but the biggest issue ESPN has is that their content goes stale very, very quickly. Sports are the most valuable content when live, above basically everything else. But as soon as you start getting away from that, their value plummets. Full games quickly become highlight clips, from which there are decreasing ways for a channel like ESPN to monetize (especially when the leagues themselves are offering those clips for free view). Past 24-48 hours, even a "condensed" game (cutting out everything but time when the clock is rolling) isn't really a worthwhile value.

By comparison, CC and CN's content can be re-aired for months or years, can be sold on home video, and be sub-licensed to streaming services. It also likely costs less to produce than sports, once you factor in licensing fees.
Did I just hear a new classic?
At least the IEEE 1588-2008 (PTPv2) protocol uses TAI time (with the POSIX epoch). The current UTC offset is then passed in the Announce messages (as well as some flags for indicating an upcoming leapsecond) which allows the slave to derive UTC if it wants to.
You proved my point.

4.5 kWh is not a lot of energy.

It's the amount of energy needed to light a 1K lightbulb for 4 hours.

It's a pittance compared to what you burn in you car.

4.5Kw/h won't get you around the block :)
If you go all the way with the concept, the idea is that people will only build up in the mountains if they can do without the road, or afford to include the cost of the road in their home (so the price of living in the mountains goes up astronomically, and fewer resources are being devoted to the minority that lives in them)

Not necessarily agreeing with the concept, but it only really works when taken to some extremes
This is flat out false. in addition, the physical withdrawal from alcohol addiction is significantly worse than the symptoms from opioid withdrawal. Alcohol withdrawal can actually kill you. My father was a severe alcoholic (i.e. physically dependent) and would have to get hospitalized on a semi regular basis to help him get through withdrawal safely. Opioid withdrawal is terrible but iirc it is not directly life threatening.
By that do you mean that a bunch of idiots on the coasts will think it's a big issue and and a bunch of people who grew up with them will think they're crazy for caring?
Not anymore -- most cable providers now offer a base tier without sports channels that are targeted at cord-cutters.
And Facebook: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-23/facebook-...
"Well poisoner"?
All compression works in practice but not in theory
Oh, but they do understand that and that is why they also control the internet. Ok, just the tubes, but still. As more and more people start cutting cable tv, watch what your internet bill looks like. Up, up and way too much!
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13073176
Seconded. I've hired a freelance through the university network (though, if others are like me, don't expect stellar rates :) ). You might want to ask at a local accelerator or meetups, plenty of people need a helping hand.
Apparently the author would to.

PPS – I will build and personally deliver (in exchange for a photo op and a bloggable story) Snowmobile models to the first 5 customers.
I really don't see any justification for what you describe.

In the case you describe you have to be physically present at a fixed location at a fixed time. In many cases that might be inconvenient or impossible, and I can certainly see situations where it'd be nice to have an alternative. Not having to have my physical location coincide with the physical location of my university of choice could be quite handy.
www.learnphoenix.io is a great book on React, Phoenix and Elixir. The book covers many more modern programming concepts and are explained in a clear and coherent way. Not only is Elixir exciting as far as the future of functional programming goes, but the content that breaks down React and all of the pieces consisting of front-end architecture is detailed from the build system to CSS modules. Anyways, just a thought, but it's a nice jumpstart into a new full-stack that's going to gain a lot of traction in the coming years.
thanks! that's also really interesting. (though in what I saw, there wasn't "after which" the other player made their first few moves - instead they moved over each other, like two people talking over each other. I couldn't figure out how they kept track of the turn or that they made the correct number of moves each - it was all much too quick. I even suppose that it's possible they didn't keep strict track and one player may have made 1 more move than the other or that sort of thing. Really bizarre!)
I think the simplest solution to all of this is for you to ignore the outlandish claims, or at the very least pay attention only to the claims of senior and respectable Haskell propenents, such as Simons Peyton Jones and Marlow, Don Stewart, Lennart Augustsson, Neil Mitchell etc.. Otherwise you're simply allowing yourself to be gently trolled.

By the way "if it compiles it works" is supposed to be somewhat tongue in cheek, as is "avoid success at all costs".
Why Amazon picked MXNet for deep learning
3D-printing fan? Record your own laugh sculpture and have it made in space by NASA
"Today South Africa is significantly worse in most social indicators than it was in 1994."

And do you blame this on capitalists? Or do you blame this on your utterly, completely and totally corrupt and inefficient political system?

Which one do you think is the source of the problem? :)

Because we have capitalism here in Canada and are doing just fine.
For people talking about Google unilaterally doing this, it has been common to smear the leap second for the last couple years. Usually companies do it internally by having their NTP servers skew time, either with Chrony or `ntpd -x`. Standards bodies have not been able to react quickly enough to the need to smear the leap second in a consistent way. I'm thankful that Google has decided to run public NTP servers with consistently smeared leap seconds.

Here are two Red Hat articles on how to deal with the leap second, from 2016 and 2015:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/15145

http://developers.redhat.com/blog/2015/06/01/five-different-...
Distribution is the means; the end is to load assets faster.
Judges Have More Power in Granting Warrants to Hack Digital Devices
Hallucinogen Eases Depression in Cancer Patients, Studies Find
Yes, I think Elastic IPs can incur charges in some way.
>What is this, I've never heard of it? Are there significant benefits?

Nobody to block your transfer and freeze your accounts simply for the reason you look suspicious and you are suddenly transfering a 10 digit sum to a *stan country.

And even if a higher tier bank with whom your own bank has a correspondent account will bother to intervene (which is highy, highly unlikely), you and your moneys will already be far away from the sphere of influence of the civilised world thanks to the fact that transaction settlement is nearly 100% automated and instantaneous for top tier banks.
India Plans a $400 bn Amazon-like marketplace for all govt purchases
The're working on an unleaded 100 octane avgas: http://www.eaa.org/en/airventure/eaa-airventure-news-and-mul...
As a grad student I somehow turned my experiment under the hood into an evacuation of the entire building, by reducing DMSO to DMS and discovering that Dimethyl Sulfide makes a great building emptier, especially since the hood system sucked (or rather did not). Two Nobel winners and a host of professors and students abandoned the building post haste and they made me go back in to look up whether it was dangerous or not (this was before mobile devices). Thankfully it stinks something fierce but is not fatal likes its cousin, Hydrogen Sulfide.

No wonder I decided programming was safer, code might blow up but it doesn't Blow Up. I also worked in the lab with a guy who worked with ether and smoked in the lab.
Best Practices on Mapping the Digital Journey of an Airlines Customer
Tickets to professional sporting events have provisions stating you can be ejected for recording the event. While these are basically never enforced, I could see trying to stream the entire game be a good reason for the venue to start enforcing it.

Similarly, the broadcasts of sporting events have a disclaimer saying you can't rebroadcast or retransmit it in any way, but I have no idea if that is legally binding.
Exactly. It will end up just like landlines - no cheaper to cancel it.

Cost of internet+phone+TV = $150

Cost of internet+TV = $149
Maybe someone at Amazon was reading xkcd[1]

1. https://xkcd.com/949/
15 Years of Concurrency ... and now we're all using JavaScript, which has a single-thread model, and doesn't allow cross-thread structural sharing of data structures (without going through a number of hoops).
I'm at re:invent and they have a "making of" video next to a demo unit. They only show the physical construction of the power distribution and the raised floor. (Nothing about the racks or what's in them.)

It also appears that you never have access to the inside where the racks are. You can only access the last ~4 feet for power and data connections.
They didn't refuse to hire you?
> Illegal actions shouldn't be taken to fight crime.

I disagree with that and I am on favor of illegal actions against criminal actions.

I just think that this is not FBI's role. Illegal organizations should assume the illegal work. If FBI commits crimes to fight crimes, then to me they're as criminal as the folks they're hunting, and therefore I would treat them the same way I treat the "regular" criminal people.
More like HOAs.
US Judges Can Now Sign Global Hacking Warrants
You make code 10x 1000x faster by changing the algorithm or data layout that you use instead of just emitting different instructions for the same higher level code.
Probably a lot easier to achieve as a unitary state!
As other commenters noted, it's fascinating that no matter how advanced the networking technology progresses, we'll always have a variation of "sneakernet"[1] to bypass the limitations of the network. The sneakernet just evolves from floppies to 45-foot shipping containers.

If humans later colonize Mars and want to have the full 50-terabytes copy of Wikipedia in the biosphere, it's faster to send some harddrives as a rocket payload on a 6 month journey rather than try to transfer it via the 32kbps uplink[2] which would take ~500 years.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet

[2] http://mars.nasa.gov/msl/mission/communicationwithearth/data...
I didn't hear any customer beg for a customized version of Android. Rather "stock Android" seems to be a selling point nowadays.

It's just a bunch of marketing weenies looking for "an unique opportunity to put focus on the brand". Seldom I see things (like multitasking in some Samsung devices before it came to Android) that would really help the end user.
ICC, unfortunately, was built around a desktop CLI, BlitzIn, that really suffers from the transition to mobile. BlitzIn can do both of those things but I have no idea how you would accomplish them through the app.

I'll always remember BlitzIn fondly (it was the first CLI I used, before I even knew what that was) but ICC's glory days were the late 90s and early 00s.
Tickets for sharks playoff games are perfectly reasonable, especially considering what I'd have to pay in arenas in the east coast or the cost of going to a giants/warriors playoff game.

Where I live now, a Sharks playoff game ticket is cheaper than me going to a regular season hockey game.
Network science on belief system dynamics under logic constraints (2016)
Couldn't find any pictures of the inside, but techcrunch did get some high resolution photos of the outside, including the chiller connections: https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/30/amazon-will-truck-your-mas...
Which ironically, is a model with probably best performance and scaling characteristics. If you want high performance, you should avoid sharing mutable stuff as much as possible.
This is why I come to HN. Where else can you read an article about a high profile company, then find comments from people who work on what the article is about? Unless you guys are a brigade, it's pretty cool you happen to be browsing where the rest of us browse.
Pepipost – Cloud Based Triggered and Transactional Email Service
Commute times can be misleading. It takes me about an hour to get from my house in downtown Shanghai to my office on the other side of the city. However, this is about 15 minutes of walking and 45 five minutes on the metro. Even though its longer than the US average of 25 minutes, I much prefer this option.

Commuting by car is dead time. When I'm on the subway, I can read, send emails, catch up on work. Its also much better for the environment and costs a grand total of $200/year.
I'm looking for something like kafka with an at least once guarantee. I believe this can be achieved with the kafka java client (not sure on that) but librdkafka (C++ client) doesn't seem to support this guarantee. Performance is secondary to messages not getting dropped in my use cases.

What kind of guarantees does tank make?
Wow, just $40mil? Does anyone know what went wrong? As a fellow UW alum, this makes me sad.
Can someone explain those local and national blackouts to me? As a european this concept sounds very foreign and absurd. Sure, I'll have to subscribe to Pay TV, but not being able to watch my favorite football (as in soccer) team is pretty much unthinkable over here, particularly if I already pay to do exactly that.
This! So when some one thing 1EB is alot, we can "Nah, is only about 10 45feet containers of data"

I wonder what HDD capacity does it use, and when if we could see a 1EB per container.
That's because it didn't originate on this side of the pond. You can also find it in the West Country dialect(s); think Hagrid, Samwise Gamgee or Robert Newton's prototypical movie pirate captains (Long John Silver and Blackbeard). Poke around England a little more, and you'll probably find it elsewhere as well. Standard English really is a much smaller and lesser-used dialect than most literate people think it is.
Thanks for your reply.