skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, if you trust the encryption (which implies the firmware), you don't need to trust the ISP or storage provider. That's the whole point of encrypting stuff.
By due process I am talking about the legal protections that individuals can expect in the system, not whether the laws are selectively applied. Before cyber-crime and counter-terrorism laws were passed in China, there were many documented cases of dissidents being jailed under vague laws and unrelated charges. Yet it was no secret their real crime was "inappropriate speech". So even if the enforcement of laws is arbitrary or politically motivated, it does not change the fact that such laws are not necessary to restrict speech.
> Consider, what is the fastest way to calculate a square root? And how old is that instruction? (I'm assuming it is actually used by higher level languages by now.)

Isn't the right way to handle this for your code generator, e.g., LLVM, to know about this instruction, and your language implementation, e.g., clang or rustc, to just say "hey, give me a square root"?

I do buy your argument for very processor-specific things like writing a bootloader or a hypervisor.
>e^(pi*i)+1=0

fixed, otherwise e^pi would be trivially wrong
That's actually fucking brilliant, and aligns much better with what homebrew is. I'm setting up my new macbook from work tomorrow and this is absolutely the way I'm going to do it, and how I'll suggest any of my colleagues do as well.
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> His request to support all the abominations that you have ever written and keep them compatible with recent changes, might work if you have people pay for using your library and a company behind it

This is generally his focus, on big professional software. I'm also a Clojure dev and I'm on the other side of the fence on this one as well so sometimes I'm disappointed in the enterprise focus but I knew what I was getting into and it is still worth it. Am I crazy to think that maybe other lisps would have done better if they had demanded less purity?

Same with the examples of Unix APIs, Java and HTML. Sure, they are all bloated and horrible to work with. They are also massively, insanely successful. I think they are great examples because at that scale it's impressive that they work at all.

This is part of the pragmatism that makes Clojure great, they generally stay away from trying to solve the problem of huge projects being unwieldy and ugly and painful and instead they accept it as a given and work on tools to mitigate the problem. For a lot of people backwards compatibility isn't a choice, it's a requirement set in stone. Even though it always causes everyone to pull their hair out in frustration.

One day maybe one of these other research languages or experiments will find an answer to this, and prove that it works at scale. I will celebrate more than most.
Falsifiability is generally taken as an intrinsic property of the claim in science and philosophy. "Is there any possible way" rather than "is there any reasonable way".
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Or the pay-wall block because my employer won't let them serve the ads.
Well won't that be a surprise when they see their premiums with a partner and children. I know I was certainly surprised to find I went from paying $300/month for myself to $1300/month for a family.
Someone has tried to do something along those lines:

https://github.com/thepowersgang/mrustc/blob/master/README.m...

> Thankfully, (from what I have seen), the borrow checker is not needed to compile rust code (just to ensure that it's valid)

It's not finished, though, and honestly I'm pretty sure that borrow checking isn't even that hard compared to all the other stuff a Rust compiler has to do, like generic/trait resolurion. But we'll see.
> Unlike in the US

No, just like the US:

https://www.aclu.org/other/constitution-100-mile-border-zone
Similar and much more polished is the Jolly Roger Telephone Company: http://www.jollyrogertelco.com
There is a third group which is, "If I leave my kid in regular school they will probably suicide."

Example one: Friend of mine has a kid with some strange behaviours, and some problems with aggression control. The other teenagers at the school constantly tease him, bait him, and make his life miserable. The school has given up on trying to stop this.

Example two: Another friend who's thirteen year old daughter was sexually assaulted (not at school), and as a result has virtually become a shut-in. Distance education is the only option at the moment.

Example three: My own daughter has some pretty severe anxiety issues and we ended up with school refusal for two years. She just could not cope. She can do the academics, she could not deal with everything else around interacting with other people, chaotic environments, unexpected change and such. We persevered and with a lot of leaning on mental health services, and a wonderful and accommodating staff at the school, we've managed to get our daughter back into school, which ultimately is best for her in the long run.

All these in Victoria, Australia - same place as the article.

The two groups you mentioned have their motivations rooted in some sort of hubris. I wonder how small their percentage is compared to the group who are just struggling to keep their kids alive and in some semblance of happiness.
There's an update at the bottom of the article now - blocking reverted 2h after article posted.
It's always the same in HN threads discussing differences between Europe and USA. These kinds of "discussions" are reminding me about Parkinson's Law of Triviality.. people on HN discuss topics they know only little about the most. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality#Examples)
I'd be subject to presbyopia, and prefer to wear bifocals.
Checking against a PR-curated list:
https://github.com/selfagency/bs-detector/blob/master/chrome...
Yep... I honestly have little to no hope.
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How would you know if they did?
> Hahn doesn't even have a gangster's ethos.

This would be a good time to remember that we haven't heard Hahn's side of the story.
Not GP but ketones have a fairly distinct and strong aroma. That said, if it were ketones, they'd probably be too distinguishable for this story to be uniquely news-worthy.. it's probably a less identifiable smell than ketones, whatever it is..
Because you have no interest in "management" per se (and the pay raise and alleged gain in prestige aren't worth the headache).

And the only "upward" promotion you need is one that provides more time to spend with your family or on your outside projects, or more vacation time, etc.
how about just back your stuff up to the cloud, and on a micro USB card. Those should be easy enough to hide, and if they find it say it's an extra one for your camera.
Google around for a "public suffix list" library for your favorite language, it will aid you in guessing that 'example.com' could be a valid FQDN. As a crawler guy, I see common suffix list features in the kinds of url libraries that I use or write.
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I downloaded this about a year ago and loved it. Incredibly informative. Is this an updated version?
It does fit with the other research that just seeing trees makes people subconsciously feel better.

If the affluent find it easier to keep trees that must be because they exert power to do so, which implies they want them for some reason. Same reasons they would pay more to be around them in the first place? The affluent would find it much easier to get rid of trees, even if protected by regulation, and the land value the trees take up is worth more.

I think the causation implied by this correlation is implied pretty strongly.
> "There is nothing more socially unstable than a bunch of testosterone with nowhere to go."

Yep. This has what has happened in the Arab world. Bunch of testosterone with nowhere to go, so they joined a "Holy War" / "Jihad" and blow up a bunch of people and places. This is also the reason why the refugees from the Arab countries molested women in Germany and Austria.

EDIT: Why the downvotes, because you don't agree with this? Here's some evidence:

See the "Demographic masculinization and Polygamy" section

> In the wake of it, the general level of testosterone of the whole male population will rise, frustrations will accumulate, there will be an escalation of competitive spirit, men will engage in high-risk activities and antisocial behaviors shall multiply. The social equilibrium will waggle and an eventual economic and social instability will endanger the stability of the entire world.

Source: http://socialethology.com/why-young-men-become-terrorists-an...
>"We've found a new root cause and that's very important."

The problem is the next big thing to get a bunch of funding will also be a "root cause", and the next, and the next... Also, they will all be 100% correct in saying this medley of factors is related to parkinsons/cancer/etc. The trouble is, identifying "root causes" isn't what this research should be focused on. I explained more in my later post in this thread.
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Users are a source for problems, not solutions, that's the designer's job. However, the most common way that users articulate problems is in the form of solutions. It's then the designer's job to reverse engineer what the problem is from the proposed solution and design a solution that both fixes the problem and is contextually appropriate to the rest of the product.

So when you listen to users and they tell you "you should do X", just blindly doing X is a path to failure but similarly ignoring them is also a path to failure.

There's an art to properly eliciting insight from users and it's a mix of observation, interrogation and thought. In general, the best advice I've found is focus on the emotional and not the logical. When you ask when was the last time you had a problem with our product, you force the user to come up with ad-hoc logical arguments and paradigms that are most often wrong. If you ask when was the last time you were frustrated or annoyed with our product, you hone in much more reliably on real sticking points.
You can also look at the USPS as an example, since it IS a government entity that doesn't have to serve profits.

Also, the military and healthcare is more efficient in government, but you probably already knew that already.
Don't forget to update your library whenever a new gTLD comes out
The blame game between airlines and online travel agencies and how to fix this
To be fair, the position of Core is more: "we don't know how to scale significantly without further threatening decentralization". The rest is a corollary of that.
God vanished and a 1000 lesser gods are fighting over fucking your faces, JINNI
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Nonetheless it was a broken parse: they needed to expend the memory to figure out what the actual protocol is and not jump up from the datalink layer if it's not called for. I guess I'm just saying I really can't blame IEEE here.
Woah now, the average citizen shouldn't be subject to digital cavity searches either!
A forced end to fraudulent business' would work wonders for the economy (IANAE).
People waiting until they get sick to sign up, essentially. The insurers' previous solution to this was no coverage of "pre-existing conditions". But people hated this generally, for various more or less good reasons. Banning exclusion of preexisting conditions is one of the handful of parts of Obamacare that's wildly popular across the political spectrum, at least among non-politicians (it polls something like 70-80% support). Obamacare's main replacement for that is the individual mandate requiring you to always have insurance, rather than to go without until you get seriously ill and only then purchase it. (There are also a few secondary things to try to discourage buying insurance only right before you're going to use it, like the open enrollment period being only once a year.)
How do they do cylindrical axis with a small inventory of lenses and non-round lenses? The three parameters for lenses are spherical radius, cylindrical radius, and axis of the cylinder. A complete set of a good range in all three is large, which is what leads to custom lenses.

There's a known way to cut costs with round lenses. With round lenses, you can have a small inventory of premade lenses with only two parameters. The axis is set with a little notcher that makes a notch which locks it to a bump in the frame, so it can't rotate. These have been used in India for decades. There's an optical store in an attache case.

If the One Dollar Glasses guys only use 25 different lenses, are they just blowing off the cylindrical correction entirely? Are these just "readers" like the ones available cheaply at most drugstores? Those you can get on Alibaba for $0.75 each in bulk.[1]

[1] https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Premade-Distance-Glas...
I'm all for being friendly, but sometimes being real friendly is also a sign that they're up to something. I remember reading an article about a Geo Cacher who got stopped by the Secret Service for circling around the White House in a car too many times. he said the guys on bikes were real nice and friendly, talked all about him and his geocaching....until the marked car of thugs showed up and detained him.

Also, if driving a nice car was the key to getting past BP, drug smugglers would have figured this out ages ago and adopted it as SOP.
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I specifically remember coming back from a trip to China and witnessing a customs agent screaming at this small group of old Chinese folks "YOU NO GO THERE. YOU COME HERE. NOW."

Like, how hard is it to do a basic 2 hour training in "communicating with non english speakers" so you can stop your staff insulting and screaming at non-native speakers?
How about start with the most blatant examples... like spam detection
Does it count as hacking if you own the network? I think it still does, the outcome is different but the methods are similar.
Damages resulting from breach of contract are rarely considered criminal. This is covered really well by civil law.
But, there is no fake news problem =[ ony a censorship problem.
PDF? Do you mean PFC?
Fantastically written and great blog overall. It's great to see a focus on simplicity and understanding. Keep up the good work!
Boy the people that you meet on HN;<)! Saw your documentary, General Tso's has always been my favorite Chinese dish.

I've been told by a great many people that it was invented in America and wasn't a Chinese dish at all!

My sister who traveled several times to the mainland said she has never seen it on a menu there. You think that is possibly a slight against Taiwan?
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Section 501: Committee to counter active measures by the Russian Federation to exert covert influence over peoples and governments.
I wonder if this visual chema will work for more complex projects where one needs to zoom in and out of scope (eg Reaktor). But the potential is excellent and even if it doesn't take off as a hardcore programming environment it will make an excellent educational tool.
The more impressive part is: that manages to self-preserve across hundreds of Rust language/compiler versions with wildly varying designs and semantics all the way up to today's version.
For idiots like myself, I found this video, Public key cryptography - Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange (full version), to be completely enlightening using mixed colors to explain the most basic features of a cryptography algorithm.[0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEBfamv-_do
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The show aired before that press release.

From TFA: "I was one of millions of fans [watching] Shark Tank on on [sic] November 4th."
I completely disagree.
In that case, I agree with you wholeheartedly.
This is an interesting position. I am a structural engineer (MS in ASE from UT Austin). I live in the area, I worked on the Orion for a while, and my wife is a civil servant at NASA. I've been to the NBL a couple of times for various things. What is the plan for the NBL when the station is no longer up and running? Would we have the authority to automate procedure updates? Are you working on the current suit problems?
That would be some gorgeous code to maintain itself successfully all this time.
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Even though my employer decided they won't buy me NCrunch for my daily .NET development, I bought myself a personal licence, and I would do that again as the added value is tremendous.

I hope Microsoft won't crash them with their VS 2017 live testing functionality -- that they will be able to innovate.
that's incredibly simple, I thought some NLP and web crawling was involved.

The bigger challenge are fake news generating disinformation and fake comments on various social media platforms.

This is especially true in reddit where sockpuppetry and vote manipulation as well as band wagoning is rampant. Anonymity in social network seems to serve the voice of those who exploit it's weakness as well as the general naivety and indifference from it's audiences.

For example, in various cryptocoin subreddits I'm seeing a lot of said activities, even where it is blatantly obvious, the moderators seem to turn the other cheeck as it generates long debates.

As I recall, Zuckerberg did the same shit in the early days according the movie The social network where he would jump in discussion and generate long debates. Except, now the very technique is being used for political and manipulations in un-regulated "crypto-anarchist-code-is-law" market exchanges.

It's a matter of time before more tools that help the user cut through the bullshit appears. There will be tit for tats on both sides but in the long run it's to make fake information expensive to be disseminated.
Why is it a problem to nit be able to guess a never seen before MAC prefix?
which they are completely within their rights to do
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You can install a custom OS. But it can be difficult to use an installer we don't provide right now because we only allow serial console access, not VNC. This means most installers won't work out of the box. Worst case you can dd an image to the disk using ssh from the rescue image.

FYI we don't do overage charges right now. For network, if we can't throttle your traffic down then we will shut your service off.

Our blog is a little misleading these days in that for downtime for individual servers, we started emailing customers directly rather than posting to the blog. This is because we want to make sure customers see the downtime notice. We also got confused responses sometimes to the blog wondering whether a given service was affected or not and if we email directly there is no such confusion.

I think our worst case downtime barring about 5 services this year has been the following:

* 0.75 hour network outage, unplanned - 2016-03-16 (gave proportional credit)

* ~2.5 unplanned downtime due to hardware failure requiring new components - 2016-04-03 (gave 15% month credit)

* 2.6 hours downtime from start of maintenance window, planned due to security upgrade - 2016-07-23 (gave proportional credit)

* 2 hours or less downtime, planned due to security upgrade - sometime around 2016-09-01 (gave proportional credit)

* 1.5 hour network outage, unplanned - 2016-09-09 (gave proportional credit)

* 1.3 hour network outage, unplanned - 2016-11-06 (gave proportional credit)

* 2.04 hours downtime from start of maintenance window, planned due to security upgrade - 2016-11-18 (gave proportional credit)

This is a total of up to 12.69 hours downtime over the year so far, assuming downtime started at the beginning of maintenance windows (it usually started after.) Of that 6.05 hours, or less than half, was unplanned.

So far this year there's been about 336 days or 8064 hours. 12.69/8064 is 99.84% uptime overall, which is significantly lower than we would like. For some servers the uptime has so far been significantly better in that there were no hardware failures, one of the security upgrades was unnecessary, and the turnaround time for the remainder of the security upgrades was much faster than for this particular server.

For this particular server, the largest downtime contributors were security upgrades and network outages in that order. For network downtime, we got around to setting up our second upstream but there's a number of single points of failure we should take care of in 2017. There is also some additional scripting we should probably do that would cut down on the network downtime a lot, such as automatically taking down BGP if connectivity beyond the first hop is lost.

For the security update downtime, I think our most realistic bet right now is to get ourselves on the latest version of Xen once it comes out. That will hopefully have a stable implementation (not a technology preview) for live patching.
I think they're going to be a lot more surprised when they let their insurance lapse for a few months and find out that the ACA amendments provide guaranteed issue only if you've had continuous coverage --- without continuous coverage, you can be uninsurable without first working a full-time job for a year.

Not "expensive to insure". Uninsurable, at any cost.
I've never had - nor seen - General Tso Chicken with broccoli in it. The pic in the article doesn't show broccoli either.
There is one exception. US immigration runs "preclearance" facilities at major Canadian airports (and a handful of other places). Here, you clear US customs and immigration before you ever board your flight. Because these facilities are still on Canadian soil, you are free to turn around and walk away at any time; they cannot detain you as they can at land borders or US airports.