skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't mean to accuse you of being "tinfoil", I'm sorry if it came across that way.

HN may be very reasonable compared to the average when it comes to Snowden and dragnet surveillance, but the existance of that surveillance has been plausible and even likely for a long time before Snowden came, and before Snowden it was considered tinfoil by most (I heard) that knew of the possibility at all.

It is now "in" or "socially acceptable" to acknowledge this possibilty now, though once you start thinking about it and try to find ways of living that reflect this knowledge (e.g. refusing to use smartphones, social media or the internet in general) you again tend to enter "considered tinfoil territory". What I'm trying to say is, I think "tinfoil" is mostly a label used to stigmatize and supress a concept or person, based on social convention or "perceived consensus" (which is manipulated by media, which are manipulated by all entities with enough power and the incentive to do so). I perceived GGP to be at risk of that and wanted to indicate that in my comment.

Kind of like how saying the Intel ME is a backdoor is viewed now (while it is literally an autonomous remote management module, that is included in almost every consumer PC and which cannot be removed or inspected).

That's why I don't trust other people's opinion on what is "tinfoil", and can be a little cynical about it.
Plugging a device into a USB port was the method by which Stuxnet was deployed.
I hope you do and document goal #18. 1000 recurring revenue product.
While this seems like a good way to limit online exposure, OP seems to be asking how delete online exposure after being a more typical internet user.
The challenge-response protocol is using assymetric cryptography and is tied to the SSL session ID.

More explanations on why: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/71316/how-secur...

And how: https://fidoalliance.org/specs/fido-u2f-v1.0-nfc-bt-amendmen...
>"Many also don't even realize they have one built into their browser that is perfectly adequate for satisfying the desires to explore functional programming and general computation principles."

Are you referring to Javascript being a LISP dialect here? I've heard this occasionally but I also though that the one predominant feature of LISP was that of homoiconicity which I don't believe applies to Javascript or is that not correct? Thanks.
Dont get your hopes up, this game is shaping to be something between Theranos and No Mans Sky (aka No Mans Gameplay[1])

Here is a critique of FPS portion from seasoned FPS player (Beagle - former ShackTac etc)
https://www.twitch.tv/beagsandjam/v/109477776

TLDR: devs dont have any idea how FPS games work and what makes them fun.

[1] I used that sentence during the hype train and got downvoted to hell and back ;-) People are blind when they go fanboy mode.
The world is not safe because we have not found a good ideology that makes the world safe and does not cause or perpetuate conflict. Guns don't kill people, people inspired by bad ideologies do.
I'm lucky to get 1.5mbit out here in the sticks with centurylink for $45/mo, without any upgrade plans. Internet in rural America leaves something to be desired.
Unreliable Informants: IP Addresses, Digital Tips and Police Raids https://www.eff.org/wp/unreliable-informants-ip-addresses-di...

An IP address is not grounds for proof anymore. It's like saying every citizen is assigned their own IPV4 address, which is likely wrong, as more often than not an IPV4 address is shared by a pool of users.
Back when I did real estate, the rural areas surrounding our city were just eaten-up with meth. People cooking meth. People taking meth. Houses burning down, etc.

Coexisting with this meth epidemic were a bunch of loyal old-timers who knew the place in better times.

Consider how those old-timers must feel as they watch the mainstream Democratic party make transgender-bathrooms priority #1 while their own hometowns are turning into shit...
What, speaking my mind as a theist?
Well, that doesn't surprise me, but still... I'm absolutely amazed at how many things they seem to be doing over at Amazon.

I wonder if Amazon will follow Google's route and start splitting up into smaller companies at some point?
There was an interesting study that looked at Facebook likes and personality types of a large number of people. They found the pages/interests that were the most heavily correlated with each of the major personality dimensions. It's really interesting and you can see the whole chart twoard the bottom of this article: http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/this-algorithm-knows-you-...

Emotional stability was highly correlated with running, sports, and general outdoor activities (and also rap music, interestingly.) Is it because spending time outside makes people more emotionally stable? Or do emotionally stable people just enjoy outdoor activities more?
Glad to hear you're happy! I don't want to take credit for this, it was mostly the wider community politely asking in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/14605

We're thankful that the conversation was data driven and everyone assumed best intentions from each other. In the last few days we released 8.15 with auto deploy and web terminal https://about.gitlab.com/2016/12/22/gitlab-8-15-released/ and the company achieved its monthly, quarterly, and yearly sales goal. I can't think of a better way to celebrate and be amazed at what we did together in 2016.
First, delete all the content you published and social network accounts like I did. Change the name first of those accounts to be sure that if they wont totally delete your account, it will not be your name in the system.
In the case of some websites you may be able to convince the owners to delete the content you posted.
Some other websites, might not be easily convinced, but you can bait them with money to achieve your goal.

I did all that. Currently the only place my full name shows on the internet in on Companies House, because they keep those records, for almost 20 years after you close a company. And those same records get published by third parties also.
Other than that, I'm GHOSTING.
Hmm interesting. Yeah I just had that same issue. Mobile was unresponsive for about 3 seconds till everything loaded.
This reminds me of a 'boss proximity meter' that we made while in college. Now; this was the early days of when Bluetooth started to appear on mobile phones. What we did as interns was to have a SW on desktop that alerted you when bosses Bluetooth enabled phone started to approach your cubicle. That was a lot of fun! And mostly of novelty value of course! And I did learn a thing or too about BT in the process... :)
I used Oxygen OS on my One Plus One since it was released and love it. Feels much lighter than CyanogenMod. Also, I think only old Oxygen OS are available and no newer ones
This is pretty awesome transparency, and it's cool to see how you came to changing your mind instead of "post the same answer phrased differently" :)
I play mostly bass dont worry. I think the explanation is odd but easy. I tried singing guitar solo (little wing etc). Tried to expand range, and when it was above, I started to try to sing other instruments or backing vocals. Started with unison and fifth, then 9th etc etc. I also listened to contemporary gospel and acapella (take 6, brothers voices only, sometime they imitate instruments too, Google take 6 - jazz vive).

Also jazzfusion guitar chord progression got me to focus on funny progression. John scofield, tribal tech, r. Gatto, return to forever...) All reach your ears.
Funny how so many people are against bigotry on HN (I constantly see articles about it). Yet, it's perfectly fine to be bigoted against someone that goes against your political beliefs.

Generalization and bigotry will only bring us 8 years of Trump. This sort of behavior is exactly why people voted Trump into power in the first place: instead of actually having civil conversations and understanding the opposition, you attempt to silence and destroy your opponents through passive-aggressive tactics, shaming, lying, and laws.

Learn from your mistakes and we might have better leaders in the future.
Rio de Saúde: Conheça as dicas de motivação de que precisa para emagrecer
Being Mexican is not a choice. Being black or being gay is not a choice.

Associating and supporting someone who hates all of the above is a choice.

See the difference now?
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But is the point of your course computer science, or computer engineering. I don't think I'm particularly special, but I have taken just the one computer architecture course as an undergrad (and I don't remember much if any of what I learnt), and now I just completed the first sem of my PhD in computer science. I haven't used the information I learnt in that class yet, even though I'm in a partially applied field (security and cryptography).

All I'm pushing back is on the idea that learning the intricacies of modern computing is necessary for being good at computer science.

EDIT:
And wrt complexity theory and computability: there is a subfield of mathematics called computability theory that concerns itself with various notions of what is and isn't computable. Complexity theory concerns itself instead with what is efficiently computable; the problems it considers are already computable.
I am the opposite of a Trump supporter but that's going too far. Why? Because I have a hard time believing that there are significant numbers of Trump supporters in the developer community. Developers need to understand logic pretty well that automatically eliminates 98% of Trump's claims.

You're better off saying the software can't be used to produce trolling bots. You have a better case there.
I Am Error - Nathan Altice (about the NES platform)
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NTP runs fairly decently in a VM. Don't take my word for it — look at the graphs of my servers:

Here's my Google VM, notice the jitter is within +/- 5 milliseconds:

http://www.pool.ntp.org/scores/104.155.144.4

Here's my Hetzner VM (Germany). +/- 10 milliseconds, though I can't help but suspect the distance from the monitoring station (Los Angeles) may have more to do with it than being a VM:

http://www.pool.ntp.org/scores/78.46.204.247

Here's my AWS VM. Much worse than Google in that it's +/- 50 milliseconds, but still good enough to pass muster with pool.ntp.org:

http://www.pool.ntp.org/scores/52.0.56.137

Here's my Azure VM. It's in Singapore, and I re-deployed it last night, so the numbers are still coming in, but it has a pretty tight distribution:

http://www.pool.ntp.org/scores/52.187.42.158
They are functional to the core, but pragmatic. They allow you to get stuff done, while focusing on data instead of state of class hierarchies.

Clojure runs on the JVM and interops with Java, which can be both an advantage or drawback, depending on who you ask. Personally, I don't enjoy working with the JVM too much, but people who are already using a Java / JVM stack can easily switch to Clojure while still being able to use all their libraries. Elixir runs on top of the Erlang VM which at least feels a lot more lightweight than the JVM, and has a strong focus on distributed, concurrent and fault-tolerant systems. Also, you can interop with Erlang, so you have access to many mature libraries, same as Clojure has on the JVM.

Both Clojure and Elixir focus on concurrency and bring first-class support out-of-the-box.

Clojure is a Lisp, which in terms of syntax is usually controversial. I personally love it, but a lot of people are overwhelmed by too many parentheses, and I kind of understand them. Elixir has a pretty polished, easy on the eye syntax. Of course, coming from Ruby, I might be a bit biased, would love to hear what people with other backgrounds think about it though.

One negative point about Clojure is that it's difficult to have a really smooth and quick development environment, and debugging Clojure can be a tough task, as it basically dumps tons and tons of Java stacktraces that are very difficult to process. Here, Elixir clearly wins, as it has one of the best and most accurate stacktraces and error messages I've seen in a programming language.

In the end, I think both are just terrific programming languages and have their own reasons to be. I'd actually love to work someday at a company where people would use Clojure, Elixir and many other functional programming languages, depending on the task at hand and the requirements :)
I have been a runner for just about my whole life (ran track in HS) is started listening to music when the small mp3 players first came out and I noticed that it seemed to interfere with my "runners high" a little bit. I know this is tied to beta endorphins but I also think there is a Zen like aspect. So I stopped using the player and instead just let my mind run free too. My theory is that running can also unlock a type of meditative experience in the brain. I notice how much more clearly I can think after. It could be an evolutionary anachronism in that when the hunter man begins to run that the brain enters a state of heightened acuity in preparation for the kill. Who knows.
True. "At the same time" was a poor choice of words. I was thinking more along the lines of if you are going to use something like this regularly, especially to move files of considerable size, consider giving back.

It's actually not even smart to run tor support services on the same subnet as tor users.
This is like trying to beat up your dad because you don't like what he has to say..even though he is paying all of your bills and feeding/clothing you.
How does this differ from something like AdBlock or uBlock?
The link you yourself share features many comments, including by GitHub themselves, that this wasn't a new limit. They publicised the change earlier in the year.

As the product manager pointed out https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13229461 and as a Quora answer from June also reveals https://www.quora.com/What-are-bandwidth-and-traffic-limits-... the GitHub pages limits were public since at least June.
> why are urban areas subsidizing infrastructure spending in rural areas and the farm bill only to get kicked in the teeth when issues associated with urban areas come up?

I'm curious what Urban American has gotten "kicked in the teeth" by? Mainly, the $ figures are from military, power, and agriculture which Urban American doesn't want in their backyard. Pigs and turkeys don't smell so good, and wind farms are noisy, unsightly, and a bit dangerous. Counting military and power spending is pretty poor form. Transportation happens because the low cost raw materials come from the rural areas. No roads, no food for urban folks.

> Rural America doesn't have a monopoly on the "real" America - they are just as out of touch with urban America.

That's not really true. Rural America is quite aware of the issues Urban America face because that's all the news really covers. When the news covers Rural America it is pretty bad reporting unless the reporter is actually local[1]. The whole debacle of the pipeline in Standing Rock pretty much proved the point. I've seen coverage of celebrities and pieces from major publications that get much of the history wrong[2].

1) which makes me wonder about reports coming from the rest of the world

2) the whole "rich people in Bismarck" line is beyond insulting and the amount of back story on all the prep for the pipeline is tragically poor.
Cobolambda: Serverless COBOL on AWS Lambda
... and without taking into account that after 15 or 20 - maybe 25 - years the panels will need to be replaced.

How "clean" is disposing of these depleted slabs of glass and silicon (or whatever other elements)?

How much will it cost?
Wow. That's a really negative article. Focus is completely on the cost of a proof of concept project. What is the promised ultimate cost? (Not that promises come true or anything...)
From microservices to monoliths
Just a side-note: the attitude expressed in the Russian version of the website is nowhere that mild and neutral as in the English one. I personally do find it not only alarming, but disgusting to the very least (esp. the "torrent-tracker users deanonymization" part).

https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/ru/contacts/

Screenshot: http://imgur.com/a/PTiDT (under the title "Сотрудничество", which means "Cooperation").

Here is my crude translation:

...

Cooperation

============

We are ready to share data on an automated basis, in a different cross-sections and formats.
Besides we do have the technical means for "catching" users, who do participate in the torrent-file seeding.
By means of connecting to the user's device and subsequent downloading of one tiny piece
from the torrent-file, it is possible to collect a TCP-dump of the data exchanged for that piece.
There is a unique fingerprint associated with both those data exchanged and the torrent-file itself [0].
That allows to prove the fact that torrent distribution had been taken place from the particular IP address [1].
Everything mentioned above will be potentially actual/useful in Russia [2].
If interested in cooperation, you could let us know: <cooperation-email-address>

P.S. We also have means/possibilities to build recommendation systems, to de-anonymize torrent-trackers users and much, much more.

...

[0] I guess, they speak about "piece" from the "info" array: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torrent_file#File_structure

[1] They have downloaded it from you, so the fact of the distribution, am I missing something?

[2] http://hitech.newsru.com/article/03oct2016/piratefine || https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&js=y&prev...
Facebook for stockpickers
Read the actual report: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201617/cmselect/c...

They're asking if changes need to be made, and suggesting that they should be made.

There are two mechanisms they might use:

1) Something like the current porn filter, which is entirely optional

2) Something like the current system using court orders to force ISPs to block access to some pirate websites.

The aim is to make it harder for people to search for suicide methods.

> 36. We recommend that the suicide prevention strategy should review the accountability and responsibility for the adherence to media guidelines. The guidelines must have teeth and the refreshed suicide prevention strategy must make clear who is responsible for dealing with breaches by the media, at national and local level. We recommend that the refreshed suicide prevention strategy should include a commitment by the Government to work with internet providers and social media platforms to consider what changes should be made to restrict access to sites which encourage self harm or give detailed advice on suicide methods.

I'm (and I work in suicide prevention) much more interested in the first part of that para. We know from interviewing people who survived suicide attempts that media reports of other deaths heavily influence choice of method and location.

See also para 34:

> 34. During the course of our inquiry, we have identified several instances of inappropriate reporting and portrayal of suicide, all by leading broadcasters and mainstream newspapers. We note with concern the widespread continued use of the term “commit suicide”, which reinforces stigmatising attitudes from a time when suicide was a criminal offence. When we questioned Public Health England, they did not believe that they were responsible for taking action to counter irresponsible reporting, nor could they identify whose responsibility it was to do so.50
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My bad — I never wrapped it up. Thanks to the HN interest, I'll try to write Part 3 over the winter break.

The short version is this: it's gonna cost a couple of hundred dollars to run a 1Gbe NTP server in pool.ntp.org, but you can tweak the ntp.conf to save ~$100.
The GitHub limitation wasn't new:

As the product manager for GitHub Pages pointed out https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13229461 and as a Quora answer from June also reveals https://www.quora.com/What-are-bandwidth-and-traffic-limits-...

It will be interesting if GitLab is making product decisions as a result of HM generating fake news, though ;)
What does it mean to be a Trump supporter? What if you didn't like him, but you voted for him as the lesser evil? Are you a supporter? What if you didn't vote for him, but you still prefer him over Clinton?

Are you a supporter if you hope that he will be a good president now that he's been elected? Because, you know, he's going to be the president anyway and it would be nice to have a good one.

Also - what are the "racist statements" of Donald Trump? Is it really true that he made "racist statements"? Or are you talking about statements that might be racist if given the most uncharitable interpretation?
I've been programming for several years professionally now and the things I noticed make a difference between good and mediocre developers are:
- Always be reading, you should always be reading about areas that are new or outside of your day to day work. Example, GraphQL instead of REST and why.
- Don't prematurely optimize, Going off the last one, you don't always need to do the things the big guys are doing, they are hitting problems that you may hit in the future.
- When you hit something you can't figure out go for a walk or take a break. This is when your subconscious mind will work on connecting the dots.
- Read everything you can get your hands on about your interested language, framework, role, etc.
- Don't be afraid to ask questions. Don't ask for help with every little thing, but if you honestly can't figure it out within an hour of tinkering then ask stackoverflow or a co-worker to see if you are missing something.
- Don't give up. You would be surprised how many people hit an issue and then stop trying. That is after all what makes programming fun and rewarding. You will at times feel very down and question your choice to be a developer, it will pass and the high of figuring it out will make it worth it.
- Go to meet ups, no better way to see others work and ideas than attending meet ups.

I'm probably missing a few things but hey I'm writing this on the toilet so I think I deserve a break.
Do you have a blog? You have some interesting ideas that would be good to explore in a longer form.
Also at https://vimeo.com/156585403
fewer studies have looked at the effects of more repetitive athletic activities that don’t require as much precise motor control — such as running

Is it really true though that running doesn't require precise motor control? Every time I run, my feel "automatically" skip over imperfections in the road surface, placing my foot down early just before the big crack in the sidewalk, sidestepping the dog poop on the sidewalk, leaping off the curb while my eyes are focused on traffic.

And unlike the guy that plays golf where he's only focusing for a few minutes per hole, my feet are active for my entire one hour run and my mind is guiding my feet for 10,000 steps throughout the run.

It may be a different part of the brain than deciding how to hit a ball to reach a target 300m away, but there's still a lot of eye-foot coordination in running.
This is stupid. Keep your politics out of software, whatever they might be. If you're really so intent on combining the two, go make a separate project for doing so.
This is also known as the "nand2tetris" course: http://www.nand2tetris.org/

Great book!
You can also one-click install OpenVPN server from AWS marketplace.

https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B00MI40CAE/
150/50 via Bell is ~ $100/mth in TO
As someone who actually wants the game to come out, I'm glad they didn't.
To my knowledge, even RMS doesn't demand ideological purity from users of his software. Why do you?