skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good point, but for the record none of the Google apps were ever open source - they were part of the compatibility suite from the start.

They did start replacing a couple of the open source apps with Google versions, though (like the browser.)
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Others have been willing to backtrack:

http://www.seattletimes.com/life/food-drink/seattle-restaura...
In this particular case the waiter didn't even bring us the alcohol, someone else did. Bartender? Runner? Who know, but it wasn't the waiter (or the busboy).
I am a paramedic and an AHA CPR instructor.

We are making orthogonal points...

If someone is being defibrillated, then they have no pulse. The person using the AED may not know that, but the AED does.

You initially said:

> Since they were performing CPR on her, it's likely she had a very weak or no heartbeat (asystole), which defibrillators are no good with.

You seem to be saying that if a person doesn't have a pulse, they must be in asystole, and don't need a defibrillator, which is dangerously untrue. The only reason you do CPR is to preserve the heart and brain long enough to use a defibrillator. In fact, the only circumstances under which someone should be defibrillated are certain types of pulseless cardiac activity.
> Then we have to talk about the fact that under capitalism, these people are condemned to starve.

No they aren't. At the very least, capitalism in no way outlaws private charity. They are still free to move. Someone might still bring work to them under a scenario you haven't imagined. Etc.
> you can't have an intern adding a subtle 2 liner to your codebase in an obscure base class and make the footprint of your application explode.

What do you mean by "footprint" here? Because if it's heap space or CPU, you can certainly have it.
So just because my phone is potentially not secure means I should just open up my home to all other sorts of intrusion/attacks?

Yes, phones generally can do that, but it doesn't mean we shouldn't be concerned about what the Echo is doing.
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If Amazon handed out my data to third party, that would be being an asshole
I think over the past two years I've seen a sum total of one video about working at Google, and it featured a woman and a man. From what you're saying I can only assume I stumbled on a super rare video. Is that accurate?
What a silly comment. Many people do intermittent fasting safely and effectively. Claiming that this app somehow poses a health risk to people is like saying a recipes app poses a risk because might follow the recipe and then die from overeating.
Watership Down is a great story but also Richard Adams publishing it was a story of perseverance. It was rejected by multiple publishers back when publishers were big gatekeepers.[1]

Watership Down published by Rex Collings after being rejected by seven other publishers. Becomes Adams' best-known work selling more than 50 million copies worldwide. He wins the prestigious Carnegie Medal

[1] http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/richard-ad...
An interesting thing to consider would be the retaliation that might develop. The best defense is a good offense, so all these companies might start actively attacking their attackers.
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Could be a red herring...
open eyes & ears, make an announcement, see who moves. Expect it to be the guilty party.
This. The current advent of the encrypted web would not have been possible without SNI - the costs for exclusive IPv4 addresses (especially when using a CDN) would have been prohibitive.

SNI isn't as much as a security risk if you consider that before resolving, you usually need a DNS request too - which would expose the endpoint to your ISP anyway.
Yeah, that's the very behaviour I'm talking about - it just happens to be a problem in this particular case: the single-quotes in hk__2's PROPS variable would be passed to the executed command, not interpreted by the shell, but we wanted the latter here.
What if we legalize murder?

People will be forced to be nicer to one another. People will learn self defense and become stronger and more capable. There will be more gun safety because everyone will be trained in gun use properly. Fewer spouses will cheat.

It will be a great world for everybody.
So make it not charity. Make it part ownership in the entities that generate all this wealth. It's not basic income, it's dividends from the society you're a part of.

Capitalism got us this far, but it's rapidly approaching the limits of its usefulness. Time to move beyond it, and not to some centralized government planning, either. Why do we need massive government power structures when all other jobs are being eliminated?
For me this was just the start of a thought experiment. He didn't take the train past the first station.

At first glance it seems like "Oh if only cybercrime were illegal then companies would have to step up their security practices." But this just isn't true. The companies responsible for the security holes in IoT devices are not the ones who suffer because of the DDoS attacks launched with them.

Similarly, the free market response to the current reality of cyber crime is not for makers of vulnerable devices and software to simply make better products, but it is additional services and companies rising up to fill needs. Some of these are effective and others are not, and they all cost a lot of money for the victims of the attacks, and not for the people making vulnerable products.

For me this blog post was really lazy and needed a lot more thought put into it.
It's too easy to misuse PHP that way. Though I think enabling E_STRICT would produce a warning.
I was thinking of the browser in particular -- the open source one was abandoned a while ago, and the proprietary one has google hard-wired as the only search engine.
The article is a good thought experiment, but I think doesn't touch on the one current legal form of cybercrime: bug bounties.

While they have their issues, properly administered they are a win for security researchers, consumers and companies.

A great recent example is Shopify: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13200455
Intermittent fasting is actually found to improve longevity.

Some people with disorders would not benefit, but that's like saying a fitness application is bad because somebody with brittle bone disease might use it and injure themselves.

I assume this is prefaced with the standard "consult your doctor before" warning.
I picked websockets and socket.io for our web game: https://rocketblitz.com/

When I started development WebRTC wasn't very well supported, now I am considering using a hybrid. I already use two websockets, one for binary state snapshots and the other for JSON important updates like entity creation and chat. It would be interesting to implement WebRTC to my servers just for the state snapshots.
That thing looks like it could kill a man if dropped from sufficient height. On the other hand, if I envision it without a case, I'm still not seeing a terribly dangerous object.

> This design is an evolution of planes over centuries of use

How did early ones look like then? Was getting hurt by them a problem, at all?

I'm not debating that main point, that in many cases, safety and usefulness are orthogonal. But that example is kind of worse than none.
And this is why a lot of trading desks would couple a trader with a quant with a technologist.
I was hoping for some sort of code in his drawings.
Yes. Such things were in my recommendations. You could ensure stuff can always be traced to source (at transport level), filtered, and/or rate-limited. DDOS's get rate-limited automatically by ISP endpoint or middleboxes with costly penalties for this happening. Simultaneously, supply side starts offering all kinds of options to prevent that which are cheaper than being declared digital version of a public nuisance.

The Tier 1-3's mostly don't care since they're paid primarily to provide the line plus have regulators in their pockets. There's certainly work in these to reduce DDOS a bit for competitiveness but they avoid a simple solution like mine out of greed. ;)
CSV is less a file format and more a hypothetical construct like "peace on Earth".
Wonderful idea! It's not charity. Now it's a basic citizen's dividend. Because you're part of a society that generates this wealth!

Except... it's still being paid without working for it. You wind up with all the same problems no matter what you call it.
Something you should probably understand about Amazon is that their Leadership Principles are real, and customer obsession is their main focus.

A big part of customer obsession is not eroding the trust of customers by treating their privacy as extremely important. For example, I've never heard of an incident in the more than two decades that Amazon.com has been in business of them selling customer data to a 3rd party for marketing purposes or otherwise. They wouldn't do something that could erode customer trust, or would be anti-customer, because they are in business for the long haul. Customer trust can only be earned slowly, over time, but can evaporate instantly with one mistake.

I trust Amazon more than Google and others to protect my customer data, because they've frankly earned this trust over 20+ years.
Not sure what you mean by "inconsistent", but in general you have to know the character set before you read the file.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/10/08/the-absolute-minim...

Guessing will lead to tears.
I'll second my sibling comment in saying that C (and C++!) will be around for a long time, and is epically easier to get hired with if you're trying to break into the industry. The C ecosystem just has too many advantages at this point (i.e. not just existing code but also number of supported platforms, etc.).

Also, a significant fraction of embedded code is going to be "unsafe" Rust by definition: drivers performing volatile load/stores on memory mapped hardware. In those scenarios, defect mitigation techniques are a matter of system architecture (MPUs, pre-empting deadline-based task schedulers) rather than being language-specific. Arguably even Rust provides you with no protection against the most devious bugs (memory barrier usage, cache-DMA interactions).
Pittsburgh here. This happened - mills all closed. Tens of thousands out of work. Pure "Capitalism" doesn't exist. It's an economic theory like "market clearing". In real economies people vote. And they can vote to give themselves benefits.

What really happened is that the local economy remained "depressed" until some more of that "market clearing" occurred. Now, a generation later, we are a much smaller city. The mill workers are gone to pasture (with their benefits they voted for themselves) or passed. The new generation works in the financial, service, or "Eds and Meds" economy, and we're doing fine. There is in fact still a good amount of manufacturing in the region. Being "depressed" actually makes us attractive to young adults since they can afford to buy a house here.
I'm working with java to be specific. Do I need to use this in joint with a visual basic runner? Or should I just write an executable java runner that will work with my given code?
I'm sorry to hear that. It must be quite hard to decide what's the correct action in such a stressfull and dire situation.
Not at all crazy or naive. That is one of the applications listed in the subtitle of the article. Efficiency and longevity of the properties are going to make a big difference in that area. E.g. muscle wire -- cool but very inefficient. Also, does it maintain these properties for a long period of time or will the properties (self-healing and current response) wane after a year or so.
The part that listens for the "Alexa" word is analog not digital.

It cannot be updated remotely by firmware.

Crack open the device, test the analog component and confirm the signal only fires when you speak alexa and nothing else.

Having said all that, I wouldn't buy it. NSA is known to temper with devices behind the back of companies (no matter how trustworthy you think Amazon/Google/Apple are). Check what they did with Cisco equipment sold to foreigners. They intercepted the shipment, tempered with the device and no one was any wiser until the Snowden leaks. Cisco now ships via proxy to guarantee no tempering.

American businesses shouldn't fear globalization or chinese disregard for intellectual property; their own government is fucking them.
ps: I'd like to bring something about the structure of medias before and now.

The time were channels were limited, where access to production too, the constraints, the potential rigging all this, seems to me now that it had a strong effect on society.

When there was a limited choice, we wouldn't feed our desires directly, production couldn't be extremely tailored, they had to be reaching a broader audience to exist, while having a IT factor. And then people would discuss these things they shared because nothing else was there, and it made it resonnate.

Nowadays, we have all a thing that suits us more, people can produce at lower (artistic and infrastructure) cost. But now productions have less chances to become culturally as relevant as before.

It's just one impression that I have on the status of TV from the 80s and 90s.
Part of the problem is the confusing naming. I'm an Android fan and I can't tell the difference between CyanogenMod, Cyanogen OS, Cyanogen Inc and Cyngn. Terrible way to run a business and project when it's too hard to separate out what they each do by a unique name.
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Maybe, here's one (with a few human subject): http://www.nature.com/tp/journal/v4/n10/full/tp201498a.html

Here's another (in mice, not sure if they've tried people yet): http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-22458428

The best thing people can do to change their gut flora is to cut back on sugar and increase dietary fibre.
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Trucking is different than mining in the sense that truckers are scattered throughout the entire US. Mining was especially impactful to certain towns because the main industry in those towns was mining. That said, I have no idea how it will play out. It would just seem like spreading the burden geographically solves one of the issues, which is the necessity to move to find a job.
Where do you go for reading lists?
Is this http://andthepoint.com/ something you'd use?
I would be fascinated to learn the death toll associated with skipping breakfast.
How did they manage to accomplish this? Did they need cooperation from Google to do this, and to what extent?
"Fairly useless"

Depends what kind of game you're making.
drivel on a site driven by technophiles

A lot of people became technophiles because of the cultural influence of films like Star Wars. Perhaps you haven't noticed how every new claim of holographic display technology, for example, is held up against the imaginary example from that film. Star Wars was unique for its time in presenting the future as combining both breathtakingly advanced technology with industrial decay and totalitarian oppression. The series also signaled a dramatic change in how women were portrayed on screen. The dominant communication medium has substantial power to shape society.

While the on-screen technology is fictional, the Star Wars series was also hugely innovative in terms of film production technology, giving rise to modern video editing software, sound design techniques, and many digital workflow techniques. It's had a massive impact on film technology and everything to do with it.
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... but there is a good chance that the availability of
cheap, potable water will be a major issue in the
coming decades.

Actually there isn't. It is possible that for a given population of people in a particular place on the planet they may find there is a shortage of water, but as long as the sun shines it will continue to evaporate trillions of tons of water which will then move over land and condense out of the atmosphere. Its also possible to get water out of the air where it didn't previously condense on its own.[1][2]

[1] http://www.islandsky.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=a...

[2] http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/03/07/the-fog-collectors-h...
The Communist Party is not a monolith -- policy disagreements are proxies for factional struggles. They just don't usually play out in a very public way, but even in China, different news sources will have a different 'spin' because they represent different viewpoints within the Party.

Xi is well aware of the need for financial, institutional, and economic liberalization (the government has been regularly downsizing and selling off state-owned firms[1] as well as opening up the financial sector), but support for these policies is not uniform within the Party because many within benefit from the status quo.

Hence the contradiction -- in order to push forward a liberalization and anti-corruption agenda, Xi must first suppress dissent within the Party. In the US, we have the saying 'Only Nixon could go to China'.

It's basically walking a tightrope: if he uses authoritarian tools too heavily, then that indirectly hurts the independent institutions that need to be nurtured, but if he takes too light a hand, then reforms will be blocked or delayed indefinitely at lower levels and then fail from a thousand cuts.

And if China reforms too quickly without careful planning, it risks chaos (see former Soviet Union in the 90s). If it reforms too slowly, it will not be able to generate the economic growth that it badly needs as the manufacturing and real estate sectors slow down.

[1] http://www.wsj.com/articles/china-to-allow-state-owned-enter...
To reinforce this, I still believe C is one of the most elegant syntax's for a "portable assembler". There are many dark corners of C, take for example pointers:
https://kristerw.blogspot.com/2016/03/c-pointers-are-not-har...
Curious about that too now.
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He's a raving homophobe.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Scott_Card
"The library “lost” the list of the books which it de-duplicated, so we don’t know which among them were rare or important."

What purposes does the university serve?
Shogun is one of my absolute favorites, and i still have my original (well worn) set.

The perfect combination of luck, strategy and diplomacy IMO. It is a game for those long winter afternoons though, as the average game ive played lasts at least 4 hours (once we went nearly 10 hours).

But i would say that over 50% of game time is spent just chatting to the other players about Japanese history and other interesting stuff during play.
I think it is a bad idea to have free higher education as you say. Studying doesn't help. Studying the correct things does. Free education in no way encourages people to study the correct things (the in-demand skills that pay). All it does it make people raise the bar for hiring to 'college educated' for jobs that probably don't require it.
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That's not a bad thought. Maybe RFC4180 shouldn't have defined csv, but another similar alternative.
We recently received a CSV from a bank where they didn't escape properly, so one of the entries was like this:

"","C/O COMPANYNAME"SUBHEADLINE"","",(...)

So yeah, they probably wrote this themselves, and didn't expect a valid company name to contain these characters.

We ended up writing a custom parser around their horrible format, because their technical support and technical lead person we could reach couldn't understand our issues.

:(
I don't know if that's quite a fair comparison. Physical self-defense is a cost we all would have to incur all the time. Software security, on the other hand, can be paid in a bit more of a centralized way by companies who are paying that cost anyway.

Obviously this is a thought experiment and probably shouldn't actually be done, but I think the murder comparison is slightly unfair to the idea.
That is how I would describe Peter Cushing's appearance: http://i.onionstatic.com/avclub/5533/98/16x9/960.jpg
right. wasn't aware they switched (long ago!) to Oxygen.
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Wouldn't the presence of those legal deterrents allow a company to transfer resources away from tech and into legal to mitigate the problem?
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You're totally generalizing here. There are plenty of people who happily accept their "disability" or Social Security. Do you really think that "work" is the only path to fulfillment? Perhaps you would feel worthless if you didn't work, but there are plenty of people (myself included) who would be happy to hike, bike, go to the library, participate in civil institutions, and play my mandolin, etc. all day long.
> withing a short time frame of each other are usually understood to be cases of parallel invention

I see what you are saying, but I don't think it's that cut and dry, otherwise I could just take someone else's work from yesterday (or whatever a short time frame is), and re-solve it (easily -since now the tricky parts have been revealed) and post it today - tada, I parallel invented it!
C is my favorite programming language, out of the half dozen or so I have advanced to expert knowledge of. It's the best of the lot by a wide margin.
It would be great if arXiv upload screen said this. Not sure if it does or not.
You end up with the problems due to the framing.

If you frame it as a gift from your betters (which is how it is currently framed), yes, you have problems.

If you frame it as something you're owed as a human right, there are many fewer problems.

The framing does in fact matter. All the problems you mention are not inherent in the situation. They can be addressed.
You mean something like this :)
https://www.geogebra.org/m/cWfHr7pk

You could turn it into a custom tool in GeoGebra if you think that would be helpful.

Also worth noting that you can do angle construction in GeoGebra in other ways (for example, just divide the angle by 3 instead of 2!)
A nice.

Didn't know that. But makes sense.

In the WebRTC case, the server could simply be a "peer" too :)
>With no law to hide behind, companies will put a much more serious effort into making products that are secure from day one. The "Nobody will do this because it's illegal!" excuse is gone.

It's not like the "Nobody will do this" stuff makes much sense at the moment given there are hacking stories in the press all the time.
And just celebrated his 100th birthday earlier this month!
If you say that accepting welfare from the government is humiliating, how can the situation be any better if people are encumbered by poverty?
No, it means that you're sitting in your house without a roof, and saying "I would never forget to close my windows during a rainstorm." Never mind the rain is pouring through your roof.

You're seriously willing to carry smartphones, which have both microphones and cameras, and give no indication visible or otherwise, of when they are listening or recording or sending data, and run whatever dodgy code some asian device manufacturer wanted it to run, but you won't trust a device made by Amazon that people have run wireshark captures against and lights up with big blue LEDs whenever it is listening.

Reality called - it wants the tinfoil hat back.