skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So a security researcher using Intel-approved debugging tools has found he can take over CPUs... isn't that the purpose of debugging modes?
He was young, showed great promise, was clearly ahead of his age, everybody who knew him found him to be a genuinely nice and caring person...

Is it really that surprising that people are genuinely upset he took his own life after being harassed by the US government? This is a community that tends to dislike extreme prosecution, copyright laws and generally agrees with Aaron's ideology.

And on another note: Can HN not care about a guy without people saying we're "raising him to demi-god status"? With how often that accusation is thrown around, you'd think we have enough to sell our demi-god surplus to cults in need of more.

PS: The "I'll be downvoted for my contrarian idea but ..." stuff is for reddit, not here, tbh.
When my mind stopped working, I realised just how badly we treat mental health
People really don't give enough thought to what could happen if our neural nets make contact with occult forces. Let's just hope that the Laundry really exists.

https://www.goodreads.com/series/50764-laundry-files
I don't think these threats are equivalent. You can detect a rubber ducky doing it's thing if you look at the screen, and the rubber ducky requires your pc to be unlocked, so you can easily defend against a rubber ducky by not leaving the PC unlocked.

With direct hardware access/DMA you can just plug a small device into, let's say a locked office cubicle computer and compromize/siphon data off it that way.
Crash cows (2013)
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> it first clicked for me that fire burns gasses, not solids

I guess the materials would have some outgassing caused by the heat, but the flashover usually travels over partially-combusted particulate matter suspended in the air. Hotter fires have less smoke + soot, because they consume more of the fuel before it is carried away by convection. You can easily replicate this experimentally: light a candle, extinguish it, then light it again by applying a flame to the smoke emitted from the wick. [0]

Certainly for a standard in-home fireplace fire, most of the outgassing from the fuel is actually water vapour.

[0]: https://youtu.be/C5eTn5d0cvg
direct pdf link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1103.3257v1.pdf

original publication: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022519311...
Pity the sad legacy of Barack Obama
Now we know what kind of mentality took Yahoo down. Marisa Mayer should have read less HN?
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I've been thinking about this subject of "cooperation" for the last couple of days (also thanks in part to some links which made it to the front page of HN), and I have something to say about this:

> Eventually this causes the exhaustion of the good, a situation which is bad for everybody. (...) where jokers outbeat defectors and cooperators outperform jokers, which are subsequently invaded by defectors. Thus, paradoxically, the existence of destructive agents acting indiscriminately promotes cooperation."

I'd day that this culture of cooperation for defeating "jokers "doesn't apply to all cultures. It certainly doesn't apply to mine (somewhere in SE-Europe, on the fringe of the Balkans), where a realistic similar scenario would look somth like this:

> Joker does his bad stuff, he shares some of his spoils with his relatives and very close acquaintances (god-fathers, god-sons etc.). These latter people are also part of the community that supposedly should cooperate in annihilating the Joker. Is fair to say that they won't. You've now got a fractured community, with some of its members (the Joker's friends and relatives) having no interest in "cooperation", and more importantly having the economical and power-related means of silencing the part of the community that would want to seek justice (because when you do bad stuff you usually do it in order to increase your economical and power-standing among your community). The Joker becomes an example for other people who see that doing nasty stuff supposedly pays off if you've got enough people by your side. Rinse and repeat.

Aaron Swartz's theory is easier to implement where the Joker is an external element of the community, think immigrants, Jews in early 20-th century Europe, Armenians in late-Ottoman times etc, and I'd say that he's right, those communities actually got a lot more cohesive in chasing out the foreign Joker-like actor(s).
It's basic economy: instead of 2, the building company sells 3 floors using almost the same materials and licences. Even if the 'floor price' decreases a bit is certainly a sure bet.
It'd be great if more DNS providers supported "slaving" a zone from an existing server. It would make it much easier to keep DNS synchronized across multiple providers.

Hurricane Electric supports this but most of the providers mentioned in this article do not.
Reading (self-education) while starting a startup?
Do you guys think that it's worth reading new stuff (about biz, startups, hacks, products, management, innovation, YC...) while starting a startup?

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I have this dilemma cause I learned tons from reading, including tons about how to start a great company. Now, I'd like to put in practice. I know YC recommends doing nothing except for developing the product and talking to customers. But is it wise skipping the daily reading (0.5h-1h) that can push you personally but also your startup to the next level?

Thanks for your ideas.
Saying that he merely "quit", like he just walked out of the room or something, extremely trivializes depression and suicide. Also, the consequences in this case were disproportionate to the crime, with JSTOR listing inflated damages, and the prosecutor wanting to make an examples of him.

Lastly your whole comment is framed as a personal attack. You say "inconsequential" even though we have no clue what he was planning to do since he was made to delete the files, and you say "prankster" like was just trolling MIT and JSTOR. I recommend instead that you instead try to read a little about him, he accomplished much more then you gave him credit for.
Could use a (2012) flag.
If you didn't analyse the data, then your conclusions probably are inaccurate.

Downvote me again please.
Yes and no. UI looks wise it is ok, but UX wise it is a nightmare.

When I try to find a product I often can't find it. Or I can only find the previous year/range's version. Or I can only find it if I pretend to be in the US. Or mostly it is out of stock. And all this time direct links works so the products exists, I just cant find them consistently.

Went through this recently trying to find the XPS13 DE for a friend. He bought his first macbook pro in the end instead(a 2015 one just after the touchbar launched).

Yes their SKU stock is massive compared to Apple, so navigation will be trickier, but why do they need to make it so hard by hiding products etc.
"How to keep punishment to maintain cooperation: Introducing social vaccine" (2016)

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2015.08.053 ( Under a Creative Commons )

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378437115...

Keywords: Evolutionary game theory; Social dilemma; Free-rider problem; Agent based simulation; Social vaccine

Abstract

"Although there is much support for the punishment system as a sophisticated approach to resolving social dilemmas, more than a few researchers have also pointed out the limitations of such an approach. Second-order free riding is a serious issue facing the punishment system. Various pioneering works have suggested that an anti-social behavior or noise stemming from a mutation may, surprisingly, be helpful for avoiding second-order freeloaders. In this work, we show through mathematical analysis and an agent-based simulation of a model extending the meta-norms game that the coercive introduction of a small number of non-cooperators can maintain a cooperative regime robustly. This paradoxical idea was inspired by the effect of a vaccine, which is a weakened pathogen injected into a human body to create antibodies and ward off infection by that pathogen. Our expectation is that the coercive introduction of a few defectors, i.e., a social vaccine, will help maintain a highly cooperative regime because it will ensure that the punishment system works."
The countries that don't fluoridate their water don't have minimum levels of fluoride required. Whereas they have maximum levels of fluoride contamination allowed.

I'm not one of those "fluoridation is a government plot to make everyone pliable" crazies. Just saying that it's far, far more important to BRUSH YOUR TEETH than to have a fluoridated water supply. Just seems to me like water fluoridation is just one of those crazy things Americans and places America has influenced do (such as using the customary measure system and circumcising their male children - sure if you dig deep enough you can justify it, but plenty of people get along just fine without it)
Thanks, I will keep an eye on sway. :)
I imagine it is tough work maintaining them. A decades old soviet plain, and you have no access to the manufacturer. I suppose the cannot just call Russia and order parts.
From a human perspective, I suppose you could say that. Keep in mind though that that still means an infinite search space given that (human) language is either context-free or context-sensitive and therefore capable of generating an infinite number of valid statements.

If you approach intelligence from a more general not-necessarily-human-like level you'd have to accommodate a much larger set of elements to search through. Think about those recent examples of AI Go players that apparently use approaches in their game tactics which often don't seem to make sense to human players.

AGI thinking might indeed appear very alien to us.
The difficult but necessary thing is to describe his real public influence and legacy without hurting those close to him.

His ideas had always much less weight then his persona that was created by others and to some degree by him. There is no reason to judge him for that, because we all strive for significance and nobody is perfect. But I agree we should stop to further support that bumptious memory of him.

In the end, he was also a victim of dynamics that where not in his influence. There was people who wanted to make an example of him, because he (like many others) wanted to set information free.

I liked him because he was good looking in a JFK kind of sense. His confident charisma was pleasant and comforting, his words never misplaced. I miss him.
Somehow you are implying that philosophy is so simple all the material can be covered, so there is time to study the history?

What's important is understanding. If studying the history aids understanding it might be worth the time.

I believe studying the history in physics impedes understanding, because it builds up mistaken ideas that become hard to tear down.

For philosophy I'm not sure but I suspect it's better to order learning so as to make a logical progression and that isn't the same as the historical order.
Persuasive definition
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I assume "USB Debug" option in my BIOS refers to this feature, however it did seem to be shipped "Disabled" for me.
psst :-)

@i386 used to work on Bamboo for Atlassian.

Good luck James, I really want to try out BlueOcean but might depend on stuff[1] at work.

1. GoCD (blah) CircleCI (not used yet but frankly looked better)
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> Thermal radiation is produced by the motion of charged particles:

Agreed.

> anything at positive temperature consists of charged particles moving around

This does not follow: infrared radiation != temperature. Neutron stars have positive temperature…
What's backscatter in this case? Could you elaborate on this with maybe some more technical details?
>everybody who knew him found him to be a genuinely nice and caring person...

Whilst that may be true, I've not read about a lot of tragic deaths where everyone who knew the person thought they were a prick.

The point being raised is "Do we really think his theories had unusual insight/value or is his work being viewed through the lens of his death being tragic?". It seems like an entirely valid question to ask.

In terms of "the joker being a rational actor who achieved his goals". Well personally I think he's misinterpreted the film/characters, but I know i'm not an expert on such things so the most I can say is that I'll take his view with a pretty chunky pinch of salt.
Do all start ups have to grow at all costs? I know it's standard for most start-ups to accept as much VC money as possible and find ways to spend it, but there are also young companies that don't need VC money and are successful. Don't know why those shouldn't be start-ups.
I found it frustrating that famous technologists and thought-leaders had stories and praises for him after he died, which were not seen while he was alive, fighting prosecution, and needing their support. From an archived Wikipedia page, you see few statements of support: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Aaron_Swartz&oldi... Aaron was private about his difficulties with the case, but it was not at all a secret... I think many people -especially those with influence in the open data space- were aware of it and doing nothing.
From 0 to 49k: The Story Behind My First Tech Article on Medium
http://rangevoting.org/GerryExamples.html has a good example of an algorithm.
I published the first article about my SaaS webservice here on January 1, and it went viral collecting more than 49000 views, and 920 recs and made it to the biggest Russian startup news publisher where it had additional 24000 views.
How easy is it to export content from Medium? Say, importing it into a WordPress instance.

edit: of course, the loved one has a Medium site. Apparently it exports your posts as just plain HTML. Doesn't appear to have metadata (post time, etc, though that's in the filename). No idea about comments and annotations.
Thanks for this; I knew it from memory but web searched without success.
So a security researcher using Intel-approved debugging tools has found he can take over CPUs ... and wrote an article describing the process for public consumption for benefit of people unaware of the issue, of which there are many.
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arXiv:1210.7085: "Stability and robustness analysis of cooperation cycles driven by destructive agents in finite populations" (2012)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.7085

Abstract:
"The emergence and promotion of cooperation are two of the main issues in evolutionary game theory, as cooperation is amenable to exploitation by defectors, which take advantage of cooperative individuals at no cost, dooming them to extinction. It has been recently shown that the existence of purely destructive agents (termed jokers) acting on the common enterprises (public goods games) can induce stable limit cycles among cooperation, defection, and destruction when infinite populations are considered. These cycles allow for time lapses in which cooperators represent a relevant fraction of the population, providing a mechanism for the emergence of cooperative states in nature and human societies. Here we study analytically and through agent-based simulations the dynamics generated by jokers in finite populations for several selection rules. Cycles appear in all cases studied, thus showing that the joker dynamics generically yields a robust cyclic behavior not restricted to infinite populations. We also compute the average time in which the population consists mostly of just one strategy and compare the results with numerical simulations."
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Medium will never overtake WordPress.

Medium has a lot of buzz, a great founder and a powerful centralized system. It felt like an upgrade to the web. WordPress on the other hand, is a force of nature. Not only does it have a strong team working to improve it on all levels, but it's open source and has somehow managed to attract both gigantic community of marketers, entrepreneurs and consultants and a hoard of GPL zealots making sure that code flows back into the mothership.

A dozen years ago, there was another company that held every advantage Medium currently does, including a younger version of the exact same fouder—Blogger. WordPress steamrolled Blogger. Even with the support of one of the most powerful companies in the world, Blogger has faded from prominence and WP now powers 25% of all the sites on the web.
https://martechtoday.com/wordpress-used-on-25-percent-of-all...

The way I see it, posting on Medium is like guest posting on someone else's blog or like writing on LinkedIn. It's a great way to get some exposure and it's a tool that should be used, but any serious publisher needs their own site they're using the guest posts to build up.
> If you only have embers, you wouldn't call it a fire.

Well, you might

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_seam_fire
On the contrary, the second link in the grandparent's post is basically how all distinguished buildings in the center of Paris and Madrid were built at the time - a subtler form of modernism, still with strong classic influence, but Art Nouveau nonetheless. The ones you link are more artistic and emblematic, but that kind of building is much less frequent.

Have in mind that Art Nouveau is a pretty wide and heterogeneous movement, and not all of it is of the "flowery" nature.
Are there any historical examples of "a joker"? The sole example cited by the article is Nazi Germany which forced the US and the USSR to work together for a short time. That doesn't to me seem to be a real example of a "joker" however, that's just the enemy of my enemy being my friend kind of thing. Hitler wasn't just fucking things up for the sake of it, but had a very specific world he was trying to create. The Joker wanted chaos, or if he wanted anything else, doesn't tip his hand, being an unreliable source of information. How many different ways did he get those scars?

I'm just asking because scholarly articles about the actions of fictional psychopaths seem a bit much. Especially when we are talking about applying it to entire groups of people (nations) without some good examples. Note, this is also different than Swartz's or the author's suggestion - that this cooperation was intended. That's not implied by the movie, nor the joker of the article. This is the first paragraph:

In the recent Hollywood movie The Dark Knight (2008) the
comic character known as the Joker jeopardizes a whole society spreading chaos and destruction with no aim of benefit at it.

That's not Nazi Germany (the sixth paragraph or so and example). Hitler may have had a fucked up sense of societal benefit, but that was his goal, not wanton destruction (at least until he went completely crazy).
The message:
"This is the hanafuda captain speaking. Launching emulation in 3...2...1. Many efforts, tears and countless hours have been put into this jewel. So, please keep this place tidied up and don't break everything! Cheers, the hanafuda captain."
On the other hand, one could argue "I'd rather have freedom for everyone because someone, sometime, will need it." --- maximising physical security pretty much leads to locking users out of being able to easily inspect, repair, and modify their devices since it's far easier to just treat all physical access as being an attacker.
It must be wrong because the example came from a comic. Fuck logic.
I was lucky enough to get the Slackware book with the cd around 1993-94(?) so I didn't have to go through the whole floppydisk dance.

I did try something called minilinux before though that I downloaded off a bbs. I think it was 4 floppies :)

Still using linux to this day both at home and work.
Ask HN: “Are you sure you want to leave this page?”
I used to regard such alerts as confirmation of the worthlessness of anything I read on the given web site. Now it seems a staple of some otherwise fairly thoughtful .coms (e.g., telegraph.co.uk) Has someone in a position of (marketing) influence decided this is potent avenue to viewers/advertisers?
tl;dr: Javascript/Google reCaptcha Paywall.

Source:

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/323537/cloudflare-i...
> The company didn’t even officially announce the abandonment of the API. Instead, the notice came in the form of an updated Frequently Asked Questions page outlining the termination, and an email to developers active on the platform.

That doesn't seem to qualify as "quietly" to me. What did the author expect -- a full-page ad in the New York Times?
I wonder why there's no consideration of anycast servers.
He is a symbol.

Every time he's mentioned, someone feel the overwhelming need to pop up and share their "unpopular but realistic opinion".

I think that is embarrassing.
Hardware support + you can run the Adobe suites, Microsoft Office, etc.?

I think WSL will be very successful among developers. You can just get any laptop from the store that runs Windows 10 and have Linux running at native speed (except I/O, which is currently a bottleneck in WSL) at the same time without the hardware compatibility problems, etc.
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In that case the "quietly" is important, because the article explains that there was no official shout out of this from Google. They just updated their FAQ.

Breaking peoples product is bad enough, but not taking the time to make a clean announcement such as on their official blog seems unprofessional to me. Hence the "quietly".
There's a spelling error in the software on the first screenshot.

BAKCSPACE -> BACKSPACE
A blog article so that everyone who follows Google's announcement will be informed? Blog articles will also be picked up by many tech pages, so it's effectively the NYT equivalent for tech.