skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
End user access starts in a provincial/regional network, which is connected to a national "backbone", which maybe allows the traffic out of the country. In my experience there's massive packet loss between the province and "backbone". 40% loss is regular throughout the day. Stuff within China mostly works, but anything outside is flaky at best.

Now obviously enterprise can't put up with that crap, so there's better routes out. Say a datacenter in Guangdong province that has direct peering with Hong Kong where licensed companies are colocating. Those companies with access can take money, (or under the table their sysadmins can) to terminate a VPN or MPLS connection there, giving unfiltered access to the internet and bypassing the lossy path.

The going rate I've found for this is about USD $300 per megabit per month, plus whatever the costs are to get there. (eg. Your regular broadband connection if using a VPN or cost of MPLS/Lan extension type service from the telco) Too expensive for most individuals, but definitely worth it if you're a hotel catering to foreign guests who will be pissed off if Google, Facebook, and pretty much everything they recognize about the internet doesn't work.

In my view this document is calling for, among other things, rooting out of this kind of activity.

If anyone is familiar with this market for unfiltered internet in China I'd like to learn more about it.
"unsafe" is expressing that you are opting-in for less safe code. Same in C#.

Many unsafe abstractions are not opt-in in C++. You can go ahead and writing them. No warning or cost.

"mut" and "unsafe" are keywords that you need to write down each time. They're keywords you can spot easily during a code review and say "how do you justify this?".

Rust's language design choice of having everything being immutable and safe by default is a great idea.
No, the spectrum is from severe autism through and including the old asperger's syndrome, however mild; it ends there definitionally, leaving the vast majority of humans outside the spectrum.
This is interesting in the larger context of Broadcast Media w.r.t. news, too -- their power and relevancy are ever declining.
Triple e-mail retention impact with optimum timing
If anyone throttles netflix then they can put up a message telling their users that their ISP is responsible, similar to youtube.
Netflix addressed this in their recent earnings call: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/01/netflix-is-so-big...
Also, why ship the panels half way around the world for assembly? Part of China's glory is having manufacturing for everything close by.
For some reason I really like the phenomenon of "Fake News". It was an idea launched fairly quickly right after the election. It spread fast. All over the news. The media, and even Facebook and Google throwing their weight behind it.

Nobody quite knew what it was. Was it just Lizard People news or did it include all news from Fox or just some. Was it just Macedonian teenagers making money or was CNN also Fake News.

Then something happened. The mass media channels which invented and promoted Fake News ended up being labeled by it. Search for "Fake News" in image search on Google and CNN is right there. That was not the intended result I am sure. So the last I heard the idea is to now retire it due to inconvenience:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/its-time-to-r...

There is something sad and ironic about it. There is a pr lesson there as well perhaps...
FTA - he sent notes back in the margins for responses, and only occasionally wrote letters back personally.
Even by typical standards this is grossly insecure.

The client downloads the contents of :

http://www.vpngate.net/api/iphone/

Then it looks for entries which match the selected countries, runs base64 decode on them, and writes out that decoded data to /tmp/openvpn.

The last step is to run "sudo openvpn /tmp/openvpn".

So pretty much, if the remote host wanted to, they could run arbitrary commands on your host, as root.

Personal bugbear: Assuming sudo is installed, and enabled. If you need root permissions make that clear and fail with an error.
The title should be updated to reflect that this is from 2015.
Props to Samsung. They reacted fast to the incidents, quickly announced recalls and worked hard to convince people to return their devices, launched in depth investigation, identified the problem and made changes to their processes.

If the result of the investigation is correct then they have different flaws in both the original and new batteries, which is quite unfortunate. The fiasco costed them something like $17B so they can't afford to have it happen again.
I've seen a lot of hostility online against people with non-european names. The idea that open source contributors are measured solely on merit is something of a fantasy. The canonical example here is contributors with an Indian name - they face a lot of social flak regardless of merit. No, not every project does it, but the ecosystem itself is somewhat unfriendly to such people.

> Please keep the social justice fighting out of free software

What are you talking about? The FSF birthed this movement, and was functionally based on social justice issues. If you pay any heed at all to the 'four freedoms', that's definitively 'social justice fighting'.
>Also perhaps of note... When a law isn't working (ie indoor smoking ban) they have been known to just re-issue it.

This is interesting. Do they re-issue it with a minor change (double penalties, increasing the radius of "indoors" by 10ft, etc) or do they just re-issue it word for word?
You are definitely middle or upper class.
Now that's an ad.

"We are not in the watch business. We are in the luxury business" - Rolex CEO.

Rolex today only gets chronometer certification for about 3% of its output. Any decent quartz watch is more accurate than the best mechanical watches. Chronometer certification for a mechanical watch only requires -4/+6 secs/day. The best quartz watches are good for 5 seconds a year.

Unless you also have a boat, a sextant, and a nautical almanac, but no GPS, a chronometer watch isn't going to do you much good.
Interesting. As someone who has never been there, I always had a positive impression of Uruguay, and have even remarked on HN that I'd like to live there for a while. What I've read about Uruguay has all been very positive and by many indicators it seems prosperous in comparison to other countries in the region. What's your impression of the country as a whole?
Blockbuster declined to buy Netflix for $50M in 2000. Now Blockbuster is gone and Netflix is worth a lot more than $50M.

Edit, source: http://www.businessinsider.com/blockbuster-ceo-passed-up-cha...
Yes, certificate pinning would have blocked my initial steps.
But there is a tool for disabling certificate pinning validation on jailbroken iOS devices, called iOS SSL Kill Switch https://github.com/iSECPartners/ios-ssl-kill-switch.
This is very interesting! I had exact same question how to do it in python just a while ago! http://stackoverflow.com/questions/41427500/creating-a-virtu...

Glad that someone thought about similar thing and made a tool to solve it!
I agree, Netflix is killing it. First of all, their selection in Canada is amazing, despite what anyone says. Second, I'm pretty sure I watch more of their original content than anything. They have great taste, fund the right people, they've progressed well beyond what I ever expected. Third - great app, can download content for offline.

Anyhow, they're killing it on every front, and it costs what, $10/month? I'd pay much more. Anyhow good job Netflix.
I couldn't have said it better myself. Sovereignty is the only barrier between you and a global government that turns tyrannical. If you can't run away from a bad government when you need to, you'll be in deep doo-doo.

For me, the optimal outcome is actually as much secession as possible - to a state or county level. With so many options in place, people can self-select into what fits their style and culture. This would be, in my view, a recipe for increased global peace. It is when forced integration is in place that conflict emerges.
Have you always been a morning person? What does your morning ritual usually entail (other than the walk?)
Republic+Day+News,Latest+Breaking+News+on+Republic+Day+Daily+hot+News
I wonder if the players tried colluding: coordinate their bets to fake a weakness so the AI start to adopt a poor strategy, then up the bets and stop the feign. I don't see how the AI can protect itself against that.
I had the same issue and here's what worked for me:

Stop trying to force yourself to code at home.
Look at it like music creation, spend your time trying to find inspiration, problems to solve.

Don't follow major development rules like you do at work which are designed for coordination and management amongst groups.

Be okay with crappy incomplete code.

Feel free to abandon it and return to it later...months later.

As PG says...don't code. Hack. It's way more fun.
I wish the vacations bit would die a quick death. He was present more often than Bush. I haven't seen much that says he was in over his head, would appreciate some accounts of that.

I'd also argue the connection between running a large org and being skilled in any specific area - you don't expect Satya to understand the specifics on how the azure VM is set up, that's why you have a VP.
The link is refusing to connect. Can you update the link?
This is just a guess on my part since I always deny these permission requests but I would think maybe accepting the request would allow the website to notify a reader when new articles are posted? Maybe it's something like notifications on an app only this is done via the browser?

I feel like I started seeing these requests more frequently about 12-18 months ago. I agree it's very off putting.
That part starts at 8:50 in the video, here's a direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKY6BGcx37k&feature=youtu.be...
Hey other Reitz fans. Make sure to check out his newish podcast series: https://www.kennethreitz.org/import-this/
Yes, it's an interesting fact. However, the town's name still has nothing to do with the term.

Also, Charles was a public official who questionably interpreted existing law to aid the Revolutionary War by jailing British sympathizers. "Lynching" didn't become associated with anti-black vigilante murder until closer to the American Civil War.
I believe we are witnessing the Cambrian explosion of intelligences. The techniques behind Libratus (abstraction algorithm and game theory [1]) appear to be qualitatively distinct from those behind AlphaGo (deep reinforcement learning and MCMC) and DeepBlue (search and heuristics).

An ecology of Artificial Intelligences, unbounded by our evolutionary history and neural architecture, could evolve to suit each particular task more effectively than our brains can.

Promises and perils abound.

[1] http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sandholm/ section "Algorithms and complexity of solving games"
Neat. Now for questions and comments.

Often people have a requirements.live.txt, or other packages depending on the environment. Is that handled somehow? Can we use different files or sections? [ED: yes, different sections]

Still wondering to myself if this is worth the fragmentation for most people using requirements.txt ? Perhaps the different sections could have a "-r requirements.txt" in there, like how requirements.dev.txt can have "-r requirements.txt". [ED: the pipfile idea seems to have quite some people behind it, and pip will support it eventually. Seems it will be worth it to standardise these things. requirements.txt is a less jargony name compared to Pipfile though, and has a windows/gui friendly extension.]

Other tools can set up an environment, download stuff, and run the script. Will pipenv --shell somescript.py do what I want? (run the script with the requirements it needs). ((I guess I could just try it.)) [ED: doesn't seem so]

Why Pipfile with Caps? Seems sort of odd for a modern python Thing. It looks like a .ini file? [ED: standard still in development it seems. TOML syntax.]

With a setup.py set up, all you need to do is `pip install -e .` to download all the required packages. Or `pip install somepackage`. Lots of people make the setup.py file read the requirements.txt. Do you have some command for handling this integration? Or is this needed to be done manually? [ED: seems no considering about this/out of scope.]

Is there a pep? [ED: too early it seems.]
> That's not really a fair response to the parent's comment, but I suppose the parent's comment was entirely charitable to the proposed hypothetical either.

That was the point.

> Would you rather pay qualified labor force participants to do labor/construction/civil engineering, or would you rather pay the same number of qualified participants to start high growth technology companies?

To which the answer is almost certainly, both. Because we need roads and infrastructure, but we also need a safety net, and they are not the same thing.

> I haven't actually done the math, but my intuition (which could be wrong!) is that it makes more sense to pay for people to e.g. fix America's insanely expensive and inefficient transportation system than to pay for them to sit in a garage and try to "innovate."

Literally starting a multibillion dollar company is obviously not the one most people are going to do. But a UBI also lets you quit your terrible job and still pay rent while attending community college, so you can get a better job tomorrow. Or use the safety net go to a new place where you're more likely to find better employment opportunities. Or start a normal small business that nobody ever expects to be Apple or Walmart but after a couple years will be able to pay you a middle class wage.

And the best part is that you have self-interested people figuring it out for themselves.
That looks like a mean, but what's the distribution? And since this is births per woman so far in their life (I guess), how old are the women?
$300 per megabit?? Did you mean GB or TB maybe?
What makes you think people aren't trying hard enough? It's the fact we haven't come up with an alternative clean source of energy able to sustain the rate of our current consumption. None of the green energy we know of can do that right now (be it too costly, or just not enough power generated).
FCC regulations apply to the device with the supplied antenna in place.

The antenna is not supposed to be replaceable, hence the reverse SMA connector on most modems.

Modifying the antenna in any way invalidates the type approval.
Thanks to O'Reilly for publishing this interesting chapter written in 1999 by Linus Torvalds. Near the end, Torvalds wrote:

> ... I don't envision major updates to the kernel. A successful software project should mature at some point, and then the pace of changes slows down. There aren't a lot of major new innovations in store for the kernel.

Any Linux kernel developers care to comment on the accuracy of this prediction?
Yup. Shifting to streaming then content creation does make sense, yet the fact that they've successfully steered such shift in this scale is amazing.
I'm glad my question was finally answered! During the paranoia in September/October, I remember reading everything and wondering why nothing seemed to explain why the issue happened in the first place. Note7's aren't exactly the only tech with batteries...

Otherwise, sorry for being negative, but this doesn't seem like a very complicated reason for the batteries to have been defective, right? Why didn't they just release this a couple of weeks after the incidents started happening? (Did they want to confirm with a large number of the recalled ones they got back you think?)
To get you to comeback to the site. To demand a higher amount when negotiating with watch companies.
I was not aware of that technique, thanks.
where do you work
Interesting. I have been leveraging tox to provide a lot of what this seems to give you, but it certainly has been more of a hack than a solution.
The founder of Timehop is going to work at Snapchat
How to Manage Variable Product in WooCommerce
The first words of the article are

> Foxconn Technology Group Chairman Terry Gou told reporters in Taipei the company is considering a joint investment with Apple Inc. for a display manufacturing facility in the U.S.

I think that provides enough of a kernel of truthiness for Trump to declare "Apple is building a $7b factory, it's going to be yuge!".
It is likely sold based on throughput and not metered transfer.
"Eventually" is a long wait for those suffering under the perils thereof.
The constant affirmation of being "free", the need to "protect our freedom" and "the greatest country in the world", simply stops people questioning anything about the relative state of society and freedom.

Instead of being 1st in the world, the USA ranks 23rd in the world for freedom [1], and 11th for economic freedom [2].

It's only likely to get worse.

Even sadder is that there are countries where people have a average life expectancy up to 5% longer than the USA.

[1] https://www.cato.org/human-freedom-index
[2] http://www.heritage.org/index/ranking
The title is very misleading and click bait. The money going to the developing countries is actual aid. The money coming back is not aid. the money coming back is interest payments and taxes from foreign investments, etc.
On the flip side, is no one worried about the seeming lack of a viable competitor to Netflix?
Isn't coordination between players what really happens in most poker games...
Is anyone using MonetDB production? How does it compare to other column stores?
I can't edit my post anymore, but as of right now, the link works over http rather than https:
http://www.nipsml4hc.ws/
I heard that Baidu and some other Internet companies in China have these kind of unfiltered connection (maybe to use Google? Haha). I don't if these are "authorized" or not.
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Check out https://github.com/pypa/pipfile for more info. The format is TOML. It is mainly intended for deployments (e.g. web applications)
A) Not really, Google knows way more about us.
B) That sounds like a problem with education.
C) This is by no means the only targeted political advertising. They have systems to track what you respond to and have done so for quite some time now. Calls, letters, even people visiting at the door don't happen by accident.
The tl;dr is voter apathy in key midwest states. IIRC Trump underperformed but Clinton underperformed even more. It is difficult to say with certainty but the FBI letter probably cost her the election by slightly depressing turnout.

It also looks like the Republican effort to disenfranchise people by reducing early voting, voting hours, closing polling stations, enacting voter ID laws, purging voter rolls, etc has worked in the sense that it slightly reduced Dem turnout which was enough in this election. Their efforts to steal elections by gerrymandering themselves into power has also given them outsized control of the House and various state governments.

It is really embarrassing that the majority of the country votes D and the Rs have control over the government. It's pure subversion of democracy.

Russia certainly tried to influence the election but if it had been Obama running (or anyone charismatic) instead of Clinton it wouldn't have mattered; Trump would have lost by a huge EC margin.

I'm far more worried about the long-term damage to the country now that the FBI has once again become an open political weapon, and that Rs are unapologetically disenfranchising people in an attempt to maintain power permanently.
It's important to note that last time, the poker players beat CMU's AI by around 500k chips as well and they had the gall to declare it a "statistical tie". Yet if they win by chip they will claim to have "won".
This maybe my own rule of thumb but i believe that companies that serves sensetive forms over http also save the password in plain text.

They should be a shamed.
Because 3 million women motivated enough to protest doesn't outweigh 30 million women motivated enough to vote.

The fact of the matter is Trump's support base is broader than his opposition - at least, in the states where it matters.
Currently using fish and virtualfish. This seems incompatible to non bash shells. Did somebody tested?
See also, pex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmpnGhRwsu0
There is only 1 apple for 5 persons.

Person 0 has 0 dollars;

Person 1 has 1 dollars;

Person 2 has 2 dollars;

Person 3 has 3 dollars;

Person 4 has 4 dollars;

What is the price of apple?
My guess is buyers of mechanical watches know this already. I've never seen a luxury watch advert whose main selling point was the accuracy of the watch.
This comment from Reddit user SmegmataTheFirst really nails it:

"tl;dr: Advertising ruins everything, which is why netflix originals are better than cable TV shows."

https://np.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/5ou7px/netflixs_...
Man, that fourth paragraph is a work of art.
What's interesting to me is that while Netflix is often the primary financier, the traditional studios are still the ones producing the content.

If Netflix has found a worldwide market for content, that's good news for the studios they're hiring to produce that content.

I'm curious if the additional revenue from Netflix, and presumably Amazon, Hulu, and a nervous HBO will be enough to offset the declining revenue from broadcast TV.
Well, at least MediaHint isn't joining users to a botnet like one of the others is.

All it's doing is setting proxy autoconfig to https://mediahint.com/chrome.pac

Doing a bit more digging it seems like they're using several proxies under the name \*.mhgs.co, which looks suspiciously like a whole lot of Linode boxes.

I didn't think the 'net was filtered in HK?
Certainly, though the output power is quite a bit less (20dBm for WiFi vs 4 dBm for typical bluetooth).

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/how-to-bluesniper-pt1,review-408...
There is a middle class car shaped like a ferrari: The Lotus Elise and even more so, the Alfa Romeo 4C. Now let's see what happens when they do this: No one buys it! Wow. It seems, relatively few people want that. And with such a small number of people, car companies don't have the economies of scale to build those cars.

Car enthusiasts make up a small percentage of the car market, even here in America. People want practical, with a bit of badge.

And there are other really awesomely styled cars: Hyundai Veloster, SLK 55 AMG and I don't see these selling out really fast.
The reason this is posted here again is that there was recently a Trident "accident" which May did not disclose to Parliament.
Not all units had these flaws.
I realize they had to root cause this problem but it was interesting to see and I wonder if they fired the Battery manufacturer.

The other thing I find interesting is that given the root cause they could essentially do 100% battery screening and have a lot of stock of G7's. They would be better than a cheap android phone in a magazine advertisement[1] :-). Also the G7 has a gorgeous screen, I wonder if those are being recycled into new gear or if there is some booth selling off screens somewhere.

[1] http://mashable.com/2012/10/02/ew-has-smartphone-inside/#Nq6...