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'dang summarized the results of the detox week and has made some recent comments. Here are some, with some identifiable snippets only so it's not a list of links. I encourage you to read the comments themselves. They don't all directly address this, but I think they all shed some light on the topic.

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13516969

There's no satisfying anybody about this: not the readers who want more politics, not the readers who want less, and certainly not the partisans on an issue.

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13522433

There's a lot more politics on HN right now than there usually is, which is appropriate since it reflects what's going on right now.

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13516969

When there's a deluge of political stories, as in the last couple days, users heavily flag most of them. But there have still been plenty of major threads spending plenty of time on the front page. That's the status quo for HN: most politics are off topic, but not all. It's a delicate balance and an important one. Letting politics overrun this site would kill it.

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13463480

On downsides of the Political Detox Week experiment: there are two comments in the thread.
If you want to complain about something, complain about the completely pointless fragmentation of the Linux ecosystem that pretty much mandates "curl|bash" to ship software for "Linux."
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It's interesting. There are obvious security/integrity problems, but there is probably plenty of not very sensitive data to process, and regarding tampered results, if it's cheap enough, one can always process everything twice and compare them.

That said, the eRadiator market seems to be limited to households in places which are cold all year and which have a decent Internet connection. What does that leave? Northern Europe?
Since you're part of a team of interviewers, rely on the others to probe for their elements of technical expertise (whiteboarding or whatever).

What are your unique skills that your team finds valuable? Find them (or their absence) in those candidates. Get a feel for how well the candidate would interact with you and your fellow team members.
No, but take a gander at 21). Does using encryption, "password-protected websites", IP Anonymization make me a terrorist? I think that describes a significant fraction of people here.

Sure, that should be taken in context to the rest of the questions, but should that even be a flag? Should we regularly detain and question pentesters now if they have a middle-eastern background?
Collectors Weekly has consistently interesting articles on a wide variety of topics. The collections themselves are often only a starting point of an investigation into an aspect of history - whether it's pop culture, fashion, weapons, or medicine. A lot of HN might like to add it to their RSS feed.
This is not about deciding the truth or convicting criminals. This is "precrime" in the same way that a cop watching someone sneak around an empty house at midnight might identify them as a "precriminal". That's cause to watch them or go ask them what they're doing, not arrest them.
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In that case don't worry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FACK2knC08E

Also consider that the carrying capacity of the world isn't fixed, but depends on how good our technology is (with a potential theoretical upper limit). Well tech is improved by people working on and inventing better technology, right? So you get better technology with more people - and with that you can have more people working on better technology. The biggest mistake, and the one all Malthusians made, is to forget that humans are, on average, net produces not net consumers.
Well I am driving on paved large highways. If it was a side road or a dirt road, I wouldn't be able to go that 'fast' safely.

I have to admit tho, I drive faster during heavy rain on the highways due to the lack of police. I fell like I am unleashing my hidden "Senna" :)
This is, to me, absolutely indistinguishable from an April fools' day joke.
Process-level Heroku.
OK, butyric acid aka the smell of sour milk.

Me, I would have picked butanethiol.

But my first thought, reading "dumping acid", was LSD ;)
Try Kerrygold, 100% grass-fed and grass-finished...or the U.S. equivalent. You'll never go back.
Unfortunately, Raymond Smullyan has passed, so the ideal response ("Go fight Smullyan in the Pit of Logic") is no longer available.
Silly nomenclature. This isn't "serverless" at all.

Suggestion: "File uploads using 3rd party server".

As an added benefit, this title shows that the data might not be safe from the curiosity of other entities.
> Do you not consider Europe as part of the Western world?

That isn't an example of what we are talking about and you should know that. If they can't enforce things as they do now, they'd need to block domains/firewall a la China.

> Go buy a gun sometime. Or non-prescription cold medications that contain pseudoephedrine. Or prescription medications. Or auto insurance.

You really are missing the point. You are talking about one off transactions of a substantial dollar value and not short-term online accounts with values measured in pennies.

> However, my response was not about identities specifically, but about whether society should really care if the things that it requires organizations to do as a prerequisite of doing business are inexpensive. Sometimes we make the judgment that it really is worthwhile to require a pharma lab to spend half a billion dollars before we let them sell their new pill to the public.

Alright, then stop posting on HN since you believe it should be legal to effectively shut it down. I mean, that is realistically the end result of what you are arguing for where the value-per-user is measured in pennies and you want them to verify people's identities per your original comment. Moving the goal posts now is pointless.

> I've felt that an argument could be made that safe harbor provisions should only apply when the service provider can provide an actual identity associated with an account and that that person is within US legal jurisdiction.

If you feel it is a legitimate regulation, you should voluntarily leave to show your commitment to it.
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python's `os` and `subprocess` molecules, basically. Javascript was designed for the web, not to be run locally on a computer (that's why there isn't a clear "import file" directive). I also like Python more :).
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A distributed version of this will take place in Denmark, once Apples new datacenter is online. We have a distributed heating network in denmark, where excess heat is "sent" to homes connected with "fjernvarme" translated "remote heat". This new datacenter will dump its heat into the existing heating network and will heat x homes in the neighborhod.
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Another one that most people overlook in that category are "affirmative action" quotas. They're always sold as "temporary" for the brief time it'll take for their effects to manifest and fix stuff. But alas, in the majority of cases, they are never repealed or "finalized".

One way of interpreting that is that it's easy to sell an unpalatable something as a temporary thing because it sounds "corrective" rather than a final decision.
I think you email them and are not a jerk and have a stupid website and then you have one.

smart organizers, stupid hackathons.
There is no need. Note that every person has a different conditioning of the mind and not everyone reacts in the same manner to a philosophical statement. Consider several pieces of firewood, each with a varying degree of dryness. Each of them will react differently when ignited with a spark.

The process of understanding the Self requires a teacher, at least in the beginning stages. There are exceptions to the norm, as always. Ultimately, an individual is best equipped to decide what's best for him. Contemplation on the wise sayings of seers may be suitable for some, whereas studying scriptures under a teacher and practicing austerity might be appealing to others.
full title: "Infosys' $200-m Israeli software company Panaya is in the eye of the storm". IOW, presumed overpayment for Panaya.
>You'll see that SIGINT sharing is not a free-for-all in any manner, it is restricted.

Before Snowden, we were told investigatory powers were "restricted" as well. Then we learned linux journal readers were put on watch lists as extremists, and system administrators are routinely targeted for compromise.

The point being, there's no technical reason to stop them from intercepting the 2FA over SMS, so they will. That's been clearly demonstrated by earlier leaks. Those people weren't fired/jailed/etc. They'll just do it again.
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Ah right, so servers running javascript are actually serverless.
I still use them for other purposes, but I'm not going to analyze them for any kind of tracking.
That's hardly the only question like that. Many things on this list would, if taken in isolation, not be indicative of terrorist leanings. I'm assuming that's why there are many questions on this list.
Isn't safe harbor something else? safe harbor explicitly refers to the DMCA but this article seems to be about an older provision of the Communications Decency Act
Why do you think it's inadequate, and what would be adequate?
author here—the idea for this shell would be to have something that worked like python, but was more ergonomica(a :) ). Something like what rajathagasthya suggested (using iPython as your terminal) is also very cool, and so is xonsh. Take it or leave it, it's a different style of shell that I figured I'd try making.
sounds like a plan to me - put butter on it makes it healthier!

Donuts? Butter glazed maybe!
Fries? Fry em in butter!
Starbucks? Instead of cream add butter!
Forget the BigMac sauce I'll take butter!
Well, AFIAK ProtonMail doesn't have business accounts yet, they say they will be adding them soon though.
I love protonmail. It's simple and just works.
I think that there might be a new wave of camera companies that might substantially disrupt the high-end Nikon/Canon market. Light is a good example. [1]

[1] https://light.co/technology
It's more that a private actor can exclude you from any network. Maybe WhatsApp blacklist you for "abuse". Maybe they're right. But even if you kill someone you're allowed to use the telephone network, and send or receive letters.

As long as the message silos aren't regulated as utilities, decentralised systems give us more of the freedoms.

It's pretty easy to run a separate dns system - you can even blend your own private "authorities" dns for new tlds with fall back to the centralised root servers.
We have summer two months per year thank you very much!
Exactly, think bloom filter. Used to rule out.
I've often heard Conservatives use the term "climate change" as evidence that global warming is a hoax—as if we've conceded that the planet _isn't_ warming, and that we're now just saying it's changing in some unknown way. The globe is warming. I think that term is still perfectly legitimate.
I'm not sure. Say you have a few TBs of random sensor data to crunch, and you allocate chunks of a few GBs to each node. What can anyone in practice do with that? Especially if you have checks to avoid tampering with results (e.g. processing every chunk twice).
Liability is not the same thing as a court order. If you sue someone for libel and win, and the libel is hosted on YouTube, YouTube can't say "nope, Section 230" and keep hosting it. The court can order them to take it down. YouTube just doesn't owe you any damages, you have to take that up with the user.

> Indemnification from liability for a specific point-of-view is, I feel, an abridgment of free speech and I believe it is unconstitutional.

That would be the case if the government was deciding who could be indemnified based on content, but that isn't what's going on.

Consider what you would be doing to search engines. Their entire purpose is to sort content by relevance. There is no opinion-free way to do that, otherwise every search engine would have exactly the same results. You want to impose liability on Google and Bing because they index the whole internet and the internet has bad stuff on it?
"Any old winch would have worked but we decided to go with the helicopter for flare."
I think it's also horrible that the article went into it at all. We're just fighting here as a result of it.

If they had left it at the person's name and good deeds, then we'd probably all be here discussing/praising that such a wonderful individual exists. No matter their race, gender, religion or nationality.
A lot of the stuff Derek Sivers writes on his blog[1] is thoughtful and practical writing on parts of life that might fit that category.

He also does some really good summary notes of books he's read.

[1] https://sivers.org/
+1 - As a product person, being able to quickly spin up click tracking on a feature to measure its stickiness is awesome.
Interesting analogy but there is a difference though. Government can somewhat regulate gun sales (proof of identity, no hospitalization due to mental illness, etc). If you apply that to tech companies then we are about to see some regulation in who can and who can't use those services.
While on vacation maybe 15 years ago, I went to a library to get internet access. When I went to Google, the search dropdown box showed me that the previous several searches were all about burglary tools. Should the police be interested in that? (They were. And I don't blame them.)
A lot of people hire nannies, nurses and maids in the USA, especially older people who are not up for the task physically that much anymore.

Any kind of assistant is also pretty expensive in the USA, at least $2-3k full time per month, from post tax income. A very upper middle class family making $15k/month, that would be %15/%20 of their income, very expensive!
New York has had a consolidated heating system for over a century

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_steam_system
What assumption are you referring to?
> GOOGLE, Facebook and other online giants like to see their rapid rise as the product of their founders’ brilliance. Others argue that their success is more a result of lucky timing and network effects—the economic forces that tend to make bigger firms even bigger.

(Take it easy with that down arrow button :) but yet others see their rapid rise as sponsored fronts for Intelligence.

[p.s. & I would be delighted to be presented with thoughtful replies that show /why/ the above view can not possibly be true.]
What a nonsense - the violence has been minimal, and no more than the usual violent idiots you get in any situation, from any group.

Also, I would buy you not wanting to vote for a DNC candidate because of the way they handle their primaries or whatever, sure. The idea you'd be willing to vote for a GOP candidate after their blatent disregard for the public, truth and democracy is laughable.

If you are claiming you want to punish the DNC by withholding your vote from them, sure, fine. Rewarding the GOP for the way they acted? A joke. Completely undermines your point.

This just reads like so many of the comments I've read recently - focusing on the very small negatives of 'the left' while completely ignoring the huge issues from 'the right'. It's such a nonsense.
>Shovelling nanoseconds by manually inlining everything is not scalable.

Neither is Internet speed (even near to) infinitely scalable (even forgetting cost), despite the dreams or hype of some.

Not to mention people on slower lines, as others have said.

Multiply those multi-MB (for pico-content) sites by gazillions of people accessing (some of) them, and the slowdown of the Net becomes serious real fast - no matter what the gung-ho types might claim or say.
The intent of TFA is clearer, but it's still false. AirBnB and Uber didn't get some legal limitation of liability, they just started doing something new and asserted that they weren't liable. Turns out some jurisdictions agree, and others don't. But nobody thought that Common Carrier or the CDA exemptions applied to cars or apartments.
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Depends a bit what one considers integration:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_remailer
1. Dig a parallel hole adjacent to the existing one (w/ a large diameter).
2. Then lower a person to the level of the dog (this person should have oxygen support).
3. Person then connects two holes by demolishing thin layer between these two holes.
4. Person rescues dog
I think you need to get a camera down there to monitor the progress of the solution
No, but that isn't the only question on the list. Encryption combined with fundamentalism, tactical training, and a keen interest in prior attacks is definitely a red flag in my book. And the use of encryption/privacy software definitely strengthens that case.
Alright, I was about to delete my comment above when I saw a reply to another comment which had similar sentiment to mine. I guess what we need then is what weight they assign to each of these. That "using encryption" is on the same level as a listing on "express[ing] a desire to travel overseas to engage violence"[0] doesn't inspire my confidence. It makes me think that this questionnaire won't be as effective.

[0] according to the leaked document. If they weights are assigned by some other rubric in another document not leaked or part of this article at least, then I guess I am wrong.
> The computer language benchmarks game was initially conceived to determine a ballpark for how slow interpreted and managed languages are compared to C.

Today the benchmarks game is referred to from the Rust FAQ. What is one to do?

https://www.rust-lang.org/en-US/faq.html#performance

Back in the previous millenia -- "[Doug Bagley's] goal was to compare all the major scripting languages. Then [Doug Bagley] started adding in some compiled languages for comparison…"

http://web.archive.org/web/20010125021400/http://www.bagley....
The only thing it does is make people cancel their account because they don't want a company spamming them about to how to resist the president.
This is a really important point. It can be really helpful to decouple analytics / tracking from the application -- especially in large companies. However you need to fully understand the security implications (don't trust vendor code!), have someone that is technically inclined using it, make it easy for the product teams to debug around it, take ownership of QA, etc.
It’s somewhat misleading/unfortunate to use angle measures as the basic characterization of an angle/rotation, when just trying to solve basic geometry / triangle measurement problems. It’s almost always easier to use a vector representation, written in terms of explicit coordinates if necessary (e.g. as a complex number). http://www.shapeoperator.com/2016/12/12/sunset-geometry/

Where angle measures and sines/cosines start to be useful is with uniform circular motion, which as you say is a calculus problem.

The key to understanding the form of trigonometry courses is to understand the context for their creation. Namely, all calculations (e.g. for astronomy, navigation, engineering, mapmaking, ...) used to be done by hand by humans, which was very expensive. It was important to have someone with fluent knowledge of trigonometric identities simplify formulas to a form with as few arithmetic operations and table lookups as possible to save money, or just to match the available function tables. Today in a computer age, extensive memorization of trigonometric identities is an anachronism, and spending lots of time on practicing their manipulation is okay algebra practice but not anything directly useful per se.
EROEI would have something to say about that - where's the power used in harvesting and refining the sugar vs. refining crude oil?

BioFuels, unless you're talking about biodiesel which was generally using waste byproduct, are a losing proposition.

Solar, Nuclear, Wind all provide a much higher total output than biofuels.

[1] http://www.roperld.com/science/minerals/EROEIFossilFuels.htm
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These desktops are completely virtual; printing is through the virtual desktop to a network printer. They don't even let us hook USB flash drives to the client. So driver issues would be minimized here, which seemed to me to be all the more reason to go with Linux here.
> revealing documents like this helps prove what FBI isn't doing.

Does it?
It's a dirt hole. My guess is that you create a large amount of mud at the bottom of the hole and then the walls collapse.
The point is whether it would be better than eating the sugar, hence why I posted the nytimes link.
I do a mix of pure consulting but also managed services. I typically have a 12 hour SLA for issues, and 1 hour SLA for some customers. 24/7 support for mission critical, revenue generating systems. So no, I'm not just a talking head. It's usually me in the NOC on the hook in case things go wrong. I'm the world expert in this field, if you want things to work at scale people call me.
Exactly how have you established that it is the same person, and that its a bot?
I've taught intro to web design / development classes before, and based on my experience this tutorial gets it right. (It pretty much follows along with the curriculum I used, although it's much more well-put-together than anything I ever made).
And it's not just the hosts. Consider what this does to a host's incentive to take on a small customer. If you're a small entity you wouldn't be able to find hosting.
My stance has always been that butter is so delicious that I am willing to accept a reasonable amount of risk, whereas I find margarine so foul that I would rather eat food without any fat than consume it.
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That's a side affect of being left in the crib too long.

It's also a reason why breastfeeding is being pushed so heavily now -- it's not just the nutrition, but the bonding time spent with mom.
> The persuasive benefits that Russian propagandists gain from presenting the first version of events (which then must be dislodged by true accounts at much greater effort) could be removed if the true accounts were instead presented first.

Or at all. Just about every news outlet threw credibility away in a frenzy of mass hysteria these last 18 months. There's simply few bastions of impartiality left.

> corrections that provide an alternative story to help fill the resulting gap in understanding when false “facts” are removed.

So, like "alternative facts"?

> Our fourth suggestion for responding to Russian propaganda: Compete!

A bigger, better firehose! One on the right side of history™.

The sad reality is that people don't care about the truth nearly as much as they care about information which validates their worldview. The market acknowledges this and behaves accordingly.

Furthermore, not all truths are equally palpable and I'd argue that repeated censorship of uncomfortable/offensive truths has caused a breach of trust so wide that it has cast doubt on sources of information as a whole. See the 'Fake News' phenomenon.

It's from this set of experiences that people are lured to RT and 'alternative' sources of news. The next thing you know they're buying a years supply of Survival Shield X-2 Nascent iodine on infowars.
There's no leader without a follower, let's no underestimate the importance of the first reply.
You can not avoid responses in clear-text quoting your encrypted emails, so that mechanism is broken by design: it should be a point to point encrypted mailbox.
Your conclusion doesn't follow from your premise.

With no tests, the quiet unassuming terrorist would still walk by.

At least with a test with some efficacy at catching legitimate terrorists even with false positives would be better no?

(Going only by the metric of catching terrorists.)