skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they shred the legal immunity, the only platforms remaining will be the giants. It would be the ultimate moat for Facebook, Google, etc.

I've been waiting for two decades for the monsters in DC (and their many accomplices) to legislatively make it impossible to wake up in the morning with a normal business idea (not talking Napster here) and decide to just build it without having to go through an endless parade of legal/political/regulatory/licensing concerns. It doesn't appear to be far away now, the government monster is always hungry, always expansive, always looking to dig its claws into any bastions of free movement.

My suggestion to younger entrepreneurs out there: get it while you can. This glorious period of having so much freedom to create/build - no permission required - will probably seem like a distant fantasy in another decade. There is no scenario in which they aren't going to add more and more friction to the process, putting themselves in-between you and building things online as just another layer of control.
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You've been posting nothing but complaints about paywalls and web annoyances. Those are not substantive comments, so please stop.

Re paywalls, HN's rule is that they're ok as long as there's a standard workaround. This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.

See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989.
Yea that is a fair assumption to make. Threads running concurrently are not necessarily running in parallel, however all threads running in parallel are also running concurrently.

Again the point the book is trying to make by distinguishing the difference between these two is that when threads are truly running in parallel, they are operating on their own private copy of the data in their cache which is then written back to main memory. Without any synchronization on the order in which cores write to main memory (Remember the compiler/cpu are allowed to re-order instructions) it is possible that one core can accidentally undo the changes another core just made. This is called a race condition and is mitigated by the use of mutual exclusion zones, aka mutexes, where only one core may operate at at time.

Early multi-core CPUs had relatively small caches which made the likelihood of accidentally stepping on another cores changes less. However today, modern i7s for example have relatively large caches and can exacerbate race conditions. Anecdotally, I once experienced this problem on code that I wrote that passed through all the testing without any problems only to crash when run on a newer core i7 cpu during deployment. I had to explain why this was happening which lead me to learn all about cpu caches and whatnot.
And all developers purposefully write spaghetti code while sysadmins hide passwords and secret configurations, all for job security.

Do you truly believe everyone is so cynical? Of course there are some bad actors, in all jobs and all domains. But not everyone—I'd argue the majority of people—are just out to screw everyone else.
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Depends on your goals.

If you're a company like Facebook or Google, you're looking to eke growth out of every corner of the Earth, including those with really slow Internet.

So after you've conquered the 1st and 2nd world countries, you start optimizing for additional tiers. (And optionally launch balloons that shower Internet upon untapped markets)

However, if you're not one of those two behemoths, then your target audience is probably located within ~3,500 miles of you/your servers (which would translate roughly into a RTT latency figure of ~100 milliseconds, and add 40ms for those folks on low-grade ADSL or cellular connections).

Your barebones site is competing with other fully-featured sites that are taking advantage of the high bandwidth delay product that's available to them.

Unless, competing for eyeballs is not one of your goals.

But regardless, optimizing for reach beyond that mileage range by slicing bits here and there, rather than bolting on a CDN, is probably a premature optimization.

To throw out a new presumption, I'd say that if you measured user's rage, they're more angry with packet loss than with consistent latency.

One is predictable and can be planned for ("open 5 tabs, go do some chores, come back in 15 minutes when they're loaded").

The other is absolutely infuriating ("open 1 tab, get teased by some amount of partially loaded objects, spend the next 5 minutes refreshing due to socket timeouts, cross fingers that not too many refreshes evicts items out of the local cache, give up")
More importantly, it's probably used to screen out people who don't belong. You can be damn sure anybody who is an actual terrorist uses encryption. Most harmless religious camping enthusiasts do not.
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Arms dealers have some responsibility about which governments and government agencies they sell arms to. At some point the German government forbade selling of certain broad categories of arms to the Mexican military, based on observing how often those arms ended up in the hands of drug cartels. I am from Mexico and we shouldn't be in any list that allows selling spy software, yet for some reason we are considered a Wassenaar Arrangement nation, so in principle we get a lot of sophisticated arms despite being constantly brought up for state violence and torture by the OAS ( http://www.oas.org/en/iachr/reports/pdfs/Mexico2016-en.pdf )
> Having to use webpages like we are in the 90s again doesn't seem like a good solution

You underestimate the tools you have now. Mobiles are mostly on Android 4.4+, which gives us fairly advanced CSS support for example. There is a plethora of oldschool JS which can be easily replaced by simple CSS rules, a trivial example: resizing images to viewport - just use vw and vh as units, done.

I remember the word DHTML too well to know how easy it is to misuse JS. Always have a working, HTML (and maybe CSS) only solution first, especially, if you content is text. Only after this add the JS, and make whatever you want with it, make it fancy, part-reloading, whatever, but first make sure you can load your content, because that is the main reason for the site. (Again, not talking about webapps. Loading gmail is an idiotic idea on a GSM connection, just use IMAP and an offline client, if that worked during the 80s and 90s, it'll be fine.)

Apply GPRS cap in Chrome and see what's it like in rural ENGLAND. Not India, not China, the very middle (maybe not the actual, geographical middle, but you get my point) of the UK, with terrible signal reception. ( F12 -> network -> 'No throlling' dropdown ).

https://mbasic.facebook.com is a thing for good reasons. (and, by the way, a good way to browse FB without giving them the ability to trace everything via JS).

So no, not like the 90s: do it for modern browser, but the energy, bandwidth and cpu efficient way and don't block text with JS.

No one can afford not to be accessible from billions of devices from millions of people from outside of "The West".
>I did allow them to move outside of the town centers.

Which is the case with a number of the shin- stations on the shinkansen lines. (Although, being Japan, those stations are still well-connected to the city transit systems and they're not that far out of the traditional town centers.)
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We are specifically talking about quality of life though, which is not income. Here's one on leisure time: https://www.bostonfed.org/-/media/Documents/Workingpapers/PD... You can find these for a ton of different metrics.

As an anecdote: when my father was my age, he was married, worked three jobs, had to build his own house, didn't have A/C, did his own car repairs, didn't have consistent heat, didn't have a TV. Maybe he made more money on paper, but I feel I definitely have it easier.
Well this would only help incumbents, the little guys are unlikely to ever be able to police user content at scale or at cost.
Back in the days there was the saying that if you had a training/education that is useful in the private sector you 'd be either a moron or an hopeless idealist if you worked for the public sector - no matter if for the city, the Stadtwerke (utility company), firefighters, cops... only the cops and teachers get a "Münchenzuschlag" to compensate for higher cost of living. Then again it isn't nearly enough to fill the difference.
Great work, I'm learning elixir as well. Very cool
I think whatever the limit is should be the limit that news source can post to this site. IMO.
1. I've gone through an OSHO 'phase' long ago. there is a certain quality in you when you are young that finds him appealing but you grow out of it. when I look back at it now its seems not worth my time as many ideas seem rather half baked (sorry, no offence, just my impression).

2. SJV I like, have been practicing isha processes for a bit, there is a certain directness to him that I like. However, Intellectually I feel his ideas/thought mechanics are tailored towards masses that I struggle to find alignment in (sorry again). Isha practices are good but IMO but there is something else to him that you experience only when you meditate with him.
I got my idea after talking to my dentist, she has a problem that takes too much time to finish in the office, and her dentist software cannot do it, so she needs something that works along her existing software and solves the problem.

just talk to people and try to solve their everyday pain.
The people that said you wouldn't be able to afford an apartment in overcrowded SF were dead-on right. The people who predicted widespread traffic jams were right.

The people who said that third world countries needed to cut birthrates before they could get richer turned out to be right everywhere.

The people that said Bengala-Desh would get to be like Bengala-Desh were right. As were the people who predicted overcrowding and exodus from the Sahel.
See also http://www.stupidhackathon.com/ !
More than India.
In the 70s people were pushing "low-glycemic index" diets. That precludes sugar.
Me neither. I guess Cloudflare (to name but one service reliant on SNI) hasn't either...

This article is a bit of an unusual response to a problem of a device not working. When a device of mine doesn't work but others do I put it down to there being a problem with my device, not a widely used technology (like SNI).

It's an interesting article to read though.
Ask HN: Does this make any sense, or is it just way over my head?
I've been trying to do this for a couple of weeks. I have no idea what I'm doing and it's been hard to find any help via google. But I finished it last friday. Without multiple external IP addresses. Funny to see this as the top story when I woke up today. But yes, as caleblloyd says, it's 2017. Use SNI. It's not hard, I'd never even heard of nginx or letsencrypt before I started my project.
Interesting idea. There's probably some clever software involved to schedule compute jobs onto the radiators; end users will want to regulate the heat output. Also, they must be using some rather beefy servers to generate an amount of heat comparable to a space heater (3kW).
Nope, that ack totally suffices.
...before a crime has happened.
Too late, I'm already drinking a cup of liquid butter to help my heart
I'm not sure speculation changes the central premise of the question. Assume that the document was up to date with the latest techniques. Would you still that consider it to be a document worth leaking for the public good?

edit: I will acknowledge that the age of the document does change its impact. But 2013 is pretty recent.
If you like proofs and rigor, take a look at "Statistical Inference" by Casella and Berger.
I'm sure there are what appear to be clear-cut cases, especially in retrospect. I'm also sure that all of our 99% accurate heuristics we use in daily life will fail spectacularly on some minority of cases when applied 100,000 times.
Thanks, I'm already using both but would like to block some services systemwide (through hosts file or similar).
I would like to add more to this conversation, but don't know that I have much to offer beyond what others have said.

There are two quotations regarding this topic that others here may like, though. One is (in my view) about the infinity of potential relationships that pass every day, and the other about trying to connect to someone else while we are limited as corporeal beings.

...
"The barber was cutting our hair, and our eyes were closed - as they are so likely to be. We had passed into that deep and bountiful world of repose which one finds only at the end of the tonsorial trail. The scissors, stroking, had entered into the deliberate phase well behind the ears; our head was bowed, and peace had settled over the hair, with only the asthmatic inhalations of the barber marking life's beat. Deep in a world of our own, we heard, from far away, a voice saying goodbye. It was a customer of the shop, leaving. "Goodbye," he said to the barbers. "Goodbye," echoed the barbers. And without ever returning to consciousness, or opening our eyes, or thinking, we joined in. "Goodbye," we said, before we could catch ourself. Then, all at once, the sadness of the occasion struck us, the awful dolor of bidding farewell to someone we had never seen. We have since wondered what he looked like, and whether it was really goodbye.

-E.B. White, "The Sadness of Parting", The New Yorker, May 4 1935, page 9.

"We suffer a lot in our society from loneliness. So much of our life is an attempt to not be lonely: 'Let's talk to each other; let's do things together so we won't be lonely.' And yet inevitably, we are really alone in these human forms. We can pretend; we can entertain each other; but that's about the best we can do. When it comes to the actual experience of life, we're very much alone; and to expect anyone else to take away our loneliness is asking too much."
- Ajahn Sumedho, The Way It Is
> No I'm just realistic about what the private sector will do. If you look at the long running trend in house building since the second world war private companies have built roughly 200,000 units a year varying by about 50,000 units a year.

It would be more accurate to say:

> I'm just realistic about what the government will do. If you look at the long running trend in the granting of planning permissions since the second world war, the government has allowed roughly 200,000 units a year to be built.

The private sector builds as many houses as it is legally allowed to do so. This is, as you note, an insufficient number. And yes of course, when they're not allowed to build enough houses to meet demand, they will prioritize building the most profitable ones.

> The private sector will only ever build for the top end of the market and never in the quantities actually needed to reduce house prices.

Yes, we've passed laws to make damn sure of that.

> So yes if we opened up the green belt it would be built on but it wouldn't achieve anything to alleviate the housing crisis.

It's quite possibly true that focusing on denser, brownfield developments is a better idea. But it's rather absurd to suggest that building more houses isn't going to help with the problem of there not being enough houses.
Just took a quick look at the crypto implementation. It uses AES-256 in CBC mode but..... without an authentication tag (HMAC).
Most of the Human Identity section and the Society section.
Yes, well the phone company isn't listening in on what you're saying and deciding if it's "fake news" or not and disconnecting you if it is "fake news".

Facebook has no one to blame but themselves for going into the role of "internet police" and giving up their safe harbour provision. You can't have it both ways, you can't be an open platform under the protections of safe harbour and a curated feed with censorship.
"curl | sh" is not in itself any less secure than "npm install" or "go get", but it is often a good indicator of a project that takes usability more seriously than security. IMO, it's also seen as "the new way" to do installs, and implies a lack of respect for the fodgy old way to do things (e.g. with a package manager).
I hypothesize that if a comparison contrasts a suitable quantity of buttering / fat for flavor and refined sugars for flavor (because who actually uses molasses/etc) then either hybrids or fat biased foods will be easier to process and regulate for most individuals.
Just as I was planning to use WordPress to publish, this comes out
That's assuming the dog can swim/keep afloat for (presumably) hours - can any dog experts/those knowledgable on the subject comment?
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It is a high-end, connected, smart-home type hardware product that slowly poops bars of gold for its users while giving them great utility (which outsiders may or may not appreciate), and also poops bars of gold for us, and for our partners (without ad impressions or selling the information of our users). You could draw some parallels with Nest, but we would not like to leave our users stranded following an acquisition/sunsetting, so it is designed to continue indefinitely in such a scenario.
Then look at the source of those and pull the site lists out and block those, Ublock lets you download huge lists of all sorts of things.
> The immunity must be limited to sites that are neutral, in the same way that non-political religious organizations are tax-exempt. Why? Because to claim that a site isn't responsible for a user's content is fine, until the site starts editing, censoring or weighting certain points of view. When the site loses its neutrality it ceases to be a conduit of content and instead becomes content. Indemnification from liability for a specific point-of-view is, I feel, an abridgment of free speech and I believe it is unconstitutional.

1) Yeah that works great until someone uploads content about children being sexually abused and you can't take it down because taking it down is a non-neutral action (censorship).

2) Same, but non-consensual pornography of someone's ex.

3) Same, but advocating a clear and immediate desire to commit violence.

4) Same, but "fighting words" (a well known exemption when said to someone's face to free speech protections).

5) Same, but obscenity.

There are some very, very massive flaws of that nature with your position and I'd continue but I think you are getting the idea. Such things don't only impact the speaker and therefore create a situation where the provider should (in theory) censor them.

Similarly, such things have been ruled to be outside of the bounds of "free speech" in the US by the judicial system.
> both NATO and the United States have a range of capabilities to inform, influence, and persuade selected target audiences. Increase the flow of persuasive information and start to compete, seeking to generate effects that support U.S. and NATO objectives

Yeah, it's called JTRIG. There's a reason why Eglin Air Force Base was declared 'the most reddit addicted city', and then the blog post was deleted. https://web.archive.org/web/20160604042751/http://www.reddit...
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Any business that approaches usefulness in terms of encrypted communications is shutdown by the u.s.
It's not clear if you would like to have a sincere conversation. May I ask you questions? In honesty, why did you post your reply to my comment?
Stalled population growth creating widespread improvement in living standards is exactly what Malthus said would happen. He was just skeptical we could stall population growth.

But then Malthus lived 100 years before rubber condoms were invented.
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Yes: memory management in the compiler is interesting. There's a complicated graph of pointer references. Most of the time the compiler is building something relatively small, so we don't need to bother cleaning up, we just exit without freeing it all (for speed). But when e.g. building with Link Time Optimization, we can use large amounts of RAM, so a garbage-collection can be needed.
I'm curious how it's ok for a US company (The Intercept) to publish a Secret document?

The documentcloud.org file clearly shows: Contributed by: SooHee Cho, The Intercept.

And the documentcloud.org server itself appears to be located in the US as well.

Seems like something you could go to jail over.
Ask HN: What service do you use to send SMS?
Our company is looking to interact with its customers via SMS. We have our customers' consent to do so.

The ballpark number of messages / month should be around 50,000.

All services out there seem to be very expensive and not very usable (bad UI, lack of features, no mobile app, etc).

Does anyone know of a good alternative/product/service we might be able to use?

Thanks in advance!
It missed several errors I introduced, such as changing spellings and capitalizing mid-sentence pronouns.
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Google's AI understands the benefits of betrayal
I couldn't say since I'm not living with that realization.

Here are the words of someone who does:
http://biroco.com/journal.htm
> If you look at the number of privately built units of housing it has been remarkably consistent at about 200,000 units a year

Between 2006 and 20015, planning permission was awarded in England for 2,035,835 housing units. That is an average of 204,000 per year.

> I'd have more sympathy for your arguments if the biggest complaint from councils about new housing was that they give planning permissions and then developers just sit on the land and send in further speculative planning applications.

That is something they complain about. The data does not support it.
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Correct: loading the IR dumps back in is new.
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Thanks; am chasing it up at my end
Giuliani is on-record[1] saying that Trump asked for a "Muslim Ban".

If it walks like a duck...

[1] http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/01/29/rudy_giuli...
Different people that were pushing high carbs, though.
Minor wording: e^x is a function whose derivative is equal to itself, or the value of whose derivative is equal to its own value. This might be considered the kind of excessive precision that obscures rather than clarifies (as would be, for example, writing x ↦ e^x in place of just e^x), but lots and lots of confusion can result (especially in a function-analytic setting) from failing to distinguish between a function and its values.
well seeing as how John invented these numbers literally two months ago, I haven't seen any traction yet! But I am persuing fundraising opportunities. In the demo I showed how you can effectively reduce the bitwidth to 8 bits and still train in a very trivial machine learning exercise. I'm currently enrolled in the udacity machine learning class and implementing everything in parallel in julia so that I can try more complicated architectures using posits.

I do have a hardware architecture in mind for how to very effectively and efficiently execute machine learning calculations using posits.
I don't think that's the kind of encryption they're referring to, since you cannot infer anything about an individual simply for using HTTPS websites (which will soon be the majority of the web).
Most of the questions are not religious-related, but related to violence, mobilization, etc. So if the young, quiet white catholic terrorist was doing any of those, he could be identified.

My guess is that the Columbine shooters could be flagged by the questionnaire.

But it's just a wild guess.