skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do you think that's true?

150 years ago, which is only a handful of generations, it was widely accepted in America that people of certain races were only technically human and were better fit for slavery than for living a full human life. That position is an extreme minority these days. What changed? Nobody eloquently argued that idea away, we merely made the culture that relied on that idea economically unviable (at gunpoint). We didn't even do a very good job of making alternative ideas more economically viable, and that hurt us deeply for the majority of that time.

If we move racist employees from company X to failing company Y, we make a non-racist culture more economically viable. People who are only weakly racist generally choose to give up on spreading their ideas (even if they still hold them) to choosing an economically worse option. People who are undecided are more likely to hear about or be part of the non-racist culture than the racist one. That is, historically, how we have been fixing racism. It hasn't been working perfectly by any means, but it's been remarkably effective.
AA hits planes on the bottom, presumably they weren't adding all the armor to the top?
I sympathize, but as neither an investor in Lyft nor Uber. I personally can't wait for Uber to go public and soon before their fall. I perceive it as the greatest opportunity to short not seen since the housing crisis. Think of it: a $70B valuation based on no assets but data. Such blindness on the part of the tech-venture community is intoxicating to consider.
I've stated above that I think a strict gun control regime would be necessary to effect real change in the US and that I don't think it is feasible.

What are you trying to argue with?

Also, people that bought guns because they are afraid of Black Lives Matter (not a riot, that's a gross mischaracterization), riots, terrorism and immigration aren't very good at risk analysis.
This is genius. I love it.
Oh come on. CMU had its own DARPA contenders, and where on earth is this grand institution you ask ? "Pittsburgh" !
Former resident of Montana. A lot of the eastern reservations are considered no-stop zones. i.e. you better have enough gas to get through. Western reservations, not so much. Western reservations are pretty congenial and open to others. Flathead reservation strikes one point, but my high school also had a friendly rivalry with Polson (also on a reservation).
Wrong.

There's no way in hell an employee contract would ever let someone copy documents and use them after leaving the company. The intellectual property belongs to Google, not the individual creators and certainly not to any other employee.
No, we log you out of all HN sessions when you change your password.
>the issues that Americans considered at the national level would be very strongly dominated by the concerns of the most populous urban centers, which would lead to even more fractiousness between urban areas and "flyover" areas.

This is a common sentiment. I'm curious about what you think about the following question:

Let's say we order cities from most populous to least populous. How many cities would we need to add together to get to roughly 50% of the population? Bonus points for putting down a guess before doing the math and checking.
as a candidate you're trying to please and build trust, so naturally I wouldn't raise questions that would indicate my lack of trust
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Do you know about Georgi Markov? Bulgaria concerned about the propaganda fallout if they killed him and it was known, so they injected him with ricin instead.

Mossad attempted to use poison to assassinate the head of Hezbollah. It went comically wrong, with his driver chasing down the assassins with a rolled-up newspaper.
Is there a Lisp-to-brainfuck conversion program?
Vouching for a good comment that happens to be dead is fine—that's what vouching is for. Posting commentary about it is not fine. There are plenty of non-bullshit reasons for comments to be dead, including that an account is banned for having abused the site.

We created vouching because some banned accounts sometimes post ok comments; indeed some banned accounts only do that when they're banned, and immediately start posting abusively the moment they're unbanned. Life is complicated.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13720437 and marked it off-topic.
More than 7 million domains... Letting that sink in...

I'm assuming this list is based on DNS records? I wonder what proportion of those offloaded their SSL to Cloudflare.
The idea of microformats is giving some known structure to much of the unstructured data used in pages across the web. The idea has a lot of potential, but I don't know how much they're used in practice. There are a few formats and microdata can be in the body of the html itself as attributes or separate as JSON-LD. Google supports microformats for use cases like contact information and restaurant reviews [1][2].

If they were used ubiquitously, there could be an obscene amount of power in essentially being able to run one SQL query across different data sets on multiple websites.

[1]: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/guides/intro-struc...

[2]: https://developers.google.com/custom-search/docs/structured_...
https://medium.com/@octskyward/on-consensus-and-forks-c6a050...

Mike Hearn would disagree with you, and he knows a lot about how Bitcoin works.
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At least the location isn't embarrassing.[1]

[1] https://goo.gl/maps/FjQVttcZCpH2
What problem do we have that a voter ID would solve?
> That usually tends to make collision attacks much harder, because you either have to make the resulting size the same too, or you have to be able to also edit the size field in the header.

> pdf's don't have that issue, they have a fixed header and you can fairly arbitrarily add silent data to the middle that just doesn't get shown.

This doesn't seem like much of an obstacle, since you can add silent data to all kinds of files, like

- With HTML, JS, etc. you can just add whitespace.

- Some formats like GIF89a have variable-length comments.

- With any media format that uses palettes, you can add extra, unused colors.

- Just about any compression algorithm can be tuned to manipulate the compressed size. E.g. with DEFLATE (which is used by PNG in addition to some archive formats), you can use a suboptimal static coding rather than the correct Huffman tree.

- With most human-readable document formats, you can add zero-width spaces or something similar.
A tired meme is hardly substantive criticism. There's plenty of meaningful discussion and criticism elsewhere in the submission's comments.
I am writing a grant proposal right now. The success rate is ~19%. Personnel (i.e. publication record) of the team is weighted at 40% of the proposal. If you don't have an H-index of >50, there is no incentive to share with other that which gives you an advantage in the science section.
Sell it to whom? Your neighbors? In a lot of municipalities, there's no such thing as "selling it when it's expensive" because the only customer is the utility, and the utility is only paying wholesale rate from solar / alternative energy customers.

It may be an option in some places, but at present, I think you'd lose money under your current plan in a lot of places, and are unlikely to have neighbor-customers in many of the remainders.
they did not offer to provide me with a laptop and the interview format was such that I could google things and share some of my personal projects etc
In terms of "wasting" memory, perhaps the kernel could detect that you are writing 0s to a COW 0 page and still not actually tie the page to physical RAM.

Writing to your COW zero page causes a page fault. Now, in theory you could disassemble the executing instruction and if it's some kind of zero write, just bump the instruction pointer and go back to userspace - but then the very next instruction in your loop that zeroes the next 8 bytes will cause the same page fault. And the next. And the next...

Taking a page fault for every 8 bytes in your allocation is completely infeasible. You'd be better off taking the hit of the additional memory usage.
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Time to find out where various "booter" sites are actually hiding.
I think you have yourself a solid company idea right there. Go for it.
We call them "bad leavers" in the forensics industry. There are enough of them to keep us in business.
This guy should have tried coding for Android before Android Studio...then he would realize how much better things have gotten. Oh don't forget about unit tests... I get frustrated with it sometimes, but It's still much better than before...
This dude seems to have been more of a lazy dissident than part of the regime. username checks out in any case.
So you think businesses have no responsibility to police themselves and their users? If a shop was caught knowingly facilitating say welfare fraud they'd get fined up the wazoo but for some reason being ~digital~ makes it OK?
It's easy to check for guns at customs.
> MITMing all CloudFlare sites with a warning for users to change their passwords

REALLY?
Oh, cool. (This was not the case last time I did a reset.)
So they had to switch to Nvidia for their amazing 1080 GPU, makes sense. Guess I wouldn't blame apple for not appealing to a niche market, as a reply on that post said they chase big markets and do really well in them.

It's interesting that in some ways Microsoft may be doing the same. They cut support for older CPUs, they cut a lot of their workforce for QA, and seem to be focusing too.

It'd honestly kind of cool if they margins reaching specialty users became so small that they stopped getting supported so Linux fills in the gap. I mean, the transition is bad, but the end opportunity for Linux and diversity in general seems good.
Actually, it is sent sequentially as a single nine-digit signal, then repeated. Graphically this looks like ...---... ...---... ...---... and so on.

Incidentally, graphical representations of Morse code are weak tea. It has to be heard to be understood.
> Write something, hit publish, and it's live.

Live for how long though?

Too many publishing platforms sunrise and sunset. To use one that's not self-hosted, I really think one either needs to (1) charge money, and/or (2) offer guarantees like Posthaven or Svbtle, if you want users to publish good content on your platform.
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That makes sense, are there common hash algorithms that use different sized internal-state/digest?
It doesn't matter, your info could have leaked via other sites.
The current title is “Garmin engineer shot and killed in Kansas by man who allegedly yelled ‘get out of my country’”. The phrase “a allegedly hate crime” isn't even grammatical.
Mach 6 is a heck of a slow meteorite.

But the if a small meteorite (only a few grams) were traveling that slow, 1.5 inches of titanium would do quite a bit.
They're human too. Look at the response times!
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It isn't mentioned in the article though.
But how is Google getting headers from the users of the sites, it should be from their crawler
Correct, I generally use iTerm. I use Hyper whenever I need a gif/video to present something, since Hyper tends to look fancier and prettier.
What are the benefits of terminating SSL early at the CDN level? It seems to me the risks associated with not having SSL still remain they're just shifted to between the CDN and the backend. Is it much more than just giving lip service to SSL and getting away with things like browser restrictions, etc.?
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When private companies profit from the state imprisoning its citizens, those companies will lobby (successfully) for more business in the form of mandatory sentencing and other crime fear-mongering.

Just like Eisenhower warned us of the military industrial complex, we should do the same for the prison industrial complex.
That might be a bit too extreme. But they should do something quickly to try to find all of these.
I'm pretty sure kogir came up with that one and he's been off working on his bug tracker for a while now.
It looks suspiciously as if they're trying real hard to make sure Obama will not be remembered for anything positive. If they could bring Bin Laden back from the dead they just might.
That is how DDOS protection works, learning from data and scale to better defend future attacks. Every large network and security operator does this. What is your issue with that exactly?
With a buffer overflow. Video players are supposedly pretty vulnerable to these kinds of attacks since they need to deal with many different types of media, which means there is quite a large attack surface and they have to accept all kinds of odd video files.

There's a book called "A Bug Hunters Diary" that explained this exact thing in a video played using a particular version of VLC. Quite far over my head how he did it but it was interesting to read.

see http://www.trapkit.de/books/bhd/en.html#videos (Chapter 2 — Back to the 90s)

Demonstration Videos of the exploit at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSyLkglLX-c&fmt=22 and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZbX9zfnTuI&fmt=22
Darcs, a distributed version control system, uses sha256 to identify files
Smoking a very small dose of weed has the same effect on me. However it's difficult to get the dosage right (if it's too much I'm basically unable to do anything) and it's not really working for difficult programming. However for organizing stuff, writing down something already clear or for tasks in the flat or just plain cleaning or mundane tasks it keeps me focused.
It doesn't help when teachers tell their students they can reference academic papers from peer reviewed journals but can't reference Wikipedia. The former is tentative and the latter is established knowledge from text books, more or less.
The same Mike Hearn that referred to bitcoin as the failed experiment?

https://medium.com/@coolbearcjs/the-mike-hearn-experiment-ha...

The same Mike Hearn that recently announced the failure of his R3CEV venture to deliver a blockchain solution for banking?

https://twitter.com/Beautyon_/status/834152812405735425

The same Mike Hearn that tried and failed to push through a fork of the bitcoin network called Bitcoin XT that allowed for a personally controlled black-list?

https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-xt-fork-can-blacklist...

Yeah. That guy. He has an agenda, and it hasn't been aligned with bitcoin for quite some time.
It certainly can, but you have to remember to monitor your posture so you don't slump. Good luck!
I had thought it was going to be a fentanyl or carfentanyl aerosol spray, I suppose that might have rendered him incoherent sooner though. The use of VX seems like bragging really (as if the act wasn't already adolescent enough).
Are you really suggesting that a presidents personality and repeatedly stated disparaging opinions have no impact on his policies?
The current Mac Pro design seems like such a massive misstep in product design, it will be really curious to see if they will walk it back, or just drop the pro market completely.

I wonder what thinking lead to that product. Did they think the pro market would be worth it to them to keep investing in keeping the product up to date and then it turned out not to be worth the investment? Although, even before then the Mac Pro was only updated sporadically... Was it all just Jony Ive design hubris? Who is the Mac Pro designed for?
> Hash functions compress large amounts of data into a small message digest.

My understanding of crypto concepts is very limited, but isn't this inaccurate? Hash functions do not compress anything.

They have an image too which says "<big number> SHA-1 compressions performed".

Seems weird to see basic mistakes in a research disclosure.
Microwave ovens used to have a single analog knob that was a timer. They were a joy to use, but you can't buy them any more. Now all microwaves have dozens of buttons, only one of which I ever use: Popcorn. If I need less time than actual popcorn, I just have to watch the damn thing and open the door early. It's ridiculous.
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Probably no way to improve TCP bandwidth either...
I'm wondering, the first one would be safe for sure, but how would the second one that apply it be safe? The chemical would have react by the time she apply it right? And since she (either the Indonesian / Vietnamese) got the reacted chemical, wouldn't she die too?
For the external GPU route on a mac, does anybody know how fast the bus would need to be? Like could you use two USB-C ports in parallel on the latest and greatest mac or something??
I think it is.
Most of those booters are on their free tier, so it's a bit hard to argue it's a racket.

If you want to claim it's unethical... maybe. But if you think about it from their position, it could genuinely get into a slippery slope if you start policing what services you're reverse proxying. Especially considering the rate they're growing now.

Think of it this way: should Google be compelled to remove all search results for all booters and other malware-related services? It's asking a lot.
Does it? AA explodes at predetermined altitudes which may be above or below the plane. The resulting shrapnel....

It's not like a rifle bullet.
If anyone here is HIPAA-regulated or you have a customer who is, and you used Cloudflare during those dates, it is Big Red Button time. You've almost certainly got a reportable breach; depending on how tightly you're able to scope it maybe it won't be company-ending.
And then they remembered the Glass-Steagal act was spurred by anti-bank hate and decided to hedge their bets. The cost of fielding a few sock puppets is literally a drop in the bucket for them, they don't have to regard OWS as an existential threat, merely in the way of their policy goals.
> Yeah, dictators need places to lock up dissidents. Trump's foreseeing incarceration growth.

You mean Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and George W Bush were foreseeing incarceration growth when their policies helped to put millions into government prisons over decades?

Was Bill Clinton plotting dictatorship when the active US incarceration number went from 1.3 million to 2+ million in just his eight years?

Do me a favor and post the total number of people that have gone into government prisons vs private prisons, since the incarceration boom began 36 years ago.

Here's a hint: nearly the entire incarceration boom was centered around government prisons until the last ten years, a time in which both the US prison and US jail population has declined.
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What he said.
Particularly in patent and other IP cases, it's often cheaper to settle, even for a lot, than defend the lawsuit.
You could say our system has failed utterly
You wouldn't be wrong in that case.
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WHY?

Why kill people exotically? Why not just use a simple garrote with a thin wire? 10 seconds done, the head would be practically off. I am sure you could get a weird pair of head phones past security. If you poison someone with polonium/exotic nerve agent doesn't it narrow down the suspect pool?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexander_Litvine...
Oh yeah... like using Polonium to kill Litvinenko... this is all about sending a message.
Seems like almost assuredly they will just drop it.. basically I can't imagine any engineer at Apple that is or was working on it is super excited about something that probably made a grand total of like 50 million USD during the mac pro lifetime compared to like 80 billion on iPhone sales per quarter...
A heisenbug to share
It is more subtle than you think. It is not that you give no information about how to do things, you lay out all the steps that you took in your methods section. An example of keeping all tricks to yourself is that you do not tell others about the 100 small thing you found out, the hard way, that you should avoid doing. i.e. You explicitly say in the methods section these are the steps I took, but what others really need to know is why you ended up doing all the tiny tiny things it the particular way that you did. In many cases, you could write pages and pages about all these reasons. All these little tricks add up to much greater efficiency. Good experimentalists are the ones that have already made all the mistakes.

Edit: This is additional context for the commenters below.
I wanted create / migrate my sites on Weebly but they lack the power to organize the url structure. For example - I want urls like -
mysite.tld/europe/germany/somepage
So I can also create pages like
mysite.tld/europe/germany/index
mysite.tld/europe/index

etc.
Currently they only support one level in url making it difficult to migrate my sites.
That only gives them an excuse to do nothing about this. All those companies should immediately go ahead and update any data that could have possibly leaked + inform their customers.
Looks cool, you have a lot of duplicates, though.

$ cat sorted_unique_cf.txt | wc -l
7385121

$ cat sorted_unique_cf.txt | uniq |wc -l
4287625
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I know plenty of people who buy and hold it for no other reason than it's deflationary. What is wrong with that? Why do people need to transact?
Why do you go so far out of your way to kill someone publically, notoriously, in the first place? Simply having them die is something a state could reasonably accomplish without the publicity, or at least attempt to avoid publicity. When you use a means of assassination which could only have been provided by a state actor... you're sending a message.

Nobody ever has to admit that Russia was involved with Litvinenko... the DPRK never has to admit their role with Jon-Nam... the means used speaks for them.

That is the point

It's thug 101.
Thank God women don't work in dirty warehouses, historic bastions of misogyny. /s (had to edit and add the slash-"es" for the daft)
Because slicing someone's head off requires you to be there, next to them, as it happens. You're standing next to the body as it gargles and bleeds everywhere and security will descend on you in a big way.

Wiping someone's face then bailing is something that the target will shrug off as 'some crazy' until some time later it kills them. This buys you time to get out of the place before anyone realises the full extent of what happened. Hence why they're back in Pyongyang, out of the reach of any law enforcement.

Pyongyang doesn't really care if the world knows it's them or not. I bet they care much more if they lose their highly trained assassins, though.
You don't need a ridiculously expensive rig to find that in physics, either: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-slit_experiment

laser pointer plus a sharp enough carbide wheel

(trained as a chemist, grad school in biostats & genetics, now mostly design experiments & clinical trials... I have physics envy, except I don't envy their funding models!)
Indeed, and the message was "I'm insecure about my position".
I didn't comment at the time, but I found the prior comment thread a little unsettling: people trashing on USPS and irrationally holding UPS and FedEx in very high regard. It's not like the other guys are universally honest and true. I had one experience a few years ago where it seemed pretty clear that a UPS employee stole a laptop. I have seen FedEx tracking claim they did a delivery attempt when I have a camera at my door suggesting nobody was there all day. At one prior address I had, UPS literally never attempted any deliveries on Saturday, and wrote "business is closed" in tracking - at my apartment.

I think people are really quick to assume that government employees are lazy and out to screw them, and so something like UPS or FedEx which are private should automatically be better. In truth, I really appreciate the post office. They work hard for us. They're our public servants.
To be fair, the form as it existed in that movie sort of was... although not by much.