skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Remember when there was a huge leak of celebrity nudes and the internet went wild? There's a huge demand for other people's nude photos to be leaked.

That's part of the problem: people don't have the solidarity to want to protect other people's privacy.
Interesting! I didn't know they were related. Thanks!
>I'm not involved in the previous discussion at all, but given my limited knowledge of the facts, I'd propose a solution like: "Berkeley should keep these videos up, and work to add subtitles and accessibility features to them in a reasonable timeframe, consistent with funding and personnel availability."

The issue is that this is not an option. Any institution that gets federal money is required to comply with ADA rules. They either need to make it more accessible or take it down.
Your intuition works differently than mine! The baseball's trajectory is ballistic, while an airplane actually stays aloft. The not falling out of the sky bit is the thing that still boggles my mind. I mean, demonstrably, it works, but that to me does not seem intuitive at all.
* The SEC isn't going to regulate content, only financials. FTC fought facebook over privacy settings

* Experts are beginning to disagree with this http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....

* Facebook workers recently admitted to filtering content they didn't agree with (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/05/09/fo...)

* Zuckerburg controls facebook: http://fortune.com/2016/04/27/zuckerberg-facebook-control/
Typed arrays are close, but still not good enough.

On the Java side I've used ProtoBuf for similar approach(using byte[] which does have memory placement semantics). While it helps, the bounds checking and accessors that you need still have a non-trivial cost both in branching and cache thrashing(len is usually stored for an array at a different location or at the head so data items near the mid/tail will still take a hit).

Realistically you can get within about 1/5th the speed of native using cache aware data structures and techniques. As always it matters if your use case needs that speed but choosing a JS/managed based tech-stack will always limit you from getting that last 5x perf improvement.
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Some quick reading of the linked article says this spec provides a few optional, superset features on top of CommonMark, that it did not contain (like tables, etc).
Why would anyone buy internet access from people charging like this/breaking their services? Are ISPs monopolies in the US and if so wouldn't stopping these monopolies be the surest way, allowing the market to decide a free Internet is what gets you customers?

All that this will do is move people towards obfuscation of their Internet access through technology. I say let them try to break the web; there will be technological solutions to stop this immediately I bet...
The Internet of Dongs project, at http://internetofdon.gs (on twitter at http://twitter.com/internetofdongs) exists to combat issues with security and user privacy in sex toys, They're working with multiple toy producers to create systems to report bugs and increase security.
When was the last time you used it? Module loading times improved significantly with precompilation in 0.4.
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The dichotomy was between experimentalists and code-starers. Not between random-code-typers and code-starers.
How about Bencode[1], the data format used in Bittorrent? Values and encodings are already bijective, the format is extremely simple and it's already standardized and described. The only feature "SON" has which Bencode doesn't support is floating-point values, and as you imply above they are very likely to be mutilated in JSON or a subset thereof.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bencode
I resent the accusation.

It's like saying the poor Iraqi is better off getting free coca-cola, and getting locked into coca-cola for the rest of his life, than actually getting water (and, if they desire, the possibility of coca-cola).

A country growing its infrastructure, which is apparently not yet essential, under the perverse influence of a non-neutral playing field, is a country that will have immense trouble shaking that influence off in the future. As an example, look at America and its relationship to cars vs. public transport.

If you want me to "bite a bullet", here I'm biting it: The Iraqi is better off without internet. Give him true choice or let him continue to be free of the delusion that Facebook == The Internet.
Well, he prefaces it with "I think you are kind to the point of softness, magnanimous, unselfish, ready to share your last farthing; you have no envy nor hatred; you are simple-hearted, you pity men and beasts; you are trustful, without spite or guile, and do not remember evil.... You have a gift from above such as other people have not: you have talent."

Sounds like his brother probably satisfies at least 1, 2, and 3. That's why I say gentle; he says "you're a great guy, you have natural talent and the potential to be cultured, just need to work on your attitude and develop your talent".
Modern Russian [street] variation of "Everything in a person ..." sounds as : "В человеке всё должно быть прекрасно - и душа и джинсы" - "Everything in a human should be perfect, as his soul as his jeans".

That's why Russians are paying so much attention to their education/reading and what they wear :) This stuff is taught in school.
Flags are downvotes, given the lack of an actual downvote, and hence have much broader uses. What they should be used for is irrelevant to what they're actually used for.
I've been looking for CS 161 but it doesn't look like it's available unfortunately.
If I may ask, have you stopped using Facebook / changed how you use it now? Asked your wife to keep you logged out maybe?

I know what you mean with the irrelevant notifications. Lots of tweaking which notifications I get--still more than I'd like but it's an improvement. No games, no groups, no pages.
Yup. There's a whole project based off of auditing security for this stuff. http://internetofdon.gs
> I wouldn't bother turning it into a formal specification.

Too late!

> But you can always put JSON through a pretty-printer which puts values into canonical form before diffing.

Son is a starting point for building such a pretty printer. It takes care of messy details like eliminating the redundancies in string and number encoding, so all you have to do to specify the pretty-printer format is say where you want your newlines and how much to indent by.
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> based on, compatible with, or is common mark?

The first two. [The GFM spec][1] is literally just CommonMark with a few extra extensions added. They even highlighted the new sections green in the spec to make it clear where the GFM spec differs from CommonMark. Everything else is word-for-word identical.

[1]: https://github.github.com/gfm/
This is exactly what we are referring to in the suggestion
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I don't know how many people are totally loving the mono-culture and many of the "free" social networks are not profitable at all. Very few of them are actually succeeding.

Also, you say activism is not the answer, and then say that the companies have succeeded in part because they have prevented activism from happening by 'distracting' people. I don't think any of this is true and that the argument you make here is self-contradictory.

I really just don't think your comment holds any water at all.
> In Comments

>Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face-to-face conversation. Avoid gratuitous negativity.

>When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."[1]

Yes. I am noting your general lack of civility.

If I'm using a tool for my profession 8+ hours a day, 5+ days a week, for years on end; if that tool allows me to be productive and organize information in a useful way; especially if there are no comparable alternatives... Then approximately an hour of my life to set up DOSBOX and install the software is both defensible and sensible.

You'll find users, craftsmen, artisans, and other professionals (software and beyond) go to extreme lengths to keep their favorite tools in good, working order. You'll also find such people are more than willing to ignore name calling and other pettiness: they understand their tools, the value of those tools, and why those tools are worth preserving better than kibitzers from outside their specific domains.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Damn, between this and sketch + create react native app, it's the week of 1-step-apps.

Is there an easy way to eject into a full blown graph.cool app? It seems you can't take any of your schema and use it as a starting point in graph.cool. From a business perspective, wouldn't that be the point? Perhaps I'm missing something though.
The Rust ecosystem has used Markdown for a long time, but is moving to CommonMark as we speak.

Given this news from GitHub, it's very exciting.
Totally, since the memory model is identical. However then you're not really talking about something that looks like JS(or a managed language) at all.

I'm actually a huge fan of WASM, I think it gives you a great escape hatch to break out of these problems(much like JNI/etc in other managed languages).
The Snowden revelation didn't have any effect because the intelligence agencies are completely above the law.
> This is even more noticeable in VR.

No, it will be less noticeable in VR, because of asynchronous reprojection.
> Obama isn't remembered for his actions around the NSA

Your president's spokeswoman is going on about Obama spying on Trump through his microwave: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/13/kellyanne-co...

I seem to remember email security being a key election "issue" as well.
> Github now has put work into creating their own spec

A big aspect of the post is talking about how GFM is now a set of extensions to CommonMark. This is a huge win, not a failure.
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If anyone is interested in accessing the WeVibe or other toys (Kiiroo, Lovense, etc) directly via bluetooth, versus going through their apps, I run a website for documenting and reverse engineering this stuff, at http://metafetish.com. All of our docs and code are on github at

http://github.com/metafetish
And this is exactly where I philosophically disagree with you. I would rather the Iraqi have access to Wikipedia than have no internet at all. It's saying that you, as a rich American, know what's best for poor foreigners. You would demand someone get everything, or they get nothing.
Was just a guess on a uniform prior :)

If you have specific evidence of Chekhov referencing Confucius (the similarities are so striking that either he came up with them independently, which was my original point, or he was inspired by Confucius, which should then leave traces) please do tell! That would be really cool.
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I too wondered, and had a chat with Raph about it earlier today. I have some plans...
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There's the white win if black blunders. If white moves the forwardmost pawn ahead and black does not capture it with the bishop (the blunder), then promoting the pawn to a queen or bishop is checkmate.
On the new age tech, these may help:
https://hadoopweekly.com/
http://www.wildml.com/newsletter/
https://thomaswdinsmore.com/
http://www.dbms2.com/
>Denying billions of people across the world access to quality information because of the needs of maybe a million deaf in the US is ridiculous and a loss for the world.

While I don't take sides on the issue, I will point out that this line of reasoning can be used to justify anything against any minority.

The whole point of having this law is to negate this argument. It is (almost by definition) counterproductive to invoke this. The law is saying a particular minority has a right, and as with most/all rights, it is irrelevant how inconvenient it is.

We could keep going back and forth about this, but this is essentially the utilitarianism vs individualism debate. It hasn't been settled for centuries.
Border agents are reportedly searching travelers’ phones at unprecedented rates
I think it's worse. It might provide some low quality entertainment as a TV replacement, which just takes up people's time. It might be in that person's interest at the time but not in the interest of society in general.
Everyone wants an easy and stress free life. If you create a reputation for yourself of chasing competitors through the courts then you make yourself into a target. "Do to others as you would have them do to you".
This is nice story but how is this any different than looking at wikipedia for a bit, reading and making notes on a kindle, etc. Your grandpa sounds like the type to use tools for personal enrichment so shouldn't the tools not matter?
Oh no, it turns out that pi also contains the worst, most draconian software licenses!
It can be quirky for sure, but I personally got used to the idiosyncrasies pretty quickly.
Why would your doctor do that?
There is no limit on my truconnect phone for calls texts or data. There are multiple companies set up outside the general relief office and I am eligible for a phone from each one; so, even if there wasn't a generous data plan, a combination of phones would solve that. As does using free wifi which is available at all libraries and police stations where I live.

Posting garbage about poor people's situations that is untrue only serves to hurt everybody. Please stop.
For those wondering how he did that (like me), this is the relevant CSS part (formatted for better readability):

a:hover::before {
content: attr(href);
position: fixed;
bottom: 0px;
left: 0px;
...
}
I love the electricity company/appliance analogy. That seems fairly accurate and something that's easily relatable to the layman who doesn't understand the details of the internet.
Look, here is a simple suggestion. Come back here in about 6 months after you join FB (settle down first). Since there is no realistic chance for FB to improve their practices within that timeframe, there will be one more complaint thread about some ethical practice or the other at that point. Give us a little inside peek into these supposed "fierce debates". Just participate and add something meaningful to the discussion by telling us the different positions people took in the debate and what the outcome was. We will even give you a handicap - you don't actually have to tell us who took which position. Since you seem to be so passionate about this, I don't think you are going to make up stuff.

If you actually manage to do this, then not only will people here appreciate you, but more importantly, I am sure you will be doing a heck of a lot of good for your soon to be employer's image.
> the theme all comes down to a battle against yourself

Perhaps "control" and "battle" are the wrong model. Some broad, general suggestions based on what experts have said:

Respect yourself: If you are doing something over and over again despite not wanting to, there probably is a good reason for it, a legitimate healthy need, even if the expression of that need is unhealthy. Respect that need and its priority as legitimate and serious. Find a healthy, productive way to address it. It should be no surprise that the response is unhealthy: Imagine if someone else had a real need and your response was to ignore it and abuse them constantly for acting on it; how would that person behave?

Know yourself: Know your strengths and limits; don't put yourself in position to fail and then abuse yourself for failing. Again, imagine you were someone else's manager, you knew their limitations, and yet you kept putting them in position to fail and then abused them over the results. That would be a horrible failure of management, not of the employee.

Have compassion for yourself. Like every human ever to live, you also will live your whole life with serious flaws.

Nurture yourself: Work together (so to speak) for change. That's how real change happens; that's how good parents, good teachers and mentors, and good managers accomplish things. Fighting with people just entrenches the problem.

....

That feels a little too ... bullsh*tty to post - loose, imprecise ideas with little serious foundation included; my apologies. But I'm not sure how to tighten it up, don't have links at my fingertips, and posting it seems better than not.
is this the right link to the blog? I can't imagine more than one blogger using that name:

https://sniperinmahwah.wordpress.com/

edit: this blog needs to be organized: best post, recommended posts, etc for new readers. What a waste of writing if your new readers can't find good articles.

double edit: interesting investigation into HFT companies building microwave towers to cut transmission times to milliseconds from chicago to japan https://sniperinmahwah.wordpress.com/2016/09/23/once-upon-a-...
I came here to say this also. As a dev & designer, sketch is a technical term like all the other technologies you refer to. I'm having global name space conflict issues as I attempt to pass your sales copy. I'd suggest you quickly change this, as currently a poor naming choice is overriding your others good work. Might give you a chance to hit the front page again too.
I also struggled with sticking to bigger goals.

Just wrote a post about the approach that worked for me -- http://claudiu.dragulin.com/2017/03/14/how-to-align-your-dai...

Short version:
- Make a list on a sheet of paper with clear, simple, manageable steps to your goal
- Have it on your desk next to you at all times
- Watch the magic happen

I also tried different tools and software-based approaches (reminders, checklists, etc) but I found that they were mostly distracting.

The simpler the solution, the better -- therefore, plain sheet of paper.

Key thing here was to always have it in front of me, next to any other todo list I may have for the day. As long as I did that, I never had to worry about updating my daily todos, or aligning them with my goal, or anything like that.
You are your 'current' feelings and your past memories. The reason for the downvotes is that from your logic mabbo is every person who has ever existed in the history of the human species. Since every person has their own current feelings and past memories, saying mabbo would have been that person instead is a little meaningless.
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The ironic and the most chilling thing is the people in the class action lawsuit aren't remotely aware their sex acts are already all recorded not by dildos but everyday appliances in the bedroom-microphones, cameras, now available to every hacker and selected government employees/contractors.

Forfeiture of privacy as a free citizen to higher powers is absolutely okay but if my dildo starts recording how many times I've been penetrated with it and uploads it to the internet-pitchforks for all.

Such is the mechanism of the common man/woman/ze. Incapable and unwilling to spend the extra brain power associated with understanding the underlying system but quick to get angry and play the victim when that oversight finally burns him.

"A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance." - Some old white guy.

In this case those who procrastinated in their acquisition of understanding and knowledge of systems and signed their privacy away, were unable to reverse their outcome when it turned out to be not in their best interests.
lol, this reminds me of the time when I took the numerical calculus class at the uni and I came up with the best compression algorithm ever: compress a file by using the bytes as points, so the only thing you need to recreate the file is to calculate the newton poly for that set of numbers. Of course, that also requires the metadata for the newton poly, and since you don't want a lossy algorithm, you need to make sure all points are represented.
What's bonkers to me is that there is no closing tag, everything after it is no longer parsed as HTML.
Wouldn't it be a TransportFactory class? Is it itself built in a TransportFactoryFactory?
To add to other people's anecdotal evidence, Trello is painfully slow for the board I use the most. Perhaps I over-use it - I have 27 lists, the longest of which has some 1500 cards. But it's slow to the point where Chrome asks if I want to kill the tab at least once every 2 days.

It works fine for other boards, so I assume it wasn't built with so many lists+cards in mind. But the fact it, it can be slow, almost unusable, at least for certain use cases.
> Are ISPs monopolies in the US

In many parts of it, yes, they are, because of deals that ISPs have struck with local governments.

> wouldn't stopping these monopolies be the surest way

Yes, and every time it's been tried, the ISPs go to court and, since they have much deeper pockets, end up getting the attempts shot down.
I don't think that's right. It will be a major shift of power from Google/Facebook/Amazon to the ISPs. Comcast could charge Google or Facebook extortionate prices to keep their websites fast. Theoretically there would be nothing stopping Comcast from completely blocking a website. Cable vs TV channel negotiations periodically end up with blackouts for the channels.
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> Doing this allows the government to ensure a level playing field

In theory this is a good argument. In practice, my experience is that this argument causes people to write off net neutrality as just being something that's about letting tech bros make lots of money. I've even heard this from folks in the tech industry, who really should know better.

An argument that may be more convincing is that the Internet is the only media channel where we don't get all of our information from the same three or four mega conglomerates. But if net neutrality is eliminated then ISPs are going to pull a Martin Shkreli, and overnight your cost of hosting a Wordpress blog is going to go from $5 a month to $25,000 per month or whatever.

When this happens the only way to have a blog will be to host your content on Facebook, who will be able to decide which points of view are allowed and which are banned. If we lose the Internet, the last free media channel, then there is no going back. Not just on this issue, but on every issue.
I feel that there are some core issues that can fix the problem:

1) Solve the Green-Card backlog issue that forces people in the backlog to stick with their current jobs. This is a major thing, that is not talked about more often.

2) Simple merit/salary based priority queue to grant VISAs.

I have never quite understood why there is this urge to entirely get rid of it instead of fixing it to do what it was originally supposed to do.

Edit: On an H1B right now, and I do think there needs to be major fixes.
It was my first independent Monte Carlo calculation -- changed my life.

That project led directly to the 'rand' call in this function [1] 13 years later and fundamentally altered the way I think about data analysis.

[1] https://github.com/4kbt/PlateWash/blob/master/mlib/bootstrap...