skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Last year, I interviewed with one of the companies that was born by Westinghouse shedding units a couple of decades ago and they still do this kind of thing.

If a Naval unit has an issue, they'll attempt to reproduce it and develop a solution at a remote location. If they can't, they'll send an engineer across the planet to evaluate and fix it.

They do this even for not "critical" systems. I was impressed at that level of dedication.

It was this part that made me re-think whether or not I wanted the position. I wasn't ready to commit to being available to travel to the other side of the planet at a moment's notice if/when something goes wrong but I do appreciate the commitment.

The current rush to the bottom school of thought in cost-saving will have a serious detrimental effect on our military prowess. Sure, some people think that's a good thing but I do not.
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Ants and bees are good at things like filling a space with a structured construction, or growing a structure while using the least amount of material. I wouldnt call it smarts, rather very-evolved patterns coded as instinct. The ant, as a group or species, can do a few things better than humans.
i notice your .ui files have a lot of stylesheets in them, did you edit them by hand or did you use some tool?

looks great btw!
They know what product I'm going to buy... after I've bought it. They've almost got it right; all they need is a time machine.
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Who are you? How do I know you're not logging my traffic and selling it?

It sounds like you're in the UK - I'm a US person, if I give you my traffic, what will courts say about my expectation of privacy?
>Little reason to justify such division today

I would like to agree with you but there is not evidence that humans have not changed and that

>humans are inclined to form tribes and to fear the other

remains true.

Rather we should accept we are tribal and work to ensure our collaborations, alliances and policies have that in mind. To assume that we, by virtue of just living in the present day with more technology, are more advanced and that we have progressed is a big big error.

Progress is not something that just happens. Progress is not inevitable. Societies do not naturally become more civilised. People need to work to ensure civilisation doesn't fall apart. Progress was made by people, it is the result of actions made.
I prefer to tunnel my traffic through an SSH tunnel. VPNs are OK too, but SSH does what I want, and I can control it.
"most of these people are better than the ones in Silicon Valley since they are working in their own country which the jobs are not much instead of migrating to a different place to find a job"

These people are better than the ones in Silicon Valley because they refuse to emigrate? I don't follow your logic.
It does because of the market. Leather increases the return of a single animal. So meat can be sold cheaper, which again increases the demand. (Lower price -> higher demand)
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Every time I've look into it seems like this isn't the case. Nuclear plants are simply too expensive, have too many production bottlenecks, and take too long to construct (too name but a few issues). No serious analysis I've seen of how we meet emissions goals has ever placed a big emphasis on nuclear power. Probably one of the biggest parts of meeting the goals will be increased energy efficiency, but a lot of nuclear advocates I've seen seem to be under the mistaken impression that it's all about 100% carbon free electricity generation (something that's not going to happen either way).
Just curious, what VPN provider did you go with? Are you happy with it so far?
Any helpful links that compare/review VPN services?
An April fool's joke if I ever saw one.
Bankruptcy doesn't mean closure. Someone will bring them out of bankruptcy, but a lot of their existing creditors (and their existing owner) will get stiffed along the way. Most airlines that went backrupt didn't disappear, but their owners took a haircut.
The implication of the above comment is explicitly that it's because of stuff we make available in public (IE google docs), and we actually literally do not care about that at all.
>>The problem with the structure of the EU is basically: How do you set up a supranational state without massive constitutional changes in all the member states? Because the appetite is not there for large constitutional changes.

Perhaps, don't?

If you can't take the people of a democracy with you on a project, perhaps it's best not to try and build such a thing anyway, and then end up with a hack?

On the rest - I would come to a similar state but from a different direction full autonomy for small democratic units, who voluntarily delegate some authority rather than get granted powers from "above"
Is this the same Westinghouse that produces microwaves?
Thanks for the suggestion, will do!
Thank you for being transparent. It seems nearly everyday I see articles rise to the top of HN only to disappear when I return.

With no explanation or transparency for the reason.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13939514

For example was on the front page for less than 2 minutes before disappearing with zero discussion nor reasoning. Even though it contains extremely Hacker News friendly analysis and discussion.

HN needs to come clean, is the no politics rule continuing? Or are the politics of the moderators or the "politics deemed appropriate" going to continue to rule?
It's interesting. I agree the world would be easier and better if we could create trade deals without these extra rules. My impression is that they're all necessary parts of fair deals though.

> Nor would I assume that agreements between the UK + US or Asian countries would necessarily include EU style requirements

Sadly, they will. As an example, the UK trade deal with India has hit problems already (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-uk-brit...) because 'we cannot separate free movement of people from the free flow of goods, services and investments'. It's not the EU: trade deals necessitate much more than just agreeing to both remove your tariffs.

Some of these extra restrictions are pretty clearly necessary I think. You need to ensure matching certifications and quality standards and IP rules for the entire area covered by a free trade deal, and enshrine that in law on both ends. If you don't, you have no penalties (by definition, for a 'free' trade deal) for companies that move from the EU to Canada (or vice versa) to avoid some IP rules, or to sell products that wouldn't be up to scratch in the EU. I don't think there's any way you can solve that other than having the same rules for the whole area.

The arbitration courts are more contentious. I'm not sure exactly why they're necessary, or what alternatives there might be there.

I think there's a good argument for why the tie to free movement and more open borders is necessary too. The LSE has an article with the general argument, and some concrete examples: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2016/07/14/free-movement-f.... Essentially: if businesses can move around freely, people have to too, or you can screw your whole labour market.

I'm fairly convinced that this isn't ideological (or the vast majority isn't, certainly). It's not that the EU is pushing this beyond what's necessary for the economics, it's that the economic interests necessitate a lot of these rules, and trying to build a trade deal without them can blow up in your face.

Are there parts of these trade deals that could be removed without consequence? Genuine question, I really don't know.

Definitely agree though that more transparency and better explanations of all this to the public are important, that part is certainly an enormous mess right now.
Mesh networks? Really all these technical workarounds are just band-aids on the problem that is hostile, anticompetitive networks.
I would also add that his birth parents had enough compassion to let their child have life.
The ad is displayed on the results page when you click 'calculate', not the main page.

Although I think he may increase ad earnings if they were on both pages.
I'm not sure how VPNs are a solution.

Politically, it means that people who should be getting angry about reduced privacy are "comfortable" with the fact they can work around it, while a new generation grows up with fewer and fewer expectations of what privacy means. It's short term protection in return for normalization of anti-private behaviours and long term damage.

But I also have a problem with it technically:

Issue: You don't trust ISPs to not sell browsing history.

Solution? Provision a virtual server, set-up a VPN and tunnel.

But your server still has a service provider. It might not be literally tied to your billing information but that was never going to be anyway.

You've shifted which ISP gets to sell the data from "home provider" to "virtual server provider", but there is still browsing data isn't there and it's just as valuable from a private single-use VPN as it is from your home connection.
I read hacker news daily when ever i am free, hacker news is the next thing i do. Apart from this i have subscribed to hacker news 500 Pushbullet channel. When ever any news hits 500, i get notification on my phone or chrome.
The counter-arguments:

A VPN that sells your information and eventually, inevitably is caught, will lose their entire business. Meanwhile they can make a perfectly good profit just... providing the desired service. There are also people who take the time to investigate these various services, and you can do some work to find one that meets standards you deem to be acceptable.

There isn't going to be a perfect solution here, but the issues with VPN's are really not the issues you raise. My concerns are: Google and other major sites endlessly pestering VPN users with CAPTCHA requests, or the government actually making them illegal. Your concerns are largely answered by researching which product you're willing to buy, not unlike all other similar decisions in life.
I'm super curious to hear more about your workload. Will you email me (kurt at fly dot io)? I've worked on very large sites and the DB / app layer was always substantially more expensive than what we're charging. I'd really like to know if we're totally mis-estimating a common use case, or we're just confusing things with our pricing (a launch is mostly just a test for pricing). :)
The Fukushima incident is very far from potentially extinction level. You provide no numbers just do the usual empty nuke-bashing. Germany does what you described. They are so green they emit more CO2 since they went green. I guess when it will turn out that pumping more CO2 wasn't the best idea it will also be nuclear industry's fault.
Indeed. Coal plants create much more widespread radiation pollution than nuclear plants.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-...
I'm James Stanley. I blog at http://incoherency.co.uk/

I already operate https://smsprivacy.org/ which is essentially a VPN for SMS.

I don't have any way to prove I'm not logging your traffic, but I am a big believer in privacy and promise not to. If you don't trust me, you don't have to use it.
Technical solutions are the way to solve this sort of problem without policy. A protocol that obfuscates your traffic, along with an unpredictable IP for the provider, would make the DPI required to throttle VPN connections very difficult and expensive.
You're misrepresenting Lessig's point. His was not that code replaces statutory law, but that code is one of the four forms of law: Law, Norms, Market, Architecture (including code). Which is captured in his title, "Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace". (Emphasis added.)

The problem in this case is that morality (Norms) has gone AWOL, architecture is insufficient, and market incentives are buying statutory cover to pursue privacy eviceration with impunity.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_and_Other_Laws_of_Cyber...
Ok, can you route every connection(besides the vpn one) from an iphone to a vpn gateway?

If it isn't possible, anyone can explain why?
No idea.
DannyB2 has been around about a year, and i've seen posts by them in other threads.

The others were just created, presumably to be reddit-level-hilarious
> you could hack a personal history report out of Google Analytics

It's interesting that many businesses (and probably governments) have better access to a user's browsing history than the user.
running stuff from the console is R-like; clearly Java doesn't have a ggplot2
Please point me to the amendment that guarantees a right to internet privacy.

Gun owner's actually have a right: https://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/amen...

Perhaps you should try to better understand the system of rule of law we have here in the United States before participating in discussion.
> You're not going to get kicked out of your home and neighborhood forever because of a malfunction at the coal plant.

No, you get kicked out of life when you get diagnosed with cancer.
The Commission is appointed by the Council, not elected by the Parliament.

The Commission then originates all legislation, which Parliament can approve or not.

It's not a system I would buy into voluntarily.
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Not a solution, rather a workaround. VPNs reduce performance, and they aren't free either. The idea of privacy abusers is to to tax those who value it.
Oh yeah, it's great how every religion came up with the exact same views on how many women you should marry, how you should treat people who worship different gods, what kind of food it's OK to eat, whether religion should be subservient to the state or vice versa, and so forth.

"Morals are a good thing" whose morals, exactly? Let me guess, yours happen to be the correct ones?
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> We certainly DID learn from WikiLeaks that the DNC and media "fixed" the debates to favor Hillary Clinton though[1], but where's the outrage at that?

Don't be silly. Why should the people in power punish themselves just because they happened to get caught? They always externalize blame, no matter how irrational.

Look what happened with Snowden: it's the leaker who is the problem, not the leaked material. How many people have been fired over that incident? And how many people have been assigned to hunt him down? I bet you the latter number is higher.

The DNC has no such issues though. The leaker was identified and according to various internet sources later found murdered[1]. Guess if anyone is currently investigating that...

[1] http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-08-10/wikileaks-assange-h...
Could you provide a few more details on how your setup works? You SSH tunnel to where? Your own cloud instance?
Folks were writing CFD codes in Matlab too, that does not mean that it was a good idea (except for 1D or small 2D problems or for prototyping). My point was that some languages are better suited for particular tasks. In CFD and FEM codes you want speed, if you need to wait a few days for a highly optimized C++ code to get some results (e.g. the flow around an entire airplane) imagine how long it will take to do the same in Go or Common Lisp ...

Case in point FEMLISP uses C or Fortran libraries (Triangle, Tetgen, OpenMP, various linear algebra libraries) under the hood for the actual computation :).
While I don't disagree with your assessment of carbon-based energy, the same thing (externalising the cost of their downsides) happens with nuclear energy.

So if anything, they're equally terrible in that regard.
The main problem with increasing T to act as a birth control is that there are too much side effects.
"Clojure" is being used as a family name for similar, but incompatible dialects. If I were Hickey, I'd trademark it and enforce against these projects.

Look at lispm's comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13984011

It's not just the platform libs, but the semantics of things that really should be portable.
Couldn't disagree more with this article.
VPN is a solution to a policy problem until policy makers forbid VPN to enforce their core idea in the first place. (e.g. see United Arab Emirates for some restrictions of VPN use)
How do you do this on your phone?
So I was a call-in on NPR today (http://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2017/03/29/internet-privacy-cong...) that discussed the ISP privacy issue. I brought up the crowd funding initiatives to buy Republican's info as well as the Democrat's unwillingness to make use of this issue. The call-ins were unanimously against what the congress did.

edit:
Here's the GofundMe trying to raise money to buy their Internet history. Something tells me this dude is going to run off with the money though

http://resistancereport.com/resistance/crowdfunding-lawmaker...
Just getting a VPN is like a teacher telling a bullied student to "just ignore and move away". Sounds great in theory, but really doesn't work for everyone in the real world. Some day, when wireless solutions get really good, or the cable monopolies are broken, pro-privacy will be a selling point.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/data/turnout.php

When looking at the turnout over the years. The engagement has rarely been > 65%. Last time was 1904.

Your point is well taken though. I am not a political science expert. Just an IT person trying to make sense of it all.
Even during the democratic primary there's not much of a case to be made that her campaign sought to portray Sanders as a racist. We even have emails that show her campaign's strategy was largely focused on wooing over black leaders during the primary[1]. Also, several staff members from Sanders' campaign admitted they did not do a lot to appeal to black voters, having already assumed they were in the bag for Clinton[2]. She drew comparisons between her own campaign's efforts at outreach and his[3], comparisons which have been proven to be true. Saying she cast Sanders as "racist" is both misleading and ignores the fact that his outreach to black voters was provably lackluster.

[1] http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-w...

[2] http://fusion.net/story/323539/how-bernie-sanders-lost-black...

[3] https://secure.politico.com/story/2016/02/hillary-clinton-sp...
I also have a limited amount of cash, and thus I need to work where I can maximize my compensation.
The constitution doesn't guarantee/require a trial by jury outside of criminal cases. Since involuntary commitment is not a criminal case it only requires due process which is simply a normalized legal framework. For commitment there's hearings with judges and legal council for the patient which meets the requirements the Supreme Court has laid out.
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Indeed, EU membership was a lock on ECHR membership.

But leaving the EU does noy (yet) mean leaving ECHR.
Very cool! Thanks for the info.
Someone could make a program that inspects the packets on your local network. If they're encrypted then the connection is safe. They could then start a register of VPNs and rate them.

This is just the start though, you'd also have to guard against common keys and other various gotchas.

Also, another idea is VPN providers might start seeing it as a business opportunity to provide robust, secure connections and advertise how they work. These claims could easily be verified.

Just a start, I'm not an expert in networking, but it seems fairly doable. Obviously MITM is always possible if you're not connecting via ssl.

Also, this could be the impetus for further decentralizing the internet, although who knows how far that's out. The centralization of the internet might have taken things too far and killed the golden goose by abusing their position, incentivizing an acceleration of full decentralization, like with IPFS and their ilk.
Here's the fix: fork the redis API for your language (nodejs,java,c#, whatever it may be) and remove the .KEYS function completely. Stop your entire dev team from shooting themselves in the foot.
The iPhone has a built-in VPN client. I've only used it (the IKEv1 client, specifically) to access stuff on my home network, but I have no reason to think that it doesn't respect the routes that the server offers.
They had a famine in 90s with a million deaths without a collapse. The reason that can cause the collapse of the government is that people there are getting richer due to a mild capitalistic reforms, and they have access to more information, e.g. more and more families have a DVD player and watch South Korean dramas.

When enough people realize, that South Korea is a better place and considers them citizens, the wall will fall.
> and it is impossible to establish any kind of trust with them.

Once burned, twice shy. Mentally ill people are frequently harmed by the medications that they're told they have to take. Science now knows that these medications are palliative drugs that actually worsen the long-term prognosis for the patients, but these findings haven't made it to the hospitals yet. [1] [2]

[1] https://www.nimh.nih.gov/about/directors/thomas-insel/blog/2...

[2] https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/psychiatris...

I witnessed a mental health crisis team do some very good work in convincing my friend to go to the psychiatric hospital. It was unfortunate that the psychiatrists refused to address the cause of her condition [by that point it was nerve damage from neuroleptics], but at least that guy got her off the street.
You can make holding and using that data highly intractable.

If there are blisteringly strong penalties to holding and trading in personal data, the incentives to do so will largely disappear. Unfortunately, statutory regimes, particularly in the United States, seem to be going in the opposite direction.

With the ability to seek out and purge disclosed data, at least some of the damage can be mitigated. Considering that there is far too much information for humans to ever process but a small portion of it, that might actually be sufficient -- we won't be needing the Men in Black eraser pens.
Do you have data that backs that cleanup is inarguably expensive? This article, which more concrete, suggests 5% of revenue is required to be saved.

http://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fue...
Please, do consider writing the C book as well. Most publishers have beta programs these days (O'Reilly, Manning, Pragmatic Programmers). Don't leave it in a desk drawer (so to speak).

Perhaps simplified Redis example could work as a good base to learn C. Single threaded, memory only persistence, network communication service so no complex stuff like concurrency and file management. Though there's probably a lot more going on in there...

Perhaps "Redis for devops" is another book waiting to happen, or how to write Redis modules. By the way, Manning's book (from 2013) is freely available these days:
https://redislabs.com/resources/ebook/
If it's better than a random guess–which it is, majorly–then it could constitute a valid data point in narrowing a search. There's nothing racist about using it to the level of accuracy it has demonstrated. If the system worked to the same degree of accuracy on Caucasians as it does on Africans nobody would be calling it racist, they'd be calling it a tool that can help build a list of potential suspects to further investigate.

To argue anything else is making it a matter of social sensibilities.
According to the Supreme Court you don't have any expectation of privacy in information given to a third party so whether the VPN is in the US or not does not matter.
Well, India is different I think because it's a matter of national importance. I guess the Indian government really has no other option besides forcing the idea of contraceptives onto the population. This is not a bad thing, but I just want to clarify that overpopulation is a very strong motivator, and is something that few countries in the world have to deal with.
Edited it a bit. :)

Were humans around at the time of the dinosaur extinction event?