skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Look up Duverger's law.

Effectively, in a first past the post electoral system, any vote that isn't for the major party that most closely aligns with your views is a vote that supports the views least aligned with your preference.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger's_law
Look up Duverger's law.

Effectively, in a first pat the post electoral system, any vote that isn't for the major party that most closely aligns with your views is a vote that supports the views least aligned with your preference.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger's_law
My life doesn't necessarily fit into a sunrise-sundown bracketed timeframe. I regularly need to postpone dimming until later in the evening, and then return to full color brightness before dawn. F.lux refuses to do this. Night Shift (at least on iOS) does.
s/C#/F#/g
Do you understand why I do not like SNI? It has nothing to do with getting these stupid hostnames.

It is a modification that needs to be made to software to accomodate the spread of the use of the SNI extension. As a user, I have no need for SNI.

Are you saying that doing reverse lookups on every IP address, where some of these IPs will have many virtual hostnames, is easier than extractng the plaintext hostname from a certain offset in a Client Hello packet?

If there are many virtual hostnames, how do you know which one the user has requested?

What if the reverse DNS data just lists an ambiguous subdomain and not the domainname in the user's HTTP request, or what if the rDNS data is missing?
Flash died of a lot of things. It was already mortally wounded when Apple hastened its demise. I don't think that had much to do with the bottom line at Adobe, either - almost everything Flash did got moved into the browser, so it became difficult to justify the security risks and the headaches that came with it on non-Windows platforms.
> advertisers viewing themselves as gods

Tangential point, I've heard from a friend how much you can earn by being involved in a "premium" ad network, and it's basically around 100x what I can make as a SWE freelancer. I also remember a HN user claiming they make $30k/month from a simple "YouTube downloader" kind of site.
The party claiming to represent "personal liberty" and "responsibility" has now voted to have your browser history sold on data-markets. Ever looked at anything particular embarrassing? Welcome to blackmailsville.

I really hope hackers obtain records of every Republican Congresscritter's creepiest porn viewing.
third party voters can wind up choosing which of the two parties win. in 2016, they gave Trump the win, because they equated him and the Republicans with Hillary in terms of deleterious effects.
I realise this is a total straw man, but whenever I read Republicans vs Democrats I can't help but think about how utterly insane it is to have the opinions of 300 million Americans represented by TWO parties.

Two.

So Americans choose to agree with either EVERYTHING person A says, or EVERYTHING person B says.

That's what it boils down to. And it freaks me out that in a day and age where we're so educated and "free", we still think that this is a good solution.

Apologies for veering off topic. Had to get it off my chest for once, as I don't normally voice this stuff. (Because I'm sure others have said it better before.)
> I think the Rebol website (successor language that is mostly compatible although interpreted only) ….

I think that this is backwards; Red is inspired by Rebol, which is relatively old:

> Red is a computer programming language. Red was made to overcome the limitations of the programming language Rebol.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_(programming_language) ).
Any high technology creature able to travel across the universe must have been studying some kind of evolutionary path.

Why? What bearing does the study of biological evolution have on the physics and engineering of space travel?
It's not a racist thing and your reading it that way reflects a high level of ignorance.

You don't take anyone from anywhere drop them in front of a master tradesman for 12 weeks and have a master tradesman pop out in a few days. The output there is a guy who can probably run the machine and have a limited ability to consistently churn out stuff without understanding the process fully. That's not a reflection of pay, race or talent.

That's usually a big part of the design of the outsourcing arrangement. You train for minimum viable capability. You then just fine the suppliers and eventually you'll get what you need, even if they waste half of the work produced. I've done these with domestic and foreign contractors. It's always the same story. The difference here is that the quality required for tools is higher than end products, and the supplier cannot make money without the high skilled people.
It would be lovely for Congress to pass a statute ensuring data-privacy. Pity they just voted the other way around on party lines.
VPNs will definitely incur overhead and latency costs, yeah.

OpenVPN can be fairly slow if you are sharing CPU usage (ex. VPS provider) with other users. You are also most likely implementing NAT on your VPN server which is probably not accelerated unless you are paying for an expensive appliance that does so.
But now the VPN provider can just track you and sell all your browsing history instead of the ISP, so how is this better?
Yeah. It hasn't been pressed much yet, since it's new to a lot of us. Here's something I worked on to learn more about it: https://gist.github.com/greggirwin/38883ca5109175a60896d2f40...
To each their own. I am hanging in there with proxydroid.
I'm sure they'd agree that conditions matter. But people here regularly disagree that gender and race discrimination in the US is a factor in tech. And they have for years, often vehemently and in great volume.
Well, you compartmentalize in multiple VMs. Using different VPNs, Tor, and nested chains of them.
I used to use Mumble and Discord's superiority in almost every regard is so obvious that all I can say is "you need to adjust your glasses".
It's not that anyone is defending this system, it's that it is the only stable equilibrium of the winner-takes all parts of our elections.
>> Of course brexit arguments work for the SNP: the separatist language is universal

The thing to keep in mind is that the SNP wants to take the country out of the Union, but not out of the European Union. In fact, that's the entire justification behind the second referendum- that they stayed in the UK because they wanted to remain within the EU, but, now that the UK is exiting anyway there's nothing keeping them back from leaving the UK and trying to re-negotiate their relationship with the EU on their own.

I mean, for separatists they seem to be very keen on remaining in a union and they seem to have a very different idea of "independence" than the kind of "independence" the Leave campaign propounded during the runup to the Brexit referendum.

There's something else going on here and not just a reactionary isolationism and nationalism. I'm thinking that the Scots are just fed up with the way the English have been running the UK in the last couple of decades and if that's the case I can't really blame them. There's something truly rotten in Westminster.
I've been using PIA for a few years and have been disappointed to see an increasing number of websites blocking VPN access.
I don't think restaurants are that good. Their mission is typically profit, not health. With enough salt, sugar, etc. they can make the food taste delicious, but that doesn't mean it's nutritious. Unless you're eating really fine dining, I think the vast majority of places, especially chains, are trying to sell the cheapest food they can for the most profit.
you're not crazy. for certain versions of osx, it's "just broken". i've seen it with my own eyes, and personally flux has only worked for me very well recently (like in the past 6 months).

i advise you tell the developer!
That would depend on your traffic levels and which instance type you want to use.

This should help figure things out:
http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html
Oh, animal, definitely animal.
But even with laws, you can't trust ISPs and governments that pwn them. So yes, using VPNs is prudent.
For what definition of web developer? For front end web stuff most of that is unnecessary. For web apps then Java and c# are still more widely used.
There's nothing about Uber's business model that says they have to be cheapest or have a monopoly. The only reason they choose not to do that is ambition (or greed if you're being less generous to them).

Except that greed isn't just a complicating factor to their business model; it is their business model, basically. Or more specifically -- as has been widely noted by observers; and may even be present in their own statements -- the (perceived) paramount need to obtain a globally dominant market share -- or slip quickly into irrelevance.

It's even in their name, after all: über alles. And if a few rules need to be broken -- or employees' careers/and or personal lives severely hobbled along the way -- so be it.

† A position that historically has been difficult to obtain in similar service sectors, even locally, without corruption and/or a state-enforced monopoly. But for Uber, apparently, has become a life-or-death mission to attain.
Coming from the ANZ Overwatch community here as well, Overwatch has pretty much completely taken over any voice communications platform that isn't just in-game voice.
Couple of issues here:

1. The opposing party's opposing the ruling party is a natural process of government. It's the normal state of things. Your saying that it was "poor behavior" implies that it was an anomaly, that the Republicans did something wrong by not supporting everything Obama wanted to do, and that the minority party is supposed to accede to every demand of the ruling party, which would be absurd.

2. The Democrats only controlled Congress for 2 of Obama's 8 years. You imply that, even when Congress is not controlled by the President's own party, that Congress should accede to his demands. This is absurd. It's not how our government works, it's not how it's ever worked, and it's not how it was intended to work--indeed, exactly the opposite is the case.

3. If your implications were true, you should be criticizing the Democrats for doing exactly the same thing right now with far more vehemence.

4. The ostensibly "grassroots supporters" of the current opposition is actually ruthless. Were there violent riots in the streets of cities across the country when Obama was elected?
The last time I looked, it seems there's a lot of platform work needed in Rust to support drivers in NT.
I definitely wish there was a keyboard shortcut for this. Especially since I constantly have to turn f.lux on and off because it's not compatible with full-screen YouTube/Vimeo/etc.
So they need a network of dealers.
Might want to look for video to Feb 22 lecture comparing caffe, theano, torch, TF: http://cs231n.stanford.edu/syllabus.html. It was taken down from youtube because no closed captions but i'm sure it's archived multiple places
Gavin Says Oh Hell NO Gavin What Does Madea Say?
It's not. There's no way to verify the VPN provider is not keeping logs and tracking you.
How does this square with freedom of speech? Outlawing satire and jokes is outrageous, even if the actual aim is somewhat laudable.
The third parties are even worse than the two parties. The Libertarians ran Bob Barr, a Clinton House prosecutor and Gary Johnson who happily sent people to prison for drug crimes. Jill Stein supports Putin.
You would be better of putting it on a Digital Ocean and then create / destroy a droplet when you need it. It is what I do and my cost is like $1.50 per month (as opposed to $5).
Because you have much more choice for VPN providers than for ISPs. And you can change VPN periodically, far more easily than changing ISP. Also, you can use nested chains of VPNs, much like Tor, to distribute trust. So adversaries must compromise multiple providers, quickly enough that logs will be available.

Edit: Also, you can pick VPN providers outside your adversary's sphere of influence. That's standard advice for users in China, for example.
One nice although limited alternative to openvpn is sshuttle:
https://github.com/sshuttle/sshuttle

The limitations are: no ipv6 support :(, sometimes leaks dns, and always crashes shortly after it is first started (then works fine when you start it again). There seems to be little active development.

To work around the limitations, I mostly use SOCKS (curl also supports SOCKS), plus run sshuttle to try to catch any additional traffic. For that matter, SOCKS alone would at least catch the most sensitive traffic for most people (and would make it easy to have another browser profile for watching netflix).

I get a $15/year OpenVZ account from ramnode.com, which supports VPN usage. I haven't had an issue with bandwith (it seems to undercount quite a lot) but don't watch netflix or otherwise use that much bandwidth.

The main issue I've had is that some websites (google, amazon, gog) will default to various other languages that I assume other people who are doing the same thing speak. Fixed by logging in to the site and they then seem to remember for a while even if you don't log in, but eventually they switch again.

The nice thing is that the remote server can be configured to just have an SSH server on port 80 (in case you ever want to use it from restrictive public wifi; I first stated to do this after seeing SSL downgrade errors on public wifi) with public key authentication, so there is much less to worry about in terms of being responsible for a system open to the internet all the time. In SSH, I set:

KexAlgorithms=curve25519-sha256@libssh.org
HostKeyAlgorithms=ssh-ed25519-cert-v01@openssh.com,ssh-ed25519
Ciphers=chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com
MACs=hmac-sha2-256,hmac-sha2-512

So still not a super easy option but a somewhat easier option than OpenVPN. It would be quite easy with an automated way to set up the remote ssh server correctly.

Edit: Speed is quite good with this setup and while I haven't done extensive comparisons, it does not seem to lower the connection speed by much.
You can't pay an American worker 20 times as much to make the same product in the same number of hours. The only way to be competitive at 20 times the pay is for each worker to produce 20 times the output, i.e. automation.

This is only true if labor makes up the largest component of the cost. If the worker is only 10% of the cost of the output (versus say raw materials like steel) then being more 2X (or even 20X) more productive requires a much smaller productivity increase.

It's also worth noting that manufacturing can carry significant negative externalities in the form of pollution.
Tip: look at used tool places or yard sales, especially yard sales run by veterans.

You'll find random brands you've never heard of that are "made in USA" and built to military spec. I think most military tools are required to be made domestically. The quality is amazing and prices low.
That's not what I meant to say at all.

Here, I saw what looked like a new project. You say I should have understood right away because Glimmer is said to power Ember's components. But the Ember team could very well have built an entirely new engine for its components. I thought Ember used to use Handlebars (didn't it?) and had just recently built a new engine (aka Glimmer) instead of adapting an existing one (React, Vue, etc). But that sounded odd, hence my question.

If you see these sorts of things all the time, there may be a reason: communication is hard and we all interpret things a bit differently (depending on our experience, our mindset, our native language, etc).
Does anyone know of a similar tool for Java?
> Are you saying that doing reverse lookups on every IP address, where some of these IPs will have many virtual hostnames, is easier than extractng the plaintext hostname from a certain offset in a Client Hello packet?

If the SNI info was at a fixed offset in a packet, it would be easy. But, per the RFC, it goes at the end of the client hello, after the list of supported cipher suites and compression methods. Not only does that mean it's not at a fixed offset, the actual client hello message may not be contained in a single packet, but rather several. So the ISP has to gather the packets and put them in order to re-construct the TCP stream, and then compute the offset. That is not trivial to do, especially at scale. Reverse DNS lookups are much much easier. Trust me: in my work I've helped implement both TCP sessionization and reverse DNS lookup infrastructure, and the latter is far more scalable.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12377393

My understanding is that there is a growing consensus on this
I suspect the reasoning from the algorithm would be a lot more specific than from a doctor given the same information. People don't have deep understanding of their reasoning process and (necessarily) make a lot of decisions based on a hunch. An algorithm would be able to tell you confidence ratings for multiple conditions and reasoning behind which treatment was prescribed or what additional tests were required.

I still feel that this is a tool that should be used by Doctors (rather than to replace them) as the reports will likely contain more detail than a layman would understand.
How would one go about doing this? More importantly... Is there a simple cross platform application I could have my friends and family install that takes little to no effort on their part?
That's amazing. 5-10% is a really small savings.

When people here eye roll union guys they should think about that. I bet the executive bonus plan accounted for 5% of COGS.
I remember having this problem, but I don't remember getting it anymore now. Try updating your flux? It doesn't update by itself apparently.
In the general. But you also have to look at the primaries. For instance, this year we had 22 major candidates running for president in the two major parties. And people like Trump and Sanders show that there is plenty of room for heterodox candidates to be successful.
Also, you can pay for a VPN without revealing your identity. Not so with ISPs. I use a VPN, for instance, to mask my Tor usage from my ISP. (I'm an American using the Internet in the United States.)
Thats an interesting bet. If they isolated to the subnets they sell off to ISPs (i.e exclude datacenters and such) what do you think would contribute to the cost/benefit difference of the two?
I'm not so sure. Remember that browsers were all over the place at the time. Web Devs were actually building what we would now consider standard HTML in Flash because they didn't have to worry about browser incompatibility.

I was working for a commercial software house around this time, and we were seriously considering delivering major products in Flash because it solved a huge number of problems. Silverlight was MS's response to this push. Jobs killed it not because it was bad, but because Flash was fast becoming the platform for the web.

I'm curious about the secret "thing that killed Flash". Anyone know?
I had always attributed this to Deming, but I can't find any evidence that he said it either.
My now full-time work https://officesnapshots.com started out as a side project while teaching history ~10 years ago and the main source of revenue was and continues to be advertising.
If you just take a single desire--to stay young and healthy--it's not hard to imagine almost infinite job growth potential. The desire is not complex, but satisfying it will be.
Unless Musk gives away much of his wealth in his lifetime, he could very well be the world's first trillionaire. Think of Toyota and Exxon Mobil rolled into one with virtually no competition in sight.

To put things in perspective, this car is just 10 grand more than a full featured Toyota Camry. In countries that import both cars and oil like India, the price of the Tesla would be less than a Camry if they reduce the import tariffs. It's a foreseeable option to reduce foreign oil dependency. Also in developing countries, for every person that can afford to buy a Tesla and also knows how to drive, there would be dozens more who can't drive but could very well afford one. Once Tesla delivers their first 400K cars and proves they can drive themselves anywhere in the world, the demand would far exceed supply in the foreseeable future.
This. Most of my friends are like "wtf is your screen so yellow" like every time. I thought Night Shift on iOS will change that but nope. I guess it takes time.
Strict-by-default vs. Lazy-by-default (2016)
Thats great, but certain populations are being demonstrably soft-genocided in that their birth rates are below replacement level, and internet porn is a leading cause.
Japanese research firms part of global effort to develop spray-on solar panels
It was apparently closed because a workaround exists, not because the software was updated to explain, prevent, or resolve the incompatibility.
I've heard good things about Scrivener from several authors.
Lots of people seem to think the right answer is selling improved security. I disagree. It would be much more exiting to get the data coming from politicians homes, and the homes of their staff. It would be a fantastic way to generate news. Why is senator X's household researching cancer treatment? Will they step down this year? I can't help but think military bases would google their next deployment, that's another set of huge news articles.

If you're more into the finance side of things, CXO's home clickstreams would probably be enlightening. Or hedge fund managers. Some will be fully encrypted and secure, but just the dns would be a strong signal about what companies they're researching.

That is the kind of business that will drive privacy legislation.
When I was working for a large US telco, we were required by law (at that time), if we were told by the customer that if they were being deployed overseas with the armed forces that service would be cancelled immediately at the customer's request without further proof of military subscription or deployment being required. This was quite a while back so I cannot speak to whether or not this is still the case. You may want to do some digging first, but it might be an angle to abuse the system to get what you want. Obviously IANAL etc.
You don't think so? Is that your opinion or a fact?

Most calculations I've seen seem to conclude electric are more CO2 efficient per mile; from 2 to 9 times depending on which state is producing the power.
Wait, who is Owens? Terry Davis is the creator of TempleOS. Please read some of the writing on http://templeos.org and tell me that's anything comparable to Mean Kampf. He's not writing political rhetoric, it's quite literally the ramblings of a mentally ill person.
Is it unjustified? By what measure? Alcohol taxes fund the social welfare system, and alcohol taxes the social welfare system. Alcohol tax is rationally connected to it's purpose. It isn't arbitrary, and if it does infringe on your rights (very dubious argument), that infringement is minimal. Alcohol tax doesn't outright prevent you from purchasing alcohol.
To be clear: sshuttle is more comparable to redirecting system traffic through a proxy than a VPN.

UDP is not tunneled at all.
True. But the VPN provider effectively knows who you are, because they see your IP address. Or rather, a resourceful adversary can get your IP address from the VPN provider, and then get your identity from your ISP.

If you chain VPNs, however, it certainly makes sense to lease the second/indirect VPN anonymously.
You've been posting quite a few unsubstantive and borderline uncivil comments to HN. Would you please stop?
That is still a significant amount of traffic to analyze and store data for.

I don't want to speculate further as I don't know what margins for transit providers in NA look like.