skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So why are people talking about running Facebook on Ethereum? Isn't that madness?
The "you may be entitled to compensation" ads are already out in full force.
This technology coupled with solar panel covered highways could mean that your vehicule would just need enough to get to or leave the highway.
The most damaging thing about modern web frameworks is that they make it difficult, sometimes prohibitively difficult, to read code. You can sometimes step into framework code if it's well-written (i.e. Django REST is pretty easy to read) but if the framework does anything "magical" you're basically stuck.

Complex frameworks are good for getting a project started quickly, but become more and more problematic as a project ages and needs to be debugged.
I use Dokku (sort of like an open source Heroku) and the LetsEncrypt plugin. I can deploy a webapp with a git push and have it run over https with no work on my part. Works great.
Yes, you should not get started on that, because it is a falsehood and not actually a fact.

* https://jdebp.eu/FGA/systemd-documentation-errata.html#Contr...

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11845867
Yes that is a risk. Maybe I'll put some money into USD/EUR too.
so true. that exact situation happens where i work. One department's managers prefer flailers who work long hours fixing their mistakes over folks who deliver a working product with little drama. I observe that the latter example is interpreted as 'obviously it was easy'.
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If the server requesting the certificate is going to use the certificate, then the server ends up with the private key either way.
> The other main reason is that you want to avoid banks and government, which is certainly a smell that you may be a criminal. These benefits aren't for people who are honest.

It is saddening that this argument is used even on HN.
That's equivalent to the old "You don't need privacy if you got nothing to hide". Examples as in Cyprus [1] prove that you should always be careful when trusting banks or any centralized system. Your line of argument is very common among representatives of banks, governments or people who are simply uneducated on the subject. Or a combination thereof.

http://www.businessinsider.com/r-amid-fears-of-greek-control...
Oh wow, thanks for that! I've often thought of picking up one of these machines again... but I quickly realize that I'd really have little to do with it other than boot it up, and look at it. I think I'm probably more suited for an emulator.
NYC has the highest concentration of Peregrine Falcons anywhere in the world. Lots of tall buildings for nests and lots of rats.
> Yes, you have to update it every three months, but that's worth the price and the excellent documentation.

With certbot it's actually easier to update every three months with Letsencrypt that updating every/other year with a traditional SSL CA.
Just hope your certificate provider doesn't screw up or you may be forced to replace early.

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/blink...
Hello :-) Could I just ask what ICO stands for? Thanks
Do you really think the world is worse off because of Let's Encrypt?
When was that and what was the form of the query?
Travis Elephant has done very well with Enthought and Continuum Analytics. Before that though, he was an assistant prof at BYU. He's written several times about how he essentially gave up his academic career to continue working on NumPy. For example, he alludes to it in this post he wrote http://technicaldiscovery.blogspot.ca/2012/01/transition-to-... that says "[my wife] watched me sacrifice my tenure-track position by writing NumPy instead of more papers."

You agree that NumPy has been a huge boon to the scientific community and that BME (his previous field) has reaped the benefits too, right? Let's say NumPy has made minor (~5%) contributions to, say, 500 papers; this is probably a huge underestimate. If he had instead published (say) 25 papers, he would have a thriving academic career and yet his actual impact on the world would be a lot lower. Academia is really bad at rewarding work that has a broad, diffuse impact. In a better world, administrators and funders would recognize that his work on NumPy was sufficiently valuable that he wouldn't have had to choose.

I'm not sure this is the right article to get into "research funding==financing hobbies" debate, but...given that some research is probably going to be funded anyway, wouldn't you rather it be done in an efficient way? Right now, most academic software is a bit of a waste: it's written so that the authors can write a paper about having written it. There's no incentive to produce code that others can use or reuse, no reason to maintain it or update it, and so on. Individual labs can usually figure this out, but that also costs time and money which is coming out of the same budget one way or another.
I did some work in this space. The cert authorities were never really designed to be a backstop against phishers as that threat really rose up in prominence after they were setup. And it placed them in a weird gatekeeper role.

As designed, it was supposed to be that:

Domain Validation (DV) certs would indicate that your connection was secure.

Extended Validation (EV) certs would indicate that your connection was secure and you were connecting to the proper site.

In reality, the problems with phishing and mis-issued DV certs got so bad that that issuers like GeoTrust (owned by Symantec) began keyword checking DV certs for major company trademarks, phishing targets, etc. that depending on what it was would put your through varying degrees of scrutiny.

Examples:

- Some used bookstore had a domain like "the-good-book.com" which got flagged for manual review b/c of the "book.com" string and so many "facebook.com" phishing attempts.

- Anytime people would request certs for BMW, HBO, would trigger requests for contact information within those organizations and often a phone call from GeoTrust

- It was basically impossible to get anything issued with the term "paypal", "bank" or "apple" in the domain.

Please note that these were all for run of the mill - $15 single domain, DV certs.

This was for a fairly high end service that required credit card accounts, etc and we still saw around 5% of requests get pulled (rightly or wrongly) into one of these manual review filters.

It was a fairly unsung and unappreciated part of the what the cert issuers were doing - but it absolutely 100% helped.

LetsEncrypt is forcing the Cert and Browser industry back to the original DV/EV split and it's unclear where we're going to land.

Right now even technical people _trust_ the green lock and it's wildly easy to miss the fact that you're on a domain that is paypal-login-security-usa-1.com

I think we're going to see a future where the browser indicators are:

Red -> No SSL

Gray -> DV SSL

Green -> EV SSL
I'm making a pretty simple demographic point and not really interested in hacking my way through this briar patch of value judgements and careful parsing. Substitute whatever term you like --- maybe "anti-black anti-Latino racism" --- for the simple one I used.
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"The resulting blue glow — known as Cherenkov radiation — has accidentally and abruptly flashed at least 60 times since the dawn of the nuclear age,"

I'm not a physicist, but as far as I know the blue flash generated by a criticality is caused by gases in the air fluorescing. Cherenkov radiation is a different phenomena.

Edit: Seems to be confirmed by [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticality_accident#Blue_glow
I agree with you. I have a Safari subscription and I have mostly stopped buying computer science text books (I buy only 7 or 8 a year now). Now instead of looking on stack overflow or doing a web search, I login to Safari, find a recent book, and read the parts that are useful/interesting.
I think developers would figure this out in roughly 10 minutes. And they'd use it where it made more sense than a single cond.
I'm not sure there is such a thing as "low risk." Most small businesses fail even if their attempts at "disruption" begin and end with selling pizzas to the local college students.
Everyone has to start somewhere...
Getting monkey faces, however....
You don't need the government, you need the society at all. These things can be done in a lot of ways, all them compatible with a trusted ledger that keeps track unambiguously of who owns what.

Notary services were for a long time independent of the State, they may still be in some countries and places. This is indeed something in which a global decentralized trusted ledger can help.
This post (and the one by Jessica Kerr) has inspired a new witticism for my LinkedIn profile: "A 10X engineer after my destructive behavior has caused most of your team to quit."
Airlines can creatively work around this. They could provide a browser on seat-back touch screens, which would be satisfactory to most customers, who just want to watch HBO, Netflix, Hulu (maybe not in Europe), or YouTube.

Also, smartphones have WiFi, so that's a way for the security-aware to control the device for typing your very important passwords into. Bring a Bluetooth keyboard and a phone mount with a built-in magnifying glass, and it's almost a laptop!
Buggy and unconvincing.
nnn v1.2 – The missing terminal file browser for X
So someone who inherits a pile of money, and spends their time doing nothing is contributing to progress?
One issue is that not even the devs[1] working on these challenges dare to make claims like "2x scaling". Because it's a ridiculous statement since "scaling" is not just TPS and it's a more complicated topic. The developers are still on design phase, they never said anything about #x'ing the TPS or anything.

It's really unfortunate that Ehrsam made such a horrible post. I'd rather have Vitalik or Vlad making a State of Scaling blog post than this propaganda to circulate among newcomers so they can support the price.

[1]: https://github.com/ewasm/design
Man's way to peace is by having a bigger gun than his neighbor.
## What's in?

- Use the desktop opener (xdg-open on Linux, open(1) on OS X) to open files

- Option `NNN_USE_EDITOR` to open text files in EDITOR (fallback vi)

- Bookmark support (maximum 10, key `b`)

- Navigate-as-you-type mode (key `Insert` or option `-i`)

- Subtree search: gnome-search-tool, fallback catfish (key `^/`) (customizable)

- Show current directory content size and file count in disk usage mode

- Add detail view mode as default, use `-l` to start in light mode

- Shortcuts `F2` and `^L` to refresh and unfilter (if filter is empty, `Enter` opens the currently selected file now)

- Help screen shows bookmarks and configuration

- Show a message when calculating disk usage

- Show the spawned shell level

- Linux only: use vlock as the locker on timeout (set using `NNN_IDLE_TIMEOUT`)

Homepage: https://github.com/jarun/nnn
That's a trifle unfair. A lot of this area was intentionally not addressed, for various reasons best laid out in contemporary writings on the subject, by the POSIX standardization effort.
...which makes it pretty meaningful to humans.

Also consider what of the sun's radiation makes it to the surface of the Earth.
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That's crazy, how do you find that?
Been a HN user for 6+ years and after all these years HN is still pretty much the only feed I check on a daily basis.
(not on Facebook so my example may not be very relevant)

The thing I love about the experience can be summed up as:
- no click bait headlines
- no endless "engagement", notifications, round navigation and noise (incredible quality of content curation)
- amazing community (comments are often more insightful than the source)

Basically there comes a moment when you're up to date - reading done - and can carry on with life afterwards.
That's what remains to be seen.

They previously identified six "patches" in the monkey brain that are specialized for processing face-like stimuli. These are embedded in a much larger brain area involved in object recognition, but it's not clear whether faces are a special case or if other sorts of object patches remain to be discovered.
> Most of these common ransom-ware and viruses are easily avoided, and only succeed because of naive users.

The problem is that the large majority of the users is naive.
A defensive response would be to inform major vendors of our own infrastructure (i.e. Microsoft, Cisco) of the gaping holes in their systems, instead of leaving them open for the world to attack.
But anyone who has your e-mail address -- a semi-public identifier, like your name or Facebook page -- can send you an e-mail. Is that also a "huge breach of [your] privacy"?

Is addressing you by name when one bumps into you on the street -- "Hey, Junky, did you hear about..." -- also a "huge breach of [your] privacy"?

That was the GP's question: How is this (targeted FB ad) any more a "huge breach of [your] privacy" than sending you an e-mail? (Or, my addition, than talking to you in the street?)

A weird and hugely convoluted way of talking to you, yes -- compared to, say, just posting a comment on your FB "wall" (do they still call it that?) -- but still: Just a way of talking to you, like e-mail or a Facebook wall posting.
Cyberwar hasn't necessarily led to the massive loss of life associated with nuclear or chemical weapons. Until that happens (or like with nuclear weapons, we can culturally show how much of a zero-sum game it is), ordinary people won't have an incentive to take action. Technically minded people may carry capital, but we're vastly outnumbered by the dwindling working class politically.
Pieces like this should hopefully scare other companies into action. After all, it was conducted with permission from the wind farm companies. That they've hired pentesters indicate they are now working towards fixing the problems.
Initial Coin Offering.

The IPO of a cryptocurrency, more or less.
Can moons have moons? (2016)
"they gathered eight rods painstakingly crafted out of plutonium, and positioned them side-by-side on a table"

The unpleasant death of Louis Slotin [1] is an example of the risks these people were taking.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Slotin#Criticality_accid...
"Initial Coin Offering", a way to crowd fund with cryptocurrency.
I signed up for $199/year, and I think that as long as I keep my membership ongoing, then it is $199/year forever.
Ah, the theory that passing through a higher educational level will somehow increase the righteousness of people. Has that ever been true?
Making the Jump: How Desktop-Era Frameworks Can Thrive on Mobile
In my experience, most how-tos that work for Ubuntu work for Debian, often almost without changes.
Unless you end up in court winning a prolific case for your client and only having ended up in such a place on the back of an apprenticeship. Brilliance is brilliance after all. So even if you're from a statistically weaker candidate pool, there are ways into large firms. It's entirely possible to make a name for yourself without being from a large firm. All you have to do is be good. Show up in court. Win cases. (Assuming of course you already passed the bar)

You don't have to go through school to be brilliant, you just won't be able to easily follow the same path as law school grads.
As it should be, if this was the case a number of private institutions would have the ability to decide who gets to be on the supreme court or not.
Oh that's terrible! I bought the 1st edition in print, and I can't imagine who ridiculous it would be without the cursor.
Perhaps "Content Distribution Graph" would be a better term?
I can disagree with you on everything from the validity of the Bible as a historical document to the demerits of public education, there's no protocol that will make us reach an agreement.

The "consensus" implemented by blockchains is about stating in public and immutable terms what we have previously agreed, to unallow lies about the past: when we do a money transaction, we have both agreed on the terms of that transaction, that is stored. Later even if someone doesn't remember, or try to fake those terms agreed in the past, the blockchain is there to prove otherwise.
It's not even a third complete, I think it's a little premature to be complaining about the lack of solar panels.

https://i0.wp.com/electrek.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/gigaf...

https://electrek.co/2016/07/24/tesla-gigafactory-picture-sho...
And yet as an agricultural company, almost every person on earth is touched by their products or intellectual property. Regular people don't care but 7 billion potential and unaware users of their products might...
The intelligence services of your country most likely have the same technologies available.
I am simply addressing the fact that it's perfectly fine and common to have hosts with a hundred VMs and it works flawlessly.

VMs are memory intensive because they duplicate the operating system. The starting point is around 500 MB per VM. That's the only meaningful difference in resources compared to containers.

I am not discussing that they have different starting and stopping time.
See my "property ownership == enforcement" comment above. If you yourself are enforcing your monopoly over your property - you can stick a sign outside your front door saying "trespassers will be shot" and be done with it. If it's a militia, have them do whatever they think is reasonable notice. If you're depending on your local community, stick it on a community noticeboard.

The question is, exactly why do you need a trustless ledger in order to post notice that you're willing to enforce your monopoly? What problem, precisely, does a blockchain solve?
This whole "read code" thing ("write code that's easy to read", "learn to read code") is imprecise at best. Whats important is to learn code. You want to learn to write code that's easy to learn (not easy to read). And you want to learn to learn code.

If you write code that's easy to learn, and if you learn to learn code, you'll simply remember more code. The more code you know, the more productive you gonna be. That's because at one end of the spectrum, you know nothing about the code and you simply cant do nor solve anything. And at the other end of the spectrum, you know all the code, in which case you gonna be able to do whatever you want by definition: analyse it, expand it, rewrite it, refactor it, talk about it, fix it, etc.

This also explains why you want to write code with fewer lines of code (or fewer AST nodes): the more lines (or AST nodes), the more you have to learn. The more you have to learn, the less you know, the less you know, the closer you are from the bad end of the spectrum.
I usually quip that Common Lisp and Perl are basically the same language, bit with different syntax. Not quite correct, obviously, but both languages give me that same pragmatic feel where having several approaches to the same problem is considered something desirable, not a defect.
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> I'm confused by your use of "Sherlock" as a pejorative.

It's not a pejorative, it's sarcasm. You could replace "Sherlock" with "This genius" in that sentence for essentially same effect.

I'm not really sure why, but for some reason "Sherlock" has become very common to use in a sarcastic context like that. Kinda like how "fat chance" and "slim chance" now mean basically the same thing due to "fat chance" almost always being used sarcastically.
I don't think this system's price-point nor bandwidth is going to be suitable for having large numbers of passengers idling hours by watching movies?

I think the target is more likely to be business users doing work during the flight?
Because as 'klibertp wrote, they're two vastly different languages, with different design decisions.

The whole thread is about primarily Common Lisp; people who enjoy the design choices made by the CL standardization committee and subsequent evolution of the language's ecosystem would most likely want to know that there exists a proper CL implementation for JVM.
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that's hilarious, I wonder who makes/manages celebrity sites like that.
Shame they can't issue wildcard certs. I don't see why they cannot.
Why We Won’t See the Likes of 2007’s iPhone Mania Again
At some point, someone will use their Bitsy Big-Boy Boomeroo, and that'll be the end of that.
> Are people scared of books these days?

Given the amount of video tutorials on YouTube, I would say yes.
The question is - does "7 billion potential and unaware users" becoming aware affects their bottom-line? If it doesn't, then they probably won't care.

I'm not saying it is good, but that's how things work. That's e.g. why boycotts generally don't work.
> White House officials have deflected many questions, and responded to others by arguing that the focus should be on the attackers themselves, not the manufacturer of their weapons.

Am i to understand that if somebody would manage to steal nuclear warheads and launch them we don't hold the people who failed to protect them responsible?
Apparently Rackspace forgot to pay their bill?!?

`On 29 June 2017, from 05:00 to 07:43 CDT, Cloud Load Balancers encountered a licensing issue with a 3rd party vendor. Engineers worked with the vendor to resolve the licensing issue. During the time of impact, customers would have been unable to access their Cloud Services, Cloud products via their control panel, as well as unable to access ticketing.`
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> Eastern Europe is state of mind, not a geographical location.

Author here. Perhaps I put a little bit too much drama in the classic Eastern European issues. I'm not complaining, I do acknowledge the advancement of Bulgaria's economy (it's definitely not like the 90s as far as the narratives go), but I'm not very satisfied with the competitiveness of our country on the global scene. Take Singapore for example - it's more deprived than Bulgaria in numerous aspects, yet it is one of the technological powerhouses of Asia. I'm not focusing on the problems; I'm focusing on what could be improved and leveraged from the current situation.

> ...there are numerous large-scale companies w/ strong regional presence, as well various small outsourcing shops...

True, but for how long have the co-working spaces been around? Around 5 years. Healthy companies? Since we joined the EU (~10 years). All the companies before that period (Sciant, Telerik, Chaos Group etc.) were made of a bunch of extremely talented young people willing to work almost for free in order to gain reputation and recognition from outside.
Plus, the working conditions you mentioned apply only for no more than 20,000 people employed in the tech industry in Bulgaria. The majority of the population is in survival mode.

There is much to be improved.
They do, gradually. Good review articles are respected and people put a lot of effort into them; eventually stuff percolates down to textbooks and so on. The kind of thing that an advanced grad student would struggle with a few decades ago becomes an undergrad exercise today. But meanwhile the frontier keeps advancing.
Yes! It is similar to how no amount of software process can protect you from one bad team member. Also, somehow that bad team/forum member always ends up being the person to use those processes or codes of conduct to crush others.
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Why can't both things be true? It could very well be the case that they would have been happy to carry on with the market if it still all worked, but they didn't feel like they could justify the trouble of migrating it to a new platform.