skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd trust the SEC that one other agency capable of doing so. The SEC actually has a ton of technically capable people who understand and audit technology...they do as much for e-brokers, stock exchanges, high frequency traders, etc.

The only other agency capable of doing so would probably stockpile the exploits and use them to surveil the dark web to catch a million drug dealers and an occasional low level disposable terrorist.
That article just seemed to run out at the end, it seemed like there was some previous problem between the two related to the Shuttle? And then the article didn't describe it where I was reading.
Looks like India has better IPv6 adoption than Japan. Yay!
How Tattoos Might Affect Your Workout
This is the most detailed and recent study, where they went through all rape cases in the UK with a fine comb. It puts the most likely figure of false accusations at 3%, within a range of 1% to 9%.

Other numbers:

- 7% (of all women) had been raped,

- Around 75% of those cases were reported to police

- only 14% of cases resulted in a trial

- less than half of trials resulted in conviction

- Police officers guess that 30% of reported rapes are false accusations when asked in general terms, even though these same officers came to such a conclusion in only 9% of specific cases they handled.

http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20110218141141/htt...
Surely the advanced math problems featured in the Olympiad are not based on simple arithmetic?
Weird, I was able to read on mobile just fine.
> Guess what it outputs?
Nothing! Just kidding, you’ll see a lot of distressed messages from tasks that passed out wait for the phone to ring, and woke up wearing someone else’s OS thread.

Well, as a matter of fact I really got no output at all :(
Was waiting for it to mature. Things like Generics and package managenent seems to not only be forgotten initially but actually avoided.
How to Use JavaScript for Creating HTML Email Layouts
In fact, if you are using AWS you really ought to put a proper caching CDN in front, given the crazy high bandwidth prices at AWS.

The bandwidth prices are high enough that I at one point mulled over setting up an "S3 compatible" storage service using S3 as the backend for durability, but storing a single local copy to most-of-the-time avoid hitting S3.

S3 bandwidth prices are high enough that there are huge cost savings to be had if objects are retrieved reasonably regularly.
ChaCha speed update
If you want to see the percentage of requests from a website that are IPv6, my service https://urlscan.io supports both IPv4 and IPv6. A lot of similar services only scan via IPv4, which I believe is an oversight.
Not only that, but there are very small extensions that place a button on your toolbar that will launch MPV with the current URL. It's the only way I watch YouTube nowadays, it always launches fullscreen on the second monitor and quits when the video is done.

It's such a small change, but has a very large impact on the quality of my video-watching experience, I couldn't believe it initially.
I read it as a short version of chicken cacciatore, which is a dish with an appearance that may look messy.
Then campaign against it. Until then, "corporate expectation" is a convenient excuse, despite the fact that many corporations will fold in the face of any social pressure.

Like how "men" are claimed to be responsible for pressuring women into unrealistic body images, despite the fashion industry being run, and chosen by women.
Getkitsune.com – Web optimisation tool for web developers
I am not a developer, frankly this would be my first post on HN.
I work with Kitsune, it's a one click solution to host, optimize, setup CDN for websites to be used by web developers(we released the first version for static websites recently).
We'd love your feedback. If you are interested in helping us, please send an email with your inputs to vigil.v@getkitsune.com

Also, you can check out the initial release product at http://getkitsune.com/
And there was much rejoicing.
What is serverless architecture for the rest of us?
I think the big reason that so much effort is put into NAT and other "workarounds" is because those are things "you" can do to solve the problem.

If your upstream provider doesn't support IPV6, you can't do anything to help that besides complain about it and hope they provide it one day.
New LinkedIn tool tells businesses about who’s visiting their websites
Ice cycles: the northerly world cities leading the winter bicycle revolution
I mean core async in Clojure works the same, would you say it's the same?

It might not be under the hood, but as perceived to the programmer it is?
Xargs parallel processing or Gnu parallel would probably help a lot here.
Some say without qemu and sandboxed with capsicum bhyve is the most secure hypervisor..
Teaching women from low-income backgrounds how to code
Yes there is. It costs money to train and retain good workers. Cut costs, increase revenue, decrease service. As long as it's not too terrible you still have a business.

There are a lot of people running businesses poorly (from and efficency standpoint) and still making a buck.
Netflix currently employs about 8 FreeBSD committers (possibly more, I'm counting on my fingers before coffee, so I might be forgetting people). Most of us contribute our changes back to the project. Some of these are major things, like async sendfile. Our goal is to upstream everything we can.

We also do other things, like sponsor conferences, and work behind the scenes, advocating for FreeBSD support from a wide variety of enterprise hardware vendors.
Not all ICOs are the same.

Their parameters (for example is the token for utility or just for speculation) vary.

There is a test in law that people can apply to try and tell whether a specific ICO is a security or not: the Howey test.

http://consumer.findlaw.com/securities-law/what-is-the-howey...
I've used spaCy for a customer project without having any NLP or deep learning experience and it was really easy to use and it's fast enough for our use case. So thanks for providing such an awesome library.
Many people, myself included, bristled and groaned every time some company decided it was important to "wow" me with their Flash animation when I first visited their web page.

And then again when I clicked the "Home" link.

And then again when I revisited it a few days later to remember what their phone number was.

And then again, 6 months later, when I clicked the bookmark I had saved in an effort to remember what it was and why I saved it.
150,000 views a month is like a hit every two seconds. That's nothing. Talk to me when you're managing 150000 hits a second.

Edit: sorry didn't mean to imply that your site isn't successful, only that in terms of traffic, it doesn't make aws worth it.
Go was no-go for me from the get-go (hmm I should probably get better phrases but F it). Its design goals just don't align with my preferences at all.
As someone who worked in a will-not-be-named supply chain, the incentives are a combination of the silo-ing that occurs in any sufficiently large corporate structure, and the simple fact that if a corporation can not spend money, they will not spend money.

Case in point: In our (relatively small) facility we had two different switcher trucks (the really tiny semi trucks with hydraulics in the backs so they could jack up trailers without assistance, and without the driver leaving the vehicle). Over the course of one Christmas, both broke down because the company was always cheap about maintaining the things, which is especially bad because in our climate not maintaining trucks is a terrible, terrible idea. For about a week near end of December, route drivers were having to dock their own trailers on the building and according to them, were not being paid for that time, so they either had to hand the keys to their $90k-ish trucks over to complete strangers to let them do it, or do it themselves without pay after having driven usually 3-4 hours before.

Most of the disorganization in places like this is simple shit, but the corporates constantly decline to spend literally ANY money on maintaining literally ANYTHING, plus as a corporate entity we're incentivized to be as quiet as possible, i.e. not submitting things up the chain that need doing or buying, and even better to cut costs continuously, usually by sidestepping maintenance or janitorial work.

Mind you: this business was not even remotely in trouble, it's one of the largest shipping companies on the fucking PLANET, it's just in a corporation's DNA to be stupid and cheap.
Why building your own security is asking for a catastrophe
Ask HN: How is your standing desk working for you?
Bodywise I love it, my back pain is much less and I alternate between sitting and standing in 1h intervals.

My problem is that I find it much harder to concentrate while I am standing and I am writing much more code while sitting.

Curious about other opinions?
here is a benchmark for catboost:

https://github.com/szilard/GBM-perf/issues/4
This looks great, I think it solves an existing need and could be extended beyond editing files on GitHub, to be a more general-purpose tool.

One suggestion: a demo where a potential user can try editing files without needing to authenticate with a GitHub account. I actually haven't seen the editing interface yet - I'll clone the repo locally since I'm curious, but it would be a better on-boarding process if I could try it first.
If you're streaming any kind of volume of data from AWS, you're pretty much burning money compared to other services, unless you've secured steep discounts on the published prices.

I too have run networks for companies that's been in business 10+ years, with as many servers, and I've done that on both AWS, colo'd servers, managed servers, and hybrid setups of all of that, and I've yet to see an instance where AWS was cost effective at published prices for base load.

I have seen AWS be cost effectively used to handle spikes or batch jobs, and I have recommended it for clients that care more about the brand name (to tell their customers for example) than cost, or have very specific needs. I have also seen it used cost effectively once you get big enough to secure steep discounts.
> Thanks for sharing this article...not familiar with Betty Shannon, but her husband, Claude Shannon was really a genius...

There's no question about your characterisation, but he's hardly 'unsung'. I know you meant no ill (and voting isn't your fault), but it's a shame for an article about Betty to have its top comment be almost exclusively about her husband.
I consider it sexual harassment as it is written. The victim's gender matters in the sense that harassment is more likely against women due to the patriarchal character of our culture, but men can still be victims of sexual harassment. They just very rarely ever are.
The science of why eyewitness testimony is often wrong
So, what would that magical migration path look like, then?
32M Microchips Employees Company-Wide
5 Functions of EBS Volumes You're Not Using
Ask HN: What do you do with your time in between projects?
This goes out all the consultants, freelancers and project-based developers on HN.

I find myself with a nice little idle period coming up. I will be completing a project soon and it looks like the next job could start anytime in the next 2-8 weeks.

I'm curious, what do you guys do with free time like this? I guess most will do some travelling or reading or learn a new tech.

Personally I would like to start a profitable, self-sustaining side project but I don't suppose that is realistic in such a short period (2 weeks to 2 months).
I like writing bash scripts a lot and perl is a natural step-up with powerful libraries to use. As others have said, the major obstacle for me has been the lack of great literature.
Perhaps the 'singularity' type stuff makes a lot of people disengage?

So far I'm inclined to think that the whole 'sentient AI mucking things up' is jumping the gun (to put it mildly). I might very well be wrong though.

However, it's only because of HN that I even bother to make the distinction between that particular fear (realistic or otherwise) and the much more directly useful discussion of how AI-type stuff (even just facebook feed algorithms) can be dangerous or harmful.
> Rather, the suggestion is that there might be other, better places for STEM than Girl Scouts.

That's true—like in the schools! But, since girls aren't getting the support and the role models that they need there, it's good if they're at least getting them somewhere.
Web Publications for the Open Web Platform
This is a nice article. Only thing missing is calling out "secret questions" as asinine.

I loathe when sites require you to set them up as it requires manually generating a series of N-length random strings (ex: eZDWzazuMw0ZzD4nKhxXXVN3) and saving the pair (question plus random text) as metadata associated with the account. Not exactly pulling teeth but it's pretty annoying to manually do that for 3-5 entries.

Even worse offenders are the sites that don't even let you enter a value in a text box but instead require you to pick from a drop down with a handful, say 10-15, of entries (cough United Airlines cough).

And the very worst offenders are the ones that, after successfully authenticating with your password, ask you for the answers to the secret questions every single time you log in (cough again United Airlines cough).
Czech Republic.
This is a great article, but it doesn't acknowledge that there is sometimes a tradeoff between security and profit.

For example, imagine a typical user who tries to choose a password:

User: I want my password to be "monkey"

System: Sorry, that password is in the dictionary

User: OK, I want my password to be "monkey1"

System: Sorry, that password is on a list of exposed passwords

User: Grrr! OK, I want my password to be "monkeymonkey"

System: Sorry, that password is on a list of exposed passwords

User: Grrr! OK, I want my password to be "monkeyfuckyou!!!"

System: Sorry, that password is on a list of exposed passwords

User: Screw this, I'll just sign up with one of your competitors.
USB 3.2 Specification Will Double Speeds Using Existing USB Type-C Cables
It's really weird that people take pictures of something that they just have to google and they'll find hundreds.
Dirty Secret of SAS, SPSS and Alteryx
It is a long way; but, groping is not sexual harassment, groping is sexual assault.
One thing that bothers me about this article, and the way everyone does passwords is this assumption that the output of a cryptographic had function is alphanumeric. It's not, is binary. Store the actual data in your database, not the base16 representation! This applies to anything, not just passport hashes—don't transmit around data as base64 unless you're actually using a medium that requires it (e.g. email)
For the terrorism example you could have a nifty bot that keeps track of worldwide terror stats and local terror stats and report something like: odds of dying in terror attack rise from .00005% to .00006% (obv made up number) after {city} attacks. Would have to figure out how to do this while still respecting those who were affected though.

Or for clickbait science headlines immediately report the statistical significance of the cited paper/credibility of journal based on the number of citations that journal recieves from other scientists.

Some types of articles would be tougher than others for sure but that doesn't mean we couldn't grab at the low hanging fruit.
I did know that mpv/vlc supports playing youtube but I didn't connect the dots, until now. Thanks for suggestion! This could be big because I also struggle a bit with Youtube's poor playlist management tools. Now I can use plain text files.
> a) Mask end-user addresses somehow. You wouldn't want everyone on your corporate network to get a globally unique, trackable ID.

Everyone on your corporate network has tons of globally unique, trackable IDs. They're called cookies.

Also, there are IPv6 privacy extensions.

> b) Allow outgoing connections in arbitrary ways but forbid random incoming connections.

Just as with IPv4?

> c) Some sort of central, highly secured network node where your admins can configure this stuff.

That's called a firewall. You need one with IPv4 as well.

> At this point you're close to reinventing NAT, except crappier.

None of that has anything to do with NAT.
The divide-and-conquer strategy applied to writing blog posts
> It cuts both ways

Yes, so the onus is on the person suggesting changes to the current balance is proving that another balance would be better.
AVG also started doing this recently. I get a lot calls from family members and friends who aren't tech-savvy and can't differentiate between browsers. They think their "bookmarks" disappeared but the true reason is Chrome was bundled with something (e.g. AVG) and replaced Firefox as default browser.
I called AVG on twitter but their answer was just typical PR BS: "We're sorry for your inconvenience. Please remember that you can opt-out from this". Yeah, they have clean hands because they put very small checkbox in very small font in installer.
Did you read the book?
Interesting service. What is the use case? What is your motivation to build it?
I don't understand the point of your comment. The parent was simply explaining why they don't need extreme scalability with their scenario. No one is under the impression that multiplying their traffic by 75000 (so you work at Google then?) will not require a big server upgrade.
> We learned that we were doing rendering very inefficiently, using "static" when we should have done stream.

Can you expand on this? Did you use 'static' for VBOs that were only used for one or two frames?
For playback, 16 bits / 44.1KHz is fine. No humans have ears that can reliably distinguish more than that.

For editing and production, more bits per sample and more samples per second make it possible to mix sources without reducing quality of the final output.

There is no advantage to that final output being 24/192, or
20/88.

There is no ear strain that comes from higher sample rates, though.
You lost me at equating bringing an insurance claim with bringing sexual assault charges. I don't believe that axiom holds.
> the "side" of politics most concerned with avoiding regressive taxes is also the side most concerned with carbon levels, so we don't tend to have that discussion play out

That's a really interesting point. I'm not sure what the solution is? A scrappage scheme open to everyone (regardless of income) may not be financially viable, so then do you apply means testing or something? Hmm.
> Carrier grade NAT breaks a lot of things in subtle ways.

All types of IP Masquerading[1] break the network in both subtle and overt ways. Without proper addresses, we've been s stuck for a couple decades having to work around "party lines" instead of developing real network software. Now that ISPs are starting to do this, some of the workarounds are no longer possible and the damage done to the network is becoming more obvious.

I hope we can successfully transition to IPv6 in the very near future, or the internet will finish transitioning from a powerful peer-to-peer network back into cable tv where we no longer have the ability to publish without an imprimatur[2].

[1] n:1 NAT using RFC 1918 private addresses

[2] https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/digital-imprimatur/
Spiritual Entrepreneurs: Step into a Higher Vibration Before Social Media
>Real brains don't get to save huge dataset and iterate over them later. They need to learn in real time and without forgetting previously learned knowledge. Given just a stream of unlabeled data.

It's more than just that. Real brains need to optimize their internal data for action. The ultimate test of whether you've represented the world correctly is: but can you do stuff? Can you control an inverted pendulum (to pick a task) while constrained to have your representation updates be Lipschitz functions, with a Lipschitz constant based on your actuators' state (ie: speed, angle, force, etc)?

Note the trick here! Your representation doesn't have to be reconstructive itself (allowing for you to conditionally simulate only Lipschitz transformations), but the updates you perform on that transformation from sensory reafferant signals do need to change only at a bounded rate, because the physics of the thing you're moving actually have that property.
But why use them when you don't have to? There's benefits to operating a network that handles as little state as necessary.

Running internal services on address space that's not routable on the public internet has its advantages. You can do this with IPv6, but not as easily as you can with IPv4.
Your variable naming triggers me good sir.
yeah, Euskaltel(northern spain cable isp) had(and maybe still has) a huge amount of ips.

Years ago they used to put a modem instead of a router in every home, the modem had three ports with each of them being assigned a public ip address.
Speaking as another former rust-belter: none of this is untrue, but you're speaking as though this anti-authoritarian and anti-education attitude materialized from the ether, and it didn't. For decades the coastal cities have projected at every single turn in nearly every form of media (other than radio really, which is why it has such a strong presence in the rural areas) about how much better the coasts are, how much better the people are, and taken every single opportunity to thumb their nose at the social and community values that rural areas treasure.

Combine that with the last 9 years or so, including the economic collapse and ensuing recovery that left any population center under several million basically to freeze and die, and the attitude of rural America is pretty easy to explain. You never gave a shit about what we had to say; why should we give a shit what you have to say now?

That's not to say of course that I agree with this attitude. I'm just saying it gets really old to watch all my liberal friends scratching their heads like "Why don't they like us?" after you spent the last several decades pissing them off at every turn, like a college kid who just got their own apartment and doesn't have to live by Mom and Dad's rules anymore.

And just like that sort of arrangement: the cities need the rural areas a hell of a lot more than the rural areas need the cities. So you know, keep that in mind.
Exactly. Hence why any ban would likely be 20-30 years afterwards, and largely about virtue signalling.
I too have had a huge happiness increase since having children. I have two, they are the best things in my life. Overall though, I don't think the op problem is just about kids, it may be just down to isolation and loneliness. We need a village, family and social support to feel good. I'm happiest not only when I'm with my wife and children, but also have grand parents and other relatives and close friends gather.
> Why do people not see
> men as victims?

Why do you think they don't?
Do you believe that the harm of being raped is about equal to the harm of a false conviction for rape?

I'd actually tend to "yes", but it's probably impossible to answer. People react very different, and the prevalence of suicide is actually higher among rape victims than for people sentenced to long prison sentences.

But the real problem is: The penalty in your comparison would be for rape, whereas the accusation was just a failed attempt. Yes, that is usually harmful as well, but it's no longer comparable.
> NAT being a security feature is a myth

It isn't. The arguments that it is a 'myth' boil down to arguments that it isn't perfect and doesn't protect against every attack. Well, guess what: no security measure is perfect and no security measure protects against every attack.

At the very least, a secure IPv6 network will need to hide end user addresses somehow, because giving everyone a unique, globally-addressable and trackable ID is a security showstopper.

At this point you're going to wonder if you considered all the contradicting requirements properly in your enthusiasm to roll out the next great shiny technology.