skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally, I like how the criticisms have shifted from outrage over statements Damore never made (and contexts in which he never posted) to sharp criticisms of his "unprofessional delivery" as though a post on a discussion board needed to be better than most published academic content. I can't frankly imagine a more conciliatory delivery. Of course, we mustn't blame the folks who are cultivating faux outrage; this is clearly James' fault... /s
It is not they can't be on the internet, it is we are not going to help them spread their message.
e mail; these technologies such as WhatsApp are derogatorily referred to as e mail-killers.
"Cloudflare: Why We Terminated Daily Stormer" (Discussion):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15031922
In fairness your particular example isn't necessarily a good one. Snapchat is a trivial idea and it's frankly amazing it got as far as it did.
it's great adblock and privacy trackers are used
The claims of transparency would be a bit more meaningful if they simply published their source code. It is hard to imagine anything too precious to disclose in the code.

Instead what we have is a pdf (4 pages long) with the title "TunnelBear Security Assessment Summary 07.2017" and an equally long web page claiming how awesome and transparent this is.
AFIACS, chattr(1) can be compiled on BSDs too; and then it uses the chflags(2) syscall.
If you had something that would disrupt it would :)
I think he's overstating the case. There are plenty of ways for that content to get on the internet that don't involve CloudFlare.
You're doing well as long as you're a childfree renter. But no amount of abstinence at the Apple store will put you anywhere near affording homeownership, a bedroom for a child, access to decent schools, etc.

You'd need to put down $50k to mortgage a 3-bedroom house in a good school district normal housing market, or $250k to mortgage a 2-bedroom condo in a distressed urban neighborhood. That $200k gulf is 10 years of maxed-out 401k plus a new top-of-the-line Mac every year. Hardly anyone has that much to cut. But if they did, after 10 years, the gulf in necessary down-payment would be much wider than $200k and they'd still come up short.

That's why people are comfortable entering these situations as new grads (you can have a comfortable life as a young single renter in a small or shared space), but feel a need to leave them eventually (starting a family is basically off the table as long as you live there, and you're always at risk of being priced out if your rent rises faster than your salary).
protip -- bing.com
Cloudflare's major business is hosting paid DDoS providers "booters" [1] . Scary to delegate such powers to a person who "literally, I woke up in a bad mood and decided someone shouldn’t be allowed on the Internet"

1. https://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2016-July/087295.h...
A known (and now fixed) kernel issue affects the scheduler and cgroups subsystem, triggering crashs under kubernetes load (fixed by 754bd598be9bbc9 and 094f469172e00d).
The fix was merged in Linux 4.7 (and backported to -stable, in 4.4.70).
So if you run an older kernel, maybe you are hit by this?
To me it seems like decentralization is actually very popular on HN.
> If I want to invite you to a party like that, are we not friends

Acquaintances or good acquaintances.

I think this boils down to each person's definition of friends and friendship along with the amount of social interaction each person needs.

I need very little social interaction, so I tend to keep close friends and not much else. I know others who always like to be around someone. They don't care much who it is, and they generally have looser terms for friendship.

Also, face-to-face isn't required. Hop on discord or skype, or just send them a text message. If they are a close friend and you enjoy their company, you should try to keep the lines of communication open.
It is very important to distinguish something like Facebook blocking an account / Medium taking down a blog from a domain registrar refusing to cooperate.

You are free to create a room where only some ideologies are allowed, but it's dangerous to play the same game with the ability to create the rooms.

First the domain registrars, then networks say that they don't want to peer, and then we end up with a fragmented internet, cutting off all communication.

It is not wise to pretend that an opinion that you do not want just simply does not exist. The extremist in the room who everybody pretends is not there, is eventually going to do more radical things to be noticed. In the echo chamber of extremism, there is now no moderating thought; and the world loses empathy to understand these unpopular perspectives that still exist.

"Sunlight is the best disinfectant"

"Isolation only promotes extremism"
Also discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15029852
I just used Cloak while in Poland a few weeks ago with HBO Go (don't think i watched in any netflix).
Privacy issues aside, I don't get AMP, most of the time it doesn't even work right and I'm using chrome on my android tablet.

It either doesn't load or goes back to the previous page after a few seconds.
I've maxed out my 64GB a few times and have seriously weighed upgrading to 128GB. Running all the development environment on my localhost (where I'm the actual sysadmin) is really handy if your sysadmins are too busy to help you with their business side of things.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15031922
Wow. Super wow. Who cares and what idiocy made this trend on HN?!
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Booting them off cloudflare caused downtime at best.
Nerds have a wide breadth of interests. You must be new here.

I personally find the possible idea of thousands of camels walking around the southern US and it's implications on warfare interesting. But I may be the minority here. That's what up/downvoting is for...
Yes Travis continues to meddle with Uber and be involved he may just well burn it to the ground out of pure ignorance and hubris. Only hold the ashes he built then burnt!

Their behavior is so GROSS it's almost illegal.

As for concerning that's funny ... Uber stole my money and laughed, then caused other ppl I know financial harm and then all this stuff comes out in the press about them. I loathe Uber that is all ... no more no less.

Why do you care so much ... what skin in the Uber game do you have?
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Use Telegram groups.

https://telegram.org/faq#q-what-makes-telegram-groups-cool
Why did you move out from fastmail? They are very clear about their privacy policy.

(Also who runs privacytools.io? Is he/she reputable?)
saying that tautologies are tautologies is tautological.
I remember this was also the conclusion of the documentary "Hjernevask". I linked to it yesterday at:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15014895

Men and women living in richer and mostly western countries have the luxury to choose the jobs they are attracted to even if that attraction is to some extent based on biological factors and not societal or economic factors.
Email is a system which you can assume virtually 100% of users have and doesn't force users to participate in a social network that has been shown to be harmful for a lot of users.

Further email doesn't force you to participate in any particular service at all because it is a federated service.

Assuming that someone should get a facebook to talk to you is like assuming someone should switch to sprint to call you.

Imagine how moronic the world would be if all the different phone networks were disconnected from one another.
Any favorted training for learning Kubernetes?

I found this one so far:
https://classroom.udacity.com/courses/ud615

But any extra courses/trainings is always appreciated
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You're confusing free speech with the first amendment. Free speech is a cultural value says that controversial speech shouldn't be censored, rather it should be debated, condemned, or ignored.

The first amendment guarantees the government will uphold this value. You are perfectly correct that private companies can throw the value of free speech in the dumpster if the CEO wakes up in a bad mood.
> I'm struggling mightily to get my path planner project to work properly

Having not completed an AI course, I tread lightly.. However, I would guess that this project involves re-implementing an established solution. -- It is work like this that drives me away from such courses; as I can't imagine how creative practices are promoted, instead "correct" techniques are repeatedly hammered in.

> I don't know if any of this will lead anywhere for me career-wise. I'm happy with my current employer, so I expect to stick around here for a while.

Professionals learning to program late in their career typically have a misconception that they're only eligible for entry-level positions in the field of software engineering. Many fail to realize that the 10+ years of experience in their own field can be coupled with their newfound-skill, giving them a background unlike that of many existing professional developers.
Wow, another way to fail. Most CTO's are most mindless MBA's that couldn't execute on a plan or strategy, if they had a playbook.
Yes and every OS these days likes to squire away perms in random utils which you have to google for, I don’t see why the normal interface can’t just be updated if needed. Really annoying.
Seems like this is debateable at least - considering the ACLU is filing a lawsuit against DC's transit situation for not placing Milo's ads they agreed to post - http://nypost.com/2017/08/10/milo-yiannopoulos-gains-aclu-su...

What counts as "spreading"? Do cell phone companies kick off customers with views they disagree with? Where is the line?
Just because they're not currently very good at what they do doesn't preclude them from being one, especially when many of these groups self identify as neo-Nazis. It's the same intent with the same goal. The Nazi's in Germany in the early 1930's were pretty much a bunch of screw-ups when they started. Many Germans at the time regarded them as fringe "lunatics", but we all know how that turned out.
What's the benefit of Gurobi or CPLEX over a CSP-Solver (mini-sat)?

With ASP (answer-set-programming) you can also avoid the specificity of modeling-language DSLs and instead focus on formalization.
I get the whole "companies can choose not to host whatever they want" argument, but in order to do anything on the internet, you have to interact with companies.

If I want to run my own website, I need an IP address at the minimum, and ISPs are free to cut off my internet service if they don't like what I'm hosting. In a public setting, if people don't like what I'm saying, they can't force me to be quiet (generally). But when hosting a website, there is the ability for companies to silence you.

For example, if Google doesn't like a website, it can derank it. People who agree with the site might cry censorship, while the others just say that a company can block what it wants. Replace Google with an ISP, and all of a sudden, it seems everyone says the ISP shouldn't be able to do that.

If the web is supposed to be the future of communication, but can prevent you from voicing your opinions just because they're a "deplorable" or you don't agree with them, how is that argument valid? Can someone explain that to me?

Tangent(?): Also, by not hosting Daily Stormer, you simply push them further down. One of the big reasons Trump won was because people felt like they weren't allowed to voice their opinions easily. There were people, basically closeted Trump supporters, who said they didn't like Trump, but secretly did. Pushing people down because they're "deplorables" simply reinforces their opinions.
Apparently he doesn't have that power, since they're still on the internet.
Not sure why you are quoting earlier content instead of Cloudflare's statement on this particular matter.

From today:

>Our terms of service reserve the right for us to terminate users of our network at our sole discretion. The tipping point for us making this decision was that the team behind Daily Stormer made the claim that we were secretly supporters of their ideology.

Seems no one woke up in a bad mood here.
HJKL, or how to feel less tired after a day of coding
> Acquaintances or good acquaintances.

So I'm throwing a party with just acquaintances and no friends are coming? That feels weird.

> I need very little social interaction

Me too. Which is why I tend to keep to myself, and throw a huge rager for as many people as I can get to show up a couple times per year.

Maybe I don't really have any close friends anymore, the definition gets muddy when most everyone you used to consider a close friend is now a 12 hour flight away and you never really get to see them anymore.

But my point is that when I'm organizing a party, I want everyone. Acquaintances and close friends alike. It feels weird that just because I'm organizing a larger event, that should automatically make everyone I invite a not-friend. Usually I'd like a mix.
It could be argued that the mere presence of a Nazi flag as expression is incitement. Not ordinary speech. Naziism is nothing if not clear about violence to people about things that they cannot change about themselves. Skin color. Lineage. It's not like "if you don't do this we have no problem with you" (the Antifa fall into this category. Nazis fall into the former).
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The context of this conversation seems to have more to do with code and complexity than legal necessities but point taken. The parent was suggesting it was impossible to create the sort of simple, personal, just for fun sites that people used to, but there's no technical reason for that to be the case.

It just happens that people add unnecessary complexity to their projects nowadays because 1) they use frameworks and tools that facilitate it and 2) it looks better on their resumes.
Can you define "traditional approach" please? :) What do you mean specifically?
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Titles beget Titles at some places.

Most recent job boss asked what I wanted written in on my contract, I was tempted to have "<code-monkey>" but I had that on my business cards at the previous place so I just went for "Senior Software Engineer".

I'm the only software engineer so I am simultaneously the most senior and most junior software engineer ;).

Thing is if I go for a new job in the future I can legitimately put "Senior Software Engineer" on my CV (and Systems Administrator and Systems Architect (previous jobs)).

The reality is that if you work for a small tech company as the sole/part of small team developer you'll effectively do multiple roles (sometimes less than brilliantly) that would earn you most of the way towards those titles in large orgs.

I've worked with big companies where their 'senior' programmers where less capable than me (and I'm by no means fantastic, just experienced, diligent and patient), outsourced IT firms with "years of linux experience" where the solution to permissions issues was chmod 777 everything etc etc.

Some of it I wouldn't believe if I hadn't actually seen it (I'm actually preparing a tech talk on the subject since all the talks I go to locally are "Look at this fabulous tech/architecture" and never "Putting out the dumpster fire").

To paraphrase Louis CK "Think the most average developer you know, half of them are worse than that".

Also soft-skills, they matter, I know it's tempting to think that technology/software is a meritocracy and parts of it might be, hiring/promotions near universally aren't.
(Playing devil's advocate here)

But perhaps the web has reached a point where we have to consider it as a public service. And as such should be subject to free speech laws. There is precedent for this with the "equal time rule" for broadcast networks regulated by the FCC which guarantees air time to opposing political candidates during an election. I could easily see an argument to be made for forcing service providers to dedicate a portion of there resources to dissenting opinion on these grounds. Although obviously the line must be drawn at hate speech, I shudder to imagine a world where acceptable content for the web is determined by the whim of an executive who "woke up in a mood".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal-time_rule
In fact, free speech means that no private entity is compelled to help spread ideas they don't want to spread, outside of situations (mostly regulated monopolies) where a “private” entity acts as a quasi-public one.
I think the point is, if you make a site forgo any sort of DDOS protection it effectively does not exist, especially if DDOSers want to take your site offline. Some website running on a VPS on a small hosting company likely won't be able to have the resources to keep their site running... which in my opinion is fine. If people want to shout you down in public because they don't want others to hear what you have to say, well then find somewhere else to express your views.
The subject line of this submission was edited in the meantime.
If eastdakota said it, it's damning, regardless of the later PR scrubbing.
I think that calling every decision unilaterally the same no matter the variables involved is pretty rash. Lots of discussions on HN devolve into this way of thinking and I really can't stand it.

An entity that puts child porn on the Internet isn't protected by freedom of speech. Soliciting hate, violence and prejudice is obviously not identical but it's a lot different from just having a different opinion than someone else.

Shitty people should be treated shitty by companies. I don't really see a democratic way of banning folks like this from Cloudflare besides Cloudflare deciding to do so.
(I downvoted you for excessive repetition. You have posted 17 times in this thread, mostly antagonistically, without saying much new.

That's even less useful than the time I spent on Facebook this evening :-)
I'm glad to see CloudFlare do this, I think it's going to hard to defend themselves against attacks from the MPAA, RIAA, and other troll organizations now :/ I guess no good deed will go unpunished
Imho his example illustrates his well. Snapchat was fairly disruptive and lost a lot of value when facebook just ripped it off. If we allow giant companies to engage in anti-competitive practices it will hurt us in the long run as people won't even try to innovate. The snapchat story is pretty demotivating. Why bother when one of the largest 5-6 companies in your space will just shut you down or steal your ideas?
Everyone has an email. You are comparing opening a different app on your phone which requires you to move your finger an inch to a 1000 mile trek.

Anyone who can't move their finger an inch to click on a different ubiquitous app to contact you isn't your friend regardless of what you think.
He also said this:

>“I realized there was no way we were going to have that conversation with people calling us Nazis,” Prince said. “The Daily Stormer site was bragging on their bulletin boards about how Cloudflare was one of them and that is the opposite of everything we believe. That was the tipping point for me.”
For those worried about the electron memory usage, I'd recommend yEd from yworks.com. I've used it as a portable app at home and work and it's full featured and small.
From the linked post:

> The size and scale of the attacks that can now easily be launched online make it such that if you don't have a network like Cloudflare in front of your content, and you upset anyone, you will be knocked offline. In fact, in the case of the Daily Stormer, the initial requests we received to terminate their service came from hackers who literally said: "Get out of the way so we can DDoS this site off the Internet."

As far as I know, he's right. It's basically only Cloudflare, Google, and a handful of other megacorps that can keep your content online if someone's willing to pay a vigilante with a botnet to get rid of it.
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Not correct.

Just look at this example: http://i.imgur.com/84FvZmA.png Notice how the news carousel is completely unrelated, and the pages do not otherwise show up in the search.

Also notice the awesome bug in Google where "Nazi flag" returns "Flag of Germany".
Is that similar to a marketing manager? The US Bureau of Labor Statistics has detailed information of many types of jobs. https://www.bls.gov/ooh/management/advertising-promotions-an...
This response always strikes me as a huge cop-out. The phrase "free speech" can refer not just to the legal first amendment right but also to the more general societal principle. Nobody has claimed or will claim that Cloudflare's actions here violate the first amendment.

The "free speech" discussion is not about whether they can do this, but whether they should.
Still in the introduction you write:

Based on a recently published paper by Cai et al. [2]
that proposes that rowhammer-like attacks are possible on
SSDs but does not present an actual attack, we investigate
the feasibility of such attacks on SSDs from the system
point of view.

So it might be easy for a non-technical reader to jump to that conclusion.
>Cloudflare's major business is hosting paid DDoS providers "booters"

No it isn't, this is complete nonsense. There's not very many booters and besides a few exceptions they don't have paid CF plans.
That suit is filed against a government agency. Free speech protections in the US constitution are focused on preventing the government from stifling speech. These protections do not apply to private citizens or corporations.
Would you hang a sign with a writing of my choice out of your window?
You could offer to assist in making information about said events available on multiple platforms. You could help everyone and yourself simultaneously.
I'm struggling to connect these two phrases:

"No one should have that power"

"I woke up in a bad mood and decided someone shouldn't be allowed on the Internet"

Seems like a very tricky precedent to set that you can just not allow someone on the internet.

The natural question from this is: how long until this type of power is used against views you support?
Going to give this a try. Thanks for posting!
> But perhaps the web has reached a point where we have to consider it as a public setvice.

To the extent that some web-related service is essential to effective communication via the web and provided by a monopoly or oligopoly , whether global or within some clear boundaries, that seems to make sense. ISPs certainly fit that. Domain registrars don't. Web hosts don't. CDN’s probably don't.

Any of these could change with evolving market conditions.
I'm confused. Doesn't this show greater TCE remediation?

>Additionally, the researchers found that groundwater samples taken directly downstream from the test site showed much lower levels of the toxin, compared with higher levels up-gradient from the testing area.
I tried outside hobbies to get my attention to something else and still did not feel better. The problem is generally your work takes most of your time and if you are unsatisfied at your work then it is not possible to compensate it outside. I pledged myself to fix my problems and unless I am happy and content at work, I am not able to enjoy hobbies outside.
Don't try to market yourself as critical Internet infrastructure if you're going to throw your principals away because someone made you feel icky.

The Pirate Bay and DDOS gangs are okay, but this was the line? The worlds gone sideways.

Edit: I was proud of Cloudflare not turning them off after their domain was deregistered. Now, so disappointed. Freedom of speech is rarely the speech we agree with. Or even speech we find palatable.
It depends on the jurisdiction. You'd be right for USA, but in many other places click-through agreements (and shrinkwrap agreements for e.g. physically sold software) aren't worth the paper they're (not) written on, they're not considered binding.
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