skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a lot to disagree with in your statement.

First, you use "murder" incorrectly. Abortion, in the US, is legal, and therefore not murder. Murder is defined as an illegal killing. That is why when someone is given the death penalty, they are said to be killed, not murdered. We say soldiers kill the enemy, not murder the enemy. By using "murder" you are adopting the conflation that anti-abortion activists have been (apparently) successful in promoting.

Second, nobody doubts that a zygote is alive. Nearly every cell in your body is alive (barring hair, nails, upper layers of skin, recently recycled cells), including sperm and eggs. When an egg and a sperm fuse, the result is also alive. The question is whether the rights of the zygote->blastula->fetus->baby trump the rights of the woman who is carrying it.

Obviously, by the time it becomes a baby, the baby's rights trump the desires of the woman carrying it, in general -- everybody agrees on that. Some people conceive (pun not intended) of the fertilized egg as being fully human, something God ordained and which is the vessel for a soul which has been waiting for that very zygote, and by aborting it, one is subverting God's will and destroying the intended future destiny of that soul.

Others don't share that belief. There is certainly no bright line dividing when that fetus is developed enough that its rights are superior to that of its mother, and deciding where to place that light should not be taken lightly and will cause discomfort. But we deal with such things all the time. It is legal to drive 45 MPH on the street near my house, but not 46. Yes it is somewhat arbitrary but not unreasonable either. That we have to make an uneasy boundary somewhere on the continuum isn't reason to declare that the speed limit should be zero, or that there should be no speed limit at all.

It should also be noted that at the time Roe v Wade was decided, Protestants and even evangelical Protestants by and large were not bothered by the decision. Catholics were, of course. It wasn't until the rise of the Moral Majority that the issue became objectionable to so many religious groups.
Of the people I follow? It's a pretty rare for me to see multiple tweets in a row.

The quoting of one tweet in a thread is more common, but that's fine by me. Indeed, I follow a number of people specifically because they're good at that; it helps me increase breadth.
People often claim this, but I've never really found it to be the case. Faster processors and more memory let me run the same software much faster, or better software the same speed as the old, in general. So, perhaps you are seeing the second factor happening more, but don't want or need the improvements?
Do they plan to change their Chief Security Officer who is a MA in Music Composition?
And I suppose you wouldn't claim to know the truth about chemtrails and Bigfoot either? The Washington PD has already ruled it a botched robbery.
When they describe performance improvements of HHVM over the existing PHP interpreter, are they comparing HHVM to PHP 5.6 or PHP 7? There were some incredible performance improvements going from 5.6 to 7, and most of the HHVM hype that I see doesn't acknowledge this.

https://wiki.php.net/phpng
Actually looking at the CVE made my stomach drop. That is a horrible horrible bug. Getting access to the shell while under the web app user's environment potentially means that all secrets were available either in the app server administration, the user environment, or in a readable file on the system. Effing yikes.

Also knowing how JNDI usually gets configured on app servers (sometimes with credentials and all) would have made recon ridiculously easy.

I think some have alluded to it, but what some people in the comments don't seem to understand is that RCE is an "all bets are off" type of situation. DEFCON 1 to be sure. Prevention is really the only good answer.
They way TPB seems to currently work is that there are thousands of clone sites operated by individuals, who find whatever way to earn money while hosting on something like Cloudflare.

They are connect to some sort of centralised server or perhaps just scrap the DHT themselves. For such operators, having alternative source of income is quite awesome. The problem is that they do not interact long with website, someone like Facebook would be much more useful.
As someone who's dabbled in PHP for various ancient frameworks such as Mediawiki and Wordpress, I'm unsure why people knock on 'php' itself. The frameworks I just referenced may not be that great, and may require a lot of work to make it acceptable. But outside of that, there's a huge amount of development theory in the frameworks used to actually build your own websites, such as Symfony. I mean, take a look at the quick guide http://symfony.com/doc/current/quick_tour/the_big_picture.ht...

Or any other pieces of documentation. Its very well made, and demonstrates proper creation of websites using seperation of logics and configurations. And, you don't have to use symfony, there's tons of others that impliment the same kind of theories, which is why i think PHP has stuck around for so long and is improving like every other language. It has the ability to be formed into these seperations and logics. Much like how C# is able to give you a much better separation of data and objects than say C++. Perhaps thats something that could be done in any per-request response language like PHP, but it has withstood its test of time when properly done.
Yeah, my scaling limit is words read, so more characters is generally worse for me. I do think it would be better if Twitter allowed people to write longer posts that would show up as an attachment to a tweet, sort of like images and videos. But they can do that easily enough now with a Medium account or some other blogging tool, so it's not a huge need for me.
"Early models were cut apart and their blueprints destroyed along with the machines used to make the aircraft."

That's just perverse: why would you destroy the blueprints? Couldn't they just file them away in an archive or library somewhere? The cost to store them would be minimal.
This is correct. It's important to remember that everyone is just very, very bad at opsec. The ones who aren't usually don't comment.

It's very hard and you spend most nights worrying the police will kick your door in. Not too worthwhile.

Those who are serious should learn from the Whonix wiki. It's hard to find a more stellar source of unbiased and comprehensive information. They have pros and cons of both VPN to Tor and Tor to VPN, but that's like 2% of the overall concerns you have to worry about.
Nobody's saying music majors are incompetent. But this woman's sole qualification is that. She is not a "kernel dev hacker" AFAICT. Do you know if she is in any way qualified to be CSO of a huge corp handling so much sensitive customer data?
I would say TVs have. Color, size, brightness, efficiency and resolution are all orders of magnitude higher.
Singing "Just A Closer Walk With Thee" in Cool Hand Luke (1967):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckulh3cSPuU
I targeted "funny", but "intelligent" sounds good too.
Closure of Chinese Bitcoin Exchanges
With literally nothing to show for it except litigation with Uber.
AFAIK, many countries define child porn completely separately from consensual sex, to the point where it's illegal for a minor to have nude pictures of themselves, let alone someone they legally have sex with.
What if scroll bars on the iPhone X worked like the game “Snake”?
I think he's lamenting that the new hardware tends to come with (or mandate) the newer software, which is generally slower, but trades this slowness for nothing of value. That is, there is no legitimate reason that the same tasks should take longer on faster hardware; but (usually) the exact same software will tend to run faster.

I don't have this problem on my workstations (generally) except when I browse the web, though recently I've had to make the practical tradeoff of owning a smartphone, where this problem is rampant.

Worse than things not getting faster, the same product tends to get slower because the software designed for the new hardware is the only maintained branch, and the versions for older hardware are just backports from future hardware.
To treat back pain, look to the brain not the spine
They link to the actual article:
http://www.pennlive.com/watchdog/2017/09/defying_the_odds_pa...

It covers some of the explanations for why some people claim so many prizes:

> Based on legal proceedings, lottery investigations and confessions from some frequent winners, the following techniques - or a combination of them - have generally explained how some players have defied the odds:

> 1. "Theft": As in Ontario, investigators have repeatedly caught store clerks or owners stealing winning lottery tickets from prize claimants and claiming them for themselves. To allay suspicion, some have used friends or family members to cash stolen tickets on their behalf.

> 2. Cheating: It's difficult to cheat the lottery, but some players have been caught "micro-scratching," a practice where a person, typically a store clerk or owner, scratches a tiny portion of an unsold scratch ticket to see if it's a winner and then claims it.

> 3. "Ticket cashing" or "discounting": A practice where a person cashes in a winning ticket on someone else's behalf. Often the seller is trying to avoid having debts, like overdue child support payments, from being deducted from their winnings. Typically the winner sells their ticket to the buyer at less than its value - a "discount" - which allows the buyer to make a small profit. In some states, like Virginia, this practice is illegal. In other states, like Pennsylvania, it isn't.

> 4. Money laundering: Some states have caught criminals buying winning lottery tickets from players and then cashing them for themselves. By doing so, they effectively turn "dirty money," like drug profits, into "clean money." In a well-known case, the "Black Mafia Family" purchased more than $1 million in winning Michigan lottery tickets between 1990 and 2005.
No on both fronts.

Youtube does transcode to H.264 (which is the format which requires licensing, x264 is an open source encoder that outputs H.264 encoded video). There are a variety of chrome extensions and similar which will allow you to select H.264 on the majority of Youtube videos if you so choose, much of youtube's content is available in h264 as well as other formats.

Second, the reason that they default to VP9 is because it is a better low-bandwidth experience. It's certainly a tradeoff against power usage with H.264 since hardware acceleration for H.264 decoding is often available, but it is a calculated tradeoff based on the fact that people want their videos to load faster and in higher quality. You can read a little bit more about that here. https://youtube-eng.googleblog.com/2015/04/vp9-faster-better...
Performance and reliability definitely affect subscription rates. Revenue growth is actually more important than decreasing costs (as long as your costs don't start increasing disproportionately).
They aren't doing us a favor that we have to reciprocate by reporting a breach.. its more of a responsibility. If its not required by law already, it should be.
It's not as much about Bitcoin as it's about capitalism. If you can make profit on using electricity, you will use it. If you can make a profit on building coal power plants, you will build them. Bitcoin is just yet another thing in the pile of products where externalized costs are not included in the price.

The greater problem is how we will solve global capitalism in relation to environmental destruction. Nation states that do not have any moral considerations have a competitive edge over those that do.
I think this is related in part due to a focus on throughput metrics rather than latency metrics. Throughput is easy to measure and easy to market, latency is unfortunately less intuitive, so less important for selling consumer goods.
They're better, but only in a linear way, not exponentially.
Url changed to that from http://inhabitat.com/worlds-first-electric-dump-truck-stores.... Thanks!
I built a global video CDN using SoftLayer a couple years ago and ended up paying around $0.01/GB.
You're right, looking again at it, that paragraph is poorly worded. I should have said something more like "the source code was on GitHub" instead of "it was open source".
>Yeah, but where did God come from?

Where is a question that can only be asked if there is a coordinate system.

What do I mean by this?

Okay, so you know the room God is sitting in? That room is also God. It's just a part of him that he turned into a room. Okay, but what about the thing outside of God? The thing outside of God is just God himself too. Because there is nothing outside of God. God already includes that everything outside and inside. Because there really is no outside and inside. To have an outside or inside, God have to split himself into two part, an outside part, and an inside part. At that point, the outside part and the inside part are still just parts of God. Also, a coordinate system doesn't even exist until God split himself into some kind of plane, and then separate that plane from the other unlimited part of himself. This is why they say God is truly unlimited, in every way.

But what about the guy that created God? Technically doesn't exist. However, God can split himself into some guy and pretend to create himself, if that's what he wants. Doesn't matter. In the end, it's all still just God himself. Just another part of God that he himself split into. All him. There is nothing else. Just God.

The universe? Just a part of God that he himself splits into, then afterward, he lay down some rules and laws for that part of himself to obey. He call these rules the Laws of Physics. Earth? Formed from the universe through the Laws of Physics that God set. Human? Evolved from evolution, which are rules naturally occurring in a natural environment in a universe bounds by the rules God had set.

Note that it is also meaningless to ask when God was created or when God first appeared, since time is an artificial restriction God created to bound our universe and to force our universe to play by. God is not bound by this rule. Which is why they say God is eternal. Because time is only an artificial restriction that God set upon our universe.
It's not a good faith gesture, it's required by law almost everywhere they operate that they notify of a security breach of PII.

http://www.ncsl.org/research/telecommunications-and-informat...
That's why i said there should be a way to cash out immediately.

Of course if you were actually to do something like this, it will require a lot of thought, and I personally won't touch anything like this because I don't believe in junk currencies and would rather spend my time working on something meaningful.

But I think the idea itself is interesting and worth thinking about instead of just discounting it as "not efficient".
I don't think Pirate Bay cares about operating above the law.
Yeah, but doing 4 taps to change playlists or go from podcast to audiobook is a loooot easier than 4 taps + 6 tap pin + failing to touchid so you get the pin input.
Yes. This is what I was using to build. It's a very odd move indeed.
Offtopic: The second of the three pictures at the bottom of the post, the one with the big yellow circle monitor looking thing, is a radar monitoring station. It was meant for long shifts, requiring dedicated attention from a soldier. In support of that purpose, it has a built in cigarette lighter and ash tray.

The picture is from the Computer History Museum. Well worth a visit.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SAGE_Weapons_Directo...
Interesting, i honestly had no idea. Do you have a source for this? Would love to learn more about how these people operate in a distributed manner
Exactly. I'd say the check of how fast can a security patch be deployed from the moment upstream OS or library releases is a good benchmark for a team/system and should be evaluated at the same level as log audits, what ports are open and what openssl versions are running.

Deploying patches is easy, validating that they aren't going to break anything (sometimes in hard to detect ways) is hard.
Something tells me TPB won't be deterred by fines.
There will come a time where science will have advanced so far that scientists will be able perform miracles that are indistinguishable from the power of God?

Where Science finally converges with Spirituality because Spirituality is just really really advance science?
I'm on the move do don't have any sources for you, but from what I understand php 7.x benchmarks pretty close to HHVM. I wouldn't be surprised if 7.2/3 surpasses it.
Well, they did basically rule out #1 for the top guy, where they say even spending $300 million on tickets would still only give him a 1 in 10 million change of winning so much.
This is unduly personal and therefore beneath the standard this community ought to keep. Not cool.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
They publish their source code for free and invite you to help if you so choose. What is not "real OSS" here ? "We want"? You are delusional
This is a great piece.

I'll quibble with this bit though:

> ...toxicity festers in open source because it’s all too common for forks to ground their motivation in emnity towards other projects.

This is wishful thinking, for the most part. Communities don't break off because things are going well. The American Revolution wouldn't have forked if King George had been sympathetic to their needs.
So you outsource your parenting to the police and the courts?

I absolutely agree that you have a right to control the influences in your kids' lives (to some extent, at least). But why do you need to involve the law in this way?

Say your daughter receives a lewd photo from an underage male. Now she's in possession of child porn (whether she wanted the photo or not) and could end up on a sex offender registry for life. How is that sane?

And the guy who sent her the picture is "trafficking in child pornography"? C'mon. That's ridiculous.

Many of these crimes are on the book with "strict liability"; that is, the mere fact of existence or possession triggers culpability, and intent doesn't enter into the equation.

I think the better model is in places where the age of consent is at some reasonable age below the age of majority (no, I don't have a good definition for "reasonable", but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try), as it is in many places. There are no legal ramifications of sexual behavior down to that age, but parents are, as always, free to set limits and impose consequences if they aren't obeyed.
>Like using cheat codes in The Sims.

Like that time when Moses hacked the Matrix to open the sea?
the real question is why one vuln in their web framework allowed unfettered access to basically all of their data

The hack involved "primarily names, Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses and, in some instances, driver's license numbers", that's a very limited subset of the data they hold on people.

I'm not defending them, but this was not "basically all of their data".
> I mean, what did they seriously think was going to happen? Would companies seriously start paying a fee for what they had gotten for free previously, when it would cost lest just to add a package building step into existing build systems?

It's a signal that says, "Hey, we actually do need money to keep this going", for those who would've never seen or given a second thought about donation links. I imagine what they were thinking was that people who hold the project in a warm spot in their hearts would pick up on this signal and then sign up for a "plan". (And I imagine that since this is Go, a big chunk of those users are already doing their own builds anyway and yet it's entirely plausible that even some of these people would sign up for a plan just for the warm fuzzies.)

Having a publicized announcement and a plan to get rid of the headers is a gesture more than anything else, and only half a step removed from comments like the text that Marijn Haverbeke has on the ProseMirror homepage[1]:

> If you are using ProseMirror to make profit, there is a social expectation that you help fund its maintenance.

1. http://prosemirror.net/
> Across the tech industry, sexual harassment appears to be ingrained. While the research is largely anecdotal and fragmentary, Chloe Hart, a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at Stanford University, said the subject came up often in 27 in-depth interviews she had with female engineers about their social interactions at work.

This article is spinning a narrative that sexual harassment and discrimination in Silicon Valley are so widespread and endemic that we need a fresh start. All based on one sociology grad student's unpublished research. I'm not sure I share this view. Are Google, Facebook, Netflix so far beyond repair that we need a fresh start? From what I know of these companies, I would think that they actually treat women better than most other American companies, including the New York Times.
Whow. A friend of mine just released his very last picture "Lucky" which is currently making the festival rounds. Sundance, Locarno, Viennale, ... Should be in the theatres soon.
I think it's more that the person thinks they don't like a product which they have never actually used.
Symfony is indeed a very well crafted framework. For those who are interested to have a bit of an introduction to what modern PHP web development looks like today, it might be worth having a look through this tutorial that basically walks you through building your own web framework based on Symfony components:

http://symfony.com/doc/current/create_framework/index.html
A Conversation with Linux and Git Creator Linus Torvalds [video]
And yet, as if by magic, you will no longer hear about security incidents if you kill companies.
If I'm reading http://jcmit.net/memoryprice.htm right, core memory in 1960 cost about $0.60/bit (with ~10 microsecond cycle time). It does list an only slightly faster transistor memory for 1957, maybe for use in the CPU?

I'm guessing these are historical prices, not inflation-adjusted.
Years ago I had a friend who's father made a living smuggling cigarettes (and probably other stuff) from Northern Africa to Gibraltar. He laundered his income by buying winning lottery tickets.
What's the largest cloud provider that does NOT offer a Netflix-like streaming video service? Amazon/AWS, Microsoft/Azure, and Google Cloud all have offer premium streaming content of some type. IBM Cloud?
So basically you like to live in the suburbs for antisocial reasons, and you your argument against the research showing suburbs are an ecological disaster boils down to "nuh-uh".
Use uMatrix from gorhill:
https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix

to block all third party connections unless required. It will stop the coin-hive mining script.
> LOL. Now the police have the right to physically search random people?

See: stop-and-frisk.
May we one day succeed enough to be considered by many a failure.
> transmitting a photo of your genitals to someone uninvited is pretty awful, and should be illegal for a completely different reason.

We should really cover this sort of thing under the existing indecent exposure laws.
Having a billion transistors is not 10 times as useful as 100 million transistors. The diminishing return kicked in even before that. Unless a killer application needs a billion transistors, the value created over a previous iPhone is incremental.

I think a better way to measure value is

invention's cost effectiveness = price / (time * improvement to well-being)

The denominator is how much the invention makes our life better as measured by (the amount of time * the extent it helps).

By this measure, smartphones are not bad but probably lose out to the Internet, washing machines, and air conditioners/heaters in hot/cold climate. Google is a pretty big improvement over older search engines and is worth quite a lot although the price we pay as privacy is not obvious.