skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sadly because of SNI browsers send the domain name in clear text, so I do not feel there is much to gain in going all encrypted. HTTPS/HTTP2 is broken by default in this regard and there is no way you can fix it other than using a VPN. At least with DNS you can do something about it your self.
Do you have a link to the story?
Thank you for bringing this up. Throughout college I have had this issue and one of my favorite things was when a professor would publish the audio recordings of lectures so that I could listen at 1.75x-2.5x and rewind in case I wanted to rethink something. I also really enjoyed that app where you have words changing at the same location at 600 wpm. I tried speed reading a normal book but I would always get way more tired than with this approach. I really wish they had multiple choices for learning instead of the same technique for past 10 000 years which is known not to work for everyone
Couldn’t they just tell Australien ISP to block their IPs?
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There are a lot of claims here. Can you please provide proof of:

1) Bitfinex being the producer of tether?
2) Bitfinex being cut off from the US financial system? (According to their knowledge base, USD withdrawal is an option: https://support.bitfinex.com/hc/en-us/articles/213919309-How...)
Oh yea, I was going to mention this; thanks for the reminder.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CA%BBOumuamua#Potential_space...

> The Initiative for Interstellar Studies (i4is) has studied potential options for sending a spacecraft to 1I/ʻOumuamua, perhaps using first a Jupiter flyby followed by a close solar flyby at 3 solar radii in order to take advantage of the Oberth effect. More advanced options of using solar, laser electric, and laser sail propulsion, based on Breakthrough Starshot technology, are also considered. The problem is to get to the asteroid in a reasonable amount of time (and so at a reasonable distance from Earth), and yet be able to gain useful scientific information. If the craft goes too fast, it would not be able to get into orbit or land on the asteroid and would simply fly by it, moving at many asteroid diameters per second. The authors conclude that, although challenging, an encounter mission would be feasible using near-term technology.

Of course once 0.05c Starshot becomes feasible, there's a whole solar system to explore!
Yes, everyone had what you are talking about - its called Cable television. The tiered internet is the interactive version of that.

You are missing the picture, let me try painting it for you, and for everyone has to face this question -

The internet is not netflix. Its not amazon, or facebook, or even google.

ALL of those are just webpages, or websites sitting on the internet.

And they are Just like my site - mysite.somewhere.com.

OR the sites that many of my country men could and will make, when they finally come online.

My spice selling family friend, could come online and make a site to sell spices for example.

And when they do - the instantly are accessible to every human being connected to the internet. (And quite a few robots too).

THAT'S the internet.

vs just new cable television.
I needed to install this addon[1]. Somehow I enabled the containers on Firefox 55 or 56 previously (possibly with about:config) and I didn't have this button. Thanks!

[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...

EDIT: Yes, it was privacy.userContext.enabled in about:config.
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> that would almost certainly become a public court document

Why?

> I can't see just banning vpns (due to work etc), I could see them charging for a VPN line. At that point they have accomplished nothing?

They've accomplished quite a lot: getting you to pay extra for a service that was previously included.

There are also technological solutions that detect video streaming within a VPN (by size and frequency of packet), so you might find that you still can't watch Netflix unless you pay the extra Netflix ransom to the ISP.
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I wonder why? Great wall?
An object that has 3 different dimensions suffers from Polhode motion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polhode

So maybe we can expect it to spin (and/or see it doesn't and speculate on the reasons for that)
They can still unavoidably see which host you're visiting, and will divide their traffic into "paid priority" and "everything else".
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The US election system not geared towards accommodating 3rd (or more) parties in Congress in any kind of numbers that would make a difference.

First-past-the-post voting basically ensures a two party result. Might not be the same two parties forever, but 2 parties nonetheless.

But really, for this issue it is fairly simple: Republicans are generally against net neutrality, Democrats are for it. There is no way in hell someone like Ajit Pai would have been confirmed as FCC Chairman if Democrats controlled Congress.
From The Terror of Deep Time[0] in Ecosophia:

Crackpot realism is one of the downsides of the division of labor. It emerges reliably whenever two conditions are in effect. The first condition is that the task of choosing goals for an activity is assigned to one group of people and the task of finding means to achieve those goals is left to a different group of people. The second condition is that the first group needs to be enough higher in social status than the second group that members of the first group need pay no attention to the concerns of the second group.

Consider, as an example, the plight of a team of engineers tasked with designing a flying car. People have been trying to do this for more than a century now, and the results are in: it’s a really dumb idea. It so happens that a great many of the engineering features that make a good car make a bad aircraft, and vice versa; for instance, an auto engine needs to be optimized for torque rather than speed, while an aircraft engine needs to be optimized for speed rather than torque. Thus every flying car ever built—and there have been plenty of them—performed just as poorly as a car as it did as a plane, and cost so much that for the same price you could buy a good car, a good airplane, and enough fuel to keep both of them running for a good long time.

Engineers know this. Still, if you’re an engineer and you’ve been hired by some clueless tech-industry godzillionaire who wants a flying car, you probably don’t have the option of telling your employer the truth about his pet project—that is, that no matter how much of his money he plows into the project, he’s going to get a clunker of a vehicle that won’t be any good at either of its two incompatible roles—because he’ll simply fire you and hire someone who will tell him what he wants to hear. Nor do you have the option of sitting him down and getting him to face what’s behind his own unexamined desires and expectations, so that he might notice that his fixation on having a flying car is an emotionally charged hangover from age eight, when he daydreamed about having one to help him cope with the miserable, bully-ridden public school system in which he was trapped for so many wretched years. So you devote your working hours to finding the most rational, scientific, and utilitarian means to accomplish a pointless, useless, and self-defeating end. That’s crackpot realism.

[0] http://www.ecosophia.net/terror-deep-time/
If you really get the same benefits from listening to music as somebody who does correct mindfulness meditation, then good for you.

It's most likely not true though.
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At the low level, git submodules provide atomic commits too. The UX is "just" too limited.
> electricity company literally cannot figure out what brand of appliance you're using

That's a technological limitation; I know various companies that have half-working solutions for discriminating what kind of appliance you're using from a smart meter, based on its consumption profile and noise profile. Nobody's yet attempted plug-level DRM but it's not technologically impossible ...

Really what America needs is "local loop unbundling" in addition to net neutrality. But we're in the realms of what's politically achievable.
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I was always on that end - in a distant-ago job I'd somehow fallen into a position of looking after a server box for our subdomain that was under someone's desk.

Every year I'd preempt it and email our procurement and IT teams asking for a renewal months in advance (knowing the red tape means I'd get it JIT).

And, every year it wouldn't be renewed or bought until the day after expiry when I had enough complaints from people to light a fire under someone's arse.

The whole cert-package back and forth was a nightmare, am glad LE exists with auto renewals (or even manually pushing a renewal with one line is easier than the old).
But that literally is mindfulness. It is not a magic technique... Simply reflecting on your thoughts (and/or feelings) is basically the definition of mindfulness.

PS: It is sad that this marketing/self-help-book/guru/training etc. hype around "mindfulness" distorted the original simple meaning of the word mindfulness.
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I'm quite sad that they're doing the wildcard thing. There are RFCs stating the problems they cause[0]. It would have been nice to steer people away from this awful security practice.

I wrote a very opinionated and ranty blog post which goes into more detail ( but strongly implies people lazy :( )

https://blog.dijit.sh/please-stop-advocating-wildcard-certif...

[0]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6125#section-7.2
One way or another it's MS failure. Either they don't have a proper environment to build every artifact from its source or they just lost sources. That's what happens when you're trying to cut the costs.
Interesting thought.

To be honest, once autonomous driving systems become so good they are provably and reliably better than humans, insurance companies will probably charge a premium for the privilege of driving your car yourself.

I am just not sure when autopilots will become that good. OTOH, I did not expect to see self-driving cars arrive during my lifetime, and now it looks very strongly like I will. ;-)

> Now, I have no clue on how to get politicians to understand science.

Given the kind of political influence car manufactures have (at least here in Germany), I think that will not be too much of a problem once the demand is there.
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I meant the article suggested it only becomes a ring after you add b*sqrt(5) part.

But yeah, I'm nitpicking.
Part of the problem is how little people understand or think about the basics of the relevant body of law. "Corporate personhood", for example, makes perfect sense when you consider that generally we want people to be able to start businesses, and the business needs to be able to, say, own property or enter into contracts (and potentially use the courts to have them enforced). It means nothing more than granting corporations some of the rights of humans, in order for corporations as legal entities to be able to fulfill their function.

The issue then is not things like "corporations are people" versus "no they're not"; it's to what extent the rights of a corporation should mirror the rights of a human. And generally, the argument people should make to fight Citizens United is one of granting only those rights which are necessary for a corporation -- an artificial, legally-created "person" -- to fulfill its designed function, and avoiding those which are problematic.

Once you reframe the argument that way, you get to talk about how it's useful to have some corporate speech rights for purposes of advertising, but political speech isn't necessary or useful, and may even be self-contradictory. Consider that unlimited corporate political speech also opens the door for forced corporate political speech: if a shareholder can make an argument that, say, Candidate A's positions will increase shareholder value while Candidate B's positions will decrease it, then the shareholder now also has an argument to force the corporation to "speak" on behalf of A and against B as part of the corporation's responsibility to shareholders. So granting "free speech" to corporations could well lead to compelled speech. And it's probably not in the interest of public policy to clog up courts with those kinds of arguments, which then gives you the way in to restricting corporate political speech.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/04/meet-...
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> "It stops where we bloody well want it to."

Who is "we"? How exactly does "we" determine where it stops?
I think MIT is fairly well known in the UK, on a similar level to Harvard.
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See http://article78againstnydfs.com/docs/317-cv-01882-BitfinexC... - or https://archive.is/ggehl

1) Declaration 1&2 show that Bitfinex (through iFinex) share the same CEO (and they're the plaintiffs in this case)

2) The whole point of the case was Bitfinex fighting against being cut off by Wells Fargo.
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I want to reply here as well:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3964149/

The study you mentioned shows that mindfulness is overall as effective as the (best?) known other treatment options. If you take this literally you are right, there is no "benefit" in choosing mindfulness based therapy over the other options. It is "only" on par with the other known treatment options.

It is therefore a fully valid and effective choice for treatment.
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Two for the price of one:

http://article78againstnydfs.com/docs/317-cv-01882-BitfinexC...
> "So it's not as if Google is picking media organisations it dislikes at random."

Letting a government decide what qualifies as legitimate news and colluding with corporations to do so is concerning.
The idea of the parent is that you should be able to relax despite the "annoyances of daily life and other people" -- in other words, in any environment.

Else, baring some physiological/psychological condition, everybody can relax when in a relaxed environment...
Media ownership rules exist in plenty of other countries though e.g. UK, Australia and would never have allowed this.

And no one could argue that the US media market needed more centralisation.
While we're talking games, kyrub has made a splendid patch called "insecticide" for Master of Magic. The game famous for its vision, imagination and creativity but notorious for piles of bugs. The first few patches had several pages of bugfixes. Insecticide added many more pages, GUI improvements and AI tweaks.

Some bugs went unnoticed until very recently. For example I was one of playtesters of this patch, and I reported that Invulnerability spell appears impossible to dispel. Kyrub checked it out, and... would you believe ? There was an off-by-one error, Invulnerability was the last on the list. It was literally impossible to dispel because of a programming error. Those old strategy guides recommending Guardian Spirit + Invulnerability rushes... they were so effective because they unknowingly exploited a bug!!
It's a ring, but not all rings have to be in that form. I can see that you think they weakly imply the latter, which really is just a bug in our (humans') natural language processing skills. :)
Oh, right, that's what I missed, number ring isn't just a ring of numbers. Thanks.
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>organic-rich.

So you're saying it's a bio-ship! ldenneau confirms it's aliens!
> "There's no such law"

But they can still get sued. So doesn't matter if there is no specific law.
Wine makes a point to reproduce all unfixed Windows bugs, because notable software was written assuming they exist. I don't envy Wine maintainers!
Really no fact orientated media ?

BBC (UK), PBS (US), NPR (US), ABC (Australia) etc are surely examples.
>assuming that religious practices are bunk is a pretty damn effective heuristic.

Only if naively only count goals as stated by the religion itself, and only first order effects.

(E.g. if one examines whether there's really a heaven people go to, as opposed to examining whether the thought of such a place existing providing great psychological and personal benefit to the believer -- among tons of other similar things, I'm not even touching upon the impact on society, ethics, etc).
Tell that to the Mt Gox account holders... they don't seem too happy that their BTC claims have been converted to JP¥
Your logic is questionable.

> The primary purpose of tethers is money laundering.

you don't back up this statement. The primary purpose of cryptocurrency isn't money laundering. CME is not a money launderer.
the us vc aren't in the business of money laundering. What do they gain from buying tether ? How do they move their real usd to bitfinex ? Why does bitfinex even want US dollars ? How is bitfinex able to maitain the usdt/ btc rate appropriately ?
I absolutely love Julia Evan's writing. I find her articles / zines to cover interesting and useful technical topics while remaining _extremely_ accessible to me (especially when I was a student)! I really admire her ability to present technical topics in plain language.
> The other difference is that I'm having a hard time imagining a scenario where someone is getting blindsided by "damn, it should've been a SPA after all!"

I've seen it happen more than once. Start with what looks like a straightforward form flow, seems like it should be fine in rails or whatever. Then it turns out some fields depend on other fields, so you've got to dynamically show/hide parts when other parts are set. And doing a server roundtrip, even AJAXey, is just too slow. So you put a bit of client-side Javascript to handle that. And then as the product evolves the interrelations between the form elements become more and more complex and businessey, and you have more and more logic split or duplicated between backend and frontend.
Sadly, neither Right Wing Watch nor Media Bias has an entry for PragerU, although the former does have some interesting entries for its founders. Regardless, Wikipedia helps here:

> Prager University (often stylized as PragerU) is a 501(c)3 non-profit conservative digital media organization.

I'm all for good ideas, but given what the word conservative has come to mean in the context of American politics, I am going to call BS on this one and not bother wasting my time watching some right wing "intellectual" spin lies in the form of "common-sense".
> If you just let me be and let me listen to some music without being disturbed, I'll be perfectly calm and relaxed, no mysticism needed.

Do you spontaneously laugh because you're filled with such joy in this state of "relaxation"? I've done that after a body scan and just mindful breathing.

The thing with relaxation is it's easy to think you are relaxed until you experience actual deep relaxation. Search on youtube for "Yoga nidra", lie down and just follow the instructions. Simple yet profound.
If it's a single component, why don't they just rewrite it ? A company like Microsoft should have the resources. It might be a lot of work, but can they be sure there are no more bugs ? Is keeping a rotting, black box binary responsible ?
To add to that: this is really nothing new, hard drives have had such chips for decades now, and even floppy disk drive for Commodore [0] was powered by its own 6502 CPU back in the 1980s.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_1541
I don't get the excitement. I thought it's common that stones of different sizes enter our solar system take a loop and exit again. That's exactly what this tourist plans on doing, or not? What's different?
Anonymous account, 2 weeks old, no significant activity. I'm going to call this either a bot or a Russian account. Even HN is not immune to them.
Well call it a personal air vehicle or affordable helicopter. It isn't going to drive on the roads so it's not a flying car in that sense

But otherwise, there is some validity in the criticisms. In the tech world, the management usually a lot behind the curve on technologies compared to the more hands on people.
Prior to ARMv8, all licensees could add additional specialized instructions or even entire instruction sets using the ARM coprocessor model.

By changing a few registers, you could alter how instructions were interpreted. This was used by some vendors for hardware-software interfacing, and by others to provide specific acceleration primitives for their specialized workloads.

ARM used this mechanism themselves to offer an optional floating point unit, with specialized vectorized floating point instructions.

Unfortunately, support for coprocessors has been removed from ARMv8.
Does DNSSEC provide encrypted queries / answers?

I was under the impression it only provides authenticity and integrity for answers. (I am by no means an expert, though!)
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I probably have to consult my therapist right now.
There is plenty of evidence of wash trading occurring on Bitfinex and other exchanges - there are also many accusations that the exchanges themselves wash trade, to pump up their own volumes. They don't need to pay their own fees!
That's literally the tyranny of the majority. Who determines what the majority is? 90% in your example, but what if 65% of people do the same and wipe 35% out? That could easily be done by buying enough of the coins / merging with enough of the users.

That scenario is completely ridiculous and unacceptable.
I really was wondering for some time why this is not possible for smartphones if a gameboy can do it.
>>None of that has anything to do with "wrath" of MS.

The 'wrath' of any company is one juggernaut leader at the top. Apple's 'wrath' was Steve Jobs and Microsoft's 'wrath' was/is Bill Gates.

As much as we like to state it otherwise, Bill Gates was ruthless at execution, and he was workaholic with no parallel. People aren't exactly replaceable, and by that definition what they bring to the table.
The parent explicitly refers to Netflix, not "nf" or "Nf". You might say it was clear from context, but for at least two people that read the comment it was not at all clear. It's not a big deal, I'm just always curious about everyone abbreviating things.
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Domain names are only one small part of the privacy equation. Plus, for many sites, there is a 1:1 mapping between its IP address and the domain.

There was some talk about SNI encryption in the TLS working group. Not sure where that went, though.
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No, money laundering is the financial equivalent of running a taxi service and not asking any questions about the luggage.

It's not necessarily disposing of a body, and punishing people for moving luggage around without asking questions is obviously absurd.