skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was a fantastic event and it was truly an honor to be there!

If you haven't visited the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, I highly recommend it.
JavaScript is like a permission in andoroid or in an addon for the new firefox. If I feel like the website really requires Javascript or benefits greatly by Javascript then I will allow it to use JavaScript. Otherwise I will use the website without Javascript or if it is not usable I will just leave.
It's ok to add enhanced features using Javascript. But basic features should work without. If links (<a>) don't work without JavaScript I leave and pick the next search result.
China already ignores safety and radio regulations. Sure, add more. They'll keep flooding Amazon and eBay with cheap crap and people will keep buying it. Good IoT will just become even more expensive.

The only way to avoid a botnet apocalypse is to secure home routers. Outbound traffic should not be an automatic right. People should have to authorise each device for each type of traffic.

I argued this long-hand when OVH was taken down by "security" cameras. Good to see we've made no progress.

https://thepcspy.com/read/when-did-we-stop-caring-network-se...
wonder how many of those could be transformed into the prisoners dilemma? and of the one's that can't if they can be abstracted.

3 actors each with a binary choice.

1 payout table

rules allow/require actors to continue playing.

actors know or don't previous choices

can the actor declare an intention

is one of the actors a rule maker

could the actors place bets instead of make a choice

what if one of the actors is a resource(ie has no choice)

what if the actors have different payout tables
Furthermore, if true, it shouldn't be overly surprising, since gametes are another stage in the life of an organism with great selection pressure. Why assume it behaves randomly?
Do you know how many bookmarks it can sync ?

I have 30000+ bookmarks, and I use my bookmark structure all the time on all my devices, that's my workflow to write later content on my websites ( my folders = my categories, sort of) and I don't want to change my workflow.

When I was using FF two years ago, it couldn't sync that many bookmarks, and that's the only reason which was keeping me from using FF (besides speed and memory usage, but that tend to vary).
Require manufacturers to pay in to a bounty fund for finding exploits, and make them responsible for fixing the exploits found.
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My guess is referring to Linus' philosophy on how software should be developed and maintained, especially in his own Kernel project. See http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1710.3/02487.html
I use the 12.9" (?) whatever the bigger size is. The screen is just about as big as a sheet of paper.

For what it's worth, I don't think notability has OCR. GoodNotes appears to though. I might have to give it a try.
Aggregated information about an application may be OK, but a web-browser is more like an OS than an application: it has a way to draw UI, a way to communicate over a network, a way to interact with the user's mouse and keyboard, and a way to run applications that are incompatible with other platforms.

While I still don't see it as ethically flawless, aggregating information about a website is certainly much more acceptable than aggregating information about a web browser.
The us has and the fbi have been able to this fir years. Lets hope this is not yet another anti eu propaganda piece.
Very nice XD
Thanks, that makes a lot of sense to see this from the background of HockeyApp, Xamarin Test Cloud, and CodePush coming together. Ignore the non-answer guy, this is a totally sufficient answer in my opinion.
That's possibly one of their strangest edge-cases I've seen for someone to dismiss a product. Or is this a case of HN-level trolling?
There are two pieces here, and Schneier (or at least this tiny summary of him) is wrong on both.

First, yes of course automobiles are regulated and should be. The fact that some things that are and should be regulated include embedded internet hosts does not mean that all devices that include embedded internet hosts should be regulated. This is basic logic.

Second, holding one set of botnet victims responsible for the harms suffered by another (overlapping) set of botnet victims is perverse. Every host should be "secure"; very few are. A secure host wouldn't be a victim of a botnet, either by donating processor cycles or receiving unwanted traffic. If lawyers really need a job security program, consider that ISPs have lots of money and they actually could reduce DOS attacks; why not hold them responsible?
Rented assets allow people to take advantage of resources without the hassle and expense of owning them.

If there is a demand for the use of certain assets without the hassle of owning them, why shouldn't some billionaire invest into that to meet the need.
I'm going through the paper on "slim binaries". They compress the abstract syntax tree at a semantic level and are smaller than compressed source code.

ftp://ftp.cis.upenn.edu/pub/cis700/public_html/papers/Franz97.pdf
Not to get too far off track, but I'm heading there tomorrow and the Alto is at the top of the list of computers to check out followed by the PDP-10. As someone who came into the industry way after these devices were in use, I'm pretty excited to check them out.
I wanted to make something like Fermat's Library [1], but not limited to only a selection of articles. This thing actually works for any PDF file, even local files.

Now the problem is how one would promote this and get users.

Feedback?

[1] http://fermatslibrary.com/
> Bail is designed to prevent flight risk.

“Rationalized” rather than designed.

> It is set high enough that you'd have a hard time coming up with that much money without being forced to stay and appear.

In practice, it's not for the rich, and it's set high enough that the poor can't afford bonds much less the bail itself.

> Having strangers pay your bail means you have no reason to stay.

The project this provides an additional funding stream for already exists, and the vast majority of people whose bail is funded do not skip, so this is empirically not the case.

> People having a hard time making bail is working-as-intended.

It's clearly not working as intended by anyone who would fund the project this funds.

> If you dislike it, write to your senator.

Seeking change in the laws (which many people are, at local, state, and national levels) is not incompatible with seeking to take legal steps to mitigate harms of the current system in the meantime.
You seem to be suggesting a law must say "the maker of any unsafe insecure product is subject to 50 years of jail or $4million".

More realistically, legislators should be crafting incentives. Establish liability statutes. Carve out liability exceptions for companies that can show they used industry best practices, hired engineers that are members of professional/industry organizations, pay for ethics training, establish good faith effort of security development (unit tests, integration tests, traffic encryption, encryption at rest, well designed key exchange architecture, software/firmware update architecture for at least X years after sale, etc).

Conversely, if a company does none of the above, it's easier for a consumer or an Attorney General to bring a case against the company, even if it's years too late to be useful.

The problem with litigation (as well as "free-market" solutions) is that this generally doesn't happen fast enough. The security damage of IoT will be externalized extremely quickly. Being able to identify and sue a foreign company that is far up the supply chain from the end-product.
As long as we are throwing out veiled insults, it's clear you exhibit a child-like ignorance and naivety. There's a news story a week some media collusion or propaganda apparatus being brought to light and people like you continue to remain in denial about the truth.
Only Python 3? Are we there? I thought we are not there yet? I thought there is a big push going on for fedora to go Python 3 only and it will likely not end before end of next year? I imagine Debian and Red Hat and Canonical will continue python 2 default for a while?

I'd be happy if I'm wrong though...
I believe in safe injection sites; in having way more doctors; in having more state-sponsored free clinics; in encouraging said free clinics to be willing to prescribe narcotics in cases where the patient is unable to function without them; in support programs for getting over addiction using drugs like naltrexone; etc. I also, I should especially highlight, don't believe in prosecuting people for drug possession, of any kind or amount.

But I don't believe that we would benefit, on net, if you could buy heroin in the corner convenience store without a doctor's encouragement to do so. The number of people who would be able to safely manage their own treatment, would be outweighed by the number of people who would become newly addicted due to increased access and the aura of illegitimacy being removed.
Yeah. Except I don't find anything contradictory around the idea that people can cooperate to achieve common interests, AND there can be power dynamics at play within the cooperation. Few ventures concern just one issue: it's possible to both feel that the venture as a whole is highly beneficial for both of you, while being non-aligned on specific points within the venture. Mutual cooperation can govern the relationship as a whole, while power dynamics come into play for certain situations within the relationship.

Think of a startup taking venture capital: you both want the startup to succeed, and the startup is much more likely to succeed if it has money than if it doesn't. However, the investor may want you to spend that money quickly to grab market share, while the founder may want to shore up customer satisfaction first. You can do both, but they can't both be the #1 priority. Which activity takes precedence? That's dependent on the relative power dynamics between founder and investor, notably things like board control, personal relationships, trust, need for future financing, existing revenue, etc.
Whoa. I love FF even more.
You say that as if there isn't a massive amount of innovation transfer in all fields, going both ways, with the China and the US, let alone most other countries.

National pride is disgusting.
From the paper:

"the one and only system that almost all members of the Institute for Computer Systems (including the secretary!) used on a daily basis for all their computing tasks"

Even the fonts were designed in-house.
If the question is about handling their scale, then I would suggest you avoid premature optimization and worry about more immediate problems.

If the question is about their features, I think most modern frameworks will be able to handle it all just fine. Use what you know best, so you'll start on solid footing and be able to roll out features faster.

Personally, I'm about equally proficient at ASP.NET and Django. I'd probably go with Django on this one because the Django Admin would let me put off building sophisticated moderation tools at first.
I am a python outsider, but like many others dealt with a lot of pain due to the simultaneous 2 and 3 versions.

Looking at the history, I see python1 ended at 1.6, and python2 ended at 2.7. Based on this the current python 3.6 seems to be nearing end of life.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Python

So what will happen when python 4 comes out?
> What makes 'IoT' any different from an ordinary network-connected computer?

Basically the same things that make, say, 'rats' different from an ordinary human being: specialization, capabilities, defenses, and deployment density.

A different response might be needed to deal with millions of rats moving into your town compared to what worked when 15,000 juggalos congregated for the ICP music festival.

They're both 'mammals', true; they both sleep and eat cheese. But they still might necessitate different strategies to manage or cope with them.

(Having said that, I am still deeply skeptical of governmental regulation as a solution. I think Schneier is right about the scope of the problem, and that it's a perfect example of the class of problem that markets can't fix. Although trying to hold device makers liable might help somewhat, I'm afraid that the problem is like global warming — in theory, there are various solutions that might devise, but in practice human societies, even the minority of them that might have their shit sufficiently together to address the problem on their own, still aren't capable of the level of coordination required, so what we really need to do is "get ready to deal with it, because there's no way to stop it".)
As a forgetful person, I would love it if it I could control it.

But no. Sometimes it is really bad - like feeling really engaged and consciously listening, then the person goes and forgetting what they said. More often it is more insidious than this unfortunately.
The article contains…

An Souper-optimized Clang-3.9 binary is almost 3 MB (4.4%) smaller than one built without Souper, though it is also about 2% slower.

It sounds like the perceived value is more about finding clever optimization patterns and explaining them to the Clang and Visual C++ developers for them to integrate.
Why wouldn’t we?

I dislike the way much of our media talks about “bad” things China does without discussing how the US does similar things. “Hacking” is the one I hear about China doing all the time, despite it being well known that the US government is heavily involved in global hacking efforts and is in fact the strongest player in the field. Yet I hear little about that and too much about China and Russias efforts there.

Perhaps if we acknowledged that all nations do these things, we’d have a different outlook on the issue than we would if we imagined this was a problem with “them”.
Oh wow this is really cool!
About a decade ago, I worked with the guy who developed IBM's Oberon-2 system for OS/2 in the 90s. He'd always get a sort of wistful look about him when he talked about it. It made me want to give it a look, but there was never time.
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This is an ancient argument because no one can convince you that you need 3 for your use case. All I can do is say why I like it, and list reasons that probably don't apply to you or you would have switched already.

For example, print and division made more sense to me in 3, judging from friends who taught 2 and said those were always sticky for some students in every class. Intuitive lowers the barrier to entry. (But 2 is probably more intuitive to you because it's second nature to you by now.)

Unicode--when I would test some tiny scripts with Chinese characters or weird ciphers--was pretty easy out of the box in 3.

On systems that only support 2 I find myself slipping in basically a 'from future import all the things.'

These are admittedly mostly cosmetics. But cosmetics matter for noobs like I was, or maybe still am.

I guess 3 also fixed ambiguity in corner cases for error handling? Never came up for me so I don't know much about that one.

You probably just don't have those use cases?

Two people could use distinct subsets of python and neither is using it wrong. Meaning... there could be reasons many of us want 3 that simply don't apply to you. Which sucks, because you get hit with switching costs to help the rest of us.

I think that's the recipe for an endless debate with two reasonable sides.

I will say py2 was already fragmented without 3. PaiMei only ran on... 2.4 maybe? You'd find weird projects that you liked that would then get abandoned. Suddenly you're shimming them all or running four versions. I think 3 woke people up to this as a problem--by making it much harder to patch and way more universal. That made the project more conscious about future and backwards compatibility. Those dividends will only be seen over time. I hope they vest but can't prove how or if they have.

I hope this is helpful... Just know that I'm not saying you're wrong to want to use something that works for you. Switching costs are a real thing, I know it sucks to feel dragged along. But py3 is a lot better for me and others, possibly because we're using the language for different things.
Government regulation doesn’t infer that a technology will be better. IoT is a very immature industry/technology. Adding a byzantine of obsolete compliance laws is a good way to hamper this industry.

If we are going to regulate, we need to improve laws for consumer electronics across the board, with all the big players on board and participating.
Netflix has less "hard problems" in terms of operations than Twitter.

With Twitter everyone's data is interconnected. With Netflix, you could theoretically have each server just be completed isolated from each other (modulo account management).

Netflix has operational problems to solve in terms of bandwidth, though. There's definitely major difficulties there, but they're of a different variety to the high coupling Twitter deals with
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That assumption of inevitability is self-fulfilling. Things would be a lot different if everyone who pessimistically disengages instead tried to use the democratic process.
>and allow the competent authority concerned to register it

It's actually worse than 'blocking', they get control of the domain.
Yes, there must be a lot of Earth-mass rocky planets out there in habitable zones. Twenty years ago I'd have said we just don't know. There may've been some real progress too on figuring out the origin of life, but our knowledge is still compatible with almost all potentially-habitable planets being lifeless -- it wouldn't badly contradict what we know so far (afaik) and would explain why we haven't seen any advanced aliens taking stars apart, etc.
GIL removal? Are you sure about that?
I'd argue that we are Roman.

When the western capital Rome fell, people moved east (imagine moving from California to New York). But the Byzantines still called themselves Roman.

When the eastern capital was invaded by the Ottoman Turks, they moved west to rebuild Rome - and started the "Renaissance".

There was no Renaissance, some magical discovery of ancient knowledge, with masterful artists and scientists like the world had never seen. It was a continuation of the Roman tradition!

In fact, one can even go back before Rome to Greece, to Alexander the Great conquering Darius the Mede, to Medo-Persia, to Babylon, to Assyria, to Mesopotamia.

Writing was invented in 3 places: Sumeria, China, and South America. But the Mayan history is almost lost (3 books survive). Western culture split from middle-eastern, and Indian civilisation got fragmented until the British Raj forced everyone to learn English, a Latin language.

Since the dawn of history, there have been Western, Middle Eastern, and China as world powers.

Only in this generation do we have machine translation (Google Translate) to finally share our knowledge more easily between these cultures.

I propose a translated search. Pass the query through Google Translate before loading results. Then if I want to know about the legend of a talking ox, I can find it from Pliny ( http://peterburk.github.io/pliny ) or from the Chinese.
Seems like its in here

https://www.tctmagazine.com/3d-printing-news/university-nott...
> It's very natural, and very logical.

Being natural and logical doesn't make it moral or ethical. I think you're only kidding yourself if you believe that people deserve that much money and power.

> How about folks who centralize powers like politicians in high level functions, who have not even been elected but appointed? How do you feel about that? They also can have massive influence on the world's affairs, even if they are not billionaires. I'd be way more concerned about that.

Nice use of whataboutism. We can protest, resit, or vote for politicians and bureaucrats. A billionaire will be a billionaire unless the economy collapses or they decide to become a philanthropist.
copy as curl is so underrated
Those folks have been through the communist grinder too. It’s only the doe-eyed idealists here in the US who think they’ll do it right this time, just like their Russian counterparts 100 years ago. 100M deaths later we’re back to square one.
I was specifically writing about the works of Aristotle. Also:

[1] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/medieval-philosophy/index...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_of_the_Greek_Clas...
The official opinions of EFF and EPIC on the case:

* EFF:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/08/judge-cracks-down-link...

* EPIC: https://epic.org/amicus/cfaa/linkedin/
The corporations being more powerful than nations is a thing, but is tangential. Corporations are controlled by charter and regulations of the nation they incorporate in and are accountable on more fronts than an individual actor. This is a discussion of what happens when individuals have access to state-scale resources of their own personal possession.

Tons of corporations are worth a billion dollars, many more than individual humans are worth a billion dollars, and the implications and side effects of each controlling such large centralized capital differ substantially because of the rules of business they each abide by.
You mean train to the same performance plateau?
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There's been a massive amount of performance work in the last year. Definitely give it another try :) (disclaimer, on the Atom team)
> Because their accuracy is abysmal.

Can you give some sources for your claim?
I don't see the relevance of Ms Reda's example of Catalonian domains being taken down. Using such an example seems more like a scare tactic than anything else.

The EU law she discusses seems clearly focused on (e-)commerce, and it instructs the government to have websites taken down only when that's the only way to protect consumers from being harmed (e.g. defrauded) by those websites.

News websites, even those encouraging people to show up to illegal referenda, don't appear to be affected by this law?
It makes me wonder how the conspiracy people think this stuff is orchestrated. Does it all get planned out by one council of secret overlords masterminding the flow of public information? How many people are in on the secret? What is their end goal?

...Or maybe social dynamics and global relationships are more complex than that and patterns emerge even without the need for a conspiracy behind them...
This is the EU, bad laws do get repealed, for example, the data retention directive was annulled for violating fundamental rights of privacy. It's not completely eradicated from national laws yet in every country but it's on its way.
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This article reads more like a self help book. And it acts as if the Zuckerbergs and musks of the world have a mystical power to see the world more deeply than everyone else when truly a tremendous amount of luck goes into forming companies like they have.
Can the Universe Simulate Itself?
Gusto (YC W12) is hiring full-stack engineers to work on payroll and benefits
Regarding the FDA I don't think the government should be telling me what drugs I can and can't take. Plenty of people are denied from taking early stage drugs because they are not FDA approved and dangerous, but if people are aware of the risks I think they should have every right to take them.

In your poison cucumber example I think this would qualify as knowingly poisoning someone else which is clearly illegal and we do not need the FDA for that. As long as the cucumber is labeled as "poison" I have no problem with people selling them.
When using the extension, you can use Ctrl+[dot] to open the container selector and then use arrows/tab and enter to select the container to open a new tab in. It's not as good as a dedicated shortcut, but it lets you open new container tabs without leaving your keyboard.