skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ha, same thing happened to me with Vodafone. Some guy called having some nice upgrade to my account. For some reason, to check something, he said, I need your online password. I said, wait, you call _me_ and want my password too? If I call you, tell I am from your bank and I need your PIN, would give it? Well no, came the reply. Then...

Obviously I terminated the conversation.
> I am from a country where I can no longer access npm without tor, and even then it is so excruciatingly slow as to be unusable.

Since it seems you can access github, you can install dependencies without touching npmjs, with one of these:

npm install git+ssh://git@github.com:<githubname>/<githubrepo.git[#<commit-ish>]
npm install git+ssh://git@github.com:<githubname>/<githubrepo.git>[#semver:^x.x]
npm install git+https://git@github.com/<githubname>/<githubrepo.git>
npm install git://github.com/<githubname>/<githubrepo.git>
npm install github:<githubname>/<githubrepo>[#<commit-ish>]

(add --save if your npm is old)

Why would a country ban npmjs?
By design every website keeps data on you in their log files (/var/log/apache or /nginx). Wrt data, your data is send the moment you use Windows or a web browser (Telemetry). I highly doubt that data is kept securely.

The cookie law in particular is very vague, nobody knows what to do with it. The law is being reviewed and will be updated.
Because it's the current get-rich-quick scheme and human nature is rather selfish than altruistic? Because it's been a good tools to store value and move it over borders?
"Allows"? "Cheap"? AFAIK Amazon paid 75 millions for that ...
You have a very valid answer from pixelbill, who seems to be shadowbanned.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15919850
As a CEO of a startup (10 employees, bootstraped) this post was very inspiring. I am spending my time improving my machine and growing it. But I spend no time at all building the blueprint from which the machine could build itself.

Sometime words, or expressions in this case (« the machine that builds the machine ») can reveal or even create a new reality. That’s what I feel right now.
Gfycat says it’ll use machine learning to make more high-res GIFs
> History is rife with incumbents that failed on their own or were defeated by upstarts (...)

Yes, this may happen if the upstarts manage to grab the sales channel (portal). But this is not likely to happen with Amazon.
Disney is building their own streaming service, so you may get your wish. Not sure about the "small amount", tough.
I do not understand what exactly you are claiming in your first paragraph. You say that you have never had to pay for an article yet you "have been on both sides of the fetch for a friend" which strictly speaking (and despite how much I hate it) is illegal.
Or we find out whether those minimum wage jobs really need to be done.
In related news, Taxa Biotechnologies (the company from the Glowing Plant kickstarter[1]) is shutting down. It seems they were just a bit too early, I think the idea still has merit.

[1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/antonyevans/glowing-pla...
I don't want to throw more shade at Schneier than needs to be thrown, but I want to point out that you've pointed out basically two† real credentials:

* He has a masters degree.

* He wrote a bunch of popular books, and reaped a lot of fame from them.

I work, part-time, in the cryptography space his best-known books cover. His most popular book, Applied Cryptography, is not well regarded in the field. Opinions differ on Cryptography Engineering --- I like it a lot --- but he's a coauthor on that book, alongside a practicing cryptographer of significant renown. The rest of those books are non-technical.

I've worked in security since the mid-1990s, and Schneier has been a presence in the industry that whole time. And his Mirai attribution is far from the dumbest thing he's had to say.

I want to be careful because I'm sure Schneier is very good at what he's good at. My concern is that in addition to that --- without intending to be --- he's also insidiously "famous for being famous", and that his takes on things like DDoS attribution are thus taken more seriously than they should be. There are HN commenters that I think have more reliable takes on what's happening in the computer underground than Schneier.

He should write HN comments rather than pieces that get syndicated into magazines. He'd be an excellent HN commenter. :)

† (You might add that he's a co-author of some well-known cipher and hash designs, and IIRC the sole author of Blowfish, his best-known design. [Don't use Blowfish.])
Its a mistake in the long run to socialize risk. These former students are defaulting because the courses they took have no value in the marketplace.
Think about 3rd world countries. I'm relatively better off than my peers (2 cars, own a house etc.) but I can no way afford Hex Rays IDA Pro, Burp Site Professional, Navicat Premium or JetBrains and this list goes on... They cost more than my two or three months of rent.

My parents are both medical doctors and their medical books are not affordable if they were sold in US prices but they have 3rd world print editions and they can legally buy these copies. Software vendors have to adapt to tthis too. Gaming companies already adapted this and I've never pirated any games since Steam. I'm a paying netflix, spotify customer because they are priced for the country they operate and as you can guess I'm not torrenting music or movies either.

Internet is global but purchasing power is not. Ethically, I see no problem in torrenting. Human knowledge is "on the shoulders of giants" and in philosophical perspective -I'm not advocating this- even copyright is on shaky grounds (Property is theft! - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon)
There are shady hosting companies who don't ask a lot of questions. Some of them even accept BTC. At the end of the day TPB is just ones and zeros in a basement somewhere.
Giving them the benefit of the doubt, if they're asking for a phone password, hopefully they're just keying it into their systems for verification against a hash, not manually comparing to a plaintext copy.
> Defendants are intentionally and willfully using CryEngine without a license and in violation of copyright laws.

This is from the banner at the top of CryEngine's home page:

"Full engine source code. All features. No royalties. No obligations. No license fee.
I'm sure there are many reading this who have absolutely no sympathy for pirates. They're stealing and that's that.

Well, how do you feel about your government blackmailing, extorting, or otherwise "strong-arming" other sovereign nations in order to foist its laws upon them and then hiding that from you? (It really is a minor miracle this cable was released at all.) Is it truly worth stooping to such measures to ensure that Micky Mouse remains copyright protected for all time everywhere? Don't other nations have the right to make their own laws? How would you feel if some other nation foisted it's laws on the U.S. in such a manner? Why does the U.S. government go to such extremes for private enterprise anyways?[1]

Piracy is bad. What the U.S. government has done in response is worse.

[1]I suggest you google the United Fruit Company's history the next time you're eating a Chiquita banana for a real eye opener.
Low-intensity indoor lighting could probably work.

I see the major problem in people being me and giving the plant water with the same regularity as rain the sahara, which means I can actually kill my desk lamp by not caring enough.

On the other hand, I've heavily abused my current desk lamp and it works.

It's great in terms of theoretical research but I think it might be a bit of stretch to think it could really replace a 2$ metal arm with a off-the-shelf LED strapped to it.
He doesn't look silly because he guessed at a state-level attribution --- state-level attacks certainly happen. He looks silly because the attacks he chose to attribute to state actors were in fact being conducted by a small number of teenaged Minecraft players.
With all respect to the authors, the thinking at that point in time and the impact it made on the world and you: Much of their predictions haven't stood the test of time.

-No exhaustible has been depleted yet and the price mechanism combined with technological progress seems pretty able to set incentives straight. Look at what the oil price bubble of the '00s did for electric cars and batteries in the now.
-The world has seen massively more population growth than they modelled, but not the accompanying food shortages they predicted. I'd argue the shortages of the '80s and '90s are over, although local situations obviously have tragic effects (Syria, Venezuela).
-Material goods production (plastics) is at an all time high.
-Many more humans alive at lower poverty levels than ever before and ever imagined by the Club of Rome

They got the depletion of fish stocks right though. Although arguably, that was the simplest prediction since the 'tragedy of the commons' is so profound in international fishery.

The gloom of the club of Rome just didn't work out. I guess outside of way we are treating our environment, humanity has a lot to be proud of. (I feel the environment is going bonkers and we are a plastic-addicted throw away society.)
> As an aside, I think it is somewhat likely that Satoshi was a state-sponsored actor or organization.

To what end?

States have a habit of going after anything that threatens their monopoly on the issuance of currency.
Process Doppelgänging: New Malware Evasion Technique
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-...

FBI indictments

> JIIA further participated in a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) hijacking scheme in which JIIA and co-conspirators fraudulently gained control over IP addresses that were in legitimate use by third parties. JIIA conducted these activities to consolidate and maximize the power of the Mirai botnet. [1]

Uhh what?

[1] https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1017581/downl...
Once the manifest has been added to the blockchain, it can no longer be altered or removed. This means that the receiver can publicly acknowledge having received the goods it paid for, and won't be able to retract that acknowledgement.

The main point is that, unlike a situation where you would be using a centralized database, there is no need to have a central trusted party to operate the database - the source of trust is distributed among the mining power of all nodes in the network.
Walt Disney Buys Murdoch's Fox for $52bn
A lot of gamers (and by extension devs) assume the worst of any legal action, so it's bad PR even if they're completely justified.
DDOS attacks on individual Minecraft players are definitely a thing. As a result players' infosec practices are likely a lot stronger than their peers...
> > “We don’t know who is doing this, but it feels like a large nation-state. China or Russia would be my first guesses.” [Bruce Schneier when Mirai first appeared]

> This looks especially foolish now. Schneier is a so-called expert who has testified in front of congress. He should be more careful when engaging in rampant speculation like this.

Perhaps by being not a native speaker of English and not living in the USA I miss some cultural subtleties, but I would call Bruce Schneier's statement really cautious:

- He clearly states he does not know who is the culprit (really cautious - as it should be!)

- He clearly states that his statement is based alone on feeling

- He rather clearly outlines that his guesses for China or Russia are based on the correctness of the assumption that a national state is behind it
I honestly don't really see the value in a slidedeck, without the accompanying talk. It's the same as when someone proclaim: "Slides from this talk is available online", yeah that's not really any good without video or audio.
Concept of the Operation (CONOP)
Freelancers Organize to Demand Payment from Beleaguered Nautilus Magazine
This is a huge amount of data, and an interesting way to visualize. An incredible number of these appear to be started by lightning.

A set of filtering tools would be nice - to sort by year and type.
Disney is acquiring Fox’s film and TV divisions for $52.4B
The wording is suspect for that clause. The lawsuit says:

"Section 2.1.2 of the GLA states that Defendants have a license only to 'exclusively embed CryEngine in the Game.'"

The term "exclusive" means what in this case? They can only use CryEngine in this game (and not embed it in other games) or they are forced to only use CryEngine in this game to the exclusion of all other game engines. The second interpretation is not common in my opinion.

There are a lot of other provisions that may be more solid. This particular one seems suspect.
they need more arcades, plenty of opportunity for full 4k gaming and vr experiences that would be too expensive for many in the home.
The allegations by the prosecution are of a bit more than that: https://gigaom.com/2008/02/02/who-is-the-fourth-man-in-the-p...
Two of the greatest opening lines to books:

“Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant day when his father took him to discover ice.” – One Hundred Years of Solitude

“It was inevitable. The scent of bitter almonds always reminded Dr. Juvenal Urbino of the fate of unrequited love.” – Love in the Time of Cholera

Each is almost a story in itself, a pleasure to read, and an even greater pleasure to unpack and understand.
This might sound radical, but I've always thought it would make sense to bring back some of the programs from the New Deal as part of UBI. In the US and Canada, infrastructure is crumbling. As part of your UBI (if you can't or choose not to work) maybe people should spend a week a month working for the good of their society. It's not perfect but if there is a job skills/training component of these things, and exposure to people of all types it would be good for a lot of people.
Is Flutter the Best Way to Build Cross-Platform Mobile Apps?
Former Chess No.1 Comments on AlphaZero vs. Stockfish
Idea: Neural network generated infinite sidedeck which appears to follow a coherent narrative, which is ever so slightly out of grasp.
Disney buys Fox
The problem is not the lack of personal responsibility of students in their decision to take out loans. The problem is the systemic failure to provide high quality education to those qualified to pursue it. Those who are qualified to pursue higher education should not be prevented from doing so by questions of personal finances, inherited wealth, etc
That's where I do a kind of a blended rate. If you need this deliverable and that deliverable I might just average it out. But, yea, where I can get the $150/hr+ work I take it over anything else.
> The moment you find a review with several pictures and paragraph-separated long texts you know it's a paid review with zero value.

Not always. I've seen tons of critical two- or three-star reviews that were multiple paragraphs and had pictures detailing the issues with the product. Piss off the right person with a shitty product or even an unfortunate lemon, and you'll get lambasted for it.

And then there's people like me; I don't review Amazon purchases often, maybe one in 20 items, but when I do I write a detailed review because either the item greatly impressed me, or seriously pissed me off. I've never done a compensated review (I wouldn't even know how to start doing that) and the few times a negative review resulted in a seller offering to refund or replace in exchange for five stars and a positive review, I've refused.

Only once did I change a review after interacting with a seller, and I left the entire negative text intact with an addendum stating their customer service was helpful and polite, and I was raising from two stars to three solely because their customer service attitude and promises to improve the product made up for the quality control issues in my mind. I did this without the seller requesting it, but they were greatly appreciative and refunded my purchase without me even asking for it.
Thank you for the list of resources.

Are you able to go into more detail about your startup (problems it is solving)?
> inability to collectively move to different publishing venues

Sometimes it works. For example, the ACM Transactions on Algorithms came into being when the entire editorial board of the (Elsevier) Journal of Algorithms resigned in 2003 in protest against Elsevier. So, it seems the transfer of reputation is possible. This came about after Don Knuth wrote a lengthy letter (linked from [1]) ranting against Elsevier.

It's stunning that apart from isolated cases like this the scientific publishers are still holding on to their ill-gained profits.

[1] http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~hal/jalg.html

Ceterum censeo Elsevier(um) esse delendum.
What is the relationship between the W3C and the WHATWG?
Amazon's phenomenal and huge growth is not coming from no where. There will be significant casualties.

https://ei.marketwatch.com/Multimedia/2017/01/19/Photos/ZH/M...

> major retail chains are now very competitive in online

If that was the case Amazon wouldn't have this type of growth.

One just has to watch out for direct Chinese marketplace apps like Wish and AliExpress getting more North American market and cutting out Amazon's system. Basically Amazon can be disrupted itself, at least to a degree, when it is nearly filled with Chinese source goods.

North American B&M retailers are mostly screwed. This article on CNN isn't wrong.
No. Here's a better tldr. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15919833
Unless you move into one of the bigger cities like Berlin, Hamburg or Munich you will be out of luck if you don't speak German. And especially if we are talking about blue collar jobs.
If the year is a circle – where’s March and December in your mind?
Crypto is not cryptocurrency
>>I don't know whether they customised the AI for each game, but I suspect if
the input and output layers were wide enough to accommodate the largest game
they could use the same one for each. The Markov engine does have to know how
to make all legal moves from any game position, but coding that isn't rocket
science or particularly time consuming. The AI does _not_ start out knowing
those rules - it learns them from the Markov engine. It's all very DRY.

Coding a set of rules for chess may not be a big deal. Encoding it into a
neural network architecture, so that the network only explores valid game
states, _is_ a big deal, like the article says.

The paper itself clarifies that the network architecture is matched to the
game board grid. Each position and each move are represented by features
described as sets of "stacked" planes (i.e. 2d feature vectors). So for example,
in chess, the board is a set of 8 x 8 planes, and the movement of a piece is
represented by a set of 56 planes for "queen moves" (continuous moves in any
direction) and another 8 for "knight moves" (jumping over pawns). How they
constraint specific pieces to subsets of those planes, is not explained, or I
missed it.

That's not an obvious setup, neither is it a trivial one. More to the point,
it's absolutely not something you can just copy and paste to an arbitrary
other game- it can only be applied to a game that uses the same board and same
pieces as chess. So, for example, no, you couldn't use that same architecture
to represent a game of poker.
Whenever relations with nuclear powers are concerned, trust between these governments is an important issue for everyone. I don't think anyone has claimed that there was a conspiracy at the time. But for the West to renege on past agreements undermines existing ones and makes future agreements more difficult with any party. The world is much more dangerous as a result.
2 1/2 minutes to midnight.
Yeah but there's no solution in your post. Culture can be powerful but we don't exist in the culture you want and I don't see a good way to get there. Hand waving about voluntarism and a culture shift isn't going to fix anything. Tax the shit out of the rich and make them pay for it.
Your bank password is probably not even case sensitive: http://www.zdnet.com/article/surprise-online-bank-passwords-...

Offenders: Wells Fargo, Chase, American Express, Fidelity, ....
Other than shopping privacy, who cares? As long as the checkout and account management pages are https, then I don't see the big issue here.

I'm just not one of these people who think there are armies of people at the NSA/GCHQ spying on me. I'm also against forcing every website in the world onto https. Doing so will significantly raise the bar of accessibility for tinkerers and makers. If I had a webcam that showed the world whether my coffee put needed refilling[1], are we all saying (on this thread, and troy hunt) that it needs serving over https because the privacy and security of coffee watchers is such a closely guarded secret that they need to be secure in their coffee pot watching habit?

By all means, https up important pages and sites, but lets not make it mandatory to the extent that http is no longer supported by browsers.

As an aside... a Barclays bank advert running in the UK at the moment is showing users that 'a padlock in your browser bar ensures that you are safe and that the site you are visiting is who you think it is' - which is utter bullshit, all a padlock tells you is that site owner has spent 5 minutes setting up LetsEncrypt - it in NO way confirms that they are who they say they are, and it's this lie that Joe Public are being sold right now.

---

[1] Apparently this was a thing once ;)
Hey Dude, keep bullshitting!

"There is No Steady State Economy (except at a very basic level)"
http://ourfiniteworld.com/2011/02/21/there-is-no-steady-stat...

Limits to Growth–At our doorstep, but not recognized
http://www.resilience.org/stories/2014-02-12/limits-to-growt...

Wealth And Energy Consumption Are Inseparable
http://www.declineoftheempire.com/2012/01/wealth-and-energy-...

Galactic-Scale Energy
http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2011/07/galactic-scale-e...
Dynamic Tracing a Pony and Python Program with DTrace
This makes sense but it seems to be bigger than that. For example, most companies with a major internet presence have a CDN on a totally separate domain, like "twimg.com", "chasecdn.com", etc. there must be a good technical reason for this, because everybody does it.

Or is that an unrelated thing?
US college libraries do pay per-article fees. Most offer an "interlibrary loan" service where faculty and students can request a specific article from a journal the library doesn't subscribe to. Depending on the journal's licensing and the library's partnerships, the library may get a copy from another library for free, or purchase the article. If a purchase is made, part of the cost may or may not be passed on to the end user (at my library charges are rare and I doubt most end users even know a per-article fee was paid on their behalf). In cases where requests for articles from a particular journal are rare, this may be more cost effective for the library than subscribing to the journal.

Of course this can happen only when the end user uses the formal interlibrary loan process, instead of alternatives like Sci-Hub (which may be faster and easier).

As with the high subscription prices, the primary mark is not faculty/students but libraries, who are expected to provide the content and constrained from doing anything blatantly illegal to get it.
Not everyone will be able to profit off of bitcoin. Worse, those who will, will do so at the expense of everyone else.

There's only two ways this bubble will burst:

1. Inflation: the value of fiat currencies drops to match the supposed value of bitcoin, which negatively affects everyone

2. Only the first people to cash out actually turn a profit. Every other person who invested will lose everything.

Either way, the money you now made from bitcoin, came from people who will probably lose their savings contributing to the bubble.