skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to run an abandoned warez site when I was young. I received a lot of cease and desist letters from "lawyers". They usually failed to identify the infringing material, failed to show they had the right to act on the copywriters behalf and a staggering amount of them confused trademark infringement with copyright infringement. Also, every last one I received via email. Yeah, right, like that's going to hold up. I ignored all of them and never got even so much as a follow up.

In other words, such things are considered low-hanging fruit by these companies. Just throw it out there and see what sticks.
> Occam's razor? If the majority of large, coordinated attacks and malware come from those countries it seems reasonable to suspect them initially, doesn't it?

Not really, just because attacks come from a certain country domain does not mean that said countries government is sponsoring said attacks.
Even the CIA/NSA use hijacked foreign servers for their operations, that's why attribution of this stuff is so difficult.

I'd also be interested in how you define "large and coordinated attacks" because if you track by something like Norse Attack Map [0] then your Occam's Razor would suddenly point at the US, at least right now.

> Yes, but if no speculation is allowed until after a conviction then how would anyone ever be investigated? We would never be able to accuse anyone of anything!

There's a difference between "speculation" and flat out misrepresenting the probabilities. At this point, it should be pretty clear, especially to any expert in the field, that the Internet is a massive force multiplier and the regular rules of "You need big influence to have big impact" have pretty much never applied to it.

People need to account for that in their attempts at attribution instead of going the lazy route of blaming "The axis of evil" for it, which this lazy China/Russia/NK attribution basically boils down to.

[0] http://map.norsecorp.com/#/
They didn't say they weren't asked to pay for an article - just that they did not. In other words, when confronted with a paywall, they either skipped the article or asked a friend with access.

Note that asking for an article is not always illegal. For example, authors are often allowed to share the article, and there are often also provisions that allow institutions to "loan" access to each other (inter-library loan), although presumably that would have to go through the institution's librarian.

That said, even if it's illegal, I'd worry about it about as much as worrying about pedestrians skipping the red light on deserted crossings.
Maybe because the word savant was used which is oftentimes used to describe a smart person with autism.
Right. The problem is the premise that it would take a state-level adversary to generate that kind of traffic, and not a single-digit number of disgruntled teenaged Minecraft players.
I've been saying almost this verbatim for years about New York City. So much self-imposed misery by people who will never make progress financially on their current life trajectory by staying prevents them from living independently elsewhere in the wide expanse of the USA.
... which is not true at all, I get above-US-average enginnering (IT) salary in heart of Europe, and that is before taxes. After taxes, it's day and night.

Plus small added benefit of actually having a life after work, have plenty of vacations, system that properly takes care of you in you are ill or unemployed, or detail that my paid taxes are not directly used to kill innocents half around the globe for corporate&political greed. Yepp, life can be good here.

Of course Europe is big and extremely diverse, much more than US, so some of this is valid only for some parts.
> But you are not - as I recall there are subsidies given to the telcos and telecom spectrum and rights of way are on public grounds.

Mostly not true. In rural areas, telcos receive subsidies. Those subsidies are paid for with taxes on telecom services. Telcos based primarily in urban/suburban areas bear a net tax, not a subsidy. Telcos pay for both spectrum and rights of way, such as rental charges on utility poles.

> The risk profiles and returns on telecom are known, and so investors in it know what they are getting.

We’re in an environment right now where a huge segment of telco revenues, for video, could evaporate due to cord cutting. The percentage of high income households which have cut wireline service entirely (in favor of wireless) has grown from 6% to 15%. People have been reluctant to switch from cable to faster technologies like fiber, with FiOS struggling to clear 40% uptake rates. Investing in a telco today (or a wireline project specifically) is not like investing in a electric or water utility (or the phone company back in the day)—there is real risk.
> Both the SPD (Schroeder) and Greens (Fischer) where right dominated past then. Both parties are left dominated now.

What?! :D
This is by far the most ridiculous thing I've heard yet in this topic. Why are you doing that? To confuse all those non-Germans here? What a nasty strategy.
Both did come to power BECAUSE OF THEIR LEFT ATTITUDE and to remove the right attitude.

> I thought we were talking about the NATO case in Germany when NATO is attacked by Russia, not sanctions.

You brought that myth of Germans supporting Russia and looking away when a country is invaded by Russia. Now you want to distance yourself from it?

> The quoted article states 58% of Germans would not support Germany defending east European states when being attacked by Russia. 58% looks like a majority of people to me.

I have already quoted and answered that based on your own source which says that they don't want to go themselfes but expect the US to do it for them. This also not in a marginal amount but 2/3rd and more according to your own source.

What are you trying there? Are you being paid for this?

> Repeattly annexing parts out of other countries without a military response looks like a sign of strengh to me.

Nobody even knows where this is. It's far away from Europe. Therefore of course nobody would send soldiers from Germany there. However on the topic here, we are talking about Estonia, Poland etc. People would do care about those if Russia would invade them. And those invasions would not be as cheap as ripping of parts of some backwater countries at the end of the world.

I've written that above twice. You are obviously trying to tire me out here.

> Why are you not providing a source for that?

No you play dump? I thought you are reading "newspapers", did you miss the recent election results or what was going on since then? Let me help your well informed background out: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=election+results+germany+2017

> Why are you not providing a source for that?

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/vladimir-ryzhkov/syria-cost-r...

Also first result in google.

> "Greens had some values back then."

Do you now want to pretend that you missed what comulated in the most famous Farbbeutel attack? Is this what is left of your strategy? Ignoring key events in German history, ignoring recent election results, playing dump?

I'll bite. Here is the speech that came after it http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/wortlaut-auszuege-...

> "above and covers pretty much the radical left and right party voters/members. "

http://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/bundestagswahl-die-afd-pa...

http://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/inland/afd-verteidigt-put...

http://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/die-linke-und-russland-wa...

https://www.mdr.de/nachrichten/politik/inland/linke-gegen-ru...

http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/linkspartei-in-der...

All very well known to even half good informed "newspaper reader". Not to you? How come? Maybe we should get back to you: where are you coming from? What are those newspapers that let you miss all those key events and facts while leading you to this Russia Today standpoint on Russia?
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I was to “go to person” for my university’s natural language processing research group. I built a database and accompanying REST API for bulk loading audio and transcription data for one of their projects. I was quite pleased with it.

When it came time for the researchers to submit transcripts I had the pleasure of reviewing probably the worst python program I have ever seen.

1) The request JSON was manually built using strings and string substitution. One immediate bug I saw was that the researcher forgot to wrap one of his keys in quotes. `{key: “val”}` is not valid JSON of course.

2) The python program did not actually make the web requests. It generated curl commands as strings and then printed them to std out.

3) The researcher then took all these generated curl commands and evaled them.

You seriously can’t make this stuff up.
If you look in the link there are six games listed. One is Star Citizen, two are (afair) by Amazon game studios, so that would leave three other games. No idea if these are just the show cases or all of them.

So, not the greatest uptake, but Amazon was always willing to give things time to mature. We'll see if they can take market share of UE4/Unity.
Ah yes, a derivative of Mornington Crescent more suitable for computers to play.
I think it would be a huge error. The US culture already pervades everywhere in the EU thanks to their medias. We really don't want them to invade us directly and out-birth our native population using our health care system and social benefits. They should stay in their country.
There are some places, however, that are starting to put restrictions around minors in Malls at given times of day. The article mentions Simon Property Managment and I think that company now disallows anyone under 18 within their malls after 5pm, Friday through Sunday. This seems even stranger to me because of the foot traffic and disposable income of many minors; feels like a target demographic that the malls are shunning, then complaining about lower amounts of foot traffic.
It is still an issue because of the way the market is structured. Movies exclusive distribution rights are sold separately to distributors in each country to maximize revenues, in advance if possible. (Or once the movie has toured festivals for independent movies, making it impossible sometimes for years or forever to buy a digital download in one’s country)
> the newer open-air shopping centers

The Circle of Fashion has been completed. The early, 1950s-era malls were outdoor. In the Chicago area, at least two of them survive to this day (Oakbrook Center and Old Orchard). Park Forest Plaza didn't fare so well after the enclosed Lincoln Mall opened in 1973 a few miles west in Matteson.

Now, though, Lincoln Mall has been demolished except for the Carson Pirie Scott store, which was made freestanding.

Over in Orland Park, in the wake of enclosed Orland Square's success, a second enclosed mall was built just to the south. It was not a success, and it was eventually turned inside out as a sort of double-sided strip mall, which now thrives.
An Addled Deploy
> Is it broke people, people working several jobs on minimum wage, ... people trapped in debt?

At least in Europe, it is not uncommon that bank/pension/state funds (in effect: everybody's money) buy in latest to these stocks.

Allocating resources in society is a hard problem, and capital markets overall provide a valuable service in deciding where resources should go. But when some of these markets function more or less like a lottery (or ponzi scheme), I don't see why a society should support (or even worse: idolize) its participants.
You wouldn't, and any data scientist worth their salt would recommend that the business choose the latter option.
I signed up for a US BMO account for the sign up bonus... Man is that bank's website bad. The version of jQuery they are using is from 2008 (1.3xx IIRC) and they give you a pop-up if you try to right click saying "right-click has been disabled for security purposes."
Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) is a real branch of physics that deals with the motion of charged fluids (which could be ions dispersed in a fluid, but more typically involve the high-temperature plasmas of stars and experimental fusion reactors). Mathematically it fuses Maxwell’s Laws of Electromagnetism with Navier-Stokes for fluid flow (if that is insufficiently nauseating, relativistic and quantised complications are available upon request).

The idea of moving water by running a current through it and subjecting it to magnetic fields was “diffusely known” in the late 1970s/early 1980s. Japanese researchers eventually built such a device in the 1990s and discovered it to be hideously inefficient. I myself knocked together a means of getting electricity out of a flame by means of electrodes and a magnetic field as a high-school science in the late 1990s. It really isn't as exotic as it sounds.

Tom Clancy isn’t actually who conceived of MHD propulsion for the fictional Red October: in his book, the boat made use of an impeller (essentially a propeller, perhaps contra-rotating, inside a cowling much a kin to a jet engine nacelle). It was only revised to be a MHD system for the film. Interestingly, impellers have now become mainstream methods of propelling a submarine, and it seems that the next frontier is to use brushless engine designs to drive the rotor by oscillating magnetic fields generated by housed coils and not need to run an axle through the pressure hull.

MHD meanwhile, as you can see, has been relegated to a supporting role of perhaps aiding stealth.

So, remarkably, Clancy was entirely accurate in his technological predictions and the later film-makers screwed up.
> there are more guns than people

That statistic is not super relevant when talking about how people feel about guns. Something like one-third of American households have a gun in them, and if you talk about individuals, it'll be modestly less than that.
That is fair.
Sorry, didn't see the reply. You want a web app as close to native? Look no further - https://www.nylas.com/download, source https://github.com/nylas/nylas-mail.
+1 for theyscrewedup.com.

Guess who is first on my list. :D
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...
There are always at least few people enjoying even the most odd games[0], but that's far from the blockbuster Star Citizen was supposed to be.

0. https://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/desert-bus-the-very-...
Wired is misusing that quote, since it does not pertain to Mirai specifically, but to cyberwarfare in general.

Here's the source titled "Someone Is Learning How to Take Down the Internet", dated September 2016:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/09/someone_is_le...

The source paragraph does not mention Mirai at all (nor does the article):

> Over the past year or two, someone has been probing the defenses of the companies that run critical pieces of the Internet. These probes take the form of precisely calibrated attacks designed to determine exactly how well these companies can defend themselves, and what would be required to take them down. We don't know who is doing this, but it feels like a large nation state. China or Russia would be my first guesses.

You should actually read the whole article to get a sense of where he is coming from.
Insurance fraud is illegal; you can go to jail for it.
45% of births are paid by Medicaid.
On paper you are absolutely right.
Does it make it right? Maybe so, maybe not.

"But we've decided to, as individual societies and as an entire world by treaty, to provide such enforcement, because we think recognizing such property rights is good for our society".

Remember Aaron Schwartz?
I'm still dumbfounded that the practise of setting up torrent honeypots by agencies like waldorf&frommer is actually legal
Well, just saying how it was where I grew up in the Midwest. Air Conditioning was not standard in many of the older houses and when there was a heatwave, people would go to malls/movie theaters and relax there because the buildings were publicly accessible, had stuff to do to kill time, and were climate controlled. I know that 102F and 99% humidity is par for the course down South, but, you know we Northerners just don't really handle that the same way. I remember during heat waves growing up that the local news stations and the city would advise going to places where there is air-conditioning if you didn't have AC.

As for safe, again, maybe just different up north, but it's absolutely common to just give your kid $20-$40 go to the mall to hang out with friends or to kill time shopping, or at an arcade (for the few that still have one), or to go to a movie at the mall or whatever. The security tends to be pretty strict. One of the malls where I grew up had such strict security they wouldn't let minors in without guardian being present). The adult would go shopping or grab lunch or read, the kids would run off and do whatever.

So, sorry that our experiences don't mesh, but it absolutely did happen. Here's a video from Anaheim Fire and Rescue recommending that people go to the mall during a heat wave: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msk2Qd4TkJs

Edit: added clarity to last sentence
My colleague at Wallaroo Labs wrote this and I submitted while he is still happilly sleeping (timezones are a wonderful thing). Happy to answer any questions I can and if there are any I can't, after he wakes up, I'll direct him here to try and answer them.
Or when the legal way is unpleasant. I couldn't watch GOT on sky Atlantic with its ad breaks every ten minutes.
"Its UI paradigm looks out of place on macOS "- Which part?
You got me curious so I did a little digging.

While most articles infer they are building these things on top of the public Ethereum blockchain it is more likely they are basing it on top of R3CEV[0].

Either sloppy reporting or part of a grander pump-and-dump scheme, you decide...

[0]https://www.coindesk.com/r3cev-blockchain-test-11-banks/
I hope someone from the admin team is taking a close look at this comment section here. I would really love to see some background.
Heard about similar experiments a couple of decades ago. Back then scientists immediately stopped the experiment. If glowing plants escape the lab it would seriously affect the natural day-night cycle in nature. Hard to predict what would happen to the night life in the forests. The pitch back then was to colonise space as plants would not need the sun for photosynthesis.
Oh please: how do the homeless streaming into NYC find their way over in the first place? But let's be charitable: we can fund a one-way ticket back, first class, to their state of residence at a vastly cheaper cost than for housing them on expensive land they will never be productive enough to work their way out of.

EDIT: (Because the preceding was hatsher than it had to be without explicit statement of the upside) The point is, if their skill set and ability to advance is little beyond flipping burgers, their cost of living will leave them far better off economically long term in middle American heartland than being forever at the margin of poverty, propped up by municipal welfare in high cost coastal cities.
> Why would a country ban npmjs?

that is also what I keep asking myself.

those in charge of censorship are not especially educated people (they are mostly young clerics/government devoutees), and a website's number of visitors along with its background color (yes) is just enough reason for them to take it out of reach. Somewhat appalling, but you get used to it.

For the record, npm worked (and worked well),like, ten months ago.

But now it doesn't, not easily at least. I tried my luck with polipo/tor, but it was so slow and disconnected so frequently that I gave up. I now only use npm to publish, and that is still something I don't want to think about until the very last minute.
It's possible that CryEngine is now offerend under different terms compared to when it was licensed to StarCitizen.
Wow that is a name I haven't read or heard in years. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, father of modern anarchism.
It is debatable if it is unethical given the license but it is definitely a disservice for the community.
> I'm concerned about the (even theoretical) end to end efficiency compared to something like a solar panel + led setup.

The maximum theoretical efficiency of chlorophyll-based photosynthesis with sunlight is 11%. That's already less than what solar panels can provide, and no plant achieves that. Then they store this energy in biomass, with a global efficiency of typically less than 1%.

Then, they will likely also use a very inefficient process to convert matter back into light, I'd assume less than 1% efficiency given the complicated pathways used. We're already at something like 0.01% efficiency from sunlight to artificial light at this point.

It's actually logical, since instead of converting light to readily-usable electricity, plants convert light into energy that they use to live, matter that they use to build themselves, and matter used for storage. Only the latest fraction is usable to create light, and most of it is already intended for the plant to live during the night. A solar panel has none of this overhead.

There is absolutely no way that plants will ever come close to competing with artificial lighting. They won't glow, at most they will be able to be faintly seen in the dark.
What cultures are those? Honest question.
> which means I can actually kill my desk lamp by not caring enough

But now you have a nice reminder for watering your "lamp" when it isn't glowing as usual.
Ask the union that negotiates the wages on behalf of polish cashier? It's not like the wages in Germany magically started rising or Lidl is well known for philanthropy in Germany. The unions went on strike for the wages and still do. It's money hard fought for.

In any case, I don't think this is something you can blame on "the EU", as many people do. Many many Poles do use the benefits of the EU (just as others do, and rightfully so), either by having infrastructure built (look at the whole transit road from Warsaw down to Bialystock, the A1, ... tons of EU funds went into that) or by using the EU rules to work abroad with little to no friction (just have a short peek at the number plates that travel along the A1 now for christmas, you'll see lots and lots from all EU countries). It's certainly not all good in the EU, but what the polish government currently does - blaming all problems on the evil EU while claiming all benefits for the great polish government - is certainly a recipe to alienate friends and supporters.
The fact is that they made the assurance, and then lied and said they never gave such an assurance. If you think lying isn't nefarious, that's your outlook.
The other element is restaurants, I've noticed malls that have name brand chain restaurants always seem busy.

People will go out to eat, and since they are there do some shopping. There are still things that are better buying in person rather than getting something shipped, not liking it, shipping it back, etc.
There's always a utility... Thanks!
You need a good random sample and lots of manpower to manually label them. Mechanical Turk [0] is one place to go for that man power if you don't have a "grunt work" team and are not willing to spend a few days doing it yourself.

There are also some methodologies out there that can help you label data sets more efficiently. I don't often see them used, but they exist. Look up "active learning" and "semi-supervised learning".

[0]: http://nlp.cs.illinois.edu/HockenmaierGroup/Papers/AMT2010/W...
Disney buys much of Fox in Megamerger
$25,000. Valve doesn't distribute Source without it, as far as I know. Replacing Havok would take a lot of effort which is better spent elsewhere.