skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Proceedings of the IEEE published a special issue on GPS in 1999 [1]. It's mostly paywalled but the "Scanning the Issue" article [2] is not and gives a pretty good overall history of GPS.

[1] http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/tocresult.jsp?isnumber=15872

[2] (PDF) [ http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=736338 ]
Crawling 20,000 images per second
Static classes are evil, or Make your dependencies explicit
There are a few, like Modum, that are really nothing but unregulated shares. Most of them are unregulated less-than-shares.
To the badass people who get their LE certificates with Apache mod_md: you have chosen well!

mod_md checks the challenge list from the ACME server and choses one that it supports. So, if your server listens on port 80, everything will continue to work. You do not need to change anything.

If your server is only reachable via port 443, there seems currently no way you can sign up with Let's Encrypt. You will need
to open port 80 for certificate renewal/signup to work. Some Advice:

* port 80 needs to be available only during a renewal/signup. Once you have your certificates, you may close it again. You need to mind renewal periods then and should check your server logs more frequently.

* you can safely redirect your port 80 to 443 with the 'MDRequireHttps' configuration directive. This redirection takes automatically care that challenges from an ACME server are still being answered while all other requests are redirected.

In case you find issues or have additional questions, visit the github repository at https://github.com/icing/mod_md and file an issue.
Respectfully, why is it gross? Why is it gross to question suicides in the case of political dissidents? I think it's necessary. Even if wrong, or baseless, it's a task that needs to be done and I would be afraid to live in a state where it is unacceptable to question such.
Stop working for unethical companies like Google, Facebook, Criteo and the thousands others that make money by spying on people.

Or at least stop defending those practices, like a certain ucaetano does in this thread.

I'm looking into what can be done politically though. Talking on forums doesn't get very far...
RACISM IN FASHION SPARKS CRITICISM AGAINST H
w.r.t. the "affine regression" comment - you can reduce affine regression to linear regression by adding a constant feature whose value is 1 for every data point, or by centering the data on its mean. So it's a fairly mild misnomer :)

edit: of course, I agree that we should not say "linear function" when we mean "affine function" in general.
> The Foolish Old Man Who Removed The Mountain

This is a real story in India - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashrath_Manjhi

There is also a good movie made on him - http://m.imdb.com/title/tt3449292/
There is plenty of evidence that there are genetic differences in how the brain is build up between men and women [0]. Several studies have also found that as early as 3 year old children will develop differences in their cognition; boys will develop better spatial skills at that age compared to girls, on the other hand the girls will have a better memory recall than the boys. This development can then be traced all the way into adulthood with a variety of skillsets (not only spatial tasks but eye-hand coordination, motor skills, reaction times, recollection, processing speed and verbal skills) [1]

Now this doesn't mean women are incapable or bad at copmuter engineering or anything in IT. Quite the opposite, women are just as capable and can be just as good in IT as men, there is no reason they can't.

If what you say is true and indian culture views IT as an office job and therefore a woman's job, then I don't see how that contradicts the assertion that there are biological cognitive differences, women can do the same job, they are just less inclined to be interested in it. On average.

So while gender roles may play a role (pun intended) in the distribution of gender in the IT job, expecting a 50/50 representation is entirely fictional, there will be a bias towards one or the other based on simple cognitive development tendencies.

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0: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00429-017-1600-2

1: doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2013.10.011.
In the described cases, neither of the road users has seen the other, in which case your rule does not work.

You may assume that most bicyclists do not want to get killed; of course bicyclists will slow down if they see a car on a collision course, even if they have priority; your suggestion borders on the insulting.
What HP (and others) does give you is the opportunity do buy something almost as good (and quite possible more than good enough) for less money. They also let you buy something for the same price that is a lot better along the one axis you care most about (but worse along the axis you don't care so much about). But if you want to blindly match spec sheets you're going to pay about the same.
And the authorities are equally likely to commit a crime as the man on the street, a fact they generally don't acknowledge and certainly don't design their own systems for.

You cannot create safety by concentrating power and authority, you create it by limiting the effects of those two.
This is a typical example of not understanding the problem they going to solve, but naively assume because ether rum is awesome it can solve everything.
Thanks for the encouraging response. I will use the solar cells as a learning opportunity. I am thinking that they will be a good way to teach kids the basics of solar power.
Your private information is collected and shared no matter if you refuse or not. The biggest offenders are US companies, where there are no laws offering customers access to information about them or the possibility to delete or correct it.
Those strong arguments were not coming from Intel. To me it's more surprising that someone not involved in the design of Intel CPUs can state what Intel can and can not do - after all, not that long ago people didn't even know the Intel CPUs ran a version of Minix (the Intel ME)
I'm guessing they actually do exist almost everywhere, but they are rare, and only typical in very slow traffic areas such as residential block intersections (see google map in next post) where you can't motivate building a roundabout or adding lights.
Anywhere else they would be replaced by either traffic lights or a roundabout.

Most importantly, you would avoid at almost any cost to cross two rural roads in a flat 4 way crossing. This is exactly where there is ample space to make a roundabout.
Kong community edition
If tls-sni-02 is affected too (as Josh indicated it probably is below), I'd suspect something like a major CDN or hosting provider allowing deployment of arbitrary, attacker-controlled certificates on arbitrary domains under "acme.invalid". That would be the only thing I can think of that would bypass the "anti-parrot" mitigation introduced in -02.

Otherwise, it's probably what you're describing.
More and more newer projects don't need those miners. It's still in question if they really offer the same security, but between masternode chains (security by having the "mining" done by people having to hold a large share of the coins so tanking its value would hit them hardest), dPoS (delegated Proof of Stake, every coin is a vote and you vote for a pool of "miners"), DAG where everyone has to do PoW for other txs to confirm their own, and other ideas, there are some interesting things. (I say "miner" but for those newer ones, the proof of work is often minimal to non-existent.)
It is explicitly advertised on Adafruit as a level shifter https://www.adafruit.com/product/1787
Training is important, but the idea behind roundabouts is "we'll have plenty of collisions here, but all of them will be 30km/h or less".

Obviously you want to having bicycles or pedestrians in your roundabout so adding a bike/pedestrian path next to the roads has to be part of the plan if you want to do it right.
I don't get this. Is caddy so hard to build from source that you'd pay 10$ for a binary? The source code is ASL licensed so allows commercial use.
Exactly. There have been a bunch of proof on concept websites that have been offering this service for 3-4 years now with very little pick up or interest from creators or consumers. In the end, there’s no reason it couldn’t be a simple open source drag and drop utility, or command line tool. They are offering a complicated solution to a problem that no one seems to think they have.
We are taking about subset of taxation not all taxation, namely "politically constructed taxation" as described by ajnin.

Historically, taxation has been imposed at every level from small bands to vast empires

Agreed.

it certainly is not correct that they've normally been imposed by distant rulers

Then by whom is it normally imposed ? Give an example of a historic taxation voted and imposed by a small-band/.../vast-empire on itself.

Coming back to the topic, my claim is that private property social contract have been more stable than taxation (the social-contract version).
The number of people who care about their privacy in the general population is quite small. We in our tech bubble believe that everybody cares, or should care, but most are satisfied if they find a searched page by entering it “into the Google”.

Those with FF installed it 10y ago when it was sexy, and stuck with it because they are resistant to change.
Meltdown, spectre and state of technology
China's plummeting space station is just a taste of the space junk problem
Disease Prediction, Machine Learning, and Healthcare
My Prius has an airbag in the A pillar. What I find slightly terrifying is when you are turning you can get the same effect with a walking pedestrian. I'd frankly rather trade a thinner A pillar for a lower likelihood of clocking a pedestrian.
The disease makes you constantly form connection between things that are not related. It is a constant creativity generator humming away.
Every Shizo lives in a spynovel.
In Terrys case one where he got to play the all seeing controller he imagines behind every person. The OS is the sickness and its solutions are created by the sickness.
The online advertising world has changed a lot since Facebook's IPO. 180m users and an awkward ad buying experience aren't as compelling as they used to be.

Plus, it sounds like not all of those 180m Snapchat users are interacting with the part of Snapchat where they would see ads, so the audience is smaller.

That said, I completely agree that a lack of users isn't preventing them from having a decent advertising business. It's just preventing them from doing it on the terms they want.
I feel like this is kind of like tsa locks on luggage. If they can access your lock, so can others.
What sort of experiences might they have missed? Will you ever know?

Well, I know what activities didn't get crowded out by unfettered access to a computer.

It wasn't about a monastic existence, it was just keeping things in balance.
That's awesome. One step closer to treating infrastructure exactly as code.

I'd imagine you could stop a build if the docker image generated doesn't have, say, a valid python installation because someone mistyped a command, and that doing so would be quicker than standing up the image and running an external test against it.
Unmasking the importance of effective task delegation
> I guess companies like Google, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Stripe, Airbnb, Dropbox, Pinterest and a hundred others all really messed up.

This reeks of selection bias.
There are surely alternatives/augmentations to antibiotics. One that comes to mind is that exposure to certain blue light wavelengths kills germs (as recently discovered by the anti-acne industry). They could irradiate the operated tissue with intense blue light (plus maybe red light to lessen inflammation) before sewing up. And near infrared therapy (LLLT or even LED) would deal with a lot of inflammation post-op. A quite cheap option actually.. it would of course not prevent all infections, but sure a lot of them.

ADDED

Since people seem to have trouble with the antibacterial claim, here is an article: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/23009190/

Just google “pubmed blue light antimicrobial”.
Excellent read.

But it leaves me shaking my head. If the world is so desperate for answers to this problem, why do I continue to be ignored and crapped on?

And it's generally viewed as bad form for me to express such thoughts. And I don't understand that either.
I can totally believe that may exist too.

After all, for the CDN / Hosting company, what's the real risk?

It wouldn't shock me if lots of infrastructure lets you board a new and novel host label that hasn't already been boarded and starts letting you configure things like a custom TLS certificate to be associated with that label.

As long as they watch out for uniqueness, what's the risk to the CDN? That a config context gets created for a DNS label that isn't yet pointed there? It's not an obvious risk from the CDN's perspective. Even for an invalid domain.

"Oh, sad, I just wasted mere kilobytes of storage on a configuration for a domain that you're never going to actually be able to get into the DNS and point to me?" That sounds kind of low cost, from the CDN's perspective.
> Typical client implementations (such as certbot, but most others too) are configured to use exactly one challenge type at the time of setup

Certbot has a preferred challenges flag, which takes an ordered list. Setting it to tls-sni-01,http-01 means it will try to use the TLS challenge first, and fallback to the HTTP challenge. I've tried this myself in dry-run mode (because my existing certs all still have valid authorizations against the TLS-SNI challenge) and it will drop back to http-01.
Wow, cool. Thanks burntsushi. rg is already amazing. This project really has gotten an enormous amount of love & effort from you & it really shows through & through.

Your implementation of the gitignore algorithm is crazy impressive to me.
How does a blockchain limit illegal reproduction? Having an record of ownership ain’t gonna shut down the torrents whether it’s in a database in Apple’s data center, or on a blockchain. How does this square with blockchain-related projects like IPFS which basically make it impossible to stop piracy?
The ozone layer is healing
Actually, you can't pass the line with your wheels without coming to a full stop, so you have to account for the engine overhang, you can't just zap the cars at the line with your lightsaber... :-P
Availability is generally viewed as a plus.

Proximity (especially being close to tracks but far from stations) is viewed as a minus.
Angel List launches 35M$ accelerator for Angel Investors
If you are programmer then try to think of email as code for brain quantum networks and use automation tools. I have coded email about that here https://gitlab.com/dzmitry-lahoda/dzmitry-lahoda.gitlab.io/b...
Minor nitpick, but Carmack didn't create the tools for id's games. Romero made most of the early tools until his depature.
It's probably not very hard, however for an organisation or a team with several members, paying $X can be worth it - they don't have to spend effort on building and maintaining it (allows them to focus on other tasks), just deploy the binaries and contact Caddy when they need some support.
"We currently support 45 editions of Windows. Patches for 41 of them are available now through Windows Update."

Wow. I have to admit, that number larger than I would have guessed. (I probably would have said 20.) But ultimately not too surprising.
What a bullshit response, he argues that there are a lot of better alternatives, not that there shouldn't be any safety precautions.
> Ironically it's quite a similar tax to $10 SSL certificates, only it's a higher upfront cost, of $25

Except that was $10 a year and you could use the cert on as many servers as you want. This is $25 a month per instance.
Credit card with a display and a cell phone connection
You can make anything seem valuable by bankrolling a sock puppet buyer to buy from you at a fantastical price while others are watching.

Cryptotokens work particularly well because of pseudonymity, a very receptive audience and exchanges that will happily provide a stage for just about anything as long as they get a little cut.

Competition between similarly inflated tokens make success and failure a matter of storytelling quality. The legend doesn't even have to personally convince anybody, but it should lend the sock puppet buys some plausibility.
The British Once Built a 1,100-Mile Hedge Through the Middle of India
That is an intersection that needs traffic lights. And if it's just twice a day, default the less used direction to red and have it switch to green only if a car is actually waiting.

As a european 4 way stops seem really inefficient to me. If the intersection isn't that busy a 2 way stop (or no stop at all) favouring the more frequently used road is the obvious choice.
If it's a busy 4 way stop however, can you really keep track of when other cars arrived at the stop? And if it's busy enough that you have to yield to the car to your right, chances are that everyone has a car to their right - so vague negotiation between drivers is required. Nobody wins in that scenario.

Also, roundabouts are the superior 4 way stops.
you clearly never had to support developers that need to work with a basic git-flow and get merge conflicts because they're unable to figure out why they shouldn't do the same change in separate branches. Or, if they do, how to resolve that conflict themselves.
"Criteo, which took advantage of that loophole"

You see, even when they get presented with rules, they try to work around them.
Techies are also seeing dollar signs, perhaps we need a word to describe these semi-technical people chasing pots of gold at the end of a fools rainbow!
Phrenology was used to justify pre-existing racism.

All these studies that show that men are naturally more intelligent because their brains are larger amount to the same thing, but racism is out of vogue, so let's use it to justify pre-existing sexism this time.

If 3 women published a scientific paper with the conclusion, "girls rule, boys drool," you wouldn't feel at least a little suspicious of the authors' intentions?
Not to be a sceptic, but how reliable are these measurements?
Makes you wonder why we allow the animal agriculture industry to jack up their profits with wildly excessive overuse of antibiotics and externalize the cost onto the rest of us, not only in terms of dollars but in terms of loss of access to fundamental and essential medical procedures.
As soon as you add or remove to the string, it no longer points to the same resource; I considered this too obvious to mention. OTOH, for _validation_, this is useful: "you have a ZWJ character in an URL, that's unlikely". And yes, I understand that there are protocols that allow you to pass around the full Unicode or aunt Matilda or whatever - I should have been more specific.
Yep, given that practically all altcoins are priced in bitcoin, market cap artificially rises extremely, or lowers extremely due to the inertness of the open trades.
> 150mbps cable, cheap price,

1Gbps download, 500Mbps upload, 10 USD/mo. How cheap is Comcast, again?
It's not common throughout the country, but the roads in question are within the New Forest where there are a large number of ponies and other animals roaming free ..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Forest#Ponies,_cattle,_pig...
Agreed, what a great interview!

I remember UnrealEd from the Unreal 1 and Unreal Tournament 1 disks. That's how it looked like: https://www.gamasutra.com/db_area/images/blog/309414/ide1.jp...

Back in the "engine war" between Quake 3 Arena and Unreal Tournament, the map community loved UnrealEd, it was definitely easier to use and was just-in-time, no seperate minute-long build-process to build the level and try it out, in UnrealEd you could just try it out. Visual Basic 4-6 were incredible RAD product (rapid application development). Before Github, before GoogleCode, before Sourceforge, there was PlanetSourceCode and it was the go to place for Visual Basic dev community. For everything you could find little programs and code. Windows 95/98 era and Visual Basic was the perfect symbiosis. Very sad when MS announced the vision of .net and stopped VB6 in 1999 (it took them until 2003 to show up with something, yet many devs faced a wall with no support, and were forced to moved on to Java/PHP/etc). Anyway when I first read about UnrealEd was coded in Visual Basic 5 or 6 I couldn't believe it, it had an outstanding performance and integrated the C++ renderer perfectly. Though it was a bit unstable (which was common also for Word 97 and Excel 97 back then), so one had to save a lot, and use "save as" to not correct files. I would say the next evolution of game editors was certainly Sandbox editor of Cryengine 1 from Far Cry 1 disk (2004). Creating tropical islands with its landscape editor was never easier. Of course other tools soon reached parity.
If it's something like that, the fix would be to define a tls-sni-03 with a couple changes:

The SNI name indication from the validation MUST be a child element desired certificate domain label.

(If I want a cert for a.com, the SNI indication in the TLS-SNI-03 would need to be something like obvious-acme-challenge.a.com)

Further, the self-signed cerfificate needs to have the SAN dnsName as in the SNI -- AND ALSO -- another authentication token signed by the account key stuffed into the certificate in some other certificate field.
Anyone know if there are performance impacts from the macOS updates released recently to address Spectre/Meltdown?
AMD is not susceptible to Meltdown. So the issue is not inherent to the x86_64 architecture.

Knowing that, can it be possible that Intel can patch their CPU via micro-code in a manner that does not affect performance to a great degree, and not require a software patch to solve the Meltdown attach ?
Is that sort of meta reasoning an efficient way to get at the truth? There are much better arguments that can be found against Marxism. Saying "But what if the Marxists said the same thing?" is a low-effort excuse that can be used against the proponents of any belief you don't like. It's better to take the reasoning at face value and address the arguments directly.
The first version is much more readable and less hacky; alas, unless you are positive that all the software you're interfacing with can handle Unicode (never have I ever been in such a glorious situation), fallback to URL-encoding it is.
January 2018 Patch Tuesday security updates fix a 0day flaw in MS Office
It's definitely an option, but the question is whether someone who has set up certbot at some point in the past will benefit from it without manual intervention (as is the case for Caddy). If you're following the standard setup, using the instructions on certbot's website, you'll select exactly one plugin (with each plugin mapping to one challenge type, unless you do something fancy), and if that challenge type goes away, manual intervention is required.
Plus, at least in my region there always seems to be some sort of obstacle blocking sight in the center of larger roundabouts. Maybe it's just a convenient place for memorials, statues, etc., but I can't help but think that slowing down drivers is at least a welcome side effect.
I well remember that entire episode playing out in the US press. He also ran for mayor of Stuttgart towards the end of his life.

Here's the New York Times obituary for him:

http://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/14/world/konrad-kujau-62-hitl...
We should be thankful there's no big CFC lobby, I guess? :)
This is in the New Forest National Park. You can’t just go constructing massive structures because drivers are too lazy to read signs.
The History of Video Synthesizers