skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are DDOSing a german cancer help, krebshilfe. See the substring match?
Deaths per mile is a good metric in that it is the same for everybody, so to speak, but this is also a weakness. Some people fly far further than they drive or _would_ drive, so for them we should look at per-journey metrics. This must be calculated individually because we all have different typical journeys, but it produces a more meaningful number. For example, any given day that I drive, I drive around 10 miles. When I fly, I usually fly 2600 miles. Over billion days on which I drive, I die 57.5 times, and over a billion flying days I die 156 times - so for me, I am ~3 times as likely to die in transit on a day I fly as on a day I drive. _That's_ what I think about when I file onto the plane. I'm not comparing my odds of death to the hypothetical equivalent drive, in part because I wouldn't drive that 2600 miles so it's an apples to oranges comparison. I'm comparing my odds of death today to my odds of death yesterday and my odds of death tomorrow!
I love rust, but to be honest, until the nightmare that is tokio/futures is fixed with native async/await and better compiler error messages, a strongly typed language like C# with those features natively present is my choice for web services. It addresses all the author’s issues with Ruby and JS, and is still orders of magnitude faster than those options (though admittedly not as fast as a C or rust option).
(author here) Do you know about a way to get more info about code signing of an .ipk/.app when no *.mobileprovision is contained?
> If Uber is not found legally at fault which seems likely given the circumstances and based on opinions from people with legal expertise in these cases

It's possible somebody said that they won't be held criminally liable. I would find it quite a stretch for anyone to say they won't be open to a pretty devastating civil action.
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The word "Krebs" in German translates to crab as well as cancer.
They are donating to the charities that work against cancer and are commenting "Krebs ist scheiße" which would translate to "Cancer is shit" as well as "[Brian ]Krebs is shit".
Depends on the router, and the load. If you have a 100mbit uplink and 4x1 gig on the downlink side, you could easily have 10mbit of packets arrive in 3ms (70 packets per millisecond), but would take 30ms to send those packets. You can either

1) Drop -- despite total trafic being only 10mbit a second

2) Queue -- introducing a delay of 30ms.

In reality you'd put latency critical applications (voip etc) at the top of the queue so the pcakets get transmitted without the delay, and your facebook packets get delayed by 31ms rather than 30ms.
EU, not eastern Europe. But wouldn't surprise me if the roaming charges were abolished there as well
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That's a big plus in hacker humour, considering DDoS, swatting and other malicious stuff (get it) flung at Krebs.

Edit: are they DDoSsing or donating? If the former, than it's even worse form. Had my hopes up for a second. The article talks about a failing site because of many donations, but other replies here about DDoS.
Truth Is the Next Big Thing
Social Media we know will crumble soon.

What we observe is the erosion of the truth. The creators of fiction were infected with fiction themselves. A specific self-mirage.

I'm seeing it all the time. 64% of people don't trust information from the internet but they still share. I know Influencers which have no idea that 60% of their followers are fake but charge brands $1000 per post.

The greater the civilization acceleration is, the more difficult it is to keep information and disinformation separate.

Pollution of the information zone by false/fake content/traffic is today near to 50%. When it exceeds 70%, there will be a collapse and then no one will take any action under the influence.

The end of the CTA's age is near. The end of headlines, end of conversion, and of CPC. End of funnels. No one will expect value after hearing the value proposition.

We are an information-based civilization. Soon we will notice the rise of the startups dealing with the provision of information about information.

Source Investigators, Bots Detection, Value Verification, Content Filtering.

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the NYT uses cookies, but the WaPo uses some other means.

i also avoid clicking these links, even if i know i probably won't reach paywall limit that month.. its psychological :)

i like the Guardian model better, no paywall.
now considering a paid subscription out of sheer appreciation for that
If they own it, in what way do they own it?
Also you've missed the changing the cursor (CSS) when you hover over the link.
> To be clear: today in React there is no way to asynchronously fetch data on the server. It’s just not supported

What we've done for the past few years is trigger async fetches in componentWillMount on the server and perform multiple renderToString.

This requires some instrumentation so you can monitor that all the data has loaded and your tree is fully rendered.

Removing componentWillMount will force us to rewrite everything to the suspense API. I hope that transition won't cause too many headaches.
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> Go couldn't afford not to have a generational GC without value type

And Java couldn't afford not to have value types without a generational GC ;-)

> C, C++ and Rust can't use a bump allocator since you need a compacting GC to do so. But allocations are really expensive in these languages and removing them is often the first step of optimization.

Agreed. This is why Go programmers use the same optimizations as C, C++ and Rust programmes is such a case (by allocating from a pool or an arena).

Are you aware of cases where what is gained thanks to the bump allocator is lost because of compaction?
The larger issue is that you can somehow kill an entire fleet by sacrificing a single ship and yet nobody had the idea to build hyperdrive torpedos.
The photos seem to show quite clearly a steering wheel and wing mirrors...

I'd guess these cars are being designed to have the self driving system as an addon that can be removed/redesigned in the future as the tech evolves.
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OP here. by power supply, I was talking about the metal box that the bright light comes out of. The thing making the 4kw of laser juice. Not just a transformer.
The "fair use limit" is to prevent expats using a SIM card from a country with cheaper tariffs in a country where higher rates apply
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Not that I noticed. It's a rather small exhibition by MoMA standards and, to your point, has some notable gaps. Personally, I would love to see a more expansive exhibition of this sort, organized thematically rather than chronologically. It would be great to give some context to what current computer artists are doing.
> Not too far off

There’s a big difference between an app that does my dishes and an app that controls an expensive and space-consuming machine that does my dishes.

Yes, you can’t have a $1 digital phone app that does the dishes on its own, but I think that was OP’s point.
I think what's so attractive about the RTL-SDR devices is that they're so cheap and have such a huge variety of applications.

With a $10 dongle, you can go from tracking airplanes, to reading your wireless electric meter, to listening to local amateur radio, and then to an additional entropy source.

I double I'll ever get tired of playing with this little radio.
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Blazemeter now give 1000 API tests free a month. That might help?
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Yes, same power unit, but I have the IPG motion control and machine, not a Prima. The Prima was more than double the total cost of mine. That machine in the video can hit $1,000,000 with options. Also it is super cool.
What to do about the next 500 serious AV accidents
Maybe limiting the game for people you know, like a list of friends on Facebook or phone list.
The Clock Is Ticking Faster at Tesla (No Paywall)
For evil purposes.

Or for cutting steel and making auto parts.
> I also want an app that does my dishes

How about an app that let’s you hire people to come to your house and wash your dishes? All you need (after initial setup) is a single tap.

My startup, DshWshr[1], is close to launching and we’ll revolutionise the dish washing space.

[1]: I’m joking.
One of the main points of the federation model was that it should be able to scale. Local regions rule themselves in nearly all things (the governor is the president of Alabama) and the regions people are only required to comply with a small number of issues that effect everyone (like national defense).

Of course we all know how that ended up. The federal powers increased steadily until we got where we are. This is one of the reasons you see so much anger against the coasts and cities.
That's .. not how credibility works for the police.
In order to respond to accusation, I'd like to see any sources that support the accusation.
But none were provided.
Technically -- without a license, you can't.
Whenever anyone tells you that Facebook and Palantir have nothing to do with each other, remember that when Facebook vacated its original headquarters on University Ave, Palantir moved in.

And Peter Thiel indirectly funded Cambridge Analytica through a PAC. And he is STILL on the board of Facebook! Today!
Not really sure, but isn't it what 4g usp modems are for?
I think I get where you're coming from but

1. not sure what trust is required of you for content which is a gradient in the shape of an egg.

2. would you be more comfortable with ads that hid their intention to 'manipulate' you?

3. the word manipulate is pretty loaded, really they're pretty straightforward about trying to sell you something
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But wouldn't that imply that the "daring, thing-breaking" people are actually incompetent to some degree? Otherwise they would mitigate the risk before performing any dangerous operations on a live system.

"Bravado is no excuse for lack of preparation."
- Leeroy Jenkins
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Ah! Thanks for the correction.
Just guidelines at this point.

https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/us-dot-releases-new-aut...
They are donating and posting their confirmation mails on pr0gramm.com. The servers cant keep up with the amount of donations.
If both bitstreams are cleverly chosen, then neither is a source of entropy.
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It is true under the assumption that the two sources are independent of each other. If one of the sources is entirely known or predictable, this will not affect the entropy of the other source.
No DDoSing, the site is collapsing from donations.
I do a lot of open source work and unfortunately a very common posion is focusing on “who broke it,” which is especially disparaging when done in public. A particularly nasty habit is when outsider Alice opens an GitHub issue saying “xxxx is broken” and developer Bob replies with “yup, @Charlie’s commit fubar’d everything.”

Unfortunately both very demoralizing and very common.
You may have vegetarian and vegan confused. Milk is vegetarian, but not vegan.
Pr0gramm.com responds to Brian Krebs doxxing with donation raid to cancer fund
But aren't they still, in essence, donating to charity to get back at Krebs?
When I was younger, I was into "minimalism" - I would spend hours writing up i3/vim/emacs configs to make things look minimalistic and strip out dependencies e.g. getting things to work without using a DM or DE with some fancy bashrcs, writing my own programs for volume/brightness controls.

Now I minimize my time wasted tweaking things that don't matter. I just use Fedora (stock with Gnome 3) with about 20 combined LOC for vimrc, emacs configs, and bashrcs. I embrace the defaults.
Taxes are not theft. They aren't even remotely close to theft. Steal is the wrong verb here. I'd agree that income taxes aren't great ways for the government to raise revenue but calling it "stealing" is a dishonest portrayal of the relationship we have with our government.

I do agree though that a tax system that punishes people who for working less hours is essentially a regressive tax and thus a poor idea.
Show HN: Zebra Classroom – Gamified real-time assessment for a modern classroom
Krebs = Cancer in german

This is apparently in protest of this article by Krebs: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/03/who-and-what-is-coinhive...

Which according to some screenshots on pr0gramm also contains bullshit users fed to Krebs in an attempt to toll him. [0]

But the obvious problem here is the unnecessary doxing of people, just because Brian doesn't believe someone can compile a CPU miner with emscripten as one single person.

[0] http://img.pr0gramm.com/2018/03/28/b99c8ddc182d29f0.png
Zebra Classroom is a web-application for teachers to gamify the process of assessment and raise the level of students’ engagement during the lesson. So it’s more about education rather than IT, but we believe that schools are lacking modern technology. We saw how real-time synchronization between devices captivate students and that’s why you may find it cool if you or your friends work in school. We are in beta and love feedback!
Yeah, I was having a bit of trouble as well...

They're not (intentionally) DDOSing the charity. The charity's website is simply overloaded from visitors seeking to donate.

The charity's slogan is "Cancer (Krebs) is one of the worst problems of our time". So I guess it makes sense. Somehow.

It's the sort of passive-egressive altruism that quite elegantly straddles the divide of childishness and maturity.
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From what I understand, that's basically how the airline business works.

It's just that "minimally qualified pilots" are still quite highly trained. But the pay for new entrants is quite low relative to the responsibility.
You have two adversaries. Adversary A have control over your hardware source, and adversary B have control over /dev/urandom. If you XOR them A and B must cooperate to compromise your random generator. You can combine as many sources of randomness as you want, and each increase the difficulty for an adversary to defeat your generator.
Imagine hearing that in 1982
Show HN: Idgo – Your local community
The thing I don't understand is why these network operators care about RTT outside their network? Shouldn't they only care about getting packets through their network as quickly as possible, which you don't need this spin bit for.
Typically, "vegetarian" means eating no meat, though animal products that do not harm the animal, such as milk or honey, are allowed. You're thinking of "vegan", which forbids the use of any animal products.
That’s basically inviting the reader to discard their rationality and answer emotionally.
I don't need to believe there was a conspiracy to protect Uber here. This spot apparently has a history of pedestrian crossing, and many police departments have a habit of assigning all blame to the pedestrian in a pedestrian/vehicle collision. This blame is reinforced by the driver's "evidence" (driver didn't see anything, but she wasn't looking) and the dashcam (can't see anything, but the quality is atrocious and not at all reflective of what most drivers would see).

One thing we should take away from this incident is that we need to seriously push back on immediate "pedestrian's fault" rulings when police make them after a pedestrian/vehicle collision. It was readily apparent within hours that the story didn't add up, but people only paid so much attention because it's the first such crash involving an autonomous vehicle.

The more interesting question is how that shockingly poor dashcam footage came to be. That quality is so poor that I find it hard to believe that Uber is actively using it as a sensor input. Hell, it's worse than most dashcams I've seen on Youtube...
Good point, but we're fine, people dealing with wine got past 5th grade hopefully.

(we had the same point on saying "bit", it was the funny to no end when I was a middle schooler and we got over it)
Blooming could be partially compensated by using probing lasers and adaptive focusing optics such as in big astro telescopes.

Basically one uses a standard laser to determine air interference and then use rams to reform a semi-flexible mirror to compensate.
Ah cool, sorry I wouldn't have asked for a reference if I'd noticed your username!
We could attempt to attribute it to a statistical phenomenon from a freshman sociology course that is neckbeard-stroking worthy, or maybe editors just figured out that "man hit by train gone wild" will almost always sell more papers than "man knifes other man in street". Plus whatever political bias and what not is involved. Then there's often a positive feedback loop with what society ends up paying attention to.
I think it's more of a peaceful protest against his questionable journalism practices rather than getting back at him.

But yes.
That just gets you the entropy of /dev/urandom, if you can't trust your original source.
Link bait was bait?
Discussing Tradeoffs of TLS 1.3 (via Colm MacCárthaigh on Twitter)
Ah, I am unable to edit my comment. You are correct.
Putting it in a box (what they suggest as an alternative) is better, and you don't need the RTL for that. The whole point is to take as local a measurement as you can.
What are the offending words in French and Chinese?
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No, I'm not confused I'm being tiresome about it.

"I'm a vegetarian, pass the salmon."
deaths per billion miles is the metric we should use?
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I paid my first (and so far only) visit to MOMA in July 2016. I really wish this had been on display then: seeing a ‘working’ Connection Machine 2 is one of my all-time obsessions. Unfortunately I live in Italy and there’s pretty much none to be seen this side of the pond, that I’m aware of.

(Before anybody has any doubts: I am aware that this is not a ‘working’ CM2 in the sense that it isn’t computing anything, it’s just been jury-rigged to display “das blinkenlights”.)
ASK HN: Conferences 2018?
Trying to do some research on tech conferences. Working on a list. Looking for recommendations for conferences in the US for 2018.

Which ones are you attending and why?
I would say a little too similar.
Mmm. I wish this was true. The idea that we really live in an information society always comes with assumption that 'we are informed'. In fact, what has happened together with the rise of social media is that we 'all have an opinion', but that is not necessarily the same as being informed. In fact, most scientific knowledge does not have an impact at all in our society. We are, I think, still a capitalized society where money and power determine the direction we go.

What happens in the last five years, is capital from an emerging class - the creative class - is using digital media in order to gain power.

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Based on the amount of dust when the human hand pinches the puffball, the elephant would require a /huge/ puffball mushroom to produce that much dust (ash).
Palantir confirms a staff link with Cambridge Analytica
From the article:

Am Abend änderte sich die Auseinandersetzung dann, nachdem ein Nutzer, "BassT87", einen Screenshot als Beleg für eine 25-Euro-Spende an die Krebshilfe postete. "Ich habe den Rummel um Herrn Krebs mal zum Anlass genommen, meinen Teil gegen Krebs beizutragen. Vielleicht macht der ein oder andere es ja (statt dem drölftausendsten Meme) ja nach...".

In english:

In the evening, the dispute changed after a user, "BassT87", posted a screenshot as proof of a 25 euro donation to Krebshilfe. "I took the hype about Mr. Krebs as an opportunity to do my part against cancer[Krebs]. Maybe one or the other will (instead of the thrwelvethousandth meme) imitate it...".

This is really the kind of absurd humour I like...

(Edit: format)
Thanks for the link. Does Swift provide something similar to goroutines?
someone working for palantir in a business development role did some business development. why is this a news story?
Show HN: Axeptio, consent collection made GDPR compliant
Not the previous commenter, but many people have looked critically at marketing and media long enough to come to exactly this conclusion, myself included.

To my mind, there is something inherently wrong about the techniques used to sway opinion about products and services. They prey on our animalian reflexes and bypass the part of the brain even capable of consent. Marketing "should" (and I don't use that word often) be prohibited to use such tactics, and instead be an exposition of the product and service and any traceable, trustworthy qualifications bestowed upon it. Such a system is still hackable (selling awards for instance), but it's a way better alternative to marketing practices than what we have today.
This might be helpful as well to automatically get a secure web server. https://mozilla.github.io/server-side-tls/ssl-config-generat...
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Depends on relative costs of an engine and how random the destruction.

I think the bigger issue is simply how close the ships where to each other. If that's standard then hyperdrive weapons are a big deal, if it's a mistake then at best you take down a ship some % of the time.
Kafka streaming also uses RocksDB under the hood.

Try KSQL (https://www.confluent.io/product/ksql/ ) for a SQL-like interface to stream data from Kafka.
Yes I know what vegan means.

But in the context of a "vegetarian cat", animal milk is not vegetarian.

You could also be a (plant only) vegetarian and not a vegan if you, say, didn't eat any animal product but loved leather boots. So there is something to be said for the word meaning what it sounds like.
Well, yes and no. With me, as I started to get more active, I voluntarily pushed into those pain barriers because they weren't that bad, and made me feel amazing the next morning. Similarly, my eating habits improved primarily because eating junk makes me feel sluggish for a while, robbing later activity of its enjoyment. I sometimes still make that choice, but I usually pick activity instead.

Most importantly, through the whole process, I never had to force myself to do something I didn't want to. Instead, I put myself in positions where I want to do things that have a long-term benefit, for short-term reasons.
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After reading this list of 11 https://www.saitekaudio.com/best-6-5-speakers/, you can certainly think that the most expensive headphones in the world is not just the best sound quality.
It could be a moving target.

Maybe you could start with a generic test, for instance: x miles in random location with random conditions.

After that you could add tests when a problem appear. For instance, you could add the conditions where that woman was killed the other day. When another accident happens you would add a test appropriated to that conditions.

Regression testing for driving.
> Agreed. This is why Go programmers use the same optimizations as C, C++ and Rust programmes is such a case (by allocating from a pool or an arena).

Yes, unfortunately in Go allocations are harder to avoid[1] than in C++ or Rust, because Go rely on escape analysis whereas objects must be manually boxed in the other languages.

[1]: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-nuts/Vcgx7hkh...