skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Audits provide reasonable assurance, not total. When auditors test access controls for a homegrown application for example, it is unreasonable to ask that a full code review is done to check 100% that checking the box next to Admin confers that, and that checking Read Only restricts it always. In my experiences performing these tests (as a young grad who had never worked on a software dev team), we would ask what the permissions were designed to provide and limit, and observe in the system that they did that. If a developer had programmed a backdoor that when you press A+B+3 and whisper into a microphone grants unlogged admin access, our test would miss that. But that's why we also test change controls and who has access to push to live, etc.

Edit - and to speak more to the topic at hand, there were plenty of people at the firm I worked with who absolutely had the technical expertise to perform such an in depth audit. They are simply engaged when higher levels of assurance are required. What level of scrutiny should your auditors provide your bathroom time monitoring system?
might be good to be pg and have plenty of time to spenD with its own kid, after doing a phd in one of the most expensive colleges in the US, selling a company for tons of money, creating a extremely successful incubator

i used to enjoy his essays for a long time, til i started to see how out of the world of most people even the basic stuff he writes there -- he is able to afford to spend time doing stuff nobody can, then it's kinda of easy to be successful at whatever he does.
The federal government has policies that govern retention of social media:

https://records-express.blogs.archives.gov/2017/01/27/record...

> Bulletin 2014-02 informs agencies that content created on social media platforms, including Twitter, is likely to be a Federal record and must be managed appropriately. For records posted on third-party social media platforms, agencies must determine how best to manage the records for the appropriate retention period and capture them where appropriate. Some social media records may be temporary, with a transitory, short, or long-term retention. However, some dispositions may be permanent, requiring the records to be preserved until their eventual transfer to the National Archives.
> And the act of that measurement would in effect force the blockchain to pick a definite history.

Wouldn't there be divergence, the further back in history you go between picks, due to collisions? Or is this what the reversible nature of the hashes take care of?
> How exactly do you play ponzi schemes conservatively?

You find a bunch of greater fools to play with. But then you are back into scamming territory.
I am not sure what your position here is: that you can do whatever you want, or at least a lot of useful things, in ~100 lines of code? That if your software is broken down into functions no bigger that ~100 lines of code, and they have each been individually verified, then their composition has also been verified? Or something else?

There is also the matter of verifying the platform itself.
From a residential connection in New Zealand:

$ ping 1.1.1.1

Pinging 1.1.1.1 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 1.1.1.1: bytes=32 time=4ms TTL=60
Reply from 1.1.1.1: bytes=32 time=4ms TTL=60
Reply from 1.1.1.1: bytes=32 time=4ms TTL=60
Reply from 1.1.1.1: bytes=32 time=4ms TTL=60

$ ping 8.8.8.8

Pinging 8.8.8.8 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=27ms TTL=60
Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=27ms TTL=60
Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=27ms TTL=60
Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=28ms TTL=60

Seems that 1.1.1.1 is even faster than my local ISP's primary DNS:

$ ping 202.180.64.10

Pinging 202.180.64.10 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 202.180.64.10: bytes=32 time=11ms TTL=61
Reply from 202.180.64.10: bytes=32 time=11ms TTL=61
Reply from 202.180.64.10: bytes=32 time=11ms TTL=61
Reply from 202.180.64.10: bytes=32 time=11ms TTL=61
You don't have to kiss ass. Instead, you can deflect and let interviewer answer the question. Something like this "I saw that X corp has an open position. This is an opportunity for me because ... , so I reached you. I assume, you are looking for is a qualified candidate who can do the job described. I saw the requirements and, I believe, I am qualified candidate. If you are not convinced yet, how can I change your mind?"...
> Those bodyguards won't touch you until you try something stupid, like climbing Zuck's fence.

Bodyguards including ex-cops with records for excessive use of force. I certainly wouldn't rule it out that they fall back into old habits - and I'm certain the "blue codex" (aka cops stick together and cover each other, no matter how big the dumpster fire) would protect them.
Google Chrome's 'Articles for You' Feature Drives 2,100% More Website Traffic
On practical computers implementing such thing is trivial enough to be borderline uninteresting (at least when done by low-level non-portable means).

The interesting "practical" application is in proving that such a thing can exist in given formal system. By the way the concept of fixed-point combinators (of which Y-combinator is particular implementation) is essentually the same thing. (And in fact such combinators are notionally better match to problem "produce string that contains result of this function applied to it in its contents" than quines)

[Edit: functional->fixed-point and reworded the Y-combinator remark slightly]
Construction of the Transreal Numbers and Algebraic Transfields [pdf]
Florida has embraced open records laws, while other US jurisdictions have not - certainly not to the same extent.

A significant portion of your observation can likely be attributed to reporting bias: it's easy/cheap for a journalist to browse the website of their local Florida police department. In another jurisdiction, that same story might involve: hiring an investigative journalist, spending 3 months, and fighting to have a FOIA request honoured.
>Its the generations of people who have, over the last 10 years, grown up to assume that their personal lives are of interest to others, and wish therefore to capitalize/profit on exposing their life to strangers.

What do you mean "assume?" Obviously many people are interested in people who are exposed on social media. As a result there is massive opportunity to capitalize and profit. I'm not even just talking about the Kardashians of the world...Jane has 10 followers on instagram and Joe who is attracted to her wants to see what she's up to.

Parental controls aren't going to remove the human instinct to figure out where one stands in the social hierarchy. That's why the genie isn't going back into the bottle.
Your ideas about Florida are a common misconception in America. The reason you see all the wacky "Florida Man" news is not due to Floridians being crazier than the rest of America. It is because of their local government disclosure laws:

http://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/how-floridas-proud-open-go...
Could Oracle be sued on the usage of SQL with it's products ? Or did they paid something to Ibm to use it ?
I can't find now, was MooseFS the one using MySQL for metadata?
A lot the comments here are missing the point.

This is NOT a technical problem to be solved with a technical solution. It is a management/organizational issue and should be solved at that level.
Windows is a surveillance system? No it's not.
That particular model number is apparently exclusive to Shoppers Drug Mart (store-exclusive model numbers are a pretty common problem; in many cases the actual difference from a "standard" model is something trivial like a slightly different remote or bezel). There's an interesting forum thread about the overall product family / platform / whatever [1].

https://forums.redflagdeals.com/rca-haier-avera-fluid-sylvan...
> Samba is not a feature for you, it is a snitch in your living room, snitching on everything you watch on your TV, it's a feature for corporations only.

Serious question: so what? Lots of things don’t benefit me. Lots of things benefit corporations only. Why am I supposed to get outraged by this?
My family vacations there every year and my grandparents lived there for 30 years. I can assure you the crazy is real and not imagined.
Actually for any given paragraph, probabilty of hash(paragraph+hash) = hash is pretty high.
What is your question? I think we're seeing load balancing here.
LÖVE 11.0 released
This is basically what happens to so many of us. And when we leave music, after studying so many things in great depth, we are treated as uneducated and illiterate; and so much precious time has been lost. And yet they always write these nutty, cheesy articles speaking of "gifts" and "mystics" and "prodigies" like there is some valuable genius that is being squandered. There is no magic in hours of practice, but that isn't the story anyone likes to hear. They like magic. Here's the big secret: everyone at conservatory is already a master player. This is the usual bio of those who can't land an orchestra gig or another position-- which is 98% of us, and the schools know it and know it is getting worse-- there are so few jobs, and what jobs there are are passed on in often unfair ways. (not merit based)Usually those who make it have money or deep connections through a long legacy. And when we try to have other careers, we are not embraced for these "magical genius gifts" people love to talk about in these articles. Everything hesays about classical conservatory is true. It's a life-consuming bootcamp that robs young people of time, money, and hope for a career in most cases. It's a pyramid scheme. I agree the Brahms are the best Sonatas, though.
I disagree, sort of.

I can see your argument and I agree with most of it, but I don't think it's the main thing. Look at where this is becoming a functional call to action (arms?)... It's politics. Not addiction, narcissism, the TV-but-worse elements and their side effects, not data security, privacy.. politics.

FB & social media generally, have already yielded a handful of full blown revolutions. Certainly a few attempts, and most anything that works by way of public election.

Elon Musk quit FB, on twitter. You know who can't quit FB, politicians. It'd be ill-advised. This has by definition become a political question.
I'd be surprised if increased load has a negative effect on 1.1.1.1's performance.

We run a homogeneous architecture -- that is, every machine in our fleet is capable of handling every type of request. The same machines that currently handle 10% of all HTTP requests on the internet, and handle authoritative DNS for our customers, and serve the DNS F root server, are now handling recursive DNS at 1.1.1.1. These machines are not sitting idle. Moreover, this means that all of these services are drawing from the same pool of resources, which is, obviously, enormous. This service will scale easily to any plausible level of demand.

In fact, in this kind of architecture, a little-used service is actually likely to be penalized in terms of performance because it's spread so thin that it loses cache efficiency (for all kinds of caches -- CPU cache, DNS cache, etc.). More load should actually make it faster, as long as there is capacity, and there is a lot of capacity.

Meanwhile, Cloudflare is rapidly adding new locations -- 31 new locations in March alone, bringing the current total to 151. This not only adds capacity for running the service, but reduces the distance to the closest service location.

In the past I worked at Google. I don't know specifically how their DNS resolver works, but my guess is that it is backed by a small set of dedicated containers scheduled via Borg, since that's how Google does things. To be fair, they have way too many services to run them all on every machine. That said, they're pretty good at scheduling more instances as needed to cover load, so they should be fine too.

In all likelihood, what really makes the difference is the design of the storage layer. But I don't know the storage layer details for either Google's or Cloudflare's resolvers so I won't speculate on that.
Excatly! Don't let the fascists at YCombinator Headline News tell you what to do.
I would use Wordpress
No clue what the underlying issue was but when reading:

"We have about 200 harddisk in this cluster... 1 of the disks was broken and we removed it. For some reasons, Ceph stopped to working : 17 objectfs are missed. It should not."

I think the underlying issue is simply "Ceph" ;-)
zzzcpan - no, metadata was in RAM which made things like directory listings and whatnot that were very slow in gluster very fast in MooseFS
The Real Retail Killer: Private Equity
Follow your dream -- the world needs satire now more than ever. (Though I would prefer [twocolumn].)
I move from Australia to Iceland. Icelanders always go "what the hell man? why would you do that?" when they find out.

It's complicated. Broadly speaking, it's an even split between:

1. Icelands software industry being considerably more vibrant than Australias, which is really sad for Aus.

2. Australias government increasingly intervening directly in it's citizens lives whether they like it or not. The Icelandic government is pretty hands off, þetta reddast etc.

3. Icelanders have no idea what the word "heat" really means. They've never under-clocked their computers to keep them stable during summer. I'll take Icelandic winter over Australia summer any day of the week.

It's been hard, but I wouldn't take back my decision, no way. Any one of those reasons is good enough for me.

We're living in the first age in human history where you can really just pick up all your shit and straight up move to the opposite side of the planet, no dramas. I paid ~$8,000AUD to some dudes, they rocked up at my place with a truck full of boxes and paper and wrapped up literally the entire house and drove off. Three months later some other dudes showed up at my new place in Reykjavik and unboxed everything for me. 8k isn't nothing, but it's not unreachable either, and I also paid for the full service move. Easiest move I ever did, but you could probably do it for half the price if you packed yourself.

Out of the whole planet, what're the odds that you were born in the place that suits you best? It's definitely worth shopping around.
Yes, you're right.

What I was trying to say is - On Linux, INADDR_ANY (0.0.0.0) supplied to connect() or sendto() calls is treated as a synonym for INADDR_LOOPBACK (127.0.0.1) address.

Not so for bind() or course.
Use a neural network to generate the perfect color scheme
FWIW, rsyslog can queue up log messages locally if the central server it is sending to is down (and will send them when it comes back up, of course).
I don't know a thing about poker, so I'll take it at a face value, but the
spam prevention idea is bullshit. It's not new, it wasn't new even twenty
years ago, from what I remember. It wouldn't fly back then, and nothing
substantial changed since then.
And to prove that they are unable to do so, would they need to get audited?
You're not wrong about the crazy. The point is that it's not just Florida.
I think one of the most meaningful things in life for many people is connections to others, and it's something we can do easily during those periods that you mention. For example, PG's post made me think about how I could call my mom when taking a break since I don't see her often, and beyond that I should probably spend more time texting people and keeping up other such relationships.
Well, to be clear Health Insurance and the US companies that supply it often do so poorly (Kaiser isn't too bad except for mental health), but the healthcare itself can be top notch. People travel from all over the world to get the best treatment, but basic healthcare (preventative etc.) is expensive and not even uniformly acceptable.
A lot depends on timeline. Usually resources help in getting things done faster. If you are patient enough, you could get this done sooner or later.
Option 3 while trying option 2 could be a good plan.

In the end it boils down existence of problem(must be validated through interviews), your belief in the solution, timeline that you can commit to, and market size. This will help to choose opt 4.
Hey, maybe the Vatican should issue IndulgenceCoin.
Ask HN: What's the most cost-effective TURN solution?
I'm scoping out solutions and debating between using Twilio/Plivo or an open source solution like https://github.com/coturn/coturn.

Does anyone have experience with the cost dynamics of one vs the other? I imagine it has to be cheaper to run our own TURN servers, but I want to make sure it's worth it (cost savings significantly outweigh the setup overhead and such, in the long-term) before locking into that approach.

Context: implementing P2P VoIP in a mobile app, probably over WebRTC. We probably won't expect too much load at first (max 100 active concurrent calls), so I imagine Twilio might even be cheaper overall, at first.

Any help/resources/etc would be much appreciated. Thanks!
Wow, David Howells put a lot of work into his April fools joke.
This is extremely dangerous to our democracy
I think that Cloudflare has enough data as-is...
Yup, anycast, this is also why:

The "backup" IPv4 address is 1.0.0.1 rather than, say, 1.1.1.2, and why they needed APNIC's help to make this work

In theory you can tell other network providers "Hi, we want you to route this single special address 1.1.1.1 to us" and that would work. But in practice most of them have a rule which says "The smallest routes we care about are a /24" and 1.1.1.1 on its own is a /32. So what gets done about that is you need to route the entire /24 to make this work, and although you can put other services in that /24 if you _really_ want, they will all get routed together, including failover routing and other practices. So, it's usually best to "waste" an entire /24 on a single anycast service. Anycast is not exactly a cheap homebrew thing, so a /24 isn't _that_ much to use up.
> he is able to afford to spend time doing stuff nobody can, then it's kinda of easy to be successful at whatever he does

I don't think that's fair to say (and I know I'm "arguing on the Internet" here... bad!). After cashing out for FU money, it's much harder than before to put in 100 hours/week and "invest" your own health in order to succeed at something against the odds. Money can't replace everything, especially not dedicated founder time. It's also much harder to see a point in proving yourself again. I know it's an unpopular opinion with many people, but it's been like that for me and other successful founders I've talked to.

What's easy is to make more money from money using proven methods (strictly not "whatever he does"). VC is not rocket science and pg is simply smarter than many others in the field, so he is fairly successful at it.
Well paid US job? Could you please provide ball park estimate and what exactly do you do. Also how do you deal with currency exchange and are yoy a native brazzilian speaker? I've been contemplating moving to south america as well.
> * Distributed consensus schemes are not useful only for monetary applications.

OK, but blockchain is not a distributed consensus protocol. It's a document
timestamping protocol.
What are you buying from rural South Africa that's worth $2?
Firefox to Use Cloudflare for Direct DNS Resolution
Wow this is super helpful. Especially for people who approach ML from a coding perspective and don't have as much math background.
Yeah this stuff does not work for most people. Still, cutting out the bullshit is great advice.
The Do-Everything System: An in-depth review of Hubzilla 3.0
Is it institutional secrecy or is it disapproval of unilateral disclosure of only a sub-set of elements of an ongoing inquest?
if you are going to get a smart TV, definitely get a Roku TV. While the interface for controlling the settings is much better than any other TV, the remote app is nice and the private listening is awesome, the hardware is slower than AppleTV 4K, and it doesn't handle fast forward and rewind as well. The right half of the home screen is used for ads and the remote buttons for quickly going to other channels isn't customizable and you are stuck with whatever provider paid Roku for placement.

We have two Roku TVs and two other TVs with Roku sticks. We also have AppleTvs connected to each of the TVs - one 4K ATV and the rest 3rd Gen ATVs.
>"For most Internet users the DNS resolver that they use is either the one that comes with the operating system running on their machines or the one that is set by their network provider. In some cases, these resolvers leave a lot to be desired because of their susceptibility to unwanted spying and other security threats."

>"To counter such threats, Mozilla has partnered with Cloudflare to provide direct DNS resolution from within the Firefox browser using the Cloudflare Resolver for Firefox. What this means is that whenever you click on or type a web address in the Firefox browser your DNS lookup request will be sent over a secure channel to the Cloudflare Resolver for Firefox rather than to an unknown DNS resolver, significantly decreasing the odds of any unwanted spying or man in the middle attacks."
This reminds me of Maslow's Heirarchy of Needs.[1]

It has often been described as a pyramid, with physiological needs at the bottom, and self-actualization (or maybe self-transcendence) at the top. The full heirarchy is:

- Self-transcendence
- Self-actualization
- Esteem
- Social belonging
- Safety needs
- Physiological needs

It's difficult for the higher needs to matter much when one hasn't fulfilled the lower ones.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_heirarchy_of_needs
KPMG has earned a few nickname acronyms because of this in Germany: "Keiner Prüft Mehr Genau" or "Kinder Prüfen Meine Gesellschaft" ("no one audits carefully anymore" and "children audit my company" respectively).

We have a few former KPMG employees. They have many stories to tell, about everything from glass ceilings to harassment.
The trouble is PC has inserted itself into the undeniable fact that all mammals evolve to suit local circumstances.
We were all black, when in Africa. When we went north, the lesser sunlight caused shortages of vitamin D (which humans can not make from their food - they use sunlight to make it)
This cases many problems.
https://www.google.ca/search?q=shortages+of+vitamin+D&oq=sho...

African sun also cases skin cancer, so the melanin cells evolved to let the Vitamin D wavelengths through, but attenuate the cancer causing rays. Curly hair also acts as insulation to keep the brain cool.

As we moved North we lost those. Hair got straighter, and skin paler. When we moved back South we evolved darker skin, as in India and Asia. But the hair stayed straight.
Apart from that, all the races are more or less the same.
https://www.peeringdb.com/net/308

I don't see any free peering?
Yes, very sure, because I recently had to "crack" several non encrypted Windows 10 PC's. And that message amused/angered me very much when it was 5 min work to prove that message wrong.
Yes! People are smart enough to handle most things. But they don't have time or attention to handle all the things. When we're making technology for users, we should do our best to make sure they only have to learn about the things that are important to them.