skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The key addition of ContextFree is the multiple definitions of the same chosen by probability.

So a Blurp could be defined as
a) a circle and a Blurp
b) a circle
c) a Blurp and a Blurp

And when rendering a Blurp it picks one of a,b, or c randomly (with weighted probabilities)

That single addition opens up a huge world of variety.
There are great templates available for $15. Anyone with basic html skills can download one and change the values between html tags. I'm assuming you tried to make one yourself, which in fact is tough and would require multiple people to pull off.
The fact that you don't realize that you're just a piece of complicated matter that acts according to the laws of nature and believe that "you" as some kind of mind or soul exist, have point of view and free will – this is an illusion.
FWIW, until a few years ago, it was also possible to get certificates for private IP addresses (and "private" hostnames, such as .local).
NO Deep Web Is Not Dark Web
That is not true in either case. Cryptocurrencies have gone mainstream recently, receiving a lot of attention by the mainstream press. Additionally, there's no proof that being burned by cryptocurrency shenanigans leads to greater wariness in the group as a whole.
amazing how much hate. this is a tech social phenomena. given that only select people can downvote imagine the censorship.
I am not your librarian, but the American Library Association (ALA) seems to respect readers' privacy.

They pushed back on the Patriot Act:

http://www.ala.org/advocacy/advleg/federallegislation/theusa...

And have guidelines for librarians when law enforcement comes knocking:

http://www.ala.org/advocacy/privacy/lawenforcement

Again, it will vary depending on your town and library.
> Both DNS-over-TLS and DNS-over-HTTPS are open standards. And, at launch, we've ensured 1.1.1.1 supports both

I like this. Do the root servers support this too?
I stopped reading when I saw the first slide. Seriously, who puts so much text on a slide?
>He says there is a fee auction death spiral, which also is demonstrably false.

Pretty sure its demonstrably true seeing as BT has gotten so bad the marketing changed from currency to store of value.
yes ofc. don't read much onto biased hate posts
Is this an april fools joke? We're trusting Cloudflare with privacy now?
Excuse me, this is just an assertion. By your own standards you should really back up all of these claims with extensive evidence.
This is GREAT.

Does anybody know of / have a collection of explainers like these?

I've made a few myself:

- How Cryptography Works https://gun.js.org/explainers/data/security.html

- How distributed systems work (Master-Slave vs P2P, CAP Theorem, CRDTs, etc.) https://gun.js.org/distributed/matters.html

Has anybody made their own / have some good ones to add?
they do work without internet access. You can also tell your TV to try to access the internet via Ethernet (w/o having it plugged in) and that will usually shut down all the intrusive BS (at-least on Samsung "smart TVs")
This has not been the only incident of them having turned a “blind eye” or doing things that were questionable.

1. They looked the other way when 100+ million of public money was laundered out of South Africa.

2. The scheme literally stole money destined to uplift poor rural communities

3. To top it off, a portion of the money was used to write of an extravagant wedding as a business expense.

4. When a junior auditor raised his concerns about the audit he was shut down.

http://amabhungane.co.za/article/2017-06-29-guptaleaks-the-d...

http://amabhungane.co.za/article/2017-06-30-guptaleaks-the-d...

http://amabhungane.co.za/article/2017-11-26-guptaleaks-kpmg-...

6. They put out false reports that were partly used as motivation to get rid of ministers fighting corruption.

https://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2017-09-15-kpmg-cans-sa...

KPMG were not the only multinational firm that were complicit in fleecing the South African tax payer of billions. See

Mckinsey:

http://amabhungane.co.za/article/2017-09-14-how-mckinsey-and...

SAP:
http://amabhungane.co.za/article/2017-07-24-guptaleaks-anoth...

T-systems:

http://amabhungane.co.za/article/2017-11-14-exclusive-gupta-...
>how someone like me who only has a BS in Physics and Electrical Engineering manages to make 1.5x-4.0x what they make my first job out of college, then there is something seriously wrong with the system.

This is largely what I would expect. A PhD (actually, anything after the Master's) isn't really about acquiring new technical skills. It's about learning to put into practice the basic values that sustain the discipline, which in science consist largely of 1) a fanatical obsession with figuring out what the data is really telling you, 2) relentlessly questioning your hypotheses and entertaining alternative explanations, and 3) rooting out the various cognitive nooks and crannies wherein lie the temptations to fool yourself or others.

For most technical jobs, these kinds of habits are not really germane to what you are being asked to do. Hence many businesses are quite reluctant to hire people with PhDs at all. The ones they do pick up will tend to agree that their PhD was a "waste of time."
> Cryptocurrencies have gone mainstream recently, receiving a lot of attention by the mainstream press

They receive a lot of press attention because people like me, who don't own any cryptocurrencies and never plan to, find them fascinating. When I'm in San Francisco or certain bars in my Manhattan neighborhood, people talk about owning them. When I'm at a restaurant in Phoenix or Salt Lake City or Raleigh, it's people observing the phenomenon just like I am.

> there's no proof that being burned by cryptocurrency shenanigans leads to greater wariness

Fair enough. My basis is the general wariness that followed the Great Depression. (Counterfactual: no such enduring effect followed the dot-com bust nor the financial crisis.)
Sure, I bet he quit his $150k/yr job to write free Wordpress plugins.
one reason: https://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99/slides/slides-99-maprg-f...
I assume a cable modem adds at least 8ms of latency, because I get 8ms of latency to my default router, and about 12-15ms to any of those hosts.
Yes, this is it.
In the strict sense? Git histories are blockchains, so there’s definitely a use. In the loose sense? People seem to conflate “blockchain” with “decentralised concensus”. At least nakamoto consensus doesn’t work outside of currency-like applications. PoS-based systems are probably bound by the same limitations there, too.
Brutally concise. This thread is going to get rough.
The harm to consumers is phony credit history and random fees on many of those fake accounts.

The harm to WF shareholders was inflated metrics inflating the value of the company.

The whole point of KPMG was to validate these types of metrics for shareholders.
ASP.net ?
Symmetric encryption is also popular and ubiquitous. I don't think this can be practically explained to most of the population of non-technical people. Encryption schemes also often use hybrids of symmetric and asymmetric encryption; they are useful for different scenarios.
To extend the idea, some philosophers that lived at different moments explained that consciousness is independent of the body and feelings and thoughts and that to experience what we ultimately are we have to experience "consciousness without objects", for example Franklin Merrell-Wolff in his book "Philosophy of Consciousness Without an Object" says this, but also indian and buddhist philosophy says something among those lines.

I cannot say if what these guys said is true or if they were psychotics.
It basically comes down to being insecure.

It's all plain-text over UDP. This is easily exploited for various purposes: spoofing (DDoS attacks), surveillance (such as by ISPs), hijacking/tampering, censorship, privacy concerns, and so on.

As everything else relies on DNS, the DNS must also be secure.
I guess I've solved that in other ways -- configuration drift is really a config management and orchestration problem. And recycling or OS upgrades can happen if your story around replication is sound -- I only typically do that every two years anyway following the Ubuntu LTS releases.
Haha, what kind of evidence do you think exists on such a topic?
I have never seen someone use “blockchain” to describe a structure which can be rewritten or tampered with. Git commit dags aren’t a blockchain by anyone’s definition, as far as I’m aware.
It's more to manage for sure, but something that can be built in a day or three.
So, what is that you propose instead?

If nothing then disregard you.
There is some truth in the slides but it's well mixed with falsehoods and misunderstandings.

* Distributed consensus schemes are not useful only for monetary applications. When they are used as such, there exist mechanisms to commit to a certain fiat price and minimize market exposure to the point where transactions are almost free, in fiat terms.

* The disbursement of tokens and the distributed consensus rewards do not need to be tied together like in Bitcoin. A premined token like Stellar can offer very strong security guarantees without needing mining pools (but of course, any kind of imaginable database is vulnerable to majority attacks, so that means nothing by itself)

* The limited block capacity is a Bitcoin-specific problem that incidentally motivated interesting results in off-chain transactions (Lightning).

* The sorry state of the distributed financial markets says nothing about the technology and more about human greed and the slow capacity of regulators to adapt; critically, smart contracts and distributed algorithms enable control mechanism and hard guarantees that have no old world equivalent, they can eliminate counterparty risks, guarantee solvency and fair arbitration etc.

That being said, 95% of the times the word "blockcahin" is uttered these days, what follows is most likely bullshit.
yes, quic will make dns over https more resillient to packet loss than a tls based approach.
Same for speakers. I have a decent sound system already, i don't want to pay a extra $20-$50 for crappy speakers that i will never use. I want the best panel for my $, nothing else.
Coming from an enterprise background for a couple of years: network block storage screws you one way or another either way. It's a single point of failure that no matter how reliable it is, will always go down at some point or have failures that affect your application layer.
Is this an April Fool's joke since Cloudflare overtly hates privacy (see stance on TOR)?
Not accessible from Buenos Aires, Argentina on Fibertel.

ping 1.1.1.1
PING 1.1.1.1 (1.1.1.1): 56 data bytes
Request timeout for icmp_seq 0
Request timeout for icmp_seq 1
You may find NodeChef's object storage the right solution.
https://nodechef.com/s3-compatible-object-storage
No, it's not a joke - LOL! It's a real website that I wrote (a) to address a real need, and (b) to learn some new skills.

I did advise, "shop is not a particularly complicated project. If you're interested in these technologies, I recommend developing it yourself. I made the source code available in case there are people who need it, but don't have the inclination and/or time to develop it themselves".

This was meant to convey the fact that it's a rather modest achievement - probably two orders of magnitude less complex than some of my other stuff. I probably should have added "for N users" in the subject, though...
Space lab will fall to Earth 'within hours'
I feel that a groundbreaking use of quines is simply yet to be realized. I have a feeling they will show up in AI (if not intentionally!).

Does DNA encode it's own logic? That seems testable.
the ones from the vendors are all closed source. Best bet is to buy a good TV and use another device to run software that makes it "smart" - ie. AOSP / Kodi

The only thing to gain from "smart tvs" are apps that can be controlled w/ the TV remote, if you're privacy coincious, you should know by now that it will take a bit of effort to secure your data.
The future is notoriously hard to predict.

How are we to know what future-proof values are, and how are we to go about instilling those values in our children?

One problem with children, despite our best intentions, is they tend to go on to create things like Facebook.
> we build a model of what we are based off of data we gather from introspection and from people who are close to us. But this model is constantly in flux, and can never be said to actually reach the true self (if there is a true self-- and perhaps there is, but maybe it is always changing).

There's another argument (which I think your parent is referring to) which says that the thing that's doing the modeling is the very thing that's being modeled, so it's impossible to separate the data from the model. The radical conclusion people have come up with is that therefore there is no difference between the model and the data. What we perceive to be the model is actually the data, that there is nothing outside of the data because there can't be.

I haven't been able to decide if this is profound or incoherent.
0.0.0.0 is not localhost. It's "any address".
You can use Ceph together with OpenStack. They used ceph for their cloud services but had huge problems. If I am not mistaken they completely threw out Ceph by now.

http://travaux.ovh.net/?do=details&id=20636
http://status.ovh.net/?do=details&id=14139
http://travaux.ovh.com/?do=details&id=20490
http://travaux.ovh.net/?do=details&id=26382
and so on...

They took months to figure out what's going on.
“PowerPoint is also bullshit” is a separate thread.
It looks like you are testing either from centers where cloudflare has servers or exchanging traffic with, which is likely true in a data center given the traffic it transports. What most users want is the ping time from home/office.
This seems to have been posted here before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10279864
Their us-east-1 region is notorious for being the region with the least reliability. Unless there's a good reason not to I always recommend people default to us-west-2.
Should compress nicely though.
I always follow the rule - get it delivered fast, with the technology you know.

For me that:

* Web: Ruby (Rails), Python (Django), Golang (Revel)

* Desktop GUI: C++ (Qt)

* Embedded: C, C++

* Data Science(ish) Problems: Python

That probably covers 95% of my day job, consulting, and my startup - I deliver a ton of work. Rails my 90% go to for web, python is data science, C is performance. A notable mention is coffeescript/js and CSS for design, but with partials / templates in the web frameworks I don't really need things like React.

I think the problem you describe is a self created one. You don't need to use the latest tech, build micro services, upgrade them independently, and use frameworks that are well supported in what you know. Hasn't failed me yet.
Agreed. Anecdotal but...

We have had to supply information to KPMG “IT Auditors” at a client due to some software we wrote.

In most cases the auditors are young grads who have never worked in an actual IT/software dev team. So they have very naive view and never ask the right questions. If one wanted to hide something it would be super easy.
Also, I wouldn't need 4 slides to show why Microsoft or Facebook are bad for you.

Doesn't prevent them from their multi-billion worth.

Markets can stay irrational indefinitely.
Kids able to read and write enough for Facebook are remarkably safe around kitchen knife and cleaning chemicals. Teenagera are fully able to operate power tools.
Did you know that stress and anxiety increase your risk of heart disease significantly?

1 - http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/HealthyLiving/StressManagement....

2 - http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.565...
I'm guessing Google's resolvers are a little busier than Cloudflare's right now, because pretty much nobody not on HN right now is hitting them. Will be a more interesting comparison in 6 months.
I posit that this is largely due to your frame of reference. I will assume from your presence on hacker news that you already have learned programming. You are already familiar with its utility. You have found over your career that tools that sacrifice expressiveness for ease of expression are nearly always crutches, that if depended on too heavily, will foster reliance, and give no incentive to actually learn more advanced tools.

Yet, like all crutches, the provide a superior alternative to certain groups of people. People with broken legs use crutches, but only for the purpose of self sufficiency until their leg heals.

Perhaps this is where the flaw in the business model is revealed. Anvil is largely incentivized to get its users to depend on its crutch. But users are still able to utilize the crutch to ease the learning process, and perhaps explore something that might interest them enough to seek out more traditional development workflows.

Rental of goods exists as a viable service, because there is demand for its supply. When you fly somewhere distant, at least in the US, your first order of business is to pick up your rental car. This is not a bad business practice. You are making the correct judgement that given your limited resources, renting something in the short term is more prudent than purchasing it.
Thanks for the suggestion, but a dollar per gigabyte per month is ridiculous unless you're downloading everything in your store eleven times a month. Even S3 only costs $0.02/GB storage and $0.09/GB egress.
Any suggestions about anonymous "Search Domains"?
This is false for comments... it is true for posts however.

Also, reddit once said that they only keep the latest version of a comment in their database (not sure if it is still true though).... so if you want to really delete a comment from reddit, you have to edit it to some random text and then delete it.
Is bitcoin really important? I think most people have no practical use for it.
10 Ethical Issues of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.

There are actually a few options in egress land for us if cost is your primary concern.

If you're doing serving over http(s), you should probably be using Cloud CDN with your bucket [1] or put one of our partners like Cloudflare or Fastly with CDN Interconnect [2]. Both of these get you closer to $.04-$.08/GB depending on src/dest.

If not, and you don't care that we have a global backbone, you can get a more AWS-like network with our Standard Tier [3] (curiously with pricing squirreled away at [4], I'll file a bug). The packets will hop off our network in a hot potato / asap fashion, so you're not riding our backbone as much.

[1] http://cloud.google.com/cdn

[2] https://cloud.google.com/interconnect/docs/how-to/cdn-interc...

[3] https://cloud.google.com/network-tiers/

[4] https://cloud.google.com/network-tiers/pricing#standard_tier...
Tiangong-1 Dashboard, reentry predicted 20180402T00:30 UTC +/- 1.7h
yes i noticed that job posting and it is actually very close to where I live, I even thought about applying, then I'm not an apple fan and I don't appreciate the way Apple deals with OSS, so I stopped.

it's about chip validation and has nothing to do with MacOS etc, because it will be pretty unwise to use MacOS to check silicons.
> There are many uses for blockchain outside of cryptocurrency

> What is a good spec for blockchain?

> Bitcoin
Yes it absolutely could. That's the problem with supporters of censorship. Such people rarely see themselves as tyrants, just people who want a better society that will come about once the toxic "others" have been silenced.
Down votes == ignorance?
Buy PS4 or PS4 Pro? Witch one is more worth your money on the moment?
That's always sad to see people focused on Energy when talking about electricty : the grid needs Power not Energy. And since you can't realistically store electricity, these two are really different beasts. Renewable is OK at producing Energy, which we don't really care about after a certain point, but it's terrible at producing a reliable amount of Power which is what we need.

More on that here : https://bourrasque.info/articles/20180116-moulins-%C3%A0-ven... (in French though)
VeraCrypt 1.22 Release Notes
Show HN: jumpino.com – chat rooms that die
* Memory-mapping files larger than ~2GB

* Vastly larger address space -> better ASLR
Interesting, I didn't know power plants were built to withstand airplane crashes. If that's true, that would be a great answer.

As for 1., sure, but still (probability x damage) makes it nevertheless reasonable to consider it, even if it is later dismissed.

4. - agree, and that's my problem. Sounds like [1].

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html
> "Why Did We Build It?"

Marketing
That’s a bit of a fallacy - you can legitimately point out the shortcomings of something without needing to name an alternative (e.g. criticizing Ponzi schemes). In this case, though, you could actually have an alternative of simply not using blockchain. The world was just fine for a long time without it.
Go just got native support for private blockchains today: https://twitter.com/bradfitz/status/980332627159744512 (https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/103862)
To the downvoters: perhaps a source will placate you: https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-641.htm (search for WINE). I apologize for providing facts that might help someone that wants to run this.
Bashrc generator: create your .bashrc PS1 with a drag and drop interface
> Seriously, who puts so much text on a slide?

People creating a deck intended to be READ, not SPOKEN.
That makes sense too, and can also be argued for or against!
The current uncertainty path travels West to East; it passes three times over Southern South America; and twice over Africa, the Middle East, and Asia.
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.

I wouldn't throw the baby out with the bathwater. Across Google, we rely almost exclusively on networked storage (Colossus) unless we need extremely high-performance local flash. Being able to separate compute from storage is a huge part of our ability to both scale out, as well as to do live migration for GCE (where Persistent Disk, our equivalent of EBS is built upon Colossus).

Persistent Disk has never had an outage like the EBS one, but I attribute that to the Colossus and underlying teams having run this at Google for a really long time. Fwiw, the AWS folks have also massively improved EBS over the years. You can still worry, but I prefer to think about overall MTBF rather than consider networked storage in particular as the plague :).
I am not danieltillett, but I am familiar with the difference between doing research and supervising research. A tenure-track professor is expected to advise students who do research. The professor's involvement in the day-to-day of the research itself will vary depending on the student's experience, how large the professor's group is, and what the professor wants. While I do know of some professors who did almost an equal amount of day-to-day research work as their student on a project, that is rare, and such professors can typically only have one or two students at at a time.

Instead, a professor is usually spending more time supervising research. This is typically because a professor has multiple students, and as danieltillett explained, they already have many other time commitments. But this is also because the point of the entire process is for the students to become independent researchers. That is, the research supervision is teaching their students how to be researchers. In my experiences, professors in science and engineering tend towards being managers rather than being in the lab or at the keyboard.

I presume danieltillett made this distinction because there is a difference between supervising and doing the research.
George Lakoff wrote a great book on this called "Where Mathematics Comes From."

He is critical of how mathematics is currently taught from "first principles" and proofs rather than from a more intuitive body/metaphor perspective. He believes proofs are in many ways academic gatekeeping. His final chapter explains Euler's identity using only the intuitive metaphors he built up in previous chapters.