skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Wouldn't it be easy to traceroute between the CDN and your server, or the CDN and your house to see if it hits servers that WHOIS to at&t?

Wouldn't be trivial for any other telco (whether foreign or domestic) than at&t to tap the data and lie about it too?

And it doesn't have to show up in the traceroute (they could mirror the traffic, etc)
That is my feeling after reading this article. For people who have learned a little bit of Analysis, it is like saying "the earth is round". There is nothing new. The Wikipedia page of Derivative (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivative) has a detailed description on the linearity. (Well, I do appreciate the author's way of presenting the idea, but I don't think it deserves an in-depth discussion on Hacker News.)
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> Fission requires political will, no miracles, no breakthroughs. We could have been doing it last year.

Assuming you are in the US, you forgot how close the Three Miles Island accident was to cause an US version of Chernobyl in the East coast.
Exactly, this is everything that I hate about requirements management and requirements-driven-development in a nutshell. Way too often it just means: "we're actually too lazy / overworked / uninterested / have targets that don't align with the long-term best outcome, so we'll just force you to write down requirements which we know can't and won't ever be complete." It's the best way to cause internal politics to fire up and projects to belly up.
True, but it’s another “attack vector”, and more nefarious in some ways because it can be couched as technical wherewithal.
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The least bad options seem to be strl* or snprintf(..., “%s”, ...) but yeah nothing is perfect.
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I’m in NZ, and involved in the startup community down here.

Great people, great vibe.

There’s a long history of Innovation down here at the bottom of the planet.

The best example is David Downs book “#8 Rewired” which gives examples of great NZ Innovations such as:

Disposable hypodermic syringe
Manned flight(disputed)
Jet boat
Nanotube
Freeze dried coffee(sorry)
DNA discovery
Splitting the atom(Rutherford)
DNA double helix(Wilkins, the DNA Ringo Starr)

Unfortunaly, outside of Xero(Cloud Accounting) there isn’t much of that awesome innovation scaling down here.

Discovery yes, scaling not so much.
It would be nice to capture those reply chains and package up a bunch of related links at once. Kind of like a shared mapping of our unexpected deep internet dives on Wikipedia, just automated.
Grow up. If you think the US can't strong-arm other countries in its sphere of influence you aren't living in reality.
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/history/plane-flew-pilot-ej...
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I have a Pok3r and the arrow keys are the one thing I miss. They are still there, but awkward to get at. I use emacs and don't need arrows for that as it uses different bindings. Many programs use those emacs binding too (like bash, less etc) but there are always some that only work with arrow keys.
I agree with you, but this is not what GGP is saying. GGP is saying another true fact (i.e., that derivative of a linear function is that same function), which a different thing than stating, as the article says, that the differentiation operator is linear. On a manifold there is no concept of a linear function, so you cannot say that the derivative of a linear function is the same function, but the differentiation operator is still defined and linear.
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How is that a non-solution? It should be very hard to introduce cookie bloat. Preferences can and should generally be stored server-side. I can't stand it when I lose settings on an account simply because my cookies are on another machine.
I used to know someone who worked for one of the companies behind those "We'll Fix Your Credit Score, Call Us" and "We'll Buy Your House, Call Us" signs on the side of street intersections (among other things), and I asked her to explain to me how those signs could possibly make any money.

The way she explained it was (mostly her words), way less than 1% of people are dumb enough to dial the number, but of the people who do call, 100% of them are people who are dumb enough to call.

In other words, if the signs appeared more credible, they would be much less effective, because they'd end up wasting a lot of time screening the calls of people who are unlikely to accept the terms they offer.

She also said that scaling up (and going up market) would increase their likelihood of litigation.

It seems to me like that's what's happening with these timeshare seminars. The car isn't just there to mislead people about the potential upside of the contest, the car is really there to screen the marketing process for gullible people attracted to large financed purchases.
This is called balanced input/output. TRS connectors are also quite common, especially for interconnects. I find TRS/XLR combi sockets [0] used for this purpose fascinating :)

Third wire does not collect interference in a balanced line. Instead, voltage signalling balanced line uses one ground and two signal lines of opposite polarity and input is difference between these two signal lines. Induced interference is more or less the same on both signal lines, therefore cancels out. At a quick glance this article [1] seems to explain this without delving into electronics. Some differential lines (e.g. RS-485, popular in industrial automation) use current signalling thus requiring two wires per signal.

[0]: http://www.cliffuk.co.uk/products/combijacks/combijacks.jpg
[1]: http://www.aviom.com/blog/balanced-vs-unbalanced/
> the text you send will be to one of those premium rate numbers

One of the curious laws in Northern Ireland requires postal entry to be an option for all submission competitions hosted here.

So QRadio station advertises its 'win free money' competition, entry by a text message costing £1.50, but also has to state that postal entry is possible. I really should write a letter.

NI law also prohibits requiring purchase of an item as a condition for entering competitions.
> I send money overseas cheaply, easily and instantly all the time. Without Blockchain.

Really? I live in Canada and bill US customers for 6yrs and I've yet to find a solution for this that isnt awful. It's either slow, not practical for large amounts, very expensive, or requires tons of paperwork and special bank accounts not easily attained.

So by all means please share your solution for this. It'd be a massive industry if you found one...
I'd guess that most people who work anywhere need the money.
A counter example is in the aerospace industry. Most software has to be d-179b certified, which requires not only testing with complete code coverage, but also complete branch coverage. Every possible outcome in every “if” statement must be tested.

Needless to say, this is expensive. I’ve heard estimates that it costs roughly $1000/line of code.

The point is that there are methods to increase reliability, but there isn’t the financial incentive to do so.
> "But among friends who do, they absolutely feel pressure to tip,"

I'm pretty damn skeptical of that, since in America the vast majority of customers do not put anything in counter tip jars. Maybe you've got some sort of strange selection bias going on...
http://www.maps.org/research/mmj

https://medicalmarijuana.procon.org/view.answers.php?questio...

War on drugs has way to much history to answer that question on HN. The answers are endless and not satisfactory to anyone that doesn't understand how complex the entire web of politics actually can get.

What we have at the end of the day is a mental health crisis, an opiod crisis, depression and suicide is more prevalent than ever, we are practically number 1 at jailing people in the world, the amount of money collected and spent fighting drugs in this country could have most likely solved the homeless problem, paid for education for generations, kept our infrastructure updated more than it is today, organized crime would probably still be organized but not profitable enough to topple entire sections of the planet (south and Central America as an example), our veterans wouldnt be in as much pain as they are in today, etc etc...(without even accounting for black market profits)

I am not saying the war on drugs is a specific tool to jail minorities because that ruins the entire conversation by pointing at one issue and not looking at anything else. Yes minorities are jailed in alarming numbers for a variety of reasons. But people not in jail are dying everyday because of the drug war via organized crime, street crime (gangs), overdoses, and suicides.

The war on drugs isn't responsible for all of societies problems in America but it sure as hell created most of them.
You had been pwned anyway.
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It would be fun to run a mini web crawler against these old domains, and see if any are still hosting circa 1990s content.
I am extremely skeptical about such claims. One such alternative design was the THTR design, which was implemented in the Jülich AVR reactor. It was also claimed to be passively safe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVR_reactor

But there were incidents when the plant was basically out of control. Worse, the design is based on graphite spheres which contain the fuel. That is only safe as long as the spheres in the hot reactor do not come into contact with air, which will cause them to burn, or with water, which will form hydrogenium-oxygen mixtures. Burning graphite was both a main ingredient in the Windscale fire, and in the Chernobyl disaster. There were also important mechanical problems with the spheres. In retrospect, these claims for passive security were unwarranted and the plant was dangerous. With the experience from the AVR, one can also say, that the nuclear industry is not transparent at all about safety problems. Also, it is not only very hard to make such plants inherently safe, if this also very expensive. Unfortunately, this conflicts with the goal of every company, which is to make a profit which is as large as possible.
>The information from these forms is collected en masse, entered into a large database, and delivered directly to the telemarketing company running the promotion (in this case, Great Destinations).

Praise be GDPR.
Not really. For example it takes similar amounts of energy to turn glass into glass of another shape than sand into glass.
> Do you really need a training video to tell you that when you need to carry a lot of heavy packages, you should use a dolly?

Yes, you need.

Case in point, in the last half a dozen orders I've made that involved a somewhat heavy and/or large package, not a single delivery service used a dolly or delivery cart, even on orders from a certain multibational furniture store.

You expect your employees to do their job safely? Then you explicitly cover the safety procedure during training, and you directly and intentionally state that it's in their best interests to do so. Otherwisr you can't possibly assume they will comply with an implicit rule.
> The author's way is more unique.

The author's way is merely different. "Unique" is a superlative. The author's method(s) means more choices. There's an argument to be made that enforcing a single choice is inherently simpler (to which there are counter-arguments), but you didn't make it.

> Learning to use btrfs or aufs, chroot, ifconfig, init scripts, ..., is easier?

Yes, that is exactly what the author is asserting. Again, this seems disingenuous of you. It's clear that you disagree, but mere disagreement, with only this kind of rhetorical language, lacking any substantial backing, would be a shallow dismissal.
Facial recognition software is not ready for use by law enforcement
I was not aware that "Ubuntu IoT" was a thing. What is the advantage over Yocto ? I guess it is simpler to configure, even if less flexible. (and probably less HW support). Anybody has already used it ?
You are talking to humans, not programming a machine, you don't have to instruct them on each minimal detailed step to specify something, you expect agency, even more if you are paying big bucks.
How can we enable our artificial agents to acquire human like versatility?
>It is a "bad idea" in terms of attackable footprint

So the more the features jammed in, the safer? Something about that doesn't seem alright to me.
If anyone wants to listen to an example of a somewhat difficult quiz programme they could try Brain of Britain - a long running radio show on BBC Radio 4.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00813s0

I don't know if it's geo-blocked, or if there's anything available for download. But they do have written questions too.
I wrote a Tetris game for the TRS-80 in the early 90's. To save on CPU and memory, I directly represented the state of the board, including the "cup" the pieces fell into, in video memory. On the first run I accidentally only drew half of the bottom of the cup, and I dropped a piece through the hole, where it sliced into whatever RAM was just past the video memory, crashing the system.
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I think the egregious aspect of this is that there's no evidence they had to strong-arm the NZ government much at all.
Am i the only one who is irritated by sentences like "In 1970, a plane got fed up with its pilot so it hatched an audacious plan. First, get rid of the pilot. Second: land. Third: enter history. The result was amazing."

Especially irritating the the last sentence "The result was amazing".

Is there a word for describing this type of writing in English?
You're requesting https://<domain>/.well-known/mta-sts.txt. If you've got that info, then A dns record was correct and you must use STARTTLS on MX record. Even if attacker replaced MX record, he can't MITM TLS session, so connection is safe. I think that it's pretty secure setup. But yes, so much hoops instead of deploying dnssec everywhere, it's a shame. DNS is hierarchical and it's very natural to use cryptography there.
I think there’s some truth lurking in there somewhere. I was an Oracle DBA for years, and recently started working on a NoSQL serverless project. I think I’ve been doing a pretty good job of it, but it took a huge amount of effort to get my mind around the new principles. The reason being just about everything I’d learned about RDBMS was a total footgun when it came to NoSQL design. My low level knowledge of how RDBMS operate helped me get there in the end, but the initial designs I came up with were packed full of despair and sadness.
There's a ² missing. Should be dC/dx = sum d/dx |...|².
Why haven't they all been shutdown if they are clearly illegal? Also, I've seen these across the country.
IM2000 protocols have already been written. (-:

* http://jdebp.eu./Proposals/IM2000/

But of course you are already using a pull-style messaging system, that is right in front of you.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10405864
Is there any branch for the Oracle Connector?
It's everywhere the same story. In Czech Republic IBM has implemented quite a lot IT projects for government. Just for example : There's software for tax management of whole country which is running on mainframes from 1992, it was written in Informix 4GL language there's only GUI is MS-DOS based terminal. all officials need to work with that system.

Of course it was fine 15 years ago but from that time we had quite a lot changes in tax system, many new conditions has been addad and in the result we have unstable deprecated software where maintainability is nowadays near to ZERO.

There are currently no people who knows how it works and who knows Informix 4GL language in 2018... After few years it will be probably replaced but cost of new project will astronomical (...of course).

I am not blaming purely IBM, quite often government officials are incompetent when it comes to software project planning.
The counter-argument here would be that the drug dealer should not be able to use the cash(and other assets) they obtained through their crimes to defend themselves. Waiting until conviction would mean that the alleged criminal could exhaust those assets as part of his defense.
Separate point, I’d argue that small organizations also have quite a bit to gain from a solid testing program.

If there is only a single developer working on a project, that developer can manage much much more code if there are solid tests behind it than if she was just winging it with every commit.

At some point the developer starts to forget the code they write and starts relying on the tests they built long ago.
You can easily submit a link to the archive with a simple url call: https://web.archive.org/save/https://rscott.org/OldInternetF...

As a bookmarklet:

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I brought 16 packages for 13 people to one office; one was so light I was sure it was a pack of gum, another felt like a bug-spray container.

Or, while we're speculating, maybe instead of a pack of gum it was a 512 GB SDXC card weighing like less than 20 grams including the cardboard packaging.

How dare these coddled tech people order small packages online!

and also battling a growing rage as I lugged parcels to offices of tech companies that offered free food and impressive salaries to their employees, who seemed to spend their days ordering stuff online
If I follow you, I don't think MS and Apple are the problem here.

Storage vendors are going to use the lowest common denominator because of all the older hardware out there that wouldn't work with a newer filesystem.

And most of the people buying USB thumb drives and whatnot are just going to use whatever the drive comes with.
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Yes, you are right. My apologies.
Interestingly, Verge is one of the more profitable coins to mine right now.
"Other people have money and I don't, so I'm going to redefine money as that which I have, and then I will have money and other people won't."

I thought it was ridiculous too when I first heard about it, and then I realized that "other people have money and I don't" is perhaps the strongest motivation in history. The American, French, Russian, and Chinese revolutions all stemmed from that, as did WW2 and the Holocaust, as did the conquest of the Americas, as did the settlement of the American West.
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Chili's has a table kiosk. It would be fine but for the fact that many deviations (including Chili's own gift cards) fail without explanation, requiring manager intervention. And the manager inevitably fails to process the promos (free drink or chips), requiring another intervention (e.g. splitting the promo items to another check, then comping it).

Every single egift card fails. And the bonus cards don't even have QRcodes, and there is no way for the patron to enter them. It's just stupid.
I sometimes wonder if this isn't a fairly common practice in numerous industries. For instance some time back I was watching a show on US cable television. Vikings on the History Channel, in particular. Aside from the completely obnoxious icons and labeling everywhere, about 5 minutes into the show advertisement pops up literally in the middle of the screen consuming about 25% of the screen space. And that was enough for me to immediately move onto other things, as that's worth less than the $0 price of admission. Incidentally the web version is amazing, has more content, is better quality, has no ads, and something I would generally highly recommend - underrated series.

While cable TV, and cable news in particular, has been rightfully demonized, it makes me wonder if they're really just happy to target themselves down to a demographic that is willing to tolerate this nonsense. And perhaps this demographic might also respond more favorably to advertising, influencing, and other corporate ends.

The same thing has also happened in the movie industry as well. If you think the vast majority of modern movies suck, it would not necessarily just be because of nostalgia or other effects. The modern movie viewer demographic has changed radically and thus movies are being made for these people. Even more interesting is that movie ticket sales are down hard, but they're somehow convincing the new demographic to pay even more which actually means that gross receipts have been stable and even increasing at times.

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Of course there's also a chicken and egg question. In the movie industry for instance, did movies change because the demographic changed, or did the demographic change because movies changed?
It should be noted that the above comment is likely far less trying to incite a flame war, and more likely referencing the alleged reasoning for the 'war on drugs' was to directly marginalise African Americans and 'hippies'.

"The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did."

— John D. Ehrlichman, former Nixon aide, interview with Dan Baum
I've take to journalists before on technical topics. Whenever I she'd to see the article before publication so I could correct mistakes they always refused and always stated they never share stories with sources. So I think you're wrong about that.
I've got a friend who actually won the car in the mall once. Not US though.
Me and a a colleague discussed this just last week and even considered building something ourselves. Good thing you beat us to it, you seem to have done a marvellous job. The one thing we did some thinking about is how to avoid getting blocked. We run a SaaS and have blocked several hundred domains such as mailinator because of the high rates of fraud. Anyway, good luck!
> Have you never seen another delivery driver?

Sure and the only ones to ever use a dolly are ones delivering home appliances
Even worse, i followed a lottery for a car to raise money for alzheimers.

On the draw date given on the ticket in the newspaper the notice said the draw was delayed to a later date.

Dutifully i waited for that date and surprise surprise it was delayed again to another new date.

Finally there was simply no notice of the draw being completed in rhe newspaper on the last date specified..
This is why there are smartphone apps for various resteraunts. You order your tood and pay for it ahead of time and it is there waiting for you.

First it was pizza places and now it is McDonalds and others.

Wife and I went to a Wendys and nobody answered the drive through system. We only wanted small frosties so we went home without them. Other cars got mad that they were not taking drove through orders.

These jobs are not 15 dollars an hour, but a lot of workers don't deserve that and will be replaced with competent workers or computers or kiosks or an app.
...And there is still people considering the GDPR a bad thing...