skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this the incident?

https://www.securityfocus.com/news/6767

'The Slammer worm penetrated a private computer network at Ohio's Davis-Besse nuclear power plant in January and disabled a safety monitoring system for nearly five hours, despite a belief by plant personnel that the network was protected by a firewall, SecurityFocus has learned.

The breach did not pose a safety hazard. The troubled plant had been offline since February, 2002, when workers discovered a 6-by-5-inch hole in the plant's reactor head. Moreover, the monitoring system, called a Safety Parameter Display System, had a redundant analog backup that was unaffected by the worm. But at least one expert says the case illustrates a growing cybersecurity problem in the nuclear power industry, where interconnection between plant and corporate networks is becoming more common, and is permitted by federal safety regulations.'

Sounds like the plant was being operated by a skeleton crew since it was mostly disabled.
I'll give you that. Butttttt, I bet it sounded way more awesome on the SNES. Prove me wrong! (no really, I'm enjoying this kinda quasi 16bit war discussion).

Case in point: TMNT: Turtles in Time
Black Swan Anthropology
I would hope they are using some form of authenticated encryption, and talk about AES to keep it simple... but given the pointlessness of using a blockahain for this, maybe not.

Also, they explicitly say they are using the master key - they should really be using a DEK.
The phrase, "I have enough authority to learn whatever I want to learn outside the framework of academia," strikes me in an odd way. I'm inclined to say that no literate person needs the academic framework to learn anything for which they have the underpinnings; that is to say, as long as they start close enough to the beginning, they can learn anything they please — especially if they're willing to seek out expert assistance as needed, like you.

What is it about your Ph.D experience that makes you feel more able to learn authoritatively? I think I'm missing something there.
I've found that human help is a surprisingly cost-effective means of personal life automation. A cleaner comes by every week to clean our apartment; a company sends over a box of groceries so we don't have to shop; a nurse takes the twins out for their stroll every other day. All that put together doesn't cost more than $500 per month, and saves us literally dozens of hours. Next I'm looking for someone who'll take care of home maintenance chores. Wish me luck. :-)
No problem. I will need your bank and website passwords... :-D
What these workers are saying is they don't care about both the short and long term problems associated with illegal immigration into the US.

These workers are naive because they fail to recognize being "nice" in the short term can be a recipe for disaster in the long term. Sometimes hard choices must be made.

Imagine seeing the child of someone who has broken the law cry as their parent is dragged away to jail. Should we give in to our sympathy and emotion for the child by letting their parent off the hook at the expense of enforcing laws? Of course not.
I suspect Gnome developers are just afraid to have nested humburger menu. Which is puzzling as there is no interface guidelines against them.
> using the same key (wallet private key)

This is a bad idea. They should really be using a DEK.
Love how he started. People who don't stop their conversations for a presenter are the worst. People who don't stop their conversations for a presentation by Richard Hipp deserve a spell of laryngitis.
Speaking as a newbie (python and R mostly) who just wants the blogging software to blog, I use Jekyll because it’s the default choice. Yes there are python options but I don’t want to program the software - my programming energy is already spoken for.

I don’t care about the speed differential.

However if Hugo is actually easier somehow, well that would be tempting.
The Politics of Now
Not going to happen. High end conspicuous consumption products are well protected against Amazon. You can be a low end brand or a high end brand but you cannot be both.
Haha there it is!
Wanna get crazy, here's a PHP .INI configuration system. =)
https://github.com/ellisgl/GeekLab-INIConf
Amazon staff to Bezos: Stop selling tech to law enforcement, Palantir
Seems I misread your post. I guess I very seldom think of JSON as having anything to do with JavaScript even if that is where it originated..
“GeoMesa is an Apache licensed open source suite of tools that enables large-scale geospatial analytics on cloud and distributed computing systems, letting you manage and analyze the huge spatio-temporal datasets that IoT, social media, tracking, and mobile phone applications seek to take advantage of today”
Came to share this just now - really have a look at 1:20 - shows an effect of two degrees rise in global temperature on Miami and then US East coast.

Stunning. it's all gone, Lex Luther style.
I previously built a project that aggressively scraped a particular website and ran for several years. Resulting in billions of http requests. The business greatly increased revenue from 50k to upwards half a million.

Long story short I don't care about the "legality" of it. If it's publicly posted it's fair game. I don't care about tos or copyrights either. Everything is on the table.
Yep, it gives 2 entirely unconvincing reasons why using existing solutions have issues.
How to become a successful artist on Mastodon
Yeah, cause enforcing laws is bad!

Very silly people these staff members are.
I just checked the upload settings. Actually there is a 'private' visibility setting for videos (and 'unlisted'), but I'm not sure how it works and who specifically can see private videos. Peertube is still in early stages right now and lots of features are still missing.
Exactly, so why do you need it then?
Feynman Did you take the doors?
Very useful service that I have used for many years. However, in the updated version of Mailinator I can't find the "Alternate Inbox Name" anymore. Do anyone know why this function was removed?
"Thankfully, Nintendo is already selling Toy-Con cardboard replacement parts for Labo"
https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/4/20/17262280/n...
Ive heard the proposal that the Labo launch was mostly a soft launch to build mind-share behind the name/brand, and the real marketing push is going to occur before Christmas. (It’s a perfect Christmas gift purchase for a relative who knows that their grandson or niece or what-have-you has a Switch, after all.) I would expect that a large number of other new Labo accessories would come out alongside that push.
You'd have to live in a perfectly black-and-white world to believe that.
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I can talk to the outside world from within the firewalled net, but I have to start the conversation. Pull is already secured by ssh.
So how can they call it "censorship resistant" if you can just ban users and delete their content?
I'm not American, but the thing with taxes is (especially if things are undefined / unclear in the law) that you need to go with the most straight forward solution so the tax authority can't call your "solution" unreasonable.

If you earn $100, you'll pay corporate tax on $100. If you earn 1 ETH on the 1st of January, and the value of 1 ETH at that point is $500, then you should value that ETH at $500 and pay the tax on the corresponding dollar value (in this case $500). You're not going to run into any problems there, as it is pretty much the most reasonable approach.
You are correct about asynchronous communication, of course. That is a great thing, and I should have included IRC / texting on the plus side.

The worldwide communities? I enjoy them, but it seems to me that it is one of the fundamental causes of the increasing fragmentation of society. Hannah Arendt describe this as 'atomized' society. Totalitarian regimes have flourished in such environments.

In the old days, if you didn't fit in, you had to make an effort to find common ground with others physically near you to enjoy a social life. This led to a lot of seredipity and built social cohesion. Nowadays, it's a lot easier to hate your neighbor who disagrees with you politically or culturally because there's always a virtual means of socializing just a click away.

Nelson was a visionary to coin 'virtualization' but I think he and many others have been far too optimistic about the end results of that ongoing experiment. It is far easier to manipulate people into committing acts of physical violence against their neighbors than is commonly believed in a society that has become 'atomized,' and virtual communities are a terrific means to creating an atomized society.
"The AMD team found that deadlocks on active interposers basically disappear if you follow a few simple rules when designing on-chip networks"

I would like to know how they solved that problem. Is there any public paper or patent explaining that?
Encrypted reverse proxy in Go
I thought everyone was recommending index funds these days and holding them forever?
Ask HN: Which sites and blogs do you read regularly?
Yet another New York Times hit piece against Facebook. It makes you wonder what a private corporation is supposed to do.
In just this year:

1) The New York Times has published an endless stream editorials calling for Facebook to be destroyed [1], insisting Facebook is a thread to national security [2] and declaring Facebook a threat to the republic [3].

2) These editorials are joined by "reporting" insinuating that Facebook is working with the Chinese [4] (an obvious lie), accusing Facebook of lying to Congress and giving "data access" to device makers (another obvious lie) and, of course, when in doubt, it publishes pure rumour and speculation about Facebook [5].

And now we get yet another hit piece about Facebook's "creepy" patents. The reporter decided to pick the 7 most "creepy" patents and insist this shows Facebook's "plans" while dutifully ignoring the hundreds of other patents Facebook has generated. The reporter makes no effort to determine whether other companies have similar patents since this would reveal there's absolutely nothing special or unusual or "creepy" about such patents.

Throughout this propaganda campaign there's no mention of any conflict of interest despite the fact that we know the NY Times and other media corporations derive significant revenue from Facebook's platform and do not agree with many of Facebook's policies [6].

So it makes you wonder: what is a company supposed to do when the "leading paper" decides to continually attack them on the most flimsy terms? (Next week in the Times: Zuckerberg's creepy new haircut!) What exactly is Facebook's play here when its not foreign media waging the propaganda campaign?

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/03/opinion/facebook-fix-repl...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/05/opinion/facebook-china-pr...

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/29/opinion/facebook-privacy-...

[4] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/05/technology/facebook-devic...

[5] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/19/technology/facebook-alex-...

[6] https://www.adweek.com/digital/facebook-new-york-times-execs...
You really cannot compare Labo to VR. At all. Like not even a little. They are completely different use cases and more advanced tech is absolutely required for VR platforms.

Even if they were comparable, that last 20% is a bitch (but often worth it.) It's always easy to come up with an 80% solution.
I built the actix.rs website with hugo and while I generally like it it has some bizarre things that make development harder than necessary. Sometimes it randomly refuses to build pages that worked before, until you realize it has something to do with it now picking up other templates. But no error message.

And that you can't shell out to helper scripts makes it very restricted in so many aspects. I wanted to extract source examples from other code and preprocess it and the only way I could make it work was some really ugly go template code and that didn't even let me implement everything I want since they are so restrictive :(

I really wish one could shell out to an executable to fill the gaps.

As an example this is how code snippets are included. Sadly we cannot remove leading spaces on the lines to remove extra indentation, so now the source files look ugly :( https://github.com/actix/actix-website/blob/master/layouts/s...
Google shouts at you, about 500 times, to secure your Firebase instance. Tutorials are thrown at developers left and right, and the docs mention it again and again.

And the security system is super simple to implement. If the built in language is too hard, a simplified templating language is also provided.

The plaintext password thing just confuses me. One of Firebase's big draws is integration with their auth system. Why in the world is anyone storing passwords in Firebase? Unencrypted?
Check out the "Who is responsible for content published on PeerTube? " bit in the faq at https://joinpeertube.org/en/faq/
Well ... among the relatively small number of Europeans there around about that time, there probably was rape, which is bad; though you do realize that you're making this point in an article that is literally about the total, systematic and full cultural integration of mass slavery, mass murder, mass infanticide etc. by one group of aboriginals of their immediate aboriginal neighbours, on a scale approaching modern holocaust?

In fact, given > 100 000 skulls in 'one find', and we know this behaviour was common in the region over time, and that certainly not all skulls were preserved ... we're talking easily into the millions of murders, putting this 'on par' with the holocaust. Added the fact this was hundreds of years ago with a smaller population base than modern Europe, in relative terms, this cultural mass murder surpasses the holocaust in relative terms. And done on the basis of 'religion' to boot ...
At what point did the president of the united states and both branches of congress stop being the "top" and at what point did the majority of the population start being "elites"
That's very interesting. As a child, Keller was the butt of many jokes, usually implying she was mentally deficient. The passage at the beginning of the article demonstrates she was anything but.

And with that, there's no surprise that she, like many modern critical thinkers, was a socialist
The Supreme Court Will Decide If Apple's App Store Is a Monopoly
I automated my weekly task, goal, and reflection tracking. I mentioned it a few months ago[1]. Now I have the barebones version running here[2]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16561343
[2] https://natriumapp.com/
Our particular IP system has extreme issues, even if you don't share my admittedly extremist view that IP ownership is fundamentally irrational or even impossible if taken to its logical conclusion.
I would agree and as you say we don't really have enough info here. If the OP is planning a family he needs a bigger house for sure!
There are workarounds for this, e.g. `gtk-primary-button-warps-slider=false` in ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini

But I agree that it is obnoxious. I still haven't found a working GTK3 theme which is (a) dark (b) not "flat" and (c) has usable scrollbars. XFCE-Dusk is almost there, but seems to have been broken by newer GTKs, so I'm currently using Vertex-Dark.
I've heard of them, sort of like a pressure cooker?
You're speaking of presenting no evidence...?
But why would a blockchain be any better than a peer-to-peer filesystem, for example?

Also, it seems like a really bad idea to have your encrypted passwords open for anyone to have a crack at - any flaws in the b.lock encryption protocol or implementation could have disastrous consequences. Unfortunately I wasted some minutes of my life looking into their encryption, and it's bad (not using authenticated encryption, using a malleable encryption mode (CTR), directly encrypting secrets with your wallet private key...)
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That's not saving, because stock market goes up and down.
The argument isn't about technology. The argument is about knowingly letting and abetting a genocide with your technology.
Even more so when they're often reviewed and legislated on by people who don't even have a fraction of the basic technical curiosity--let alone knowledge--required to understand what they are doing.
You're totally right: after Smash Bros release owning a switch would finally make sense. Up until now I find all the titles pretty underwhelming. Especially the Zelda that was highly praised by the press but which in my opinion does not contains anything of what make the previous ones good (music, story, good gameplay, characters).

I'm also waiting for Metroid Prime 4 and Pikmin 4 as I loved the two games released on GameCube.
An Abstract Love
The article didn’t exactly analyze the claims.
TL:DR but it befuddles me how corporate expects people to sit in front of a shiny toy and just use it as instructed rather than take it apart and mess around to understand how the damn thing works. That’s how we evolved as bloody apes, checking out the other monkeys’ sticks and stones and learning by example.

They’re literally trying to lawyer out evolution..
NYT's business model seems to have turned to latching on to whatever sentiment is currently popular and beating the metaphorical horse for clicks until it's a bloody pulp, before moving on to the latest "outrage" of the week.

In fact, in catering to simply the loudest popular sentiment, they put themselves in the position of having to apologize for their recent election coverage due to how utterly biased it ended up being.

I understand they're all struggling in the battle for people's attention these days, but as an institution they somehow seem to feel they still stand out from, and above of, others such as buzzfeed.
You see a lot of people screaming about it if they're web developers; that's why PhoneGap/Cordova, Ionic and Flutter exist.
The failing @nytimes
What can a Neural Network learn from user comments on news websites?
Return a list of results?
It's estimated that about 1/3 of European population died due to Syphilis brought back from the new world.
> which is essentially abandonware

Could you please expand on this? This seems like something that requires a source.
I misread the title and thought this was going to be about Native-American archers.
Forgive my inarticulacy, but this is really just so, so great.
Haven't noticed a sizable difference on my phone.
cough Uncharted, Last Of Us cough
My point is that the datasets they chose to test their ideas on are obscure, and/or small. From their results, it's not clear, even to someone familiar with the field, if they achieved anything impressive. For example, I've done a ton of work on image classification. Pretty much all papers on image classification published in the last 5 years have used one of the three "canonical" datasets: MNIST, CIFAR, or ImageNet. In fact, one can argue that MNIST has been a canonical image classification dataset since LeCun's famous paper in 1998. Also, anything published on the topic in 2018 better demonstrate good results on ImageNet to be taken seriously (unless it's from Hinton).

I see "Letter Recognition Dataset" from UCI ML repository. What's the hell is that? Can you point to any paper published in a respectable conference (NIPS/ICML/CVPR) in the last 5 years that used it? They showed results from 9 irrelevant datasets, while a single one on ImageNet would instantly convinced everyone they are on to something.
How Many Miles of Driving to Demonstrate Autonomous Vehicle Reliability? (2016)
Arguably a good thing to have the press shine light on these things. No? And by no means are the stories about Zuckerberg's haircut, the majority gives insights to the masses and create great discussions.
The article attempts to refute/shed doubt on the poverty statistic by listing a string of stats that show that most poor people in America have DVD players, air conditioning and so forth, and something like 40 pct own their homes.

How convenient to cherry pick away from the biggest of the worst: health care, completely unmentioned.
I'm not the OP, but I can say that pursuing anything where you have to spend large amounts of time learning on your own to achieve a deep understanding of a topic gives you valuable learning skills. I find people from these paths typically learn topics more quickly and with a better understanding than someone finishing their undergrad degree. Maybe that is what OP was getting at.
Given the general quality of YouTube comments, this is a bug, not a feature.
Everything thats old is new again. Watch Downton Abby and Remains of the Day for additional tips on cost-effective personal life automation for the new techno-aristocracy.
Govt rocks except law enforcement. Great logic.
which is precisely why those who create technology must consider how it will be used.
I'd strongly urge you to at least try Zelda. I am a fan of past Zelda titles.

This one was different, but wonderful. I went in knowing nothing about it, and was blown away. The first seven hours or so gave me a sense of helplessness, wonder and uncertainty that I rarely experience in a video game.

The longer you can go without reading a guide, the better. Eventually it can become a grind, but I got months of play value out of it, and thoroughly enjoyed it.

Super Mario Odyssey is also excellent. It's incredibly fun, even if it's easier than other mario games. Incredible attention to detail.
1. some miscellaneous things using IFTTT like cross posting from Instagram to Twitter and Facebook

2. Smart Home stuff like turning on the light on sunset if I’m home, turning off the lights when I leave home and multifunctional wake up calls using light and music.

3. And which I guess I’m most proud of: I’m secretary at my local volunteer fire brigade and one of the chores is to send out a weekly email to everyone with a digest of trainings and other appointments in the next week. To get this out of my head, I wrote a serverless function that queries a special google calendar for this, collects titles, start times and notes, generates an email and sends it out to our members. This lets me just manage the appointments within my calendar and takes care of all the mechanics. Fun fact: this works that good that sometimes people come to me with “yeah, about your email...” and I’m like “which E-... OH!”
There is a more recent lecture on the same topic from 2015 at CMU: https://youtu.be/gpxnbly9bz4
Ah, thanks for catching that!
There are algorithms that, in my opinion, would deserve a patent, though. Software can, in some cases, be more clever than e.g. mechanical inventions. It would be unfair if one inventor could apply for a patent, while the other could not.
It is significantly easier to setup because (in typical Go style) only requires you to download and install a single fat binary. You do not need to do what you're otherwise doing with the likes of Jekyll which involve a significant Ruby environment alongside to function.

I've been using it for over two years, and this is the thing I like most about it.

In addition:

* Yes, it's super fast.

* It allows for clean layout of code with different layouts for different sections: e.g. https://github.com/hnarayanan/harishnarayanan.org

* It's got a really friendly community for support.
Extensive discussion within the last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14724092

Also, similar discussions can be found by searching:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Ask%20HN:%20Which%20blogs&sort...
>It makes you wonder what a private corporation is supposed to do.

Presumably, stop being a threat to national security, republic democracy, and making creepy patents, and if these issues are structural within the company, get destroyed.

Just because there be other bad actors in this space and similar technology spaces doesn't mean we shouldn't hold Facebook's feet to the fire on their flaws. The others, respectively, will and should ultimately get their turn.