skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Google's DNS service is interesting. I was never really sure what the business case for operating a public DNS resolver is, for any company really, but it was warmly welcomed when it was unveiled, at least for me. At the time, the public DNS resolvers I can recall were mostly oriented around blocking content.

They introduced it as ISPs were starting to inject advertising via their own DNS, which competes with Google's core business (it's easy to forget that the overwhelming majority of Google's revenue comes from advertising). That's not to say this isn't a good move from Google, but it's very much aligned with their business interests.
Paywall bypass: http://archive.is/yoK65
Is there anything special about 450nm?
I’m not sure having a remote control kill switch on an airplane is the kind of backdoor that improve security (if any backdoor can, which I’d doubt).
Lead with that then, so we know to ignore you.
QNAME minimization is about to fix that.
> Yet, something was very broken for Russell.

That’s why Men’s Rights Movements are important, yet constantly under attack by women and male feminists. Facilities for men to speak and discuss their problems are notoriously absent from society, and of course, since they’re mostly shut down/defunded/deplatformed, the only ones that remain are groups like Incels (who, to my knowledge, prone mass murders against Stans & Staceys, ie incontrollabe reactions to aggressive femimism).

Example: There is only 1 shelter for beaten husbands in all of USA vs 2000 for women.

Other example: We fund more money towards dog shelters than homeless men shelters.

It’s not that this guy could have been saved by that, but in society we care so little about men’s problems that they just go straight from shutting up about their problems to full-on suicide. As a reminder, men commit 3x suicide of women, with a 10x success rate at killing themselves.
I think much of the distrust stems from: "why is google doing this". It costs some amount of money to operate a DNS service, and it's pretty reasonable to think that Google is getting something in return. Pretty much every other service they offer for "free" pays for itself by monetizing usage patterns and content, so it's no leap at all that they are offering DNS services with a similar quid-pro-quo.

Even if they don't use your traffic history to help with personalized advertising, they could conceivably use it for other things (e.g., bot detection, usage stats).

Google discusses what they collect in their privacy policy (https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/privacy), but not how they use it.
IBM have responded: https://www.ibm.com/blogs/watson-health/setting-the-record-s...
My project is very old haha (~7 years)! And was built for my own needs to find people in Brno where I studied. Since then many more projects for language exchange appeared.

Honestly I would not start it today just like that :). But since it's running I want to make it more modern now.
There's a high likelyhood that if you have unhandled enums and uncaught exceptions after a refactoring, the code is subtly broken.

In C++ -Wswitch is a valuable tool to find the former, but there is no way to find the latter. This makes writing correct exception handling code much much harder, so having Swift's strict behaviour would be great from my perspective!

It sounds to me that you want to use a few days of exploratory coding to save a few hours of design work. If this type of exploration is needed, then it could be done in another language which supports it and then when the design is in decent shape it can be ported to Swift.

Swift is not detrimental to the correctness of the business logic. It offers you a bedrock at the type sustem level on which to build that.
> Being surveilled […] doesn't itself harm you[…]

Pervasive Monitoring Is an Attack:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7258
If I were to rent an office as a freelancer, it would be for two reasons.

One reason is to establish a routine where I wake up, put on my work costume, leave the house, and go to a place where I shall be productive each day. Normal office "hi, how are ya"s would probably add to the authenticity, but constant chatter would be distracting.

The other reason is to have a professional environment to invite clients. If the place is full of people lounging in beanbag chairs, sipping coffee and yakking, then I know a nice coffee shop that would be a lot cheaper.
The current "kill switch" technology for rouge airplanes is an F-18 with a few Sidewinders.
Ah, anecdotes. “My grandfather smoked two packs of cigarettes a day, and he lived to be a 110.”
Perhaps the title should be changed to 'for x11'.
Looks like that's just a wrapper around the Have I Been Pwned API, of which there are many examples. 1Password built it into their password manager which is probably one of the best integrations for it.
"if someone tells you “that’s bad” if you pull the trigger on a revolver playing Russian roulette and you pull the trigger five times without any apparent consequence despite being informed “don’t do that” each time"

I'm not sure that's a valid analogy. Isn't it the case rather that the revolver said "that's bad" but a person said "it's fine, ignore that, it always does that"? Which, in my experience, happens all the time in the workplace. If you didn't trust other people you work with, it would defeat the purpose of being in an organization at all.

Not to mention, if pulling the trigger repeatedly was required for normal operations, you really can't blame the operator at all.
>"The problem I have with the Bayesian definition of probability is that it isn't a definition, is it?"

You'll have to clarify what exactly your problem with the concept is here.

>"So what does the 1 in 1/6 actually mean? And the 6?"

It means there are six possible outcomes, one of which is of special interest and five others. You have no reason to think any one possibility is more likely than any other.

>"What does it mean that someone is 1/6 certain of something?"

You would take any bet on it with better than 6 to 1 odds. If you have to decide between a 1/6 opportunity and a 1/60th opportunity for the same reward you should choose the first. You can use such probabilities to perform a cost-benefit analysis amongst various possible actions with various costs and rewards.

>"How does one measure certainty?"

I assume you are using "certainty" as a synonym for "probability", in which case one way is to ask people to bet.

>"The more I think about it the more I'm convinced Bayesian probabilities are a flawed concept."

Ok, but your objections here don't seem to have much thought/experience behind them.
Keyword deduplication using the Python dedupe library
> but that's easy to solve

That's handwaving over a lot more than just grepping a word file.
>"Bayeseian probability is always probability within a model."

Is there a conception of probability that is not conditional on a model?
A floating point bug [0] in the Patriot Missile Defense System killed 28 Americans and injured nearly 100 more when an Iraqi SCUD wasn't successfully countered during the Gulf War.

[0] https://www.cs.drexel.edu/~introcs/Fa10/notes/07.1_FloatingP...
guitar player from U2
Than let it be so, software shouldn't be a special snowflake with special rules regarding commercial obligations.
So 2 then.
I find it interesting that WeWork managed to market itself as being different than regus when it's in reality just a slightly different version of Regus.
Three reasons to have an office:

1. Vanity: Impress clients with a cool lobby / conference room (WeWork's free beer and ping-pong tables often does the job well, especially when folks are used to cubicles)

2. Focus: A space to sit quietly without distraction; open office space totally fails here, and I'm pretty people listen to music while working in these environments solely to cancel out the noise of others.

3. Collaboration: Having smart people around you makes you smarter. This work in a traditional office, but I've been to a few WeWorks where I was pretty uninspired with the people around me. It was not that they were dumb, but that they worked in industries so far off from my own (fashion v. law) that we had almost nothing to talk about.

I've run my startup for quite some time. I normally rent fancy conference rooms at hourly rates or go to trendy restaurants for #1 (they're expensive, but better/cheaper than getting a monthly plan). I learned to focus at home for #2 (takes some time to get used to). By far, #3 is the hardest, but literally every person I hired was in a different state or abroad, so having a physical office wouldn't have helped unless I forced them to move.
I would equate "lack of reliability" with "latency that is sometimes rather large".
I'm seeing what amounts to a lot of complaints and negative comments about what you wouldn't do, but for some reason you're still not actually answering the question of what you would do. The question has been quite clear and concrete: which DNS servers you would rationally trust more than Google's, and why. So far all I see that you've said is that you don't trust Google, that you in fact don't fully trust anyone, and that you would trust Microsoft and Apple more than Google---all three of which dodge the actual question of whose DNS servers you would use and why you would rationally trust them more than Google. Apple and Microsoft don't have public DNS servers (AFAIK? if they have ones that you're advocating then by all means correct me) so it wouldn't make any difference even if you'd trust them with your newborn baby. Regardless of whom else you pick, it really does not make any difference whether that DNS server(s) is getting 1% of your trust or 99% of it -- it's still going to be the one getting your queries, and I'm trying to understand whose server(s) you're picking and why it's rational to choose theirs over Google's.
His claim that existing shareholders can keep their stake could mean the projected amount of funding required is very small.

It could mean his personal bank account could cover it.
Most people surely wouldn't buy a physical product that doesn't work as expected, or in the worst case they will return it and expect to be fully refunded.

If everyone did the same thing for broken software, instead of being conditioned that broken software is unavoidable, the quality across the industry would be much better.
Society cares little about men. For those interested, there are many experts on the topic, who constantly come under criticism up to deplatforming, that’s why “we” ignore those problems. Example:

- Paul Elam on Youtube,

- Stefan Molyneux,

- the heartbreaking movie “The Red Pill” 2016,

- Jamice Fiamengo,

- Karen Straughan...

She deserves a Nobel Prize for their work and it’s all on Youtube.
For something as simple as this, writing a separate webext is probably overkill.

There are already extensions that let you automatically make custom redirects. (Or you could abuse HTTPS Everywhere for this purpose.)

Or you could make a bookmarklet. Or make a user script for Greasemonkey (or a similar extension). For example, I'm using this to fix the "Decline" button:

// ==UserScript==
// @name npr.org
// @namespace jwilk@jwilk.net
// @include https://choice.npr.org/*
// @grant none
// ==/UserScript==

document.querySelector('#textLink').href = 'https://text.npr.org/s.php?sId=' + window.location.search.match('[0-9]{9,}');
Brother Cavil. I really feel like that - stuck in a body of flesh: limited in its sensory capability, very fragile, almost impossible to repair.
William J. Beaty did a better write up on this subject many years ago: http://trafficwaves.org/
> IMHO, though, it’s a bit too “academic” and clever for any sort of general purpose use, though it may well be ideally suited for its stated purpose

Exactly my thoughts. Looks like all the improvements in the OT/CRDT academics - is only useful to make plain string editors (like code editors and plain text editors). I maybe wrong or in a completely different page even.

I'd like to see these improved algorithms applied to full featured rich text editors, with styles, tables, TOC sections, etc. They have a completely different set of challenges and I'd like to see how these improvements cater to those.

For example the non-code editors like Google Docs & Zoho Writer still use a decade old OT algorithms and seem to do just fine.

Not a skepticist here. Just curious how CRDT and the latest collaboration techniques will improve making rich text editors (I'm in the business of making one)
Nerdalize is a startup that builds a decentralized data center as it's core product. Well interesting if you're building edge services: www.nerdalize.com
Personally, I think the optimal aim is agelessness. There are issues with immortality, as there is with any unlimited concept.
I think what most people fear is a fixed time limit. I want to be the master of my own destiny, and not have biology telling me when to go. if we become ageless, people still die from trauma and suicide, but we lose that pressure of knowing we have such a limited time. That might be good for altruism, long term outlooks, and delayed rewards. Plus it addresses another major issue: the slow decline into frailty.

I think by becoming ageless we can gain many advantages of immortality and avoid many of the problems.
Because so many people are "molested" by electric scooters every day where they're legal. Oh wait, that's cars.
Data likes to accrete, almost as if it has its own virtual gravity.

Cycles oscillate some, depending on compute speed and network latency.

But there isn’t as much oscillation as people think. 80’s/90’s style non-networked personal computing was a rare exception to the usual rule of networked centralisation with smrt-ish terminal access.
Better not go to sleep then. You woke up from the abyss this morning.
What a Revolution – 3D Headset
It’s not a dichotomy. Both are reasons why they do it.
There are many cases of conspiracies going for multiple decades before a whistleblower attempts to uncover it. And, of course, if a conspiracy never gets a whistleblower, we never hear of it at all.

In short, the observation that “there are no whistleblowers” is not proof of the non-existence of a conspiracy.

The only thing you can realistically do is to evaluate the incentives of all the parties involved. And, sure, Google’s public promises of privacy (weasel-words or not), provide some incentive for them. But you also have to look at their actual risk of getting caught. How many people inside Google would they need to siphon off this data, analyze it, and re-inject it into their existing personal models (shadow profiles) of everyone? Call it “additional weight-adjustment from machine learning” or something. No-one outside the small group could then see that the extra data came from data analysis. Would the small risk of one of these few people blowing the whistle be worth it for Google, who absolutely depend on having the best information about everyone?
I find that map breaking down usage by country interesting. It seems almost nobody is using it in India and Australia. Is it performing badly, is it blocked by ISPs, or are those people just overly obsessed with privacy? Even China's usage is higher, surprisingly, even though it wouldn't help at all with bypassing censorship.
Why is any technology of any kind required? Surely all that is needed is for the voters to make indelible marks on pieces of paper and for another person to tally those marks.
This is not relevant to "Western" culture. It is relevant to US culture and East Asian culture, esp. Korea.
Western includes Europe and South America, and these cultures are not as infantile.

Why? I have no idea.
if it is a copy of me good enough to remember my memories, good enough. Whether my "clone" shares my goal or not is not my problem. If it ends up being a totally different person, so be it. Free determination is more important than my personal survival.

I am making a bet, that is better than the alternative of 0 chances. If I did everything I could, why should I be concerned about the actual outcome? A bet is a bet, not a guarantee.
> Cynics might of course argue that we have come full circle, from thick client to butt back to thick client, but that would miss the point of what "the edge" is all about: In a world of increasingly ubiquitous computing power we are well advised to reflect on where our computation happens and how we can make the most efficient use of the resources at our disposal.

Which is exactly why we the cynics say we've come full circle.

Also, while the cyclical nature of client/server design seems to be a thing, unfortunately underlying ownership is not cyclical. For instance, a cycle or two ago, the "edge" computer meant software I bought running on my machine. This cycle, it means software I don't have any stake in running on machine I lease and have little control about.

This is the part of the trend that's worrying to me. Cycles of thin/thick clients are irrelevant. Disenfranchising end users is a problem.
Where these games actually developed with this purpose? Did doplhin existed back during the game's dev cycle and the developers say "we don't want our game on the dolphin emulator"? Or it just happens that they use an approach that is problematic to begin with?
The TLDs are only queried for the NS records of the second-level domain, and the A (or AAAA) records of the those NS names. This is cached, often for longer than the record's specified TTL. The rest of the traffic is with the 0delegated nameserver,
Probably your ISP or government man-in--the-middle attacking you, and your browser is detecting sthat something is off.
well, maybe.
I don't know how chinese mummification worked, but Egyptian mummification removed the brain, which was considered something useless and generally evil or a source of problems (the soul is in the heart, right?)
New York City is the perfect scooter market, but it’s also the most impossible
Sure, compilation time and memory usage was improved, but what about the runtime performance and memory usage?
That would be irrational. I would say the odds of my bet are 1 in 1000 maybe. If I stop enjoying the certain life I have now, the low probability of the bet are not good enough to compensate for that. I just try to not take too many risks. No MMA!
It seems to me that tailgating by definition is following too closely to be able to react in time to what's ahead.

By your definition, the people with slower reactions who amplify traffic waves aren't tailgating. By your definition, if they were tailgating, they would've rear-ended the vehicle in front of them.

Perhaps you'd like to try again?
Sounds a lot safer to me and sufficient as well.
Most people pay for ISP service and get a DNS server included in the price. It's a clear quid-pro-quo. If they don't respect your privacy, or they generally behave badly, you can switch providers (assuming you're not one of the 50 Million US citizens with only one ISP provider).

Even if you have an evil ISP, and they're selling your data for $0.50/month, you're still paying them $50/month for service. A bunch of angry customers could change their policy quickly. Few ISPs would try to squeeze those extra quarters from you, given the potential blow-back (some do, and they'll get their comeuppance). However generally, ISPs incentives are to keep you as a customer and get your fitty beans every month.

However, with Google, it's not clear why they are giving DNS services away for free or what they're getting in return. It clearly costs them some money to do so, and they're not being paid for it directly. It's possible that they're doing it purely altruistically, but they also have an extremely long history of using data for advertising or other forms of monetization.

I'm not saying that if you use 8.8.8.8, you'll search ads will target you. But I would bet they use your anonymized browsing history to fight bots, test internet speeds at various locations, identify browser technology, and who knows what.
Could it be that a reseller of Dell has been hacked someone stole the database and the data leak contains Service Tags, serial numbers?

It sounds like it could be either a data leak or a software security bug. This is just guesses.
You've been doing ideological flamewar in this thread. That's not what this site is for, regardless of how right you are, so could you please not?

Ditto, and especially, for nationalistic flamewar.
> from thick client to butt back to thick client
- did you build something that replaces "cloud" with "butt"?
Black Box vs. White Box Monitoring: What You Need to Know
My conspiracy theory brain says this is mostly to do with network planning - Telcos make a lot more money from wireless.
Maybe we don't know what the strongest is, but a lower bound is that Animats wasn't justifying every conceivably related atrocity.
This is something we handle really, really badly. One bad thing happens one time (like a failed shoe bomb), and so everybody forever-more has to be permanently inconvenienced every day.

Whatever the response to this incident is, I hope (and doubt) that it will also balance the CHANCE of this happening against the huge cost and inconvenience of making it "impossible" to ever happen again.

We all know that 100% and "impossible" is not going to work, and we all know that lame "for show" security measures are a huge waste of money that could be better spent elsewhere.

The question that needs to be asked and will not is: what would be the most best positive impact for that same amount of money?

It won't be asked because it's a hard question and people are scared of hard questions.

Better make a Space Corps instead.
California lawmaker accuses DMV of 'fudging' online wait times
Oracle Java SE8 updates not available without commercial license after Jan 2019
Ooops, forgot about that extension running on the machine I wrote that comment on.
How Predictive Analytics Could Increase the Rate of Innovation
I had never heard of a sun-synchronous orbit before. Intuitively it shouldn't work; if you're orbiting the earth in a plane perpendicular to the sun now, then in three months' time you'd expect to have moved round and the sun to be in that plane.

However, it turns out that the orbital plane can be made to precess by means of interaction with the earth's equatorial bulge:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun-synchronous_orbit#Orbital_...
We got more lucky today - nobody stole any airplanes at all!
Very shortly after this article was published nobody was using the term in any way but the top one (nor were less than 100% compatible PCs even sold for much longer).

My parents bought our first “ibm compatible” in 1987 and even back then the degree of compatibility was already a complete non-issue.
Start by making an app you want, then when you get stuck on a certain feature (eg: how to get GPS location?) then you google / stack overflow it. After completing multiple apps, you should have a long lasting grasp on multiple iOS dev concepts.
There was no Mac OS 7. You mean System 7.
Self-indexing functions in Node.js applications
I can’t say I trust Google overall (and have been gradually replacing my use of their services with competitors), but I do think that they abide by their terms and conditions generally, so thanks for posting a link to the 8.8.8.8 docs; they seem pretty clear-cut.
> For the usual startup, WeWork is way too expensive.

Why do you say that? What are the alternatives that startups have?

Here in Tel Aviv at least, if you're a 5-10 person startup, you can either take the painful, long process of renting an office, which is both expensive in its own right, takes a lot of your time, and has a serious issue - you don't know what size you need!

The alternative is to go to WeWork, where you can start working almost immediately, have everything taken care of for you without thinking, and have peace of mind that you can scale to more offices within the WeWork as necessary (unless it's at capacity, but there're usually vacancies).

I'm not saying this necessarily a good business model for WeWork, but for startups, it's a great deal.