skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I need to say at least one relatively good thing about Firefox - it has extensions on Android. I don't know for how long but still.
Agreed.

Statistics can be counter-intuitive, but it's not rocket science.

Playing the "keeper of the true flame" and hiding the internals in intro stats courses does everyone a disservice.

I get there are a huge amount of non-mathematical scientists who go through these courses, but they should at least be equipped to get a funny feeling if they see something odd (and therefore go ask for advice). Rather than just believe "that's the number that came out."

Mathematically rigorous and vetting meta-studies seem like they would help here too... validating methods and that studies reproduce within a range.
What school was this?
By looking at eye movements of babies days after birth.
Still not sure why they named it after an extinct Mammoth.
Symantec told us that there was a clear separation between the Blue Coat interception business and the CA business. Now, whether we should believe that having distrusted Symantec is a reasonable question, but of course distrusting the Symantec CA function also makes the question rather academic.

For users with Certificate Transparency checking (basically, Chrome) any dubious MITM certificates would have to be logged to show up as trusted public certificates. So there would not only be a smoking gun in the sense of the MITM cert being sent to all browsers that connected, it would be permanently preserved.

In addition Mozilla has an ongoing programme of trying to discover all the intermediate CAs that actually exist, partly because this occasions them to find various intermediates that probably _shouldn't_ exist and get them blacklisted. So this means if a intermediate exists and then you say you didn't realise it was being abused, you have the problem of explaining why you didn't report that it exists. If you say it's because you didn't know, it makes things worse - like if you say you didn't tell the IRS about the money because you got it when committing an armed robbery you weren't previously in the frame for - because that means your CA root was used to sign things you don't have a record of, and so obviously we can't trust your root any more...
An on point post. My friends are usually those who I value outside of their internet self's.

All our posting habits are up for criticism. And I'm not a fan of feeds that are entertainment or content consumption based. I just want to keep up with what's going on in my friend's lives and have the benefits of that network effect and their tools.
>KeenCorp doesn’t read the emails, exactly—its software focuses on word patterns and their context.

Well if that isn't the biggest pile of horse shit I've ever heard, I don't know what is.

We don't read your e-mails, we just have a program that injests the contents of your email and assign you an unexplainable number that might get you fired. Oh, and we lied about reading your e-mails, this software totally does that. Trust us!
This is not my experience -- can you show an example of a site with a cert that has been untrusted early from chrome? They specifically call out the types of certs and their sign dates in the timeline and everything I have seen has matched this timeline. They have, however, had very verbose logging warning in console that the cert on a given site _will be_ distrusted well ahead of time.
You could just nuke all developing countries you don’t like.

Or pass laws saying that native peoples are non-humans and allowed to be hunted.

Or maybe enslave a bunch of people and pass laws that say it’s ok.

You might be confusing law with morality.

People gain a monopoly on violence and then pass “laws” which equate to “how you must act or we will hurt you”.

In your world, it seems that wealth is the excuse for bad behavior.
The broad approach to social networking presented by Mastodon and other federated networks is "spend your time/resources on funding the network instead of paying someone else much less to do it." It wont "work" for the same reason everyone doesn't host their own email service. It flies in the face of a broader cultural movement we have: specialization of labor.

For instance, the solution to content moderation and harassment is:

> “Mastodon comes with effective anti-abuse tools to help protect yourself. Thanks to the network’s spread out and independent nature there are more moderators who you can approach for personal help, and servers with strict codes of conduct.”

The solution can't just be "there are more people moderating," which translates to: the network is much more expensive to run. But that abstraction is the solution to everything in a federated system: spread out power so it isn't corruptible.

As a libertarian this is really attractive to me, but in our current system, politically, it's completely infeasible and more than that just a little actively not wanted. People don't want to moderate themselves, they want a larger power to do it for them. It's why we have representative democracy instead of direct democracy: people don't want to be involved. Governing is a pain in the ass.

I can respect that Mastodon is philosophically consistent: if you want to really control your communications, you need to put in the effort. I hope to be wrong about this, but people simply to not want to put this much effort into online communities. If they did we wouldn't have FB, IG and Twitter already.

Please: CMV.
You haven’t addressed any of my points to any particular depth. So I’m not sure why you have such faith in this tech.
I know absolutely no Russian, but reading about this book makes me want to learn it!
> Give me a "disable memes & politics" button and I'd probably be back that day.

Personally I'd prefer that to be two separate buttons, but otherwise I'm right with you. Some days, I really need those memes.
Great article, thanks for that (and for evidence #1236576 that I have no clue when it comes to software security).

One rather off-topic observation: April 23 to June 25 is somewhat shorter than the 90-day window you mentioned. ("A few days before the 90-day public disclosure deadline...") What was the reason for that? It doesn't appear to be because those who were going to fix it had already done so - they published their fixes after the public disclosure.

(I'm just curious, not criticizing or anything.)
> Not necessarily longest, though. Right? Most executed would also suffice

"Longest total." I don't care if its a big slice of pie or a lot of little slices. But it better be one of those.

> Sometimes, just thinking about the problem ahead of time can clearly expose where you are spending time.

That's certainly true. But 99% of people overestimate their ability to do this. And are surprised by the results.
Why Does the School Day End 2 Hours Before the Workday?
>>> I'm not sure it's entirely wrong

>> But will you leave others the choice to watch what they want?

> Yes

Can't at one point say it's not wrong to restrict content and at another point say you support people watching any content they want. Either you're for laws on amount of content or you accept that there is no ceiling/limits which includes what you subjectively perceive as dumb.
And thermodynamics isn't gasses or engines, aerodynamics isn't wings or aircraft, and mathematics isn't arithmetic.

Realistically, people have to start somewhere, and trying to teach applied mathematics without the application is foolishness.
Do you work in politics? My experience working with these orgs is you're either on the approved vendor list or your not getting competitive clients
New Research: Evaluation of Automatic Video Captioning Using Direct Assessment
Are you running any new software packages related to the monitor, e.g. LG's software for screen rearrangement and split screen use? I didn't dig into the actual cause and what was being hooked, but I was seeing enormous lag with no apparent cause when it was running.
The sugar industry has been powerful for a long time. The first slaves were sugar workers. Back then the powers settled wars by trading islands with sugar.

Sugar has and will be more powerful than cigarettes evet were.
My point is that you can beat people over the head as much as you want, but when the alternative is starving to death they will probably take the head beating.
My high school had the shop teacher (who was actually a very sharp guy) teach programming. It was actually billed as programming, not CS. We learned C++ (maybe not the best choice, but this was ~1999), and he basically learned whatever he was teaching a few weeks ahead of us. Most of the students were highly motivated, so most learned a lot even if the teacher couldn't give us all the answers.
Vista's market share is a rounding error - it never overtook XP. Today XP adoption is still almost 5x higher. They could have mentioned it, but XP support is by far what people care about.
A good reason to wash your hands frequently.
It's common enough that urban dictionary has a definition for Potel (patel + m/hotel)
Or named their tweets "toots". It's like they want it to fail.
The law cannot force Netflix to not buy the cheapest content offered in a country if the quality is irrelevant. All these countries have their own Hollywoods that takes all the money, and tons of small productions and artists living in poverty; there will always be someone to offer dirt cheap content needed to fill the quota. And Netflix can always make its own local production company, produce some crappy reality TV program and generate as much local content as they want.

It's a problem with TV or cinema, since there is limited space and time on it, but with streaming, Netflix can just put it in the catalog and let everyone not click on it...
These numbers are based on values from Google's production stack. Insofar as these numbers are based on Jeff Dean's post: http://highscalability.com/blog/2011/1/26/google-pro-tip-use...

That being said, these numbers are roughly identical to what you can expect on AWS.
Another key reason I prefer iOS.
Okay, this is a hard one to decide between. Probably one of the following:

1. That populism and extremism was basically inevitable, and without a major shake up, future equivalents of Trump and Brexit and what not are going to get more and more common (and extreme).

2. That the focus on identity politics over economic inequality came from the left's shift in focus away from the working class to the middle/upper one. Easier to blame a new scapegoat than look in the mirror at the source of your own lifestyle.

3. As well as that transhumanism and tech are the solution to issues like global warming, not changing lifestyles. The latter just won't happen without a planetary dictatorship of some kind, whereas the former may fix or reduce the effects enough to be manageable.
Right -- and Star Trek Discovery is just a CBS show in the US. When either show airs in the US, the new episodes are available immediately on Netflix in the UK.

If I want to watch them in the US, I either have to pay per-episode/season on Google/Amazon/iTunes. CBS offers access to their entire library, but at $10/mo, it's more than a Netflix subscription.

My point is just that comments about the Netflix library being better in the US vs elsewhere holds true less and less every day.
Maybe it's just because I've spent too long with computers, but I thought the everyday meaning of "sorting" was ordering, not categorizing.

(Though now that I think about it, it's both: if I handed a random non-coder a deck of cards and asked them to sort them, I'd expect them to group by suit and then order by value. I wouldn't expect four stacks by suit in random order, or a deck of all the cards in numerical order regardless of suit...)

That nitpick aside, it was a good excuse to get into the interesting pre-digital computing history stuff.
Agree although I have been renting for the past 4 years as I don't feel settling down and still want to move around (e.g., working remotely). Depending on the market, owing might not be better economically (e.g., expense, flexibility to move), but it gives you peace of mind even if you don't plan to stay there forever.
There has been a long term decline of community banks, which might be the more American equivalent of this kind of lending.

https://www.stlouisfed.org/Publications/Central-Banker/Fall-...

The Small Business Administration also helps with loan guarantees. So the support is sort of there, but takes a different form, and maybe one could say the impersonal nature of it is both a strength and a weakness in comparison. Numbers of small businesses and their starts have been in decline too. I suspect this has to do with the difficulty of more and more Americans in attaining any savings from their wages (let alone enough to set aside to help capitalize a small business).
Neither. Experience. Let me re-phrase, it depends really what aspect of "Info Sec" you want to go into... happy to talk further if you'd like was in this predicament a few years ago too
My point was that when discussing DNA tests, people often argue that they don't want to know if they are at a higher risk of cancer.

But this is a good example of something that they would want to know. Because it can likely be mitigated.

That's a good point to keep in mind next time someone says they are unsure if DNA testing is a good idea.

--

To your point, I don't know if this disorder is something we screen for. But the cost of full DNA sequencing is falling fast, and it's just a matter of time before we start screen for genetic disorders. Thus, the future is bright.
> It's like they want it to fail.

This is software -- if you have a better idea create your own implementation of the underlying protocol:

https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/
I do get different hardware at home. And when my modem dies at 2.30am on a Saturday night, as it has, I've had someone show up at 7am Sunday morning with the replacement.

I also get static IP addresses, inbound ports, and no throttling, BT or otherwise.
Show HN: WP Bubble
So...are those people on food stamps? And is this adjusted for part-time or seasonal workers?
That is not exactly how it works in my IG Metall-run company. Although the range of jobs bound to unionized salary level, if you are außertariflich (i.e. above the union-negotiated salary level) you have a similar system with steps. Of course at one point in the hierarchy people probably earn heaps of money, but middle management and even senior management still is in a similar system.
Hi HN,

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Note : Gary Kildall of CPM fame, wrote an implementation of the programming language APL for the B5500 while he was a student at University of Washington. You may be able to find his technical report on this online.
> This is the side of the EU that foreigners usually don't see.

FWIW, this is the main side of the EU that I'm aware of: laughably bad lawmaking, based on complete unawareness of (or apathy towards?) the concept that the consequences of policies aren't based on wishing on a star that they be a certain way.

Don't get me wrong: I'm not sure I'd rather live (as I do) under the US's policy regime than I would under the EU's. But our pathologies of governance are different ones.
On b) if the reporter doesn't have the link, how the F is he writing the story? Is he just copying from somebody else's reporting?
> 5.2.4 Sorting by Merging

> Merging (or collating) means the combination of two or more ordered files into a single ordered file.

So it's not quite the same idea.
Notations: John Cage Publishes a Book of Graphic Musical Scores (1969)
Search Shop Elastic Files to Go Public
So tweets are "toots" in Mastodon.

Could it be that extinct mastodons grunted or growled instead of tooting?

I would rather bark, bleat, caw, croak, howl, quack or screech.

Toot? Nah.

Too many associations with musical fruits.
Sure! There is a lot of lit, here is the basic idea. On mobile now, hit me up via github (same name) for academic refs later?

http://www2.harpercollege.edu/mhealy/eco211/lectures/monopol...
Looks pretty un-hidden to me:

https://business.comcast.com/ethernet/metro-ethernet
I am not an American citizen so I don't know about your experience in US, but I have seen similar problems in my own country (A developing country 3rd world) where building subsidized housing has only increased the problem. It created ghettoes with lack of ammenties and people clumped in together (Because the government will want to save money and I bet they will do a shody job at building these place).

This has caused a lot of people to start living in a very small area which has severely strained the resources of the city (water , sewage, garbage ).

This also created a feedback loop as since cities has more opportunities and now you can find housing on the cheap, more and more people start coming to the city even if they cannot afford living there.

Life is hard and it becomes harder when you are homeless and I am not undermining this. But your solution is a tried and tested solution which didn't work before and there is no indication that it will work in the future.

Gist : There is no point in concentrating all resources in the same place.
Thanks for saying that! Very glad to hear it.

I don't read many blogs, and especially not marketing blogs. I'm subscribed to http://tomtunguz.com/, https://www.kevin-indig.com/, backlinko.com, and https://len.podia.com/inner-circle. Even so, I only look at the post titles in my inbox and click through when it's relevant.

The world of growth/marketing advice is super noisy, so I mostly learn from experience and from trusted friends/mentors/advisors rather than blogs. Then I try to distill that in my own blog.
Jeff Bezos also got a loan from his parents. Having parents with disposable capital in the >$50k range is definitely not something the majority of American families can provide.

https://medium.com/@timconneally/companies-started-by-loans-...
Forgive my naiveness, but would it be better to use a database (say MySQL) to store the metadata to avoid filesystem limitations?
I'm from a bright sunny tropical country and I prefer working in dimly lit windowless offices. i think this cuts across all ethnic groups!
I feel like I'm missing out on something here: https://snag.gy/hDjiEF.jpg

Disabling the ad blocker doesn't work. Anyone else having this?
I'm regularly watching new German movies and they are quite often good. And certainly not worse than Netflix originals. Cannot say anything about TV shows, though.
Also access to cheap/free labor, also perhaps underaged labor?
My expectation is the opposite of yours, and in point of fact people of a different race often are not from the same backgrounds since socioeconomic status is highly racialized in this country.
No society has collapsed due to their sociopaths feeling un-incentivized, but they have when there are huge disparities in income that cause suffering. So I can’t see how dividing the revenue of companies up so that you don’t cause your entire society to collapse and no one has anything should be rocket science is my point. Obviously their leaders should have but they didn’t.
OP here. The number and variety of special-purpose computing devices that existed before general purpose computers is astounding. The surprising (to me) conclusion is that the main impediment to the development of computers wasn't technology. After all, Babbage's machine could have been built in his time if funding hadn't run out.

Rather, the limitation was that people didn't have the abstractions, vocabulary, and mental tools to properly conceive of general purpose computers as a concept and to understand their usefulness. They couldn't see that devices as seemingly disparate as tide prediction machines[1], census tabulation machines, and loom controllers were all instances of a single, terrifyingly general idea.

From what I can tell, Babbage mostly understood this, but it was Ada Lovelace who grasped it fully. But her writings weren't understood in her time and had to be "rediscovered" a century later. For example, she wrote [2]:

Supposing, for instance, that the fundamental relations of pitched sounds in the science of harmony and of musical composition were susceptible of such expression and adaptations, the engine might compose elaborate and scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity or extent.

This leads me to wonder: what abstractions are we missing today that will be obvious to future generations?

BTW I have a follow-up thread on the optical telegraph, a form of networking that long predates the Internet. [3] My long-term goal is to teach a course on computing/networking/information processing before computers, with a view to extracting lessons that are still applicable today.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tide-predicting_machine

[2] https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/12/honouring-computings...

[3] https://twitter.com/random_walker/status/1037031465735860224
In 2006~ish, I think I had to pay t-mobile about $10-20/mo to be able to tether my Moto Razr at fairly low speeds but unlimited data. By the time I jailbreak'd an iPhone for use on the network, I didn't have to pay anything extra beyond the plan data, so it's been quite a long time.
I cannot speak for everyone else, but the thing that keeps me from buying a super cheap EV from three years ago is mostly the abysmal range. A Leaf or a 500E from 2015 has 84 miles of range. I am expecting I may have a 28 mile [each way] commute starting in a few weeks. Technically doable if nothing goes wrong, but ... range anxiety would be real. I'll wait. Just three years later we ridicule any EV with less than 200 miles of range. Maybe these will hold value better? I wouldn't bank on it, and I would only consider a new EV as a lease vehicle at this time, but time will tell.
It can be true. After antibiotics I lost so much weight rapidly. I can eat bags of sugar without gaining any weight. I can't breakdown fat at all so there is more to the story then sugar = weight increase.

It really depends on the bacteria we have in our guts.
Why would a SCIF have outside windows?
Yes, that's what I meant to say. The defense here tends to sound like "he wasn't deliberately skewing his research to appease his paymasters!" and it may well be true, but that doesn't mean they didn't influence the results.