skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you have a lot full of unlocked cars, perhaps you should bear some of the blame too?

Yeah, and women wearing sexy dresses walking alone without mace deserve to get raped?

Auernheimer crossed a line. Just because AT&T was stupid doesn't make what he did right.

Customers' and the legal systems' dealing with AT&T's incompetence/negligence is a separate matter.
> it turned out to be true so where does that leave you?

It's not suddenly true just because the consensus is that general China-bashing is a fun pass time.
Ack! You beat me to the "asking for it" analogy.
If that's the case, then it's grossly misleading. Only quoting numbers for some of the renewable energy sources while decrying all renewable energy sources (because the ones that you left out don't support your argument)?
I was one of those 16:9 haters, but then I realized it's really handy to be able to have my progam's window and my editor/debugger on the screen and not overlapping, or have my browser for API reference, my Emacs, and my compile window all next to each other. You sacrifice vertical height, but make up for it by not having to switch virtual desktops between documentation/code all the time. Plus, it makes UI debugging so much nicer when switching to your program's window doesn't cause a repaint when it's the paint routine, or a menu or something that you're debugging.

Not only do I find it nicer for development, but there's the bonus that your movies fit nicely (I don't use an actual TV, since a 17" laptop on my lap is a similar visual angle as a large TV 10 feet away, and cheaper and more portable, too).
For me it's well behind the grudge about them rubbing my ballsack, but alas I can't swim home to my parents and I don't want to have to sit in "time out" for hours so I just keep my mouth shut in the airport until the awful experience is over.
>> The physical design of the spaces is better too. Go into an alt-med clinic and it feels warm, welcoming, calming. Go into a hospital or a conventional doctors' office and it looks like a car repair shop.

I'm sure the feel could be improved, but I bet the main design goal in conventional offices is "surfaces that can be easily cleaned." Not very unlike a car repair shop, really.
Arrow keys not working for me - latest version Chrome.
Google has a couple of massive databases that store basically all the data for all of their services and internal tools as well. And Google Reader is tied to your Google account. So to spin it off, you'd have to re-write the backend, and the front-end, so you'd practically be starting from scratch anyway.
I'm in mid-late 20s with 9-to-5 job and in my case this is definitely not way to long and happy life. There is a lot of stress, bosses do wrong decisions all the time, small salary. So yeah, my own personal business is just matter of time. I'm working on it in my free time.
Even back in those days, many products came with "warranty registration cards" which would ask for your name, address, DOB, and other demographic data. It had nothing to do with warranties, it was to collect information about who bought the products for use in further marketing campaigns. And that information was bought and sold (probably on 1/2" magnetic tape reels) even then.
Or just stick a few iptables rules to slow down brute-force attempts from the same IP http://www.digitalsanctuary.com/tech-blog/debian/using-iptab...
I am not reproducing that same problem, as I am logging in just fine with the same computers as usual, but thanks for letting us know.
> anyone can run the emulator until it authenticates, then hit pause and start dumping memory to see your "secret"

TPMs are implemented as tamper resistant hardware modules. As long as you can't read out the keys, you can't have the the emulator authenticate.

It's all explained here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Computing
Who is this JaSON guy, anyway? (a post on the basics of JSON documents)
You've missed my point. If you were in a parking lot and found your car to be unlocked, this might alarm you. You might try someone else's door to see if it's similarly unlocked, and just to be sure it's not a fluke, you might try another.

I'm not even going to try to adapt that to your rape scenario. I feel like there should be an equivalent of Godwin's law that I could appeal to in this context.
Two clicks for more privacy
Actually, isn't there a name for technologies you use as a stepping stone for some time?
Definitely. Unfortunately, I won't have a way to push updates, so I'd only be able to send the updated package to people that requested it.
At a glance, this is a book about productivity and time management. Any self-respecting productive manager of time would not waste an entire day reading such outdated and overly verbose prose.

TL;DR FTW

[EDIT]

I'm back, I just read the tl;dr version and I'm absolutely pumped! That really hit the spot. Going to listen to some of these film scores: http://songza.com/listen/action-movie-scores-songza/ and do what I thought would take a day in 4 hours.
He's pretty infamous as the "Global Warming won't be that bad" guy.

It reminds me of a favorite scene from the animated show 'King of the Hill':

Dale(conservitive redneck friend): Global warming? Who cares? We'll grow oranges in Alaska.

Hank Hill : Goddammit Dale. We live in Texas. It's 110 degrees in April. If it gets 1 degree hotter, I'm gonna kick your ass.
Locking yourself out of the machine lies that way. Strongly, strongly advise against.

But, yes. There's an iptables module called ipt_recent[1] that will do what you're after. It's been built-in for ages and you don't need to install it.

You can't use it by itself, though. You will have to design a full iptables ruleset.

[1]: http://snowman.net/projects/ipt_recent/
This isn't Google's program, it's Nasscom's (a trade organization) program. Google is one of the partners and they're investing $10MM. There are several initiatives that are working in parallel with the goal of boosting startup activity in India. I imagine the money is going into running the program and/or providing support to startups, not providing direct cash investments/grants to companies. Nasscom isn't in the business of directly acting as an incubator/accelerator.
A monkey that controls a robot with its thoughts. No, really.
No I didn't change the password. Instead I rebuilt the machine from the base OS image. Would you expect that a new system with the disk wiped would retain the old root password? I certainly wouldn't. Where were they keeping it?
I'm getting kind of an asshole reputation for always arguing with friends who are deeply into C/AM. But I'm also starting to realize it's exactly like arguing with a religious person - there is absolutely nothing you can say to make them realize their faith is based on fallacies. There is absolutely no correlation between the general intelligence of a person and the ridiculousness of their belief claims. You could be talking astrophysics one minute and the next you're into a strange shamanistic wonderland where science doesn't exist. I really do think it's a faith-like mental virus.

On the whole, it doesn't worry me too much - everyone is entitled to their little domains of craziness and I know I have my own.

But what does worry me is the observation that C/AM believers in my environment are almost always women. It feels like a big gaping hole in everything we achieved with women's rights and education. Within my extremely limited horizon of living in a western industrial society, this is in fact the single most worrying trend. It's like a large part of our women went to a parallel universe "girls school", whereas the men in the mean time learned about science and reasoning.

I'm at a total loss as to where this gender disparity comes from, but there has to be a vector somewhere. If anyone has any ideas, I'm looking forward to hearing them. If there is anything to be done about this, I'd like to volunteer my time for it.
The discontinued Google Notebook spotted again as Google keep
It's mostly about the synchronisation. For my use-case, I read articles in Google Reader during my lunch break at work. When I'm browsing at home later, on my own PC or iPad I don't want to have to wade through dozens of articles I've already read to find the new stuff.

I guess there's also the convenience of access to the web app pretty much anywhere, but that's secondary (to me).
And then pound your desk in frustration when Postgres goes down on the box and your clever little firewall locks you out on your third connection attempt. Leaving your entire site down for the 60 minutes your firewall takes to release the lock on your IP address, or leaving you driving to a friend's house, or frantically scrambling for a jump box to use.

Every HOWTO I see that people copy and paste considers every SSH connection as ammunition for the ruleset. So if you connect to a machine however many times -- and, scping a couple files opens new connections unless you have a clever muxing config on the client side -- boom, the firewall will intervene based on most of those copy-and-paste blog entries.

Smart admin edict: do not mess with my ability to SSH in under any circumstances. I've been in this situation, if you can't tell from the specificity. ("Why is the edge not responding to SSH any more? Oh, crap, we're flagged by the firewall and have to wait ... I forget how long.")
Will also fail to allow addresses that purposely soft bounce (4xx) the first attempt (or attempts within a certain time limit) to deliver to them.
EXo Platform 4.0 is out and LGPL
eXo Platform 4.0 is an open source enterprise social collaboration platform.
It's not really misleading, as he explicitly quoted data for solar and wind.

That aside, very few renewable energy advocates are pro hydro dams - that ugly duckling of renewable energy who is never at the table but does all the job.
That essay made no sense. I couldn't even figure out what "separate" was supposed to mean. I thought it would specifically about racial discrimination. I take it that "urban" is a code word for "high numbers of minorities"?

Then I realized that nearly all of your submissions are to educationismylife.com, and most of your comments are only on your own posts, so this link is really just self-promotion.
What's your point? If you rule out all causes of death, everyone lives forever. People live longer because they die less.
My setup was clearly flawed and I acknowledged that in the message. Their system /does/ have serious problems though since someone is likely intercepting their password reset emails or else accessing their root password database which shouldn't even exist. I'd say those are real problems regardless of the poor config of the machine (which I readily accept my mea culpas for).
What I find most appealing about Google Reader is the simplicity of the interface. I just want to see a list of the sites I'm following, an indicator when new content is available, a summary of the content, and the ability to view the full content. That's it. Nothing flashy, nothing social, just the Emacs (or even vi) of RSS readers.

Newsblur comes closest for me so far, but I suspect I'll end up rolling my own.
Its high time to try the new Visually rich RSS reader http://goo.gl/r861h .
As an aside, would there be some value in providing an email validator API?

Something exactly like this:
http://mythic-beasts.com/~pdw/cgi-bin/emailvalidate

but which would respond in an easy-to-parse way (JSON|XML).

It could be enriched by detecting common spelling errors ('gmial' or 'g-a53'* instead of 'gmail' for example).

*: gmail when typed on a European laptop with numlock on.
The article mentions that this was verified to not be the problem.
Toner , Toner Tozu , OPC Drum, Toner Dolumu , Muadil Toner Çözümleri
The author also doesn't specify if he's counting bulbs that were already switched off. There are dozens of bulbs in my house, but only a few on at a time.
I think he means that fail2ban can't be effective against botnets attacks because if it didn't take IPs into account then it becomes a DDOS tool.

Therefore it must take IPs into account. Therefore it's not protection against brute-force password guessing from a botnet.
Out of curiosity, what service has such a great daily e-mail?
The only real way to avoid most of this is to not use loyalty cards (thus pay the marked-up prices) or to give ficticious data when you get them, and change them frequently. Never use a credit card with your loyalty card, they will be linked... pay cash for everything... don't use online services... don't use mobile devices.

Who among us would want to give up all that?
Lomborg is right here. This graph (2.7, page 2) shows IEA projecting 3-4% of 2035 primary energy to be "other renewables" (including wind, solar, and geothermal, by their definition). Biomass (wood burning in the 3rd world) is much larger.

http://www.worldenergyoutlook.org/media/weowebsite/2011/key_...

There's no discrepancy. Renewable electricity may be 1/3rd of the 2035 electricity supply, in that forecast; but wind and solar are only a fraction of renewable electricity, and electricity is only a fraction of energy. Dams are also renewable electricity. And non-electric energy (oil fuels) are even larger than electricity.

(I'm still looking for the actual numbers (a lot of the IEA publications are paid-access); I'll update this comment when I find them).

(edit: tables are here starting on page 544: http://www.scribd.com/doc/72512781/World-Energy-Outlook-2011)
Must be really hard to figure you are looking at a download page and then to click on "home".
Teaching Coding: Where Do You Start?
Remy's block post about the idea and development: http://remysharp.com/2013/03/18/quick-dirty-forking/
I love Fever, and just switched to it. I included it on my own roundup at Web.AppStorm: http://web.appstorm.net/roundups/rssfeeds/google-reader-is-d.... I think people don't mention self-hosted options as much because most people would immediately think it was too much trouble to run their own service.

For someone hosting their own site already, though, it's incredibly simple to host something like this yourself. Surprising more people don't.
Oh so this $10 MM is going to the babus in Nasscom. That's even worse. Because now startups don't get even those $1000 in the name of investment.

Good luck with that Google!
Ad Hominems attacks are against the person, not the idea. Calling you an idiot or ignorant would be ad hominem. Calling your ideas silly is certainly a rhetorical fallacy and not polite, but it's not ad hominum. I stand by my characterization.

> A. No, because a blackboard is not a biological organism which is capable of manipulating the environment.

Your statement was about removing information from the universe, not biological diversity. Evolution is a processes of removing biological diversity - that's how it works, so it may be ugly at times, but hard to call it unethical.

> B. Red Herring, Straw Man. I like how you switched the argument over to sperms

The argument is about removing genetic diversity, and if it applies to zygotes, it applies to sperm. Every sperm has unique genetics, so why not use them all? In fact, lets clone every egg and sperm and generate every possible combination - that will help evolution along. You have to follow statements to their logical conclusion, and in this case, it's absurd.

> Are you now arguing for destroying information?

Destruction of information is as important as creation. Forgetting is as important as remembering. Evolution is a process of natural selection, meaning those organisms not selected are lost. The human brain forgets almost everything it perceives so that it can remember what's important. Death is as important to evolution and species survival as birth. So yes, I am perfectly comfortable with the "loss" of information.

I'm also comfortable with the loss of zygotes before they grow into sentient beings who are likely to lead a life of suffering and imposing suffering on others. Our species certainly does not need genetic diversity at the expense of other qualities.

> Stupid and fat people have actually produced rather intelligent offspring, surprisingly. Do you deny this?

No, but both characteristics are genetically influenced. Smarter people produce smarter offspring, and fat people produce fatter offspring. My point was not to advocate for eugenics, but to point out that if we are trying to help evolution along, that's the way to do it, not making unlimited babies.

> When did I bring morality into it? I never did, just sheer math and evolution. I don't need morality to prove my point.

Ok, so you are just advocating for a maximally dominant species, without regard to ethics. In that case, see above regarding helping evolution.

> Are you proposing that we /should/ kill our young and unfit?

No, I'm not suggesting that. I'm merely following the trails of logic.

> "aborting babies ... helps [reduce] violence and suffering."

Yes, aborting zygotes who are unwanted and are unlikely to be cared for certainly reduces violence and suffering, both for them and for those they will impose suffering upon.

Churchills, as you call them, by and large come from loving, supporting families, have access to opportunity and education, are well fed and sheltered, and have strong communities.

I don't know Churchill's biography, but I'm going to guess he was no gutter baby.
To answer some common questions about this article:

Yes, I know my setup was very flawed. It was a test machine and in the midst of having automated config scripts written for it which were being tested. This is why the machine was vulnerable to the attack, but this does not diminish the importance of the underlying compromise it exposes in DigitialOcean's setup.

The point of the article is that someone is able to gain access to DigitalOcean password reset emails or a database of root passwords which shouldn't exist, but seems to given that they set your root password back to a previously reset value after you rebuild your server from the base OS image.
But the key is what you authenticate with after all, so why go after the password when reading memory when you can go after the key directly?
I was impressed by their question, and now even more so by incredibly quick results! I switched back to Firefox a few days ago (from Chrome) and this really solidifies my decision.
It might be possible to exclude enough realistic current day threats to eventually end up with something that "works" but
I don't think that's useful in any way.

None the less, if you want to exclude computers, the human equivalent of "stick it in an emulator" is the old philosopher's "brains in a vat" problem. That's well traveled ground no there is no proof you're not in a vat.

There is no way to prove you have not been compromised because there is no way to prove no theoretical advancement will ever occur in the field in the future. (or not just advancement but NSA declassification, etc) So you're limited to one snapshot in time, at the very least.

You're asking for something that's been trivially broken innumerable times outside the math layer.

Its hard to say if you're asking for steganography (which isn't really "math") or an actual math proof or you just want a wikipedia pointer to the kerberos protocol which is easily breakable but if you add enough constraints it might eventually fit your requirements.
This is an awesome tldr - Bennett's tone and verbosity where killing me, this way I at least have a clue as to what he was going on about....
Simple 3 attempts per minute rate-limiter:

echo " (eth0 - SSH rate check)"
iptables -N SSH_CHECK
iptables -A SSH_CHECK -m recent --set --name SSH
iptables -A SSH_CHECK -m recent --update --seconds 60 --hitcount 3 --name SSH -j DROP
Agreed. I think it's also unfair to DigitalOcean. Could a mod perhaps change the title to something slightly less accusatory?

(No affiliation with DO here, just hate to see any company unfairly attacked...)
What's cool about 600b is you can use it for your browser start page. I'd like to see the picky stuff implemented. :)
It's where ATM Machines store their application code while running.
> I have a friend who's into homeopathy [...] she's drawn to alternative medicine because it's open source. Like many nerds, she hates closed proprietary systems and loathes bureaucracy

If your friend, or anyone else that way inclined, dislikes modern medicine because of its insular, closed nature then I urge them to support campaigns such as alltrials.net, which advocate open research across medicine. There are a number of people in the industry who truly support an open approach to pharma, and the more people generally shouting about it the better.

I say this because it seems very strange to advocate homeopathy based on its "open source" credentials when the people practising it won't tell you that it patently and demonstrably simply doesn't work outside of the placebo effect. Some alternative medicines do have proven benefits: homeopathy is not one of them.

There is a strong history of alternative medicine medicine practitioners using libel and defamation laws to silence their critics. See, for example, BCA v Singh[1]. Alternative medicine is not open. It is a highly insular community that reacts very badly to criticism, more so than modern medicine.

Let me put it another way: if alternative medicine (and I'm particularly thinking of homeopathy in this case) was so open you would expect people going to receive homeopathic treatment to be told the field was totally discredited by modern science and numerous double blind studies. But they're not. A homeopathic practitioner will not direct you to these studies, or tell you. I don't know how this can be considered open.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BCA_v._Singh
Life expectancy FROM BIRTH has risen dramatically,

Check more sources, and you will learn that life expectancy is rising at all age levels throughout the developed world. I've posted all of these links before here on Hacker News, and I don't mind posting them again.

Girls born since 2000 in the developed world are more likely than not to reach the age of 100, with boys likely to enjoy lifespans almost as long. The article "The Biodemography of Human Ageing" by James Vaupel,

http://www.demographic-challenge.com/files/downloads/2eb51e2...

originally published in the journal Nature in 2010, is a good current reference on the subject. A comparison of period life expectancy tables and cohort life expectancy tables for men and women in Britain

http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/lifetables/period-and-cohort-l...

helps make the picture more clear. ("Period life expectancy" is what is usually reported for a whole country. But cohort life expectancy provides a better estimate of future lifespans of young people today,

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1...

and is still steadily on the rise around the world.) Life expectancy at age 40, at age 60, and at even higher ages is still rising throughout the developed countries of the world.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=longevity-w...