skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tutored physics for a while in college, and I always tried to emphasize this sort of sanity check. It was always amusing when a student would crank through the calculations, make a mistake somewhere, and come up with the answer that their hypothetical frictionless roller coaster was fourteen light years tall, and not even realize that the number that came out was clearly wrong.
Nothing's 100% secure. it's all about having the best trade off (best doesn't mean most secure, it means the one where you get the most of everything else without sacrificing too much security)

basically, like anything else in life, its about.. balance.

vm provide a good balance for most things. if you're holding the fate of the world tho, please dont store it in AWS - Thanks. :p
Or to say the introduction of violent video games in the mid to late 90s and the rise in gun violence in schools in the last few years? Young children growing up with the increase exposure to violence could be related?
It's been suggested that the removal of lead from fuels, paints, etc. may explain the fact that our IQs have risen since about the same time, and since leveled off somewhat.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect

Say what you will about environment, but the lead explanation seems to match historical data in all the ways we'd expect it to. Find something that lead does, and we find a trend showing its decline since we started eliminating lead.
Then correct me, don't insult me.

Isn't CRLSet a Google invention? Doesn't it depend on Chrome software updates?

All I know about it, I read from Langley's writings. Is there a better reference?

Who set the implemntation limits, if not Google?

Maybe those limits are justifiable, but that doesn't leave someone who's left unprotected, by what seem like arbitrary policy cutoffs, feeling any better.
Call me jaded, but when a company that hit 750 staff and then loses 2/3 of them says "it's a fucking startup" I don't read that as genuine or motivational.
"If you really want stability and a paycheck, why not go work for Google?"

Because you can often get a less corporate job doing work you enjoy more with people you enjoy more while still having manageable risk and progressing your career. That goes triple for software engineers in the Bay Area, for whom "out of a job" is a minimal risk that frequently results in a pay raise.

People mostly don't work for startups for the lottery ticket. Equity isn't really compensation, or shouldn't be taken as compensation, so much as it's a social signal. And even then, equity is more about investors than employees. Equity only evaluates to any sort of compensation at all in the event of an exit, in which case they want the senior staff to have some degree of additional incentive not to immediately leave for a new gig.
The "new" version of the audio Captcha mentioned in that video is truly unbelievable. For those that haven't heard it, give it a go here:

http://www.google.com/recaptcha/learnmore (click the small audio icon to the right of the input box)

I turned my volume up pretty high and couldn't understand a single word over all the static in the background and over-distorted foreground audio is unintelligble. Can people actually get that audio captcha right or is that Google trolling people?
I what some people here seemed to be missing, is this correlation isn't just lead was removed from the environment and 23 years later crime went down. It's that various areas has differing degrees of lead pollution and started reducing it at different times.

The places that reduced lead pollution first, saw the drop in crime first, the places that reduced it later saw the drop later. The eras that initially had high levels of lead had a larger drop in crime than areas that always had a low level.

And it's not just the USA either. The pattern holds pretty accurately for various nations around the world, like in Europe. Those who banned leaded fuel first, saw the drop in crime first, those who banned later, saw the drop later.

And these nations had massively differing crime policies. Some nations increased prison sentences to try and deter crime, and crime went down. Some nations put a huge effort into reforming criminals, and crime went down. And some nations cut prison sentence, and crime went down.
> Also, for the record, Lisp has no concept of information hiding, interfaces, or APIs. And no, Lisp's packages are just convenient structures for grouping somehow related symbols together.

Dude was talking about Common Lisp which has (IMO) one of the best object-oriented systems in history, from the I-get-so-happy-when-I-can-use-it perspective.
I would argue that it's still safer, even though it's not completely safe.

You shouldn't view any sort of security measure as perfect, but that doesn't mean that using good practices doesn't contribute to better safety.

Using your example: attackers being reduced to performing side channel attacks after owning a VM is better than them having direct access to the host machine itself (using the same exploit), even if it's still a security flaw.

Defense in depth is a good idea, even if it's not perfect. (Note that your argument goes from "not entirely safe" to "not safer", which doesn't logically follow.)
Has anyone done any study on what % of ads are accidentally clicked? You know an ad here and five there could add to $billions. Ads that look like content and ads that are easy to click by accident are designed that way.
Alejo! Forgot to tag you even though I was going to ask you to do the design haha
Even if NASA was fine with it, their other customers may not be. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth. They have managed to build a system where the customers basically pay them to test new products. That's a fantastic situation! They don't want to even hint at something that might cause the next customer to say, "We want to make sure you're focused on our mission, so kindly leave the landing legs in your factory for this one, thanks."
Clojure seems to be picking up some steam, though it's a dynamic language and thus appeals to a different crowd.
Piketty proves his point using data ( or should that be Data? ), so it's a bit harder to argue that it's just perception and that the losers in the game of life are merely angry that they were not born at the top of the meritocracy.

It's the difference between "it sure looks as though the lord of the manor is earning more than he deserves" and, "here are the books showing the lord of the manor took in 2 pounds of rent for every pound that was his by right.".

And Piketty is not even touching on the fact that we know that our financial elites basically rigged the game in 2008.
I wonder how this interacts with IQ differences by ethnicity, given that historically some ethnic groups tended to live in inner cities where lead exposure would have been significantly greater.
Send the byte in a parallel set of channels, which set a register value, which dumps the correct row of memory.

Maybe "pretty easy" was a misnomer. It'd take up a wall. "Pretty easy" in comparison to implementing a 6800 in wood and marbles, or something.
There's actually not that much money in building an AdSense competitor, as AdSense-related revenues are plunging http://www.zdnet.com/googles-earnings-what-future-for-plungi... with webmasters building made-for-adsense sites tailored for click-throughs, advertisers opting out of perceived lower-quality traffic, and quality publishers having access to higher premiums with other networks (including Google's own).

AdBrite comes to mind as the most well-known third party competitor, and they shut down last year.
Are there places that still use it?
The manufacturer could've made it more secure, but then you wouldn't be able to change the region code like that or do anything else to be in control your device... security cuts both ways.
Lead paint really can't be mentioned without bringing up the name, work, and abuse heaped upon Herbert Needleman who drew many of the associations between the use of lead in paint and brain damage to children, especially inner-city and underprivileged youth:

http://www.washingtonian.com/articles/health/why-is-lead-sti...

For his efforts, Needleman endured years of attacks denigrating the quality of his research and his integrity as a scientist. In 1982 the industry-funded International Lead Zinc Research Organization (ILZRO) went to the Environmental Protection Agency to accuse Needleman of scientific misconduct. The EPA convened a committee of experts, which concluded that Needleman’s study had not proved a connection between lead exposure and a child’s mental development. Needleman countered that the committee report contained serious mistakes. The EPA agreed, reversed the committee’s findings, and lauded Needleman’s “pioneering study,” saying it confirmed a “significant association” between lead exposure and childhood intelligence.

The ILZRO hired the public-relations firm Hill & Knowlton to publicize the original committee’s criticisms of Needleman.

Two scientists led the next attack on Needleman. One was Sandra Scarr, a developmental psychologist at the University of Virginia who had been a member of the EPA committee that disputed Needleman’s study. The second was Claire Ernhart, a developmental psychologist at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, who called Needleman’s study “slipshod.” Beginning in 1983, Ernhart, who had conducted lead research, received about $50,000 a year from ILZRO for research support but denies being beholden to the lead industry or speaking on its behalf. Scarr claims not to have received money from ILZRO other than expert witness fees and likewise denied industry influence....

In all, the attacks on Needleman’s work and integrity and his defense against them dragged on for 15 years.

Intentional disinformation is a major theme of this (59 minute) lecture by Philip Mirowski, an economic historian (he focuses largely on global warming but the principles and rationale apply broadly to other cases of economically incentivized disinformation): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7ewn29w-9I

Among other things, it references the work of Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, Merchants of doubt: how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming, and Robert N. Proctor's Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition.

I discuss these at more length here:

http://www.reddit.com/r/deep_ecology/comments/1yum2c/life_an...
I'm not going by a definition. Getting an airtight definition is pretty hard. I'm talking in a fuzzy "You'll know it when you see it" sense. Sure, we get human or even superhuman performance at various constrained tasks, and that's great. But what about say, iron man's Jarvis? Still in the realm of science fiction.
Coverity and several other metrics seem to all conclude that over all, open source code is still more bug free than proprietary code.

http://www.zdnet.com/coverity-finds-open-source-software-qua...

If you seriously think that all bugs in open source are found and magically fixed immediately, I suspect you should try working as a community member / contributor of an open source software project.
They just demonstrated all of the steps required to recover a first stage for near-immediate reuse. Nothing close has ever been done before. How can you say that they "haven't done anything astonishing yet"?
In 2000, over 90% of the U.S. corn crop went to feed people and livestock, many in undeveloped countries, with less than 5% used to produce ethanol. In 2013, however, 40% went to produce ethanol, 45% was used to feed livestock, and only 15% was used for food and beverage (AgMRC).

Why the heck would they state the comparison this way? That just seems unprofessional.
Advanced medical treatments, robotics unavailable to the average person, space flight, the ability to avoid pervasive surveillance, a greatly disproportionate ability influence politics, etc.

There are lots of things you have access to by having a great deal of wealth that are simply unavailable in even a reduced form to the average person.
I commit spreadsheet abuse,

I have excel files with tons of links
If there was any doubt as to why mobile browsers are so uncustomizable, it is specifically because it is the last remaining place where users are held captive by content providers.

This is why Google and Apple don't allow plugins. This is why mobile is important. It's the last place users can be held down and forced to view advertisements against their wishes.
Why do you think Firefox Home (mobile) was killed off? There's no money in it.
How do these avoid captive portals? I thought the thing about captive portals was that they intercepted DNS queries: that's what caused you to get the portal when you typed in "google.com". (i.e., it resolves all DNS entries to the portal's IP until you authenticate) Is this not correct? (I can receive arbitrary DNS, not just send?)
Lead is well understood to be a neurotoxin. There's a clear mechanism of action here.
I think I was mostly thinking of the exposed colored wires and screws. It not a clean-faced product. Plus, the science / action combination of hacking and guns made me think of those movies.

http://johnkennethmuir.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/banzai4.j...

http://www.hscott.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/IMG_6491.jp...
You can't really tell whether it's fucked or not - they could just as easily have decided it was time to codify the overarching values that have developed organically over time.
That was my point. Hackpad is Etherpad and people should use Etherpad more instead and work to improve it so we have better free software.
And renewables, which you casually dismiss. Solar panels are becoming on par with coal, and there are many other types of renewable energy as well.
ICMP is often blocked nowadays even when HTTP is allowed, so I don't think IP over ICMP is very useful.

It is possible to filter Iodine requests given that they use NULL records, which are inexistent in the real world. Some other well-known tools use TXT, which is a bit more common. TUNS (http://www.loria.fr/~lnussbau/tuns.html) uses CNAME and respects the DNS standard, which should have near-100% success. It's quite a bit slower though.
What is up with Haskellers starting these irrelevant Lisp vs Haskell arguments? OP made no mention or implication that Lisp is better than Haskell. It's petty and counterproductive.
This is another intriguing example of a covert communication channel [1] [2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covert_channel

[2] File Transfer OverDNS - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7370917
I would love to use this with clojure!
The awards would probably not be much. From the initial three settlements for a total of $20 million, the lawyers have asked for incentive payments of $20,000 for each class representative. (They have asked for $5 million for themselves, a standard percentage in these cases

This kind of makes you question what is going on. The entire industry (?) can buy themselves out of genuine racketeering allegations for 2% of what FB spent on istagram. It would be interesting if the judge blocked this for being an un-reasonable discount. $20K per worker would likely be the minimum--per year--this type of policy would thwart. So again, this is off at least by a factor of 10 in terms of NPV in the context of a long-running conspiracy (ie, 20K from one thwarted job x at least 10+years). It does, however, emphasize the value for money of the "hush money" being paid.

The defendants do not want jurors to hear that Google and Apple, in particular, are two of the most financially successful companies in the world, because that might encourage a jury to award a larger sum.

This also seems dis-engenuous, given that a career with either firm can be worths millions (and often tens of millions) of dollars. That woud put into context the notion that something like $20k/fte is out of order in relation to the career damage that blacklisting a "switcher" into some form of "career path-dependency".
This isn't a Lisp versus Haskell argument. It's a matter of fact that the expressiveness of Haskell's (and others') type systems are more expressive than Lisp's, practically (and almost theoretically).

Also, I'm not a "Haskeller". I do program in Haskell occasionally, though. I'm actually, at this time, a professional Common Lisp programmer.
I think most of them use HTTP, not DNS, given that DNS is often previously cached.
This article and the earlier Samsung "smart" TV article [1] confirm my own observation that 99% of software running on consumer electronics devices (particularly set top media players and wireless routers) is utter crap, thrown together carelessly, probably at the last minute, by hardware people who have no clue about software. Again and again, you can see the same low/broken functionality and lack of polish (watch any media player as it changes video modes, for example. flash flash flash jump flash). The only redeeming quality of these software distributions is that their appalling security make them easy to root, at least allowing those who know better to go in and either fix things or install third party software written by people who give a damn.

It's like these companies spend a year getting the hardware ready, then at the last minute realize it needs software. So they find some monkey to barely manage to get ARM Linux slapped on to it so they can ship something.

It's gotten to the point where I really appreciate the attitude from some of the new up-and-coming set-top box manufacturers who basically say on their web site, "Screw it, we're a hardware company, here's how to get root and do it properly.", e.g. [2]

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7616420
2: http://www.pivosgroup.com/
A homeless person in the US today has access to better health care than the President of the US did in, what? 1960? 1970? Maybe 1980?

Are we really down to "lobbying power" and "spaceflight"? That seems like a weak argument against capitalism.
>If you seriously think that all bugs in open source are found and magically fixed immediately

I don't think that at all. But, the heartbleed bug is an example of one which should have been, by all rights. It wasn't due to some complex crypto implementation, or an arcane syntactical edge case in C. It was a pointer bug. It was a simple, critical fault in a bit of software which had a lot of very qualified eyes on it, which a lot of people here would ridicule as a matter of course.

Now why, if something like that can happen with code most hackers and open source proponents care passionately about, should it be taken for granted that enough people are going to be validating dvd player and smart tv firmware for the end result to be better for the average end user than expecting whoever the manufacturer hires to do it?
Very very disappointing.
It's good Piketty is out there fighting for this stuff. As he mentions in his book none of the problems are particularly new. If you don't do much taxing or regulating, wealth will tend to get concentrated in the hands of a minority of investors with everyone else working for modest pay. If you bring in policies to counter that such as high inheritance taxes and subsided education then things get more equal. The UK went through some of that at the start of the century where the country used to be owned by lord whatever in his stately home and then 80-90% taxes caused then to lose that and the places are now mostly owned by the National Trust and open to the public as historical exhibits. I'm not sure how it's going to play out this time. The world economy is growing quite well. The political will to even things up only seems to get strong enough to make a big upheaval with things like World War 1 in the above case so I imagine not much will change in the short term.
New cars were mandated to use unleaded fuel. As demand for leaded fuel dropped off, it became uneconomical for fuel retailers to keep a separate tank and pump for leaded fuel. There may have been (probably was) a hard cut-off date for sale of leaded motor vehicle fuel as well.

The older cars that were originally designed for leaded fuel were either retrofitted with hardened valve seats that didn't require the lubrication of lead, were simply run on unleaded to their deaths, or in some cases (Mercedes-Benz comes to mind, though there may have been others) never needed lead to begin with.
I have been wondering if Chromebooks could be useful for this purpose...
Common Lisp's object system, CLOS, is indeed a rich and expressive system. But you'll also notice that CLOS does not provide any of the above points. It is an implicit contract between the programmer who developed the code and the programmer consuming the code to (1) not use information that is supposed to be hidden, (2) understand that exported methods are those that make up the "interface" to a class, and (3) understand that the API is that which is written in documentation.
There seem to be limits on both sides of this debate.

What is 'news' here is not that one-side or the other has 'won'.
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I disagree with you.

"The rich guy can buy a harvard education, and the poor guy can buy a cheap but effective online education"

And what is the outcome of having Harvard education against having cheap online degree? I am sure Harvard graduates come way ahead of graduates of online universities, both in private job market as well as in influential government positions due to "cliques" and "networking".

But the problem is much deeper than whether you can afford high quality commodities or not. Those with excess capital can accumulate assets, and then rent out those assets to those without capital. If this sounds too abstract, consider a concrete example - bay area housing market. Only those with capital can afford houses. Those with excess capital can buy additional houses and rent them out to those who cannot afford housing. Net result? The ones who cannot afford houses now have to keep paying rent to those who could, thus making homeowners richer.

Piketty has elaborated this in detail. But the most salient question he raised was that inequality, per se, is neither bad or good, but whether it is justified? Today, Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg have billions more than I do. But I am OK with that because they took risks, invested their efforts (and yes, also got lucky). But I am don't think someone like Alice Walton or Paris Hilton deserve their billions - in their case, all they did was just to be born to rich parents. And they and their heirs are going to have a better life (education, nutrition, accommodation, entertainment, connections...) than almost everyone else. Why? Doesn't seem "justified" to me.

Edit: Why the downvote? And while I respect your freedom of speech (to downvote), I am sincerely interested in knowing your counterarguments.
Problem with the CC argument is that this trend has been witnessed in other countries that have no such gun laws. And if the US was a special case, how would it explain all the cities that saw a drop in crime with restrictive gun laws (Several of which were deemed unconstitutional a decade after the crime drop began?)

As for youth distractions: The internet did not have significant saturation until the 00s. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_the_United_States seems to indicate that in 2000, only 2.5% of Internet users had broadband.

Video games exploded in popularity in the 1980s while crime was still rising - not to mention this was a time when arcades were far more prolific, so you could make the argument that entertainment was more accessible to youths with families that couldn't afford video game systems in 1980 than 1990 onward.
Its's an internal letter, hopefully everyone who received it already knows the values and has a sense of the culture. Having to spell it out for everyone (assumingly again) would have meant things were much worse off.
Can you share some of that inspiration?
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