skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But why would people pay good money for the average example of journalism today? More often than not it's just a regurgitation of wire copy or something equally as valueless. It's no surprise that traditional journalistic forms are struggling. The ad revenue is going away because newspapers no longer have a stranglehold on local dissimination of information, and few people want to pay for journalism because, frankly, most of it just isn't very good.

But people are still willing to pay good money for good journalism, it's just that it's rare to find such examples today. Nevertheless, there is an entire category for journalism on kickstarter (https://www.kickstarter.com/discover/advanced?category_id=13...) which has nearly a thousand projects. There's nearly a million dollars in funding just in the top 20 projects alone, just on kickstarter. And a lot of these new journalists are still struggling to find popularity since most people are still unaware of alternatives to the mainstream media.

I believe that there is a huge market opportunity in media in the 21st century, but traditional journalists aren't going to find it because they are still locked in a model of journalism that is increasingly outmoded at a fundamental level.
we've recently hired 2 well paid tech workers to work 100% remotely. 10 (5?) years ago they would have had to move. now they don't. in fact, it never even came up. we only wanted one thing - their skills and experience.

also, more people are commuting via plane or long drive from monday-thursday. companies in wealthier areas can easily cover airfare and hotel for the difference in the price of living - it can be very cheap if you purchase everything ahead of time, like < $2k/month or $24k/year which could easily cover the difference in pay and expenses from, let's say, new york to western pennsylvania or LA to Oregon (on a $150k salary vs. $200k salary that's still a $26k/year savings - no brainer). it happens more with consultants but it also happens with very senior employees i.e. VP level and above.

i don't mean this to be facetious at all but i think the general development and adoption of easy and effective (this stuff didn't actually work until a few years ago!) audio and video conferencing in the past few years makes this all possible. a face to face conversation can be had over the weekend if your'e the boss, or any time during the week if you're a parent.
Nice pricing.

I've been using UltraDNS for many years but this looks good too.
Airgaps aren't perfect, but are you suggesting their network would have been more secure without the airgap?
I for one am glad that they are not incessantly restoring and renewing the nuclear missile silos.
They also don't work with the NSA.
Are you in a committed relationship? If so, does your SO have a job or are they able to relocate easily too?
"No investigation" was just another instance of manipulative communication tactics on her part.

She knew very well that an investigation was being conducted; it just wasn't an investigation to her liking.
You actually use DNSSEC in production?
The incentives in unemployment benefits mitigate against relocation: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/unemployment-benefits...
I suppose the main contention is that copper, bolts, and screws last much longer than vinyl/magnetic strips.
I don't buy this either. If this were true you'd still see, for lack of a better term, the "redis" of Haskell. You can't argue that antirez skimped on development or that he isn't talented enough.

Where is the redis of Haskell? The ffmpeg of ML? There's something else at play here.
Hi, weev.

Do you have any statistics on the average 'hit' a security takes when a vulnerability is made public? What's legal precautions do you plan on taking? I'd imagine publicly shaming a business (or their systems) for personal gain will ruffle a few feathers.
I took some notes from Marc's talk at Stanford last month... Video is 55 minutes, and it's packed with insights. Figured a blog post is a good way of capturing it - and with pictures!
-Niv
So is the US sentencing system, which dishes out decades in prison to irresponsible teenagers and non-violent drug offenders, effectively ensuring they can never re-integrate to society.

In most of the world, sentences are measured in months, and it takes something on the level of murder to end up behind bars for over a decade.
Meh this guy seems so full of himself. What if the company could act as a kind of printing service so that the user must posses the rights to access the material in first place, sounds like a good idea to me.
Thanks for the heads up. Julian.com is currently hosted on GoDaddy -- so nothing would surprise me :) Switching to AWS later in the week.
I'm doing user testing interviews with IC design folks for a project I'm working on. Any chance they'd be game to talk shop?

(project: http://efabless.com)

I will happily pay you in dogecoin as a bounty for your efforts. :p
why does it say
> NDA included!
NDA's are terrible. They stifle creative thought, put yourself up for lawsuits and someone, has had the "genius" idea before.
Stuxnet also targeted more recent machines/networks. It'd be far harder to convince Lt. Smith to insert an arbitrary 8" floppy disk into their TS work computer than a USB drive.
It's a none issue. This compiler is for OSx only, and I can't even remember the last time Apple released an OSx machine that's had AuthenticAMD.
Death is not the statistical norm at age 60 in the United States among the upper middle class.
All nighters versus craft coding
> Generally, try to work for a company that makes money on software or technology. A company that makes money on other products or services is likely to treat software developers as a low-level function of the organization.

I'd say this is usually good advice, but with a caveat: larger companies with deep chains of command -- even software companies -- typically have "management culture". These types of companies put a lot of pressure on their employees to move into management, even if they're not good at it or they don't want to. These companies reward playing social power games above any other kind of achievement. There will be lots of meetings and not a lot of work being done. There will be no reward for technological innovation or productivity.

So, I'd say avoid companies with deep management hierarchies unless 1) you want to go into management or 2) are stoked by the thought of doing the bare minimum.
"Underpowered" would have been damning enough, and a reasonably fair accusation to make.

But it wasn't good enough for Horvath: in order to get her point across -- and to play with your head -- she needs you to believe that you to believe there was "no investigation."
I understand how CDNs are advantageous by having contents served from locations that are closer to origin of requests (typically browsers spread across the world or a country etc.,).

However, for DNS service to be of similar use does it mean application servers are going to be spread across geographically? For end customers it doesn't matter as they will always use the DNS configured for them by their ISP in most of the cases unless one is tech savvy and tries to use some other DNS such as Google etc.,?

Please help understand what am I missing here?
That already happens in mega cities where parking spots are around $500k. I take taxis all the time so I'm already living in the future, the western developed world will catch up eventually.
A lot of times the "no nothings" are actually important for software pipelining. They enable the hardware scheduler to "figure out" that things are independent and to overlap their execution. Too tightly coupled and the INCREDIBLY limited on-die smarts can't separate things.
Is the source of growth an important metric to measure for success? The source of groupon growth is through excessive sales push. Compared to that, Google growth in early days is because of viral effect without too much sales & marketing spend.
US has the most to lose, not gain, by not fixing vulnerabilities as soon as possible, since most of the "Internet" happens in US and through US companies. But the administration has been negatively influenced by intelligence/cyberoffense advisers ("Yes, Minister" [1] style) in thinking that the Internet is a war zone, and must be controlled by the military - rather than a platform for commerce and many other things, from which US stands to gain (or lose) the most.

I highly recommend Schneier's latest talk on this. He makes it more clear why NSA is so wrong in thinking the way they do about vulnerabilities:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v9t_IoOgyI

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes_Minister
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I agree. There's a lot that can go wrong with a Floppy, as well as it's reader. Also the quote about the analog phones being "unreliable" seems suspect...
Reading all of these comments with personal hours is kind of blowing my mind. I always thought people in tech had easy cushy jobs? Personally, I am at the office 5-6 hours a day (at a major company). Sure there are some rough weeks, but even then, 50 hours at most. Just today I was at the office from 1030 and left at 3, spending a half hour at lunch. On average, probably 35-40 hours at the office, with an hour spent playing games during lunch most days. On Fridays we might spend 2 hours at lunch and always, always ends at least 2 hours early (I might hang out at the office during this time, but never doing work). Many of the employees with kids might be at the office 3.5 days a week on average.

This is at a big company in the US.
I like the ideal scenario. Are there multiple kinds of Twitter's API? where some are more reliable than others? And would the third party insurer have the ability to allow impacted clients of Twitter to access it? The financial payout makes the insurance a good hedge but the "ideal" scenario would ensure 100% up time.
We open sourced Rebound for Android a few months ago. It provides simple spring dynamics similar to Pop and is used to drive animations in Facebook apps like Chat Heads and FB Home.

http://facebook.github.io/rebound

http://github.com/facebook/rebound

twitter: @rebound_lib
The greater levels of drug crime/drug crime prosecution in minority communities, leaving a documented criminal history involving drugs, is potentially a systematic form of discrimination against minorities in the hiring process.

(You can get a DOD clearance while admitting to having used drugs, although it seriously complicates a law enforcement clearance unless it was very long ago. It can't be ongoing. Having gotten arrested for it makes it a whole lot worse, though, form what I've seen of the adjudication reports from DISCO, though. White people generally do not get arrested for small amounts of drugs; black people do.)
I can’t think of a single technology company in history that has made much of a lasting cultural contribution.

Gee, you can't think of a technology business that has excelled in a completely different field that has nothing to do with it? Stop the presses!

Would I critique Beethoven because he doesn't know how to scale a ruby on rails website to thousands of concurrent users? It's completely incoherent.
Well I suppose thats what we live for, to keep the state department happy.
At least caring presents a better statistical outcome on action than simply praying.
No. Current driver-based insurance policies might be based on the ability to hold the driver personally responsible if they are negligent.

Insuring a vehicle is just figuring out what the likely payout ratio across a cohort of those vehicles is going to be, then working backwards from there to come up with a premium that will cover the claim amounts, administrative costs and provide a pool of funds to invest.

Lots of things are insured today with no interest in who is operating them. Automated cars are no different to that.

Essentially you're imaging a current situation (where a driver is insured) and transferring that to a situation with no driver. That's wrong.

Insurance companies don't care - they just want to be able to predict what the likely payout rate is. And that's how much it will cost. If that includes cover for buggy code, it just means a higher premium. Essentially younger drivers have buggier driving code, and that's why they cost more to insure.
If you are currently helping someone go through this disease - or suffering from it - all I can say is: hang on there.

Dealing with irrationality is one of the most frustating feelings out there. You will get very tired sometimes. You will get overwhelmed. Nevermind. They are having the worst of it.

Keep going. You owe it to them to comfort them, no matter how many times. Remember two things: It's not their fault, and it will get better.
GoT the day it's released really is THAT necessary. Twitter is just unbearable otherwise....
It seems like pretty much all of Comcast's interconnects are full or nearly full. Netflix could not send their traffic through any (or all) transit providers even if they wanted to. Comcast is playing hardball to force content providers to make these kind of direct (paid) arrangements.
These companies can and do exist, the onus is put onto the user to not submit materials they don't have permission/rights to print or share. This would be a little hard for printing personalized news websites that remove ads however..
The potential corollary: "In functional organizations, functional software happens even when the people aren't that bright."

Exciting or sad, or both?
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I listed the assumptions that I made to demonstrate the possibility of a scenario. That said, you've grossly simplified the situation. What if it is an unreferenced commit from a year ago. Would you really find it damning that you can't go to Github and say:

Hey guys,

I had a branch `foo` in my repository `bar` a year or
so ago. I deleted the branch (which had no references)
and don't have any backups of it. Do you think that
you guys could restore it for me?
You're an Australian Internet User. You want to see hampsterdance.com 'cause fuck it, you like hamsters.

Your computer asks your ISP's DNS server for the record. If your ISP has it cached you're golden, but it turns out it probably isn't. So your ISP needs to go to ask the hampsterdance.com DNS server directly. If that server is in the United States then you're stuck waiting 133ms in one direction, 133ms back- you've now added a quarter of a second to that page loaded.

Using a DNS CDN means that 266ms ends up being 15ms (keep in mind that these guys also peer with local ISPs to make things even faster).
I write mostly about movies and I started writing my first reviews with a notepad inside the theater, making quick notes without looking as I notice something (just anything since it will be filtered later).

After four months I got confidence to just make quick notes on my brain and remember the more important ones in the final creditd. When it is write time, I dump a lot of ideas growing up with these notes.

This is my hobby so I am not interessed in spend too much time doing this (better watch another movie) so I force myself to write for every movie I watch and do it as quick as possible. The brute force is slowly improving my writing skills, do I am now more interessed in style guiding.
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I write "Internet". It's not one of a class of things, it is _the_ thing. Similarly I'll capitalize Earth, Moon, Sun, and Solar System when referring to the specific planet humans live on, moon orbiting that planet, the star they both orbit, and the solar system containing them all. But there's also "earth" as in dirt, and generic moons of other planets, and suns of other solar systems.

It's also interesting to note that the Internet is a superclass -- it's a network of networks (you'll discover this if you dig into BGP and realize what ASNs represent). And for networks connected via TCP/IP and BGP, it's the superclass of all such networks and a universal.

If it were to fragment, or one or more independent networks were to emerge, or sufficiently off-planet networks would develop that couldn't directly participate in terrestrial Internet traffic, that's going to remain the case.
They did the same thing to me, too. I live in California and my board has arrived safely in DC where I used to live. Unbelievable given the difference in timeline from what they originally set out.
Not everyday you see a Top Secret sticker flashed on national television. I bet there are 20 intelligence organizations trying to read the label on that floppy disk.
The average hit is not representative of potential market performance. Generally, depends on the quality of the compromise and the media campaign surrounding it. A rule of thumb is that datasets and social outrage garners headlines.

I have retained some fine counsel that specialize in securities and CFAA issues and they are partners in the venture.
It's amazing how technology made this second world war regulation obsolete as early as 1995.
Could you spin the problem into something positive? What about an online market for ideas, where you get a 1 line summary preview for free, and a detailed outline of the full idea for a small fee.

On a more practical note, I like using ephemeral tools to keep my focus on what's important. I use workflowy to keep a simple prioritized list. After something sits for too long, I can easily delete entire trees of notes to remove them from my mind. It's like ripping a page out of a notebook -- it feels great.
The longevity and ease of destruction is probably a primary concern for this media.
It doesn't matter that it has a definition. The so-called definition just adds to the ambiguity. The Internet is a very complicated thing and getting your packets from A to B is a technical and contractual miracle. What does it mean to treat all packets equally? If I have "equal" connectivity to content sources X and Y, but X sends 10 times the amount of traffic that can fit in its pipe, it's very "neutral" of me to do nothing about it. And then the experience sucks for everyone.
>Really? Like what? Can you give an example relevant to this discussion?

Sure... here's a recent news story that springs to mind, from back in December: http://abcnews.go.com/US/waitress-anti-gay-tipping-scandal-l...

That's someone who made up an attack, presumably for the purpose of gaining sympathy. I doubt they intended it to go national like it did, but...
I wonder what would happen if someone tried that now. I suspect officials may not be so flexible.
Tattoos and lifestyle do strongly correlate with other factors which are themselves viewed as correlating with "personnel unreliability or susceptibility to foreign influence or coercion".

Tattoos and pink hair ->

drugs, party lifestyle, potential crime ->

bad at managing money/desperate, making bad life choices, sleeping around, etc. ->

pressureable by foreign intelligence -- potentially by threatening to reveal those issues to the Government (which is irony in purest form...)

It's inherently discriminatory, but if I had to hire a code clerk (or other non-differentiated role, which did need to be trustworthy), I'd hire a successful 45 year old Mormon with kids comfortably in school and no history of any problems.

Where this is fucked is that quality computer security people are also usually (false?) positives for the pink hair and tattoos.

There's also the HUGE factor of foreign citizenship or foreign ties -- a Pakistani or Iranian or Chinese engineer with grandparents in the home country is definitely at risk for coercion by a foreign power. Parents, even more so. Personal citizenship, vastly more so. Lots of great engineers meet this criterion.

The way contractors deal with this is by having low-side roles doing the actual work, with untrusted employees, in a way which doesn't directly touch anything classified; they then throw the work product over a wall to the high-side where much less skilled people make $300k to take the research/products and implement them in the classified environment, while being US-citizen 2nd+ generation white people without tattoos.
Crass, informal writing is not a modern invention. Graffiti was the twitter of yore. Behold the tweets of Ancient Rome: (NSFW language)
http://www.pompeiana.org/Resources/Ancient/Graffiti%20from%2...

VIII.2 (in the basilica); 1880:
The man I am having dinner with is a barbarian.

Herculaneum (on the exterior wall of a house); 10619:
Apollinaris, the doctor of the emperor Titus, defecated well here

#pompeii #swag
> i read somewhere that they had to resort to buying them on ebay in the specific binning/stepping cause they were no longer made by the mfg

This wouldn't surprise me. A friend was working on a defense project, an avionics system. In their test/development lab they had the hardware itself, same as what's in the aircraft (an F-??, 16 probably). The display died. They couldn't do anything with it. They ended up having to contract with someone to set up the manufacturing process and conduct a one-time production run. The damn displays pushed 6-figures in cost each.

Unfortunately, modernizing these systems isn't as easy as just hooking up a modern LCD/LED display, minimally they'll have to insert some new circuit to sit between the display controller and the incompatible display to do translation. That means one more part that has to be developed with a maintenance plan setup, testing and certification done. It's kind of sad that spending close to $100k for a 6" display is cheaper than moving to a new display that would likely cost much less in the long run.
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Right. I rarely drive and actually try to obey the law when I do so, but where I live (Chicago), obeying the law is a recipe for angering other drivers. Things like obeying the speed limit or stopping for pedestrians in crosswalks delay other drivers, who are quick to express their anger. In a few years, maybe they'll just think I'm in a robot car!
Assuming you have an impenetrable perimeter is a common reason for failing to secure the interior of a network. i.e. "It doesn't matter if we use Windows XP/don't patch things/don't use encryption because it's airgapped." Then, once someone does breach your impenetrable perimeter (through an insider, side-channel, whatever), the whole thing falls.

So yes, a network designed with the assumption that it will be constantly barraged with attacks is probably more secure than one designed be people who (subconsciously or not) discount the possibility of malicious traffic ever occurring.
All modern cars have crumple zones - though smaller cars like the smart and A/B Class have very short crumple zones.

The difference in your video is the improvements in passenger safety cell construction - much of which comes down to higher strength steel being used in the passenger safety cell. Compare the size of the door pillars between a modern car and one from the 90s - in modern cars they are often twice as thick.

A modern volvo of the same size will fare even better than the renault.
The shadowbans and blacklists are sort of an open secret (though this wasn't always the case). I'd prefer a bit more transparency on this.

Truth is, though, that it's virtually impossible to run any user-contribution-based forum without such controls. Turns out that most people aren't assholes, but there's just enough that things go pear-shaped without controls.

It's something I've long pondered, turns out, reading up on Geoffrey West and his scaling effects that both positive and negative scale effects follow pretty much the same growth laws, they just have different constants. For cities, both economic activity and crime will rise with size, at about the same rate. Which means that though there's a greater economic benefit to larger cities, you'll also have to increase police spending.

Similarly for social networks / online forums.
> Transit is expensive.

I have to disagree here. I'm buying in the tens of Gb/second of transit (1 year terms), and its under $1/Mb. I define that as fairly inexpensive.
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