skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Counting up the number of people who could've written a given non-anonymous paper is pretty unheard of in academia afaik. The answer is usually politely assumed to be "exactly the number of authors". I've certainly never seen this behavior. So I'm not sure your answer is actually at all clarifying.

Probably, and this is just a guess, neither Simons or Sullivan claim they could've written the paper alone. And it's certainly impossible to write essentially the same paper without plagiarizing. So probably there are either zero or two people who meet the "could've written this paper" criteria.

So, why didn't you just say "there are more than zero/two billionaires who read HN"? Seems less round-about.
Definitely makes sense. Have there been previous submissions analyzing the relative impact of the top 10 positions? I imagine it's pretty steep, but not quite as steep as for say, Google search results, since people are clicking through multiple submissions.

As a habitual reader of both front page and second page submissions, I was surprised by how much traffic dropped off immediately after losing front page status.
This has to be the most bizarre interpretation of the broken window fallacy I've read.
What are you thinking about specifically?
Hah, anecdote time.

Lived in Israel for a year, needed to fill forms (visa, bank account etc). My name is Benjamin, but the pronounciation is different from English (ja is different, in english it turns to a weird dj as in djungle). Talking english in Israel lead to the transcription of the _english_ pronounciation (they have a special way to encode just that sound as 'ג). So, I have a name that IS more or less hebrew, and exists in a mostly equivalent way in IL, but it was written in a wrong way.

Anecdote 2: Since this dj sound doesn't really exist in Hebrew and needs to be encoded as (in latin letters) g', some programs don't understand that. Copy/pasting one Hebrew mail I got into Google translate lead to my name being translated as bang sex (name in latin latter would kinda look like bng'min, the ' was considered as a delimiter and so bng became bang, and the rest was taken as a separate word). I was confused, my coworkers amused.

My last name was written differently on my cc, my healthcare documents and my apartment contract. Weird times.
So you'd arrest these ISPs for pre-crime then? Every gun owner could shoot you in the face if they wanted to, therefore they're all guilty?
When I see people argue "You can't measure the learning that's going on" I have to disagree. It's only based on my personal experience, but in undergrad I didn't see a lot of learning going on. My (large public Midwestern) school had CS and math majors that studied and learned. But there were a lot of people in other majors doing just enough to graduate. And professors didn't require much. I don't know if it's 10%, 20% or 30% that learned, but it wasn't 50%.

I see this in NYC. The mayor's belief is that we are doing a little too much testing, and closing too many schools. Their reaction to bad schools is "We just might not be measuring the learning." In this case, they seem to be doing an accurate job of measuring the bullying at least.
This does bring up a fair point, the military industrial complex is a massive funder of university grants. The creates a lot of ethical issue that are worth considering.

The original comment listed some issues with free-market financing but gov backing is not suddenly more altruistic/fair because it's not coordinated by 'free-market' billionaires. There are many many billionaires (and billion-dollar companies) who influence what the gov invests in and a significant number of them come from the DoD side.

It's even a problem among researchers in England: http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/david-mccoy/universi...
Just because the front page isn't changing doesn't mean the rest of the site isn't. This page was forwarded a month ago by signing up at the page above.

https://web.archive.org/web/20140603232634*/http://www.googl...
1. I haven't, I'll have to give it a try.

2. I use KiTTY, a PuTTY port with a few extra features. It's not amazing but is decent after some configuration.
All the more reason to take science out of the hands of the people they elect.
Billet attacks a white-box construction, not AES itself. White box cryptography involves allowing the attacker access to both the algorithm and the key; you can think of it as a mathematical abstraction of a tamper-proof smartcard. It's not a cryptanalysis of AES.
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the current design is perfect. it just needs a larger i upvote button and allow for mobile browsers to wrap long lines.
This really isn't newsworthy. Also, anyone even marginally working in the Real Estate industry is a scumbag.

This man added no value other than as an intermediary; he may have added value to Stanford (questionable) but he got rich off land. Nothing more.
It seems nomads have been around forever. Being a digital nomad just has benefits in terms of portability.

Excerpt:

One of the things about writing that lends itself to trailer living is this fact of being your own boss and able to work as well one place as another, and in addition, requiring very little equipment to carry with you. I knew one man in Florida who had the front half of his trailer fitted up as a machine shop with lathes and drill presses and carried his business with him. He had a big trailer, but it still didn’t make for very comfort­able living. But he was an exception; mostly they are retired.
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I don't know about the logo. It immediately made me think of docker. That could be an issue.
We should all hope health wearables arrive sooner. The sooner we get devices that accurately capture and measure personal health data (e.g., stress levels, cholesterol, blood pressure, glucose levels), the sooner we consumers can identify cause-and-effect relationships and determine the optimal behavioral patterns for maintaining health.
We are just reverting to the historical mean society: oligarchy.

Just a few years back I was very optimistic that we would correct our course back to democracy, but a cursory review of history shows incontrovertible proof of our destination.

Humans are primates, and primates fight viciously to form status hierarchies using any mechanism available to them. In the 21st century, that mechanism is capital. And its power and influence know no bounds.

The brief democratic blip we witnessed was a result of three massive wars (WWI, WWII, Cold War) which forced cooperation from the oligarchs due to the threat of existential annihilation. The world is quite peaceful now, and with technology and globalization the average citizen has a severely reduced utility to the oligarchy. Hence, capital buys policy, and votes are meaningless.

Capitalism dictates that one optimize one's own desires above all others ("Greed is good"). Economists are only now noticing the bitter aftertaste from the fruits of their labor.

EDIT: I post this a lot, but just in case you've missed it, most of my conclusions come from Thomas Piketty's new book, Capital in the 21st Century.
Why does everyone assume it's Google's responsibility to save the internet?

Yes, they do extremely great things for the world, the internet, and to protect privacy and people's rights, but rather than criticize them when they don't step up to the plate every single time, why not criticize other companies for not even considering it and failing to ever act.

I've seen over 75% of the people I know give thousands of dollars to Apple, but Apple gives back nothing to the world, they should be the ones criticized.

How can a company such as Apple have hundreds of billions of dollars and not even consider helping the world with all of that extra money? Imagine the amazingly great things they could do if they weren't so focused on hoarding cash and ensuring nobody "steals" their rounded corner idea.

The original article title is just link-bait anyways, it even says at the bottom, "Google hasn't gone completely silent. It and Facebook are members of the Internet Association, which in April urged the FCC to adopt open-Internet rules." So then what's the point of the article? To say that Google has been fighting for open-internet for 8+ years and that it helped form a group to help achieve that goal?

Edit: If you disagree then please comment. I knew this wasn't going to be a popular thing to post but I think the discussion is more important than the karma points.
I have just now reliazed there is a search box at the bottom.
The intent of the fio testing was to measure block storage not cache I/O. direct I/O was set in fio configs, but is usually not honored by the hypervisor. During run-up a 100% fill test was performed using refill_buffers and scramble_buffers to break out of cache. Then optimal iodepth settings are determined for each workload and block size by running short tests with incrementing iodepth settings (targeted for maximum iops). Once iodepth is determined, 3 iterations of tests are performed, each with 36 workloads (18 block sizes, random + sequential). Each of these is 15 minutes (5 minute ramp_time, 10 minute runtime). Since asynchronous IO and variable iodepth settings were used, latency wasn't compared. Total test time per instance for run-up and 3 iterations was about 36 hours. fio configs are available here (iodepth and device designation are added at runtime):

https://github.com/cloudharmony/fio/tree/master/workloads
Security is too damn important to use languages that are insecure by default and that require rigorous discipline and extensive auditing, such as C and C++. The world needs to move its entire crypto and networking layer to functional languages focusing on immutability, thereby immensely reducing the surface of attack.
Usually, I think, by the simple expedient of allowing them to keep their names. However, ISTR that in Thailand there is a requirement for anyone who becomes a Thai citizen to adopt a new, unique Thai-style surname (only people who are actually related may share a surname).
"Show me the UK's GDP" doesn't.
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You hit on an interesting angle:

> democratically elected government officials ... answerable to the electorate

The heads of the government agencies are appointed by the administration, and most (all?) other employees of the agencies are not. Thus, the only accountability of, say, the research funding administrators at NIH or NSF is to their immediate superiors. That is, they are far removed from the scrutiny of the electorate.
excellent thank you @saraTraore
How is it a fact? It's your fact, subjective fact. That we both have an agreement doesn't make it objective. You can't prove that there exists no man that will say he doesn't possess awareness. Even if everyone agreed that vanilla is their favourite flavor, it won't make vanilla objectively the best flavor of all.
This misleadingly comes after you click the Get Hangouts -> Computers option on http://www.google.com/hangouts/.

Google+ Photo Editing has also gone Chrome-only: https://www.evernote.com/shard/s2/sh/776b19e1-487f-4dbb-9962...

Regardless if this is for a local installation using Chrome Desktop APIs, the phrasing "Hangouts won't work in your current browser" seems intentionally misleading.
> It may cost a bit more to run a fully secure CA, and that would be reflected in the cost of a certificate from those that remain, but that'd be a price that everyone should be willing to pay.

I don't know, this could really discourage the adoption of HTTPS. We need to be making it easier for sites to adopt it.

Ideally we could lessen our dependence on CAs. Sure, a "fully secure/expensive" CA would validate a certificate's authenticity with high confidence, but we'd be excluding tons of hobby projects and small shops who wouldn't want that expense.
So what you're attempting to install here is a chrome app[1]. It uses the Chrome Extension/App APIs to create "desktop app" experience. Hangouts as a part of gmail/google+ I believe is supported on Google supported browsers[2].

[1]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hangouts/nckgahada...
[2]: https://support.google.com/a/answer/33864?hl=en
In a recent article from The Guardian titled, 'Scientists threaten to boycott €1.2bn Human Brain Project', there's the following:

'The world's largest project to unravel the mysteries of the human brain has been thrown into crisis with more than 100 leading researchers threatening to boycott the effort amid accusations of mismanagement and fears that it is doomed to failure.'

And.

'But it proved controversial from the start. Many researchers refused to join on the grounds that it was far too premature to attempt a simulation of the entire human brain in a computer. Now some claim the project is taking the wrong approach, wastes money and risks a backlash against neuroscience if it fails to deliver.'

€1.2bn could solve any number of problems. And in a free market that's how the resources would be put to use. Solving human problems. Instead, there's a grand spectacle.

Many wealthy individuals got that way via judicious resource allocation. The same can't be said of the monumental leaders of our fine countries. They got that way via looking good in public. To expect them to excel at speech giving and resource allocation is quite the ask!
Yeah, it feels like a dirty, dirty hack. The way I understood it is that the requests in flight would retry the same way as the new connections when the first iptables rule is applied.
I wonder if having your registrar be the only one able to issue you a cert for your domain would solve this. That way the user can verify that the cert was not only signed by a trusted CA but by a trusted CA for this specific domain.
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> OCaml could actually be a great choice for maintaining a solid TLS layer.

Maybe; it uses GC and it's difficult to embed. I would much prefer something that compiles without a runtime (or with a minimal one for resource allocation).
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I'm not sure it's possible to absolutely determine when a certificate was issued, that doesn't either introduce another third party (i.e. a timestamping service) that the CA can't trivially bypass.
True that.

I meant not as an unrealized idea but as in generally, a good idea. I did check out the software but unfortunately it's not for commercial use. Still, neat way of analyzing code.
But the fact is that you can't snipe tiered website access without also hitting packet shaping and the same peering agreements that make the Internet a useable tool for moving even reasonable amounts of data.
In industrializing parts of the world, mobile devices are often the only access to the internet and software (and sometimes the first experience with a computing device).

Chromebook/ChromeOS is much more capable now than it used to be, with multi-tasking and multiple "apps" can be on-screen at the same time.
With regard to Objective-C's ability for weirdness? Its dynamic nature could easily lead to really weird/surprising process flow. It seems like lots of developing Obj-C programmers know about method swizzling but I wouldn't necessarily expect a similarly-experienced C++ programmer to be familiar with such things in practice.

On the conventionality side: Cocoa is known for its consistency in naming and behavior.
We have to go deeper... "What writing an article that made the front page about making the front page did for our website." Karmaception!
> Honestly, if the HN design remained exactly the same but fixed those two pain points I'd be happy.

Exactly. No bullshit. Keep the same visual styling. And improve how the layout breaks at a narrow width. This is how you improve/redesign HN.
Another alternative would be to restrict which TLDs a CA can issue for - e.g. China's CA would only be able to issue .chn domains etc.
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Seeing people spend so much time building lists of tech and mobile blogs, so I figured I'd put together a big long list of them for people.

Obviously this doesn't replace doing your own legwork and research for industry blogs, but now you don't have to spend hours finding out what the mobile blogs are.

http://www.ideatoappbook.com/marketing-directory/
Because they're arguably the company most invested in an open internet. 2/3 of internet users are google users (made up statistic). That means that they're losing 2/3 of whatever if the internet is hurt.

If they're not going to fight, who is?
Same as drsintoma, I had no idea there was a search bar!

I think that speaks a lot of a non-intuitive placement.
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It's exaggerated to make a point to people who consider a Tesla affordable.

A Tesla is in the same price range as a lot of conventional luxury cars. To me, that's a good first step. I didn't say to stop there.
Thanks for the clarification. The messaging is terribly misleading. I'm not claiming they are doing it on purpose but they aren't expending much effort to make it clear that you're installing a Chrome app that can't be installed on Firefox/Safari when they say "Hangouts won't work in your current browser".
If you watch the video and wondering about the multiple subscripts prepended by '?', this technique is called optional chaining. It also work for properties and methods.

It is kinda similar to how we can invoke methods on 'nil' in Objective-C and not causing any runtime error.

Just stating if anyone is wondering.
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I think the "unknown or expired link" effect is partly to blame here.

I hardly ever bother to try clicking through to page 2 except when there's nothing interesting on the first page.
It's a matter of "getting shit down efficiently"
It is possible - but it would be difficult to optimize for every performance characteristic because they are derived from many different benchmarks. This was a problem in the tpc-c years with database vendors optimizing specifically for a single benchmark.
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Why does your data structure course cover assembly? I am just curious because in my school, they teach assembly bottom up, starting from digital logic and transistors and eventually get to C.
The reason you're being downvoted is that your point (as read) seems to be "Well, .gov funds research that kills babies!"

This is rubbish, because it also funds research that leads to medicine, better roads and health, the Internet, and all number of other things that are absolutely positive things. The balance is by far on the good, not the bad.

Private research brought us things like the Maxim gun, the Gatling gun, most of the shitty food you can buy today, lots of unhealthy chemicals, and all sorts of other things.

It's a comparison that, even if executed properly, is hard to make--and you failed to execute.
> Regardless if this is for a local installation using Chrome Desktop APIs, the phrasing "Hangouts won't work in your current browser" seems intentionally misleading.

Not providing a link for "browser" along side Android, iOS and Computer is terrible. Intentional or not I expect better from Google.
My own guess of their method is that it's built upon a philosophy of very short lifetimes for any given strategy. I'd guess they've optimized their ability to track the life cycle of a strategy, and perhaps generalized to different classes of approaches for generating new strategies. They probably have rules of thumb they follow and a culture and that promotes the group's ability to find new signals and temporary inefficiencies.

Hence they'd be just about as non-stationary as the market itself. If you were dead set on doing an almost impossible finance project, then instead of reverse engineering you'd probably be better served by figuring out how to do life cycle management of signals yourself.
I'm not saying the telecoms should be allowed to block or punitively degrade a company like Skype. I'd be okay with a "no discrimination policy." The telecom shouldn't be able to charge Skype more than it charges Conde Nast. And of course Antitrust law would still exist. Blocking Skype for anti-competitive actions is already illegal.

But I don't have a problem with them paying for priority.

That happens in virtually all industries. Amazon pays for faster shipping than a small webstore can afford. McDonalds can afford a better location than a mom and pop burger store.

It's just part of competition.

Sure its not ideal for start ups, but why should you have the right to make a law to tell Comcast how to use their network just so it benefits your start up?

Start up culture doesn't seem like regulation itself (Air B&B, Uber).

And it might actually benefit web start ups. If Netflix and Amazon pump in more cash to telecoms in exchange for faster service, that means the telecoms will build faster networks to make more money.
Been using this in production for about six months now. Happy that the release version is finally out. The nicest feature of 1.5 is that you can easily do Redis failover using the new TCP check features.
A bit of self-promotion, but you may want to take a look at bud ( https://github.com/indutny/bud ) too. It is basically a TLS terminating proxy, and does support some availability features (if you need them).

The bud is built on the top of the libuv, which empowers the node.js.
> Every time you visit a page the OS/browser doesn't go up the entire chain of trust and check for constraints.

Oh, certainly they do. Name constraints work just like that: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5280#section-4.2.1.10

So does Extended Key Usage in practice, although it's not defined that way.

There are some platforms where name constraints aren't implemented, but CAPI (Windows) certainly does implement it and I believe that NSS does also.
Convergence by Moxie Marlinspike. Some argue that it does worse then CA in protecting against low-profile phishing attacks, but that's just bollocks.
Secure implementations require more than formal, logical correctness. They must also not leak information to adversaries--i.e. the must be free of side-channels. Unfortunately, ensuring this usually requires the developers to be aware of the low-level behavior of the underlying architecture, which is difficult in functional languages since unlike C, they abstract away behaviors of the underlying hardware that can leak information.

I suppose you could extend the functional language's type system to tag data as e.g. needing to be compared to other data in constant time, or needing to be accessed in a particular way to avoid cache-timing attacks, and so on, but this just off-loads the problem to the compiler (i.e. the problem must still be addressed, and not in a high-level functional language). But if you're going to go that far, you might as well put the requisite safe code primitives into a shared library, so if you find bugs in them later (or discover new side-channels you didn't think about earlier), you can update the library without having to re-compile and re-deploy everything affected by it.
Does that have anything to do with the DeWitt clause? (which is apparently also in the datomic license (last I looked))
What about Macaw? http://macaw.co/