skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nah, imagine a point on the earth. Now trace rays from that point in every possible direction. All of those rays will eventually lead to space or to the ground, and none will reach the other side of the Earth. Since molecules are physically further apart the higher you go in the atmosphere, it seems unlikely that the energy would be redirected at the edges, only dispersed. That must mean the wave is literally following wherever the atmosphere is thickest rather than simply being reflected.
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They are using https://readme.io/
> Propaganda (and immune responses) have been co-evolving for as long as recorded history.

Well of course, but the point is, immune response is always late to the party - in many cases only after we've tallied the body count and scared the living shit out of the next generation.

The other thing is, in case of immune system, we have the benefit of it working in parallel, not requiring to expend cognitive resources on it. In case of propaganda, we already have too much to think about. We've already reached the level where you can craft a message that will sound plausible but be impossible to fact-check for an average person (myself included). That is, we can make people believe anything; the main problem that is being worked on is how to make them all believe the same thing and to acquire that belief fast enough.
It's as if you can't see any gray area between something being totally good and being totally bad.

No, all I'm saying is that on balance, something is either totally good for you, or not. (I suppose a third possibility is that it could be neither a net benefit or loss, but that's really splitting hairs, and totally not the case with fossil fuels.)
The first two demos aren't styled, and don't work in Safari 8, and the third one says "coming soon." C'mon, guys...I understand I'm in the minority for using Safari, but you really need to think about the demo'ability of what you build.
That's admirable, but I'm not sure your viewpoint is so widespread. At least among authors, many view their work as property and would be outraged if anyone tried to "take it away from them".

I think most people now (artists or not) view one's copyrights as real property, and their eventual expiration as an antiquated idea.
This is in the links at the top of the page: http://history.fnal.gov/felicia.html#TheTrib

This is on the linked page:

> As part of her contribution Thursday, Felicia went through a 300-foot-pipe dragging a string. When she came out the other end, technicians tied a swab dipped in a chemical cleanser to the string. They pulled the tight-fitting swab through and when it came out it was covered with dust and steelspecks.
> When she came out the other end, technicians tied a swab dipped in a chemical cleanser to the string. They pulled the tight-fitting swab through and when it came out it was covered with dust and steelspecks.

Poo would be unfortunate but look at the title. It's from 1971. People barely had colour TV back then, let alone pipe cleaning robots.
Killing off all the mosquitoes is pretty challenging. Mosquitoes have a short flight ranges, from 300ft to 3 miles. So whatever method you use has to cover every mile of land. They are attracted to CO2, which makes it difficult to make a trap that is any more effective at attracting them than every other person around. Bats can eat a lot of mosquitoes, but they also eat a lot of other insects too, which would have side-effects.
Too bad this has been here for 10 hours and no upvotes or comments.

Maybe if you had posted it as a blogpost somewhere and titled it "Privacy slammed by bash bug, vpn servers kernel wormable" then it would have received attention, like the other gazillion rude titles.

Nice find. Any other vectors for vpn servers besides the pre-auth user-pass-verify one described above?

I know openvpn can be configured to run some script when client is up or down, and I guess the openvpn server can also exploit a client by passing it dhcp-options which it most probably passess to ifup-down-scripts as env vars. But at least for clients there is script-security setting.
But you know what's on my mind right now? It AIN'T the coffee in my kitchen,
Yes, I think generally medium-sized countries make more sense than giant ones, for many reasons. Though even the U.S. can do central planning when it wants to—the interstate highway system is an example.

As for China, we'll see. It's a huge country that I think would be chaotic under just about any system, but their current vaguely mercantalist, sort-of centrally planned quasi-capitalism is doing reasonably well, producing strong economic growth— with its attendant social problems. Would a fully market-oriented economy without the strong role of the state work better? I don't honestly know. I don't know how you'd even go about testing that kind of counterfactual.
Local home-wifi has latencies on the order of a few milliseconds. And not to mention the bandwidth is also typically MUCH higher than the bandwidth from Adobe's (or anyone elses) server farms to your PC. Please try and understand the problem we're talking about before posting irrelevant links.
could you expand on what made you run away?
i.e. what sort of problems which are tasked upon the ops group would make an ops person run away?

This is unrelated to the loggly bit, it would just be interesting to know for a non-ops-guy.
They mention it in passing in the article, but I think that it is very important to make it a default setting, something like "donate 5% of my bandwidth to internet privacy". 500 million exit nodes minus 3 geeks that choose to go deep into settings to disable it.
> Unions serve a big need when employers exploit employees in a detrimental way

Like for example when the biggest companies, Google Facebook Apple and all others in California agreed to not give wage increases to employees who would be looking to switch employers?

Was it in the ten thousands per year difference in average salary?
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Yes you can. If you check out http://brick.mozilla.io/v2.0/docs/getting-started - Node and bower are used in order to install the library locally.
You can also download the project from Github (https://github.com/mozbrick/brick) and just copy-paste the needed files in your project. You can search for them in the 'dist' sub-directory.
http://www.sqlite.org/famous.html
I'm not Microsoft, but as a user I'm worried. I certainly will not be supporting these kinds of anti-user lock-in SaaS platforms. I'm hoping users will ignore them, and they will fail.
They won't have cash forever if no one is still buying their media.
Adding Previous and Next buttons to the Prestashop product page
It's not just loose 'integers'. I believe bools and simple variants are represented as ints, as are empty options.
Sure, these are custom elements, which are just HTML/JS/CSS files. What's more, they are interchangeable with other ones found at http://customelements.io/
Reminds me of https://www.predictious.com/
It's so foreign to anyone

It's foreign to photoshop users, GIMP is just different. I really don't like those open source software that want to copy some proprietary one. They tend to copy the mistakes of the other software too. Maybe GIMP doesn't have all the features that photoshop has but copying photoshop is not the way to go.
There are some invalid links on the page:

- 'Fork me on Github' points to https://github.com/gkoberger/test instead of https://github.com/mozbrick/brick

- The Github link at the 'Keep Up To Date' section points to http://twitter.com/mozbrick

Update: Nice to see that the links are fixed.
It looks like their following the Google model, except without needlessly pulling projects that don't gain enough traction yet serve a niche market.
http://history.fnal.gov/felicia.html#TheTrib

> This good life may soon end for Felicia. The laboratory scientists have designed and built a mechanical ferret, a device activated by compressed air and controlled by wires. They don't need Felicia anymore. This was always the plan, with Felicia to be used only temporarily, while they built her robot.

> Source: The Tribune, December 22, 1971
Serval Project seems more secure and it's open source: http://www.servalproject.org/
> figure out another way to reward creators

It should be noted that the current system is working pretty damn well. More content is being created in just about every medium than ever before, and more people are consuming it. Maybe the rewards don't go as much to the artists as they should, but the money flows towards the sorts of media that people actually want to consume, which is something that other systems would find difficult to emulate well.

> most go without so the few left have reason to spend.

I'm not sure this is true. Market segmentation is very successful -- if you don't see a movie in the theatre, you might see it on DVD or Netflix, and if you can't afford that then you can see it on TV later on (and pay for it by watching advertisements.) Ditto music with albums, itunes/spotify/whatever and the radio.

> educational materials

The market hasn't done very well here in the past, I'll grant, but this one is definitely sorting itself out, too. Free textbooks are not popular yet, nor are sites like Coursera, EdX and Udacity, but they're growing.
Aside from the fact that there have been actual changes to the law (mentioned in my "vague ideas" clause), what's changed is that people used to post obscene and threatening things on usenet, and whenever the police were involved, nothing ever came of it. With Twitter in the UK, in 2014, people now go to prison for posting such things.

Of course Twitter is more popular than Usenet ever was, but I'm not sure whether that's more the point than a gradual erosion of freedom of speech in the UK which I personally think we've seen.
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I wonder when we'll have projects like this targeting all browsers, and specialized functionalities for projects like Node-Webkit, maybe a fork of Bootstrap tailored towards total customization of Node-Webkit, or even a PureCSS fork as well. After using applications like Atraci, SickBeard, and others I've really come to enjoy desktop applications with web based UI's more.

On another note, as someone else mentioned, there's too many package managers, a package manager that detects when you try to use a package manager you don't have installed, and installs it for you would be a neat project to have, although talk about dependency hell.
Since Pete Hunt said Web Components might be bad idea, I become less enthusiastic about those things. But they look really powerful.
I've never understood the problem with the GIMP UI, what is it about it that is so foreign?

From what I can tell the UI's look fairly similar too:
https://gtchan1.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/5-gui-photoshop....
http://www.gimpchat.com/files/196_2012-05-12_214936.jpg
There's various widgets that contain e.g. tools, layers, history, fonts, tool options; and of course each tool might have its own options.

(Also, the team itself have said in various ways that they'll never have as their goal to be a "Photoshop clone", as I understand it that's an unreachable and thus depressing goal. It's a lot more motivating to simply try to make something that works well than trying to cater to every whim of those who don't want to pay for Photoshop.)
> Fossil fuels give us such good control over our climates that climate-related deaths ... have dropped precipitously over the past century...

What? Are you sure this isn't due to better construction materials and practices? I haven't heard this before.

Construction materials and practices, made possible by what fuel? What powers the excavators, drives the furnaces to used to make steel that goes into everything from rebar to Catepillar tractors to the steel toe in the foreman's boot? What source of energy do people use to get a log from a mountainside to the mill, through it, and then to your backyard? What are the hardhats that everyone wears made of? (Plastic, which is made from oil.) Need I go on?

This same energy source is very cheap. That means that more people can afford new(er) homes. Homes which are equipped with better features that help them resist natural disasters, such as earthquakes, hurricanes, extreme heat, cold, etc.

Suppose energy were 50% more expensive. It doesn't take an economist to predict that under those conditions, many homes wouldn't be as nice, new and safe. How many more people would have to do without air conditioning? Clean drinking water? How many more people wouldn't be able to afford fresh fruit and vegetables in the winter?
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Still illegal in France, IIRC. We really have an outdated policy regarding drugs...
I'm not that aware of how Silk Road 2.0 works, but with all the anonymity involved, would it be very difficult for a seller to complete transactions to herself with dummy accounts to pump up their ratings? This was very common in the Amazon and Ebay world when I was around those several years ago.
Protect yourself by only using apt-get and packaging open source software yourself if isn't already packaged.
Agreed, GIMP is a horrendous piece of software. I know it is extremely powerful (for example combined with G'MIC) but the fact you can't do the most simple transformations (rescale, move, strech and rotate) on the freehand tool speaks a lot about its usability.

Inkscape on the other hand really is a viable alternative to Illustrator.
Yeah, I was looking for browser support in the documentation, but couldn't find any.
Looked at it.

I like this approach. Is closer to what web developers are used to: We included analytics on every page, we don't need to create reports until we find a problem or something to optimize... and we still can do forensics.

2 side notes:

– Asked who did this in our app, he told me it was really easy to add mixpanel on "every event". But anyway, he would prefer that it was automatic... and not having to do it again on every view we include.

– As said on my previous comment, for this you need it to be cheap. If not, im creating a problem instead of a solution. At this scenario, mixpanel' people looks less exprensive than heap' sessions.

A question:

Does a "pay for the metrics you use" model makes sense?

Collect everything, what you pay is some sort of multiplier of (metrics used in reports or segments per user). It would be great, at least for this scenario.

I read in the first comment (from mixpanel founder) that the hard part is not collecting data but making them work as formulas.

That makes you able to not storing the data that has not been included on any report or segment for more than a month or something like that if you want to reduce costs.
Seriously. It seems like Mozilla is completely directionless, working on multiple competing projects which go nowhere either due to lack of resources or not addressing any real community need.

I'd love to see that effort concentrated on solving actual problems in a focused way, or maybe even making Firefox not sucky.
>we need to be on the right side of the fence

I agree but i think that current copyright is on the wrong side of the "fence".
Every so often the shiny new things are actually better.
Some dude said they are bad?
Ubuntu has done this for many years:

$ gem install dummystuff
The program 'gem' can be found in the following packages:
* rubygems1.8
* rubygems1.9.1
Ask your administrator to install one of them

It's occasionally useful.
I looked at this in Chrome and honestly couldn't figure out if the examples were actually working.

Also, Stylus seems a curious choice (not because it's bad, just that it's not exactly the frontrunner in the CSS preprocessor race). I'm not even sure why a CSS preprocessor is even necessary, to be honest.
From what I remember of Australia's case, big tobacco put up a fight, threatened the government with law suits, but in the end backed down.

When you're in another country you really notice the difference, for example in Vietnam, even small corner shops have these intricate displays of cigarette packets, often on pedestals, with bright spotlights.
There is a huge error in the introduction:

"Between mid-2010 and mid-2011, Apple sold a little more than 100 million iPads, all assembled in China"

Well... No.

Apple started selling the iPad in April 2010 (Fiscal Q3 2010).
Between mid-2010 and mid-2011, during five fiscal quarters (Q32010 + Q42010 + Q12011 + Q22011 + Q32011), Apple sold a total of 28.73 million iPads.
That's a really gross mistake, it took me two minutes to get the official info from Apple's investors website.
I'm surprised nobody spotted that during editing.

Edit: the error is probably related to the announcement of 100 million iPhones sold to date during the iPad 2 launch event in 2011.
From Wikipedia (well sourced content): "On March 2, 2011, at the iPad 2 launch event, Apple announced that they had sold 100 million iPhones worldwide"
haha - thanks for the laugh
I am all in favor of continuing to produce and consume oil where it makes sense to do so. I am also all in favor of continuing to develop replacements for oil as expediently as practical.

Do you think that's an unreasonable position?

I am in favor of people developing any new technology they see fit, on their own accord, and at their own financial risk.

If something is truly better, it will win on an open market. A recent example: when people switched to smartphones, no one had to ban/levy huge taxes on feature phones, or give Apple huge sums of taxpayer money for decades to come up with the iPhone.

Edit: By the way, on the topic of subsidies: many environmentalists argue that fossil fuels get massive subsidies, and that they need subsidies to compete. First of all, this is not true, if you compare the amounts of money redirected per energy unit released by energy source.

On that topic, here's a revealing question: if the subsidy argument were genuine, why are there no calls by environmentalists for the abolishment of all energy subsidies?

Edit 2: s/the greens/many environmentalists/
I'm not sure the cops would like it, if each person who ever visited SR out of curiosity gave them a phone call.
It's a choice between restricted standards that hinder technology innovation and restricted markets that hinder business.

As a technologist I hope that de-facto monopolic legacy poorly-designed technologies (JS and HTML) will give way to new better technologies.

I am very happy that at least mobile still gives developers many options - mostly without lame transpilation.
I don't know first hand, but several articles about SR (2.0? 1.5? no clue) said that the admins are very good at weeding out fake reviews. Though it wasn't mentioned how they do it.
Crony Capitalism
Lots of other comments have torn this article apart (and justifiably so), but I still feel the need to pile on.

In their docs, Loggly only gives out one API endpoint: logs-01.loggly.com.

It is referenced as the endpoint for HTTP, HTTPS, syslog and syslog TLS. These seem to be the only methods available to send log data to them.

There is the obvious problem that a DNS record with a 60s TTL cannot possibly receive every single packet sent to it in the event of a server failure. Even if the returned IP address is an elastic IP, it takes a substantial amount of time to move to another instance in AWS.

I don't know why you would use the same service hostname for all of these endpoints. Separate names for each endpoint, even if they all pointed to the same pool of hosts, would at least give some flexibility in the future when they have enough traffic to get desperate about capacity. I would also think they might want to segregate native syslog from HTTP traffic, since I presume it uses different processes on the backend.

It's also curious that they chose to return only one A record. DNS RR is a poor substitute for real load balancing, but it's better than nothing. With multiple A records, there is at least a chance that some of their traffic will go to other servers -- rather than all of it potentially going to one as it is now.

While they made no claims about using Route 53 for its geo DNS capabilities, I still found it amusing that I was sent to a US East IP from California. Not that it's super critical that my log lines get delivered quickly, but it is ideal to shorten the path of an insecure and unreliable transport in order to improve durability. Although I would never ship syslog out to some host on the Internet, a host 16 hops away is even more ludicrous.

I think their article says a lot more about how poorly ELBs function when you exceed the low traffic threshold it is seemingly designed for than about how well Route 53 works (and it is a decent static DNS service). The inability to robustly direct incoming traffic is the achilles heel of AWS.
The cattle we end up killing in brutal and inhumane ways? They'll be fine with all the grass we won't be cutting anymore

That's obvious. Vegetarian comment = instantaneous downvote. Meh.
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I think you're reaching quite a bit here. Oil is demonstrably more than 50% more expensive now than it was anytime before 1974, even adjusted for inflation. (I just double-checked.)

You seem to be saying that the price of energy not only underpins the entire world economy, but that it is the greatest factor in the world economy almost to the exclusion of everything else. I cannot believe that would actually be your argument, so I must be misreading you.

While the cost of energy is certainly a big factor (and I'd readily agree that cheap energy is largely responsible for the industrial age), the world civilization would have collapsed already if it were tied that closely to the barrel price of oil.
if you include the platform.js file, everything should be supported in the last versions of every browser
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Doesn't seem to be working on mobile safari either.
Actually, i quitted cigarettes 9 days ago. Although it's irritating when going out (other people that smoke). I don't seem to have a problem just now and i actually smoked for 13 years (i'm 27).

I quitted because it's too unhealthy and i wanted to get back in sports... Which probably helped a lot (running / swimming while quitting it).

Because i also sleep more now (i'm really forcing myselve to sleep more then 4 hours / night), i'm probably less addicted to anything.
Hmm. Something more specific? I assume evergreen browser support means - Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera, IE, but which versions. What about mobile OS ?
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I worded my initial post incorrectly, but I'm not at odds with whats hes saying. What I'm trying to point out is that in many cases media has already begun to shift to this model. The model where there aren't any restrictions on sharing/copying is quickly becoming ad-sponsered content. And while it hasn't begun to effect music yet, its definitely in video (no one pays a cent to watch YouTube) and print (with advertisers astroturfing as legitimate articles on websites).

If its the case you agree with the idea, does that come at the cost where you open up a newspaper and 75% of the articles are actually written by corporations pretending to be journalists?
It's https, so no worries.
Bitmessage would work beautifully over mesh network, because it's store and replicate solution.
Are you suggesting that schools develop their own solutions, over and over again? Some school districts centralize their IT solutions provision, but that's nothing compared to a private company providing a solution nationwide.
Thanks. That might work. But it feels a bit unaccessible. Looking through the code also gives me a strange feeling. Too many dependencies. They should just give you a .js that enables certain functionality and thats it. Like "include brick-flipbox.js and you have flipbox functionality".

Plus most of the demos do not wort (tried in chromium).

I don't believe in this thing.
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