skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a terrible analogy. We're talking about the difference between a small community and digital information technology in the era of ubiquitous networks. For one, the level of detail is absurdly lopsided; we're comparing high definition audio and video with what, someone's diary at worst? The records kept are essentially incomparable. Second, there is just no comparing a small close knit community to the entire world and instantaneous access.

No one is saying that people don't have a right to their memories. Even communities have the right to remember things collectively. But imagine if you couldn't get a job in your small town because everyone whispered about you being a child molester or something. You couldn't get housing. No one would talk to you. You had to beg for food. My example is a bit extreme but it illustrates the example well because some of these things happen on a massive scale to people whose potential employers web search them.
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I have no idea why are you asking me that or why was I downvoted. I said nothing about identity verification, just trademark issues. Seriously, wtf?
* > <rant> I fail to see what any of these "new-fangled" chat systems bring over IRC with a bot that tracks all the convos for history searching. </rant>

Easy: our entire agency (70+ people, half designers/developers, half management, client and accounts, etc) is using it, no matter how tech-savvy they are.

I love IRC, and I ran an IRC server for us developers for a good 6 months, but got us to switch over to Slack for the sole reason that accounts management and PMs are happy to use it, and we get transparent searching across every chat :)
IMAP because I use email across multiple internet connected devices.
The definition of public interest then becomes key. I also worry that information that does not seem to be in the public interest at present could become so in the future, but will be lost instead.
According to the article you are quoting the engine didn't explode; it's just failed. I'd be very impressed if a rocket survived an explosion of one of its engines (they are much closer together than jet engines on a passenger plane and even i such planes an explosion of one engines can damage others due to shrapnel).
> Forcing both sides to pretend that each object is a unique and special snowflake when that is both counterfactual and inconvenient for all involved seems pretty silly.

That's not at all what prototypal OO does. A prototype in JS is very simple: It's an object, just like any other object. It's not pretending to be anything else but an object.

When another object links to that prototype (using the `new` mechanism or `Object.create()`) that object is not pretending to be a unique and special snowflake. In fact, exactly the opposite is happening: It's delegating everything that is "the same" to the prototype it references.

The primary advantage to that is a simple matter of memory conservation. Otherwise, you might as well just copy properties from the prototype to the new object. Some functional languages do essentially that every time you create a transformation, because state in some functional languages is immutable.

Under the hood, such languages are actually just copying references to shared data, which acts very much like prototypes, practically speaking. The difference being that the language users are not exposed to the mechanism.

These are very different paradigms from classical inheritance where everything you extend creates an "is-a" relationship and a single parent object hierarchy. It's a strict tree system.

Prototypes in JavaScript do nothing of the sort, because you can use dynamic object extension to build up a prototype from as many sources as you like. The practical upshot is a lot more freedom, no more need for hierarchies, which eliminates the need for "super" calls, which reduces coupling -- the children have no knowledge of the prototypes that have been composed together to create the API of the child.

See "Prototypal Inheritance with Stamps" for more detail: http://ericleads.com/2014/02/prototypal-inheritance-with-sta...
Yes, it would suck to not capture the value you create, and I think you totally deserve to be paid very handsomely for this tech, of course. Oh, and please make sure to charge extra from the energy, finance and healthcare sectors.

It's just that "please call for pricing" means a negotiation with a sales guy, which many people find uncomfortable, unless they work in corporate purchasing.
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We would reinvent UNIX, poorly.
Most of this stuff was published a few months ago and completely debunked - the ip range was just chosen because it isn't routable.

The BTAgent is there to manage the devices - e.g. Updating them. Its possible that some stats are there to improve line quality as well. To me that seems a reasonable tradeoff, and if I wasn't happy with it then it is always possible to use your own piece of CPE.

The other point is that the interface that BTAgent runs on isn't exposed to the internet, it is only available from the management network so someone obtaining the keys for BTAgent would also have to compromise the management network - at which point bt has bigger problems!
The main page has shaders in background. This works well if your machine is beefy enough. But it's apparently an issue with systems such as iPads. I've temporarily removed the shader backgrounds.
Is the difference between bkirwi's two examples really significant? The eager.io URL is still a mash of random characters.

(FWIW I like seeing UUIDs in my URLs, because it tells me that the company on the other end has its shit together. That might be a bit programmer-specific though)
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The problem of both locality and length also only exist in modern databases. Good old Ingres QUEL offered the choice of hash and btree indexes, and the the ability to compress indexes. Index compression is of course much easier with sequential indexes, but it would at least optimize the static host part of the uuid away.
If you cycle through areas with a lot of traffic, could the water end up contaminated with vehicle exhaust?
How are these eager.io IDs any easier to work with in SQL queries etc.?
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I was initially interested when I first saw this last year, but it turns out to be complete FUD. See http://www.revk.uk/2013/12/paraniod-ravings.html for the take on the original disclosures from the MD of one of the UK's most technical ISPs (and believe me, he's no fan of BT's).

See also http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2013/12/confusion-alleg...

In a nutshell, some ISPs will effectively hijack publicly routable ranges for internal use if they know that there's no way those addresses will ever be used for real public services. In this case, a UK ISP is re-using the US DoD's 30.0.0.0/8 network. Anecdotally I've heard the inverse is also true (US ISPs use UK MoD ranges).
There are a few bytes for the version number, but other than that, yes.

> I mean, given the birthday paradox calculation, couldn't you just take head of the uuidv4 (i.e.: the first x characters) to arrive at the collision/space-consumption tradeoff you want?

Yes you could, but is that actually any easier than "generate x random bytes"?
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On the contrary, there is such a thing as a CSPRNG, and many of them exist.
> .bit is a top-level domain that was created outside of the most commonly used domain name system of the Internet, and is not sanctioned by ICANN

Ah so it doesn't work for probably 99+% of the the internet
Healthy moderation - just because someone has points doesn't imply he/she is God and has the right to troll others.

Better tagging!
But because Type-1 UUIDs encode the MAC address and assume it's unique, which isn't always the case, I'd be a bit worried about it. Should I be? If not, then it seems like an excellent solution.
I see your point, but still find it to be a very nice visualization, and I think the 2D interpretation is actually quite close. I really like that pupils can play with this themselves. Yes, you'd be more exact with showing bending space/time curves, but that's already an abstraction many people won't be able to follow (see also: http://xkcd.com/895/).
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You could, if you've got a good, future-proof way of assigning each note a unique ID.
I was being a bit snarky, apologies. But at the end of the day, we are still talking about making knowledge inaccessible. It may be necessary to protect individual privacy, but it still worries me. Each case will be about weighing the harms to the individual against the harms to the public. Powerful interests will find ways to exploit such a subtle system for their own benefit.
If you're using an SQL database you're presumably doing so so that humans can run ad-hoc reports (otherwise there are better datastores). So the UX they get for that is important. And in mysql (yes, not the best choice these days, but a reasonable one when the decision was made), if you store UUIDs as binary (there's no native UUID type) then you do not provide a good UX.
First, if you think that is the case, you aren't aware of persuasive arguments for surveillance. The best arguments have to do with ensuring public safety, not creating incentives to be nice.

Second, even if that were true, so what? The costs and benefits are totally different. To use an analogy: There are arguments for organ donation that also apply to organ theft. "One person's organs can be used to save a dozen lives." That does not mean organ theft should be allowed or that organ donation should be prevented.
... there's no 4D Earth that's pulling objects down a 3D slope.

What is pulling it then?
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Depends on what you are doing - if your need is to access email offline use POP, else IMAP
I'm pretty sure most harmful exhaust would be more harmful when breathed in, than when drunk?
Wolfram alpha says it takes ~1.3kj to change the temperature of 1m^3 of air by 1 degree C.
Obviously this will vary enormously with temperature and humidity, but it gives us a number to work with.

Wikipedia, and a post by 'someone' tells us there is ~30cc of water per cubic meter of air at 100% humidity and 30c. (This could be a reasonable set of envoronmental conditions in Washington DC for example).

The mass of water in 100% humidity air is

28c 27.22g http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=mass+of+water+in+1+cubi...

30c 30.34g http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=mass+of+water+in+1+cubi...

So we can extract ~3g, or 3cc of water from saturated air, with the use of ~2.6kj (assuming 100% efficiency, which is unlikely)

Some of the highest power density batteries I've handled are 5 cell, 5500mAh li-poly batteries for model aircraft use, with a total energy capacity of around 180kj,

Or ~ 200g of water.

I think I'd rather carry a water bottle.
See here for a comparison of various build systems, including tup:

https://github.com/ndmitchell/build-shootout#readme
An honest question: Are we heading towards a new dot-com bubble? I feel like a lot of companies have been bought/sold for ridiculous amounts, e.g. Mojang, as well as these crazy investments devoid of critique.
I'm far from a biz man but it makes me a bit worried. Should I be worried?
How about reading the article?

The point the article makes is that the numbers are all over the place, irrespective of legal approach, so you have to look elsewhere than enforcement to find the causes for low rates of usage and death.

That e.g. Japan is lower than "decriminalized Portugal" is does not contradict this all the time numbers in Portugal were higher before decriminalization.
Amazon's DNS service is very reasonable.

I've had a lot of fun wrapping it with Git over at https://dns-api.com/
Yes. It's important to realize that at current clock speeds, much of the latency is simply the direct result of the finite speed of light. You simply can't fit gigabytes of memory in a location that's physically close enough to the processor.
Software development fuckups can be just as fatal as manned space flight. Software is actually the cause of many space flight accidents. To think of software as some isolated system that does not affect peoples' lives is absurd. It's critical in many areas and can fail with fatalities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_software_bugs

- radiation therapy machine kills 5
- clock drift in Patriot system caused 28 killed
- Chinook helicopter killed 29 due to bug in engine control
- Toyota's electronic throttle control system caused dozens of fatalities
Find a different site. Ask and answer questions. Go back to the first site and you're awarded some points.
You make excellent points. Twitter IS for broadcasting. It is the counterpart to community interaction. Say, you want to reach those who aren't in your community. That would be difficult on Facebook. In fact, it's a "uniquely defining feature" of Facebook not to facilitate that sort of usage. They both have a purpose. Say, a startup needs to communicate app status to its users so people aren't left hanging in mystery during a downtime. Twitter would help with that well.

Maybe Twitter IS inherently less warm and more chaotic. I get that feeling too. (I don't even log-in often.) But I sort of use it to create a pseudo-community.

Here me out.

140 characters are limiting, right? That means that the author of a post has two options: risk losing followers by posting chatter, OR make sure each word matters so that it's a saturated snap-shot of their current thought.

Now, imagine that you follow a curated list of influencers (i.e., people that are involved-in and doing things you also are passionate about). THEY may not all know about each other, but YOU know about all them. (Think: one-to-many instead of many-to-many.) As a consequence of this, you're continually getting an influx of musings by people you respect and value the opinions of.
Oh, great reasoning.
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So perhaps the question is whether we need legislation to protect us while the new internet social norms are in their infancy, or is it better to be unprotected, so that the norms change more quickly?
A propulsion system that was "inherently safe" wouldn't have dangerous failure modes. Although Virgin has tried in the past to paint their hybrid prolusion system as being "inherently safe", it isn't. No 60klb rocket engine is. To make any such system operate safely and reliably is a big engineering challenge. I think you don't understand the meaning of the term "inherently safe" in an engineering context.
It would even refract light. I'd never heard of this mental model, very interesting.
We are talking about protecting individual against corporations. Currently media corporation are all powerful and only big money can fight them with enough media splash to make a record straight (or do a PR white washing campaign after a crisis). This law doesn't suppress the information, it does the equivalent of forcing you to go to the basement of the newspaper to find some select personal informations concerning individual people.

Moreover the concept of free speech itself has been high-jacked by big money for bullshit (the nickname for citizen united), so I don't see how it's protecting anyone from anything, it's part of the game. Free speech was just a protection of political ideas against the government and it's mostly dead in the days of terrorism law.
According to the "Pump" movie (not sure what their sources are), at the time cars were designed to run on various vegetable oils and (mostly) ethanol (e.g. the Diesel engine was originally designed to run on Peanut oil), and it was actually a Rockefeller initiative behind the curtains to make sure that there is actually no competition for gasoline.

Have not tried to fact-check yet, could be completely wrong - but if it is true, it's certainly an angle to prohibition that I was not aware of.
It's a shame you got so heavily downvoted. Perhaps some examples would have helped:

1) taxes. An American citizen must file an annual tax return with the IRS no matter where they live. https://americansabroad.org/issues/taxation/us-taxes-while-l...

2) Kim Dotcom, living in NZ, having his home raided by paramilitary police

I'm guessing the downvotes are for using "americans" when plenty of Americans hate some of their laws.
.onion addresses aren't particularly memorable anyway (Facebook's nonwithstanding). They wouldn't have to go to insane lengths like I2P does, but it seems like not cutting the SHA-1 in half would make it much stronger. I just feel like in striking a balance, they should err on the side of huge security margins. On the other hand, I don't really have an intuition for the strength of the current addresses, so it's not meant as criticism as much as a quest for understanding.
Very accurate analogy.
If you include the weight of the oxidizer, it's a wash. Oxygen, with mass 16, is pretty heavy compared with carbon's 12 and Hydrogen's 1 when you have to combine two oxygens with each carbon and one with each pair of hydrogens.

The big win in "energy density" from normal hydrocarbons is that the oxygen is freely available from the atmosphere.
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I'm far from an expert on Elixir or Erlang, thats just basic knowledge after reading about them.
I suppose it's possible that mass interacting with the higgs field could give rise to motion in the way an object will be pushed from a high density area of liquid to a low density area as mentioned in another comment here..
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I'm sorry but this analysis is completely wrong. I don't work for Azul but have used C4 and spent time studying it. C4 does not use transactional memory, it does however employ a very elegant lock-free algorithm which allows continuous concurrent compacting collections. BTW that is why it is called C4.

I can tell you from first hand experience that is does not have throughput issues. The truth is quite the opposite as it is the only JVM I've found scales well on large core count or large memory systems.

Do you have experimental evidence to back up your claims or are they just conjecture?

Having studied C4 it is important to note that to get the best out of it you need to allow it to avail of a large heap. If your mindset is to keep the heap small, as you would with many other collectors, then you will be restricting the C4 collecting algorithm from performing at its best. Don't be shy, give it a big heap to play with. The obvious consequence to this is that C4 is not ideal for constrained memory systems - but that is not the world the majority of our servers live in today.

Amendment: All the above applies to Zing (C4) on Intel x86_64.
Imagine someone going to a library and making them remove a book from their catalogue/index.

That book then will be forever covering dust on a library shelf.

That is not a censorship, since anyone who knows where that basement shelf is can read the book. Or is it?
There is no answer to this question. Relativity simply allows one to calculate how much curvature is created in a particular mass configuration, and what the resulting gravitational forces are. It doesn't try to explain why the curvature occurs.

This link explains it better than I did: http://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?topic=3887...
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Apparently the Putnam exam was given unofficially to Israelis, and both Ran and Ofer finished top 10 -- in their mid-teens. By way of contrast, my best finish was a little worse than 100th, when I was 14.

Ran was 3 years ahead of me, and pretty much the ideal roommate (my second semester; I invited him to swap rooms with a first semester roommate I didn't much get along with). No hassles about living conditions; some older-friend general advice; a lot of help studying for my qualifying exams.

Ran had a sadness about him due to political controversy -- he had gotten a special postponement of army duty due to his precociousness, he didn't want to go back to fulfil his commitment, and orthodox Jewish department chair Shlomo Sternberg pretty much expelled him (albeit with a PhD) in retaliation.

Of course, a much greater sadness later occurred in Ran's life, as his ex-wife killed their child in a murder-suicide. :(

Ofer was a stereotypical geek; Ran was a more socially adept guy, with girlfriends and so on. Not coincidentally, he spoke the much better English of the two.

If we had a hierarchy of who was quickest and smartest in the department, the top two were generally thought of as Ofer and Angelos Tsiromokos. In reality, Don Coppersmith was right up there as well. Angelos of course is the one who never got his PhD, instead going off to be a translator for the Common Market/EU. But then, he could beat me at Scrabble, despite English being his third language.

(On the other hand, Daniel Pipes, who briefly lived in my dorm, didn't take kindly when a math guy -- me -- took him down at a word game. :) )

Ran told me of a multi-day conversation in which guys progressed through the natural numbers, coming up with an interesting mathematical question to which the number was the answer. I think they got stuck at 93 or so.

When we were in the common room, it somehow came up in conversation that Jacobi was Jewish. I immediately said "Oh, THAT'S Jacobi's identity!" Angelos literally fell out of his chair laughing.
Making a dozen or two of social media profiles is blackhat SEO now?
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Put a strong password on the phone. Not just a PIN. Touch ID makes that practical now.
For anyone interested in a bit of background about him and some other indie gaming greats, I highly recommend checking out "Indie Game the Movie" - it's a documentary about the development process of Braid (Jonathan Blow), Fez (Phil Fish), and Super Meat Boy (Edmund McMillen and Tommy Refenes).

At about 10 USD it's a bit steeply priced, but I found it well worthwhile: http://buy.indiegamethemovie.com/
Reading the mail seems clear enough - your server/droplet was sending traffic. If you think it was just hosting a (static) blog then it has presumably been compromised.

Did you follow the advice link? Did you look for sign of compromise?

On the face of it disabling a compromised server is precisely the right thing to do - to stop it attacking other users, even if that puts your site offline. Or do you disagree?
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It's more along the lines of: "Smart groups gave them money, so they must at least have a response to the first objections that pop into everyone's head."

Whether those responses represent approaches that will work or not is unknown, but I feel quite safe in assuming they have some sort of plan for them. It's insanely arrogant to assume otherwise.
We just started making one of these for internal use - will probably use this instead now.
And Japan is high up on the suicide list. Maybe it's from a lack of self-medicating?
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It doesn't matter either way - for all practical purposes, LSD causes psychosis to a small part of the population. Some of these people will develop psychosis without LSD, of course, but some will not.

Similarly, peanuts may kill some small part of the populations, fava beans a different part. They may die anyway independent of peanuts or fava beans. That's not a reason to ban them outright - rather, it's a reason to do the proper research to try to figure out who is susceptible and warn them.