skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good to see the option is there. I know it's nothing like a perfect safety net against tracking, but when the option is missing, it's a great sign that the company doesn't care at all about user privacy.

Also, 3rd party cookie disabling is very difficult to do elsewhere - you can set up a proxy server to filter requests & responses but it has no easy way to determine 1st/3rd party requests.
Sources? Because I'm pretty sure that's wrong: http://www.studyineurope.eu/tuition-fees
If you enjoyed this article, the documentary "Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie" was great - decent footage and a great soundtrack.
I definitely prefer small companies. My frustration with large companies is that at time I see the executives making ignorant decisions, and I am not in a position to point out to them a better course of action.

On the downside smaller companies may be unable to weather sales downturns. If you work for a small company you feel far more personally responsible for the livelihoods of your coworkers.

Small companies can adapt to changing market conditions quicker. An Apple evangelist who visited me at Working Software - where we had about 12 employees - expressed great envy at our ability to get new products to market quickly. One very real example was that I once said "Hey Dave, it would not be hard at all to modify Toner Tuner's code in a very small way to make a hardcopy watermarking utility". That resulted in Working Watermarker after only a few days work, which was a huge hit.

The big advantage of big companies is that sometimes they can take losses for substantial periods of time. However you might get the axe in a big layoff. I'd rather be with a small company, so I can see it coming.
I think an interesting question is how likely it is that some of the great firewall is compromised.

(It could be by some party outside of China, or by some group inside of the Chinese government that does not have an official mandate to use it for things like the Github attack)
In most (all? not sure) of the Nordic countries it's not scholarships (well, you have scholarships too), but at least used to be blanket grants to everyone that qualifies for a university place, combined with cheap loans.

The grants when I studied in Norway were not huge, but they were unconditional for some number of years as long as you could document that you were still studying (basically it was sufficient to sign up to a couple of courses and attending the exams, whether or not you passed). This was 20 years ago - details may have changed.

I lived on my grants + student loan for the first year of my first startup, by continuing to sign up for a couple of courses which I didn't actually study for (attended may be two lectures...)
I think that Russia is still surrounded by US forces, or at least US sympathetic forces.

I wonder if this causes their country-people to feel boxed in or cornered. :\
It's impossible for everyone to be a net exporter.

At the same time, being a net importer is not in itself a bad thing. The reason the US doesn't have free college for everyone is not because it is a net importer. The US could afford Germany-style benefits; that's not the problem. Canada probably could too.
I can't say I share your love for make's built in rules. I find using them often just makes the build system harder to understand and debug.
I usually disable all of the built in ones using:

# Disable built in suffix rules
.SUFFIXES:

# Disable builtin pattern rules
MAKEFLAGS+=-r
When I hear homeless ... I always think of Carlin - they are not homeless, they are houseless. People need cheap affordable housing - that's it.
The Meisterbrief wasn't considered a tertiary degree until 2013, I assume this distorts the statistics.
If the Germans have any sense, they will lift a fee from U.S. students. Taxpayers won't appreciate having their money thrown away just so that aliens can have a free ride.
1? really? i guess you mean reinvesting your net positive export income into efficiency improvements and innovation and maintaining infrastructure? ok, i can agree with that. but one still needs save for a rainy day (emergencies, downturns) so maybe the ideal is slightly greater than 1.
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I know, but I always I always felt that LEAN and MVP thinking left me with more question than answers. This approach is probably not different, but I feel it a slightly more intuitive way of looking at it for me, and it helps me gain a bit of certainty about how to approach it.
The fireball radius and air blast radius are probably proportional to different multiples and/or powers of the bomb's total energy.

For example, if A = 7x^2 and B = 2x^3, A will be larger than B when x is small, but B will overtake A as x grows beyond a certain point.
Which laws would they be violating by announcing they were attacked by China?
On their premium bandwidth Scaleway do. Hetzer however provides no such protection and does not assist with mitigation whatsoever (other than null routing your server until the attack stops).

Just look on the various web hosting forums (webhostingtalk.com) with regards to Hetzer. They are very hostile to customers that have these problems.

OVH, which are priced similarly, include DDoS protection in all their new plans.

I find Hetzer are good for non public facing servers. Job processors, internal tool servers etc.
H – generate HTML the easy way
As the readme says: 'Also removes any user trust settings for each certificate'.

It's not intended as patch or fix for the CA system which is broken by design - merely something that I was interested in trying.
> Education in Europe is not free. You pay with your qualifications. If your university grades are not good enough, you go out fast.

While Universities in the UK (and probably the US as well?) boast with their retention rates that seem to approach SLA levels of nine nines, it is the exact opposite in Germany. Some of our universities are proud of their drop-out rates >50%, partly because only good students will get a degree at a good university. But you also have to keep in mind that quite a few courses don't have any entry requirements in many universities (others require a minimum score that consists of your GPA, optional test scores, and other metrics). You just fill out a form, attach a copy of your Abiturzeugnis (A-levels / high-school diploma), and voilà, you're now a student of computer science at one of Germany's top universities. It should not come as a surprise that not everyone finishes their course. In fact, tough exams after a year of study serve to weed out the weaker students. This gives everyone the chance to prove themselves in the subject, not some random test. It is also perfectly normal to change studies in Germany, so being kicked out isn't a disaster by any means (although you should reflect back and see where you went wrong ;))

On the whole, I think it's a lot fairer.
"Once you realize that computing is all about constructing, manipulating, and reasoning about abstractions, it becomes clear that an important prerequisite for writing (good) computer programs is an ability to handle abstractions in a precise manner. Now that, as it happens, is something that we humans have been doing successfully for over three thousand years. We call it mathematics.
This suggests that learning and doing mathematics might play an important role in educating future computer professionals.
"

The conclusion is not good. The logical conclusion would be that if we define mathematics as 'handling abstractions in a precise manner' then programming is part of mathematics.
In this case his conclusion becomes:

'learning and doing some classical parts of mathematics might play an important role in educating people who will do this another part of mathematics'

Which might be true to an extent, but this statement is very broad.

It is not a question that some amount of math is helpful. But after a while there are diminishing returns, because you simply learn different skills than what you need.

After having some very basic math knowledge the best strategy is to try to learn a lot of practical 'engineering' from very good books/courses, and only go back to math on-demand.

For example if you want to have some knowledge on machine learning or computer graphics, don't start to learn math for years first and then start learning about machine learning/3d graphics. Start to learn abut the engineering field first (take Andrew Ng's coursera class, or some equivalent in 3D graphics) and only go back to learn some linear algebra or very basic calculus after you see why it will be useful and to what degree you need it (you mostly don't need most of the theorems if you are learning the basics of these engineering fields).

Being an engineer is very different than being a mathematician. If you want to be a good engineer then mostly learn a lot from good engineers (or researchers in the engineering field) and learn some math along the way, but that will be secondary in my opinion.
It's good to learn tons of math, but only if you learn even more engineering besides the math (to be a good engineer).
Fair enough.

Some of the things I might do with these don't really have that "better than the x86 version" comparison in any rel sense. I've got a DigitalOcean droplet and a CloudAtCost VM (and several others) that exclusively get used as remote endpoints for reverse SSH tunnels. These would only need to be slightly less expensive for me to seriously consider adding a French jurisdiction one as well...
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Canadians lynch people?
I would be in favor of decentralised as well; nobody should have to pay money to some bunch of trolls just to use encryption; this is a friction point for a lot of newcomers to web development. In fact, making HTTPS free to use would probably be the best thing that could ever be done for cybersecurity for mankind. Make it zero-friction over HTTP, somehow.

Perhaps Google might want to sponsor this? :)
It does happen that armed response companies are tardy, but the local papers usually make a big deal about it, especially if there was a house robbery (home invasion).

Plus, since incidents do happen more often, presumably the security guards are more prepared and alert, and competition keeps them on their toes.
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I agree, the bootstrapping trust is a hard issue, and I don't think either that a distributed system will magically fix things. What would happen is we'd just change one set of problems for another one, but IMHO it'd be a better system overall. In this case, making things more visible is a better thing. That's an interesting point about the way a distributed model would evolve. My question is: does it matter? If we could more easily spot a bad actor, wouldn't it make everyone behave better?
>But is "terrorism" even the correct word for this?

Don't use that word. It's barely even a word any more, its become one of those weaponized magic symbols used for mind control. See also "freedom", "globalization", "sharing", "choice" and so on.

Instead, you can just use words like "murder", "destruction of infrastructure" and the like.
Ok, fair enough: "send them into a rough hockey game" or something like that.

If there's one thing that sets a lot of Canadians off though, it's being considered like some large, deep-frozen 51st state of the US. For one obvious example of the differences, Canada has universal health care.
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Yes, I was wondering whether the original packets arrive or not as well. I'd love to see the traces. In my quick read of the this article I couldn't understand the method that they used to make their determination. Was it the bad packets or the good packets that had the TTL rewritten? The fact that there is a system rewriting packets does not necessarily imply it is an attack. I once wrote a SIP client and the local ISP actually rewrote my headers -- I had a bug in the header and just sending it through the network rewrote it so that it was fixed. This was in Canada. As a result, I have absolutely no doubt that packets are being rewritten all over the place, not just in China. Detecting this is not proof in itself that this is the origin of the attack.
something to strive for no?

i think of countries export to import ratios like personal finance income vs expenditures. if you spend more than you make, where we you get the money to reinvest in yourself. you'll borrow it until you can't make the minimum payments and then default.

There are many reasons why the US does not have free college (taxes too low, universities are run like business now, etc.) but running huge deficits and not having any savings to invest in society is one of the reasons.
hedgewars.org
Can readers of Chinese/Japanese/etc: this is  my local gas/electric utility
http://www.novatodisposal.com
I was looking to order a dumpster. Checked out my local pacific gas and electric www. I think it's been defaced. I tried calling them but their phone is busy 24/7.

I would like to warn them they may be hacked/getting a light DDoS. Now, no one to call as nothing works.

I did some DNS "digging" but while I get back as records and such, I have no idea what their IP should be. If I did ibthoughtvi could add the host to my /etc/hosts file and force actual resolution to the correct IP. That's assuming they chafed DNS and didn't just deface the site.

Maybe somewhere there's a localization link in musing and nothing's wrong other than a bad IP to language mapping. Suggestions?

I'm just trying to pay my bill and also order accumulated fircsomecspting cleaning.
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SaaS startup hack: Creating an email list of 1000 signup invitations
You forgot 'communism'.
At points in my life my apartment has been pretty much a place to sleep for 8 hours, and little more. It was always maddening that the options were still expensive (even studios are cavernous when you're a 22 year old with almost no belongings, no car, and no family).
Criminals in America sound like they're treated as a de-facto permanent underclass. Less rights (no voting, custody, criminal suspicion, etc), less privacy (sex offender registry) and less opportunity with respect to job applications (job discrimination based on criminal record is legal?).

And then they're released back into the general population, expected to be upstanding, rehabilitated citizens that want to (and can?) contribute back to society.
That's not exactly a world-changing life goal

An order of magnitude or two improvement of current battery technology will fundamentally change the world in ways we can hardly imagine. A cool electric car is nothing in comparison.
Welcome news. The ubiquity of Intel disturbs me. I would love to see more diversity in processors.
What Python jit? Do you mean PyPy?
Fission of atmospheric hydrogen.
My thoughts exactly. The world is not a chess board. The rest of the pieces don't just stay where they are and watch passively while you make a move. It may take a while for the full effects to be felt, but sooner or later the board as a whole will find a new equilibrium.

Browser vendors publicly announcing a zero-tolerance policy would effectively be a warning to the governments of the world: "Do not fuck with our PKI, or else." This will have far-reaching consequences even before any CA officially gets banned.
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Foreigners have been studying for free in german universities for decades. This is not going to change.
Can you maybe explain a little more how the "US values broadness of thinking and knowledge ... much higher than Germany"? Do you have some concrete examples in mind?
floppy.js? I meant clippy.js
The South African government has improved the lot of the poor in some ways- child support grants form the basis of a welfare system that protects people from utter destitution. Sadly, as you point out, the public healthcare and education systems are dismal, and the failure of the education system means that human capital is being wasted.
How well would one of these work for running TOR? The unmetered 200 mbps would lend itself to a decent relay, but only if the ARM chips can process the traffic at that rate.
That is the "normal" MariaDB, not the Galera edition. This is a problem that has more to do with MariaDB than with Scaleway, but it still shows one of the problems people may have with ARM servers at this point.

A couple of friends of mine are happier with compatibility than I am, too. Others are even more disappointed than I am, since one of the uses they have for dedicated stuff is game servers, which usually are closed source and not available for ARM.
Thanks for clarifying.

There is value in a higher barrier to entry. That much is seen in almost every place that has such barriers. Nintendo games are typically high quality and App Store apps are usually not (and Play Store -- not picking on anyone). I've seen much higher quality from sites hosted by regular hosting companies (and paid-for domains) than I do from sites like mysite.site99.commish.ru (if you'll excuse the exaggerated example). Self-signed is even worse than my exaggerated example when it comes to trustworthiness because there are far too many bad actors who want to do bad things but also don't have $100USD to spend on a cert. I don't doubt that some kind of better system can exist but self-signed is definitely less trustworthy.
Musk has been known to embellish his academic record, it was detailed during the court case against Tesla's original founder Martin Eberhard:

http://evworld.com/pdf/eberhardvmusk.pdf

According to court documents he has never had any association with Stanford university, and, contrary to public statements, among them SEC filings, has no degrees beyond a Bachelor of Science in Economics from PennU.
With any meaningful definition of the word neither the github attack nor the Sony hack was terrorism. Nobody was trying to spread terror among civilians, nobody tried to influence government policy.
it would be nice if it could hook into YCM's config file instead of needing a separate one, when available.
> In fact, making HTTPS free to use would probably be the best thing that could ever be done for cybersecurity for mankind

I guess we'll eventually get there, but unless we get decentralised I don't see how it could be done.
> bureaucracies tend to do extremely stupid stuff when looked at from the outside but every cog on the inside thinks that its action makes perfect sense.

If this is Chinese doing, the likely ones responsible are the Chinese Intelligence, not their bureaucracy.

> Evidence?

Occam's Razor. I find it hard to believe that a society with sufficient level of sophistication to obtain $9 trillion GDP[1] would 'accidentally' go on to declare cyber war on US. Especially considering the fact that the attack itself was pretty sophisticated.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28nom...
This is an interesting contrast to the US. Germany educates foreigners for free because they want them to stay. In the US it is very hard for someone to stay after going through a publicly funded PhD program. Other than exporting our culture I am not sure what the goal could be.
http://raspberrycolocation.com/order/

"Average delivery time" 90 days? I'm not even sure what that means, but it doesn't strike me as particularly useful...
In what sense is Tesla a leader in JIT manufacturing?

Do you know how manufacturing takes place at all those other car companies in Germany, Japan, and South Korea? I can not talk about the Asian-based companies, but I know for sure that the manufacturing plants in Germany are very ahead. Because they produce different models at same time on the same track. Each and every car is different in every aspect. In Europe it is very common that you order your car they way you like it and do not buy the one that dealer has in its parking lot. You order to your specification and the option lists are huge compared to the one from Tesla.

Tesla is having only one Model with limited different features and many same parts from Ford, Audi, Mercedes, Bosch and others and still is unable to keep up with delivery as you can see from their latest IR reports.

BTW, the Tesla plant is build with German technology by German companies. Just to remind you.
It's an old residential area, next to a main road, but the only access is a private path along which you have many other houses and their own security cameras.

That path is a dead end, and the last section is around 50 m (~165 feet) long and not even accessible to cars or wheelchairs; too narrow and with steps. The gate to my place is the very dead end.

That's why people have a hard time finding my place. Now, I feel like talking about security a bit more.

After the gate you have other 20 m (~65 feet) to the door, and most valuables are upstairs.

Basically a burglar would have to take multiple trips, up and down inside and outside stairs, to load up a car/van parked before the narrow end, with faces and plates invariably captured by cameras. Or do the multiple trips for maybe 300 m (~1000 feet) each to a parking spot across the busy main road (there's no space to park on my side of the road; you'd block it).

In case of break in while I'm out, after I get the notification on my phone I'd call a neighbor to block the path with his car and wait for the police to arrive and do the rest.

There are other possible break in spots, but they involve wall jumping, so damage would be way more limited. Somebody could jump into my garden over the 2 m (~6.5 feet) wall from my neighbor's, but they have to break into the (wealthier) neighbor's before.

The rest of the garden is surrounded by a concrete wall, 2 m (~6.5 feet) high on my side, 3 m (~10 feet) on the other side, that separates my house from a residence complex with its own security and all. But you can't really see this wall; it's hidden by thick foliage on my side. Once I got my quad-copter crashed into this residence and it took me 30 minutes worth of branch cutting (saw and hatchet) just to reach the wall, and I tried to grab it for a while, with a hook and hung from a tree, before even considering jumping that high, getting hurt, and possibly be unable to jump back in again.

So a burglar would rather steal shit from any not as logistically messy target.

TL;DR: my house can't be accessed by car and I'm surrounded with other houses and apartment blocks that are not as much trouble to burglarize.
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There are mics that use a real human head like http://www.ohrwurmaudio.eu/ohrwurm-3-kundenbeispiele.html
Or a free 15 mn trial at http://instantcloud.io
Didn't the previous occupants already solve this problem?

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

For something more hardy, you could steal an idea from the central asian people and build yurts. They're more homely, portable, easier to construct, and surely cheaper.

http://www.rontravel.com/Web_Photos_Happy_Cannibal/X_Siberia...

http://www.rontravel.com/Web_Photos_Happy_Cannibal/X_Siberia...
And of course there's Mexico right next to you,

Based on impressions created by Hollywood movies, people I've spoken to in South Africa express opinions that Mexico is some kind of hellhole. Here's a sobering comparison:

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=mexico+south+africa

In most measures, Mexico is way ahead of South Africa.
Ever feel like your head's somewhere else?