skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Benzomatic takes a long time to develop a good sear. It's fun but not terribly effective in my experience. I should point out that I'm using it with the Searzall.
The use of a GPS signal in Spanner improves performance but is not necessary for correctness.
Colorado and Washington are already blowing it. They are taking tax revenue from the sale of marijuana and using it as regular tax revenue for programs such as schools. Just look at the insidious relationship government has with the lottery to see that we are just shackling ourselves to a whole other host of compromised interests. Once they get that money regularly, they are never giving it back with out a (corrupt) fight which means any means to use the revenue from drug sales can never be used for appropriate or creative means to further solve the drug problem and we will quickly find ourselves in the absurd situation where our elementary schools will be active drug pushers (see the recent John Oliver piece that highlights a New York Public School ad pushing gambling and the lottery as some noble activity).

It's the one major social issue that can completely fund, to the full extent of current science, the research and treatment of it's ill effects on society...and we are throwing the opportunity away that will be extraordinarily, if not impossible, to get back.
That's awesome. I'm wondering if there's a way to make this work with Excel for OSX. It sounds unlikely but I hope to be surprised.
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Thanks for your comment, that's exactly the kind of answer I was looking for :)
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I guess someone had his 15 minutes of fame.
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The problem with every Stripe clone in Japan is that they're all great on the surface but they trip up on the attention to detail that Stripe has, and they just wind up feeling like inferior product as a result.

In addition, Stripe's documentation and support has always been top notch. Whenever I tried to get help from WebPay it took forever, and more than once I had to patch their own libraries to make things work properly.
> By setting themselves up as gatekeepers for free access to (portions of) the global Internet, Facebook and its partners have issued an open invitation for governments and special interest groups to lobby, cajole or threaten them to withhold particular content from their service. In other words, Internet.org would be much easier to censor than a true global Internet.

IMO, this is the key argument against Internet.org. Internet needs to be decentralized to truly remain a populist medium. Facebook knowingly or unknowingly is sowing the seeds for fracturing and killing off free, unrestricted access to the internet.
true, you don't have to verify anything but utilizing a dot org does make several implications. maybe not here in the webdev or hacker community (we see past that) but this was a calculated maneuver by them to look a certain way.
Why would a published algorithm have to include runnable sample code unless it was part of a language specification or something?
I know that's a low-brow joke, but I hope you know the history of S-prefixing a complex beast for a "simple" approach is not exactly encouraging.

SMTP - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. Simple does not rule out hideously complex.

SNMP - Simple Network Management Protocol. Let's not got there..

I shiver at the thought of a Simple Packet Capture Language. It might just end up looking like someone summoning the Ancient Ones.

EDIT: ditched the word "rewrite". It's not exactly suitable here.
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Those machines are nice but somehow I got the feeling they look way too clean. Almost no rust. Very safe. Almost no cracks bumps and what not..
There is missing some creativity here. I think the old movies got this right.

But still: great work!
That is just the technical issue they are against. They also oppose the internet having singular entities acting as gatekeepers. Here is the summary from the last paragraph.

We have confidence that it would be possible to provide a
limited free Internet access service that is secure, *and
that doesn't rely on Facebook and its partners to
maintain a central list of approved sites*. Until then,
Internet.org will not be living up to its promise, or its name.

(emphasis mine)
I would argue that you are usually covered by fraud insurance by default when paying with your credit which is probably not true of bank transfers.
Inefficient != bad.

Frankly, I think that the design tools and document model for the web knocks the stuffing out of any native apps, especially if you are trying to make something work quickly or on multiple platforms. I'd take CSS over Qt any day.
I am often encouraged to do this myself; there are many who tell me that I'd be quite a good recruiter. I know lots of ways recruiters could be a better job.

For example don't say "I hear you" when you really didn't. Not you personally but there is a recruiter I've been talking to who says that quite a lot.

The reason I don't is that I regard recruiting as something that a company should do internally. That is, even a staffing agency would find you good employees, it's better for your company to find them itself.

Even so, sometimes I entertain the idea. I have lots of ideas for things I could do that to the best of my knowledge no other recruiter does.
Seems to me like sandcats and https://letsencrypt.org/ are a perfect match when the time comes...
You're most likely correct in that they would rule it illegal, though I don't think we should underestimate the court's ability to produce convoluted decisions to support the status quo. See Gonzales v Raich.
You're right. My personal reference for unionfs is NetBSD, which doesn't include such a warning [0]; apparently freebsd's implementation needs some love.

[0] http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?mount_union++NetBSD-cur...
A container is an OS with a single application

No. A container is just a tarball of user-space code run with some isolation. The kernel is still the kernel. Run multiple containers on a machine, and the OS manages all of their processes at once.
Don't know if this is even more worrisome.
FBI and Boeing denying any threat.

Either the guy is/was delusional and his 15 min of fame (like mentioned below) blew up in his face, or the systems are vulnerable and it's being downplayed (while hopefully it's being fixed).

At this point though, it's difficult to trust FBI and a corporation that has a lot to loose...

I think Boeing needs to bring in independent researchers and let them loose on some planes on the ground, either proving or disproving this whole debacle...
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"Hacking into a plane’s critical flight controls is at least theoretically possible on some new models, computer security experts told the GAO."

Can someone explain this? I've been asking knowledgeable people all day and haven't heard a good explanation of how this could be possible. Is the IFE system really on the same physical network as the flight control system on newer planes?

Edit: the best commentary on this appears to be the comments section on this Schneier blog post from a few weeks back - https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/04/hacking_airpl...

And here's an interesting puzzle: if these planes are sharing a SATCOM link between their IFE and control systems, is it even possible for it to be non-software-hackable?
This is a comment @ 9 hours.
> it's difficult for me to see exactly where it would make my life easier or better

As a shopper it won't. Stripe is not targeted at shoppers but at website developers who want to implement credit card payments in a sane and easy way.

As a user, you should not care whether the website is using Stripe or not (although their UX is usually nicer by default and their development guidelines help the implementation be more secure). The added value to you is that it is easy for the developer to implement credit card payments the right/secure way, therefore giving you more payment options.
This seems like a total disaster from a security and privacy perspective.

(Not that a shanzhai manufacturer making a $34 phone cares in the slightest about those things)
On a related note, you'll find lots of cases where seconds are assumed to be 00-59 instead of 00-60. An understandable, but flawed, assumption, and one the leap second really messes up.
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Why can't it dedup? Presumably, containers share base images, which are read-only, and could thus be deduped in memory by the overlay filesystem implementation.
Generally the reason to go with such a kit is so you DO NOT have to do the maintenance... you gain the benefits of the community with little to no effort.
I guess an important (not to say THE) feature is that you get paid services without setting up any payment method like a credit card/paypal etc.
This seems like nonsense from start to finish. The idea that somehow tracked vehicles are worse than wheeled vehicles is sort of silly. The army's newest brigades are comprised of Strykers, after all, which are wheeled. Police departments probably don't want tracks anyway, since they're expensive to maintain.
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Because that would imply spending actual money. People don't usually see electricity as money.
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super, I read it in Russian when I was a kid
It was originally created for use by non-profits and then opened up to anyone, so plenty of people still have that connotation with it
Is the IFE system really on the same physical network as the flight control system on newer planes?

I have no direct knowledge here, but I've heard from multiple sources that whereas past aircraft had air gaps between aeronautic and IFE systems, newer aircraft rely on a firewall to block traffic from the IFE side to the aeronautic side.
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Can't believe SOAP (simple object access protocol) didn't lead your list...
It's durable using checkpointing and redologging, this is default behavior.
You can read more details here: http://www.clusterdb.com/mysql-cluster/how-can-a-database-be...
And I agree that using the name MySQL is a bit misleading, perhaps better with NDB (NetworkDataBase) as NDB only uses MySQL as an API for SQL access to data.
I doubt the majority of the US population is rearing to move out to sea, but you heard about liberland right? They received 160,000 applications in a matter of days. I'd say there's a market for this, and it'll grow if the pioneers are successful.
So what? Google are already managing thousands or hundreds of thousands of different hardware and software components. IMO, using GPS is a good solution to a hard problem.
> extract the fields from your json and keep them as additional columns in the table

You can do that only for simplest key-value json, not the more complicated ones IRL.

E.g. an array

ID, book_title, book_intro, book_tags

here book_tags is a json array. Now try index that!

Mongodb could index it, full text could index it, pg 9.4+ could, but not other RDBMS.

Support nested data structure in RDBMS is hard. You have to implement flat/unflat voodoo in a weird & lame, non-SQL DSL
Sounds stupid, but that's one of the reasons I'm working in software dev. Thanks, Isaac.
Maybe this is just like the debate around driverless cars. "They're not perfect!", they say. "They're flawed just like anything else.", they say.

Well, they don't have to be perfect; they just have to be better than humans. And it turns out that's pretty easy.

So maybe rather than beat up on internet.org because it's not free as in perfection, maybe we should be happy that a billion dollar corporation is trying to do SOMETHING to help 4 billion people who can't afford the current option.

It doesn't have to be perfect. It just has to be better, for those billions of people with no access to the internet, than having nothing at all. And I think they are meeting that and far above it.
Facebook doesn't serve ads on facebook.com when accessed via Internet.org.
Perhaps it could be made into a good approach if it were reworked in terms of topic modeling or clustering categories and them feeding them through a machine learning KNN or bayesian model enabling prediction.
I don't see how you get a security through obscurity angle out of what you were replying to, assuming you are referring to the well known cryptography saying.
127.0.0.1 www.google-analytics.com

127.0.0.1 ssl.google-analytics.com
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Eh, uninformative commit messages aren't a sin, they're a trade-off. Right now, most of my commit messages are one word. Why? Because at the moment nobody cares about my commit messages because nobody cares about my project because it doesn't yet do anything useful. Getting to the point where it does something useful has higher priority than writing long messages nobody will read. Once the commit messages have an audience, then I'll put work into writing better ones.
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You're absolutely right, but these new forms just don't seem as magical as the old in-band signaling. I can only imagine the thrill of discovering the right tones to play into the receiver to make Ma Bell do your bidding. Slowly mapping the network and figuring out what trunks connect where, finding the secret phone numbers that only telephone repair people are supposed to use, etc.

It just seems kind of lame to set up a SIP gateway and (ab)use the naive ANI/CLID facilities. I mean, it is the "correct" way to hack the PSTN these days, but it just isn't as cool.
It's a shame you didn't continue. Where you left off (prior to deferred ... shading I'm assuming and PBR) is still a bit a ways from where things get a bit more interesting. Physically correct rendering changes the game a good deal. We can't haphazardly blur textures and add things and lerp like we used to.
You sir, just solved a problem for people. :)
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Take up Yoga.

My personal experience is I benefited on the points that you have mentioned and then some more.
Would sound corny but the best way to describe the experience is like what was shown in the movie 'Limitless' - it was of course not to that extent, but after doing Yoga for few weeks I felt as if some fog was lifted from my brain (which prior to that I didn't even realize was there), I was able to connect things much more efficiently, do pattern matching and all at subconscious level. Also, I realized I could remember long numbers (ex. ph no.) much more easily - I was never partial to mathematics right from childhood.
If I have to rationalize it then I would think its not only because of exercises, inverted postures (which allows more blood flow to your upper regions of the body) etc. but also due to breathing exercises - which not only helps your lungs but brain as well.

There are scientific work around Yoga and improvement on cognitive abilities, one that I could find easily:
The Acute Effects of Yoga on Executive Function
http://kch.illinois.edu/research/labs/neurocognitive-kinesio...
MCServer is actually an older project than mineserver, it was originally created in 2011 by FakeTruth.
You think you work for Uber when you're a driver?

When Uber goes public for a trillion dollars, are you going to get anything out of it?

No you're going to get a few bucks for toting passengers around in a car you had to finance yourself.
The correct solution is to make real, uncensored internet access available and affordable to the masses, not to provide a better version of the North Korean intranet for free.
Agreed that they definitely should have given some credit. I was unfamiliar with the concept (and didn't even know the term). The AWS post raised more questions than it answered, but that Google one is excellent and coins a great term.
I would feel better about this initiative if it were being carried out by a neutral party (a charitable organization for instance) rather than Facebook. As it is I don't think it's a good idea. It has the potential to undermine the real internet by trapping people in "good enough" service and the motives are highly suspect. I'm hopeful governments will tend to agree.
I've been hoping somebody would do this. Presbyopia is a drag. Here's hoping it works!
Heh heh. Would anyone fly if it wasn't?
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Sorry, I mean wireshark. You can use a filter like these in wireshark GUI:

ip.addr==127.0.0.1

But not in tcpdump

$ sudo tcpdump 'ip.addr==127.0.0.1'
syntax error.

This works in tcpdump

sudo tcpdump 'host 127.0.0.1'

But not in wireshark GUI
Backwards brain bicycle
Is there any guide about what it takes for Stripe to launch in a country? From this article it seems that it was entirely Stripe's choice to launch in Japan (rising culture of startups apparently) so why not entering the Eastern Europe (Poland. Croatia, Romania etc) too?

Take Romania for example, we would love to have a decent alternative to PayPal, are there any legislation impediments that prevents Stripe from entering here? Also, what exactly are the costs for Stripe when launching in a new country?
They are taking tax revenue from the sale of marijuana and using it as regular tax revenue for programs such as schools.

Is that really blowing it though? I have nothing to prove my claim but I'd say a good dose of substance abuse comes from lacking agency as a result of poor education.

It's the one major social issue that can completely fund, to the full extent of current science, the research and treatment of it's ill effects on society

What about alcohol, which you could argue results in more violence and negative health effects than marijuana consumption?
It's amazing that you can have a fully working internet device in your pocket now for $34. It'll be $5 in a few years. Think of the world disruption then, when all of the internet is available to everyone who can afford a $5 meal.

Let's talk about it: If you have something to say, add it here:

http://glitchclub.com/?topic=34
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There's an active community at http://artofmemory.com
Sounds super expensive.

It depends on the bank. Mine gives me 5 free transfers per month and then it's 300￥ per transfer after that.
Simple hack to get a backup of all your code versions
I haven't read the article yet but I gather this is about Universal Basic Income.

Among my concerns is that most people require meaningful work for their lives to be meaningful. Kurt Vonnegut's novel "Player Piano" depicts a society in which only engineers and their managers have jobs, everyone else is provided everything they require except something to do.
I used the Active Scripting interfaces in a Windows product then discovered my mistake a year later when MS refused to release 64-bit versions of the .lib files. I won't make that mistake again, no thanks Microsoft.
It's a Microsoft strategy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish

Doesn't Zuck have enough of the Internet?
When I arrived in a new city and wanted socialization, I'd chat with the people staying in the hostel; with few exceptions, other guests were very pleasant and open to meeting new people. If I wasn't in the mood for chatting, I'd just wander around the city, usually ending up at a local bar where a beer or two helped me get over any shyness about approaching people. If you are open to new experiences, they'll find you.
The idea of spreading a leap second over a longer period is not unique to Google e.g. www.quadibloc.com/science/cal06.htm
The idea itself is actually rather obvious.
Um, the 'statement' they issued was in an email response to the journalists. These guys reached out, and they responded, presumably with some vanilla message about how it was all poppy-cock. If they hadn't bothered to respond, you'd have gotten the same article except with "Boeing and Airbus have not been available for comment", making it just as awkward. There is no good way out for them.
If we were talking about a single file of up to 100 lines or so, I would agree. But presto is huge! I don't want to read the whole thing and decide what bits I do and don't want.
That's when I prefer to use `git amend` or rebasing. I'll make "WIP doing things" commits, and then later squish a few together before making the code more public.
With all these container talks people forget Solaris zones which were pretty advanced sort of containers in Solaris. However Sun was honest about not mentioning zones as the solution for everything. The most important problem with containerization is that due to dependence of multiple containers on the same kernel of the host or VM OS , any kind of upgrade specially the security patching is virtually impossible to do without taking full downtime.
Rock climbing is mostly safe, mostly methodical and meditative but there are times you have to think quickly or you will fall.

It doesn't have to be deadly; you could learn it while on belay at a climbing gym.

An electrical fault once set a payphone on fire in a dormitory where I was living. That was our only phone so it wasn't like we could call for help. Everyone stood around watching in terror as the flames grew.

I grabbed a paper grocery sack out of a trash can, covered my hand with it then slapped my palm over the fire.

Everyone said I was a hero. They didn't expect that of me because I have always been - particularly back then - rather shy and quiet. But to me it was the obvious thing to do.
Although slightly more nuanced than a blanket YES/NO, it would have been more helpful if there were more concrete suggestions on acceptable process mechanisms for 'limited free Internet access'.
> This play only makes sense if someone is extracting the actual currency value of a Bitcoin somewhere along the line.

I would think that's the very point. And it's not like there wasn't a precedence in the physical world already.

Stamps.

I still remember when stamps were occasionally used as a fractional currency. You could order small things over mail and send payment as stamps.

This phenomonenon was even used by Terry Pratchess as a minor plot detail in Going Postal, and subsequently in Making Money. The idea was dead simple: stamps had real value. Eventually, someone would need to spend it to actually mail things, but until then people could use them as a form of microcurrency. So a single unit might be "spent" several times in unofficial transactions before getting used for its intended purpose. The stamps weren't any more valuable as such, but their added utility made them useful in a wider setting.

There's some talk about the history in [0], and slightly better researched in [1].

0: http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?t=16067

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional_currency_%28United_S...

EDIT: one more, this time something recent and still practiced - pre-paid call time as currency: http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21569744...
What I have found that helps with this behavior is to listen to my content instead of read it. It is like a safety net to stop my mind from wandering.

The part of me that is prone to wander cannot - because the podcast I am listening to won't let my mind stray past the topic on point. In times where I need to focus on what I am reading it is very easy to let the podcast slip into the background.

If my focus gets interrupted the podcast is there like a safety net.

The key is to pick the appropriate podcast that is sufficiently dull enough.

I love hardcore history for this. Dull isn't the right word because it is interesting - you'd have to listen to it to understand though.