skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's odd to see the Netherlands referred to as previously being privacy conscious.

Back in the mid 2000's I recall looking in the CIA Factbook and noting that the Netherlands intercepted more telephone calls and did more internet monitoring than just about any other country, per capita (of course "Fact" was used rather loosely in the title of that book).

Hackers in the Netherlands were introducing regular pulses into their daily internet activity and then using Fourier analysis to detect this signal in the server load of apparently well known Government buildings, believed to belong to the Dutch secret service (to what extent these rumours were true, I can't say -- I wasn't involved).

For historical reasons, the Dutch people also developed a habit of "spying" on neighbours to "make sure they were ok". This is still included in some guides for foreigners living in the Netherlands, so they don't become concerned when their neighbours begin looking in their windows.

In my stay in the Nethelands, I however learned that just about every spy agency in Europe was spying on just about everyone else in Europe. So it became clear in the end that the Dutch weren't necessarily any worse at it than everyone else. Of course, that threat seems to be greater in larger states with bigger economies. If you live anywhere else, you at least know everyone else is probably spying on you, even if your own Government is not.
It could also just be their resources were insufficient and they plateaued or fizzled out before escaping their own planet was possible.

Or that the distances and difficulty of transporting anything very large or complex between star systems turns out to be just too great of an engineering problem for any life form. The energy required to move a life-sustaining amount of mass between stars is mind-boggling huge and beyond our own technological capabilities for the foreseeable future ( we only anticipate interstellar life is a possibility by assuming our technological growth curve will continue unimpeded and then guessing there's life out there further along tha us, which may not be accurate or possible).

Or that they are indeed spreading but doing it in a way undetectable to our technologies we're looking with and we just didn't come up lucky enough to be directly contacted by them in their spread (yet?).

Or maybe they developed a Matrix-like utopia, a self-maintaining and long lasting support system and stopped outward appearing progress?

Or going in another direction, perhaps we really are inside a simulation and $life_bearing_planet is set to 1.

The hypotheticals are nearly endless and not necessarily due to overtly negative outcomes.
I was insinuating that airports in those countries might be tragic and dangerous.
I'm tending to keep all of my originals in case I ever want to flip through the full set, but I've been tagging a smaller portion into either a "good photography" or "good family/etc memory" categories. Then I can easily filter down to a smaller set of photos.

Then again, I haven't been taking a huge amount of photos lately. If I ramp it back up, maybe I'll need to reconsider.
Thanks for the info. I still think it's interesting, given how popular / famous Tolstoy is, and I'll probably read some of his stuff just to be able to talk about it.

But yeah, I do find it most inspiring reading people whose lives actually _do_ reflect these truths in obvious ways.
> If your using a Linux distro

Most people aren't. I think most people haven't installed on OS at all for that matter.
I think there is a theory that we can travel nearly the speed of light , but yeah even then we are a millennia away :(
Good job. I have an idea that might benefit Compose now. Research projects I've read on in IBM said that IBM allowed the internal use of any of its software tools for free. They have a lot of really good ones that you'd normally pay large sums for. I'm not sure if this policy (a) still exists or (b) applies to companies they acquire. However, if I was Compose, I would ask about it because IBM's tools & tech could greatly aid Compose in developing their stuff faster, more robustly, etc.

Plus, I'm sure other startups might want to know whether this benefit exists or not. Might even factor into a decision of whether a company wants to be acquired by IBM vs another company. A 100+ free (or cheap) software products would really really sweeten the deal to me if I was to continue working at the company post-acquisition. Especially those delightful, bug-hunting and productivity-boosting products. :)

Anyone on the inside know the answers to any of this?
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> it is one of my fondest wishes for a large company like Google to come up with a medical expert system that can solve even half of the "take two pills and come back in two days" consultation that currently cost me $50.

AFAIK, this is not a technical problem; such solutions have existed for quite a while. Drug control laws, laws governing scope of practice of various classes of health care providers, and insurance rules all require that, even if your diagnosis and recommended treatment come out of such a system, its done under the authority of a provider with a particular kind of license with a particular degree of contact.
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It's not just BBC journalists. I think they learned the technique from HN.
I can understand the disappointment. It's helpful to always keep in mind that when it comes to discoveries, it's easy to hype ourselves up excessively. Recognize that the PR arms of scientific organizations and universities are also somewhat responsible.

I find it helpful to remember that any Big Announcement like definite signs of life or advanced alien civilizations or asteroids hurtling toward Earth wouldn't be in such a small-scale announcement. You'd have the President appearing on TV or something.
Well, apparently we will all at some point :-)
This seems like a nice idea but all the results seem to be pretty much indistinguishable from noise. Nearly every show I tried returns the same genres and keywords (and I think it's reasonable to say that Frasier is NOT a crime show in space.)

If this is just counting the frequency of individual words, perhaps that's too simplistic an approach.
That's not a good reason to keep wages so low, though.

That said, the sooner we can automate away jobs like these and move to a basic income, the better.
Same offer for you! I'm happy to talk over email. I'm sad you're migrating away.
Fun fact: code within a class definition is always strict mode code. Indeed, so is anything within a module.
A much better telescope
I recently bought a new one myself after the plastic wrapping broke, leaving the wire exposed. On the new one, I wrapped a few of those bendy, fuzzy pipe cleaners that people use for crafts around the spot where the plastic typically breaks, in hopes of strengthening it. Hopefully, I'll get some extra life out of this one.
Interstellar travel is perfectly possible if you're not in a hurry.

Assuming there's no way to sidestep GR, the real problem is the human lifespan (and attention span.)

If our culture moved at 0.1% of the current rate and we lived a thousand times as long, a 1400 year round trip wouldn't be problematic.

It's possible to imagine low-energy lifeforms that move that slowly. But they wouldn't be looking for Earth-like planets to colonise - they'd be looking for much colder and more stable locations.

And we wouldn't be looking for the right spectroscopic signals to give them away, because we don't know what they are.
We have also upped our standards, and require safer buildings, less chance of fire, and in the event of a fire, less deaths. This is a good thing.
> Where on earth do normal people store that much data?

They don't.

Normal people realize that keeping that many photos is a negative value proposition; it's a burden rather than an asset. Rather than trying to hold on to everything, they choose what is actually worth revisiting. This could mean they're a little more selective with the shutter, or they only keep the photos they like.

By all means, keep everything if you want to, but I find it troublesome that storage is considered the problem, rather than making no attempt to cull images. Clearly a great deal of effort has gone into these images to make his various travelogues, so the effort to see which ones make the cut has been done already.

That said, it doesn't seem like a NAS was even needed here. Any reasonable PC MoBo is going to have 6 SATA ports, so you can quite easily make a 4 drive RAID 5. Personally, I just RAID 1 a couple 3TB drives and call it good.
As an added note, $9 per server doesn't seem excessive when I think of our large bare metal servers, but it starts looking _really_ pricy if I look at our $50/mo m3.mediums in AWS.
While Uber and AirBnB were able to get VC backing for business models that deliberately disregarded key regulations in their field, neither short-term occupancy laws nor taxi regulations are enforced with the same kind of, well, robust methods by authorities as laws governing the practice of medicine and, particularly, the dispensing of controlled substances.

Disrupting that is likely to take political capital, and application of that political capital at an earlier stage of the process than what AirBnB and Uber have done in their fields, or its going to involve a lot of risk for participants and investors, and not just the kind of limited-downside financial risks that investing in a corporation, startup or otherwise, usually involves.
I'm married. I don't have/follow any religion.

As the sibling stated, this is mostly for law (and therefor state?) related purposes. Taxes. Shared custody. Being able to inquire about my wife's medical situation, should she end up in hospital. Inheritance. Shared property ownership.

Religion is an entirely unrelated, orthogonal (and private, i.e. I agree that the state should have no say here) concept.
> The fabric ribbons are fitted with a retroreflective strip for homing. This gives us one absolute starting point on each pixel and then each color is just at a fixed ustep offset from zero.

If you had a reflective strip between each color—and just counted the strips to determine current color—wouldn't that have kept it in continuous calibration? Then you wouldn't even need a stepper motor, you could use a plain DC motor, since you wouldn't be using the step count to determine position anymore.

(I haven't used that setup for a real project, but I intend to since it seems it would be cheaper and easier, and I was wondering if you considered something like that but dismissed it.)

Also, if you don't mind sharing: what IR sensor did you use?
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That's one of my favorite things about Microsoft. Whenever they release a framework or a product, there's a tendency to just call it whatever the name of the technology is as if they invented the whole thing.

SQL Server - When .NET developers say SQL they mean SQL Server 90% of the time it seems.

MVC - MVC4 is a .NET Rails clone. Named MVC as if Microsoft originated the design pattern that was used to clone another framework.

It cracks me up every time. :-)
Thanks for your input.

While working on signal processing and some graph data structures, I was looking for a simple code snippet to add in my code and be able to quickly visualise the data in my web browser. I was tempted to implement it myself a bunch of times, but I never got the time to actually do it.

What I ended up doing is dumping my data points into a CSV files and use excel, which was really bad if I had more than 50k data points (I am on running Mac OS X).
Periscope is amazing btw.
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As a counter point, it's always possible that a civilization that developed past where we are now would have been masterful at space travel, but not advanced enough to completely figure out a 1400 light year long journey. We're still having hard times figuring how to get squishy meat sacks to Mars without being irradiated to death or creating a launch vehicle made of lead. Besides the engineering problems there's the social cost of a venture like that. Unless their societies would be structured in a wholly different way (which is likely) then there is significant political and social momentum that would need to go behind a project like a mission where the minimum acknowledgement time of success is 2800 years away. There's plenty of time to go extinct or make yourself die off.
That's certainly a new approach for Microsoft. They have a long history of writing things that are clearly inspired by open source projects, but failing to mention the inspiration:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppFabric_Caching vs memcached

* https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa9... vs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futex

* https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb9... vs rsync
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So the root issue here is that postgres is using a 32-bit transaction ID?
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Depends greatly on the context. Selling exploits definitely isn't "straight up illegal". Selling vulns much less so.
Between uncompressed and 320? Maybe not. Between 320 and 128? Yes absolutely.
If you're willing to pay for Amazon Prime, you get unlimited cloud storage for all your photos. RAW included. The only method to upload/download is via the clunky web UI, but if reliable storage is what you're after, it's a pretty hard bargain.
Perhaps they were wiped out by a virulent disease contracted from an unexpectedly dirty telephone?
Context is important, and the word "merely" can be interpreted in multiple ways. In the first case in this thread, I understood "merely mechanical" to mean "only mechanical," i.e containing nothing that is not mechanical. Using that definition, then humans are merely animals, because they're not something that's not an animal. Books are a bad example, because they do have things other than paper (like ink, glue, maybe a plastic or leather cover).

You seem to be using "merely" to mean "nothing more specific than," which is a very different meaning that would not be appropriate when talking about things which are subsets of other things.
For exploratory data visualization I can recommend Matplotlib:

http://matplotlib.org/

It's flexible, easy to use and can -with some tweaking- produce publication-quality output. It supports a wide range of backends such as PDF, SVG, PNG and a range of GUIs like Qt, so it is easy to use both for static and interactive graphs. More importantly, it plays nicely with the IPython notebook (http://ipython.org/notebook.html) and with libraries such as numpy, pandas and scikit-learn. The last point is very important because when visualizing data half of the problem is getting the data in shape, and Python offers some excellent tools for this (much better than what you would get in Javascript).

The choice of the right tool depends of course on where you want to show your plots and what kind of plots you want to generate. If you intend showing your visualizations in a web browser then D3 or a similar JS library would probably be a good choice (also have a look at Bokeh, which is becoming a very good alternative to Matplotlib). For iPhone applications there are probably native toolkits to do this, but unfortunately I have no experience there and cannot make any recommendations.

Concerning the scalability of your visualizations: To my knowledge there are not many tools that can handle more than a few 10.000 data points without becoming slow. So you will probably always have to reduce the number of data points before plotting them. In any case, showing all of your data points without prior aggregation will probably not be a good idea in most cases, performance aside. If you really need to work with a massive amounts of data points have a look at Processing, which to my understanding can handle pretty large data sets (but is not a data visualization toolkit per se). OpenGL-based approaches can also be interesting for visualizing large amounts of data points, especially but not only in 3D.

Concerning your examples:

- Gephi is a nice tool for visualizing graphs (http://gephi.github.io/), but a bit clunky to use at time.

- R has the excellent GGPlot module that can work with pretty large data sets and has specialized graphs for e.g. time series data.
I wrote about this at length:

http://jacquesmattheij.com/wholesale-privacy-violations-in-t...

We're definitely not doing well at all on this front and it is getting worse rather than better.
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The problem isn't just sending something (or someone) to another star (though it would take far longer than 1400 years with any currently plausible technology and energy expenditure). It's sending something accurately to another star (can't use too much energy adjusting course, since fractional additions to weight require tremendously more power) with a payload that's still operational by the time it gets there. Think about the myriad problems NASA probes have after just a relative handful of years or so in space.

Also worth noting is that all deep space missions thus far have had to rely on nuclear power, usually using 238-Pu with a half life of less than 90 years. With such technology, a well-shielded, self-correcting computer system traveling at reasonable speeds and energies could not survive too long because it would simply run out of power. AFAIK, workarounds for this rely on exotic power sources and unproven physics--it's entirely possible that these don't pan out, and this provides our "Great Filter."
I largely agree with you, but non-technical users have had the frequent experience of "I updated X and then X, Y, or Z broke." Sometimes they even have the causational arrow correct, too. Yesterday they had no problem with Word or hackers. Today, Word doesn't work, to protect them from hackers. "Thanks, geeks."

Or consider how non-technical users can come to associate installs/updates with Arbitrary Negative Consequences even without that being a reflection of reality.

Bingo Card Creator, back when it was downloadable, was accused of killing multiple hard drives every year. You and I know that is preposterous, but all the user knows is that the last consequential thing they did with their computer was install the update and now their machine is bricked.

(The user does not appreciate that the MTBF of laptop hard drives among BCC users is approximately 18 months and that since we'd accordingly be the last thing someone did before data loss at least once a day.)

At least one of these users contacted their IT department, whereupon they were warned in the sternest possible terms to never ever ever ever download anything from the Googles because that could erase all their memory and give their hard drive a virus. A lifetime of learned (and taught) helplessness like that adds up.
I believe contract law doesn't require signed physical paper to have an agreement be legally binding (it just makes it easier to litigate disagreements on either side).
You should have posted this to OP. I am defending tptacek.
Why should your business invest in deep learning?
I wasn't considering anything, let alone 'making an argument'. Anyone who listens to non-specialists like me to determine security strategy is asking for trouble.

I also wasn't making any comment about 'banking on difficulty of exploit', what I was asking for was relative risk. I think that all code is exploitable. The question I had was, is the exploitation of a particular UAF bug sufficiently easy that it outweighs the base risk of a new exploit being found. If I have finite resources, understanding where to apply them to improve risk is important.

The other responses have answered my question in some detail.
It's not and is actually misleading as people who do not already know this are not gaining any concrete information, just an anecdote.
This seems misleading. Good security jerks know that there isn't a rule that works for everything. This list might be a little misleading to the non-security jerks.

For example, 'software updates' are half the battle, but the other half of the battle is configuring your software to be more secure (browser sandboxing, NoScript, pop-up blockers, malware detectors, OS hardening).

All the rest of the security concerns are authentication-based, but there are very few accounts that are important enough to need a secure account. Banks and money transfer services, business accounts (taxes, professional services, ebay/etsy merchants, etc), followed e-mail accounts, are probably the only really critical accounts most people have. You can hack my Facebook or my Huffington Post account; it doesn't really threaten my safety.

I think the one thing nobody does that would actually matter to them eventually is keep offline backups. Facebook might lose all your pictures and FB messages tomorrow. They have zero responsibility to keep that crap for you. If you do get hacked and someone deletes all your pictures, don't go crying to Facebook; they have enough problems.

At the end of the day, the biggest threat to your online safety in general is malware. Once malware is on your device it's game over.
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Finland, at least for now, doesn't allow mass collecting of data. There is no foreign intelligence either (except of course military sigint along the border). Finland isn't part of any military alliances, so there is no sharing of intelligence with allies.

These might of course change in the future. Since the Snowden leaks, there has been lobbying to give the military and Supo ("protection police", roughly the Finnish NSA, but police rather than civilian) the right to spy abroad and mass collect data. The Ministry of Transport and Communications is opposing the mass collecting part, but everyone else seems to be supporting it.

Some of the media and politicians are constantly trying to convince people that we have to join NATO ("The European Defensive Alliance" as they like to brand it), but I doubt that is going to happen any time soon.

Of course most data traveling to/from Finland passes through Sweden, which shamelessly spies on it.
Thank you, exactly what I needed to understand.
I love conspiracy theorists that see anything marked New World, and then immediately start in on how the new world order wants to kill/chip all of us. As if the existence of an elite group of puppet masters is just an established fact, and it's just the end result that the group wants that is up for debate.

Delusions are terrifying.
IMHO, ggplot2 is the best graphing library I have ever encountered. Because it works naturally with data, it's very easy to create great visualizations.
A lot of press is singling out CRISPR as the game changer for Bio industry as a whole.

Is it particularly useful at Ginkgo, and how is it being used / what problem is it solving?
I'm not sure this is correct. According to one source[1],

"The name of a newly discovered exoplanet is dependant on the name of the star which it orbits and also if any other exoplanets orbiting the same host star have been discovered. The first exoplanet discovered around a star is given its host star name with ‘b’ appended. The next exoplanet discovered in the same system gets the letter ‘c’ appended and so on. Planets in multiple planet systems are always labelled b, c, d… in the order of discovery."

It's not clear to me why they would begin with 'b' instead of 'a', but basing the order of names on the order of discovery makes intuitive sense. The largest planets would presumably be discovered first, even though they may be in the middle zone of their systems (such as in the Solar System).

EDIT: Kepler-26[2] is an example of the named order not matching the distance from the star. The planets in that system, in order of distance from their star, are: d, b, c, e

[1] https://www.paulanthonywilson.com/blog/how-are-exoplanets-na...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler-26