skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want to speculate, how about the possibility of uploading people's mind to a robot? Let's say that we are able to send outer space a bunch of self replicating robots (they can travel to various planets and build a copy of themselves using the raw materials they can find there). After some time, we have lots of robots at many points in space, then you make a copy of your mind and send it at the speed of light to those robots. Because of the self replicating nature of the thing, we can have lots of robots so anybody who wants to can upload his/her mind to one of them. That way we have a non risky an relatively cheap way to explore the galaxy - it would just take couple of thousands of years to have everything set up.
Yikes. Seems like they are trying to "game" benchmarks.
A bit like rubber duck debugging.
Seems like credit card records were compromised as well. Harder to fake a name with those (though someone could've used a prepaid Visa card or the like).
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[off-topic] As a Chinese, I do know what Weiqi (围棋,圍棋) is. I was surprised to see the English name of Weiqi is Go. (When I saw Go in this post, I thought it's Golang.)
> it's not a waste of money because it'll be spent on employing people, building things, developing technology, etc.

The same can be said about digging holes and filling them afterwards.
This looks more like a transfer of credits, not of the actual power.
If an attacker can get access to your (encrypted) private key file, you have other things to worry about. And the passphrase doesn't help against memory-based attacks (e.g. Heartbleed) anyway.

A passphrase is mostly a hassle; someone will have to enter it after maintenance or (worse) a power outage.
That is exactly the kind of overconfidence that should NOT be eliminated. Going ahead when the odds are against you is the pioneering way. The odds were against my startup then, and they still are now. But if I'd believed them, I wouldn't be where I am today.
I'd have thought a credit card (i.e. old-school payments processing) company would be the more likely suitor than a bank. After all, Visa and Mastercard were IPO'd off by the banks that used to own them.
Any insight on what techniques it uses?
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Yeah but you can always repeatedly (z)ap it when it's out of charges to wrest one last charge.
Even if they were, that would be ok. Confirmation of other intelligent life through received communication, would be a really big deal. It would likely spur a large increase in investment into science, technology in general and space technology in particular.
Probably because your site crashes on any search term.

http://i.imgur.com/wV8Tjep.png
If the default audio setups of several different distributions fail to work, that's unfortunate. In my case, Dell's preinstalled Ubuntu had working audio, and when I replaced that with a custom NixOS installation, all I had to do was enable PulseAudio with a oneliner. Is your audio hardware supported by the Linux kernel?

Hardware companies keep specs secret and sabotage the development of free software drivers. That's feasible because they only need to collaborate with Microsoft and Apple to support a big market share. If consumers don't care, then apparently this is what happens. But it's not just a question of the competence of free software developers.
Beautiful work, HTML has come a long way.
Yes. And please - if you feel like reinventing the dropdown be decent enough to re-implement that feature.
Example of an offender: https://www.google.com/advanced_search
"A gun is a tool for killing. Unless it is used incorrectly, it always destroys or hurts or kills."

Sorry, that's wrong to the point of absurdity. None of the guns I've owned have ever killed or hurt anyone, and I'm pretty sure I've always used them correctly.

"The U.S.' obsession with firearms is utterly beyond me"

The European obsession with government control is utterly beyond me. Governments with too much power have killed far more people than privately owned firearms ever have.

"(I am from Germany)."
Fair warning: Firefox specifically won't accept a certificate for an IP address at all ever. It will treat the "domain" like it is mismatching the CN even when they're identical.

It will work fine for self-signed otherwise, you just have to install the root CA into the Firefox trusted store (it doesn't share the operating system's store like other browsers do).

There are a few bugs open about the issue, but they often date back over five years so don't expect this to get fixed. They claim it is a security "feature."
I don't think it's principally processor bound. I think that the "intelligence" of a market is more in aggregating information than in running a complex algorithm. We probably have the computation resources to replace a market economy, but we have no way that I can see to get all the information needed into the computer.
Works fine for me (win 8, 6 gigs ram, chrome)
It's important to note that they've been printing it and paying banks not to give it to consumers. Back at the start of the crisis inflation had nosedived but the most recent inflation number the Fed had still showed high inflation. They knew that they were going to have to print lots of money to support the banks so they embarked on the unprecedented Interest On Reserves program to counteract the expansionary effects. That change in the rules of the game is probably a good part of why the Fed's models were so badly off during the crisis.
Firefox on Android has it as well: Settings -> Display -> Always enable zoom.
Very interesting, although I can't really imagine the amount of ambiguity, especially when discussing sensitive topics, would be a good thing.
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Haha, my Google API exceeded the quota - currently waiting for it to be re-enabled.
If congestion were the real issue, people would be talking about imposing congestion pricing rather than limiting Uber. It's a far more direct solution.
I'm tired of SemVer. This looks way better
This isn't really feasible using current technology, at least not if you care about player experience. Input lag is killer, and users are far less forgiving of it than with something like netflix, where lag between the server sending data and the client receiving data is fine (Keep in mind that most pixels change most frames in a first-person 3d game, so it doesn't compress all that well either). Even a couple frames of lag is noticeable at 30fps, and isn't really something players forgive. Not to mention, players tend to expect 60fps now...

There's also not really a lot of benefit to doing something like this. Maybe you run better on computers that have worse graphics cards (and I don't actually think you will), but you'll run worse on computers with worse internet connections. You also are now spending a lot more on servers because every player needs a nontrivial portion of a server machine.
Sites distributing images of child sexual abuse often have similar lists of subscribers and their credit card details.

Very many people use their real details on those sites, even though the penalties of getting caught are much more severe.

The best example of this is Operation Ore - a site was taken down by law enforcement and many thousands of people were investigated and found to have images of child sexual abuse. The investigation was made easier because so many people used their real names and linked that to their everyday credit card, allowing easy linking to their current address.

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

One notable result was that Pete Townshed (of The Who) was found to have paid for access to images of child sexual abuse.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/music-news/9572773/...
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"Do we therefore stop taking a census?"

No, but maybe we should stop asking people questions about their ethnicity. The census was intended to apportion legislative seats. Nothing else. There's no reason or constitutional justification for any of the other questions that they ask.
That's actually exactly my philosophy [1]. I agree with each of your examples (water on mars, photos of Pluto, early-universe cosmology). Nonetheless, the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence is in a completely different league. The random guys on the street will not only care about this tremendously, he will care for the same correct reasons that scientists care.

[1] Minus the part about it being a waste of taxes; just because people aren't interested doesn't mean it's not worthwhile, because people can be wrong.
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It queries the user's topic in Google, throws out generic or blocked words, sorts by interestingness, and recursively repeats the same operation.
By the time Voyager reaches another star we'll have advanced sufficiently to have beat it there.
Building seawalls for the upcoming sea level rise.
I think (though not from first-hand experience) there may be
some ugliness in keeping large binary data in git ?

If the data is reasonably small, then I would pick S3 (or
some other redundant cloud object-storage) as an easy and
disaster-proof solution.

If it gets big, then access bandwidth and latency and cost
may all be a problem. Maybe a master copy in S3, and a
copy on hard disk of some machine near the benchmark
system ?
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Whole new level of 'stop liking what I like!'?

Also 'hacker' should have released everything and sent links to the media. That would close the site for sure. And would generate quite a few lawsuits from exposed people. And who knows maybe some more regulations privacy-wise would pop up.

Yet another episode of self-righteous attention seeking.
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Thanks... I exceeded Google's API quota. Fixed.
Apparently, there is data from all around the world. I hope it's realized that some countries punish cheating by corporal punishment or worse. If the data is published, I hope the data of users from those countries are removed.
> Imagine all the countless hour of pointless human labor that could be saved if we simply abolished patents.

For example, all the time that pharmaceutical companies "waste" developing new drugs would be saved!
Yes, but this doesn't let your mobile phone's radio sleep and eats excessive battery.
> Why would it be hard to determine that we're intelligent?

Underwater sounds can come from a wide range of sources, including tectonics, natural events and animals. Those did not create some sort of apparatus. Yet, they can have a similar signature.

It is not even a hypothetical situation. A SETI lab spent a lot of time trying to figure out what a particular signature that their telescope picked up was, only to discover it was caused by their microwave oven: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/seti-the-hunt-for-....
I wonder if anyone's ported Vulture's Eye to asm.js...

(yeah, I know it's 2D isometric and not real 3D, but it's still pretty, and it's still a fully-functioning roguelike)
It is actually far more likely than an alien civilization would detect our radio and tv broadcast signals than our space probes. Those broadcast signals have been sent out in all directions from earth pretty much continously for almost a century now, and they travel at light speed, so they cover alot more distance much faster.
Fortunately, real world does not run on boolean logic. "X, who is an authority on the topic says Y" does not prove Y is true, but provides evidence in favour of Y being true.
No, but if you're a brand marketer, you need to be able to perform demand planning. If $(ad spend) > (impressions) * (conversion rate) * (price) then you do it. You can't get around counting impressions. But it's not important that impressions are accurate; just that they behave roughly like they have in the past.

What the article is saying is that there's an upper limit on the amount of fraud that can be perpetrated without showing up in other metrics, and at current prices, brand marketers just don't care. Because brand marketers don't care about impressions; they care about P&L at the brand level. If a banner ad campaign drives top line brand revenue, that's all they need it to do.
There's a subtle difference measuring who saw a road billboard and a website banner. On the former you must spend your own resources, on the later it's paid from your visitors' wallet (internet connection + power + cpu time)
People who are serious about their security run something like Debian and only install from the official repositories, where all packages are signed with GPG and all package maintainers must be part of the web of trust (i.e. have had their identity vouched for by at least one other Debian maintainer).

Of course you have to make sure the original install is trustworthy; all you can really do for that is compare the .iso checksum on several different machines. If all those machines are compromised (or there's a hardware-level compromise of your machine) then you're doomed, but that at least makes attacking a lot more costly than it would otherwise be.
We could send a lot more data over that same distance if New Horizons had a large power supply. It was just limited by the plutonium supply available at launch.
So Jet is a very risky bet. And partly backed by Norwest Venture Partners. Which is in turn owned by Wells Fargo. Who is apparently violating the spirit of the Volcker Rule, if not the letter.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/21/us-wellsfargo-priv...

Remember this at the next bailout.
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> the upgrade is free for a year, but then Microsoft will charge for it

What they will charge for after a year is upgrading PCs which have not been upgraded by then. They have repeatedly stated that they will not start charging for support after the first year. See e.g. [1][2][3].

[1] http://www.pcworld.com/article/2926086/future-windows-10-upg...

[2] http://fossbytes.com/no-yearly-fee-for-windows-10-support-af...

[3] http://cdanews.com/2015/07/microsoft-windows-10-really-free/
I read this interesting story once before and still don't understand why the author insists on typecasting Mel as a "Real Programmer".

It sounds to me like he should have been writing optimizing assemblers instead of wasting his talents doing one-off blackjack programs.

Additionally, Real Programmers write comprehensible code.
That assumes that alternative tools like Quantitative Easing are not available. Central banks don't like to engage in Quantitative Easing because it hasn't been done very often and central bank models of it aren't very precise but it has certainly had an effect when tried.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_easing
One of my favorite topics is the Fermi Paradox and consequently the Great Filter (which someone already discussed).

One of my favorite explanations is that there are other ET out there but they are two engrossed with their own entertainment to "give a fuck" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox#They_tend_to_iso...). I find it amusing and ironic while also seriously consider it a possibility.

From wikipedia:

It may also be that intelligent alien life develop an "increasing disinterest" in their outside world.[71] Possibly any sufficiently advanced society will develop highly engaging media and entertainment well before the capacity for advanced space travel, and that the rate of appeal of these social contrivances is destined, because of their inherent reduced complexity, to overtake any desire for complex, expensive endeavors such as space exploration and communication. Once any sufficiently advanced civilization becomes able to master its environment, and most of its physical needs are met through technology, various "social and entertainment technologies", including virtual reality, are postulated to become the primary drivers and motivations of that civilization.[72]

aka Star Trek holodeck.... the best drug in the future.
These spice mixtures sound an awful lot like recipes, rather than inventions, and recipes should already be unpatentable (in the US, anyway). I suppose there must be some technical, legal distinction between a recipe and an invention, which Colgate has latched onto here.
I would venture to say that most educated people allow for a pretty high probability that life exists on other planets in the Universe, given the sheer scale of the place.

In fact, a much harder task would be to prove that life absolutely doesn't exist anywhere else in the Universe.

So we instinctively believe, but we still want proof. So would the SETI thing provide that definite proof ?

In many ways this is similar to 'does life exist after death'. Either way you stand, it's impossible to absolutely prove it, but some day everyone will definetely find out ;).
And you think deep learning isn't physics? How much RG did you study in grad school?

More importantly, many "fundamental" questions about mathematical physics will soon get to be resolved through tabletop type experiments. AdS/CFT type methods led to the first analytical proof of Bethe ansatz results I've ever seen that made me sit up and take notice of that field (BA, not AdS/CFT).

It disappoints me that on pressing issues of our time like climate change, APS can't seem to get its shit together and take a stand. This may be a symptom of what you are saying, the best and the brightest are going to the fields you describe and taking the power and the klieg lights with them.

PS: And where the dickens do you think belief propagation came from - I certainly first heard about it from statistical physicists. To treat deep learning in a divorced manner as you are is like saying oh, I'm too lazy to learn how the foundations of my house are mortared, I just want to rearrange the furniture in the solarium.
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This is an excellent article, with a thoughtful approach and helpful links for further research. It has put words to an expectation I have of all web content - clear, non-demanding information.
I agree, I find passwords on certificates useful in some circumstances and bothersome in others.

I think putting a password on a root CA certificate is just a bother without any REAL security advantages. First off you'll need to enter it on every restart, secondary the raw private key will need to be in memory after that (which is trivial to extract), and lastly if the machine is completely owned anyway, this seems like "rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic."

Now putting a password on your SSH keys? Heck yeah. Otherwise if you forget to lock your machine just once, someone can sit down, open your SSH client of choice and have access to a remote session as "you" without the need for a single password. It might not be unbreakable but it is a nice extra layer of security that buys you time if your laptop gets stolen or similar.
English is not my first language, but I kinda read the OP's post as "Guys, we should throw some money in investigating some natural remedies, using the scientific method and stripping them of bullshit, to see what works, why and how"
> Removing all overconfidence would be the end of the human race.

Exactly. Vasco da Gama needed a lot of over-confidence to sail all the to India, from Europe, in something like this: https://www.google.com/search?q=Vasco+da+Gama+ship&biw=1920&.... And there are countless examples like this one, which, on the whole, I think benefited us as a species.
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It's not the content of the link but the title. nazri1 chose the title "File descriptor table isn't ..." based on the first line of the response.

But that knowledge is introductory material, rather like saying that "function calls use a stack" or "ASCII is a character encoding" or "Javascript expressions use operator precedence". (If I had a list of links I've flagged I could give some real examples.)

The guidelines suggest 'please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait'. The original title is indeed misleading. But so is this title. Did you find the article interesting because you thought the file descriptor table in Linux is global?

I originally went to the page, went to the where the question was asked, saw that the person didn't known even the basics, so understood why the page was structured as a tutorial type response. I figured that the HN submitter was equally inexperienced, so gave a poor title on the assumption that most HN readers would also be surprised to know that the file descriptor table in Unix not global. Which makes no sense, and isn't the type of title I think is relevant, so the guidelines suggest to flag and move on. And yes, submitters sometimes do exactly that.

Yes, I could have researched it even further to suggest that "how the unix process model works" might be a better title. But how much responsibility is there on me to infer that submitter's intent is different than that suggested by the title? If it helps any, I have unflagged the link.

BTW, I also flag linkbait titles without even reading the content to see if it's actually interesting or relevant to HN.
It's not a misspelling: the Hindi word is dalchini, and the Bengali word is darchini.
But underconfidence is a weaker problem, in that it only effects efficiency. Maybe you won't talk to that girl, get that raise or close that deal. But you will not find yourself in a situation of no return.

The trick would be to be overconfident in situations where failure doesn't matter (or is even beneficial) and be underconfident in all other matters. Unfortunately it's usually either one for all situations.
Good point. But, a crash will lower the historical experience thus lowering future expectations for market yields. For pensions that need to hit a defined amount in the future, this means that have to come up with more capital in the present to hit the future target.
Yes, lunix is soviet hacking tool, along with "Comet Cursor", "Bonzi Buddy" and "Flash".

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I do a lot of responsive design, and I turn zooming off So I CAN give you a proper responsive design that you can read and interact with on a small touchscreen.

Why on earth would you prefer to pan around a desktop site designed for a big screen with a tiny cursor when you've got a tiny screen and a massive cursor (fingertip)?
The advantage of dropdowns is their integration in the browser UI - which means stuff like VoiceOver works just fine.
Not exactly, more that they left around credit card/purchase info. From Krebs On Security:

> According to the hackers, although the “full delete” feature that Ashley Madison advertises promises “removal of site usage history and personally identifiable information from the site,” users’ purchase details — including real name and address — aren’t actually scrubbed.

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/07/online-cheating-site-ashl...
The fact that you make several valid points doesn't mean keys shouldn't default to having passphrases.

Yes, there are attack vectors which having a passphrase doesn't protect against.

Yes, passphrases require additional considerations when starting services.

No, this doesn't mean they're "mostly a hassle".

No, you probably shouldn't default to passphraseless keys.
Ask HN: Which analytics to track usage of your SaaS/Platform?
Is there any tool out there to track the usage (funnels, interaction, events, dropoffs, cohort, etc) that is specifically engineered towards a SaaS product and not any website?