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The global purl resolver for persistent URLs is throwing 500s this morning.

All pURLs are down. Internet meta just broke entirely unless you run your own purl resolver and change all the URLs.

http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/description

What is a pURL? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent_uniform_resource_lo...

It's an alternative to using DNS, essentially, woven into the XML standards among other things.

highly recommend this as well.

Notes from Fr. Foster's course (First and Third experience only, because the second was an immersion speaking experience I believe)

have for some time been available at this site:

http://frcoulter.com/latin/

Words matter and so do PsyOps and confirmation bias. Companies are savvy at marketing so they should tailor their apologies to trigger good will confirmation bias in their customers. Actually, according to pre-suasion, they should stage false flag events so help the public pick the right confirmation bias the second time.

Does anyone really believe in 'lone typists' when we live in a world where #Vault7 is likely on #S3?

Personally, I think we should all grow up and doubt all news accounts and company PR from any source, until cui bono and Analysis of Competing Hypotheses (ACH) in the Critical Thinking process they use in the IC and LE communities has been thoroughly engaged. Especially if the company has a contract for #SpookCloud.

We are all intelligence analysts now.

I agree testing and automation are good. I think they need to go beyond this to formal verification, for something on this scale and reliability. NASA doesn't make these sorts of mistakes.

By the way - this is not just Amazon's problem now. We know the internet has a single point of failure. So does a lot of IoT.

When will we experience the first Suicide DevOps?

as long as you are going to experiment, why not use a smart contract to implement your license? If someone meets your reserve price, it goes open source earlier. You can have a salvage value close 3 years in the future if the terms of the Code Tontine are not met.

True. I think Kurt Vonnegut had a short story that dealt with that aspect of the plan. A search for "Handicapper General" should dredge it up.

Isn't that what rot13 is for? A think a special compiler switch, along the lines of -Drot13, would work just fine for people who have special needs like that.

Yes, one of life's harsher lessons is just how vicious Unitarians can be.

That's true now but not in all historical periods. In the original system, m. was an abbreviation for mille, and not a composable component of the numeral at all. In effect, it served as a comma does in English text today, to separate the thousands from the units -- both of which were encoded using the composable letter system we are now familiar with.

Later, of course, people assimilated the operation of the M to the other letters, esp. on the dates of printed books. However, if we are discussing manuscript practice in the 15th century, the medieval approach and not the modern approach to Roman numerals would likely be in play...

In any event, using mm. to represent mille mille (a thousand thousand, a million in modern parlance) would create no cognitive dissonance as it does today.

Who will guard the people themselves?

every social community I've seen eventually has to give up the downvote as a tool and just have upvotes or likes, or else they peak when the downvoting gets out of hand. I think HNN passed that point about 1-2 years ago. I see more and more worthwhile comments greyed out and I'm sure good contributers who advocate unpopular languages or discount the latest hotness are now driven away.

That's good to hear and I see why those would be popular. I'm a bit surprised that a kanban board is so important.

I'll put in my vote for replacing Wekan with Jupyter -- it's more strategic to win mindshare outside the closed circle of developers. The average unsophisticated user who just wants apps, your target market, doesn't want their very own kanban board. A photo album yes. I speculate your early adopters are predominantly developers themsleves and that's why it's popular. It does fit my comment about private data being an important use case for you, of course.

Sharing homework assignments or spreadsheets of data would be more strategic for you, imho. It could help you break into the 'educational shared docs' submarket -- every school I know uses google docs right now for convenience. And don't forget homeschoolers, and teachers setting up courseware sites. I would think the educational market would be key for you to gain mindshare and grow beyond the community of early-adopter developers.

Anyway, best of luck. This is some really good work you are doing.

Almost certainly -- and therein lies a problem for you. There is an ambiguity between who owns the tab -- you or Jupyter app? The user of course will think of you and the app as the same thing. If you let Jupyter throw up a message saying 'you're disconnected' the user will infer that they are disconnected from you.

It's not clear the user is wrong btw -- why does a mis-behaving, buggy app, throw me into offline mode? Is it just Jupyter that is offline, or the whole of sandstorm? The message says the tab is. And I can still see components of sandstorm. Of course, I bet if switch to another app it will heal itself -- or will it? Most users won't think of that (or a refresh, or a CTRL+F5, or looking at the debug console for a hint etc.)

So my challenge to you is to explain how the offline/online model works, in a way the user can understand. I suppose big organizations like Google just solve this problem by not hosting buggy apps in the first place. :) :)

It is probably worth your while, from an adoption standpoint, to 'take ownership' of a few key apps and treat their bugs as your bugs -- I would be showing this to coworkers tomorrow if this had worked better, and it probably isn't your fault. They are keen on Jupyter and this is the best delivery platform I've seen for that app. Sharing jupyter notebooks in an enterprise setting could be your killer app -- they contain private data, and a public cloud won't work in many use cases, but most enterprises won't have enough of a constituency of scientists and engineers and statisticians to want to host a notebook server with 'front line' support. We're in the carpet cluster days here...

Not sure why this was downvoted. I'm professional QA and this was a very straight forward feedback review.

I saw this last night and signed up for oasis on my chromebook. I created a Jupyter notebook and entered an expression in it. Nice. Then I closed the lid to my chromebook for the evening.

Next morning I opened up the lid, and it helpfully told me it wasn't connected. I waited a bit longer and updated the expression. The cell text updated but after pressing 'play' the result value did not update, leaving my screen in an inconsistent, incorrect state (wrong value for displayed input to function). There was a little sign telling me I wasn't connected.

I had signed in originally with gmail. People are going to expect a similar interaction model to google docs. There was no obvious way to get back online, short of killing the tab... and getting back how? Remember a link? A bookmark?

This doesn't work yet -- not for most people.

Beautiful, beautiful job. Get the rest of the way there please...

The companies involved have specified a protocol for communicating your chosen password to them. Namely, the well known "spelling protocol" whereby you repeat your choice, letter by letter, to the other party. They have gone to some pains to enforce that protocol.

The article advocates breaking the bank's protocol for your own convenience because you supposedly know more than the other party. In general, in life, this is bad advice.

Please do not ask people to do things against the will of the other contracting party for their own convenience, without considering the risks of doing so.

Perhaps the companies involved have been told by their lawyers that choosing a password is a legal action, like an electronic signature, that must be performed by a human, letter by letter, to have certain legal ramifications.

It is only stupidity if you assume the only purpose of a password (or a physical key) is security, and not also authorized entry. It may still be a poor engineering solution to the requirement (because engineers were told the solution, to asked to meet the requirement). But it is wrong to assume there is no reason for the requirement.

You can't paste your legally binding electronic signature either, I'll warrant. I've had to type out my name plenty of times, in digital contracts, even though my browser is quite capable of auto-filling.

"r strategy privacy"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R/K_selection_theory

You might think so, but the Commerce clause has been interpreted to mean that raising food for your own consumption is restraint of trade between the several states:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn

"An Ohio farmer, Roscoe Filburn, was growing wheat for use to feed animals on his own farm. The U.S. government had established limits on wheat production based on acreage owned by a farmer, in order to stabilize wheat prices and supplies. In 1941 Filburn grew more than the limits permitted and he was ordered to pay a penalty of $117.11. "

After all, that food you raised for yourself prevented you from needing to buy food from another state, and so, well....

Discussions would be more focused if participants were aware of the AFC test -- Abstraction-Filtration-Comparison

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstraction-Filtration-Compari...

Will that test be applied here?

Does it need to be revised in light of deep learning?

One of the first American novels was about Timbuktu (though fictional, as novels often are)

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

It also has the interesting property that all the programs are quines except those that print themselves.

In other words, the programs are quines if and only if they aren't.

Androids dream of quined Anguish.

Or you could put the comments in the invisible fork and pass a Turing test.

'I passed the Turing test. No one believed me. Honest.'

passes Turing test by sounding like a petulant child

Thanks for this. I would have been happier if the authors had phrased their findings in term of differential privacy rather than the effectiveness of the algorithms they were able to achieve.

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

When setting policy, it is better to have theoretical mathematical results rather than empirical effectiveness, since you can bet the technological frontier of privacy violation is a moving one. As with cryptography, you want solid foundations in unbreakable maths -- not 'we can't break this cipher with what we know today'. Probably, someone can.

> I would be surprised if one in ten readers of HN thinks international free trade can hurt an economy: it's a nearly universally assumed good amongst the intelligentsia.

I'm not sure about the statistics of HN readers, however the arguments are more complicated now than when Krugman wrote the article in 1996. See Samuelson's 2004 criticism of free trade, revisiting his early positive results.

Samuelson, Paul A. (2004): Where Ricardo and Mill Rebut and Confirm Arguments of Mainstream Economists Against Globalization, in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, Volume 18, Number 3, pp. 161-180

cited in : http://www.dbresearch.com/PROD/DBR_INTERNET_EN-PROD/PROD0000...

Samuelson's paper was a big deal when it came out, even in the mainstream press.

The paper itself: https://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/SamuelsonJE...

Actually, back in the 80s, people normally wrote email of about that length, and since gaming was uncommon, had the leisure to read well-written prose from their peers.

Sometime around 2000, busy people started complaining about this practice, and old timers started to hold their tongues. I knew the era was over when my Millennial co-worker one cube away asked me to not interrupt him and IM him instead, since he had to take off his earphones. About the same time, my boss complained about how long my (senior engineer, explaining matters related to the immanent demise of the company...) emails were -- frankly managers were busy and 1-2 sentence ought to explain about this O-ring problem.

Your projection of self-centeredness on the part of your elders is unbecoming and ill-informed. You are merely young.

rms is just old school.

Something similar was available years ago on sourceforge:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/line/

("Line is not an emulator")

Hard to tell from the article, but I'd guess they just made an MS version of what this project does. The "mapping syscalls" sounds like implementing the ABI, similar to how Line did it.

I was interested enough to follow the link the OP entitled "Across America, 535,000 children ages 1 through 5 suffer lead poisoning, by C.D.C. estimates."

Here it is for convenience:

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6213a3.htm (2013)

As far as I can tell, the CDC regularly tests some children in a malnourished nutrition program (not a random sample of all children), with sample sizes in the N=1600 to 1800 range over several years. They divided that data into several cohorts, and over time the incidence of children above the threshold reported has decreased in all factor categories, so that by the 2010 cohort it was one third what the incidence was in the 2000 cohort.

Now I didn't do more than skim the article -- did I miss a smoking gun? Or am I looking at link bait by a journalist?

I do not wish to belittle whatever crisis the article is about, whatever it is, but its links backing up the alarm are not, in fact alarming.

"Lead poisoning in poor children decreased 3x over the Augties, CDC said 3 years ago"

The author seems to have done a deep dive and found some alarming numbers. I wonder if his Iowa data are from the Quad Cities area -- a region historically known for lead mining. I can well imagine that lead poisoning has a strong environmental and industrial component, and that some places are worse than others just because of the soil. That is certainly true of exposure to radon gas in the home, for example.