skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've thought about that a lot, and I think new tech adoption relies more on the social framework that's in place around it than we think. Simply put: if it makes you look/seem like an asshole then it's not gonna happen unless it's too good to ignore.

Smart watches and bluetooth headsets are great examples: they work fine but they make you look like a tool because of the social frameworks we have in place (it's rude to check your watch while in a conversation, it makes people feel weird when they think you are talking to them but you are just on your bluetooth.) Smartphones didn't deal with this friction because there's a long history of social rules around reading in public, and smartphones are essentially the same thing. We know when it's rude and when it's not, we know how to handle somebody reading next to us in the train, etc. In short, using a smartphone didn't make you look like a tool, it was just the next logical step from reading a magazine.

I definitely think Segway fell victim to this.
Even a "switched off" human is benefiting from the supervision of a brain that is far more complex than any computer yet constructed, and has, on average, been trained in driving by decades of experience, and in recognizing patterns of movement by millions of years of evolution.

Meanwhile, computers in cars today cannot even reliably translate human throttle inputs into throttle actuations (see: Toyota).
How long until this has native support in CSS?
I believe we need a multi-pronged approach to retaking the internet from the forces that dominate it now. One prong is a resistance movement, such as I suggest above. Another is to innovate on better ways to finance content and services on the web, be it micropayments or something else. And another is to find a way to counter or eliminate the perverse incentives that drive clickbait, garbage content and viral shallowness. It is not accidental that I allude to Adam Smith's invisible hand above. He and others knew the key was to understanding the feedback loops. The internet's feedback loop is broken. Clicks and quantity drive revenue, not quality.

And yes, my username is a reference to Star Trek, a show which is probably too socialist for the heavily anarcho-capitalist-leaning libertarian crowd here on HN (See the link in my reply to username223).

I'm working on setting up a website where we can raise awareness, change hearts and minds, and support efforts that help us retake the internet. I cannot do it alone, even with my evil goatee. Email me if you'd like to help.
Also, if you want a headless browser that uses solely a JRE, my project is https://github.com/machinepublishers/jbrowserdriver
For the first dot-com boom, I did Downside's Deathwatch[1], which did exactly that for public companies. (Companies IPOed earlier in that boom, often before profitability.) For a public company, SEC filings give anyone enough info to make that calculation.

For a private company, it's much harder to tell from the outside. Any CEO who doesn't know how many months (days?) of cash they have left is hopeless.

[1] http://www.downside.com/deathwatch.html
The trick is he never mentioned what that time is worth. All he said was those few years of life was worth a few years, which were limited and finite.

If we wanted to be arbitrary about it, we could pretend that a janitor's time is worth a trillion dollars per hour because said janitor's time is a finite resource that can never be recovered. However that doesn't do much for you when you have to actually decide how to pay a janitor.

It sounds like as a serial entrepreneur you like to decide how to pay janitors, because you can buy a few years of their time for a relatively low cost that you can turn into wealth for yourself.

When a janitor is working, he isn't working for $4 an hour or whatever it is you pay him. He's working for the rent & the food that will keep him alive, so that he will have time to continue to living, and that time is valuable to him. That's what he's getting paid, and that's why he's willing to work for you for $4. Just because it costs you nearly nothing to hire some people for an hour doesn't their time is worth only $4. It's worth a lot more than that. $4 can buy enough calories to last for days, and that time will be spent with his friends, family and his children(? possible if in India), and that's called "intrinsic goods", something money alone can never buy, because money only buys you time to acquire those goods.
Specific protocols might even specify that you have to use a particular prime.

Then the protocol would have to be rewritten and the change would not be backwards compatible.
Show HN: Cropper – A simple jQuery image cropping plugin
I wonder why 14? Lucky for dwarves?
> they're out there on the road doing what we've all been doing for a hundred years already.

Unless we've been driving in the rain. Or with the sun in our eyes. Or somewhere besides California.
its a bit different these days.
The output is a giant table of A= g^X mod p where given A you can look up x.
So how is the vexing situation resolved? Either the onboard computer must be able to manage 100% of all situations, or the human driver must have an option to take control to resolve it themselves.

You can't have a car that makes human control impossible, and then gets itself into vexing situations. You'll be stuck there forever.
Online at c9.io, they support c and c++. I'd imagine that would translate to the self-hosted edition. I really enjoy the features provided, and so far it has coped well with every language I've thrown at it, including outliers like livescript, purescript, etc..
We do have them hitting two different people on two different occasions. That's not iron-clad by any means, but it is evidence that weighs against the accident theory.

One detail is that Tesla alleges that they 'accelerated' in reverse. This is completely abnormal and if it can be corroborated by the physical evidence, it will be very troublesome for the driver.

Further, I have to believe that Tesla has no shortage of people who know about accident reconstruction and who can determine the idle speed & mass of the jeep and compare that with the force needed to cause skid marks or to have knocked the employee whatever distance. If they were to do that, it would be very interesting because we all know just how skilled their engineers are, from Elon on down.
The ghost in the Lisp machine (2007)
I am not a security expert, nor is my perspective all-encompassing. But from what I could see, architects didn't have good enough computers, engineers didn't have basic resources needed for automation (let's talk about the future here), and a whole lot of time was being wasted in meetings and politics.
Yeah, but there's some other interesting stuff on that page, like "... difficulty in identifying and understanding the implications of the switch to alternate law, which does not protect the angle of attack."

99.9% of the time it works one way, you can't be steep enough to stall, then you change the rules on the guys. Yes, the pilots fucked up. But there's pretty broad criticism of the HCI. The pilots are professionals and should know better, but when you swap the gas and the brake, it's a rare driver that can cope with that. Sure, set a high bar for professionals, but leave out the arbitrary complexity.

Anywho, with regard to self driving cars, i think passive drivers will just give up and pull over when the autopilot can't handle the situation. Aggressive drivers will be driving manually all the time anyway. Of course there are exceptions, but i'd bet that's how it breaks out 95% of the time in practice.

edit

This is sorta like an anti-lock brake system that only works above 32 degrees fahrenheit. Just because there might be ice, we're going to make your brakes worse even when there is no ice.

I think i get your point about de-skilling. They'll need to be very careful of stuff that works sometimes
It's not bullshit the NSA plays a pivotal role in ensuring US national security, that doesn't mean that their current actions are justified, but having the means is a national security mandate in the current geopolitical climate.

And the NSA doesn't need to compete on monetary compensation, it competes on a whole 'nother level which is giving people the biggest challenges to solve while having access to unparalleled levels of resources and cutting edge technology.

Bell Lab's didn't compete on compensation either, but it was where everyone wanted to work because of the environment.

You also disregard nationalism, patriotism, and the ability of the intelligence community to groom targets which they've perfected into an art form.
Mindel isn't saying full automation can't or shouldn't happen for cars. His point is empirical and cautionary: usually when we get excited about automating X, it turns out that X is better with some human supervision. It's not really a contentious claim. I think many proponents of self-driving cars would be ok with some human input – steering wheels, changing routes, feedback on driving performance, etc
Is it possible to figure out the force required to lift this with magnets engaged?
>"The very slowest people" are actually the majority: the elderly, the very young, the temporarily or permanently disabled

That is quite simply not true. http://www.censusscope.org/us/chart_age.html As you can clearly see, most of the population falls in the age range that has no trouble walking at a reasonable speed. I don't have exact figures on how much of the population is disabled or seriously injured at any given time, but experience says it's not enough to make up for the fact that the very young and the very old are very very far from constituting a majority.
If You Liked This, You’re Sure to Love That (2008)
This is the system developed by JPL for what later became known as image processing, and is still used for many planetary missions.

"We believe, but cannot prove, that this makes VICAR the oldest continuously used image processing system in the world."
They are "driverless" from an internal software or technology perspective. The car is making itself move. But they are not driverless from an external/legal view. There is still a person in there that is held responsible for the safe operation of the vehicle. When things go wrong, that person will still be answerable a the driver.

I seriously doubt Google is sending out "drivers" without proper licenses. Equally, I cannot imagine any court dismissing a traffic ticket on the basis that the car, the robot, was the one committing the crime.
To be fair, people on mobile might have downvoted you by hitting the wrong button. That's very, very easy to accidentally do when reading HN on a phone, as well as being somewhat ironically on-topic here.
As always, it depends.

If you're building a cookie-cutter high rise residential building, it's kind of well known and easy. The price has already been reduced to about where it is going to be. Typical floors mean typical documentation.

However, as soon as you start talking about complex building structures and services, BIM easily pays itself off. Think automated finite element analysis. The key is to plan far ahead of time, and design far ahead of time. There is no automation today, it is all done by hand. But I believe someday, BIM automation will dominant the market.

A few architects out there use procedurally generated shapes for architecture. A few engineers out there use AutoCAD plugins to streamline engineering services. BIM automation is already on the way...
Renting in Vegas and commuting to San Francisco would save you $1,124 monthly
> Databases like MySQL do not have a native implementation of the data structure.

Postgres has a native UUID type (I don't know the details of its storage representation, though). Using MySQL by choice in 2015 is a bit of a design smell, though.

> This means the column that carries the value must at least be 36 characters (VARCHAR(36)). When you consider the text encoding (e.g. MySQL character set) used to represent strings, this could mean 2-3 bytes per character (if using UTF-8).

Ummm, this is just wrong. The UTF-8 representations of [0-9A-Ba-b] are all single bytes.
From the article:

They also denied that they were trespassing even
though they had climbed through a fence designated
with "private property" signs.

That's not as tricky as a pizza man at the wrong address.
VCs aren't merely hoping for hypergrowth, their business model demands it. The results for any given VC fund are dominated by 1 to 3 hypergrowth companies. Therefore, hypergrowth companies should be their sole focus.

You're right that consulting companies can be great businesses. A friend of mine sold a 5 year old consulting company for a good tens of millions last year. That's a stellar result for the founders. But few consulting companies are within a VC's "strike zone".
This is very true. Which is why I think this sort of BIM automation needs to spawn from a large AEC company, or from a startup partnered with a large company.

We are basically talking about applying AI cost functions to the AEC industry (optimize design, time, cost).
about 12 years ago I came up with a pretty clever way to factor numbers that I never pursued the computational complexity of.

The basic algorithm is that you take some candidate X (which will be our 2048 bit number here) and classify your question (primality, whether it is the product of 2 primes, etc) --- once you have your question, Q, then you can pick a number Y0 to get X % Y0 = Z0 ... sometimes ~sqrt(X) works well, other times it's the closest prime factorial, etc.

now using those results, [Q, Y0, Z0], you can optimally pick Y1 and do the operation again, X % Y1 = Y2 ...

Like the Chinese remainder theorem each Z gives you information on the next optimum Y given your question Q ...

I called it tunnel factoring and saw some great early results ... but for some reason I haven't ever pursued it
Any idea how good java's nashorn is for this.
The NSA/US Intelligence can compromise small groups through other means, by either tailoring some sort of exploit or by going through the ol' hitting them with a wrench till they spill their secretes routine.

I'm not saying that currently in theory you cannot deploy or implement NSA foolproof crypto, I'm saying that in practice it will never work because the NSA mandate is to be able to break it and they'll will do everything in their power to maintain those capabilities.

And unless some one thinks that abolishing the NSA is a realistic possibility then you better pick your fights, because while the NSA all other US defense organizations are more or less superior to all others because the USA sees dominance and force projection to be vital to their national security China, Russia, and probably major EU powers aren't that far behind.
In Northern climes, the painted lines on the road are often covered by snow.
I should (sheepishly) say that I knew Vol. 1 and 2 were available but very recently discovered 3 was now also available. As it turns out, 3 was published a while ago, so while it was new to me, the full set being available was not, in fact, new to the world.

That said, hopefully it's all new to [some] other people!
This is actually very hard to implement.

The underlying issues are that

(a) it is hard to make touchstart/touchend act the same as a native click event (touch-scroll interactions, different fat finger slippage, text selection, press duration, etc).

(b) you only want to do this for iOS and not any other browser (different browsers and OSes and pointing devices introduce a huge number of other issues: cant prevent the click on the touchend, mouse or pen support is difficult, avoiding ghost taps https://www.google.com/#q=ghost+click+tap ).

(c) you run into future compatibility problems (pen, force-clicks, other HIDs).
Theranos Has Struggled with Blood Tests
The 3 Engineers I Hate
You need information about humanity to save it from itself.

How else would you know what to fix?
Downvoting is an emotional act. It is the easiest thing to do when you cannot or are unwilling articulate a response. In my experience people get most angry when they are forced to revisit their own views. I choose to see the occasional spat of quick downvotes only as an indication that I have touched a nerve. But thanks for the upvote all the same.
Nice dude. I love non-pussies.
> By abandoning their AJAX crawling scheme as described in the OP, they are essentially saying that they will evaluate JS for all sites.

No, they are not. If you even think that's possible you're fundamentally misunderstanding how search engines work.
I think many proponents of self-driving cars would be ok with some human input – steering wheels, changing routes, feedback on driving performance, etc

AKA "cruise control"...?
It's a little tough with films in particular because you don't really have control over how it will be depicted. Sometimes you might know that a specific shot will be an insert close of a particular panel, but in general the DP and director will shoot coverage however they want to on the day boards or no boards.

You are walking a fine line between believability and something that reads instantly and clearly for the 2 seconds it is on screen.

Films are littered with stuff that will break your suspension of disbelief, depending on your domain of expertise. Unfortunately for those of us that like movies with technology in them, we're gonna be able to pick it apart almost instantly.
The art of camel barbering
Yes, the reconstruction was that they stalled the plane deliberately because they thought the autopilot would prevent the stall.

They needed to descend to gain airspeed and lift. But they were pulling up and literally falling out of the sky without realizing it.
> He says this whole issue is mainly down to your phone number.

> Facebook goes through your phone book ... you give it permission to do this when you install the app.

This is 100% demonstrably false. It literally comes down to advertising/tracking.

Because tinder is ad-supported for the free app, they're sending data directly to advertising networks (of which Facebook is one), and that's being used to track you. Period.

On iPhones an app specifically has to ask for permission to read your contacts beforehand. There's nothing "implicit" about that, you literally have to agree it explicitly.

I really wish the COO at a Security research company wouldn't spew nonsense. And people wonder why the general public is misinformed as to the harm of advertisers/tracking.
Are there reasons other than speed/resource-usage for not using 15-18? Or put another way do you prefer group #14 above all others or is #14 the lowest level of security you are comfortable with?
Freelance Web Designer and Developer Sydney
I understand the reasoning for this recommendation but as this paper shows there is also a danger in going along with what's popular, even if it's the best currently recommended practices. If you as a reasonably well-versed engineer can come up with a custom implementation it would be more likely that you'll be protected from mass surveillance. Even if your implementation has some weaknesses you won't be caught up in a dragnet. Assuming the eye of Sauron does not look right at you, meaning a government-level adversary targets you directly.
His friend Komarov, wasn't so lucky...
In the marketing / advertising circles its not uncommon to hire a creative team (two anyhow). With one one having stronger graphics skills and the other copywriting. I have often wondered why agencies will use this approach with "creatives" but not developers. To me it seems like a close knit front end / back end dev team would be a good match for banging out the campaign based sites that most agencies do.
Cryptome for sale with access log files from 1996 for $50M
IEEE 754 16-bit Floating Point Format
Tech products' historical price trends
I remember reading Gagarin's biography few years ago. It mentioned that testing the limits of human endurance was a part of kosmonaut's training - and that was meant literally, i.e. any mistake or problem could and did result in serious injury or death.
I'm usually at 260%.
Thanks for sharing Nora on hacker news Arash!
Hehe, i was suspected someone would bring up HTML. Plain HTML is a markup language designed for documents, not a GUI framework. It hardly even has the concept of any interaction at all in the first place, how can it then have the concept of reusable and encapsulated interaction? (jquery is not a GUI framework either btw, its a DOM manipulation tool). I would say HTML is too low level to be called GUI framework. There are other low level graphic frameworks that also lack this, OpenGL for example which is designed for graphics only, if you want widgets you will have to build that yourself on top of the low level framework or find someone else who already did.

But yes, you are right that it's quite lacking in this area on it's own. Although it's easy to find frameworks on top of html that adds this feature. Google for "HTML datepicker" and i bet you will find thousands of results. Other frameworks on top of html that does have this concept baked in are asp.net and anuglar.
There's more to it than that, though - a table that could let you directly look up the discrete log of an arbitrary A would require on the order of 2^1024 entries (for a 1024 bit group).

It's a table specifically of the discrete logs of a large (but tractable) number of small primes. Those discrete logs can be used as the input to a separate stage that can calculate the discrete log of any value in the field.
0 seconds.
Just continue using laptop :)
> it's trusting those who've proven themselves trustworthy.

Tesla has a long history of exaggeration and broken promises and describing them as having a 'perfect record of being honest-to-God' borders on the farcial.

http://jalopnik.com/what-will-tesla-and-elon-musk-over-promi...
The opposite is true: if you implement ECDH yourself, you aren't unlikely to end up with software that thousands of different people will be able to break with their laptops. It's tricky to get right.
Show HN: Ramses – API/backend generation platform
There could be an extremely simple algorithm for intelligence. Just because we haven't figured it out yet doesn't mean it's unknowable.
http://jessicake.us/ FTW. Quality work. Looking forward to seeing how people use this.
Tim Cook Announces New Restricted Stock Unit Program for All Apple Employees
Indeed. I find data collection good - just not for the things we're collecting it now. Ad industry works against civilization. But the same information could be used to improve our lives on a global scale.
Is it impossible for a human to get a car permanently stuck?

*edit: put another way, is it possible for a human driver to extricate a car from any situation?
Product placement.
Content-addressable storage: where object placement is defined by its contents
Yeah, I'm not even a security guard and yet I know that part of the training. It has come up many times when some guard gets injured while chasing a shoplifter or whatever and the story makes the news.
When I checked, I got 16 in common.

weakdh.org recommended 43, and cipherlist.st 16. cipherlist.st was a subset of the weakdh.org list.
A few days ago, I posted "Unicorns aren't ad-supported" on HN.[1] There, I pointed out that, of a list of the top 50 "unicorns", non-public startups with > $1bn valuations, only three (Snapchat, Pintrest, and Vice) are ad-supported. This dot-com boom isn't driven by ads. It's driven by companies that provide a product or service for which their customers pay them. The companies that make their money from ads are from the previous dot-com boom.

Ad-blocking and tracker-blocking thus won't hurt the growth companies in Silicon Valley. YC could get behind ad-blocking without reducing the value of their portfolio. The concept that "the user is the product, not the customer" is now outdated. There are still companies which rely on it. They are vulnerable. Google still hasn't come up with a major revenue-generating product other than ads.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10372789
Good engineers ship.
GOLD Cuts Through 1170.03 Level with Eyes on 1205.70