skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's inevitable that more companies will follow the lead shown here and the difficulty of doing this will drop exponentially. At that time the government will have to act and the best thing is that the game of follow the leader will follow until either the tax regs are rational OR their are explicit rules put in for the bigger companies.
Block storage is dead, says ex-HP and Supermicro data bigwig
Nerd pride – and a realization
Which is the key point. In Africa mobile payments have done more to boost the economy than almost anything else.

Arguably PayPal has done the same thing, but so many people have bad experiences with PayPal there would be a lot of love for a good alternative.

And of course it would lead to more Apple device lock-in. Tim Cook isn't going to hate that idea.

Maybe we should just sell the entire economy and everything in it to Apple and be done with it?
I survived the dot-com crash and the great recession. I'm pretty sure I'll be fine. Software is everywhere. There are a lot of jobs outside of the startup/VC land.
I don't know much about video encoding (I have more familiarity with GPU computing from the neural net side).

I would figure out if you are looking for bang for the buck with respect to hardware cost or energy cost. The options for video encoding seem to be pure software on CPU or GPU, dedicated hardware on CPU or GPU (such as nvenc or QuickSync), FPGA, or maybe an ASIC if it exists.

If using CPU or GPU hardware encoding, I believe you could get better utilization by also running CPU or GPU software encoding at the same time (for GPU, this would involve writing an encoder using CUDA). For FPGA, you might be able license blocks that do encoding, and then fill up the FPGA with these blocks.
>Apple's unrelentingly expensive offerings

It's really the relative expense of quality laptops more broadly.

Story. I forgot my laptop on a weeklong business trip last week. It actually made sense to pickup a Chromebook for the week. After all, it was only about 3x what a forgotten laptop charger would have cost.

Chromebooks aren't a laptop replacement but they are very useful. I don't know enough about component costs to know what a Chromebook+ which isn't a Pixel would cost. However, I do see them as a complement to a laptop rather than a replacement. And, by historical standards, a MacBook Pro is very cheap.
I'm expressing the difference from going from 2D Euclidean geometry to 3D Euclidean geometry to Non-Euclidean geometries as in the development of all of those models and theories throughout the history of mathematics. That's what I mean by model building. There currently is no such artificial system that can go through the process of developing and evolving such models and systems. So reasoning/thinking/consciousness or whatever people want to call it must account for such model building. All current research is basically just tweaking something until it fits good enough in a very limited domain. There is no explanatory power in any of the current research.
It is 100% possible for humans to write utterly secure code in 'C'. The vast majority of practices which make code not open to memory exploits were common in the 1980s - the late '80s, anyway. Yes, there were virii even then.

Now, is this common? I have no idea. A great deal of 'C' code never sees the larger Internet anyway.
I didn't go crazy but I bought a ton of stuff on aliexpress. I buy regularily, and I saved few items to buy today. This is huge and genuinely global event.
>> I'm not the kind of person who relishes a schedule,

ah... then don't worry about DLST, get up when you want, go to be when you want.
Um, folks not producing results begging for continued government funding, without results being required.
They're echoing a statement made in the third paragraph: "Everything from the motions of galaxies to calculations about what sort of universe came out of the Big Bang says it [dark matter] must exist—and must outweigh familiar, atomic, matter by about six to one."
It isn't. I also fail to see what it has to do with the discussion at hand. The issue IMHO is not that CMU did research on Tor, or that the US government paid for research into the security of Tor, but the question if the FBI basically outsourced investigations to researchers, and if yes, on what legal basis this happened.

Yes, that they succeeded to collect information is a failure of Tor and makes it less trustworthy, I don't think that's contested by anyone here.

Attacking real users in the process of finding security bugs and how to deal with captured data is the (separate) ethical issue here.
iOS9 was a bait-and-switch because it was advertised as the release that would (a) support older devices, (b) prioritize stability over features, and (c) receive extensive public beta testing. Then iOS9 delivered ... much worse performance regressions than iOS7->iOS8, regressions so bad that a new device needed to be purchased.
> The only thing we can do is to make sure no animal have to die/suffer without real necessity

Where's the necessity in this experiment? How many human lives were saved by "gosh I wonder how long I can keep a rat awake before it literally dies"?

And why did you lump me in with Nazis, again?
Not entirely. A lot of universities get taxpayer money to do research, and $1m is not out of the normal range for research funding in science and technology.
I am skeptical of many absolutes. Specifically when they become politically charged. I used to stand behind climate change much more before it became such a hot political topic.

My trust in scientific findings and reports is not blind trust. Studies are often funded by people or governments with special interests. The ethics of university researchers is not as great as I would hope. The first time I can remember a big scandal such as that is the aftermath of the financial crisis in the US back in 09. I've worked under professors in academia and experienced first hand how data is presented and funding is acquired, and it was not always done with absolute truth and honesty.

Take a look at the front page here. It's a story about CMU academics taking funding to do something very unethical.

I'm not denying that we are the direct cause of Earth warming up or anything, but I am willing to listen to both sides make their case, and I will remain silent while I listen and develop my own opinion.

Also,

>We geeks have rational, logical minds.

I see lots of irrational, illogical comments and threads on here and other places. It's interesting to bunch everyone together and say we're perfect.
So... magic.
Apple.com vs. Microsoftstore.com 3rd party scripts
Apple, the world's most valuable company, has zero 3rd party scripts/trackers. Bravo.

Microsoft has (according to uBlock Origin):
bazaarvoice.com
digitalrivercontent.net
ensighten.com
facebook.com
gfx.ms
liveperson.net
onestore.ms
optimizely.com
pinterest.com
twitter.com
videochatmodule.com

If Apple succeeds without all that crap, the obvious question is why do so many other companies feel compelled to use it?
Yes. It's the difference between pubishing a paper "How to break TLS" and a paper "How to break TLS, with an appendix of 10,000 credit card numbers I logged using this method".
Laptop customers have begged for 4:3 screens, but were told that display vendors had all switched to 16:9 because of movies. Yet Apple managed to find/mandate production of 4:3 high-res screens.
I think "supplier" would've been a more accurate term when bank accounts actually paid interest. Savings accounts at my bank pay 0.01%; standard CD rates top out at 0.05% for a 1-year.

(I do have a high-yield online-only savings account that pays significantly more than that, and feel like I'm much more of a supplier to them, although in some way "supplier" connotes that I'm actively doing work to provide a product or service for them, which I don't feel toward my bank. But the article is about retail banks; the bargain with most retail banks these days is "They give you convenience; you give them money, which they can loan out to make more money." That's much more like the bargain that Internet companies and TV make than the one that say AdSense, App Developers, and Uber make.)
I believe you. But at the same time, that is a huge jump that very few people are willing to take simply because that's so against the societal grain.

You're living the life in a lot of ways, but most people are too risk-averse to even consider it.
Well, your whole argument is that we couldn't do it, while plainly we can. So, answer with /sarcasm all you want, but it isn't a good argument.
Wow! This is really impressive! I can't wait until someone ports this to vim. I might even take a stab at it myself. Great work!
Humans don't really do that either.

For humans, the model is bound externally in parental memory, media influences, and impersonal record systems.

But it's very much there as external programming. Baby humans don't very well when it's missing.
And it seems faster than the typical meteor app.
If Tor should be robust against strong adversaries unconstrained by ethics, it needs to be tested by strong adversaries unconstrained by ethics.
Do they? Why would the Govt. tell the carriers about it?
Does it alter your experience of the Microsoft site in any way? Because I honestly can't see any point to your comparison besides to illustrate your own bias.
So they're forced to find a business model that doesn't require 100 employees. If they do, they'll be a better, stronger business for it.
Blogging pro tip: I’ve you’re posting an article about a vulnerability and your first sentence starts with “Today”, display a publication date.
Disclaimer: I don't agree with the proposition that non-free software is inherently unethical. This doesn't change my admiration for Stallman nor does it lessen my respect for his position.

My speculation would be that the position is deemed ethical because Stallman's view [as I understand it] has always been based on the primacy of freedom for the user. Stallman has not [so far as I am aware, though admittedly I do not approximate a one-eyed king on HN] ever suggested that users should be absolutely prohibited from installing and using non-free software. Only that it not be included under the "Good Houskeeping Seal of Approval".

What Stallman has done here, as elsewhere, is a pair of tasks. One is to carefully define a set of terms and the second is to state his position with respect to those terms. Agree or disagree (and it's more important in disagreement I suppose) one can reasonably know more or less exactly what one is agreeing or disagreeing with...e.g. this exactness is the reason that the issue of interoperability as a possible contradiction can be raised and clearly articulated.

Stallman speaks absolutely in the sense of clarity. He knows his position and his beliefs. My opinion is that they have perhaps done more to shape the current software ecosystem than anything else. We live in a world where a common moderate position for sober business women is an Apache type license not a 30 day trial binary, cripple ware, or even shareware...let alone something sold by a four-legged meat eating sales team. Great wealth has been built upon a shared commons, and programmers and developers have vastly benefitted in their economic lives.
I taught myself to code on Udacity, and in a couple weeks I'm going to be launching a social network that I built with one other person. Shit works.

There's no reason why everyone shouldn't be on there.

edit: Obligatory link to sign up for the private beta: http://fwdeveryone.com/

Also, here is what I wrote about the experience at the time: http://alexkrupp.typepad.com/sensemaking/2013/11/2012-my-yea...
Mind. Boggles. "Nanodegrees"? "now recognized by some of Silicon Valley’s biggest companies, including Google and Salesforce"? What does that even mean?

And this is a company that has essentially "pivoted" to being a sort of vocational training in the CS space. There may be a business model there but it doesn't seem like anything particularly unique or deserving of out-sized evaluations.
Inspected the symbols in the iflux binary. It's using APIs from the private framework IOMobileFramework.framework:

IOMobileFramebufferGetGammaTable
IOMobileFramebufferGetMainDisplay
IOMobileFramebufferSetColorRemapMode
IOMobileFramebufferSetGammaTable
I was wondering, would the monolitic/micro-kernel discussion be different today due to userspace services being able to use all the fancy cpu extensions, or would that still disappear compared to the cost of ring switching? Now that filesystems are more complex databases, maybe extensions could help with fast indexing/checksumming.
"but that they were launching active attacks and using the results in an unethical manner, i.e. to conduct possibly-illegal criminal investigations."

That's the history of the US in an nutshell. You really need to bone up on your history...

http://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-people...

Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought.

Science on reasoning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349

Energy subsidies

https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/survey/so/2015/NEW07021...

Intereference in other states when the rich/corporations dont get their way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mxp_wgFWQo&feature=youtu.be...

From war is a racket:

"I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil intersts in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested."[p. 10]

"War is a racket. ...It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives." [p. 23]
"The general public shoulders the bill [for war]. This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones. Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Depression and all its attendant miseries. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations." [p. 24]

General Butler is especially trenchant when he looks at post-war casualties. He writes with great emotion about the thousands of tramautized soldiers, many of who lose their minds and are penned like animals until they die, and he notes that in his time, returning veterans are three times more likely to die prematurely than those who stayed home.

http://www.amazon.com/War-Racket-Antiwar-Americas-Decorated/...

Blum:

http://williamblum.org/aer/read/137

US distribution of wealth

https://imgur.com/a/FShfb

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

The Centre for Investigative Journalism

http://www.tcij.org/

Some history on US imperialism by us corporations.

https://kurukshetra1.wordpress.com/2015/09/27/a-brief-histor...

The real news

http://www.therealnews.com

Manufacturing consent:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwU56Rv0OXM

https://vimeo.com/39566117
> "privacy is dead"

"What we used to call liberty and freedom we now call privacy. And now people are saying privacy is dead." (Jacob Appelbaum)

Framing and language are important. Unfortunately, a lot of people have accepted the new doublespeak.

edit: subject-verb agreement
Don’t Let Your Startup Happen to You
Coops can earn a profit, but that's not their primary purpose, at least not the kind of coops I'm thinking of. The coops I'm familiar with exist to provide a service first and foremost (utility coops like electricity and phone service come to mind), and making a profit is secondary.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative
I see what you did there, but you really should have elaborated on the why so that others would understand. To state it myself, a domain would increase in value as that domain became more desirable -- regardless of whether before or after registration. This way, a desirable domain would be difficult to squat by someone not actually using the domain for real business purposes. As I suggested earlier, a shorter name could cost more since it has inherent desirability. The tricky thing is finding a good algorithm for calculating desirability, particularly over time. This approach, of course, is not the best for non-profit and personal domains.
Well, what do you mean by startup?

Do you mean tech companies, or tech companies designed for fast growth at a high risk, or something else?

I don't think all companies need a significant external investment to work?

If a company is designed to have very low expenses, and is still profitable, that is a thing that can happen I think.

I mean if you want to work for a farm go ahead and do that I guess, but I think that not all tech companies need to be startups in the "receives investment from speculators" sense?
Ask HN: What blogs do you follow?
Just interested in learning what types of blogs people on here follow.
The manner in which it escaped Unix was through Microsoft and Borland, and I spent oodles of time evaluating other choices at the time. I could not get the boss to buy Ada, and everything was a compromise. Borland 'C' was super cheap and 100% available, as was Microsoft 'C' before it.
If you're just worried about looks then theres a lot that can be done around the plywood to make it looks better.
See also https://github.com/thomasfinch/GammaThingy/blob/2b504461c4f1...
The Supreme Court could soon deliver a blow to the Sixth Amendment
That's fairly useless if it doesn't work with other banks.
Nanodegrees aren't the only thing Udacity does; they're also the content delivery platform for Georgia Tech's OMSCS program (http://www.omscs.gatech.edu/) that was in the news not so long ago (the "$7,000 master's degree"). I'm not sure how much revenue that partnership generates, but maybe they plan on having similar relationships with other universities in the future?
> I am very skeptical of any self reported numbers coming out of Chinese markets

Would you say that you are less skeptical of large U.S.-based companies (banks, energy, or any other sector) when self-reporting?
I didn't say anything about prison, but the term used was carefully chosen in that in some capacities, you are liable for the actions of other people.

While I agree with you about prison not working, fining a multibillion dollar company the equivalent of a few day's profits aren't good enough. The fines need to be much more strident, along the lines of administrative dissolution or something else that would motivate the top brass via angry shareholders.
A lot of people have Chase. I've used it a bunch of times.
Don’t Learn to Program
I tend to think subjective consciousness is just one of those fundamental forces/components of the universe, like space-time. It's so different than anything else we observe, I don't know how we ever bridge that gap between the material and the subjective. It just is.
Reminds me of an old April Fools joke from ThinkGeek:
https://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/wec.shtml
> large set of data that is humans' first-hand observations of consciousness

Actually, there exists only a data set of one. Since I'm the only one I know is conscious. Joking, but not joking.
Its interesting even with nasty instruments like the TPP not all coding goes away because good code is actually a form of good writing in English, had computers been based on say sign language things would be different but as it stands good code is good writing and writing well requires excellent English language skills. Like the for loop is not a por loop and a for loop is not a 以下のために loop lol.
I don't think it will, in the same way it did last time, but assuming your point: Italian motorcycle mechanic.
Posted eight times thus far today. Earliest I see is:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10544826
It's common to run OpenVPN on TCP port 443 (HTTPS) to avoid such restrictions.

The Great China Firewall and others need deep packet inspection, heuristics and AI to find tunnels set up that way.
I used to think these online educational companies wouldn't be very profitable in the long run. Then I discovered Udemy. In the last two months I've bought three courses on Udemy (at about $10-$20 each). The courses aren't your conventional CS classes. I bought a course on Photoshop mastery. Another on Android programming, and another on Adobe Illustrator skills. I've enjoyed the material so far.

I have undergrad and grad degrees from respected US schools, so I don't really need certification, but I still find myself taking these online courses.

In the case of Photoshop and Illustrator, its not even for the sake of employment (although it might be useful in the long run). There's something satisfying about acquiring skills in an area you are really deficient in.
I assume "recognized" means that when a recruiter for those company sees that, their reaction is:

"Nanodegree in... what the what? Oh, wait a second. Yeah, this is that PR from the Khan Academy or whatever. Sure, I recognize that from the other wave of applications."

Depending on the savvy of the recruiters they might start to figure that nano = one billionth, so a nano degree is roughly an eight of a second of a four year degree.
So don't use those parts of the library. We actually kept a mock-stub library to link against with the Bad Things missing to check before a release at one place. It was actually one object file and I dunno... 150 lines of 'C'?

I despair that "people suck at handling memory manually" :) It's not that hard, folks...
Some of the mixed education initiatives actually make a lot of sense. There are aspects of many classes where one-to-many broadcast and automated grading serve a useful role. Not sure they're "unicorn" valuable, but they're valuable.
Yep. In most of the cities I've lived in in California, backyard fires have been completely banned, and fireplace fires have been restricted.
Relevant interview with Sebastian Thrun(CEO) on the raise: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2015-11-12/sebastian-th...