skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, that would do it, it's the connections that kill you. Train + bike is usually much faster in those cases.
fair enough, but does anyone have any hard stats on this?
How are these things related?

I'm sure if all these chunks of rockets were constantly connected to the internet we could track them too...
You are presuming it actually works for Valve, which is not an uncontroversial notion.
Speaking as someone who writes science fiction short stories sometimes, that is putting my jester cap on: That will not happen, the other current trend for cars is autonomous vehicles, so you can send your car to a charging station somewhere and call it back to wait in front of your door when you need it again.
It certainly could bring in political capital, but aren't politicians who do that already accused of manufacturing terrorist plots and ratcheting up fear for points during election season? How valuable is public relations for the US intelligence community versus keeping their methods secret (within a culture of secrecy?) It's not as though the CIA or NSA are likely to be defunded soon, regardless of who gets elected.
Is a week too slow? How often do crops need dusting?
What would be the point of that? Just return `foo` and destructor in the callee.
Terrorist attacks: Mass surveillance is the problem, not the solution
In a language without machine integers exposed to the programmer, there may be no way within that language to see any machine integers. There is a further "way down", but
not from within the language.

A proposition about an implementation aspect of the language you're working in is testable in that language if a program in that language can produce output which is different based on whether or not that proposition is true. If the proposition isn't testable in that language, then it doesn't lie on the "all the way down" path which begins inside the language.
I'm not sure either; it's kind of random, yet loosely related to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10632961
you just sound foolish tbh.

http://www.extremetech.com/mobile/197005-new-apple-malware-i...
Wow. $500 for a 68000?!
However: import statements do not actually destruct the default export, it does something entirely different. It looks up exported bindings.
To me, the GUI dream isn't really about pictures -- it's about structure. Humans are much better at understanding visual and symbolic representations of structure than prose. Purely textual interfaces don't take advantage of that.

The structure that we currently have is file hierarchies and URLs (just another form of Unix-style path strings), and files containing sequences of text with no more structure than line breaks and indentations -- and after 40 years, we haven't even agreed on how to represent those in ASCII. The whole thing is barely removed from sectors on disk.

Smalltalk's class browser let you drill into a live hierarchy of objects and edit them in place. That's already much more advanced than our static blobs of text in a lifeless path hierarchy. And that was in 1975.
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Apple products have a similar flaw

http://www.extremetech.com/mobile/197005-new-apple-malware-i...
Thanks. Trying it out is now on my (non-org-mode) todo list. :)
Foo and bar drive me nuts. They feel antiquated and uninspired.

If we never see them again it will be too soon.
My favourite recent real-world application of a "laser" focused industry-specific dataset is the crisis text line - it is both fascinating and unnerving to think that crisis response is something we can train computers to do (or in this case, suggestions for crisis responders):

https://youtu.be/KOtFDsC8JC0
Hold on, are we talking about patriotism or nationalism? There's a difference.
So this was basically a process/QA failure then.

Someone did this (again without malice but clearly misguided), and it wasn't caught by any process that should have noticed or prevented these kinds of dangerous errors.
Since the spies can't find people using the data we have now in the clear, we should not give them access to encrypted comms, because that would be even more data that they can't deal with; it would make their jobs harder, not easier. (That is, depending on what we and they think their jobs actually are.)
I've had a macbook for 2 years and I've never used spotlight beyond the initial "what does this do?" moment. Besides, you can't really do search without knowing what is searched for and from where it is being searched.
True. After the Snowden relevations you don't even have to guess.
I ran the numbers in a comment a couple weeks ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10527213

The quick version is, a Tesla gets an equivalent of 26MPG or so for CO2 emissions on 100% coal, and twice that on my Virginia mix of 1/3rd coal, 1/3rd gas, 1/3rd nuclear.
The iPad Pro's chip is not a big deal
I agree, we're looking at one tiny part of the big picture. However, to get to the clean energy endgoal, we have to start doing multiple things at the same time, which is what the article was talking about from the European manufacturing side.

Tesla is producing batteries in a net-zero factory, powered by solar and wind energy.

Superchargers by Tesla are using energy generated and transferred from solar carports and/or other places as much as possible.

If more customers buy more electric cars, the more the leverage they have on the politics to build more clean energy efficient generation grids. Right now, not enough people care about this and thus, not enough of the lawmakers do either.
Don't use Spotlight, I prefer Alfred.
Except every problem you just listed with flat systems is endemic in hierarchical systems too, to the same extent (including everyone in power thinking the system gives everyone a fair chance). Nothing about an org chart and formal channels of action has ever stopped politics and informal channels.
The only malice that I can see being assumed is in your reading of that report. The EFF page very clearly outlines the problem but said nothing about Dell trying to abuse it, only that Dell's negligence left their users exposed to attackers which is a simple statement of fact.
At a glance, this looks a lot like the underlying software running Texas Memory Systems' (now IBM) RamSan products, except built to run on off-the-shelf hardware of the user's choice, which is quite a nice development.

As a use-case example, those units have been in use for at least ten years by CCP Games [http://community.eveonline.com/news/news-channels/press-rele... and http://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/apocrypharrrrr...] as extreme-low-latency database storage for a fairly large cluster. At the time there were jokes of the staff needing to get special clearances just to see demo hardware before making their decision and eventual purchase due to restrictions related to their use by government and military customers.

Maybe I'm oversimplifying it or looking at it wrong, but I wanted to share my 2c while I was thinking about it. I'll take a better look later.
Only now do you include a warrant. How much of the "laughable" Snowden-revealed spying was under cover of warrants, do you suppose?

Waaaiiiiit a minute ... you're a troll, aren't you?

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=voynich61

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript
Except I as an Indian (as in from Republic of India), thought this was about English in India. I was totally surprised!
Some Silicon Valley tech workers are taking LSD to be more productive, creative
I don't count physical access required attacks as something I need to worry about. Besides the fact that I only own and use a very small number of thunderbolt devices, my machine is always in my possession.

I didn't say a Mac was bulletproof, but the fact that Apple controls the hardware and software makes it better than the OEM's who make PCs, IMHO. No software or hardware protection will ever do better than a vigilant user, and I know that.
So as far as I understand it, the flat structure applies to devs/designers etc. in Valve HQ.

Their customer support/sales people are apparently much more traditional
Once you have physical access to the machine, the war is over.
So what are your suggestions ?
Every rental car company should forward the identity of every client to the secret service ?
Every hotel and airbnb host should send the name of their client to the DGSE ?

Don't you see that most of the laws they voted are just the transposition from what where done in the real world to the internet ?
For example hidden microphone in a suspect home applied to the internet is a spyware.

Unconfirmed report didn't that said that policemen but the CIA equivalent the DGSE listened a conversation where a woman said she wanted to be a martyr. A meeting was scheduled with the FBI equivalent the DGSI but too late. This is undeniably a failure and the services should be quicker and more cooperative between them. But we don't know if they listen to the same threats every days, when there is 11000 extremist Muslims for 5000 secret agent and less than 10000 in both services.
Black Friday and Cyber Monday Deals for Developers and Designers
> you just sound foolish

Please don't call names in HN comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The few things that I use spotlight for kind of necessitate location data anyways, I keep it on Cmd + Shift + Space and use Alfred on Cmd + Space. I find it does really well when you're looking for restaurants in your area and things like that.
The Visual ARM1
> France [...] mostly uninteresting to terrorists

Seriously, are you uninformed or trolling ? The French wikipedia page [0] (sorry it's not as detailed in English) lists 8 terrorists attacks (3 failed attempts) for the year 2015. I don't want to become an interesting target !

> Do you live in Paris?

I don't and Hervé Cornara[1] didn't either.

So I'm not cowering in fear, ready to accept "fortress Europe" [2] however I'm legitimately (or so I think) worried.

[0] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorisme_en_France#2015

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Quentin-Fallavier_attack

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortress_Europe
I'd like to point to the "Effective Altruism" movement as a counterpoint. It's a bunch of nerds that decided on a rational approach to charity. But nowadays, these mostly male, white, Silicon-Valley-type, science-loving and science-fiction-reading do-gooders have found the threat of runaway AI as one of their supposedly objective main issues. Artificial Intelligence which, as it happens, is also something that these people have an interest in. What are the chance?

(Not that there aren't parts of EA that I think are worthwhile, such as givewell.org. Just as an example of how hard it seems to be to arrive and any purely rational outcome).
Watch the adventure when an Engineer takes up woodworking...

Mathias (https://www.woodgears.ca/) has made some incredible bench tools and woodworking projects.
Addiction and Your Brain
"Overall I think the author is too biased to his existing tools to appreciate what Smalltalk is really about."

Agreed. The author is clueless.
Which you can decline to install, on Windows 7.
I can't stop laughing, what in the world in this comment necessitated bad karma?
@tux3 can and did.
Encryption limitation only come from CIA, FBI and US politicians.

Censorship of Islamist propaganda is needed when we have 1500 terrorists citizen in Syria and Iraq.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10610570
> RAMCloud replicates all data on nonvolatile secondary storage such as disk or flash, so no data is lost if servers crash or the power fails

If I have a write-heavy application, for instance a time-series database, does it mean that eventually I'm going to consume all the RAM, then page cache, and eventually my throughput is going to be disk IO bound?
Pick one: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_private_spaceflight_...
Show HN: Automatically mount Android devices over adb
If you own a car or live somewhere, you actually have to register with the police. In that light it doesn't seem so far fetched to me to demand the same for temporary rentals.
Hopefully by the time they are an adult, they can get a new eye printed.
DJI announces $15,000 agricultural drone designed to spray crops
>the government have the power to snoop on us with a warrant

Even die-hard libertarians understand that and don't claim otherwise.

So where is the warrant for all the phone calls that the NSA (or their collaborators like Verizon, etc.) keeps track of?
Examples of what? Ways to name variables so they look like keywords? I don't need your help with that. Even if I used a language that used keywords like 'ssalc' and 'wen', you could contrive some reason to be upset that you can't use those words in your code. The advantage offered by keywords is readability, and it comes at the expense of your ability to use those words for other purposes. If that's unacceptable, then your priorities are probably misplaced.

Plus, you can always use a grammar that distinguishes between keyword rules and variable rules, and you'll never have any unambiguity. Even if popular languages don't do this, that's not a general problem for computer languages.
there already exist methods to generate skewed distributions that are very similar to the ones shown in the article. not sure how this is new. Skewed distributions arise form a more general case of the normal distribution but with added parameters or the use of special functions
Thank you for posting this. I had no idea.

And as a heavy spotlight user, it's infuriating to know apple is stealing my local computer searches and my location and then selling it to Microsoft.
Speaking as one in the trenches, it survives by the sheer will and determination of the enthusiasts, and the slavishly hard work of various IT departments, as well as the Linux community by and large being arrogant and rude, and the fact that Mac's are expensive.
Dell fans said something very similar just two weeks ago. Apple has root certificate authority on its own. Here is a list of their certificates :-)

https://www.apple.com/certificateauthority/
The $5 standalone was on their site yesterday morning with an "Out of stock" label. I suspect I wasn't the only person who was annoyed to see that listed next to the bundles, and they removed it because complaining.

I still bought a bundle, because I haven't found any other way to get this in the next few weeks, and the board plus a few basics will be a great <$10 white elephant gift (after I see if I want to keep it for myself).
> Temporal Dead Zone - Attempts to access or assign to foo within the TDZ (before the let foo statement is reached) result in an error

Can anybody explain why "let" variables are hoisted to the start of block given this Temporal Dead Zone exists? Is it an artifact of modern JS runtimes?

And given the TDZ what practical benefit does knowing that the variable is technically hoisted provide?
Sorry but you live in an other world, terrorist killing 130 is enough to be scary, no need for politicians conspiring whatever your paranoid mind is thinking.
It makes you wonder what else they are doing if they can be so blatant about it.
Once you get used to cmd+space. It's so much easier to hit the key combo, type the first letters of the program you want and hit enter than clicking through a bunch of folders and scrolling around.. but after reading this wikipedia article, I think I may have to find an alternative.
I posted the Github link because it is better written and is the basis for the article.
Encapsulation/information hiding?
Cultural integration, social welfare, education.
That would take longer
Do you always get prompted or does it install automatically in certain circumstances?

I have diagtrack on my work win8.1 without being prompted. I'll have to check win7 on monday. This is the first non win10 kb I've seen it mentioned in.

I have no clue how it got onto my win8.1 box.
That's why we always say what the original parent was, so people can read it if they want to. I've moved that sentence to the top of my comment to make it clearer.

Yes, communicating by text to strangers is hard. That's why we have guidelines that everyone here is required to follow. It's hard enough even if we do follow them, but hopeless if we don't.
Those were the Mac IIs, which had 68020 CPUs and could resume instructions after faulting.
I agree that his argument is very thin in most cases. I linked to the original article more for the video of the students and professor being outraged than for the Harvard professor's analysis.

His examples are all over the place. Boycotts most definitely aren't fascism. In fact, not allowing boycotts seems much closer to fascism than allowing them.

The posters are a different story. I don't know if I'd call it "fascism" to tear down posters (neo-nazi, or gay rights... it doesn't matter -- decisions should be content agnostic). It's vandalism for sure. It's also super ineffective.

There was recently a case where feminists defaced ads in the London tube that showed a model in a bikini and asked "Are you beach ready?". The end result was bringing international attention, support and sales for the company that made the ads.

In short, speech including boycotts isn't fascism. Tearing down posters is vandalism, probably not fascism. Tearing down posters is ineffective whatever you call it.
Most people here work for more Orwellian companies doing worst thing with data they acquired with dubious ways than anything the french government could do.
I think an article from the eff is more notable than a reddit anecdote and should be treated as such.

This is now gone off the main page, which is a shame.
If it was a "brown box" maybe it was a Cromemco?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cromemco
No. It will never be effective. Here's why:

> Let's look at some numbers. We'll be optimistic -- we'll assume the system has a one in 100 false-positive rate (99 percent accurate), and a one in 1,000 false-negative rate (99.9 percent accurate). Assume 1 trillion possible indicators to sift through: that's about 10 events -- e-mails, phone calls, purchases, web destinations, whatever -- per person in the United States per day. Also assume that 10 of them are actually terrorists plotting.

This unrealistically accurate system will generate 1 billion false alarms for every real terrorist plot it uncovers. Every day of every year, the police will have to investigate 27 million potential plots in order to find the one real terrorist plot per month. Raise that false-positive accuracy to an absurd 99.9999 percent and you're still chasing 2,750 false alarms per day -- but that will inevitably raise your false negatives, and you're going to miss some of those 10 real plots.

This isn't anything new. In statistics, it's called the "base rate fallacy," and it applies in other domains as well. For example, even highly accurate medical tests are useless as diagnostic tools if the incidence of the disease is rare in the general population. Terrorist attacks are also rare, any "test" is going to result in an endless stream of false alarms.

This is exactly the sort of thing we saw with the NSA's eavesdropping program: the New York Times reported that the computers spat out thousands of tips per month. Every one of them turned out to be a false alarm.

And the cost was enormous -- not just for the FBI agents running around chasing dead-end leads instead of doing things that might actually make us safer, but also the cost in civil liberties. The fundamental freedoms that make our country the envy of the world are valuable, and not something that we should throw away lightly.

https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2005/03/why_data_mi...
Can you give me an example?
I knew about segmented memory. But base/bounds was too expensive and slow.

The trick was to make it work without requiring an adder -- and subsequent carry propagation delay -- in the data path. Thus, "one gate delay" and simple replacement of address lines, and a simple "all zeros or all ones" check on the bounds, rather than a numeric comparison.
essentially crystal pepsi?
NodeOS Review -Ultraminimal Linux Distribution with Node.js/JavaScript Userspace
I'm currently using Proxy to transparently version data that is saved in an IndexedDB.
Sorry, it's on GoDaddy. Every once in a while my blog gets popular and . . . well, I guess I should move it off of GoDaddy.
Given the relatively few amount of YC startups who sell physical consumer goods, it might be a better idea to make this thread come Cyber Monday.
The federal tipped minimum wage is $2.13/hour, but the employer must top it off to non-tipped MW if the worker's total earnings w/tips fall short (in reality many don't ask for this for fear of employer retribution). California's tipped minimum wage is the same as its non-tipped though.
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Nintendo released one of these back during the original tamagatchi craze. It had a pedometer built in, so you needed to exercise to feed your Pokemon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Pikachu
You're being downvoted because you're being overbroad IMO. To claim the entire "mainstream left" is ignorant of behavioural genetics research is demonstrably false and may be viewed as being politically motivated.
Open sourced story writing, the next chapter is up to you
I think this is a great example of what I mention up thread. kelukelugames helped to spread the outrage with their tone and dog whistles about "privilege". seattle_spring then picked it up and ran with it. Had kelukelugames presented their argument in a less troll-y way, the outrage may have reached a temporary endpoint instead of spreading.
> Seriously, are you uninformed or trolling ?

Uninformed. Thanks for the links, I didn't realize there were more than 2 attacks in France this year.

English Wikipedia has a nicely formatted list[0].

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_France#List_of_si...
Reminds me of Nuka-Cola. :)
counter-point -- olark (a ycombinator company) uses flat-ish hierarchy and works quite well https://blog.olark.com/our-world-is-no-longer-flat

(disclosure: i used to work for olark, and their system works quite well)
If this study is correct, and blood drops have a high variability in certain important clinical features, then, no matter how accurate the instruments are, it's impossible to actually get a clean measurement from low volumes of blood.

This is one of the most obvious tests that should come to mind for anyone who wishes to create a blood diagnostic company. How could Theranos not know about this?
The intent is in the certificate. Superfish could create and sign any certificate, meaning it could impersonate websites. This certificate cannot sign other certificates, meaning it can't be used in the same way as superfish. Thus the logical intent seems to be bloatware, backdoors, etc.. not snooping on HTTPS connections.

This is the distinction the person you are replying to is trying to make, because although similar to superfish, it is not quite the same.