skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not about the security of the cookies, it's about the bandwidth you save by having a separate domain for static content, because the client does not have to transmit the cookies for each request.
Well this is all true, it could be much better. I think the point is though that relying on Australian Governments to make serious long term commitments to technology infrastructure is going to result in disappointment. The thesis that 'Labour was going to save us, and then the Liberal's ruined everything' is kind of an oversimplification.

The NBN was a great idea to be sure, but the Labor government that proposed it proceeded to sabotage itself over the next two terms due to extremely damaging and petty political infighting. In the end Tony Abbott had to just sit quietly while Labour burned itself to the ground, delivering us a conservative prime minister and policies that nobody really wanted. The NBN became a political point. If none of this had happened and Malcolm Turnbull was now in power trying to push the innovation agenda, who knows, maybe he would be proposing something similar to the original NBN.

Bad leaders with good ideas are as helpful as good leaders with bad ideas, as it happens. Good leaders with good ideas don't seem to exist in the current climate. And if you're just unpopular it doesn't matter what your ideas are (eg Bill Shorten).
You should host user content (specifically JavaScript files) on a separate domain though, otherwise you put user cookies at risk.
How to stop getting stuck
> Any intelligence capable of taking over or shutting down a wide range of systems,

That's a thing I don't care for about most science-fiction. The AI entity can just magically take over every technology it's connected to, because magic. No concern about the computational complexity of breaking the code-signing certificates on the affected computers. It's like everything on the Internet of Things is hopelessly and completely insecure!

... okay now that I type that out, maybe that's more realistic than I gave it credit for after all ... :b
Thanks for the shout-out! One of the cool things about LaunchDarkly is that you can use it out-of-the-box without needing to provision any additional infrastructure.

By default, the SDKs use server-sent events to push feature flags to an in-memory store. If you need persistence + strong consistency, you can back the SDK with Redis as well.

Disclaimer: I'm one of the co-founders of LaunchDarkly.
$6B this week.. $3B a few months ago..

Anyway, they're going to spend some $10M to build this data center.. High end cards can do something like 0.6GH/W, so this place will add 24M gigahash/S to the network.

The current hashrate is something like 650M GH/S, so we can use a literal powerplant worth of energy to increase the hashrate / security of the blockchain by something like 3.5% -- And the hamster wheel keeps on turning.
> kill people (less than real drivers)

What does this mean?
Tech giants pledge $1bn for 'altruistic AI' venture, OpenAI
There are several micro service servers / frameworks already available in the space. wildfly.swarm WSO2 MSS. Better check existing stuff before the implementation.
That's a reasonable point, but I wonder if that problem is usually encountered when mathematicians from a particular branch of study read works from a different one whose usages and assumptions differ. I've bounced of it in even very simple areas, like whether 0 is a natural number, whether is is positive or negative (or other), whether 1 is prime, etc. Within the context of a particular community, such ambiguities aren't present.
Host firewalls don't generally do it. Seems AVs can better tolerate the reputation of being invasive and draconian.

I suppose it's different if are focused on trying to win from a starting point of a compromised machine, a kind of Core Wars game. On current systems this can't be reliably recovered from unfortunately, in that situation user should just be alerted to wipe & restore from backups.
A whoosh of epic proportions.
I would love to see it actually try to drive in a city like Beijing or Shanghai. I've been to both cities several times for work, and I can say that if it can drive in conditions like that, then it can drive anywhere.
We can look at efforts to stimulate the brain, which do not seem to scale easy. As I wrote in another comment, the K computer was able to simulate a seconds worth of brain activity. It doesn't seem to have scaled easily. I don't have experience with supercomputers, but I have a feeling that things are a bit more complicated than "just network it together with another supercomputer, and then everything will be twice as fast."

And that's just talking about a raw increase in computing power. We don't have any idea whether a human level intelligence program would even be able to put increased processing power to good use (and it could theoretically be detrimental; look at what happens to humans who have too many neuronal connections).
I would kill for 10Mbps. That would reduce download times by more than a factor of two.

I live in Canberra though, so it's not like high speed broadband is going to come near me in the next decade.

Bandwidth requirements are increasi year over year, simply because once people can actually use slick media-rich sites, they actually do use them. Once people can VPN in to the Windows-centric workplace, they will. Once office based managers can successfully video-conference their teams, they will.

Without high speed broadband, what hope is there for innovation?
Sigh. There's always one guy in the room who has to have the joke explained to him, draining it of what little humor it may have contained.

"Hooray Anarchy!" was in direct reference to the text of the license itself, specifically "0. You just DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO.", which is quite anarchic, if you didn't notice.

> I made no change in the intent of your words.

I'll grant that perhaps you truly did not catch my meaning (as explained above); regardless you did indeed paraphrase me not once but twice, to satisfy your need to call me out. Your perception of a hateful slur on my part is just that, perceived and not actual.

> As 'good-natured stabs' go, it's pretty low-quality.

Indeed, I never said it was a good joke. :-)

And now the poor horse is nothing but a bloody pile of meat. Satisfied?
Did you ever use google glass? It was a pile of shit. Do you realize the NeXT computer was 13k in 2015 dollars?
Dissecting a Chinese Knockoff Guitar Pedal
This looks very interesting but I can't figure out how it is intended to be used. Is it meant to be a one-time converter of crappy code to good code or a tool to be used often. Or maybe it is just research.
Makes it easier to fine tune when needed.
in china, you can override the law without major consequences...

some day, at full velocity a car will kill someone, and they will discover a bug, patch it , and keep life... in america that would mean a thousand million dollar lawsuit.
This may run head on into the ubiquitous surveillance state. After all, you can how prevent anyone from legally photographing you if you wear some classic designer objects.
I think the success of this will come down to content curation. This type of platform could end up on any end of the spectrum between buzzfeed and yik-yak. Does anyone know how the editor and article submission rules work for this site?
> Lately (last year or so) I've started to notice substantial data loss. Either old mails completely missing or large mails being truncated (destroying inline images f.ex.)

Please write to support and ask them to investigate. I used to work on the Gmail backend team, so I know bug reports regularly make it through support to an engineer. I also know they take data integrity quite seriously and have a variety of tools to investigate (potential) problems, both proactively and in response to user complaints such as yours. They also keep redundant copies of everything.
I think this comic sums it up pretty well.
http://www.wtfpl.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/wtfpl-strip....
New Privacy App is looking for feedback
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So, basically, because we've never seen premium spending go down we don't have examples of how premium reductions affect total compensation. Despite the implicit suggestion of the title, reducing premiums seems like something we should try as a society.
Right now salary is taxed but health insurance is not. Given that it seems pretty obvious that employees are getting more health insurance and less salary than they would prefer. Fixing this seems like a pretty good idea.
This is on OSX though, right?
Straight Jackin'.
On page 4 he does make a reference to the abelian group (Z, +). Though he just calls it "a structure" (which is not wrong), I agree that this paper is somewhat unusual. It even includes some typos ("yeild," page 4), yet it is readable and exposes an interesting topic; the ambiguity of mathematical notation.

Pooh-pooh.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pooh-pooh

Also, ad hominem.
After scan HackerNews, I should go to San Fransico Bay area, otherwise, I am not in the tech industry.
SAS sniper foils suicide bomb attack by killing 5 jihadis with just 3 bullets
True for Disconnect, but not for Privacy Badger, which does dynamic, heuristics-based blocking.

ref: https://www.eff.org/privacybadger under "How does Privacy Badger work?"

I use it and uBlock in combination.
The author seems to write from the perspective of an undergraduate whose main exposure is limited to lecture notes and handouts.

I find that most pedagogical mathematical literature actually do lay out what prerequisite knowledge they expect of the reader, and make sure to identify the exact nature of symbols used in each expression, contrary to the experience of the author.

Mathematics today is still very much prose, in which equations are shorthand for common, repetitive expressions.

Nevertheless, the ambiguity the author observes is something I commonly find in lecture notes, where the prose and context around certain theorems and equations are stripped away for brevity.
I feel like 100 megabits down in the states is at least a somewhat-baseline anywhere there's a city or suburb (excluding rural areas). It's basically one of the lower tiers for ~$50-60/m for Comcast, TWC, ATT, Verizon, RCN, Centurylink, etc.
This is really a useful app. It loads content really fast and opening external link is even faster like a ninja!
The moment you start mass-producing self-driving cars, people will start dying in accidents that were caused by them. Even if they are vastly safer than human drivers^+ , the sheer amount of cars on the highway and the varied situations they get in will mean that there will be accidents caused directly by bad decisions done by the computer. The legal system we have is a lot more lenient to human error than it is to other causes, and this is a major problem, because it means that even if going all AI cars would mean that we lower the fatality rate by 97%, that still means a thousand deaths a year that can be blamed on one company. That company could not possibly continue operating, even if they would be saving 29000 lives every year.

I am generally not a fan of the Chinese government, but this is one way in which their system is better than ours. They have people in positions where they can do the math and decide that if some decision greatly saves lives on the net, they can enact it even if it directly causes (less) lives to be lost.

^+ And really, that isn't a hard goal to reach. People largely don't cause fatalities because they are bad at driving, they cause them because they are impaired in one way or another and because the reaction times at high speeds are too hard for humans. Most early AI cars will probably be shitty, but they will largely be shitty in ways that don't endanger the occupants.
How does Apple get that $400 to China to make 2 new iPhones? Is there a tax-advantageous route for that? If not, what does it do with that $400?
In the US, 32,719 died in 2013 from automobile crashes. Any wide-scale deployment of an automobile technology on public roads will mean that people die in crashes with car which have that technology.
It's not that it's a problem but it's "The Greatest Unsolved Problem" in the article words or an interesting one at any rate. We understand why the sky is blue - diffraction of the shorter wavelengths. If that was unsolved it would be a cool unsolved problem too.
The Cheating Cheaters of Moscow
Ah. Now I see the distinction you are drawing.
Put a case for glasses under the back of the laptop.
New PC malware loads before Windows, is virtually impossible to detect
Very interesting article. Wonder what the numbers would be for similarly counted "mass vehicular homocides" involving alcohol?
Show HN: Find hotel with the best pub. transport connection to your destination
I agree. For programming related use-cases, having multiple terminal windows can be very helpful. From a systems and networks administration perspective, I am not so sure, particularly when you can have simultaneous (SSH) sessions open to many systems.
you're not entitled to have some server serve you whatever content you want it to, it doesn't have to answer your http requests - so logically, by whatever means we get there, the end-game is for servers to monitor and exclude you. but the status quo is a lot better now, than for what it would take for that to happen.

Do you want servers to figure out that you're blocking ads at the network level, and tell each other not to serve to your IP? Because it is a lot less wrong for them to do it - they have a lot more right to do it, if it's in their TOS - than for you to recraft their content so that you're only making http requests to contents, but not their ads. It's like going grocery shopping for milk and sugar at restaurants and coffee places, i.e. because they have it out 'for free'. you might say, hey, they're making it available for free, it's not your fault if they have a broken business model. But it's their right whether they want you there.

The analogy isn't perfect, it's quite leaky, so let's get back to the technical facts here. The cat and mouse game is between a server wanting to serve content as well as ads, and some consumers wanting to recraft the requests so their clients/browsers do not load ads. Since ultimately the server has what the users want, for example articles, and the business model is some limited part of the attention of the user, I don't see this ending well for users who want to consumer the content but do not share any part of their attention with ads. It's just not going to work out.
It'll end up being enforced on publication, I'd guess. So if you photograph an object and publish the picture, someone can come after you for money. Or, in this case, if you published a book last year, they can sue you for distributing it. Which is insane, but that's what you get with retroactive copyright extensions.

Nobody actually cares whether you took the photograph, it's whether you published it.
TL;DR. How do you export to JSON?
You haven't been to India I suppose. But more seriously I agree. Having self-driving cars negotiating road traffic in places where the traffic rules are 'blurry' and rarely (if ever) followed to the dot; is going to be a big challenge.
I used to have a program that blocked IP addresses of advertising sites and replaced all pictures with any picture I wanted to use.

I used a skull and crossbones instead so in place of any ad I had a pirate flag instead.

I forgot the name of the program that did that, it was like some sort of firewall that redirected to 127.0.0.1 and ran a web server that served up any image I wanted for the picture.

I used to add IP addresses to my hosts file to block advertising sites as well.

Now I just use uBlock but they can detect that.

I don't mind advertising as much as long as it doesn't get annoying with pop-ups and other crap. It should not, for example, open up another browser window for me to display an ad.
> I think it'd be awesome if none of my devices (thermostat, TV, TV peripherals, lights,
> door lock, sound system, etc) needed their own physical interfaces but I could just
> control them all with my phone.

Awesome, maybe, but why? This is IoT in a nutshell. Let's add connectivity where there is articulable value, and where it actually makes the core task simpler. Usually, adding a remote interface makes things more complex even as it adds functionality. So have a good reason.
Free SVG/TTF social icons all of the Illustrator files included
I'll definitely check them out.
Sorry, I'm not following your point. Yes, there are reasons those things failed (although in the NeXT's case it wasn't price; it was in the same ballpark as other workstation-class computers). But at the time, some smart people thought both were going to change the world.
I think that like 3D printers, this stuff is useful to a fraction of the population, as a tool with which to prototype products for everyone else.
Probably many people use tmux or screen rather than UI tabs on the terminal emulator, the feature set is just better. Plus you don't have to switch between two UI types for remote and local sessions.
Can do: https://gist.github.com/clsr/3f5ca796463a0e6fc8af
I realize the point is entirely semantic, but I think weak is also completely, equally wrong. Words are fun like that.

If I stand accused of using the colloquial meaning of "weak" instead of the physics meaning, then OK.

But a locomotive is strong. The pull of celestial bodies is stronger. The force of a locomotive is concentrated. The force of gravity is diffuse.
New Organization Hopes to Push for Responsible Use of Robotics
True and not true. Open Hybrid is not useful without the visual representation that breaks down the object in to its components. Short write up about it here: http://openhybrid.org/how-to-connect-everything.html

The problem of all other standards is that they have to think about complex abstract standards.
I find this reply puzzling. I'm not saying you're right or wrong. I'm just here asking for evidence that it has more than novelty value. That smart people think something will change the world is interesting, but it's not evidence of market uptake.
In this scenario, you as a human driver is still a fundamental flaw.
Is quantum physics behind your brain’s ability to think?
The electromagnetic force, which is what we are comparing, is identically as "diffuse" as gravity.

So using that word as a way to distinguish them is incorrect.
Looks interesting, would be great to have a screenshot sample in the README, more people are likely to bookmark it if they can quickly see what the icons look like.
Is this the CDN used for AMP pages?
Sorry, I'm still not understanding. What's stopping you from making high-quality software on reasonable schedules?
Road conditions and general behaviour in traffic is much better in China than in South-East Asia or India.

I would not be surprised if China ends up being the first place with self-driving cars at a large scale. Because the road instructure is in general good and new - and with government support (which a company like Baidu has) legislation and infrastructure will be changed to accommodate self-driving vehicles much faster than we would be willing to do it in the west.
Online Degree Hits Learning Curve
perfect for celebrities
Yes but if they already have agreements with those ISPs its easy enough for them to throw a few extra serves/racks in their data centers dedicated for GCP
I tried some of the demos and they all had bugs. Seems like the code needs a bit more testing before its ready for prime time.
As a content creator who runs two websites and relies on ads to pay bills because my actual job doesn't cover the costs, I say fuck anything that's trying to block ads.
An Earth mass black hole would have a radius of about 9 mm. There are many refrigerator magnets around that size.

The pull would be 1 g 6400 km away from it. At 1 m it would be over 10^13 g.
I managed to disable the browser MITM without disabling the whole functionalities:
Settings -> Active Protection -> Web Shield Customize -> uncheck 'HTTPS scanning'
Well the question is then does it cover all photographs or only those in which the item is the subject.
E.g model on a chair is ok chair on its own is not.

Also what makes an item a classical designer item? Do ikea chairs count as designer goods now since they come with an image stock photo of some middle age white guy with a Nordic name?
This is a proof-of-concept we did on the latest hackathon of the Deutsche Bahn (German Railways) - https://www.mindboxberlin.com/index.php/3rdhackathon.html.

HotelRoute extends hotel search results of hrs.de and adds information on public transport connection between the found hotels and the travel destination. So that you don't just get the distance in kilometers, but also how much do you have to walk, ride and change to reach you goal with the public transport.

It's just a prototype/proof-of-concept. The backend API searches for the "best" connection betwenn each of the hotel and the travel destination; a Chrome extension adds this information to the hrs.de search results.

We'd be happy to hear, if you think it's useful and should be developed further, beyond proof-of-concept.
Interesting point. I will say that, if in the end the user will have to accept the ads anyway because all the content providers will refuse them otherwise then I better enjoy ad blocking while I can :-)
> but this is one way in which their system is better than ours.

That is ludicrous.

> They have people in positions where they can do the math and decide that if some decision greatly saves lives on the net, they can enact it even if it directly causes (less) lives to be lost.

What you mean to say is they have people in positions where they can enact it, for any number of reasons . . . Let's hope the decider guy isn't the air quality monitor for Beijing.
Is Big Data Applicable for Small Businesses?
>Just summing floats in an array, compiled without optimization,

Ok, so you're both doing it wrong and doing something irrelevant to that level of systems programming. Measuring the performance of non-optimized builds will always be pretty meaningless (even C compilers can have radical perf swings from release to release at -O0), and reporting that as a rebuttal of whether swift is relevant for "bootloader or firmware" is just outright trying to mislead people.

> With optimization that went down to around 10x and wouldn't budge, even with -Ounchecked, UnsafeMutablePointer, varying an indexed for-loop and reduce.

Beyond what you said, I suspect that all of these impressions were formed with Swift 1. Believe it or not, things have improved a lot since then. On a "add array of floats" benchmark, the vectorizer kicking in or not is a 4x or more performance difference. This should be fixed in Swift 2, but more to the point is a benchmark irrelevant to "boot loaders and firmware".

-Chris
The general belief that public outcries are not allowed in China.
I raised the OCSP validation issue with the Chromium team in the past:

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=439851

While I understand their position, I don't entirely agree with it for one simple reason. I'm not convinced someone will always be on a compromised network. From my own experience, the most likely network man in the middle scenarios occur while traveling like when connecting to an airport or hotel network. Many bad guys know how to evil-twin WiFi and implement transparent TLS proxies.

With this in mind, if a user visits a site frequently and that site revokes their cert, there's a good chance the user will not be on an evil network when the OCSP check is made. Therefore, if Chrome cached the responses and permanently revoked the certs the risk to the user does in fact decrease. As stated in my report, Heartbleed really did make the choice to ignore OCSP a bit more risky because private key material really was stolen from a number of companies.
Is it lazy evaluated? Tail-call optimized?