skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I understand where you're coming from, and even feel emotionally invested in the idea of bootstrapping, objectively speaking, it's a bad decision to stay self-funded. It is, after all, a business, and if you can accelerate your business' growth 100x by taking on some very smart outside investors and hire very smart people, why wouldn't you?
In a word, yes.

"Jobs" are not an end in themselves, and are decreasingly relevant in the information age.
It's great that it is MicroPython compatible. https://github.com/micropython/micropython/issues/1106
A problem I see here is that participating landlords are given incentive have their properties or portions "straw rented" by people who will Airbnb the unit in order to avoid hotel regulations and side step rent control (because a unit will supposedly Airbnb at a market rate).
I think that the vast majority of the comments think you want to earn $5k/month, not that you want advice on how to invest $5k/month into your own business.

The wording is unclear--I had to re-read your title to understand that when I entered the thread.
Reduce+Christmas+Stress:+Hug+A+Dog
Based on a technology called zForce AIR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaoIWFcj6pc
Get a volunteer on it. Someone who wants visibility and to develop some documentation skills. You stay with the main focus. Your HN exposure has convinced me to try the iso!!
This is pretty interesting because it's actually a vuln in JODE, which is used by FireEye's devices to decompile and inspect JARs for malicious code.

I'm curious as to the thought process behind JODE's developers when they decided to execute code from the JAR they're decompiling, since decompiling is almost always done against untrusted JARs, it seems like an odd move to explicitly execute code from them. Yet another reason to do all your RE in a VM/locked down environment. I think it's kinda funny that FireEye have made a dedicated environment for scanning malware but aren't even taking advantage of basic chroot/jail/whatever to at least mitigate an RCE such as this.

There's also a privilege escalation issue at play here that seems to be non-trivial to fix as it's been weeks since disclosure and FireEye has requested more time to fix it. I guess FireEye really doesn't want its customers to have root access to their devices? I'm not sure how the devices are sold, but I suppose if they're rented or leased that would make sense.
Anyone who imbues themselves with guilt over any of the issues mentioned in this article has completely missed the point. The goal of various NGOs is to influence government policy, and the goal of someone striving for social justice is to convince citizens and political leaders to act in ways that advance justice. Guilt alone cannot accomplish those things and is not helpful to anyone.
Look at any automated warehouse these days. Pickers, stockers, warehouse managers..... Those are going by the way side.
@imgeohot - Before launch, you should look into a communications protocol between the vehicles. It appears to me that the new LiFi standard might be perfect. You might be able to use the laser range finders themselves to communicate between vehicles.

What to communicate? I'm not sure, to be honest. Road conditions or notifications of the position of obstacles is one obvious thing. Advertising the current version of the software and pushing signed OS upgrade binaries is another. Voice/Video chat with other vehicles in range would be cool, as is media syncing and discovery.

Building in some kind of Bitcoin based payment protocol would be fun too. You could load your cars Bitcoin wallet with some funds and tip cars around you all over the LiFi.

I'm not saying you need to build all that stuff, just put in a good hackable messaging protocol into the system before wide release :-)

Great work man. Good to see people with a good hacker ethos accomplish really cool things.
But has it been reproduced? A study must be reproducible and reproduced, with the same results in the reproductions, to be valid.
OP said he'd get the landlord's permission. Besides, OP is already paying rent for the entire property, for the entire month. The way you use the term "my property" makes it sound like you can walk into your tenant's homes without their permission because, well, it's your property.
Thanks for clarification. Wheezy is mega-stable at present. Good luck with the transition to Ubuntu!! Quite a job.
True. But you know how people say things like "people have been predicted AMD bankruptcy for 10 years, and they're still going". Well the reason they're still alive is because they flogged all the silver. And they hocked their teeth. And the company is deeply in debt. The company is worth negative equity, which the market still values at 2B.
only 15.6 inch..ugh
Is it just me, or does the top video stop when the bar is applied to the screen? That's burying the lede :)
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Reminds me of the time Sony removed the "other OS" option from the PS3 that let you load Linux. A feature that had in use for years, and was a selling point for the more hardcore computer nerd. The stated reason they removed it was to prevent "evil hackers" from using it to remove DRM from their games. So three years after release, away it goes.

That move got the hardware hackers attention, and the PS3 copy protection was cracked in 3 weeks.

Hubris, meet Nemisis.
Then may you get what you want.
How exactly you want to decrypt file with vector only?

Also you probably missing fact that browser process don't have access to the keyring; even to one that used for game saves. And there is likely several different key storages for different things just like it's was on PS3.
Not really; a better analogy is if I'm in Kansas and I want to get to Beijing. I can fly all the way there, or I can take a car/plane/train to a boat to a car/plane/train.

Angular is the airline flight(s), React is the boat. It won't get you all the way there on its own.
I’m in my early 20s, and I’m already rushing through my life
> ... I tried to make my students ask constantly: “What does it communicate me?”

I am pretty sure there is a word missing here, but am still letting it sink in, with regards to the rest of the article :)

Great article though that makes a strong point
Google pulls open source vulnerability testing tool from Play Store
Investment property analysis is one of the problems I'm working on in my startup (http://offmarketleads.com). One thing I learned from interviewing the top hard-money lender in Boston is that new investors often don't perform due diligence properly and are ignorant of costs that can make or break a deal. As a value-added service, I'm pulling in data from public records, MLS, and proprietary sources to automate 95% of this grunt work so they can get a more down-to-earth estimate of what a property is really worth and improve their chances of getting financed. However, this is predicated upon finding great deals which is the top pain point I'm solving.
Currently I'm below average something like 200kWh below.

However currently I'm only at home on Sundays, all other days I'm only be here to sleep and eat, however I barely cook, so a toaster and breed doesn't use so much energy and I have LED's everywhere so I use max. 7W per room (2 rooms total + 1 bath) however I turn off the light's after leaving a room. I have no dishwasher and my watching machine is really really good when it comes to energy. I barely watch TV and I use my MacBook for surfing which gets loaded at my company (I use it there, too).
So I only need a light with 7W for like 4 Hours, have a router running 24/7 which consumes nearly nothing.
I'm a single. So no problem there. (Btw. my invoice for food is definitely higher than most ;))

oh and btw. in germany energy isn't as cheap as in the usa. also if you use solar energy in germany you could only use 30% since the rest goes to the public (and you get nearly nothing for that).
Yep interested, thanks.
Wow, here's a ton of possibilities! The neural net powered bank computer stole your money and used it to pay the CEO a bonus - move the liability to the computer! The possibilities are endless.
He must have rich patents or a sponsor. The Lidar isn't cheap (50k).
And to spare some people the search:

Usually $20 for the Philips vs $15 for the GE Link at 800 vs 750 Lumen :)

I only have the colored Hue lights and the white GE Link so far. I might buy a Lux just to see how it works.
How to Raise a Scientist in the Xbox Age
I used one server as a Tor relay and another to server static files. The Tor node used almost 100% of one core to server about 25mbps of traffic and there wasn't enough load on the static file server to notice the CPU load, but decompressing an xz file took many times as long as an x86 VPS I had.
Have you got some screenshots/videos to share of the car screen doing its thing? The Bloomberg video did a pretty good job, but, we're geeks and we need more of that stuff.
how many pioneering mods / hacks did you do in your 20's ?
It's fair enough criticism, although I highly suggest you watch a video on why MGS3 was such a brilliant game, if you get bored sometime. I'll link you a decent video at the bottom, maybe you've already seen it. I wished more developers would make games that they want to make, rather than making games that they think the consumers want. Many studios do this, but many studio don't do this.. looking at Infinity Ward and Bungie.

I can't wait to see what Kojima puts out next, and I believe that Sony will allow him the freedom to do what he wants. Even if it isn't the most fun game in the world, there is a guarantee that it'll be wacky and challenge the general notion of what video games have become now. That's what makes it so exciting.
Awesome idea! How did you initially advertise the site?
Maybe in apartments, but in recently built single family homes throughout the south, a gas furnace is very common. I haven't known anyone that has anything else in the several southern states I have lived in, other than those people who tried to get away with heat pumps. Electric heating is significantly more expensive than gas.
Would you consider those machines AI?
Absolutely great; thanks 'ingve for posting it.

One thing that IMO should be modified is the dependency on Twilio. I don't know how it is in the US, but Android users in Europe should not need an Internet connection for sending text messages - the phone is capable of doing it by itself. I think it's more common to be without Internet access but with mobile service than the other way around.

EDIT: submitted the suggestion as a GitHub issue.
the US is just ahead in the curve. The brittish are naturally so onservative, if not outright reactionary, that the new buisness models haven't had the same impact yet.

In Scandinavia online shopping has taken on almost as well as in the US, and bookstores there is suffering just as bad a B&N.

This is despite actually having done much of the advice offered in this thread. ARK in Norway have outlets in all the Malls (still the most popuar shopping places in Norway) adn outlet in walking market districts in the cities.
They cut their inventory to high volume books only. Still struggeling....
I've thought about this a lot before actually. In my opinion, the last people with jobs will be mathematicians. If you think about everything that would be hardest to automate, I think deep mathematical theory would be the most difficult (automated theorem provers have their limits).
I somehow missed that part, thanks for the clarification.
When a single e-mail gives hackers full access to your network
Because if all of that will distract you from actually developing the product. Granted this won't work for most people, but if you're extremely talented like geohot then it may not be a bad call.
I wouldn't be surprised if there were a significant number of bugs that have been fixed by deleting code.
Your behavior is not true to someone who loves Barnes and Noble. You are using them as Amazon's showroom. At best, your actions say that you enjoy the showroom BN provides but you are unwilling to pay for it. Great way to drive them out of business.

Sounds like you love Amazon, not Barnes and Noble, and you're willing to help Amazon drive its competitor out of business--all while visiting the competitor and using his inventory. Delicious irony.
The semantics are relevant though as it highlights the sentiment I'm trying trying to shed light on in my original comment.
There's no need for asynchronous code and new frameworks to achieve that. Comsat makes Dropwizard run simple blocking requests in Quasar fibers (I'm a Quasar/Comsat dev), so you get all the performance of async code while still working with simple blocking code, standard APIs (JAX-RS), and standard servers (Jetty). You can easily run a hundreds-of-thousands if not millions of fibers in a single JVM without getting into trouble.
Indeed, I would have a word with whoever made the 2nd law of thermodynamics.
It's not just that - it is also the extremely extensive and comprehensive documentation of every function (integrated in the GUI), and the powerful profiler (integrated in the GUI), and the charting (integrated in the GUI)...
Self-Driving cars are very exciting but we know it can be done - super cool that Hotz got this working. Now he could really impress the community if he could solve 6 additional concepts http://gizmodo.com/6-simple-things-googles-self-driving-car-...
> The justification they told me was that they weren't going to give me a 20K raise if I wasn't making that much right now

So you base your salary offer on my current salary, instead of what I would be worth to you guys? Good luck. We're going to be here a while, since I'm not going to disclose my salary.
Wow. Vector is progressing along quite nicely! This new build has none of the rough edges that I remember from the last time I saw it. Congrats to the team for the awesome work!

My biggest issue with Matrix still has to do with its privacy properties though. Homeservers simply know too much about their users. End to end encryption from clients to homeservers appears to be optional in Matrix (and even with e2e encryption, metadata will still be fully exposed to homeservers), and message histories are stored in plaintext at rest.

Now, this probably won't be a huge problem in the ideal scenario where the Matrix network would be composed of a large number of small independent homeservers, but history has shown that decentralized systems that aren't fully decentralized tend to eventually converge towards centralization as it becomes more popular (just look at what happened to email). And in a world where Google, Facebook and Microsoft's homeservers might eventually have a combined market share of over 90%, the privacy aspects of Matrix leave a lot to be desired.
I think what the article implies is a growth in numbers and in penetration of "finance" circles.

Angel investors, seed funds and accelerators are one thing - they are an element of the start-up eco-system. Until quite recently this was a very small niche, and VC has existed for at least 2-3x as long. (And that's just how we now know it, funding for risky ventures is centuries, if not millennia old)

The article describes an independent "Micro VC" fund with partners and LPs, but another type would be small corporate funds. I worked at Bloomberg Ventures when it was just starting to figure itself out (now known as Bloomberg Beta) - perfect example of a relatively "small", corporate-backed entity that you could also describe as a "Micro VC".

And it's the emergence of these funds, this article highlighting the non-corporate funded ones, that is a noteworthy phenomenon.
Please not another Linux distro.
>At my (now closed) local B&N, it was a Starbucks.

It was probably a Branded Solutions Food Service store (http://www.starbucks.com/business the Food Service option, not a Licensed Store or Starbuck Office Coffee delivery service) that served Starbucks brands from the "We Proudly Serve Starbucks Coffee" portfolio.

Or it may have been a real store (licensed); I can't say for certain.

The B&N I live near also has a "Starbucks" inside it, except it is actually one of the food service branded stores on closer inspection. It doesn't take the Starbucks app or giftcards, small signs with the prominent mermaid logo have the smaller "We Proudly Serve" print instead of "Starbucks", etc.

I think the Starbucks that are inside Target stores are also these sorts of arrangements.
I took his meaning to say that with all the stuff about technology and AI, he's at a point where he feels like he can start innovating because he's learned enough (it says he went back to school to get his PhD and worked at an AI company before quitting to work on the car), hence the reason why he feels so sure that his technology is better than Mobileyes.

I don't think this has anything to do with saying he knows everything he needs to know in the world.
If the software remembered that there was an off-brand bulb in the socket that went out, it could do a nicely worded "I told you so" to remind the consumer. The hub (I'm assuming this system has a hub or something) could keep track of the # of hours the bulbs have been in use, and report that the off-brand bulb only lasted 1/2x as long. Of course, if the off-brand bulbs were lasting 2x longer, then perhaps the hub should just keep it's mouth shut... :)
>>If Airbnb is trying to convince landlords to look the other way, I find that disgusting.

When your area of comfort is being disrupted = Disgusting(Airbnb).

When somebody else's area of comfort is being disrupted = Innovation(Uber).
Upzoning and downzoning are fairly different: upzoning often immediately precedes building larger buildings. Downzoning puts an upper bound on growth, but never results in a building being demolished (except in cases of a derelict building, where downzoning makes it impossible to replace – though even then it's usually possible to create replace a building with an equivalent building regardless of zoning in the case of something like a fire).
No the UK is one of the largest online shopping markets per capita in the world.
> Fun thought experiment: all this information is publicly available, and we're okay with it as evidenced by the fact that we're participating freely in the activity.

Spoken like a true stalker.

> You're not bothered by algorithms (maybe you are, but you're not writing about it, so from this context you're less bothered) that can analyze data and language and patterns of communication, but you do have a problem with a human trying to understand the needs and desires of another human in the aim of helping that person land a job they would live?

There is a difference between machines aggregating large datasets and individuals directly targeting other individuals.
You should be able to simply state the error in my statement then. Anyway, others disagree with you.
“I don’t care about money,” he says. “I want power. Not power over people, but power over nature and the destiny of technology."

This has echoes of J.R.R. Tolkien:

Anyway all this stuff is mainly concerned with Fall, Mortality, and the Machine. By the last I intend all use of external plans or devices (apparatus) instead of development of the inherent inner powers or talents -- or even the use of these talents with the corrupted motive of dominating: bulldozing the real world, or coercing other wills. The Machine is our more obvious modern form though more closely related to Magic than is usually recognised. . . . The Enemy in successive forms is always 'naturally' concerned with sheer Domination, and so the Lord of magic and machines.
"Assholes", it would appear.
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You might not because the goals of a founder and an investor are different.

Investors know that their returns are generated by a handful of super-successful companies. And so they have a natural pressure to "swing for the fences".

Founders have a tremendous amount tied up in THIS company, and are naturally risk-adverse.

So you get conflicts like the following. There is an initiative which has 20% chance of losing everything, but could double how much you make. Investors will always want to go for it. Founders reasonably may not.
Watch Geohot do a CTF live: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aZJM-iIpbqc

I think the point you are making is generally valid... But he is a savant. I don't think it is wise to apply generalities to him.

Yes, age will change some of his sharper edges, but he is already pretty unusual.
TL;DR: Higher order function features that have been available in functional languages since the 1970s will soon be available in C++, with more verbose syntax, explicit type decls everywhere, and (probably) enormous error messages when you get things wrong. The "new" feature will interact badly with other language features like exceptions or RAII and in any case you won't be allowed to use them in the subset of C++ that your company permits you to use.
> Rent control is designed to account for this

Well unfortunately intentions are not consequences. Rent control has very visibly benefits (grandma gets to keep her apartment at close to the same rent as she has been paying for decades) but distorts the market in very subtle but destructive ways (landlords not paying for any maintenance and harassment and dehumanization of tenants paying below market rates).

There are transaction costs to everything. You think a landlord wants to go through the process of finding a new tenant and moving him in, ideally with no difference between your move out day and the new tenants move in date? Also, the protections you receive are priced into the cost. Would you take a slightly lower rent if the landlord could kick you out at any time?

> Putting down roots

This is very sentimental but that argument can be used to justify many policies that are meant to favor the recipients of a current system. In America there has been a huge transfer of wealth from the young and relatively poor to the old and relatively wealthy.

> Whether it is optimal, whether it is overapplied - since utility can't easily be quantified, that's something that everyone will have a different opinion on.

Yes, that's why we have a market and people are willing to trade based on their own utility (e.g. I signed a two year lease at a higher net effective rent)
That's the funny thing about INTJs; they don't seem to get along well with each other.

(*cue the preemptive disclaimer about MBTI being for entertainment)
I think it's intentional.
During my internship at Google I watched Hotz give a talk on QIRA and his Pwnium exploit.

George Hotz working his magic on the computer is the most fucking legit thing I have seen in my life.
Show HN: Avalanche CSS grid system
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See the unhelpful comment on the deleted answer for an example of how NOT to do UX.
Easy, you drive in a simulator! (ie: backfeed/simulate LIDAR and camera data using a video game (GTA5 for example)).
Then try to simulate lots of near-crashes, reactions to traffic lights, signs, etc.
Hotz's code just reacts to inputs. Simulate the inputs and you can run any training case you want.
> Still no GTK3 support on Linux in default Mozilla build.

The ArchLinux build is gtk3 by default, it the UI is awfully slow, and freezes a lot.

Be glad you're still on a gtk2 build.
You are correct. Formerly, Yahoo used it's own spider that was Slurp!. Currently, Yahoo is using Bing to power is search results. Yahoo has granted that Bing will grant the majority of it's search results. They have just struck a deal with Google, to start including Google search results in it as well. In the future, we should see 51% Bing results and 49% Google results.
>>I think the Starbucks that are inside Target stores are also these sorts of arrangements.

Target stores have an actual 'licensed Starbucks store' where you can pay with the Starbucks app or giftcard.