skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OP here. The weight is very important to me personally, and I spent a lot of time trying to shave as much plastic and CF as possible in the design, while still maintaining rigidity and strength. We are shooting for an all up weight of under 380 grams. My previous design is all up with 1,200 mAh battery is 452 grams with an HD camera attached.

However, I do agree. Skill and durability are really limiting factors nowadays, along with maneuverability. In the California Cup races, a few months back, most races were won by default, by the drone that was simply able to finish the race. Basically, the problem is, any contact with walls, nets, or gates currently knocks the drone out of the race. We are working on a few ideas to address that, to make it a bit more interesting. I'll post some more info once we have our prototype built.

You can find some updates and latest pics on my wife's Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/yukitostudio/
I do not understand your comment. Could you please explain?
> decide whether they want to be locked in or not

is the same logic as, "let people sell themselves into slavery". Sure, who is X to stop someone from selling themselves into slavery, right? But it's also an extreme asshole response to a situation where a rich and powerful slaver goes to poor people and says, "my goal is to help you, when you choose to become my slave, I will clothe and feed you and even educate you, I'm doing this to help you" and someone criticizes that.

It doesn't matter if it's not MY business to stop FB or take away others' freedom to use FB. FB is still doing this to gain power, and the ramifications of this long-term are terrible. And your statement amounts to "FB has a right to lock people in (and to misrepresent their motives), and people have a right to choose to be locked in" which is a shitty pathetic reply to my criticism.
Can someone explain all the steps here?

I get that:

1) the browser will silently download a DLL to the Downloads folder

2) the installer does something that causes the DLL to run, compromising the machine.

I get why people don't like (1), but why is (2) actually happening? Are the DLL hijackers exploiting name collisions, is an API being abused, or something else? And is there a robust way to prevent this even if browsers persist in silent downloads?
Hack Reactor uses this method for all of their first 6 weeks.
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How can you sue property? That doesn't even make sense. It's like corporations are people. These are just "creative" ways to circumvent the constitution and rule of law.
I've been getting into bonsai, and had the pleasure of attending the show they put on in Portland this fall. It really was world-class, for all I can tell.

If you want a relaxing way to get a grasp on the hobby, this YouTube series is awesome. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8VbKcOcYctk
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> As a personal anecdote, my first forays into ML are covered with rand() calls, and in retrospect, it's head-smashingly obvious that this was a Bad Idea.

It's a perfectly fine idea, except that like you said you needed to keep better control over your seeds, and probably also could have benefitted from some kind of test harness. (Not to mention it sounds like your metrics were a bit underpowered)
Asking good questions
This "They'd need to solve payment collection;" is an intriguing problem if it is still present. The spate of startups (doordash/postmates/et.al) solves the problem (and more) but I certainly wonder if there's a more focused solution to the specific problem. Would there happen to be more specific details/datapoints?
Talk by Rob Pike explaining the difference: http://youtu.be/cN_DpYBzKso
I'm fairly certain that when assets are forfeited any party has the opportunity to claim the property. There is no case where no claim is found valid and law enforcement gets to keep it.
The Embarcadero Freeway was not destroyed in the earthquake, although it was damaged. The Cypress Street Viaduct in Oakland collapsed in that earthquake, killing and injuring many people.

Although the Embarcadero Freeway was never rebuilt and that greatly improved the waterfront, a lot of the traffic it carried was rerouted along the Central Freeway/Van Ness (GGB bound traffic) or SOMA surface streets, and no adequate public transit was built either, so "didn't cause problems" is arguable.
He's ignored costs. 10.5 billion barrels * $36 = $378 bn. But they probably cost something like $25 a barrel to extract so $115bn, plus financing costs because it would take say 10 years to get it and sell it, say 6% interest reduces the NPV to $65 bn. A lot of businesses would look great if you could assume they were worth potential sales with no costs attached.
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20101111-00/?p=...
I enjoyed the rest of your comment, and I share some of these sentiments, but don't agree about Benatar being a troll. I'm confident he actually believes the positions he espouses.

Also, I want to know, what are the best modern examples of enclaves? Are they all bespoke? Some likeminded parents getting together? Something more formulaic that has actually scaled out without becoming a self-parody or a lifestyle brand?
The linked article [1] has an explanation:

In simple terms if an application (e.g. Test.exe) loads
a DLL (e,g. foo.dll) by just the name, Windows follows
a specific search order depending upon whether
“SafeDllSearchMode” is enabled or disabled to
locate the legitimate DLL.

So it looks like the installer is legitimately attempting to load some DLL but either hasn't fully qualified the name or hasn't enabled this flag

[1]: http://blog.opensecurityresearch.com/2014/01/unsafe-dll-load...
the face recognition stopping it from changing when it is being looked at is a neat idea.
Excellent post, thank you.
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I would hesitate to invest in either of these companies they each have a CEO that isn't fully focused on only the company.
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I am modeling in AutoCAD for Mac, which is quite annoying, because, by comparison to the Windows copy, the Mac copy lacks proper materials facility and a lot of other features. Even basic stuff, such as Copy to Layer. But oh well, such is life. AutoCAD is what I know :)

No beta units yet. My previous source for carbon fiber CNC production is out of that business. We just acquired an X-Carve CNC machine, so I'll be starting on cutting the frames as soon as the holidays are over. I have a previous design which has a similar layout, but this should be lighter, and about 25% more thrust, so it will be very fun.

As for RTV, I have to research that. I really like the toughness and finish of the nylon parts from Shapeways, but the price point for them is insane. It's fine for prototypes, but for production I would love to do injection nylon plastic. I never done anything like that though, so it will be interesting to research and do.
I don't know, I'm more concerned about subversion and sabotage of legitimate political groups, like we saw with COINTELPRO.
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The installer tries to load a dll called version.dll. As the default behavior on windows is to load from the same folder as the started binary first, it finds the malicious dll and loads that.
The article is interesting.
But if TLDR, then here is the list:

Fab

Evernote

Good Technology

LivingSocial

Pure Storage

Gilt Groupe

Dropbox

Box

Theranos

Square
Yes.

Microsoft has delivered a beta version of it with VS 2015 Update 1.

Clang guys are improving clang-tidy for similar errors.

Check Herb Sutter's talk at CppCon 2015.
As someone accustomed to selecting the location with every download, I really don't like the idea of a separate folder just for downloads. The first time I used a browser like that, when I clicked a link and it downloaded the file immediately, it was quite disorienting because I didn't know where it went. The files I download need to go in different places depending on what they are, so it's hugely irritating to have to go to Downloads (which is conveniently somewhere with a nontrivially long path...) and move them to where they should go. This encourages users to put everything they download in one place, which is really bad for organisation.

IMHO the browser should always ask where you want to save something, defaulting to the last location you chose. The extra click/keypress, and having the files downloaded to their intended location, is far better than the multiple actions required to rummage in Downloads and move the files to where they should be afterwards. The workaround, to right-click and "Save As...", also involves an extra action.
I subscribed this year for the first time and it really is wonderful. If they offer the Black Friday price annually, I think I'll keep it going.
This is nothing like Bonsai Kitten, complete click bait.
The law means what everyone says it means. A plain reading of the constitution (and without a doubt the founders intentions) prohibit civil forfeiture. Unfortunately the courts have rubber-stamped the ridiculous legal fiction that the government is suing the property so here we are.

This is what makes libertarianism a cruel joke: even if it made sense, it would be subverted immediately by powerful or moneyed interests.

The constitution means nothing if the courts or executive won't enforce it.
On working remotely and why it's getting huge
Driverless trucks as distribution centers/battery swaps, and rooftop drone stations, could bring this down to last meter delivery, rather than last mile delivery. You just need delivery from curb to door step which a truck can now do and multiple drones can be delivering packages at one time.

Going to back-of-the-napkin this here: Current cost (just for person making the drop) is about $1.50/stop. Assume six packages/stop. So now you just need six drones to fly a single package from a truck to the doorstep for $0.25/each in that stop. So each drone will need to make 120 such runs/day for under $30.00 ($150/week, $7,800/year). This should be enough to easily cover energy/CAPEX as I assume that drones would be operating autonomously, and maybe you'd need one override-pilot in a support center for every 100 drones (basically one manual override every 17 stops).

Given the sanity check above, I'd wager that you could easily get this down to $0.05-$0.10 per package, including edge cases covering 99% of the deliveries. Big deliveries like TVs may ask the owner to come out to the (driverless) truck to pick it up at the side of the road while a drone century waits.
Browsers could protect users from this class of vulnerability by making it so that, if you run a browser-downloaded executable from within the browser, it first moves it to an empty directory and runs it there.
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The title is clickbait-y (the harbingers are never identified) and the Ars author's conclusions have little to do with the conclusions of the researchers.

Example: "If something appeals to them, it’s unlikely that it will appeal to the mainstream." No, it doesn't say that about the general cases -- that's like saying "if a (harbinger) likes Star Wars, it's unlikely that Star Wars will appeal to the mainstream." The only universe of products that is relevant to harbinger behavior is failed products.
> The law means what everyone says it means.

Not quite. The law means what the people with actual power say it means. I find it odd that people express surprise when something happens that seems to violate some text written on a piece of paper. It's people with guns versus a text document. Not really a fair match, and not a surprising outcome.

> This is what makes libertarianism a cruel joke: even if it made sense, it would be subverted immediately by powerful or moneyed interests.

Not sure what that has to do with libertarianism specifically. Seems like "democracy" or even just "government" fits better in that sentence.
>In April 2014, she got a long email from another employee. The employee alleged that Theranos had cherry-picked data when comparing Edison machines to traditional lab machines to make the Edison look more accurate, according to a copy of the email.

>For one test, the device’s accuracy rate increased sharply after some information was deleted and manipulated, the employee wrote. Edison machines also allegedly failed daily quality-control checks often.

>Ms. Holmes forwarded the email to Mr. Balwani. He replied to the employee, who no longer works at Theranos, denied all the claims and questioned the employee’s understanding of statistics and lab science.

Oh man. If you read through Theranos' reviews on Glassdoor [1] this anecdote seems totally legitimate. Multiple reviews talk about the toxic culture and how management does anything to cover their behinds. Quite a few of these were written before the scandal broke so I think they're quite honest about what's going on.

[1] https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Theranos-Reviews-E248889_P...
> I wish I could code for iPhone with TurboC, the thing just worked, no loading time, if I hit a button, it do what I want instantly.

I haven't used turboc in over 20 years, but I don't recall it doing things like code completion and refactoring and all the other stuff one expects from a modern ide. (this is not to defend xcode)
If that's the loophole, then how does it not apply just as well to all searches and seizures? Why can't cops just show up at a house, search it, take whatever they want, and leave it up to the owner to prove they're the owner or try to fight it in court after the fact? Of course, that's a rhetorical question, because that exact thing does routinely happen.
Not to diss the people who made SDL, but that's one part out of many parts that makes a Windows port work.
I don't understand why there's a need to use the word "theft". It's just visualizing public information in a more readable way.

You think we don't know our git commit emails are public? Heck, my email is right there on my github profile.
As the article says, "blood tests sometimes provide life-or-death answers." If these allegations of fraudulent testing are true, then the executives belong in jail.
It shows that there are some problems (eg PCP), that are literally impossible to solve for every case. If you were able to come up with an algorithm that could do so, you would've found a solution to the halting problem, which we know is impossible. Other than that, it's just some person having fun compiling between two different esoteric programming languages.
In your example it's not forfeiture, it's evidence. Evidence treated differently. It's either held until a verdict is reached or it's returned to its rightful owner.
Can you really 'steal' public information?
I'm honestly getting kind of annoyed with seeing stuff about Theranos, since everyone writing about them is beating about the bush, and only ends up describing how Theranos communicates with a startling lack of earnestness.

Example from the video, paraphrased:

Mod: "What prick tests are you able to do, using no commercially available lab equipment?"

Holmes: "[lots of waffling] We're currently only doing the Herpes test. [proceeds to not answer the question]"

Mod: [accepts the non-answer and moves on]

This kind of reporting is entirely useless, unless it's some kind of attempt to subtly out Theranos for being dishonest.
EFF seems to be making a habit of backing these worryingly pernicious bills.
Firefox decides to incorporate Tor Browser in private browsing mode.

Digital Ocean gets acquired.

Google Fiber buys Cincinnati Bell.

IoT still hasn't gained much traction.

Bitcoin suffers 51% attack.

Archaeological evidence of human life found on Mars/Moon from some time > 12K years ago.

4G meshnets become popular in developing countries.
> Yes I do! Do you? The term is called quantitative easing and it is a mechanism of last resort! Amazing! And totally irrelevant to the debate!

So you understand how quantitative easing stimulates the economy but you don't see the analogy to creating more copies of information goods?

> Speaking of irrelevancy, do you know what the government usually does during a recession before they resort to actually printing money? If you do you win!

They... lower taxes and increase/maintain government spending. Which you can't do at the same time as each other without either borrowing or creating money, and government borrowing money increases interest rates, hence the printing.

> No I'm not! No disguises. I am illustrating an isomorphism. Copying is stealing and the concept is EXACTLY the same as printing money.

Then just claim copying is stealing directly so people can better understand why you're wrong. The analogy is unnecessary and it doesn't even hold in that context.

If you use forged currency to "buy" a loaf of bread, the store is out one loaf of bread. If you copy some information the store's balance sheet is unchanged. The two are not equivalent and trying to ignore the difference is exactly what leads to the crazy conclusions the law makes about the calculation of damages for copyright infringement.

Notice that this is not saying that copyright infringement causes no damages. It is merely saying that the damages are not equal to the cost of the product, unlike the situation of an actual theft.

I'm not sure you would even like a direct analogy to theft. A store buys a loaf of bread for $1 and aims to sells it for $1.50 (or whatever). If you steal it, the loss they take on their books is their cost, not the retail price. Calculating damages that way wouldn't be very favorable to copyright holders.
> where exactly do you draw the line in between law enforcement taking obviously stolen property and law enforcement taking personal property?

The difference is the "obviously stolen" part. None of the ludicrous instances of civil asset forfeiture I have read involve property that is obviously (or even allegedly) stolen. Heck, half the time it's just a cop pulling someone over on a highway, stealing their cash, and sending them on their way.
"The most important role for UNIX is to provide a file system."

I looked up TGM which is mentioned in this manual (TGML). Apparently this was what Thompson used to write the B compiler.

Anyway, I ended up on the Multicians site. Some online accounts of computing history suggest UNIX was an alternative to the Multics project.

On the Multicians site it suggests Multics had a very different concept of "files", which could also be "segments". There was apparently potential ambiguity regarding the term "file".

Here's my question for anyone who was there:

Today we often see the phrase "Everything is a file" being cited when introducing people to UNIX. But I have never seen anyone attempt to explain why. What was the context in the 1970's?

Was the UNIX notion of "files" a reaction to the approach taken by Multics?

Again, this early manual says: "The most important role for UNIX is to provide a file system."
They're opposing current trends because they want to follow the next trend. That makes them appear non-conformist to the general public, while they're conforming to other hipsters.
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Shameless plug - CSPJS - a sweetjs macro that supports a similar async mechanism and (imho) better error handling facilities.

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Have been using it in a production system for a year now.
Because they don't have any basis for claiming that it belongs to them.

Whereas property accused of being used for illegal purposes does have such a basis.
No, not because of "right to privacy," but it would be pretty easy for those justices to rule that the federal government has no authority to conduct mass surveillance precisely because there is no explicit such authority given to the federal government in the Constitution.
This is just FUD clickbait[1]. Of course your email is visible in git commits; you don't have to mess around with metadata APIs to get it!

This tiny article is literally an advertisement: "For those curious about <buzzwords/FUD keywords>, get in touch with me at <email>, <feel-good blurb>."

[1] "you will torch your ability to send any emails w/o them going to the spam folder." WTF? This is neither explained nor justified, and is simply false. In fact, although I'm not a big fan of github-recruiting, I would think for a developer publishing your email in your commits is a good way to get more recruiting email!
I don't know how to begin to estimate whether the good things (according to my own policy preferences) would outweigh the bad.
So the cops just have to declare that they believe the property has been used for illegal purposes, then they can search your house and take whatever they want. That's not much of a barrier.
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The key questions that needs to be addressed, is how homogenous or heterogenous are blood markers at the level they want to measure at? The machines may be reporting results accurately, but a pin-prick-sized droplet may simply not be a large enough sample size for the tests they want to run.
This happened to me recently. I asked a close friend if she had seen the Milky Way. She said yes, but I learned later that she thought that by "Milky Way" I was referring to the smattering of stars she can see from her mid-sized Indiana hometown.
At some point, infosec lies on user education. No arguing about this. But the exact point is open to argument.

Software need an interfaces that reflect intent - if your browser dumps stuff from unrelated places at the same folder, and then the OS uses those unrelated stuff as if it was related, there's a completely failure from the software data to reflect the user intent. This is a blatant fault of the software stack (but of no party in particular).
What I think he's trying to say is that spammers will use your email address as a falsified "from" field because github is a treasure-trove of real looking emails.

That doesn't impact you at all if your email's domain happens to be one that does SPF correctly (which every major provider does do) you should be fine because those false emails will be bounced prior to them being able to impact spam score.

If you have a really poorly configured email server, it's very possible someone could make you have a terrible time with spam filters by sending spam from "you". Of course, this can happen just as easily with or without Github in the picture typically.
Is this just a rehash of the "economic civil war" article from a few weeks ago?
Browsers can't do that. At least not in a general enough way, since it's Windows that executes the files.

Windows could stop trusting code in folders with some flag. That would be much more useful.
If any recruiter would put in the effort to check my Github, identify relevant positions to repos listed, manually scrape the Github API to find my email address (not listed on my GH profile), well, then that is a magnitude better than sending me a generic message on LinkedIn for a job I am not even qualified for.

But then again, with the author supplying such a tool with the potential of harvesting email addresses en masse, recruiters might as well not put in the effort (language:X, stars:>50) and have better reach at the same time.
> And yes, it's incredibly ironic that this is the exact system we had a revolution to get away from.

I don't know if that's the case. It seems to me that one plausible reading of the history of the United States is that the rich colonists ("founding fathers") wanted to make sure they had all the power they wanted over the new government.
Is it just me or WSJ increasingly is behaving like apologist for big business?

They probably always were, just now I am noticing.