skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stop comparing apples and oranges.

Notice he uses cities outside of the Bay Area for his speculation graphs. Phoenix and Dallas are like SF? S&L crises much?

> Whether you are looking at a home in the Mission or Pac Heights, or even Palo Alto, these assets are all deeply connected to the same fundamental economic system.

No. This is not reality. SV and SF are complete outliers. After the dot-com and 2008, price drops here were not at all like they were for those other "bubble" cities. US fundamentals and SV/SF fundamentals are two completely different realities.

When the "bubble" bursts, the only thing that will change is the Z-Estimate will be less than 20% over list price. The list price will still be unaffordable to 95+%, and that will not change until the quake.
This is pure marketing genius:

1. Start with a waste product that farmers discard (ugly, misshapen carrots).

2. Cut it up into little pieces and put it in plastic bags.

3. Call them "baby carrots" and sell them for more than regular carrots sell for because they're convenient.

And then watch as the total market for carrots increases dramatically because people like eating "baby carrots" more than regular carrots.
An Ivy league education owes very little to professors. Professors are hired for research skills, not undergraduate teaching. Teaching is famously poor, except in the small minority of research assistantship cases.
I am saying that if a large group of people feel they are being abused by a system that does not represent them, they are always free to reject that system and adopt another one that does work for them.

If you walk into a casino and notice that the rules appear to be rigged against you, do you try to work within the casino's system, perhaps petitioning the staff to change the rules to be more in your favor?

You have other options: (1) Leave the casino, (2) attempt to cheat the casino, (3) fight the casino using either violent or (preferably) non-violent means, (4) create a new establishment that you and your group are happy with.

Your other choice is to continue to play the slots and vent online when you keep losing, and although that might make you feel better it won't change the reality of the game.
I'm a big fan of "The Hard Thing About Hard Things" by Ben Horowitz. It's his story but he does spend the latter part of the book bundling his learnings into advice.
Relevantly, the data presented in this article indicate that the USA is more unequal than South Africa.
trim is implemented in the controller in that a controller implementing trim is capable of receiving, understanding and acting upon the trim command. It's actually issued higher up in the stack; I've only ever seen it mentioned in the context of an OS issuing the command to the drive if a file on a filesystem on the drive is deleted, or if a utility intended to issue trim against all empty blocks was run.

You're correct in that trim is less necessary if a drive has good garbage collection. I don't know anything about the implementation of either, but I would expect trim to be easier, cheaper and better than GC. It seems like GC would require work to discover/remember things provided as input w/ trim. I've assumed that GC was only implemented by vendors in their controllers because trim wasn't available in the popular OSs yet, and/or because their controllers were already doing most of the work required by GC anyway so it was cheap to implement.

Finally, you can't equate SSDs with the SD or eMMC used in some of the phones/tablets. Yes it's all flash, but an SSD is typically multi-channel with many flash modules, a DRAM cache and a much more sophisticated controller implementing a standard storage interface (AHCI/SATA or SAS or NVMe). eMMC and SD are much simpler, cheaper and slower.
The linked page has a testimonial from someone who received offers from top tech companies to be a software developer. Although I'm a fan of Udacity (and completed one of their nanodegrees) I was surprised.

When I clicked through, it turned out that the person had also completed a 'B.S. in Computer Science at UCLA'.
What is the author's point? Regulate advertisers? Content providers? Webmasters? The internet itself? Its easy to make a website so lots of people will make poor choices. Either they don't know better or want more advertising money. You can complain all day about it, why not make a browser extension that fixes it instead?
That's like saying paper money has a design flaw, or ethernet has design flaws because it doesn't account for serving web pages.
It is awful that activist parents can get their kids higher test scores by requesting accommodations. The tests are (inappropriatelty) designed to measure speed, but a minority of in-group families get that aspect of the test waived to give their kids an edge, instead of making the tests loosely timed for all students.

Not to mention the performance enhancing drug aspect, behavior that is banned in sports but encouraged in academic games.
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Maybe your experience is different from mine then. My device was inaccurate enough to be useless. Further there doesn't seem to be any allegation that people are expecting it to have a medical or diagnostic level of reliability. That seemed to be a throwaway line in OP's article, not something core to the lawsuit. As far as I can tell from other news sources, they are suing because it can't read heart rate for crap.
Except that it does not require you to own the copyright in order to send a take-down notice. It does not even require you to have a reasonable belief that you own the copyright. All it requires is a "good faith belief".
Which provider do you propose we boycott, and which one do we use in the mean time? JohnDeere, CASE, New Holland etc dominate the industry, and no farmer is going to (let alone can afford to) stop using their current equipment, and spend millions of dollars (it would easily cost us this much) buying different brand machinery. Let alone dealing with the hassles that come with swapping from one stream of ag software to another.

What's most likely to happen is farmers will just keep modifying their machinery at will. It's already common place to chip your engine, or to physically modify machines/implements to improve performance or your production methods. I don't see that changing anytime soon.
Off by a factor of 10. And I thought $2b was a significant cost for moving a freeway....
I'd like this to succeed (really), but as far as we know, right now, you're choosing option 5 (venting online) while trying to convince us that 1, 2, 3, 4 are better. Show us what you've done.

And I mean what you've done about withdrawing the consent, not about tech projects.
The BBC is not very objective in its coverage of Israel. http://bbcwatch.org is very critical of the BBC in this respect.

Al Jazeera seems to have a problem with Jews in general ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jazeera_controversies_and... says so ). They also don't like the Shia - not without editorial bias so to speak.
> So they can play white knuckle poker and out-wait everyone else, then jack up prices again around 2019/20 - just in time to kill any recovery that might be happening by then.

The rest of the world better move off of oil quickly then.
You should take it a step further and help the retailers add this as a feature to their own apps -- having a store app should include a promise that if the store lowers prices, it will refund the difference for purchases in the last week (or whatever time frame) to loyal customers, perhaps through a store credit. It's a dandy reason to drive adoption of the app.

One thing you should listen to is the number of people who want a reserve price (transaction threshold). This price setting is pure economic gold as information goes -- it tells you their risk aversion (probably) and the shape of their utility curve for extra income. I'm sure it correlates with income, and gives independent verification of income, statistically.

If you have 5 big retailers using your app feature internally, offer to build them a network they can join, to make their rebate offer even more attractive to participants.

With the stores' aid, you can circumvent the problems with email permissions, which frankly are going to limit your adoption. You are far better off working with the stores in a partnership I think, and helping them to understand their own customers' reserve price (and hence propensity for returns and chargebacks, which they surely care about), than being a 'gotcha' adversary.

Added link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expected_utility_hypothesis
1) The DMCA had a _lot_ of good parts about it. The alternatives were a lot worse. That some parts were bad doesn't invalidate the good parts - be careful of hating the whole thing

2) You talk of something entering the public domain...The US doesn't do that anymore (tragic smiley)
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Been using an SSD in my laptop for 6 months now... UFS / FFS doesnt really seem to fragment that much

# fsck / | grep frag
6395 files, 106651 used, 409612 free (300 frags, 51164 blocks, 0.1% fragmentation)

# fsck /usr | grep frag
396741 files, 4832173 used, 19820289 free (4953 frags, 2476917 blocks, 0.0% fragmentation)

# fsck /home | grep frag
1192199 files, 27780639 used, 3176062 free (216374 frags, 369961 blocks, 0.7% fragmentation)
This was a very smart buy for them, assuming they use the technology and not just the team for some other venture. Their stock price may rebound if they can do this successfully.

- $$ for special effects or special "data widgets"
- have an online video editor that uses the "cloud" (so users are locked into their services and software). Sort of like Dropbox, but for GoPro videos and includes an awesome editor. Charge $$ for membership and/or space.
- $$ for GoPro sensors.

Of course, I hate to have to lock my video into their servers... but that is how they would make $$.
Usually it's ok to use a small variation that adds information but don't editorializes the title too much. In this case I propose "How to manage and block Windows 10 notification and upgrade options".

(Another allowed alternative to the title is the subtitle or the first sentence of the abstract, but in this case they are not useful.)
If you want to mimic credit cards, just have a company hold the money for 30 days, take %3, and take away any disputed transactions from the business.
I'm moving to NYC February 1st with forty bucks and ruby (not rails) know-how. I'm 21 and ready to start sculpting my life with my own hands so i figured I'd just go.

Does anybody know if there are hackerspaces that are looking for industrious people like me? As long as i can code for a few hours a day i could help cook and clean and stuff and once i get a job i could contribute back to the space with money.

I know this isn't the best place to ask but it's on topic and i don't really know where else to ask and find out.

This was a cool article, i had no idea how much history there is behind these groups and its especially encouraging knowing that with enough willpower, these groups can be self sufficient and autonomous.
The difference is the form factor and most of all that this includes a tourbillon, an incredibly complex watch part (until recently) only found on watches costing several thousand dollars.
> I think the 20-30 years of GUI exploration is coming up very empty handed

I think you are vastly overestimating the actual "exploration" that occurred over this time.

Windowing toolkits have extremely high barriers to entry as well as high networking effects.

The whole idea of a very hierarchical, single-threaded entity controlling all of your user interaction is very much anathema to modern CPU's. However, we are stuck with it because a new windowing toolkit would take a huge amount of effort.
If the software fails this often, they really should have some sort of reversion mode with multiple watchdogs that runs on a tiny microcontroller and just keeps the temperature at 70 degrees. If they can't get that right, maybe just a hard switch that wires in a calibrated bimetalic strip to keep the wheels on until the software is fixed.
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> Show us what you've done.

My C.V.: https://fixingtao.com/cv/

EDIT: just noticed you stealth-edited this in:

> And I mean what you've done about withdrawing the consent, not about tech projects.

Tech projects can fall under (4). Tor, BitTorrent, Bitcoin, Silk Road, etc. were all tech projects representing withdrawal of consent through the creation of "new establishments". Creating a new country (if that's what you're referring to) also falls under (4) but requires a more cohesive community that does not knee-jerk downvote when told they have options. ;)
gateways.list is quite useful.

Are there lists that include more carriers (non-US)?
The Chinese miners are worried about the block size _LIMIT_ (not the block size) getting too much bigger so that their greater latency reduces their mining effectiveness. They aren't against any increase as far as I know.

The criticism isn't invalid, but I think the pessimism is. The miners are ultimately in control, not the blockstream idiots.
The optimistic view is to wait for them to open-source Windows 10, so people can more easily figure out how to get the OS to behave the way they want.
Removed old comment, replaced it with this one:

Here, read this: http://stevedutch.blogspot.com/2014/10/why-are-both-politica...
The cost of the hookup is just one part of the cost. Licensing fees are also present. A quick Google search finds that for ESPN, these are on the order of $5/customer/month. For someone who doesn't watch ESPN, that is a hefty subsidy compared to that of other networks.

Source:http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/dish-espn-trial-off...
My suspicion is that the growth rate of computer science is partially due to Knuth's work. TAoCP has a fair amount of original research in it and Knuth developed tools like the Stanford Graph Base, original algorithms, and original numerical methods as part of his research for the book...and TeX and Metafont for it's publication.
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Reading Task Duration as Text and Mono Framework Support inside .NET Apps
Carry propagation bugs are more or less self-explanatory: the implementer failed to add every possible carry bit during a large integer addition or multiplication, and this turns into an incorrect result. This may only happen in rare edge cases, and therefore remain unnoticed for a long, long time. The sibling comment explains this better than I could.

A carry propagation bug is a special case of a fault attack. Fault attacks, in their most general form, are attacks where an adversary tries to induce an error during a cryptographic computation. The consequences of a fault during a computation are algorithm-specific; here are some examples:

- In RSA, a fault during a decryption or signature operation using a particular (CRT) implementation approach lets the attacker recover the private key [1]. You do this by obtaining an incorrect signature S for some message M you know about, and then recover one of the prime factors of the modulus with the easy computation gcd(S - M^e, N). This is often called the Bellcore attack.

- With elliptic curves, if you can convince a scalar multiplication to work on an incorrect point on the curve (either because the implementation doesn't check the point is valid, or via a hardware fault), you can likewise recover the secret key [2]. The process here is a little more complicated, but no less efficient.

- With AES, if you can trigger a fault in a state byte right before the eighth round, you can recover the full key very easily having both the valid ciphertext and the erroneous one [3]. This attack only makes sense for hardware implementations, since software implementations of symmetric ciphers do not generally leave much space for errors to occur.

In the Golang case, the carry bit failure leads to the Bellcore attack. All you have to do, in principle, is to harvest around 2^25 RSA signatures (and respctive messages) from a buggy target, compute a GCD, and you're done.

[1] https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-69053-0_4

[2] https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44598-6_8

[3] https://eprint.iacr.org/2009/575
> I really want to see what Netflix can do with the news cycle.

I don't see this as a good fit for Netflix as I'm not quite sure what they would bring to the news cycle table that isn't already being done. Commercial free broadcasts? Infrastructure? Most quality, public media stations already upload full, commercial free shows to their Youtube channels (and often with quick turn-around from the original broadcast date.) You just simply need to subscribe to their channel (something that I can't do in Netflix).
Multicast has been sitting there in the specs since forever. If ISPs ever feel like switching it on, there's your scalability problem solved.
No different than a con artist. It seems to me when techies do conning they call it social engineering. In other words, a social engineer is a techie con artist.
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US thermostats usually use low-voltage wiring for signalling to the furnace or boiler. We usually only see line/mains voltage thermostats (that work by limiting current supplied to a electric heater) in cheap apartments.
https://nest.com/support/article/How-can-I-tell-if-my-curren...

The US version won't work with line voltage systems.
It looks like the UK version only works with line voltage systems.

This also explains why in the US changing a thermostat is something pretty much anyone can do but the UK version requires a Nest Pro to hook up.

Nest US: "It's easy to install the Nest Thermostat. Everything you need comes in the box"

Nest UK: "A Nest Pro installer should install your Nest Thermostat. They will identify cables from the boiler, zone valve or junction box to connect to the Heat Link."
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There's nothing Rust-specific about methods having a self argument. All languages with methods have such a thing. I'm really unsure of what your specific complaint is here.
I was wondering how you'd read a key in raw mode in awk.
The answer, I found with a mix of horror and admiration is 3 forks. Two stty and one bash (presuming read and echo are builtins)
>“We had a bug that was introduced in the software update that didn’t show up for about two weeks,” Mr. Rogers said apologetically. In January, devices went offline, and “that’s when things started to heat up.”
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Notice that I never challenged the result of the ruling -- I actually think it's totally fine to give employers the right to inspect equipment they own and I pedantically follow the advice you suggest by absolutely never logging into any personal account or generating any non-work-related web traffic on any work-owned devices. I want to personally ensure that if an employer ever does see fit to inspect my workstation, it will just be super boring for them. I try my best to extend this to my work emailing habits too, by trying to write the shortest possible emails, and trying to respond to people with in-person responses when possible, to avoid proliferating paper trails of my own conversations.

The only thing I am saying is that this is a two-way street. If employers are allowed to investigate networks because of some socially constructed and arbitrary property (e.g. it is "work-related") then why aren't employees allowed to do the same thing, or to ensure that a certified third-party arbiter can do so on their behalf.

My issue is not that employers can see what employees do on employer-owned property. My issue is that employees should also be able to see what employers do, to verify that they are acting in the best interest of the employee in situations where an employee has a right to expect that. If it is "the company" that owns these things, machines, HR files, etc., then why does only one 'class' of corporate citizen get to have the access (the executive class, generally administered through a layer of HR/legal/compliance officers) while huge other classes of corporate citizens, regular workers, who are just as much "the company" as anyone else is, are never allowed symmetric access to make sure of the issues that could affect them.

Saying that "the company" owns things is not helpful, because if we're all equally "the company" then we all have our professional lives riding on adherence to company policy, verifiably not committing fraud, and so forth. Yet courts consistently side with the ruling classes within a company and clearly support the idea that employees do not get to have such access.

The other point I raised is that, even granting the company has the right to investigate what transpired on its owned equipment, why does that mean that the company itself gets to be the entity that performs the inspection? If we wanted to (a) determine whether or not a worker inappropriately used company property and also (b) protect that workers privacy, at least as far as it is related to the employer, then we should be willing to let a neutral third-party arbiter perform the investigation and agree in advance to be bound by its decision.

I guess what I'm saying is that it's much more complicated than "Company owns the machine. Company can do what they want." No. They can do what we determine it is right for them to do. Maybe that is doing X but not Y if we value protecting Y. We can make these laws or make them part of negotiated employment agreements, but rather than doing so, we allow ourselves to be asymmetrically treated as a lower class within the organization, and we rationalize reasons post facto for why this should be so.
There are literally already lots of people in other countries who are saving a larger percentage of their money by using bitcoin even if they don't know it. Remittances from Filipino maids in southeast asia are already an up and coming area. All they do is go to a small stall in a shopping mall, and all their family has to do is go to a small stall in a shopping mall in Manila. Now any two people can set up a back and forth settlement using btc.
Let's rewind. VHS won because of porn. Listening to music is now a buffet style affair because of Napster. AC kicked DC in the nuts and the public applauded because it was better and it could.

I respect those working to improve the system from within, but also respectfully point out that change of the sort this article is talking about comes from the outside. Revolutions all have one thing in common. Out with the old, and in with the new. Copyright law is old, it is administered by old people, and it is kept in place by the old guard. Open source hardware, distributed open source software development, 3D printing, crowd funding, and on and on, these are all new.

You can attempt to evolve (fix) the old rules, you'll fail. It seems to me to be a safer bet to simply begin playing the new game, even though the rules are not totally worked out yet, even though people say it isn't legit, even though there are no referees to call foul or panel of judges to provide approval and award medals. Out with the old, and in with the new.
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Miners profit more from bigger blocks due to more transaction fees.
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Now what if there weren't outrage profiteers telling me that I'm supposed to be angry at people who have more than me all the time? Oh damn it, I'm not angry with the 1%, I'm angry at the people who are annoying in their jealousy of the 1%, and the richer the 1% gets, the more insufferable their outrage gets, which makes me less happy...
What an evil and misleading testimonial. They're trying to imply that he got a job at google because of the nanodegree, while you find out after the clickthrough that he simultaneously got a CS degree from UCLA.