skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It very much feels like the freedom to move to an abandoned island and not pay taxes or be subject to any government.

Except, unless I'm mistaken, US citizens don't even have that freedom. Unless you renounce your citizenship, you pay US taxes wherever you live, unless there's a tax treaty of some kind in place between the US and your country of residence.
Show HN: Patchwork – Real-time notifications for OSS vulnerabilities
>The problem with Internet streaming is getting any demographic information

Is this a problem in 2016? I'm pretty sure you can get _MORE_ data from internet tracking vs. otherwise.
Hi all! I’m Shamiq, ex-Matasano and co-founder of Patchwork Security. David and I built Patchwork as a devops tool to help manage Open Source Vulnerabilities. We want to drive the time between an available fix and patched infrastructure to zero. We’d love for you to try it out, and let us know what you think!

We’ll be here all day answering comments or you can reach us at shamiq@patchworksecurity.com or david@patchworksecurity.com.
The Road Goes on Forever
> My main goal is to empower individuals by creating a relatively inflexible engine

I'm a big fan of fostering creativity though restrictions, so this makes sense to me. I would be interested in any notes on how you try to realize that goal in the engine. It would be interesting to see the difference between limitations imposed by performance v.s. limitations imposed in the name of a focused creation experience.

In general, any time you're not "simply" (not that the problems are simple) creating a system that exists elsewhere (physics, liquid, etc), it would be interesting to hear your thoughts on where you choose to deviate from the 'norm' and why.
I've never heard anyone say it in the UK either. I think the OP's reasoning is off. Just because 'bike' can be used as a verb doesn't mean that it will get used in that way in all situations.
Show HN: The fastest way to Base64 in the browser
Oracle's Graal.js will support Node.js https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUo3BFMwQFo&feature=youtu.be
It's gotten better (especially recently), but Xamarin Studio tends to be pretty buggy-- I've seen basic project management tasks (like adding/moving files) crash the IDE; I've had syntax highlighting just stop working for files that compile fine; UI editors are slow, don't match the feature sets of the equivalent native editors, and occasionally break backwards compatibility with themselves (seriously; had the iOS UI editor wipe out some of its own generated code and break my build a couple weeks ago). Again, it's nowhere near as bad as it was about a year ago, but it's still the weak point of Xamarin's toolset (which is, otherwise, pretty great, at least for what we're doing with it).
The Great Forgetting
It's virtually indistinguishable from current models and is more than fast enough for everything except gaming.

I had a 2009 or 2010 model, and while I agree with what you're saying overall, the new 5K models have incredible screens: http://jakeseliger.com/2015/01/01/5k-retina-imac-and-mac-os-....
Considering how deeply Windows-specific EdgeHTML is likely to be, I don't think open-sourcing it would be very useful, unless someone wants to backport it to Windows 7 and 8.1. I'd rather Microsoft allowed developers to embed EdgeHTML in Win32 desktop applications running on Windows 10.
> Your primary agreement with the company is a trade of your time and skills in return for money

Not really. The tradeoff is not just for money but for a spectrum of compensation, which could be equity (which could confer voting or board rights to you to monitor certain things about the company financial health), vacation time, conference attendance, foosball table access, etc.

Often these things are negotiable, at least if the employer values talent. So why couldn't we negotiate that part of compensation is some sort of verifiable transparency and mutual respect in terms of monitoring the appropriateness of company activities (whether on behalf of the employer or employee)?

I don't see any fundamental reason why these couldn't be negotiated as part of an employment agreement. Instead, what I see is that most employees either don't know or don't care about these items, and, more importantly, that employers actively collude and engage in e.g. regulatory capture specifically to deny workers the opportunity to be able to negotiate these things.
Very insightful comment, thanks. I've never thought of things that way before. I guess the practice/theory intersection explains what I find so appealing about Haskell.
It's called ChakraCore because it is the core engine component of Chakra, not because of any "trend". Specifically, they mention it excluding the runtime bindings for browser or Windows apps.

> ChakraCore is a fully capable JavaScript virtual machine that has the exact same set of capabilities and characteristics that are supported by Chakra, with two key differences. First, it does not expose Chakra’s private bindings to the browser or the Universal Windows Platform, both of which constrain it to a very specific use case scenario. Second, instead of exposing the COM based diagnostic APIs that are currently available in Chakra, ChakraCore will support a new set of JSON based diagnostic APIs, which are platform agnostic and could be standardized or made interoperable across different implementations in the long run. As we make progress on these new diagnostics APIs, we plan to make them available in Chakra as well.

From: https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore/wiki/Architecture-Ov...
almost certain the Palantir is funding the Clinton SuperPAC..
Or Samba. When given the choice to abide by the GPL and open source their Samba changes, or to drop everything; they did the latter and wrote their own SMB implementation. That was three or four OSX releases ago and it's still buggy as hell. The only one who lost here are Apple's paying customers.
If you get a chance to visit a giant miniature railway like this, do so. They are marvelously complicated pieces of machinery combined with hand crafted works of art to build the city and scenery on top.

And if you get a chance to peek in the control room to see what makes these things tick, take it. I took a peek to a control room of a much smaller railway set than the one in the article and it was impressive. About a few dozen monitors that display the entire track network and every train and vehicle on the tracks.

The railway I visited was in Berlin, on the top floor of a mall in Alexanderplatz. It's the biggest miniature railway I've ever seen, but it's smaller than the one in the article.
> though I'm unclear on where the coreboot/libreboot line lies

afaik libreboot is "just" deblobbed coreboot
With Managed Accounts you can create accounts for other people via the API that besides for a line in your terms of service they don't need to be aware of Stripe for.
Hey, I’m David, the other co-founder of Patchwork Security. I was working on AppSec at Mozilla when Shellshock came out, then the next variant and the next. The OpSec team diligently followed new developments, but there had to be a better way than following a bunch of mailing-lists or watching HN for the next named vulnerability. Shamiq and I designed Patchwork to notify users of relevant packages in their infrastructure rather than the firehose approach reporting every new vulnerable package.

Let us know if you run into any problems.
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I could not have said it better myself.
Contrarian economists say U.S. doesn’t have a productivity problem
Nanodegree Plus: Get hired within six months of graduating, or tuition refund
>Another problem which puzzles me even more is dividing a cake among three people by majority vote.

Is there a name for this problem? I can only find the fair cake cutting problem, which has been solved for 3 people.
Primer on Python Decorators (updated Jan 12, 2016)
There’s usually a jumper you can set on the motherboard that controls whether you can reflash firmware. So you can burn Coreboot and set it back.

Also if someone can flash your firmware your security (on the software or physical access side) is already busted and it’s game over anyway.
This is exactly why I travel alone.
>but it also doesn't include the additional value of the money if you invested it wisely

I don't understand how this could be brought into the argument at all. Surely we are just speaking about present value of the money and ignoring how it's spent? Money that gets invested instead of spent wasn't different in quantity in any way. Investing the money you spent on the ticket instead of buying the ticket was also a possibility-- presumably we didn't account for that since we called it a $2 ticket.
Url changed from http://gizmodo.com/u-s-pilots-forget-how-to-fly-manually-say..., which points to this.
I think this is good but I would add diet and exercise. I'm sure many will disagree, but my experience has been that diet and exercise are even more effective than mental tricks.
Or we could keep pressuring AMD and Intel to open up that proprietary code.
I think it's reasonable to argue that it's less of an either/or and more of a self-defeating cycle.

Lower class life -> desire to escape -> worse habits -> lower class life

and so on.
> I worry that the New Republic is too damaged by now -- that it can't be what it was before

Before what? Before was Stephen Glass's invented anti-black stories (and other invented stories). Bell Curve are blacks genetically stupider than whites covers. Or the cover with the smoking welfare queen and her pickaninny - "Day of Reckoning". And on and on. Most of the black writers I follow on Twitter were happy with Hughes changes. Before it was just a bunch of Jewish self-styled intellectuals who liked to dump on the schwartzes.
To explain the joke, the US system is cartelised, while the UK one is under a bit more political and regulatory pressure to treat customers fairly.

(Not that we haven't had a problem with BS fees or the payment protection insurance scandal!)
How many people are qualified to "verify there's no backdoor to your CPU"? Certainly not your average user. If you can't trust your CPU, what can you trust?

Allowing Secure Boot to be bypassed is a backdoor in itself. Allowing the end-user to modify the firmware at all also allows malicious actors to do the same.
If you do the TVM calculations, you have probably never seen a lottery payout schedule that works out to have greater current value than the lump sum for any reasonable annual rate of investment returns.

The $1500M is actually a 30-year annuity due with payments of $50M. In order for it to be worth $930M in present value, the assumed rate of return can only be about 3.7%. If you have even a bare inkling that you can invest at a rate better than 3.7%, you should take the lump sum. For reference purposes, the worst historic 30-year rolling rate of return on a S&P500 index fund is 8%, for a period including the entire Great Depression. Mostly, people get at least 10% over that span of time.

Accounting for federal taxes, which I assume to be 39.6% for a sum that large, the lump sum winner takes $930M and keeps $562M. For tax reasons, you arrange for your ordinary annual income from the low-risk investments to be $400k, on which you pay $116k in tax, and spend $284k. So you set aside $13.3M at 3% for this. With the remaining $549M, you invest at an average 10% over 29 years, occasionally paying 15% long-term capital gains tax, to get $5850M.

The annuity winner pays $19.8M in income tax every year, resulting in a net annual payment of $30.2M. If you subtract $284k as expenses, and invest the rest at 10% with occasional 20% long-term capital gains tax (the tax reason from the previous paragraph), you end up with $3390M after 29 years. This is almost 7 years behind the lump sum investor.

Conclusion: take the lump sum payment.
Jeb Bush gets call on Apple Watch, gets confused [video]
The stress, fear, euphoria, depression associated with starting a startup is not natural (or at least not normal) and I'm sure most founders experience emotions on a level that would qualify them as mentally ill at some point. I've just accepted that it comes with the territory.
In the context of Qt vs GTK, I assumed CLI == GNU/Linux CLI.
This is awesome! Especially that they spent time developing tiny street view cameras.

But why can't I move around? :-(
> The goverment intervention was absolutely unnecessary. They should have left it to market to judge.

Because that's what I want. Multi-national tech companies going around the world raping economies because "we'll let the market judge".

I'll take regulators please. Slower progress is better sliding backwards.
So getting rid of GPLv3 means they can't be doing anything good in open source? Nevermind CUPS, LLVM, Swift, and WebKit just to name a few?

GPL isn't the only license in town, and clearly there are disadvantages to it.
Well now I have to choose a new interview question.
Shouldn't intelligent speculators drive down the price swings? If there are going to be price swings, shouldn't speculators make money by issuing futures and options, thereby decreasing the eventual swings?
The bug was in the RK808 PMIC, which may or may not be used on an RK3288 based system. It looks like the RK3288-based ChromeOS devices do use it though.
This is true, and then there's the counter-example of Django, who managed to do stuff with two fingers lots of guitar lovers can't seem to come close to with four!
I am my own boss, yeah
Will the cost of these toilets ever make sense for that?

When I see things like "Turn a 2L bottle into a light" for a really poor area - I think awesome, something they already have laying around can make their lives way better.

When I see things like "Nano-polmer super toilet for those without running water" I just kind of shrug. Seems to cost more than adding running water, while still not providing a clean place to drink.

What am I missing?
Did you run apmd with the conservative option?
this is a very interesting debate
is there a list of features side by side? or a comparative study that lists pros and cons?
I do not think over-engineering is a subjective term, also common sense :) yes, between them there's lots of levels but one is at one extreme and one is at the other.
so I guess, a good analysis of these two IDEs could be make with a good level of objectivity from the author.
So why didn't they decrease the odds even further? The change of a factor of two or so doesn't seem like much and I don't see a real downside until it actually gets to the point where everyone 'knows' that winning is actually impossible since no one does it.
How I Made 700% Returns by Gambling with UNU
I've got a co-worker who's quite impressed with Firebase. https://www.firebase.com/

Also, I saw a really cool presentation on the Azure platform. It supports push notifications, and even has a multiplatform template generator. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/app-service/mobil...

Both platforms feature a database and authentication.
Ask HN: Best key duplicators?
There's a bunch of sites/apps that will duplicate keys from pictures. I've had bad experiences with local locksmiths and want to try one of these. Anybody have experiences? What is pricing like for run of the mill keys?
For those to young to remember, this is his Dad and supermarket checkout scanners (in 1992):

http://www.nytimes.com/1992/02/05/us/bush-encounters-the-sup...
Hi Chakra Engineer here. It's a work in progress. You can see current work on the `linux` branch (https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore/tree/linux). I believe we are targeting clang. It does not build yet. We will enable builds of parts of the project in stages, building up to a full build with some differences (as you can see in the roadmap, no JIT to make portability easier in the short term, among other things).
Thank you not only for posting this, but also for refusing to contribute.
The Al Jazeera that we get in the UK is apparently run by a lot of ex-BBC people, and uses a lot of the BBC house style, which means and news report will instantly look respectable to a big British market segment. Not that I've ever met anyone in the UK who's ever watched it, of course.

This is the best run-down of the BBC house style I've seen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHun58mz3vI
What If You Bought All 292M of the Possible Powerball Combinations? (US)
Linux supports applying microcode updates as part of the kernel boot process, so you are not dependent on the motherboard firmware to do it and you still get the microcode loaded pretty early.
That would make the decision for me. I considered biking, in my city, until two colleagues were seriously injured in bike commutes.
It's negative-sum, because of the rake.
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Only binary patches for base provided by a third party (M:Tier, where a number of OpenBSD developers work).
Clang and LLVM could have been a GCC project instead, but Stallman decided against it.

Also, the reason you could only get the AST as a XML dump was because of the same shortsighted mindset.
> Something C++ could have done at any time

It could have, but a standardised ABI is a terrible idea. Once you commit to an ABI you're stuck with the tradeoffs you make. If C++ had specified a stable ABI 20 years ago, we'd all be using setjmp and longjmp for exceptions, and small string optimisations and such would be impossible.

I don't really see the big deal tbh. C++ code compiled with GCC was ABI stable between GCC 3.4 (Apr 2004) and GCC 4.9 (Apr 2014), and you can still use use the -fabi-version switch today to generate code against older ABIs. Hell, libstdc++v5 (shipped with GCC 3.3) is still packaged for most distributions.
A few thoughts on Swift symbology
But marketing to a higher income demographic is considerably more expensive (per eyeball/impression). High income demographics are targeted with ads for high-margin goods (cars, vacations, fashion goods), which have 3- to 5- digit margins that can be used to advertise them, so there is more competition to target ads towards wealthier people.
Tool to explore GCHQ gridshader puzzle – (nonogram)
Their title is misleading. You are not guaranteed a job, just a refund of tuition if you fail to get a job. Still, this is a lot more than your average university will guarantee you.
They did this so that the lottery overall was less of a regressive tax on the poor. It's not a rip-off at all, it's actually much fairer. We desperately need something similar with our tax code as a whole.
This post really needs to explain why plausible alternative solutions (ideally ones used in real world open source projects) which are not monoids rapidly lead to having to deal with increased complexity. Otherwise, it's just bringing in a lot of terminology waving their hands saying "We came up with a solution that let us have mutiple extensions!" which, on the surface, seems pretty boilerplate.
The Difficuly of Faking Data (1999) [pdf]
RequireJS, jQuery, JSF, ASP.NET, Spring are what we use.
It is designed for no running water, so I would assume no bidet water also. Could go for the shared sponge ala Rome (was that really healthy?)
99.5% of startup fundraising advisors are crooks and charlatans
It's actually REALLY HARD to disable OneDrive. I've tried about 3 separate methods and the damn thing keeps re-appearing. From what I read, it looks like Group Policy might work, but I don't have AD in our environment and haven't been able to test it.
Can you give an example of this?
Well, yes. When I use a list, I name them clients. When I use a hash, I specify the key. For example, clientsById.
An actual Chinese Room would be unimaginably vast - whole planets, solar systems, devoted to the knowledge we hold implicitly.

To illustrate - imagine you give the room (in Chinese) the text of Lord of the Rings, and then ask it which member of the fellowship corresponds to the "Wise Old Man" archetype. Any reasonably smart human will give the answer, "Gandalf". But the room would need to (in Chinese) make systematic notes of the characters, their relationships, their actions, and then somehow integrate all this into a categorisation under the appropriate archetype.

I'm actually agnostic as to the question of whether such a room could be built -- as I'm agnostic towards the possibility of AI -- but assuming the room would not be inconceivably complex masks the complexity of the ordinary workings of human consciousness.

---

Essentially: consciousness does not exist. We only think it does because the thing we think with is wrong. But because we think with it, we can't tell the difference. So asking "who is experiencing the illusion" is begging the question.

As for your essential point, I hold that words like "think", "experience", "illusion" all rest on the more fundamental concept of "consciousness".
Ember would be the Rails equivalent in JS-land
Replacing radios has become far less common. Also, wheels and hubcaps are 'core' features that people often replace.

PS: Car people sometimes do end up replacing the drive train. One guy I heard about replaced everything until his gear shaft was the weak point and it ended up breaking.
> UEFI boot support means systems that lack BIOS compat will work now.

> ASUS X205TA is an example of a machine with reduced hardware ACPI. Also has Broadcom wifi. I don’t know of a particularly good choice in the netbook category.

The ASUS X205TA is a machine that is hostile to anything not Windows.

It doesn't have bios. It has 64 bit architecture, but a 32 bit EFI. That makes it harder ot install for example some Linuxes.

Here's a 51 page thread in the Ubuntu forums: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2254322&page=51

Here's someone trying to write a driver for sound: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.alsa.devel/138822

Here's the guide to getting debian on it: https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Asus/X205TA

Here's the (as usual, excellent) guide to getting Arch on it: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Asus_x205ta

I guess people using BSD are happy with installs that are more complex than "burn an image to a USB stick; boot from that USB stick; click a button". But here's an example of someone installing Arch: http://ifranali.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/installing-arch-linux...

It's a shame it's so hostile because, considering the price, it's a nice enough machine. (The screen is lousy, and the sound is odd. If you liked the EEE PC 701, well, this isn't as good.)
Apple Steps Back from Its iAd Advertising Business
I haven't run FBSD in years so I can't comment but I highly recommend OBSD for laptops (obviously with supported hardware).
Hi. Chakra developer here. I don't speak for the Edge team, but there is a blog out that indicates it is already possible to embed EdgeHTML via the WebView control in Universal Platform apps: https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2015/08/27/creating-your...

I know that doesn't entirely address your wish, but it's a step in the right direction. :P
Yes, see this libreboot-supported laptop as an example: https://libreboot.org/docs/hcl/x200.html

The X200, when run without CPU microcode updates in coreboot,
currently kernel panics if running QEMU with vt-x enabled on 2 cores for the guest.

Oops.
Hi

Rather than RIs you should look into using this tool www.parkmycloud.com

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Lip sync tribute to David Bowie
"To a large degree the press...all conform to the demands of the public. But to an equally large degree the public responds to the influence of these very same mediums of communication."

Edward Bernays, "Crystallizing Public Opinion"

Fault is a mirage. There is only success or failure