skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just spent 20 minutes reading various sites, trying to understand what libnetwork is and failed. Everything either tells me that libnetwork is awesome or starts showing go source code.
Small quibble. To me, that spelling of Bitcoin signals a speaker's lower familiarity with the bitcoin community and subject matter. Akin to using the word "CyberSpace".

It's Bitcoin or bitcoin.

[1] https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin

[3] https://www.google.com/search?q=bitcoin&oq=bitcoin
The article says they're using RAIDZ2
Mainframes: IBM - natural monopolist

PC's: Microsoft/Intel - natural monopolists

Mobile: Apple - natural monopolist

Cloud: Amazon - .... (take a guess where this is going)
Executing Numerical Constants as Code

It would be better to use bytes, since x86 instructions can be as small as one byte (e.g. the C3 in 0x55C35D08 and 0x55C3C9D2 is the return instruction, the last byte of the function, and the 55 is the start of the next one), but this is basically how a JIT works. If the access permissions are set right (or nonexistent, as the case may be), you can generate code into a buffer and execute it directly.

You could explore this further by modifying the 08 in 0x55C35D08 to any signed byte value (80 to 7F --- -128 to 127), resulting in a "JIT'd" function that adds that amount to its argument. The actual instruction is the 3 bytes 83 C0 08, which is "add eax, 8". Definitely not portable, but if you're "pseudo-JITting" pieces of code in your application, you are likely worrying about other more important things than portability.

(If you work with things like this enough, you start memorising the most common opcodes and can mentally disassemble hex dumps...)
Because that's not how funding works. This is research money, you can't just move money around willy nilly.
Intel Rumored to Launch 5.1 GHz Xeon E5-2602 V4
Since when does LVM do block-level checksums and recovery?

Dedup uses a ton of memory, and has a lot of "please don't do this unless you really know what you're doing" flags, but the compression is basically free.
Unfortunately as the gamut gets larger, so does the visual difference between adjacent colors. You need more than 8 bits per channel from end to end if you're going to use anything wider than sRGB.

Any RGB based color space will be triangular shaped; if it's to be physically realized in a display, all 3 vertices must lie within the CIE gamut. Since the CIE gamut isn't perfectly triangular you will always be missing some colors outside of the triangle no matter what you do. You could do much better by adding a 4th primary to create a trapezoid, which would more completely fill the space. As the entire industry is RGB based this would be completely impractical, but it would be fun to see as a demo.
Your statements are incompatible with classical physics developed for centuries and enjoying high level of acceptance. The concept of thermodynamic entropy brings nothing to understanding of mechanics. There is no time in thermodynamic theory, thermodynamic entropy is not a function of time so there is no possibility of deriving equations of motion of mechanics from the laws of thermodynamics. You may need to study mechanics and thermodynamics and their history from several books before you realize that.
I'm sorry I didn't mean to offend. My comment was not meant as a complaint, or a statement of fact, but as wild speculation. It was my hope that by voicing such wild speculation I'd learn something, and I have.

In no way do I think it's a bad idea to seek better medical treatments ever, I just worried that it might further the gap between the haves and the have nots. If one solution creates another problem sometimes best solution can be to fix the new problem.
ATTN: archagon – You've spammed “show” 10 times in the last 3 days. We get it
I applaud people willing to take the time to demonstrate that the law applies to even the little people. However, the amount of time and effort this guy put into a few hundred dollars' damages shows why class actions are important.
Ok, so it's hypocritical on the 'transactions take too long' issue. Thanks for explaining.
Now if the government would just raise the fuel tax, we'd really be in business. Start making up for the drop in prices and incentivize electric vehicles on the consumer side as well.
I'm also surprised attribution is required. If there was a "no by" opt-in, I'd opt in.
Judging by the user name I doubt we'll be seeing this person again.

edit: Just kidding they have 201 karma.
They also removed [0] C Plus Equality [1] project twice. Even Bitbucket [2] and Google [3] also removed it.

[0] - https://github.com/FeministSoftwareFoundation/C-plus-Equalit...

[1] - https://github.com/ErisBlastar/cplusequality

[2] - https://bitbucket.org/FeministSoftwareFoundation/c-plus-equa...

[3] - https://code.google.com/p/c-plus-equality/
Yep. In my day the fees at the more elite schools were about $70, which was entirely too much money. The effort required to waive the fee was enough to incentivize me to apply to fewer schools (thereby also incentivizing me to accept the first offer I got).
In the US it is not the ISPs "telling" the identity of the customer. They just forward the notices/warnings/thinly-veiled-threats to them. They don't let them know who the IP address is/was held by without a court order as far as I know.
His analysis assumes you're going to get up close to the picture to really examine the detail, up one foot away. The resolution requirements are based on that assumption. I think that's unrealistic, and a much cheaper monitor would be just as effective in creating the illusion.
Certainly it makes sense to consider genetic profile in treatment, but doesn't the statement "that drug should be used regardless of whether you have breast cancer or lung cancer" ignore the local tumor microenvironment and possible differences in drug resistance expression between cell types, i.e., isn't reducing cancer down to genetic profile alone potentially as problematic as reducing cancer down to its tissue of origin?
Quote: "Throughout “If Japan Can, Why Cant We?” executives and front line workers talk about how important it is to involve workers in improvement efforts."

That's it in a nutshell...incentive-driven continuous improvement...

"Thinking About Quality" by Dr. W. Edwards Deming, though written 20 years ago, is still very much worth a read...

The older one gets the more one becomes aware of the fact that "new" ideas are simply old ideas, re-labeled...
Functional JavaScript: Map, Reduce and Filter
Also /r/datahoarder
>>Yes, but that much money could be used to feed, clothe, and take care of a lot of people.

You could make this argument for literally anything that isn't feeding, clothing or taking care of people, which means it is a silly argument.
Problem is, when you use VoIP over WiFi, you loose echo-cancellation, because the echo cancel hardware resides in the baseband and is not used in WiFi calls.
Current image formats have integrated compression, making it complicated to read the image data. One is forced to use complex libraries like libpng, libjpeg, libjpeg-turbo, giflib and others

...

Dependencies

libpng

libjpeg-turbo

That's a bit of a non sequitur.

Aside from that, the arguments put forth aren't very convincing; the "integrated compression" is what makes compressed formats more efficient, since these are specialised compression algorithms adapted for image data. PNG, for example, uses a differencing filter. I think me and many others have tried ZIP'ing or RAR'ing uncompressed BMPs before, and found the compression is not as good as PNG. This is not even mentioning the possibility of lossy compression.
We Will End Disability by Becoming Cyborgs (2014)
You can run periodic scans to look for bitrot. I think this is the standard way of handling this, my ReadyNAS before this had the same functionality.
As someone who doesn't have a degree that gets contracted to work with/help build (hardware/software) such tools like EEG devices and fMRI's to make them usable for people with PhD's where most don't really understand the physics behinds such systems and having seen first hand how bastardized the academic process™ has become, its laughable to think that just because things may have been one way in the past, means that it will continue to be the way in the future. So much waste, which means so much opportunity…

>You also don't have access to a NMR, or an fMRI, or any number of hundreds of others of tools that cost $100k - 1m+

I call bullshit, because if you think outside of the box and have a friend who has access (which many people on HN probably do know someone who does), you can always jump in on their pilots in exchange for whatever works for you both. But outside the box thinking is definitely not apart curriculum for most researchers… unless such was prescribed in the literature lol

>There is so much disrespect for institutions

Damn right, but doesn't stop them from trying to co-opt a generation after having loaded them up on debt to feed the gravy train, and I don't see why individuals can't do the same to institutions.

>…and what we as a people are capable of when we systemize.…

People are not limited to existing institutions, we can seek beyond.

>I understand the appreciation for decentralization and the FOSS model behind technology but there is so often a complete unwillingness to show any respect to any centralization at all, it's very strange.

Here's a hardware/software FOSS project[0] of a bunch of different people from many orgs and some without for electrophysiology research, and this stuff is just the beginning once all the contributors (and others like them) realize they can pursue their other interests in life with out constraining themselves to the academic process™.

If anyone in the boston/prov area is interested potentially doing some software/hardware work or want to connect more to stuff like this and has a software + mathematics + physics background or side interests and not involved now, you can contact me at my username at NSA's favorite email provider (gmail) :P

[0]https://github.com/open-ephys
> the storage is small

What did you expect here? 50% is typical trade off these days in disk arrays.
Meteor and React Native – learning from experience
25 Basic Tips for Traveling with Children
Annotations / subtitles have their uses. For example, watch this[1] and choose "English (Movie Titles)" as the subtitle and you can figure out which movies all of the clips come from.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1PCtIaM_GQ
Goldman Sachs Will Pay $5B to Settle Financial-Crisis Claims
>Do you know if most common bitcoin wallets and payment processing APIs accept or reject payments which have opted in to RBF? It might be a configuration issue, but how big a deal this is depends entirely on what the default configuration is.

I don't know. Any serious business (which, unfortunately, doesn't describe many bitcoin ones) should be monitoring them, and frankly, as I said above, if you're accepting 0-confs and not checking for the flag, and sending irreversible products, you're beyond my sympathy. Official guides to accepting bitcoin always say to wait several confirmations, and anyone accepting zero confs has make that decision deliberately.

> If I want to accept 0-conf transactions for say, my Bitcoin-powered public coffee machine (not an actual product, but should be...), then I feel a bit safer if canceling 0-conf payments is hard to do and unreliable, even if I don't have any strong guarantees.

As far as I can see, this is entirely alleviated by the opt-in part. Just reject any transactions that opt in.

I've seen people complain that users will opt in by default and be turned off if they need to wait, but that's a problem with whatever wallet they're using. If I was designing a wallet, I'd make an "enable undo?" button, with a warning that said "if this is checked, you can undo until it posts, which usually takes a few minutes. Be aware that some merchants won't accept such transactions, so if you're buying something instantly then make sure the merchant is ok with it.", and merchants should have signs telling people to turn off the undo feature.
What I would like is more discussion of choosing FreeBSD vs FreeNAS.

The author was inexperienced and so chose FreeNAS for "ease of use". But what, other than a GUI, does FreeNAS really provide? I've never read a detailed explanation. The forums on freenas.org don't seem to address this fundamental question. Everything seems to be predicated on the choice already having been made, nothing helps people make the choice in the first place.

Perhaps FreeNAS is more aggressive than FreeBSD about patching storage related bugs?

Can anyone point to a detailed discussion about choosing vanilla FreeBSD vs FreeNAS?
Leveraging copyright in support of education
I am the author and I'm here to answer any questions please let me know if you think this is a relevant project. I look forward to sharing more details of how we actually incorporate hacking tutorials and projects in the book and on the app/digitally.
SICP and the dragon book were both part of my CS curriculum. I read Code Complete as a mid-level engineer and found it quite useful. It would not surprise me that many others have done so as well.
I was put off by this part of the FreeNAS community too. Eventually I found NAS4Free (a fork of FreeNAS), which seems to work rather well on the "old" dual-core AMD computer that I wanted to use.

http://www.nas4free.org/
I understand every word you wrote, but I honestly think if I took that paragraph and surround it with some anti-Holocracy quotes and put some sort of sarcasm mark around it it would read perfectly.

It all makes perfect sense and a small organization, but how could it ever work at the scale of something like Zappos? At that size how can any employee have enough information to make a good decision as to what role in the organization needs filling right now? For that a role that is filled needs to be filled by someone else as the person currently doing it is suboptimal and doesn't realize it.

It seems like one of those things where the communication demands necessary to keep it running smoothly between all the individuals would quickly overwhelm what any normal person could actually do. The obvious solution is to have people in charge of relaying messages to other sets of people. Whoops. I added hierarchy.
Thanks, I've been trying all day to open the original link on mobile and it just brings my phone to its knees and never opens. Not even sure what is behind that link other than perhaps a very large Google doc?
Monkey Tales for the New Year
Also got a synology -- pretty UI, but keep running into weird limitation (ex. only two timed snapshot, inability to get standard linux tools, ex rsnapshot, DLNA slow to list files, PhotoStation unusably slow, fs weird and does not logically match to what is presented in UI)

And built a multi VM box (with VM in VM support):
https://pcpartpicker.com/user/okigan/saved/#view=nmQD4D

Btw, pcpartpicker was useful during my built, Node 804 was
a case I considered, but wanted to have an External 5.25.
There was an earlier discussion of the the Center for Applied Rationality (the company discussed rather than the NYT article) here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4751584
Looking forward to FreeNAS 10 when it is available

I'd like to know when that will be. The forums on freenas.org don't seem to discuss specifics like that. FreeBSD 10.2 has been out for about 5 months, but FreeNAS 10 doesn't seem close to being released.

In another comment I mentioned that I'd like to know what, other than a GUI, FreeNAS adds to the base FreeBSD. It must be extensive since it takes quite a few months. But the whole activity seems quite cryptic.
The file format is trivial, and can be read and written without any dependencies.

The converter programs jpg2ff and ff2jpg depend on libjpeg-turbo to read and write JPEG files.

The converter programs png2ff and ff2png depend on libpng to read and write PNG files.
There's a big difference between surveillance in public spaces, and private surveillance (effectively unwarranted search & seizure) of citizens. Why would I care if a camera is monitoring me in a public train?

Surveillance can absolutely add security.
The RRP Manifesto
Dropbox should support music features in their iOS app, natively. This is a feature I have wanted from them for a long time. Well done.
> If they're using it, they're doing so in completely different fashion than everyone else. That is, it's not public for viewing, submitting, commenting, etc

Huh? Github isn't opened sourced so how is a different fashion from anyone else using private repos?
"I'm now threatened with legal action"

You didn't elaborate on HOW you were threatened. If you don't get it in writing it didn't really happen. If it was a phone call follow up with an email to make things clear. You might find you get a fast retraction.

Your employment status is a fact that isn't proprietary, so it would be hard to argue that it should remain confidential, but that depends on the terms of your agreement.

In the end, you need a lawyer, not HN.
Do you feel like your usage is typical?
I was addressing the "phone" part of it, really. PopcornTime works fine on phones.

(I easily sideloaded it onto a set-top Android box, it works fine but you need a mouse or trackpad to navigate the interface. I think it would work fine on any semi-recent Android version)
would be nice to be able to verify the header before running it through decompression. i can easily get a hold of 150MP images and they can be a pain to hack on.
Skills of Da Vinci
I can't blame him, considering that people have been encouraging this sort of attitude towards the OpenSSL maintainers. It's time they tasted their own medicine.
I had hoped Netflix did the same. The Indian price is similar to US with less then 20% content.
I've had the same struggle. I'm moving my network to use a vxlan overlay for VMs so I ended up building a vxlan driver for docker networking which lets me do the same thing for containers. That project is here: https://github.com/clinta/docker-vxlan-plugin

Docker seems really intent on NATing containers behind the host, which IMO is not acceptable from a security perspective when I want to firewall outbound access based on a containers role.

Kubernetes is another option which creates a unique IP per container pod on the same network as the host. Not as flexible as a vxlan approach where containers can be micro-segmented into specific networks, but more like BSD jails that you're used to.
I think you hit the nail on the head.

Isn't it irrational to expend so much mental energy and time on trying to be "rational" in the first place? Seems counterproductive to me.
I'm in the same situation regarding Steam. The "What if it goes away?" question is a large one (and we'll see it in action as today's cloud services fold with time), but I believe they would distribute some form of patch that allows you to play your collection offline. In any case many cracking-scene patches are targeting the Steam versions of games, and if you've already paid for the game there's no financial harm to Valve in cracking it.
Yeah, I noticed recently that I was automatically checked in to a bunch of places I haven't actually been, and I can't seem to find any setting to turn it off except for "disable background location data" which seems like it might be what triggers it. We will see if it actually stops, though.
I'm pretty skeptical of using bzip2 as the entropy coder compared to DEFLATE as used in PNG. bzip2 is really slow. Also I would hope that an image format designed in 2016 would admit some degree of parallel decoding, but by leaning so heavily on a slow entropy coder they also killed all parallelism opportunities.

Browsers routinely spend as much time in image decoding as they do in layout, so this matters.

If you want a purely entropy coded format with a trivial, easily memorizable file format, just use PNG with all scanlines set to the None filter, one IDAT chunk, and one IEND chunk. Totally trivial, and probably simpler because DEFLATE is a relatively simple format.
The original post talks about DMA being a method the baseband can use to compromise the AP, which is false for any mainstream design. Trust doesn't have anything to do with it; the protocol literally does not support DMA.
Rapid Expansion of Consumer Drone Market
Url changed from https://docs.google.com/document/d/14X72QaDT9g6bnWr0lopDYida..., which points to this.
The main dev does work for them and they thus get first class support, that helps! (It's not working as well on Debian for example, at least a few months back)
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Exactly what I need, exactly when I need it! I'm learning French and I have the Michel Thomas audio files in Dropbox. Turns out playing them via the Dropbox app is a horrid experience.

Downloading now. Thanks, Justin!
Is self evaluation of one's "modus operandi" really a recipe for happiness? Not to be a smart ass, but throwing around confident statements about rationality and charging people $3,900 just smells like "Garage Scientology."
NFL Hackathon
Spending vast amounts of money on interstates is a waste. Railroads are a much better solution than a fleet of 18 wheelers. If you had to pay the actual cost of driving accross the country, high speed rail becomes a viable option.
this is actually really big.

amazon was changing up it's rules with shipping from china a few months ago, now I can see why they did it.
It may be a lot cheaper and more reliable to improve the accuracy of GPS (it's a few meters at the moment.)
Those authors presumably work at places that pay GitHub non-zero sums of money. For instance, many of them are Googlers and Facebookers. I have no idea how many private repos those orgs have, but I have a feeling large companies with a significant open-source footprint (like the ones represented on that list) tend to buy the biggest plans GitHub sells.
I'll just leave this here..

http://www.freightfarms.com/

it's an example of how the startup ecosystem is attempting to disrupt some of the areas of concern that fuel the 'survival culture'.

here's another example:
http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/10/built-in-brooklyn-gotham-gr...

I personally can't wait to see this urban agriculture technology arrive in every city coast to coast, so that collectively we aren't so dependent on "just in time shipping" grocery store infrastructure.

I do think that this day is on the horizon, but until then I personally try not to think of people as 'crazy' when they feel the need to get their beans, bullets, and band-aids squared away.
Based on what I've read from more authoritative sources (or is the author an authority in this area?), this information is outdated:

> It can be safely assumed that this baseband is highly insecure. It is closed source and probably not audited at all. My understanding is that the genesis of modern baseband firmware is a development effort for GSM basebands dating back to the 1990s during which the importance of secure software development practices were not apparent. In other words, and my understanding is that this is borne out by research, this firmware tends to be extremely insecure and probably has numerous remote code execution vulnerabilities.

I've read in several places that basebands now widely use the OKL4 microvisor,[1] based on the formally verified (fwiw) seL4 microkernel, and are much more secure than before. Does anyone know more about this?

[1] https://gdmissionsystems.com/cyber/products/trusted-computin...
The Art of Startup Fundraising- a must read for all entrepreneurs
Show HN: Exceptionally well made wiki, but users don't read it
I thought the problem was that it required an epic amount of system RAM to be efficient? It seemed a bit counterproductive to me to try to save some cheap disk space by buying hundreds of dollars of RAM.
we maybe need a feature of hotness of a bug, "affects me too", that'll prioritize issues out of a bucket load of issues, plus on github you first raise an issue then it is sorted into feature request or bug, can be made better