skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
$4hr? Ouch.

Here almost all of them are metered at 0.24c / kWh(even for chademo) which is about 4x actual electricity rates but much better than that.
What's really interesting about this is that being a truck driver is one of the most common jobs in America. Most of these drivers have limited ability to do many other decently paying jobs. By getting self-driving countries, we would be dramatically changing the economic + social landscape of the country.

We have already gotten rid of the factory worker and that has led to withering away of Middle America. Removing the truck driver would be a huge nail in the coffin of Middle America. (If lab grown meat + vertical farming takes off, we can potentially drastically reduce the number of farmers in this country.)

I am all for these technical innovations, but we must be aware that this can dramatically change the economic/political/social landscape. Radical regressive ideologies spring out of such environments.
Did you read the article? The author explicitly explains why Chinese miners don't want the block size increased.
A proposal for a better way to deal with github issues: a discussion tab. https://github.com/dear-github/dear-github/issues/44
#FacesInThings
Must have missed that important point somehow. Will take another look.

Edit: oh, that. Not much of an explanation. I was asking if there is a deeper underlying reason.
All the great lasting products come with a strong sense of community, no matter the mechanic. Foursquare had that with its friend list and checkin scores.

Once they removed that from the core app, it became this faceless product that left me in the uncanny valley of trust. Where is this score coming from I would ask myself everytime I launched the app?

Maybe it was the failing of branding not to follow back up with OkCupid style of "hey did you know??" blog posts.

Swarm was a cute project, reminded me a little of Gowalla but without that digital diary/passport that Gowalla had. So it felt like it was missing the other half of my life story. It's not JUST the weekly checkin score, but my entire journey I want easy access to.
I'm not completely certain you know what you're talking about, especially about Agile. Tell me which part of the agile manifesto you disagree with, or why you think waterfall increases the likelihood of success of your projects. That's an honest question, I'm truly interested in your reply.
Could one design against this?
OP probably means it's a bunch of libertards, charlatans and crazies. Is your post some type of Socratic method to tease out rational discourse or do you really not know that the Bitcoin community is full of insane people?
I've moved around a lot, I would say your experience is in the minority.
Why is it that the baseband has full access to main memory?
Posted 11 minutes prior to this at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10906165
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He might think he's testing conformance, but he actually just tested curiosity.
>I never understood why it was free yet closed-source. It made me suspicious in a way, if that makes sense.

Unless binary builds are verified against the source code (or the code is reviewed and compiled locally), security is not a criteria that's benefited. The gitian process in bitcoin is an interesting solution on how to verify builds.
This resonated so much with me

PS, it was moved to https://github.com/dear-github/dear-github
It's that the CEO is kooky and likens himself a management guru, so he wants to try out his ideas while cultivating press.
What if the pro-fork community wanted to buy their way to the raised thresholds?

So we're at what, 0.9 Exahash?[1]

Say you want to force the change. You'd need to add three times that, or 2.7 EHash/s.[1]

Let's say you buy a ton of AntMiners to cover that, at 3.3 GHash/s/$.[2]

So that's a paltry, what... $820 Million?

Less if you just buy the factory in Shenzhen.

Basically just one winning Powerball ticket though.

[1] http://bitcoin.sipa.be/

[2] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison#cite_n...

Caveat emptor: my ability to eyeball math in the peta-exa-yotta range is spotty at best. These results may be off by a factor of... any factor.
I agree with you that there may be a placebo effect.

Perhaps I could call them part of the "set" on which the theater conducts its act.
How do you know they are sure? Last I knew the only real certainty was that CO2 was a greenhouse gas. Anything after that is still not certain at all.
There was a pyramid scheme in China using btc and the Chinese are using Bitcoin to transfer money out of the country. And the price hasn't been increasing for the past month or so. I just dumped all mine after getting in around 350.
Disclaimer: I know very little about the bitcoin community.

It seems like the quotation, "One of the great things about Bitcoin is its lack of democracy" is grossly out of context. In the original comment, by the person that @octskyward is talking about, it seems to be referring to the fact that it is not a majority rules democracy.

edit: grammar
Maybe you could try Redshift. It might be more customization because, well, open source. I could be wrong, though.

http://jonls.dk/redshift/
>Money is an artifact of the state; always has been, always will.

Money is an artifact of the state because you have to pay taxes in the state's money. If you could pay state and local taxes in bitcoin it would be possible to use bitcoin exclusively for all transactions.
Cars are going to get much more expensive with these fuel efficiency mandates and the affluent will drive electrics, while everyone else will drive old cars.

We have ever increasing crashworthiness requirements, which make cars heavier, which increases car weight. We have a ratcheting fuel efficiency mandate. The convergence of these two pushes for lighter, more crashworthy cars, which means expensive materials. Electric cars may be price competitive very soon as prices for batteries fall, and as prices for gasoline cars increase.

However, these regulations, while well meaning, will be counter-productive. People simply can't afford new cars anymore and are driving old cars much longer. We have a lot of 1990's engines out there in fairly reliable cars, and these emit far more pollution than a modern car, nevermind the fuel efficiency.
I normally put a big "[DEPRECATED]" notice at the beginning of the README. This normally doesn't go unnoticed.

Another good example is harthur's "[UNMAINTAINED]" [1]

[1] https://github.com/harthur/brain
The premise of the article is flat out wrong. Mainstream smartphones do not provide DMA access from the baseband to the application processor's memory.

The connection is usually HSIC, which is a chip-to-chip USB derivative.

https://www.synopsys.com/dw/dwtb.php?a=hsic_usb2_device

The AP is responsible for setting up buffers for communication and manages its own host controller. But like I2C or even older UARTs, the AP remains in control of the communications.

Yes, basebands need more auditing and a security model more like modern APs (e.g., separation of privileges and exploit countermeasures like ASLR and non-exec). Yes, getting baseband access then lets you monitor regular voice and SMS comms. But no, it does not instantly compromise the AP so using the Signal app would still be secure.
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I've always suspected this. It's very unlikely that video would cross cars, there are already enough pins on the couplers and I believe this would invoke FRA requirements on the engineering.

I'm not sure when the cameras were installed, but the solid-state DVRs usually used on vehicles probably weren't available yet, given the age of the BART rolling stock. Tape-loop recorders would have been very high maintenance.

My suspicion is that some or all BART cars actually are equipped with tape-loop recorders, and what they call 'dummy cameras' are simply recorders which are broken or without tape because of lack of maintenance. The replacement tapes are also getting hard to obtain.

There are several good commercial options for vehicle surveillance now (Safety Vision being a prominent one), but across BART's ~650 cars this would easily turn into a several million dollar project. Let's just keep holding out for the new rolling stock...
Had the same question; found some info here:
http://wiki.holacracy.org/index.php?title=FAQ

...and a list of organizations currently using it here:
http://structureprocess.com/holacracy-cases/
Your PhD is obviously not in history. Academia itself would not exist if what you said was fundamentally true. The assertion to placate the layman with the response "still enough to educate yourself and attempt to contribute" is simply laughable. If you fear getting shitty research from people -- that's fine -- but I believe that the current journal system addresses that fear, or at least attempts to.

There was not really an assertion that "randos-at-home" are the equivalent of academics - only an assertion that they could and do provide great value again and again and again. Every goddamn century people come out of the fucking woodwork and shock the world; Ramanujan anyone?

With all that being said - I believe in the right of the data owners/distributors in choosing whatever 'licensing' they want.
Roving mini-prisons that record and report on their surroundings and occupants? Why wouldn't power invest? They want their killswitches.

krapp has it right: "Self-driving cars are potentially the greatest threat to human freedom since the advent of the internet." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6982537
I grew up in New Zealand; I'm familiar with the system and think it's great, with one catch: it's funded through coercion.

Why not set up a non-profit and solicit donors, sponsors, etc.? That way you can have all the benefits of interest-free student loans, without the coercion.
Your understanding of the middle ground fallacy does not accord with the rest of the world's: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_to_moderation

The middle ground fallacy is the idea that given two ideas, the truth lies somewhere in between them.
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When I was in high school, I realized I could use the dos net send command to send any computer a pop up message.

First message: "Initiating mandatory inappropriate content scan"
Second message: "Inappropriate content found...adding to log."
Third message: "More inappropriate content found...adding to log."
Fifth message: "User ID and Name added to log. Transferring to central administration offices."

The look on some people's face was priceless haha.

Soon they got wise to my ways and the gig was up.

I then found some Novell app that was installed on every computer that allowed the exact same thing but made it even easier! I think there was a list of names that I could select and then send a message. That didn't last long though. It was soon too blocked.

Any teachers out there? Don't let your students get bored.

Edit: I also just remembered each student had a personal network drive that they could access on any computer. Each student got something like 250mb or something like that. When you logged in as normal, you could obviously only access your drive and no one else's drive. I can't remember how but I figured out how to access other people's drive. The great thing was, I had read/write access :/ I could put anything in anyone's shared drive.

Come to think about that...I was a turd in high school.
> Meanwhile, you give your credit card number to someone and they can just pull money out of it

Here's a Bitcoin private key: 5JcgxNrn4WFcA8trEix7ComAyLNEsDEyBqYVjEo8JaaXWQQNg1u

Now you have the ability to drain whatever coins are in that wallet and I'll never see them again unless you somehow decide to return them to me.

You can probably convince a layperson to give you their private key through the same means you could ask them to tell you their passwords or whatever personal information they should not divulge.

> As you use your credit card, over time you give more and more people a direct line of access to your credit until it expires or gets revoked.

Credit cards are a form of payment. I go and pay my bill for using that credit card. A month before the card expires, the issuer sends me a new card. Provided I don't neglect to pay my bill and don't abuse it, my credit card will almost always allow the transaction to go through immediately.

> Until I can generate credit card numbers on the fly with one-time-use amounts of money, I'll have a use-case for Bitcoin.

https://www.bankofamerica.com/privacy/accounts-cards/shopsaf...

"To access the ShopSafe service, sign in to Online Banking and choose Use ShopSafe from your credit card Account Activity screen. Enter your spending limits and the ShopSafe service will automatically generate a temporary 16-digit account number, with expiration date and security code, that allows you to complete your purchase while protecting your privacy."

https://www.cardbenefits.citi.com/products/virtual-account-n...

"When shopping online or by mail order, you can use a randomly generated Citi card Virtual Account number instead of your real account number. Simply click Enroll in/Get below to begin using Virtual Account Numbers.

All purchases made with your temporary number will appear on your monthly statement with your other purchases and will include the Virtual Account Number that was used for each transaction."
Although people are already working on open source machine learning projects to identify people by how they write.
> Why has Github been complacent?

Management, money, growth.
you are so fucking clueless... Tractors hardly need any of that technology.

It really irks me to see comments like yours. You clearly don't work in this field since your comments come off as someone with all this great knowledge about how things work. Have you even bothered to research such topics as non-precision farming? These tractors collect tons of data year over year in order maximize worthless imaginary justifications for more cargo cult technology.

Grow up, learn to grasp the premise of the comments you read.
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> Have any old Zip disks laying around (or did you ever)?

Nope. Too young for Zip disks. My data's on redundant hard drives in my NAS and has a cloud backup as the braces to that NAS's belt.

> Now imagine trying to get that data 150 years from now.

I have a remarkable amount of trust and faith in the Internet Archive to continue being excellent at their jobs or others to pick up the slack. This thread reminded me about a project I wanted to bounce off of those folks, too...BRB.
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Lets Encrypt has recently been the target of a few news stories. A brief review of Lets Encrypt documentation highlights the basic problem with Lets Encrypt is a reliance on the ACME protocol's gaping security hole of equating DNS A record server IP addresses with domain ownership.

It's very clear that if a domain has a wildcard host record that Lets Encrypt will automatically enable any root user of DNS A record IP address host to generate an near unlimited number of subdomain certs.

All these subdomain certs will be viewed as valid certs by most browsers because of the IdenTrust cross cert.

Since control of a given host included in a DNS A record does not equate to domain ownership, Lets Encrypt certs should not be recognized at the same trustworthiness of DV certs issued by a standard CA.

Why should the Internet trust Lets Encrypt at the same level as DV certs?
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Obviously torrenting requires slightly more "technical" knowledge and procedure than Netflix, but I certainly don't find it slow or low quality, and it has never made my Internet unusable.

And with a bit of extra work (very little, really) you can have a ridiculously nice torrenting setup. I can just add a movie to my IMDb watchlist and it will be on my TV in 15 minutes. And 10GB+ h264 Blu-ray encodes are much better quality than Netflix streaming (I can't vouch for their 4k streams, but I reckon they're still much lower bitrate).
I stopped reading when I got to the part where you said you stopped reading.
Really?

"U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said the president's 2017 budget proposal includes $4 billion over 10 years for pilot projects, including a program to test self-driving cars by investing in technologically connected roads. He provided few other details on how the money would be spent if it comes to fruition."

That sounds to me like they are try to pick technologies to invest in. If that's the use of funds, I think it's a waste. Let the market choose the best tech.
At least some portion of which are elected or appointed by elected officials.
An interview should be a conversation, shaped to each individual. The aim is to try to discover information about the person (and vice versa) gradually by following threads of thought and argument in a properly developed context. The style of conversation, and the specific subject matter, should differ between individuals - it should be shaped to their context, and their responses should be shaped to your context, for it to be a valuable use of everyone's time.

The moment you start to think in terms of 'sets of questions' or much worse 'best questions' to ask everyone and anyone who comes in for an interview, you've failed as an interviewer, in my opinion. This just gets more true as the questions become more generalised and abstract, which unfortunately they will tend to in order to filter up into a set of 'standard' or 'best' questions you'll find online. That's not to say you don't want topics or themes or ideas of questions to steer the conversation towards, and of course as with anything all the skill is in the delivery, but it's a fine line to walk and certainly thinking of an interview in terms of getting through a list of topics or questions is veering towards the wrong side of that line.

It's tempting to pull questions from these lists, and just rap them off, because it's easy and you can convince yourself it's a good idea because a lot of them exist on the internet, so there seems to be some consensus that this is a good practice. I've done it myself in the past, and it was a mistake. It's lazy, it gives awful results, neither side of the interview will have a good experience or a genuine, valuable human interaction. It's not smart or a hack, just bad interviewing.
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I did too, on SunOS. I remember the early days when renavigating to a page would just pull up the cache version and not refresh automatically -- I didn't understand why wsj.com wasn't publishing new content daily.

And I still miss the spinning globe.
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Sourceforge runs Apache Allura, which is open source.
I've used feralhosting.com for something like 6 years and can say only good things about their service. I haven't shopped around for price in a long time, but the pricing still seems reasonable to me.
"their tax exemptions" do kinda make it our business.
Almost everyone on this thread is referring to removing the check-in functionality as the death of Foursquare as a consumer product. Y'all - Foursquare did that because it was not just dying but basically dead. The change allowed them to be more flexible in the new phase of the company. It might not have worked the way they dreamed (I don't know) but Foursquare was crashing fast at the time of the split.
I do indeed love a good socratic discourse.
95% of all my github activity is in private repositories.
Bitcoin mining could be more decentralized if it better resembled a lottery, where huge numbers of people play for an expected loss.

In other words, the lack of people mining at a loss makes mining profitable and hence subject to forces of centralization.

There are several reasons why mining as a lottery substitute is rare, a major one being that commodity hardware is inefficient by many orders of magnitude,
making even a botnet next to useless.

Perhaps, if a proof of work, whose efficiency gap (with custom hardware) is at most an order of magnitude, were adopted (or slowly phased in), enough lottery players would arise to make mining unprofitable at scale.

Botnets should then just be welcomed as a modest increase in decentralization.
> For the things where reversing payments is a desired feature, you can build that on top of crypto-currencies (e.g. by using an escrow), so is not like it has to be the wild west.

As it stands with credit cards, it's 180 days maximum for a chargeback; meaning that the consumer has six months to make up their mind on any transactions they may not deem acceptable.

How long should it be in escrow if we're to switch to Bitcoin? I don't see how merchants will want to wait six months for them to see any payments and I don't see how consumers will want to see the timespan lessened.
What other kind of democracy is there? If there's a binary decision to be made (i.e. increase the block chain or not) anything other than majority rules fails to resolve the issue.
To add to this madness, even if you design your own chips and software stack, the fab that printed your chips might have modified your design. Perhaps you can design a chip that's resilient to modifications?

Is it possible to build a chip that only executes instructions encrypted by your key? I'm not talking about just decoding to L1 and executing plaintext there, but having a full pipeline that can only work on your encrypted instructions.
One suggestion is to improve the permissions system. For example, third-party github plugins that interact with the github system (e.g., setting labels, responding to comments) require "write permissions" which gives those systems "push" access to the underlying repo. Simply separating the git repository access control from the github UI / issues / pull requests access control system would be very helpful. I'm sure there are many other examples of where the permissions system needs some finer-grained access.

Edit: Essentially the same as reported here: https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/268
There are certain things that computers are better at. The fastest reflexes in the world can't compete with a computer. A computer can't be distracted. A computer can be programmed to always drive safe distances, something almost no human does. A computer will never fail to check if a lane change is safe but you better believe humans do every day.

Humans are quite capable and will always be able to handle things that computers can't in situations they're not designed for. At least until an AI is invented that is indistinguishable from a human mind. There will be mistakes and bugs (just as there are now in software made for cars). But believing that humans who drive while tired, eating cheeseburgers, playing with their phone, texting, not accounting for blind spots and tailgating others are going to be safer in the long run is bordering on religious faith in some kind of fantasy that humans are more than they are.

No one is talking about replacing F1 drivers, we're talking about a sea of idiots that anyone who commutes every day with any awareness would recognize as being a major hazard. I'll take the patchable bugs over the psychos I see every day that put lives at risk with their self-centered hyper aggressive driving that relies on the attentiveness of everyone around them to prevent an accident. There is no software update for people like this–you either wait years for them to grow up or for them to kill someone.