skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I consider advertising to be robbing me of ME

Okay fine but the alternative is working longer hours to produce the money to pay for your consumption. Which is as much robbing you of you as advertising is with the disadvantage that you can't consume concurrently.
Preoccupation with status hardly helps cultivate the virtue that status was supposed to indicate.
As a data point, one of the problems with generics is the falsely made ones.

There have been (unfortunately) large pharma companies over the years who manufacture generics, which are later found out to be not even close to manufacturing the real thing, or whose manufacturing processes are extremely unsafe.

Ranbaxy and GVK Biosciences are examples that spring to mind from not too long ago. There may have been others since. :(
What you call taking a slice of labor, I call providing shelter. That slice of labor is going to go to housing expenses one way or another.

House prices and rent are linked. Higher house prices demand higher rent to make the investment worthwhile for the landlord. High house prices provide a floor on rent (otherwise, landlords sell and the rental pool shrinks).

Higher rents provide a floor on house prices (when monthly rent rises to more than about 1% of purchase price, it becomes attractive to buy property to rent in areas without insane taxes).

What's common about both those upward pressures? That they are driven by the demand for housing units (of either sort) by people who want to live in a given area.

More people? More demand. More demand? Higher prices.

I have no connection whatsoever to MMM (other than generally agreeing with a lightweight version of his frugal teachings). I don't see how his being a landlord has any bearing on whether his general information is valuable or not.
In the U.S. the census appears to handle that. I'm not any kind of expert on this data, but try this PDF here:
http://www2.census.gov/govs/school/13f33pub.pdf PDF Page 26

How I got there:
http://www.governing.com/gov-data/education-data/state-educa...
http://www.census.gov/govs/school/
If you read the article it points out that there a great many exemptions in the warranty. I wonder how many "owners" will be able to have their battery replaced under warranty?
Why do you say the batteries cannot be replaced? Swapping a battery literally takes five minutes. The cost of a new one is high, but will likely come down.

As for why these cars exist, it's simple: they're awesome cars. They're powerful and quiet and have advanced technology. Never mind environmental concerns, not having to visit the gas station is just very convenient.

Not emitting (local) pollution is a nice bonus, but it's pretty far down the list.
Awesome thanks !
Amazon to restore encryption to Fire tablets after complaints
If the website is compromised, the checksum could be changed as well.

With digital signatures the problem is that I don't often know who is the official author of the app.
It's quite popular everywhere. Interesting that 2.90 just showed up in Fedora updates.
I wasn't sure if it was a joke or a deep misunderstanding. Sadly, there are enough people who don't understand "cruel and unusual punishment" that I figured that was more likely.
That was my first thought as well.

Oh another fun Loren Ipsum generator, how wonderful!

> This is a jQuery plugin

Nope, cya
Hm. https://trac.transmissionbt.com/wiki/Changes#version-2.91 lists the following under Mac changes for 2.90

>Allow downloading files from http servers (not https) on OS X 10.11+

Mac version affected in OP was 10.10, though.

Maybe it had something to do with

>Change Sparkle Update URL to use HTTPS instead of HTTP (addresses Sparkle vulnerability)
?

Edit: it appears the infection was downloaded from a website, in which case this doesn't help. But one did say the in-app update failed on incorrect signature first.
>> it's just not as scalable or equal to all users as ads are

I'm not sure that's true;

An example of what i would prefer instead, a Dutch newspaper http://vk.nl has about 70% free content (without registration or ads!), and 30% behind a paywall for paying customers.

This is a great example of how things should work in my opninion; check it out for free, and if you like it pay for the premium stuff.

If i'm not mistaken, there are games that do the same thing, like for example Team Fortress 2, which you can play for free, but then they have a shop for all kinds of extras.
How does this compare performance-wise to natively compiled code?
That would be a useful extension/plugin for browsers actually.

Maybe like pointed out in another reply, not for checksums but for signatures. So you just copy/paste the signature after selecting a file, and then it can verify it's validity.

Is there no such extension yet? it seems like there should be one already.
The battery warranty covers nearly everything. The only exclusion is intentional damage. Even accidental damage is covered. I see nothing in the article that says otherwise.
I don't see how refugee status would work if it were only extended to citizens. The basic idea is that you ask one country to protect you from another, and the country you want protection from is usually the one you have citizenship in ( https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/refugees-asylum ):

"Refugees are generally people outside of their country who are unable or unwilling to return home because they fear serious harm. ...

"You may seek a referral for refugee status only from outside of the United States. ...

"Asylum status is a form of protection available to people who:

* Meet the definition of refugee

* Are already in the United States

* Are seeking admission at a port of entry

"You may apply for asylum in the United States regardless of your country of origin or your current immigration status."
If you had read Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance you'd known that it has very little to do with actual motorcycle maintenance, apart of using it as a tool to make its point.
> Linux package managers are looking like one of the only straightforward ways to distribute applications securely.

Linux distributions package what is released upstream. If upstream is compromised, so is the Linux package.
That term is not why I found it hostile. It was just a way to identify the sentence. "I'm sorry, but is it possible the expert professionals have given it more thought than you've given it credit for?" is similarly bad. I cannot figure out any way to read it that isn't extremely condescending.

When you ask if it's possible that [insert conclusion], when your conclusion is worded as to be super obvious and something your conversational partner really should have thought of, you're not writing the nicest sentence in the world. When you add the "I'm sorry, but", well, you're not actually apologizing for anything. A non-apology is one of those polite veneers that are put on sentences to pretend they're not insulting. Which magnifies the condescension.
We're fighting an invisible war in cyberspace
Is it just me, or does this seem like an Onion headline? It's the juxtaposition of the very serious "autonomous killing machines" with the casual "deserve a look", I think. Like they might have autonomous killing machines for lunch if that was offered as the special
Legal marijuana is taking a bite out of drug cartels' profits
"There are some lame fake accounts trying to make Kanye-isms that are not Mark Twain level."
> Along with the recent Linux Mint hijack, this really illustrates the need for people to verify programs they download. Though I think most people can't be bothered to verify the checksum on a file every time they download it.

Barring a situation where a CDN hosting the download is compromised but the main site is not hosted on the CDN, it's extremely unlikely that someone would have the ability to inject malware into the download and not have the ability to make the checksum match. Posting checksums is actually pretty useless, and was something that used to be used to deal with the possibility of malicious mirrors, but doesn't provide any security against mitm attacks (unless the main site is secure but the downloads aren't which is idiotic by 2016 standards anyway), the site getting hacked, etc.

Digital signatures are a little bit better if the key is kept safe, since hacking the site and replacing the binary won't allow a random person to produce a valid signature, although ability to modify the source code would still allow someone to introduce backdoors into the next version, but there's still a huge problem where you need some way to determine what key was supposed to be used to sign the binary in the first place, so just posting a signature on a website is also basically useless.

Digital signatures can work if there's some sort of centralized distribution method, or for safely updating software that's already installed.
Ironic how videos are such low-bandwidth ways to communicate compared to good writing. You have to wait for them, you can't scan through them to gauge whether they are good quality, sometimes you're not set up to listen to audio, etc.
After reading the article, really I don't think Tesla is offering particularly worse conditions than any other manufacturer. Their 8 year guarantee is actually pretty inclusive, and now it's transferrable as well.
The lack of indie garages is the only item in his list I agree with, but things could change in the future, as the pool of ex-Tesla mechanics grows.
I think its a good question to ask if the way in which attacks are generated these days has enabled greater size. Cloudflare points out that they may have already been this big, they just couldn't measure them before.

What I find most interesting is that this problem is providing a lot of pressure on ISPs to co-operate more. There are a lot of competing agendas, which we've seen with the very outsized fights of NetFlix against tier 1 and tier 2 transit providers, but those transit providers are being hurt by these people. By cooperating at some level it may be possible to mitigate the attack surface available to DDoS agents.
nothing can be that serious tho D:
There’s more to early-stage funding than VC money
Yep, this deserves a more detailed explanation (or maybe they still don't know what happened). I updated from the previous version to 2.90 through the app built-in update, and I don't seem to have any "kernel_service" process running. Can someone that has that process in their system tell us where they downloaded the program?
Does installing 2.9.1 remove it completely or just from the Transmission app? I'm concerned the malware is still there.
coughivyleaguecough

Yeah, definitely to subsets, but certainly not to a majority is my guess. There are always people who meet the stereotype of a school, and always those who don't. For every rich son-of-an-alum at Princeton there's someone on heavy financial aid, more or less.
I'd like to listen to this as a podcast later -- any idea how I can get hold of it, without running a Flash video player in a desktop browser?
The Linux Mint hijacker changed the checksum too.
Learning milestones for age 3-4 by WebMD:
http://www.webmd.com/parenting/guide/3-to-4-year-old-milesto...

Some fun milestones:
- Understand the idea of same and different
- Follow 3 part commands
- Sort objects by shape and color

Yeah, that's pretty much all you need right?

A judge may ask, for example, if the child wants to leave the country voluntarily or would rather be ordered deported. If the child chooses either option, he or she cannot apply for other forms of immigration relief such as asylum in the United States.

Nope, they're fucked. Most adults probably have difficulty with this one.
Why use Tape instead of Mocha
First time I hear about uBlock Origin. Anyone has been using it?
> But even non-sentient objects, specifically guns, sometimes have the right to representation

Wait. What?

Do you have any links for more info on this? I can't even start to imagine what does it even mean for an object to have legal representation.

Is this something known to happen in other countries (i.e. this is an artifact due to complex interaction inside legal systems) or just in the US?
Can't wait until a dictator uses autonomous killing machines to, you know, just take over the world.
Would you mind sharing the basic premise of your product. I'm also trying to create some partnerships for a similar product.
Milgram conducted 23 different kinds of experiments, each with a different scenario, script and actors. This patchwork of experimental conditions, each conducted with a sample of only 20 or 40 participants, yielded rates of obedience that varied from 0% to 92.5%, with an average of 43%. Contrary to received opinion, a majority of Milgram’s participants disobeyed. [0]

What's the obedience rate of a robot?

[0] http://theconversation.com/revisiting-milgrams-shocking-obed...
Generally, >=
There's no lack of high-quality content around the web. True, it's a bit hard to discover it amid the noise. And most often, larger communities are gathered around click-baity content, and that's why we go there. And yes, maybe it's not fresh from the ovens but a bit late.

So even if there may be a need in money, maybe it would be better spend on solving those problems first ?
All I see there is a very poor understanding of SpaceX's approach. The moment you mention hovering, you've shown you don't know what they're doing. And this is supposed to be an argument against stating the "obvious"??
I think the key is so far. It might not turning a profit, but ~1bn in revenue is still a strong argument that you can get the subscriptions model working for online music streaming and is not doomed to failure from the very beginning.
Frenvid seal deals with top Independent Studios
It's really too bad. I spent a couple minutes checking Lobste.rs out again after reading this comment, and that site is very nicely done.
I don't understand why this is interesting or significant. I see this error saying the document's URI scheme is unsupported by the tool: http://imgur.com/2eoP1ph
At least Linux distributions usually compile from source. I wonder if the source was also modified, or only the binaries.

EDIT: I downloaded the Transmission 0.90 and 0.91 source code and took a look. The diff between them is quite small, with nothing suspicious being removed, and the 0.90 .tar.xz MD5 matches what Fedora used (according to http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/transmission.git/com...). So, unless there was also a malicious source code change the developer didn't catch, Fedora's package should be clean.
> if the court does appoint an attorney, the attorney will need to explain these same concepts to the child as part of preparing a defense.

There are lightears of space between doing your best to see that someone who can't defend themselves in court has qualified representation (even if there are difficulties that the representative will face in conducting defense), and pitting the same person against an expert litigation team without a qualified advocate.

The former situation is a good faith effort to give the defendant a fair trial. The latter situation is a sham trial.
shoutout to sourcemaps being big haha
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If that's true, I think I'm willing to accept it. I'm much more capable of evaluating how much to consume vs how much to work than I am of evaluating advertising.

I'm not sure it's true, though. Advertisers are confident they make money from me by taking my attention. Like everyone else, I don't directly perceive that to be true -- but, amazingly, it is.*

Advertisers split those profits with the content creators/distributors.

I'd rather that money come directly from a conscious, informed choice on my part rather than by intentionally manipulated behaviors. That does mean I'll consume different things than I do when I'm advertised to, but it also frees up money. I believe this just from looking at "sinks and sources" -- removing advertiser profits is removing a big sink (and a small source of informational value, which I've mentioned I'd rather get elsewhere.)

I don't know what the solution is for getting that money into the hands of content creators and distributors, but I'm sure there is one.

* And this apparent contradiction, where basically nobody directly perceives the cost, but advertisers realize the value anyway, is consistent with everything psychology tells us about the myriad of systematic human bias, and is a big part of the reason I say the cost of advertising is difficult/impossible to evaluate from an experiential perspective.
Why are the establishment mouthpieces trying so hard to create a new Cold War?

Is it because the Terror War isn't enough to justify the elites' desired levels military spending?
Yes, and if there's a problem with your car that needs an ECU firmware update ... you tend to have to have that done by an authorized dealership.
No, Linux distributions offer packages and operating systems that are the result of painstaking work in which all upstream code is reviewed, patched for any inconsistency, and often blocked from going into public archives until known bugs are fixed.
House prices are set by credit availability. Rents are set by wages. I'm not agreeing with anything you are saying here and I don't want to waste more time on it. You seem to think it's simply market pressures which I think is naive.

Taken to the extreme exploiting land monopoly isn't "providing shelter" any more than serfdom landlords provided shelter. They extracted labour at state gun point if necessary.

We have a very extreme situation now dating back to pre 2008 when the banks went utterly wild.
Visualizing Data Centers in process level
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11232835 and marked it off-topic.
Additionally, what does the malware do? "OSX.KeRanger.A" appears to be a name that Apple assigned it in their malware definitions, but Google doesn't know anything except the pages about Transmission.

I'm curious what sort of malware we're looking at. Botnet? General remote access/control? Harvesting keychains?
I also did not have that process running in the background. I just updated through the app to 2.91 and it's still not there. So, I am also curious where they got Transmission from.
Even with leasing, the used cars won't be immediately destroyed, so it's reasonable to assume they will be sold to people, and these people will have an interest in inexpensive maintenance and repair.
Generally, Linux package maintainers grab the upstream source, while most of these compromises seem to be of the binaries. And, of course, the maintainers generally review the changes before publishing them
I can't imagine that running that thing was expensive or time consuming. I would just leave it running.
In the interview, HS says he listens to everything at 2x speed.

I've felt like you, that video/audio is too slow and cumbersome, and so have eschewed it as a learning method, except as background for some other task. I'll have to give his 2x method a try.

I could see an opportunity for a "Pocket for audio" app, that (1) saves a clip for listening at a good time, (2) auto-transcribes it so you can scan for content quality or clip the part you want to hear, and (3) makes it easy to speed through at 2x or skip dull parts.
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The "solution" for this sort of problem is information. Unfortunately, the 3rd parties that can help correct the information asymmetry seem to turn into protection rackets.

[1] http://advanceindiana.blogspot.com/2015/03/class-action-laws...

[2] http://www.ibtimes.com/yelp-extortion-rampant-say-small-busi...

[3] Google "BBB protection racket"
Look if Cuba can drive around on their fleet of ridiculously old cars, then it can be done. It just might not be super easy or labor-cheap.

I think what GP is getting at is if you start optimizing first for reuse, there's a lot of cars we wouldn't need to build.
Not a dumb question at all. I would say that it means that there's a very real business opportunity for anyone who wants to compete with Tesla and takes the open route. Beyond that who knows, but the very fact that they're shutting down analysis as much as possible (they probably don't really care that much about hackers, it's the reverse engineering shops that all the major car manufacturers run that would be their big fear), suggests that what they have is easy to copy. Or reinvent.

History, I suspect, will be on the side of the battery makers.
The amount of sugar going into foods has increased. I remember there being around 20 grams of sugar in most sodas. Now, there is typically about twice that amount, and Honest Teas are "lower in sugar" with 19 grams. The US food industry's tactic is this: foist lots of sugar on people when they're kids and don't know any better. Then, when they're adults, you can get away with plying them with lots of high fructose corn syrup, which is super cheap due to subsidies.
Why people use snapchat [Snapumentary]
provided you would consume that content anyway, another alternative is that advertisers making less profit
Anyone would like to keep the service running? I could help finance/code/etc, let's keep it up!!
Image Analogies using Neural Networks
> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports... If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

Now, there have been quite a few mainstream news articles lately that makes sense for HN (like Kofi Anan's comments about drug prohibition, for example) because there have been a lot of mainstream news articles that are "evidence of some interesting new phenomenon."

This, however, doesn't seem to be one of them.
Interesting concept
Hopefully this can be turned into a GHC plugin providing an additional back-end with https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/11470
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It has happened already.

http://www.teslamotorsclub.com/showthread.php/58951-Let-the-...

(That starts out with parts, but the guy eventually roots his own car.)
> I updated from the previous version to 2.90 through the app built-in update...

Same, and I also don't see any `kernel_service` process running.

Fingers crossed for the in-app update not being affected by the hack.
Here's one [legally crazy] idea: there are some known great commenters here on HN. They write thoughtful comments. I'd think they would be open to having their good comments reposted on another high-quality community. So, could lobste.rs ask a few top HN commenters for the permission to cross-post their comments from HN?

Legally, it would be fine: lobster.rs would get a license, the original poster does own copyright. It's also "clean", if it's done in a manual, selective way. And boom, you get higher quality comments "for free".

Would that be completely unfair to HN?
Can you give an indication of a realistic timeline?
> Is it because the Terror War isn't enough to justify the elites' desired levels military spending?

It's the politics of fear. I wish there was something we could do about it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Nightmares
Die with dignity;
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/Agein...
>Allow downloading files from http servers (not https) on OS X 10.11+

This reads like they disabled Apple's "App Transport Security", which only allows HTTPS connections unless a program explicitly makes an exception. Introduced in iOS 9 and OS 10.11 (El Capitan). I bet the failing HTTP connections caused a bug in Transmission, and it was an easier fix to disable ATS than to transition whatever connection to HTTPS.

https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/documenta...
It's painful to brick your phone, which is the risk when trying to jailbreak it. It's devastating to brick your $100,000 car, though.
Can you get the source code for the ECU? You cannot.