skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They charge you for the privilege to visit SF, not to leave it.
Yes, precisely:
"Miller and Valasek’s exploit uses a burner phone’s cellular connection to attack the Jeep’s internet-connected entertainment system."
http://www.wired.com/2015/07/hackers-remotely-kill-jeep-high...
We're getting outside of my home hobbyist experience here, but I think you could guarantee the robot would be in a particular position, but the backlash might make it hard to say when the robot will get to the particular position. Using encoders on all the motors would require having inputs for each encoder, which can get complex.

My guess is you can go pretty far with janky parts if you don't run for long periods of time and also measure where they are.
Then settle for making the code better than it was when you started working on it.
Building a docker image is relatively straightforward. You define the docker image resource, then "put" to it.
So with the new rules, the easiest course of action is to abandon the published packages and fork new versions to a different repository.
> Well, the first time a hacker vehicle exploit results in one or more deaths of the driver and/or passengers of one of these Internet-connected vehicles, it's going to be all over the news.

Michael Hastings, anyone?
Thank you for the better link, I wasn't aware that the first source wasn't reputable.
Until we completely understand the risks, perhaps we should make a rule not to breed after genetic manipulation. If you want kids and gene therapy, kids first.
I would say that deliberately hiding risks is grounds for piercing the corporate veil and making shareholders personally liable. :-)

Obviously in practice there needs to be a cap. But the cap should be set high enough to cover the upper limit of the claims that reasonably could happen. Which means that the cap needs to be astronomically high.

For example if you're potentially affecting the health of a town, you should be able to compensate them for their actual losses. Including the cost of supporting sick people on disability for the rest of their lives. Like it or not that is the actual potential liability of your action. You shouldn't have to pay anything like that up front. But if 1% of fracking wells leak, and 1% of those leaks get into a town's water supply, then yes, you may have to be ready to compensate dozens of people for the cost of medical care and years of disability.
Many companies are under real threat from their competition, Apple is just the example in this case. At least that's how I read it.
Why would Spotify need $1B? Is most of this money used to license content?
Ya - sucks. I said this in a comment below, but also relevant here: capital > labor
UC System Put Profits Ahead of In-State Admissions
Yes of course. Thanks.

Looking around on the site I didn't see a link to report something like this, and I didn't immediately think to goto github with it.

Please excuse my ignorance.
Check this out:

https://youtu.be/bjYhmX_OUQQ?t=2m30s

A phone provider's key goal is to continue to provide charged-for services to their customers, not to secure your bank account or dns registrar account... They'll do whatever's needed to allow paying customers to pay or pay more.
Hardened Java serialization with input validation
I'm more than olde enough to remember, but, actually, I've found call quality to be substantially better since all-digital was the norm, with the exception being when one endpoint or the other is doing something weird. What I remember from the days you are romanticizing is a palpable reduction in quality for long-distance calls, with even local calls having, often, worse quality than most calls do now.
I question the accuracy of the BBS list. There are some on there that are dated 1992 that I'm quite sure I was connecting to at 300 baud earlier than the dates given.
No, it makes you a second-wave nerd with hipster tendencies.

(I of course just made that up.)
I don't think OP was implying just Apple, anyone competing in a winner-take-all market has to have this attitude.
CSV parsing is relatively slow.
Founders haver probably already sold off equity worth tens/hundreds of millions of dollars during previous rounds. Taking some off the table..
Seems like it could be effective to use CRISPR/Cas9 to insert the HIV resistance gene mutation (CCR5-delta32, to replace the normal CCR5 gene) into bone marrow stem cells and then inject those into the person after testing the created cells to be HIV negative (or cutting the HIV out by means in this paper). If HIV negative bone marrow cells available were sufficient to do this it could be a 'cure' for the hematopoietic system. Or use HIV-negative induced pluripotent stem (IPS) cell with hematopoietic potential derived from a tissue not normally infected by HIV.

Such cells in principle would have a survival advantage over native cells and would effectively perform a bone marrow transplant, maybe helped along by some medicinal guidance. Pies in the sky, but using HIV-negative cells may avoid the problem of removing divergent sequences of HIV in different people and ineffective gDNAs.
Ideally, yes, we want to pre-train in a virtual environment using as close to the real model robot as possible. I worked on such a problem as part of my PhD research on mobile robots using the Webots simulator (https://www.cyberbotics.com/overview) as my virtual environment.

In my case, I was working on biologically-inspired models for picking up distant objects. It's impractical to tune hyperparameters in hardware, so you need to be able to create a virtual version that gets you close enough. Once you can demonstrate success there, you then have to move to the physical robot, which introduces several additional challenges: 1) imperfections in your actual hardware behavior vs idealized simulated ones, 2) real-world sensor noise and constraints, 3) dealing with real-world timing and inputs instead of a clean, lock-step simulated environment, 4) having different API to poll sensors/actuate servos between virtual and hardware robots, and 5) ensuring that your trained model can be transferred effectively between your virtual and hardware robot control system.

I was able to solve these issues for my particular constrained research use case, and was pretty happy with the results. You can see a demo reel of the robot here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoIXFKVGaXw
Better Time Management for Product Managers
Apparently no one actually fucking read the page.

> ON-THE-GO

>Get calls on your mobile phone. Stay connected no matter where you are. Have Fiber Phone ring
your landline when you're home or your mobile when you're onthe-go.

This isn't about landlines at all.
Is there any kind of business case for this - besides what looks like blind panic?

Spotify raised $500m last year. Now it seems to think it needs to nearly double its existing > $1bn funding/debt pile so badly it's willing to settle for a loan-shark mugging.

I'd guess the money isn't needed for new customers - more to stay afloat long enough to have some hope of getting to IPO and allowing the investors to get some of their money back before the office burns down.

Spotify would literally need to double its subscriber base to make this debt viable, and that doesn't seem likely.
Indeed, better late than never! Maybe "up arrow" instead of space would work? Way less convenient though. I wonder how you're lucky enough to always need the first dir.
A day in the life of a young black male engineering “coding” student
https://www.tastehit.com/blog/google-deepmind-alphago-how-it... somewhat answers your question, tho with questionable analogy to the human mind
Excellent reply.

Indeed, quite true.

Though none of this excuses any negligence, no matter if it is the vendor of the manufacturer.
Python 201 – What is a Chainmap?
Type information is one. CSV is slow, since it has to parse everything on load. CSV has no random access, since rows can be arbitrary length. CSV takes up a lot of disk space, since a 8-byte double gets expanded into a 15+ digit string.
> The real question is whether or not we, as a species, can be trusted with the unprecedented power and responsibility of direct control over our own evolution.

No. Check back in 50-100 years.
They do, but twisted pair uses more power. You should use Twinax copper cables with the SFP NICs and switches if you don't want fiber.
Your best is different from his/her best.
Scientists want to turn Guantanamo Bay prison camp into a marine research lab
Most state lottos describe their product as a 'game' and by the common definition, games can be won if you know how to play them. Also, it's illegal in many states to operate a gambling establishment -- therefore we can assume that gambling is harmful to society.

Given those definitions, these guys can defend themselves by saying (a) I was playing the game, (b) the mere fact that I turned a gamble into a sure win isn't evidence of ill intent -- as we all know, gambling is immoral, and (c) this use was not proscribed by the instructions.

I wouldn't be surprised if there are rules against playing the lotto at your own store; that would be a contractual breach requiring the merchants to return their winnings. You can stretch that contractual breach to claim 'unauthorized use' for a CFAA charge, though if you lose it sets a tough precedent that hurts other CFAA prosecutions. But the mere act of using the machine in an alternative (but not prohibited) way isn't a crime.
Points 4-6 (financial freedom, rule of law and freedom of communication) are all long-standing problems in China, and personally I believe that, if not fixed, they will prevent China from becoming, in the long run, a developed economy.
However I don't have evidence that the situation is now getting worse in relation to these specific 3 points. I would be interested in reading reliable sources related to the above.
Weirdly, this was marked dead, so I vouched for it. I'd appreciate it if others could keep an eye on it, as I have to head out for dinner now.
It adds important things like: "Review OKRs", "Planning sync", etc.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/7xizuaap0lbjt0k/Screenshot%202016-...
It's debt but it's pretty clearly meant to convert into equity not be re-paid.
Yes, we share one test repo amongst all the openSUSE distributions and SUSE distributions

SUSE use openQA for testing their enterprise distributions too, and keeping all our tests together and reused as heavily as possible really helps in all directions (and proves the argument that maintaining openQA tests isnt hard even when dealing with multiple codebases-under-test all moving at different paces)

I use Tumbleweed as my daily driver on all my machines besides my server (Leap).

In 2 years I've had no problems that I didnt cause myself (eg. rm -rf /) and even then snapper saved the day and let me rollback to a working snapshot (Tumbleweed, like all openSUSE/SUSE distributions have btrfs snapshots and rollback by default)

So I'd say its comparible to Fedora or Debian testing

And we'd like to see more contributors, not only adding more packages and maintaining them, but to openQA also so that Tumbleweeds quality doesn't just stay at that level but gets even higher
Anecdata: my Internet drops out for about fifteen seconds three or four times a day. That's not a problem when I'm reading web pages or even downloading files but it would cause problems during a phone call. My ISP offered me a bundled Internet/IP phone combination for about $7 less per month than an Internet/existing landline one. I'm glad I decided to keep the landline.
so we're going on implicit nonverbal body language sorts of things? how does this account for diversity? people from different backgrounds, different socializations, etc give and receive signals differently.

this is like communications 101.

this legit seems kind of insensitive, ableist and elitist.
> It's a far better approach than using shasums for package integrity though.

The point of that article is that it isn't. It only adds integrity if you trust the signer. From the article:

> When attempting to verify a signed file you check the signature against a public key. If the signature matches that public key then everything is kosher. The question then becomes which public key, and therein lies the rub. If you do not have a well defined model of trust then all you’ve done is thrown cryptography at a problem in order to give the people involved the ability to say that their system has signature verification.

> It's not NPMs job/obligation to provide the javascript world with never ending storage, hosting, and bandwidth.

That's true, and a good point that we shouldn't expect it to be this way in all circumstances. On the other hand, allowing people to rip out packages without warning makes for a much worse npm experience. Expecting that all JS developers set up a local proxy for all projects, particularly in a non-professional setting, is also unrealistic. npm is indeed improving the situation here (even if they're not solving all possible situations).

Do you think if would help if npm automatically banked packages locally? It's not quite a company-wide proxy, but it could prevent this from failing on your local machine without too much setup.
Pornhub gets immersive with new virtual reality category
This Is Why I Hire First for Product Experience
I think railroad brake shoes are usually cast iron.
That wasnt my point...

My point was that you take toxic waste, Flouride, and distribute it amongst a massive population of deposits (people) - even if its beneficial.. and you find a way to dispose of waste.

I personally dont have an opinion on the safety of fluoride in water - I just know that in the early 80s this is what I heard hanging around the CEO of ALCOA...
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11382629 and marked it off-topic.
HDF5 is not thread-efficient. https://www.hdfgroup.org/hdf5-quest.html#tsafe

So, python packages like h5py do not even try to release the GIL.

This makes working with HDF5 very annoying in python (when using multiple threads).
So you want to limit your long-term costs with limited liability, and your short-term costs with no insurance. And you also want to be free to engage in behavior that puts MY life at risk?

And you see nothing wrong with this???

If you want to reap potential rewards for your behavior, you also need to take responsibility for the potential costs.
> Except without any regulation or enforcement there is no incentive or companies to care about the environmental impact.

I specifically said, "and regulated to enforce it".

> The reality is that no one involved in fracking cares and it's all about the bottom line so screw the environment.

That is not the reality, and I challenge you to demonstrate that.
Looks fine to me at ~3 feet on my 96 DPI screens and at ~2 feet on my ~200 DPI Nexus S screen. If I put on my dramatically too-old glasses, it still looks good from substantially further away.

shrug
They clearly believe that they will die without this, and the wound taken allows them to survive.
Yeah, climbers are quite like FOSS advocates, having endless arguments about minute 'differences' as far as the outside world is concerned!

I'd highly recommend you do some alpine mountaineering and then see if your opinions stay the same. Alpine is so much bigger than anything you can climb in the UK, and the Himalayas are at the ultimate end of the scale. Given a choice between pulling on some gear or dying - I'm pulling on the gear [0].

I often think mountaineering to climbing, is like road-biking is to mountain biking - initially they seem comparable, and we use some of the same skills in both, but there are also so many differences that it's practically impossible to make comparison.

[0] For a start the "bad style" your talking about is __common practise__ in alpine climbing. Do a google search for "french free".
Or canv.as
Blame HN for that. It was removed from public access right after I made a blog post about it, although it was coincidental I think.
It helps that Apple Music has been relatively terrible from the start. I fully expect them to get significantly better, but after Rdio died (RIP, and I got over my mourning) I did the Apple Music trial plus a couple months. Both the wife and I found it incredibly difficult to navigate and understand. Spotify has been much, much better.

That said, Apple Music is only going to get better, and fast.
Unless you have the resources of a nation-state, generating a SHA256+ collision is infeasible.
As has Android, but AT&T and Verizon tend to lock out features like HD Voice and Wifi Calling to be iPhone only.
That's a hack from the site from which you're copying, not OneNote.
I think it's more of a network effect. That phone number has been given out for years, and all their friends and family have it. They'd have to get a second cell phone or use a service like Google Voice to make use of it beyond a landline, so it's logistically easier to just keep it as a landline number.
> ...don't make case-dependent urls...

Ehh. If you're running a URL shortener, case-sensitive URLs let your URLs stay short longer. Ditto for things like YouTube's video IDs.
This is very cool. But it irritates me a bit another cool piece is reproducible builds, as implemented by guix challenge [1], and I can't have both!

I also tend to think most package managers lack a sound foundation, unlike nix. It builds everything upon a basic but powerful idea, don't force to keep the whole package tree in sync.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Invoking-...
You're not actively shuffling through a box full of tangible objects to find what to listen to.
Spotify will never be worth enough for that converted equity to be worth the cost.
2016 must be the year of Linux on the desktop.

:-)
Blame the robots for copyright notice dysfunction
The Takedown Project
Who defines what is risky?

This seems ultracapitalist - someone profits from estimating risk and leaves the injured free to sue.
Which extinction do you applaud?
Java for Everything (2014)
If you've implemented DKIM and SPF I'm surprised this is happening. Of course there are other factors but I'd be interested to see what the email looks like. Can you send an example to sean@catch.seanzieapples.com, please?
This is easily 3x their wholesale cost to provide this service, so it is pure profit.
Another great release from the OpenBSD team. Always looking forward to the great things Theo and team put out. Pleasantly surprised to see this release a month early.

OpenBSD has been my favorite OS since 2000. Such an easy-to-use OS for any number of things. I've used it for firewalls, Web servers, and a nice simple desktop with a custom FVWM config. Fast and simple.
Np! There is also a #-fastboot room on the Ember Community Slack, directions for jumping in there can be found on emberjs.com: http://emberjs.com/community/
What do you mean by barcoding? Are you talking about retail bar codes? Or is there something mainframe related?
The license in package.json seems to refer to http://www.wtfpl.net/
To be honest, I would rather some people have trouble emailing me than basically any spam getting through to my inbox.
Also there's no single, official CSV standard.
Good point - it's all or nothing for Spotify, they are not profitable at current scale and need critical mass re: subscribers + defense against Apple, and if they don't get there, then they are dead anyhow.
Thank you brudgers for kindly visiting the website and giving feedback.

Yes, we're currently shaped like a two-sided marketplace, where transactions center around "price plans" in relation to some "piece of code" that sellers can customize to their liking.

We'll take what you've said into consideration as we continue improving the product. Thanks again!
Indeed, and AFAIK angular is even basing their build tooling code on ember-cli.
50 years of Batman on film: how has his physique changed?
> It doesn't seem implausible to me that there is some general complexity theory law which prohibits intelligence "understanding" itself.

What about collective intelligence? What could prevent many intelligent agents from collectively reverse-engineering the algorithms they are individually running? Let say they then build a simulator and can use it to predict how any possible instantiation of their intelligence would behave. Can they (collectively) "understand" it any more than that? What question could you pose to test if they really understood it "from above"?
there are plenty of examples and at this point it seems that Google has a vested interest in making life difficult for independent or self hosted email providers
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Put a stop to all bullying! Check out "Butterfly Me"....by, Evon Latrail
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The second one sounds a bit too glib until you notice that one of the websites he makes fun of is his own.
Coming soon: S-1 filing.
Whenever I see some new markdown thing, the first thing I do is check to see if math is supported, since most of my writing/collaboration uses math. Even my personal todo list needs math from time to time.

I think its pretty easy to add math support by adding MathJax to your HTML template (e.g. as used in the markdown implementations of StackExchange, Jupyter Notebook, Quiver and such.)
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Coincidentally, Quora.com just had a knowledge prize contest to answer "How Significant is AlphaGo?".

https://www.quora.com/How-significant-is-the-AlphaGo-victory...

I thought that many of the answers were quite insightful.

Disclaimer: I also wrote an answer, but the submission deadline for the knowledge prize is over.
It was a helluva lot easier for us ($work) after we became a CLEC.
Managing Your Macbook with Ansible
Sad to see this young man treated poorly.

Those check cashing places are notoriously shady. In future, might I suggest Walmart. They cash any check with proper ID for a mere $3 and won't call the police because you're black.
I think you're greatly underestimating how difficult it is to come up with an algorithm to play Go.

Even evaluating a single play state is a difficult problem, let alone looking forwards to 'simply taking the route giving max probability of success'. That's not simple at all.

Go is fiendishly difficult to evaluate. The traditional techniques that work in chess don't work well in Go (if at all). All the pieces have the same 'value'. More or less pieces isn't necessarily better or worse, it depends on the board layout. It's not at all easy to say who's winning or losing at most points in the game, or if there even is a winner or a loser. There is no mathematically-obvious way to compare two play states and say one is better than the other. The branching factor is huge, making the usual forward-looking techniques extraordinarily expensive. The number of possible legal boards states is something like 90 orders of magnitude greater than the number of atoms in the observable universe, making backward-looking techniques like minimax impossible, even if you could easily assign an evaluation function to each state.
Well it's a really dirty tactic, but it can be hard to retain top talent (who are largely rewarded with options/shares) if a company's stock price crashes.
Ugh, American Exceptionalism rears its ugly head yet again.

Your constitution is not the epitome of justice or democratic ideals, and is in fact deeply flawed on a fundamental level.
This is complete tin-foil-hat territory, but I am going to say it anyway.

I used to travel internationally a fair bit to rural areas of SE Asia...

Places without wifi and cell.

I did feel different. I have no way to prove it was anything but placebo/mind -- but I did notice it.

Would be wonderful to see a study on this, even if to prove me a loon... but per your comment; I dont mind having a fully wired setup as opposed to all wireless - I'd love to see if there is any validity to this feeling.