skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've thought for a while that SarbOx created the unicorn. In the end all it accomplished was to exclude the public from the best growth stocks.

The problem with SarbOx is complexity, overhead, and ambiguity. It would have been possible to fix some of the excesses of revenueless dot.coms by adding a few simple criteria, but instead we added a ton of burden and made public markets undesirable.

I've also wondered if SarbOx might not have been a factor in real estate hyperinflation by driving capital away from stock markets. It's gotta go somewhere.
I think you should take a look at the How to Start a Startup video series. And particularly Lecture 9 - How to Raise Money might be helpful.

http://startupclass.samaltman.com/
It's there: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/04/us/politics/leaked-documen...
I've seriously considered taking my luggage to UPS and shipping it to my destination.
Why a good VPN is pretty much a requirement now. I've been using F-Secure's products and really love seeing all the blocking it does.
"For enjoying art?" Enjoying art is not why they've been fined, pirating it is. There's a meaningful distinction there. You're not entitled to anyone's work, and it's not a necessary part of being a functional and happy human being.
Yeah I like how they display a special page for NoScript users. I wonder how they knew I was using it.
> They have a ~$276 million dollar interest free loan with which to build the first wave of Model 3s

This is a company that, while producing just 33K cars a year, has operating expenses of $114M per week. That $276M won't be around long enough to build a single Model 3. They're going to need a lot more money.
FYI for anyone tempted to google search for it: there are some pretty gross image-search results that I wish I could un-see, helpfully inserted by Google before most of the results.

From wikipedia:

> Trypophobia is a proposed phobia (pathological fear) of small holes, particularly irregular patterns or clusters of small holes. The term was coined in 2005 from the Greek τρύπα (trýpa) "hole" and φόβος (phóbos) "fear". Thousands of people say they have the condition. It is not a recognized diagnosis or condition in the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) or other scientific literature.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trypophobia
I don't know the boot process on a PS4, but if loading Linux requires you to modify or bypass any access controls, then it may be a circumvention violation of the DMCA.

If loading an alternate OS is a EULA violation, they might brick users machines or at least stop them from using Sony services.
You could become a consultant/contractor. Not telling you not to explore other opportunities and or businesses. Although, I would avoid most canned business opportunities. I would focus on one at a time until its been exploited to its potential.
I have a family member who knows the founders and apparently they're completely nontechnical "idea guys" who have a trail of shitty projects like this and have already moved on to other projects. So it's not that surprising to me.
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If you'd prefer a secular angle with some scientific background, Sam Harris's Waking Up is excellent.

Reading about Greek Stoicism (Seneca's Letters are a great starting point) and Buddhism and comparing their similarities is a great way to get the best out of both.

A book that's been sitting on my shelf waiting for me to read it that might also be of interest is Edward Slingerland's Trying Not to Try, which focuses on the Chinese concept of wu wei which has much in common with flow.
And it's getting worse, SGX[1] allows 3rd party encrypted binary blobs to run on your CPU without being inspectable.

It's sold as way to protect your secrets from malware. But it more likely will be used to run DRM code on the user's computer while treating the user as a hostile entity.

[1] https://software.intel.com/en-us/sgx
> you have bigger problems

Yes, we do! And that is why leaks like this are especially harmful.
Don't retcon Lambdaconf. Lambdaconf isn't an academic conference. I've been involved with academic conferences (I co-chaired one for USENIX last year), and I've been involved with things like Lambdaconf. Both kinds of thing are valuable and important, but they're also different.

The purpose a conference is to select works for inclusion in the citation record for a field. The conference presentations themselves are secondary to the proceedings of the conference. A good way to know you're looking at an scientific conference is to find the Program Committee, which is the group responsible for determining which papers will and won't be accepted. Most scientific conferences are defined by their Program Committee.

I can't find Lambdaconf's PC online. I assume it has one?

Lambdaconf is an industry event. It's a gathering of enthusiasts that is mostly commercial and social in nature. Its presentations will be cited online informally. Because many of them are presentations by the authors of open source functional programming software, the subjects of those presentations may even be cited formally --- but it's unlikely that any of the talks themselves will be.

If Lambdaconf were an academic conference, I would have different feelings about their pointed inclusion of a noisome white supremacist. But it isn't; it's fundamentally a commercial event. It can't hide behind "science".
Not exactly a technical answer...

does the Chinese government really care? I ask because this is the type of thing that only enters a conversation when 'effectiveness'/'accuracy' becomes a discussion down the line. I doubt that China gives a s* frankly, which makes this even scarier...the data used to show it works will like be bad by design.
But what exactly is the point of a framework if you're bringing your own tools?
Most Allwinner chips can run an entirely open-source stack and there's quite a few hobbyist-oriented boards out there based on them. (Technically the ROM bootloader is closed source, but all it does is load your choice of bootloader into RAM and execute it. After that you have full control, including the ability to run code in TrustZone mode and on the supervisor CPU core if one exists.)
Interesting article. You can turn a small business into a corporate any time. So indeed, you can start small and grow from there. Going the VC route is more about having a huge support and resources behind you back. It's not only about money I think.. I agree on the fame though, you're right!
I'm using ASUS C201 which uses ARM. It was a Chromebook, now running libreboot and parabola linux.
Running it on a laptop is a bit of a science project still, if you want a seamless experience it's not really there, but it can be done. At this point you can use up to Haswell intel graphics with suspend/resume.
It's near the top of the page's source:

<noscript><meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; URL=/noscript"/></noscript>

(The <noscript> tag has been around since at least as long as I've had Internet access. It's not new.)
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Could you elaborate? Joyent has been offering a production-ready (not beta) container cloud for for years.
That's not the argument I'm making. I'm not disagreeing with you.

The point I'm making, which I admit is an obvious one, is that without profits a dividend will erode a company's value. Simple flow of money. Unless there's a surplus flow of money in, you can't have an outward flow. Therefore, the effect of a dividend on a company's market cap depends on how much profit they have in comparison.
It works by letting you capture network requests and then replicating those network requests exactly.

This includes tools to parametrize GET and POST requests, as well as a set of tools to extract data from the webpage itself.

We're working on a video demoing how it works! Let me know if there are particular use cases in mind and I'd be happy to try to help out on those.
Hmm. OK, I have two questions - maybe somebody here has answers:

1) "...these proprietary blobs could easily contain code to
exfiltrate encryption keys, remotely activate microphones and cameras..."

This seems basically impossible to actually achieve in reality though, because there will still associated network traffic that can be sniffed, and will have been by now, right? I mean, it is plausible that somehow we all just failed to notice that our computers are sending video traffic to the NSA without our noticing it?

I can imagine this happening on phones, where the baseband chip is much harder to actually sniff. But through my LAN? I doubt that.

2) Let's imagine that this post is entirely true. Why do Intel and AMD do this? If it's not part of a grand conspiracy, then why? Clearly there are far easier and cheaper ways to achieve what they view as security that don't require such a crippling approach. What's the upside to them?
Is hypercontainer another name for an Intel Clear Container?
Just because you publish content for free doesn't mean that you don't derive value from it. By establishing yourself as an expert you can (just off the top of my head):

- create a market for yourself as a consultant/instructor/offer seminars in that area

- charge businesses to feature reviews of their goods and services

- sell books/prints/tshirts/(insert relevant merch for type of content here)

None of these avenues are viable for content mills. I stand by my original point that if content was free and everyone monetized their expertise this way we'd have a much better internet.
Sad, but not surprising. It seems like good customer service just doesn't scale for airlines. Back to being stuck with being treated like crap by your airline, or paying less to be treated slightly crappier by your airline.
I've been using a Raspberry Pi 3 for the past week, and have been pleasantly surprised by the performance. It's no speed demon, to be sure, but it's good enough for all my basic tasks. I wish there were a general "open computing" branch of the Raspberry Pi Foundation that would produce a $50-$100 "pro" version with more RAM and faster bus+peripherals.
It certainly does not require FOSS users to purchase a license. There is already a shim loader signed by a MS-recognized authority, which ships with a signed copy of MokManager, which lets you register a "machine owner key" of your own choosing. You can then use that key to sign kernels for your own machine, or for anyone else who wants to go through the on-screen enrollment step to trust your key.

https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/20303.html

No additional money has to change hands between anyone, and no additional permission needs to be granted from Microsoft to anyone. (You have to get the permission of someone with physical access to the machine during boot, but if your goal here was FOSS users controlling their own computing, it's a good thing that that permission is required.)
So, yes, an OS. This isn't like a software isolated process in Singularity or little component in a user-mode runtime leveraging a L4-like microkernel. It's virtualization + a kernel + (maybe something here) + my code.

That's a stripped-down, guest OS on virtualized platform. Basically same sort of thing that's common but with some differentiator.
"To view this content, you are obliged to shoot yourself in the foot." --me

Any time you shove me down ransomware you are actively supporting crime.
And unless it was a dedicated government services vendor, all those people needed to submit background checks, get security clearance and be US citizens or at least permanent residents all of which costs a bit extra.
It is 51% owned by Branson (or an interest over which he has control), however. As a _very_ frequent Virgin Atlantic and Delta flyer, I can assure you there is nothing about Virgin Atlantic which approaches the terribleness that "Delta UK" implies.
You're absolutely right; Most advances do eventually trickle down. But, most advances in FOSS have benefited users who are less well off, making computing, both libre and in general, more available to them. It's frustrating that in order to get a truly free computer one has to pay about the equivalent of 3 months wage, which is a no go for most people I know.
Ok. And remember that the copyright holder for the page doesn't own the copyright in the ads you're blocking, so each copyrighted work might be loaded in its entirety or not at all.

Other transformations have been done on webpages forever. In fact blocking all images was a built-in feature of most browsers until a few years ago.
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> I must say I don't find any of these really useful, but again I don't text while driving.

Lane keep assist is just a quality of life thing. You get on the highway/motorway, get in your lane, and it makes subtle movements to keep you centered in the lane. It doesn't drive for you.

So for example on windy days when the wind is pushing you constantly one way, Lane Keep Assist counteracts that lateral movement. On a straight piece of highway/motorway with no wind it does nothing at all.

Automatic cruise control is the same as regular cruise control but requires less driver input. Instead of picking an exact speed you set a goal speed, and the vehicle will either go that speed or the speed of vehicles in front of you.

The nice thing about automatic cruise control is that traffic doesn't often go at one set speed for a long period. Things like exits, construction, traffic composition, earlier accidents, etc can all cause traffic to slow for periods of time before speeding back up. Automatic cruise control means you don't have to manually adjust to these variances. It also keeps you a safe travel distance from the vehicle in front.

Automatic forward braking helps make automatic cruise control safer by allowing the vehicle to slow extremely rapidly if needed (e.g. an accident happens in front of you). Faster in fact that most humans.

But automatic forward braking isn't just useful when combined with automatic cruise control, it can brake you when a "foreign object" is in the road (e.g. animal, pedestrian, etc) which can either stop accidents entirely or reduce the damage done. It also helps with common rear-end accidents or rarely more serious accidents.

Day to day you shouldn't be using automatic forward braking.

They've already been looking at if automatic forward braking works and, yes, it does. It reduces accidents and when accidents still occur it reduces how bad they are.[0]

None of this has anything to do with texting and driving. In fact if I take my hands out of the wheel the automatic cruise control will bleep at me and eventually disengage.

[0] http://www.autonews.com/article/20160128/OEM06/160129871/aut...
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A good test may be how long you have to be saving the insurance payments to cover everything.
Serious Engine 1 source code available for Linux and Mac
What of no one wants to be first at that price?
That ship has sailed long ago.
Pot kettle black?

"...most of the UK’s big media organisations shelter assets and cash flows offshore. Top of the hypocrites in this respect is The Guardian. They put their assets in the Caymans, and they used a Luxembourg tax shell designed by PriceWaterhouseCoopers to funnel cash flows beyond the reach of HMRC. "

"Other media organisations using offshore entities include the Huffington Post – whose journalists criticised Amazon for doing the same. The owners of the Mail, News UK and The Telegraph also have various offshore tax-efficient structures."

http://order-order.com/2016/04/04/media-organisations-using-...
I strongly believe you are correct. They have been mentioning that their ARM processors are desktop worthy. I also believe Apple are displeased with Intel's current inability to consistently get their new chips to market. All of this has to make one think Apple will take matters into their own hands soon. Likely within the next 2 years.
Ehh, I wouldn't despair just yet - Alaska itself is not a particularly big airline. I've flown with them lots and they are heads and shoulders above the legacy turdbucket of United/Delta/American.

If VX had to be sold to anyone, I'm glad it's to Alaska.
I'm surprised an oversea's manufacturer hasn't ripped this off yet.
Watching a live feed of the astronauts I was sending to Mars.
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Give me a $500 per unit budget and I can pretty much guarantee you that I could put together a nice kit of higher quality components with plenty of money left over for profit.
> We don't mistake the almost ubiquitous use of cars in the US as an indicator that the US population is 'car savvy,' so why do we do it with computers, cell phones and the internet when in reality you need to know just as much about how they work as how your car does in order to use it?

That may be true from the perspective of understanding the technical workings of the internet, but it's orthogonal to the discussion of understanding internet culture.

"Internet savvy" in this context means savvy with media and savvy with modern social networks, not with the OSI model of networking.
A single HDD worth of content isn't a mind boggling amount of information.
I was reading the release text and you misspelled lambda AWS Lamda -> AWS lambda
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I'd rather wait in the terminal than on the plane.
I think there is also a big "Want to be part of the hype" crowd. I'm not saying it's a bad thing, but I think many Kickstarter backers are impulse shoppers.
Yep. Except for the fact that without taxes the investor can just sell the stock if they disagree with the investments the company is making, resulting in the same cash return as a dividend.

In my example with the buyback, if the investor sold 0.11% of the company after the buyback, the result would look just like what would happen if they did not reinvest the dividend. 1% of the company and $10k cash.
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I doubt it's editable, so a new post probably makes sense.
NuTonomy to Launch World's First Fully Autonomous Taxi Service in Singapore
No, you're not missing anything, that is a very likely thing to happen.
Firefox, there is a setting for it. It's the first thing I do on a fresh install.
Yes. David Friedman covers this quite well in "The Machinery of Freedom":

http://daviddfriedman.com/The_Machinery_of_Freedom_.pdf

(warning: direct PDF link)
There was an excellent talk related to this that Joanna Rutkowska gave at the 32c3 conference (she talked quite a bit about Intel's ME too, I was completely unaware of its existence up to that point):
https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7352-towards_reasonably_trustwor...
There's a pretty big difference between being dismissive and being right.
BT sells FTTH in new developments, with 300mbps down but only 20mpbs up. Exactly on the same fiber I get 1gbps symmetric from Hyperoptic. It's amazing they constrained themselves so much.
It's called covert channels. It could be done by flipping some unused/ignored bits in ip4/tcp headers in a stream of traffic that goes past a collection point.
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What you are seeing is that, even though Virgin is huge and expensive and provides a lot of value, the industry is competitive and very little of that value is profit to the owner. Whereas Minecraft has a niche and is very profitable.
I've done some pretty crazy things with a chainsaw but that has to be the dumbest thing I've ever seen.
Makers took big price increases on widely used U.S. drugs
Yeah, could be. Doesn't mean the car has to have a grill. Note that VW Beetles get along fine without a front grill, and the engines on those need lots of air cooling.
I fully respect Joyent guys. My message isn't exactly right. The only (probably trivial) difference I can see is that with hypervisor you can BYOK.
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I thought it was pretty bad as well ...

But the SPARCs you mention have their drawbacks. LEON is not that competetive in the high end (in order single issue, low clock freq) and T1/T2 are only cores (i.e. without interesting "uncore" stuff) and not that good as general purpose "desktop like" CPU.

I have much higher hopes for RISC-V, the community is really booming and the architecture is better than
SPARC.

I say this as a former Gaisler employee and SPARC proponent :-)
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Not to mention that ARM's ABI is hidden behind a paid NDA. ARM is even less open than x86
I assumed they would still adopt dwarves. Guess I'm wrong. Still gotta lock up all the cats that have adopted one though.
Yes, even if it's "just a kernel", it's still an operating system. It's a piece of software that runs in the supervisor mode of the CPU, providing system call services to user applications.

The marketing copy appears, on this basis, to be somewhat misleading. It says on the site that this is a cloud where "multi-tenant containers can inherently be run safely side by side on bare metal, instead of being nested in VMs".

I think that, as an industry, we've established that "bare metal" execution of workloads means _without_ the multi-layered approach of a hypervisor (itself an OS) running a separate guest OS kernel.
A big problem with crowdfunding is that many backers don't seem to understand the risk they are taking on. It is distressing to see pages and pages of comments complaining about a project's failure, but in the same vein, I've never seen a gambler bang on a slot machine because it didn't payout this time. Is this due to a lack of basic business knowledge among the public?

I think a big reason I've never contributed to a campaign is because there's a greater than 50% chance my money will evaporate.
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