skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use FreeBSD on my personal laptop. I picked up an X230 used on eBay and upgraded it so that it has 2x256GB SSDs in a ZFS mirror and 16GB of RAM. More than enough horsepower to do anything I need, and FreeBSD ensures that it's used most efficiently.

Much like many people on HN, I suspect, I do most of my work /and/ my play at the command line. Once you're there for a significant amount of your time you begin to get a respect for tight integration in the BSD base system and the superb documentation which is included. Because of the docs, I can reasonably work in an environment where I have no Internet access for an extended period of time without feeling like I'm suffering. In the Linux world, I find myself spending more time looking things up on search engines and less times looking things up in the manual. This simply isn't the case with FreeBSD, which means I'm less tied to being online and more tied to getting stuff done.

YMMV but I love FreeBSD as a desktop/laptop OS. I know many people also use OpenBSD on laptops because of superior driver support for some hardware, but the Linux emulation in FreeBSD allows me to guarantee no matter what I'm trying to do it will work, so I stick to FreeBSD vs OpenBSD for my uses.
> Heck, even a normal middle class person could probably foot $1000 at no risk.

Huh? What "middle class" are you talking about? In the USA, 2 in 3 people can't afford a $500 car repair or $1000 emergency room visit [1]. My guess is that people putting $1000 down on a car are either pretty rich or pretty serious about buying it.

1: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/63-of-americans-cant...
As more and more people will adopt EVs, you can expect:

- gas stations and car dealers to go bankrupt

- price for maintenance and spare parts to jump

- investment in oil extraction to drop (as demand for oil decreases)

- gas prices to increase at the pump, due to diseconomies of scale within the oil industry and carbon tax

This could quickly translate into a vicious circle, and make ICE as luxurious as horse riding.
http://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/apr/04/panama-papers-da...

The Guardian reports the UK Prime Minister's father used the firm.
From what I've read, there will be much bigger news related to Western figures coming out of this leak in the near future.

puts on tinfoil hat: However, with that said, the organizations behind the release could very well have a hidden agenda as they don't seem to have any intention of releasing the full leak.
Stephen Hawking Says “Don’t Bank on the Bomb”
Doesn't that apply to touchscreen interfaces too?
> They most probably still pay much more tax than average person - just not as much as they could be paying if they didn't use these ways.

It's about relative value vs absolute value. If you use 30% of your wages toward taxes but the next person use 12% of his to pay the same absolute amount, there is an issue that needs to be addressed.
Unless the cars wreck, unlikely that this will get a mass following; ironic.
I'm wary of obvious things, because so often they turn out to be wrong.
FT writers are such free market fundamentalists they make WSJ writers look like Bernie Sanders supporters.
Good point! Actually everything about airlines that inspires complaints, can be avoided by spending enough "good money" to fly e.g. NetJets instead.
Used to use. First they migrated to https://www.eldos.com/cbfs/ and now they don't exist anymore.
> It seems like false economy to say charging $25 per luggage checked make sense when you have now added 40 minutes to each flight.

It makes sense to the airlines. For them, it probably doesn't matter that much if you leave a bit late. The cost of the flight doesn't change with how much time it takes to board, so they're making more money by charging for bags (even if not that many people check bags). There might be 2nd order effects, like shifts being affected because flights take a bit longer, but I can't imagine that overwhelms the additional income from charging for bags.
That's what newsfeed algorithm is doing with all the facebook posts
hope release cloud-version of k8s!
> I hope the author realizes that at some point there wasn't a network of gas stations across the country,

Not much of an argument. The ICE won out over electric drivetrains for the express reason that liquid fuels are far easier to provide logistics for than batteries. Most electric car makers stopped production at some point in the 1910s. It's not that electric vehicles were never tried out. They were. Gasoline was just a way better fit.
What is your story of finding your cofounder, tech or non-tech?
We are developing a social app and encountering a bunch of problems finding an ideal tech cofounder. What is your story finding yours (where or how)?
Intel ME checks to see if a certain portion of the BIOS flash memory is writable before it allows the main OS to boot.

What x86 Chromebooks do is they allow that region to be writeable but then zero that region on every boot. If your ME was backdoored, it was shipped that way from the factory.

It's so disappointing that Intel undermined the entire trusted computing stack for some unproven ideas of around ME revenue generating opportunities.
What's the false positive rate? I have a feeling that the base rate fallacy is going to make this technology far too interesting.
How would you translate this sentence in English? Sounds like mantra.
Appreciate the down vote on a comment from an ex-coworker. Typical HN.
That has to be true for Steam Machines since you can build your own.
Yes. In Switzerland we have an awesome company who is rolling out 1Gig up and down fiber. The price is only about 67$ per month (thats the same you pay for 100mb down/10mp up with other companies).

They are slowly rolling out. Can wait until the arrive in my city.
what do you think about recording every SSH session?

You bring up remote desktop environments... its actually a good point... similar to what VM's on AWS are.

If the access point (SSH) is locked down and recorded, doesn't that pretty much remove any possibility of employees leaking stuff?

knowing that they are being recorded is a pretty big deterrent to leaking data right?
My Hungarian is a bit rusty. Do they actively scan faces? ... or is it an on-demand thing?

If it's on-demand, police in the US have already been doing it for a while now:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/13/us/facial-recognition-soft...
This is Virgin America which is an entirely different entity created due to US domestic airline laws.
tikv's raft is a port of etcd/raft, which is used by a few projects in production. So we can expect rust raft to be mature soon.
We had a candidate who graduated from an Ivy League school who refused to take our code test with: "I went to ____, I shouldn't have to do this." We would have probably considered him if he asked "Can't you just look at my Github" like this person but as it stood we rejected him outright because someone with that attitude is not likely a cultural fit for us.

However, from the article point for point...

"I know how to code, and can show it" -- we don't have the time to read your entire blog and all your GitHub commits. We have hundreds of applicants.

"I have a day job, and several side projects: I won't spend a sizable chunk of my free time so they can tick some boxes about my coding skills." -- our software engineers have a job too, they can't spend several extra hours per candidate (when there may be hundreds) to look over your stuff. Second, the time it will take you to do this is WAY less than driving to the office for any of the other suggestions.

"work with them on the real job, and see how it feels" -- again, does not scale at all.

Maybe he has never been on the other side of the table. But we reject 48/50 people. Many of whom couldn't even do Fizz Buzz. The tech test is a way to make the process scale and make it so we don't waste time. If each of those 48 people cost even one hour of engineering time we just lost thousands of dollars.

Edit: on second thought, he did say the company reached out to him. We do tend to do things differently if we reach out specifically to a person. But we do that very rarely.
So, better than sharknado?
FBI hasn't officially concluded the investigation. We'll see.
His record of not funding Arab militants to overthrow country leaders in the Middle East in the last decade speaks for itself as well.
Refrigerated trailers powered by a separate on board diesel engine have been a thing for decades... attaching a small gen to a small charger that supplies more long term average KW than the truck needs, turns an electric truck into a hybrid, for those ice road guys.

I would not be surprised to see something on a small scale for u-haul type rental where a rental trailer would come with a small gas generator and a SAE J1772 charger connector on a cord giving you infinite moderate speed range, or at least infinite until 100 miles after you run out of gas. Possibly people would rent those trailers to travel long distances even if they have nothing to actually carry, just to get infinite range. For most of the population, traveling very long distances is very unusual.

Renting trailers is a COTS business model, ditto renting generators, and even the business model of renting medium size building contractor generators mounted on a trailer. Other than adding a weather proof fairing, a larger gas tank, and a COTS plug in EV charger, there's nothing obscure about this fairly obvious future business model.

You might need a software update for the car, so the car understands its safe to drive away with the charger cord still attached.
I'd think it would be easier and more profitable (more convenient for "customers" than buying new hardware) to sell the "speed unlock" solution, much like cryptolocker does with your personal data.
Umm...pardon me? I'm pretty sure kids under 20 are far, incomparably, even, more internet-savvy than the previous generations.

Just because there's a small percentage of 20-50-somethings who actually understand or use it, doesn't mean there's not a huge percentage of 7-year-olds who understand technology infinitely better than their parents. This is the norm, not an exception.

Proof? Let's take something super-recent - Microsoft's ludicrous failure with 'Tay.' The lack of 4chan/reddit-proofing indicates how wildly out of touch the previous generation is with the internet of the current generation. It's sad.
I think it meets guidelines. What need to do? Edit this post or create new?
If this is HP's big over-the-top innovation and Apple killer and luxury offering, they are likely to be disappointed.
Interesting article. What is funny is that Kevin in SharkTank defines almost every second entrepreneur a cockroach and here according to this article it is actually a good thing.
The authors want to create Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools to facilitate engineering genetic systems at scale. Is verilog a reasonably modern foundation from which to draw inspiration, or are there "better" EDA tools nowadays? Maybe one of the resident HN semiconductor experts can weigh in on this.
The nickel and dime'ing has added up to about $60B a year in ancillary fees which represents about 8% of total airline revenues.
True for Steam Machines, but it wouldn't help in this specific case, as Bloodborne is a PS4 exclusive.
it's about corruption where the laws are being bent backward to allow seemingly legal tax evasion on a grand scale. It's isn't about you personally, unless you are one of those individual whose moral tells them to evade the tax office at all cost.
There's actually a subtle difference, with an ICE you pay for the larger displacement with more fuel usage at idle and inefficient RPM ranges(things like VVT help mitigate it but physics is physics).

For EVs you're largely just fighting against Ohm's law(constant voltage requires that you draw more amps which means resistance generates heat, etc) and to a lesser degree weight. Which has much less impact like you note.

My basic understanding of ICEs is that they are most efficient when you can run them at a specific RPM(and tune for that RPM) which is why you see Diesel-Electric Locomotives where the ICE largely acts as a generator.
There'd be conflict over usernames, but the conflict would only happen once ever, instead of happening once on every new site someone wants to sign up on.
As iLoch said, the disks are encrypted.
To be honest, I'm not sure that most software developers care much if a student, for example, downloads software and tinkers with it for personal use 'breaking copyright'. In fact many large software companies encourage piracy so that when these kids grow up to work at a company, they'll demand the tools they know already from past piracy.

There's a huge difference between making money off a business model which is based around breaking copyright and breaking it for personal use. Most software folks don't care at all about the second, which is what the article is about, which is why your comments are unconvincing.
I assume they are part of Google itself.

From the earning's report [1] it seems like total revenue was $21 billion for quarter ending in December. Around $19 billion "Google advertising revenues" and $2 billion "Google other revenues". There seems to be no more break up of beyond that point.

[1] https://abc.xyz/investor/news/earnings/2015/Q4_google_earnin...
Random couscous snaps into beautiful patterns [video]
> Netflix is doing 100Gbit HTTP and > 60Gbit HTTPS on a single socket Xeon E5 with FreeBSD. These servers are about 1/3 North American Internet by volume. In comparison to OCA team their AWS team sounds like a total tire fire to me in terms of engineer count and monthly spend.

Have any idea how many cores and what kind of network hardware they use push those impressive figures? I would guess there is some network offload involved, as this comparable to memory bandwidth of a single core of that Xeon if I'm not mistaken.
"So who is using BSD?"

rsync.net is based solely on FreeBSD and has been since 2006.

Not sure if we're Internet giants, though.
It blows my mind that Minecraft was purchased for $2.5B and Virgin America was purchased for $2.6B.
I believe TW can be a great experience for many devs. But hey, don't trust posts of their own people on the matter. This is a company where it's standard practice for big wigs to post not only technical content, but also "evangelising" stuff to attract other employees. Read glassdoor reviews from current/ex employees and check how it feels for you.

Some people love it to the point of religious fervour, while other hate it as if it murdered their mom savagely. So make sure it looks right for you before applying for a job there.
Right, but rewarding continued existence is already incentivization to not being destroyed.

If the class is graded on a curve, then by making annihilation equal an instant 0 points, you've incentivized the teams to wipe each other out.
That's fair, edited.
Even the conventional airlines (e.g. American) already let you do this -- look for "Premium Economy" seats in the front of the aircraft.
That's a really interesting notion, but it seems impossible to accomplish. How do you make some passengers let others go first?
Not that I can tell, aside from being bigger and thus seating 7.

This was the plan after all.
I was at FOSDEM this year (2016) and there was a talk from the leader of LibreBoot.

Honestly, his talk on the state of the project was very bitter. He literally said that there is absolutely no hope that LibreBoot will ever be able to cope with ME, and that the fight is over since 2008.

As much as I would absolutely love to be able to run a free firmware, unless there is a major change/outsider in the hardware manufacturer world, it seems very unlikely that it will be possible on current x86 architectures.
What about VIA x86 CPUs? http://www.viatech.com/en/silicon/processors/ Do they implement some "secure boot"-like features?
Ask HN: Describe the perfect side project
I was hoping to open up a discussion about side projects. Is learning a new technology more important. or earning a side income? How much do you typically invest in your side project? Time only? 1k, 5k more?
Show HN: JSON to JSDoc Converter
Robinhood Launches Free-Stock Trading in China
Humanæ is a chromatic inventory, a project that reflects on the colors beyond the borders of our codes by referencing the PANTONE® color scheme.

The project development is based on a series of portraits whose background is dyed with the exact Pantone® tone extracted from a sample of 11x11 pixels of the portrayed´s face. The project’s objective is to record and catalog all possible human skin tones.

Humanæ it’s a pursuit for highlighting our subtle-continuous of our tones that make more equality than difference… our true colors, rather than the untrue Red and Yellow, Black and White. It is a kind of game for subverting our codes. The audience is free to read into it. The ultimate goal is to provoke and bring currently using internet as a discussion platform on ethnic identity, creating images that lead us to match us independent from factors such as nationality, origin, economic status, age or aesthetic standards.

The about page: http://humanae.tumblr.com/About
> With that info, a terrorist can buy a SIM card for my name, use it to proxy-blow up a goddamn bomb aaaaand I'm in jail.

Or, you know, dead. It's a bit optimistic in the current climate to assume they'd arrest you peacefully.
I pulled onto I-5 behind a Model S once while riding my 750cc Honda and was really impressed by the fact that I simply could not keep pace - it pulled smoothly ahead like it wasn't even trying. I have never seen any other car do that; it's part of the fun of riding, since cars on the freeway typically feel like they're all half asleep.
Selfism – a movement for self-improvement
Everyday Internet Users Can Stand Up for Encryption – Here’s How
It is a dangerous experiment. Luckily it only hurt a snowman. :)
When I saw no gauges the first thing that I thought was they are going to install a HUD (Head up display a la fighter jet).
The article doesn't mention it directly, but it seems it will scan actively.
Thanks for the info, the article says that the creating of a similar system is also in progress in the United Arab Emirates.
> Actors do get payed for doing castings

i'm not sure where you are getting your information from, but in the real film & TV industry here in Los Angeles/Hollywood, this is simply not true.

actors do NOT get paid for doing auditions or casting calls. in some extreme circumstances -- let's say when a large amount of travel time is required to get to the audition -- some form of compensation might be able to be negotiated, but this is very, very, very rare.

source for my information: i co-ran a production company here in Hollywood CA from 2005-2011.
The smart/connected device companies seem to be headed toward Hardware-as-a-Service for a business model.

It's unsettling.
Understanding metrics in the age of TSDB
You can add your own without wiping the pre-installed ones.
Alaskan Airlines doesn't have reserved seating, so first come first serve.
Openstack and Nutanix: Neutron Networking
Google sticks ads at the top of a search page it creates for you.

Facebook pretends that it gives you a personal blog platform but it hides and reorders your content to shove more ads at you in otherwise private feeds.
Fixed that error, thank you.

Yes, some of the comments here have definitely been helpful, in particular, I wasn't aware that was technology that was already being worked on so that's definitely a gain for the day.
The million (billion) dollar question is the timeframe. Alphabet/Google has apparently decided to go down the full autonomy or bust route and many researchers in the space think that's decades out for commercial availability.

Good assistive systems (probably leading in the nearish term to a level of full autonomy under some conditions) has already started to arrive from a variety of auto makers--but Google doesn't seem to be interested in participating there. So there's a definite business model for assistive/autopilot systems and there will be, some day, for fully autonomous systems. However, it's unclear whether the latter, taken by itself, will be profitable in any reasonable commercial timeframe.
IIRC, Secure Boot spec said there must be multiple trust anchors, i.e. it's not like "user's own or Microsoft", but there can be any combination of trusted CAs (and I bet there's NSAKEY somewhere, huh).

I'm not sure about the implementations and real-world situation, but as far as I get it, with X.509 with Secure Boot generally uses, one should be able put the exact card's vendor certificate (not MS CA root one) to trust the extension card. (Sadly, I think there's no way to trust one specific signature.) I guess that's probably very non-trivial in practice.

At worst, one should be able to put their own CA (to sign their own software) and be forced to add MS CA to trust the third-party software as well. But - if UEFI implementation allows user-defined CAs - it should be possible to run your own code without asking Microsoft's permission.
Why are there sovereigns listed? If you have your own country, and it's not known for the rule of law, why do you need a shell company in Panama? Aren't you above the law?
Well but that just confirms my whole point. In a buyback the company invests its cash into stock instead of distributing it as dividend. It therefore makes an investment decision for the investor, who never gets to see any cash.

The whole point of giving out dividends as a company is saying to an investor "here, you can invest this cash better than we can". If you're not giving out dividends you think you have better investment foresight than your investors, which may often be true.

What you as a company then do then with the cash, whether you're investing it in R&D, personnel, etc.. or buy stock doesn't change the mathematics of things for the investor, even if the stock you buy happens to be your own stock.
Adoption of ChaCha20/Poly1305 isn't so much to have a "backup" to GCM; it's because GCM sucks.

The biggest problem for TLS with GCM is that it includes a 128 bit carryless multiplication. You can do that reasonably quickly in software, but you need lookup tables to do it, and those tables have secret indices which leave trails in caches. Modern processors have instruction extensions (like Intel CLMUL) that avoid that problem, but now you have a hardware dependency.

The big problem overall with GCM is that GCM is terrible. It fails catastrophically if random numbers get repeated, it has a short counter space, and it can blow up if you truncate MAC tags. It's weird to me that GCM has seen as much adoption as it has.

The interesting thing about ChaCha20/Poly1305 isn't the cipher (ChaCha20 is an extremely boring cipher, and while TLS won't take advantage of this, CC20 can be replaced with AES in a similar design), but the Poly1305 MAC, which was designed to be fast in software on conventional architectures.

Poly1305 as a design is pretty boring, but follows the DJB trend of taking a simple, proven idea and ruthlessly refining it for performance and safety on the kinds of computers everyone uses. Until recently, DJB was one of the only person doing that.

TL;DR: GCM is the worst.
Funny I'm having issues finding someone with sales experience that wants to co-found/market a marketplace type app/website.
TrustZone is just another processor mode and associated memory protection, nothing more, nothing less.

It's equally as incoherent to say supervisor mode and the MMU is 'DRM-oriented'.
Privacy in a Data-Driven World
Lmao what? After he's delivered the S and the X, and created reusable rockets, you think this is vaporware? Wtf?
If anyone is interested in some more drone chainsaw action, they should check out when Jamie from Mythbusters attempted to make one of these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fe9IDx3vCs

He was unable to get it to work effectively or safely, though his drone was not as heavy-duty as the one from this thread.