skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For now. But if most lenders require this you couldn't have much of an option to say no. They always test things like this with the market most easily exploited.

Reminds me of prepaid gas and water meters in the UK. They started out only doing them for those who missed payments or had poor credit, but now they're everywhere. Most new homes get a prepay meter which they can wirelessly disconnect.
Ads appear everywhere immediately when published, very few people are visiting some random hacked blogs. Ads are THE vector of choice for browser malware. You may not be safe from the browser exploit with an adblocker, but you will be safe from the method most exploits are delivered.
Hi

I understand boot up completes in under a second but if one needs to setup an environment to do something useful, it can take several seconds. I guess what I'm getting at is why would the fast boot matter when one still needs to setup a basic environment to complete a task?

This is analogous to achieving an artificially low TTFB but actual rendering doesn't start until several seconds later.

Am I missing something?

Thanks
Most of them weren't downvoted, and I don't see any brigading.
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Just because the PS4 can run Linux doesn't mean you get free access to data on arbitrary discs. If this is anything like the PS2 and PS3 incarnations you're locked out from a lot of that.
At first I thought this was a clever joke. Thanks for sharing this link. Serverless apps could definitely make sense in many scenarios!
In the case I think you're referencing, they were detected, just not as people.

It's a bit of a cop-out just to say, "shucks, computers do the darnedest things!" Humans coded, tested, and deployed that service. They let something fall through the cracks, the awful implications of which detract quite a bit from all the good the service might ever accomplish.
Wonder if you could substitute as many words as you can with thesaurus. Then save text and substitutions people make so does more and more automatically.
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CloudFlare uses a flawed algorithm that penalizes developing countries and anyone who uses 1 IP address for many users. And that means that it censors Tor users and impedes human rights.
I don't have a guess at what Apple is actually going to do, but the Retina rollout is a plausible model. Even 5+ years after the first Retina product, it's still not available across the lineup.

I don't think the switch would present a significant problem in marketing or for developers, so it would purely be a question of having the chips that fit the products. The Macbook, as you point out, is basically already there.
That's a really nifty bit of software; I look forward to checking it out.

Sounds like it does what I want: runs on my desktop, can be made accessible to the world. That has security implications, of course, but those can be addressed.
>Would it be possible to develop a biological CPU this way? I.e. having "instruction sensors" and a touring-machine-like DNA-robot that can execute externally supplied instructions?

No, it is not possible (not this way). Tl;Dr how do you plan on storing information on the Turing machine tape? If you're happy doing computation with a relatively high stochastic failure rate things look better, but I wouldn't count on it.
No, LinuxThreads was 1:1. Maybe you are thinking of IBM's NGPT proposal?

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2002/11/07/linux_threads....

"Relatively recently" would be Solaris 8, in 2000.
"it uses a hypervisor to launch your docker image, but not a full blown VM"

I don't understand this. Isn't using a hypervisor the same as using a VM? How is this different from using VMware, Xen, etc. to run a stripped down VM with a tiny kernel inside to handle Docker?
Also, is Apple a supercomputer company that happened to get into AT&T's telephone handset business and Sony's walkman business? The way AT&T used to make rotary phones? Or are they a telephone handset business that happens to make miniature Cray supercomputers with, for some reason, integrated screens? Because an iPad is stronger than a supercomputer of previous decades.

Well, a supercomputer isn't supposed to fit in your backback. And a rotary phone isn't supposed to be wireless and fit in your pocket and play apps.

I don't know what to think anymore! It's almost like the world isn't made of categories.
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Seeing as trypophobia is not even a recognized phobia, just something people on the Internet say they have, I don't know how you'd determine how common it is. Lots of people are demonstrably OK with luxury car grills, considering they sell well.
They should at least open source their revolv server.
Get an S1000RR, an RSV4 or an R1 and you can go back to treating any Tesla like a normal sleepy car :)
So... are there any hubs that specifically work with home-assistant? I like the idea of home-assistant, but I've already got a ton of z-wave already in my house.
Note to self: never buy a Google device.
The name change to Alphabet and movement of project/product ownership to Alphabet's subsidiaries is a recent thing. People will, for quite some time, equate Alphabet and Google when speaking about the parent company (Alphabet) in relation to other subsidiaries.
>>domain must have MX records

Technically, the RFC(5321) says MX records aren't required. You may be throwing out some small number of valid emails.

"If an empty list of MXs is returned, the address is treated as if it was associated with an implicit MX RR with a preference of 0"
As a longtime Dropcam owner, I find this very unsettling. Truth be told, Dropcam service has steadily decreased in quality ever since the Nest acquisition. Not a month passes without an unexplained multi-hour outage; our mobile apps are randomly logged out every few days, requiring us to enter lengthy passwords while nervously wondering what that motion alert might be about. One day the whole Nest rigmarole will become inconvenient for google and poof - our $200+ camera will become yet another paperweight.

My only hope is that FOSS will become an option for these devices. There have been examples[0] of Dropcams getting rooted, so perhaps not all is lost here.

[0]: http://blog.includesecurity.com/2014/04/reverse-engineering-...
Hi there, I applied and got a call, all good, then they said they will schedule a coding interview but no reply until now. Any ideas? I mean I would get it if I don't get contacted after the call, but saying that you will schedule a coding interview and then disappearing sounds a bit weird.
2 Words for people

Open Source...

and/or

Open protocols

if you buy into a proprietary systems, with proprietary software and walled gardens, I have no sympathy for you.

Consumers need to demand companies adopt open source software and open protocols, this is not the first shutdown of this type, and it will not be the last.
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Red One with lens was about 13-15 lbs although I don't remember a Red One used on an octocopter. Red Epics were out by then which brought the weight down to under 10lbs.

Chain saws without blades are around 10 lbs?
As an example, here are two roughly equivalent programs. First Rust:

let x = Box::new(5);
let y = x;
println!("{}", x);

Now C++:

unique_ptr<int> x(new int(5));

auto y = std::move(x);

cout << *x << endl;

(I'm being a bit sloppy with namespaces, and both need a main(), but you get the idea)

Here, the C++ will compile and (probably) segfault, as x is nullptr after the move. The Rust will fail at compile time, with "use of moved value."

Basically, a (possibly over-)generalization of the situation is "Rust is move by default and captures errors at compile time, C++ is not move by default and cannot statically prevent as many errors as Rust can."
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There are plenty of smart home devices that work without any form of internet connection. Have been for 20+ years, too.
Fyi: https://spideroak.com/manual/zero-knowledge-explained/

Its local encryption then copies the resulting blob to SpiderOak. Lose your password, lose your ability to decrypt as you need it to decrypt locally.
Even without an AppEngine style PaaS, AWS had a lot of cloud services available before Google (EC2 and S3 are notable services AWS had long before Google had anything comparable.)

I think a lot of the popularity advantage AWS has is a result of being first mover in many of these areas,
Sure, trends come in trends—in programming as in other things. But please don't post comments that put down other people's work.

If you think other stories should get attention on HN, please submit some.
Same in Death Valley in August. No plane/car noises, no animal noises, no wind noises. Bliss.
I'm with removing any law that says reverse engineering is illegal (regardless if some company is in business or not) but it would be unfair to require a company that's going out of business to do costly work before they're allowed to not exist anymore. It would be also be unfair to require all products be guaranteed to work forever. Consumers just need to educate themselves and if they can't accept the potential loss they can just not buy the product and maybe tell company that's why they're not buying it so the company can maybe improve the product. All I'm trying to say is, please, no more silly laws :)
Autonomous sex worker robots. They'll spot a horny male or female, pick them up and service them. It could save billions!
Why does the company need shareholders to operate? Does our legal framework prevent a corporation from owning itself and appointing its own board and so forth?
Depending on who you talk to, reference counting is garbage collection. Industry tends to mean "tracing GC" when they say GC, academia tends to mean "all runtime automatic memory management schemes".
This is such a great idea, do other browser vendors have this data available to developers?

After refined, data like this can be so valuable in many super-useless debates that we web developers have.
Crowdfunding hardware is often a dangerous mix of "get this amazing unsustainable discount over our future retail price" at a time when the per-unit costs are highest and the up-front engineering costs are still unpaid (and likely to grow from anyone's best estimates). This is an obvious recipe for trouble.

That doesn't mean it isn't worth trying. But it does mean that project creators should build in sufficient margins to absorb all of that, and project backers should understand that asking a creator to deliver a not-yet-production-ready product with near-zero margins is likely to end in a total loss of their backing funds. It's possible that if you had paid more, you might be likely to lose less.
Hi, I recently came across ClearText Mac app which does the same but it works only on a Mac. I also felt that it would be great if the app recommends using certain words instead of enforcing it. So I made this web app which solves both the problems.
Read my blog post for more information about this:
http://www.deekshith.in/2016/04/easy-write-intro.html

Also check out the code on Github:
https://github.com/adeekshith/easy-write

Producthunt listing:
https://www.producthunt.com/tech/easywrite-cleartext-for-the...
The six-year-old company faces a June federal court trial in San Francisco in which drivers are seeking employment status that could provide them a host of benefits, including vacation and overtime.

This sounds like a stereotypical "be careful what you wish for, you might get it" situation. If Uber drivers were classified as employees, it seems likely that Uber would then start dictating their hours, locations, etc. And the vast majority of Uber drivers I've met (and that's quite a few) say the main appeal of Uber is the flexibility to set their own hours, take a break when they want, etc.
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It's the claim that makes most sense. You'd take the least used vehicles because their usage patterns will match current production EV sweet spots best (always assuming we are talking 100% electric and not hybrids).
There are 30,000 people who are waiting for a cooler with these added features, 20,000 or so that have bought one already. They all paid $190 I think, therefore manufacturers know the price point they need to hit and know there is a market for them.

The innovative features are all easily copied (LED lights, strap, wide wheels, bluetooth speaker, USB charger). The blender is perhaps the part they choose to leave out.
Raft is a replication protocol which is responsible for the consistency of multiple copies of the same data but it isn't applicable when the data is sharded.
This would just get everyone depressed.
Matz has said that the overall guiding principle of Ruby is "developer happiness." While some people can disagree with this, it's a pretty standard things Rubyists say, because Ruby does make many choices that prioritize their happiness over other things.
I've always thought the contrary — native apps are here for some time, until they get replaced with HTML5 apps almost completely, so no need to bother.
Yeah, it is ridiculous. Even if the CC sold for exactly as advertised, and did exactly as advertised... it still isn't a good buy.

So you use the blender for a while... and then it breaks (through no fault of the cooler itself, say the dog chewed on it).

Now what? Send the whole thing back? Ditto for all the other crap tacked onto it. After a couple things break on it, then it turns into a large piece of junk.

And these things never work as well as dedicated devices.
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It matters because the reasons for including or excluding people are different at commercial events and scientific ones.

We can reasonably be very concerned about excluding a genuine contribution from a scientific conference, because that would be a case in which our personal politics were directly impacting the cite record, which in turn makes it harder for everyone to "do science". There are people in my field that I like more and people I like much, much less, but I didn't have any difficulty putting that aside on the PC of the last conference I was involved in: you rate the paper, not the author, because you have to.

That's not the case at an industry event, because scientific progress doesn't depend in any way on events like Lambdaconf.

To your point about the attendees: sure! If attendees of Lambdaconf really want to see a talk about a marginal distributed system by Yarvin, it is legitimate for the conference organizers to cater to the market by having him on. Similarly, it is legitimate for others to publicly express market preferences for avoiding conferences that feature him.

Between your comment upthread and my response, I think you're left with the trickier argument to support.
I disagree about several of these.

- spare parts: assuming you're talking about spare parts for the new EVs and not the old gas cars, I don't see why. They'll still need spare parts for crash repair, mechanical wear-out, etc. There's more to a car than the propulsion unit, and things will still need to be repaired. It'll be the same supply-and-demand we have now.

- maintenance: maybe. With less overall maintenance being necessary, there might be fewer mechanics and prices could then be higher. But it's easy to do non-engine-related maintenance on cars anyway, and they still need their tires changed, brake pads replaced (though not as much), etc. Tire shops won't see any change at all, I'm sure.

- car dealers: I don't know about this. People still have to buy cars somewhere, and while they might keep EVs a little longer, people usually replace cars now because the interior is getting old and nasty, the paint looks bad and repaints are expensive, it has dents and dings, new models look nice and have fancier electronics, etc. They could go to buying directly from dealers a la Tesla, but that's really orthogonal to gas vs. EV.

- gas stations: small local ones, yes. Interstate rest stops, no. We'll see more large rest stops with charging stations and restaurants all in one complex, so people can recharge for an hour while going to the bathroom and eating lunch/dinner on their road trip. We already have stuff like this, like on the NJ Turnpike. We'll probably also see other businesses integrating food and recharging in one spot: sit-down restaurants that are popular with travelers will likely add recharging facilities, and will advertise this (you'll see a billboard on the highway that says "next exit: Cracker Barrel now with 30 charging stations!").
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critical need for who? businesses who need to sell these products?
I'm back to ratpoison after using xmonad, and it's tempting to play with something new, but I only ever use one maximized window on each screen, so it's kind of pointless.
I went with a Xiaomi Yi for all those reasons - it's a quarter the price, and I doubt Xiaomi will be very inclined to share my data with the powers that be in the US (and their sharing it with the powers that be in the PRC is not likely to affect me). Of course, it's inherently absurd that these devices don't allow you to stream the video off of them yourself, it makes them e-waste in the making. Possibly someone will figure out a way to install friendlier firmware on them via the micro-sd card...
What is more unbelievable is the Management Engine itself, not a nitpick about a platform being left out of the list of alternatives. It did not seem like he was creating a comprehensive list, just a first attempt.
He stated in the talk that supercharger was included with all Model 3's.
Let me be more clear. The problem of VM is not virtualization (or hypervisor), the problem is "Machine". For a long time, we try to emulate a complete machine with a complete "OS" running atop. What Docker really changed is to make us realize that all we need is the app, not a full OS. Therefore Docker image is an app-centric package, nothing specific to Linux container. Yes, it runs with Linux container, but you can also launch it with a hypervisor in 100ms.

Shall we call hypervisor+kernel+Docker image VM? I don't think so. It never tries to give you a complete machine, neither a full OS. Personally I like "virtualized container". But the combination of these two words might be more confusing, given that whenever you see the word "container", you think of Linux container.
It's draining to watch/listen. His speaking is so unsteady that it becomes very distracting. I understand wanting to be the face of the company, but he's simply not a strong presenter.
I haven't tried it personally but I know a few people who think highly of SmartThings [1], which is a relatively open platform. I've also experimented with Raspberry Pis. However, to be honest, there are a fairly limited number of "smart" things I can do around my house which would be genuinely useful.

[1] http://developer.smartthings.com/
Increasingly "the industry" is the technology industry itself. And yes, if you haven't noticed, movie staff and music artists are lobbying the (legitimate) streaming services for better compensation.

That's fine to me, in fact I see it as a good challenge. Ideally, streaming monetization is good enough for content creators to be relatively happy, while simultaneously both preserving the ease of access and wide choice that have made streaming services / tubes popular with consumers, and allowing for a viable business. Perhaps its impossible to completely have it all ways, but if it can be done, it might reduce the influence of the current middleman, the "old media industry", and all of its ills. This to me would be win / win / win.

Unfortunately, the Pirate Bay isn't the way to pursue this. While the Pirate Bay certainly has revenue (via web page advertisements), it certainly doesn't seem to even make a pretense of compensating content creators. That's a no-no in my book.
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Right. It should be roughly equivalent to InnoDB/MyISAM alternatives in Mysql (I believe)?
Ever heard of UIWebView?
Reminds be of when I bought a Nexus One because Google promised it would receive updates as soon as they were ready. The next Nexus device came out with the update, and my Nexus One didn't get it. I think it came out a half year later, but by then I'd moved on to cyanogenmod and then to iOS and never looked back. I've been weary of Google ever since.
Good to know this is how Nest operates. I will be steering clear of their devices in the future.
I've addressed a good chunk of what it takes for system and hardware security in at least two places:

http://pastebin.com/y3PufJ0V

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10468624

There won't be 100% security because underlying physics fights you and our field is too new. Best we can hope for is making attacks hard and physical. There's great work in secure HW/SW architectures that should knock out about all SW stuff with effort. Details published in all kinds of CompSci publications. HW, too, far as implementing it correctly with some security properties. The rest, esp tamper-resistence, is still in infancy far as having stuff that actually works.

Now, what we're talking about in this thread is having an ISA, chip implementation, firmware, and SW stack that is not a black box and is under your control. Preferably without built-in, convenient spyware. Mainstream FOSS users are currently so far away from this that it's a reasonable, interim goal. So, I had to bring up SPARC as an addition to the list that has side benefit of reducing legal risks.
The product design section of Kickstarter is basically the new "as seen on TV." Except half the time they can't even deliver the product they're pitching.

Kickstarter does a lot of great things, but it seems that the highest profile projects never live up to their expectations, even when they are able to deliver.
>piracy has a few minimal negative effects, many positive ones

If you really believe that you should read this article by a developer who ran an experiment on pirating his own game [1].

94% of day 1 users had pirated the game and were not contributing to the fixed costs of generating the IP. Not all users were going to pay full price, but the developer could have run discounts later to capture most of those users. This was a DRM-free game with a demo, so there were none of the typical excuses for pirating.

http://www.greenheartgames.com/2013/04/29/what-happens-when-...
>Taxation is obviously not theft, any more than charging for goods is.

Pretty sure when you force or coerce someone to buy something they do not want, it is illegal and immoral. And if the value of the item is significantly less than the price paid, it is theft in all but the most pedantic ways.
How illegal is it to download this database?
> How would Wireshark reveal this kind of attack? If the management chip has direct hardware access, it can hide data in innocuous-looking packets that the host machine never sees.

Lots of organizations use various forms of intrusion detection. A network intrusion detection system (NIDS) would be an off-device system which monitors network traffic for suspicious or obviously malicious packets.

It's certainly no guarantee, but somewhere along the line someone probably would have noticed something if these systems were exfiltrating data via the network using something like IPv4 headers. Specifically, a quick look makes it look like Snort (an open source NIDS) may actually be distributed with rules to alert on IPv4 reserved bits being set.
Given that the dependencies are:
"babel-core": "^6.7.4",
"babel-polyfill": "^6.7.4",
"chalk": "^1.1.3",
"cheerio": "^0.20.0",
"es6-promise": "^3.1.2",
"inquirer": "^0.12.0",
"isomorphic-fetch": "^2.2.1",
"jsonfile": "^2.2.3",
"lodash": "^4.7.0",
"meow": "^3.7.0",
"ora": "^0.2.1",
"peerflix": "^0.32.4"

That's probably not the reason.