skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The targets for this malware are laypeople with enough funds to pay the fee but not enough to go after the creators. Hypothetically, if a national government or other agent with sufficiently deep pockets were infected they would first attempt to crack it, failing that they would go after the creators directly- they would not pay the fee.

So implementing weak crypto dramatically lowers the risk of prosecution or worse for the attackers.
Stephen Fry hits out at ‘infantile’ culture of trigger words and safe spaces
There are significant issues with having more than 500 people in your cap table. http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/01/03/facebook-and-the-500-...
While RtlInstallFunctionTable callback was designed specifically for JIT compilers, RtlAddFunctionTable may also be used. The trick is to give every function its own function table. I wrote Chakra's P/XData handler and was surprised to find that they still haven't switched to function table callbacks [1], like the CLR has.

[1] https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore/blob/7587147fac16654...
I'm actually surprised how small and how few donations there are from big companies. Especially since donations to openssh (and libressl) also seem to go through the openbsd foundation. IIRC Facebook and stripe are each giving $50k/year to the gpg project. No big tech company other than Microsoft is donating more than $25k to openbsd foundation (unless there are other means of donating that I'm missing).
Ask HN: Is UI/UX important for MVP launch?
I'm very sad that Hopper has been discontinued on Windows, but radare2 has promise.
And that's why IBM is still in the server business: There's nothing like a mainframe when it comes to uptime.
Actually customer service is very important to these operations. They have to create trust that paying will relieve your machine of their infliction.
Startup Fest Europe 2016
Alibaba buys majority stake in Rocket Internet’s Lazada
I can't remember any potential customers ever being super excited about 3D TV. Manufacturers lauded them and the media also to an extent but normal people didn't really care. It was just a "nice to have" feature that people tried once or twice and then forgot about. I'm also getting the same vibe from smart watches actually. They seem cool until you try them and then they become just 'meh'.

But AR/VR seems to be different. Virtually everyone I've seen try it has been absolutely amazed by it and wanted more. Sure, it could still die out, but it seems less likely IMO.

Edit: I'm specifically talking about the high-end AR/VR devices like the Vive here. Not Google cardboard and the likes. Those would probably fall under the 'meh' category.
Here's an example from this thread: http://status.aws.amazon.com/s3-20080720.html
>The challenging or scary part for me at least is when you rely on your own mind as a place where you can reason about things and then you start to worry if your ability to do that has been compromised.

As someone who did LSD many years ago and was deeply moved by it, the scary part wasn't worry that my brain had been compromised by LSD. What was scary was that suddenly I was aware that perhaps my brain had been compromised all along, and I just didn't realize it until I did LSD.

If it does anything, LSD (at least at moderate-high doses) tears away the ego and strips away the unconscious filters through which we view reality. It can be a profoundly humbling, illuminating, and terrifying experience, all at the same time. Use with caution.
I tried marijuana and my experience with it was a lot more
like what my friends and you describe LSD or similar drugs to be like. Before marijuana I already had mild hallucinations and I was diagnosed with schizophrenia from a mild psychosis. It's definitely made my existing hallucinations much stronger even years after smoking.

For me the general feel of the trip was as if some sort of filter had been removed so you get to experience things you probably shouldn't experience. This includes experiencing experiences (fractals). What we experience tends to be individual so I won't go into that. But you get a wider eye view, motions are more defined, shapes are more defined, etc. It's like a burn in effect (in an image editing sense) but applied to other senses as well.

My favorite was probably not being able to determine the size of objects (or that it would fluctuate) which made sitting in front of a computer like sitting in a gigantic room with a gigantic tv.

It was a bit uneasy after the trip at first but I got used to it quickly. I've already had similar experiences but of course not as strong.

In my experience with all of this so far the best tool for me is being skeptic. My only fear is that I'll lose the ability to reason forever, which I have already lost in short bursts here and there.
I have been building a small app and I want to launch but I am continually unhappy with the aesthetics. I know enough to do a basic design but my focus is mostly backend.

Do I launch the product early and then work on UI or do I spend time on UI and delay the launch?
We mainly care about those reasons because many popular languages have exceptions and meaningful backtraces. If you remove exceptions, or add asynchronous/lazy/continuationful code, then the game becomes very different.
I've seen the Borg cubes, but I'm glad to see spacecraft built in the shapes of other Platonic solids.
Microbots can clean up polluted water
I can think of several structural changes the US could make to their society if this was actually a priority for them.

The way you phrase the question it appears you can't think of any, even though you go on to immediately mention one from my list: dysfuntional cops.

Like the deaths, you seem fatalistic about changing policing, apparently asshole cops are just a fact of life to you rather than a result of broken institutions.
Regarding sugar consumption, I do wish that more efforts like Coca-Cola Life were made... mixing lower-calorie sweeteners... and for that matter, making things less sweet in general. The effects on gut flora from the artificial sweeteners (according to recent studies) is scary. As a diabetic, I've leaned towards far more water, and far less anything else (some tea, arnold palmers, etc).

I wish that there was more effort to curve the marketing of anything using refined sugars. Hell, just preventing the advertisement of any product that has more than 50% of its' calories from refined sugar from shows airing before 8pm and those whose primary demographic is children would be incredibly impactful.
If they could only stick to being encased in freedom cages, they could peaceably protest miles away from the Capitol in freedom zones.
Or you start with $250 million in seed funding for a NASA deliverable. And deliver that on-time, on-budget, then use the profit to bootstrap your way into the next corporate / government contract until you have a) developed the necessary experience and b) acquired the necessary funding to tackle your real goal. Like SpaceX or one of the others is going.
A true isolation transformer has an earthed copper shield wound in between and physically separating the primary from secondary windings, anything less is unsafe.

One of the many reasons I detest "double insulated" equipment, as it is impossible to determine if it has been designed for safety or not without ripping it apart and destroying it.

This is a real issue in Australia as our regulators do no regulating and most equipment I have investigated does not comply with Australian Standards even though manufacturers lie and put standards compliance numbers on them.

Also the Australian Standards should be considered an absolute Minimum not "super safe".
Yes.

Nature has given us needs that needs to be full filled, like thirst and hunger. There is also higher level needs, like need to fit in and seen as a desirable mate.

What do we get in return of this pursuit? Pleasure in some cases or relief from pain, in other. In other words, it is a fair game, IF you consider that pleasure and pain are "real".

Now ads are evil because the create needs that often conflicts with our natural drives. For example, a man who loses sleep, or does not spend time with family for advancing in career, often so that he can buy more stuff. In this case, the man sees pleasure in seeing his bank balance increase and makes him afford more and more expensive stuff.

Now this pleasure, I say, is a lie. Because it is not natural, and does not serve a natural purpose. Also, this manipulation by Ads also serves to distract people from constructive thinking.

Imagine all the revolutions and all the breakthroughs of the world. They came from People who think freely. When you are distracted 24x7 by ever increasing ads, where do you have time to think for yourself? I am not saying that all the creativity from the world has disappeared. But imagine if the great artists of the past were distracted by Ads like we have today? Do you think the great works in arts and literature would have been created?

I am not even considering ads that Inject fear and insecurity into the minds of the masses to make then spend, spend, spend all day long..../rant
Apply HN: Wantobuy – Post items you want so sellers can sell them to you
Demo: http://www.wantobuythat.com/demo.html

Problem: Within online trading forums, including Facebook Groups, users post what they want in the hope that sellers will get in touch and make the sale. Yet, these 'want to buy' posts aren't standardised or searchable so it's impossible for sellers to see your post and for you to get the items you need.

This issue is bigger than just online communities too, there's currently no central hub for people to post what they want to buy which is viewable to sellers.

Wantobuy: We're standardising 'want to buy' posts so that if you're selling something you can see who wants to buy it, how much they're willing to pay and then sell for the highest price. We're taking this one step further and once users post something they want we'll search top retail platforms (Amazon, eBay etc.) to see if it's already available online and show the user 'wheretobuy' it.

About us: Jack (21) and Sam (22) who have known each other for 11+ yrs and built stuff together in the past (Check out Spaces, which we got to 30th on the App Store without spending any money - http://needa.space). We're big on sneaker and streetwear Facebook groups (yes, we have camped out for sneakers a few times..) and so will target these first before scaling to further product categories. We're applying because we're determined to learn from the YC network, plus we're about to graduate so the money would massively help us survive whilst we build Wantobuy.

So far: Over the past few months, we've interviewed Facebook Group admins, given them a demo of the app to play with and received extremely useful feedback.

Any feedback, questions or comments would be super useful too!
Obesity is not the only indicator of health. For that matter being skinny doesn't mean you won't suffer from metabolic syndrome, only that obesity as a symptom doesn't present itself.
And in fact, it's common for SREs to hand obsolete services back to the dev team if they've been mostly phased out to the point where they're no longer the primary priority.
Ayn Rand reminds me of this. It's everything I learned in kindergarten. What it means to be selfish, why its good, etc.

It's infantile. Most go on to First Grade, where they learn to share and the benefits of sharing with others. You learn, you grow.

If you hide or act like this, it just seems like a lack of education to me.
What are your daily responsibilities as a Lead Developer? What are your secrets?
I'm a lead developer in a sense that I was the first employee of a startup. We've built web application now in .NET platform. Its been 6 months since I'm working. I setup cloud services (Azure), chat with owner on what features would be good for us. I setup Builds, branches, monitor deployments and test the product overall. Recently I also started doing some documentation.

I've never worked as a Lead Developer and wonder what other Lead Developers do.
> so tell me any theory that tries to validate the existence of non-material consciousness.

A great deal of the context around quantum mechanical study has been to validate the existence of free will; whether consciousness can be ascribed to deterministic processes or not.

> Giving loads of names of scientists won't help in establishing what modern science says about consciousness.

It would be a great starting point if you decided to bother to inform yourself on what these people have said about consciousness.

> As per scientists consciousness behaves to be more than the sum total of neurons in the brain.

Some scientists take this few. Many don't.

> It's impossible so far to articulate consciousness in The law of thermodynamic,

That's because the law of thermodynamics deal with heat and entropy. If you're expecting laws about heat and entropy to apply to consciousness I'm not sure where your thought process has gone so horribly wrong, so I can't really help you.
More likely, he experienced derealization or depersonalization. The shake in consciousness can be jarring in that, one realizes the weight of being the "one" behind the sensors, heuristics, and thinking. The ghost in the machine... Really, there are books written about this. The Wisdom of Insecurity by Allen Watts. Life is intrepid and scary because consciousness is a black box. Anxiety is just a symptom of being shown the unusual, being shaken to a core of meaning that defeats the usual humdrum of assumed knowledge.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depersonalization
The JSConf China (Sep.3-4) is looking for speakers
Chariot, l'Uber per le donne
Have cats? Here's a project idea for you
Sure, it really isn't anything special. I essentially treat the site like a magazine and sell advertisements on a monthly basis because that is the easiest thing for both myself and advertisers understand.

The site runs on WordPress so I just use one of the ad rotation plugins available [adrotate pro]. Most campaigns are for some set number of weeks or months and the plugin takes care of that.

I track clicks and advertisers track referrals traffic plus whatever other metrics they want to on their own websites. Because a number of advertisers renew regularly, I trust that they are happy with the results they are seeing. For payments, it kind of depends on the customer, but basically I just invoice them.
Hey leichtgewicht,

Its a fair question. It's unknown right now, we thought long and hard about the day so lets see if its a success.

Ian
Huh, you blame me for not providing data, but you don't want to provide data yourself?

I don't understand your comment on my quotes of the article. They clearly set out to show in what ways white men dominate movie roles. My quote didn't distort that statement at all - I only chopped it up to make the quote shorter.

You still haven't answered what you consider to be the use of the article? What are we even talking about?

What data ("quantifiable analysis") do you want me to provide? I don't understand you.

Thought experiments aren't useless, and data isn't automatically useful. You seem to be blinded by the presentation of the article (has charts and data, seems legit). It's like trusting a person because they dress like a physician - understandable human flaw, but misguided.
Voltron: A hacky debugger UI for hackers
Autonomous spaceport drone ship
It means that, if I believed in the concept of "verbal assault" or "verbal violence", they would be equivalent to a militant terrorist group, planning and executing organized attacks.
You're welcome. :-) Thank you for your answer, I think I understand your reasoning a little better.

With the example of the mathematician, you can read it a number of different ways, but one of the things I took from it was the difference between a healthy curiosity and an unhealthy curiosity. It sounds to me that you have a healthy curiosity, and enjoy the mental stimulation of exploring the big questions. As long as it remains something you enjoy and you're still open to enjoying other things then you can't really go wrong. If you'd like to find kindred spirits that also enjoy thinking about the big questions, you can find plenty in the world of philosophy. I can recommend The School of Life as an enjoyable way to explore philosophy. As some examples, here are a couple of my favourites from TSoL:

http://youtu.be/fI1OeMmwYjU

http://youtu.be/WLAtXWaz76o

Learning can be done for your own enjoyment, but what I would suggest is the mindset that many of us used to get us through school isn't likely to help with that. I think this video puts it well:

http://youtu.be/ERbvKrH-GC4

Related to this, here's a discussion about deschooling you may find interesting:

http://youtu.be/Avd1EgAHnD8

One last thing...

http://youtu.be/KgzQuE1pR1w

Best of luck!
Thanks funjs7, really looking forward to watch the flow of the day.
Are cores really doubling every 2 years per unit of cost? Intel's chips seems to be getting more expensive with each new generation. Or they do stuff like calling Atom "Pentium", Avoton "Xeon-D", and make dual-core "Core i7", to trick you into buying lower-performance chips for the same price as the last, more powerful, generation (for the same price).
WALLETALERT pocketsize alarmsystem
Speaking of interesting mid 80s window systems, there was a light weight window system developed by Stephen Uhler at Belcore.

It is under 20K lines of C, and very easy to port.
It is able to run over a serial line or a socket, in a few hundred K of RAM.

Screenshot: http://www.hack.org/mc/mgr/images/mgrscreen.png

More info: http://www.hack.org/mc/mgr/

"MGR is to X as Unix is to Multix." -Dan Nachbar
Thanks ismnoiet, that's lovely feedback!
This camera was what popped into my mind. What is the difference?
It's not the topic that's the problem, it's the pre-existing political boilerplate. That stuff doesn't add to conversation, it destroys it.
> I do wish to exclude myself from any community that deliberately includes Yarvin and his ilk.

They didn't deliberately include him. They just didn't exclude him. They actually deserve the adjective "inclusive".

Personally, I too would encourage as many people as possible to exclude themselves, in particular due to their intolerance.
Hey! I'm Alex, a cofounder of AlphaSheets. The three gifs on the page link to spreadsheets that you can play around with, with a majority of features already functional. Is that not fair game for Show HN? (I will admit that this isn't immediately obvious, so I apologize for any resultant confusion.)
Javascript has mostly web programmers as a community. I'm not sure they have the same mindset as people who normally try to wring out the most performance from their machines. Even QBasic programmers knew how to turn to machine code for more performance. Nowadays the culture is "megahertz are cheap". That is the kind of culture that leads to e.g. Microsoft making an IOT operating system for the PI that weighs half a gigabyte and does not do much. Or people thinking that a 1 Ghz system with 512MB of RAM is too slow and is only good for browsing the Web and a 300 MHz system with 128MB of RAM is useless nowadays. These were once called workstations back in the day.

If you're trying to push Javascript to its limits and make it comparable to C++, good for you. Just remember that JS has many flaws.If you're going down that road I'd much prefer you give the world a Turbo javascript that comes with an IDE like Turbo C and the requisite documentation that all fit on a single 1.44MB disk and which can compile to directly executable code that doesn't need any runtime.
Several billion may be excessive. SpaceX was funded with $100 of Musk's own money and another $100 million from other investors. The rest of the billion+ which has gone into it so far is from paying customers [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX#Funding
High performance thread safe code
The first random number generator I learned about was super simple. Middle squares. You take a number, multiply it by itself, and take the middle bits. Because of the way the binary multiplication algorithm works, the bits are pretty thoroughly scrambled and not correlated to the input.

I'm not sure if there aren't clever ways to undo it, but at least it would resist such a simple method like that.
Just this morning I spoke of NeWS (for the first time in at least 20 years) to a colleague at work. Very strange to see this posting on HN in the same day... PostScript with classes... and input methods... seemed to be a very interesting way to model user-interfaces, and graphics rendering in general...
> But then again, how is stabbing someone with a knife relevant to a talk's quality?

It's not. I find no reason to exclude an ex-convict that has been charged and served his jail-time. Including them back into the society is the only way we can at least hope to combat recidivism.
Writing an OS in Rust: Kernel Heap
Ah, yes - the FULL BRIDGE rectifier-man :D
Without NASA there would be no SpaceX and its brilliant boat landing
Unknown Neo Geo Fighting Game Discovered and Dumped
I can barely contain my excitement. MyFord Touch is a masterpiece.
NVLink, Pascal and Stacked Memory: Feeding the Appetite for Big Data
> But it isn't an open relay. It's just a normal mail server. It's cash with the typical trace amount of drugs on it. That's the whole point

See, I think the "typical" usage would be your own usage. I don't think the typical person happens to have a certain small percentage of traffic that happens to by child pornography pass through their connection, even if the internet as a whole does. Once you run a Tor exit node and you are proxying something closer to the statistical average of types of internet traffic (even though there's probably more illegal traffic on average on Tor than on the Internet, whether it's 1% more or significantly more), and you are doing it from home and mixing your own traffic with it, I think it's not out of the question for the Police to investigate. That doesn't mean every time, but I'm not going to immediately condemn them for looking into a crime.

I also think how the police handle it has to do with the entity they are interacting with. If it's a multi-person business in good standing, I would expect a subpoena. If it's an individual, it might be a raid, because I think the chance and capability of an individual to destroy evidence is higher.

I equate this to tracking the source of a gun that was used in a crime. If the last known source is a business, a subpoena may or may not suffice. If it's a guy selling out of his house (legally), a raid may be warranted.

Now, all that said, the police should be doing their part and providing the relevant info to the judge. The judge should be making this call, not you or I, and only when he has all the relevant info, which includes whether the suspect is running a Tor exit node (and as others have stated, it's up to the judges to either consult an expert or learn the facts themselves to deal with this information). Given our current laws and my understanding of them (probably poor), this is how I think it should currently function legally. Whether I think that's how they should function given changes, I'm not sure I would opt for the current system.
Malcolm Gladwell got us wrong: He oversimplified our research, 10,000-hour rule
Our servers didn't go off, just lost connectivity. Same has happened to even big providers like Level3. Someone leaks routes or something and boom, all gone.

I'd be surprised if AWS didn't have a similar way to fail, even if they haven't. This is obviously a negative for gcloud, no doubt, but it's hardly omg-super-concerning. I'm sure the post-mortem will be great.
You're such an idiot. Get out of here with your Marxist dogmatic BS.