skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, wow, that's amazing. Now I understand why avionics are so expensive - verifying the correctness of such a system sounds like a lot of "fun," or at least a lot of time.

(I wonder if there are any systems built on multiple architectures where each unit is itself a redundant system with CPUs in lockstep.....)

Am I to intuit from this diagram that the watchdog watches all the components - power, I/O, memory, and CPU? That's very impressive. Or does it watch a central bus/backplane everything is connected to?

Also, how does either side decide/figure out the other side has failed? Simply deciding that the other half is wrong if it doesn't match this half's output could fail catastrophically if one of the sides reaches this conclusion after entering an invalid state (ie, it's the other side that is correct, and this side is wrong).

I'm also mildly curious as to why the I/O on one side has two connections to the actuators, while the other has only one.
Apple? They have the cash
What's your go-to-market plan -- how will you find the partnerships and SDK licensees?
But if shareholders are against this move, the prices would have reflected it. They are up 9%, so they agree atleast in short term, or we have enough people who are buying with these terms.
Usually I see a big voltage sag when you get near the rated voltage on most wall wart type supplies. I try and stick to 50% or maybe 75% if I think it's quality.
That head start can extend into adulthood of you let them live rent free in a house you own, use your vacation house, etc.

Hell, if your forty year old son hasn't been able to mooch at least a couple million off of you tax free, you're just not doing it right.
What I tried to say is that there's other side of some "people need to eat". But it is up to the author or authors to choose which side to choose (or any point in between). And there's nothing wrong with any choice.

That would be great to have this algorithm open sourced.

And it is sad to see how this went from "Unfortunately not open source" to "people need to eat".
Also, please note that this company is $1.37M in sales (http://www.hoovers.com/company-information/company-search.ht...). So it is not about "eat" only.
actually the site/documentation hasn't been updated but it's now free for 100 devices (with a price increase beyond).

from an email earlier this week:

"For new subscribers we've increased the price to $29.00/month (USD), but we've also increased the maximum number of devices for free accounts to 100.

We think this better reflects the difference between personal and business users, providing plenty of devices in our free version and charging enough for our business customers to justify adding new features and services and to support the continued development of the entire ZeroTier ecosystem."
The air quality in Karachi and Lahore is really, really bad as well. Spend one work day in Lahore wearing a clean white collared shirt and then take a photo of the shirt...
What's your marketing plan? That is, how will you find buyers who are interested in this concept, and get them onto your site?
The Oaxaca Incident
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11579428
> To maintain our focus on this mission, we have always been a founder-led company.

...

> Today, Facebook’s board of directors is announcing a proposal to create a new class of stock that will allow us to achieve both goals. I’ll be able to keep founder control of Facebook so we can continue to build for the long term, and Priscilla and I will be able to give our money to fund important work sooner

This letter sounds like he is preparing to step down as CEO in the next 5 years. Any bets?

He'll maintain "founder control" but doesn't say he'll remain as CEO
What are the possible commercial applications of this technology?

How will your company make money from this?
> "I mean, a settlement on mars can have value, but it will only be the value that you'll bring there."

This is actually true for most countries. America's economic strength lies in the fact that it creates software, micro-chips, manufactured goods, entertainment, etc.

Tell me, where in the ground do you dig up a micro-processor? Or a hollywood blockbuster? Or a Tesla Model S? Or the source code for google's search engine?

Economic value is primarily created by human activity. Once there is human activity on Mars there is the potential for economic value there. And once human activity on Mars is relatively self-sustaining, which we can achieve through building up the local industry combined with certain technological innovations, then that human activity will indeed provide things of net positive value to the rest of human civilization.

It seems so hard now, but in fifty or a hundred years we'll look back and it'll just seem normal and possibly even natural.

We tend to discount the truly incredible and jaw dropping amount of labor and ingenuity that has gone into building the prosaic world we see out the window every day. Even something like providing water to New York City is itself a herculean effort beyond the capability of even the entire human race only a few centuries ago. What we've done to network the world together digitally, to build engines of mass trade of manufactured goods across and between continents, to travel across land/sea/air from point to point with minimal overhead beyond the raw requirements imposed by the laws of physics, all of these things are awe inspiring creations when you give yourself the opportunity to look at them in whole. And many of them are vastly more difficult and in some cases more questionably of long term value than colonizing Mars.
There are obviously security bugs in Apple's code, almost certainly some which allow for breaking into a device. That's even more likely to be true because the device in question wasn't fully updated.

However, the situation as I see it is this: The FBI realized they were going to lose their legal battle to compel Apple to unlock the phone in question. They then retracted their suit to avoid a precedent being set against them, and announced "don't worry guys, we got in anyway" to deflect attention from that particular iPhone, which they had argued was where the situation would end in the first place.

Your explanation is certainly possible, I just don't think it's as likely that they would really spend $1m on this phone which in all likelihood has nothing of value on it to begin with.
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wait until we have USB-C charged hoverboards (and similar products), where not only can the charger and cable catch fire, but so will the low budget Li-Ion battery pack/charge controller/battery management system.
This company did exactly that for a long time http://www.radgametools.com/bnkmain.htm
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Oh nice! That must have been added after my comment.
Carmack's critiques are interesting for what they don't say. There's very little about how VR interacts with the gameplay.
VR doesn't seem to have been exploited much in these first person shooters. They seem to have standard game mechanics.

One could have a VR game where you're being followed, and have to keep looking behind you to try to spot your tails. But when you look back, your tails notice if you;re too obvious or look too long, and take evasive action or swap with a different tail. None of the mentioned games seem to tie where you look with game mechanics like that.

The detailed discussions of aliasing vs stereo vision would apply to any 3D display. Any artifact that's different for each eye is really annoying. Also, why did someone release a 30FPS VR anything? There are arguments over minimal acceptable frame rate in VR, but the numbers are around 100FPS and this is well known.

Menus in VR suck. No surprise there. It probably would have been better to ship the thing with a game controller, so the user could use the controls without looking at them.

Carmack seems to like a dark world. Grey borders good, white clouds bad. Whether that's his Doom bias or a problem with the Oculus Rift isn't clear. In GTA V, you can climb a mountain and see the whole game world, clouds and all. That should look good in VR. If it doesn't, the current headgear has a problem.
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That's a lot easier to reason about than broadcast and dispatch; I like the change.
That's like saying they all write data to disk so they're related.

Elasticsearch is all about saving, inspecting, indexing and retrieving your data through a rich document-based model and search-optimized methods.

ES might be able to do the same thing functionally because it operates at a higher level but ultimately will never scale or be as simple in access as Kafka.
What do they care about?
I think they'll IPO. Apple, Microsoft, Google and Amazon are already way invested in their own cloud storage platforms to change their infrastructure and nobody else has the cash.
> to get the benefits of shared nothing, "green thread"/"VM internal processes" ... Stackless Python

It is shared everything isn't it. Greenlet is core which was extracted out of stackless and both gevent and eventlet are based on it. Can get lightweight concurrency units sure. That's very far from Erlang.

To put it another way a thread (even a green one) + a thread safe queue does not an Erlang make ;-)

But is a popular trope usually, when frameworks claim "we do Erlang" it often means that.

Some of the things Erlang has can be found in various languages and frameworks. The best approximation is actually -- an operating system. OS processes are closest to how Erlang works. They are isolated from each other. Can have systemd or other things supervise them. Can send messages via pipes, unix sockets, files etc. But can't have 1M of those running.

Then like you mentioned can have green threads in other languages. But can't have low latency GC, CPU scaling, isolated memory for each concurrency unit. So not quite there.

> The Pulsar framework- https://pythonhosted.org/pulsar/

That does look pretty cool. I'll have to take a look. Thanks for the link!
Are you open to re-selling? Maybe white label it? If you don't want to talk about it publicly please email me (check profile). :)
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> Irish subsidiaries

This is actually fairly cheap and straightforward for a multi national to pull off. But, that's just the tip of the iceberg. Eventually you get into things that impact day to day operations for ever more marginal savings.
Could Congress pass a law to reclassify domestic encrypted communications as domestic?
How will you physically move the books? Many countries in your target market have unreliable and expensive postal systems, where packages are frequently "lost".
It is true that sometimes they require warrants. Also, Dropbox probably just wants access to my data to change my password in case I forget it. But technology can help me to avoid trusting them by encrypting everything in my end. Both the government and Dropbox employees are humans, and humans sometimes don't behave well. I'm willing to miss some features to get more privacy.
Don't forget the comment after the newer patch

"New test patch up with improved protection against irrelevant infosec anklebiters"

from their now protected twitter account.
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$1.37M in sales(http://www.hoovers.com/company-information/company-search.ht...). They sure can feed their families.

And, yes, you're right: good does not feed your family.

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/19/d3/b0/19d3b0b76...
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When you look at his first tweet he seems pretty immature.

"Starting to think that the @grsecurity kernel is not suitable for prod. First SIZE_OVERFLOW false +s, now panic due to a bug they introduced"

https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/724740708104474626
Your second point is the important one for most games I think. Global leaderboards on a popular game are meaningless for the vast majority of players (do you care that you are in position 324,675?) and almost all of the implementations I've seen have been hacked. As this thread has discussed it's hard to protect false data from getting in the leaderboard.

Limiting leaderboards to friends both gives relevant context for fun competition and mostly eliminates the cheating problem by making it a social issue. I know my friends wouldn't be happy if we were all competing on a game and I cheated.
Not what random people on the Internet think about them. And the switch from "important" to "random" is on a hair trigger.
> Farmers make no money.

Source?

My roommate in college worked on his parents farm every summer and while he worked a lot of hours, he made would make about $25,000 dollars. That's more than any of anyone I know made during the summer except for me (I only made more cause my company paid for my hotel that I lived in plus the taxes on it which were both ludicrous).
The article does mention it, though without going into detail - it's called lag compensation.
>> "...the phone (which after all belonged to them)..."

Pretty sure the phone was the property of whomever was named as the dead guy's inheritor in his will. Absent a will it should have gone to the next of kin or probate court or similar. One place the dead guy's property should not go is to the FBI. That's not how property rights work.

I recognize that in practice the FBI will do as they damn well please, but in principle we do have laws for this.
I was hoping that this would be a collection of ideas that failed.
By "gun laws regarding militias" I assume you mean the Second Amendment itself -- few statutes concerning or mentioning militias are used to justify general gun use, but the 2A is and there's an important reason why:

The founders envisioned a nation of citizen-defenders equipped and trained to protect their homes, farms, and neighborhoods from incursion by enemies, foreign or domestic. The Constitution states that the right to keep and bear arms is a prerequisite for a well-regulated militia, not the other way around. And it draws on prevailing notions from English law at the time (the UK, like the USA, didn't start moving to abolish or restrict gun rights until the beginning of the 20th century or thereabouts). This is more than some old, unrelated law; it is the supreme law of the land. If you do not think that it is applicable in the modern era, the solution is to agitate for repeal of the 2A, not to pretend that it doesn't exist or has been outmoded and complain when people act like it still is valid, active, enforceable law.

I'm not even speaking as someone who favors guns. But the Constitution is what it is, and if we don't like it we change it. If the government can get away with ignoring the Second Amendment and deciding it's no longer relevant, think of what they might do to the First Amendment. Or the Fourth. Or the Fifth. Or the Eighth. Or the Thirteenth.

Get the picture?
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With Health care requirements even that is becoming harder. Besides, if it's so easy why doesn't the government just do it automatically for you?
Back when I used blackberry phones I absolutely could use the keyboard without looking. They used slightly different shapes/intersections for each key and it was all muscle memory and little looking.

The touch screen keyboards are more practical in many ways but they can never truly replicate a physical keyboard.

(I long ago traded the fidelity of the actual keyboard for the convenience of a touch keyboard.)
Wow did I need to read this today. Excellent choice of post.
Well I see your edit mentions Windows and that was the problem when I last tried clang. It failed to compile FFmpeg. I don't know whether that is because it doesn't work, or didn't work, or my package was just outdated. GCC works. And once you force gcc to have colored messages there seems to be little advantage to using clang over it.
Obama, Sanders and Clinton didn't want to discuss encryption around election year either. They knew their constituents are divided on it and that might give Republicans a stronger position.

I believe that's why Congress wouldn't give the FBI a law to mandate that companies decrypt data. And, it sort of explains why Sanders and Clinton both said they sought "middle ground" regarding encryption and then never spoke about it again

If you've already made up your mind to do something that pisses off a lot of your constituents or your party's constituents, you should avoid discussing it during an election year. It's too bad, since more debate would've been more educational for everyone, but it is what it is. Politicians can choose what they want to talk about just like we can.
It would be nice to have this presented visually. It is a bit hard to grasp. Not being negative. Just asking for a better explanation of what seems like a really interesting system. :)
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I've had really good luck with this one from Amazon http://www.amazon.com/AmazonBasics-Port-USB-3-0-Hub/dp/B00GG...

It's fairly inexpensive (there's smaller versions too), is powered, and backed by Amazon if there's an issue.
What?! $1k license or bust? Any idea of the number of customers they have?
Plenty other discussion about the lengths people go to avoid the estate tax, so I think it is distortionary
Why do you think they're identical?
> BUT as of this writing if you are developing in corporate IT (meaning possibly running windows 7 systems) you actually CANNOT run react-native tools on windows easily.

Eh? I use React Native on Windows. Works just fine. It's also very easy to install. Maybe you didn't try recently?
IMO, there is not much difference in regulating public stock and public debt. If SpaceX wants to borrow from bank of America fine, but if they want to issue trade-able bonds and borrow from John Q Public that's a separate thing.

PS: Arguably this is the same reason banks are regulated.
Apple should buy. Apple has no foot in cloud services. They should get rid of iCloud and buy Dropbox. This will give Apple some ground in the cloud services
> Could still die in the senate, unfortunately.

And Obama still has to sign it. I imagine there would be huge lobbying by intelligence and law enforcement if this ever made it to his desk.
I think you fail to account for the fact that we are talking about Constitutional issues. We are not talking about what is an appropriate level of privacy protection under the law. We are talking about what is the minimum standard where a 200-year old document trumps the policies of a democratically elected government.

We are also deciding that question on the basis of a phrase ("reasonable expectation of privacy") that doesn't even appear in that 200 year old document.
That's a good question. I meant airgapped from the Internet, of course, but the "..." was meant to imply that it's the kind of thing that is easier said than done, and easily, accidentally done wrong.
Code review is typically how I structure my interviews.

I try not to ask arbitrary comp-sci questions, but instead provide the candidate with a block of code and ask them to provide a comprehensive code review (usually through a github pr).

Afterwards I perform a my review, and highlight any differences in style or methodologies. I'm not really looking for people that have the exact same outlook as me, I'm just looking for people that have some kind of standard they adhere to.
Was this like that? Because it seems like Theranos had a pretty tough time finding investors, or at least reputable ones. GV laughed them off. As did all the life-sciences firms.
What are the advantages of using this over react?
I am too. Maybe it's just a really easy task since it's mostly just throwing away information and emphasizing lines? Denoising, almost. But it helps that they do so much data augmentation (>9x).
that's why Congress wouldn't give the FBI a law to mandate that companies decrypt data

When? Feinstein-Burr is still in play.

http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/technology/277467-enc...
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Anyone else find the photo's caption amusing? "A man is seen near cyber code"
How would you demonstrate that you're capable of implementing that algorithm? Isn't the best way to have them implement that algorithm? (I will admit that this is best done when the candidate has their favorite text editor and internet, and I have had an interview in the past where this was the case, which went well)
Ugh.

What kind of business person waits until their personal taxes are due to find their expenses? This should be done quarterly if not monthly. Use a separate account for business expenses. Hire a bookkeeper.
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More modern anti-cheat software seem to have a trend to move to kernel space[1] and block user-mode access. So it's not just signature checking, but some generic attack prevention as well. (Cheats also move to kernel space, of course.)

Wonder how soon there will be a market of PCI-e cheat rigs for DMA attacks...

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[1] Yep, gamers are literally accepting rootkits that allow arbitrary remote code execution on their machines.
Warrants trump property rights here, and on top of that it was the county's phone, not the dead guy's.

http://gizmodo.com/the-san-bernardino-terrorists-icloud-pass...

> Technically, the iPhone in question (the one the FBI is demanding that Apple unlock) was purchased by the San Bernardino Department of Health. And as security researcher Christopher Soghoian has pointed out on Twitter, the Department tried to reset the phone’s iCloud password remotely in the hours after the attack. The department hoped to gain information from a possible back-up of the phone to iCloud. Instead, it rendered the account useless.
What an interesting way to write what is deemed the problem. Can you post sample content? It would be nice to read it.

How do you plan with filtering content by religion?
There is still a ton of objc code in production so it's still very important to be able to work with it. That being said Swift is definitely what you should focus on.

Above that, work towards mastering Foundation, UIKit and the other core iOS frameworks.
Thanks... yeah, I'm trying to figure out the best way to present it on here. It might all actually be a bit hard to describe without them. For instance, the special binary I had to develop to overcome some technical issues.

http://i.imgur.com/p4pr8b9.jpg
Uh, I go to the same conferences - in fact I'll be at AGI 16 this year and I was at AGI 14. Ben was my research advisor for my Masters.

I stand by my statements. The community, or even a handful of researchers haven't come up with a competent path to AGI. That's indisputable.

it's not like we have no idea how to build a general intelligence, or what such an architecture might look like

Show me one, I'd love to see it.

Listen, I love everyone working on them and many are my friends; but none of the attempts today have anything near the specificity of a project management roadmap to say with any certainty that AGI is even a probable outcome. Not OpenCOG, not Numenta, not MicroPsi.

That's not a hit on any of them either. The people and areas they are working on are awesome, amazing and fundamental to research but none of them would claim that they have a solid roadmap. Even the roadmap sessions at the conferences usually go nowhere because we just don't know enough about how generalizable intelligence works yet.
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No, the point of estate tax is to prevent generational inheritance, not to re-coupe failed cap gains.

Yet a lot of countries with low inequity don't have them. Canada, Sweden, etc.
If Elon Musk drove a Fiat that leaked flaming oil, everybody would ask why.
The whole expectation of privacy metric is bogus. It was a gloss added to the 4th amendment by a liberal court. Its not in the text.

As for our deference to this centuries old document: we do it because the Constitution is the only thing that overcomes the democratic will. When the Supreme Court struck down bans on interracial marriage as unconstitutional, the vast majority of Americans were opposed to it.