skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since no one else had chimed in, I will report that yes I too am flabbergasted befuddled stupefied and completely amazed at the magical time we live in, which as you said gets better on a seemingly weekly basis at this point.

And VR hasn't even gone mainstream yet. What a wild ride we're on indeed
Baseball implemented the luxury tax system, which operates at a soft cap. So while it's technically accurate to say no salary cap, there does exist a financial mechanism by which team payrolls (and by association, player salaries) are limited.
Am I correct in assuming that the performance improvements of SSDs are worthless for your use case?

It seems like the workload of Backblaze (like many "big data" workloads) is such that the extra IOPS don't actually help.

With thousands of drive spindles, and a very small portion of the data on on the spindles being needed at any given moment, I don't imagine you are actually limited by the performance of spinning rust.
Interesting that some believe rooting a car is going "too far", yet building our entire society and financial systems with duct-tape coding and fail-early-fail-often methodologies is okay.
What a widescreen monitor doesn't fix is having to move your head to read those 120 characters. With only 80 characters you only have to move your eyes.
This sort of thing has been heavily debunked in the past, and the author doesn't help his case with:

"My hypothesis is there is a significance to gematria, and if my analysis doesn’t reveal that, it is I who is in err and not the creators of this approach to biblical exegesis."
Cool interpretation! I like that concept. But grandparent was definitely trying to deconstruct the word "meaningless", getting a little existential in the process.
This is not an external benefit. This, if true, should mostly be reflected in people's willingness to take public transport. Of course, people taking public transport are in my experience usually of the most dubious mental health. So that's concerning.

What you'll find is that people use public transit in cities where its convenience outweighs the convenience of a car. In cities where that is untrue, only those who can't afford a car use public transit.

Which is to say that public transit isn't somehow magically better than auto travel by virtue of some fixed aspect of public transit.

It's better when it's better, which may sound like a tautology, but is actually just kind of an obvious truth, evidence for which is available all over the world.
My car recognizes when I refill the tank. Not sure what is going on with your dad's car.
Wherever people like you and me are willing step up and actually fight. A "free society" is not some intrinsic property; we get to have a free society - and a democratically elected government - if and only if we defend it.

Patrick Stewart has a great line at the end of TNG 4x21 "The Drumhead"[1]

[V]illains who twirl their mustaches are easy to spot.
Those who clothe themselves in good deeds are well camouflaged.
...
[Admiral Satie] or someone like her will always be with us,
waiting for the right climate in which to flourish – spreading fear
in the name of righteousness. Vigilance, Mr. Worf. That is the price
we have to continually pay.

Any system will eventually fail if it isn't maintained. When we allow small, trivial abuses of power, people become conditioned to expect exceptions to the rule of law. These exceptions are normalized into a power structure that deviates significantly from anything resembling a free society.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eahs1H9tdcU
Seems like today's Buddhist monks are nothing more than just an attraction for tourists at this point.
Richard, is that you? ;)
This was my favorite read,

https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~koopman/pubs/koopman14_toyota_ua_...
Shouldn't an entire suburb full of houses identical to your own yield the same peace of mind? Do you think being separated by walls instead of air makes a difference mentally?
If you're listing V8, might as well add Andy Wingo: wingolog.org
It's funny, as someone who was still a kid back in the 80s, the idea of a 6% mortgage sounds ridiculous to me. How on Earth could someone afford to pay all that interest? Yet, mortgage rates were at times in the past over 15% (!!!)
I usually don't have to move my head to read 120 character lines.
exactly.. the document simply draws the curtain back

have you seen samantha bee's piece on super delegates where she breaks down the rest of the metaphor of the "great and powerful"?(o)

you do realise the whole point was that oz wasn't powerful, right?
oz is just a midwestern snake oil salesman displaced to a fantasy land
full of cowards, heartless people, and strawmen

(o) https://youtu.be/XtuWiHYmr4U?t=239 .. whole clip is worth a watch at 6m7s
No, but I was planning to build some thing similar with bitcoins. They also have gitter https://gitter.im/CodeMillApp/support
> given that they are specific to Spotify, rather than a set of generic credentials that just happen to work on Spotify.

Actually, it looks like output from a popular tool (Sentry MBA) specifically designed to test if "generic credentials" from other password leaks "just happen to work" on popular services like Spotify.
My initial reaction is: I am very glad I had nothing at stake here... my second reaction is the same as the author of this deconstruction. Why should I trust anything any of these actors do ever again given the way they have reacted to the data.
Apt-boto-s3: The fast and simple S3 transport for apt
This was precisely my conclusion when getting into GPGPU programming two months ago. CUDA maps directly onto Nvidia hardware and its execution pipeline, leading to very tight expression of parallel algorithms. OpenCL, in attempting to map onto not just the GPUs of multiple vendors but DSPs and FPGAs, struck me as awash in code for navigating their architectural differences. So I'm developing in CUDA…
I think that "Logged in Users with Saved Payment Information" is very big. It takes a lot of the friction out of WeChat commerce.
>Even if the media subsystem is running on dedicated hardware, the fact that it's networked with the rest of the car means that there's still a risk of it being used to gain access to other components.

I don't think anyone was claiming anything contrary to that, just that replacing the software running the media dash isn't going to fubar your car.
malloc is set up to be specifically overridable so that guardmalloc(3)* will work. Are you saying asprintf doesn't work with guardmalloc?

* check it out, I used a man reference, am I a professional UNIX developer yet?
The one auto manufacturer that I was working for had hardware safety overrides for any software controlled remote operations.

For example: Remote door unlock command issued by the mobile phone app will not work if the car is moving.
other fun facts: modern advertising exists because factories were churning out so many products that they needed to figure out how to sell them all. advertising was created to recruit consumers to buy all this shit.
kdb+/q is great for this sort of thing (data stream processing and analytics). The "traditional" kdb+ example/benchmark, is some query on big data, and it excels at that. But another use case is to setup several real-time kdb+ processes, like a processing pipe-line, or distributed work-load, that react to real-time messages/events, and produces some output (derived analytic, alert, action, etc...). One example is trading, where you have real-time market data being sent to some kdb+ processes, which run some analytic/rules, and issue/manage orders sent to the market. It takes surprisingly few lines of q code to set something like this using kdb+.
Here's a short vid https://asciinema.org/a/8u75xcjuacnbpwz9feaixde9e?autoplay=1
watch the vid?
Your analogy to Mercury or flipping coins isn't helpful. (Nor is Kama Sutra below.)

I was talking about this experiment, the one the article is about, the one which I linked in my comment. The one which is apparently attracting modestly widespread media coverage.
Trash talk can be an antidote to groupthink, fanaticism, stampeding of the toads.
>He told me that 2015 cars were pretty much unaffected and will likely only get a firmware tweak

And what exactly will this firmware tweak do? If it decreases performance or fuel economy, then that isn't acceptable. The customer bought the car because it advertised X horsepower and Y mpg; if the firmware tweak changes that, then that's false advertising and the company needs to refund their money in full.
That's what I'm trying first. RFID range is an issue, however. The electronics for this is easy, the problem is that I suck at carpentry.

The cats in question are pretty different (one black, one orange), so discrimination in visible light is easy. Not sure about IR yet.
The code was (probably typical) contractor spaghetti code, with plenty of potential bugs. But, no conclusive reproduction steps were ever found - much less any that would cause it to continue acceleration with the brakes on, transmission disengaged, or key off.
Is it? The razor I bought can't cut hair, the laptop I got has a stupidly nosiy fan, the phone I bought has a rapidly diminishing battery life, the headset I bought makes a constant hiss, my OS and TV now spy on me. Do I even own my steam games? I have to rent my music and TV to get it at a reasonable price, but songs and shows disappear without explanation or warning.

It seems to me things are worse than they used to be, it's harder than ever to find quality products, even meticulously researching everything.

And that's before we even get onto forced obselence.

Maybe I'm becoming a grump as I grow older but electronics brands you used to be able to trust are no longer sure bets and everything seems to have a nasty gotcha spyware or horrid EULA.

Edit: although I do admit there's a lot of magical things, I love my Kindle, I love how my phone synchs with my Kindle when I'm in random queue, I love being able to get + give directions from my phone in random places.

I just feel overall quality of goods has gone down as they become (worringly for the environment) disposible and consumers are losing control as their stuff is no longer theirs.
And it would be insanely expensive ...
The Model 3 is relatively affordable.
occam's razor suggests that Rovion, Bob and Voorhees are all the same person. Any other reading would, as the article points out too-obliquely, involve too much strain on reality.
I think there may be some subtleties here. Like many others, I've experienced great sleep in hotel rooms, or as a guest in homes that set me up very comfortably. That said, I definitely have noticed I remember my dreams much more frequently if I'm not in my own bed. Whatever my subjective evaluation of the quality of the sleep, it seems like something different is going on in my brain when I'm in unfamiliar surroundings. Maybe the effect shown in this study explains that.
Which is worse, proprietary closed system from car manufacturer or OSS system.

There's as many pros on one side as cons on the other.
nah. people have been modding throttle bodies and adding short shift to their cars for ages.

it is the same thing.
Seems straightforward enough to me.

1. Crap, my blog got hacked.

2. I'm a journalist not a cybersecurity expert. I need to outsource the task of keeping my blog secure.

3. Medium seems a promising candidate.

4. Actually, Medium looks pretty good. Let's look more closely at it.
This looks great. I've been using deb-s3 but it's a pain to setup ruby. https://github.com/krobertson/deb-s3
I think part of it is that WiFi (2.4ghz and 5ghz) are both not very penetrating compared to most of the amateur bands (sub 1ghz). That means that long range commercial use of them would be very difficult. This is why companies like Time Warner, who are trying to use them for commercial wifi end up installing special modems/routers in customers homes to be able to accomplish the task.
So we've got three potential theories here.

1. ShapeShift has the right version of events.

2. Rovion is Bob who is having fun mocking and misleading the CEO, safe in the belief that he will never be caught.

3. Rovion is another insider who is providing himself with cover to blame Bob and an outside hacker if he's ever caught.

This post criticizes the first theory on Rovion's interaction not making much sense. And indeed it doesn't unless Rovion is a fairly weird guy.

The second theory makes some sense. By telling this yarn, Bob managed to steal two more times, while having all evidence of how he did it the second 2 times not being taken as leads to who he is now or what he is doing.

The third theory makes a ton of sense. Rovion can either be someone who was already planning to steal. Or just an insider who saw how easy it was and was motivated to do the same.

One interesting detail is that Bob's initial theft is just sitting in a wallet, untouched. So apparently he didn't need that money. The first theory would say because he got paid by Rovion and can wait. The second theory would say because he made 2 other withdrawals that he can use. The third theory leaves that open.

Based on human nature I'd rank them 3, 2, 1. Based on his leaving a bunch of money untouched, and my opinions about criminals, I'd rank the theories 2, 1, 3. Either way the CEO should be dubious about the story he was fed by "Rovion".
An Inside Analysis of Angel Tikhon Bernstam’s Investment in Cruise
Isn't this the standard scam -- crypto-currency exchange gets cleaned out by an insider/owner and then a there is a story of an disgruntled employee or other evil hacker. Everyone is supposed to hate this made up hacker instead of suspecting the owners themselves.

Maybe it is just the news bias, but crypto-currency seems to attract shady characters. I understand the sentiment about the central banks and global cabal of money controlling plutocrats and all that, but then the same people turn around and hand money to a bunch of amateurs with a website and trust them instead.
This is amazing. My initial response to this was, "That's weird, I haven't experienced that." But, thinking back to being a teenager and getting little sleep because I was up on the internet all night, I remember taking a shower and getting ready in a state of half-consciousness.. and I remember closing one eye.
More products that I don't really need, more time and money wasted to buy those products, more pollution... Not sure we're ultimately more happy with this.
it s a quid pro quo "you hock my cause, ill mention yours."

it s an upvote brigade.

i see little they promise to do besides increase visibility.

its a way for people to use an influential social network as a megaphone.
I don't want anybody to get turned off from anything they want to do, but I think it's worth realizing that we used to see tribalism as a badge of honor. You don't feel like you belong when you're young or just starting out because you don't yet belong.

I remember reading programming blogs when I was starting to program and instead of feeling like those guys were elitist jerks who were excluding me, I thought, man, you know, I want to someday know as much as they do.
There are some great commercial options in this space like SignalFX and Sumo Logic. The cost of Riemann's learning and implementation challenges would have to be made significantly less for entire teams to make it a viable alternative to those, in my experience.

If anyone runs a team of 25 or more SREs and effectively uses Riemann (and there's more than 3 domain experts), and is not otherwise a Clojure shop, I'd love to hear from you.
As someone who has been burned several times by the stock market and supposedly safe index funds, I have no idea where I would put my savings (if I had any substantial amount). Stock market / mutual funds have a high risk of loss. Bank accounts will not grow (and will lose eventually due to inflation). Inflation-adjusted savings securities seem like the best bet, but they won't grow. There's no safe return anywhere anymore.
As always, my response to things like high-assurance computing is "that's great, as long as none of your users need to use modern browsers".
The point of the (grad and above) academic treadmill is to become a scientist. KKKKkkkk is saying that the author did not mention this at all, which means the author may have been misguided or under false pretenses.
When I have that situation, I use IFTTT to auto-create a Trello card to update their stuff on whatever day.

It's not elegant but it means that I can use the tools that are the most relevant and ignore everything else in the meantime.
Congratulation, Chart.js!

I remember my past time working on Ionic mobile development using chart.js to show graph of monthly incomes.
So fuck the haters - I'm learning Javascript, and it's gonna help me build some super cool apps that will help a lot of people!

It sounds like the trash talk you encountered actually taught you a very important lesson, in the end.
Every computation and/or representation is isomorphic to some (hypothetical) graph.
Amazing to me that for credit cards, we have PCI DSS[1] which is incredibly invasive in it's requirements, ins't there something equivalent for SWIFT-connected locations?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payment_Card_Industry_Data_Sec...
I don't make fun of JavaScript except in the company of fellow JS coders.

I think it has great aspects, and awful aspects, from a technological and just logical perspective, and I suspect even its creators would agree.

Still, I am too weary to see it as anything but a part of the reality of software in 2016. The language was designed in a hurry for commercial reasons, and subject to entirely different design constraints compared to, say, Haskell, which was designed by an academic committee over several years and with no demand for fast shipping, implementation, or familiarity for mainstream coders.

"Wat" to me is a satirical expression concerning the illogical and frustrating situations in which we nevertheless find ourselves needing to operate.

Despite my general appreciation of the language, it hurts me, and "Wat" is a warning that reminds me to be very careful with the treacherous semantics.

(But then, few languages get equality right.)
Ahhhh. That makes sense. Maybe a multi-year trial is in order.
Those locks are trivial to defeat within seconds with the right method and inexpensive tools. They're also unlikely to hold in the event that someone tries to breach the door by force.
Coffee vs. tea: which drink makes you more productive?
Trying to Put a Price on Big Oil's 'Climate Obstruction' Efforts
Not sure what you mean -- it's hard to think of a concept less relative than this thing called "freedom", actually. Especially as people (particularly across different cultures) tend to have wildly different conceptions as to what "freedom" really is.
Generating Random Chiptunes on Linux
Trying it out myself. One suggestion for your Chrome App - don't ask for permission to gibberishasdfasdf.cloudfront.com - that stuff is easy to whitelabel. Permissions scare users, especially when there is gibberish.
Rail is much more reliable then buses since it doesn't compete with car congestion, plus you can make it run much more frequently, both of which are very important for adoption.
Is There a Bot to Generate StackOverflow Answer from IRC Channel Logs?
I'm in a very small software community- we have a wiki, which is eternally outdated, because we are understaffed. We tryied to run a Answers page, and it failed due to maintenance- all we have is IRC, with someone who can answer- sometimes and the board.
So is there a way to generate answers from IRC-ChatLogs and boards?
GNU releases ethical evaluations of code-hosting services
AmazonFresh Delivering with Out of State Plates
Given the information in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Voorhees, there is every reason to believe that Voorhees has more to lose here than to gain. He already has personal wealth well in excess of the amounts stolen, and his personal cost from continuing to run the business in a shut down mode likely also exceeds the thefts.
You've succeeding in convincing me that you're not a troll. The opinions you're espousing are just too uninteresting and the non sequiturs aren't even infuriating, just pointless and confusing.
wechat first gather a lot of users by building a great chat app. Starting by copying whatsapp then extending it to be much more while seamlessly linking to other tencent social media accounts which includes qq one the largest instant messaging community in the world by virtue of the fact that everyone in china already used qq so switching over to wechat was easy because you could reuse your username and login.

People started moving to wechat payments because they were offering it for free and started giving out free money and gift for depositing money into your wechat wallet. They spent a lot of money to get users to add their bank account to their wechat, there is no way they have recouped those costs yet. They are also charging little to no fees for sending and receiving money, way less than what banks charge so they cant be making much if any money off it yet, they are waiting until adoption of wechat payments becomes ubiquitous and then will jack up the fees. The hold near monopoly within china and are protected from outside competitors by china strict financial regulations that dont allow foreign companies to run banking and payment services in china. Paypal currently runs their service in china through a chinese based partner that process the actual transactions and paypal just provides the front end app and api
Actually, we are in the works of releasing a Slack connector. Star a message or DM in Slack and see it as a task in Taco. Taco only asks for and obtains access to your starred messages (on https://api.slack.com/docs/oauth-scopes, "stars:list" and "stars:remove"), not all archives. Shoot us an email at support@tacoapp.com if you'd like to help us test it out!
I second that. I browse, guessing, about 95% of the public web with NoScript + uBlock on and unless the content that doesn't work without JS is especially crucial to what I'm doing at the moment, I'll just leave the page that won't render/work properly and look it up elsewhere, without a second breath.

But that sometimes makes for really bizarre experiences watching other people browse the same websites, cursing at how slow, bloated or broken they are, seeing that until now I didn't even know that the particular website that I've been visiting for years can do THAT.

The Bloomberg site is a really good example of it - for the first time I've turned the JavaScript on for it and... WHOA.

It's like every single piece of that 'extra' JavaScript functionality serves just one single purpose - to make your time spent on the site reading the articles as much miserable as possible.

I probably don't even want to know what I'm missing elsewhere...
well funded competitors you mean :-) ? To be clear, I don't think silicon valley products are any better/worse than other bootstrapped products out there (ie. I was just speaking relatively). It's just that given the massive amount of $$, lots of effort goes into giving things for free and great marketing.
>Solution: Use a Graph

Is this the new "Solution: Use Regular Expressions"?

There is a good reason tutorial style documentation is linear. Humans can keep track of what page of a book they are on, not which nodes of a graph they have visited.

Otherwise this doesn't add any new insight that wasn't there when the web was created. It's basically talking about hyperlinked documents. Identifying it as a graph doesn't help understand it any more than identifying the rotational groups of NaCl molecules lets me understand why they taste salty. It's useless structure/abstraction hunting.
Physical Side-Channel Key-Extraction Attacks on PCs (2014)
If you read, he's running in a chroot within the TelsaOS (which I'm guessing controls a lot of the sensor in/outs for displays and can't really be removed).

So it's like running an X server and external display on your Android in a chroot, so it looks like you're running Ubuntu and Android.