skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The world's most expensive diamonds: size isn't everything
Not a bad point - it's a trade-off.

You could make a similar point about the centralized backup management server - it needs to have "some kind of login" to all your production database server, so of that host is compromised (which might only store encrypted copies of your backup), so are all your database servers if those privileges can be escalated. You could argue that one backup host is easier to secure than a complex system such as AWS, but then I would argue that it would probably be hard to beat the track record of S3/IAM. ;-)

Both approaches have their place. If you're dealing with a large number of hosts and a lot of data, the backup host will quickly become a bottleneck and you're probably better off with the append-only approach. If that's not a concern for you (i.e. you're not running into any bandwidth limits on the backup hosts) and want to deal with operating yet another service to avoid the risk of e.g. IAM privilege escalation, the other solution might be a better fit.
There is one at 12th and Denny on Cap Hill (unless they took it down) - solution - use Snapchat - ID basic form of box - pachao
The author actually has put up a site that links to the kits. I just bought it and am about half way through the book. It's great!

The kit I got is from Chaney electronics. It is linked to from the site [1].

There's a more expensive kit from Makershed. The ones on Amazon are for the first edition of the book so don't get it there. Get it on Makershed's site. Again though it's more expensive by half.

[1] http://plattkits.com
Crystal, Elixir, Haskell, and PHP7.1

Crystal because it brings me the elegance of Ruby with better Type safety. The type inference in Crystal has been improving a lot since I started looking into it as well.

Elixir mostly because it fits the sweet spot where I'd have used node.js for network/event heavy apps.

Haskell because I'm still trying to learn it _properly_.

PHP7.1 because I work in PHP every day, and I am excited about lots of upcoming changes in the next release. There have been lots of interesting RFCs (for the language) as well as PSRs (for the interop packages) raised recently and PHP isn't the same old thing any more.
Joyent funded most of node.js' development since 2010. Once node became popular and competing companies appeared, with the commensurate agitation and political fallout, Joyent became less involved with it.
You're using a dictionary password and subsequently reusing that password on multiple sites.... and you're mad at LinkedIn for allowing your account to be compromised? Umm.
Does this apply to Macs?
Samsung buys cloud infrastructure provider Joyent
"If the public knows X, we won't be able to use X without the public's knowledge. Further, the public might demand we get a warrant to use X, making using X without a warrant more difficult."

Well then... I guess everything the FBI does should be withheld from public scrutiny because national security.
Good luck on your incredible journey.
I think it applies to everything using Intel processors.
This leads me to suspect multiple different groups may have independently gained access to their servers. Definitely this guy, but possibly also Russians.
The purchaser agrees that any intellectual property that results of any development on the engine will belong jointly to LiquidPiston.

I read that as shared, as you can't jointly own something as one party. There are probably more explicit terms on something you have to sign.
This assumes they're throwing anything back. They're not.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/30/nsa-americans-...
I am interested in your review.
From my anecdotal experience, I would agree that most cannabis is consumed by smoking. For casual recreational users though, this might amount to as little as the equivalent of one cigarette a month. Still not good for you, but probably not in the same league as tobacco smoking which is much more likely to be habitual.

Habitual cannabis users on the other side of the spectrum seem to be acknowledging the health risks of smoking, and (again anecdotally) I'm seeing a lot of habitual users switch to vaporising or other delivery methods.

Certainly there are people making poor decisions about cannabis use, but on a whole it doesn't seem much worse than plenty of other things that people do regularly without being stigmatised. Certainly not bad enough to become a moral issue in my opinion.
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Is the world turning its back on free trade?
Samsung does have a somewhat bad reputation in the valley; e.g.

https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Samsung-Research-America-R...

This could just be clashes between US and Korean management culture, or perhaps just some instability in a new research lab.
It even worked: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VW2H4sgakIA at some point anyway. Now they're just "well, we put the ideas in SQL Server" but I still hope it comes back around. _That_ is the future of storage. ZFS/btrfs/HAMMER are all very, very cool, but WinFS was a level above that.
There are vaguely plausible arguments for mass surveillance, but this is just incoherent. It doesn't actually propose anything other than "shut up about privacy". The Orlando scumbag was brought to the attention of the FBI twice without the need to monitor everyone's communications. Doing what the author seems to want (again, it's hard to tell what that is) would result in a vast increase in false positives, making it even easier for future terrorists to slip through the cracks.
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in some cases, my kindle is far more readable with a properly produce mobi file -- full margins, etc.
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I don't believe human rights are up to a vote, so the fact that he wants to exercise his rights should trump.
From the article:

"On some chipsets, the firmware running on the ME implements a system called Intel's Active Management Technology (AMT). This is entirely transparent to the operating system, which means that this extra computer can do its job regardless of which operating system is installed and running on the main CPU."

So it sounds like yes, this would effect any OS.
Yes, right now this is for setting up your own "OpenStreetMap" that will work offline. The author of this work, substack, is also working/thinking about p2p infrastructure for OSM. See https://peermaps.github.io/
Startup execution strategies exposed
> Microsoft pouring money into JS

Microsoft is a software company. Samsung is not. If you think they are, then you probably haven't used one of their bloated, buggy phones that they stop updating way too soon.
I'm pretty sure copies for personal use are allowed explicitly by Fair Use laws. As long as you aren't giving it away or selling it, I think it's acceptable.
Luckily they did not acquire Node.js

edit: I should have been more specific.. when an open source project is under a company's wing and it gets acquired, you don't know what can happen, even under MIT. Look at express recently. Since it's the under the Node Foundation now, this is not a big deal. Had it happened a short time ago, there may have been further turmoil in the community.
If someone did this in the US, can they get in trouble?

When exactly does "hacking" a game become illegal? What about people doing it for research like the machine learning mario guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv6UVOQ0F44. Or tool-assisted speedruns? Or the starcraft broodwar ai?

Is it only when you breach the TOS or copyrights? Just curious since it never even occurred to me that such things are punishable.
$1,884 to quote 300 words from The New York Times in a book
Damn, how did that happen? When the first drive failed, why didn't the hot spare get activated? What software was it that didn't work properly?

This worries me because Raid-Z2 with two hot spares is exactly the system that I was planning to set up.
How is this defined as breaking copyright law? Did the cheat contain code from the original game?
I'm hoping Joyent can positively affect Smartthings...
How to Convert Video to Microsoft Surface Pro
> Joyent as it is good product fit. Microsoft chose linkedin instead

It's a good product fit, but the fit is so good that Microsoft basically built a more-complete competitor in the form of Azure. They built Joyent instead of buying it.

LinkedIn was different because Microsoft could never build LinkedIn itself.
I think they are asking if Apple ordered chips without this ME, give the former's penchant for security. I wonder similarly.
That's a pretty serious accusation there buddy. How specifically am I disregarding my oath?
I think he means that you put stickers on every utility pole and see which ones they take down to "keep their secret".

Unless you mean how do you detect utility poles, in which case visually should suffice ;)
Seems like the average complaints people have working at BigCo.

Compared to the kind of stuff that Microsoft, Apple have done in the past in the software world.

And I do not see how this is bad, maybe Samsung is trying to learn why 'Western' engineering is so much superior to 'Asian' engineering by this acquisition ?
Given that Node.js has always been MIT licensed, that's impossible. That's one reason why it had a liberal license; just listen to Cantrill's Oracle rants sometime to get a better idea.
I have no personal experience working for Samsung but know quite a few who did work for their US team and most don't have a positive experience. I also know some who worked for other South Korean companies. Lets just say the Korean work culture is quite different than in a typical US company. Hopefully the Joyent guys will be shielded from all this.
After reading through everything Gawker published, I now realize Trump might actually have a serious chance at winning the election.
"extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."

If Apple like Theranos claims to have developed "Novel Differential Privacy algo" / "finger prick blood testing", it ought to have its claims examined via peer review. The burden of proof lies on the entity making ground breaking claims.
I'm interested to see how the British handle this. There are certainly lots of cameras in London, but I believe they are rather conspicuous. Perhaps this is more about protecting technology than knowledge? Like, it's not about location, it's about the method.
Congrats Bryan
Do you still suffer from PTSD or something? We're back home. You aren't going to find yourself in an L shaped ambush in the shopping mall.
Substack can probably give a better answer, but my understanding is that CouchDB only holds a version history since the last replication between clients, and then conflicts need to be resolved before replication can continue, after which version history is lost. With OSM-p2p no data is every deleted, it is all just in the underlying hyperlog. It's more like git than CouchDB, and each record has a complete history, and can be forked and merged and will continue to sync/replicate.
The real problem in this case wasn't the surveillance, it was that after flagging this guy, they could strip him of travel rights, i.e. air travel, but they didn't have a means to deny him access to guns.

The NRA have made it nearly impossible to deny anyone access to guns. It's harder to get a driving license.

If they thought he was to great a risk to fly, he should have been too great a risk to buy and possess guns.
Samsung is (and has been) terrified that their handset business will be slaughtered in the race to the bottom of the hardware industry. They tried to create their own OS to give themselves an edge over other Android manufacturers.

Their fears have come true (and now it's even happening to Apple). Hardware is an incredibly difficult, risky business, and differentiation is now in the services/software arena. That's why Samsung, in particular, needs this acquisition (and others like it).
Cyberterrorism and the Role of Silicon Valley
I always thought torque was an incredible weakness of rotary engines.
They're literally saying that because bitcoin had a bubble and "outperformed", any of the new younger cryptocurrencies "are onto something" and could go big at any moment.

It's a system of independent probabilities, hence gambler's fallacy.
Nah, P vs NP is a bigger factor here.

Basically, checking a proof for correctness takes polynomial time in the size of the proof. (Dependending on how you formalize your proofs, that might even be linear.)

Coming up with a reasonable sized proof is much harder. But if we had P=NP, then checking and finding a proof would be about equally hard.

See eg http://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/philos.pdf
Great! Appreciate the feedback. I still have hopes for languages like SPARK and Rust in resource-constrained space to make up for lack of onboard resources for protection, preventative or reactive. Case studies like that can help the progress move along.
Hmmm, not sure if you're being genuine or snarky...

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I love how easy attribution is now a days! They use multiple Virtual Machines and and English and Russian fonts, must be Russian.

I also love how both sides instantly blamed the other.

Obviously trump hacked the DNC and then released its oppo research (on him) to hurt Hillary. Either they removed all the bad stuff, or wanted to release it all at once and force the attribution to Hillary.

or

Obviously Hillary Hacked the DNC and released the oppo research on trump to cause an easy document dump and get media attention on all her weak oppo research

No Expert's Opinion or Confirmation Bias going on today.

Edit: It is totally possible some extra "secret" attribution is going on by bigger entities.
Why Philosophers Should Care About Computational Complexity (2011) [pdf]
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Thats crazy talk, in what world is it ok for my cpu to run a tcp stack on its own?
Google buying Twitter predicted to follow Microsoft’s move for LinkedIn
I'm not the submitter but I am helping organize the conference.

I help organize SF Python Meetup and we've talked about trying to run a mini-con for several years. We've finally gotten brave enough to try it this year.

The CFP is open (http://www.pybay.com/#!call-for-proposals/sonxv) and we're still looking for good talks...
Ah, fair enough. That is a good question.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11912665
At least in the US, I don't believe there is any precedent that establishes it is illegal to alter a product.

There is always push back by companies, but it seems that the general trend is always in favor of the consumer (see, rooting your phone is found legal, this video concerning the legality of modifying cars and tractors https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nps24EqiZjY )
> That's written tongue in cheek

Lawyers don't have tongues or cheeks.

I have been told that Walter regularly tries to change the license but Symantec just doesn't seem to care.
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> just that most management wouldn't

I don't know if this is true. (It might be). Most manager types that I've have talked with struggle with how to do it it well.

The "path to wisdom" in technical skills (which are more my forte) seem to be lots of practice around things that start out being practiced ... mechanically. And each and every Ubuntu 14.04 server in my cluster is pretty much like the others.

I think that people are harder. Even with just two, who believe they love each other - there wouldn't be a career in marriage counseling if it was easy.

Ignoring the traditional heirarchy looking bits that show up on org charts: coordinating and synchronizing the members of a team and teams with one another is certainly not anything that most coders want to spend their day doing. They don't even want to write documentation! So, it's an important function: conducting a group exercise, like a dance, made up of a bunch of talented and self-directed humans. Especially when something new is being created and no one brain has the whole picture. (Thinking about it now, it boggles me that we even try.)

We (society) are going through a strange transitional time right now. Like the 1850s~1930s in the US when we were transitioning from Ag to Industrial and it had the civil war on one end, a bunch of crazy elections from 1890 or so in the middle, and the New Deal at the end.

I think that managers aren't trained to be coordinators in this new world: who would train them? And beyond that, we take our best tech leads and promote them: losing a great technical contributor and gaining a badly skilled coordinator.

Anyway: thanks for the kind words. Since I left BigCo as an engineer back in the day to start my NewCo, and got big (and crashed), I've been unemployable by BigCos and very hesitant to start anything again. I kind of "fell off the rails".

But some things have gotten worse since then: employers are scared employees will sue them if managers have an empathetic conversation with an employee, and co-evol employees thinking that typical managers don't give a shit. (Mutual arising) It isn't healthy and I don't like the direction.

But, not my problem any more! I just fix up people's patent portfolios for them. And sometimes make a widget prototype for them ("Here, have an invention") and they can make it, produce it, support it, sell it, etc...
MS already has Azure, with an infrastructure built on their windows core... Not to mention having more services... and while Joyent's Docker story is really nice, MS seems to be heading in a very similar direction with the Windows Subsystem for Linux as Joyent took with SmartOS/Solaris, it's a poor tech fit.

I'm not sure where this will take things with Samsung, likely backend services to support their own "store" on their devices separate from Android. If it's internalized, I only hope they release more of their infrastracture tooling, which is very cool to say the least.
Hats off Samsung. You have just acquired a truly world class Engineering team.

Congrats to all my former colleagues who are absolutely amazing at their jobs and wonderful people to work with. Samsung looks like a very good match. Hope the transition goes well.
What about AMD?
You can grow it horizontally by adding a new vdev. ZFS doesn't allow you to do anything you may ever possibly want to do, but it does allow you to do more than any other RAID solution. It's not perfect but it's still pretty impressive.
Ask HN: Has blogging really helped you?
I keep seeing posts about how folks get better jobs, book deals, speaking gigs and consulting engagements from blogging. Have you found that to be the case, or is energy better spent elsewhere?
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Ask HN: What cofounder split to ask for when taking a salary from day 1
A wealthy client of mine wants to do a startup with me as technical cofounder. I can't afford to commit to the full time work requirement for free in a classic 50% cofounders equity split.

I would need them to finance my contribution to work on the idea initially (they understand that). I do want some fair equity as a cofounder without being employee #1 and am willing to make concessions of course (Discounted salary or lower share)

What are my options to propose a fair deal? Can i ask to 'work off' extra equity down the track? Would appreciate yor thoughts. Thanks
That's an uninsured, international exchange. At the rate exchanges are "hacked", why would I ever trust them enough to put my money into it?
Why Microsoft's purchase of LinkedIn may not have been the smartest deal
So nice theories, but are there any studies made to back this up? I see no mention of any kind of science here.
Why can't Intel implement proper security and open up this blob to begin with? Not opening it and not allowing to disable it, suggests it's intended for something sinister.
I realize this is a real thing, but "investment grade wine" sounds like such a preposterously stereotypical WASP thing... I'm sure they have a storage facility in the Hamptons.
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Forgive my ignorance but can someone explain how Joyent's acquisition moves Samsung towards their strategic objectives? In other words, how are they going to exploit this technology (and brain gain)?
See that's what you guys (assault weapon supporters) are really all about. Some kind of military style combat engagement where you'll have to defend your family from a full breakdown of society or the zombie apocalypse or something.

That's not a likely enough occurence to justify my neighbors arsenal of mass casualty producing weapons.

An even bigger fantasy: some of you guys dream of standing up to the US gov't. IIRC that rarely works out well. Sorry but in the US you're already at a disadvantage because you're digitally tracked here. Over there they don't have to use digital devices to conduct daily life.

You already live in a police state.
Quit. Screw programming. Screw being a tech lead. Screw managing products. Screw moving the needle. Screw trying to be competent and/or being effective. Screw trying to figure out how to continue working. Screw retirement. Screw finding interest and meaning in life. Screw this anxiety. Screw trying to do justice to things. Screw figuring out what's going on. Screw figuring out what you should or shouldn't do. Screw worrying how much money you have and how long that will last you. Your anxiety tells me you don't want to worry about things, but you do. So don't. Screw it all.

Pack your things. Fly to another random place on Earth. Roll a dice if you have to. Figure it out from there. Your only mission - screw the rest of the world and enjoy yourself.

If you are anxious about permission. Here, I give it to you.

Here's a piece of advice I tell myself every time I feel like you do: "Forget all preconceptions. About myself, about the world. Just wing it. If everything falls about, let it fall apart. Screw it. I'm a man, I'll live. Fun. Remember, fun."

You don't want to kill yourself. You want to kill your idea of who you are. Let the idea of you die, but you? You live and go on living.
Well, buffering 4K video, while running other active services in the background... finally broke down and installed FB messenger again, and it's definitely better, but there are a lot of consistent apps that tend to be very bloated as it is.

Given how well React Native tends to work, and I have to be honest, I like the ecosystem structure better than most apps I've worked on in general, I can see it actually working out better in many cases.
Good in principle, but I assume most parents are more or less desperate to find some kind of childcare in the summer, not having the luxury of being bored themselves with the little dears. So it's off to chess camp or else. Unless one parent doesn't work, or you're well-off enough that junior can be bored with some kind of nanny or minder...
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It probably has something to do with the tampering of copy protection, which companies would very much like to be illegal. An arrest does not equate to a conviction; there's a chance the charges may not stick, but I don't know Japanese law.
Hold the phone; these groups are compensated by their own universities, the capital they raised by-and-large public agencies... Science is not supposed to progress only in the direction where there is a market or profit to be made.