skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is why Clive Robinson on Schneier's blog has been saying for close to a decade you need to think in terms of physics. Any way of moving matter or energy in any form to a receiver is a potential side channel. He inventee the term energy gapping to describe systems isolated from all forms of stray energy. Needless to say, it's difficult.

He and I worked out some detsils on the blog years ago. We saw acoustic attacks coming since they were used with lasers in Cold War. So, were emanation and light-based attacks. Even toilets, plumbing, and air ducts can leak things out. So, you start with a SCIF style design with power filters, EMSwC masking, audio masking, careful attention to anything coming/going, and no wireless anything allowed. Then you have to work on endpoint security ground up isolating and deprivileging everything. He also liked decomposing everything into resource-isolated functions with a hypervisor inspecting them on occasion.

Not much attack surface left at that point.
"Pat-downs may not find weapons, so an officer will pat you down after the scanner says they should."

Airtight logic there.
Estonia is as "nordic" as Finland.
Which (to my American eyes) strikes me as odd. Isn't the average Scot given more democratic say by being a part of the U.K. than the E.U.? As I understand it, the E.U. is not a particularly democratic institution to begin with, and without the Westminster to back them up I would think Scotland would be more vulnerable to E.U. politics. Perhaps I am mistaken?
I know about Airbnb personally and it started with a hair on fire problem - a design conference where all the hotel rooms in the city where sold out. Brian and Joe hosted attendees in their apartment on air beds. That sounds like a hair on fire problem and a brick solution :)
I believe that most (all?) laws refer to such behavior as assault 'with a weapon' or 'with a firearm'. Google auto-corrects 'assault using a firearm' to 'assault with a firearm'.
Best. Cloud-to-Butt. Article. Ever.

"Like it or lump it, my butt is taking over IT. We've seen the rise of my butt over in-house IT for years now. And, what powers my butt? Linux."
The Transcension Hypothesis
Thanks! I have a big list of things to add but I'll check this is on there and add it if they are planning (or have already added) support for Core. It started as things I had talked about in my recent book.
My first iOS Game
Hello guys, some time ago I uploaded my first game on the app store called Blu Diamond. It would be great if you guys would download the game and give me your feedback. Thanks!!!
Good point - I think there is a good blog post to be written on this topic.
I think the main thing that a city needs to be special is to have strong opinions on city related things, like the design of public spaces and what the cultural identity of the place is. Otherwise, things end up as a generic strip mall sprawl. When a city takes an interest in art and design and a community focuses on expressing the cultural identity of its inhabitants, it can gain an identity and become more than just a collection of people who just happen to live there for economic reasons.
Low or no taxes would seem to be an important part of the definition of free market
Maybe unwilling. There is no legal problem with doing so (apart from the additional hassle of having to know about a different set of laws.) This is similar to the Delaware situation.
I think I'd optimize for a personal pain point or a pain point of family/friends.
I'm in favor of automatic updates for users if it's competently executed, explicit, and stoppable. So it's not the principle, it's the execution.
There are precious few places where you literally can't walk or bike.

There are a lot of places where it's impractical to do so, because it takes too long, and so people mostly don't. That's despite the fact that walking or biking would increase throughput, because throughput isn't all that matters. I would even argue that it isn't all that important.
There's plenty of space in the middle of Kansas.

Aside from the environmental issues, and the fact that not too many people would be crazy about living there -- what about the generations-old farm families who just... don't want to sell? At any price?

Which is what I meant about there being few places of significant scale (aside from protected wilderness areas that ought to remain as such) that are genuinely "empty."
What if you take your rifle and use it to beat someone upside the head? Is that using it?

The case in question concerned someone who used the firearm to exchange it for drugs. Is that "use"? The Court said yes, with dissenters.

The point is that these sorts of questions crop up all the time even with well-drafted rules and regulations. So courts have decisions...and they write them down. So legislators make the statutes more detailed...and they write them down. So administrators make regulations and interpretations...and they write them down. The only way to cut it to "100 pages" is to stop writing things down, which leads to law that is arbitrary and inequitable.
> It would take me about an hour to walk to the nearest grocery store (not counting corner stores, because all they sell is junk food).

There's a bigger issue here. Suppose the grocery store was 10 minutes away. You'd still need to drive there, because how are you going to get the food back to your house?

I have lived carless and had to make many independent trips per week to buy food. Being able to do it all at once is an enormous upgrade to quality of life.
What UK Startups Make of the Shock Brexit Vote
The first VPS provider was most likely Utah-based iServer, and it ran on BSDi, then later on FreeBSD. iServer was acquired by Verio in 1998:

http://www.internetnews.com/isp-news/article.php/42301/Verio...

Interestingly, this was jail-based hosting, i.e. not unlike what Docker is. You can say they were a little bit ahead of their times.
Facebook Malware Spreading to Users via Google Chrome
Scrolling direction?

Though I'm sure you can change that in the parameters somewhere.
the new url is below

https://ioshackerwiki.com
Can you explain to me why Microsoft should expend time and effort to encourage behavior (staying on Windows 7) that increases their costs and increases fragility in their ecosystem? I'm not sympathetic to the dark patterns they use to push people to upgrade, but I'm 100% onboard with not pushing improvements to an older operating system.
the jury is still out on that.

microsoft think its tablets with surface.

apple rode the iphone wave and is covering tablets now with ipad pro.

amazon thinks its always on devices at home.

google just throw money at everything everyone else does and see if the money sticks.
It should be called 'fuligin,' in honor of Gene Wolfe.

"I put on the cloak... the hue fuligin, which is darker than black, admirably erases all folds, bunchings and gatherings so far as the eye is concerned, showing only a featureless dark."

From The Shadow of the Torturer, by Gene Wolfe.
Published by Simon & Schuster in 1980

http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=1495
Soundproofing. It's a small fraction of building cost, but one that is most often omitted because short term profit is disconnected from long-term utility and benefit.

I've experienced several absolutely miserably loud neighbors. Talk about destroying my potential.

I moved to a house -- way more space than I need -- to get away from it. To end up with neighbors who blasted their car stereos -- think SUB-woofers -- all day long. In an unincorporated community where there was no noise ordinance and the county sheriff left it up to the individuals to sort things out.

Another necessary component: All you "libertarian", laissez faire people need to decide whether you are really, fully behind that idea. In which case, I would have no problem going across the street and putting a slug in each of their heads.

If I'm going to solve a problem, then once and for all.

Otherwise, come up with some effective noise control ordinances -- AND EFFECTIVE, PRO-ACTIVE ENFORCEMENT AND PENALTIES.

So... if you want "new cities" including "denser" living, fix your fucking noise problems.
I agree with your point 100% - if we could tell you how to get there we would! I think the biggest point is that many companies die because they scale expenses as if they had reached product market fit when they haven't. We are trying to give you more time to find the right problem/solution.
As someone who works in IT and generally does not like opening pages with JS full on (yes, I am one of those NoScript uBlock elitists), it is insulting that almost no KB article or other main page will load without throwing an enable JS blanket.

It has been discussed here before. As an IT professional, the only system that upsets me more than Microsoft on this point is Symantec. I expect clean minimalist doc pages from system dev and anti-virus companies. I do not need fancy MVVM pages and tracking JS to know what you fixed in your latest bug release, thank you!
Hey there, I work at Stripe. I'm sorry for trouble—could you email me at edwin.wee@stripe.com and we can look into this?
Artificial Intelligence's “White Guy” Problem
Overall it looks like a good tool, but a major part of the magic of VB6 is intellisense. Proper, full blown, everything you type, intellisense. And the modern version is phenomenally good these days, compared to C# and typescript it's painful programming in javascript, Ruby and Python as you have to remember so much more minutae and context switch a lot more.

You don't even seem to have basic auto-completion at the mo. Even hinting the names of your declared controls would be a start.
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If I called the shots at Microsoft I would handle things differently: run a series of advertisements warning people that after a certain date, no security updates would be available for old versions of Windows. I would then make it easy and free to update any computer, but I would not force automatic updates. I would explain to the public that for online security that everyone had to always be on the latest version.

This may sound harsh, but I think it would be for the most benefit for most people.
jokes on you for not using noscript and whitelisting domains as you need them.
Scalable = can expand, both "up" and "out", but you'll need a lot less "out" if you're willing to go "up".
That's tricky - this sounds like you might have a lifestyle business (successful product in small market). You can try profiling your customers and see if if there are other companies with the same problems that your aren't serving.
I find the dividing line in formalism; we can always find similarities with language-level features from OO, but OO is by definition an informal set of ideas about how programming is best done and understood, rooted deeply in empiricism, not formal theory and analysis.

If I can model your type/language model as a higher-kinded dependently typed lambda calculus (e.g. using Boehm-Berarducci encoding for non-turing complete recursive ADT definitions), then it's not OO -- it's functional programming, rediscovered.
Yep, what you describe is very similar to my experience of many European cities including Barcelona.
Serious question: What's the last successful product that Google rolled out (not purchased)?
Does this still use mono's jit and GC on mac and linux? Last I checked mono's GC is conservative and the jit isn't as good as the .NET one.
It is nice to see MS people out and approachable.

Generally speaking, as I posted in another child comment in the same thread, this is the biggest let down of MS redesign of the last year and led to a huge backlash in a HN article that escapes me.

If your JS hangs my browser for static content, I avoid your page and recommend others do too. I doubt I am the only one!
Being able to turn right on a red is the default in the US.

(many intersections are posted as no right turn on red though)
You can use that argument against any kind of static analysis/checking.
> Assuming that the user only uses one proxy, you can use GeoIP to get his proxy location, and then if you account for the proxy-webserver distance, you can get a pretty accurate geolocation.

A congested network link can easily add more than 100ms of latency due to buffering. At the speed of light that's thousands of miles.

You can't even say that if the latency between the proxy and the browser is only 10ms then the user is physically close to the proxy, because you don't know if the user is running the browser on a VPS with something like X forwarding.
I would take two main points from Berlin as a case study:

* Low car ownership: I know exactly one person who owns a car. And everyone I know (including this person) uses the train/subway/bus system. If you really need a car for a couple days, it is cheap to rent one.

* Rent control: while not perfect, the fight to keep berliners in the city center is an interesting example of which policies are put in use to fight rising rent and gentrification.

(Short answer due to browser crash. Firefox developers, your android browser sucks)
It looks like the small- or mid-sized cities on the best list are almost all part of much larger metropolitan areas though. It looks like it's dominated by cities in the Bay Area (including Silicon Valley) and the regions surrounding LA.
Indeed.

With a car, in a place designed for cars, I can go from ideation to grocery store or department and back inside of half an hour.

In a place "designed for people" where neither homes nor stores have parking, such an errand consumes an entire afternoon. (Walk to bus stop, wait for bus, take bus to train, wait for train, ride train, walk, etc. Though I suppose it's easier if you can afford to live a short walk from the train itself).

The dramatically slower pace of life, turning any outing into a huge ordeal, is definitely not a good thing. Give me Manhattan-quality public transit or let me use my damn car.

"Park 'n ride" is a seriously underrated idea. A small, urban core where the jobs, businesses, entertainment, etc. is, blanketed in dense and frequent transportation, with trains out to the affordable residential neighborhoods, and plentiful, cheap parking at the neighborhood train stations. Chicago does this nicely.
How do you calculate that return? Does that include the cost of capital?
The reason why some languages are more suited for some things than others is due to paradigms like callbacks in JS that were fit to certain applications (the web in this case). Python is incorporating newer "paradigms" like asyncio into its language, but it feels convoluted at this point. The preference of certain semantics for different application types brings forth the same problem (convolution) if we tried to implement a single API that fits all purposes.
As weed becomes legal in more and more places it could also be a lucrative profession...
The EU is about a united/cohesive and strong Europe. Ukraine is a european country outside kf EU and look what kind of issues they have and how the other european countries responded.
Globalization’s losers are revolting
They stated iOS 9 would run on the 4S. It does, but quite painfully. They clearly knew this would happen as they have a very good understanding of the limitations of their own hardware.
Technology evolves sub linearly over long time scales.
I gotta agree with thescriptkiddie, C:S is an imperfect model of how traffic behaves.

> Self-driving cars (or just ubiquitous turn-by-turn navigation) could change this equation by intelligently routing cars around bottlenecks and avoiding the neighborhood entirely, but as long as drivers have imperfect information about traffic conditions and tend to take the shortest route to their destination, this will remain a problem.

Self-driving cars or drivers with good mapping are still limited where they can go when they have a street hierarchy to deal with, forcing all cars onto the same few arterials.

> Oftentimes, the solution to a traffic problem is simply to bulldoze a few intersections. By doing this, you give cars a buffer. It increases the median trip length but it also increases vehicle speed and road throughput by more.

This is all well and fine in a game, but increasing street speeds kills the street life (figuratively, and sometimes literally). Slower but more constant speeds are better for everyone involved. For walkers, bikers, and even drivers. Ask yourself this: would drivers flip their shit more often when going slow but steady down 15-20 mph hour streets with stop signs (or roundabouts), or when they're stuck at long traffic lights regardless of how many lanes they have?
.NET Core Now Available and Supported on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
One of the best conferences on pure technology and building distributed systems out there. Jason Dixon is my personal hero for putting so much effort into this conf. It really shows.
Nice article and explanation of the future of BI analytics.
This might not be very helpful, but I have some code that does a QM simulation - single particle in arbitrary potential, can do hydrogen atom etc..
Quite a lot of fun to watch. I plan to make some videos of it some day, and maybe release it as a program.
Who is scraping Zillow?
Policy Based Design in Swift
I have no reason why you are being downvoted; you're making a valid point. One of the reasons I strive to become financially independent of any one company is exactly so I have the freedom to do things like this.
> Java's decade long head start in that area doesn't seem so huge when you look at what the node.js community has put together in only a few years.

It's easier to follow than to blaze a path. We have learned from Java and can, hopefully, avoid those pains.
I'm very pleased to see Los Angeles beat Mi Wuk Village in this list. The LA vs. Mi Wuk startup rivalry is legendary and, I must admit, I was quite embarrassed about LA's performance when I saw the first list.
Graphite also doesn't have that good of thermal conductivity it's actually worse than copper in most cases.
Show HN: RAIDCDN sample project source codes
I think there are tons of hair of fire problems - what's cool is that new products (if they are successful) often create new problems.
If you start with the assumption that your enemies are stupid, you won't have much trouble finding the evidence.
ChromeOS. Easiest OS to use. It's just a browser. Does he have a real need for native applications? Can he get everything he needs accomplished inside a browser (Google Docs, email, etc)? How much of what he's doing now is in the browser anyways?

I switched my grandfather over to it this year and he loves it. No more notifications / nags for updates, adware, and such. All extraneous pain points from windows are stripped away.

Just works.
Kaleidoscope: An embeddable dependency-free 360º video/image viewer
I'm eagerly awaiting a time when "the community" again allows this to be an acceptable alternative. Not that I wouldn't just go ahead and choose this.
The principal agent problem works in the opposite direction from how you describe. Companies are incentivized to offer buybacks when they, with their inside information, believe the stock price is undervalued.

This is how buybacks are rationalized, but I don't think it makes any sense. The company, ie, the CEO, are not experts in knowing if their own stock is undervalued, nor should they be. CEO's are, and ought to be, irrationally optimistic. They also are the chief salesmen for their company, they are always pitching how the next product line is going to be a home-run. And to pitch effectively, you have to really believe it, even if rationally you should know that most product lines fail.

There was a quote from Andy Grove about this, via Ben Horowitz http://a16z.com/2015/11/13/high-output-management/:

“In order to build anything great, you have to be an optimist, because by definition you are trying to do something that most people would consider impossible. Optimists most certainly do not listen to leading indicators of bad news.”

But this insight won’t be in any book. When I suggested he write something on the topic, his response was: “Why would I do that? It would be a waste of time to write about how to not follow human nature. It would be like trying to stop the Peter Principle. CEOs must be optimists and all in all that’s a good thing.”*

A buyback is a return of cash to the shareholders.

I agree that in theory, a buyback should be identical to a dividend. But, when taking account the difficulties of aligning interests between shareholders and execs, buybacks make it a lot easier for executives to profit short-term, even when their company does not do so well in the long-term.
I 100% agree - blog pmarca was epic!!!
Intel Considering to sell McAfee
Some people, very few but not zero, really are that dumb.

But I believe the main reason is so that when they catch somebody and prosecute them for terrorism, they can add "making false statements" to the charges and get even more prison time.
New user growth and retention
I know. In this context I'm using it as a lazy and confusing sort of hand-wavy way of referring either to the square mile or Canary Wharf -- and hijacking the debate a bit to promote my own wild and wacky schemes whilst I'm at it -- but hey, it wouldn't be the internet without some sort of conceptual slippage going on, would it?
Managing Facebook Ads via Slack Chat
Cool, thanks. Well the link on the page is somehow still not displaying this.
Windows is just not ready for the desktop.
Good piece. The conclusion on the Brexit article was ridiculous.
Probably, and it should be considered a feature.
Please help to star this project.
The UVC one mentioned looks to be in the ~$400 USD price range, which is a far cry from the $800 stuff the article author looked at, but it's still more expensive than the <$100 solution presented.

Was that $300~$400 worth the time needed to reverse engineer the cheaper solution? It's all about tradeoffs really. At least it's open source so other people can use it now without the time involved. Also if you need to read in from 5 ~ 10 cameras, the cost can grow very quickly.
I also highly doubt it factors in the returns from tax incentives / rebates / deductions / exemptions.
Microsoft's previous stewardship would never have allowed what they're doing now sadly. They must have lost years of progress with their previous strategy of locking things down. Still, better late than never - I love where they're going with .Net now.
Those are mostly cases of the courts trying to interpret laws in creative ways to reach conclusions they like. Cases like Bond and Yates prove that many prosecutors are willing to stretch laws, and get many courts to agree with those broad interpretations of the law.[1][2] My view is that they should read the laws more strictly.

Do you expect the average citizen to have read all the civil and criminal laws of your state and country, in addition to all the opinions by appelate courts? If the answer to that is no, then you should not expect that citizen to abide by a body of law of which they are unaware. You might as well write the laws in secret and hide them from the people, because the current volume of law is equivalent to obfuscation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bond_v._United_States_(2014)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yates_v._United_States
Holy crap, I'm so glad YC is thinking about this topic. I have often tried to start a thread here on this topic. I'd love to be part of this in any way possible. Triumph of the City by Edward Glaeser should definitely be at the top of the reading list for all those involved.

Anyway, the last major city to be founded in North America was Las Vegas in 1911. I think it's about time we think about starting a new one.

College campuses are pretty good prototypes of what a modern city should look like, in my opinion. You should have lots of public space and minimal private transportation. The only difference would be much more density and vertical construction.