skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And the EFF's point is, that sounds nice, but how do we know the US is using different vulns than Russia and China? Especially when the US is sourcing those vulns from third parties?
We're getting to the point where the siloed web is causing serious problems for commerce and competition. The "network effects" you refer to are a symptom of laws like the CFAA, which make it illegal to get data hosted on someone else's server, even if you do it in a completely non-disruptive manner.

How would it have worked out if different companies could own stretches of the primary thoroughfare and forbid access to the employees and agents of their competitors? What if Google bought all the streets surrounding Apple and declared that Apple employees couldn't travel on them, lest they face legal action? That's essentially what we have happening online. Real competition is being seriously impeded by laws that allow companies to make it impossible to access data that the user has the right to access.

If we really see the internet as the Information Superhighway, we need to stop restricting access based on corporate interest. The data needs to be accessible. Only then will customers be free to choose the application they want to use based on how well it performs its promised functions, instead of based on its holding the relevant data hostage.
Lots of good information here but it is still not enough for a production setup IMHO.

There is a great need of good source of production setups. In open source software this seems to be the secret that no one is willing to reveal. I tried to setup a kubernetes cluster from scratch a while ago and soon I was browsing the source code for answers. Openstack is the same, you need to understand a lot about the inner workings before you can even attempt to setup something for production.

There is always a simple "this shell script starts your own <name your tech here> cluster in vagrant" but it is still not a production setup.

And even if this article is the "hard way" it describes:

> This is being done for ease of use. In production you should strongly consider generating individual TLS certificates for each component."

And it does not mention that the crucial part is the common name field in the certificate maps to the user name that is the magic information that I once needed.

I sincerely appreciate this article but production setup is still a long learning experience away.
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Also note you're on an old version of JIRA so check that you're reading the related version of the API references.
Is it entirely Nasas to hand over? Many parts were provided by other countries.
There are "hosted" chrome apps, which are indeed glorified bookmarks. The "packaged" chrome apps are actually offline by default. Two separate things, with the same name...
I'm still not taking off the tape.
$1000/year is a very low amount to consider regular use, I would think.

As others have stated making money off of the merchants is part of their business model. At $1k/year I wouldn't be surprised if that puts you into negative territory.
There's whole sections of the country that were former agricultural bastions that have gone to seed. We don't need the central valley that badly - although you may not be getting fresh baby spinach in January, there will still be vegetables, and nobody is going to starve.
What is your basis for trusting him on that? Not trolling, I really want to know, because EFF is telling me not to trust him without evidence, which seems pretty rational to me.
Freight generally needs to be handle all of the problems that a cab does (turning, stoplights, other cars, getting from point A to point B, etc.), mostly because pretty much all freight trucks need to go through a town/city at some point.

Additionally, they need to be able to drive at night in areas without much lighting, they need to drive for hours and hours on end, instead of just 5-45minutes, etc. Finally, they are 40+ feet long (instead of being around 15 feet long) and have much less maneuverability and a much longer stopping distance/time.

Sounds like a harder problem to me.
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Unless they are hacking on shaders, CUDA or deeplearning (which admittedly isn't C most of the time). Although, I admit that a web server is probably more handy if it's not shaders.

I still like terminals; even on my 3k laptop (which is largely for gaming).
i don't understand why nobody sees them as a symbiosis. We haven't solved anything if driverless cars are clogging up the highway, but they can solve one of the biggest problems for mass transit, the last/first kilometres. I don't know anything specific about the bullet train, but most of the time the problem is getting to/from the bullet-train. If it shortens your travel by one hour, but you have to wait 2 hours for a bus to get to the station it's not going to work.
As long as they share the road with other vehicles it does not sound very practical.Heavy vehicles have their unique handling and failure patterns that I doubt are well suited to automation at the moment.
+1. BSL sounds really cool. It would help open source communities with funds.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12320275 and marked it off-topic.
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your ideology is showing and its caused you to become absurdly detached from reality
Well, if I was using Python to write a script better suited to AWK, I'd use AWK instead.
Hack this 3D printer
I know HN is not a big fan of proverbs but "Great companies are not sold, they are bought" rings a little too true in this case.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12323365 for calculation of the incredible amount of energy that would require.

Remember that it took an entire Saturn V rocket to launch 3 people and a pair of tiny spacecraft to the Moon, which is relatively close. The ISS weighs 420Mg; the Apollo LM+CSM pair weighed about a tenth of that.

Landing it on the Moon would also not be possible, because that would require an engine capable of accelerating the ISS at approximately 1/6g.
Wait...what? The Lyft driver ordered you out of the vehicle on the shoulder of the highway?? Because his own app isn't functioning???

How does this person still have a driver's license let alone a job?

If that was me, I would have told him, "tough luck, sorry your app sucks, but I'm not getting out of this car, feel free to phone the police...sure they would be interested in hearing about your plan to drop me off on the highway shoulder..."
This is the free version: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jstorrent-lite/abm...

It's just not searchable in the store by default.
higher education, housing, healthcare, and many forms of essential food products (particularly produce and grains) have gone up in price by a hugely significant amount.
That's only one way to get there. Product regulations could require that source code be available in all cases, separate from any copyright or licensing factors.
Be that as it may, global panic relating to HIV/AIDS, Ebola, Mad Cow Disease, Bird Flu, etc. was not primarily based in scientific reason.

Consider Princess Diana shaking hands with an AIDS patient in 1991 and how big of a deal that was.

I'll admit that I don't know much about Zika outside of the few articles I've read. And I'll also admit that I'm pretty afraid from what I've read. But what I find most interesting about Zika is this sociological aspect where the soccer fans in Brazil are chanting "Ziiikaaaa" on goal kicks and it seems like we've kind of just accepted that this is going to happen. Thousands of babies have been born with abnormalities already. I'd expect more panic.
> Even more relevant, there's literally nothing in the historical record to suggest that the real breakthroughs when they come will come from a company like Uber.

Why not? The team at Uber that is working on this is largely comprised of researchers from Carnegie Mellon and former members of Google's driverless car team. Historical record suggests otherwise...
I managed to get one for a nice price on Ebay, and have been very pleased with it.
Poor analogy, as Steam's competitors aren't distributing over a different internet.
I thought the Google cars are fairly close?

Edit: Figures from 2015 indicate human interventions to prevent an accident were about once per 74,000 miles or maybe slightly worse than humans but not that much. http://www.roboticstrends.com/article/google_self_driving_ca...
Hm that's not bad at all! Have you considered trying to port the app to iOS though? It seems like you would have a much bigger audience there.
Will it though? Uber's Pittsburgh fleet alone will be collecting enough data that even .000001% likelihood errors will be coming up in a matter of weeks. And as people always like to point out in this debate, the minimum bar for safety (beating a human driver) is not that high.

I don't think the software is the gating item for full autonomy. The production cycle of the hardware (the actual cars) is what we'll be waiting on most over the next few years.
Why is such a large fraction of vegetables grown in a desert in the first place?
> Traffic will be insane if people can send their cars on errands without having to sit in the resulting traffic

Most errands involving cars also require the user on both ends to load and/or unload or perform some other function. But, sure, we can ignore that for the sake of argument...

> or if hired cars can drive halfway across the city to pick up the next fare with no impact to the car's owner besides wear and fuel.

Well, it will if there is no cost other than low-cost fuel (like the US has no) or similarly low-cost energy (e.g., for electrics).

OTOH, the solution to "the aggregate amount of traffic is too high because the cost is too low" is to increase the cost -- probably not with gas charges because of the move to EVs, but by tracking cars on the road and charging for their use of the road, more at peak hours.
Best written article I've ever read.
They're extremely complimentary. In LA (for example) mass transit has a tendency to strand you, and traditional taxis and car services have gigantic no-go areas unless you're a VIP.

I can take a bus or train anywhere at any time, knowing that if I'm, for example, south of Washington at any time of day or downtown after 2am, I can call a car and still get home. In the 00s, the only way out of those zones was to bring your own car or be prepared for a "Falling Down" style 10 mile walk.

Yellow cabs (then and still) don't enter a massive buffer zone around regions where they might get a black guy as a fare even if you called, but Uber serves those areas reliably, 24/7.
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Blimey, who's going to prison for that? Perjury is a crime in USA isn't it; or is it one of those 'doesn't apply if you're rich' crimes.
separate from the perspective of optimising for cost is the goal of optimising for energy efficiency: you get much better energy efficiency by moving more people at once for the cross-sectional area of air that needs to be pushed out of the day. trains are about 50x more energy efficient for moving people than cars.

i agree that at some point low-density sprawl wouldn't make centralised public transport economic (even supposing global regulation existed to force the cost of pollution to be accounted for in market prices)

at this point in our global human predicament it'd be a bit of a shame not to realise that some ideas that were okay in the past aren't very good ideas any more.
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Sure thing, I get that.

That's nice to hear from satya btw.

It was just the sentiment of now "feeling bad for MS" is also a bridge too far.

That said, a healthy, fit, "new" MS would be healthy for the whole ecosystem.
I'm really glad to see all of this going on! I did a little bit of building outlining in OSM and stopped when I realized that it would probably be automated within the next few years.
What's nice about this is it seems to teach you without taking a GKE-first approach, like some of the other tutorials out there.
> Why is such a large fraction of vegetables grown in a desert in the first place?

Because the soil and climate (but for, you know, the lack of rainfall) is otherwise fairly optimal for it, and it is easier to move water to the desert than soil and desirable aspects of climate to the not-desert.
Why do you say "lack of notice?" This is the notice. Maybe it's surprising news, but nothing is actually changing today.
[0] an old decoding speeds survey of existing JPEG decoders(2010).

[0] - http://www.briancbecker.com/blog/2010/analysis-of-jpeg-decod...
Good point. Time will tell I guess. Since you've pointed out that there are a lot of actual manufacturers working on self driving cars, for any second place players who don't enter the B2C taxi service market, the next obvious step is to licence the technology to someone like Uber. Then they can compete on supply and price.

The question is whether it's better for a manufacturer to enter the taxi service industry, or licence their technology and focus on direct consumer sales of the vehicles.
I was about to jump on an airplane, and didn't really have time for a nuanced response. The OP comment is, likely, from someone who has no idea what hacker culture was like in the 1970s and early 1980s, so I can see how he doesn't find it very relevant to his life today.

And he's absolutely right that it was angsty venting (I was 19, so I'll even allow adolescent). That doesn't mean that it didn't resonate with multiple generations of hackers in the 30 years since.
These tools are years old. They can just report these vulnerabilities to the vendors and use their new exploits.
Agreed 100%. I'd be amazed if a stage 4 autonomous vehicle existed in less than 5 years, honestly I'd guess closer to 10. I do think highway driving can be fully automated within 2-3 years, so Otto makes a ton of sense.

I actually think because the rewards are so great, and the technology is so difficult, that infrastructure will change before the tech. There are things you can do to drastically reduce the complexity, like install smart traffic lights and have cars talk to each other, in addition to special road markings designed for self-driving cars.

CMU has been working on self-driving cars since 1984, people seem to think nobody was doing anything before Google (and they also think that Google's cars are far more capable than they are). Yes, money makes a difference, but sometimes reality just disagrees with profit. And if there's something startups are good at, it's hyping themselves up to jack up valuations.
Adam's films are .. just essays. They're flawed and informal, but the basic ... bones of his ideas are intriguing and stimulating.

I am glad I could reciprocate with something because I really like "Thinking Like a State" ( after my rapid-read treatment, with a slow read TBD). It encapsulates so many ideas I've never really seen bundled before, along with some that require further digging. I would not be surprised if "Thinking.." wasn't an influence on him.
The fact that Uber has never, once, successfully created a motor vehicle, physical product, or applied artificial intelligence device, ever, of any kind, has to top the list.

I mean they are competing against Apple and BMW, among many others, presumably, who have actually made a car, computer, or transportation device that worked.

That notwithstanding, the burden of proof is in the other direction.
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none of these things can be mass produced, even in principle.

housing supply can be increased to a certain extent but it's not straightforward. increasing housing supply in marginal areas leads to untenable situations. increasing housing supply in high demand areas is incredibly difficult for many reasons, some of which are regulatory (and solveable) others are simply the hard fact that you can't add more square miles to the surface of the earth.

healthcare can't be mass produced. it is strictly limited by availability of medical facilities, doctors, nurses, and health care administrators.

education can't be mass produced. it is strictly limited by availability of educational institutions. the university is a smoldering ruin these days, if you hadn't noticed. its possible that alternative approaches to education might be a good way to dramatically increase the supply available. it's a conversation we need to start having as a society.

essential food products CAN be mass produced and they already are. increases in commodity prices are heavily linked to geopolitics, energy economies (processing, refrigeration, and distribution tend to dominate costs and those are all functions of energy price), and long established dietary habits. it would be much more efficient for people to eat 90% less meat than they presently do but good luck changing the habit on a mass scale.
Loved the game.
T-1, now with an overall rate of 1.544 million bits per second!
>For example, you may have to go "inspect" a physical copy of the company's records at the company rather than receiving anything electronically

Last year, I learned that a similar law was invoked by college students to gain access to their application files kept by the University Registrar [1]. The student, upon making the information request, would go into the registrar office and "inspect a physical copy" of the file, just like you said.

[1] My alma mater wrote to me about this since a student I had interviewed as part of the application process had made this request, and my report was part of "his file".
I thought about your question on my walk home from work today. I decided that as much as jocks vs geeks is a powerful force, a more powerful force is people's distrust of middlemen. People don't really understand that liquidity provisioning is a service that needs to be paid for. They think that if we could just wipe all middlemen off the face of the planet that buyers could just trade with sellers and we'd all save a little bit of money on trading fees.

So it's not so much that HN has sided with the jocks over the geeks. It's that (some portion of) HN dislikes both of them. And since the geeks killed the jocks the geeks are all there is left to dislike.
It is "board". If someone changed it to "bored", they were wrong.
Tyler Cowen is a good economist. And that's why he shouldn't be trusted further than you can throw him.
If I understand you correctly, then that means they are screwed either way with regards to the valuation. Go driverless and the valuation may not hold, or don't go driverless and let someone else make them irrelevant.
> If you think about it, taxi cab drivers barely need any qualifications to drive a cab. Truckers need more...

Well, part of those rules and regulations do things like specifically limit how much they can drive per day (11 hours is the limit, I believe). There's also super high turn over in the trucking industry and they've had driver shortages fairly regularly. A lot of these rules are about protecting the human driver from themselves (fatigue, misbehavior etc). When I think about the problem it seems that regular, predictable freight movement from port to warehouse would be a logical place to start because a) it's easier and b) the labor market for drivers is so severely distorted right now.

Edit: It's 11 hours but I'm remembering there's other restrictions too, like limits on consecutive blocks of 11-hour driving without rest. I'll look it up later.
> I don't believe your thesis that "market value" is fundamentally equal to "value to society"

Which is why he never said that. Hes says market value is equal to what it is worth.

The value to society also depends on how much society is worth. They are completely unrelated concepts.
If we had two, he'd buy both.. twice the price :)
Your quote is taken a bit out of context, but still – I already didn't like Peter Thiel, this further reinforces my impression of him being a scummy, shady character.
> someone who drives for both Uber and Lyft (which isn't a common thing, by the way, contrary to popular belief)

Really? Do you have any numbers on that? Every I've talked to who has done one has done both.

> Prospective Uber drivers, on the other hand, can start working right away without even a face-to-face meeting with anyone. All they have to do is apply online.

It's not quite "right away", you still have to go through a background screening, which can take quite a while. With Lyft, I had my mentor orientation the day after I applied and was approved 3 days after. Uber, on the the hand, while not requiring an in-face meeting, took 3 weeks to finally approve me, after requiring additional documentation regarding my driving record on my previous license.
Do you try to stop people from working second jobs or too many side projects?

This is the big issue for me. I'd like to make 30 hour week standard - but I'd probably just spend 10-20 hours on side projects, still spending 40-50 hours a week total.

I'd prefer that obviously, but I can't say my employer would be better off.
At any inclination, isn't it still moving parallel to the orbital plane halfway between the ascending and descending nodes?
> - Full TCP/UDP socket support (AFAIK this is never coming to the web platform)

While it could never be allowed unconditionally (because it allows scanning internal networks), I don't see any reason it couldn't be allowed with a permission request.
I just used `./cluster/kube-up.sh` to setup my cluster on AWS. I am now wondering what's missing for a production setup. It seems to be working OK so far (though I just have 3 minions and a few pods). One thing I wish I knew how to do is how to safely upgrade the cluster without re-creating it from scratch. Care to elaborate a bit?
> Aedes aegypti is not even native to South America- it's African. So eliminating it from the New World can't do that much damage given that the ecosystem got along fine before it arrived.

Could it not have crowded out some other niche that will be left empty if they were removed?
Yet so many of those projects, when submitted, attract comments on HN from people who just don't get it. The culture is still there, but it's not as uniformly concentrated anywhere anymore. It's hard to tell what that really means. In absolute numbers there are probably more hackers with the spark now than ever, but you wouldn't be able to tell by just casually sampling the computing industry both professional and non-professional.
DE info rights are not helpful to most employees. If the employees hold options, they do not have info rights (though they may have some disclosure rights once the company gets to a certain size). Once the employees exercise and receive stock, they still may be asked to waive info rights contractually as a condition of receiving the stock if that was part of the option agreement. That said, if the employee is a stockholder and has not waived info rights, the company probably will not be able to withhold the requested financial info...if that employee is willing to drop the money on lawyers to go to DE Chancery Court. It is a pyrrhic victory.

I have personally found it very frustrating to deal with venture-backed startups on behalf of departing employees. Typically the employees have to decide whether to exercise option grants within 90 days of termination, and the strike price might be a meaningful amount to someone who has just lost a job (whether voluntarily or not). Both for economic as well as tax reasons, we need insight into the value of the underlying stock. But companies are quite tight-lipped about it, and their lawyers often stonewall. They may also try to impose new contractual requirements on exercise that were not agreed to in the original option grant! I view this as the height of bad faith vis-a-vis former employees. But appears to be standard operating procedure for certain companies and law firms, who shall remain nameless...