skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First thing that came into mind when I heard about project Ara was that, laptops aren't modular because the increased size and weight will out weigh the benefits. Seemed like the same situation applies to smartphones, only worse.
Unless you either don't find one and/or do not want to move to another city.
i feel guilty - i had a bbq a few weeks ago for a group of friends and cleaned my bbq with one of these - although the wires seem thicker - ill have to check when I get home - either way I think im not going to use it again - not worth the risk!
Hacker Guccifer, who exposed Clinton’s use of private e-mail, gets 52 months
Or at least not helpful if it is things someone can't change. "You should work on your software engineering skills at a big company known for doing that well" is actionable in a way "changing jobs so often makes us worried it's a problem with you not them" is not.
It's not a new failure mode, it has always done that.
It's really sad to think about how far we've fallen in terms of hardware customizability since the desktop PC era. It was once a given that you could build your own device from scratch and change out any part you wanted to. You could keep systems usable for 10+ years this way and we got a generation of hardware hackers and enthusiasts who went on to make cool things.

Now our corporate overlord announces a way to let you replace a few basic components like your camera and battery and when they later cancel it the dominant reaction is "no big surprise there." Replace the magic candy bar in your pocket every 2 years, don't look inside, don't think about how it works, just embrace your new role in the modern tech industry as part of the top 1%'s recurring revenue strategy.

The big money won, consumers lost, hackers lost. Sure it's business and you can never expect corporations to be altruistic, they have a profit motive. But that's never meant that you should give an anti-consumer attitude a free pass either. Every year that goes by now drives me deeper into the open source camp and Stallman's welcoming embrace.
Hanjin Shipping bankruptcy causes turmoil in global sea freight
Question is: Should poor people not be allowed to forfeit some rights for things that they value more? In other words, should poor people not be allowed to enter into a contract?

That's exactly what a CONTRACT is: Giving up some rights, in return for things that you didn't deserve before.
I don't know what is on a page until I visit it, so to make a stand myself in favor of a less insecure internet, I use HTTPS Everywhere in strict mode, which blocks HTTP. I have found that mostly I can live with it, and wish for the community (HN audience is a good part of it) to keep pushing (through a bit of pressure perhaps) towards an HTTPS only internet.
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New RFC 7958 – DNSSEC Trust Anchor Publication for the Root Zone
I do not know anything in quantum computing but I read that D-Wave already reached 1000 qubits. Does it mean that their computer is already more powerful that any classical super computer ?

http://www.dwavesys.com/press-releases/d-wave-systems-breaks...
Reuters has a short article (sans any named source) that Samsung will issue a global recall [1].

http://www.reuters.com/article/samsung-elec-smartphones-reca...
Javascript inserted that injects fake flash/ms/java update... fake redirect to a login page to capture credentials... the list goes on.
Any chance of a comment from the down voters? I'd be interested in reading the rebuttal to this comment.
The more grill is heat, the higher chance wires come off the melting plastic. I've also noticed this before. Since then I was preheating the grill a bit, shut down the fire, clean up with the brush, heat and cook.

I'll probably go with the Argentinian circus people way of cleaning the grill starting from now.
> Airlines loved the 747, because it was a money-making machine for them, too.

Quite the opposite for most of the 1970s and much of the 1980s. Many smaller national airlines such as Aer Lingus, Air Canada and Sabena bought the 747 for the 'prestige' and its range, but struggled to make any money from it and eventually ditched it for smaller trijets and twins.

KLM managed to keep going by flying them in Combi configuration with half of the main deck given over to cargo.
a free one gets delivered 3 times a week - pretty annoying actually!
'A maximum punishment “would also help address any false perception that unauthorized access of a computer is ever justified or rationalized as the cost of living in a wired society — or even worse, a crime to be celebrated,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Maya D. Song wrote.'

Perhaps someone should pass this on to the NSA?
> why in hell would you do this anyway

Integration with IDEs.
VGA-HDMI adapters are cheap and readily available.
Could not find a link to the actual study. Apparently its a discovery by http://staff.lincoln.ac.uk/hshaw .
Or just click the "web" link and read the article?
Back when I saw it for the first time on real hardware, my jaw did drop.
Don't Think Twice is a fantastic movie. Highly recommend it
Wait, was there ever a plan to use anything but a SoC? That's all that's available as far as processors go as far as I'm aware. The modules would go

- screen
- battery
- processor (cpu/gpu/memory/radio)
- everything else (sensors, interconnects, speakers, storage, etc.)

Almost all phone processors are a BGP stack with memory on top of cpu/gpu/radio on a single die.
The attacker isn't making targeted modifications to your public keys, though: they're randomly glitching it, and using the page sharing implemented by the hypervisor to read out and factor the glitched version.

Even with say a 64 bit checksum then there's only a 1 in 2^64 chance of the randomly modified key/checksum pair matching. But you could use a cryptographic hash as your checksum if you wanted.

I only suggest this not because I think it would be a complete defence against all Rowhammer attacks - it wouldn't - but because the general fragility of the RSA construction means that doing it with any potentially corrupted input gives me the willies. There are other sources of bitflips other than Rowhammer and it just strikes me as a generally good idea not to leak the results of RSA operations performed on potentially bitflipped inputs.
Not 24/7

(Although it is an excellent train system)
some thoughts:

For the attacks to work, the cloud hosting the VMs must have deduplication enabled so that physical pages are shared between customers.

This seemingly is an attack where two VMs on the same host can read each other's memory, if a deduplication flag is set on the VM controller. This seems to offer cloud holsters some easy (paid for) upgrades to be honest

its not (afaik) heartbleed time. It's bad but the effort required is high and afaik the attacker will replace your key with their key - making it clear you are compromised.
Exactly - why should they?

So why are we pretending they do - and requiring them to give us email addresses and set up secure passwords?

(Especially when the "upgrade password storage to something more secure than plain text or MD5" is constantly being deprioritised below "add features X, Y, and Z that the product owner claims our next three investors on our pitch schedule have Tweeted about in the last month"... "We'll 100% definitely get to it once Series A comes in. for sure! Except perhaps for the 7 million 'legacy users' we signed up with plaintext passwords during our growth hacking private investor and seed round stages...")
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Hopefully he doesn't also think that a totem pole is a guy from Poland who looks after a totem. :-)
I hope some of this reappears eventually as a scheme for a modular tiny desktop computer.
Like the Other Half on the Jolla?
Yep. My only surprise is that they took them this long to stop working on it.

I can understand why this could be a useful internal experiment. But, clearly, some people at Google expected this to be a viable product. Baffling.
I'm not sure what you are talking about. The consumers won, hackers lost. My mother (or father if he wasn't an engineer himself) doesn't care about replacing the camera, how much ram it has or replacing the battery. She wants it to work. She wants it to have an efficient battery. And when it breaks she wants to take it to the store and have them fix it or replace it.

This is what Apple provides. By removing connectors between replaceable parts they are able to reduce the size and increase battery size. So on so forth.

Hackers lose the ability to swap out parts and customize it to their liking but your average citizen has no clue how to replace a DIMM stick and doesn't want to care. They don't care about managing files on their phone or any of that. They want the phone to be safe from malware, they want the device to work and to be easy to use.

They have chosen to specialize in something else. To understand fashion, chemistry, politics, something. Their brain power is spent on something other than how computers work. And that is ok. Our job as technologists is to empower them in that. To allow them to achieve more in their love without getting in their way by managing device drivers.
even if there wasn't a plan to do that, that's how the idea was received.
Compare the reactions from HN when it was made clear that you could not upgrade CPU/GPU/RAM/battery/screen individually

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11740451
Some people are obsessed with weight/thickness in mobile devices, but not as many as the manufacturers think there are. "modular" really comes down to "repairable" which means extra engineering would have to go in to the fact that you couldn't just glue most pieces together.

It _would_ add a little size/mass overhead, but it wouldn't have to add a lot. It would just cut in to bottom lines to build and maintain a consistent form factor. Allowing people to replace parts means they'll be buying fewer new units. My last two laptop purchases were definitely due to a hypothetically fixable problem in an unrepairable form factor.
if you have sturdy (ie like volkswagen/audi/bmw) keys, you can use a key in a similar fashion
The ifconfig man page just says the netmask must be "non-conflicting" if on the same subnet as the first network address for the interface (that'd be 127.0.0.1/8 for lo0). I'm presuming the narrower netmask qualifies as non-conflicting?
What advantage? Guy A gets TV with dongle pre-connected, turns it on, things Just Work. Guy B gets TV with the same functionality embedded directly, turns it on, things Just Work. What's the difference?

If you want to make it really foolproof, make a mounting bracket for the dongle on the TV itself, such that it would require mucking around with screws to remove.
> Are my needs really different that someone else's?

Absolutely. I'm looking for an IP68-certified phone with a 3" 400 PPI polycarbonate screen and without a camera.

Such a thing doesn't exist, but Ara gave me a vague hope that one day I might be able to obtain a phone that fits my needs instead of those of a manufacturer.
Completely agree. This is baffling.
Good point... Thanks!
It's necessary to detach off-topic threads of discussion. The site was much worse when that wasn't the policy.
Biggest bullshit I've ever read since the NK hacking Sony garbage last year.
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Limited updates are more an issue with the carriers than Google.
Integrate Kerbal Space Program Telemetry Data into NASA's Open MCT
Google Translate is not currently based on neural networks. The best NMT approaches are better than Google Translate, but they're currently too computationally intensive from what I've heard.

I agree Google Translate hasn't improved in a while. It's probably because so much new research is focused on neural nets, not on improving the classic statistical translation approaches.

Facebook, though, I think they DO use NMT. Reasons:

1. They employ many famous neural net people, but not any experts on statistical machine translation that I'm aware of.

2. They came into the machine translation game fairly late. It would be odd to start off implementing an approach perceived to be on the way out.

3. Translation between closely related languages (e.g. Norwegian and Swedish) is far, far better on Facebook than in Google Translate. This is one thing I expect to be a strength of neural machine translation.

They can probably afford to burn more computational cycles, since it's not an on-demand service in the same way.
Pretty much forever - drivers/BSPs won't be released any more for the Snapdragon 801.

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/08/why-isnt-your-old-pho...
Not necessarily. VCs' lawyers are big big sticklers for preserving their Reg D exemption from SEC registration, which is contingent upon no general solicitation.

If AH wants to be able to sell any LP interests in the next 12 months they are going to be very, very careful not to state any performance figures, particularly the trumpet-able kind.

(Exception: there do appear to be firms who are cavalier about this kind of thing, mainly seemingly new or nontraditional firms. But if you have DLA or Gunderson or Proskauer or whoever it is these days advising you, they are not going to be cool with you possibly blowing your Reg D in order to have a twitter feud with a reporter.)
Yeah - but that's like saying "email security and integrity has been solved for two decades", while _technically_ true, how many of you have talked your mom through setting up PGP and had her then "just use it"? (or tried to handhold a less-than-technical colleague through getting a StartSSL account?)

I'm pretty sure if any service less-technical than a CA authority starts pushing wide-spread user-driven in-browser certificate-based authentication, within days there'll be scammers and phishers faking the setup process to install untrustworthy ssl root certs so they can mitm Paypal/Facebook/everybody... How would _you_ explain to your mom the difference between installing Pinterest's new authentication certificate, and installing, say, the Charles Proxy ssl MITM cert?
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> "You could keep systems usable for 10+ years this way"

Every custom PC maker friend keeps telling me that but realistically - have anybody ever used the "upgraded" pc for 10+ years? By the time the cpu needs an upgrade - there is a new motherboard needed and your case and power supply also becomes obsolete, never mind graphics card, so you end up getting a whole new pc instead.
Open MCT demo: https://openmct-demo.herokuapp.com/

Open MCT code repository: https://github.com/nasa/openmct/

Original pull request: https://github.com/nasa/openmct/pull/1146

Video of the plugin in action, pulling telemetry data into Open MCT: http://quick.as/9wZiOe5d
Extending the JavaScript Array Prototype with Ruby Methods
> Adam Bruckner of the University of Washington’s department of aeronautics and astronautics later described the 747 as “one of the great engineering wonders of the world, like the pyramids of Egypt, the Eiffel Tower or the Panama Canal.”

Absolutely true. It's one of the most beautiful machines of the world, and unlike the Eiffel tower or the great pyramids, it serves a purpose; it's a tool, and the nicest one.

One morning in 1992 I drove a friend to JFK; when he departed, I spent the rest of the day watching 747s take off and land; I just couldn't leave the spot. It was a great day.

> In 1986 President Ronald Reagan appointed him to a panel investigating the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger.

Richard Feynman was a member of this panel; I wonder if the two got along well?
> In the Cloudflare architecture the browser never ever interacts with the website, always with the Cloudflare servers.

Indeed.

It's almost as if metaphorically speaking they were standing there between them... like a man... in the middle...
Conversely, if you're interested in making some btc analysis apps, we've done some cool internal visual (graph) analytics experiments at Graphistry.

Would be happy to share a dev key to our viz API: leo@gr...stry.com . Some examples of what's possible: https://github.com/graphistry/pygraphistry . Gets fun when you combine it with a Spark cluster and the full blockchain :)
I don't think so. I'm still on the May 2016 security patch on a 2015 Moto X Style. No carrier involved - it's an unlocked LTE phone. Updating the existing phones doesn't make Lenovo any money so I doubt it will happen.
Which only means it will be stuck on Marshmallow, not Lollipop -- until Fairphone releases a core module with another chipset on it (https://shop.fairphone.com/spareparts/coremodulefp2.html). At least that is the promise. Might even use something from Mediatek which will probably drive the price down.
That's one way to spin it. On the other, we're putting millions of transistors in your pocket, and connecting them with a few radios to base stations all over the world, working as one massive network. I wouldn't say we've fallen, just advanced. Components are much cheaper than they used to be, and far, far more complicated. As this project demonstrated, making interchangeable components simply isn't economical.
Naa. It was an obvious PR play from the start. An "open" phone platform?? Give me a break... But music to the ears of all those "open source" zombies.
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is this for real ?
I've always meant grilling and assumed anyone else meant the same :(

EDIT: might be a linguistic issue, wikipedia has different meanings of BBQ in different languages.
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The main points the DEA brought up in the notice are

A.) Foreigners don't label their kratom correctly when they export it to the US.

B.) Calls to a poison control center involving kratom have spiked by a factor of 10 in the past few years.

C.) Foreigners are exporting medical products that make claims not validated by the FDA.

It's being placed in Schedule I rather than more permissive classification because (according to the notice) "A substance meeting the statutory requirements for temporary scheduling, 21 U.S.C. 811(h)(1), may only be placed in schedule I". It seems unlikely it'd be classified as Schedule I permanently.

Drug use can be a matter of national security, so the DEA should have the power to act in these cases. I'm thinking of the Opium Wars, where the British got the Chinese hooked on opium and then went to war to force them to legalize it when they banned it. Widespread drug use being imposed by foreigners can harm a country.

I'm not sure this kratom qualifies. It doesn't seem that bad. I can see banning imports and production for foreigners, but I can't see a good reason to ban US citizens conducting research on the drug. It seems like it's only like this because of the restrictive law.

And if the manufacture, sale, and consumption happens entirely in a single state by US citizens who are residents of that state, I don't even think the DEA should be constitutionally allowed to regulate it on a permanent basis.

On the whole, I guess I support this ban, though they should amend the law to allow a milder response.
> So are you saying they think it's not fair but still believe unfortunately that's the way it is

I can't talk for everybody, but often it's "I can't understand this, this makes no sense, but it's written that human won't understand God, so whatever, I just have to follow, not to question.". Also there's one story in the New Testament about this - basically saying that God can be inconsistent and unfair if it's in favour to someone and not against anybody. Everybody else shouldn't complain because they got what was promised.

> If someone is already doomed with eternal damnation, then why not keep doing bad stuff?

She's not doomed, she's just expected to live in abusive marriage till the end. Or at least never start a new marriage.

> I'm being flippant, but actually with the massive loophole of last minute atonement, why not just do bad stuff all the time, until the last minute?

Well, you can die at any moment, it's a huge bet. Also intentionaly exploiting loopholes like this is a "sin against Saint Ghost" if I remember correctly, and it's not forgiveable. On the other hand if you weren't a Catholic in the first place - baptize 1 minute before death and it's all peachy, even if you were Hitler.
The real irony is that Rémi said that in 2014. Sometime around then if not before deep learning was showing it could knock down more and more problems, it was pretty clear to anyone who was keeping up that if someone figured out how to combine deep learning with Rémi's work on monte-carlo tree search they ought to end up with a powerful go bot, perhaps even pro-beating. What took me personally by surprise was that the development (which also required a pretty large army of GPUs, though I wondered if we might see specialized hardware like deep blue) was done mostly out of the public eye, not even tests against humans on go servers, until suddenly it was announced the bot beat a 3p.

I think it may be rare that you see consensus on those sorts of "it's imminent, someone just has to do the work" problems because it requires simultaneous knowledge of multiple developments, and knowledge doesn't always disseminate as fast as it takes one group to just do the work. Now I'm remembering this related maxim: http://lesswrong.com/lw/kj/no_one_knows_what_science_doesnt_...
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My, rather cheap, Samsung phone had it's battery puff up and after I put the battery in a metal container for a month, it did catch fire and burn for a short time inside the container. That's a rather known problem for a Galaxy S3 Mini and such. I had to buy a new battery. So it might not be surprising that a same problem has occurred with the Note 7, it might be a bad battery supplier.
Thanks, I'll check the openSUSE Leap arrangements.
If you buy one for prestige purposes, of course you're going to lose money. Airplanes only make money when they're packed with payload. An airplane sitting on the ground, or flying half-full, is going to lose money like a firehose drains a tank. But if your logistics are set up to keep the 747 flying as close as possible to 24/7 packed with payload, you can make a crapton of money, which is why Boeing was selling so many.
I know what you're saying about the 5X, but it's not impossible to replace.

>The battery isn't immediately user accessible but isn't too challenging, or too adhered, to replace.

https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Nexus+5X+Teardown/51318#s112...
Google shelves plan for phone with interchangeable parts – sources
> "Query over the keys without inserting a gazillion nulls into your database for rows that don't have a value for a particular key".

Having learned that postgresql NULLs are cheap in storage (since they just use a bitmap) I stopped caring much about empty column proliferation.

I've also found that arbitrary user-defined keys are still better treated via a "known keys" table, the long-term visibility into data is invaluable, there's more join flexibility, and there's opportunity to assign metadata (e.g. type hints) for each user-defined key. At scale, these things make json columns look like technical debt.

The only use case I currently have for jsonb is when the absence of an element is meaningfully different to a null value e.g. options structures that wouldn't otherwise benefit from being in normalized tables.