skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Developed by Jeri Ellsworth (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeri_Ellsworth). She built it all from scratch by re-engineering the C64 board. Very fascinating to hear about her story of the process. She's also working on VR currently.
Well there was the whole Federal Government inventing the internet thing at one point.
The cynic in me immediately interpreted "Post-Crash Behavior" as the exact opposite priority from "Privacy".
They may not have an immediate answer, but it's not silly to ask - the sooner they begin thinking about this question, the sooner they arrive at that answer.
How to Get a Tech Job When You're Really Old (Like 35)
This seems too broad a statement to be useful. What about the memory leaks, for example? Or the lack of complex querying? Obviously one design decision was to use Firebase at all, instead of the architecture they moved to.
Can you be more specific about where you think they went wrong?
I hope so. Reality is racist, therefore, if you're not a racist you're trying to fool yourself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2sUW8q7uWI
I feel it has gotten better recently, I've used Skype as a phone replacement ( with an actual skype number and in conjunction with google voice for sms) for a few years now, and currently run it on two laptops and two phones and haven't had issues for several months (I did have problems when I used it with android a while back, but have not since I no longer use it on that platform).
To get those numbers, nuclear is also non-dispatchable, because it must be run continuously except for the small maintenance windows every 18 months.

Additionally, the combined cycle power plants that allow for super efficient and cheap fossil fuel plants do not respond quickly to turning on and off; it takes time.

With solar and wind, you can choose to not generate but you can't choose to generate if the sun isn't shining. For cheap fossil fuel electricity, you need to plan out a day in advance. It's not so easy to spin a nuclear plant up and down.

Peaker plants, that are truly dispatchable, are about the cost of solar+storage on that chart these days.
Well, you can't have your cake and eat it too. If you want to live in a desirable area you have to deal with people going to that area for various reasons. And mostly you wouldn't have traffic problems anyway because people who did happen to be driving to the downtown area for shopping/food would primarily use the main avenue and wouldn't have a reason for going down side streets, so long as you design it such that those streets don't take you to outside highway arteries.
the jeep hack (IIRC) got code exec in userland remotely, but relied upon talking to drivers to be able to flash the CAN chip.

Of course, the whole thing was broken anyhow as everything was running root.

But in almost everything else, I agree. I don't care if you have ring-0 on my Nest camera, because I'm more worried about network-level attacks or an attacker being able to read from the camera which (I'm guessing) is available via user space.
Secure Virtual Architecture – Safe execution for commodity OS's [pdf] (2007)
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I don't believe there was a conspiracy, or that anyone was intentionally hurting someone.

Scrolly assumed bad faith in their initial post.

"In other words, our code had been stolen, by you."

Then they got ahold of the person who caused this mess, and he said he would resolve the situation.

"We contacted the author of the piece, Hidde Boersma, who told us he sold his piece to you. This is fine. Our source code however was not included in the sale, nor could it have been. Hidde promised to resolve the situation."

Then they contacted AJ, who didn't respond back quickly. They had no relationship with Scrolly, and it's not unreasonable that this didn't get taken care of. Hidde was their man.

"In order to clarify any potential confusion on your side, here is what we were confronted with."

Dramatic language.

"In the long run, it’s likely to have been a lot more expensive to have a developer copy our code, copy the assets and put these on a server. The links not only had to have been updated by hand, inside the document, but someone would have had to un-optimize our JavaScript code, and do all the other work that allows the production to be somewhat available.

They didn't even do a good job. They did not rip many images, leading to a bad experience for your readers:"

Just being dickish, to the party that wasn't aware of Hidde's issue.

"To add insult to injury, you didn’t do a great job at ripping the code either."

More dickishness.

"Al-Jazeera, we know you understand all about journalistic integrity. You have a whole section of your website dedicated to it. The first point states:"

This is college newspaper level lame writing. You'd almost expect it to have read,

Webster's dictionary defines "ethics" as....

I'll stop now, but I don't see two parties coming out of this looking professional and reasonable, just one.
A paper bag is disclosed. – Apple
Skype has not been peer-to-peer for years, already.

You can safely remove peer-to-peer from your requirements for an alternative.

If you are looking for an desktop app accessible to mainstream users, you can try viber.
It's not integrated, but it's fantastic. Have used it extensively for code pairing sessions, undetectable latency on the screen and crystal clear audio.
Thanks.

Skimming that, I got that (a) PHigh -> PLow via overt channels will be degraded, and that (b) seL4 reduces the attack surface to "covert channels" only which seem to be confined to H/W "platform" concerns.
I think Snowden revelations showed Cisco in bed with the NSA, I wouldn't trust them if government surveillance is a concern.

There are many open source for teleconference these days, e.g. https://jitsi.org/ - I recall a few appearing on HN as well.
If Twitter has other offshore employees that were underperforming, now that they've shown a willingness to let people go even though they probably cost less - it'll make the rest of the offshore employees work harder to keep there jobs.
"Opera VPN behind the curtains is just a proxy, here's how it works"

https://gist.github.com/spaze/558b7c4cd81afa7c857381254ae7bd...
TL;DR: delay image load until the image should be shown on the device instead of preloading it. Use javascript to that when possible.
Mapped: How Germany generates its electricity
And vandalism btw. Particularly the preparation needed to remove a 'theft proof' sign is not done by an idle souvenir collector on a road with essential no tourists that no one form outside the area has ever heard of. Those things are just as likely done by the few who have a moral objection to the number. Ironically, the road could have been turned into a minor tourist attraction for Gallup if not Shiprock. Likewise, copies of the sign could have been pedaled in Gallup to feed any souvenir collectors as is done with rte 66 signs.

But most interesting to me is the way the attitudes of evangelicals concerning the spiritual status of the valley (albeit newly acquired and negative) spilled over into the Navajo beliefs as the area become known on the reservation to have a high number of Skinwalkers.
You and your friends with your 100+ years of security clearance holding are free to have an opinion on Clinton's handling of her private email server.

What you cannot reasonably do, is take the legal opinion of the Director of the FBI, that the Clinton case is different from the Petraeus case, and disagree based on the fact that you have 100+ years of security clearance holding.

I have explained to you key points in James Comey's legal opinion that the Petraeus situation is not applicable to Clinton. I'm sure you're more knowledgeable than I in some area or another, however that doesn't change the fact that the legal position of the FBI has already decided. You can disagree if you want, in the same way people from the internet disagree that climate change exists. I am not interested your vague insinuations.
It's an old, old, product. Before that it was Live Communications Server.
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I live in an apartment where the numbering system varies depending on the building, one of them has 11-- for the first floor, 12-- for the second, 13-- for the 3rd, and I think 10-- is "Terrace" level.

> Although one would expect university students not to need help with this...

Rather curious why you felt the need to make a comment of this nature.
React could love Web Components
https://jitsi.org/
The investment tax credit for solar works as you describe. Wind instead has a production tax credit where the owners get a tax credit for each megawatt-hour produced over the first 10 years of the project's life. The tax credit has been adjusted upward with inflation over time and is currently at $24 per MWh. If you make the reasonably conservative assumption of 20 years' life for a wind project, that's more like $12 per MWh over the project lifetime. Both tax credits are, as you say, only good for reducing tax liability.

New nuclear power in the US, built between 2005 and 2021, gets a production tax credit similar to wind. But it's capped at a lower level -- only 8 years of tax credits at $18 per MWh instead of 10 years at $24, and there's a cap on the maximum amount of eligible capacity. (Though the US is not building enough new nuclear to hit the cap anyway.) These tax credit levels were set up in the Energy Policy Act of 2005; back then nuclear looked a lot more mature and less in need of incentives than solar or wind generation technologies.

I think that investment tax credits are a better system than production tax credits. After a decade we can tell that there's really no danger of investors building an underperforming solar facility just to scoop up tax credits up front. The problem with a production tax credit is that it can generate perverse pricing signals at times of high output and low demand. Both wind and PV generators have negligible marginal costs and will "naturally" bid close to zero prices in competitive markets when demand is low and their output is high. But production tax credits also enable wind generators to bid less than zero -- "hey buyer, we'll pay you $5 per MWh to take this surplus electricity off our hands, and we'll still make money via the production tax credit." That negative-priced new wind may well be undermining other clean sources, like older wind projects, nuclear plants, or hydroelectricity. Nuclear would still be in financial trouble in deregulated electricity markets in the US even without bouts of negative-priced electricity, because it has relatively high O&M costs even after the capital costs are paid for, but it'd be doing a bit better if not for the bizarre negative pricing that wind produces sometimes.
They contacted Hidde who was the person who did this, and he said he would take care of it.

They then moved on to AJ whom they have no relationship with. They got a response back, but not to the speed they wanted. No idea how long this was from the article.
Single page version: http://harpers.org/archive/2013/09/wrong-answer/?single=1
This leverages and extends LLVM bytecode as a sort of virtual, instruction set to help compiler enforce safety, control-flow integrity, and more. They mainly leverage the SAFEcode system for adding memory safety to regular C programs via just re-compiling them. They add virtual instructions to handle privileged operations in OS that might introduce unsafety. The port of Linux kernel to SAFEcode took between 4,000-5,000 loc in changes.

They expand on the safety of this scheme here in 2009 to add things like MMU and I/O protections:

http://llvm.org/pubs/2009-08-12-UsenixSecurity-SafeSVAOS.pdf

Github for some of this is here:

https://github.com/jtcriswell/SVA

Other publications are here:

http://sva.cs.illinois.edu/pubs.html
To save everyone from looking this up themselves: 1985 - 1997.
> I have no idea how to make sense of this.

Maybe I should have used a different phrase. I meant that an expression consisting of a variable (e.g. "x") may be evaluated as if it were a dynamically-dispatched function call (e.g. "x.valueOf()"), so even the most innocent-looking expression may contain hooks to which someone may have attached an effect.

Even though JS is call-by-value, implicitly-called methods like "valueOf" allow values in normal form to act like thunks with arbitrary side-effects, which causes a dependence on evaluation order even for such innocent-looking expressions as "x".
> "Copy a quote, image, or video from an app on one device and paste it into an app on another device."

Oh my I'm looking forward to this. How many silly workarounds (pastebins, email drafts, iMessages to self, Safari bookmarks) have we used to approximate this?
Here's why:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
The successes and failures of The Economist's fact-based experiment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
Dispute over games removed from Steam
Wait, it's just a bug in the web UI?
I see they are following the precedent set by the 'Watch' and simply calling this 'Bag'. Bravo Apple, bravo!
Yea, imagine a Beow....ah, never mind.
Thanks for mentioning the constants table. In my case, saving a few cycles isn't important but eliminating jitter is very important, which is why I use interrupts.

Reading the PWM register took 5 cycles, so I ended up with 25 nanoseconds of jitter, which caused bit errors in my Alto Ethernet emulator. Polling interrupts take 1 cycle, so I end up with no jitter. (Does anyone else think it's bizarre that TI calls them "interrupts" when you need to poll them?) You might think 1 cycle would cause 5 ns jitter, but the timer uses the same clock so everything is synchronized.

I considered using the constants table if I needed to shave off some cycles, but as you point out the code required is pretty hideous. And you also need to define all the constants in the linker file too? That's just crazy.
>And you're okay with an employer not offering any help beyond a recommendation letter and you're okay with not knowing whether or not Twitter is a supportive employer?

I'm all for employee rights, but how exactly is Twitter different than the average (or all?) employees in this, or in any other industry, in this case?

Do other employers actively help fired employees to find a new job?
That's a valid opinion. Here's a different one: the ethical thing to do would be to repatriate Mexican citizens to Mexico, thereby demonstrating that we have a zero-tolerance policy for cutting the line and breaking our laws. It will cost more and take considerably more effort, but upholding our laws is the ethically correct thing to do. Time spent here does not constitute legal status. The only point of contention I can think of is what should be done with anchor babies.
It's (somewhat) new to me but I'm an immigrant.
Some units were buggy at launch, clearly. Most weren't. I bought one day one, and still have it; it's been fine the whole time. And yes, it didn't have split screen at launch -- no Android tablet did until Android 7, so that's not some special failing of the Pixel C.
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Prior to ES5 undefined was overwritable that is why void 0 guaranteed to produce undefined. With ES5 and later using undefined directly is safe.
How Do You Become a 'Peer Influencer'
I have managed to procrastinate for 10+ years without much trouble :P
You should check this out, I've been using and enjoying it for a while. My previous solution was sending emails to myself, so painful lol

https://www.pushbullet.com/
A few, but none with enough momentum to win over the mainstream. See Tox, Vector/Matrix, Jitsi with OTR... Otherwise there are web-based solutions that work well. Is it talky.io?

EDIT: Not forgetting Signal, of course. But I think you mean video comms?
Do you know if you have to be on the same wifi network for this to work, like with AirDrop?
Looks like they changed their name, but heres their doc on encryption: https://storage.googleapis.com/switch_static/Cloud_Security_...
Have you had to scale anything like they describe? Prototype is one thing. They already said it got them of the ground quickly.
If I were to guess, once self-driving cars are widespread, cars won't be pulled over any more for driving-related issues (ie, cops won't radar any more). However, they will probably be required to have a kill switch that can pull it over for other reasons (ie, if the cops thought your car was the getaway vehicle from a bank robbery)

This is of course once almost all cars are self-driving so it'll be interesting to see what happens in the midterm.
On the Z3C, the Sony bloatware is bad. Apparently they've reduced it a bit since then but I haven't gone back. The hardware is nice, it's a shame they have to ruin it with crap.
PPTP was removed because it wasn't secure.

Reddit Discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/osx/comments/4rwwe5/psa_pptp_vpn_su...

Apple Support Article: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT206844
To add to your point: Skype uses SILK codec, on which OPUS, the currently preferred codec for internet-audio, was based.
"More about squashing competition and unifying a market, than innovation."

I agree, it seems the same to me. Which is terrible (for consumers), of course.

Even when they don't actually kill off the product, the products will often languish in a weird limbo where they are basically still around but effectively end-of-lifed on new features. For example, Google Voice, the Google Nik Collection of photography plugins etc.

Google alone is sitting on a giant bunch of products/services that could be (and sometimes at one time were) paid products that they acquired, made free from cost (great!) and then just did absolutely nothing with in terms of advancing them (not so great!). Things that could be a wonderful small business, but aren't worth Google's time because the return for them wouldn't register at their scale. And the kicker is that because Google has these for free, it is really difficult for other companies to come in and try to make a competing product, because even if they make something that is significantly better, there's way more inertia in adoption from users because Google's free thing exists.
>That's a very cynical way of looking at it.

Considering WhatsApp, with 50 employees, was sold for perhaps more than Twitter will, it's also a valid way to look at it.

>Twitter most likely builds custom software,libraries for internal use. What about their development and maintenance?

Development of what? Compared to something like the first UNIX, which was built by 3-5 people at AT&T, Twitter is an order of magnitude less challenging, including the whole server infrastructure and the mobile app. Unless they built all those from scratch.
Skype was moved to a client-server architecture (with the old p2p supernodes being run only by MS) soon after they bought it, not recently.
It's not just fear. The cost of cleaning up Fukushima is itself uncontained and enormous - on the scale of fighting a major war. It's not viable to risk having one power station cause such an expensive problem.
One of the saddest things to me is seeing some of the most brilliant and creative minds work on trivial or frivolous things. How much positive impact could those people be having if they were just pointed in another direction? Yes, it's sometimes hard to know what frivolous looking things may turn out to be important, but some things (e.g. smartphone-controlled candles) are clear as day.
> And not a single one of them has anything close to the wide and growing offering that AWS presents.

I don't think that's an accurate statement. Google Cloud and Azure have broad offerings, and in many cases eclipse AWS (ex: Big Data, ML, pricing, BI, NoSQL, Hadoop/Spark, containers, and even things like load balancers and persistent storage).
Are there companies/individuals using PPTP today?!
“Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.”
― James Bovard, Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty

I think lately far to many people already have the answer before there is any discussion

I think democracy only functions when people are open minded and willing to put themselves in others shoes.
Show HN: We make a opensource hardware that brings low cost machine to arduino
Guys, my Opensource Hardware project -- Hicat.Livera will launch to Kickstarter today.

Livera by Team HiCat is an open source hardware project which aims to bring machine vision features to the Arduino community.

Main features:
1.720hd video and photo capturing&processing
2.OpenCV enabled Color-Sensitive and Object-Tracking.
3.Wifi enabled wireless control (this can work with the iot!)
4.Image capturing and data recording onto the onboard sd card
5.Mobile observation and manipulation from our custom apps(web-based and native)
6.Programmable and open source.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/945994322/hicatlivera-start-making-your-first-machine-vision
I use TS every day and it's a godsend, as long as you compare it solely to "using JS everyday".
Yes. There's been a decades-long smear campaign against public management of common infrastructure.
"Seriously, we don’t need smartphone-controlled X" will always give way to "but if it doesn't exist, we'll have the market to ourselves," and so you'll continue to see "smartphone-controlled X"s being created and successfully funded, as niches still have profit margins.

There's really no point to the protestations anymore. "Smart X" is the new novelty modifier, and we've seen these come and go before. Just acknowledge it as a trend, purchase the ones you always had an interest in and believe a good product exists for, and forget about trying to dissuade the average consumer from doing what they're going to do anyways.
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As a layperson, I don't know how you could represent infinite sets, unless you just pick a random, finite symbol.
This is awfully similar to Ben Laurie's good ideas about how to run a distributed time stamping service for a cryptocurrency.
http://www.links.org/files/distributed-currency.pdf

Great to see these ideas used for general security applications.
Git Basics: Adding more changes to your last commit
As others have mentioned, vehicle-vehicle communication only works if you trust the other vehicles. This sort of thing is almost certainly coming for fleets of trucks though (Google "truck platooning"), where a known set of vehicles can communication with each other.
You don't need to be on the same Wi-Fi network to use AirDrop.
What are you talking about?

Prague is a modern city, and the Check Republic is in the EU and even in the schengen area, so travel around Europe is a non issue.
Note that there is a new implementation of Hendersons's picture language. Color images is just one of the new features.

Save this file. Open it. Either add your own code at the bottom or use require to use it from another file.

https://github.com/sicp-lang/sicp/blob/master/sicp-pict2/sic...
> The Israelis like magnetic mines, the Russians polonium

I don't understand how either of those work, but they don't sound discreet. The ability for a state to assassinate people at will and make it look like an accident is entirely different from "yeah, but the government could also shoot you with a drone at any moment".
Just because you can, doesn't mean you should..
It's backed by iCloud so I assume it would work across networks.
You are an engineer and choose management long ago. Your life does not matter to the progress of the world. You must be in capable of coding. So the best thing for you is to do mba because there is nothing note worthy you can do. At least by this way you will stop worrying. I am stating factual observation of the world.
Perhaps a cheap phone combined with a cheap, keyboard accessory and bundled software would be better? Definitely include Wikipedia app on homescreen and Python w/ learning guide somewhere on there.
Also sometimes formulated as "how can you people be having fun when cancer still isn't cured yet?"