skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do the researchers detect anything when I assume every virus has Anti-VM or anti-sandbox checks
Not clustering, but Apple has hinted that they're exploiting (at least when they're plugged in) the computational power of hundreds of millions of phones to do work like training image recognition algorithms.
Could someone please make a Visio clone out of this that produced Graphviz code? You would make me blissfully happy.

Graphviz is too hard for my colleagues and I cannot face labouring over Visio just to produce something that is not diffable.
Google's merged Android-Chrome OS 'Andromeda' may be teased on October 4th
I can't upvote this enough. If the IRS is ascribing value X to stock options I can't liquidate, I should be able to pay my tax in the form of those options at whatever value I am being taxed on them.

Of course, the devil's in the details as you probably don't want the government having voting shares in a bunch of private companies either... Maybe they just get a blanket clause to automatically exercise and sell as part of any IPO offering or something?

This could have a double-down effect too as the government owns more illiquid stock and feels firsthand the pain of regulations (SarbOx anyone??) that result in fewer IPOs / longer time horizons to liquidity.

Oh your revenue is going down because you've regulated companies out of the IPO market? Great, looks like time to get off your ass and actually FIX THE PROBLEM. C'mon guys.
The solution is quite lovely - uninstall MS Office /s
It's a business model that is dependent on people forgetting, on people that make a mistake.

It's predatory.
Ah, I completely didn't see that tab... Then perhaps some usability feedback; maybe create links of the already orange text in the upper left hand box (the "Average Price") and have it auto-choose the Pricing tab below and scroll the page there? Make it super easy to find :)
An Intel i7-6700 will do about 200 single precision GFLOPS[1] and costs about $300 [2]. An Nvidia GeForce 710GT will do about 350 single precision GFLOPS [3] and costs about $40 [4].

You are right, and I stand (mostly) corrected. Alternatively said for Skylake, with unrolled 256-bit FMA, you can calculate close to 16 single-precision floating point calculations per cycle per (physical) core: two vector loads, one vector store, and the 8x32-bit FMA itself.

At 4 GHz this is about 100 Gflop/s per core. For 4 cores this is about the same 350 Gflop/s as the $40 graphics card you pointed to. And realistically, loop overhead will knock you down another 10%, and if you run for any length of time you probably be thermally throttled back to something closer to the 200 Gflop/s you cite.

My general question about why no one is interested in using the built-in Tflop/s capable side of the Skylake die stands, but I was wrong to think that a well-tuned desktop processor could come anywhere close to the price/performance of a cheap graphics card for raw flop/s. Thanks for pointing out the real numbers.
Sounds exactly like what VW did for emission testing, score another one for the bad guys.
> The numbers used here don't really make the case.

I got that impression too. I think a better metric would be minutes spent talking compared to text messages sent. Even then, I can talk about a lot more in a minute of voice than I can in even five minutes of texting, given the lag between messages.

The article is riding the line between absurdity and parody.
Freeze frame: Film uses century-old footage dug up from within Yukon permafrost
Good luck trying to automate a system where the vehicle has to unload a package of anywhere from envelope size to a 90" TV. It has to bring this across a driveway of varying shape or size, or even no drive way at all, bringing it inside an apartment complex or condo. It has to realize the correct address or room, collect a signature, or realize that no human being is present to sign for it. Then it returns the item to the truck.

The sheer amount of variables that this would require, without error, would be ridiculous. UPS and other places tried to make the customer do it by storage lockers, and those failed. There's nowhere near any elegant form of solution to improve on that.
In 1988 Gates was a billionaire. spending 6% of his net worth on a house really doesn't seem crazy. Most americans, well, most americans don't own a house. Those that do, it's their biggest asset. And his house has nearly tripled in value. Of course it has taken 25 years, because real estate is like that.

I've never met the guy. By all accounts he's smart, dedicated and hard working. I think he'd be doing just fine regardless of the field he went into. He got very lucky, so he's a billionaire 80 times over.

And, yes. The prince of Brunei is a great example of not thrifty. 14 billion in just 10 years. [1]

[1] http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2011/07/prince-jefri-201107
When I was trying to crack some certification software, I've noticed it is querying from VirtualBox and other string literals in WMI service. I suppose its not too difficult to spoof that, though I am sure there is certain feature detection techniques virus could use too.
I think you're right, on all points, but that leaves us deeply screwed.

I can try to dissuade my boss from putting in the 33rd analytics gizmo on our site, but they are remembering the sales pitch and all that lovely data. If I say no they'll ask someone else in the office, few more times I'll be needing a new job.

It's interesting you mention doctors and engineers, two professions that have more accountability and two well subscribed professional bodies. If doctors were being asked to surveil patients or report something, as governments will occasionally suggest, the BMA will shout rather loudly. The press listen, write up a piece with suitably scary headline, and the govt changes mind (usually).

The IET (UK Engineering body) has double the global membership of the BCS (computing) which is in far more countries. I'm going to hazard a guess there's more in tech than engineering.

I'm not aware of any tech or professional bodies that attract anything but a tiny minority. We can't blacken the web like the Googles and Facebooks can in the face of stupidity like SOPA. Without some group body we're left with signing change.org and blogging. If we don't take a job there's millions who will - FB and Google are in the top 5 best places to work, yet are part of the problem.
I think nobody questions the need for fully autonomous cars. I do think there is still a lot of discussion needed in terms of autonomous car policy.

What insurance requirements must be in place for a manufacturer, such as Tesla, when their drivers are routinely taking their eyes off the road?

What insurance must be carried by the _manufacturer_ of the autonomous driving equipment? What effect does this have on the insurance carried by the "human in command"? (I was going to say "driver" but that didn't seem quite right.)

What additional legal protections must be in place for the _inevitable_ day when software chooses to kill a human?

What additional legal protections must be in place for the day when, because of software, a human's life was saved -- will society even know? Should Tesla produce a monthly statistic of the estimated total number of trips driven by their cars where an intoxicated "human in command" was able to get home? (Because then anyone can compare to how successful humans were before an autonomous system was available.)

What legal protections must be in place before Google is allowed to provide autonomous driving service "in the cloud"? If the cell connection suddenly drops at just the wrong moment, should Google pay the costs of the ensuing accident? (Ok, ok, maybe Google isn't planning on putting the driving software "in the cloud." I'm just saying...it's not like the owner of the vehicle will be any wiser. Then they'll be dead.)
I read (half of) Gravity's Rainbow, maybe I'll give Lot 49 a try.
Yeah, funny post. It's not going to happen. Houston has never had a culture of proactive urban planning and intervention. I grew up there and the city always had a vibe of people just living there to make money and one day leave. In my 30 years all that happened other than freeways and road expansions was Discovery Green and Buffalo Bayou park trail expansions.
What are the FLOSS community's answers to Siri and AI?
A decade ago, we in the free and open-source community could build our own versions of pretty much any proprietary software system out there, and we did. Publishing, collaboration, commerce, you name it. Some apps were worse, some were better than closed alternatives, but much of it was clearly good enough to use every day.

But is this still true? For example, voice control is clearly going to be a primary way we interact with our gadgets in the future. Speaking to an Amazon Echo-like device while sitting on my couch makes a lot more sense than using a web browser. Will we ever be able to do that without going through somebody’s proprietary silo like Amazon’s or Apple’s? Where are the free and/or open-source versions of Siri, Alexa and so forth?

The trouble, of course, is not so much the code, but in the training. The best speech recognition code isn’t going to be competitive unless it has been trained with about as many millions of hours of example speech as the closed engines from Apple, Google and so forth have been. How can we do that?

The same problem exists with AI. There’s plenty of open-source AI code, but how good is it unless it gets training and retraining with gigantic data sets? We don’t have those in the FLOSS world, and even if we did, would we have the money to run gigantic graphics card farms 24×7? Will we ever see truly open AI that is not black-box machinery guarded closely by some overlord company, but something that “we can study how it works, change it so it does our computing as we wish” and all the other values embodied in the Free Software Definition?

Who has a plan, and where can I sign up to it?
You can buy a laptop for $200 on amazon. Burner laptops could make good sandboxes, no?

It's about as powerful as an iphone https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01F4ZG68A/ref=mp_s_a_1_5?ie=...
None really. I can’t think of any. iHub, Nailab, Swahilibox, etc. All those hubs are in Kenya & not a single of them is purely local. There must be a foreigner involved. But I can’t fault them. This points a bigger picture as a society on how we perceive our own. If I was to create a startup that assembles and sells bicycles, I’ll have a better chance of succeeding if I had a white partner than if I did it alone with other local partners. Basically, people will be more inclined in believing the white guy than they would believe me, the local with the original idea. This will spread further to how easy it will be to get funding & eventually clients. Look at all the successful tech companies in Kenya making a killing out of products which I personally find misplaced e.g. M-kopa, e-jiko, Jumia online shops, Kibo motorbikes, cheki/brighter Monday, etc. They all are owned or by a foreigner or have foreigners as partners. Don’t get me wrong. Am not saying it’s their fault. It’s the only option. As a Kenyan, it will be easier for me to tell a Kenyan investor that I need capital to open a clothing shop or a butchery than try convince them that I need capital to start a virtual reality content creation startup, which am doing by the way.
Channeling the Hacker Way
That's exactly why we're in a bubble. "Because other people are paying even more" is a really bad reason to pay too much for something. But that's the entire basis of Twitter's price--it's people investing in Twitter because other people are investing in Twitter (and other such companies) with no concern for whether that investment will ever return a profit.
Excellent, forces you to really think by yourself sometimes!

Some of the logic (starting at level 2) was similar to Ouverture Facile (http://www.ouverture-facile.com/start/index.html for the english version) which I encourage anyone to try if you like these riddles!

Looking for more!
Likewise! I think this is the first time all year I've been moved to deploy the phrase "Welcome to the world of the future" without grim irony. Truly amazing! I hope his recovery proceeds apace and without setback.
I haven't tried it on documents that'd be as long as a Thesis, but I've happily used https://www.overleaf.com/ for docs up to 20 pages. Lots of universities use it, so you might even get a discount for the "pro" version (basic version is free).
Handing out windfalls carries a lot less stress and commitment than starting a struggling nonprofit. If we're talking about ways to buy happiness with money, starting a nonprofit is not a substitute for money.
This reminds me of some software which would refuse to run if it detected you had a debugger like SoftICE installed, the irony being that those who do would also be the most likely to know how to defeat those checks. (See also: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html )
This is not quite what you're asking for but http://practicaltypography.com has lots of useful advice.
> So every form of English is an "informal dialect" then?

Yes, the majority of spoken English does not follow the rules of Standard English. Pretending that such rules don't exist is willful ignorance though: the WSJ obviously write a more formalized version of English than teenagers do in text messages.

> Do you also say that the languages of remote Amazon tribes aren't "real languages" because they don't have a formal government body publishing written rules?

Nowhere did I say that AAVE is "not a real language" because it's less formalized than Standard English. Prior to spelling reforms, English itself was extremely inconsistent and informal, but I certainly don't pretend that it wasn't a language.

> Or do you just want to bash on AAVE and are grasping at straws for reasons why?

I'm not trying to bash AAVE. In fact, I'd even posit that the reason AAVE isn't more codified is perhaps because of racial bias which treated it simply as "incorrect" English instead of a separate dialect worthy of formalization. Pretending that all languages are equally formalized is simply willful ignorance though.
And even then, they tend to be a little more fallible than they are trying to be.
Hey, I resemble that! :)
Past discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12508655
For those that don't know: she wrote the first compiler.
That’s not a robot, that’s a “waldo” – a puppet that is being controlled remotely.
I can completely relate to the T-shirt mentioned in the first paragraph: “Sorry I’m late,” the T-shirt reads. “I didn’t want to be here.”

The thing is that I end up really glad I went about 90% of the time. So I'm not sure I qualify as an introvert or if I'm just a chicken shit extrovert. Either way, it's a big struggle. I do enjoy alone time a lot, though.
You don't phone someone for a simple message, you do it because you know a back-and-forth conversation is needed. Which is always significantly faster than text.
"The more we isolate ourselves from new people, the more isolated and segregated our society is likely to become."

So this is the only sentence approaching a real argument in the article. And it's not entirely unreasonable, but the author goes straight to words like "antisocial", "rude", "self-indulgent", and "selfish" to describe the act of skipping large gatherings.

I'm just not entirely convinced that introverts are likely to cause the downfall of civilization. Even in the pathological cases of truly isolated individuals, they're really only harming themselves.
By taking anti-anti-VM and anti-anti-sandbox measures, obviously ;-)

A stock VM is extremely easy to detect because most VM software today doesn't even try to make it look like a physical machine (e.g. would a physical machine have hardware named "VMware virtual SVGA"?), but there are certainly patches you can do to change this, often at the cost of performance. (The 80-20 rule applies: the majority of software won't notice the difference and making the VM "perfect" to cater to the rest becomes increasingly difficult.) And a sandbox lets you control to varying degress of precision the exact environment an application sees.

Besides, these researchers presumably know reverse-engineering. They can just inspect the malware for such checks and force them to go the way they want.
> evades detection simply by counting the number of documents – or the lack thereof – that reside on a PC and not executing if a certain number are not present.

This is so simple, it's a one line trick:

Public Function DKTxHE() As Boolean
DKTxHE = RecentFiles.Count < 3
End Function

> the typical lack of documents in a ... test environment make it easy ... for malware authors to fly under the radar

Dev environment is dissimilar to prod --> works in dev but not prod. Surprise, surprise.

Original blog: https://sentinelone.com/blogs/anti-vm-tricks/
http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/libreboot.org/gnu-insult/

Seems down.
Can't I be both? I am an introvert (personality type) but I am frequently rude to people I do not give much of a shit about (choice).
Speaking as a fellow chicken shit extrovert, I can relate. I'm basically extroverted with very mild social anxiety, coupled with run-of-the-mill self-doubt/self-esteem issues.

But once I get going, I code-switch to "outgoing guy" and I usually have a great time.

Well, until I'm done, and then I'm done. :)
Malware which simply doesn't do anything for the first few weeks, or even hours, is hard to detect by running it in a VM box. Some "advanced persistent threats" are like that.
"Google also stressed that red light violations are the "leading cause" of car crashes in US cities, and that 94 percent of those are due to human mistakes."

Last I heard the speed trap towns and insurance companies were justifying their agenda by saying speed was dangerous. Before that it was the prohibitionists (MADD) and universities using drunk driving to push their agenda.

I'd wager that tailgating and distracted driving causes a lot more car crashes (they're far more common behavior even if the average instance is less risky), barring some absurd definition of car crashes that rules out most rear endings. IIRC other articles have mentioned Google has complaining about distracted drivers. Why the sudden change of priorities? Is a company Google owns trying to win speed camera contract or something?
Huh. I actually find that figure really hard to believe.

17-ish years ago I got a temp seasonal job at one of UPS's air hubs, and they paid me $8 per hour. $8 in then-money is equivalent to more than $11 in now-money. So you're saying I was better paid as a seasonal temp than people who are much higher in UPS's pecking order than that are nowadays.

Now it being part time, yeah, I believe that. Pretty much everyone in that facility was working about 30h/wk.
Can anyone tell me what a Rear Admiral is?
They use heuristics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heuristic_analysis
I feel the same way. After considering it, I've decided I'm halfway between an introvert and an extrovert (and also that I don't like telling people about it).

Elaborating on halfway: when my "job" was "be social and go to class all day" and my leisure time was "hang around suburbs with the same crew of friends," I needed a lot of alone time to recharge and I'd be miserable going out.

Now that my job is "write code all day" and my leisure time is "read books and work on music," I feel a heavy need to socialize, and I often enjoy going out.

Just like many things, it's a spectrum, and everyone falls somewhere.
I just get everything delivered to the office.
Those days are not gone. Outside of the HN bubble there's still a lot of successful monolithic application development going on. Not every project needs to scale to the size of Twitter.
Of course it can be both.

The question the author is asking, given the above, is: where is the line between introversion and just being selfish? And does she cross it and then justify her selfishness as introversion?
Very interesting thought that evolution works so well because evolution itself evolved to evolve better. This explains many open questions unanswered by simple randomness*time.
Every social interaction is a kind of investment. At work it's to advance your career or just remain employed. And there are few professions where you really don't have to communicate with anyone at all and can still make a living. Even introverts need to gain enough skill (chutzpah?) to communicate with their colleagues.

Socially, it's another matter entirely. There are obligatory communications that you really can't reasonably dodge, like planning family Holidays, or finding a friend to join you to a concert, or calling around to get a decent price on a set of tires.

Then there are the real small-talk situations. Standing in line at the coffee shop, sitting with another parent you've never met waiting for your turn at the parent teach conference, the bored bartender while you're trying to relax the last evening of a business trip... These opportunities have different payoffs that really depend only to you. If you're an extrovert, a conversation with a stranger may be invigorating. And yes, you might learn something valuable, or offer some advice that genuinely helps a stranger. For me, there is simply no payoff. The investment of awkwardness versus the comfort of remaining withdrawn is just not worth it. Once in a while, I might be in a particularly good mood and actually strike up a conversation. But that is a rare moment for me, and I usually end the conversation thinking that the last thing I said for sure came across as weird and they had no clue what I meant... So usually, I want to remain in thought, or distracted by some type of entertainment or doing something that I deem to be productive. Thank God for my iPhone.

I'll satisfy my obligations to society in other ways.
Sublime text on ubuntu. Works like a charm, I'm actually using it for a latex document.
A one-star or two-star admiral.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rear_admiral
"In a contest between my manners and my preferences, am I allowing my preferences to win?"

There's nothing wrong with that, as long as you don't mind the consequences that follow.
I've lived the Monolithic nightmare as well. Dozens and dozens of "utility" functions that got reused between unrelated modules, worrying amounts of copy/paste due to leaky abstractions and a build time of an hour even if you're just working on a small part. Not to mention having to run automated tests across the entire codebase just in case some developer has unexpectedly relied on your class.

And in your case I don't know what you can't get the line number and stack trace from a microservice. Likewise you can get tracing between microservices using something like Zipkin.

Personally I think the "truth" lies in between. Bigger services that cover key functional areas.
Those seem like things that the author of the article would view positively.
So, uh, color me selfish. :) Perhaps this isn't a constructive comment, but I just don't understand these articles that take a long, hard, meandering look at human nature only to arrive at some absolute "truth" like the author's some arbiter of what's right and wrong in the world. Whatever gets eyeballs, I guess.
Old news. Lastline has been beating this evasion technique for a while now.
Are you saying it's socially "obligatory" to not go to concerts alone? I've done that a few times, and I don't think anyone notices or cares, and if they do, so what?