skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you had a rigged deck and sleight of hand, you could probably slowly replace the casino cards with the rigged cards. In Blackjack I imagine you'd only need 10 cards in the deck to make it +EV. You could even have one player plant, the other take advantage in teams.
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I don't know. I found it really superficial and trite, with absolutely no insight whatsoever.

I really don't get why Vonnegut is so popular. He seems pretty talentless to me.
I was in Vegas for Defcon over the last two years. Casinos would get uptight if we used our phones at the table at all.
The National Cryptologic Museum has something to do with mathematics.

https://www.nsa.gov/about/cryptologic-heritage/museum/
That's like saying "How we built a Smart Office system based on Electricity", the RPi is just any old single board computer here with some GPIOs.

In any case, I sure hope they have mounted their SD cards as read-only, because otherwise they might find their keycard system not working one early morning in approximately a year or 2-3 random power off events. Theres a reason for these PLC systems after all.
Also, if anything, I find that people who are lower-middle class tend to be better with their money than many of the "elite" -- not better as in taking advantage of unattainable economic tools, but perhaps more conservative with purchases, and such.
Your charts don't prove him wrong. Your charts prove that prices are higher where houses are getting built, prices are low and where prices are high, houses aren't getting get built. Neither addresses changes in demand. (Price is not indicative of demand without considering supply.)
Everything looks so fake nowadays.
That is a passed station at this point.
Pretty nice work incrementally getting where we need. Here's a few links for those following such work on safe linking.

SPIN OS - Modula-3 with safe extensions
https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~savage/papers/Sosp95.pdf

CMOD - Sound module system for C that caught errors in OSS programs
https://www.cs.umd.edu/~mwh/papers/cmod-journal.pdf

One I stumbled on looking for the others that supports dynamic linking:

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.28....
How do self-driving cars deal with capacity? Even with self driving cars there isn't enough capacity on the roads for everyone. Highways are terrible at traffic throughput. To give you an example Crossrail in London has the capacity for 1 million passengers per hour while on two lines of track. An 8 lane highway struggles to manage more than 150,000 per hour. In terms of land use efficiency highways are terrible.
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I just finished watching the Nosedive (Season 3, episode 1) from Black Mirror on Netflix, it shows a similar system. Unlike other Black Mirror episodes its quite well balanced. I would highly highly recommend watching it.
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Seems relatively tiny compared to how geologically active Iceland is anyways. If it triggers something, that something probably would have been triggered by natural causes anyways in the next decades(?)

Now I wonder if active regions are safer for this, since energy is released more often (vs stable regions that might have huge energy built up over a long time). Could be total BS though.
We've seen projects like these in DIY magazines since the 70s. But Nest took off, and thus so could this.
First thought: nice, somebody took their time to do something with monitoring;
could be useful. Then I saw who wrote the thing: Symantec. And then I saw in
what they wrote it: Java. And then I took few minutes to skim their
documentation: way, way too complex architecture and deployment for these
things, and too tied to one specific message router (Kafka).

To sum up: how about no.
I never said we'd get rid of roads. Parent was saying that we shouldn't build rail because of autonomous cars.
I don't see anything funny with it. It's not the fact they speak or associate that is a problem. It's the goal of that speech and association - ensure that voicing dissent and disagreeing with orthodoxy would endanger one's economic and social well-being, to the point that nobody dares to do so.

> who literally talks about wielding the law to silence journalism

This is, of course, despicable and should be condemned. I certainly think it's one of the worst qualities in Trump and understand how that could be a deal-breaker for people not to vote for him.

On the other hand, he is running against the candidate who has promised to use not just private libel law, but the full force of federal government regulatory machine to suppress the speech of her political opponents (and when I say "her opponents" I am not being rhetorical - it's the speech against her personally that she found so objectionable that needed the First Amendment to be overridden). And who was the member of the administration that was documented to use federal government to oppress political opponents.

So I can also understand how for other people it can look prudent to choose the lesser evil (private lawsuits) over the bigger evil (systematic governmental oppression).

In any case, both positions are legitimate and should be debated and put forward on the market of ideas. The idea, however, that association with one of these must make you a pariah - I don't think that will market very well. Or that I want to visit a market where it markets well.
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Is there any evidence whatsoever actually linking the people who claimed responsibility with the person/persons who actually perpetrated the attack?
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What other types of arrows are there?
That's supremely cool.

Nice work!
I think he succinctly summarizes the issue. The public will need to keep pressure on both sides, not just to fight corruption but to get anything done at all. The stalemates and government shutdowns undermine trust as well. And on top of that, there's the increasing distrust in media.

The size of the country and ease of communication I think makes rebuilding trust an increasingly uphill battle. The number of people involved is so large, magnitudes beyond the number of people we can know and trust personally. In PGP, key signing is a way of extending that circle of trust. How can we rebuild the social/political/institutional equivalent once it's lost?

Increased ease of communication makes it so much easier to sow distrust. You hear something -- is it disinformation? just a rumor? an honest mistake? Something you can actually trust? And who can you trust when you look for information to confirm or verify that first piece? What level of openness is necessary to make the populace trust the level of oversight?

We can't each research and verify every piece of information that we come across. We need some kind of chain of trust if we're to get anything done besides manage our paranoia. I'd like to stay on side of believing that people are generally good -- the general population as well as people working in government -- but we have to stay vigilant to corruption.

The underlying problems aren't new, but I do think we're seeing scaling issues that compound the problem. Anyone know what work or research is being done on these issues of rebuilding trust?
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A single lane of highway doesn't get more than 2000 cars per hour. Even self driving won't increase that much. If all cars have to wait for someone to get out of their cars since we're only on 1 lane then it'll get even worse.

Eletrics cars are 2000kg because a the battery weighs a lot.

Trains get smaller too when it's not rush hour. France regularly runs one carriage trains the size of a bus.

Mitigate and smooth flowing aren't the same thing. On way to work I see cars backed up for miles. Doesn't matter if they're self driving or not when cars move bumper to bumper already.
Because TracFone & Rite Aid put the smartphone on better sale when my old phone died.
You could coat your fingers with infrared ink. Each card would naturally have a different pattern imprinted on the back depending on how you touched it.
That's a military command with lots of military units that reports to Strategic Command. NSA sort of administers it even though it's not really theirs. Even if we count them as NSA, that would fall under SIGINT in my division of their activities. It would still be SIGINT rather than IAD doing that stuff. So, splitting off IAD wouldn't affect the analysis whether it's NSA's teams doing SIGINT or NSA + STRATCOM's sub-commands doing it with NSA SIGINT personnel.
That's a razor-thin demographic you're talking about there: worldly people that don't understand that armies are about killing others.
It won't take 25k years to figure out how to deal with it. Maybe 50 or 100 years? It's just a transitional form of energy til we figure out fusion and scale up other sources.

And honestly, who cares about a person 25k years from now? We can all just die now, or instead some explorer 25,000 years from now dies, assuming we didn't figure it out by then.

I'd rather cavemen left us with a dangerous storage area rather than destroy the entire atmosphere and ecosystem.
Exactly. I'm in Vegas right now and at almost every table there's at least one player with earbuds in.

That being said, casinos are very strict about not letting you have a phone at BJ tables.
I was just at the American Computer & Robotics Museum in Bozeman, MT not too long ago. It's pretty small but they have some interesting stuff - for example, an Apple I donated by Woz, a control module from a Minuteman ICBM, some Apollo moon mission hardware, among other things...
True. But once you have the IP, you can nmap to get the OS, right? That would probably exclude most false positives, where Mirai was implicated.
He mentioned that there's a number of accessories available, which leads me to believe that there's a lot of various devices that the external camera can fit into. Perhaps even some way of alerting you to card movements through vibration or something.
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I wish people would stop teaching C/C++.
I want a book that teaches writing OS using Rust.
I was just about to post exactly that for fun. How small the world is...
I heard something some time ago about casinos marking their cards with rfid chips to avoid cheating. I wonder if you could make something to read those RFID chips.
See also Cappsule, for launching Linux applications in VMs, https://cappsule.github.io

"Cappsule is a new kind of hypervisor developed by Quarkslab (to our knowledge, there’s no similar public project). Its goal is to virtualize any software on the fly (e.g. web browser, office suite, media player) into lightweight VMs called cappsules. Attacks are confined inside cappsules and therefore don’t have any impact on the host OS. Applications don’t need to be repackaged, and their usage remain the same for the end user: it’s completely transparent. Moreover, the OS doesn’t need to be reinstalled nor modified."
Could someone connect to all the vulnerable cameras/iot devices and lock them down so that they can't be used in botnets in the future?
Also:

There is a lot of suffering in this world.

High levels of social conscientiousness (mutual aid) is a positive selecting factor in evolution of highly intelligent species (Darwin/Kropotkin).

Therefore, no intelligence smart enough to build a universal simulation would do so. IMNSHO.
It's disturbing that someone whose actions have brought such heartache and hardship to so many gets such a short sentence compared to 'blue collar' crimes. Rob a shop with a weapon, and you harm one person and get a trivial amount of money, but you'd be lucky to see a sentence that short.
Yay, this is my world! Looks like a super nice homebrew solution.

I don't think I've ever used or worked on a project with PLC's handling any sort of core logic though. Sure they'll occasionally run small components of simple edge systems (HVAC, lift motor control, physical access etc) but the overwhelming majority of systems are built with a network of embedded controllers. Any systems rolling out today will (or at least should) then combine this with some server side backend for analytics and shifting interaction logic away from the the edge systems to somewhere it's a little easier to change and adapt to the needs of the building.

There's some pretty established, older players (Crestron, AMX et al) that make full programmable solutions, but by all modern standards their development tools are atrocious - you'd need to be a complete and utter masochist to want to enter that world today.

The good thing about this is a bunch of amazing people building well designed, open source and non-proprietary solutions to make this world suck less.

My two favourites are http://nodel.io/, which runs a fully distributed architecture (and can even have the nodes running of RPi's) and http://www.acaprojects.com/ which is a keeps all the system logic server side.
I would not combine cover letter with your CV.

Cover letter is a personalised (on per-company basis) description of how will you make them more profitable. Not all companies will ask you for this. More times than less you will actually talk your prospect employer through rather than submitting them with letter. Generally it works much better when you can get hiring manager on the phone rather than sending them email. It's much easier to ignore email than somebody on the phone..

CV is more description of your skill-set and experience proving you was doing this before. In CV you can add a headline (usually not more than 2 sentences) summarising your greatest achievements (try to avoid 'wank' language, i.e. words like 'expert', 'experienced' etc. and focus on more what you achieved, i.e. 'improved SEO so organic traffic grown by 50%' or 'improved design so conversion rate improved by 30%')
I look at Tesla as the exception to a lot of rules. I agree with you here-- launching hardware which not only is a value add to users but also Tesla data teams, is so far ahead that this seemed like a dumb comment.

That said, if some company had manufactured bluetooth hardware last year way in advance of the release and full spec, I would argue that it was a pretty bad move. Clearly this is not a perfect analogy, but it should illustrate that this can seem counter intuitive. Building in the cost of beta tech that doesnt fully work and is not legal is a huge gamble. I just wouldn't personally bet against tesla and for the reasons i outlined; it is likely the right call
Just imagine you could control this process- you could form a magma jet cutter and tame and aim it at a volcano. You could hold the world ransom for 100 billion dollars- and all you need are some geothermal power-plants.

But, no, not again super villainy, not one day at a time.
I will not use super villainy today, no matter what happens.
I can do this. We can do this.
Super villainy does not control me.
I am moving forward right now.
Empathy does not seem to be an involuntary ability like eyesight or smell. We smell regardless of the circumstances, but empathy can be keen or absent. Empathy for someone seems to come naturally to the extent that they can be helpful or loyal to us, and it requires discipline to extend our empathy to those who are useless or opposed to us.

It is interesting that the ability for someone to be a powerful force in our lives does not naturally elicit empathy for them. It suggests that we suppress empathy when we anticipate the need to act aggressively towards someone. Empathy for our enemies could be very valuable except that it might make us hesitate to hurt or kill them. We can see this in the U.S. elections right now, when both sides encourage us to believe that the motivations of the other side's voters are either inscrutable or malevolent.
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What's the mtr command you're using for that pretty color ping?
Copyright is totally functional. What you are really saying is you want cheaper sports and the people who don't give you what you want are dicks. It's a mistake a lot of people make.
This is hardly surprising.

The rich person: "What's $5 for a tip? It's nothing, so why bother."

The poor person: "$5? That's a lot, and I can afford it, so let me give it."

Basically rich people value money less, and it doesn't occur to them that giving small amounts can still help people. And obviously it's not the custom to give large amounts as a tip.
Project Cybersyn in 1970's Chile, http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/13/planning-machin...

"Beer was a leading theorist of cybernetics—a discipline born of midcentury efforts to understand the role of communication in controlling social, biological, and technical systems. Chile’s government had a lot to control: Allende, who took office in November of 1970, had swiftly nationalized the country’s key industries, and he promised “worker participation” in the planning process. Beer’s mission was to deliver a hypermodern information system that would make this possible, and so bring socialism into the computer age."
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I think its just the good old 1990s scenario repeating itself, only this time with IoT, rather than usual IT.

First, a mad rush towards the IoT where every startup and their dog wants to setup their business on IoT. Then comes fear as the hackers try to exploit every hole in IoT devices. And finally, once people realize the importance of keeping with the software upgrades, the market will settle somewhere in between.
presumably when Mirai botnet compromises them, it changes the passwords.
This is trolling
I'd like to see a queing match between Japan and England. Japanese queing is crazy polite, to the point where everyone deoptimises their advantage, so it only works when there is one big queue with the employees multiplexing. They also queue for train entrances, escalators, you name it. Escalators are also a thing of beauty here - absolutely noone stands on the wrong side. And there's two queues, onr for standing and one for walking.
This is what the DMV does with the point system. The FBI and CIA I think also collect statistics and profile relevant individuals. The difference I guess is that most of these systems are in separate silos. The Chinese government is taking the next logical step and linking it all together. Reminds me of a quote

Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.
Note he's talking specifically about active duty Army, not necessarily any other branch. I can relate a story as an example.

I was enlisted in the late 90's and stationed Germany. I had a POV (personal vehicle) that I had to license/register. I had to drive to a neighboring facility to get to the license office. The office was closed, for some stupid reason (they where short staffed, and someone was out sick). The Area Military Police where in the same building, and I (stupidly) stopped a the desk sargeant and complained. I was escorted in to see the MP Sergeant Major, who yelled at me for a while, and took my ration card and confiscated my license plates (for no reason other than he could bully a lower enisted).

So this all meant I had to leave my car, and take the train back to my home base. I was late, and got into a lot of trouble for that. Then, I had to beg and finagle to go back and get my car properly licensed a week later, when I was supposed to have already had it done. This all contributed to me getting a reputation as 'shit bag', do nothing low life of a private. You get a lot hell when you have that type of reputation; a lot of 'extra duty' and unfair treatment. Like being ordered to crawl through mud in near freezing weather, with no change of clothes and no oppurtunity to dry off for DAYS.

But yeah, normal humans can't comprehend; fuckery. The term "fuck fuck" games from the reddit link is very fitting.
How would the mapping from random pattern to card be established?
A bone to the dog is not charity. ...
Charity is the bone shared with the dog,
when you are just as hungry as the dog.

-- Jack London
Personally, I found it interesting. Not because the story was particularly unique, but because it was a nice counterpoint to the hordes of posts about how their author made thousands/millions from whatever random project and is now about to buy a yacht in the Bahamas because of it.

It helps you realise that no, not everyone in the world is succeeding at everything they try (regardless of how much social media, blogs and Medium make it appear so) and that your new project, startup or app might just as easily fail as it could succeed.
I took for granted that you would not use surface. The rotating station can be built inside a cave. The main advantage over orbiting is mining.

In other words, I believe that Mars' appeal is a mirage. Musk and company are seeing it as another Earth where people can live like here, with a little terraforming.

I think it would be much more difficult. Of course I could be wrong, or I could be right but, even then, Musk could be modern Columbus.
wtf are you on about? That is not how math works.
> This is your opinion, not a fact.

What? It's basic math. Personal automobile space, plus stopping distance, times passengers.

> Yep. So why build fixed rail?

Because:

- Fixed rail is far more space efficient.

- That space could be used for far better things (which I enumerated in the post your responded to).

- Fixed rail is far more energy efficient.

> Do you think cars will still be burning gasoline and diesel fuel by the time ST3 is complete? If so, why do you think that?

Probably a whole lot of them, lots of old cars on the road. But that's not the only thing I meant by dirty. Automobile infrastructure is incredibly intrusive to public life. The grime is a part of that.

> Hard to respond to that. What's dangerous, in your view? Do you think pedestrians will still be hit by cars and trucks by the time ST3 is complete? If so, why do you think that?

Of course they will. The danger of automobiles to pedestrians (and cyclists!) is that they all share the same space. Light rail (and cyclists!) will likely also continue to strike pedestrians, but far less frequently (and cyclists are substantially less harmful in a collision).
This looks like https://utilityapi.com/

What's the difference?
Just don't call them painters.
Just bring it, hackers! Drop 100Tbps on every critical service to show them what's up! Hit all of them with everything you got!

I've been waiting for a good illustration to regulators of why POTS, leased lines, and satellite must continue to get investment & kept separate. On top of the small cases I have. All these people's shit is going down whereas the people using dial-up to BBS's or leased lines between critical sites are still doing just fine. I mean, they do gripe about speed or pricing more than the rest of us but that's the kind of problems they're used to living with. ;)

Note: The major attacks will also get regulators' attention to IoT risk. I have recommendations of techniques and existing products ready for that, too.

Note 2: I think someone will see this saying, "OMG! He's encouraging crimes and damage to happen! WHY!?" Actually, apathy by consumers and suppliers is why it happens and will get worse regardless of what I say. I'm just waiting for the inevitable as an opportunity to improve the situation.
Trackers and social media companies try to build similar scoring systems here.

If banks or insurance companies can figure out how credit score changes of Facebook friends predicts you financial status, better abandon them if they screw things up.

https://mic.com/articles/123452/facebook-to-let-banks-discri...