skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Eventually, with the help of Google’s customer support and some ex-colleagues who still work at Google"

The second bit is probably key. Friends working at Google are something that the rest of us almost certainly aren't going to have. Good luck ever getting an account back. :/
The only reason to think Moore's law is dead now, much less a decade ago, is if you don't know what Moore's law actually is.[1] I don't blame you for that though, it was incorrectly explained for decades.

Moore's law refers to the number of transistors, not speed. We've consistently added more transistors to CPUs, but through separate cores,since there are problems related to doing that usefully with a single core. Now, that's been of mixed benefit to some programs, because not all problems, programs, or programmers can effectively take advantage of multiple cores, or at least not effectively. GPUs though, are doing work that is "embarrassingly parallel", and thus can effectively utilize this increase in transistors and cores. For example, the GeForce Titan X has 3072 CUDA cores.[2]

The GeForce GTX 760 (maybe a mid-range desktop part?) was released June 25, 2013 with a retail price of $249.[3] The GeForce GTX 980M (second newest generation mobile part) was released October 7, 2014 (two years ago!).[3] It trounces the desktop part from one year prior.[4] We've had a year since then. I don't think there's any problem hitting the performance of the last generation of consoles, at least as far as the GPU is concerned.

Edit: Switched from 980 to 980M to clearly indicate a mobile part, which only makes the release a year earlier for the mobile part, but doesn't really change the outcome.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law

2: http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-tit...

3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nvidia_graphics_proces...

4: http://gpuboss.com/gpus/GeForce-GTX-980M-vs-GeForce-GTX-760
Part of the issue with this is that a lot of games get very boring when you treat them seriously and people do not originally get into them for those boring parts.
> No, dist-upgrade would be 14.04 -> 16.04.

That is a reasonable assumption, but it is incorrect. Check the man page for apt-get.

On Ubuntu systems, the command to upgrade to a new release is "do-release-upgrade". Insanity, but there it is.
Yes. Fair is often not optimal.
Indeed. I had a walkman in the 80's. I still remember not being able to walk too quickly with my discman.

As soon as the ipod came out, I bought one for my girlfriend as a birthday present. She has never used any other system for listening to or acquiring music since. It obviously switched to the smart-phone, but still...
$47k might sound cheap. However:

1. It ignores the cost of land, or more specifically, building permits. Houses are fairly cheap to build; the right to build one in a desirable area is amazingly expensive.

2. It ignores the cost of labour, which added a fair bit then and a lot more now (cf. Baumol's cost disease).

3. It ignores changes in house size, quality, fixtures, whiteware, plumbing, insulation, glazing, efficiency, safety, fire risk, etc.

You could buy what that $47k got you, today, for quite a bit less (the cost of building materials has been headed down steadily). But...why would you want to?
So it's been a known bug for 11 years? That sounds like a pretty serious issue with the QA and or bug tracking process.
I don't know what you're basing that on, I live in Australia and I've never had a self checkout machine not work. They are consistently good and I use them all the time.
To be sure. But let us double cost to make the house bigger and double it again for the lot, labor and electric. You are still at $188,340.8.

Let us double it again for Nest thermostats and turret mounted gatling guns and you are still under 400k.

Something happened.
Your experience has been very different than mine.
There is a new, quite stealthy startup that does this (not sure if I can give away their name when their website doesn't say what they actually do). They guarantee every payment they accept against fraud.

The tradeoffs are pretty obvious to merchants when they compare their authorization rates between processors and look at the revenue the lose, either through fraud or through false positives.
I think you can go even further. Public transit is tough to do well in cities that don't have a certain level of density. They're building subways in LA, but the city just isn't designed for it, patterns of movement are too dynamic, and too much of the city is composed of single-family homes so the last-mile problem is huge. It can only ever have a limited impact at an huge cost. They would be much better off with congestion pricing and dedicated bus lanes on the highways and arterial roads, transitioning these to self-driving when it becomes possible.

Three of the best public transit systems in the world are Berlin, Tokyo, and New York, which are both amongst the densest large cities in the world (Berlin is almost exclusively 5 story apartment buildings). The Berlin subway is largely self-supporting without public subsidy, Tokyo's system is composed of two competing but interoperable systems, the larger of which is privately run, and New York's system was privately run until 1940. The lifestyle, weather, and zoning of the cities where it works kickstarted the construction, and there exists enough demand that they would have great public transit systems even without government initiative.
I think that giving such agencies the power to identify unique individuals is not beneficial for the humankind.
This should help

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freebie_marketing
in HTML5 would be sufficient:
const $ = document.querySelectorAll.bind(document);

(but it would be only pseudo jQuery, the way you can have pseudo React just by using functions and ES6 template strings
https://jsfiddle.net/vug86rn0/ )
Indeed, and let's not forget the extended example of the video of random noise fed into Google's Deep Dream system: https://youtu.be/SCE-QeDfXtA
There is no secure email. If you need to send a message securely, don't use email to do it. I agree with you.
Nice paywall.
You're not the only one, I love using them and I do use them all the time. If I'm doing about half a trolley or less of groceries I will use them. Never had experience with lots of broken self-checkout systems or extensive manual intervention. The only thing I wish you could do is delete items you've scanned twice by accident.

I also don't understand how they are "slow" compared to going through the checkout with a cashier.
Data binding exactly, like binding a declarative formula in Excel. Not like Backbone, which did event binding, invoking the programmer's code to imperatively update the DOM.

Knockout, and Angular, both do data binding, but their implementations fall short on complex application state changes & how it translates to DOM changes--leading to incidental complexity: digest loop, TTL, $watch, observable, custom handlers.

React stupidly doesn't try to understand how the state changes translates DOM changes, and instead rerenders, diffs, and applies the update. React's declarative model is also why it can render on the server side, iOS, or Android.

Still, React doesn't translate list sorting to DOM changes efficiently, so imperatively optimizing is still sometimes needed, but less often than in Angular & thankfully not complected by the DOM. React will be replaced when someone solves this. Most likely needing a new programming language, to analyze the application logic & automatically translate into efficient UI updates.
So tiny houses and large mansions are the same on this scale? What does the author think mansion means?
< Consider how flight simulators have changed flying.

How?
The people you just called idiots are demonstrably not idiots. Your company is extraordinarily lucky to employ them.
Or they buy what they can afford.
Do you think you could get the materials (including the finished details) for this house for $47k?

Why don't we see $150k new builds with this level of fractal detail and material quality then? Or at $500k?

Yes, wiring costs money, but come on.
I've read this book : https://www.amazon.com/Noble-Savages-Dangerous-Yanomamo-Anth...

It seems as though even those tribes have been prizing western technology, like fishhooks, shotguns, and machetes. Those are valuable trade goods.

Maybe they've sort of forgotten in the past few generations how to get by without those tools? Living in a jungle is hard as hell, and a machete and a shotgun sure do make a big difference.
My only concern in that point of time was giving out the phone number, as it will give Google an unique identifier without the ISP and state cooperation. As such I did not use any additional measures.

I am grateful of your comments as it will motivate me to give it another try.

Btw. in fact I do not use regularly any anti tracking measurements. I am only protecting the local businesses against their own stupidity.

I really would like to keep visiting my favorite supermarket regardless of their decision to include their video ads into the Youtube videos I happen to watch time to time. Some careless fools already lost me as an client, I would not like to let this happen again.
One of the biggest beefs I have with how Americans deal with the NSA is that they're cool with them spying on EU citizens. As long as its not domestic, you guys are cool with it. Its as if when you are not an American, you have no right to basic human rights like privacy according to Americans. Add to that they even did stuff like tap Merkels' phone.. spying on your allies is a serious faux-pas and wtf all rolled into one.
Better to just use scylladb which natively handles it rather than run another layer of software.
Fascinating, I'm curious to see if any of the tech press or even mainstream press pick up on this. If they do, will they pixelate the sample images??
HackerOne, Synack awarded DoD contracts to expand bug bounty program
It is patently unfair that people who grew up in the bay area cannot afford to live here because of this anti-growth attitude. Democracy is not the freedom to step on other people, including dictating that others cannot build a multi-family dwelling on their own land. Real Estate NIMBY-ism is the antithesis of democracy, because it is a few entitled people saying they will control what other people do with their own private property.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12755299
https://github.com/dirtycow/dirtycow.github.io/wiki/Vulnerab... and scroll up a bit.

If you have an iPhone you can scroll horizontally even if it doesn't look like you can (though I am also annoyed by HN truncating the text)
Yup, the best solution here is to make privesc ineffective via VM isolation. Privilege escalations are rampant on most operating systems, they're not worth relying on. VM isolation breaks are much rarer.
Off-the-rack clothing doesn't match the materials, beauty, and craftsmanship of a bespoke Savile Row English cut suit, either, but neither does it cost $3-5,000 a pop.

I personally like having more than one set of clothes to wear. I also like air conditioning when I'm in a hot climate and central heat in a cold one. Electricity and running water are also nice.
Safer, more predictable `npm` publishing with `publish-diff`
Believe me, I know. I carry my D3300 on all my vacations - it's the cheap, entry level DSLR for people like me who want to take better pictures but don't want to invest thousands in high level cameras. Or training ;) But I am like head-over-heels for my 50mm prime.

That aside, that's not really the point at hand. The hypothesis is that there is still a value desert between smartphone cameras and DSLRs that isn't adequately filled by traditional point-and-shoots. And perhaps, Kodak could uncover some by pairing a pocket space computer with a data connection and a better lens (think about what Nokia put on their smartphonecamera) but dropping the phone requirement. This Ektra isn't it, obviously, but it might be a step in that direction.
They do, but way less than a human employee (or else they wouldn't use the machines.)
Shorter CFI: when doing codegen for calls through function pointers (which will involve indirect calls through registers), emit extra code to make sure the register being jumped to is a legit function, thus breaking ROP payloads.

There's more to it, but that's the flavor of it.
Wikileaks: “There is no US election.  [] Rigged primary, media and candidate”
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12756950
Where does the author advocate banning terrible houses?

She's just explaining the features and design ideas that make this kind of architecture so distasteful - not telling anyone what to do...
Disambiguation of Security and Obscurity
Set up the `unattended-upgrades` to only install security updates, blindly apt-upgrading can lead to unintended consequences; this will let you get security upgrades without breaking 3rd party packages.

See also: https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/automatic-updates.ht...
I already told you what happened. The maximum loan guarantee under the GI Bill was $2,000 (in their dollars)

4x the cost of your Sears house is $13,964 (also in their dollars).

The buyers preferred a house that they could afford to one they couldn't. Simple as that.
How Russia Pulled Off the Biggest Election Hack in U.S. History
That incident response firm seems to be worth it.
Agree. I have a 1928 kit house. No bathroom on main floor (as in this house). How many people would do that today?
When you believe that your exceptional, that you're Gods most special creation, the privacy and rights of others is not something you lose sleep over.
The point is that code execution is almost always remote root, because lots of bugs like this exist. Also: most engineers overestimate the relative value of root vs. simple inside-the-VPC code execution, which is almost always gameover anyways.
There is no reason for them to not source the evidence they're using to attribute it to the Russians. If it was them, they already know exactly what they left behind. It's actually not that difficult to disguise sources of attacks (assuming for the sake of argument it was the Russians, it could very well have physically occurred from a Manhattan Starbucks), and based on what we know about the server setup it's not like the hack required particular technical sophistication or traceable 0-days.

Conversely, there are ample reasons for the intelligence community to pin it on their historic enemy, rather than the more likely Murder on the Orient Express scenario where absolutely everyone paying attention hacked every grotesquely unsecured setup, or the insider-threat scenario.

Hey, whatever happened to Seth Rich?

And if the "intelligence community" isn't actively targeting insiders at least as a pure pen-testing contingency, why aren't they?
>This assertion confuses me.

I suspect that you're confusing fail2ban and port-knocking (or using fail2ban as a port-knocker).

The point of fail2ban is to prevent an attacker from brute-forcing your server. In a key-only config, the chances of getting brute forced is smaller (by a few orders of magnitude) than getting hit by an asteroid and having the server get hit by an asteroid, so fail2ban doesn't really help.

_In theory_, the same would be true for port-knocking.

However, in practice, sshd can have security holes which a malicious scanner could exploit. And while port-knocking doesn't help against a determined attacker (it's subject to MITM, replay-attacks), it does help with defense-in-depth.
SSH is fine. Stacking extra stuff on top of SSH to create a defense-in-depth stack for it SSH is what's silly. Just disable passwords and use SSH.
So perhaps you will care to elaborate this a bit more?
The intro tutorial tends to show you the low-level/more-code-but-infinitely-customizable way a thing really works, and then once you understand that, introduce the convenient abstractions on top of it that make common cases simpler/less code. So keep reading :)
That too, in which case sneering at them is plain ol' snobbery.

No one is making McMansion haters buy one or live in one.

Me, I can't imagine why anyone would willingly live in San Francisco or New York City, but people obviously do. I just don't feel the need to write snobby articles criticizing them for their lifestyle choices.
You always have to install something or it must exist first. Node, FCC, clang, Ruby, Python... you just need to think of rustup as the the equivalent of getting you rust compiler environment setup.
A lot -- maybe most -- QSAs would absolutely flag an analytics script on a checkout page as a security issue, though they probably wouldn't consider it a pass/fail issue. PCI-DSS is a viral system, infecting every system that comes into contact with a covered environment. I've seen email servers and phone dialers get scoped in because they were used by employees handling payment card data.
Don't integrated units produce less heat? Do you mind expanding on this so I know what you are referring to?
This would be fine for me, because I'm a photographer that uses only a subset of smartphone features. I'd like to have a camera that performs well as a camera and can make calls if I need it to.
Why does the "intelligence community" refuse to give this as their source of attribution?
Totally. Double the cost of the house materials to get bathroom downstairs and a proper master bedroom/bath and make everything bigger. It's still less that $100k. That's a lot of money left over for land, labor, air condition, electricity and all the rest.

You couldn't touch that today, as evidence by the fact that most new builds under $500k aren't even remotely comparable.
Sounds pretty risky, even if they solved the technical side of it there is by no means a proven market.
> There is no reason for them to not source the evidence they're using to attribute it to the Russians.

Well, what if that evidence was gathered via extra-legal means?
Not that I think its a particularly good idea, but, you could make a law like that.

I suppose, the ban on disposable products in food service and shopping (styrofoam and plastic bags) already is.
$200k buys a lot of house in the vast majority of American cities in 2016.
We are using Elixir/Cowboy at https://www.honeybadger.io to receive log drain data from our customers' Heroku apps. It's reliable and fast, but deployment has been a sort point (we're spoiled by Capistrano). I recently changed the deployment to elasticbeanstalk with the multiple docker image approach, and that has been much nicer.

The ecosystem is still young -- a lot like Rails was in the early days -- so there are rough edges, but I'm betting they will get sorted out, just like they did in Rails land.
The solution is for people to stop using blockquote formatting for text and reserve it for it's intended puprose of quoting code and retaining formatting.
Sure, stealing someone's autonomy seems like the natural course of life.

As saddening as seeing that happen can be, stealing from someone "for is own good" is still stealing.
In Air France first class there are microphones in the seats, to record the conversations of any businessmen travelling to France.
Go go armlinux Internet of Things bot army!
OK - does anyone know, how close are we to these trained neural nets passing the turing test for human creativity? Because I feel like we're going to pass it in my lifetime.
I just keep wondering what it is in particular though. Here's why: I'm Swiss. We have a strong conservative party (~30%, the largest party actually) that closely aligns with the NIMBYs. We have direct democracy, a strong tool to shut down any new law if people don't like it, and basically the main tool of opposition (our local and national governments are pretty much all shared between all larger parties, so there isn't really an opposition in the form of a party, rather it's the people's referendums). We also have very strong neighbourhood protection laws that make it such that modestly large hobby groups can get together and shut down large projects. Example: A football stadium project in Zurich was shut down this way. We also have very strong protection of 'historical sites', that goes as far as protecting 19th century industrial buildings in places (one such was actually moved by 20m to make way for a train track recently... absolutely nuts).

So, in total, I don't really get how it could get any worse for large public projects. And yet Switzerland in general and Zurich in particular is opening up new tunnels, streetcar lines, local train lines, viaducts, you name it, every other year or so. Zurich's public transit network in particular is crazy dense. When I first saw SF main station I thought I must have gotten off by accident in some local backwater, that's how disparate the situation is. Honestly, my 10'000 people hometown's train station probably almost sees about as much foot traffic as SF main station. And that's not even talking about Japan, which is another level of crazy.

Anyways, it still remains a mystery to me.
Completely agree. I live in Sacramento, air conditioning is a must.

But this house was sold to average humans, in contrast to Savile Row suits.

I think we need to embrace the healing power of "and" here: the modern amenities and size are great, but we've lost something very significant in the materials and aesthetic quality (regardless of taste, I have seen well done houses in nearly every style save brutalism) far out of proportion to what we pay for housing.
If you buy a piece of property in a place that puts certain restrictions on what you can do with it that's all baked into the price.

I don't see that anyone has a right to live in any particular place, and much of what people like about the city is a result of "Real Estate NIMBY-ism". Also, it's hard to see how "a few entitled people" control what people are doing with their property, unless that's become new slang for "the majority of voters".
I wouldn't call our playgrounds protected. They had driveways between the actual buildings and the playground, and cars went there occasionally. But the drivers were generally well aware that there'd be kids around, and drive carefully there.

Sidewalks, yeah, I'll grant you that. It's still the thing that amazes me most about US - that so many roads here plainly don't have any sidewalks. I'm used to seeing them on literally every road that is in a populated area. Even villages usually had them!
Certainly, this election offers little hope for curbing the surveillance state or the military-industrial complex. Trump is probably an awful person, but he doesn't really cultivate a different image from that on the stump. Even when his opponents think they have a real bombshell (he doesn't respect women!!1! how could anyone have guessed based on his marital history?!?), it seems to have little effect on his popularity.

I only intended to point out that various agencies do have interests in the outcome of elections.
Would using a dedicated phone number (sim) that is not shared with any other service protect you from this? Basically nobody besides Google and you would know of this number. In India dual sim phones are very common and I've been thinking of getting a second sim (phone number) for this purpose.
Try making a web app rerenders the DOM on any state change, it will be extremely slow--the browser doesn't diff. :) That's why vDOM & diffing is necessary. Also so UI inputs don't lose focus / selection state / etc.
The biggest objection seems to be from the urban sprawl they (help) create and the externalities that causes everyone else.

So even phrasing it as some sort of taste, quality or architectural design issue doesn't make sense to me.
Do you keep track of Android releases?

edit: https://appcanary.com/vulns made my browser crawl. Please fix that page.
That's a reasonable point, California is crazy and perhaps coloring my views.