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> It's highly decentralized, machines are not connected to the internet, implemented in many different ways, which means that they would have to do many attacks many different places without being discovered to even have an effect.

Or modify the program loaded on the machines before they're distributed. It's probably easier than you think.
The amount of pure salt and hatred in this thread only proves his point, guys. I thought this was hacker news. Where's the substantive discussion on the impact of hacker news and reddit on the newest generation of programmers?
Ever wanted to find out what happens when you rm -rf / --no-preserve-root

Well now you can find out.
My vision is only slightly nearsighted, so I'm certainly not a candidate for LASIK (or PRK).

But I did try getting married; definitely one of the worst decisions I ever made in my life.

Luckily there weren't any kids involved.

According to statistics, you're significantly less than 50% likely to have a happy marriage, so it's not a very good gamble.
There's a finite number of error classes that lead to codd injection that causes our biggest problems. Some languages prevent them by default, some tools prove their absence, some methods react when they happen, and some OS strategies contain the damage. There's also CPU dedigns for each of these. Under regulations, companies can just use stuff like that to vastly simplify their production and maintenance of software with stronger security.
You're not supposed to ask those questions. ;)

However making money in those two years is nothing unusual.
The video is pretty cool, imo. I'd definitely be interested in exploring it in VR (I noticed the article links to a trailer for an app that does something similar).

That said, it only really bears a vague resemblance to the original painting. If you remove all the sexual and religious elements, you end up with something very different.
Implementation is everything. Many years ago I was first to market with what are now called Intelligent Lights (moving stage lights). We were incredibly naive and under-funded and got blown out of the water by Vari*lite (funded by the band Genesis).

So, no, you don't have to give up: just do it better.
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I'm not sure how you got that impression but they still have huge deployments of Cassandra.
You seem to have a pretty warped perspective. It's a internet message board, not an emergency room operating table.
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I think it's crucial for Gmail, because the popularity of email-based verification means that if you lose your email account you lose everything. Including the presidency, in John Podesta's case!

I also use it for Bitbucket and Githib, but I take your point and also hope it becomes a widespread standard.
The Taliban threatens US security because after the next terrorist attack on US soil that kills a couple thousand Americans, our legislators will enact laws that will rip the limited constitutional protections we still have left to shreds.
> software solution is not realistic.

I would expect such a role to be holistic; to consider the entire system and ways it could fail. The boundaries between sub-systems would be high on the list of targets; software-software, software-hardware, hardware-hardware.

It's not a matter of siding with anyone, it's about accepting that an error has been made at some level, and asking if there are general purpose strategies for increasing the probability of identifying errors without having to build a simulation. Simulations of course have all the same problems - they're complex and therefore expensive and will contain defects.

Regarding the other point about probabilistic models compensating for sensor failures; it depends on which sensors fail and when. Parts of a descent are highly predictable, so e.g. if you know height and you're in free-fall then you can model pretty accurately where you're likely to be in +t seconds, and can use that as a prior for sensory input. OTOH if you're in the final landing stage using retro-thrusters then feedback sensors are paramount to doing landing correctly.

I accept that a probabilistic model would be more expensive to develop; initially anyway, and therefore may be unrealistic with the resources available.
Tangentially related - For anyone flying international out of JFK in New York there's a Shake Shack in terminal 4 the international terminal now.

Its a nice option to option to have among otherwise bleak choices.
Obama's overtime rule intentionally extended the threshold to cover employees who were employed in a bona fide executive, administrative, or professional capacity. The article mentions that more than 4 million workers would benefit - this was his administration's estimate of the number of such employees that would become non-exempt, used to justify the rule change. The previous salary threshold, on the other hand, was set at a level low enough that any employee earning below it was obviously employed in a non-exempt role.
Perhaps for Zed the "current generation" of programmers are those who are still learning, rather than NodeJS brothers - since his book focuses on beginners - so for you, you'd be in the previous, previous generation of programmers and both of you are complaining about the same generation.
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"Conversely, if there are concurrent changes to a single field, only one will be retained, which is also what we want."

They are wrong though. As HN submission illustrates, people want some order and eventual consistency, not a rule to select a single field during concurrent changes. And this is where a Lamport timestamp could help.
The reason is because, frankly, Venezuela doesn't have enough locally produced goods.

The currency stuff is just a symptom of genuine lack of supply of goods/wealth.
> Guns are only banned for normal citizens.

Right, that's the problem.
IBM to pay more than $30m in compensation for Australian census fail
I second other people's responses that you should clean this up and add a lot of substance.

Often the best comments start off exactly like yours: it's clear you feel very strongly about the issue, so edit it and say how/why!! list the points that irked you.
Just look at https://news.ycombinator.com/active (via https://news.ycombinator.com/lists, linked at the bottom of each page).

It's literally the first rule of HN moderation that we don't suppress stories that are negative about YC or YC startups. More precisely, when stories like that appear, we moderate them less than we usually would. The reason is precisely what you said: long term trust is the most important thing. Also, before being moderators of HN, we're users ourselves, and wouldn't want the site to be moderated that way.
The order has to be random or you can trace votes to individuals if you keep the order in which they voted.
Is the author underestimating the importance of the open, standard, non-profit, publicly-funded Internet vs all the for-profit private nets that got nowhere close to its impact? I think not.

The private networks are still making walled gardens with no innovation in fiber space with innovative, walled gardens in Internet space. Same old same old doing nothing of significance with pure self-interest unless building it on what government created and partly subsidizes. The latter groups usually also plateu into stagnation sucking profit while the open, less-selfish models grow in new ways.
Maybe they are thinking of Facebook.
It doesn't fix the problem. It just enriches the people who are printing the money.

The solution to Venezuela's problem is to produce more goods, either for internal use or to trade/export those goods, so that other goods can be imported.
I use RethinkDB and I don't feel screwed. It still works great and has a future in open source land. I don't see what the big deal is.
Those risk numbers aren't really valid for everyone, for all activities. The steps thing, for instance, is BS for most people; steps are a serious danger, of course, to elderly people, which is why the mortality number is so high for them. For healthy adults under retirement age, the risk isn't remotely as high.

Similarly, your risk of dying from getting hit by an asteroid are actually pretty significant according to some sources. Do you know how many people in history have actually died from an asteroid strike? Probably zero, at least in the last couple millenia, and almost certainly zero in the last century. But the risk is still pretty high because if a giant earth-killer asteroid hits the planet, we're all dead, or a city-killer asteroid could cause massive devastation. A small one hit a Russian city a few years ago and 1000 people were injured.

According to Wired, your risk of dying from an asteroid is higher than by lightning strike:
https://www.wired.com/2013/02/asteroid-odds/

So you have to take some of these with a grain of salt. Car accidents, like the steps thing, probably also affect different places differently. Cars are much more deadly in some 3rd-world nations, for instance; does that 1/606 statistic include those? And death rates per mile traveled are probably higher in some places than others (rural vs. urban). And they're also probably higher for drunk drivers (though obviously the drunks do kill innocent people too), and possibly lower for small children (because they're better protected in car seats).
If you think Apple is anywhere near as a evil as Google you should rethink your priotities.

I used to think that Apple was worse, but seeing Google these last 3-5 years, its exceptionally worse.

And I still use google services, I said that my work uses Google Apps, so I'm stuck with that for now.
I'm going to seem like an elitist prick, but in my opinion DJing is absolutely useless if you don't produce/compose. Basic 2 decks DJing is fucking boring, learn how to play instruments and all the theory behind pop music, then figure out the software and hardware to play live sets. Obviously you're going to need to understand the basics of mixing to play live sets, but playing a regular DJ set in front of an audience to me is the same thing as covering stairway to heaven or wonderwall. Keep practicing until you're actually good. All of my friends who could play instruments had a much easier time getting into producing than the people who never learned a single scale. And it's not just the composition aspect, it's all the sound design, sampling and just understand the programs that gets easier.
Each has its pros and cons in software and hardware. But judging from the Pixel reviews I've read it's on par with the iPhone from a performance, touch latency and UI fluidity perspective. And this is all without Google producing their own silicon yet. As for security, which OS gets monthly security patches? It's not as if iOS security is impenetrable because you just need to look at the number of CVE's raised against it each year. And if you're going to use 0day bounties as a metric then you should also realise that there's just more demand for iOS exploits then there are for Android exploits due to the calibre of targets that have iOS devices. And to imply that Android is simply not hardened or built with much security in mind is ridiculous in my opinion. Security is a challenge for all popular OS's, but for all of the security issues it's had there has yet to be the so called armageddon these shock-jock journalists have all predicted at one time or another. I guess all of the mitigation strategies are working quite well not to mention the side benefit of exploits being device dependant. Meanwhile, every security nightmare you read or hear about always involves Windows.

>the problem is that the Android ecosystem is brutally fragmented.

Looks like Android now has company.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/ios-also-has-a-fragmentation-pr...
I've taken to calling it the 'overheated discussion detector' because it's not always about flamewars. And yes, we do turn it off when a story and thread are high-quality. We don't necessarily see every case of that but we do review most of them.
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Renaissance Technologies is, somewhat famously, not a HFT shop.
Since it's so close to the aesthetics of an iPhone the same must be true.
Thinking Machines and Transmeta come first to my mind. I'm foggy on details around Thinking Machines, but I vividly remember hype and lustrous lies/promises media pushed about Transmeta.
cassandra never claimed to be a consistent distributed database. its really quite sad that someone had to find that out the hard way.
The "deplorables" get the vote, too, no matter that they have "wrong" opinions and "deny" facts.
I'm a fan of Rain City Burgers just north of the U-District, at 65th and Roosevelt. Also, the happy hour burger at Jak's steakhouse near U-Village is great.
> genial

That sounds ... German. :)
Haircut drone.
Any idea how I can get them to ship to India?
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It's a lot more nuanced than that as well with the US. A very small portion of the US population lives in a location with a murder rate at 3.9 or higher, because murder in the US is hyper concentrated (a few areas of Chicago have more murder annually than all of Japan). People like to pretend the US is a wasteland of murder, when in fact the very extreme majority of people in the US live in areas with murder rates comparable to Canada.
I think I would attach a PGP signature to my reddit posts from now on....
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there are many sides to this.

for one, the CEO should be thinking "oh shit what did I do", because he's now responsible for every event on reddit. good job, I can't wait to see what happens, if anything.

for two, it really shows how violent people are towards those with differing political opinions.

note, I'm not referring to /r/The_Donald, I'm referring to everybody who thinks that /r/The_Donald should be shown the door with no other reason than "I don't agree with their views".

you're shouting at someone to shut up because you don't like what they're saying instead of arguing.

note, I don't like the folks there either very much, but they are people, with opinions, and they founded a place to share them, and it just so happens that they're pretty loud and easily spotted.

have some decency. stop calling for a total ban or witch hunts on the people you don't like, because you look exactly like them to the outsider. and outsiders are all over.

develop some common decency. your fellow man isn't as terrible as you think he is. polarization will only cause more problems.

spez, the CEO of reddit, can't make this conclusion, which is kind of funny. if you can't do this, then can your users? can the users who're friends of the users? do you understand how this represents your community? clearly not.

I'll be sitting back and watching the outcome. at the most, it's social commentary. at the least, it's cheap entertainment.
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That was a poorly chosen example since interest in horseback riding has declined a lot, at least in relative terms, compared to the pre car days. Today, auto racing as a competitive sport is probably more popular too.

Personally, the fact that computers are better at chess than humans makes me less interested in the game so I'm a bit biased.
> One common scheme electronic voting machines help prevent is forced votes. A bad guy gets their hand on a single empty ballot and writes the name of the candidate he wants to win on it. He then comes to you and threatens you and your family.

I'd be willing to bet money that this scenario has never, ever happened.
Thanks for your comment. I should have specified uBlock Origin; I meant it as, as you said, uBlock is abandonware.
War in Georgia was pretty fast, isn't?

At other hand, Ukraine has USA guaranties[1], which were absolute guaranties before Obama, but now they are useless.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum_on_Securit...
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ok I see it, but this statement is just fundamentally wrong here:

>capacitor can be charged at any voltage as long as you cut off the supply when the voltage across the capacitor reaches a certain threshold

The cap in your circuit is not charging at any voltage, it is charging at Vn001 - its own voltage (the electrical potential created by virtue of its capacitance). In your circuit the only modelled resistance (and the drop in voltage between supply and the cap) is across R1.

This is all to explain the point which you disagreed with but is iron cast - you cant run power into a phone at 50volts to fast charge its 4volt battery without a missing, quite impossibly cool and small voltage transformer inside the phone to make the idea work.

Im not pointing this out to you to win an argument, Im explaining something which I didnt understand either when I began experimenting with ltspice and making charge circuitry. Take the advice or leave it now, but if you keep on with electronics you will find out sooner or later - "power stores charge and discharge > directly < at their own voltages" and if you dont have enough resistance between different electric potentials - take heed 'fun' will ensue of the dwarven kind ;)
They use big data techniques to find weak correlation in data and invest moderate amounts of money in them. They never make a large return on any given investment, but they make very persistent returns; over the long run this adds up.

The limiting factor behind what they do is that it doesn't scale.

> How did these guys make 98.5% in 2000 and 33% in 2001 in the depths of the .com collapse of Wall Street?

The name "hedge fund" comes from the concept of a hedge; a strategy that will underperform in good times, but over perform in bad ones. 2001 is the exact time you'd expect a hedge fund to do well, especially one focused on dispassionate data analysis.
It's still not clear to me whether you actually tried to work with the Mozilla devs or if this is still fueled from your initial (in my opinion rather rushed) statement and some form of false pride.

But yeah, I'd just like to say that in case you did not do your best to maybe get to a solution with the Mozilla devs, that I'd appreciate it, if you could try again.

I don't personally use your add-on, but I know that a lot of people do and I think that this initial discourse to get some of the APIs sorted out is rather important.

Even if you don't end up writing the extension, it'd be good to have reasonable APIs at least drafted. So that maybe someone can offer a half-assed Down Them All, which maybe is already good enough for some people, and then maybe that add-on's developer can continue working with Mozilla to get a proper API fully sorted.

You should also consider that Mozilla started out with this "webby" state from Chrome. Anything modifying the UI and so on still needs to be defined. Once they have some of the other UI-APIs worked out, it'll be easier for Mozilla to fit new libraries into there and then it'll also be easier for Mozilla to work with your API needs.
I worked on the 2002 model. It stored the signed voting data on a removable CF card which was under a tamper proof seal. After installation the machines were kept physically secure and, during the election they are never under the supervision of a single person. After the election the machines are returned to local elections authorities (if they are too late, they are invalidated) where the memory card is read and totalized.

We designed a vote printer that would allow the voter to see a paper copy before storing it, but it was never used.
brb, off to rm -rf / --no-preserve-root.

Edit.

ls -al /
ls: command not found

etc.
What is Shaum-style E-Cash? Was this the old Digicash? Wasn't the idea similar to the old American Express Travelers Checks where the cash was tied to serial number?

I am curious how does this style allow banks to better control the money supply? Better than say a Federal Reserve requirement which is also an electronic ledger of sorts?
Good point. I have a cognitive bias against startups because I think what they're doing isn't complex, but it is fallacious.
Burgerville is hardly nationwide but I agree they have some very tasty burgers. Fresh, local, seasonal produce + as far as I can tell their beef is legit (no antibiotics or hormones, sustainably ranched) + they have a vegan option if you're into that.
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I see, that makes sense. Cheers.
https://twitter.com/ftgfop1/status/774011830733647872
They don't necessarily have to scale down to get the benefits of AI in side smaller devices such as robotics. There's no reason why the robotics devices can't or won't be equipped with a variety of radios to facilitate communication.

The AI agent can easily be somewhere centralized where power isn't a big deal.

Then the robot stops being analogous to an animal with it's own brain and starts being something more like an appendage.

Or maybe they'll be like those magical mops in Fantasia.
I hope this style of advertisement becomes the next generation of the age-old "I MUST BE CRAZY TO BE OFFERING THESE DEALS" that car salesmen have made popular.

"OUR ROBOTS ARE MALFUNCTIONING AND OFFERING CUHRAAAAZY DEALS"
Quite. gcp is lamenting the same conflation as msbarnett.
Seems a little harsh to label it as absolutely useless. How is it any different from learning to play the piano to play your favorite piano pieces? Or am I misunderstanding what you mean by produce?
There's the Jetson boards, which are ARM + an NVidia GPU wrapped into one small package.
what about using redis for distributed locks? (assuming you are not using redis cluster)
Encrypt both, but only advertise the higher tier as being encrypted. Customers that place a high importance on encryption will buy the better plan. Those that don't will buy the lesser one.

You have minimal benefit for not encrypting all data anyway (more technical complexity and liability). Plus, there isn't a court anywhere that will get upset at you for selling a tier that's better / more featured than advertised.
I am a huge fan of nonparametric statistics, but lots of non-Gaussian distributions are often 'good enough' for normality assumptions to be ok.
This has come up in many of the related threads -

"Demographics, Not Hacking, Explain The Election Results"

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/demographics-not-hacking...

That aside, we should, of course, work on securing the vote.
Hey, we interacted a little over 2 years ago when I was talking about a hand-coded port of Love2D to the web using Moonshine. Eventually the dependencies for Love did get to the point where I could do an emscripten port. Just wanted you to know that your project and our little interaction has stuck with me.

The emscripten port of Love.js: https://github.com/TannerRogalsky/love.js
Or didn't do, but was wrongly accused of doing.
This headline massively misconstrues Snowden's role and technical capacity in any such voting machine hack. Snowden merely said that it could be done, and pointed to a video published by Cylance.
I currently live in Venezuela and I'm lucky enough to work both with my own local business and with income in foreign currency. People like me are having a field day here, mostly because inflation does not affect you directly when you just keep rising the price of your goods/services. And as for the foreign currency you earn, it means that very quickly I was able to purchase a car and a house and pay off debt in a way that not even in my wildest dreams I would have done it.

The govt is definitely destroying the economy, but just like in war economies, some people would benefit while a lot more will suffer. In here, the people suffering are people that depend on a wage.

I have stopped complaining about it because there is no real political leadership anywhere willing to do what is necessary to fix it, so the party will keep going on until they cannot pay their international obligations and the whole thing will start falling under its own weight.