skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. Long cable with a pinhole camera to "see"
2. Another long metal cable with a "loop" at the end to grab the dog.
3. Aneasthetic gas to temporarily put the dog into slumber so that the extraction is not stressful.

Send a cable with a camera along with an "extractor" (which can grab the dog by its body.)
Our team is distributed and we are not at the right stage for such a massively competitive application. Very few of the most promising startups are able to be accepted to YCombinator.
AirBnB has entered into tax collection and information sharning agreements with State governments. Can we not add a system for sharing information for legitimate police noise complaints? I think we can.

I would like to see us come up with creative and tech based solutions for potential problems with vacation rentals, rather than throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

There are a lot of good coming from vacation rentals, and a lot of people love them.

I am just very much against the idea that if any new thing inconveniences or even potentially inconveniences anyone in even a minor way, we should outright blanket ban it. And that is what the people pushing for punitive bans are saying.

Find solutions. Penalize bad actors. Don't practice group punishment. Screen guests with more and better data. Don't just ban the "other"
Whoah. Hang on there. Crypto specialists aren't the people lobbying loudly for PGP-encrypted email in 2017. They're the ones who made the world's most popular messaging application double-ratchet deniably encrypted by default without the userbase even noticing.
In theory, any heat generated without computation is a waste. I'm sure it's pretty tough to actually make that work at scale, so excited to see this!
Sent, thank you.
Noted - thank you.
Hi scopatz, thanks for taking time to comment here. I got the feeling from the other comments here that indeed this blog post was kind of a scam.

I played with xonsh a little bit yesterday and went trough the tutorial, so far I'm pleased with it. I changed it as my default shell for the fun today, but damn, it's hard to re-educate my muscle memory. I will have to do some changes in order to make it usable:

- Customize the VI binding (I have some weird keyboard layout)

- Replace my aliases, scripts, functions, and `source` command that are [ba|z]sh specific (like ranger-cd [1]). This will be time consuming.

- Find why `ranger` takes so much time to quit.

I also have kind of a weirdo bug, but I want to be sure to understand where it's coming from before opening an Issue: It slow as hell when I try to open a terminal, and I have a warning about branch-timeout. The problem is that my home repository is not a literally a git repository. I still have some dotfiles versioned as explained in [2], but if I call `git ` commands from the home it says it's not a git repository, so I don't get why this git-related timeout.

Anyway, I will see if I try to continue right away, or if I wait a few weeks for some holidays in order to find time for the transition.

Thanks for this software!

[1] https://gist.github.com/ha7ilm/37c4272b1df6fbfdb0df304642522...

[2] https://developer.atlassian.com/blog/2016/02/best-way-to-sto...
Nice work. I have several web apps that run on EC2 instances, that have my users uploading via Browser -> EC2 -> S3. This can cause high latency on some of my smaller EC2 boxes, which is annoying, it else forces Elastic Beanstalk to spool up more instances unnecessarily when it thinks traffic is being flooded when large files are being uploaded.

I've always wondered about the best strategy to go 'serverless' with the file uploads and have the user's browser essentially upload direct to S3, and this tutorial gives a great insight into that - thanks.
> I still am not sure what the technical meaning of "isolated" is here.

Technically, it means an object of finite spatial extent surrounded by vacuum, and nothing else in the entire universe. Obviously that's an idealization. :-) But it makes the mathematical model tractable.

> wouldn't such an object continue heating up "infinitely"

Not necessarily; it might reach a stable state where it can't radiate any more energy. Cold white dwarfs, cold neutron stars, and cold planets are possible examples of such states. ("Cold" here basically means "at absolute zero", i.e., in the ground state for its configuration of particles.)
I think violence is only a pretty fringe part of the movement. It's like KKK members who support Trump. They definitely exist but they are a very small percentage of his actual supporters
How is using a node.js server to generate signed requests to upload files onto S3 servers, "serverless"?
My cherished dream is no more "because SIMD is currently only supported on nightly" excuses :-)
Did you do the catcha? It might think you're a cat and that's your selfie.
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Those are all justice problems, but you are proposing to fix them with "revenge" type solutions.

Is this maybe a cultural thing? Is vengeance a commonplace solution to problems in your culture?
You also lose time by slowing down and speeding up but that notwithstanding, you may have fewer intermediate stops with HSR (as is the case with Acela vs. Regional service) but you can't cut out intermediate stops. All you have to do is look at Shinkansen routes.
No, we are not German. We are a distributed team and would like to make connections in Germany "the startup capital of Europe" but if this is impossible we will just bootstrap and then later raise money in America like everyone else.
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Does a test have to have 0% false negative rate for it to be useful? (I don't think so.)
This is interesting, but I find most texts like this mentally stimulating but lacking in practical suggestions that I have time to understand. Any suggestions for similar work but with a more practical bend to it?
Slowly fill the hole with very salty water. The dog will float to the surface.

The stated dimensions will require about 7000 gallons of water. This is the capacity of a large-ish tank truck. 70+ meter hoses should be readily available.
How many non-technical people do you know that use encrypted email on their personal email accounts?

There's nothing wrong with using PGP, for example, but if I found out my totally non-technical neighbor was using PGP, I would probably still give them the benefit of the doubt, but I would raise a flag in my mind and watch for other flags.
I wish it were that easy. I am an ex-foster parent, and the thought of losing my children when I had them as foster children tore me up. It takes months and months of waiting, courts, CPS visits, parent visits; and, all the while, you (the parent) are living in a limbo. Should you plan the Christmas vacation for 3 people or 4? Should you buy birthday gifts a few months out if a gift is on sale? Every single one of the families in my foster placing agency felt the same way.

I am sorry, but your statement just doesn't hold true at all. I think that when people report facts like those, it makes it that much harder for foster parents, and for the system to recruit parents and volunteers.
>I'm not aware of any other business that is legally required to record every customer and link them to RL identities. You can still buy things with cash.

Go buy a gun sometime. Or non-prescription cold medications that contain pseudoephedrine. Or prescription medications. Or auto insurance.

However, my response was not about identities specifically, but about whether society should really care if the things that it requires organizations to do as a prerequisite of doing business are inexpensive. Sometimes we make the judgment that it really is worthwhile to require a pharma lab to spend half a billion dollars before we let them sell their new pill to the public.

>Not in the Western world.

Do you not consider Europe as part of the Western world?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/sep/21/french-go...
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As an "executive" myself who doesn't actually code on a day-to-day basis, I can assure you I am still very creative, because I advise and direct the developers on my team using my experience, knowledge and "big picture" view of the whole company.

Why, just yesterday I made some suggestions that resulted in a 20% improvement in one of our API calls, and I didn't code a single line.

You underestimate the value of executives by not valuing their experience and ability to direct.
Sounds like the (very crude) interpretation of a foreigner who's never been to the US.
Even offers CSS theming: https://blog.fefe.de/?css=fefe-gut.css (compare to without!)
In which case -- an equivalent Rust program would be welcome.
Could you be more specific than "angel syndicate"? Thank you.

We do have a track record of shipping in this domain.
Is this the line you're referencing? "But after the recent executive order aimed to block people on the
basis of nationality and religion, a line was crossed."

How are these false claims? The executive order directly mentions religious grounds and allows "minority religions" in the 7 listed majority Muslim countries to be allowed in while prohibiting the rest.
Grep? Is that something I need a sysadmin for? /s
For Debian 8 (Jessie): There's a newer build of Nginx in jessie-backports with static OpenSSL 1.0.2: http://serverfault.com/questions/775298/debian-jessie-nginx-...
Ask HN: Beta launch strategy: PR vs. no PR
What's the best strategy when launching a private beta app in regards to trying to get PR vs launching quietly for only the people on the waiting list?

Trying to get PR for the beta launch:

+ Lot of visitors and potential users

+ Reduce risk of competitors stealing the unique ideas of the app if you get covered first

- Risk that many bugs will hit a lot of people resulting in negative marketing

Quiet launch:

+ Can sort out the major bugs before contacting the press

- Less users gets to test it

- Competitors can steal the unique ideas of the app without anyone knowing
Stop hesitating. Just go for it
1. Did the suspect download the document "Imv-Score-Final"?
If he truly was a completely ordinary person by all outward appearances, then no questionnaire would identify him, and this one doesn't aim to. I don't know much about the Quebec suspect, but it seems like many of the Ideology, Research And Planning, and Social sections might have applied to him. I don't think this questionnaire is biased towards one type of terrorist.

In fact it seems like the whole point of this is to help agents identify less obvious suspects, so they don't only focus on the guy who keeps traveling back and forth from Syria and retweeting ISIS.
This is a joke right?

Unix philosophy has long been that the person with physical access to the machine owns it. This would only be acceptable for a very specific class of compute jobs where nobody cares if you hack them. Like computation for charitable purposes. You could never host peoples personal or business data in this. Furthermore bandwidth would be limited and unreliable, as would power.
earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13637126
Sounds like we need some sort of way to vet people coming into the country?

Vetting has long been a part of the US travel visa system.
Turns out someone already had that idea and we do vet people coming into the country.
network bandwidth is of course the biggest limiting factor. =/

Designing a data center with 1.5 mb/s upload between nodes would be.....not fun.

Excited to see if they can make a business out of this.

edit: also would suck that for half the year your data center gets turned off.
Wasn't there a rule against overtly political discussion on HN? Or did they get rid of that?
> I am secure in my knowledge that Islam does not encourage terrorism

There is not a universal flavor of Islam that is accepted by all Muslims. Islam is a decentralized religion with hundreds of factions that all have different interpretations of the Koran and its teachings.
Would you also hold the post office responsible if they delivered such material? Or the telephone company?
Oh man, there need to be more stupid hackathons. Does anyone know the process to organize one? I'd be happy to help get one going here in the Netherlands.
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Sorry but that narrative has a basis in reality. Islam was started with the goal of expansion and that has not changed enough. Every territory taken over by Muslim rulers underwent subtle or not so subtle islamization. I was born on the Eastern border of the Christian world and the tensions have been very real there for many centuries. My great grandfather was killed for refusing to convert into Islam and some of his murderers were his neighbors whom he trusted and lived with together for ages. This was in an area where my ancestors lived in for many centuries and that was periodically taken over by Muslim countries. There are many examples of peaceful coexistence and the majority of Muslims are great people, but I personally would not raise my kids in a Muslim-majority country.
Never had any SNI issues with Safari. Could it be the mobile network provider (which tends to insert things like NATed IPv6 that can cause weirdness), or did it also fail over wifi?
Couldn't the blockchain be employed to do proof-of-key-ownership? I mean it's decentralized and trusted and all
Unfortunately for our ecommerce site this just isn't the at all an option. 3 months ago we analysed our traffic and found that 12% of our desktop traffic didn't support it (Win XP) and about 8% of our mobile traffic didn't support it (Android older than 4.0). I'm not losing 10% of my revenue just so I don't need to get a couple extra IPs from AWS. And even better, AWS doesn't actually charge me for the IPs. Once IPs are priced in line with their scarcity, I'll start caring. Today when I can get them for free? Not worth it.
Why ?
They could embed some sort of a trusted platform module with crypto and (physical) intrusion detection, just like payment terminals.

If you open the case, the system deletes the keys and you can say bye-bye to your contract.
Presumably warm extremely-salty water, or it might get hypothermic.

However, if it's somehow wedged in there, the dog could drown.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13638709 and marked it off-topic.
What's wrong with doing all of this on the front-end? I recently did just that after generating the signature and policy locally.

See this guide: https://aws.amazon.com/articles/1434
haha thanks i'm a real keyboard n00b
We aren't discussing one-time delivery but an ongoing availability as it is present on the website and would be delivered for weeks/months before a court order to take it down was received. This is more akin to a broadcast where someone picks the channel (url) than the example you provided.

That isn't the same thing as a sealed point-to-point non-public delivery of a message and to imply it is equal and equivalent is disingenuous.
Why would I take the time to answer any of your questions? You just wrote upthread that, because I have a background in security consulting, everything I write must be designed to cause security problems so I can line my pockets.

No thanks.
> The people that said you wouldn't be able to afford an apartment in overcrowded SF were dead-on right. The people who predicted widespread traffic jams were right.

One doesn't need be a Malthusian to have predicted this. This is a simple consequence of Ricardo's Law of Rent, and the Tragedy of the Commons.

And in fact, the problems have been exacerbated by Malthusian-style rationing (ie Prop 13), the exact opposite of Georgist-style solutions for housing and traffic.
Yes, if only there were some sort of rigorous multi-year screening process that had been in place for several years, so we wouldn't have to ban everyone until we "figure it out".
its not a hard leap to go from edgy impressionable teenager seeing the moral relativity of "the west" to deciding to take an individual role in the jihad obligation

the "get them back" mentality of the west's constituents is incompatible with "attack anybody occupying muslim lands" mentality
Vision and language are processed by distinct brain areas, which mature at a different pace.

That doesn't rule out the possibility of grammar-like processing in visual areas.
I think this is targeted to computation needs.

But on their registration page, they ask whereas you have fibre > 100Mbits/s.
This article makes it sound like upload requests are restricted to your domain via CORS, but that is one of the pitfalls of thinking about everything through a serverless lens: while another site could not use javascript to directly upload files to your s3 bucket, a malicious user could absolutely make a backend request to receive signed tokens for uploading to your s3 bucket. Additionally, it doesn't look like the policy is locked down so they could overwrite your existing files with malicious ones.
To be fair that describes a lot of people in the US Military.
As far as I can tell, encrypted email is still how you reach out to CERT, security teams at distros such as Ree Hat, Debian and so on?

These people might not be crypto experts, but hopefully many of them are security experts.

Gpg is also how most mailing list communication is (clear-)signed - and that coupled with public archives does give a way to verify that the person that controls the key that signed release notes for this package these last five years, is the person that will be able to read this zero-rated report that is critical. (It says very little about said owners real identity, or his or her legal name)

What does FreeBSD, OpenBSD or Oracle recommend for sending sensitive information to security@<company|project>?

That said, modern email suck.

Mutt (possibly with "not much") might "suck less" - but we need many more, better (graphical) email clients. I think Fastmail's work on a json-based client protocol is interesting (not because it's json, but because every blank staring IMAP-client writing developer keep saying that there are terrible horrors laying in ambush for the unwary).

Opera had a nice, new-ish, fast mail client. Other than that I'm unaware of any serious effort to make a new, modern, easy to use IMAP client. Let alone an open source one. Or one that doesn't beg to expose library bugs by rendering html, images etc in-line - or ignore user privacy by loading external resources that enable user tracking.

I've been contemplating writing one for quite some time.
if you block tracking, i'm going to treat you like you don't exist

Are you saying that you ignore server logs?
Not necessarily... it would be impractical to use these radiators as web servers, of course. But from their video, it seems their main application is number crunching. The nodes would download the input dataset, chew on it for a while, and upload the result some time later.
Moxie and I are barely acquaintances.
the navigation options are currently whatever your terminal application uses; haven't gotten around to making custom navigation bindings
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Right but all of these discoveries aim to predict the future through modeling. In other words, they seek a model which says that if this and this occur than we can expect this result with some probability.
Was just thinking the same thing.
I wonder if anybody's done a mashup to compare/correlate GA figures with server-side ones from logs.
But hey - if you look at law enforcement as a business, then spurious/weak reasons for arrest or investigation simply increase your business flow and reasons for existing.

The problem is that the media and judiciary are completely coopted, letting the corporatization of law enforcement continue unchecked. Where is the slap-down in the courts (or court of public opinion) of police serving money instead of their constituency?

tl;dr - it's a symptom of a bigger problem.
because you don't have to provision the server yourself, and get access to one process.

so you wind up with a lot of processes across servers and virtual servers everywhere, but that is colloquially called serverless. Especially if your serverless collection of servers use javascript.
The "merger" that musk has in mind is on another level though.

You are describing what we already have, and yes, it's amazing, but it's not nearly enough to compete with the AI of the future.

If we want to be competitive, we'll need a larger bandwidth in input and output for our brains to get and put out larger amounts of data, and possibly a speed upgrade to make the necessary calculations faster.

If we don't, then we will have no chance to keep up with artificial intelligence, and if our goals don't align with the goals of the AI, then there is nothing we'll be able to do, that could be potentially very dangerous, and it's the reason Musk is saying that we need a neural lace to make this merger.
> Would that questionnaire have identified that young, quiet, white catholic terrorist killer?

Possibly, but it's difficult to say based on your description, because age, skin color, general quietness, and religion are not on the questionnaire.

But to your broader point, could a questionnaire be written well enough to reliably identify all terrorists? If it only significantly improves detection, I'd think it would be worthwhile.
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Yes. That's HOW you thwart terrorist attacks as opposed to arresting them after the fact.
I would assume it's similar to organizing a hackathon, might be harder to get sponsors though.
If you apply a test like this to a few million people you will get tens of thousands of false positives. Those will clog up the works while in the meantime your quiet unassuming terrorist will walk right by under the radar and quite possibly will kill a bunch of people.

Bad tests are worse than no tests.
I have created a skeleton project I use for new sites made of Pure CSS with a grunt workflow.

I run jinja2 templates through Grunt and it:

* Optimizes all images - this saves megabytes upon megabytes

* minfies css, html and javascript

* the static files are served via nginx.

Pure is responsive and comes in at just 3.8kb minified and gzipped.

The result is pretty close the fastest blog in the world, and it's super simple to get started with. You can put a CDN in front of it for even better performance if you like.
Oddly, this isn't the first startup proposing this idea, french startup Qarnot Computing is also in this space: http://www.qarnot-computing.com

I'm still critical of it, but it'd be interesting to see if it flies in a constrained scenario of condos/hotels/office buildings - there's already scenarios where data centers will take up entire floors or basements of buildings and channel heat into the building's hvac system.
My argument isn't that the USA performs no screening, which is a strawman argument. It's that the screening process is inadequate. That is a nice checklist, but it relies on unreliable data such as documents and iris scans.

Unless the government has every present and future terrorist's fingerprints in a database, how will scanning fingerprints be effective? It cannot be, it logically does not make sense. This logic is confirmed by FBI director Comey who told congress the same thing.

Perhaps that is where your disagreements with the "far-right" are stemming from?