skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Margins?
Profit?
Both seem like not a priority for Uber.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-20/uber-s-lo...

>The company is said to have lost at least $2 billion last year and is on track to pile up a loss of at least $3 billion this year. Those are rough figures that may underestimate how much money Uber is losing and don't include interest, taxes or stock-based compensation.
These techniques permit the CIA to bypass the encryption of WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, Wiebo, Confide and Cloackman by hacking the "smart" phones that they run on and collecting audio and message traffic before encryption is applied.
The article makes a good point: Uber seems to have conflated pushing regulatory boundaries with pushing the boundaries of decent behavior. For a company trying so hard to overturn regulatory capture they sure did let their own house become a shambles.

It's like if Edward Murrow went after McCarthy without bothering to double-check his own staff for anything that could be used against him.
The kernel is owned (or some part of the phone below the application level). The encryption only gets applied at the application level before the messages are sent down the wire.

The interception happens prior to the encryption being applied. Think of it as a dongle on the wire between your keyboard and the computer. It doens't matter if the computer is secure - the message is intercepted prior to any encryption.

This is, what I am assuming, has happened here.

Edit: lots of stuff deleted for very valid criticism, as below.
>It costs a quarter to manufacture each pill but the
>manufacturers charge several dollars for that pill.

What are the manufacturing costs for software?
But I really worry about the part where Greg was working on the effort full-time, doing it all while the other guys still worked.

Maybe because Greg so loved the idea that compensation didn't not matter to him, just the satisfaction of doing what he loves. He's a champion, and those are the guys you want around you.

And a guy like Greg will always be needed somewhere.
Institutions are generally necessary for a society to function. The only alternative that omits institutions is homesteading, and with 7+ billion people on this planet, that isn't really an option anymore.

Talking in absolutes doesn't actually aid the discussion.

Few institutions are purely good or purely evil. They are made of people, who themselves are not purely good or purely evil, who have their own motivations, some altruistic and some selfish.

We live in dynamic systems, in which institutions and individuals play a role. As a general rule all make things better in some ways and worse in others.

Transportation network companies (TNC) have produced economic winners and losers. Many people have access to more job options with less friction. Taxi drivers have seen their income shrink. The laws of supply and demand both with the network of one TNC and between the networks of multiple TNCs in competition with one another drive prices down. Driving the prices down makes transportation accessible to more people (both the more privileged and the less privileged), but it also drives down the income of those driving. Eventually self driving cars will drive down the costs further, democratizing convenient transportation further and eliminating many jobs.

Due to path dependency, humanity is heading down this path one way or another. If one institution doesn't take us in this direction, another will.

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2011/0...

It's not going to be easy. It will be fraught with challenges, technical and social. The human and social problems will likely eclipse the technological problems in both scope and magnitude, but we're going to face them either way. We've been through this before during the industrial revolution. Life is recursive. It was a painful transition, but we came out the other side with a society that was more prosperous and had more opportunities for more people to live a life free of suffering than ever before. We can either claim the sky is falling, or we can put our heads down and work on figuring out how to solve the biggest challenges of our day. No solution we come up with will be perfect. We're going to have to cooperate in the form of institutions to tackle such large problems. No institution we come up with will purely make the world a better place because there are no silver bullets.
I know it's insane to equate a human life to an animal's but this makes me so furious I want to agree. At the very least it seems we need to have repercussions in place that are so grave that these people stop trying to drive animals to extinction for their own stupid gains.
> The fact that both we and it survive proves that it must have some adaptive function

No, no, no, absolutely not, no, it doesn't. No. A feature can maintain itself in a population for a number of reasons:

- it's neutral or not detrimental enough to drive affected individuals to extinction (ie, to get them killed before they have a chance to reproduce)

- it's linked to some other trait that provides actual benefits

- it's so recent it didn't leave time to be selected against

- or, yes, it actually has some adaptive function.

But just because a feature is found does NOT "prove" anything in and of itself.

> Living in small bands of hunter-gatherers, our ancestors were primarily concerned with their social standing, and with making sure that they weren’t the ones risking their lives on the hunt while others loafed around in the cave. There was little advantage in reasoning clearly, while much was to be gained from winning arguments.

Excuse me, what?? There's little advantage in reasoning clearly while hunting prey and making tools and building traps to catch huge mean animals that can and will kill you if you do anything wrong?

And there's much to be gained from "winning arguments" in a cave, while pondering about one's social standing?? Come on.

* * *

I suggest a more simple and straightforward explanation for the limitations of "reason": our brain is, in fact, write only.

We usually don't notice it because it also has a huge capacity and so we can always write more, it never gets full.

But to one given named item corresponds a unique value, that cannot be overwritten.

If you want to store a new value you have to create a new name to store it with.

To "overwrite" something you can create lookup tables of sort, that tell you that the old value is in fact "wrong" and that said item should be associated with another, newer item. But this is costly, and so is avoided whenever possible (because the first rule of life is to be lazy, ie to conserve resources).
And "pirating" copyrighted code doesn't either, so they'd have no way of knowing anyway. Basically, anyone who would use this would likely wouldn't care if its classified or not and copyrighted or not.
Show HN: QuietModemKit, near-ultrasonic communication on iOS
This headline is extremely dangerous. The phone itself was owned. No encryption was harmed by capturing the keystrokes and audio before it reaches the application. NYTimes should be ashamed of themselves for basically lying about the nature of the hacks.
It does not matter whether he carries, there lot of people around him who would carry. And for that matter i dont even believe regular land line phone.
Ask HN: What new AWS services do you want?
Amazon keeps launching new services--they have over 40 now. What additional ones would you like to see?
I can see how ignoring the interview can be an interesting approach, but having people do some test work must be limited. I can see myself doing this for a few hours, but just setting up an environment I'm comfortable with takes half that time.
IDK, the first point of the article can't be denied, the current process is broken.
This is great, we're trying everything except what the real problem is! Look at the Martin shkreli situation, there was another one like that before too. How did patents play a role there?

High profit margins are not a bad thing, as long as people can still afford them. What we need is the proper type of regulations, I agree we need to streamline the fda process, but that alone is not going to solve things.

There are a few options I've heard, such as a special Patent for drugs which after ten years becomes a fair terms license Patent. Another one is that he government could exercise March in rights.
Firefox 52: Introducing Web Assembly, CSS Grid and the Grid Inspector
Well, we just haven't found a good control planet yet.
Thanks, got the vs_Community.exe after a bunch of tries.
Also folks should check out or comprehensive release notes: https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/news/releasenotes/vs2017-...
I'm pretty sure I have a Nokia 3310 in one cupboard or another, maybe I'll dig it out and swap my SIM to it...
If a private citizen tries to sell drugs or bomb ingredients, then extorts the buyer by threatening to tell the police, I think that would probably be illegal as well.

A lot of the trouble here is how they went about this scheme, not merely the basic idea of what they did. They repeatedly lied to defendants and courts about their operations. Some of the materials they sued over were things they didn't actually have copyright for, but they used false documents to claim that they did. Those false documents involved forged signatures and even invented a person who didn't exist. They even filed defamation lawsuits against a person whose signatures they forged, for daring to say that they hadn't signed this stuff.

Wikipedia has a huge list of the crazy stuff they've done: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prenda_Law

So, it's not just about trying to entrap people by "pirating" their own content. It's about massive fraud and abuse along the way.
I was wondering the same thing. Found this article that sums it up pretty nicely.

https://blog.gregbrockman.com/my-path-to-openai
One more thing - memory.

A Turing Machine is literally just a tape, a movable reader/writer, and a bunch of states that dictate what the reader/writer does.

As long as you have memory, the ability to write to memory, conditionals, and some form of looping, whether it's a `while` loop, a `for` loop, or a `jmp` or `GOTO` instruction, it's Turing complete.

Note that a conditional jump (`jne`, for example) satisfies both of the latter.
The moral of the story here, clearly, is that when you're one of a pair of billionaires collectively responsible for some of the most successful entrepreneurship successes in recent history, and you decide to have someone handle logistics for a new venture, make sure they're enthusiastic.
Single payer systems negotiate as one. US insurers negotiate as separate entities, so you'll get a better rate with single-payer as its a more powerful negotiator, have less waste, and better outcomes.

Why Trump supporters think they can have the benefits of single-payer while attacking it and proposing a ridiculous healthcare bill is beyond me.
I support your plea for avoiding hysteria but this stuff passed dismissal as mere conspiracy long ago. All plausible angles must be considered with this stuff. The CIA and FSB are in the business of deniability so it takes more than just a surface level reality check to discredit.
This value never ceases to confound and frustrate me. Just like the impact of littering every yard with a brightly-colored name campaign sign has on elections. It must sway some people, maybe more than biased new reporters do. So we can hate the game, but at what point can we start hating the players?
Yes-- And don't call me Shirley!
Due to licensing complexity of today's installer we just can't make the ISO for you but in the link above as you pointed out you can create your own. We're sorry for that but its what we can offer today.
Given that WASM is a stack-based language, do you think it would be a good target for a modern concatenative language? Something like, say, Kitten?

http://kittenlang.org/
> One's circumstances are seldom that much dependent upon their beliefs about the world.

You are interpreting belief in a very narrow and mysterious way. If you believe that poison is food, or that bus impacts are healthy, then you are going to have a bad time. There are many beliefs that must be correct in order to ensure survival. It isn't all relative.
> Hello world in Rust is still 2.5MB if you statically compile all the libraries in

Still? Since when? Last I checked it was 661kB for Rust vs 829kB for C, and that was quite a while ago.

http://stackoverflow.com/a/29461455/2343847
Show HN: Datahunt – Marketplace for data APIs
It is getting feedback, you can correct its results.
I think it's a bit disingenuous to conflate all homeopathic remedies with "quack" science.

Have you ever used Arnica gel on a bruise? Oscillococcinum for a flu? Extremely effective naturally derived products.
> Beliefs are the same, and a relation to "facts" or "truth" is not a requrement for their utility.

Is that statement true?

> When presented with new facts and truths we always evaluate their utility before we ascribe to them.

Did you evaluate the utility of that "fact" before believing it?

I'm not trying to be rude here, but the problem with this sort of postmodern view is that it's ultimately self-refuting.
THANK YOU. Finally someone who realizes luck is just floating around out there equally available to everyone and it's just the people who work hard enough on their bootstraps that see success. Gotcha.
> Unfortunately no desktop OS seems to be safe

What about Qubes OS?
IfLoop (http://www.tapirgames.com/App/Ifloop).

For better programming experience on touch screens.
One must make a strong justification for why treating the citizens of the world the same as an American is good for Americans.

If we treat the world like we treat our citizens, then perhaps this leads to greater prosperity, more shared understanding about the rights of man, rule of law, and how to resolve conflicts (see the lately faltering "No two countries with a McDonald's have ever gone to war with each other" rule).

Lately, this has been harder to justify as Americans have felt scared of foreign terrorism (not making a value judgment on that fear, but that the fear exists is real). Because of this the "evangelize to the world" feelings of the Cold War have given way to "protect us from the world - we need to get OURS."

Many (including me) would argue this is short sighted. Best way to combat the narrative is to talk about the impacts of retreat from the world, and of arms races, etc. Communicating nuance, history, etc is hard. :/
I find these kinds of statements ironic when daily we kill millions of cows in horrible factory abattoirs for the meat. Pity we can't at least be consistent; endangered or not, you're taking a life. Outrage seems justified.
WikiLeaks Just Dumped a Ton of Alleged CIA Hacking Documents
edit: apparently NYT had a different headline and changed it... ignore this post

The current title [0] is wrong, but NYTimes is relatively clear:

> Among other disclosures that, if confirmed, would rock the technology world, the WikiLeaks release said that the C.I.A. and allied intelligence services had managed to bypass encryption on popular phone and messaging services such as Signal, WhatsApp and Telegram. According to the statement from WikiLeaks, government hackers can penetrate Android phones and collect “audio and message traffic before encryption is applied.”

It depends on how you define "bypass". In my opinion, accessing data before encryption is a form of bypassing... but it doesn't necessarily mean they can decrypt an already encrypted signal.

[0] "WikiLeaks: CIA managed to bypass encryption on popular services Signal, WhatsApp " as of this writing
I usually make my own dialects of languages that already exist, I got furthest making my own Forth and Lisp interpreters. As for why, the best way of learning a new language, for me at least, it to implement (or even just trying to implement) and interpreter or compiler for it. Despite being for learning, I have managed to make something semi-usuable out of both of them.

The interpreters are available at:

https://github.com/howerj/libforth

https://github.com/howerj/liblisp
Follow Jesus, Turn the other cheek, and if it keeps happening then get the hell out
shill detected
The assholes who do this in Africa are equally bad. Nothing special about them.
Then why are they consuming rhino horns? Actually curious.
> I'm loving it, and was just trying to figure out how to make yoghurt in it. I was thinking a pot inside a cambro container or a bunch of mason jars in the cambro.

I bought an Anova myself during the last Black Friday sale.

While I haven't made yoghurt in it (and I'm not sure what heating would do to yoghurt cultures), I have aged eggnog in ziploc bags. Polyethylene bags are probably best for anything that doesn't need to set.

I wouldn't recommend mason jars unless you're doing a custard like creme brulee. You can't fully immerse them under water, and if you don't cap them properly, they'll either crack under pressure, or let water in. There's a "fingertip-tight" rule for mason jars, though I haven't tried it [1]:

> Place the lid on the jar. Twist the lid until “fingertip tight,” meaning just barely closed and still possible to open with your fingertips.

> To close the jars fingertip tight, place the lid on top of the jar, then twist the band to tighten using just your fingertips. When you begin to feel resistance, twist once in the opposite direction, then once more in the original direction to tighten.

> Closing the jars until fingertip tight means that air will be able to escape from the jars when you submerge them in water. If you close them too tightly, the trapped air will press against the glass and could crack or break your jars.

[1] https://www.chefsteps.com/activities/foolproof-cracklin-crem...
Exactly.

When that is a known reality you're left with breaking things down into logical positions or acting emotionally.
My son and I had lots of fun making Yogurt with it. Cooking hard "boiled" egg is another unexpected finding after googling cook time for boiled egg
> Aggregating devices adds a huge chunk of latency

In the situations where I have to do it--and it's less about "buying the gear that suits my needs," more "having to bash together other people's gear on a shoestring"--I find that aggregation ends up around 30ms, which is on the higher end of acceptable when monitoring in-ear. (To be specific--this is not for music but rather audio routing for video. Occasionally I'm on-site somewhere and need to be able to monkey up something a little faster than I'd like, you know?)

Trying to do that with ASIO at all is impossible. So it's a pretty big deal.

> That said, I'm not sure what you think is going on with ASIO, since any class compliant USB audio interface has compatible drivers inherently..

In theory, yes. In practice, I find ASIO a little unstable (my home setup uses Ableton on Windows as a live mixer through a TASCAM US-16x08, though I'll be going back to using a Mac when I get back my Mac mini from a friend). I have never had Core Audio kernel panic a machine, but I've had machines (in one memorable case, the same machine dual-booting a hackintoshed OS X and Windows) hard-lock as soon as I enabled ASIO on two different devices (my old TASCAM US-1200 and my a friend's 8i6).

It is not unusable, by any means, but for my purposes (again, live shows) predictability is a big plus.
I designed a standard, a reference implementation in Ruby, and an unfinished self-compiled implementation for my unreleased language "Cub", which compiles to C and looks a bit Go-like while still preserving the full functionality that C offers, such as pointers, the stdlib, and binding to C libraries without glue code. Here's a short example. Let me know if this is interesting at all.

include "stdio.h"

class Widget {
x int
y int

func init() {
@x = 0
@y = 0
}

func draw() {}
}

class Button extends Widget {
func draw() {
printf("Drawing button!\n")
}
}

func main() int {
w *Widget = new(Button)
w@draw()
delete(w)
}
The sources include government agencies at the state, local, county, and federal level. Those agencies are not going to hide public documents with your name and address on them just because you ask them to.

There's a legal process to, for example, expunge a criminal record. On the other hand, most counties aren't going to seal the records associated with your house or other property you've bought just because you would like them to.
> Please be aware that the Chrome browser does not offer a secure local storage protocol for its developers ... Compare this to Safari, which offers secure local storage at OS level security

But this is just as secure as full disk encryption of the device right?
I've been interested in creating something similar for a while, do you have a site for this yet?
9 Learnings from 9 Years of Brain Pickings (2015)
I'm not saying we can fix all the problems with drug prices by fixing the patent system. Shitheads (am I allowed to say that?) like Shkreli will always do shitty things. But those cases don't drive most drug prices
Isn't this already happening in some countries in Africa?

And I agree with you. I would also add "bounties on poachers" to your statement.
> There must be some way, they maintain, to convince people that vaccines are good for kids, and handguns are dangerous.

There is: have them been born outside the US. Those two beliefs are specific to Americans; hardly a good example of "humanity" as a whole.
So then there would be no justifiable reason to reject a FOIA request for the source code.
From 2000 to 10.000 installations in 4 weeks (startup survival starups)
You know the expense of doing this is over 100 Billion a year (especially if you include lost business for American corps over the mistrust). You have to wonder what the upside is, in dollars. I have to imagine its very, very low, and perhaps only justified in having a lottery ticket to prevent an extinction level event like WW3?
Step 1: Ask friend to short a bunch of stocks

Step 2: Tweet up a storm

Step 3: Profit
DNSSEC Beta Launch at DNSimple
> it makes the default mode of reasoning about ideology, rather than outcomes.

That is nonsense. To claim to focus solely on 'outcomes' is to simply make the ideology behind the recommendation implicit and outside the bounds of debate.
It's just Chrome which gets a 400 error code
They changed the headline: https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/839161021369573378

edit: A new tweet referencing the article: "WikiLeaks release said CIA managed to bypass encryption in mobile apps by compromising the entire phone"
> $25 an hour

This is counterproductive. I can (and often do) spend an hour to answer a question on StackOverflow, for free. Offer me $25/hour for answering StackOverflow questions and I'll decline - it's well below my hourly rate. This is a well-known result in psychology.
Shhh!

Our whole racket is based on pricing our services on value while pricing our cost of goods on production inputs.

It's not "fair" to let other industries do that right?
You are mounting the most ridiculous defence of perjury I have ever seen. Do you seriously think that Congress passed laws they intended to be interpreted in the way you propose? That they want to be lied to?

Clapper lied under oath. He should have paid the penalty for that. He didn't because the US Government has decided that it either can't or doesn't want to control the shadow state.