skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Municipalities are too small a unit to be able to effectively take on the long term obligations that come along with infrastructure like this, or cross subsidize from richer residents to poorer ones.

I don't understand the first point. Do water systems have some great economies of scale beyond the municipal level? The cost of the water system and the ability to take on debt are both directly proportional to the population size. If you have twice as many people in a unit then you can borrow twice as much money but have to pay twice as much to cover them.

And as to the second point, it's not clear that the cities in such dire straits that they can't even pay for their own infrastructure are worth saving. Concentrated poverty is poisonous in general. It may make more sense to relocate the people in failed cities to other places than to spend billions of dollars bailing them out every year until the end of time.
Relevant:

* The Real Reason Your City Has No Money — Strong Towns || https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/1/9/the-real-reason...

* Why Many Cities Have No Money | Hacker News || https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13370310
We've really enjoyed templating terraform. It solves a lot of the problems you're mentioning, and we can write the complex logic we need without interacting _directly_ with cloud APIs...

Compilers are like, useful.
I hear you saying that in Nevada, clean water is [economically] sustainable because of [gambling].

But I'm talking about ecological, biological sustainability, insofar as human life is concerned.

So yeah, I'm dodging your financial model of sustainability altogether, intentionally, because in this case my entire ideological basis is irreconcilable with your model.

water is not a product in my religion, as it is in yours
In terms of latency, not raw capacity.
Well it's still in progress, a bit hard to declare it a disaster yet.
"Figure 1 [0] shows California’s Department of Finance’s (DOF) estimate of domestic migration, migration between California and other states. According to the DOF, California’s domestic migration has been negative in 18 of the past 20 years."

[0] http://www.newgeography.com/content/003584-california-a-worl...

Also, see http://www.sacbee.com/site-services/databases/article3267975...
Some basic conditional logic was added in 0.8 [0]. The reliance on 'interesting' declarative tricks, e.g. counts for conditionals and loops, is a little annoying I agree. However, it looks like they're listening to the community and will build on these features in the future. There's a lot to work on :)

0: https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/terraform-0-8/#conditional
Why is that necessary ? We can control the speed of asteroid impacts without crashing them into the Moon.

Nobody (I hope) is suggesting just putting an asteroid on a crash course with earth. Rather the idea is to bring the asteroids in an orbit around the earth and/or the moon and then leave them there, biting off small chunks and deorbiting them one at a time. So what would impact would be something like 10-100 tons at a time, in 10 tons-at-a-time chunks, maybe even less (enough weight so they survive reentry, or maybe we package them to "fly"/crashland like the space shuttle)

So capturing an asteroid refers to moving them into a parking orbit around earth, nothing more.

And don't worry. Earth orbit is an unbelievably big place. If you don't want to be at special places (like geosync orbit, or just as close as possible), there is no shortage of space whatsoever.
> In my circle of gaming friends, as our available time is under greater pressure we've purposely moved away from games that require significant investment of time

The last game I seriously played was EVE. I remember I moved to that and stuck with it for a while because I made a decision that I would only play games where I enjoyed playing the game (as opposed to not enjoying play but what the designers rewarded me with as a result).
Any of you still awake? WTB feedback on this feature I'm working on
We build planning and scheduling software for railroads and I continually think back to playing this game as a kid. The concerns are unsurprisingly similar but the level of detail you go to in managing a real railroad is obviously far greater.

For example we delivered a piece of software to manage where to park trains during storms so they don't blow over.

http://biarrirail.com/ btw.
I guess this is on hn because it sounds cool? It's impossible to understand what it is.
Reminds me of https://twitter.com/paulg/status/802141209078759424
What does dependent mean? There are 8 countries with more than 10 % of their GDP from mineral resources. They are in order of decreasing share Togo, Suriname, Congo, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Mongolia, Chile, and Zambia. Togo has the largest dependency with 16.1 %. Chile is by far the largest economy with a GDP of 240 billion Dollar followed by Congo, Zambia, and Mongolia with 35, 21, and 11 billion Dollar.

So depending on the exact composition, some countries might experience some pain. But space mining would not arrive over night, missions have to be planed, infrastructure must be build, and long distances have to be traveled. So there would almost certainly be some time to get prepared for the arrival of cheap cheap metals from space.
Things to do after installing Linux LEDE 17.01
Samsung on Track for 10nm FinFET Process Technology Production Ramp-Up
RT3 did the series one better IMHO, since its economic model was more comprehensive and calculated the costs of everything based on alternative transport methods - building a line through the mountains could reap big rewards, and buying up the businesses you were going to expand towards even more so.
You do realize that Flint's local government was usurped by an emergency economic manager, right?
Never Use Semicolons
Switch also forked
I thought so too and that was my first boss and when in finally took him down I thought to myself "that was way Way WAY too hard for a Zelda game". Thats when a hint in the game finally made sense so I restored to test and yea, it was relatively easy if you do the right things.

Similarly with other combat I thought it was way harder than other Zeldas. When I was near finishing the game I went online and checked "how to fight a lynel" (the hardest enemy imo). Watching that opened up some ideas and combat got much easier and more exciting. I kind of wish I had looked it up earlier. I was literally at Hyrule Castle on my way to complete the game when I looked.

I thoroughly enjoyed the game but my previous Zelda experience also limited my thinking about what's possible. I feel like I missed a large part of the game play because of that
From the top of the script:

> A tool to enumerate CIDRs by querying RIRs & BGP ASN prefix lookups

> Currently queries: ARIN, RIPE NCC, APNIC, AfriNIC, LACNIC

>

> Queries are made for the Org name, network handles, org handles, customer handles,

> BGP prefixes, PoCs with target email domain, and 'notify' email address - used by

> some RIRs.

>

> Note that severl RIRs currently limit query results to 256 or less, so large

> target orgs may not return all results.

>

> LACNIC only allows query of ASN or IP address bloks & cannot search for Org names

> directly. The entire DB as been downloaded to a separate file for queries to this RIR.

> The file will be periodically updated to maintain accurate information.

>

> Output saved to two csv files - one for org & one for PoCs

> A txt file is also output with a full list of enumerated CIDRs

>

> Author: Jason Ashton (@ninewires)

> Created: 09/19/2016
Indeed, all commonly-used hypervisors have had host escape vulnerabilities reported over the years, including Xen as used in Qubes - see e.g. http://blog.quarkslab.com/xen-exploitation-part-3-xsa-182-qu...

Of relevance to Edge exploitation, Microsoft are currently working on a Qubes-like sandboxing model for Edge, based on Hyper-V (though it looks like it'll be aimed towards enterprise customers rather than consumer): https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2016/09/27/application-g.... Will be interesting to see if that's part of the challenge in Pwn2Own 2018. Somewhat surprisingly, Hyper-V wasn't successfully exploited at this year's contest.
This is definitely an avenue worth exploring. My degree is in French literature, so the only employer I could find in the NYC willing to take a chance on me was in Hoboken. After putting in some time there, I was able to find a job in the city.
Perhaps an example will help clarify the difference between mutex locking and CAS (lock-free) operations. Check out Sled[0]. Sled is an implementation of a 'ctrie'[1] data structure in go. Sled is a lock free key value store. Because it is lock-free any number of threads can read and write to it simultaneously while never interfering with eachother. The application remains parallel at all times.

Locks cause parallel applications to become single threaded for the scope of the lock. This means that most of the time you should just put things that require locks into their own thread and then communicate with that thread from others.

"Do not communicate by sharing memory; instead, share memory by communicating." - ancient go proverb

However, that is still potentially a locking operation because channels must block until both threads are in sync (with some optional caching, to help reduce the effect).

With truly lock free data structures, all threads can share data but do not need to synchronize access. This leads to much, much higher performance.

[0]: https://github.com/Avalanche-io/sled

[1]: https://github.com/Avalanche-io/sled/blob/master/ctries_pape...
I can confirm as well
Omf is also safe
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To be fair, his interpretation was my original intent. The "bold assumption" being that this administration has a plan or has any interest in developing a plan to deal with lead in thousands of municipalities' drinking water.
Yes, in fact, there is precedent for this:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/massachusetts-teen-accused-urging-b...
Tokio is "do that network transfer or disk read without freezing the program".

Except that takes a specific tokio package for each operation rather than being a kitchen sink of everything in one crate.
According to this source: http://ideastations.org/radio/news/mcguire-va-medical-center...

The rewalk Major Terry Labar is using retails for $67,000
I had a similar objection reading the article. If you take a look at [0] they go into a bit more detail. Briefly, you can distribute your decrypt function over the additions and multiplications by homomorphism and then bound the error, then you can judiciously choose your weighting to compensate.

[0] https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.857/2015/files/yu-lai-payor....
Arthena (YC W17)  uses data science to find the best investments in art
I said nothing about whether rules aren't worth anything or not. I said that they will be broken.

The former is a normative statement. The latter is a positive one. A lot of my comments here attempt to describe the world as I've observed it, not the world as I'd like it to be. I have plenty of opinions about how I'd like it to be, as well, but I usually don't share them because opinions are like assholes: everybody has one but thinks that others' stinks.
Two things to keep in mind:

1) Even if the marginal tax rate is fairly high, your average income earner will be getting that $18000 back in UBI which makes the effective rate in your scenario more like 5%.

2) The majority of tax revenue comes from the highest earners. A quick google gave me this (from https://taxfoundation.org/summary-latest-federal-income-tax-...):

The top 1 percent (1.3 million filers) paid a greater share of income taxes (37.8 percent) than the bottom 90 percent (124.5 million filers) combined (30.2 percent).

In other words, I don't believe your math is a reasonable approximation of how the budget would work out. If everyone pays the same effective rate as today (including welfare and other social program recipients who can be treated as having a negative effective rate), nothing changes. Also, there is no need to presume a flat tax rate; the U.S. does not have a flat tax rate, now.

EDIT: Also the average household size in the U.S. is 2.53 people, not 4. A naive calculation would suggest that a household of 4 should therefore expect a mean income around $83K.
My most common use of dd is warming up AWS EBS volumes. http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ebs-initi...

Though fio is better because it can work in parallel.
For arguments' sake, the whole human.
I've setup/configured bind a few times, and every time I wish there was a nice gui for it.. even thinking to myself I should make one.. but shortly after I've refreshed my memory of how to do something, and by then, I'm done and leave it alone for some while.
“Our recipe calls for 1% or less of soy protein in our chicken products,” Subway told CBC.

So the 'recipe' for chicken does include soy? And just a wee bit, at that? Why is it so common for these restaurants to sell soy as chicken? Why doesn't the Poultry Lobby cut that out? I'm sure there are good reasons, I just find it bizarre.
Proposal: Turn Waterfox 56 (a Fork of Firefox) into an Extended Support Release
I use Google instead of DuckDuckGo mainly because it does a noticably better job at delivering what I want. Data collection/privacy is an acceptable price I gladly pay for this functionality. I accept this as the way it is & am okay with it.

I imagine in the future, others will think of the services they use similarly, in that it's worth losing a degree of privacy to get whatever it is they get by doing so.

As long as malice remains a non-issue, out of sight & out of mind, I don't forsee future generations objecting to such things.
> I disagree, it's entirely about safety. Homomorphic Encryption allows a future for us to control our data.

It's true that homomorphic encryption techniques can be used in ways you describe, but this specific application is not about safety and it's somewhat absurd that it's proposed as some sort of way to shield the world from the terminator.

It's even pretty dubious to me that this actually protects the principle value of an ML system:

1. This approach doesn't really conceal the structure of the underlying ML system very well, which is where a lot of the underlying advances have been. While this conceals some aspects of the model, I don't think it conceals all of it.

2. The most expensive part of building ML systems is getting and wrangling great data from which to train them, and if you were to try using an ML agent in an untrusted environment they'd get something that resembles the data.

I think this is really cool math sold in the wrong way.
Pinterest is now blocked in China
While the AI FOOM and Hard takeoff options are discussed, I have yet to see a practical breakdown of HOW - like step by step from any of the existential warning people. It's al vagaries.

To your other points, you imply too much. The Chess AI that turns into AGI isn't realistic - it's values are "be the best at chess" which it can do with existing computing power. No need to tear the world apart - it would be inefficient.

I also never make the might makes right case. All if the examples you give are fantasy and don't reflect what an actual superintelligence might look like. Again, optimization to some narrow goal has too many weak points to take over all of humanity's functions.

"if a system were smarter it must necessarily be more morally right", which is blatantly untrue but in an understandable way

I'm unconvinced that this is blatantly untrue. "Moral right" is subjective - hence the point. We got to our morals today not through mysticism but empiricism so it's not out of the reach of superintelligence to optimize further.
This is why we need rust. Has Windows and edge and VMware used rust, these bugs wouldn't have happened. Rust is a game changer with it's borrow checker.
And we never ever write bugs, right?
Update on 3 Pre-Snowden NSA Whistleblowers
Hey, don't mean to be promotional, but I just built a platform for email marketing that uses machine learning for automated split testing and optimization (just wrote a post about it here: https://www.optimail.io/blog/move-beyond-ab-testing-email-ca...). I'd be happy to answer any questions about it!
Yet another gitlab post on how open and transparent they are and how they are being praised for that. It's now just looking more and more like gitlab being known for being a transparent company than being recognized for their product or technical competency.

Like I said in another post a while back, it's fine being transparent but gitlab just have taken this to an extreme. It's important to be private about certain details and just get real work done and be known for that.
I found RT3 a bit of a miss... there was too much 'blank space' and I thought 2 really outdid it in terms of the economic model
You can only deal with the smell of stale pizza and unwashed armpits for so long. Before I completely let that lifestyle consume me, I decided to seek help and reached out to my local District Health Board.

Now I am still a bit of a recluse but I make it a point to physically leave the house and exercise at the gym. Going to and running local Meetups via Meetup.com helps with socializing.

The local library allows me to pick and read books outside of home and be surrounded by people, quiet but nonetheless present.

Medication also helps and continues to give me a wee boost.

It is surprising, though, how easy it is to slip back into that comfortable sleeve. A few weeks back UberEATS launched in New Zealand. It was also raining terribly with thunderstorms and the like. That was all I needed to spend two days tucked in bed with empty UberEATS bags and the sound of Space Ghost playing continuously off my laptop. If it hadn't been for my physical trainer messaging me on the Monday to remind me of training, I'd have stayed in that bed a good while longer.
> I really love living in a state that doesn't do things to cause it to be openly mocked by the rest of the country.

Not sure what you're referring to. Living in WA, I'd be asked non-stop by others how the pot was.
I particularly liked how they capitalized it in the middle of sentences. The spellchecker was just doing its job, forcing the capitalization of a notable Roman historical figure.
majority of the decrease was from young mothers and students.

Let me repeat: "However given that the original data/study is unavailable (merely news reports about it), it's impossible to know if that effect was significant. (Back in the day they weren't as good at multiple comparisons corrections as they are now.)"
Note that this script installs "ipcalc" (or really, whatever is in http://jodies.de/ipcalc-archive/ipcalc-0.41.tar.gz) without user interaction.

I'm generally pretty not okay with scripts that curl | tar things (or apt-get install things, which this does if it's run on a linux) from the interwebs without my explicit consent.
They already are being charged and sentenced. They will pay for the crime if you count probation for those in charge;<(

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/michigan/flint-water-c...
On the plus side, very small changes in the input to tanh already have surprising results due to the outright wackiness of IEE754.
Android MVP – View, Presenter
Relevant might be Paul Krugman's college thesis at Princeton, "The Theory of Interstellar Trade"[0]

[0] https://www.princeton.edu/~pkrugman/interstellar.pdf
Note: This would provide a way to keep the old-style Firefox extensions working after Mozilla de-supports them in Firefox 57.
Android MVP – Model
Fuzzing the OpenSSH daemon using AFL
I hope you are using Ruby on Rails for your backend.
Don't cat a file and pipe it into pv. Use "pv file" as a replacement for "cat file" and it will show you the progress as a percentage. When it's in the middle of a pipeline, it doesn't know the total size (unless you tell it with -s), so it can only show the throughput.
I know about as much as you:

I always thought of it as a massive success for the war effort, someone had to assemble the planes, after all. Rosie the Riveter ended up becoming an iconic piece of propaganda during the war, IIRC.
> Also, personally I've been considering working through Bunnie Huang's "Hacking the Xbox".

Do so. It was the first Bunnie book I purchased, and now I'm a lifelong fan owning all of his work.

If you haven't read his most recent book, "The Hardware Hacker", it's a must read.
The problem is that Flint is unsustainable even after you fix the water. That's why nobody will loan them the money.
Heh, yes - I've been following that since you announced it. It'd be really nice if we could start getting the OSS toolchain onto a JP2 implementation with decent performance — I think jasper really soured the reputation for many people.
This might well be Arabic. I have been in the industry for over 10 years and that explanation is meaningless
So what happened to NextBSD, has FreeBSD 12 essentially replaced it?
Show HN: Commute Time Calculator
Bytes seems like too many things in order one. It should use http://burntsushi.net/rustdoc/byteorder/
Trump Was Right: Obama's NSA Recorded All Trump's Communications
Hi Michael,

Has YC ever considered moving from the Bay Area due to the high cost of living there?

What advantages does YC see in being in the Bay Area that prevents them from moving elsewhere, or setting up a satellite office in, perhaps, Vancouver?
Mach did not separate BSD into userland (like a true "microkernel") until 3.0. NeXTSTEP did not use Mach 3.0. Mac OS X still has the BSD code in the kernel.
Oh, this is superfly. Easy way to build your own up-to-date ASN DB, similar to the one from Maxmind. Think: embellishing Apache/Nginx logs with up-to-date information about the IP address of the client, including ASN/OrgId. Useful for identifying snowshoers spreading their footprint across a lot of discontiguous IP addresses in one ASN/Org.
Same argument as Google. When I use an ISP, I willingly forego my data. This is fine. I have nothing to hide. Who will come after me?

/s
http://getoptimage.com/ is better
Something worth mentioning is that when we talk about "Detroit" we're talking about a system that provides water to nearly half of Michigan:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_Water_and_Sewerage_Dep...

I grew up in a suburb of Detroit, and we got Detroit water. This is no accident -- Lake Huron is some of the cleanest water in the world. Had my town even considered switching from Detroit water, there would have been an uproar.

This is a resource that has no reason other than historical accident, for being a responsibility of the City of Detroit. It looks like it was mainly a way to burden Detroit with more debt.
> I guess I'm not epileptic.

Only a small part of the epileptic people is sensible to the flashing light. Some are affected by strong strip patterns instead. Most are totally not affected by this, and their seizures can be triggered by other means.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosensitive_epilepsy

> Photosensitive epilepsy (PSE) is a form of epilepsy in which seizures are triggered by visual stimuli that form patterns in time or space, such as flashing lights, bold, regular patterns, or regular moving patterns.

From http://www.epilepsy.com/learn/triggers-seizures/photosensiti...

> For about 3 percent of people with epilepsy, exposure to flashing lights at certain intensities or to certain visual patterns can trigger seizures. This condition is known as photosensitive epilepsy.