skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is sort of similar to how Apple's Continuity/Handoff/etc. currently works though, isn't it?

Your iDevices, once registered on the same iCloud account, just talk to themselves, without needing to tell or ask Apple anything, other than just checking that you've signed into the same iCloud account.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATF_gunwalking_scandal
I bought some random Ashley Furniture coffee table from Fred Meyer for my house, not two days after I brought it home my 3-at-the-time year old 40lb daughter sat on it and broke the cheap as crap legs on the $50 table.

Meanwhile, my aunt has an Ikea Lack coffee table sitting in the basement of her shop holding up a 50lb Dell PowerEdge 1950 and it will still let me drop more on it without complaint.

Ikea products may be cheaper than others in certain situations, but quite honestly I trust them a whole lot more.
Ive always found in the quieter parts of Silicon Valley and areas, there does exist a merge between the technological and something else. I've seen this something else be called luck, magic, parapsychology.. Many names. But I've also found that it is indeed whispered and talked of behind the scenes.

I've learned these arts as well, to hear the ebb and flow of what goes on around me. Many times, I can feel the data going on the wire, and the emotion it carries. Standing in our data center's networking room, I can feel thousands of voices, like a cacophony all unawares that they too are projecting emotions. Some of us can hear.

But in learning how to hear, I also learned how to listen to other things we wouldn't normally consider sentient. Plants. I found I've been able to hear them, and their talk. It's not words per se, but more of word-pictures. And the more I do so, I come to the understanding that Chomsky was indeed correct, but also wrong: emotion is the underlying language.

How do I prove this? I don't. I can't, at this time. These techniques were taught to me, along with my innate abilities. I doubt even an fMRI would be able to pick up on these, until long after my brain processed them. But what then?

I've also been attempting to find a way to connect whatever that emotion energy I'm feeling is. If it's not matter, it must be energy.. or something else. I'm not ready to say there's a something else yet... So it must be a type of energy that we can measure, no? I know I've pissed off enough other pagans and occultists, but my primary goal is to bridge these two disparate (scientific vs esoteric) into a unified theory. Or barring that, a way to "view" this energy. Because once we can sense it, we can manipulate.

But alas, I figure I'll be downvoted or worse yet, ignored. I certainly don't hold a publicly acceptable view for sure.
Millennials aren't buying homes right now. What if they never do?
Recently, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14004329
tl;dr some consulting company says that the auto companies are doing better than the tech companies by scoring "18 companies working on self-driving technology on 10 different criteria related to strategy, manufacturing, and execution."

The report itself is not available without logging in, apparently. The claims seem rather vague to me, and (admittedly, as a techy) it would seem easy to undervalue experience with software engineering at large in this endeavour.
GM and Ford are the leaders in self driving? Sounds like they funded this report. I see Tesla and Google as the leaders but maybe that's just my Silicon Valley bias.
The airbag example is an excellent analogy.
Ask HN: What products do you buy to save time?
Could be anything from software to physical items or services.
I'm looking for ideas to see where I can optimize my work life and professional life.
>> An "IoT operating system" would be highly desirable

>> it doesn't seem likely something non-Linux-based will come along

The Mbed seems like ARM's answer to that, and it seems pretty good, works well of the mcu scale, and not that many vulnerabilities. But customers can't reliably choose it when buying, hence companies don't usually use it at scale. Simply put, IOT security is a "market for lemons".

What's needed is an mcu(or maybe a communication module), that comes with connectivity + security + updates from a major player - in a way that the product designers can't hurt security(no matter what mistake they make) - for example, by only offering a secure link to the company secure cloud server.

Than when users buy online, they can see that "this product's security is provided by Amazon/ARM/etc or maybe even a small third-party brand[1], with guaranteed updates for X years, or updates for $Y per year".

And it should be easy to verify that fact - for example, by using an app to scan the box or product label, and communicating with the product.

At this point, if this is done affordably, some users may decide to pay for that security, right ?

[1]It's possible to build good security and security brands online, like copperheadOs, for example.
I like some of these ideas, mainly because they aren't "absolutist".

One of the major problems I've seen again and again (especially on this site) is people saying things like "these devices should be 100% local". That's not realistic.

It seems like many attempts to improve the situation are met with hostility that they aren't "perfect" and the people trying to help lose interest because they are being fought on all sides.
I disagree with you quite strongly on this (and I don't believe there really is enough of a dialog to 'rashly reject'), however, if plants do indeed 'feel pain', so what? Humans can live off fallen-fruit and seeds, but the acreage required would prohibit human populations above hunter-gatherer densities, and in almost all areas of the planet this method of eating would produce severe malnutrition.
I agree on some level. However, let's be honest, most doctors don't give a shit really.. Something has to be really wrong otherwise they wont give you anything.

Also, many doctors are persuaded (using a nicer word here) into prescribing certain drugs over the others; basically preference created by.... free lunches and golf events. There is an interesting documentary on this, forgot the name; Google might help.
I'll probably share it if it gets anywhere - it's still early days for the project, but it'll be open source on https://github.com/ajeffrey/civarium
You're right, I mean that he's opposed to the "segwit only for the near term" plan. IIRC, he is in favor of segwit plus a block size increase.
I had no idea .well-known was a standard (RFC 5785). Strange choice of name for a site metadata location.
The standard way to do that is:

example.com. CAA 0 issue ";"

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6844#section-5.2
Can this be right? Tesla and Waymo as contender and Ford and GM as leader? I mean Tesla autopilot v2 and Waymo (Google) are pretty impressive.
I still think you have this wrong:

HSTS says "This domain uses TLS and ONLY TLS. Ignore insecure connections to this domain. Remember this for x seconds." (should be harmless these days, why should it backfire?)

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

HPKP says "This domain uses this certificate. Also, remember this and ignore/complain when different in the future." (which is the problematic part)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Public_Key_Pinning#How_It...
Just hypothesizing but could it be that the brain is structured as two adversarial networks, which train each other e.g. during sleep?
Please update the fact it's a download in the title.
I think the author is overstating the importance of being able to explain in human terms decisions made by a neural network. For instance , there is no one reason that I am able to recognize a dog as such. Any feature or combination of features I can think of can be had in another animal. Something deeper is happening when I am able to correctly identify dogs that is unexplainable, at least by me.

The examples normally given for wildly inaccurate predictions were concocted by training a separate neural network to trick the original neural network which seems be just showcasing the effectiveness of neural networks rather than highlighting a weakness.

Also, I would note that human intuition is not immune to tricks. For instance optical illusions regularly trick our perception.
Agreed. Folks forget that the wild population, if stable, implies that almost all hatched chicks are horribly killed and eaten by predators in their first year.

Of course the moral issue of "should I cynically raise billions of birds because they're tasty" is real.
Because collective action is the only way to make a dent in multinational corporations that poison the environment?

While changing the agreement and raising awareness is good, its basically rearranging the deck chairs on the titantic.

Do you know how many "upright citizens" I know who dont shop at wallmart? All my friends, family, and people I work with.
And how's wallmart doing economically right now?

Even a decently large group of citizens taking action has minimal impact on the global scale.

Either convince the governments of the world or expect the slide to continue at an ever increasing pace.
What it means to believe that “real” trees no longer exist (2016)
If many portfolios are similar, which a small group of values as a best candidate to appear in those portfolios then it is likely that they are not going to hit the big performers since they are playing a lottery. The soundness of the argument relies of what percentage of different values compose the typical portfolio.
Serious question: how do we know for certain that their DB hasn't been stolen yet?
Probably

Also (if this is optimized) the information exchange back and forth should be minimum (board position and next move selected by AlphaGo takes very little space)
Interesting. I have a horizontal SaaS and I've been seeking out motivations to verticalize it. The data in this article is telling.
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On a related note, I wrote a history of the Cypherpunks in relation to the evolution of cryptocurrencies: http://www.coindesk.com/the-rise-of-the-cypherpunks/
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A shameless plug for my recent talk at PyCaribbean 2017 on the topic of MicroPython, IoT, ESP8266 and MQTT.

It covers broad topics that a beginner to IoT will find interesting. It's a 45 minute talk so it only covers what can be covered in that timeframe.

Please forgive the lack of polish. I am not a natural public speaker.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ctB8VMm6RA&t=9s
Thanks, that's a pretty cool trick!
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Understandably, this is focusing on the driving of traditional, 5(+/-) passenger vehicles. Is there a reason more work isn't done on driving buses and other high(er) occupancy vehicles?

I would also imagine self driving a bus would be simpler, as unlike cars, they have mechanisms to change the flow of traffic themselves (some buses have stop signs, plus bus only lanes, bus stops, etc.).
Tough to tell what this is really saying from this side of the paywall, but it certainly doesn't fit the current narrative in the tech industry.

On the other hand, in looking for a new crossover SUV this year, I was surprised at how many of the pieces of autonomous driving the 2017 Ford Escape actually had in production. It's not as headline-grabbing as autopilot for sure, but perhaps it's a relevant approach.

I've been pretty bullish about Volvo's approach (and put the brakes on that SUV search to wait for the 2018 XC60), so it's a little disappointing to see them relatively far down that list, while VW/Audi, which I see as weaker in these areas, gets a better position.
I also bought a 4K OLED TV last black Friday. It's great. I played some games on it and it was amazing.

One thing that was off-putting: I'd noticed that the picture isn't perfectly square. Indeed, it seems that the TV warps the picture over time until you go through the one-hour-cleanup-thing in the settings. It's basically like oldschool degaussing, I gather.

But the color reproduction and contrast is amazing. My old 23" LCD TF panels just don't hold a candle.
I lived in Texas from 1994 until 2011 or so - moved there when I was ten - and while I didn't really run around with a crowd that listened to much Tejano music, I have never once heard her mentioned.

Admittedly, her death took place before I was fully fluent in English - it's entirely possible that the wave of mourning had already ended by the time I would have really become cognizant of her.
Some farmers want to change engine curve profiles to get more power out of their engines, likely at the expense of Tier IV emissions regulations and possibly damaging the drivetrain. I don't believe this is the normal case, but I have heard this expressed in the past.
>fly less, drive less, eat much less meat, and have fewer kids

Decreasing resource consumption only creates a demand vacuum that others will rise up to fill. It's the same with increasing efficiency: instead of diminishing our overall environmental footprint, the net result is that we grow the contracted envelope right back to the absolute limit, this time with more people.

The ONLY solution that will EVER prevent the coming ecological collapse is: less people, everywhere, full stop. Whether it's war, or global mass sterilization squads, it will be ugly, but the alternative is far uglier.
It's always tempting to think about the body in terms of the technological concepts of the age. It's not automatically wrong, but there's nothing special about this particular era of computing that would mean we're working with the same methods as the human brain. Not even the fact that we call our systems "neural networks".
OpenEmbedded/Yocto is one such Linux "distro", https://www.yoctoproject.org/ecosystem/iot

There is also the open-source Zephyr RTOS for IoT, of Intel WindRiver lineage, under Linux Foundation governance, https://www.zephyrproject.org

Edit: See http://mender.io for OTA updates (open-source client and server). If IoT device vendors separate their application code from the base operating system, e.g. via containers or virtualization, it may be possible for a vendor-authorized subscription service (like Mender) to deliver OTA updates for security-critical components.
> The issue of the reef and climate-change in general is a fairly untouched issue in Australian politics. I'm not sure that we are going to get anywhere without foreign intervention.

I'm surprised by you saying this.

I was in australia last year and saw TV news a couple of times. And multiple times climate change was mentioned as one of the election issues. Of course mentioning the issue doesn't mean it's being taken seriously or that politicians will do something about it. But I felt this seems to be at least a topic that is talked about.

Just to give you some contrast: Hillary Clinton completely stopped talking about Climate Change at all once Bernie Sanders was out of her way [1]. In Germany, there was a statistics about the topics of TV talk shows recently, which was picked up by a number of media outlets, because it had an overwhelming bias towards having the refugee crisis as the major topic. Talk shows about climate change? Zero.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/20/hillary-...
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Insurance can be a powerful force for creating standards. Most of the building codes in existence were created by the insurance industry. The NFPA (National Fire Protection Association) was originally sponsored by a collaboration of insurance underwriters. [1]

Insurers want to make sure that a building meets the code
before offering insurance on it. If a building collapses or burns down and it is later shown that it was not built to code, the insurance policy will be void.

I imagine similar incentives would hold for IoT security. The insurance would be contingent on the manufacturer following all available best practices to show that they did all they could to make the device secure.

[1] http://www.nfpa.org/about-nfpa/nfpa-overview/history-of-nfpa
That, branded with a stamp that goes on the box that merchants will pressure vendors to obtain because the non-stamp ones cause a lot of complaints, could be very positive.
Or even other dolphins:

http://scribol.com/environment/animals-environment/bottlenos...

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150716-dolphins-that-kill-t...

http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2009/05/13/dolphins_are...
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Intranet of Things, as all of those products should be. Cloud integration is most of the times an anti-feature (even if marketed otherwise).
> if I see a dress in a magazine I can make one, what I cannot claim is that it is Dolce and Gabbana

That's actually trademark, which is distinct from copyright or patent.

And notably, clothing designs are not copyrightable, because they are "useful articles", not just creative expressions. https://www.copyright.gov/register/va-useful.html

Patent: Practical invention, prevents sale even of independent re-invention. 17-20 years.

Copyright: Tangible expression of original authorship, prevents duplication and derivation except for fair use, common stereotypes, etc. Does not prohibit independent re-invention, does not prevent re-use of ideas, just the expression. Has grown to progressively longer term (currently life + 70)

Trademark: Prevents false claims of source of product, even of "confusingly" similar designs. Includes "trade dress" (packaging/presentation). Valid as long as the trademark is used.

Design patent: hybrid - prevents duplication of ornamental design of a functional product, so it is like copyright, but has a duration similar to patent - 14-15 years.
This is a great idea, but it would inevitably fail. All we'd end up with is each and every IoT company coming out with their own "hub" product that only works with it's own devices. Want to control Philips Hue bulbs? You have to have a Philips IoT hub connected to the Internet. Belkin smart plugs? They'll connect only to a Belkin smart hub. Xyz Manufacturer sprinkler system? Xyz hub. Oh, and by the way, those hubs will all have insecure software thrown together by an underpaid E.E. too.
Yes, but not in the sense you suggest. Ironically to save costs for the consumers, and improve reliability. Making the system suitable for safe updates without proper disconnecting and partial disassembly and tolerant to untrustad (also in electrical not only in software sense) peripherials would have added a lot to the piecewise cost. (think: more I/O protection electronics, more testing of upgradeability testing with untrusted tools with many failure modes, durable upgrade connectors fitting the size and other constraints).

Still no user could and should upgrade that software, as any complication or untrusted software would be a safety hazard, and lengthy official regulatory evaluation and approval process is needed needed for every new version. (think: Road Permission Level revalidation may be needed (overseen by authorities) to allow a firmware to take part in traffic)

The repair shops can save lots of cost compared to end users, as these tools are not cheap, but compatible with most manufacturers, so are needed anyway.
Pedestrian Recognition system with the ability to retrain for Gait Recognition [0] [1] would allow systems to track any individuals uniquely. Add to this sentiment analysis[2] and we end up in a very sci-fi realm. This make me curious about how an adversarial system [3] would defeat a system like this. Maybe early on, putting a quarter dollar in my shoes and thinking happy thought is all it will take.

On a side note, I am reminded of an anime called Psycho Pass [4] which uses psychological rating given by a super intelligence to decide who needs to be taken off the streets to be treated.

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[0] https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21528835-600-cameras-...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gait_analysis

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentiment_analysis

[3] http://www.popsci.com/byzantine-science-deceiving-artificial...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psycho-Pass
Isn't that basically a good thing though? I'm not wishing for humanity to die out, I just think that the best way to minimise net human misery is to have a smaller population. If it's happening naturally then all the better.

As "native" developed country populations decline, I can see increasing tension as developing country populations continue to grow rapidly.

There's also the small problem that our accepted economic models seem to rely on perpetual growth.
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This is what I'm arguing for: "so what if they feel pain?"
It's to prevent a proliferation of things like /favicon.ico, /robots.txt, etc. each of which may actually be dynamically generated (e.g. think of subdomains like someguy.tumblr.com ), and therefore requires separate handling in firewalls, routing, etc. Basically many of the same problems you might encounter with librarys whose API is a bunch of globals; or a shell script which takes in options from hardcoded file paths rather than commandline flags or env vars.

The ".well-known" path makes this easier to manage going forward, since you can single it out for special handling once, and implement the contents however you like (statically, dynamically, whatever).
Because LSD is a potentially harmful drug, especially because it's currently illegal to produce or own.

It's a placebo effect that comes with some risk.
This is a good example of why CEO pay is wrong. In any normal job, if your salary gets "slashed", you quit your job.

Doesn't this undermine the argument that CEOs need outrageous salaries to be incentivized to work, if you slash their salary, and they keep working?
The only time we had to use a professor written paperback textbook the quality was abysmal and the layout unusable.
I would think that whitespace becomes significant inside string-delimiting square brackets for the same reason that whitespace is significant inside string-delimiting quotes: whitespace characters are characters like any other. I would expect `[ abcd ]` to be different from `[abcd]` in the same way that `" abcd"` is different from `"abcd"` in languages that use quotes.

Is there something I'm missing that mitigates this intuition? Does this language (or, for that matter, the demo language you wrote for your class) ignore leading or trailing whitespace inside square brackets? What about excess whitespace between words (that is, whitespace beyond a single space or tab)? If so, if indeed leading/trailing/excess whitespace is collapsed inside of square bracket delimited strings, how would I create a string with leading or trailing whitespace or extra space between words if I wanted to?

Honest questions; don't mean to criticize, just eager to learn.
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Well if you watched Narcos, cocaine had to transit from Columbia through Mexico. Seemed like every part of the feeding tube of drugs gets wrecked by it.
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