skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok. "Educated" people don't shit where they drink from.

But they do much worse. Things like dumping toxic industrial waste that can make a whole region of people chronically ill to a river..Or drive machines that spew toxic gases literally to the face of fellow human beings..

I mean, is anyone really any better?
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From an engineering perspective, that sounds uninteresting :)

Terrible networking? how many engineers does it take to implement a few flavors of retries? :)

Uber growth in term of getting drivers, that's what I want to know. It's not just ride subsidies, but the flow of investor honey helps, of course, but they do have some alpha growth managers.
Based on source IPs I would say that cheaper RAM = more error prone RAM.
so..

patent laws are so broken that patent trolls are everywhere suing startups to get $ from them.

google now has a business that can directly benefit from such increasing number of patent trolls.

sounds not very inspiring to me.

who is always on the losing side? average small companies.
who is screwing the economy & innovation and show no sign of change? governments who refuse to actually reform such a 100+ years old broken system.
With all due respect, I would dispute that. That would be JavaScript based - today React Native... tomorrow something similar.

Already there are large apps that are built around React Native. But more importantly, js as a language is becoming indispensable.

A few days ago, there was a discussion about Netflix - who specifically re-engineered it's back end infrastructure to let it's app engineers (who are js) write API services in nodejs. We are talking 40% of The Internet here ?

There is a large boost in hive mind productivity with one programming language . If Java 9 Truffle/Graal.js is as good as everyone says, then it is pretty much js all the way down.

And for those who think js is a shitty language (god knows I did), please try out ES2017 or Typescript - you will be pleasantly surprised.
Popular Mechanics did some tests with a logging accelerometer. Nothing cheap enough to be practical, but illustrates the potential usefulness: http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/reviews/a6284/whi...
And when Google and Moz both are "blocking a security threat" MS and Apple will have follow suit or they'll get buried by by PR and advertising attacks.
It's a government-created problem, and ultimately must be solved by them also. It's ridiculous that companies have to resort to this.
I think there is a distinction here - the Mafia protects people from itself - but Google doesn't itself sue startups.
How about learn all 3
Only in areas that they haven't laid fiber.
I'm very curious to learn what website this is, perhaps via email. This type of thing sounds like a fun way to spend a few minutes. :)
Yeah, and attempting to obfuscate your plugins give you away. AFAIK fonts are an unsolved problem. :(
Which political considerations are you talking about?
This Defcon 21 presentation from Robert Stucke did something similar with google's domains, plus other stuff. A great watch if you've got a spare 40 minutes!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQqWzHKDnTI
Huh, okay. Surprised that's not possible. IIRC letsencrypt did something like this to bootstrap but I guess you can have a root sign a root, but not have two roots sign something and have both in the same cert.

I've always been of the opinion that the rogue/careless CA problem can be solved by mandating N root sigs and recommending M>N. In a system with multiple independent LetsEncrypt like entities this is doable. If a CA needs to be revoked you can do it in a much easier way here, since it's still ok to transitively allow sites with N-1 certs and one now-disallowed cert signed by that CA. Doesn't fix all the problems but it certainly removes the inertia behind kicking out bad CAs.

Looks like we'd need a x509 extension to do this then. :/
But the upside is similar: If nobody sues Google still has the equity and Google needs the trolls to stay around to make sure people will buy into this program.
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Netflix is a polyglot shop which uses a number of different programming languages for different parts of their systems. Yes, Node and JS play a large part in that, but that really isn't the whole story.
In parts of the Bay Area, $105,350 is 'low income'
The test source code was made available here https://pastebin.com/2wd7GDTC.
In short it means the pros aka The Market Makers control the market. What that means is they have the ability to see all of the price action which allows them to manipulate the market. When prices go up or down, it's them deciding whether they go up or down or at least throttling the rate to maximizes their earnings. They are both buying and selling at all times. What makes Robinhood such a joke is that they are a middleman between you and a middleman. So instead of buying your drugs from a dealer, you're buying from the pusher on the corner who gets free drugs for every new customer.
That has literally nothing to do with what the parent comment is talking about. And that's not naivety either. That's because the way type inference, operating overloading, and literals work together ends up being a combinatorial explosion.
I don't know whether or not the incentives or the time management contribute more towards the messiness, but I will nitpick one implicit assumption you're making here, which is that scientific code is "correct". There has been at least one well-publicized incident where scientific code is both messy and very much incorrect. I also think that, while optimization isn't necessarily something that researchers should focus on, pretty code / documentation / comments / systematic testing are elements that researchers really need to emphasize, because these practices ensure that the likelihood that their simulations / analysis pipelines aren't spewing out nonsense is substantially decreased. Furthermore, these practices would make code reviews a lot easier- it's much harder to make sense of your code when every other variable is named "i", "j" or "k" and this seems to be a common practice in some fields at least.
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Symantec has got to be facing some very large and very serious lawsuits from those very same giant companies they're try to leverage.

This is happening because Symantec was grossly negligent. They're going to be held to account for that.

All those giant companies should be firing up their lawyers and starting emergency procedures to change to a different provider. Anyone still using Symantec at this point is absolutely playing with fire.
Wow, 42 years old, huh? Hard not to be a little jealous. Being pretty close to his age, it's maddening to think that with a different roll of the dice I might have been that person. Or I might have been unemployed and a heroin addict in Appalachia. Life seems so random and non-deterministic.

Good on him. I sometimes wonder why more people who are insanely rich don't just retire and spend the rest of their lives doing something else...or doing nothing. I think of the C-level execs in my own company--they each have so much that they and their families for generations could literally do nothing for the rest of their lives and still continue to get richer via interest. Why go on working?
Sure. If api.mysite.com supports both web browsers and embedded devices, then you can issue a certificate for it your publicly-trusted CA of choice, and then can cross-sign that certificate with the Symantec CA.
>We can measure the speed impulses travel through neurons, and compare that to, say, the speed of electrical impulses through silicon or light through fiber.

This assumes that all the processing that human brain does is by sending signals across the neurons. Which we really don't know. Right?

>We can look at other evolved/biological capabilities, like swimming or flying, and compare them to state-of-the-art artificial analogs..

Do we yet have an airplane yet that can come close to the efficiency of the most clumsiest of the birds?
Yep, the article is talking about a group of people that are definitely pre-Clovis, which is super exciting!

I was replying to WalterBright's comment mentioning the Clovis culture coming from what is now Europe.
The archtype of temperature is a black body radiator. Classically, you make a block of metal (ceramic, whatever), with a spherical cavity and drill a small hole into the cavity. Then you draw a vacuum and heat the cavity, point a scope at the hole, and measure the spectrum of ligh tcoming out. In this circumstance, there is no mass that limits the energy: you are measuring the temperature of a black, empty vacuum; thus there is no upper limit.
I agree people are often overly sensitive, but Hacker News isn't really a place for jokes and 6stringmerc's comment didn't seem to be an attempt at humor.
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Please read the comment I was responding to.
What isn't PRISM? FISA? No shit. I said it feeds into PRISM. And I did not say it is ongoing. And I think you have a warped view of what surveillance is because a system used to query networks and other identifying information is a dragnet surveillance tool. You just refuse to be wrong here.

And a lot of the hooplah about these immoral dragnet tools is not only the fact that they partially target American citizens (after NSA executives said under oath, in very particular terms, that they do not collect files on American citizens) is that it was being accessed by employees without court orders.

Pre 9/11, maybe you could have made a case about this "anonymization" being legitimate. There were certainly programs in the work that attempted to incorporate homomorphic encryption into their design. But these have been gutted and reformed into what we have today.

You have to wonder, what are these tools being used for? They certainly haven't been publicly attributed to stopping any terrorist activities. If you don't think these systems, put in place by spy agencies with the legal ability to lie about their internal operations, are being used to spy on their targets (which is the general public) then what the hell do you think they are for?
My federal income taxes (which treat me as though I am rich, because income taxes are not cost-of-living adjusted) buy:

- The diplomatic, covert, and military apparatus which dominates the world to the extent necessary to secure the flow of cheap oil for your car.

- The interstate highways you drive on.

- The stability of the mortgage-lending ecosystem (via bailouts), and FHA subsidies that privilege suburban single family homes over urban condos.

- Welfare so that unemployed people can stay in dead-end towns, instead of moving to where they are needed.

If these costs were instead embedded in the home prices and rents of the low-density regions they enable, those places wouldn't be cheap anymore.

I don't think we need to force everyone in to urban skyscrapers, but I do think the federal government ought to prop up urbanization at the expense of people in cheap areas at least as much as it props up sprawl at the expense of high COL city dwellers.
Let's say I pay into this fund, then I get sued for patent infringement. How does the fund decide whether this lawsuit is trolling or legitimate? Or would the fund pay for all patent lawsuits?
Depends what you need - you can pick up older gen Xeon chips for cheap and the performance often isn't that much worse than modern consumer grade stuff. If you're looking to build a consumer-level NAS or home server, Avoton is pretty cheap and takes ECC RAM.
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Exactly. Just like Moore's law drove the price of computing power to put it practically everywhere, there is a cost curve for solar that will do the same.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14194803
Sure, but that's exactly the case with commercial fire insurance versus actual protection rackets too.
Etymonline disagrees; -plane here is from French planer "to soar," ultimately from Latin planus, "flat." http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=aeroplane
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Writing developed very late, about 5-6kya in Egypt, Mesopotamia, and China, and around 2-3kya in Mesoamerica. Even in the Americas, the large empires of the Aztecs and the Inca, as well as large complexes like the Mississippian culture, developed without writing (although the Incan quipu seems to have some sort of non-numeric data encoded that may strain our definition of writing system, and the Aztecs did have some form of proto-writing).
Well one of the brothers lives in Montana and the other in Indiana, so if it's SV-speak it's just because they're both big nerds.
Ada does not have parametric polymorphism, algebraic data types, Objective-C interoperability, etc.
Commercial fire insurance does not typically take equity in the places they insure.
"Adding people to a late project makes it later."

Not all projects are beholden to the rules of the mythical man month.

And even for those that are the primary reason they are is basically the lack of a fast, efficient way to transfer built up institutional knowledge, which may be far less of a factor for AI collaboration.

If I've been working on a project for the past year as the sole developer and I could copy a snapshot of my brain to a portion of your brain that you can access without interrupting me, adding you on as a collaborator is very unlikely to make the project later and very likely to make it go much faster as you could very quickly 'hit the ground running'.

A lot of the problem with the current limits of human intelligence is really bandwidth problems with getting information transferred in and out of our meat brains effectively. Our bandwidth for knowledge import/export is DREADFUL.

AI collaboration (even assuming that bandwidth limitation goes away or is vastly reduced) would still introduce the issue of increased communication requirements, but compared to the initial transfer of acquired knowledge that one isn't as big a deal in my experience and only becomes problematic at great scale.
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Much more likely IMHO is that it is a testing facility. When you are building equipment that is intended to work in a network mesh, being able to setup, tear down and simulate network problems quickly is important. It should never be in production code, but you know what engineers are like when they are pushed for deadlines.
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That is because there are over 7000 comments right now. Clearing it. Try again, it should be snappy.
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The human brain has the ability to create models to solve problems in an unsupervised way. Be it problems around survival, reproduction, and things that rank higher in the hierarchy of needs that can be very abstract in nature.

Some people might then argue that the human experience is also about creativity, entertainment, learning, social interaction, spirituality, fitness and a long list of things.

Part of it is because the brain is not only raw problem solving power... it is embodied in a human body, with bodily needs and hardwired behaviors coming from older brain structures. Like having an intuition for what may look like a predator or threat (and therefore evokes fear), what may be fine to eat, etc... and other stuff correlated with survival that guided our evolution, but not necessarily has to do with survival.

But AI can be embodied into anything, and the equivalent to its primitive mind can be played with. While we have many learned behaviors, there are aspects that are not learned. AI will be different. What AI ends up developing into will greatly depend on how that is done.
This is part of a specific re-engineering effort to enable front end engineers write their APIs in single threaded nodejs ..And the platform takes care of scaling.

Because "they already knew js". I know that Hystrix is still core, but IMHO the shift has started.
Mostly because open defacting creates other issues for women, like sexual harrasment, rape etc.
The "survey" that accompanied the original customer facing message was so biased as to be ridiculous. Like "Will Google's proposed change be disruptive, massively disruptive, or business ending for you?"
If you want to be sure it's right, yes.

Here is the thing:

Without ECC, or even simple parity on the RAM, the CPU cannot validate a data transfer.

In the 90s, a place I worked for had a server running non parity, non ECC RAM. That machine was fast and cheap.

But it would demonstrate the most bizarre problems, from time to time.

A fresh OS install would fix it. Then a year or so, off the farm again.

I saw no error correction, had it replaced with a very similar machine, no issues.

The argument was, it's only the possibility, and only once in a blue moon...

The bigger the RAM, the faster we do stuff, the sooner "once in a blue moon" tends to happen.

I did put that box on my personal network, and under Linux (was win NT before), seemed fine. In the syslog, after a year, there were various kernel messages, each recovered, but there was something to recover from... Win NT would blue screen a lot. That's different today with better kernel software from Microsoft, but the point is no error correction comes with no real way to understand where some trouble may have come from.

And that was doing light duty stuff. Didn't trust it for a build, frankly.

We get fast, quality, cheap. Pick two :D

more generally, the fact that the CPU cannot know if it's transactions with RAM make any sense, unless ECC or even simple parity are present, should be a worry today.

Our processes are small, clocks fast, density high. We are pushing it on all fronts!

Best employ error correction.

And, back in the day, the Apple 2 had no parity on its RAM, the first IBM PC did. Even those much larger, more robust circuits, clocked slowly, would throw bit errors.

The IBM guys knew that from their experiences.
All of that is moot when you can just turn off the power.
seriously, i exit at Powell station and the amount of shit and piss i smell every day is unimaginable.
Everybody always complains about the weather but nobody ever does anything about it.

In other words, even though everybody complains about something, and even though it's theoretically fixable, the cost+benefit isn't always there. That doesn't stop people from complaining or offering conceptual solutions.

If nobody pursues a particular solution, that's strong evidence about the real implementation and problem costs. Not conclusively, of course. But as a passive observer it's usually the best evidence available.

Really, the answer to the COBOL "problem" is obvious and it's what basically anybody familiar with it suggests: a piecemeal and gradual shift according to cost, benefit, and opportunity.
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I showed my friend are.na (after deciding I liked the concept) and they called it "a masculine-branded pintrest clone". I had trouble disagreeing, but I'm open to being convinced otherwise.
Thanks for pointing that out!
I don't know how I missed it
"I've made my argument."

You didn't make an argument. You made a false claim that there were other methods that work and/or an implication that there wasn't much effort on doing that. All kinds of people have spent decades doing that. They get ignored.

"Why is it at all relevant what I've done and especially since when you don't say what you've done?"

"I haven't seen much convincing being done."

Programmers, support people, architects, tech managers, security experts, and so on have failed to do what you suggested because of greed and apathy of manufacturers. They write about it all the time on blogs, esp basic QA. They write about it here, too. I asked what you had done since you might have seen people successful at convincing greedy, hardware manufacturers at doing security at a loss. We obviously haven't.

""INFOSEC" (all caps of course because we want to be cool like the military)"

People in the military invented computer security. They taught me. Don't get excited because they called it "COMPUSEC" to differentiate between it and "COMSEC." CompSci and business called it information security w/ INFOSEC being a short-hand. Later, many in business started calling it IT Security or ITSEC. It's a business term that people from high-security, regulated backgrounds, some civilians, and military all use these days. We speak differently to laypersons in management or policy-making vs how we talk to HN techies. Nice try at trolling, red herring, though.

"Yes, you're still not making an argument why these actions would in any way would be a effective way to regulation."

I just told you regulations on information security were passed that worked and led to secure devices hitting the market. It happened twice at least. Obviously, that means there's a good chance regulating in a similar way with modern knowledge would do the same thing again. Meanwhile, nobody is doing anything at any level, you can't convince businesses to do anything in general case, and so a vigilante breaching defective, damaging stuff might be only progress we can get in meanwhile. Reduces risk and decreases demand for garbage products. Vendors might get message like Microsoft did leading to their 180 in security.
> Do we yet have an airplane yet that can come close to the efficiency of the most clumsiest of the birds?

Regardless of efficiency, we have certainly exceeded the range, cargo capacity, top speed, and passenger space of most birds.

Similarly, even if signal propagation in the brain is not understood, we could conceivably beat the brain in other metrics.
Irrelevant anecdote:
I first saw that radial evolution chart while wandering the UT Austin campus, I think it was in a lobby, though I remember it being dominated by bacteria. Interesting to think that might have been Hillis's lab.
It does play those cards, for instance to mandate full disk encryption. They're moving the standard forward, just not as fast as some may want.
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I'm so glad DJI is doing this. I've started flying drones in September of 2016. I use to be annoyed by them, but now as a pilot and a photographer, really love the unique perspectives drone footage gives me.

That said, I hear from many people who dislike drones (I can understand them since I was one, too) and all it takes is one or two people to ruin it for everyone else. So it's really good DJI is taking the lead on this.
Do those first two strike you as extremely limiting if they are not present in a programming language?
Yeah, really nice.
Is this a problem just in China or what about airports around the world?
Kotlin has all of these features and build times don't (noticeably) suffer.
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There are several ways of reaching a distributed consensus about that, like proof of stake.

It is also conceivable that it would be in the fund's interest to defend all lawsuits. That would provide the largest deterrent, since the lion's share of today's suits are without merit, and the cost of defense would be considered the operating cost of the fund.

What the trolls exploit is the assymetry between a defendant without resources and their own resources which are solely dedicated to this.

Without all the licensing fees that startups pay to settle the alleged infringement the business model for trolls would stop working.