skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, but we do have "attractive nuisance" laws. If you leave out a trampoline next to barbed wire, you can be accountable even if you didn't actually permit anyone to use it.

This actually seems much closer to the IoT issue than theft. The maker and user of the device have created an inviting target which will cause harm to someone other than themselves. Even if the eventual attack is illegal, they can still be held accountable for making it so likely.
E-mail, wikis, discussion forums, and issue trackers are all collaboration tools built from the ground up to be asynchronous in nature. Are you looking for something else?
I wonder at what point these arms are going to get better. I suspect it'd be a lot easier to train a prosthetic arm when there is still a physical arm to be attached. Doing this before a replacement should really cut down on the 'rehabilitation time'.

Perhaps, in the scenario, it is better to just leave to current arm attached and give a prospective cyborg a third arm rather than replacing the current arm.
I am not entirely sure how much of your comment is sarcasm. Most of the author's complaints about Windows 10 are on point. Comparing Windows 7 and Windows 10 leads me to similar conclusions: the UI is more cluttered, there's unnecessary (and unwanted) marketing all over the place, the level of built-in privacy intrusion is worrying and the attempts to lock you into Microsoft's online services are blatant.
Well, those questions depend on the system in question, and for any particular system, it's probably impossible to say what the cost of replacing would be, because no one understands everything the system does, and how it interacts with external systems. This is what others are alluding too, your question is unanswerable.

What you can do is estimate the cost of implementation in today dollars. For example suppose Bank System X has been under development for 40 year with an averge of 10 developers per year. That's 400 person years. Suppose you find cheap labor at $100k per year, the sunk cost in personnel alone is $40M in todays dollars. So 40 people maybe could do it 10 years.

The above analysis is not satisfying.
A brief history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-worm
Started with The Power Broker as I have an interest in planning and had read Jane Jacobs' book.

I've read all four of the Johnson volumes, and I'm hanging on for the fifth.

For those that are not familiar with Mr Caro's work...

https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6442/robert-caro-t...

http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/a13522/robert-car...
I do agree Amazon is amazing and frightening all at once. However, I really hate all of this analysis based on market cap instead of revenue/profit/etc. It's just like so much fantasy.
(Not trading advice, yada yada)

Well,

The way I approach betting against the market is inverse leveraged ETFs. If you want to bet against S&P 500, ProShares has a 2X inverse offering, and you can probably balance it with 3x leveraged gold JNUG / JDST as they track the market.
They did. It's mostly bs, though, since they cut corners too or cant impact the software lifecycle enough. Few people trust those labels. It could still be done, though, in a way along lines of Underwriter Laboratories and Consumer Reports with private evaluations.
I disagree with the metrics here. In the US Hydro power is not considered renewable yet it powers roughly a third of Canadians. Quebec's Hydro Power also powers a large part of New York, Vermont and Massachusetts.
"It concluded that there is literally not enough renewable energy potential in Great Britain (e.g., cover every square millimeter of space with solar panels) to do so at then-current energy consumption rates."

That is false, though. Just a little math shows why.

The UK is 242,500 km². Nameplate solar capacity on that would be on the order of 150MW/km², so 36 Terawatts. UK average electrical consumption is 32 /Giga/watts. Assume solar produces 1/4 of that 36TW on average when it's sunny during equinox, so 9TW. Even on a pretty cloudy day on the winter solstace in London, you're still going to produce at least 1/10th to 1/20th of that much, so worst case of worst cases (cloudy day on solstice) you're looking at 450GW average if you cover the entire UK in solar panels. That's still over ten times the UK's average electrical consumption.

(I used UK instead of Great Britain, but that doesn't make much difference.)

I mean, the overall point that you wouldn't want to power the UK on solar alone is totally and completely valid (and I fully support the Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant, by the way), but the idea that it's literally not possible is BS.
This village in India is the cleanest village in asia, sharing one article:
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20160606-the-cleanest-villag...
I used to hear that electric vehicles would help to absorb the excess solar and wind that need to be overbuilt because that's cheaper/easier/better than burning gas or building batteries.

I seem to recall reading a study that suggested that surprisingly few electric bus or delivery van fleets would be required to soak up this cheap electricity and tame demand fluctuations but more recently I heard people saying that it's going to be a problem/disaster.

I'm not sure if there's new knowledge or it's just become a popular talking point.
We've made an online action website where people can vote on things and the people with most votes win prizes.

We thought it was a good idea to validate the user by email (by sending an email with a unique link, that when clicked, the vote was authenticated.) We thought it was good enough as a "security measure", but we thought wrong!

Some people made disposable email accounts and sent the emails to there, so there were some people with thousands of votes, while most only had a few dozen.

When looking in the database, we were glad that we stored some basic info like IP, Agent Strings and timestamps. These people were smart enough to (sometimes) change IP's but then when looking to the timestamps and agent strings, we saw that these people were cheaters with disposable email addresses.

We removed all these votes and the "winners" didn't win anything at the end, because they had much less votes than "normal" players. They started sending angry emails to the customer, and did not leave them alone.

We are currently making another action for that customer, but this time we have added browser fingerprinting, that checks a lot of variables (like fonts, canvas rendering, webgl, screen sizes, number of monitors, device pixel ratios, ...). This way we'll going to identify cheaters much easily, ... BUT you can still spoof it, so it's never a foolproof method of identifying users, it just makes our lives a little bit easier when there's some cheating going on ;)

// EDIT: some typos
For those confused by this comment, the actual title of the piece is: "This Hacker Is My New Hero".
I just made this connection when I was looking at their portfolio [https://lowercasecapital.com/posse/], and saw Gimlet Media. Lot of interesting stuff on that page.
Indexed Profunctor optics
They already do this. At my old tech school there was almost a rotation of COBOL/RPG instructors back and forth between the schools/businesses. Along with those businesses paying for some of their own to go through the classes.

Other companies have worked together to essentially make boot camps before SV even thought to do so.
It's very high, but not as bad as it sounds. There is less than 1 gram of fuel in the reactor at any given time, so it's extremely diffuse, and mostly contained by magnetic fields. Much of the energy can also be radiated away by facilitating ion-electron recombination before the plasma reaches any materials.

The current design for ITER, operating at 150 million Kelvin, focuses the exhaust plasma onto a dedicated divertor surface with an estimated peak heat flux of 20 MW/m2. Experiments show that tungsten handles this fairly well, although with some cracks appearing after many cycles, but this is an active area of research.
With most people, I'd agree with you that local engagement would be more effective. Doubly so in the homeless hating bay area.

However, Chris' access to capital, which equates to power in America, makes it more successful for him to fight on the federal level. trump in the white house has emboldened local behavior that threatens our education/healthcare systems, the homeless and countless other social safety net related issues. There are plenty of us left who can bring the fight on the local level. I'm coming around to the idea that winning the larger fights is also important.

I've not heard of Chris Sacca before reading this article. He appears to be that rare person with an understanding of the social obligations of wealth and the means to build some larger communities around that.
Ask HN: User groups that upload their talks in YouTube?
Hi Hn,

I would love to know any tech user groups who upload their month/weekend meetings and talks to YouTube.

Thanks for the info.
So if you get mugged, you might as well spit in the face of the robber, right? Or tell him it's a shame he didn't apply himself in school, then quote Socrates, and laugh at his ignorance? Seeing that things are totally out of your hands, or something.
> the money to do the change simply wasn't there.

This is a good excuse for a few years. But after decades?

And talking about banks?

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The whole software industry is frankly pathetic. We are talking about actors with the HIGHEST profits of mankind, and yet "we don't have money for this" star to look pathetic.

Google, Apple, MS, IBM, Oracle, Banks, Defense industry, etc have not excuse to not invest in basic infrastructure.

This is the same thing with country that neglect self-investment in fundamentals. If you agree is smart to invest in road, electric grid, etc, then why we think otherwise when we talk about OUR industry.?
A historical returns of the stock market calculator:
http://www.moneychimp.com/features/market_cagr.htm
I think the issue is less the chance of the lawnmower going wild by itself (because screw that, I don't care how small the chance is, it's not acceptable), and more the chance of the lawnmower exploding, taking out your eye when you trigger it's failure it yourself.

As in, "the chance of getting hacked" < "the chance of the vigilante creating dangerous situations".
They seem to be saying it's not that way because their customer base is more aligned around convenience. So it's structured where they can't see your data.... until/unless you need a restore.

Is there another well known service that does this completely right? (honest ask, not a challenge)

Edit: sounds like there isn't anything in their budget price range that does it well either. Sounds like it should be a goal to provide it, but hard to fault them too hard.
Actual article title: "This Hacker Is My New Hero"
It has been for a while. Probably it was last year when we threw out a bunch of Microfocus Object COBOL documentation acquired about 1987. Let me add that I know essentially nothing about COBOL.
I disagree. We know that the probability of it happening again is very high, seeing as it has already happened multiple times, and no serious action has been taken to improve the situation. If we were speculating about a theoretical risk, I would agree with you.
I had a K6/2 with ECC back in the late 90's. So, yes.

But for whatever reason, AMD never seems to put ECC in the bullet lists for why you should buy their parts. I guess as someone else mentioned its because the motherboard manufactures don't enable/qualify it even though its likely just a matter of firmware tweaks ever since the DRAM controller moved on chip. I got it working on a cheap phenom II/gigabyte motherboard (IIRC) some time ago as well. In that case I don't think the motherboard even advertised it, but I had some unbuffered ECC DIMMs lying around and I plugged them in, and they worked. Of course the only real indication besides booting the machine that it was actually working was a kernel blurb during boot about it. I don't think I got the EDAC reporting to give me soft error rates at the time.
I'm skeptical of this finding however it seems ludicrous to mean that scientists accept on its face that humans reached Australia like 50000 years ago, crossing over 55 miles of water but a 50-mile wide Bering Strait would pose huge problems.
Sleep/wake kills my webcam sometimes, but it's been blamed on Android file transfer utility. Other than that, no issues yet for me!

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4300327?

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/camera-not-working.1467...

if I go to activity monitor and find the "android file transfer agent" process and close it, the camera starts working again
That should be an option at least. I.e. "warning with this option you are responsible for the key, rather than trusting it to us with a password".

I wouldn't want to be responsible for safeguarding the key to my own data if I could help it though. Or put another way: The whole reason I'm using cloud backup is because I can't be trusted with important data.
Building Accurate Shipment Timelines – A Sorted Affair
Building an ethical bank in Britain
didn't the XBOX also feature something similar to this? I could swear I saw demos where it took your picture and did fashion shows
So you think the consumers should be punished for something you think the producers do wrong?
Do you apply this to other products as well? Would it be ok to soak peoples cigarettes in water, break the motor of your neighbours high fuel consuming SUV or destroy the guns of people since these products can cause damage to other people?
Or they are like the Norsemen-sure they made it early, but with 100,000 missing years of continuous habitation until Clovis, et al, they died out and didn't contribute anything.
the myoband approach to nerve control is fascinating. they're not plugging into the user's nervous system, they're just measuring what the upper arm does when the user controls their phantom limb.

this is a much better ad for myo than the video on myo.com, which looks like a bad remake of the gesture controls from earth final conflict.
Eeek, at those rates surely there are some undetected triple flips.
Well I mean staying at that specific startup. Obviously the industry is fine. Maybe you really like the company, maybe you really like the coworkers, maybe the coffee's real good, maybe you just hate change. Whatever the reason that attachment can keep you at a place long after you know you should've left.
NOOOOO! Why??
Narendra Modi, a person who can change things in India.. Because he knows Sankhya.
> Sorry if this is nitpicky but fyi, coal in 2016 was almost exactly 40%, not 'well over'

Grandparent post was just missing a comma:

"Well, over 40% of US electricity is still from coal"
Kudos for admitting the mistake. One of our engineers did something similar and AWS actually contacted us shortly after with a warning that the creds could be viewed publically. Bummer they didn't catch it for OlinData but they are somewhat on top of this issue.
iPhone 8 Schematic Hints at Wireless Charging
A suprising oversight, but I have noticed in the heat of the moment few customers care. Without friction, the incentive is not there, given all the fires they likely fight 24/7. Looks like someone just gave them incentive. Hopefully an opprotunity to address this and look good, backblaze has always seemed better at the (tech) public facing game than most.
I tried to use your app but I still got defrauded. 2/5 stars
here is the google trends graph https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=FFFFOUND wonder what happened in july 2013?

the decline in 2015 might be the push by google for mobile friendly sites.
“/* should we even bother? */” nomx: The world's most secure communications
White House Proposes Slashing Tax Rates for Individuals and Businesses
I have accounts with traditional brokers and with Robinhood. I assure you the barrier to entry with Robinhood is far lower than traditional brokers. I could definitely see this being a major concern with the potential to ruin some unsuspecting innocently curious "investors" lives.
For the uninitiated: https://xkcd.com/303/
I have literally never heard of IndieWeb. Is this something important I should have heard of?
You might be surprised.

Telcos need to troubleshoot network problems in real time, automakers and insurance companies need to track cars in real-time, oil companies need to interactively query and visualize geological data, and the infosec industry needs real-time packet analysis. We have customers almost in every vertical, all united by their need for real-time analytics. Some want to use MapD us visualization, others for programatic querying for things like fraud detection, and others still to feed into machine learning algorithms.

I'm also curious how you envisage paying thousands of dollars per year to get queries in dozens of ms on datasets this size, much less 10-100X larger (which customers would often use MapD for). Mark benchmarked a 6-node ds2.8xlarge cluster of Redshift (> $40/hour) and found it up to 70X slower than MapD on this dataset. That's similar to our price on Amazon for this 2-node cluster.

Not saying Redshift isn't a great system, just that I don't buy the price/performance numbers you are quoting (for real workloads, not for some specific query that can be indexed well, etc)
what's worse: that amazon thought that enough people wouldn't care about an always-on, always-connected camera watching them get dressed (and undressed) every day, to make it a viable product ? ... or that _they might be right_ ?
First off, I just want to say that my criticisms are in no way meant to demean the quality of work of the Redux contributors. Redux is the best solution for single state management in the React ecosystem and it is a very well made library. Thanks for all of your effort.

My criticisms are just me simply voicing my frustration with, what seems to me, to be the generally accepted "best practice" for composing Redux applications.

Let me give you some short background: I've being doing backend work for years. Last year I signed on with a new project where I was in charge of both front and back-end work. Because of this, I was introduced to the modern front-end ecosystem and all of its intricacies. We've come a long way from jQuery. After evaluating many different front end libraries against project requirements it came down to using either Vue or React. We chose React because of its wider adoption. Eventually we hired on 2 front-end developers so I could focus on the server side of things. Well, here comes the project deadline and I'm having to pick up slack on the front-end. Now, since the new front-end devs re-wrote the entire front-end, I am struggling to understand why they structured it the way they did. They insist that having huge containers passing state down through multiple dumb components is the best way to structure the application. I feel like it introduces unnecessary complexity. Because our front-end devs have more experience in front-end development(obviously), I need to trust their judgment. I hope that helps you understand my frustrations.

>You _can_ even directly import the store into your component files and reference it directly, although that's discouraged for several reasons (per the Redux FAQ at http://redux.js.org/docs/faq/StoreSetup.html#store-setup-mul.... ).

Yes, I definitely want to steer clear of this pattern.

>Third, you shouldn't need to "propagate an event through 5 different callbacks". One of the main points of Redux is that you can `connect()` _any_ component to give it access to the store. If a deeply nested component needs to extract a couple values from the store, or dispatch an action, go ahead and connect it - you don't have limit yourself to only a couple connected components higher up in the tree (per http://redux.js.org/docs/faq/ReactRedux.html#react-multiple-.... ).

I should show this to my team. Maybe a Redux maintainer will do a better job convincing them than I will.

>I keep a big list of links to high-quality tutorials and articles on React, Redux, and related topics, at https://github.com/markerikson/react-redux-links . Specifically intended to be a great starting point for anyone trying to learn the ecosystem, as well as a solid source of good info on more advanced topics.

Thank you for this.
A lot of things which we considered subjective were later found to be measurable. I think we should never stop to find an angle from which we can tackle the consciousness problem.
Image not FFFFOUND
Is this what the world really needs right now?
The whole exclusivity element of the design industry (fashion, interactive, graphic...) has always been a source of contention with me. On the one hand, I like working as a designer on projects as I enjoy the challenges and the output. And I've had the honor of working with some exceptional development teams in producing things that people use on a day to day basis.

But the justifications for gating sites like this one or Dribbble has left me with an incredible distaste for the industry because it's fairly prevalent. I recall being in class and having the elite designers scoff from their towers over the lesser skilled individuals, as if somehow there's no way anyone else could attain the skill necessary to improve their own ability. Even my ex-Creative Director who studied under some ridiculously strong designers (e.g. Paul Rand) had that mindset where you either had it or you didn't.

In contrast, when I'm learning things like deep learning or math, you have incredibly smart people who put out tons of free information or books, who actively help others on forums/Quora/SO on their quest to become better. And most importantly, believe in the individual to become a better person.
> The business owners have to make concerted, multi year effort to document their process as implemented, define the replacement, and manage it's (re)implementation. This never happens.

I wouldn't say it never happens, but it certainly takes a couple tries and a lot of time and money.

My employer is close to being off our mainframe(s), but it will probably take at least another 10 years to get rid of the last little dependencies. We've already spent about 15 years (with hundreds of developers) getting to the point where all the major online and batch processes have been reengineered and have very small mainframe dependencies. The mainframe development teams are very small and mostly focused on decommissioning work.

But yeah, it's a massive undertaking. In our case, the business was motivated to pay for it because mainframes just couldn't scale for our main use cases.
I always assumed it was so the banks could skim off the interest generated for another night.
Up on the top right, there is language selection text: FR EN ES. Whatever language is currently active is underlined. This is a little bit fighting against convention. Please change that (i.e., active language should not be underlined; inactive languages should be underlined so that a click trigger will cause action).
You create content using Markdown with Kobble. The content can be rendered as simple markdown or as slide decks. Our landing page was created with Kobble as a markdown slide deck.

If you log in (with GitHub), you'll see the rest of the UI.
Banks for example use this to help prevent unauthorized access to your account.
Robinhood makes money off of uninvested capital and margin accounts, not trade commissions. So why would they care what we buy or whether we make purchases rarely or not?
Do you have a reason for saying this?
Upvoted because - even though I don't agree with you here - I managed to find someone more optimistic than I am.
CUZ FUTURE IS SCARY OMGeee!
A camera app, or Google Backup Transport or anything else 'odd' on a phone that wants to talk to Mother can be firewalled at the kernel level.

An Echo is an opaque, indivisible blob.
Everyone will end up looking the same. And of course owning this device is a bad idea for many other reasons...
Technology, filtered through the desires of nontechnicals, just looks uglier and uglier