skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay, so even privacy concerns aside and assuming this works as well as they say, is there anyone who would actually find this sort of thing useful?

I mean, I'm normally pretty open-minded about products like this, but I'm having trouble seeing the target market here. Are there really a significant number of people out there who want to be able to browse their wardrobe on their phones and get a computer to help them choose their outfit? (I honestly don't know; fashion doesn't really interest me so I'm clearly outside their target market.)

I wonder if Amazon's real motivation for this product may actually be to create a better way to sell clothes online. Maybe once they get enough data points they can start using AR to show you how you'd look wearing a particular outfit or piece of clothing sold on amazon.com? Or maybe it will take your measurements to help ensure the clothes you're ordering will fit you properly. If so that might actually be useful; and would probably significantly increase online sales of clothing.
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wait a fucking minute

people are connecting medical devices to the internet?
Wouldn't want to enable people to make their own decisions with their money, would we? The fact that you have to make a paid account to use leverage (whereas you can trade indefinitely for free) is deterrent enough for most people who do not already actively manage their investments.

I think Robinhood is doing a great service -- I just wish they would expose a better API.
Has anyone else noticed that a bunch of people leaving the investing scene/liquidizing in the past year are part of the same circle? Specifically Sacca, Tim Ferriss, and Richard Branson?

I'm certain there might be more people.
We actually already can import geospatial formats via GDAL (shapefiles, geojson, kml). We can render points and polygon data. More geospatial abilities to come!
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Connecting critical life support systems to the internet, and not having any contingency for an outage, sounds a lot like malpractice. Hospitals have fail-safes, and if they don't it's a far larger problem than using an insecure IOT device.
> Does anyone know if anyone has ever made a virus who's only purpose is to remove other malware?

The first computer virus was an experimental self-replicating program called Creeper.

And the second computer virus was Reaper, a similar program created for the sole purpose of deleting Creeper.

http://corewar.co.uk/creeper.htm
It's for placement. You can't hide it out of the way or point it up at just your head. They need a good look at your whole room and your whole body, right down to the shoes.
Very different. If you can bust an insecure lock you can steal a bike. If you bust an insecure IoT device, you can steal data from potentially thousands or millions of people.
Be human, at least to your employees
Coal has vast negative externalities. The toll on health and lost productivity alone are large, not to mention its affects on the climate.

http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?Rec...
More power to desert people! What a great idea!
Why is everyone saying this is for insecure people? I'm also not the target audience for this, but I don't think people who are concerned about the way they look are inherently insecure.
I'm interested in hearing what it will say when it will be asked - 'Alexa, do I look fat in this?'
You may get the exact same answer from a European who has lived in Japan.
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Front running is illegal. Robinhood is regulated by the SEC. If they were front running they would get caught and shut down.
Coal production hasn't actually changed that much over the last decades. It has just moved west, and become muh more efficient.

(Unfortunately...)
Nice, but how it deals with multiple concurrent writes? I see you are using transactions but, as far as I know, sqlite3 supports database-level locking, so one writing instance, unless using ATTACH and separating tables into multiple files, to enable a sort of table-level locking.

Are you considering to add support to other databases?
I would never buy an Echo because of privacy concerns but this does appeal to me.

I don't have fashion sense. And I know something as simple as an algorithm telling me if the colors match would improve how I dress.

That said I'd probably only use something like this if it worked using my existing phone or desktop. Definitely wouldn't want an always on device specifically for it.
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I think privilege is still the correct word, whether you earn it or not. I know it has some bad connotations but that's not what I mean.
You'll actually get better fills from HFTs operating on purchased order flow than you would if you went directly to market. Also, there's nowhere you can go that won't sell your order flow on undirected orders. But if you don't like it, you can always send it directly to a particular exchange, regardless of who your broker is.
The long play seems to be deliver retail stock trading at the lowest possible price. There's a lot of money to be made even if they don't try to maximize profits.

Plus, I bet they are banking on the existing brokerages not responding until things are too late for them. Most brokerages offer free trades and other perks, but limited to "high-value" customers. They won't drop trading fees until they absolutely have to, but by that time, their low-value customers will all be gone.
Reviving Old Industrial Robot to Make ART
Recently finished reviving an ancient SCARA robot, adding a modern control software, giving it a paintbrush and with the help of comrades python-ing it into painting with a paintbrush.

Its a bit heavy on the robot mechanical and electrical side, but there's a github repo of image processing to synthesize the brush paths and I thought you folks might be interested.
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Want to learn (in decreasing order of interest): Haskell, Rust, Elm, TypeScript

Zero further interest in: Go, Java, Kotlin
I wonder if they'll open this up to 3rd parties or if they're planning to launch their own service to compete with the likes of StitchFix.
Did you not have any input into this headline? It is a clear endorsement.
You mean the freemail.hu email on a page that only appeared about a year after their last release?
I started all on the paranoid side, but that is increasingly being blinded out by feeling old. Very old.
I can't help but feel that we're increasingly in one of those movies where the real world becomes mixed up with a fictional one. If you were to take some of the things I've read about over the past month or so and challenged people to tell you whether they were real or a parody they'd be hard-pressed to decide.
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But.. but.. but...

This is the story of how heroic outlets like the NYT are defenders of Real News(TM) against terrorists and neer-do-wells, and how Zuckerberg and his use of his proprietary data collection and mood manipulating reality construction system to take a stand against Fake News(TM) will save us all from evil boogeymen, damnit!

Get on 'the right side of history' already, sheesh.
How are the manufacturers not to blame? One way or another, these devices are getting hacked. Only most of the time, they're taking down Playstation Network or GitHub rather than being bricked.

Attacks on devices that have hardcoded weak credentials online aren't an event or an act. They're a force of nature, like erosion. No-one would be happy with someone building bridges that don't account for erosion. Nor is it ok to ship something that connects to the internet and doesn't account for the millions of automated bots that are prowling the web 24/7 looking for insecure devices.

The manufacturers are 100% to blame, and the worst thing is that they're not the ones that deal with the fall-out – innocent companies and consumers are.
I think you could use Hercules.

http://www.hercules-390.org
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I'm a foster parent to 3 kids and have 4 of my own. In my opinion, the primary problem with poverty is that everyone wants to solve it with money. Poverty can't be solved by throwing money at it, children in poverty need a stable environment and loving adults to help them grow and become productive members of society. Adults in poverty often need intensive counseling, psychiatry, substance abuse therapy, and a support network of caring individuals. Poverty in the united states will only be conquered by loving individuals sacrificing their own time and interests to help others.
While genetics plays a large part, I think nutrient density of foods paired with activity is the thing to look at. The body is a big ball of chemical reactions and having limiting reagents in crucial biological processes would be obvious in causing issues.
from experience, I wouldn't recommend other than context-aware safe templating systems for html safety in this day and age.

to an even greater extent than templating systems, sanitization systems of this type need to be built by an expert and align perfectly with how browsers parse tags, which is no small feat.

to give more concrete examples, from a few minutes of testing:

<a href="javascript://%0Aalert`xss`">1</a> <- xss on click

<img src=javascript:alert(2)> <- XSS in Opera Mobile, Opera 10, early versions of IE

<img src="/logout"> <- csrf which affects nearly everything built without security knowhow
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Maybe the dating sites have hacker news bots? I wrote this response as a joke, but thinking about it...
The robot documentation is here:
http://transistor-man.com/bluebot_revival.html

A quick video demo:
https://vimeo.com/213723506

This is also an entry into the robotart competition, there's a login to vote for art that interests you.

https://robotart.org/

Our team didn't have access to a brand new robot, so we revived a scrapped one
I'm not sure that it is such a good idea that the first seconds of the video are filmed as if it was taken from an intruder in a bad movie.
Nude Taynes even.
Name another VC that wears spurs
If this danger is real, isn't it best to inform the consumer, or perhaps use a lawsuit to force a recall, rather than destroying other people's hardware?

Does this concept apply to software? When the next large-scale RCE 0-day drops, does it make sense to use exploitation to destroy as much as possible in order to pressure the developers to ship a secure product? Since, the hacked machines certainly could allow an attacker lateral movement to sensitive data.
The reason why Amazon and more people don't do these things is because they are hard and success breeds expectations that can only hurt you.

It's much cheaper and safer to build a politically neutral brand without expectations of some kind feminist message / worldview. If you go that route, it isn't going to sell more clothes but, it will invite people's hyper-sensitivity about every aspect of the product. You can only lose in that scenario, you aren't winning anything.

Also, it's creepy that we replacing a task that friends used to do, (fashion / styling / taste advice) with a corporate cloud algorithm? Seriously, just get some friends that like fashion and ask them to rate your style. I guess it's a bit needy to ask them every morning but, then I suspect that most people don't have that many clothes and that many possible looks. Also, looking good is zero sum game. Ultimately, you just competing for the same pool of attention from your friends. If you are successful and soak it all up with your great Amazon(TM) fashion advice, then your friends will soon have it too and then you are back to where you started but, now you have this dependance on the kind of friend who gives you great advice (that you need to just look decent now, not better than average like before) except it keeps encouraging you to buy more fashionable (and thus more expensive) clothes. It's kinda a shitty friend at that point.
> Caring that your clothes look good is narcissism (excessive interest in your appearance) now?

As if caring is a binary thing and not a matter of degree? When you pay $200 to have "fashion experts" (or AI) judge your outfits on a daily basis, have you not crossed a line?

> Knowingly and willingly sending people photos of yourself is an "invasion" of privacy?

Yes, I'm sure this won't be used to collect all kinds of personal data for marketing purposes.

/s
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I particularly enjoyed the thoughtful and reasoned critique of Windows 10: http://toastytech.com/guis/win10.html.
Everything you're saying is true, and yet, I think that relying mostly on this line of reasoning to justify poverty reduction leads to discounting the importance of supporting disabled people and old people. I think most people believe that just because you cannot work, doesn't mean you deserve a basic but dignified standard of living.
This works. (Don't forget to disable Flash.)

Canvas and Character Sizes are still making me fairly unique... Any ideas there?
Nice idea! Very useful for all kind of sites.
ok, yes why not make it customizable
Can this device be used for hands-free video conference?

Also can you use it for home monitoring ? Like a baby cam
This device and use-case are fine and fulfill a real need. The hidden cost of using it is moving the overton window on privacy another notch closer to "panopticon".

I wonder what will be the limit for users?
Good art is worth the effort :)
I did something like the single-threaded naive approach from http://lemire.me/blog/2017/02/14/how-fast-can-you-count-line... and outperformed wc -l slightly. But Lemire's vectorized/bit magic'd version is 16x as fast as the naive.
Awesome! Can't wait to try it out, hopefully with K100 at some point.
I'm curious how why you need to initialize a local server? Does that run inside the browser?
What can we do? Nothing really: the main thing to do is to vote better, but we don't do that, we vote for candidates who make the problem worse. In fact, a significant portion of lower-income people are making the situation worse for themselves by voting for politicians who work against their best interests economically.
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It depends. Most hosting providers will either discourage you or prevent you from relaying messages from your servers, so that is something you need to check for. Also, you'll want to make sure that your dedicated IP is persistent and won't be lost across reboots. Once you establish a good sending reputation, that's valuable in making sure your messages reach the Inbox.

In the case of Mailgun, you should be assigned an IP with a neutral reputation. For example, before dedicated IPs are reassigned we leave them dormant for at least a month, usually much longer, before assigning to a new customer.
There aren't actually any transactions fees to absorb. Wholesale brokers (think Citadel) pay retail brokers (think Robin Hood) for the privilege of executing their orders.
Yes, it takes more than just money.

But "intensive counseling, psychiatry, substance abuse therapy" all require money.

And it makes sense for individuals who, for whatever reason, cannot join "a support network of caring individuals" to still help by just throwing money at it.

But it is true that if everyone just throws money into a pile and no one uses that pile to buy anything helpful then nothing gets better.
People are so very emotionally tied to food they get blinded when it comes to "proper" nutrition. For technical folk, I think if we start phrasing nutrition alongside "limiting chemical reagents" all of a sudden the mind starts thinking about making sure all the proper reagents are available in abundant supply for the body.
This plus their fast fashion manufacturing lets amazon end-to-end take over fashion. Get clothing recs, have it delivered tomorrow.

Will be interesting to see if it sticks.
That's true, and unrelated to the conversation at hand or anything I said. If those externalities were priced in, much of the relative cost description I gave would be wrong.

But they aren't. That's not to say they shouldn't be - just that right now the fact is that they aren't.
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You weren't asking a question, you were making a statement about how foolish it was that banks are running COBOL. Question would be about the why and what value do people see in the situation that stays their hands at going to a new technology. Why did banks spend the money and time (which was not insignificant) to modify code for year 2000 instead of making the switch then at a natural change point? It would be the most logical point, yet they didn't do it. What does the mainframe and even the mini-mainframes bring that Docker does not? What made COBOL so hard to replace given later things like PL/1 which were directly supposed to replace it? Where do all the RPG programs fit into this?

Maybe someone should be thinking about a COBOL replacement language instead of the plethora of C / C++ replacement languages.

I imagine within the "a few years of development" is budgeted some time to figure out what tool to use

It will be a lot more than a few. Things absolutely cannot go wrong or even change in production. One slip-up can result in real money being lost. This whole "go fast and break things" doesn't apply to bank accounts.
Deniable encryption refers to the ability hide encrypted data without an adversary being able to detect that there is encrypted data present. It generally refers to file system encryption. I'm not sure how it would even apply in a case where key exchange is used. Either way though, the attack still doesn't get anything. If someone is participating the key exchange, then they get access to the resulting key. They can publicize this key to do at least as much damage as zero-keying.

> As for the malicious peer problem -- the malicious peer is the very model of state-sanctioned surveillance.

I'm really not sure what you mean by this. Some peers might be malicious, but this attack gains them nothing. This is true whether the peer is a state actor, or an 11 year old. Please try to have a basic understanding of what you are talking about before you accuse other people of engaging in willful blindness.
I agree. I've run Linux at home for ages, just not on the desktop. Recently I dabbled with switching over to it on the desktop again to see how far it's come along and was shocked to see the state of multi-monitor and HiDPI support in Ubuntu. I couldn't care less about whether it's using systemd or what format the logs are in. How can we still be struggling with multiple monitors and getting the size of text and mouse cursors wrong?
Yes, such things exist, but they are still technically malware.

It's a risky approach. It could have unintended consequences. If it's a worm, it could spread out of control and cause considerable harm purely from its transmission.

As attractive an idea as it might be, it's dangerous.
On the flip side, we do a terrible job of educating young people about even the basics of personal finance (in the US).

I was lucky enough to have a father who ran a small business, so I got an early education in these matters. But that's the exception to the rule.
> Robinhood also earns money from rebates its gets for directing its order flow to broker dealers

So they're selling some data (as opposed to running directly on an exchange, without any intermediaries). Or maybe not "selling" in the strict sense (I give you data, you give me money), but in an indirect way (I give you data, and you give me discount on your other services).
Maybe building codes could spec that home automation devices must have local controls.

The companies aren't going to do it without regulation.
A great many thinkpieces will be written about this, but let me beat someone to the punch:

Foucault's Panopticism is the obvious tie-in. Usually when we talk about the Panopticon in the modern era, we're talking about mass surveillance or the performative act of social media. When we act in a certain (digital) way, posting this link, for example, we signal our values to the community. "You shall be known by your works". However, this kind of technology makes for an even more interesting and more troubling application of the Panopticon.

Foucault says that the group eventually becomes its own control system without the need for the central observers, that we are all at the center of our own panopticons. We watch others unfailingly, assessing their actions and putting them back in line when they stray. As we are socialized, we become more entrenched in our system of values: wear makeup, don't get fat, don't smell like cigs, don't wear stripes and plaid, and for god's sake: don't look like you're trying to hard to conform to all of this. We are both observer and observed, traversing endless nets of social expectations.

Now, instead of your peer group enforcing social expectations, we have got machines in on it! The result is something blatantly dystopian - a system that will correct you in your home before you dare venture out looking like that and embarrass yourself in front of the others. As it learns, it will learn even more that we value large breasts (but also modesty), pale skin, sleek clothes on slim waists, bodies with bulbous lips and thighs and pastel face paints. It will advise those without a perfect body to get one, and it sure as hell will provide the means by which to do so: consumption. New makeup, new tights, new corsets that you can clamp so tight it'll squeeze you into a form the camera will approve, new ways to take selfies every day to show your followers that you care enough to buy this piece of surveillance equipment so that you can "look good" without those pricey fashion magazines and stupid blogs!
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http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-11-100

(I live a couple of hours downstream from Watts Bar.)
I'd never heard of him before this since I don't pay much attention to VC. Introducing the person you're talking about is always a good idea when writing about them.
Current daily: Elixir (Phoenix), Javascript (Vue)

Recent-ish daily: Ruby (Rails)

Before that daily: AS3/AS2 (many), PHP (WordPress, Yii, others),

Throughout: HTML/CSS/JS, SQL,

Side note: I was surprised at how short my list was. It feels like it should be much longer (edit: as if I'm forgetting a bunch).

As far as wanting to learn? I've only scratched the surface on Elixir (~1yr). Will continue unwrapping that awesomeness for now.
Carry on as usual.

My code gets offloaded to a build agent, so I don't have to worry about it.
Sometimes I think people in the Valley don't realize they live in a microcosm. I had never heard of Chris Sacca before Shark Tank, and I've raised venture capital in the Bay Area before.
If you're serious about HTML checking and cleanup consider using SGML and my (inofficial) HTML 5.1 DTD [1].

It doesn't do magic (like indentation or removing/simplifying CSS) if that's what you're after, but it gives you straightforward capabilities to filter out script elements, check/suppress event handler attributes and other places where JavaScript can occur maliciously in HTML, enforce presence of HTML elements, etc. Since it's entirely driven by an SGML DTD grammar for HTML it can be customized to death really (for context-dependent filtering, injection prevention, whatever).

[1]: http://sgmljs.net/blog/blog1701.html