skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty interesting, if I'm reading it correctly the existence of the domain is checked, and if is there, the program is aborted, in order to stop sandbox analysis.

I was wondering why they didn't just do a simple variant:

1) Instead of relying on DNS, which anyone can create, why not make a user account on some well known forum site. Like HN or Reddit.

2) Open the site, look for the user's page, and check his message titles by hashing them against some hash that can be in your code.

3) Detonate if you don't see the code, or the user account doesn't exist.

This would have the useful characteristic that you could start/stop the attack using just an internet browser, anywhere. And the code word that you are after would be crypto hashed, so the defenders would have to find your keyword somehow from the hash. Heck, you could confound everyone by turning the thing on or off according to location, time of day, and so on.

For extra points make it a blockchain thing. They're already using that for payment, right?
No one owes you a "living wage". No one owes you a wage at all.
Didn't it also have to respond to a http request though? Why not register the domain anyway and just leave it unhosted?
>>and supports an evil regime in north korea

For what it's worth, the only reason China "supports" North Korea is because they don't want to deal with the massive influx of refugees that would result from that regime's collapse.

If you think about the strain that a few million Syrian refugees are putting on Europe, you can hardly blame China for this stance.

Make no mistake though: China has no love for North Korea. I mean who would want a crazy mad man armed to the teeth right in their backyard?
> Imagine if they devoted all of their resources to finding and fixing all of the possible security issues until it's virtually bulletproof, and the price of a zero-day gets to a billion dollars.

The trend in security has lately been toward isolation (sandboxing, etc.) instead of fixing security issues as they come up. Newer versions of Windows have more isolation features. Setting up a sandbox on Windows XP is a nightmare, and there's no way to shut off access to FAT drives or win32k.sys, etc.
Requires credentials to connect.
We don't take them home, just for working on projects in class. Of course, nobody ever goofs off when given an hour of relative freedom.

At school, chromebooks and the Macs in the library. At home, whatever we have--we don't get computers to take home.
>banks are too spendthrift

Only being a pedant because this came up in /r/soccer today about an hour beforehand. That means the opposite of what you want it to mean.
Did you really think he was talking about the body count?(Have 2 trillion people even ever lived...?) He's clearly talking about the projected cost of that war.
> destroyed by an evil government, just for cheap, shoddily made goods

This attitude is why China managed to get itself out of poverty while other countries don't seem to get anywhere. While you may think phones made in China are cheap, shoddily made goods, guess what, there are billions of people in this world who don't have the financial resources of the 300M Americans to afford an iPhone.

The American model is to have a company create an amazing product at a very high cost (iPhone, Tesla) and have it "trickle down". What ends up happening are these companies monopolize the market, force everyone onto their ecosystem, and extract as much money as possible. Things do progress, but everyone gets locked into a system, and the company lacks incentive to keep innovating.

In China, they create cheap products, but in a few years, every single person has a smartphone. The technology is democratized and because of that, new technology can be built off that initial platform - now they are by far way ahead in things like fintech. Who cares if the product was initially cheap and shoddily made when the people there are upgrading their devices every year. The "cheap" device maker Xiaomi dropped to fourth place in China because consumers demanded more and more high end products. Within the space of a few years, the Chinese phone makers are making quality phones.
>There are various strains of Communists who either (i) believe that the actions of those 20th c. regimes were failures, and the points of failures must be investigated and fixed or (ii) believe that the approach taken by these nations (Marxism-Leninism) was not based on sound principles or (iii) are not proponents of orthodox Marxism at all, such as anarchists, anarcho-syndicalists or to some extent anarcho-Communists.

I always find it fascinating that, when defending failed Communist states, Communists tend to revert to a variation of the No-True-Scotsman. The previous Communist regime, with all its murderous barbarism, simply wasn't Communist enough or was the "wrong" Communism to begin with!
Really, at this point the transistor budget is mostly going to bigger caches and more cores.

It's really little short of a miracle that Intel still managed to extract double digit percent improvements in serial code for all of Sandy Bridge, Haswell and Skylake.
I agree that those workloads are becoming more important but as CalChris noted there's a narrow range where that's both a significant workload and not offloaded entirely to purpose-built silicon.

I would be interested in learning more about the reasoning which caused AMD to move away from VLIW in their GPU designs since that seems like a relatively favorable area: very performance sensitive, people put time into optimization and tooling, and they don't need to run arbitrary legacy business apps.
What's it called when the gigsters have to front their own capital to get the gigs? Pay to play?

I get why an electrician has their own tools. Why does an Uber driver need their own car?
My understanding is the idea is more to check if a non registered domain behaves as if it was registered. Some sandboxing methods apparently lead to this for some reason.
I know this is going to sound like victim-blaming to some, but I'm genuinely just horrified / curious: why didn't you go to the ER? Or to an urgent care clinic like many drugstores have now? And was this something that you needed special antibiotics for? Because the generic ones are pretty cheap, from what I understand.

Again, I'm NOT an apologist for the system we have, but I don't understand how it got to this point for you.
or instead of relying on the domain name existing, look at the contents of the web page
> world starts segregated. what happens when you lower the bias?

There is a hack to fix the situation. Move slider right, up to 100% intolerance, and let them jump around. Wait till chaotic jumps make society chaotic, than move slider to zero. All are happy now.
> How would those people benefit from being forbidden from working

You are asking the wrong question. The real question is how can swedes prevent yet another unskilled job from being utterly annihilated by globalization in action?

Before Uber and undocumented migrants arriving in droves, those lines of unskilled work had better condition, quality of life. With the unfair competition of illegally employed undocumented migrants working for peanuts, it's only a matter of time before all other delivery companies shut their doors and bail. Then we'll end up with yet another job lost at the globalist hands. How much can we continue losing to globalisation? Everything, until the entire Western world has become as poor as the third world, save for the low % of SV entrepreneurs and VC?
Certainly more forwardlooking than Trump.

But I don't think Official China's shadow is a moral one, even if it allows trade to flourish. I certainly hope that the citizens force their government to be more moral and have a better focus on human rights.
I believe he's referring to the economic cost being $2 trillion, not the death count.
I'm not sure why GCC would have been anything different.

No, porting GCC to a new architecture is not a big deal. The really complex part is the ABI, and what I have heard from former GCC developers is that it's as much of a mess in LLVM, because it's simply a messy domain.
Time tracking seems very microcontrolish for such a small team, and doesn't really seem worth the overhead. If the team includes freelancers, that's of course a different thing.
True.

But the idea I had in mind with this question was that there is often an initial free source of high value code and then someone may add an addtional amount of their own code that is by comparison far less valuable.

The end user of the commercial product if it is closed source may not be able to see the extent of the contribution of that free portion to the value of the product as a whole.

For lack of a better hypothetical, imagine a product that is a combination of 1. GPL licensed command line executable that anyone can download and compile for no charge and 2. a GUI "skin" written by someone who has no copyright in the command line executable.

The author of the skin, let's call him "the entrepreneur", wants to charge end users.

The entrepreneur packages his skin together with the GPL licensed command line executable as a closed source commercial "product".

As you state, "Nothing stops anyone from charging for the GPL code in the first place."

But in this case, as is common among GPL-licensed programs, the author who wrote the command line executable never charged for it.

The problem I see with this situation is that because the product is closed source, the end user may not be able to determine the extent of "the entrepreneur's" work.

For example, his contribution to the "product" may be quite small in comparison to the work of the original author. That is, the core of the product, the most important bits, may comprise the freely available GPL source code, available to anyone for no charge.

This is not a situation that I expect anyone else to care about. But as an end user, if I were faced with paying for a commercial software product, I would want to know about the entrepreneur's use GPL source code that I could obtain elsewhere for free and the extent of the entrepreneur's "contribution" in relation to the original author.

Returning to my original stupid question, why does the entrepreneur not sell his skin separately from the command line executable. It is a rhetorical question. (Commenters tried to answer it anyway.)

Assuming the command line executable is a well-written, highly valuable program and an end user does not know about its existance, the entrepreneur's product may look quite valuable. The entrepreneur may be piggybacking on the value of the GPL source code but concealing this by keeping the source code secret.
Setting the good Samaritanness aside, In the NHS situation, is it really plausible that there was more 'bomb' to go off to justify restraint? And given that the researcher had explicit support from the FBI and NCSC, do you think there is some level of professionalism not met?
The Rise and (Maybe) Fall of Influencers
Is there no way to install LO on the Mac or Android? Do you use Google Docs instead?
Graphene makes the nuclear power cheaper and more environment friendly
I'm seriously considering getting a cheap Android phone just for Alexa. The requirement to give it access to all your contacts is absurd.
Except for perhaps psychotherapy^, there's nothing there that would be out of place if someone said it, say, in Russian (I can translate, if you wish).

In particular, there's about 140,000 hits for "emotional vampirism" when you Google it in Russian (pop culture, eh?).

Same thing about writing in ALL CAPS: http://lurkmore.to/CAPSLOCK

May I ask you, which many languages, besides English, do you browse the Internet in? I am curious about your the basis for comparison.

^People are becoming more open about seeing a therapist (психолог), but it's something out of reach of most people.
Thanks for the spam.
My public key
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#neverforget
I don't know about sinister, but I'll go with bewildering. I also find it rather distracting.

(I've seen narrators of history programmes on TV do this sometimes. It's annoying then too.)
Yea, my information's from the CDC (with a précis by the NYT)

https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/nisvs/index.html

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2011/12/15/health/nearly-1-in-5-w...

But by all means produce your better studies than a comprehensive one by the CDC.

The figures are accurate, but there's a lot of people with an emotional investment in not believing the numbers. This phenomenon is a symptom of patriarchy, btw. Ask your feminist friends about it, you'll be amazed.
What I meant was phones from LG, HTC, Samsung shipping with Android without customization and updated directly by Google. Also, the possibility to install this "Pure Edition" if your phone didn't shipped with it would be great, like MS does with their Windows 10 ISO tool.
Somewhat hypocritical considering China's established track record of creating walled gardens around its own economy.
Is there any other source than that chart? I was looking for a supporting document to explain those figures but there's nothing apparently on that link besides that chart, which looks impressive but without context is as good as meaningless.

edit:

So Googling this, I came across this article, which agrees with the trends, but also notes:

But the vast majority of the actions — 89 of the 145 — came in the form of anti-dumping and other cases aimed at alleged unfair behaviour by trading partners. Of those, more than 40 were aimed at the trade in steel and other metals.

The global steel sector has been roiled by a collapse in prices blamed on China and its production of more of the metal than it can use. That has led to a growing number of anti-dumping cases in the US and EU and a backlash against Beijing’s bid to be recognised as a market economy in the WTO.

https://www.ft.com/content/2dd0ecc4-3768-11e6-a780-b48ed7b61...
Pills to kill and fire to obscure?

Fire means it will be some time before forensics could pin down the chemical situation of the victim and by that time the perpetrators would be out of the country.
Can you cite a source? It depends on the activation function, but as far as I know only the perceptron has a decent VC dimension due to its use of the sign function. The tanh and sigmoid result in O(E) and O(E^2) according to Wikipedia.
We have less social ills then pre-WWII world. Also, 19 century workers and peasants (e.g. majority of population lower class) spent more or equally as much time in work (including women) then we do now.
> so its better for a job to not exist rather than exist without reasonable wage?

This is quite obviously a false dichotomy. Its not necessary bad when a job doesn't exist (e.g. the job 'head of slave labour team' doesn't exist anymore), and the obvious best outcome appears to be a fair wage for a (therefore existing) job.

Uber doesn't seem to follow local laws. For example [and this is really one of the many examples], in The Netherlands you need a license to drive a taxi which made UberPop illegal. Uber didn't care, they launched it anyway. This appears to be the modus operandus of Uber: shoot first, ask questions later.

The way they try to get drivers for Uber as documented here (again, in The Netherlands, article in Dutch use Google Translate) [1], underpaying them after they're in, is also disheartening and only benefits Uber; neither the customers nor the drivers. So what Uber did there was invest in driving their competition away. Of course, people don't wanna pay for pennies, but that's why they have the Uber brand. They use this branding together with state of the art technology to get customers (workers and clients).

The more this information gets out, the less victims Uber is able to make.

[1] http://www.taxibelangen.nl/ervaringen-ex-uber-chauffeur/
Since this should be illegal, or at least illegal absent some reasonable compensation for giving up the right to freely seek alternative employment (e.g. a big retention bonus), presumably our politicians offering "regulatory relief" are to blame?
Haha,
I'll keep this in mind the next time I implement an idea.
Thanks for pointing it out. Bitcoin is referenced in the whitepaper and made it clear in the blog post as well. (Don't want the readers to get confused between the virtualchain blockchain and the Bitcoin blockchain that is used underneath.)
The FactorPrism Challenge
Thanks a lot for that reference. I listened to that episode, it's got a really interesting idea related to a "marketplace for organs" that I hadn't heard about before.

They describe setting up a consensual "kidney club". The idea being that if you're in the club and need a kidney, one member of the club is chosen at random and compelled to give you a kidney, but likewise if you have kidney failure and would otherwise die you get a kidney from a random member.

This sidesteps the usual concerns about implementing a marketplace for organs. I.e. even if you're a billionaire the only way to insure yourself against kidney failure is to enter the pool of potentially mandatory donors, and you can of course stay outside the "kidney club" and not have to donate to anyone, but then you also die if you have kidney failure.

Katz points out that the reason this doesn't work is that current law can't compel you to donate your organs, even if you've previously signed a contract to that effect, but that this creates a market failure & tragedy of the commons.

Implementing a system like this seems like a no-brainer and a benefit for everyone involved, but it's blocked by current contract law & the inability to force people to undergo medical procedures they consented to in the past.
I think it might have been on HN before, or was it Boing Boing? Actually I was glad to see it again. It attracted a different kind of comment this time, lots of concern about defacing the manhole covers!
This is definitely a recurring theme for him, too – an incomplete summary of blog posts about the difficulty of writing near-future fiction:

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2016/08/reality-...

“... The TL:DR is that I have had to trash an entire draft of the next Laundry novel because I tried to satirize British politics, and British politics is beyond satire.”

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/12/psa-why-...

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/05/sandbagg...
Ask HN: How would you measure quality of a site like HN?
What metrics would you want to look at? What would success look like?

Honesty might be one aspect - What % of posts and comments are undisclosedly by bots.
Who the site is tuned for.
What % of the links that you clicked on, were worth your time.
What % of the links that you didn't click on, due to the description or title, would have been worth your time.
I wish you knew the history of H2O's attempts to make a decent product. H2O, the open-source project, was largely created by H2O the company's technical co-founder, Cliff Click, who was forced out of the company more than a year ago for internal political reasons.

With him, H2O lost much of its ability to develop and extend its code base, particularly since Cliff built many things in house that might have better been dependencies. That's why Steam never happened. Now H2O is mostly marketing, an overfunded startup in slow decline that was forced to fire its sales team last year because, well, nobody wants their stuff.

https://venturebeat.com/2016/09/24/machine-learning-startup-...

H2O is not nearly as fast as SMILE by most metrics:

http://haifengl.github.io/smile/
https://github.com/haifengl/smile

But what I'm saying is that true gains are seen for algorithms that require more parallelization than H2O's specialties. It's a critique of the relative improvements.
Make VLIW running at <just one digit>0MHz.

First, your silicon will be smaller - no need for pipelines, even double precision floating point multiply can be done in one clock cycle. Less registers, less silicon area. You can internally do that operation at higher frequencies than main core, timesharing die area for SIMD operations - saving silicon in other way.

Second, your compiler will be simpler - no need for NP-hard algorithms to schedule operations in the basic block, no need for fancy software pipelining for loop code to be warmed up and/or cooled down.

Third, your CPU won't be faster than memory. Your code won't get big hit from missed cache access. And cache will be used to save energy, not the time.

That's exactly the reasons behind one of exascale CPU architectures. It was long ago - circa 2012. I remember they managed to get FLOP/W ratios much higher than Intel's offering at the time.
They are apparently using data from Global Trade Alerts
http://www.globaltradealert.org/

I good intro would be their 19th Global Trade Alert Report
http://www.globaltradealert.org/gta-analysis/global-trade-pl...
LOL nothing compared to China. China partners with startups, steals their IP and then escapes back to the homeland and no course of legal action. They get all the access to the West's markets and then give almost no access to their own. Their companies are all backed by the government and it's rigged in their favor. They cheat constantly, check out the EU scandal where they smuggle goods into London don't pay equal taxes as the EU companies, beat out competition who is playing fairly and then jack up prices.

Their immigration policies are one of the worst in the world. Human rights violations insanely high. They purchase our movie studios and then force on them Chinese propaganda and nothing negative on China ever. America is one of the least protectionist countries in the world if not the least.
Are NNs any better than a simple nearest neighbor algorithm then? It's hard for me to understand the hype if deep learning is just fancy memorization.
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Didn't last very long, unfortunately. I think it's because the average consumer doesn't even know what Android is and a lot of folks buy their phone at their carrier's store.

In other words, there wasn't enough people that cared about this stuff to be viable.
SaltStack Network Automation
Takes her out of the game. The pills don't produce a conclusive casualty in under an hour. She might survive by incidentally vomiting, recover and fly home. There might be others, undercover, tailing the kidnapping, and waiting to rescue. Rescue might simply be incidental first responders. Since she wasn't rescued we might assess there were more layers of interference in the murder. Lookouts, participating as accomplices.

The burning kills quickly (minutes or less of smoke inhalation), and even if ineffective in killing due to interruptions, certainly produces scars that won't be easily hidden in the future and puts someone on the sidelines.

It also sends an unpleasant message to everyone who didn't bring her home, and we still don't know who that is. Given that she wasn't even recovered, one might presume her original identity was marked deceased in a contrived accident, conincidentally, thousands of miles away. Maybe her family already knows the real story, and remains quiet.
> So its better that Uber didn't offer this job at all?

Are you happy MLM jobs exist, or would you rather see them non-existent?
At that wage you are unemployed. You cannot afford anything at an effective rate of $5 an hour. All you are doing is making someone else richer.
Zero-gravity (and by extension low-gravity) health effects are manageable, but: for months (so far), and by military-grade athletes with the self-discipline to exercise every single day. This is quite different from: a whole population, and for many decades.

The long-term health effects of low gravity are not a solved issue as far as I know:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-does-spending...
https://www.wired.com/2014/02/happens-body-mars/

I asked about gravity and not the (many) other issues because we have at least some hints on how to handle say radiation shielding, however we have no idea how to change gravity if it does indeed prove to be a blocking point for permanent settlements.