skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think the grandparent poster is suggesting that the sherpas be forced to recover the body. If you read the article, it makes it clear that in practice, several poor people already are cleaning up after the rich people who have climbed the mountain.

It is already possible to buy repatriation insurance, according to the article. I don't think gp's suggestion that climbers be required to buy that insurance is unreasonable.
You have essentially described differential privacy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_privacy).

The main issue is that there is no reason for companies like Facebook to fully adopt it, since it doesn't benefit them and there is no outside pressure forcing them to do so.
Booth was my thesis advisor and Seth is a friend. Precious Nonsense is great, would highly recommend and am happy to discuss further in a thread here.
Don't you mean how many times per minute?
Ask HN: How to stop overthinking everything in my life?
I am a mid 20s white male who has been afforded immense privilege in life. I am outwardly extremely confident and able to get what I want. I have dozens of opportunities in front of me, more than 99% of people. Yet instead of being grateful for these opportunities, I feel like I do not deserve them. As a result, I frequently begin an endeavor, see some initial success, but then self destruct just prior to an inflection point, thus destroying any chance of future success.

This happens everywhere. School, athletics, relationships, businesses. Because I feel I do not deserve what I have, I self-destruct before I can take anything to the next level. It seems to be a subconscious attempt at equalizing my reality with what I feel I deserve.

I believe the cause of this is overthinking everything. I am analytical and often overzealous in my choice of analysis. I feel like I am observing myself from the third person. What I see, I don't like.

How do I get over this self-loathing? Do I need to stop overthinking? Is that even possible? Do I just need to accept this state of mind and seize control of it?
Even if suing the Turkish government is found impractical, they should definitely sue the thugs who have business interests in USA.
Please don't use quotes when you're not quoting verbatim from the article. The author is clearly just suggesting a path forward for Indian companies to maintain a stream of revenue going forward. Nowhere did he suggest that India is an expert in industrial robotics, he's just suggesting the country could explore that as an option.
I think you underestimate the power of marketing.
I don't think so. I believe Apple is basically going to do what Google and Qualcomm do and use a DSP's.
He may pass away but the damage he (and his friends) did to US will live on.

https://youtu.be/kYvO3qAlyTg
Sounds like the plot for a new shitty Fast and the Furious movie. For the record I also look forward to that.
I think the point is it's a standard documented format -- you can probably come up with something much shorter if you don't care about this particular format.

We've been using a custom 12-character format where the first character is a type and the last 11 characters is a random int encoded in a base-62 alphabet (url safe, no punctuation, etc) -- this gives us ~17 billion billion combinations -- almost 64 bits.
Please do! I'm just about to buy the book :)
As a property lister, you are able to see the profile pic and name of the person asking to rent from you. This enables people to decide based on race/sexism pretty easily.
Google announced it at I/O. They're using DSP's, specialized for neural network processing, on the SoC with TensorFlow Lite on the device.

https://youtu.be/Y2VF8tmLFHw?t=1h22m8s
Didn't look at the article, but seeing this quote out of context I'd assume it's about cookie-cutter CRUD/CMS-based apps. Not that I would agree with that assessment, as even running those professionally and at scale requires experienced engineering staff.
Powerful countries can easily perform 50% attack and decide which transactions get confirmed and which not. Effectively, this makes it possible to completely stop transactions on the network.
So they can do on device AI/ML with TensorFlow Lite, through the use of specialized neural network DSP's, as discussed during the keynote at I/O 2017.

https://youtu.be/Y2VF8tmLFHw?t=1h22m8s
You can read more about vulnerabilities here: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Weaknesses
I doubt it. If you aren't a driver I think it would be senseless to be running driver code at the same time as rider code. Maybe a little less disk (flash?), but I'm not certain. I'm neither a mobile dev or a Lyft employee.
Fpgas are generally power hogs, which makes sense considering how they work.
>Do these targeted ad's really work?

The massive income Facebook has seems to imply so.
I gotta say Nautilus headlines get me every time. I'll see an eye-catching headline on HN and sure enough it's Nautilus.
Do you have a link? I don't remember this, and I didn't find anything through googling.
I think the commenter was looking for an explanation of why you think shadow profiles are unethical.

In your argument you state that it violates peoples' freedom, but you need to define how their freedom is being violated.
GNU Smalltalk Koans
Realistically, for an old program like Excel, is it even possible to get bad-but-consistent behavior fixed? For example, I keep getting frustrated with teh bone-headed behavior when pasting dates in yyyy-MM-dd format into a blank spreadsheet and getting them mangled into an incoherent decimal number. But I'm assuming something like that has a historical reason and MS never wants to break backwards compatibility.
I have some experience with this. It helps if you yourself have some marksmanship training, because you will choose to zig, zag, or continue along your current path based on a time scale defined by the amount of time it takes to line up a sight picture on a moving target. You'll want to throw off this fairly universal, homogeneous process and zig when the guy's got you in his sight, but before he presses the trigger, and certainly at the very latest before the round traverses the distance between the two of you. This can be extremely frustrating.
Pj Eggs Masks Run Game Catboys
Why are graphics workloads float32? 32bit (1million+alpha) which is higher color resolution than most eyes can see - "true color" - is 3 8-bit ints + an 8 bit alpha channel (sometimes)
I really miss After Dark. A couple are available (legitimately, apparently) through IIRC some Japanese site, though I recall the payment system being sketchy enough that I wasn't willing to give them my CC. Still, they provided Flying Toasters as a demo with the full version unlockable with a license key, and a little digging with "strings" and a write to a certain MacOS preferences plist later... and man do I like seeing those toasters when I come back to my desk after a meeting. Wish I could get the city skyline, though. :-(

Anywho, I really can't believe the whole package isn't on the App Store somewhere. I'd probably have dropped $20+ for the whole collection.
> Unfortunately the only ways they could really fix the problem would be by forking Linux or building a new kernel from scratch and those would be huge efforts.

Or they could make their user mode pieces work with multiple kernel versions. In, say, a desktop Linux distro, it's often possible to leave the kernel at one version and upgrade other components.
I am interested in this idea, but I don't expect a better solution than SNI to appear anytime soon.

RFC2817's `Upgrade: TLS` is just like SNI except it requires an extra roundtrip and it only works for HTTP, not other TLS-enabled services experiencing the same issue (e.g. IRCS, FTPS, ...).

For an HTTPS server with a single certificate and no SNI handling, the domain name is (A) still leaked in plaintext by the initial DNS lookup, and (B) instantly visible by anyone who connects to the IP address.

Even if you plug the DNS hole, the fundamental issue is needing to secure communications with the remote server, before you even tell it what domain you're asking for. That can't work under the domain-validation CA model.

I suppose you could add an extra layer of indirection, by adding a certificate for the server itself; but that's just moving the chain of trust, and it's practically equivalent to a multi-domain SAN certificate.
If this article is biased because it shows some pessimism towards self-driving hype, what are the dozens of articles that blindly accept Musks near-term prophecy?

Here's another good source for some pessimism:

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/10/self-driving-cars-how...

Here's the best parts:

Contrary to Musk and many of the most prominent advocates of autonomous cars, Shladover insists that so-called Level 5 vehicles—robocars that require no human input—are not on the horizon. “I tell adult audiences not to expect it in their lifetimes. And I say the same thing to students,” he says. “Merely dealing with lighting conditions, weather conditions, and traffic conditions is immensely complicated. The software requirements are extremely daunting. Nobody even has the ability to verify and validate the software. I estimate that the challenge of fully automated cars is 10 orders of magnitude more complicated than [fully automated] commercial aviation.”

Herman Herman, director of the Carnegie-Mellon University Robotics Institute, disagrees as well: "With autonomous cars, you see these videos from Google and Uber showing a car driving around, but people have not taken it past 80 percent. It’s one of those problems where it’s easy to get to the first 80 percent, but it’s incredibly difficult to solve the last 20 percent. If you have a good GPS, nicely marked roads like in California, and nice weather without snow or rain, it’s actually not that hard. But guess what? To solve the real problem, for you or me to buy a car that can drive autonomously from point A to point B—it’s not even close. There are fundamental problems that need to be solved."
> was honestly surprised that NYT did such a beautiful in depth analysis of videos and didn't have this video in there. How can you do an in depth research on that incident and not have this vital video

Licensing perhaps?
Deadline to withdraw easily via the existing platform. After that.... since Tilt is technically acquired, and not bankrupt, you can still get your money but you'll have to use slow offline legal methods like sending certified letters, or going through ombudsmen.
I deleted it from the phone and my hard disk. I use to take photos with the phone, move through usb to the disk and never publish any photo anywhere.

Where I found it I don't remember because it was some Google site that I hadn't signed up for. I know, they're all connected, but I didn't even know it existed, much less that personal photos could go there.

My frustration comes from the fact that I had already visited several timesevery configuration and options page of the products that I use, choosing not to share anything anywhere with anyone and, god forbid, never backup phone and still it got there.

I have an idea why it could happen: a combination of "sync" option in the phone being activated by an accidental click with a lot of "creativity" in Google's part.

I'm done with this shit. When the time comes to buy a new phone, I will take some drastic measures. Maybe a dumbphone with tethering paired with a tablet, I'm not sure, but not this again.
Pretty much continuously for the last umpty years, I'd say. It doesn't have to be immediately and personally catastrophic to be a serious problem.
Today, every app is written multiple times, usually at least twice for the two major smartphone platforms (sometimes a third or fourth time if they're trying to support Windows Phone, Blackberry, Firefox OS, or some other upstart phone platform) and at least once for the browser. It requires at least 3x the labor that was required during the relatively-brief period when everyone was cool with a browser-based web app replacing a desktop app and expected their mobile web browser to learn to read the internet instead of expecting developers to write a special version for their phone.

Additional effort is also being split through the complexity prism of cloud server administration, CDNs, and devops. Everyone believes they need a high-availability cluster for everything these days. We've also moved away from the trend of straightforward RDBMS-backed applications and gone to the experimental realm of key-value stores, document databases, and trying to figure out some XPath-type thing for raw JSON structures.

The author's assertion would've been more true about 10 years ago, but I don't think it was ever really true for anyone who wanted something more than a simple blog, which have been readily available off-the-shelf at least since LiveJournal became a thing in the 90s, so no real change there.
Nice job! Looks really great!
LOL! Actually it was just a selfie with a moustache, OK I said it :) I had grown a three weeks beard and took a photo when I was half shaved.

No offense to moustache lovers, it just didn't suit me well.
This is why I read start-up shutdown threads on HN.
I always find myself explaining to new arrivals that the Tenderloin is not the dangerous, violent area despite (non violent) crime rates, it's absolutely the Mission. Widespread misconception for some reason, and now we have a map to point at. I know multiple people in the Mission who were mugged or who live in apartments above where shootings took place. Speaking as a former resident of the Mission and victim of a violent crime myself (in the Mission), it always amuses me when people who are, uh, sheltered to say the least, who want a nice upper middle class bubble, speak longingly about moving to the Mission, somehow ignorant that it's the one neighborhood on their list of acceptable neighborhoods where they are most likely to get mugged or shot.
Security breaches are bad for one party's capital, good for another party's capital.

It's interesting to contemplate WHY is there a difference between the two. Security and Private both nasciently have something to do with "info I'd like to keep to myself", but I'm not sure I can come up with a hard delineation between the two, at least when you try to go above "A/S/L" and below "user/pass".
>The WHOLE reason the smartphone space finally took off was because Apple came in and rationalized the interaction model and implemented a robust, responsive UI

I don't think that's the whole truth. Apple became successful because efficient and powerful mobile hardware arrived to support Apple.

Just because one paradigm worked, should we stop and treat it as gospel. Perhaps there might be others waiting to be discovered.
Facebook is a basic utility at this point. The products that attempt to "replace" it come in 4-6 year waves, reflective of the typical duration of high school or college. A new social app arrives, and if it breaks some initial barrier of discoverability (usually through growth hacks), it can enjoy some initial success on college or high school campuses. Users naturally arrive in four year cohorts. If the app has "staying power," the users will graduate and spread it to their new networks. Unfortunately this is not always the case.

Initial success for 4-6 years does not guarantee future success. Yik Yak is a great example of an app with initial traction that failed to capitalize. Much of that failure was attributable to product decisions. However, from the very beginning, they were tied to a rock in rising tides. Growth of YikYak benefitted from college culture, but the product itself became too dependent on that culture, limiting its ability to spread post-college. As a result, YikYak churned users as they graduated, and eventually there was nobody to replace them.

Snapchat appears to be the most recent company with "staying power." College campuses popularized Snapchat, but the product does not inherently depend on a college community like YikYak did. People continue using Snapchat after graduation.

When evaluating if a company will be the "next Facebook", you need to look at its "staying power." Can it break the 6 year threshold? Once that happens, it seems that public recognition and becoming a "household brand" is sufficient to sustain growth until at least the 10+ year mark (or lead to acquisition by FB [0]). For examples, see: facebook, twitter, instagram, whatsapp, youtube, twitch, reddit...

The next question is, what makes facebook different from all those other companies lasting 10+ years? How do you replicate that?

[0] Also, consider that we will never know how instagram or whatsapp would have developed, had they avoided acquisition by FB, like Snapchat did.
Maybe it doesn't have anything to do with him, I just meant it doesn't hurt to have friends in high places.
Nope. I was not told earlier.
My primary browser :)
I created a Facebook account because I was doing something with a Facebook API, long enough ago that I have forgotten the details of the project. However, lurking in my spam folder there is always 'you have more friends than you might think' as a subject line in there somewhere, from Facebook, trying to lure me back in.

The thing I find funny about this is that they only send out emails with that one subject line. I don't open the emails so the suggested 'friends' might be different with each email, however I am curious why they don't change the subject line, to 'A/B test' me into being part of the known universe of Facebook. Clearly 'you have more friends than you think...' has not worked.

If they had bothered with the 'shadow account' then they would have targetted me a bit better, if they found a Facebook group that was likely to appeal to me then they could theoretically lure me in with 'Cats with Facebook accounts in your area' or 'Today's pictures of squirrels enjoying lunch...' but no, let's just try the email that didn't work last time or the time before.

Sure they have surreal algorithms that are totally creepy in a stalker way that is totally Peeping Tom and should gross people out, but, as per the dumb emails there is nothing that smart about what they are doing.
Poor people are already "required" (i.e. paid enough money to do it willingly) to risk their lives helping rich people get up and down the mountain. This doesn't seem substantially different.
Not always. These guys found a flaw in a casino game's programming, and got prosecuted for exploiting it. No technology at all.

https://www.wired.com/2014/10/cheating-video-poker/
What are you talking about. There are a ton of musk fanboys here.

He says that we'll have fully self driving cars this year, astronauts on Mars in 2022, human comouter nueral interface in 2025, and a settlement with cheap tunnels ok Mars in 2030.

These guys are going to have a decade of disappointment and hyperbole thrown at them.
The first gcc bug I ever meet
"Your ass belongs to me" --FB
But this was a case of a bug which specifically broke backwards compatibility.
How to survive an atomic bomb (2012)
Uh. I never said anyone or anything was wrong or ignorant. My comment was a meta comment; there's nothing to teach.
Its due to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_interdependence
How is that defeat? I have no desire to waste my precious time in an unwinnable arms race. My freedom of action and self-expression are my primary operational need, and I don't want to spend my life creeping around trying to conceal every fact about myself that might be employed as an attack vector. That's not liberty.
One reason is that .COM programs were copied to memory as they were, in a single segment, and therefore could access a max of 64 kilobytes of RAM, and they itself could be max 64 kb. They are a tiny memory dump of the program.

.EXE programs have loaders that handled the segmented memory and could access much more, up to the 1MB of memory space. That loader of course made .EXE programs larger than .COM.
Dude, rust already being used in production in several places (outside browser engine), some are being published publicly (you could see it in rust friend page), some are being kept as a private works.
Voice Mask for Smartphones by Hushme
The automatic shufflers are probably there to prevent dealers from being "on the take" to one of the players at the table.
Hey baby what's your sign takes on a new meaning with this app
Twenty years of AI
I'm not arguing for abandoning security or crime investigation completely, am I? Please don't mischaracterize my argument.
I wonder if the old skeleton adventures guy ever sold a copy:

http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?biz.5.415151.5...

...surely one of the last big budget screen saver efforts. (Anyone else remember Joel's BoS forums? I wonder if those moderators are still moderating.)
[0] has two old (2008) Usenet posts by an AMD CPU designer about these tradeoffs.

[0] http://yarchive.net/comp/register_file_size.html
This topic is highly speculative, but my guess is something that's only possible via another technogical wave -- perhaps AIs that post interesting context of our lives on our behalf, or a new accessible medium better than text / photo.
What I meant was that, for example, your pool cleaner probably works hard, but is not engaged in an endeavor where it is possible for him to make millions of dollars. His earnings are directly proportional to the number of hours that he works. Therefore he has essentially taken himself out of the competition to be highly successful. Looked at in this light, only a small percentage of the population has any chance at tremendous success.
I believe the main size optimization here comes from having only teletype and batch processing interfaces. When you do that, the surface area of the UI, and hence the amount of supporting code, drops tremendously. These early tools also skimped on error messages and checks, so the user experience was generally one of confusion and catastrophic error, despite being small and simple. You really needed the documentation to have any hope of understanding an old system.

Now we have operating systems that go out of their way to automate away everything and present it in real-time with multitasking and custom graphical elements everywhere, while also supporting many more protocols and hardware interfaces - wireless networking, GPU APIs, etc. The biggest growing pains seem to be past - things went from simple and stable to complex and unstable in the 1990's and then to complex and stable but insecure now. There's a lot of room to mature all of these features, but there aren't as many novel ones.
For most slot machines, this is a non-issue. The RNGs used isn't necessarily a secret (most companies use known good algorithms), and there is plenty to seed them, including player/coin input, network traffic, and plain old run-the-RNG-really-fast-continually-so-it's-tough-to-time.

However, this particular hack was with old Novomatic games, a small company at the time that didn't do a very good job here. This is a long solved problem with most other vendors. Bugs do happen, and they're generally covered under the "Malfunctions void all pays and plays" on every machine, and software updates that casinos may or may-not update the floor. Sometimes the news reports on some underflow error, but anybody with internal knowledge realizes the credit meter just went to 2^24-1, or something like that. These are really non-stories internally.

Source: Slot machine developer in previous life.
I can't claim it's wrong because I'm not a good ethicist. But I can say anecdotally that I feel upset and disgusted by the idea that even though I don't have Facebook, they may have a dossier on me. Simply because friends use my name or share photos including me.

It's upsetting because I don't know what I can do about it. How do I protect my privacy in this world? Do I stop having friends? Do I wear a mask everywhere?