skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mac OS is made of large swathes of open source code... but before publishing the source of the kernel, Apple runs a script to strip out anything iOS-specific.

That's just one example but I think it portrays Apple's iOS-OSS relationship pretty well.
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I use a self-maintained version of the same email stack (Dovecot, Postfix, Spamassassin) and Spam is pretty much not a problem. I train the Bayes filter on my collection of 10,000 spams and a few thousand hams every 6 months and, while I do get an occasional false negative I feel that spam is pretty much fully under control. Self-hosting email is fun you guys!
Sweden Accidentally Leaks Personal Details of Nearly All Citizens
It's free speech whether you like it or not and I don't think your tactics of playing hardball with Eich or any other skeptic of gay rights would win him over to your cause as it foments feelings of resentment and discontent and likely lead to counter-productive results.
Ether's block times are way shorter (17 seconds) I don't know if transaction times are shorter because of that though.
no odder than reverse cars which fortunately only tend to show up to car shows. throw in buses with full coverage wraps that can be anything from a zoo scene to a open vista. Even decorative signage at the road side needs to accounted for. There is so much we filter out automatically that we forget just how challenging coding it can be.

and still we are mainly just concentrating on on road experiences, surely DARPA has concerns wholly dealing with off road and unmarked terrain. it would be very interesting to see how one deals with a standard off road trails
Why? Defaults are important and the vast majority don't care (assuming correctly selected telemetry data) and the majority can't be bothered to change the default in either case.

Again I am making a huge assumption about correctly selected telemetry data here but opt in mechanisms won't get even 10% of the data they currently do.
"Borg" was chosen, because it emphasizes collaborative development — and because someone is a Star Trek fan ;)
BentoBox, the website builder for restauranteurs, cooks up $4.8M Series A
> From a technical perspective, this is clearly untrue.

It's impossible if you take “every issue” literally, as you are multiplying the number of pdecisions that must be made by each participant per unit of time so much that the time to consider them is non-existent.

It's less impossible if you reduce it to the kind of decisions typically made by a legislature, which mainly just sets rules for executive and judicial officials to apply in deciding more specific issues.

But even then it's of dubious practicality; obviously not every citizen can have a full-time legislative staff, and most of other things besides legislation to devote their time to.
> Smart contracts is probably the key word but I don't understand how it works or how it will benefit me.

I virtually guarantee you don't really understand how the regular monetary system works either, but you can still use it and have some idea of how it benefits you. Ethereum can be used to set up another monetary system whose currency flows are guarded by code-driven contracts that anyone can write.

So imagine the e-bay auction process as a smart contract that's controlled directly by the monetary framework, without involving Paypal or credit card companies, or any other centrally managed financial institutions.

The core idea behind Ethereum is sound and first envisioned a long time ago [1], but the current implementation leaves a lot to be desired. The Ethereum languages are being designed by programmers who try to address the needs one encounters in programming, like delegation patterns and some types of dynamism that makes extension and reuse easier.

Unfortunately, this is often the opposite of what you want for robust contracts, where writing the contract is not the important part, it's understanding all of the possible outcomes and what causes them. The dynamism makes static analysis hard, so understanding the behaviour of the complete system is too difficult, and vulnerabilities proving this point will continue to crop up.

[1] http://erights.org/smart-contracts/index.html
I have no idea what you mean by "left-coast/euro-sensitive".

However, I will put what lorenzhs said a bit more bluntly.

Please don't go out of your way to be a dick - there is no need for it, and it benefits nobody.
Burglary, robbery, kidnapping and a shoot-out over… a domain name?
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The world’s first crewless ship will launch next year
That's what Comma.ai was supposed to do, but there is no money in it apparently.
This is really easy to set up using Dovecot Sieve [1]. I set it up the other day to bounce reject messages that had too many swear words as a proof-of-concept for an idea a Facebook friend had about making sure people stay nice in email. The syntax of the server-side filters is a bit strange but there's even a Thunderbird plugin that allows you to edit them from the client.

[1] https://wiki2.dovecot.org/Pigeonhole/Sieve
Any more on this subject for further reading / listening?
This is it. I took some disposable income and invested in ether during the initial EEA announcement. I know little of the fundamentals of ethereum. I bought in at $16, and it's now at $230. Talk about a ridiculous return. Pulled out my principle and some gains, and the rest is along for the roller coaster ride.

I'll be the first to admit that I'm probably the type of investor whom people will point to as an example of an ethereum bubble (someone who knows little of the technicals behind ethereum, but is in it 'for a quick buck').

It truly scares me to hear about cases where somebody invests a large portion of their worth into something as volatile as crypto currency.
I meant partially covered by the rent you are able to charge. When I moved away from the house I had bought, I rented it out for a number of years. The rent I was able to charge covered about 90% of the payments, and I put the rest in from my salary. I sold the house a few years later after it had appreciated somewhat, and it was overall a good deal.

I could imagine a similar situation with Airbnb instead of traditional lease arrangements, assuming the numbers line up. My point was more that I can't see it working out that way with an asset like a car.
I had heard similar, but I haven't read enough about it to know the full extent of the differences yet.

I know they're also looking into "proof of stake" either as a replacement or an adjunct to "proof of work", which may cover some of the energy concerns, but again I don't understand PoS well enough yet.
The european strategic cluster partnership, putting space data in your life
Amtrak is also notorious for being way off on arrival times. Sometimes on the order of a day or longer. That's what happens when you share rails with the freight lines.
Microsoft’s reveals early details of HoloLens 2.0
Car might brake suddenly because it thinks two bicycles are right infront of it?
What makes you think that that the coverage of this event to be unbalanced and vindictive?

I think that we all agree that this event should be documented and reported objectively as it's newsworthy proved by this very article here and it deserves a mention in a subsection on their Wiki entry.
Never heard of this bridge until today. However, according to Wikipedia:

> Because it is a suspension bridge and has similar coloring, it is often compared to the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, US. It was built by the American Bridge Company which constructed the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, but not the Golden Gate.
I've never seen that before but couldn't it have been intended as a safety measure - allowing drivers stuck behind a truck a view of the road ahead so they know when it is safe to overtake?
For profit or non-profit, makes a huge difference, in my opinion.

The goals and the incentives are very different.
I think they already do in a way. The guy in first place never gets things like bullet bills or stars, but a ton of bananas and green shells. It wouldn't surprise me to learn there's a gradient.
Hosting calendar and contacts on a personal server accessible over the web smells like a potential security nightmare to me. For example, how do you make sure that whatever third party tool you use to sync your phone with the web server has been well designed to protect against a large attack surface?
The decal might be deliberately constructed (using perspective tricks) to alter the behavior of an autonomous car following your van. The cyclists might appear either much closer or farther than the plane they're drawn on. If you install a video panel on the back of your van, there are even more possibilities. You might be able to play a video of an object rapidly moving towards the autonomous car, which will cause it to swerve to try to avoid it.

And yes, some of this stuff will probably work on humans as well, but autonomous driving is supposed to be better than humans.
Psychopaths sometimes have trouble recognizing stuff that is supposed to make them ashamed, i.e. stuff that would reveal their character were it exposed publicly.

Maybe that seems like an over the top comment, and on any individual case, who knows? But I think it explains a good number of these sorts of scandals. Sometimes, the people who get on top are not "ambitious"... sometimes they are actual monsters.
> All that said, it's interesting to see that a) duplicity seems slow, and b) very consistent in terms of speed. I wonder if there's some low-hanging fruit for optimization there.

Duplicity is classic delta-backup. It always reads all files and calculates a delta to a different version of the file, hence the fairly consistent performance. Performance of deduplicating archivers is more difficult to predict.
Talend Updates Big Data Sandbox with Docker – ADTmag
I assume these articles are astroturfing by companies or governments that are legitimately terrified of losing the control they have over the economy.
I wouldn't make so much fuss for some changes that:

1.They have every right to make (it is open source and they have write access to the repo)

2.I have every right to either fork and reverse, or completely stop using.
I'll do you one better, vulnerabilities directly associated with the dynamism of Solidity were predicted on LtU in 2014:

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/5003
There are a couple shops on the mezzanine levels of the BART stations on Market Street.
Ask HN: Realistic Career Advice for a Developer with 1.5 Years of Experience?
Hey guys,

I've followed the site for quite some time now but am just now asking this.

I'm a full stack developer mainly building web sites / web applications (CRUD) and have been working here for about 2 years.

My main question I want to ask everyone is how do I move up realistically? I feel like I've done a lot in the time of been here, use very modern technologies (es6, webpack, react, redux, etc), and due to the nature of the small team, was given a lot of responsibility early on. I'm very hungry to learn and get better, but often times when I apply to a job now I get little to zero traction, still no response most of the time.

I'm not in San Francisco, also. Ideally I'd like to work at a software company, given that is not the main focus of where I'm at now.

Am i best off spending my time learning algorithms / data structures? I'm not a CS major but went to a coding bootcamp, so I feel like a lot of times that is still hindering me. I have a Bachelors degree and am applying for a Masters program for CS, but I feel like I'm stuck in terms of how I can transition to a higher paying job in development where I can keep growing and not always have to feel like I'm playing catch-up where I'm at now, in terms of technologies and tools.

Ultimately, I'd like to be out of here in the next year or so if I can find something better, but just have had zero to no luck with recruiters or job boards. The one referral I had got me to the final stage of a 2 month interview process but I was not offered the job.

By the way, I'm 23. Can anyone guide me in the right direction?
I have been deaf in one ear for a bit (a few weeks) a while ago (aftereffects of a flu), I did not realize before then how much I rely on my hearing during driving. Do self driving cars use audio sensors?
Destructive Malware and Interstate Rivalries
> But when you're on an internet board spending more time shouting down an argument for its source when it would take equal or less time to just figure it out - that is an excuse.

You're right but the condition you mention doesn't apply here. This discussion is relevant to claims about therapies for reversing brain damage in people that (nearly) drowned. 'Just figuring it out' seems pretty difficult.

It's perfectly reasonable to discuss the credibility of people and there's no reason why that can't be conducive to discussion.

> ... is not a logical argument. Correctness or incorrectness of the statement is being willfully ignored in this case.

This is a little confusing and doesn't seem to match very closely to this specific subject. But whether or not dismissing someone's claim is a logical argument is just begging the question – why are you assuming that it's right or fair or proper for every claim or argument to be refuted logically? Are you literally demanding that everyone either (a) refute an argument logically; or (b) refrain from commenting at all?
If you see it as a bubble/scam, why wouldn't you warn people away from it? Especially your friends and people like them?

Also, bubbles that grow large enough can have an impact on the larger economy when they burst. Probably the Ethereum bubble, assuming there is one, won't get anywhere near that large before it bursts. But if it's successful, it will be replicated on a larger scale. (By successful, I'm not talking about the value of ETH, I mean that financial players make lots of money without significant consequences.)
An interesting question, though I'm wondering if the Smithsonian made duplicate copies of replies to things like these.

To get the letter they sent (unless they kept the original fairly insignificant seeming administrative letter "yes sir please see enclosed") it would've had to have been kept by Wilbur.
Does that make a difference to the thought about providing rental income? I'd think that in order to maximize the value of the space you'd want to make it as appealing to renters as possible, which would mean making it more available.

To answer the question of the 5 stops I use most 4 of them have shops. None of them are on the platforms, but the platforms are very small. All 4 of those that have shops have been completely remodeled in the last 15 years to make the shops more appealing or to add shops that didn't exist.
Seriously fox dittos are way better on other stages besides FD, the chain grab is entirely too easy.
This discussion goes well beyond infrastructure.
You'll need to be more specific. Is it worse or better than running your own mail server? Your own git repo? Your own VPN server? In what ways, and why?
That seems unreasonable.

If I logged in to a service and saw an URL like http://example.com/1234/secret_data, calling them with a report of potential vulnerability would be a waste of their and my time 98% of the time. And there's infinite number of such "potential vulnerabilities" to report, too. Like on HN, I see I can edit my profile description over at https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=TeMPOraL. I wonder what happens when I change the 'id' param? Better not try out, but call 'dang immediately!

Discovering an actual vulnerability in the first place requires doing something that could be considered hacking.
It sounds like they changed something after I signed up. I am not super paranoid, but I am pretty savvy about privacy and keeping my data safe. There is no way in hell I would have agreed to upload all of my data to their service.

I was actually questioning myself when I realised what had happened -- I thought, "perhaps I just messed up". But after I saw this story about their other dark patterns, I'm convinced they just deceived me.
To build on sibling comment by pmarreck, perhaps the model this leads us to abduce is this: everyone prefers more social careers when they are beginning to choose one, but those who find themselves less verbally fluent self-distinguish by going into STEM fields.
Yes. If one party makes a mistake, or does something underhanded/surreptitious, you have no recourse. This exact situation (a bug in the DAO contract leading to a malicious actor stealing from the DAO) led to the recent Ethereum fork: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14819268
Augmented Reality Apps, no coding required
The belief that Turing machines aren't amenable to formal verification is a hobgoblin that shows up in every thread like this, but it's not real.

Of course there are limited formalisms that make certain types of verification easier, but proving programs has been possible since, like, the 1960s.

A multisig, for example, has a finite number of states when considered under symbolic execution. A model checker can rip through it and prove whatever properties you want.

Is the Ethereum world right now full of buggy contracts that haven't been proven correct? Yes, absolutely. It's a disaster. But it's a disaster that points the way fairly straightforwardly.

Should Ethereum not have been launched until it had solid methods for auditing and proving? Maybe, but that's not how the world works, typically. Worse is better and all that.
In Mario Kari Wii (which I played way too competitively back in 2010) the blue shell is not at all an issue if you play to win. If the other players fail to catch on, its existence can only help.

First, learn all the shortcuts in the game. Some of them are quite good and they're all online. Then:

For all but the last lap your job is to stop anyone from getting far ahead and to lay back in about 8th place. Cycle through boxes (just use them) until you get a star, ideally. Hold on to that as you enter the final lap.

Half-ish way through the final lap, while still in a far back position (5th to 8th), use the star right before you pick up your next box. Since you picked it up while in a poor position, it will be something good like another star or a golden mushroom.

Thanks to the rubber-banding (such as the blue shell!), first place won't be very far ahead, and the star should advance you to near first, if not first.

When a blue shell comes at you, you will have the ability to dodge it with the mushroom or invalidate it with the star in your inventory. Or just use your 5-8th place powerup in 1st or 2nd if no blue shell is coming and it will last you to the end anyway.

Proceed to victory.

Point being: If a gameplay mechanics are not fair, don't worry about them, just think about how they can be worked to your advantage. 99% of players think of the blue shell, but its a canard. Very few think of the powerup hoisting, but that's whats going to win you the game.

The final act is your friends complaining that you always seem to win and are unaffected by the blue shell. Here again it works for you as a punching bag of plausible deniability. Yes, the unfair and random blue shell is why you always seem to win...
Spyware is software collecting information about someone without their consent.

Doesn't have to be malicious, doesn't have to be what's legally defined as personal information. The fact that many companies are doing it doesn't make it less inappropriate.

Reputable companies will clearly inform users and ask for their confirmation. Then they respect their choice.

Disreputable companies such as MS or Google take without asking, use dark patterns to trick users, default to always on, reset privacy settings, etc.
I want to break free Kubernetes has a life beyond containers
And they are sorry they got caught, not sorry they did it. As is tradition.
What about wall paintings and posters? While I wouldn't mind banning ads from public streets, you can't regulate yourself into safety, the car must be robust enough to deal even with people willing to break the law.
Defaults should respect the user first. Consent has to be given, not taken as a default.

Sure ask up front explicitly but don't in passing invoke the first capture before consent has been taken. That's a shitty tactic.
Mozilla made firefox. Google made angular. Apple made Swift. That's not "taking over". While I am not a fan of this phenomenon either, that has nothing to do with the current situation. They simply built something and open sourced it, nothing was "taken over".
The hackernews community in general is opposed to change which is ironic given that change is ultimately what has paid / is paying for their salaries.

Some people feel very threatened by the idea of the disruption of money and all of it's controls to the extent they simply won't even entertain the idea of something new coming along.

Take VC funding / angel investing - it's being blown to pieces by cryptocurrency as we speak and that's merely one example of what a cryptocurrency can do...
This has been discussed for over an year on this issue: https://github.com/dotnet/cli/issues/3093

They are just ignoring to let the issue die silently.
Show HN: The shortcuts and workspace switcher macOS deserves (using Phoenix)
Kapacitor-unit: unit tests for Kapacitor tasks [discussion]
If we have to lynch somebody for JS, I would prefer to start with IE6 development team.... I still have PSTD /s
Of course, but thats not what the pre-gig market was providing, especially at the lower income space.
The worker protections we have that the gig economy strips employees of are actually really important.

The protections we have in place e.g. 40 hours work week, time off (4+ weeks/year in developed countries), termination periods, redundancy pay etc enable a market place where individuals employees can compete fairly with one another. Without these restrictions we open up a fast race to the bottom, where only those who are willing to work multiple jobs (gigs), extreme working hours at minimal pay can compete (see freelance websites and other "gig" platforms for examples).

The gig economy allows some unique companies (e.g. Uber, Deliveroo) to operate right now when they are backed with massive VC funds and operate at a loss - but we can't all expect to have a personal driver + food on delivery every day, without either seeing massive technology efficiency gains (which aren't there yet, e.g. drone delivery, self driving cars etc.) or alternatively we deregulate and push some people into poverty (gig economy).
New methods and technology can make elections fairer
Charles Koch has a management theory called "Market-Based Management" that claims to run the internals of organisations as markets with internal competition:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market-Based_Management_Instit...

[NB I'm in the middle of reading "Dark Money" so don't take this as a positive recommendation.]
8 Big-Company Habits That Don’t Work in a New Venture
I felt the same way 12 years ago when I was in my mid-twenties. Long story short is I ended up walking into a pet store and buying a puppy. Around 6 months later the dog started losing hair and turned out he had a mite problem and was born without an immunity system.

I ended up putting down the dog and by my gym was a normal pet store that didn't sell dogs/cats but had a dog rescue event going on. So I went there to donate what stuff I bought. I ended up talking to the founder there on why pet store dogs are so bad.

So that day I signed up to foster a dog. A few months later I was helping with events and then a group of us split from that rescue to start our own that imported dogs from the south that were surrendered up north. It changed my life doing something I felt was good.

Maybe you can try to take some of your time and donate it to some cause you might be interested in. I turned from hating work to thinking of work as a means for me to make money to help a cause I loved.
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