skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Hacker". On the Ethereum subreddits a lot of people think the CEO is just cashing out and running.
> you can't have 0.5 roads

Of course you can. Half a four-lane road is a two-lane road.
That depends where the time traveler landed. In 1947, there were still a lot of places in earth that were unchanged from 1877. Now pretry much every place on earth has power and a cell network.
>noninvasively and incidentally spied upon,

Noninvasively spied upon? Having your privacy violated is invasive, by definition. Having a situation where one centre of power has extensive information on the private details of practically the entire population is an extremely dangerous situation, because knowledge is power, and that level of asymmetry in knowledge can (and I would argue will) lead to the population at large being exploited by those within this centre of power.
This emoji thing has got to stop. It's getting ridiculous.
Or maybe they just mashed together the Latin word for 'truth' with 'Ethereum' and the etymology of Veritaserum is coincidentally covergent evolution
I hope the author found their point, because I went 3 pages in and gave up looking for one.
I am founder of Verloop, happy to take questions and feedback.

One thing that sets us apart from similar tools available in the market is that we complete customer journey end to end. Let the bot gather leads, answer automated queries and when it fails, do a warm hand off to human agents.

Special shout out to YC and our awesome mentor Darshan Shankar at Startup School'17.
Maybe it wasn't stolen, this was part of the plan to do nothing after the raise :)
Keylogger using DirectX
How a Hacker Fired a Locked Smart Gun Using Only Magnets
Show HN: Tellwise
"hack" 100% wasn't stolen just a marketing stunt.
It is much different from SQL injection. There were ways to prevent SQL injection in the same programming language and less money at stake on every corner. Solidity and the EVM are an invitation to be hacked.
And when you try net income per person, you get:

Ukraine $2,468.54
Russia $1,302.77
Serbia $732.12
Romania $633.40
China $609.30
This is what you would expect from a currency that is valued arbitrarily.
Thanks! That's really interesting and makes sense. I should definitely do some research on the topics you've mentioned.

Your closing questions has a point I agree on.
I'm new to frontend in general and wondering if I could trouble you for some context. Why is Firefox's CSS styling engine not already "in" the browser? To me it seems like Stylo is just a parallelized replacement for the old system, Servo. What am I missing here?

Also, why are you celebrating an alternative for WebKit? Isn't it already supported by most major browsers?
For me, Amazon used to be synonymous with quality, convenience and peace of mind. That has now changed, it is now merely convenient and subject to increasing competition. This last year I cancelled my Amazon Prime and now using Amazon far less than I used to.

Amazon has dropped the ball.
These models aren't meant to be algorithms you can mechanically life your life by, they are helpful in thinking (differently) about a number of things.

Exercise is clearly an example of something that's important but non-urgent in Covey's model.

The good-at/enjoys model is mostly applicable to things you've decided (or had decided for you) you have to do, somehow. Once you've decided that exercise is something you should do, thinking about it in terms of good-at/enjoys can be helpful in deciding how to go about it.
Indeed.com trends[1] show Elixir interest (though not yet jobs) surpassing both Haskell and Clojure right about now, which I found surprising especially given how much newer it is

[1] https://www.indeed.com/jobtrends/q-Erlang-q-Elixir-q-Haskell... (scroll down to 2nd chart)
I wonder if https://fastnetmon.com/ and DOTS [1] are roughly the same thing?

[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/dots/about/
Sigh. My client's file server at the time was full of PSD files that designers colour-coded based on how urgent/finished something was. It was the best Finder feature ever.

It's a good example of how Apple's stubbornness can ruin software: some designers had a misguided idea about the cloud ("file systems are bad, people are too dumb for folders"), so they tried to build iCloud around isolated app silos. Then they realised that it gets messy once you have lots of files, and instead of admitting their mistake, they doubled down on not having folders and replaced colour labels by tags (which require more clicks than labels, and are much harder to see).

Of course, one version later they did give up on app-based silos, and introduced iCloud Drive. But what a stupid journey that was, and you can still see the scars in Apple's UI (app-based folders cluttering iCloud Drive, dedicated "tags" input field in every Save File dialog).
Chinese Mall Introduces Husband Storage Pods
Fox has a serious reputation for conservative bias
> cameras

wow I didn't know these have cameras.

I wonder if they'll sell/subpoena the video data as well as the floor plans. I wonder how well secured it is and what the extent of punishment for poorly interpreted imagery will be.
This response is too clever by half. Any traveller knows the difference between a Best Western and an AirBnB in terms of staff service quality.
Time-Tracking Software for Mac OS X
I figured HN would have solved this wave of spam by now.
Elixir and Erlang deployments were tricky a few years ago, but I feel like now with distillery [0] it a lot better.
I use it in docker multistage builds [1] and have been really happy with that.

[0] https://github.com/bitwalker/distillery

[1] example dockerfile: https://gist.github.com/bsedat/16cb74ebc8ab0ed61ac598a129b0a...
You must be reading a different HN than I.
Startup Fundraising: The Pitch Deck and Financial Modeling
For those who can't watch Youtube with sound right now, TL;DR:

- overriding the signal (jamming) jams the gun

- same attack as against contactless car keys: capture and retransmit the signal key near the receiver (in this case: capture watch's signal and transmit near the gun)

- holding strong magnets to the side triggers the same mechanism as the gun would normally use to unlock itself after receiving the authorization signal
How the coffee-machine took down a factories control room: talesfromtechsupport
Building an AR Game with ARKit and Spritekit
I've never said they're the same. Probably I wasn't clear enough but it was analogy not a technical comparison.

Your clarifications make sense though.
Advance3 in motion
Everytime I find something interesting, it goes to Pocket.

That provides me with a digital copy, and it is automatically sync with my Kobo reader.
Elon Musk: Mark Zuckerberg’s Understanding of AI Is “limited”
Stack up knowledge for all of your iOS 11 development needs
Which I'm not saying is necessarily a problem... just interesting. Thought it would be more of a conversation point.
Also, Bleacher Report is a pretty large site on it:

http://www.techworld.com/apps-wearables/how-elixir-helped-bl...

They went from 150 Rails servers to 5 BEAM servers "and could probably get away with two" (!)
To make the intent clear in Lisp one would use UNTIL (NULL list) or WHILE (NOT (NULL list)) .

NULL is a predicate which does the same as NOT, but makes the intent clear. It also allows to move the code to a dialect where NIL and FALSE are different.
Is there any documentation how to set this up fast and reliably on an existing Debian server? The only thing I could find was this:
https://fastnetmon.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/FastNetMon...
Why has India always been the first choice for getting a Mobile App developed?
Digital Humanitarians in Space: Planet Launches Rapid Response Team
HubSpot Just Acquired a Machine Learning Startup
> I can count the number of times I've had the OS itself get in my way on 1 hand

I could overflow both hands just counting two Explorer things: (1) trying to figure out where MS put a setting/option if it's not on Ribbon & (2) trying to use any advanced search operators.
You should keep checking out the forum[1] for remote work opportunities. And I don't think it's that hard, I just got a job in Europe in elixir ;)

[1](https://elixirforum.com/c/elixir-jobs)
I would highly recommend talking to LetsEncrypt staff, since those limits are there to mainly prevent abuse; and they have been quite forthcoming with raising them or even lifting them completely in some cases.
Isn't that just a timing issue? Why chalk it up to HN immediately when it's more likely to be the general interest in the language increasing and more people using it for less time are writing about it? This is a good thing as these people will probably lead the future for its use.
> Check your hardware if that is a fresh factory install. You are doing something wrong.

And here I thought it was Linux users that were supposed to say "you're holding it wrong" and "just make sure you get supported hardware"
Works fine on mine too, no office installed.
>> Well, I'm guessing probably doesn't mean "ten million" in this particular case.

Why not? 10M seems the obvious.
It is also used by Pinterest and Square Enix, as they both open sourced some of the tools they use.
In general, Web based apps aren't useful when taking notes or screeenshots trying to figure out/document why/that networking isn't working...
Honestly you're probably right. They wouldn't be so brazen if they planned to steal money from the beginning. But nothing would surprise me in crypto anymore.
> Fox News viewers were more likely to believe Iraq perpetrated 9/11 than people who watched no news at all

They can be forgiven that considering that W perpetuated that lie as readily as the news outlets.
Humanscale, the Classic Design Tool, Gets a Second Life
or google that's the risks of investing. I wouldn't sink my retirement in crypto.
wtf :D
An empty list in Elixir is [], and is truthy.

Parens aren't used for any collection type in Elixir ( `(1,2,3)` is just a syntax error), so the lispyness explanation for () being nil in Elixir, while neat, doesn't really make sense
SQL Server has a heavy memory management dependency, pretty hard not to bake itself into the OS. That abstraction platform mentioned in the article is a godsend. They'll tighten up the Windows install over time, but Linux (ironically) gets all the juice for the first go-around.
Less than zero effort? Probably not. In 150hours? I'd say I'd get a pretty decent level. French and Italian really are very close, the main difficulty is probably adjusting to the phonology of the spoken language coming from French's rather barbaric pronunciation. I can already slowly decipher Italian newspapers without having ever studied the language.

And once I get fluent enough I have access to a wealth of resources to keep studying: movies, tv shows, radio, videogames, newspapers, philosophy books, plays, operas... I can go anywhere in Italy and practice with people in all kinds of situations. I can even get a job there where I'll speak Italian all day long.

Esperanto is an interesting experiment but I find it really hard to invest the time necessary to learn the language.

>Yet in a number of studies listed, those who learned Esperanto and another target language (including Japanese) became better at the target than those who learned only the target.

Did they check if people performed worse when taught, say, 150 hours of Spanish before the target language? It's not really a surprise that learning a language can make it easier to learn other languages, if only because it gives you a certain discipline and mental framework.

And if it does turn out that learning 150hours of Spanish has the same benefits, wouldn't it make more sense to do that instead even if the level of proficiency reached is lower? The practical uses of (even basic) Spanish dwarf that of Esperanto.
Working in Public is Hard
I host the production site I'm working on at Gigalixir[1] (with the postgres DB in Google Cloud) and it's been pretty sweet. Deploys have been trivial (the way they should be, if you aren't interested in also becoming a devops expert). Jesse Shieh is extremely responsive and a committed founder. Unlike Heroku, Gigalixir does not restart its servers nightly, which is very relevant if you store any state app-side (such as a cache).

[1] https://gigalixir.com/
Totally agree, but they would not fire you if you price a bond in Bloomberg. I guess is more something about who the banks trust, which is a closed set of actors that does not seem to change (again, I'm not saying anyone has to trust with this, but maybe something will change some day)
Sounds like a bad IT department that doesn't know how to configure group policy rather than anything to do with Microsoft to be honest.
Numbers are not the only thing though:

- to re-do a roof would take me ages, while professionals are pretty quick at it

- I might not even be able to do the roof

- Cleaning personal might mean untinterrupted and fully free time at home on the weekend.

- most employees (at least here in the EU) do their 40h and it is not easy to find other deals.

(disclaimer: I own no roof and have no cleaning personal either)
HN already punishes accounts that either flag or vouch a different way to the moderators final decision. This should approach should help make the two pathological minima less likely.
ClinicalStudyDataRequest.com expands access to data from 3,460 clinical trials
Musk is arrogant to think he, or anyone else for that matter, can speak authoritatively on AI matters. He has done zero (scientific) research in the area and tries to see so far into the future that it's ridiculous. The same goes for Zuckerberg but at least he isn't claiming to be more right than anyone else.
Possibly. Or it's an earlier version of calc.exe I'm actually using - I'm not sure.

If you think you can trust me (you can!) - try this one:

http://www.jaruzel.com/files/calc.zip
Thank you, I appreciate that!
> Therefore, there is no possibility of 'higher level abstractions' that will permit only legitimate contracts to be written (even if the abstractions are limited in their power, an attacker can make use of the full power of the underlying system.)

High level abstractions and Turing completeness are not in opposition. Haskell, for example, offers high level abstractions in the form of a functional language with abstract data types, strong typing and purity (unless you specify something else explicitly, functions only have access to their arguments).

I think Safe Haskell would be a good Turing-complete, general purpose contract language. Untrusted code can be compiled to machine code and executed safely, by using a restricted IO monad that only allows specific input/output operations[1], so the contract logic can be executed safely without a sandbox.

[1] https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/7.4.1/docs/html/users_gui...
The argument I've heard is that it's abstracted but the abstraction is bad.
I'm willing to accept that your postulate is true (if I understand it correctly, the thesis is that the market will "mature" and solve these problems).

But even if that is true, it doesn't diminish the fact that right now the only thing apparently stopping anyone from becoming rich is ethics, not effort. Normally in situations where there are few effort penalties but high ethics penalties for quickly acquiring a fortune, there is a disincentive in the form of regulation and the judiciary system.

That's not the case here! (If it is, correct me if I'm wrong). For example, how many of those fraudulent Bitcoin wallets were prosecuted? The salient example seems to be Mt. Gox, but I feel as though that one was prosecuted because there wasn't much anonymity available to the founder.

There doesn't seem to be much of a reason to not try to e.g. exploit a vulnerability in a widely used smart contract. The endgame is millions or tens of millions of dollars, cleaned through a tumbler and then reported to the IRS. "Where did this windfall come from?" "I was an early cryptocurrency investor, I did very well!"

As someone who has done a lot of code review over the years and read more bug bounty reports than I can count, I can very easily see this becoming the de facto activity of unscrupulous security researchers until the market undergoes the improvement you speak of.

I guess to put my point more succinctly: it seems somewhat unprecedented to me how easy it is to do this and simply get away with it. A commenter on Hacker News was able to pinpoint the Parity Multisig vulnerability - it's not like it necessarily required a team of people and 6 months.
I'm a researcher in this field. Printable, flexible solar cells have been researched for over a decade and improvements on their efficiency plateaued at about 10% almost five years ago. That's at lab scale being tested in a nitrogen glove box, using the most exotic designer molecules and printing techniques that don't scale. Many companies have tried and failed to commercialize this technology in the recent past, Konarka being one example. I believe Heliatek in Germany is the latest iteration, no doubt propped up by their massive solar subsidies.

The main problem is that the raw organic semiconducting materials are currently not produced at scale, and no chemical company will risk ramping production when the end product is only a 5% efficient cell that will be outcompeted by c-Si in almost every application except niche cases like the chicken coops described by others here.

That being said, my best guess is that printable, flexible electronics will be seen in flexible displays/wearables within 5 years, RFID tags on product packaging in the same time frame, biomedical and soft robotics applications within 10, and flexible large-area lighting (think wallpaper with programmable lighting zones) within 10 as well.

But in the energy game, efficiency and raw material costs determine winners, and printed OPV is losing on both.
This is a youtube video of by one of the founders: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbdQ3Q6FQYE

It is linked from the "prospect":
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0By5WJsM3KjltOGJHYS1HT3Uyczg...

What kind of fools invest into this?
Stealthy Fruitfly Mac Malware Undetected for Years
Show HN: MDB (Material Design for Bootstrap) for Angular
I am done with AirBnB in some countries, and will always use it in others.

It is a 'case by case' issue.
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Enabling the Industrial IoT Revolution
For some benchmarks, take a look here: http://tech.marksblogg.com/benchmarks.html
Understanding Neural Network Weight Initialization
Updating a system while running is something that has been around in the Lisp world for a while through the REPL. More recently it's a big part of the Clojure world -- I will usually NREPL into a running production system and "poke" around when there is a critical BUG that is only happening on production.
Do Civilian Casualties Cause Counterinsurgents to Fail?
SimilarWeb raises $47M at valuation approaching $800M to take on Nielsen
> It's clear that if everyone only went to work half as much we'd only need to build half the roads and trains and airports.

Er, no. First, not all existing road/rail/air trips are for work, and, second, more time out of work would quite likely not merely preserve, but increase, non-work trips.

> If every single person went to work only 4/5ths of what they do now. (i.e. 4 days per week instead of 5), The economy would only grow at 4/5ths of what it does now

That's not at all obvious. The natural naive assumption is that there would be a one-time 20% contraction but after that growth rate would be unaffected; less naively, there's some reason to suspect that the one-time hit would be less, because productiob isn't linear, and the highest value work would be the last displaced.

But, more to the point, the general idea that utility is reduced ybbworkong for trade vs. working for one self is not well supported by evidence.
I agree with some of the below comments that there is more hype than reason. For me the observation is from a different starting point: progress in mathematics is not increasing exponentially, and personally I feel that revisiting parts of mathematics is more enlightening than the current trends in AI.

NN's for example are mostly just an application of linear algebra where design determines the nodes and training the weights; and then, the "decision making" is done by a notion of product. Very useful, but not at all superintellegence.
It's nonsense to suggest that any two Turing-complete programming languages are equally safe or secure. C, Rust, and Haskell are all Turing-complete, and while of course it's possible to write buggy code in all of them, certain classes of bugs that are possible in C are not possible in Haskell.

> there is no possibility of 'higher level abstractions' that will permit only legitimate contracts to be written

True, but there is the possibility of trivial changes that would prohibit some exceptionally catastrophic bugs. The language features that allowed last weeks multisig walled bug (delegation to an unknown function, public initialization code, the possibility of calling initialization code after initialization) need not be like that. A much better language could still be Turing complete but exclude such things (forcing you to write explicit code that shoots you in the foot, if you so wish).
It's just the name I give to languages or tools that get big online and generate a lot blog posts and shoddy learning material. Though most of the time it does start with HN.

BTW I love Elixir and I'm happy to see it grow. Nothing bad about HN hype it just has its positives and negatives.
The folks in Cupertino need to learn this.
The first fully electric Mini will be a 3-door model entering production in 2019
Bitcoin Options Will Be Available This Fall
Clock ticking on Google as $2.7B fine takes bite out of earnings
At least we can say that 'trustless' is a real part of the plan, one way or another.
It's much slower than a skilled alphabetical typist can do. In Japanese, and I assume also in Chinese, there is a faster system used by people who do jobs that require fast typing, but it's very complicated and most people do not learn it.
The article misses the finer points of most of the articles quoted and makes sweeping generalizations.
Tencent backs India’s edtech leader Byju’s, which just turned profitable
Helping journalists experiment with 360 content
There's some areas where the trade off works. I hire a yard company that comes out to take care of my yard every single week, brings equipment, hauls of trimmings and otherwise does maintenance that would take a couple of hours a week for me to do myself. They show up with a team of 3-4 people for about $180 / month.

We do something similar by hiring a house cleaning service that comes in every 2 weeks to do a heavy and thorough cleaning of our house for about $200 / month. That job would use an entire day of the weekend to do ourselves.

It's not every little task, but if there's a market for it there are certainly some areas where you can buy your time back relatively efficiently.

For $380 / month I buy back about 30 hours of my non-working time every month with those two services.
I would not equate refactoring an active project with returning to a dormant project.
There is plenty of sea water for cooling and for the boiler, so not really an issue.

The power station I worked at gets all its boiler water from its own onsite desalination plant in conjunction with a cation and anion plant for polishing.
Easier than neighboring languages sharing thousands of words with common roots? I think I would need to see some sort of evidence to accept this claim.
Facebook developing smart speaker with 15-inch touch panel
You can use a hardware token on multiple machines.

My bank, for example, has both your password entry and the private keys on the token. All you ever enter onto a computer or smartphone is the one time password, even when using their smartphone app.

I like my bank.
> I can't help but think that having more of their longtime customers starting to comparison shop is a bad thing.

Amazon's goal is to make that well-nigh impossible.