skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://www.getloaded.com/load-board-blog/post/Whats-the-Best...

It looks like your wife's friend needs a better broker because all the companies we deal with charge us.

Our shipper won't schedule a truck unless we know that the load is ready due to how steep the fees can be.

When we shipped some equipment to a major trade show, they try to schedule it so that the truckers have a minimum wait but the show will also pay the detention fees back if they were the source of the delay.
I assume yes, as long as "the public" is limited to the niche group of rich people it caters to.
http://porschedealer.com/pfs/

You could easily lease two including insurance, registration, and maintenance.

I don't think the added flexibility of being able to swap your 718 for a Cayenne when you need to haul furniture (or have more than two people) is worth it.
I was with you until I saw this on your consulting pitch:

Write. I have written at least ten posts that made the front page of Hacker News / Programming Reddit (nb - Those aren't the best proxies for quality or popularity, but they are well known proxies). I can help kickstart your company's engineering blog, or work with your team on story/content ideas.

Now I'm not sure how much making the front page motivates your writing process. It is an interesting topic but I feel it would be a stronger case to demonstrate the issue across products from multiple vendors, though less incendiary/front-page-y.

PS. Props for not being the one to submit this particular article!
Let's say I disable or pull out all the network/wireless cards I have. Then what? Any ideas how to connect to the internet otherwise?

I am seriously thinking going Stallman because of this and not connecting to the internet at all, at least not from all the machines.
Yeah, I'd be interested if there are rigorous bounds on how badly Goodhart/Campell's Law can screw you in theory (or better, in practice).
> the NSA boogeyman is hiding behind every rock and tree are starting to become quite tiresome.

Yeah indeed, they have backdoor-ed every ISP, nation, router, HDD, what-have-you in existence and these people keep telling boogeyman tales.

Tsk tsk tsk. How tiresome.
Does someone know the difference between what archive.org will take and what Gutenberg will take? It seems like they should just coalesce into one data set, right? I imagine archive.org can easily fit the Gutenberg data set; you can reasonably get it yourself via Kiwix.
Users won't be happy these days with user interfaces which are not single page applications unfortunately. So we need "rails for react", or "rails for angular".
An entire framework? This app says hello world. How about reading the article before commenting?
They have quotes from experts researched they can read off, which you can't provide a direct counter to (for 'oh it's actually Satan') because you have no experts you can rattle off, at least not without completely bullshitting. Coming up with an out of left field argument to surprise and leave someone without a good means to address the argument is extremely common both in L-D debate and the modern media yelling clown show that passes for 'debate' on news channels today.
Anyone know what happened to the 2015 Orphan Works proposal by the US Copyright Office?

https://www.copyright.gov/orphan/reports/orphan-works2015.pd...
> you're free to not use aes instructions.

good luck getting a system compiled that does not use them at all. Might be possible with gentoo and the right configuration as it compiles everything, but with a dominantly binary distro like Ubuntu or Debian you're SOL.
The landlord's positions are probably because restaurants and bars have to make a lot of changes to existing facilities, and also generally go under fairly quickly.

That can leave you with a large bill to retool your location to a more neutral design.

Also, side note, lots of young people think starting a restaurant or bar is easy. It isn't. (Fyi 17 years experience). It's brutal, difficult and requires a lot of control/micromanagement. It's not something you can do when just out of school.
How does rails help you automate 90% of the creation of the angular or react single page application ui?
To be honest, it just seems like another website builder, but with some API integration
Are you guys looking for interns?
Then you should have said that instead of implying an entirely different, unsupportable point.
What does “very” mean? Do you mind quantifying that with a percentage? As it stands it doesn’t really answer the question: “very” is an imprecise measurement.
The parallels to Github for code distribution and re-use cannot be overlooked ;)

Addgene also works with another Cambridge nonprofit called Seeding Labs. They take donations in the form of scientific equipment, lab services and expertise and then distribute around the world. Following a "local problems are best solved locally" approach.

The power of a model that is not only open but "shared" seems to replicate itself organically. To scientists, a distributed workflow comes quite naturally!

https://seedinglabs.org/
> 1) So the average CPU can do arroung several GFLOPS

Maybe 15 years ago.

I think 200 - 1000 GFLOPs is common modern era CPU performance. A single core can do 32 floating point operations per clock cycle. Half that, if you don't count multiply accumulate as two ops. Drop another half if you want 64-bit floats.
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I hear you! It's frustrating to me, too. Having said that, I think it's but one manifestation of a larger phenomenon. People, in general, believe in a just world. They implicitly trust the mechanisms of society and government. They either can't or don't want to take responsibility for every detail of their lives. They trust the police. They trust big companies like Apple, Facebook, and Google. They trust the government!

I honestly believe that a lot of people would be capable of taking responsibility for all of this themselves. I think they just don't want to. They have neither the time nor the energy to put constant pressure on all of these organizations. They have so much other stuff to worry about in their lives.
medium is hostile to mobile devices, putting up an unclosable pop-up window on every page.
Ignaz Semmelweis [1] was one of the first to advocate for more sterile conditions in hospitals. His contemporaries mocked him for his insistence that they wash their hands between autopsies and examining women who'd just given birth.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis

Medicine has come a long way, but there are still some areas that need improvement. Society's approach to addiction (alcohol, etc) needs a complete scrap & rewrite.
Next time I change laptop (which will probably happen soon, my laptop is also a 2007 hardware), it will be a Librem 13 from Purism. I want to send money to a company that cares about this issue, and Purism has demonstrated they do multiple times already[0][1].

I know purism is just neutralizing IME, so it's the same as this, but they're the best solution right now, and I hope that by supporting them, I participate in a clear message to the industry that I don't want their undocumented blackbox on my hardware. Who knows ? Maybe one of the major players will take the hint and try to remove them, or document them. Or maybe a new player will displace them.

[0]: https://puri.sm/posts/reverse-engineering-the-intel-manageme...

[1]: https://puri.sm/posts/neutralizing-intel-management-engine-o...
Candace Millard's book "the destiny of the republic" covers this and is pretty good. Garfield seemed like the type of person who could have done great things in office, given his apparent intelligence and humble upbringing. I also think the journey of his assassin -- a mentally troubled individual with no real reason to target Garfield -- is still relevant given the long US history struggling with this subject.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004J4X33O?_encoding=UTF8
Baye's Theorem doesn't have a term for "burden of proof". If we want to claim that UBI will swing any way in particular, then we gotta pony up the evidence, regardless of the specifics.

Instead of volleying opinions back and forth, I think we would do better by discussing the ins and outs of current problems to which UBI is a single proposed possible solution.
I hear you. Even back in 1998, I could bang this stuff out immensely fast with perl, cgi.pm, and a few libraries I created for reuse.

The thing is, the user experience of these Web 1.0 apps is absolutely subpar to that of a modern single page application.
I've been getting a lot of ads from this new on-demand service from Audi. https://www.us.audiondemand.com/
There is high-quality current literature today, and there was low-quality literature then.
> Yeah, management and marketing ...

should get off their duff and analyze their own internal server logs.
Anyone who runs a restaurant that doesn't know what a grease trap is, hasn't actually worked in a restaurant. Which I believe sums up this author.
No surprise, I mean verifying the integrity of the BIOS is like PlayStation 1 level of crypto chainloading madness. A great scheme that will always fail because whatever software you are verifying will be imperfect. The chance that software produced by companies whose "day job" is putting flashing LEDs and DC-DC converter heatsinks on reference designs is zero.
That is a very naive view.

The Intel IME is far different than 'rock and tree' to an organization of 40k employees and $10B budget tasked with bypassing stuff like the IME.
I'm ambivalent about all the weirdness about digital books. On the one hand, I kinda get why San Francisco Public Library has to "pretend" it can only loan out 20 "digital copies" of "The Subtle Art of not Giving a Fuck" at a time, because I guess if you could just instantly use the Libby app to throw it on your kindle and renew endlessly, why would anybody ever buy a book?

Still, it is "fake" prohibitions. There's literally nothing but arbitrary law and DRM preventing the free distribution of an already-digitized volume.

I really hope I get to live long enough to see society have to tackle the "oh fuck, currency as a concept is useless" problem, aka the steps leading up to post-scarcity. Highly highly unlikely, but I hope for it nonetheless. At the very least I'll get to see the "oh fuck what do we do with all these truck drivers" problem get tackled, probably.
Archive.org can take and provide works that are still under copyright due to library provisions in the DMCA. Project Gutenberg only provides public domain works, but on a per country basis: https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Copyright_FAQ#Copyr... (some works are in the public domain in Australia, but not yet in the US, for example)
So what? Three years is plenty of time to form an opinion and thirty doesn’t necessarily make for a better opinion.

And your view is uninformed, because it’s anecdotal, one data point, based on your microcosm of experience, just like mine.

There’s not enough information here to generalize, but I still have real friends from having lived there, and I think it’s appropriate to offer a counterpoint, lest anyone interpret a one off comment as a truism.
Train to do what? There are tasks people with severe mental disabilities can still be trained to do, and there are tasks that anyone who isn't a six-sigma genius can't be trained to do.
"I read somewhere that" I can justify anything by that, especially anectodally.
I worked for a company once where a "consultant" was brought in to look at our "production efficiency". Some big wig came up with the idea that we should make sure we are using our production servers effectively. Not to many, not to few. We really only had 3 servers (Jerry, Kramer and Newman). Newman took a daily beating running some very large databases. It held firm though.

The "consultant" decided to move a database to its one machine. During this transition this person started a backup and then whacked the production database while the backup was still running because they felt the backup had "probably already backed up the database since it has been running for hours".

Dead in the water. Restored from a week old backup to the dismay of a lot of people working there whom had lost critical pieces of their work.
Also on a Mac. File preview works when .ratrc is present, otherwise just a file list and selector. Are you sure it's at ~/.config/rat/.ratrc ?
Isn't gutenberg more "crowd-sourced?" I remember participating in some sort of editing program there a while back.
Is the target market people with newly disposable income but destroyed/nonexistent credit? Could explain the "millenial" target, if you ran up a bunch of credit cards in college but have a software job now, go ahead and "subscribe" to a car for 2x the price of a lease! Then when it gets repo'd for nonpayment you're not defaulting on your lease, you're just lapsing your subscription!
The article described an SSD (sensory substitution device) that converts a particular color under a stylus into a sound.

I wonder if you could build an SSD that did a playback of a 2-dimensional scan of an input image in such a way that a blind person could rebuild the 2-dimensional image. Perhaps the brain could pick up something akin to CRT horizontal scan lines. Also, I wonder whether stereophonic output would be advantageous.
While I don't anticipate the firmware to be used as much as Facebook's React and other previous BSD + PATENTS libraries, but an excellent reason to look towards Valve if you were interested in manufacturing a VR headset.

As an Oculus Rift owner, I'm sad to see Facebook's influence creep this far.
Last year I was invited to interview at Google Aarhus for a job on exactly this topic. We discussed fun, very simple ways to avoid including loads unused library code, and I was told that they already had some ridiculously efficient, practical way of compressing translation strings. I was there last November, and I had the impression that a lot of low hanging fruit would be picked off very quickly. Not sure what parts of this work actually shipped in these last 11 months. But work may still be ongoing.
Insurance on these cars would cost a small fortune as well, as would replacing the tires, also maintenance because it has that special, not a v6 or inline-6, but flat 6 engine design, so gotta go to a special shop.
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As someone who ran highly kritikal affs and Ks on neg

If debate is meant to be preparation for participation in a polity, why would you adhere to exclusionary jargon and obscure proceduralism? Of course it's fun to be an insider, as in any other sphere of nerd endeavor, but this is the rhetorical equivalent of bodybuilding with the help of steroids. Yes, it is satisfying to the competitors, but at the expense of comprehensibility to everyone else.

As a non-American who loved debate growing up (but in a more old-fashioned and qualitative policy forum style), the first time I saw policy debate on TV I almost threw up in disgust. This kind of thing is why voter participation rates are so low and people hate politicians (sweeping assertions that I have no intention of substantiating today, by the way).

The research and critical thinking aspects of this are absolutely valuable skills to learn. But the more technical it becomes, the more you're applying the logic of industrial production to qualitative argument, to the point of losing your audience completely. I suggest that this emphasis on point-scoring reduces the incidence of critical thinking in the population as a whole, and offer as an analogy the Selectorate Theory model of Bueno de Mesquita & Smith in The logic of political survival.

In brief, this theory argues that per-capita rewards for members of a selectorate (group which chooses political leaders) diminish as the size of the group initially expands but gradually increase again and exceed the original limit as the selectorate comes to comprise a greater portion of the electorate.

As far as debate is concerned, it is thus more fun at first to win the approval of a small number of insiders through gamesmanship than to please a larger general audience, but as you are able to successfully appeal to larger audiences the fun factor increases again and will eventually exceed the original maximum.
Other than 37signals, which large tech companies do this? Large tech companies have smart engineers. If turbolinks really were better, why haven't they caught on?
Especially, not specifically.

I was just saying my options are more limited, and the options for someone unwilling to recompile their own software is very severely limited.

But even if I'm running, say, software-only Salsa20 with all compiler optimizations off, if my CPU is still owned, my keys are still at risk of silent compromise.

The only real defense is to ascertain the processing limitations of IME and then choose your crypto primitives/implementation for both processing and memory hardness that exceeds the ability of the IME's lower transistor count and/or clock speed to keep up with.
These are great criticisms, but they can be levied against all sorts of claims about abstract concepts (Freedom, justice, markets, etc.) Different theologians (Or ethicists) will have different, contradictory answers for these questions, but that doesn't mean that discussing ethics is a waste of time, or that a claim like "China restricts its citizens freedom" is unfalsifiable.

I believe that discussing the inevitable return of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ (In the next 60 years) to be a waste of time, but that's because I believe the probability of his return, and the subsequent apocalypse of unbelievers, is zero. Unfrotunately, I won't be vindicated in this belief until 2077.
Cool service but it ends up being like 2x the price of leasing. For comparison, I've leased two Porsches through PFS in the past and the all-in monthly payment (incl tax/insurance) was around $1500/mo for a 911 C4S (36 month) and $900/mo for a Cayman (24 month).

And for the $2000/mo subscription, it doesn't seem like you even get access to the 911.
Truck industry lobbying.
Ahhhh. I do feel soothed. For so long I felt unwatched, unseen, sadly unspied on and left out.....
I think the person you're responding to isn't familiar with relaxed social environments. Seriously, it's so hard to find empathy in security research.
Edit: removing comment as a correction in a reply below makes my original view extremely misleading.
That would be such an inconvenience to the people who re-use their passwords!

/s
FYI, you need to prefix your numbers with four spaces for the formatting to be preserved.
They're not, he doesn't back up his recommendations with data, and instead expects readers to believe that they are appropriate and correct.
> Sonny Bono Memorial Collection

Heh.
It's entirely possible that there exists something analogous to the HAP bit[1] or that something like me_cleaner could be developed for the PSP but AMD is not the market leader (and is frankly negligible when it comes to laptops) so much less research has been done on the AMD PSP. I remember that when excitement was building for the release of Ryzen there were petitions for AMD to open source the PSP and some talk that it might actually happen but they eventually shut the idea down during a Q&A.[2] It's a shame because it would have given AMD something to really distinguish itself from Intel and would have been viewed very positively by a lot of different communities/market segments. Really makes you think about why they didn't do it...

[1] http://blog.ptsecurity.com/2017/08/disabling-intel-me.html

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14803373
It might be worth thinking more generally about the future.

Continuous speech recognition allows new approaches to scoring.

Teaching scientific discourse, and team collaboration, is increasingly a focus, even down to K.

Imagine being able to do automated judging of team and individual performance, at listening, clear presentation, group facilitation and collaboration, problem analysis and creative problem solving, tasteful system design, and so on. That could be really neat.
The goal is to have something that makes "just coding the app" simpler and faster without sacrificing 100% customizability or user experience quality.
AMA. E-Mail in profile.
Article states that AMD has its own version of IME, with no known ways to analyze, access or fix.
> Surely something would provide balance before the whole planet is turned into a big E.coli colony.

Probably evolution has had a long run at evolving things to do that but how badly would we screw ourselves and the planet in the meantime before an equilibrium was reached.

The only thing that slightly cheers me up is that apart from when bacteria wiped out almost everything by pumping out oxygen we haven't really seen that situation again, if it was a low hill to climb you'd think we'd have seen it already.
> I would assume the burden of proof to be on you (and supporters of UBI) to prove that opposite will happen and people won't just slack off once their basic necessities are covered.

Most people who have the opportunity now don't slack off once their basic needs are covered, though the marginal effort needed to go beyond that is greater than it would be with a UBI. It is UBI opponents who are positing something contrary to all human experience in arguing that people in general would stop seeking improvement in material condition if the marginal cost of that beyond basic survival were reduced by UBI, so I think the burden is on them to, at a minimum, a rationale for believing that to be the case.

Though dealing with concerns like this (which, rational or not, are clearly significant) is among the many reasons why I think a gradual phase-in of universal income, gradually phasing out means-tested safety net programs, is better than trying a radical transition.
Thank you for the correction. I knew it was way up there but was just trying to recall off the top of my head.
Doesn't seem that defensive, just highlighting that a self-focused individual won't thrive here.
> We're scheduled to open in October or November, 2016.

Insert "under construction" gif here.
This is Stefan, from Starsky Robotics.

I hear this all the time, and honestly in many cases a truck is the transportation of last resort. If you need 5 shipping containers of goods going from A->B all arriving at Time X; it's probably going by train.

An issue with rail (as pointed out by others) is how to haul the freight from the rail head (rail yard) to the end warehouses, and the extra time it takes to have goods go on two trucks and one train instead of just one truck. The other issue is that in the US it's really hard to hire and retain long haul truck drivers (it turns out most people want to go home each night after a hard day’s work).

Competition to hire drivers is fierce, and driver turnover can be 100%/yr...which means sometimes your drivers don't show up to pull your freight. Rail is also generally cheaper so if you can put your goods on the train you do.

As far as wear and tear on the highway: that's what weigh stations are for. They not only assign usage taxes, they also make sure weight is evenly distributed across the axles to limit damage to the road.

/SSA
That's a blatant misinterpretation of that article. Here's the main quote:

"According to a highly technical blog post, Positive Technologies experts revealed they discovered a hidden bit inside the firmware code, which when flipped (set to "1") it will disable ME after ME has done its job and booted up the main processor.

The bit is labelled "reserve_hap" and a nearby comment describes it as "High Assurance Platform (HAP) enable."

High Assurance Platform (HAP) is an NSA program that describes a series of rules for running secure computing platforms.

Researchers believe Intel has added the ME disabling bit at the behest of the NSA, who needed a method of disabling ME as a security measure for computers running in highly sensitive environments."

TL;DR the evidence is that the NSA made Intel give them a way to DISABLE the management engine on their machines, not a backdoor.