skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CS is fine, but if you can do it while working. You don't need the degree per-se, just gain the experience and the knowledge.

I"m a college drop out (I could in theory get a bachelors with if I do the paperwork and I'm 95% to an engineering degree). Prioritize learning over "labels". Most of the learning happens on the job.
I didn't say that (although I disagree with that too). But I'm addressing the comparison between European Americans and actual Europeans.
Boring. /pol/ and /v/ have made these jokes a billion times already, and with better delivery.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4hflr3/craig_wrigh...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4hg2oq/breaking_cr...
Not only not merited seemingly impossible based on Craig Wright's own statements.
I'm not seeing how this will change or improve anything, but I do see how it will help maintain the status quo for the Dem Party which is nothing more than a shill for Big Corporate power.
They are also widely used for non-gaming stuff, it is just less visible.

Concerning Mac the main problem is lack of any meaningful driver and hardware support from Apple. And without that there is little point in trying to port the SDKs.

On PCs both Nvidia a AMD are actively working with both Valve & Oculus and integrating support for things like the asynchronous time warping in their drivers. However, on Macs only Apple can really do that.

The other problem is that no current Mac on the market has a GPU that will work well with a Vive/Rift. The solution used in the laptops which switch between the integrated and discrete GPU is not supported and Apple doesn't offer anything else. And their desktop Macs haven't really been updated in ages, with GPUs being below the minimal spec required.

So while this may be a convenient excuse why not to support Mac, until Apple gets their stuff together it is technically not doable.
This doesn't surprise me. Africa hosted the biggest war since WW II starting in 1998 and most people in the US and Europe couldn't tell you anything about it. Not even the name.
Have you worked with Borland Delphi? Is it close to the ideal you described?
Re: Evidence that Intel, while giving the US government the ability to disable ME, refuses to give such an ability to other large customers (Google, Amazon, other governments, etc.), for any amount of money.

I'm not intimately familiar with the situation but I heard some chatter a few years ago about Google (which likes to use Coreboot on its Chromebooks) asking Intel for documentation and source code for various firmware components including the IME and being turned down.

Researchers recently found an undocumented bit can be set in recent IME versions with a name ("High Assurance Program (HAP)") said to be associated with the US government which disables most functions of the IME.[1]

[1] http://blog.ptsecurity.com/2017/08/disabling-intel-me.html
> We're pretty close to it, but I would assume current algorithms are not "AI".

Seems like it depends on your definition of "AI". We've got computer programs reading our communication, watching our browsing, and piecing together which patterns are likely to be the same person in different locations.

Then they use that information, both alone and in aggregation with other peoples' info, and finding ads for things that the individual might be interested in.

I understand at least some of the algorithms behind this, and have at least a fuzzy concept of most of the rest. It certainly crosses over into the category of what I'd call "AI". But that's the problem with the definition of Artificial Intelligence: It seems like the most-used definition is roughly "The collection of intelligent-seeming behaviors that we haven't figured out algorithms for yet".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qLI3VIHuKU
In the area of the US I currently live in, I believe one word per second would seem unreasonably fast to a local.

And don't put more than 10 or 15 words in a group without a significant pause. And complete thoughts shouldn't probably exceed 60 or 80 words if you don't want funny looks.
We charge more.

We also cut down on staff (I have delivered food as a chef before), and watch our costings.

I'd prefer to take the food out, than to know my wait staff are starving though.

At the same time though, I have haif my own waitstaff come in for lunch in their days off(as they can afford it). I'm sure they spent that extra money on other businesses too.

I can't really comment more on the follow through from that on a more financial position though, not my training, but as I mentioned earlier, it was nice to know my wait staff weren't starving.
Where do you live? Is it SF?
I went from a data engineering role (jack of all trades data piping) into web analytics implementation/marketing analytics (ROI stuff) and now am a product manager. At this stage I don't think I'll go back into Data Science as the barrier to exciting companies with great processes is quite high and I think the field is still a bit too immature to work anywhere else.

Marketing and product teams are quite fun to work in from my experience.
The modern airplane is fairly heavily automated, and probably could be piloted from afar. But we choose to mandate a pilot on board.

I suspect a similar situation will play out for trucks.

I suspect that truckers, like pilots, may see wages stagnate and longer hours, but the profession won't disappear anytime soon.
> The second prompt asks the user whether or not they want to execute the specified application, now this can be considered as a security warning since it asks the user to execute “cmd.exe”, however with proper syntax modification it can be hidden.

The warning is a security feature, but they didn't elaborate on how you can bypass it with "proper syntax modification". If that's true, then it should be considered at least somewhat exploitable.
A chef does far more than just create and execute a menu.
If by "easy UI" you mean a WYSIWYG UI editor, those exist for most serious development of applications, such as for Windows, iOS, and Android, though they still aren't the norm in web for some reason.

But if by "easy UI" you mean the visual programming language, or the graphical DDL, then I'm skeptical it has any value to programmers. No programmer I know would want to use a visual programming language at all, even with an option to fall into a full text-based programming language.
I don't want to think of it as being "worthy". I do think that it is important for people to get an education, entirely apart from its economic value, and that children may not realize this. I'd rather think of some other way to discourage them from deliberately dropping out (you'll note I did put in an exception for those who are simply not capable), but I couldn't think of something better. Can you?

Perhaps this only serves as an example of what I see as one of the main problems with UBI - it won't stay universal.
(sorry hn, off topic but I need to)

The Napier is still open? God's be damned, I hope it's still there when I get back to Aus!
the realm of nanobiology is a bit different from our world; I talked to a dude who makes DNA game of life based computers, couldn't resist asking him about turing completeness, he said that's all fine but at 500 base-pair thermodynamics conditions start to break the structures so "programs" can't be long enough for such questions anyway.
From that page:

we take the extra precaution of neutralizing the ME itself (removing everything but the “hardware initialization” module)

Am I missing something?
Could it be that high volume customers stay high volume because they keep buying new machines before malware developers has time to find a security fault and the exploits trickle down to exploit tools?
So if not customers, what would you say is driving the ME/trusted plataform push?
Naive questions: How does that work?

If $comercial_seller buys $chip_vendor expensive management solution does then have "legal backdoor" access to any device it sells?

What's the "chain of command" for accessing the IMEs of this world?
I've interacted with Craig Wright a fair bit on Twitter, and I also work in this space, and have a close familiarity with Satoshi's writings. I'm not a core developer, but I would say I am one tier below the core developers in understanding bitcoin (and I've not seen a core developer disagree with my assessment below, with the exception of one who admits he was probably fooled.)

Craig Wright is a conman, nothing more.

He has proven to me, again and again that he is not Satoshi. His twitter feed is filled with belligerent nonsense making claims and then not supporting them and linking the seemingly technical stuff that's nonsense-- perfect for fooling noobs who know nothing about technology but obvious to anyone who does.

Further, his attempt at cryptographic proof (on which this article seems based) was so amateur and poorly done that that alone, in my opinion, is proof he is not satoshi. Satoshi would never make such a mistake.

Further, why would Satoshi leave as early as he did, only to surface later to support every attack on bitcoin (Bcash, 2x, etc) that he can think of and say "fuck you" to the idea of individuals running their own nodes? Satoshi advocated running nodes and the role nodes have in protecting the network in the white paper itself.

I think I know who is Satoshi, and this person has refuted Craig Wright multiple times without of course, admitting to being satoshi, and while I can't prove it, and I'm not going to say who I'm talking about, I will say in my opinion Satoshi (obviously a different person) considers CSW to have no credibility on Bitcoin matters.

CSW is not Satoshi. But he's trying to cash in on confusion.
I have the same question, except I'm an intermittent student at a faculty. I have a paper related to computer graphics I'd like to get published. But I don't know what journals would accept my submission?
> "Perhaps we should say "RPi is one of the least-closed platforms." "

I said "most open". You said "least closed". In my opinion that's the same thing, just with a different spin.
> As for cleverness, I have seen that work. [...] But that's not low hanging fruit, he was a 40 year experienced chef who has probably forgotten more about food than I'll ever hope to know.

Do you think you can say anything more about this restaurant? I don't have any questions in particular, just curious about any anecdotes or interesting things you may have learned. Thanks.
Exactly. Some people enjoy this and that's great. Others are so blinded by the need to not Get Got that they end up working for pennies an hour on some tasks.
They did, further down in the post.
It’s No Use Honking. The Robot at the Wheel Can’t Hear You
TrustZone exists and is can be used for the same purpose as ME.
Dostoyevsky was a master of the genre but there were many others at the time, e.g. Flaubert (Madame Bovary, 1857). Plus, we can hardly stick the label pioneer/inventor of psychological novel on either James or Dostoyevsky when there are works such as Madame de La Fayette's La Princesse de Clèves (1678).
rfc1149 is your last option.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1149
Intel planning hybrid CPU-FPGA chips
Further down in the post, they explain how you can use a different syntax to get a non-suspicious prompt.
Maybe except for land. Land will always be scarce. Especially land that is economically valuable and/or developed.
Some will be employed driving the wreckers to go get the trucks that flake out and drive off the road.
Minimal, lightweight carry-on backpack
Following Google's smashing success at deleting videos cited in an AQ trial, the company now takes aim at pretty much anyone who may potentially be enabling others who may potentially do something bad.
Your definition may differ, or maybe mines is skewed from living in Australia, but I would consider most of those temperate, the only exceptions being Cairo and Khartoum.

> More than 25 percent of Africa is desert. Sahara is not the only desert in Africa.

Deserts also get extremely cold.
No, both sides of the torso: http://www.blue-gauntlet.com/Allstar-stainless-steel-Foil-Fe...
Smart bet.
This is an awesome find. I really think every organization can do the same thing. Reporting and BI is stuck in this ten years ago phase and with Airflow so much value is unlocked in automating the whole pipeline.
You're leaning very hard into absolute genetic determinism of any and all actions, as if an otherwise intelligent person couldn't just be careless or not be paying attention and be hit by a bus (to use your example).

"Mentally handicapped" is generally considered to be where someone's capabilities are hindered to the point that they can't function in a normal autonomous way and perform basic life tasks. "Acting stupid" applies to people who don't have such a level of hindrance but are instead not reasonably utilizing the adequate faculties they do have.

So, back to your example: if you lack the capability to cross a street on your own, or to even understand what that means and why it can be dangerous, no one faults you if you are harmed. If you are capable of crossing a street and appreciate the danger but choose not to take proper care when doing so (e.g., you step out onto the street while texting and are struck by a bus), people fault you.

You seem to be making unsupported assumptions and conflating all sorts of things when it's really not complicated: was the person capable of understanding the situation and acting on that understanding?
Intel ME runs MINIX[1], and one of it's applications is a JVM with some things running on top. It's pretty insane.

[1]: https://firmwaresecurity.com/2017/05/07/intel-me-based-on-mi...
And DDL support, graphical programming support, plugin support, ...
> "EDIT, example of boards that have do sources available: https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/A20/open-source-ha... "

There's no usable open source driver for Mali GPUs (the Lima project got the closest, but it's stalled: https://limadriver.org/ ), so the A20 does not have "sources available".
You know, a lot of people criticize visual programming as not being powerful enough -- when you encounter some kind of edge case you then outgrow the tool. Instead the problem with these kind of systems are is that it requires structured, problem solving type thinking. Learning the syntax is the easiest part of programming.

I see people struggling with tools like Google Calendar, physical security alarm systems and parking a vehicle in a tight location. They don't apply basic problem solving, and without developing that skillset these kinds of tools will continue to be useless for that demographic.
Spent by them in other countries, where they patriotically only spend it locally.

That’s the problem of the modern globalized world, all the profits end up spent in the US.
Housing prices follow pretty straightforwardly from incentives. Savers have counter-parties who owe debt. After the federal government ($19T), the next biggest is mortgages, with $14T, of which $10T is one-to-four family residences.

Whether it's direct ownership of debt or intermediated through pensions, insurance companies, or banks, saving for retirement is largely done through putting others in debt. More people savings more aggressively means money gets cheaper until the market clears. Cheaper money means you can finance higher bids on assets prices such as homes and university educations.

I have no idea how to fix it. I don't even know if it's possible. Making housing cheaper on a national scale means nuking pensions as people walk away from underwater mortgages. Probably the best bet is to inflate away these nominal obligations, but that has its own host of issues with screwing over retirees. Between lowering birth rates and improving health care, we as a society have been steadily ratcheting up the percentage of our economic output going towards supporting retirement. That's not sustainable when combined with how we've been also ratcheting up our standards of living. These trade off against each other, and it feels to me like the Boomers chose "both, but our kids pay for it".
The 12" is an absolute gem, and is quite obviously the successor to the Air line. Pricey, unfortunately.
Madame Bovary immediately sprung to mind as well. I find that there are plenty of similarities regarding the psychological depiction and psychological narrative of the characters between Madame Bovary and Portrait of a Lady.
In general, yes, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Silver_Bullet

Though for simple tasks, syntax is the biggest blocker, and visual programming is preferable. See the success of IFTTT as an example.
I believe the poster is saying it should be core curriculum. I know debate was an elective in my high school (optional course to fill a categorical credit - but not after-school).

In that 9th grade course, the teacher was the judge, with students' input. There were no speed reading games, as the debaters were not trained hobbyists in deception: It was a matter of putting out the best argument to defend your position.
I mostly agree with you except

> Their App Store is a monopoly

That word gets thrown around too liberally. Does anyone expect the Apple App Store to be able to serve apps to the Android, Windows, or Linux ecosystems? Arguing that "Apple's App Store is a monopoly" is like arguing that "JCPenny is a monopoly of all goods sold at JCPenny stores". If you want to sell goods in a store, you must abide by the stipulations of a contract with that company.
The ASUS Chromebook C201 and Pine64 are interesting, but I suppose a bit low powered. I'd be keen on replacing my ageing AMD-based desktop with an ARM system if the performance can be improved a bit.
No, you seem to be correct. I'm just being highly sceptical of the puri.sm folks because of their marketing.

It seems like their current devices are sold with me_cleaner being ran, along with removing several "fuses". Which is pretty good.

I'm still unsure if buying these laptops actually sends a signal that this isn't OK. Intel gets their money in the end.
Regardless if Kaspersky knew about the attacks or not, surely their reputation is utterly destroyed. Either they worked for Putin or got breached by his hackers, neither which sounds good.
I figured I'd read the thread prior to making a similar comment.

I am not a fan of most hip-hop or rap. But, I think I can enjoy something from every genre. I was unfamiliar with this person and I've given a listen to his It's Yours track.

It's not my cup of tea but I can see the appeal. When added with the story, and knowing nothing else about the individual, 'gripping' really is a good adjective.

It's not really what I'd expect to see covered at HN, at first. Then I read it and, to borrow your word again, it is gripping enough to see why it would appeal to the HN crowd.

Finally, that's what I like about HN. The collective intelligence often inspires me to learn things I'd otherwise have no cause to investigate. It slips over into the real world as I may share a link, or even some insightful commentary, with the missus.
That's called Purism.
Most every debater will prepare multiple versions of their cases and other arguments to give them the flexibility to deal with widely varying judge paradigms. It can be as simple as not presenting certain cards (evidence) and arguments to accommodate slower speeds or avoiding entire types of arguments (that's especially common when you're the negative with a wide variety of positions prepared). For major tournaments, you'll either know about a judge ahead of time or will hear them lay out their paradigms and preferences at the beginning of the round. And even then, different things ("tabula rasa," or a tab paradigm being a great example) can mean very different things to different people.

You can't really avoid lay judges (those with no exposure to the debate community, who tend to default to a more appearance-oriented paradigm), but you can adapt to a degree. The big reason why most debaters tend to dislike debating in front of lay judges is that their ballot decisions can often seem arbitrary. You may ask about their judging philosophy, but even if they provide one, there's no guarantee that they'll actually stick to it. Not because they're "dumb" or "don't understand," but because it's actually a really hard question to answer. It involves a lot of very specific self-reflection that's radically different than what most are used to. Even experienced judges tend to get it wrong, or fall victim to self-delusion. Experience is what helps a judge learn to know themselves (as a judge).
Breaking Ed25519 in WolfSSL [pdf]
Poshmark is filled with products that were barely barely used because people forgot to return - companies have a generous return policy and they still don't return. Clearly, people don't appreciate the value in chasing after a few tens of dollars of money - even when that adds up and makes a difference.

While I understand that this is stressful, there's a bare minimum that some people can do that can save them a good chunk of money every month.
They exist for local rail and subways, and with the unification of the European signaling and braking systems, soon they’ll also dominate long-range rail
Patents and copyrights are, as discussed in much earlier incarnations, a form of barter (bribery?) by the state to ensure a steady supply of novel ideas. I give you something, you give me something.

We (or at least, policy makers) agreed that this was the cost of high quality media/inventions. And it was sure as hell a lot better than the old guild systems where everyone in a given trade colluded to maintain trade secrets, under threat of ostracism or worse.

A lot of the weirdness people attach to either concept looks ridiculous if you can get past all of the emotionally loaded crap and keep telling yourself they are a quid pro quo arrangement, and not to be conflated with property rights.
1) What were the man-hours / $$$ invested in the current code base?

2) What is the current business model? Is it successful? Is it making a profit?

3) What would it cost in man-hours to completely refactor code?

4) What will it cost to retrain staff on new code?

5) What will it cost to retrain clients?

6) Can you guarantee that the code-refactor will not introduce any regressions/errors that may potentially impact client level SLA (ie pissed of clients)

7) You've been there ... what 48 hrs? You completely understand all the intricacies of a code base rewrite and how will affect all inter-connected processes (both code base and other wise)

8) Your previous blog at digitalbaboon.com bemoans your unemployment status and about to be broke and not able to pay rent ... you now have a job and publicly bash your new co-workers/boss?

"What the fuck is this? Who the hell in his right mind couples view and the actual logic together anymore? Jesus, man" ...

"What the humanly shit man! No wonder this company can only hire full-stacks because no actual
front-end developer would survive this blast in the face with what seems to be a double barrel shotgun."

9) In your Oct 6th post , you post
" I want more stability now that I'm 25 years old and not getting any younger. Hence, I was looking for a mature place with a solid business model where to spend the majority of my time."

Guess ... what , "solid business model" means making money.

Are they making money? Were you making money before this job? Who's got it more figure out kid?
I don't care that such things exist, as long as there's a way to completely disable them. It should also be possible to verify that they are disabled, and be sure that they can't be re-enabled by rogue software.

The approach of Intel and AMD is completely hostile to anybody who cares about such things.
The hard-cover encyclopedia died before its time. This is an interesting innovation on the idea of a consumer encyclopedia, with longer entries and curated subjects.
Is there a bias toward a specific industry or application type among your paying users?
See Tobias Platen's "Why I won’t buy the Purism Librem" for why he prefers Libreboot: http://blogs.fsfe.org/tobias_platen/2015/09/22/why-i-wont-bu...