skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why run something extra when you can use a single database table which is already universally accessible by any dumb client?

Push, fetch, ack = insert, select, delete. A few lines of SQL or a stored procedure gets it done. Postgres basically made skip locked for queues.
The fact that you can get arrested for a Facebook post in Israel is already alarming.
Webpack from Nothing
Collateral damage. People are routinely murdered for being in the same area as people who are suspected of terrorism on the basis of evidence which has never seen a courtroom.
Background job systems rarely need extensive support (or, for that matter, a constant stream of features) I've used Gearman for years, to great success.

Not saying that Gearman is a better solution, just saying that "better supported" for such a relatively simple tool is not always necessary.
Every now and then there is a paper that attempts proving P=NP or attempts proving P!=NP, I've seen different papers on hacker news several times. The most interesting link someone posted was this one listing many such papers, nicely indicating [equal], [not equal], [undecidable] or [unprovable]:

http://web.archive.org/web/20171006224902/https://www.win.tu...

Archive link because original page has certificate error :(
could quantum enabled graphics cards find better algorithms, and speed up it's rendering of a game for example?
I'm not completely convinced that this is such a good thing. Main idea behind PD is that you can do basically anything with PD work. Now suddenly PD works can become liability when used if not cleared specifically, which seems counter-intuitive.
Can we get around this by using a reshipping service from the US? Or would those shipments be blocked as well?
I don't think I advocated changing the port as higher priority than more important measures.
Exploring lock-free Rust: from locks, via atomics, to Crossbeam
As an alternative to lxml or BeautifulSoup, I've used a library called PyQuery (https://pythonhosted.org/pyquery/) with some success. It has a very similar API to jQuery.
Raw FBI FOIA files and articles about them on some other major figures including Richard Feynman:

https://www.muckrock.com/project/subjects-matter-fbi-files-1...
We’re still trying to crawl out of the tar pit.

https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love/blob/master...
There are a number of controls available for pretty much every threat model, so I’m not sure what you’re claiming about my point that using an non-privileged port adds risk to the system that would need to be accepted or dealt with.
Show HN: Halftones for better visualization on a text console
You can count the number of companies that own all American media on one hand. How is it that anti-trust is "taking care of it" again?
Unless it's the police driving the bulldozer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Corrie
He is not condoning it just mentioning how under Jobs this would have been a big deal.
Coming from you, of all people, could you elaborate a bit or point us to some literature?
That's actually a good thing - I've done a fair amount of work on autonomous robots (not land) and I'd say that the AI/Machine Learning word is thrown about a lot for no reason. Many of their challenges can be solved with tried and proven algorithms like rrt star. My personal opinion is that they're a autonomous car company not a research lab, so the focus is indeed correct.
> Do you have any examples of products that are meant to be a meal replacement, and that contain all necessary nutrients?

The tube feeds [0] are pretty much exactly that. Those Fresenius ones are not flavored but other manufacturers, like HiPP/Abbot, even have flavored tube feed, as some tube patients like having the flavor come up when they have to burp.

A step closer are the "nutritional supplements", which is a weird name for it in German we call it "Trinknahrung" which literally translates to "liquid nutrition".
These are usually flavored and come in a variety of forms, like powder or even puddings.

I've "eaten" the stuff sometimes for diet or after tooth operations, it's pretty okayish when cold, like a milkshake. The biggest issue is that you have to be really careful about how fast you drink it until your digestive system adapted to the high-calorie contents, as drinking too much too fast will also make it come out too fast, so to speak.

[0] http://www.fresenius-kabi.co.uk/4347.htm
Corporations have outsize influence on the government because they control jobs, which is the single thing Americans care about more than anything else. The Fortune 500 directly employ 17% of the U.S. workforce, and indirectly employ many more (e.g. employees of parts companies that sell to Ford/GM, contractors who install fiber for AT&T). The tax provisions companies take advantage of aren't "loopholes," they exist by design for the benefit of the companies that control the jobs.

Comparing the corporate tax rate in 1952 to today is pointless. In 1952, the U.K. was a shell burned out from WWII. Today, it's a tax haven luring American companies to reincorporate there. You cannot fight this process with legislation--you'll just shoot yourself in the foot and drive companies out to other countries that will be happy to receive them. This isn't just a U.S. thing--even accounting for deductions and tax breaks, the U.S. has higher corporate tax rates than our competitor countries: http://www.npr.org/2017/08/07/541797699/fact-check-does-the-.... The "real" amount of taxes paid in the U.S. is about 18.6%, versus 8.5% for Canada, 11.2% for France, and 4.1% for South Korea.
Maybe he thinks more than one company is sufficient then? But that’s still just a civil difference of opinion! It’s not insulting to be disagreed with I’m afraid.
Check out Taylor Otwell the creator of Laravel.

Laravel is a (Rails Like) PHP framework. It's really great, highly recommended.

It is open source, has a great community.

Taylor also created forge and envoyer they are services, they are great tools for spinning up servers for Laravel projects, and zero downtime deployments.

They appear to provide his full time income+ and allowed him to hire a developer to work on Laravel, forge, envoyer and Spark (a product offering that is best described as SaaS in a box) full time.

So he's helping the community providing a great framework and bringing in revenue.

Laravel is something great for developers to learn to level up to better and higher paying projects and gigs. Similar to the learning Rails early on.

Thanks Taylor!
False. Fructose != skim milk. Less fat and less calories in skim milk can cause weight loss.

The claim that skim milk was fed to pigs because it has some magical fattening properties is just another urban myth. Skim milk was fed to pigs because it was free/cheap and nutritional.

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/food/2014/0...

http://northernplanets.blogspot.com/2007/07/milk-folklore.ht...
The trend will continue as long as the 0 accountability standard remains.
The gasoline thing isn't necessarily ridiculous. Some portion of ethanol in gas helps it burn cleaner.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygenate
then it's just a race to the bottom, no?

The "race to the bottom" is the reason why free markets are so prosperous. Each business independently works to reduce costs and competition forces companies to share those savings with consumers.

The best example of the "race to the bottom" stopping are monopolies (often gov't supported) like Comcast where they can sit fat and happy raking in a ton of profits and telling consumers to shove it.
Where the Hell Is All That Investment Money Going?
It seems nuts to me to introduce a stateful queue system like this where the persistence story is “data’s out there on a single node in some kind of disk format, hope it doesn’t go missing!”

I guess this style significantly reduces setup friction, but it’s almost an irresponsible design in a universe where the average cloud provider is telling you, “your compute instances may vanish at any time.” If this used Kafka, Redis, MySQL, or another well-known stand-alone data store, I know my data is replicated, and I can recover my enqueued jobs if Somethimg Bad happens.

I like the nice UI and the simple API, but there’s no way this will replace Resque or any Kafka-based-job-whatever at my place of work.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphi_Automotive

One point of interest is that Delphi was previously the internal supplier organization for GM, spun off in the 90's.

> Nutonomy’s partnerships with Lyft, Groupe PSA and others will continue and the company will work in parallel with Delphi from its home base in Boston

GM also has a partnership with Lyft, and Google just invested in Lyft as well.

If Lyft were a person, one might describe them as promiscuous.
He made wild claims that were never quite backed up by proof, claims that even now no one seems to believe were actually possible
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when Leonardo da vinci sketched out a parachute or a helicopter-looking self propelling device prototypes that took 500 years to actually build - what did contemporaries think of him?

who are we to judge a great mind? we simply cant. yes he might have gone mad, but there is a very fine line between madness and brilliance and its often blurred. all we can do is take these ideas and test/iterate/test. id rather bet on a horse that is capable of running than on a just born foal.
For Facebook or the Israeli state?
Agreed. It very very rapidly becomes a crutch. Seen it a zillion times. By forcing transparency you force developers to write good code. You also get more eyes on the problem.

We have to deal differentiate obscurity versus runtime information leaking.
Honestly, 50 to 100 years sounds like overkill.

Granted, some crop plants can be tougher to engineer since many of them are excessively polyploid, but it seems like 5 years in the lab, 10 years in greenhouses, and 20 years on test plots should be more than enough. And you could probably do it with only two partner universities, four tenured doctors, eight postdoc fellows, and 32 grad students.

50 years seems more like the timeline for domesticating Vulpes vulpes, which started in 1959, and has the notable limitation that foxes can't have thousands of offspring per year, whereas cultivated plants can.
Spanish speaking people are definitely _not_ a minority down here in Miami hehe.
Ryanburgess/engineer-manager: A list of engineering manager resource links
Anyone know the context behind Elon Musk’s “groan” tweet about this acquisition: https://twitter.com/verge/status/922828400439504897
How does this compare to https://github.com/antirez/disque?
Tax at the end of the day is just another cost for any business of significant size. Often the largest.
hey Shihab, very nicely done. I'd love to test it out and see how it goes.
How many people know the shortcuts for making a screenshot? How many do even know how to make one, or even what it is?

Outside of the IT world, I think very few people are familiar with those things.
As if a mistranslation is needed to arrest, harass or attack a Palestinian!!? The guy would've been arrested or even shot to death for no reason, except the occupation soldier is sure he is a Palestinian.
Please see Wiki about oxygenates in gasoline:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygenate
The real technology improvement has been going on at InWorldz, which forked off of the Second Life server code about 7 years ago. It's still mostly compatible (you can use any of the same clients, I recommend Firestorm), but they've made a fantastic amount of improvement in performance as well as customer service. I can't remember the last time I had a low frame rate or any lag there.

www.inworldz.com
And those design flaws are being addressed. Google can no longer do the "dutch sandwich" and "double irish" after 2020.

Of course those companies will just search out another legal alternative to avoid paying taxes. And that is well within their rights.
I've found .NET great for scraping. More so than Python as LINQ can be really really useful for weird cases I find.

My usual setup on OSX is .NET Core + HTMLAgilityPack + Selenium.
I don't see how content addressing helps with leaks. If I have some stolen data I can distribute it with padding on the end so it has a different address faster than you can push out blacklists.
Since 2001, the potential size of a Kernza seed has doubled, and scientists hope to lengthen its productive lifespan from five to 10 years.

That's pretty fast for traditional selective breeding techniques. It would be interesting what kind of progress could be made with genetic engineering. Seems like they're trying to avoid the GMO label, so I would guess it's another 15-20 years before Kernza will be ready for widespread agricultural use.
CNCF to Host Two Security Projects – Notary and TUF Specification
Apparently, Patagonia makes a Kernza beer.

https://www.patagoniaprovisions.com/pages/long-root-ale
Eh, it still applies. There's plenty of articles that have been posted here talking about how the real way to make money is SaaS, not on-prem. In that context, the provider is making more profit with no further innovation, in fact the only thing they've added is a limitation. To quote from your link:

Rent-seeking is an attempt to obtain economic rent (i.e., the portion of income paid to a factor of production in excess of what is needed to keep it employed in its current use) by manipulating the social or political environment in which economic activities occur, rather than by creating new wealth. Rent-seeking implies extraction of uncompensated value from others without making any contribution to productivity. The classic example of rent-seeking, according to Robert Shiller, is that of a feudal lord who installs a chain across a river that flows through his land and then hires a collector to charge passing boats a fee (or rent of the section of the river for a few minutes) to lower the chain. There is nothing productive about the chain or the collector. The lord has made no improvements to the river and is helping nobody in any way, directly or indirectly, except himself. All he is doing is finding a way to make money from something that used to be free.[5]

Now maybe, the program used to be $40 and not free but switching to $20 a month is definitely rent-seeking.
American has an optimism problem. Or rather, optimism seems to be unequally distributed. Feels like we need some leadership to raise our eyes to all the opportunities out there, and how we can get to a better spot.
Glaveno Cosmetics
All depends on how you define "tough A.I. problems". Basically for all N>0 there exists a definition of "tough" such that less than N people are capable of "Solving tough A.I. problems"

For any reasonable definition, just having a Masters in a subject certainly does not qualify you to do tough AI research. For that matter just having a PhD in a subject doesn't really qualify you to do high quality research in that subject.

That being said there is a lot of 'easy' AI problems out there to be tackled. Take just about any random domain that you even a basic understanding of, collect some data, apply some interesting sounding algorithms from scikit-learn to that data, tweak some parameters, does anything interesting fall out? If no try some new data and/or new algorithms. Repeat until something interesting happens. Congratulations you've just done some AI research, probably good enough to be published somewhere, and all you needed was high school level math and some basic programming skills.
AFAIK, spoken Arabic has vowels, but the script is an abjad with optional vowel markers. So English text written using only the consonants would be a good approximation.
Was it just me or did the talk not actually cover "The Future of Programming"?
I took the time to look this up. Miami is 70% hispanic of any race according to 2010 census.

Though that doesn't mean 70% of Miamians only speak Spanish.

Source:
https://www.google.com/search?q=miami+demographics
Is anyone working on these problems, or did people just give up?

It's crazy to think that the way we create and consume software barely changed since the 60s/70s.
Maybe they feared he was preparing an attack using a goedendag [1] (itself named after a possibly mythical shibboleth [2])?

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth
Then keep on consuming HFCS. I quickly googled for the lazy you and it's not too hard to find stuff on the subject like [0]. I am personally staying away from all sugars except those naturally found in fruits and honey.

[0]: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01...
Most teams use ml heavily for perception but not necessarily for other things. You need explainability when it comes to safety, and maps are needed no matter what if you want your car to get around.
His all papers are here: http://consc.net/all-papers-by-date/

Panpsychism and Panprotopsychism. Amherst Lecture in Philosophy, 2013.
http://consc.net/papers/panpsychism.pdf

The Combination Problem for Panpsychism. In (G. Bruntrup and L. Jaskolla, eds.) Panpsychism. Oxford University Press, 2017.
http://consc.net/papers/combination.pdf
corn is an awful crop

I've only been gardening a season but I've already come to the same conclusion. The corn stalks were the divas of the bed, wilting days before anything else and underproducing. Especially compared to the squash plants.
It covered the future of programming from the point of view of the past.
Hacking RF and Software Defined Radio with Only the Yardstick and Python
it's only compelling until people do it regularly.
All the Chinese online services are already subservient to the government, which has deep hooks into their communications and transaction systems to monitor the activities of businesses, organisations and citizens. It's already been done. You don't get to be a fraction of the size of any of these companies without 'opening the kimono', to borrow a Japanese phrase, as wide as it goes.

As long as Jack Ma and his cohort cooperate fully with the authorities and continue greasing the right wheels, they will be left alone and in fact will be cherished and protected as the cornerstones of the surveillance state they have already become.
Frankly, it doesn't matter. Tax avoidance is as old as man himself. There will always be another way. Often set up and operating costs are a major driver for tax strategies, and for a company the size of Google, this doesn't matter.
Almost the only people doing well in rural America are those with generational wealth. I know plenty of people from my small hometown that have been doing okay with their farms. One of them has a gravel business. Those without such luck are either moving to a bigger city or experiencing a declining quality of life, and they're coping with drugs, meth mostly. I can't imagine what that would be like in areas that haven't been able to build that generational wealth.

The question is, how do we get rural economic development going again?
Eventually inconsistent databases could save a lot of the effort developers faced with databases without inconsistency guarantees put into implementing eventual inconsistency at the application level.
Well, I only have experience with about an 18m^2 garden, so I'll copy an excerpt from my MOFGA link:

> Dutch white [clover] forms a low, dense understory that controls weeds, fixes nitrogen in the soil and remains as a cover crop after the grain harvest.

So the clover doesn't compete directly with the wheat, which grows much taller, and it also fixes beneficial nitrogen in the soil for future growth, and the clover helps to prevent other weeds which will compete with the wheat. That's my understanding at least.

As for tillage, I believe it levels the playing field, giving one's desired seeded crop an advantage over any established weeds.

This PennState article has a good overview:

https://extension.psu.edu/an-introduction-to-weed-management...
The United States typically goes through cycles of corporate vs government control. This also mirrors the cycle of state vs federal control. Arthur Schlesinger Jr, who won two Pulitzer prizes, wrote extensively about this.

I know it’s hard to believe, but the next 15 years will see a dramatic rise of government power and higher corporate taxes. This will happen very suddenly with one party taking complete control of all the branches of government along with having a dominant ideology at their back. Doesn’t really matter if Republicans or Democrats are in control, we can see the progressives on the left like Sherrod Brown, and populists like Steve Bannon on the right (who has spoken highly of Senator Brown), advocating shockingly similar proposals.
It’s going to be on the application to be NUMA aware, regardless of how much memory you have. Games have never really had to deal with this due to the absolutely minuscule number of people who played games on server-grade dual socket Xeons. It’ll be interesting to see if any of the big names (Unity, Unreal, Crytek/Lunberyard) ever care enough to make a patch for proper NUMA support.
TrackMania – a Chrome plugin to stalk your friends on Tinder
This looks nice, but I'm also confused by why anyone would build a single-node data store in 2017. I can't find any information about whether replication and HA/failover is planned. Writing a queue on top of RocksDB is arguably trivial; it's the other stuff that is difficult.

The other thing about job systems that a lot of people seem to ignore is client-side scaling. We run our apps on Kubernetes, where you'd naturally want to tune worker scheduling dynamically to accomodate queue size. Feeding custom queue metrics into the horizontal pod autoscaler is one way to do this.
Well, the problem is "companies that do that" is a matter of legal interpretation, and companies will find loopholes in that definition as well. If you get too restrictive, that can also have some pretty serious political consequences, so there's not as much leverage as one might think.
So to elaborate. Many Internet facing systems are application servers (e.g. web servers). They typically have very few local users, administrative/Ops staff are the primary users.

At that point an attack requiring the ability to execute arbitary code on the host as a local user is possibly less relavant as, if an attacker is in that position, they likely have a number of other options to further their goals.

The reason I made the comment about alternate controls, is that the original discussion and point I was making revolved around Internet focused attackers, rather than local attackers, so it's not too surprising that I didn't try to cover that case :) No sinister intent, honest!

Heck however if we want to then lets theorize that I can just use some form of firewall to port forward the high port that's presented externally to 22/TCP internally to get the best of both worlds, both a less visible external service and an internal port that requires root to bind.
What do you make of Waymo's Early Rider programme?

https://waymo.com/apply/
For anyone interested in a really good biography on Tesla, this [0] is the best one I've read. It's written by John J. O'Neill, a journalist who knew Tesla personally for 30 years or so IIRC. It sticks to the facts, eschewing the various myths about aliens and such that tend to stick to him, and it covers his whole life, from what is known of his childhood all the way through his death. It's a super interesting read.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Prodigal-Genius-Life-Nikola-Tesla-ebo...
A Response to “The JavaScript Trap”
y, $800k is doing pretty OK.

Congrats to him.
A Volatile-By-Default JVM for Server Applications [pdf]
The referenced article was interesting.

A single blackhatter posing as a greyhatter (read: "I did it for 'research purposes'" shortsightedly) can cause massive social disruption - and Facebook holds no culpability.
OpenPDF library for creating PDFs, an iText LGPL and MPL fork
I'm not exactly a Facebook fan but the blame for this needs to be shared by the Israeli police.