skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is extremely wasteful.

Given current data in the area of climate change (I say this as a California resident who has seen firsthand the effects of long term drought in the area), we need to consciously conserve water. Reservoirs are drying up, fires are out of control, etc. Please don’t contribute to the problem. Use a hammer.
I thought that it would help even if the USB stack _would_ be secure, as any USB device has direct access to the motherboard/PCI?
Yeah, but brk amounts to the same thing, just worse in every way.
I think this is where I fall. I know a lot of tech people who are also sports fans, and I know a lot of non-tech people who really couldn't care less about sports. I think the "STEM professionals are pasty nerds who know nothing of sports!" stereotype is played up both by some people outside STEM professions who still seem to think Revenge of The Nerds was a documentary and by some people inside STEM professions who will tell you they're above such base tribal loyalties and then lecture you on why using Sublime instead of Vim makes you a neanderthal.
Write to a senator who gets large donations from classic media companies like Time Warner, and ask them to apply the same advertising standards that the FCC uses to the web.
These are the scenarios I can think of in which we screw ourselves by converting:

1) If Company raises more money (Series A) post maturity we don't get the favorable conversion terms promised. (It may be very bad if the new investor values the company at less than the cap).

2) If Company is acquired post maturity it's incredibly unlikely the purchase price will yield more than the 3x on the note.

3) If Company goes into default after maturity, then we have better standing for getting proceeds holding the note (debt) than shares.
Except it doesn't use a syscall for every malloc. That would be crazy. It's a conventional block allocator.
I agree this is a legitimate question. How much would this add up to in 'in-kind' contributions? Have any media companies claimed in-kind contributions to the Trump Campaign or Trump Organization?
Do you really think a $300 million bug is an acceptable 'growing pain'?
> If I have a class I can't modify and that doesn't conform to protocol `Foo`, can I make it conform to that protocol?

Yes, you can.
I think imperativity vs purely functional is mostly a red herring. Lambda functions won't solve your logical mistakes.

What we really need is the ability to automatically verify the possible outcomes of a piece of logic to guarantee crucial safety properties.

That's not an intractable thing. It's possible in many cases today with simple techniques like symbolic execution.
> On nearly every metric that matters to power users software is worse.

Citation needed.
Excited about the technology and expected this news eventually, but in less of a "Bam, we did it" and more of a "Coming Dec 2017... look for new autonomous vehicles, they'll be bright orange with flashing lights".

Following-up on the "How is this legal" question below, can anyone comment on:

1. For the 'autonomous engineers/technologists':

a) Is the technology mature enough that it can be utilized without an on-board driver such that public isn't at risk?

b) Does the sensor system provide the remote "monitor" have enough situational awareness?

c) What happens if whatever up-link that the vehicle is connected to disconnects? (for example: They're using Comcast)

2. For the 'lawyers':

a) Who's responsible if someone gets hurt or the vehicle breaks a law?

b) Is an Executive Order from the Governor the ideal channel for introducing the technology to the public (versus legislative action)? [I know subjective but curious]

3. For the 'marketers':

a) Any examples of technologies prematurely introduced that had negative impact on their growth or contributed to their demise?

Note: I realize some of these are subjective but thought would make for some great discussion.
What is China's 'magic island-making' ship?
You can co further: with a SDC the kids can drive themselves to school, you can drive home after a night out and, assuming your job can be done (at least partially) behind a laptop, you can essentially have zero commute and little issue with rush-hour (even if everybody works the same hours people will arrive at stacked times because they have different distances to work) add all that up and it ends up being sensible to live a long way from your place of work, which means that cheap houses out in nowhere suddenly become a lot more attractive and appartments in the city will trade at a smaller premium.
I bet it's still safer for the cyclists than the average human-driven car, though.
Why don't we build public housing in the US anymore?
You guys pre-suppose the poor people in this town can't make up their own minds and are somehow oblivious to whats really happening. I guarantee each one of you that your opinion would be different if you lived in this town and worked for Disney. Who are we to tell these people how to vote?

What is your alternative? Pass laws to 'force' them to 'do the right thing' according to people who don't live there?
> USB and Thunderbolt (which is also carrying PCIe in some modes) and for what it's worth USB-C which can ALSO carry PCIe, in addition to DisplayPort, HDMI and whatnotelse have grown enormously complex.

Well, sure, the hardware standards required to achieve this are complex. But looked at from another angle, the software required to handle this is simpler than before.

Before, a kernel had to have, effectively, fifteen drivers for the various IO controller-hub chips in the system, and then fifteen matching subsystems to manage their respective protocol stacks (i.e. physical, link, and [for several of the standards] network layers in the OSI model.)

With consolidation, now you have maybe half as many drivers for controller-hubs (because both USB-C and Thunderbolt are managed by the same hub, etc.) and far fewer stacks, because there's only one stack per common protocol standard. Every port being "unified into" a {USB, PCIe, DisplayPort, HDMI, ...} port means that now, that set of protocols—taken together—are now where a lot of the eyes in kernel development end up. So each of these protocol stacks is being picked over far more thoroughly than before.

It's the same thing that happened when USB obsoleted all the previously-proprietary standards for OSI layers 1 and 2 over serial or parallel ports: suddenly, instead of 1500 individual implementations of those layers [either as proprietary drivers from the manufacturer, or as reverse-engineered parts of Linux] you had one, much-more-well-done OSI layer-1/2 driver for USB. There were still 1500 drivers, for whatever those devices did on top of OSI1+2 (though that number gradually decreased as common HAL driver standards for things like HID peripherals emerged), but those drivers now each had much less code and therefore much less attack surface. (And, as well, a lot of those drivers no longer "did" anything much at the hardware level, instead just packing and unpacking packets from the bus into data for a system service to hold onto, and therefore these drivers could now be more heavily sandboxed by the OS. This is ~half of why Windows XP crashed less than Windows 9x: a USB device-driver crash was, almost always, a non-fatal event.)
Well, I ask because I thought the reason you needed an airplane mode on your phones was because of radio interference with some kind of equipment... but of course they do have wifi during the flight so I think it might be related to take-off and landing procedure were interference is a problem? Or else just total BS?
I'm angry because SC2 basically sucked the oxygen out of the RTS genre for those of us who like "S" more than "RT" because now everything must be "Esport-friendly" (read: tailored to ADHD millenials).
That is extremely implausible. What fraction of them would be able to put together the $1000/month (in the scenario of extreme home buildout)?

It's only true in the trivial, unhelpful sense of "if we got housing costs down to $10/month or free, then all the people there could afford a place." But when we talk about housing costs in general and policy around it, we mean something like getting rents down from $3000/month to $1000/month (from vast expansion of building), not some artificial number that no amount of expansion would (scalably) get.

And I don't think you can really take one homeless person living at an encampment, making a self-serving statement, as a source.
Why does Google's Waymo host a blog on Medium?
The day I sold my Atari ST, I pulled it out of the stack of old computers, connected it to a monitor, hooked up a disk drive and turned it on.

Poof: Desktop with a working mouse cursor in under one second.

I booted a nearby PC, and then hit reset until it booted. In the time that the "hot shit" 386 box took to get to a DOS prompt, the ST booted about fifty times. To something with graphics.

Modern system boot times depress me. We have database servers that take 15 minutes to POST. Doing updates or diagnosing hardware-level issues with these things is g l a c i a l l y slow. I work with message queueing systems that are not shy about several seconds of latency -- what are these stupid things doing? The datacenter they're running in is less than a hundred microseconds wide, and everything is high-end XEON CPUs with SSD and more cache than the first 30 computers I used, put together.

Sigh.
This is true. For whatever reason, Weinstein was thrown under the bus, but he's not even the tip of the iceberg.

There have been a few cases of women being emboldened enough to call out a few others, but I suspect all this will blow over in a few months and the vast majority of the real abuse, harassment and other horrible behavior will go back to being swept under the rug.

Also, reading back over this I'm not sure there's enough room to shoehorn another cliche into that couple of paragraphs. :-/
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I think animations, as most program them, slow down the UI exactly as you say.

But when their timing is tight, and the whole thing happens in under, say, half a second, you get the benefits of that context association and it still feels really cool and high-tech. People jsut set their animations too slow. (Seriously, nothing should ever take longer than 500ms)
Bamboo is a formally verifiable programming language being developed for Ethereum:

https://github.com/pirapira/bamboo

The Bamboo manifest:

https://github.com/pirapira/bamboo/blob/master/doc/manifest....

There is a project under way to formalize Viper, which is the other newly developed programming language for Ethereum, as well:

https://runtimeverification.com/blog/?p=411
I work for a firm that does Ethereum audits and we would have demanded a complete restructuring of Parity's multisig and major simplification.
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Our GO CUBES chewable coffee is super popular ^_^ I personally still love a fine coffee/espresso, but what's nice about GO CUBES is they let you keep coffee in your pocket - take it anywhere, no stress no spills, etc. I end up popping a couple GO CUBES throughout the day, they are great to have around. And it's got precise 50mg caffeine + 100mg l-theanine + b vitamins, for better performance profile than normal coffee.

However today's news is much more exciting -- HVMN Ketone! It's a game changer for the sports performance world, and has v interesting implications beyond bc it affects metabolism in a fundamental way.
This is the result of population growth. Even if housing is built specifically for poorer and lower income individuals, middle class families looking for housing will inevitably trickle in causing demand and prices to rise naturally. Once again poor individuals will be on the street. The same cycle keeps occurring in cities across America. Properties designed for the poor end up getting bought by middle and upper class individuals, seen this in Washington D.C. and New york firsthand. Other than full blown capping prices that can be charged for rent, I don't see a long term solution.
Never let your kids browse the open internet without supervision. Create curated playlists that they can watch when you aren't able to devote 100% of your time to their supervision but still want to occupy their time with videos
You also can't ignore the possibility of kickbacks.
The cause of high housing prices is because of "rent-seeking" zoning density restrictions, overuse of historic landmark status, and overregulation which together cause a market inefficiency or market failure. This rent-seeking causes renters to pay additional income to landowners. These issues are part of introductory economics courses, yet writers seem to not understand them.

The fix is not spending billions of taxpayer money, rather to simply remove the laws that create the scarcity of land and market inefficiencies.

The Japanese federal government has laws that override local government to stop any land use restrictions. The result: in 2014, Tokyo has built 140,000 housing units compared with less than 90,000 in all of California and 20,000 in NYC (where I live).

It would be helpful if people who wrote these articles (eg, WaPo), would understand basic economics and the solutions to the problems that they mention.
It's an attempt to nullify the speaker rather than responding to the statement. It's become quite the thing these days.

No I am not a paid shill, try again,
Japanese zoning
What are level 4 vehicles?
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Does that jibe with your intuition? Do you think if you made minimum wage (or some other very low wage) that you'd be homeless? Or do you think you'd find a way to live in a cheaper city? And if you don't think it would happen to you, then why do you think it's happening to other mentally normal, physically capable people?
I think the question is what happens when the first accident happens caused by autonomous car. US law is not really forgiving in this regard.
I guess eventually police vehicles can just stop autonomous ones with the press of a button, so it doesn't have to rely on its "senses". Some two-way identification between the vehicles; avoid the issue of impersonators completely.
I appreciate the philosophy. Is there a live demo so we can try it out?

edit: I turned on my brain and found the link was on the homepage the whole time.
Oh please, consider the freedom of people to lock up their money and not get it back! These men{!} with guns first send a letter to an ETH autonomous corporation, then when it doesn't respond, they threaten it with guns. That's the State.

{!} Thanks to today's progressive reforms the State now also employs women with guns. We should just say people with guns to not be sexist.
Me too. That was back when Ether was at $2-3. Either the market is very irrational, or it just doesn't matter that much, and people are willing to take the risk of stuff like this happening again and again.
Ever since having an iPhone 5S (now having 7) I've never had problems of it being slippery. I suppose it's how one holds a phone? I don't know, but I've never used a case either. Why would I pay a premium price for a premium looking phone when I'm going to hide it? I take care of my stuff, just as one would take care of a Lamborghini, but when the worst happens - like dropping the phone or wrecking your lambo - there's insurance. Every expensive device these days come with insurance, which any sane person will subscribe to.
As far as we know, the ones that are committing ideological suicide are the Saudis.
Sort of! You can enter ketosis through IF and keto diet (we run WeFast, a big facebook fasting group, and I fast 36 hours every week).

What's special about HVMN Ketone is that you can get into ketosis with just a drink. And it lets you maintain carb levels at the same time, unlike keto diet & IF, which is a big plus for the sports performance gains.
Consider the bugs a workaround for laptops with a fixed battery. ;-)
Buy something with a credit card, then initiate a chargeback.
Yes - https://groups.goodoldweb.com/
Encoding backtick as unicode escape is one easy enough and "clean" way:

`foo \u0060bar\u0060`
I think the implication is that those call centers will be used less than 1% of the time.
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"One thing I found out is that you really have to write a library in Java if you want it to be used in both Java and Kotlin. Java -> Kotlin is effectively one-way interop."

Could you please explain this.
I'm not, I'm concerned with the ability to collect power and resources in a capitalist society, and how that ability grows with age.
This page is confusing because it describes itself as ECMAScript 2018 but the features it lists are those I've associated with ECMAScript 2017.

Looking at the Github repo, you can see that they changed it from 2017 to 2018 on March 31st: https://github.com/tc39/ecma262/commit/8340bf9a8427ea81bb0d1...

So what happened to 2017?
Yup, the site links to a hosted version here: https://groups.goodoldweb.com/
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The licensee we're talking about here is a corporation, not a human who feels emotions like gratitude and respect. If he wanted them to be "classy" or "nice," he should have included that as a clause in the software licenses.
This comment after the previous hack is pretty detailed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14691212
One more existing alternative: https://developers.exante.eu

It's broker company itself and they have API with EOD and realtime data on stocks and derivatives for many exchanges including US, Europe and Asia.

You can even trade with that API if you want (guess it won't for free though).
Maybe stop driving your car through coffee shops? Sounds expensive and cumbersome even without the RF interference.
I remember checking this language out a few years ago and discovering (and worrying about) the author's health issues.

The initial excitement to see it mentioned again in HN has been replaced by something akin to a kick in the balls.
The point of sale system shown in the tweetstorm is this one, and is highly recommended if you're even in an occasion where you need to sell stuff.

http://keyhut.com/pos.htm
I also do Ethereum audits, and I agree. Parity's code is way too complicated for a contract like this.
Thank you, nice concise explanation.

In an enterprise or company, when it is growing from startup to market gorilla, there are often tales of screw ups like this that happened to some poor sysadmin or programmer. And the company develops a sort of genetic memory of what not to do. Like children, companies that learn the 'dangerous' things early before they can do real harm, grow up to be less likely to do something really stupid later in their existence.

But I don't know what vector could be used to pass this sort of cultural knowledge between ethereum contract writers from generation to generation. It needs a 'book of sins' that everyone can read and contribute to in order to insure that new contracts won't suffer the problems of the early ones.
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Nothing like a good old oversimplification to brush away a proposal to improve the lives of people.

Poverty and homelessness are complex issues, especially when regional inequality gets involved. If a certain city or state is too expensive for the poor to comfortably live in, why would it be bad to send them somewhere that would be easier to live? Why could it not be part of a number of steps to tackle the problem of poverty and homelessness?
I hoped decorators[1] would make it, but seems unlikely (looks like they're still at stage 2).

[1] https://github.com/tc39/proposal-unified-class-features
You are partly correct, but I think you're overlooking some things. I agree that we realistically have to trust Intel that their CPUs will do what the code tells them to. However, in this case they're actually telling us that the ME chip has overriding control over the system, that we can't tell the chip what to do, and that they won't tell us exactly what it's doing at any time or allow inspect the code its running. That isn't the case for their CPUs. This also opens up the possibility of a third party either finding a vulnerability in the code that we don't have access too, or simply gaining access to Intel's code signing keys, and using it to attack our computers. That's possible if the code works as designed, whereas that does not apply to CPUs.
Disabling autofill seems like the wrong way to handle the problem, though. Autofill does not necessarily mean that passwords are being shared; it just means that the user isn't typing them in. Strong policies on the machines in question and ensuring that users aren't sharing each others environments seems like a considerably more complete solution to me. This can be facilitated by tools like https://www.imprivata.com/single-sign-on-sso. Ironically enough, disabling autofill may actually prevent this tool from providing some of the benefits it's intended to provide.
This kind of reeks of vaporware and that's sort of the pitch I guess. Hardware ideas are crowdfuneded all the time that are kind of lofty, but I felt like the common thinking at this point is that you really should have taken the risks to prove the thing plus show that you could potentially build it at scale before funding. There are so many ways that the funding of this project can go totally sideways (unlike the shoes!). It even feels weird to have everyone's favorite myth walrus promoting something so vapory. He's sort of known for being a stodgy, no nonsense guy in terms of tech.

This all seems tone deaf. Maybe the shoe is like tunnel vision VR before we had the oculus. The Ah-ha moment with VR was accelerometers, they at least kickstarted with a paper one you could start to use no matter what! The backpack and axe with whacky cannon fuse might satisfy some Bustin' fans, it leaves me pretty flat. The branding is horror show gawdy too. Promise me a DIY kit where I can play with the terrible shoes idea myself to really help you get there.

Jamie! Your audience for a thing like this is builders like you! Sure you can get some MB cash-in with this but if what I'm paying for is future skates, give me some ruddy future skates so at least I can break my neck with you! Get me some brushless DCs with nice aluminum hubs and some 3D printed tread parts. Release with a community edition with STL files to open up the experimentation.

Either that or just go get a bank loan like any other person and take some risks on something you believe in. I do see from the outshot why your'd prefer to risk someone else's money. It's all pretty silly. But if you don't buy it, why should we?
Vs. coding for nvidia or vs. coding for DirectX independent of card-maker?
Even if they had used RSA keys, the vulnerability here is in a particular hardware/firmware implementation of the algorithm, not in RSA itself.
Over-design perhaps, but i would say that the web is under-engineered, as engineers would find the inefficiencies and get around them.
>They posted about it on github, apparently unaware of the full impact of what they'd just done

Ref: https://github.com/paritytech/parity/issues/6995
That's not really how Solidity libraries work. They don't prevent non-delegate calls. And library functions can call selfdestruct.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/7bem7v/solidity_l...
Physical maps don't necessarily have:

- satellite imagery

- reviews for destinations

- automatic re-routing

- traffic congestion

- toll/public-transit information

- On a mobile/gps enabled device you get your location as well

- etc.

Comparing physical maps to Google Maps is one-dimensional: you can see a specific area (if you had the foresight to buy it before hand!) with roads and mile markers.