skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not against enabling two-factor on a website that only supports login+password. I use GMail with two-factor, for example.

What I'm against is people treating "username + password + two-factor" as some high bar of security and usability, suitable even for banking systems (as some users implied before).

My point is that we should be looking at other solutions. Two-factor is a stop-gap measure.

And please don't call other comments "ridiculous". This is not the kind of community I want to participate in, and probably neither do you. Also note I'm not some crank, this is my area of research.
Also the new AWS Cloud9 allows you to install the IDE in a remote server through SSH. So you're not locked in.
If your video gets demonetized no (or much fewer) ads get shown. If ads are shown, revenue is shared between Youtube and the creator.
One would think that a new homeowner, if actually locked out of the thermostat somehow, could go to their local hardware store and pick up a cheap $30 thermostat to control the furnace.
Kernel newb w/ a question on this. When you register the device with

register_chrdev

you also have to create the file in userspace with

mknod
?
That is going to be hard to achieve.

To know how to store the data, you need to know how you will query it.

If you know how you will query it, you can say devise a way to store it in Cassandra.. which will scale up to PB.

If you just throw in a PB of data, I am not aware of ANY system that is going to let you drop ad-hoc queries at the data and get fast answers. You effectively need to load most / much of the data off disk to process it.

If you only want to store it and not query it yet.. store it off on flatfile. When you decide how you will query it, load it from the flatfile and switch writes to your new system.
Sprite_tm (Jeroen) has long been an inspiration to me. His projects are highly original and I think anyone who identifies with the hacker ethos will enjoy the projects on his website: http://spritesmods.com
Uber has a lot of Operations staff all around the world who are getting faaar less than $250K a year (even if you add everything in the kitchen sink to reach the compensation number). And by faar I mean an order of magnitude less.

Other than engineering they also have a lot of people going around mapping cities, QAing those maps etc.
The government wouldn’t actually build it, it would be built by a private company that licenses it to governments. No need to reinvent the same tech over and over.
There are people like me who actively avoid home automation too. Seeing a nest at an open house is a negative.
Easily deploy to the cloud host of your choice, for free
I quite like this[0] article on what AWS products should have been called.

[0] https://www.expeditedssl.com/aws-in-plain-english
This and that there is a hard upper limit on the amount of bitcoin available. There will be no QE of bitcoin.
Definitely this. It takes a lot of effort to burn through as much cash as Uber is and moving the needle in Lyft's favor requires a lot less effort, which is where things get dangerous for Uber.
Not permitting ads from the user's end doesn't even influence the ranking and likelihood of showing up in recommendations (as far as we know). It's just demonetization from Youtube's side that has that effect.
I'm curious, what's the difference you're seeing between those three platforms for your use case?
original white paper for more info: https://stratisplatform-my.sharepoint.com/personal/share_str...
> They use reverse burden of proof. Your money can be seized and you must explain its origin or you lose it.

Definitely something I'd like to see challenged in the court system.
If you're not wrong, please explain to me what miners are - if not a third party that receives fees.
If you think doing traditional fundraising is bad, you should try doing an ICO. Easily 5x worse.
Are you actually suggesting that because (nearly) everyone (in the first world) can buy a nice TV these days, we don't have structural inequality?

I think that is a profoundly naïve narrative.
the other two guys didn't understood you, lol.
The backend systems can be SaaS. Amazon could do it. Anyone can then buy a local franchise for that backend service in their area. Or it could be offered whitelabel.
Inside the trenches of an information war
I think the top comment for this should be about Filecoin, instead of just another uninformed comments about Bitcoin that we see here every day.

That said, one thing most people don't talk about is: I think most people think IPFS is disruptive, but I think IPFS itself is susceptible to disruption.

The main reason why IPFS is useful is because there's not an easy way to do NAT traversal therefore it's super hard for people to run their own server on their laptop or mobile devices.

IPFS introduces all kinds of technologies to get around this, but in my opinion the ability to freely set up your own server on your device is the core problem.

You don't really need a globally addressable immutable file storage, because unless you're dealing with static images, a lot of files DO change all the time, and people want to store and share files privately.

Which means, if there's a new type of technology that lets people do just that--set up their own server anywhere and make it accessible via HTTP--then I don't see why we really need IPFS. This could be done by startups or other protocols, but even by some innovative ISPs, which decide to change their business model to compete against edge nodes that capture most of the value (such as Google, Facebook, etc.)

In my opinion, the reason IPFS is so hot nowadays is because it's riding the DApps wave where people want to build Ethereum apps with IPFS as a file storage. But after playing around with it a bit I think it's much better at this point to just use Github to host your file and use Ethereum as database because the whole point of immutable apps is in the data and transactions, not in the static files.

But I would love to be corrected. If anyone actually think IPFS is essential to DApps, feel free to correct me and educate me.
How GM Bought Its Way to the Front of the Driverless-Car Pack
GM is full steam ahead on Robotaxis. Here's a PDF of the slides used during GM's investor presentation:

https://www.gm.com/content/dam/gm/events/docs/5265893-685163...

Some fun facts from the presentation:

> Cruise has 1,200 employees, up from 90 at acquisition in early 2016. (Vogt just specified only 400 are full-time at Cruise) Planning to have ~2100 by the end of 2018.

> They intend to get up to 1 million miles/month of testing in 2018.

> Their 3 simulators run 150 simulations per minute. Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt repeatedly emphasizes Cruise's high rate of improvement.

> Their test map of SF shows they're staying off the freeways, but they're pretty much everywhere else.

> Cruise is focused on an initial deployment in SF, but sees value on testing in other cities to prevent overfitting for the SF driving environment. They also test in Phoenix, and are planning to launch in NYC.

> Cruise projects It will take about 6 months to map and prepare for scaled deployment in a new city.

> They expect to get Lidar costs down to ~$300 (either per vehicle or per unit, not specified) with their recent acquisition of Solid state Lidar startup Strobe.

> Their vehicles currently have 14 cameras, 3 articulating radars, 8 regular radars, 5 lidar units, and 10 ulrasonic proximity sensors.

> They're projecting they can get the cost of an AV to under $1.00 per mile in 2025.

> They project 20-30% margins after 2025.
looks like pants and jackets of the near future will feature Faraday cage pockets - switching the tracking on/off will be as easy as just moving smartphone from regular pocket into the Faraday one.
Within emacs, I use gscholar-bibtex: https://github.com/cute-jumper/gscholar-bibtex
amazing. i can see stratis exploding really soon!
Why do you think they are not aware?

Note well: "If they were aware, they would fix it" is not a valid response. Fixing inequality is not a part of the Fed's mandate.
"...the money will get pissed away."

This is a common misconception about money. It never gets 'pissed away', it just changes hands. How fast it changes hands, and the degree to which it leaves productive assets in its wake, are the determining factors for economic health. The question is whether money spent by individuals on daily necessities would ultimately be better for the economy than money spent by high speed traders exchanging commercial paper or by a surgeon buying a second yacht. I don't know the answer to that question, but in no case is the money 'pissed away'. To paraphrase Al Gore, there is no 'away' to piss it into.
The stuff on that page is old, and I don't find it all that damning. Gibson is a character indeed, and I disagree with some of his stuff (e.g. writing security code in assembly and posting screenshots online in lieu of open source), but I wouldn't put scary quotes around the word "work" as you did.

And note I said "something like SQRL".
But I thought you said you already re-wrote it from python to c++ anyways? I was trying to point out it doesn't have to be either/or. That being said, I think the fact that you need to get access through ssh is another hurdle all together.
Sure, just curious that the videos would be monetized after the first few days. From what I've heard the first few days of a video basically makes/breaks a lot of videos as far as monetization goes.
Practice apps to build after finishing your first iOS development course
System Software Engineer
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Candidate will actively develop software and solutions as part of the Teradata Physical and Virtual Environments engineering team. The focus of the team is to deliver the Teradata suite of technologies into a variety of physical and virtual environments to expand the reach of our software. The team designs, implements, and tests software associated with these deployments as well as provides support associated with these deployments. The candidate will have responsibilities during all phases of the software development life cycle: independently analyzing and enhancing existing designs and implementations or generating new designs and implementations; defining work breakdowns, identifying tasks, and creating project schedules; generating test plans, test cases, and executing tests to validate software using “white box” and “black box” techniques; resolving software issues related to own implementation as well as related implementations; and contributing knowledge of emerging technologies and processes to enhance our Teradata solutions.

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• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related discipline
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Knowledge of C/C++, Python, and other programming and scripting languages
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• Excellent grasp of data structures and algorithms to manipulate them
• Excellent understanding of operating system concepts such as scheduling, memory management, inter-process communication, I/O, etc.
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Very nice! I only wish Google Scholar included the DOI field...
> a seller

I'm curious how many sellers. When someone quotes a dramatic increase in housing prices in a city, that's not just a single house.
We've had all of that for aeons.

The only really novel thing Bitcoin brought to the table was the consensus algorithm (which is in no way, shape, or form a complaint — it's precisely what it should be) — but that consensus algorithm only works for currencies (for a sufficiently loose definition of currency that allows for the current fees and delays). Nakamoto consensus solves the double-spend problem, but only if mining blocks gives you a reward that's denominated in the same currency as the transactions you're mining.
Probably something to do with the rent seeking problem. It’s wealth tied mostly to possessing rights to exploit valuable land, not to the labor or ingenuity of people.
The surest way to ruin a hobby is to do it for a living, and give others creative control over your gift.
Wtf Spotify? Where's Your QA Again
Trying to login on your Web Player and pressing the button "Login" with right credentials redirects me to your main page. No message lets the user know whats going on. Stop breaking things or have proper QA :D Two days ago it was this https://imgur.com/gallery/YqBHUL6
Hey I've been reading a lot of your code in libp2p. Thanks for your amazing contributions to opensource!
New Study Finds That Most Redditors Dont Actually Read the Articles They Vote On
I don't think discussing President Trump's main political opponent during the election is too large of a jump.

Are the Clintons off-limits, or do you just not want to consider the possibility that they might be up to no good?
The smallest measure in forex is called a pip. For USD it is $0.0001. Movement of price from $1 to say $0.98 is a movement of ~200 pips. This is considered huge volatility in forex. So it might look small excursions it is not a good result when compared to real world use.

and I am saying this as someone who invested in Bitshares and it's precursor Protoshares. I still hold ~100k of BTSX.

> They are a game-theoretically incentive compatible way to stabilize a currency WITHOUT a trusted monopoly producer.

This is the biggest fallacy in cryptocurrency scene. People think everything can be mathematically modeled. Absolutely not. Everyone will act rationally in a given situation. Absolutely not.

If that were the case we would solved all the problems in the world using some kind of game theory function.

Edit: Oops looks like I deleted the SNB example. Here's what happened:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-swiss-snb/swiss-draw-line...

SNB drew and held a line at 1.20 for EUR/CHF pair. No cryptocurrency can repeat that feat.
Partner can be used in lieu of spouse for an unmarried couple.
Cable service can certainly work without trust. Most of the services are fixed-price, and you can use your own equipment. There's no reason this can't be prepaid anonymously.

What the cable company usually does genuinely need is a physical location, which isn't very good for someone with hardcore anonymity needs like a criminal or a spy, but fine for those of us concerned with needless data leakage.
Offerings like Uber Pool and Lyft Line are the future of the business and depend entirely on economies of scale. Putting multiple paying passengers in the car at once and reducing driver downtime completely changes the economics, but only if there is a high density of riders and drivers.

Edit:

There are two possible stories here about Uber and Lyft's losses, and we can't tell which is right from the outside.

1. Uber and Lyft are in a price war death spiral, heavily subsidizing all rides to compete. Their only hope is for all competitors to die, so they can take over the whole market and raise prices. Then vague hopes of lowering costs with self-driving tech and take the surplus as profit. The plan doesn't seem viable, since they have no moat and they can't outspend GM and other self-driving players.

2. Uber and Lyft can actually make a profit in mature markets, but choose to subsidize rides in growing markets, on the theory that growing the market size increases the long term profit opportunity. The data we need to evaluate this idea isn't public, however Uber did a "prove it" quarter in 2016 where they turned the spigots to be profitable in the US. They are now pursuing growth in the US again, expanding to a larger territory and expanding Pool and other offerings like flat-rate passes in mature cities. Under this model, Uber could at any time decide to become profitable, but the revenue growth would stop, placing a cap on the valuation. Notably, there is no "predatory pricing" here.

With internal finances, we could easily tell whether option 2 is valid. You can bet Uber is constantly doing experiments on price elasticity of demand and knows exactly where the truth is. You can bet Softbank has seen numbers we have not. If Uber wants to IPO, I would expect them to provide additional public info, possibly pivoting to profitability again in the US. But doing a pivot like that permanently reduces the size of the opportunity, allowing Lyft to capture that new market instead, so they may be reluctant to do it large scale.
Very relevant here:
http://www.businessinsider.com/australian-fund-manager-calls...
Do people who aren't librarians use DOIs? Most citation formats don't even include it.
That's not true. You don't validate someone's opinion by honest debate with them.

My point is I don't think it's actually their opinion. You can't have honest debate with someone who's pulling your leg. It just makes you look like you can't take a joke.
I think we already have this -- it's called Corporate taxes. Nominally 35% of all of the profits of every U.S. corporation are paid to the federal government. In practice after deductions it's about 20%. His analysis of where the money comes from amounts to either diverting money from the federal budget in one way or another, or increasing taxes.

It seems to me that the real problems here are this: An increasing share of GDP is going to corporate profits, and away from wages, due to deunionization, globalization, immigration, and automation. Government policies are mostly responsible for the first three. This stagnation of wages has combined with the post war relentlessness of Madison ave, which programs us to increase our consumption, even though there is no new income to support it. The result is decreased savings and increased debt among the bottom 90%.
Have you used a Bitcoin to buy something?
Given the complexity of git commands, I cannot rule it out.
It's absolutely not HDCP since a 4k HDMI splitter is much cheaper than a 4k KVM.

My guess is that with KVMs disappearing from server racks, there isn't enough volume to get the prices we used to get.
Time to get off the Productivity Treadmill
I just tried Boostnote and I was impressed. One thing I wish it did better was to make creating new notes easier and faster, like Notational Velocity (or nvAlt). I don't like to have to choose between markdown and snippet each time. In fact, I wish I could embed code within markdown (with the power of the code highlighting that it does with snippets), then it would be a perfect note app for me. Vim keybinding also seems to work well, although I wish for customizing all keybindings (hopefully coming in future version)
You never need to use mknod yourself anymore. Based on the metadata you provide to the kernel, the kernel will create the device itself in devtmpfs, and even set appropriate baseline permissions (e.g. root-only, world-readable, world-writable). udev will then handle any additional permissions you might need, such as ACLs or groups.
I didn't write the article, but am a co-author on the paper mentioned, and wrote the browser plugin that gathered the data.

This Motherboard article made the front page of Reddit today.
Well, it's both a challenging production task (which Google is great at) and a learning from streaming data task, which Google also has some experience with e.g. news. The latter is certainly a interesting challenge, but many researchers are already working on it.
If you use this for your day job (and you don't maintain crazy hours...), you'll be running ~180 hours per month on average. That's $17.28/mo or $207.36/yr for an m5.large. You can save a few bucks with a t2.large, but I think < $20/mo is something most businesses can cover (again, assuming this is for your day job).
For anyone interested checkout UUID v1 which includes a timestamp.
So you implemented something like Windows's volume snapshots/shadow copies? (Why couldn't you use the existing feature?)

EDIT: Thanks for both replies! :)
Similarly, https://d.tube/ uses IPFS network to retrieve videos.
And I would add that in situations like this, employees should be very careful assuming that they'll get a price anything like what the most recent investors are getting.

Check out Table 2 here, down on page 45:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2955455

It uses Square as an example. The headline valuation price from their E round suggests that a share of stock was worth $15.46. But later investors can have all sorts of preferences. Common stock, though, is valued at $5.62.

As people who were here for the last bubble know, this is exacerbated when valuations dip. I know a number of people who worked their asses off for companies that got sold for hundreds of millions of dollars. But the employees saw nothing, because investors get paid first.
A formal investigation isn't unreasonable. The issue is that the investigator (Robert Mueller) has ties to President Trump's political opponents (the Clintons, through James Comey).

As far as Russia meddling in the election, I don't doubt that. What I would dispute is the usual media narrative, that Russia was responsible for releasing the emails from the DNC.
Totally. It should be in the GTM checklist for every product/feature
So the big question: Is Uber too big to fail? It looks like it will IPO at this point, it will keep finding more drivers and then cutting their wages .. it has a huge market. I refuse to use it, preferring the bus or Lyft when I absolutely have to ...

If Uber does go under within the next ten years, will we see a reemergence of people taking cabs and drivers getting paid better?
In what sense is it a straw man argument? Republicans favor spending enormous amounts of money fighting Islamic terrorists, while ignoring much more probable threats. That is not hyperbole, it is sad truth.
That one doesn't meat the (IMO ridiculous) requirements of TFA, which is 4k@60Hz
1) Yeah, the 300 million firearms in the US wouldn't be any impediment at all to an invasion C'mon. There are no barbarians at the gate.

2) Yes, there are good economic side effects that come from spending 600B on just about anything. Lifting people out of poverty a few inches couldn't possibly be less economic waste than grossly disproportionate military spending.

3) You've got a pretty novel definition of slavery.
"Easy come, easy go" is a well known phenomenon. How you get your money influences how and what you spend it on. Most lottery winners are bankrupt within 5 years (about 2/3s of them).

I know someone who got fired, got six weeks severance pay, drove to a vacation spot with a friend and blew six weeks pay in one three day weekend on sex workers and cocaine. They then moved back home because they couldn't afford their apartment anymore. Six weeks severance pay plus unemployment benefits could have bought them their ongoing independence.

I would call that pissing money away.

Edit: Changed hookers to sex workers. They were called hookers back in the day.
https://youtu.be/2u6KdHmoMbw?t=35s
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