skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its even worse than that. KASLR is only a mitigation, not an architectural protection (and "breaking KASLR" does not gives you an exploit by itself, you have to find another bug), so there is absolutely no way Linus would consider that just fixing KALSR command the (somehow rushed) inclusion of this patch, moreover enabled by default...
>Also, it’s a damn internet-connected door lock with Bluetooth. Do you really need $45M and designing new mechanical systems from scratch to make it work?

If you don't intend on making just a "damn internet-connected door lock with Bluetooth", of which there are many, but a great one, then very possibly yes.
I didn't see in this article where it describes how Teller's poor reputation in the scientific community might have caused many scientists from dismissing his message.

While he was "ostracized by the scientific community for betraying his colleague J. Robert Oppenheimer" ... "he retained the embrace of industry and government."

It makes no mention of Teller's influence on how other scientists in the 1950s and 1960s viewed global warming.
One thing I would find really useful is a web tool that can scrape/ filter/ list events. E.g. in most cities, it is impossible to get a simple listing of all screenings of films in cinemas, let alone filter them by location/time/... or mash them up with tools tracking your own taste. Same for concerts, theatre, art exhibitions, ...
The problem is that this guy did not select the title for HN but for his own personal/company blog. If you visit his blog then his title makes completely sense in this context but it loses its meaning in all other contexts.
I don't think actual universal basic income is ever going to happen, in part because of the cost. The reality is that most people envision it as a replacement for welfare, not genuinely a check for everyone, including Bill Gates and other ultra rich citizens.

I think the biggest problem is that it amounts to squandering wealth, not creating more. It envisions most ordinary people as mere consumers. It's a little like saying "Our body would be healthier if we made sure to adequately feed the leeches."

Yeah, no.

We need to not actively turn people into leeches. We need to stop treating them like they can't do anything but consume. It is a terrible way to treat people and it creates a very unhealthy and unsustainable system.
>They were trying to sell a $700 custom designed lock based on its “user experience”.

And they were succeeding. That was not their problem. And the average penny pinching Joe wasn't their target at first anyway.

You'd be surprised what people buy, and how many buy it, for way more than $700. Even smartphone covers.
Wow. Well said. It's so true. If the resolutions were so important to you, you wouldn't have waited for a specific date to start.
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Did you perhaps mean to write:

> Journalism's biggest strength is its insistence on the concept of quality journalism and the idea that normal people care and especially care enough to pay for it.
Welcome to the Fishbowl, channel 44000, please do not swear.
I think it just shouldn't be so strictly enforced, and allow for an objective summary, while still enforcing rules against clickbait/editorializing. On Reddit a headline that says "USD losing steam" would be changed to "Fiat crashing hard - Bitcoin is the salvation!" which is what the HN rule wants to prevent.
The 'buried it' is addressed in the NYT link from that article, which I elsewhere pointed out references http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aa815f .

That in turn shows the strong difference between the papers and studies on climate change by Exxon-Mobil scientists, vs. what Exxon-Mobil was saying to the public, politicians, and shareholders.

"Burying" isn't quite the right word. As that link says:

> The question we have addressed in this study is not whether ExxonMobil 'suppressed climate change research,' 'withheld it,' or 'sought to hide' it, which is how ExxonMobil has glossed the allegations against it [11, 12, 135]. This is also how the allegations have occasionally been presented in the press [136]. Our assessment of ExxonMobil's peer-reviewed publications and the role of its scientists supports the conclusion that the company did not 'suppress' climate science—indeed, it contributed to it.

> However, on the question of whether ExxonMobil misled non-scientific audiences about climate science, our analysis supports the conclusion that it did. This conclusion is based on three factors: discrepancies in AGW communications between document categories; imbalance in impact of different document categories; and factual mispresentations in some advertorials.
Duplicate I'm pretty sure.
1. https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/25/bittman-is-...

2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2769828/

3. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/sep/24/why-lac...
but then why use OO? what does OO offer that this method does not? In fact one could argue that this method offers better decoupling since it separates the rendering from the game Data.
> I define startups as companies that don’t have control of their own destiny because they rely on investor cash infusions to operate.

By this definition, Microsoft wasn't a startup.
It reminds me of Juicero. The mechanism was total overkill -- it was actually very well engineered and machined as though cost was no object. They would have taken a loss selling them even at $699.

The mechanism of a deadbolt is pretty simple. Other smart lock companies do fine with simple mechanisms. The way to differentiate a product in that space is ease of use and battery life, not by needlessly over-complicating a part that the users won't see.
I don't think the place has to be that toxic. In most larger companies there is a lot of political posturing going and these strategies all can be very useful under certain circumstances. The good players are just not too blatant about it.
In the same sense of "is there anything to this SUV that I missed, or is it really a $70K car?".

Quality and reliability matter, and not all locks are made the same. If a run-of-the-mill smart lock goes for $200, and if you can even buy lightbulb systems that go for the same or more, it's not really difficult to imagine a $700 smart lock if it's advanced enough.

Especially since most of those $200 smart locks are usually utter crap.

Heck, people pay way $500 (and way more) for plain old secure doors. Why does everyone assume such a project should target average Joes at first?
I've recently read their previous post, now this one and I really enjoyed reading both of them. I appreciate their practical approach and solving their issues with minimal changes.

On the other hand, I am disappointed that this change goes into upstream Python instead of properly solving the problem by making reference count implementation really CoW friendly so that all applications would benefit from it without the need for a careful use of a special function.
It's still surprising. What kind of tech do they have that's fundamentally different? Do they have better batteries or radios?
https://coinreport.net/canadian-altacoin-atc/

already was a altacoin?
Wow, they really said “addictive.” Maybe this acquisition fell through because the acquirer finally came to their senses.
The interviewer gave the OP a simple question that could be answered within a short time to gauge how well they understood OO design, and OP specifically implemented it in a way to frustrate them. So again, whose the idiot?

If OP wanted to crush the question, they could quickly answer it by saying this is how you could implement using classes and inheritance, now let me explain why OO is a poor solution for this specific problem, and what kind of problem sets OO design is most useful in.
> And they were succeeding.

Were they? Source? How big was their beta? What was their revenue? Beta users will bias toward early adopters, and often not represent the mainstream market necessary to make a company profitable.

EDIT: I just read that they had ZERO revenue. So they certainly weren't succeeding.
Say you want to quit smoking. If you do it with a weekly resolution, you can basically give up any moment and start over next week. So there is little motivation to keep your goal. Monthly resolutions are a bit better, but still wouldn't work for smoking. Yearly resolutions seem to work best.
No, counter intelligence tools in EVE are a closely guarded commodity. The automatic ones I've seen leave a lot to be desired. There's one group that I'm nearly certain is running one that works well but I don't have evidence to back it up.

One group decided that writing an automatic transposition program was too hard, and instead manually create transpositions for major posts. You can find the writeup here: http://failheap-challenge.com/showthread.php?16311-Taking-th...
I describe both journalism and reporting. Reporting is (plane went down) journalism is all the perspectives put around it to create a story that is more than the simple generic observation.
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>Our signed agreement restricted our ability to solicit other bids or fundraise and targeted a close on December 11th, 2017.
It is hard for me to understand the logic of doing that at the end of your runway, without a backup plan and without agreeing on a compensation in case the deal falls through. Unless you are deliberately trying to crash the company and blame someone else for it.

So looking more into this, is it just me, or it looks outrageously inefficient to raise $45m and have ~40 employees spend 4 years to release a product that is basically an IoT door lock? Both the mechanical and the electronic parts are based on commodity components, so I can imagine a well-motivated team of 5 delivering something like this in a year and being able to offer it at a much lower price.

So was making a competitive product ever a priority here, or have the founders discovered a different way to benefit from the over-optimistic tech investment climate?
I'm in a similar boat as OP, every thing you say is true and I've tried selling myself that way, but in the end when you're trying to break out of that industry and work for a startup or different kind of company not all of them can appreciate that type of work. I've gotten rejected many times with the feedback that I was great but other people interviewing for the same position has more relevant experience.
Wow.

Anyone not caring to watch the whole thing but thinking of the "the" Rainbow Road shortcut, fast forward to 23:45.
This discussion goes into more detail about commonalities and differences between the two:

https://github.com/census-instrumentation/opencensus-java/is...

The use case of non-request metrics is the biggest difference to me. While it's great to track e.g. resource usage for each incoming request, there are also workloads that don't fit that mold. Think of a garbage collecting background worker: either you use a separate API to push the data or you make up bogus GC RPCs to attach metrics to their traces.
I enjoy my smart lock for the peace of mind it gives knowing that I didn’t forget to lock the door, and never having to go down 2 or 3 flights of stairs at night to fix it. I wouldn’t pay $700 for that, but I would pay $200ish for that plus the other things they do.
Totally agree. Cloud makes tons of sense if your workload is really dynamic. Lots of small players are running static workloads though because actually setting up dynamic workloads is pretty complex.

I use GCE for DNS, Storage, CDN (for fronting storage backed files), dynamic workloads that can run on preemptible instances, and scalable instances to serve published static content, but I use dedicated servers for databases, elasticsearch, redis, and application servers fronting those things.
No,

"Journalism is the production and distribution of reports on the interaction of events, facts, ideas, and people that are the "news of the day" and that impacts society to at least some degree. The word applies to the occupation (professional or not), the methods of gathering information, and the organizing literary styles. Journalistic media include: print, television, radio, Internet, and, in the past, newsreels."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journalism
My complete answer is in several parts, based on the different threads which existed before I started.

This part of the thread was to focus on the incorrect reading by ChuckMcM.

I followed up on the "what [ChuckMcM] was trying to say" (I assume the 'he' refers to ChuckMcM and not Teller) at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16048733 , which was posted about 5 minutes before you posted your criticism.

I do not believe that a single wall of text would be a better way to get my points across.
That would make sense! Seems like an early book draft.
OP here, thanks for all the great comments and anecdotes.

While nobody disagrees that this kind of culture would be worth striving for, the majority's opinion seems to be that it is impossible to achieve.

But we all share the desire for living/working in an environment like this and this gives me hope! Anybody who start the discussion in their team or company about the way they interact, will quickly and most certainly find allies and can grow a team of change agents from that.

Everyone culture was already mentioned and I would also recommend books like Unboss https://coderbyheart.com/unboss-a-compendium-for-future-orga... or Joy, Inc. https://coderbyheart.com/joy-inc/
> Don’t all pieces have a location?

Make a table containing locations for each piece.

> Aren’t all pieces movable?

Make a function ("procedure") that moves a piece (e.g. edits the location table).

> Might we want to display pieces?

Make a render function (e.g. gets a piece type and a position)

> Do we want to journal them to files to save game state, or their moves to streams to play remotely?

Write serialization and deserialization routines (again, procedures that get piece type and position).

No need to cram that in to some idea of piece "class". That only glues things together that don't belong together. OO is pretty much crap.
I've never seen dang or other editors take action against any title expansion/clarification that was intellectually honest in its nature.

When authors or site editors choose titles for their presumed audience, they aren't necessarily considering clarity for deep-linking external sites like HN.
But they are two different things. Not synonyms. The issue is, they are being used as synonyms. It's so bad it's Orwellian.
> CEO and investment team ignored the negative aspects of the $700 lock and didn’t see that the competition would be able to provide the same features (and more) at less than 1/2 the price.

If Ben realized this, he should have never worked at this company in the first place. It sounds like it was a failure of a product strategy.
You are disagreeing with yourself and agreeing with me.
For anyone interested in astronomy who would like to try their hand at some small projects using real data, the SDSS website has some guides to help you through a few projects here:

http://skyserver.sdss.org/dr14/en/proj/projhome.aspx

Some of the advanced projects are to make an HR diagram, classify stellar spectra, and calculate the redshift of quasars. Of course, all the data is public so the guides are just a start --- you can keep going in any interesting direction. It doesn't take long to get to the point where you're doing real research.

It's pretty cool that thanks to this project anyone with an Internet connection can reproduce fundamental astronomical results for themselves.
Managing large memory objects, shared or not, is a very commmon problem with garbage-collected languages. The solution of “hiding” the region from the GC has been around for quite some time for languages such as Java, C#, and even OCaml. That being said, it’s a very enjoyable little write up.
That’s why I asked a question instead of just saying the price was dumb. Did I, in fact, miss some aspect of this thing that makes it worth $700? If so I’d like to know specifics, not guesses.

I’m not assuming anything, I’m wondering what makes it so much more expensive than other products in this space, since the article (and the “Introdicing Otto” article I also found) don’t explain it at all.
Won't the fact you need to only replace some parts with well-defined interfaces help?

In my company, we had a legacy PHP system that seemed to me excessively layered and cut too thinly. In reality, it allowed to completely replace that system with Python and Java piecemeal, without ever stopping it.
A cheater claiming to not be a cheater. That's ground breaking.
maybe it has to do with CR3 register?
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10138835/

Edit: switched to link without AD cancer
Modern IQ ranges for various occupations
My experience casually observing how most people in coffee shops, even developers, leave their laptops unlocked as they go use the bathroom, or ask a random stranger to watch it for them, is that security in general is not as high of a concern for many as it should be.
How would take the guns out of circulation already? There are millions of them out there and a whole tribe of diehards who will never give them up, and on top of this an entire industry around it -- the amount of people that die from this problem isn't worth the political capital and sustained decision maker attention needed to push this through compared to everything else that could be done using the same limited bandwidth.
They are part of the same continuum.

Journalism is the production and distribution of reports on the interaction of events, facts, ideas, and people that are the "news of the day" and that impacts society to at least some degree. The word applies to the occupation (professional or not), the methods of gathering information, and the organizing literary styles. Journalistic media include: print, television, radio, Internet, and, in the past, newsreels.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journalism
Rather than the size of the community, I'd really prefer if we had more distributed and decentralized communities.

The pendulum has swung markedly from distributed to centralized communities in the last decade. Would be nice if it finally swung back somewhat in the other direction.

I'm feeling a bit nostalgic for the internet of the early 2000s.
This smells way off. Solid companies don’t fold and close up shop overnight because one acquisition deal falls though. Sounds like company leadership trying to take attention away from their own mismanagement.
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Why do we always declare war on things we know we can’t possibly beat? Drugs... rats... terror... might as well declare war on entropy and human nature. Rats will be here long after we’re gone, and until then we’ll never be far from them; such is life.
> planned for first revenue in just four weeks

Not "so close".
Pretty obvious what agenda this is trying to push, but I found it entertaining nonetheless.
Pick one your ideas. Start meeting people who are already working on something similar. Start meeting potential customers. Just talking to people in the same space and potential clients will change your idea or help it grow. Then start working on it. Build anything. Don’t try to be perfect in version 1. But plan for long term perfection instead over multiple iterations. Be proud of what you create. Whatever that may be
There are many cases where a virtual lock beats a physical one. Most of them involve scenarios where the main occupant is absent, but needs to give access remotely; for example, let's say I went on vacation, then realized I left one of the windows of my apartment open. Not everyone has access to trustworthy people (friendly neighbours, friends, relatives, colleagues) who are also guaranteed to be around and willing to show up on short notice. Involving the landlord might be a no-go, too.

When I travel and let friends or family stay in my NYC apartment, I leave them the keys in an envelope at a nearby 24/7 supermarket. It's not ideal. Key concierge services exist, but are not super practical either.
We are both long-time German residents. What kind of records do you need?
They might have succeeded to make it work: https://cyber.wtf/2017/07/28/negative-result-reading-kernel-...
They could have split retail from wholesale. So the wholesale company would have owned the local loop, but consumers couldn't directly buy from them, they'd be able to choose between retail resellers. Which is basically the current NBN model anyway.
All shared Google Photos are open to the public
Apple likely to buy Netflix, say analysts
No, they would not. Unless you ask them at gunpoint (or threaten with jail, that's the same for me) they will not, it does not make sense after you lived in communism for a lot of time to go back that route.
Perl 5 and Mojolicious.

People knock perl for being outdated, but it's an amazingly productive language, and Mojolicious is as modern a web framework as anyone could hope for. It just gets out of the way and lets you do what you want with less boilerplate.
For example, when I listen to my doctor, do you think I'm only evaluating the merit of the medical reasoning? Are doctors in the habit or routine of providing their medical reasoning?

That might not be the best example given the number of medical mistakes made, and the general success rate of an initial diagnosis. If anything the ability of patients to question the medical reasoning of their doctor has been shown to actually improve outcomes. On a personal level I question my doctor like I’m interrogating him, and I’ve rarely found that to be anything but useful. Are used to have on deficiency anemi that might not be the best example given the number of medical mistakes made, and the general success rate of initial diagnosis. If anything the ability of patients to question the medical reason of their doctor has been shown to actually improve outcomes. On a personal level I question my doctor like I’m interrogating him, and I’ve rarely found that to be anything but useful.
Agreed, but I think the author implies that scientists didn't trust Teller and therefore weren't listening to him. It's an interesting claim. I have no idea if it's true.
Firefox is pretty slow on my phone and sometimes when I try to search something, nothing happens. I want to like it, but chrome is just a lot smoother :'(

I do love how Google tries to "downgrade" its experience on Firefox mobile, but all it really does is cut out all the javascript and material design bullshit.
It is almost as if this article is generated by an algorithm, the way it reads like 'artistic bullshit bingo'. Even if it is not of algorithmic origin it would not be hard to generate a similar article which is.
Serious question: how would "author's death plus 10 years" work for companies?
They took preorders.
Sam Altman is currently running a small-scale BI pilot program in Oakland, if that qualifies.

This is less “solving a problem” than it is an experiment at this time, of course.
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So what letters should be used to name the USSR? SSSR or (Cyrillic) CCCP?

Should the Greek alphabet be removed? Why have delta when d is just as good?
It often is.
I don't know either, but as the article was about Teller's influence (or lack thereof) on the oil industry, I don't think we can draw a conclusion about his influence on the scientific understanding of global warming.
> It's also started to seep out into the other boards, which is something of a problem to be solved

Pretty much why I left. /pol/ is good to follow during important events like elections but in general the toxicity is unbearable... and the rest of 4chan culture has been suffering lately as well.