skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wasn't really talking about "rural house party culture"; I'll take your word on that. b^)

What I mean is, whenever I have to go to the county courthouse (entirely for civil matters!), there is a constant stream of poor men and poor women attempting to stay out of jail so they can keep their jobs, pay the costs for their previous jail stays, keep their licenses so the asshole deputies don't just park outside their place of employment at shift's end, get custody of their children back from the last time they were sent to jail...

No decent purpose is served by the unending cycle of punishment, and drunk driving laws are a cog in that infernal machine. I guess I'm glad that the drunk driving crusaders are too busy feeling superior to notice the plight of those who suffer so that they can feel good. If they did notice all the misery they cause poor families, they'd probably be even happier with themselves.
> "You're suggesting a lot of people have an irrational reason to dislike public transportation"

It's not a suggestion, it's an historical fact. I'll cite no less an authority than George Will, who in one of his more unfortunate descents into conspiratorial hackery essentially equates support for public transportation with communism:

> "The real reason for progressives’ passion for trains is their goal of diminishing Americans’ individualism in order to make them more amenable to collectivism. To progressives, the best thing about railroads is that people riding them are not in automobiles, which are subversive of the deference on which progressivism depends. Automobiles go hither and yon, wherever and whenever the driver desires, without timetables. Automobiles encourage people to think they—unsupervised, untutored, and unscripted—are masters of their fates. The automobile encourages people in delusions of adequacy, which make them resistant to government by experts who know what choices people should make."

Other conservative powers oppose public transport only to protect their own money. A good example is the Koch family, who vigorously fight any technology or activity that might threaten their fossil-fuel-fueled wealth, including public transport of all kinds. Rent-seeking may constitute a "rational" motivation on the part of the rent seeker, but many conservatives appear to align themselves with Koch-branded positions for purely ideological (and I would argue irrational) reasons.
Well although I have TSA Pre, and you should too, I can give your argument some merit.

Yes one thing I like about trains - their ONLY redeeming quality - is that if the trip says 2 hours, then it is really JUST 2 hours out of your day

Whereas with flights, if the trip says 2 hours then it is more like 4 and a half hours out of your day. Always have to consider showing up to the airport at least an hour early, always have to consider going to the edge of town, always have to consider sitting on the tarmac, etc.

I could see the utility of getting to skip all of this at a fixed price which is NEAR the normal prices. The next thing up is Jetsmarter for $10,000+
What does young/old have anything to do with this? If anything, I'd put it the other way around: I'll bet it's primarily old and conservative people (who don't know how the internet thing operates and want to police digital assets like physical ones) who push for this kind of restriction/law, while so many young people have grown up in an era where they share everything.
> You don't get it back at the other end of another transaction.

Neither does the energy exporter. They get money.
Though the abstract nature of the field often benefits from analogical representations, I think this one detracts. I don't see how our current hodgepodge list of role titles we've already borrowed from other fields (architect, developer, designer, scientist, ops, product manager, evangelist(?!), quality assurance, security specialist, chief information officer (not to mention wizards, code monkeys, Java baristas (aka the bespeckled missionaries (they don't C# for whatever reason) who walk through your neighborhood every once in a while to knock on doors with warm smiles hoping to share their beliefs on the one true Oracle and some bizarre philosophy of enterprise scale spiritual development involving complex and brittle structures and subservience to feudal and [frankly] regressive class structures that most favor a nepotistic inheritance procedure designed to chiefly empower their children and a small circle of similarly interested functionaries that seem hellbent on oppressing the rest of the system), unicorn jockeys, tech debt lawyers, and whatever you call that long-gone contractor who years ago thrust a bizarre moonscript backend into the core of your team's architecture like Excalibur waiting for an Arthur everyone hopes won't happen along because rock that asshole stuck the sword in happened to be the kingdom's cornerstone and even the slightest nudge will cause the whole system to precariously sway ...)) can be summarized with a doctor / nurse dichotomy.

Even if writing, practicing and administering software legally required a degree and license, I think this still detracts. Maybe useful once software powers organic, higher-order life forms, at which point I imagine our doctors and nurses will be entirely software driven anyway[0].

[0] http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Emergency_Medical_Hologra...
Yeah, it's amazing, the way to keep criminals out of any industry, is to make that industry legal...
"IT'S [STILL] ALIVE!"
Make it $60 and I'll take that, all the better for them to get undercut by AMD.
Yeah? Visa and MasterCard can confirm a transaction in seconds for 3¢ on the dollar. The price can swing 10% in 10 minutes—and you’re talking about two days? It’s not usable.

Lmao. Who is going to let you buy a car not knowing how much the currency you are paying with is going to be worth by the time they cash it out? Or do you just pay an extra 25% to cover the spread just incase?

The blockchain has some great uses. Decentralized currency is not one of them.

And as far as doing business with me, I really doubt you could afford me, so there’s no worries there.
People that hear about our software service always ask "hey whats to stop people from doing this illegal thing on your platform" and I say "a sternly worded Terms of Service"
and the grapevine says that they are mostly refurbs from actual mining operations that already have a new unpublicized version running.
As far as I can tell the biggest problem with Bitcoin right now is the high transaction cost, which happens because it's not worth it for miners to validate transactions unless you essentially bribe them. If mining were more lucrative on its own, this wouldn't be a problem, but the reward rate for mining is hardwired. So in this case I'd say the problem isn't caused by the market but rather by the hard-coded nature of the monetary policy and the fact that there isn't a good process to change such core matters.
When a Tech Giant Plays Waterfront Developer
do you mean color for text , or for the widgets themselves .. we do plan on creating a dark theme , as well as adding more coloring options to the widgets
Is there a significant difference between Bitcoin and Ethereum approaches?

From what I can tell Ripple expects entities to run validation nodes as a service to the public https://www.reddit.com/r/Ripple/comments/6w5vsd/validator_no... but glad to be corrected if other (stronger) incentives exist.
I think you are mistaken. If I see a comment that is objectively false, then it ought to be pointed out as such. Not doing so would make Hacker News irrelevant. How am I to object to a false statement without getting flagged? Wouldn't the comment to which I'm replying also need to be flagged, since it states an ideologically driven false statement?

Please tell me what recent comments are flamebait because I've looked at my comment history. In context, I've always been civil.
Apple is great at hardware, software, and hardware-software integration but the software is what actually sets them apart.

The proof is that the iPhone is barely differentiated from other smartphone hardware now, and it's still a far superior device.
YouTube is just distribution. It's like crediting heavy trucks for winning WW2, or crediting YCombinator News's CDN for writing this witty and insightful message.
yikes .. this is what happens when you ship ship ship ! thanks for the report
Once again, pure retardation. The blockchain is completely useless if not backed by miners and value creation, otherwise it’s just a regular distributed server.

I’m glad you’re exposing yourself in this way to me, gives me that much more confidence in you being wrong entirely and me being right. Which I already knew, but I appreciate the extra confirmation.

EDIT: HAHAHAHAHAHA just saw your other comment saying Ripple literally has more intrinsic value than Bitcoin. My GOD. MY GOD. PLEASE KILL YOURSELF IMMEDIATELY. You are absolutely done, brain is roasted my friend. Your view of the world is about as accurate as that of my 3 week pup.

Lol at that subtle jab. With your IQ/RQ I would really be surprised if you have a net worth of over $3.50.
Citizen science as a means of democratizing urban environments
What is the best DeepLearning setup (laptop and Desktop) ubuntu
The stuff on the homepage is not consumer content. That is stuff for pitch decks and Powerpoints to investors. Tell the consumer what you are offering and after digging, you guys actually seem to have a great offering.
Yes, balance is very tricky, which is why airlines utilize dynamic pricing. We are working on a model that balances supply/demand.

No minimum number of months to subscribe for.
Wasn't this basically episode 2 of season 3 of "Black Mirror"?
I guess it depends if everyone agrees on whether or not the product performs "as advertised" as not. If you have a defect that affects e.g. 1% of your users, but the government forces you to compensate 100% of your customers, that seems like an unnecessary cost.

For something like Meltdown/Spectre, the patches/workarounds reportedly barely affect some workloads, but cause drastic slowdowns for others. So already not everyone's affected to the same extent. Then you have computers with easily replaceable CPUs vs. stuff like phones and laptops which probably were only designed to work with a single CPU, and the manufacturer's already working on their next model and doesn't want to waste money building replacement parts for the previous one. At that point, maybe you have a complaint with e.g. Apple for selling you an iPhone that doesn't work as performed because they had to work around a security problem, and Apple might themselves go after Intel. The whole situation is a lot more complicated than "it should totally be covered under the warranty."
Agreed - I've flagged since it doesn't appear to exist yet.
You are right. However even sunk costs have been recovered very quickly lately. To give an idea: an S9 deployed in early November has already fully recouped its cost ($1500 in 40-60 days).
Graphics programming seems to be very interesting to me, especially after watching cool stuff like this. Can anyone point me out to good resources where I can start learning it?
What about LibreSSL?
No, the high transaction costs are because the blocks are too small. As the currency has grown in popularity the volume has increased but the blocks have not, therefore the competition to get your transaction into the block has grown and market forces means prices have increased because of it.

Mining is incredibly lucrative.
Didn't hear of the prize before, so searched for it. From the website of prize.

>>>>>The Levchin Prize was established in 2015 by internet entrepreneur, Max Levchin. The prize honors significant contributions to real-world cryptography and celebrates recent advances that have had a major impact on the practice of cryptography and its use in real-world systems. Up to two awards will be given every year and each carries a cash prize of $10,000.<<<<<

2015. That is pretty new. So, for me it's more of a publicity for the "prize" itself the the"advancement".
Do a cheap OCT scan of your eyes every year.
I meant both the widgets and the text: I tried changing the color of the widget to grey and with the default text color it was very difficult to read, but I didn't see any way to change the color of the text.

Having the option to change the theme of the entire app or dashboard would be very desirable as a feature, at least to me.
A modern goldmine needs more sophisticated equipment to extract what gold is there. It’s not a perfect analogy but I think it is very close
>> I suspect perhaps that the AI community were used to (for decades) solving _no_ problems.

Where's that coming from? There's certainly been some important advances recently, but to claim that no progress was made is strange.

Just to give one blatant example, Deep Blue defeated Kasparov in 1997; Chinook had fully solved draughts (checkers) by 2007; TD-Gammon played backgrammon consistently at world champion level by 1995; two computer programs, JACK and WBRIDGE5 won five bridge championships between 2001-2007. All of those are 10 years older than AlphaGo/Zero and each has a very long history going back to the 1950's in the case of draughts AI [1].

You probably haven't hear dabout most of them because they were not advertised by a company with the media clout of Google or Facebook, but they were important successes that solved hard problems. There are many, many more results all over the AI bibliography.

And, just to settle this once and for all- this bibliography starts a lot earlier than 2012.

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[1] All that's in "AI: A Modern Approach", 3d ed.
Samsung and LG to have Unlocked FM chips on future phones
Why Cryptocurrency Market Crash Yesterday? – Viral Docks
Equating “fair use” of a website to pirating software is a stretch. In the first case the method of access is at issue (not whether you can or not). In the second the company has not given you any _legal_ right to access.

I don’t see how affordability (or lack of it) is justification to the game.
The best C++ programmer (someone who does real magic in the machine) I know has said that they can't think in SQL. Different people have different skills and mindsets.
Lightning is like the Schroedingers Algorithm for BTC.

When people need it to be close, it's "not too far away".

At other times, "you need to remember it's still a few years away".
They did say that:

> Intel and other technology companies have been made aware of new security research describing software analysis methods that, when used for malicious purposes, have the potential to improperly gather sensitive data from computing devices that are operating as designed.

> […]

> Recent reports that these exploits are caused by a “bug” or a “flaw” and are unique to Intel products are incorrect.

(https://newsroom.intel.com/news/intel-responds-to-security-r... ; emphasis mine.)
Do you want to learn how to use graphics APIs to do cool stuff? Or create graphics API's, using cool math? Or learn CPU/GPU innards?
The only info on the readme has been copy/pasted directly from wikipedia. Surely if this is a novel implementation of the idea, the author could put in a few words to explain how/why?

EDIT: Actually, it appears the bootloader (boot/main.c) is a straight copy from https://github.com/wh5a/jos, a teaching OS from an OS programming course at MIT. Is DEOS just someone's homework?
Audio Adversarial Examples
Waiting a few days to patch my own servers... Not sure what is more dangerous right now: applying these rushed patches or the vuln itself.
If you know where the parties are held, some drone photography could achieve similar results without revealing your own identity or needing to get an invite.
The fully electric Lilium out of Germany is a far more interesting project. Without a gas engine, the noise and cost problems are greatly mitigated.

I don't know how far away it is from commercialization, but it would appear that the the proof of concept is coming along nicely.

https://lilium.com/
https://xkcd.com/385/
These are the reasons of which I am conscious:

1. There doesn't appear to be any relevancy sorting. It appears only the exact term is returned. If it’s not exact, I am not sure how to control whether or not it looks for an exact match and/or what strategy it uses to fuzzy match. Does it tokenize? Use some kind of levenstein distance algorithm?

2. The query results are hugely wasteful in terms of screen space. This means searching for a minorly common term in a large codebase is prohibitively time consuming compared to cloning + ripgrep or whatever.

3. There's no way to search file names + file content. It took me 7 years after github's creation to realize you could search for filenames if you press 't' on the repository.

4. No regex or globbing support, to my knowledge.

This is before listing all the tooling (like sourcegraph) I would hope would be built into a source code repository to assist browsing but are strangely missing--every IDE and editor out there is much faster at casually browsing code because navigation is so much cheaper and frictionless.

I mean overall it's not broken, it's just way less useful for searching a tree of code files than find/xargs/grep is, let alone ack/thesilversearcher/ripgrep. If the capabilities I'm describing are there, they're well-hidden. Github just isn't a good place to browse code.
Original ispc author here.

I have no idea how performance compares to OpenCL on CPUs today, but it was in the same ballpark a few years ago.

The big difference is that OpenCL imposes a device model which is (IMHO) ridiculous if you're running everything on the CPU. With ispc, you have:

* Ahead-of-time compilation to binary code (no driver compiler in the way, so you can look at the ASM and know that's what will run.)

* Straightforward interop with C/C++ code: it compiles to the C ABI, so going from whatever other language to ispc code is just a function call. (Similarly, ispc can call out to C code.)

* Straightforward interop with application data structures: you can (and should!) pass pointers back and forth between C/C++ code and ispc code, do computation using the same data structures, etc.

All three of those are much uglier / more painful with the device model.
You know, there is at least a dozen chatbot providers who can handle these nonstructured dialogues with multiple entry points, ESPECIALLY with pizza.

In fact, the pizza order is the No. 1 scenario looked at by the chatbot providers.
In fact, it was exactly the scenario my old startup took as a case study and the first application we built with it. It could handle the different toppings, the sizes, and more. You could submit all your requests in one move, it would be parsed and sorted into its little slots.

The problem? There is only a handful of scenarios similar to the pizza. In most cases in the real world, you have to select from an external database, look at proprietary product names, and more. Another staple of chatbot demos, plane ticketing, only works well when limited to North America (in the English word). Good luck asking for a flight to Kinshasa, Kuala Lumpur, or even Wagga Wagga in Australia.

I am not even talking about the switchboards for multiple domains, like in Alexa. These ones only work with "leaky abstraction" (making the user learn magic keywords).

Another problem is really stupid. It's the availability of the datasets. The funny thing is, ye olde style semantic frameworks fare better than the machine learning ones, because there is not enough data for the machine learning chatbot frameworks, and without it, their mighty capabilities are pretty much the proverbial spherical cow in vacuum. But because the semantic paradigm is not kosher/kewl anymore, very few enterprises agree to deploy it.

None of that matters though because the users never liked typing a lot. Back in 1980s - 1990s the adventure type computer games switched from (mostly working) command line interface to point-and-click, and very few users objected.

My take is, the key is a conversational UI with strong visual feedback. For the pizza scenario above, I would draw icons of cheese and numbers, so that the user can be sure it worked.
If any quantity about what the processor does, outside the intended effect, has a different distribution when X happens versus Y, then the distribution of that quantity is exploitable. Period.

Any nonuniform distribution in any quantity that is not part of the spec is exploitable!
Code in the wild would have access to all memory (slowly) so could eventually find the correct location.

Given that whoever writes is would also have access to the other program, they would have a lot more information on where to look in memory.
In robotic terms it's called a constrained environment.
I guess not in the traditional sense of the “export” word, but from the foreign trade balance perspective, it’s essentially an export product.
S corps aren't a company type, they're a status you can elect for tax purposes.

We didn't automate the process of making that election because we felt it was not a fit for most Atlas users. A Delaware C corporation can still elect S corp status; that's a "talk to your accountant" question.

The primary reason people seem to want S Corps is to save social security taxes by putting their salary in one small bucket and their distributions in one larger bucket. Should we spend time enabling that, when our primary goal is accelerating the number and success of viable businesses creating wealth in the world? That does not sound like it is how we should spend a month of our lives.
Beyond survivorship bias, what was publication pressure like back then? I’ve gotten the impression that things used to be slower – tied to journal or conference schedules – and the job market wasn’t as cutthroat or focused on numbers.
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I leave my machine on for weeks at a time. If something was scanning the memory even if it failed to find the location of my password 99.9% before it is erased eventually it will be lucky and get it.
Hi Oliver, congratulations on this! I have a few questions:

1) Is there a plan to be further integrated with the car eg hiding the LIDAR from plain sight?

2) On OSS, can you direct me to any OSS projects that is related to control the car ie the part from computer to the car or connecting the CANBUS.

3) What are the technical considerations, specific to Autonomous car, since you’re using OSS projects for it?
> CoffeeScript which is a language I personally _loathe_. [...] it was so inaccessible

You know JavaScript, yet CoffeeScript is inaccessible? WTF. I had never written a line of Lisp in my life before using Emacs, but that didn't stop me from writing hundreds of lines of Emacs Lisp during the first weekend that I used Emacs.

What's up with the unwillingness (or inability?) that many web developers seem to have for using more than one or two programming languages?
You can use Java/nashorn for server side rendering of react.
What about it is distributed?
I’m pretty sure the name Deos was already used for another OS.

IIRC one of the interesting properties of the original was that a single “process” could span multiple processor domains.
I use it in a later comment! I was confused about the word in context.

However, I completely missed the pun. Cheers :)