skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it's just Kodak trying to ride the free money wave of cryptocurrency speculation.

Our company made a massive push last year for developers to be "using blockchain technology, now." No real direction as to what exactly needs to be solved with it, just that we need to be seen using it.

This was before several months before the whole Long Island Blockchain fiasco. Apparently, last year, "block chain experts" were meeting with CEOs of major companies and explaining to them that the blockchain is going to change the world and they need to start using the tech, lest they be forgotten.

Low-and-behold, six months later, there's a massive influx of companies announcing blockchain technologies (that don't make any sense). Makes me wish I asked who these "experts" were when I was told about it.
Following this discussion, I've started to study this: https://oyc.yale.edu/physics/phys-200
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FOD is a big deal and can cause a lot of damage. Flight areas are very carefully kept clear of any debris.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_object_damage
Agreed, it's rare, but does happen:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/child-s-disap...
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This person is also accused, not found guilty (from the link, and no quick Google turning up a conviction).

It does very rarely happen. But even of the subset of events that aren't totally fabricated, many turn out to be more innocent than they are made out to be.

People getting their worldview from these sources are going to be unnecessarily worrisome about such things, which is really the point of the grandparent.
I don't think it's wise to compare software development with other creative production. Software can provide a quantitative value through functionality to its users. Copyleft software often makes sense because it becomes possible to create a community of users that also support the project, making it cheaper and functionally superior for everyone.

Media is a much different story, and transforming creators into beggars (as suggested) is not a solution. At that point, creators are competing with their ability to beg, and not their ability to create. Any person with a reasonable amount of self-respect and pride in their work would not tolerate that kind of existence.
They will, and the article addresses that (edit: see EFF article at the bottom for in-depth explanation), but they won't have the copyright to "Steamboat Willie" anymore, which is as it should be.

Disney itself benefited greatly from the Grimm Brothers and other fairy tales, they should let new generations benefit from theirs.

Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Disney_animated_films_...

and, most importantly:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/01/well-probably-never-fr...
The main benefit of blockchain is that it is trustless and censorship-resistant. You don't need to trust any business entities. You can transact with someone in a zero trust environment on the other side of the world
Why does every company need a coin now? Bitcoin is the standard.
From what little the OP has said about her company I am willing to take a wild guess that she does indeed work for a large coproration (lip service paid to diversity, incompetent people hired to demonstrate it)- where you can expect this sort of thing to be very common.

I don't know about corporate America in particular, but corporate anything is a big pile of useless dipped in incompetent, where all the work is done by contractors who are also useless and incompetent. Because there is noone in the damn org that knows how to hire a competent techie in the first place.

So for me the OP's experience is more simply explained by working for an organisation that doesn't know how to hire engineers, not anything to do with diversity drives.
isn't this the main problem with digital currencies? it's easy to make one
No not at all. In my opinion Capitalism is working just as intended -- we have newer families (Gates, Bezos, Zucks etc) that are now dominating the older ones (Carnegies, Rockefellers, Waltons). This is all in a span of less than 100 years.
You're overestimating how much of Kodak is actually a viable business. Most of their revenue still comes out of their "Print Systems" (!) division. KODK's latest 10-K is filled with albatross risk statements like "The ability to generate positive operating cash flows will be necessary for Kodak to continue to operate its business."
The Pokémon game is fun but yes, I’ve heard a lot of screaming over it :)
Yeah that's really the only thing I can fault them on here. They really should have given some advanced notice that they would be changing how they calculate the averages.

Especially since they have a widely used API that many people use, and I'm assuming some trading bots as well.
Thank You. Using just Eclipse, Java and OpenGL.
Who would be so stupid to buy one of these?
This is the kind of local patriotic covered knowledge only tought in bars by down-trodden elderly individuals after the third beer has vannished behind the beard.
Exactly, scalability is a moving target. You can't expect to match VISA transactions the first day
such government inspectors reports are judged by the thickness. 180 pages is just too thin, even after they padded it with poop "findings".
I'll try to explain the small snippet from the paper. The exploit uses a Flush+Reload attack to use the cache as a side channel to leak memory read in speculative execution. They use a 256 * 4096 byte memory region to leak a 1 byte value from any location mapped to the process. 4096 is the page size and is used to make sure the caching doesn't create false positives. Data across two pages are not cached apparently.

Here's the example from the paper.

1: ; rcx = kernel address
2: ; rbx = probe array
3: retry:
4: mov al, byte [rcx] ; Read kernel memory(1 byte) into AL which is the least significant byte of RAX
5: shl rax, 0xc ; Multiply the collected value by 4096
6: jz retry ; Retry in case of zero to reduce noise
7: mov rbx, qword [rbx + rax] ; Access memory based on the value read on line 4
8: ; Note: The read on line 4 is illegal, but the CPU speculatively executes line 5-7 before this triggers a fault.

The receiving code then trys to access each of these 256 memory locations and measure the time taken. For one of them the value will be much lower since that memory is cached and thus that location is the value read. So if you read the value 84 on line 4 when you access the value at 344064dec(0x54000)in your memory it will be faster and you can deduce the read value was 84.

So in pseudo code the attack is

start = 0xFFEE // No idea if this is a reasonable start location
result = []
offset = 0
page_size = 4096
probe_array = malloc(256 * page_size)

loop {
flush_caches(probe_array)
read_and_prepare_cache(start + offset * 8, probe_array) // The above assembly
result.push(determine_read_value(probe_array))
offset += 1
}

There's an extra detail here about recovering from the illegal memory access in a quick way that I've skipped.

To answer the parents question I believe this only uses a single cache line(64 bits) since it only accesses a single value.

This is my understanding anyway, happy to be corrected
Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_(programming_language)
I think the "vanishing" strongly implies that it was never there.
From the title:

> $100B in Market Value

When the market price of an assets drops, it loses market value.
Looks like Intel SGX is at least vulnerable to Spectre attacks too: https://github.com/lsds/spectre-attack-sgx
Fundraising: Ethereum ICOs
Store of Value: Bitcoin
Loans: SALT
....

This is just the beginning
Faulty iPhone battery sparks Zurich Apple store evacuation
Even if everybody drives as little as possible - and with the cost of driving leisure driving is not quite as prevalent as it once used to be - there will still be substantial risk. That risk can be decomposed into a number of factors:

- mixing different kinds of traffic

- the existence of different kinds of traffic

- speed differences between the various kinds of traffic

- situational elements such as poor visibility

- not adapting to circumstance

- breaking the law

and so on.

Where I live cycling is common, we have a cycling culture. Almost nobody wears helmets. Even so, people drive quite a bit too, and the cyclist of one moment is the driver of the next. Accidents - while not as common as in the states - can and do happen. And just like we are not going ban children from traffic we are not going to get anywhere by demanding we ban cars or cyclists. That is just this side of silly and will not get us anywhere. Improvements are made because of reasonable argument, not by shrilly demanding society stops working to comply with one´s personal demands.
A weird one about myself: Renting a boat at $500/day feels wasteful, but buying a boat for $40,000 doesn't. But I'd have to use that boat for 80 days to get my money back (not counting upkeep, storage, and so on). I probably wouldn't use it that much, not even in two decades.
OP isn't asking for "forgiveness" though. He seems to be arguing that a simple technicality (adsense and youtube being separate revenue mechanisms) should make it impossible for Google to enforce its existing fraud bans.

A straightforward requirement for forgiveness, even after a decade, should be at least a little bit of contrition, no?
> Certainly our ancestral parents felt the loss, but not nearly so keenly

Having recently read a few accounts of early European settlers in New Zealand, nothing about their accounts would make me think that they felt the loss less keenly. New Zealand was colonised by Europeans relatively recently but older accounts of loss don’t make me think any loss was somehow less either.

I’d agree that the loss was less unexpected.

Unsure how you would measure this effect though.
I don't know much about Jonathan Haidt but in fact in the 3rd link there (youtube) Haidt does reference actual studies. See around 6min20s.

I don't think Haidt is some sort of evil troll, are you sure you've really listened to him?
I thought they were making this "competitive" with other kinds of tile roofs. Going up against asphalt shingles is pretty ambitious.
We were talking specifically about protocols like TCP, IP, DNS or even P2P. It was nearly impossible to monetize protocol level work before cryptocurrencies
> That's not a problem if the creators were paid to make the movie.

Where do you think the money to pay the creators comes from? Movies, games, and most other modern forms of mass art are incredibly expensive to produce. If the content creators can't recoup their expenses, they produce less of the content.
You’re right of course, I just mentioned India because the parent poster was asking about the instant mob justice approach that sometimes occurs there in serious traffic collisions.
Easiest short opportunity of the year.
Prepare for the blockchain gold rush
Why is it "begging" if, say, a screenwriter does it; but it's "customer aquisition" (or equivalent) for everyone else on the planet?
Arguing about the definition of words can be sort of silly but I guess the last thing I'll say here is that, from a travelers perspective, Southwest, with its 19 hubs/minihubs in the US and scheduling philosophy, many cities that are not hubs look like hubs to the traveler. Take ABQ. A non-hub city for Southwest and Delta. In Southwest's system ABQ connects directly with 15 other cities. For Delta only 4(this could be a cherry pick, but it was the first one I looked at). Southwest focuses on the middle class and small business owners (no first class seating, no expensive flights to Aspen, Jackson Hole, or Sun Valley, no meals, everyone can check bags for free without being on a frequent flyer list, no fees for changing flights, etc) while all the others seem to look to make money on the first class seats and fill the rest as an after thought.

Being in the first group, I like Southwest's system better and wish another airline could try the same system for competition. Jet Blue seemed to start out that way but I have not flown them in years. A quick check of their site it seems that have baggage fees and change fees and look pretty hub centered.
Every wealthy billionaire would have committed an "original sin". For the Kennedys it was bootlegging and insider trading, for Gates, it was anti-trust violations. All Bezos is doing is slave-driving his employees -- fairly benign and unlikely to get him into trouble.
Ray: A Distributed System for AI
Excellent points. There was an article where the author interviewed a bunch of kids a few decades back and examined how they played and then revisited them 20 years later to see how their kids played.

The original group of kids played across a very large area (something like a couple square miles of woodland) and roamed across their hometowns with little oversight.

Two decades later their children by comparison were very closely monitored and played in controlled areas or fenced yards only.

The reasoning of the parents being that crime and abduction have risen when in fact they’ve fallen by a huge amount.

There’s no real sane reason behind it - I’m a parent and there’s no way I’d let my kids play in the local woods alone despite doing so myself as a kid. The world ‘feels’ less safe and it’s very hard to overcome our feelings even when we know they’re irrational.
That is exactly what happened. It is why we have the world we have. And I am fine with changing that world to a better one but the path had better be incremental and realistic or it simply will not happen. And even then there will be some risk of accident.
Overpopulation is a myth
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I shred my screwed up tax returns and anything with SSN.

I'm generally not a tin-foil hat wearer, but is it prudent to shred register receipts? Anything else?
I lost my nephew at 2, drown in a pool while being babysat, his mom was an ER nurse and on duty when he came in. Bad memories all around. It effected me pretty profoundly when it happened, but I did not have children at that time, so I had no idea of the latent effects of Joey's death until my first child was born. It was both the most exciting moment and the most terrifying moment of my life. I looked at him for about 5 seconds before the memory of Joey hit me like a brick. When my youngest was born, I quit my job, took a remote contract and spent as much time as I could with the kids until they where school age. I don't know if I would have done that if it where not for the lose of my nephew. I am richer for it and have a tight bond with my children. It's a shame that such a lesson comes at such as high price.

If you have not read the story yet, don't it will stir shit up.

Most importantly I am sorry for your lose.
Did You Try to Deploy Magento Ecommerce on AWS? Azure? Or Hidora? It's Funny
I bet they'll bring the prices down sooner than later. Maybe they just want to create hype first.
> Waiting months and years for features that your site or app depends on is unacceptable.

If we do a thorough job now on extending the code-less web, I find it hard to think of sites that couldn't be realized then _and_ shouldn't be a native program in the first place.

I simply don't want a web that has place for "apps". For multiple reasons random websites shouldn't have the possibility to make the visitors system execute supplied code. Yes, some people don't agree with that, but they have usually motives for that which I cannot agree with like withholding code or control from users or tracking them. If you have a good reason why there should be apps in the browser, then I'd love to hear it, though.

The _example_ suggestion to look at existing framework is just a shortcut to not redo work, and to use already existing knowledge. If someone has an idea of what functionality should be supported we can discuss and standardize it. We had lots of technology completely independent of JavaScript. There is a lot of movement in the JavaScript ecosystem because a lot of ecosystem needs to be developed and there are big companies pushing for it, because they need it to monetize their users, but thats it. JavaScript isn't that important.
> Last week, his worst fears were proved right when Intel, one of the world’s largest chipmakers, said all modern processors can be attacked by techniques dubbed Meltdown and Spectre, exposing crucial data, such as passwords and encryption keys.

Intel was extremely lucky that Spectre was discovered at the same time as Meltdown, otherwise Intel would've been standing alone facing the industry.
http://blog.ycombinator.com/building-for-the-blockchain/

The phrase "paradigm shift" seems to be thrown around quite a bit ;)
Yes, it's open-source.
So far the main benefit is democratizing investment, as has been stated here before. I love that I can get in on early stage projects without being a well-connected angel investor. Coins are like new, sexier penny stocks.
Here's a detailed discussion on the SpaceX side: https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/7ll89f/pentagon_wat...
You can solve this by using multiple oracles and a stake-based consensus algorithm to de-incentivize malicious reporting.
This. At my company, we want a way to show investors our actual revenue numbers in an auditable manner, trustless. This is because we are extrajurisdictional and have high opsec concerns and cannot simply hire an accounting firm to give us an OK.

Hence we shall issue signed receipts to all clients and providers then setup a system to pay out a large bounty if someone can produce a signed receipt not in our weekly-published-log. We'll automate the bounty, but perhaps a third party will also offer a validator. We will not even need Postgres for it, just nginx and a filesystem.

But that is not interesting enough by itself, and mentioning digital signatures just confuses people more. So we call it a Single-Issuer-Blockchain: Now people instantly get the idea.
Local governments never benefit from such incentives so this case isn't notable.
I doubt if there is any physical newspaper doing it. I would suggest shortlisting 2-3 monthly magazines based on your interest and I believe that will do the job.
Wrong. The market value is only what you get for it when you sell it. It's a subtle but very important difference.

A good analogy is comparing the advertised price of a used car versus what you actually get for it. You might think it's worth $5k, but there's only 1 person who wants to buy it and they're only willing to pay $4k, so it's actually worth $4k, not $5k. It doesn't matter if someone else sold theirs for $5k.
Microsoft's Meltdown and Spectre security updates brick AMD machines
> The regex [ -~] lets you match those characters, whereas [^ -~] negates that and matches anything that's not a printable ASCII character

Oh dear, I think I finally understand that mysterious phenomenon in some websites where, text I write in my native language gets saved and displayed as empty text, but writing in English works. I've come across this a few times over the years, in random forgotten corners of the Internet. It could well be that this regex got written down somewhere as good security practice, and some developers out there copied it into the code without thinking about whether the ASCII restriction is applicable.
Market cap isn't as interesting as people think: https://blog.sia.tech/want-to-deflate-the-token-bubble-fix-t...
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It seems unlikely he is actually the richest. Historically many individuals have amassed pretty fabulous amounts of wealth. From some of the history I have read, Marcus Licinius Crassus or Lorenzo de' Medici seem to have had substantially more purchasing power, at least relative to the times they lived in.

For example, I do not see Bezos building anything I would compare to cathedrals.
They were irrational because if you analyzed all the coins in the top 100-200 you'll realize that it was primarily cheaply priced coins that were making the outsized gains and a lot of it can be attributed to market psychology.

It feels better to own 200 of something you don't understand than 0.00159. But at the end of the day returns are returns and it makes no difference if you have 200 of a coin or 0.00159.
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Yes, I was thinking the same thing! Only difference is that you name it KodaKKoin to grab the ticker symbol KKK. It will become the latest and hottest meme on the block.
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"The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent"
I’m very much like this.

BTW if you want to give your kids the best chance at later childhood, select their school not based on hearsay or image, but based on how resilient, motivated and kind/warm their teacher-to-be is. Those teachers keep bullying at a minimum, and let kids keep their natural curiosity. Spending 4-5h every day in class can make or break you at 6-8y old.
Part of me wants to call this Cryptowashing, but I don't know enough about modern photography. Is Kodak a brand that professionals use to shoot? Would they patent this "integration" so that others can't easily do it in various markets?
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Capitol Gains when converted to cash, in Canada.

Keep your records.
Have you seen anyone using it effectively?
> it hadn't operated at a profit in over 2 years (I believe)

And how much of that is a direct result of the fact they are competing against Chinese-made panels that are directly funded by the Chinese government?

There is literally no way you can have a discussion about ANY renewable energy without it being political. Either the US is going to protect US industry from Chinese goods being sold below-cost, or we're going to have to do the same thing to compete.
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Hey HN,

Pogo v2.0.0 is a huge overhaul when it comes to the frontend, setup and general usability of Pogo, and has been months in the making. I've posted here before but it's been in a fairly "beta" state, but with v2 I feel confident in the stability and long term usability of the application. Hopefully it stands the test of time!
Isn't the worth of any crypto-currency down to market psychology though? By that metric any price movement is irrational.
Relevant EFF explanation of what will happen:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/01/well-probably-never-fr...

In 2018, the copyright on those early Mickey cartoons will end (if Congress doesn't repeat the sins of '76 and '98, that is—and you can bet we'll be pulling out all the stops to prevent that). What happens then?

Almost nothing, if Disney and friends get their way.

title card for Steamboat Willie Those Mickey cartoons are almost certainly in the public domain anyway. In the late 1920s, copyright wasn't automatic: rightsholders had to undertake certain "formalities"—registering with the Copyright Office and displaying correctly formatted notices—and then renew those formalities periodically. Scholars who've looked into the matter make a very good case that the early Disney organization flubbed its registration, notice and renewal, and there are probably cartoons that are in the public domain today.

Which is not to say that Disney wouldn't sue you if you tried to remix them, upload them to the Internet Archive, or sell them in on a compilation DVD of other public domain cartoons from the period. They almost certainly would, and it would cost you an unthinkable sum of money to defend yourself. Emerging victorious but impoverished, you would have won a small victory.

But at that point, we expect that Disney will try to use another body of law to suppress creativity and commerce involving Mickey Mouse, whether or not "Steamboat Willie" and "Plane Crazy" are in the public domain: trademark law. If you sell something Mickeyish—including its public domain cartoons—Disney might ask a court to stop you because people who buy the
cartoons from you may think they're buying from Disney. Back to court with you!
...and the fine folks from one end of Southern Pennsylvania to the other collectively sigh as "youse" and "yinz" aren't even considered.