skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a counterpoint, I do recommend installing your own Supervised MDM profile onto your iOS device. This will:

- prevent the installation of any other MDM profiles (such as a work profile)

- allow you to pair-lock your device, which will prevent any forensic tools from accessing your device (for instance if it gets taken by police or at a border crossing, even if you're forced to give up your password, they won't be able to image your device or do other scans).

iOS security researcher (now Apple employee) Jonathan Zdziarski has a blog post on it:

"Counter-Forensics: Pair-Lock Your Device with Apple’s Configurator": https://www.zdziarski.com/blog/?p=2589
This interface is incredibly hard for me to use. I'm having to do a lot of scrollbar fighting and I can't figure out how to see the nodes beyond the edge of the frame.
I recommend (by most expensive, to free):

Marshall Kirk McKusick's FreeBSD Intensive Code Walkthrough: https://www.mckusick.com/courses/advdescrip.html

Also, The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System (2nd Edition): https://www.amazon.com/Design-Implementation-FreeBSD-Operati...

Thirdly: grab a copy of FreeBSD (or OpenBSD) and (a) set it up in VirtualBox and SSH it into locally (b) use an old ThinkPad. Then grab the source code of the base system. Build and install it. And start reading code of things like usr.bin/grep/grep.c
One reason may be that the FCC is touchy about encryption.
It’s not just about the software getting updated. Most people have everything on their phone. It knows about the next appointment and can seamlessly open maps with the location. Same thing about my music.

While the native car interface is better, it will not survive as phone is my primary device. Also the car companies charge for their subpar navigation, updating those maps is another story altogether...
I've read that thermal cycles do more damage than constant running.
Yep: atoms in general move more with more heat. In solids, the energy required for movement is higher, but it still happens. The more heat available, the more energy you have to break bonds, the more diffusion (movement) you have.

I have a feeling that's not the main reason for heat failure of semiconductors though. (Not to put your comment down, it's an interesting fact and I'm glad you mentioned it.)
I wonder if Nvidia et al could short Ethereum as a hedge while expanding production.
Here’s an entire podcast of short episodes that started out dedicated to this question. They’re now branched out to answering questions about definitions in general.

https://www.theincomparable.com/robot/
Chelsea Manning is actually running for Senate, if you'd like to put your money where your mouth is: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/01/13/chelsea-manning-f...
"... ML is at least useful to humanity (sometimes), smartphones and tablets are tangible products, and price fixing can be investigated and punished."

I'm amused that you're qualifying the worthiness of a project by its usefulness to humanity. In comparison to PC gaming, to me, revolutionizing the financial world seems a lot more "useful to humanity".
Lac-Megantic trial: Workers cleared over Canada rail disaster
In terms of graphics cards? Well presumably if cryptos keep driving up demand for an extended period of time, then nVidia will just increase production. Right now they haven't increased production because they think it's a bubble.
Ask HN: Splunk vs. ELK vs. others?
I have used Splunk extensively before in a corporate banking tech job. Now with my own startup, I am wondering which path to go. ELK and some alternatives like Prometheus have gotten really better with time.

Can anyone recommend whether the cost of Splunk is worth it for a startup or it's better invest time in using open source solutions?
Another fun fact: Chips are designed to last years at full power and max temperature.
Same here. I was a partially remote employee. When my employer mandated MDM and an unworkable VPN for offsite emails I sent my work colleagues a message informing them I could no longer receive corporate email and asked them to contact me at my personal email address. Problem solved, for me. But of course it effectively lowered the company's overall email security posture.
The photographs in the Business Insider article really are worth a look.
The throughput probably isn't high enough.
A large web application that's outgrown its framework to become an application which includes a web interface is one of the better candidates for something like Flask. Since it don't try to be responsible for everything from ORM to HTTP, it actually is capable of serving as a thin web layer for existing non-web functionality. At least in theory.

Unfortunately, Flask's extension ecosystem seems to focus more on reinventing Django than supporting its unique strengths as a microframework.
I think the two killer apps for crypto are money laundering and tax evasion which are two core competencies of the Swiss economy so their moves here are not surprise.
I'd say a machine is a robot if, and only if, it demonstrates autonomy and mobility (either by locomotion of the whole apparatus, or by motion of a member thereof).

Mobility is a classifier that helps distinguish robots from computers. Autonomy differentiates robots from piloted vehicles.

Autonomy does not require inference, reasoning, or behavior choice.
Exactly. Quant funds like AQR do very little high frequency trading.
The St. Petersburg Metro was also named after Lenin. Its full Soviet-era name: the V.I. Lenin Order of Lenin Leningrad Metropoliten [1].

That's a lot of Lenin.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Petersburg_Metro
The article seems to engage in a bifurcation fallacy in suggesting that if you have company data on a personal device, then you must or ought to have MDM.

Trusting me to be able to access my work e-mail from my own equipment without the need to monitor me is perhaps the lowest baseline of trust that I expect an employer to put in me. Afterall, if they can't trust me to be responsible with such data why bother giving me access to their systems at all?*

* The exception of course is in cases where they are required to monitor data use by law, e.g. medical. But prefer working in open environments anyways...
On the other hand, you can be sure these cards have made it well past the "infant mortality" part of the bathtub curve.

In fact, military and other high-reliability applications specify "burn-in" periods where components are operated at elevated temperatures for several hundred hours --- they are effectively "used":

http://reliabilityanalytics.com/reliability_engineering_libr...
Are there any non-VR games that even push the 1080ti?

It seems like you'd need some giant 4k monitor to make it sweat.

But also Steam doesn't seem to be releasing a ton of graphics-intensive games. It seems much more cost effective to get away with a lower price and less intensive art requirements and focus on gameplay. And less graphics puts you in a safer place as far as ports to consoles and tablets/mobile (e.g. Stardew Valley).

The Vive HD upgrade will push the envelope further, but I don't think VR has great success. (Elite Dangerous in particular gets boring because it's rather easy to make a ton of credits to afford everything)
None of that makes entropy any more relevant.
In almost every office I was there was a poor ventilation. I have extremely high co2 ppm in my university labs. I try to always open windows where it possible.
Only if they've developed an ASIC that is orders of magnitude more efficient than what anyone else has - which seems unlikely given the enormous economic incentive to find more efficient hardware.
>> At most restaurants they do not manage to pick your fork off the floor before you can take 1-2 seconds to do it yourself

Where I live, local KFC can do it in 0.68 seconds. I saw it when I was 9, 25 years ago, so it is legit.
New Zealand's Rocket Lab launches first rocket into orbit from Māhia Peninsula
Heuristics in judgment and decision-making
Google is offering something like this for kids now. Guided tours around famous historical places in Cardboard: https://edu.google.com/expeditions/
According to HN, their claim to fame is.. they can get forks off the floor super fast. We are talking seconds here.
Google Voice can ring multiple phones from a single number.
I'd say a robot is "a machine capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically, especially one programmable by a computer."
Whenever I come across a post about constraint solvers, I refer back to this article for a great introduction to the domain - complete with examples and different progressive approaches - http://www.jasq.org/just-another-scala-quant/new-agey-interv...
Back during Prohibition. We didn't learn a thing from Prohibition.
Low latency is to trading is what database is to e-commerce site.
The word you are looking for is quantamental.
Unless you transit through Singapore or most any other SE Asian country, sure.
The exercises are needed only as long as you are in the process of re-learning the natural seeing habits.
This is a very thorough, detailed book on the topic. It's pretty awesome.
The author is unclear of an issue I'm not 100% sure on -- once MDM is installed is it really "no longer your phone?"

Can't you just factory reset your phone, login to your accounts and download your data again?
Go out of business after gold rush ends, because market is flooded with barely-used pickaxes being sold at a loss by failed miners.
Why is the police destroying the machinery instead of shipping it off to the city and using it? Seems like a gross waste, especially since these mines are right on the river. Besides, aren't dead robots going to only further pollute the environment?
Pretty much all software produced, ever, has been cracked. I suspect an "unlock" will appear soon.
1080TI can take heavy hits at 2560x1080 even, Battlefield 1 max settings can see 90 FPS at times. 2560x1080 @ 200hz it can't even come close to consistently with high-end games and settings. PUBG? frames are meh. Even with an overclocked card it can be rough sometimes in my experience.

Personally i'll be upgrading to the next card that trumps the 1080 ti and moving from 2560x1080 200hz (for all but CS, cs is 1280x960 @ 144 on another monitor) and going back to 1080p @ 250hz.

ultrawide is god-tier for movies and productivity work, though.
This is another way to do IoT wrong - collecting data but just displaying it.

The idea is to use CO₂ levels to control your HVAC system. The HVAC system should be able to draw fresh air from outside or recirculate air from inside, depending on CO₂ level. This is a standard option on modern HVAC systems, and there are standard sensors for it. Better systems sense temperature, CO₂, CO, humidity, and smoke. This is a huge win for rooms where the people load varies widely, such as hotel function rooms and classrooms. Such control systems save money, because, when nobody is using the room, they detect that CO₂ is low and cut down the ventilation rate. When the room fills up, the CO₂ level goes up, the fans speed up and the outside air intakes open until the CO₂ level comes down.[2] There are smart control units which manage heat, fans, vents, and air conditioning compressors. The hardware pays for itself in power consumption.

And yes, you can get this stuff Internet-enabled, although that's mostly for remote maintenance. The HVAC works just fine without connectivity.

Surprisingly, this technology is a tough sell. Except for convention hotels. They get this. They're in the competitive business of keeping large numbers of people comfortable and coming back. They have big rooms where the people load may go from zero to a thousand in minutes, and go back down an hour later. It's a huge win for them.

[1] http://www.airtesttechnologies.com/support/reference/CO2SeqO...
[2] https://buildingcontrols.honeywell.com/literature/Advanced_R...
This is why futures exist. They would sell the futures to hedge their crypto exposure.
It depends what problem you're trying to solve.

For inter-landmass traffic, my gut feel is bandwidth is the bigger concern.

The latencies we see now (as noted in TFA) are not that far from theoretical limits. I'd suggest responsiveness is best solved further up the stack -- and it's what most organisations have done / are doing.

Basically you don't want to run chatty protocols over high RTT networks, and people are slowing getting this ... but many orgs are stuck with HTTP, MAPI/MoH, SMB/CIFS consuming most of their WAN bandwidth.
I would have agreed with you about very poor SRAM scaling until very recently; it looks like 10nm/"7nm" made some decent progress there at last, though nothing like The Good Old Days when it actually scaled close to what the marketing number implied.

In any case, it is not clear to me that you need that much SRAM to greatly minimize the various side channels that Spectre uses; it's on the order of a portion of the L1D size, which is pretty minimal compared to how much SRAM there is on-chip already for the LLC.
Newer Android OSes have the concept of a "Work profile" that you can enable for this. The company's MDM goes onto the work profile, along with the approved work apps. These may be sandboxed copies of existing apps, like in the case of the google suite, where they're tied to company data and accounts.

The work profile apps and data are the only things the MDM can "see" at that point on the device.

You can also switch the profile on and off at will, which is nice for vacations.
I have a 4k monitor with two GTX 1080 in SLI and I usually don't get 60fps if I play on max settings. Annoyed by this I got another monitor at 2560x1440 @ 144hz and I can't max that out either. The games were stuff like rise of tomb raider or witcher 3.

I think 1080ti situation is similar.
It's true for video recorded by professional cameras, but if you check video recorded by most mobile phones you notice that it's wrong.

It's unfortunate that so many tools assume constant framerate, because VFR is a useful compression technique in itself --- for sequences where there's basically no change between frames (few-second black scenes, for example), the encoder can stop continually encoding "no change" and just wait until there is.
I followed this for some time, and eventually ripped out the Mazda system and replaced it with a Chinese Android system that just did what I wanted.
That's not the plan. Here's the promotional video for the Dubai project.[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fu-6IDp3Fo
I bought a Kindle Fire expressly for the purpose of BYOD for my employer's mail client and other productivity apps. It required side loading the play store to make their app store work but keeps any potential MDM from managing or resetting my phone. I feel like that's a reasonable compromise.
Disclaimer: IANAL. This is not legal advice.

Legally, as soon as a corporation exists and both parties are contributing work to it. In practice, this is very commonly bent - it's very common to find startups that aren't paying one or more cofounders, even ones that are years old.
The main reasons to pay yourself are:

1. You can be in violation of minimum wage laws otherwise.

2. Contracts require "consideration" (i.e. exchange of something of value) to be valid; there's a chance that one person could argue that their IP agreement is null and void if they aren't paid.

Both of these are civil actions, not criminal, so they require that a founder bring suit against the company to be enforced. The vast majority of the time, when things are going good you can ignore them, because no founder has an incentive to sue their company. The place where it very frequently bites founders is if one founder leaves or is forced out, or the company is hanging on by a thread and then turns things around. At that point, unpaid wages become a (potentially very serious) liability, which creates negotiating leverage for the departed founder, so they can say "Ha ha, give me lots of equity or I will sue and blow up your latest financing" and you'll have to do as they say to avoid an expensive and distracting lawsuit. Up to you how comfortable you are running this risk: in the case where everything goes well, they're not gonna sue, and in the case where everything goes to shit there's not gonna be anything worth suing, but in the middle case where things almost went to shit but you pulled through it could be worth millions.

As an aside, it helps in your mental accounting if the founders are getting paid. It's very easy to fall into the trap of "my time is free, so I will do this task myself and avoid paying this outside vendor to save the money" even if they could've done it much more efficiently than you. I've fallen into this trap very frequently, and in practice this is probably a much stronger argument for paying yourself than the legal risks.
fortunately, my employer will pay for a device. We don't have an MDM - soon we will - but to be honest I can't see allowing BYOD without MDM.
This would be great for having automated interrogation stations where one attendant could oversee 20-50 individuals. Combine DL, TTS, STT, Eulerian Video and this, we could have end to end personalized data collection.

The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping.
I just use the Outlook web portal. No MDM needed.
I really dont know how someone could read that story and think the point he was trying to make was "i'm impressed that this restaurant brought me new silverware".
Lightning Network cannot be a decentralized Bitcoin scaling solution
Yes, if you don't hear about it, you can be comfortable that it doesn't exist.
I come from an Industrial Engineering background and I really liked this quick overview of the job. The cost of robotic arms has dropped considerably in the last ~10 years. Glancing through Ebay quick, you can get tons of robotic arm models for less than $20,000. I anticipate many more processes getting automated in the next couple years especially with the rapid pace of computer vision improvements we're seeing. Like a lot of things, running a factory can look and sound easy until you get to actually doing it. Some things that can really trip up a factory:

* Improper product from upstream processes (wrong dimensions, doesn't assemble, wrong physical properties, etc).

* Unplanned downtime.

* Being behind on production goals (meaning they won't stop the machine for you to install and test your new widget that might fix everything).

* Management turning down many very useful OEM upgrades on a cost basis.

* Imbalanced production rates. The bottleneck of the factory should be the primary focus for improvements.

And for a fun fact: lubricant used in food production equipment must be safe for humans. For this reason, vegetable oil and similar products are often used.
Please don't come to DC. Traffic and transit and everything is bad enough as it is.
C++ is fairly straightforward to port across architectures, especially since most architectures today are going to be 64-bit or more.
"Sorry boss, I didn't know it was risky to download company data to my Android 4 device and also install Candie Croosh Castle that needs access to Photos, Files and Media"

It's as much about ignorance as it is about malice.
Ask HN: What are recommended tools for OLAP for event data with durations
We have a need to query on "activities" which exist over a period of time. EG Consider a user tracking their time online, if we want to track efficiency and show trends over time of working vs messing about on distracting sites, which datastores are good for this? I was looking at Druid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Druid_(open-source_data_store)
And ElasticSearch. Elasticsearch is a fulltext search first and happens to be able to do some of this but it can't really calculate things based on data. Eg if for 10 minute buckets I want to capture productivity % and then be able to also recalculate productivity % at 20 minute buckets, hour buckets, and show trends over time, I need to recalculate the productivity %. I'm wondering if there is a good set of tools for doing this. This isn't my forte so really appreciate some direction.
I've been in an ELK shop before, and will definitely be putting one up first chance I get with my new gig.
Most people don’t know how to keep their devices secure. I wouldn’t expect that from an employee unless they are a security professional.
I can't see BYOD with MDM.
With MDM, it's not YOD. You're just paying for the corporate device out of your pocket, and there's no certainty you'll ever get it back.
An Alternative to caffeinate on Leopard
Yeah, this article doesn't match my understanding either. When I went through the setup process on Android I clicked through a permissions dialog, similar to what you'd see when installing an app, that laid out what exactly the administrator would be allowed to do. To be sure, some policies effectively grant root on the device, but mine just asked for permission to disallow insecure lockscreen settings and to remotely wipe the device (needless to say, my personal data is all backed up elsewhere). This was on an older Android version; newer ones also allow device policies to be scoped to work profiles.

The article makes it sound like once you accept one of these policies the policy server can subsequently push out an update with more permissions and the user doesn't get a chance to opt out. But surely that must not be right?
I'd be surprised if there was an out-of-order CPU that didn't do speculative executions. I mean, a major benefit of OOE is to fill up the pipelines / execution units, and speculative execution is a very "obvious" way to do that.
Any open tab can detect Ethereum wallet usage if you use Metamask
I think HEIF itself is royalty-free:

https://github.com/nokiatech/heif

It's the formats you use inside of HEIF (such as H.264 and especially H.265) that can require royalty-payments, although HEIF can also contain JPEG.

Apple will probably just add AV1 support to HEIF. Apple joined the Alliance for Open Media and maybe AV1 based images will be their first AV1 application.
Why Aren't There More Smart Americans?
going through the earth is a shorter distance but unfortunately light speed is slower that way
Is it on consumption or production + transfer? If I continually consume something that I've always had, I'm not paying recurring sales tax. But if I produce something new and sell it, I am, making the GP's point more sound.
we agree. I understand why employers require MDM, but I've always had a device that is a work-only silo of apps and authorizations because control of my device is important to me.
It's a strange form of chauvinism to assert that the US is responsible not only for it's misdeeds, but also the misdeeds and deficiencies of others. By claiming that the US is more responsible for the problems of Columbia than Columbians are, you tacitly deny them agency.

I would never say the US is without corruption, but it is less corrupt than Columbia. I don't think that's a function of wealth, there are poorer countries less corrupt than the US.

However, regardless of the corruption of the US, Columbia - the government and cartels operating there, are responsible for their own misdeeds. The money comes from America - sure. So legalize the drug trade in Columbia and handle it that way, or stamp out the cartels. What's not acceptable is to allow the cartels to corrupt and corrode society and commit evil on innocent people.
Visit your PCP.
Amateur Number One by Irving Vermilya
Energy is consumed and that is why there is a cost. I'm not sure there is any such thing as "intrinsic value", but there is a cost.

Because of that cost, the larger system works, because that is how the system keeps itself honest, by making it expensive to lie.

But there are other ways to have an honest system that don't involve wasting energy, so there's no direct connection between the energy that's wasted and any value the system has.

If energy was free, silicon would be more expensive, mining difficulty would go up, and bitcoin would still "work" just like it does today.