skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only true without grandfathered pricing or with actual price increases. I've paid the same price for Prime as when I first bought into it, even as additional items have been added for what I have been paying.

My example is more like:

I pay $80 for 200 channels.

2 years later I still pay $80 for 200 channels and 50 other channels that have been added.

3 years later I still pay $80 for 250 channels and 10 on-demand movies

4 years later I still pay $80 for 250 channels, 10 on-demand movies, and their new music channels
We do see recurrent point mutations as well as recurrently mutated pathways.
Machine Check Architecture Enhancements in Intel Xeon Processors [pdf]
What will you see if you X-Ray a Java application?
Looks promising. I used to use Little Snitch, but last year they decided to charge for the new version, and I uninstalled it.

Little Snitch was effective, but overly complex for the average user. I'm sure it's great for someone who configures networks on a regular basis, but as a Mac user, I just want to use my Mac. If I wanted to twiddle with security settings all day long, I'd still be on Windows.

This looks like it might be a good, simple, replacement. Hopefully as it evolves it doesn't get swamped by feature bloat.
I've consolidated most of the 12V gadgets in my office to run off my PC's power supply, through a PCIe power to barrel connector cable that was made for bitcoin mining rigs. I've replaced several wall warts with a $10 cable that can be visually inspected for safety, and I'm probably saving a few watts in the process.
AI Weekly 19 Jan 2018
If you use xray4j to scan your java application, you can see a connected graph representing control flow within your application. You can easily document and performance tune the control flow.
Great question. I used the word "to" when it is more correct to use "thru" the AP.

You need https for cert pinning, so when I mentioned cert pinning that automatically included https. The reason to pin the certificate is to ensure that the server certificate presented today is the same server certificate that was seen yesterday. Otherwise the server may be spoofed and still pass the certificate checks. This is generally mitigated via certificate pinning. See Twitter's history and implementation of such.

I am not saying to NOT use another layer on top of this, as defense in depth is always important. There are ways to get around VPN use and ways to get around cert pinning, but using both makes the attacker's job far more difficult.

Implementing cert pinning is something that needs to be done by app developers, and what you mention are definitely good first measures one should take to protect their OWN systems in a hostile environment. By themselves, though, they don't completely mitigate all threats in the threat model.
This is my biggest objection to Slack. Give me an application/container/whatever I can run on our network instead. I do not trust them with my entire company chat history stored in plaintext on the same cluster as every other company.
> I think the harm is in increasing the parties that have to know about and conform to the embargo.

FreeBSD has conformed to embargoes in the past, telling them would not harm the embargo.

> but I don't think FreeBSD really needed a huge advance warning, given what it looks like Google's criteria was for notification.

You have source for their criteria?
How does that actually work? Do you just tell the cashier during checkout that Amazon offers a better price and they give you the discount no questions asked? Or is it more involved than that?
Russian Twitter Bots Jump on #ReleaseTheMemo – Axios
I agree that genetics is an important foundation, but we shouldn’t let it overshadow the hours of training professional athletes go through and the discipline they have. Good genes or not, it still takes a lot of effort to get to where they are.
Would allowing organizations to manage their own key(s) suffice? If all of the stored data was encrypted by the users (even if it was a single key for a client organization), that would do a lot. You would have to compromise the private key(s) for the organization as well as Slacks (now useless) data.
> Who would had thought of that 25 years ago.

Maybe that's why this problem exists now, because no one had thought of it?
> If you think deep learning is such a technology (...)

I hope they don't think that. Deep learning is not suited for building a proper general AI, but that's a feature of deep learning - nothing we know about in physics / information theory says that the only possible intelligence is a neural-like black box.

> So, how will us opaque humans create such a transparent technology?

The same way we identify bugs in our own thinking - by careful application of mathematical methods. It will take time.
I always find it sort of charming and refreshing when people respond as if it was a face-to-face conversation
Those little cores get a lot more benefit out of special case instructions.
Maybe. But then why would there be more in Germany than, say, the U.K.? Or Italy?
As long as the firewall doesn't start selling produce, there shouldn't be an issue
Give it another 25, and you will have to pay a premium for things which are stand-alone, disconnected from the net. Want a car which is not navigating using cloud AI? Only the rich can afford that...
"Few orders of magnitude" huh. See how hard it is to resist throwing in your own little jab at people online? Let's both read them and reflect on how we can be better netizens.

"Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say face-to-face. Don't be snarky. Comments should get more civil and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."
Do you believe that people are equal in regards to everything or just creativity?
Do you mean that you read a text from the right to the left, and when you meet a number you jump to is leftmost digit, then read it LR, then jump agzin to its left (where there is a space) and resume reading text?
Yep, I agree. That's what I (imperfectly) meant by the lack of serious counterproposals: I'm not sure the current HSR is the best approach, but I haven't seen anyone come up with a better idea, and I'd rather have something than nothing.
Walmart doesn't include Video & Music streaming. Amazon video alone is worth it for me.
To give customers the benefit of the doubt: Some may know exactly what's going on, and enjoy making Amazon look stupid by posting those replies.
BMW's Apple CarPlay annual fee is next-level gouging
Consider it a team-building exercise? Companies waste employee time in all sorts of other ways, so why not building desks?
No. Arabic numbers are always L-R...
This is the first time I've heard of Booger McBoogerson, be sounds like the flip-side of everything he whinges about. I choose to not use his preferred proper noun.
no because what you’ve learned by trying, you can tell other people. causality is complex, and it’s path-dependent not event-dependent.
Sounds like the minimum level of automation that would work is full blown AGI + autonomous robots that could at least match humans in terms of skill and strength.
It makes United Statians question and compare their policies with other developed nations. Now, the USA has really big issue like social security, university education and militarized police etc
I've had Prime since day 1 and the price went from $75 or $79 to $100/year, so that isn't true (at least for me, in case it somehow is for you).

But in all cases, while your price for that channel hasn't increased, the market price for that channel has. Your son moves out and he can't get the package you're getting now on his own; you're an exception that doesn't have anything to do with the fact that - in general - this one service now costs that much more.
Agreed, the title should had added "We don't know but we keep searching".
How to prove a compiler correct
Is It Really Possible to Use the Internet Privately?
I've seen /, -, --, and +. Any other ones leap to mind?

I wonder if there's a complete list somewhere.
> I was in San Diego some time ago, and went for a walk to Tijuana, Mexico. I noticed a flourishing pharma business there ;-). Not only Viagra but also seemingly normal pharmaceuticals and services like dentists and doctors. They seem to have found a market there...

And many, if not most, of these medicines are fake. Especially Viagra.

If you get medicine in Mexico, you have to bring your old prescriptions and compare the two. Luck for me, my regular medicine is a cream for my psoriasis that comes in a box that I can take down there and compare the two. If the boxes look too different, I pass on it.
If someone really didn’t like amazon (Walmart) they would spend a lot of money testing products for dangerous materials and chemicals. Anyone want to bet counterfeit products and food from China has no lead or other contaminants in them? I don’t.
How long does the regular security process have to be before the 'privilege' of the express lane becomes more like the minimum requirement to travel? This is absolutely a form of control.
It seems you are really keen on government regulations. You can regulate as much as you want but if we can't build a safe bridge because we don't know the law of physics than legal considerations are pointless.
As an artist and musician, I often encourage my friends to draw something, paint something, or make some music. The reply I hear over and over again is, "oh, no, I don't have the talent" or "oh, no, I'm awful at drawing". It's like they don't realize that what they attribute to "talent" is attainable through practice and hard work. When I point that out and encourage them to just try, that it might be fun, they make some other excuse. I've come to understand that what all their excuses amount to is that they're just not interested in creating. They'd rather remain consumers.

You have to create in order to be creative. You have to practice creativity in order to be good at it. You can't just read a book, go to a seminar, or wear funny clothes and expect to suddenly be a "creative genius". It can take years to master.[1]

On the other hand, most children don't have any problem being creative. Somehow by the time we become adults we lose that, and then think we're permanently incapable.

[1] - One of my favorite videos[2] shows the artistic progression of Jonathan Hardesty. In his early work few would detect any hint of "talent", and yet after nine years of hard work, his skill rises to a truly impressive level -- at which point, if one had only seen the end result, a lot of people would call him "talented". But as you can see in the video, he was clearly not born with this "talent". He earned it. That's what it takes.

[2] - https://vimeo.com/29510470
Sure. You can take a look here to see some common issues with VPNs. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/02/26/ssl_vpns_survey/
How does Slack provide a search service if the data is encrypted by keys they do not control?
I have been taking public transportation for my commute for the past three years and I never want to go back to driving. The stress reduction of avoiding traffic is immense.
There are world religions younger than Kongō Gumi.
Maybe it's a reflection of a sort of long term, virtuous loop. Stability brings wealth, wealth reinforces the need for stability. Shocks can occur (e.g. Japan and Germany most recently) but note how quickly they're right back where they were, at least on multi-generational timescale.
So even open source projects are doing that thing where they immediately cover the page you're trying to read with an annoying spam box?
Sometimes they can be the same business in different markets and use the same trademark.

Think about how many cities have "Great Wall" Chinese restaurants.

Most people only know trademarks at a national level. In the United States, at least, each state can grant its own trademarks. I've done it in Illinois ($50/10 years), and Texas ($10/10 years).
'brew update' will fetch the newest version of Homebrew and all formulae. Upgrade will upgrade the packages. I wrote about this and refer to it when upgrading just in case. [1] It might be helpful.

[1] https://gloutnikov.com/post/control-homebrew-upgrades/
I feel like more often than not, organizations apply this logic to SaaSes that offers on-prem installations, and choose the on-prem over the hosted solution...

only to leave the installation out of date with critical vulnerabilities and missing features that the hosted installation would be on top of.
I'm not arguing that one way or the other, actually.\* I'm saying that differences in innate creativity, if any, are dwarfed by their expression or lack thereof. i.e. the biggest factor is not what you have but how you use it.

This is from experience teaching people to "think outside the box" to write better code, to create/describe better models of the real world, etc. starting with people that you would swear didn't have a creative bone in their body and watching them improve dramatically.

\* (I know I kind of did argue that, but since you're asking outright, this is what I actually believe.)
Yea but the guy that just gets things done is always completing his projects and exceeding his quarterly goals. So he keeps getting assigned all the new exciting high visibility projects. Managers and execs like him more because he's not always saying no at meetings. He gets promoted or switches jobs before his hacks break down too much. And you're the one left carefully maintaining all the projects he blazed through.
Are the Internet and Privacy Mutually Exclusive?
Live Oak Hefe is my No. 1 here (right in front of 512 Pecan Porter), and one of the finest beer I've had period. If you haven't been to the Live Oak tasting room across from the airport, it has a variety of rarer German styles as well. German immigrants settled in this part of Texas, which means there's a lot of craft breweries that give someone who drinks marzens and weisens year-round (me) great alternatives to Weihenstephaner and Spaten.

Via 313 is good, but man, nothing on the Neapolitan that Pieous makes. To bring us back onto the topic, water-barley-yeast-hops and water-flour-yeast-salt recipes say that there's longevity in simplicity. Makes one want to give up making technology, or focus on distilling it down to the essential.
That's actually egregious. I was trialing the Amazon cloud service and it rolled over to a 60$ charge without any notification. And when it renewed a 2nd year, it also didn't send a notification.

The Google method of sending a yearly notification is the idiomatic and proper way of selling a service. The Amazon way is the scumbag way because that's how they charge you without you knowing.
I think creativity comes from exposing oneself to different disciplines/topics and finding ways to connect what you learn in one domain to another. It's like the cafeteria concept employed my companies. You want cross pollination of ideas to find creative solutions.

Reading is a great way to learn new things from different domains.
Embedded in Rust: Brave new I/O
Below is a very good related article about the "intellectual dark web" consisting of academics like Peterson who are being driven out of the academy by orthodoxy and instead work through podcasts, Youtube, Patreon, etc

http://conatusnews.com/rise-intellectual-dark-web/

edit:

I made a thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16189120
Ask HN: Help me, Struggling to find job in tech
I see the news every day stock market up, economy booming, Tech is great and future is all IT, but having hard time landing a job in IT, is this just me? being Software professional over 15 years of exp including old to latest current tech stack, started with OOPS(C++) and currently doing Micro services can't find good sr position. my last job was enterprise architect affected by outsourcing companies so called managed service providers. Coming out to job market I learned that lot of things changed lately. all efforts applying through ATS/company job system is waste of time, you get call only if you know some one close to hiring manager. There are no recruiters any more in this country,all are sourced out. Most of the hiring managers are either Indians,Chinese mostly Indians who prefer to recruit their own people. I don't blame them ,I see their side as they want to work with their own. It is not different even for consulting jobs too
bit alarming, most of the hiring managers have their own secret or 3rd party companies who share few dollars (percentage of contract $) to recruit person thru them so the hiring manager makes money on every recruit. now you are tasked to find that preferred firm to apply other wise you do not get job. when I immigrated to this country 15 years ago, its quite transparent, not even heard of any things close to these sort of. Did we became greedy and corrupt in a decade?

any one got similar experience or its just me, I thought this is great place to ask the question to get some insight. Thanks for reading thru the story. Having a family to feed any advice, any references or link to help find next position in this world would help
Data mining against far right extremists
Did Mrs. Cringleton at least know about !! in the shell? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2983466 ;)
Identity Resolution Leader FullContact Acquires Mattermark
Robot Helpers Are Coming to the Space Station
While dark patterns make money, I choose to not engage in them because I also value trust, convenience, long term relationship and this means that I create certain experiences for my client.

Just one example where profitability is unfit to be the only criterium.
Yes we see this comment rehashed on every crypto thread on HN, why?

Because it still bears saying, especially given how many people are just looking for greater fools to hold their bag. Inevitably the replies include a barrage of whataboutism centered on “fiat currency” in an attempt to normalize or justify the cryptocurrency shitshow.
Reverse Engineering the Smiths Medical Medfusion 4000
I wasn't trying to be deceptive. I quoted silently to not be deceptive.

I was being liberal in the meaning, not intent -- silently there meant "you do not know whether `brew install foo`" will take 2 seconds or 2 minutes when you run it, and yes I think that's poor UX.
Unfortunately, what teams do religiously is the process, contrary to the manifesto. So they put a Scrum Master pin on someone, they do Sprints and burndowns. They cargo cult.

I did my first CSM course with Ken Schwaber. I did another recently with someone else. The recent course was all process. Ken's course was mostly "why".

Jeff Sutherland said there are three things that must be true for a team to be a Scrum team:

1. It must be self-governing.

2. The team members must be on the team 100%

3. The team members must stay for the duration.

With the exception of start-ups, I've seen maybe one team which met these criteria. But they all had sprints. And of course, they were all held to their commitment. Scrum is now a tool for management to death march people.

Think of all these metrics that management measures scrum teams on. Can you imagine any of these teams turning around and saying, "We're going to measure how many of your bullshit wishlist items meet the definition of an actionable story when presented in sprint planning, and how many hours are wasted?" Of course not. Management can't abide a team that meets rule 1. "I'm a manager! I must manage! What is my job if my teams are self managing?!"

Scrum, as Ken Schwaber describes it, is a fantastic way to develop product. Unfortunately, if you are in an organization that would truly let you do Scrum, then you probably don't need it. You are already qualified, experienced and empowered. If its a hundred twenty-year-olds being told to "do scrum", it probably ain't Scrum.
In an environment where non-progressives are shunned, he refrains from shunning them.

Where non-progressives are demonized, he dispels the myth that non-progressives deserve to be demonized.

And so forth -- we are en an environment where progressives are increasingly assertive and increasingly hostile to non-progressives, for whatever reason.

We can wax poetic about the quality of his zealots' character until the cows come home but it doesn't address the fact that people will always seek an icon to revolve around. The only solution to such a situation, like insurgencies in war-zones, is de-escalation and re-integration (of militant progressives and social conservatives into a cohesive society where they both achieve political representation and fairness in the eyes of the law).

Unfortunately modern-day progressives (regressives) have no interest in this and as such social conservatives will continue to gravitate towards those that they don't fully understand but nevertheless find appealing.
> at the end of the day we're both in the same place, no?

I think it depends on how you fail though. If you learn something from the experience, your odds of succeeding on the next try increase. Many goals are achieved through a succession of failures.
> There is absolutely nothing about this scheme that is better than before it was introduced. Nothing.

Under the previous scheme Luxembourg/Ireland would get a gigantic share of VAT. I guess you could argue that this money can be redirected by EU support programs to countries in need. I think that having the VAT go directly to the country closest to the buyer is a more optimal solution. Less dependence on EU welfare to know that your tax money is benefiting your community.
Scroll to the end of his blog entry. There Terry Tao gives an addendum explaining in layman's terms the meaning of their work:

"ADDED LATER: the following analogy (involving functions with just two zeroes, rather than an infinite number of zeroes) may help clarify the relation between this result and the Riemann hypothesis (and in particular why this result does not make the Riemann hypothesis any easier to prove, in fact it confirms the delicate nature of that hypothesis). ..."

Probably should have been placed at the beginning of the blog for the main content is certainly intimidating.
And you have every right not to.
The day Slack is compromised will be a fun one...

It's such a high-value target that it's almost inevitable.
Why Your IoT Device Will End in My Closet Up Collecting Dust
The "casting" advantage basically just hides bugs. Because it's often not okay to access just 16 or 8 bits of a 32 bit number; the value is being truncated and that could be a bug.

However, when the number's range is small enough, such code appears to work. Finding the bug is delayed until larger values occur, which is not until its deployed in the field or someone thinks of writing better test cases.

Anyway, if it is okay to truncate, the right thing to do (and ISO C conforming) is to access the underlying type as that type, and then cast the result, not to cast the pointer. I.e. rather than:

int x = *(int *) ptr64; // breaks on BE; not kosher with ISO C aliasing rules

this:

int x = (int) *ptr64; // works on LE and BE

We don't even need the casting operator in the second example. So it's less syntax and clearer code to do the more portable thing.

If we want the bits for that int from some other part of the wider word, we can use shifting and masking.
I used to feel this exact way, and I do still think there are more than a few of their services that are pretty paltry.

But with Prime video, not only do they have highly praised original content, they fill in gaps that Netflix and Hulu have, with content from the HBO catalog, as well as TV shows that Netflix doesn't carry.

Add to that, the shipping for me, while not perfect, any time I've done free same day shipping, it's there.

My only request would be that I would gladly trade some of my benefits (Amazon music for example, along with others) in exchange for some type of access to audible.com content.

It would be nice if you could configure these services a la carte, but I doubt that's in Amazon's financial interest.