skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read a really interesting article on this in my undergraduate software engineering course (an excerpt from Tufte's excellent "Visual Explanations" book dealing with the shuttle Challenger mishap).

The main takeaway was not that it was malicious management, but rather that the _way the information was portrayed_ (slides) did a remarkably poor job of showing the relationship between temperature and booster failure. No one showed management a graph of, _"Here's a chart of failures vs temperature, and this is how cold is is today ..."_

Looking at the memos and slides that were presented up the chain, it's not very surprising that the correlation between temperature and failure was lost on its way up the bureaucracy.
I generally agree.
Here in the USA I believe it's called co-housing. I have some friends who live in such neighborhoods and they love it.

More here: http://www.cohousing.org/
Same here. I know of Plan 9, but have no idea what this grid thing is.

I, however, just went on to the old project's page[0] and found this:

> Q: What is the /9/grid?

> A: A project begun by users of 4chan's technolo/g/y board to setup a free, decentralized grid computing network, available to users of any OS. By integrating Plan 9 based networking technologies (via Plan 9, Inferno, 9vx, or others) with our usual OSes, we can create transparent networks of whatever content and services we want. Note that there are several different projects using the term 9grid, the resources here are only a small portion of the world of Plan 9 + Inferno based distributed systems.

[0] http://www.9gridchan.org/archive/9grid_FAQ
Control the API, control the platform.

Control the platform, control the market around the platform.

Sure it's 'open', but at the same time, heavily subject to the authority of the owners.

See also the systemd/gnome impact to linux ecosystem..

posix in general keeps unices and unix likes (including linux here) more open than other systems since the API is less fluid / under the influence of a single group..

this phenomenon won't occur here.
Plan 9 is an amazing, inspirational, and futuristic operating system from the past: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs

One of the things that Plan 9 can do is seamlessly treat remote resources as if they were local. From what I can tell, this is a remote grid that you can connect a local Plan 9 instance to.
Yeah, no. Again, you're arguing for the "freedom" to scam people. Not gonna happen.

And you don't live in isolation; you are not an island. Those people that get scammed? They're not going to do so in isolation. That's going to have a ripple effect on the rest of society.
Fuschia uses a BSD style license whereas the Linux kernel is GPL. Google or hardware vendors can modify the Fuschia code without sharing the changes with the public, for better or worse.
You were paying the rate your insurance provider negotiated out of pocket. Again, all the pricing of healthcare is written up as if it were coming out of the health insurance company's pockets instead of yours.

In the midst of your one single incident, no, you would not have been able to negotiate the price of your vicodin. However, two things would change. First, they would not have offered you the vicodin without clearly informing you of the price if the norm was people paying out of pocket for most care. Second, if they charged $1k for vicodin but the urgent care down the street only charged $500, then basically no one is going to the first location. Rinse, repeat, until the prices are rational. So the cumulative effect of everyone paying out of their own pocket for most care is market-wide lower negotiated prices.
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Did someone say pascal?
> the morning, and at night if you like/can afford.

If you have an instapot or yogurt maker, for $2.5, you can make a gallon of yogurt which lasts me about 1-2 weeks. I started my culture with a tub of Activia that my sister left in the fridge ~ a year ago.

Kimchi is also cheap to make yourself, although it does take a bit more prep.
Haskell without the theory
What kind of hardware is this that makes it usable for encoding/decoding mpeg2/h264/h265? Is this something that should be exposed as a general programming target instead of a set of video specific APIs?
This project looks like a port of that project but with cleaner PHP and CSS.

Demo links for both:

SpyCss: https://spycss.hcbogdan.com/

Crooked Style Sheets: http://crookedss.bplaced.net/
contents: https://www.vacationlabs.com/haskell/index.html
How Meltdown and Spectre affected the open-source community
Your body is not a sack. There are different structures, with different oxygenation levels in them. Anaerobic bacteria do especially well in mucous-rich areas - the mouth, the gut, and the female genital tract.
As far as I can tell, it's services provided over Plan9's '9P' protocol. The 'grid' word makes me think there's some level of decentralization involved, though it's somewhat unclear exactly how much.

I find it amusing and somewhat strange how many of the modern-day Plan 9 enthusiasts come from 4chan's /g/ board, this project included. Maybe it takes a certain level of eccentricity to value the elegance over most measures of practicality. Either way, I fully support it.
It could be argued that they are correct.

For extremely small values of "correct". It's apples-to-oranges; I have to pay taxes, one way or another. I don't have to shop at Tesco.
True, at least in theory. It's at the price of higher transaction costs for everything you do outside your city (or the surrounding region, at best). Whether that's a win or not depends on your perspective, I suppose.
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Apologies if I'm wrong here, but I don't believe any of the major ruby test frameworks use refinements at all. Since they are lexically scoped they end up being too verbose to be useful for this purpose. In other words, you would need to have a series of `using MyRefiningModule` statements in every single test file.

Perhaps you were thinking of rspec's changes in the last few years. They have been moving away from monkeypatching with some changes to their syntax. Previously they defined `Object#should` and handled assertions using syntax like `my_var.should eq(1)`. The new approach, which does not use refinements, is to handle assertions using a wrapper method that works like `expect(my_var).to eq(1)`. No refinements necessary for that though.
> I have heard reports (but cannot confirm them obviously) that machine learning techniques are already creating trading strategies that exploit weaknesses in other trading system algorithms.

This is true, but does not require machine learning.
It's a joke that will go nowhere though.
Difference isn't really that tremendous. Better breath, less plaque, but really marginal.
Our brains are funny things and there are lots of ways to hack them to make the world a more enjoyable place.

A related idea: https://signalvnoise.com/posts/1244-defining-the-problem-of-...

I would put these solutions into the same category: accommodating the way the brain works to create an overall more pleasant experience.

You may choose to call it deception, but you probably don't want to live in the world where no one does anything along these lines.
Well... as an anecdote, I was worried my shortness of breath, numbness, inability to perform endurance sports, and anemia was due to thalassemia -- the most common genetic polymorphism worldwide, and especially prevalent in those of indian ancestry. I asked a doctor to test and told them my symptoms. Instead of being offered a relatively cheap blood test, i was sent for an EKG, told to take extra iron (very very dangerous for those of us with thalassemia), and sent to a cardiologist for a cardiac workup.

I ended up seeing a 'naturopath' and asked for the test and I have both alpha thalassemia minor and beta thalassemia minor, which explains all my symptoms.

As another anecdote, I went to a physical exam with no complaints. The doctor palpated my testicles and said I was fine. About 10 hours later, I get a call saying I have testicular cancer and need an ultrasound, which I did the next day. My testicles are fine; to this day, I have no idea why I was sent for this test.
I can vote – why can't I pull on a sparkly dress?
Yep that's about it. I can't really tell the difference beyond a little better breath and a little less plaque.
Credit cards and crypto currency never really mixed well anyway. If you sell crypto currency for a credit card payment you take a huge risk because the buyer can reverse the transaction but you can't. This typically means that (for credit card payments) the markup is unreasonably high or the seller is running some kind of scam.
I'm not very familiar with restrictions on credit card purchases - are there other high-risk purchases that are routinely blocked on credit cards?

I understand the stated reasoning, but if this is the first such restriction (again, I don't know if it is), it's a pretty remarkable deviation relative to most credit card policies, i.e. we will happily finance whatever ridiculous decisions you choose to make. I wonder if they are seeing spiking default rates?
CentOS is only community supported, so that is ok. I am not suggesting customizing kernels.
the entire model of credit cards is so rife with fraud that they don't want to handle cryto purchases. sad.
Some of us are intrigued but can't pay a visit to the lab in person. I would love to see some videos that illustrate what you're describing and better understand how they would eventually synthesize into real life productivity
You're confusing emergency care with non-elective care. Just because something isn't an ER visit doesn't mean you don't need to get treated for it immediately. E.g. the flu.

> I'd be interested in any citations you could provide that shows that system-wide preventative care is dwarfed by the system-wide costs of major incidents for the elderly.

95% of healthcare spend is reactive, 5% is preventative[0]
Medical spending in the last three years before death accounts for 13.4 percent of aggregate US medical spending.[1] And this ignores major treatments for people over 65 that occur more than 3 years before they die (and on average, people live 20+ years after they turn 65.)

[0] http://www.newsweek.com/health-prevention-worth-money-86075

[1] https://meps.ahrq.gov/data_files/publications/st429/stat429....
The real truth about Amazon
Show HN: TrueUX prototype, create mockups using text commands
http://trueuxapp.pythonanywhere.com

Do you create wireframes (mockups) and think you can type faster than you can click? Than this tool might be for you.

Add and update blocks with text commands. Enter a name (max 6 chars) and enter the room where you can play around. No account required.

Love to get feedback. Do you think this direction has potential? What commands and features would you like to see?

Some background information can be found in these articles:
https://medium.com/proof-of-concept
Transactions with rollbacks on Redis Cluster
Hello everyone, I'm the author of Redis in Action, as well as a few other things, and I've recently hit some milestones on my own fork of Redis that provides distributed transactions with rollbacks in Redis Cluster. Any key, any (master) shard, any operation, as long as the cluster is consistent.

I've got a 2.5 minute video with a quick demo showing it in action, at least for a couple simple operations. Please let me know what you think.

Thank you,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mN4UWogHJA
Bitcoin is less about technology, more about psychology
I'm saying that all crypto teams contain software engineers, not that all software engineers are cryptocurrency maniacs.

You also may want to reevaluate your initial thoughts on what representations of value can do for each of these use cases.

A quick example: A secure means of sharing information and value across devices is a building block for the internet of things. How would such a standard exist and how would the value distribution become agreed upon?

There are many crypto currencies in the space

edit: removed coin reference, really not trying to convince anyone to buy anything, just re-evaluate prejudices
Ah, this is too bad.

I successfully churned about 60K credit card points at the end of last year. (Buy $X + fees and sell when it covered the fees/principal)
Not 100% on this, but I don't think you can use a cc to buy lotto tickets.
It's a mild, nonspecific stand-in for whatever it is that you really don't want people knowing. Whether that's your weird fetish or your embarrassing hobby or the fact that you worked as a pianist in a brothel or whatever.
> Because it's an easy indicator of someone who has no idea what they're doing in OS development.

From appearances, the lead "someone" on at least the kernel appears to be Travis Geiselbrecht, who worked at the OS and/or kernel level on BeOS, the Danger Hiptop (Sidekick) OS, his own NewOS (now the basis for HaikuOS), and an embedded OS at Jawbone before joining Google and starting work on LK, which is being used as the basis for Zircon and the Android bootloader.

So I think maybe you mean

> Because it's an easy indicator of someone who does not have the same opinions about OS development than I do.

...because, y'know, that's fine! But "this guy obviously has no idea what he's doing?" Gonna agree to disagree there.
So it looks like the Helm Chart lives here:

https://github.com/istio/istio/tree/master/install/kubernete...

The release notes (and several Github issues) indicate this chart isn't working for this latest release.

Would be great to see a working Helm Chart as a requirement for further releases.
> It shows his bias, which is a clear conflict of interest

If a police officer is investigating you for committing a crime, they don’t recuse themselves because they think you’re guilty. That’s why they’re investigating you.
See also "old and bitter".
I’m guessing a shitload of people maxed out their cards and bought coins at $20k and tried to initiate charge backs.
All depends on the location. That'd cost a few million in NY or SF but 200k near a lot of US metro areas.
As you can see from the documented reverse-engineering of the hardware here:

http://linux-sunxi.org/VE_Register_guide

the device is generally single-function for each codec, with the decoding pipeline implemented in actual hardware. Unless you were able to express your kernel as a data transform used in a common video codec and express your I/O data as pixels, you're unlikely to accelerate a general purpose task this way.
The sweet refrain sung by those "independents" who "aren't republicans" until the voting booth curtains are closed safely behind them. I wonder if you'll remember this disingenuous moment when you pull the lever for a straight GOP ticket for the nth time in your life come November. Probably not.
Yeah, I certainly won't argue that there are huge cultural problems that will impede any person's ability to make sound personal finance decisions. And those cultural problems are magnified for someone like an NFL player. But I still think it's important to have rational discussions where were acknowledge that we could choose to live a different way. We could choose to think about money differently.
Sure, thats why he let some of his products be produced by political prisoners in states like the GDR. Please excuse, my sarcasm but this man was not the good guy, even if he wanted to make everyone believe that.
Even the most stringent and controlled economies can prevent crashes. Thats not what the SEC does as a purpose or as a result. Let alone in this space.

Bitcoin is entering another stage now where its resistance to this will be tested, hard.
Have you ever had an undiagnosable condition? A car is a human invention, so fixing it is easy. Moreover, if it can't be fixed, the solution of buying another car is an option. The same is not true with your body.
Ah sorry, my bad. I thought that since i asked about SDL bindings i got recommendations for SDL bindings ;)
Purchasing high volumes of gift cards or other cash equivalents will often get you shut down. Do this too much with Chase and you'll end up blacklisted.
Depends on the State. In Oklahoma, it wasn't allowed. In California, you can.
From the article:

"Do you see any other opportunities for savings? Can you help us crop the Bionic Beaver images any further? Is there something that we've culled, that you see as problematic? We're interested in your feedback"
"Regulators and bureaucrats" deny people healthcare now; they just work for profit-seeking entities rather than being public servants at least nominally committed to the public good.

The example of an automobile doesn't seem apt. Are you going to trade in Grandma for a new one when the treatments prescribed get too expensive and they can't figure out what's wrong with her?
This seems like more of a condemnation of cryptocurrency than credit cards.
its because of fraud. with crypto once you have the coin there is no equivalent of a chargeback. if you use a stolen credit card to buy something you have to have somewhere to ship it, therefore they can find the thief. with cryptocurrencies they just have to take a loss and open a new card. this is why credit/debit cards security model is absolute shit and should be illegal.
Gambling often has restrictions - it may be forbidden entirely, or processed as a "cash advance".

Porn sites have a really hard time finding payment processors, due to the high rates of chargebacks.
Ask HN: Malwaremonger’s moral bind
I have found a zero-day cross-platform exploit that is nasty (as in make-the-nightly-news nasty). Mitnick doesn’t want it. Zerodium doesn’t want it. Apple and Microsoft don’t even want to hear about it without my agreeing to give them exclusive rights to it (even to the exclusion of each other), before they even look at it.

What’s the right and moral thing to do next? Apple and Microsoft are making friendly (if half-hearted and half-assed) overtures to researchers with one hand while behind them are corporate lawyers preemptively giving all researchers the finger. These lawyers strike me as the very same bullies who took your lunch money in school, and ready to do it again.

Is there any path forward that involves the right people taking the exploit seriously and perhaps a reasonable bounty for my trouble? Or am I doomed to bury it, sell it on some darknet market to “tha NSA” or dump a guide on github?
This has pretty much always been the case.

The only difference here is that they're explicitly saying it's banned.
Don’t get too big, or you get Nationalized if the govt thinks they have too much control on the people
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oh alright then.
> A backwards compatibility switch to override the change would have been the least.

They changed so much in the code base which broke compatibility with the old system that they would have pretty much had to do a hard fork and include both Firefox versions into the download in order to provide this; pretty much doubling maintenance cost as well.

On the flip side, they do now actually have an actual extension API, abstracting away from that code base, making it much more unlikely that such a breakage will be necessary in the future, and it especially also prevents those frequent smaller breakages that were commonplace with every new Firefox release up until 57.
I recall a letter to Science from the mid 70s, rebutting The Limits to Growth. I have tried to find it more-or-less lately, with no luck. As I recall, its author argued that the Earth could support well over 10^8 people in Trantor style. He assumed unlimited energy from fusion, and substantial food synthesis. Only humans, pets, crops, livestock, and requisite insects and microorganisms would survive. The planetary surface would support a building ~16 km high. At that height, the surface would be in thermal equilibrium at ~1500°C.

But hey, if that were doable, why not just build space habitat's?
less moving parts means less to consider for risks and bugs.
and all the other reasons people say small, like faster to load, upload, distribute into container models
> overall more pleasant experience

It is far more pleasing to understand what is going on and be able to measure its progress then to be shown a series of arbitrary shapes and symbols that happen to push one's happy buttons.

Stop pandering to your users' mercurial, unpredictable, and manipulable feelings, and start using your software to teach their brains how it all works.

Plus, then I don't finish the interaction with, "well, what else have they deceived me on?"
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Sure, but also far from the most expensive house in Lausanne.
I don't blame them in the slightest for this. The "immutable" (for lack of a better term) nature of many cryptocurrencies means that any purchases made on credit can't be easily taken back.

And I'm pretty sure it's always been "technically not allowed" to buy another currency with credit cards (or it's technically allowed, but treated as a "cash advance")
really? you can't rely on others good will, your money should be cryptographically secure and require you to send it instead of anyone with a number being able to pull your money. its like having an API with no login or password on it.

I totally agree with your previous comments on the EFF and peoples right to privacy and secure data. Shouldn't this extend to their money as well?
The WaPo article only makes a glancing reference to the fact that they look like Levallois tools, which require a more complex manufacture than simple knapping (including imagining the internal structure).

Here's a bit more discussion: https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/31/16955858/stone-tools-atti...
It's a DSP firmware turned into silicon. If you look at for example the VP8 decoder registers for a Rockchip VPU here:

https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/8118991/

You can see it's quite specific to the primitives the codec needs. If you want general purpose, we now have Vulkan for that.

(And this one is reasonably low-level. On some like the Raspberry Pi, you throw bitstream over the wall to a coprocessor which gives you YUV back)
I understand WeChat to be effectively an application platform. It runs messaging, payments, delivery tracking, and many more mini programs, and runs on devices that are relatively old and underpowered by US standards.

How is this architected? Is there a platform/app separation, or just a pile of spaghetti, or something in between?