skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can maybe save the 9$/month by replacing PostgreSQL with a more generous cloud database. Maybe Cloudant (https://www.ibm.com/cloud/cloudant/pricing) or Firestore (https://firebase.google.com/pricing/).

You should also check out the lambda services of google/azure/aws/webtask.io, maybe they are cheaper for your usage than the $7/month you are paying Heroku for the dyno.
Yup, this is absolutely my only use of twitter -- realtime events, following hashtags (which of course the native client still (probably) doesn't support, conferences, etc.
OTOH, that behavior is absolutely necessary for me!

You can use Cmd-Tab to activate an app that has no windows, in order to activate hotkeys that let you create new windows! Especially when you’re using multiple desktops, this ability is invaluable.
> So unless the attacked application uses a superuser for database access (which is a big security hole to begin with) or uses a superuser account with a weak password and allow superuser access from the outside, I don't see how this could be exploited.

It can't be exploited if the security "best practices" are used. But I've come across situations where people were using "sa" as the account for production SQL Server connections because they just didn't know any better. Things are much better in the linux/bsd world where there is generally more competence and people tend to know what they are doing.

Having said that, things are getting better. IT/developers are much more mindful of security concerns today than 10 years ago.
Do better than what? This is a technology news forum, the relevant question is how this affects the technology. People are going to talk about the potential long term trends in self-driving technology. What exactly were you expecting?
Thanks.

Is there a name for these kind of contingent exploits? If step 1 is get root/execute code, it it reduces the risk of the exploit.

Still valuable to know about, but not that much if you can execute code on a server.
> Users did not authorize the app to do any of this. You are incorrect in that assumption.

Are you saying their accounts were hacked? In what sense did they 'not authorize' this?
Yes, that's what Facebook said. And yes, people are calling it a breach because of that. Because it is.

If you pay a company for a service, and then use the service against the terms of use, putting millions of people into danger, you have created a massive data breach of unauthorized data access that has massive real-world physical consequences.

This was a data breach of the highest order.
Note that Waymo was the loudest about how they shouldn't be forced to have a steering wheel in their cars, already, and that they're also massively ramping up in Arizona, because of the nonexistent regulations. In Arizona, Waymo won't be forced to disclose statistics on disengagements, for example, which California does require they hand over.
are there any examples of anything built with this tech? successful platforms usually come with apps built with them
Magic Leap appears to be this generations Phantom Console.

Lots of promises, lots of hype, a crap ton of money poured into it... and then basically nothing of substance for years.

Eventually, when it is finally released it'll likely be very underwhelming (so far they really are just showing normal hardware for the space, so they're already there).

It's not surprising people are negative - they've given us nothing to be positive about and lots to criticize. I'm more suspicious of those who are positive about them at this point.
The world really doesn't need another "What to Avoid with CSS" list.

This list also assumes the use of a CSS pre-processor.
Twitter is indeed quite the mixed bag - I don't recommend for anyone to take the habit up but I think I'm starting to see why it's still so popular:

It can sometimes be more toxic, but I've heard it can also be really great and lead to more real-life interactions compared to Facebook if you can build some trust. The breadth and depth of talent is also much larger, because you're not limited to "friends" from your own past. Because you'll encounter more strangers directly, you're free to follow random people a lot more without expecting them to reciprocate it (compare this to the obligation of accepting friend requests on Facebook).

There's also a bigger endorphin rush when someone with many more followers acknowledges one of your replies or tweets (through a like, or even retweet) - this just never happens on Facebook, and Facebook Likes from "friends" pale significantly in comparison because everything (including reshares) blurs together. To get better at Twitter (and not end up on the losing side of debates), you really have to strive for it and learn from the quality of other well-liked replies. Usually humor goes a long way and there are often some genuinely funny and original posts on Twitter (again, because of the greater pool of talent to bump into).

As others have said, if you follow the right people your feed improves significantly but there is quite the learning curve and trial & error until you get there (I'm still working on this part). It's remains primarily a procrastination tool for me, so I don't recommend those who aren't already using Twitter a lot to try harder at getting hooked.

Breaking news of all forms happens lot faster on Twitter due to the number of journalists present as well as normal users "on the ground" (the search works really well), however I think we should ask the question of how much news we really need in our daily lives and whether it affects us / changes our lives all that much. It's pointless if we're not prepared to act on it and becomes just another form of procrastination.

After I deactivated Facebook earlier this year, I found myself focusing more on Twitter - so far that's actually been a better experience overall. But based on that, I'm thinking from this week that I should just fire up a computer game every time I feel like idly opening Twitter - it could turn out to be a more productive experiment if I can segment my time better. Replacing one habit with another slightly-better and enjoyable one always works. I need to learn to shut down the information-hungry part of my brain more often so that it can stay focused on stuff that I really do need to know (almost never news).
I worked on a project in 1993 for which we bought a SparcStation 20 with 1 GB of RAM, but we used it with 2 X-Terminals to support 3 developers. At the time we thought 1 GB of RAM was crazy! I believe the machine cost us $10K. So, I can imagine 5 years later a SS 20 with 2 GB of RAM would be considered obsolete tech, but I think $1000 would not be a bad price for it. (I see Wikipedia says the SS20 maxed out at 512 MB, but I distinctly remember having 1 GB because it seemed like such an astronomical number at the time, considering my first computer had 16K.)
People are definitely working toward it, at least.
> "they clearly don't have any problems creating a physical representation"

I watched a couple of minutes of that video and couldn't see any physical representations of the product. Can you link to the point in the video where the device is shown?
> Would you care that statistically self-driving cars have killed less people than human drivers?

I don't think there are enough data points right now to make such claim, but please correct me if I am wrong.
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"They've taken essentially a complete loss on this entire project, that I believe had upwards of 100 developers working on it at one point."

Not really, they're doing that on purpose to put everyone on Fortnite, it's a very different story.
Pony Programming Language link in the article gives a "404" error.
I don’t think it’s realistic for everybody to “have a shot at politics or being worth 70 billion dollars.”

It used to be well known that it takes generations to move up the class hierarchy but that concept seems to be lost to time. Now we see a lot of complaining that literally everyone doesn’t have access to an upper class lifestyle. I’m not sure how that would even be possible or why it would be desirable.

Not everyone will be successful. I’m highly skeptical of any philosophy that doesn’t factor that concept in.
This. And I think this is why these stats end up posted here when stuff like this happens. Because the emotionally distraught look at this situation and they're like BAN SELF DRIVING CARS! and the people posting stats are here to remind them that they're still safer than regular cars and accidents happen but we can't impede progress because of one accident here and there.
Shouldnt this actually be pretty easy? The system on the Uber, should have a massive amount of cameras, and lidar. Basicly dashcams on speed, recording multiple angles of the accident. I would assume that everything is beeing recorded, for debug/Testing purposes.
It's a bit of a simplification to call Amazon a low profit margin business -- Amazon is a lot of different businesses each with their own margin considerations. And most of Amazon's businesses we won't know the real margins they'll deliver until maturity a number of years out. There's only a few categories on Amazon (books, digital media, etc) that have already reached maturity and won't see any margin expansion over the next ten years.
Then it subsequently had its time with Firefox-OS?
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The root problem is that that there isn't enough specific new information to slow down the discussion and make it substantial. Lacking that, people recycle the generic points.
Meanwhile the story is a dramatic one, so the energy to discuss it is high. That's a double whammy: lots of energy driving the gears, but no grist to slow them down. This produces reams of commodity comments. I'm sure the story being at #1 amplifies the effect, too, so it's a triple whammy. But it doesn't make sense for the story not to be there.

When the sensational-to-informational ratio is so large, we always get this.
Thanks for the response, I'm more on the research side of things now, so I don't have a current use case, but thinking about moving back to industry, and it's something that I remember having trouble with when I was last in industry.
As a very light user of Twitter, I undoubtedly follow far fewer people than most power users, and I'm still overwhelmed by retweets of poorly threaded and displayed conversations that are wholly without context.

I've tried dipping my toe into following this F1 driver or that tech star, but it seems like the content is 100% tangents and 0% relevant to anything I might care about. I just can't get past that hump. And again, that's following very few people.
The realistic alternative isn't California-esque regulations, it's a country with poorer (more disposable) people. Arizona is a nice compromise, at least we can see what's happening.
If that's bad, what happens when the robocars get hacked?
I don't see the confusion. The claim upthread was that because "in computers" everything is "a number", nothing should be illegal.

Sharing MP3s? It's just a number.

Sending death threats? Just a number.

Directing relatives to the money drop so they may get their loved one back? Just a number.
Portal :p ?
What does everyone make of perpetual license to content agreement? Is this just so they can operate the service, or are they able to sell and use your content without cutting you in?

> Specifically, you grant Magic Leap a worldwide, irrevocable (except as set forth below), perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, royalty-free and fully sublicensable right and license to use, copy, display, store, adapt, publicly perform and distribute Your Content so that Magic Leap can operate, deliver, and improve our Services.
I just don't trust Uber and its engineers enough to trust them as a self-driving car company. Even before this incident.

Their organisation has been shown to be deceitful, their CEO to be devious. I can completely believe they would cut corners or claim safety where they know there is risk. To get to market ahead of the competition knowing that the fate of road users lay in a dice roll.

Technically they had to resort to stealing Waymo's IP to get ahead, and their self-driving cars have previously been shown to behave recklessly.

I do, tentatively, trust Waymo. I've seen enough about the resources they've put into this, the extensive testing they've done, and their safety record so far to at least give them a shot.
Their early promotional material sure implied that strongly.

They may have a cool product but they over-hyped the hell out of themselves three years ago and they don't even have physical units to demo yet. That's a massive marketing failure.
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jerf addressed this above. What you're saying isn't accurate. Doing things more quickly avoids wasting hours of life. That's a benefit. The cost is measured in hours of life of people killed and injured as a result of doing things at a chosen speed.
Whoops, fixed the timestamp in my parent comment.
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The counterargument you propose is invalid because it would be DECADES until >90% of the entire current automotive market is converted to fully autonomous. MEANING cars currently on the road either being retrofitted or completely removed from road and replaced by an AV.

So we are all in a lose-lose. I'm anticipating severe backlash from Congress this week, if not today.
The NBA started up right after WWII for anyone who cares.
Yes, absolutely, let's ostracize people who react to this situation (a machine killing some random person in a fatal beta test) with anything other than compassion and humility.

Those are not people I want in my engineering community; just impossible to trust they'd make the right calls and have the right priorities in developing cool new stuff.
I know I'm an old fogey (like half a decade older than the parent commenter!), but I never really understand what people are talking about with this stuff. Throughout my 20s and to the present day, my weekend was not organized by checking for random events on Facebook, but by talking with my friends digitally or otherwise. How that is akin to "using your friends as personal assistants" is an absolute mystery to me. It sounds more like "using your friends as friends", which seems pretty normal...
The problem goes beyond Chavez. Venezuelans have known about the issues of depending on only one export for decades. Thing is, no one was able or willing to do anything about it. Obviously the socialist doctrines that took hold of the venezuelan government weren't going to solve it, and as expected, made things much much worse.

Edit:

I think that there are two big problems with having your country depend on a single easy to obtain resource.

First, it doesn't provide incentives for society to improve its values, since the export doesn't require too much people with good values, and the consequences of failing to improve won't be felt immediately.

Second, it gives a big incentive to groups of corrupt individuals to seize power. If you control the money making machine, then you're set, you can make away with people since they're largely not part of the equation.
> "about a company that has received over $2billion in funding is pretty childish."

Based on what you know about the Magic Leap to date, if you had the money to invest would you do so?
I agree there should be a investigation.

I agree that you have to use data available to make the best decision possible.

There may be methods to account with all of the problems of comparing two different measures, but it requires a lot of explanation.

But extrapolating one measure into another is wrong without those caveats. That’s the comment I replied to. So in no situation would the method I replied to be useful for what reasonable question is asked.
I think the relevant question must be how the technology is going to affect lives.
Sadly though, this is move 3-5 years too late. WebOS was great in its day, but I can't imagine there has been a lot of R&D invested in the progress of the tools or OS.
> that was a privilege that the users authorized them to grant

Kogan was granted permission to ephemerally use, for academic purposes, the data of a quarter of a million people who authorized the access. Kogan got fifty million peoples' data (i.e. Facebook let him scrape the data of people who had not given authorization, some of whom had explicitly gone into their privacy settings to turn off the sharing of their data with third parties), kept it, and then forwarded a copy to CA.
If I was responsible for protecting privacy of data, I don't know that I would be comfortable with this method. Anonymization of data is hard, and frequently turns out to be not as anonymous as originally thought. At a high level, this sounds like they are training a ML system on your data, and then using it to generate similar data. What sort of guarantees can be given that the ML system won't simulate your data with too high of fidelity? I've seen too many image generators that output images very close to the data they were trained on. You could compare the two datasets and look for similarities, but you'd have to have good metrics of what sort of similarity was bad and what sort was good, and I could see that being tricky, in both directions.

Although, I suppose that if the data was already anonymized to the best of your ability, and then this was run on top of that, as a additional layer of protection, that might be okay.
The political momentum is building for America to import GDPR. Feels good.
> 1. Word about how bad they are to work for becomes sufficiently widespread among prospective top employees that recruiting becomes a challenge.

I'd say word about Amazon's working environment is heavily overblown. There are many people who have worked there for years on end and greatly enjoy the experience, and their reputation still allows them the pick of the litter of any Comp Sci/MBA graduates.
Not at all. You had mentioned military testing, which is safe in early stages, and I addressed that first: the testing process does follow through into live environments. Where things can go wrong.

But no, medical testing doesn't kill tens of thousands, practiced medicine does. I may have read your post wrong an figured you meant medicine in practice separately from military testing. There's research to suggest mistakes are the third leading cause of death in the US [1]. My point wasn't so much that killing random bystanders is okay, but that there's a level of unintended death in both, and not just in testing. Society decides what's acceptable, and if for miles driven the number of deaths that self driving vehicles cause is lower than the number of deaths caused by human drivers per miles driven, well... I'd say that's a fair way to look at it.

1. http://www.bmj.com/content/353/bmj.i2139
very good point, I would not be surprised if Uber put those cars out with a barely working model to collect enough training data, the human operator to correct such errors was tired and didn't intervene. Some basic driving test for self driving cars or other mitigating factors need to be added IMMEDIATELY otherwise tons more will probably die or be injured. Train operators need to prove they are awake and with attention using some button presses, similar things need to be required for those research vehicle if you want to allow them at all.
As of late 2017, Google/Waymo had recorded just 4 million miles of real-world self-driving in its entire history: https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/27/waymo-racks-up-4-million-s...

NHTSA data measures number of fatalities by the hundreds of millions of miles driven -- the latest rate being 1.18 fatalities per 100 million miles: https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/usdot-releases-2016-fat...
I am definitely not. Their version of the future is too damn bleak for me.

Your fear is very much grounded in reality. US lawmakers tend to be very reactionary, except in rare cases like gun laws. So it won't take much to have restrictions imposed like this. Granted, I believe some regulation is good; after all the reason today's cars are safer than those built 20 years ago isn't because the free market decided so, but because of regulation. But self driving cars are so new and our lawmakers are by and large so ignorant, that I wouldn't trust them to create good regulation from the get go.
But not 'via Emacs'. A Lisp Machine is not an Emacs OS.
> Are you arguing that we need to let Uber kill a few more pedestrians so we can more accurately determine the safety of their platform vis a vis human drivers?

Are you making accusations in question form so you don't have to back them up? I certainly didn't say that.

> Why can't they fabricate some tests that demonstrate their safety in a controlled environment first?

Are you assuming they haven't done this?
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So you're saying that every company that is screen scraped in violation of their TOS has experienced a data breach?
If you have a degree in CS, you could go into software development. Or even teaching. I hear that schools are desperate for CS teachers.

Have you considered retirement? 20 years of IT is enough for you to retire on.

Do you have any careers you want to get into?
Apple has been sitting on large amounts of cash for several years and has yet to take a decision on how to use that cash.

If they're not buying anything they should repurchase stock or pay dividends, but either way, you can totally see they don't have a clear M&A strategy.

I mean, Beats? Shazam?... Apple has the financial power to buy a large supplier and reduce costs by vertically integrating their supply chain but they rather choose to pursue opportunities that have little to no impact on their added revenues.
That’s technically true but the number of truly unavoidable cases is orders of magnitude lower. With human drivers, “jumped out in front of me” really means inattention 99.9% of the time and police departments historically tend to be unlikely to question such claims. (For example, here in DC there have been a number of cases where that was used to declare a cyclist at fault only to have private video footage show the opposite - which mattered a lot for medical insurance claims)

With self-driving cars this really seems to call for mandatory investigations by a third-party with access to the raw telemetry data. There’s just too much incentive for a company to say they weren’t at fault otherwise.
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The data is readily available to make an informed decision. It’s the responsibility of the person getting in debt to do the research.
It's requesting that you remember that a human life was just lost, and to not reduce this woman's life to a rounding error.

The only strange thing in this thread is the emotional detachment many are showing and one could probably argue that's the exact kind of thinking that will lead to more cases like this.
Is that even released yet? Or demo-able? I thought it was just "in progress" for ages?
Hollywood's not a great example. Their centrality to the movie industry has been declining for decades. E.g.: https://www.thewrap.com/louisiana-california-movie-making-ca...

Or an article from this year listing LA as the 3rd-best place, after Atlanta and Vancouver, for moviemakers to live: https://www.moviemaker.com/archives/best_of/best-places-to-l...

One important factor at work here is the Internet. Effects companies, for example, are all over the place, including London, New Zealand, Vancouver, LA, and even here in San Francisco. Big movies will often use multiple companies, something that would have been very challenging 30 years ago.

Silicon Valley does have capital and talent. But it's not like that capital is in doubloons in a vault. It's purely digital. A big reason it's not more mobile is that VCs wouldn't deign to stop in a flyover state. Talent isn't quite as mobile, but a) advances in technology mean talent is less necessary, and b) the rise in remote work means the location of talent is less and less meaningful.
Correct, by enterprise value metrics, AMZN is more valuable than AAPL.