skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes to competition, but this isn't really that, this is plain vendor lock-in, and it is not really competing anywhere except within the Windows ecosystem itself, where it practically has a monopoly.

If DirectX were to be used on Linux and macOS, you'd have some real competition, but that is not the case.
My understanding is that in Europe a criminal record is hidden from all but LEOs after 7 years as well.
Federally guaranteed student loans totaled $122,500,000,000 last year [1]. Subsidies create artificial demand and push prices upward. They take away the student's incentive to say those same things of the price that you're ascribing to lenders. Traditional college isn't necessary for everyone.

[1] https://www2.ed.gov/about/reports/annual/2017report/fsa-repo...
Are SINCGARS completely defunct now?
Group health insurance is where all the good risks are, which is why it is cheaper in general than much riskier individual policies. Obama care was basically doomed when they didn’t eliminate the group market like Switzerland did.
Can you elaborate on what additional rigor you would like to see, or in what way you think this is cavalier?

The parent said that qualitative and quantitative analysis will be used, and that technology is not the only solution. That is hardly cavalier imo.
> Remember that the victim was crossing from left to right

I don't remember reading this, where was that reported? (Most of the blurbs I read were pretty scarce on the details...)
Exactly, it shouldn't matter what the thing is, if it's in front of my car and bigger than a plastic shopping bag I don't want to hit it.
If you use dnsmasq you can just save this file, set 'addn-hosts=/path/to/list' in the dnsmasq config, and restart the service.
"The pedestrian becoming visible" would be to the video cameras. If the vehicle has other sensors (LIDAR, RADAR, etc), how sooner/later would the pedestrian be visible to these sensors? Would it be possible to judge that by looking solely at the dashcam? Would the sensors ignore the pedestrian as a false positive in these circumstances?
You're being entirely reasonable with your line of questioning. There is a Facebook operation in the UK, but the scale and reach of the issue is such that the House of Commons committee concerned wants to hear from the company's executive leadership.

Unfortunately, the BBC News article misrepresents what the select committee chairman actually said with his letter, which was to merely request Zuck's appearance before the committee. There is no suggestion in the letter itself that Zuck is being 'summoned', which would be both amusing and embarrassing.
The EU very skillfully and intentionally crafted the current Dutch Sandwich style scheme by essentially legislating tax heavens in various EU and quasi EU territories (the EU outermost territories make it a very fun map to look at).

The thought behind it was to both attract large companies to pay tax in the EU and allow EU multinationals to remain competitive without having to go somewhere else.

But a lot has changed the EU became less and less competitive and it didn’t really manage to bootstrap any new giants and lost a lot of its former ones.

The plan also did not account for companies like Google, Microsoft and Apple to exist with their market cap nor that companies would love nothing more than to sit on piles of cash that amount to the entire GDP of Europe when those laws were legislated.

Now with US companies actually repatriating cash the EU is basically looking for a new way to get some of that money back and more.
Given how regressive/repressive many universities have become this is really scary. With that being said it is not entirely surprising given the amount of Chinese investment going into the us with things such as this https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/01/16/how-china... . It is getting more brazen by having them buy our universities and is the perfect Trojan horse. As it is, our universities, which used to be institutions that valued free speech, open inquiry etc. are becoming places with strict speech codes, repression of dissenting ideas and places where due process is thrown out the window. The US education bubble needs to pop, but if it is bailed out and propped up by foreign interests (who's interests are not direct profit from the venture) there could be a lot of other negative consequences for the US beyond stealing IP. To continue to be innovative we need generations of people to be able to critically think about things, not a mass of indoctrinated people.
I worked for a less-than stellar online publication in Australia. Think low-budget Daily Mail. I didnt care, I still got paid and got to switch off and do my own thing when I wanted to. I'm not my job.
As I understood it, he's not calling tariffs stupid; he's calling an attempt to offset losses from tax refuction by imposing tariffs stupid.

Presumably, historical US was not implementing tariffs with this reason in mind.
But with the Double Irish strategy and its successors, no US company actually pays those 12.5%, but less than 0.1% instead...
By the time that pedestrian has even traversed a single lane, the LIDAR on top has generated gigabytes of point cloud data showing her moving, assuming constant velocity of both car and ped, on a straightforward collision path.

I don't see how from a single forward-looking camera you want to deduce this crash was "physically impossible". That isn't even half of what we expect from human drivers. We expect them to swivel their head.
They need to add a giphy option
The question that comes to my mind then is.... why didn't the human driver that was sitting behind the wheel react?

Could this be a demonstration of what people talk about with regards to partial autonomy being a detriment to human attention?
On android you can use dns66[0] to use these sort of blocklists.

[0] https://f-droid.org/packages/org.jak_linux.dns66/
There is more coverage of this topic here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11791052
Again, a tool concern. Not trying to downplay the possible solutions, but rather bring attention to the magnetude
I don't use that list, I use Steven Black's [1] list has 1004 entries which is more complete than this list. It would be less, but more than 16. Even at that, you're right it would definitely reduce the size.

- [1] https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts/
Snap Attack retirement
Most of these are ridiculous.

First, the author mentions that a `read` from urandom can be interrupted. I am unaware of any system where this is actually possible. And even if it were, the author's original code (and my description of an implementation) already works! The `read` call will return an error, and that error is handled. His "improved" code is simply an optimization around retrying from this device, but it's not an improvement in safety.

His second argument is that /dev/urandom might not have enough randomness in it. This is, quite simply, not a concern for anyone not writing code for specific embedded devices or for extremely early in the kernel boot process. Anyone who is writing code for these environments is almost certainly already aware of these limitations. And even then, using a library like the one the GP is using doesn't actually help, since it's virtually guaranteed to just be reading bytes from `/dev/urandom` for its seed in the first place.

The rest go into situations that — quite frankly — border on ludicrous. If someone has replaced your `/dev/random` with `/dev/zero`, you have already lost and there is nothing you can or should reasonably do besides nuke the machine from orbit.
Google Scholar definitely and intentionally offers no API.

I don't see this lasting long...
Can you be more specific about your internet not working with those addresses blocked? What exactly doesn't work?
I'd love one of those Talos II rigs but am in the same boat: can't justify the expense.
Steven Black's list is better. More complete and also has hosts for other social outlets, ad networks and trackers to block.

https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts/
"The whole premise of the trial is that the jury is impartial."

There's no such thing as impartial. Unless you either have no emotions or have omniscient knowledge of everything (robot or God, basically), you'll always view a set of facts through an emotional lens that's been tinged by your past experiences, which are a tiny subset of everyone's past experiences. Part of the reason we put multiple people on a jury is to average out those differences.

Then again, I brought up unconscious bias and implicit association tests last time I was called for jury duty, and was excused by a very impatient and skeptical sounding judge. Questioning the whole premise of the legal system doesn't go over very well with the legal system.
What you've written is what UK constitutional lawyers would refer to as a "Dicey" or "Dicean" (named after the British legal scholar most associated with the principle of UK Parliamentary Sovereignty) view of how Parliamentary Sovereignty works.

The reality is somewhat more complex once you consider the UK's treaty obligations, many of which are hard to reconcile with "pure" Dicean sovereignty, but it's a good starting point. As a counter example, the UK can't practically legislate in a manner that breaches the ECHR (European Convention on Human Rights - completely unrelated to the EU). Similarly, while still a member of the EU the UK, like all EU members, has to accept the primacy of EU legislation over domestic statutes in the areas in which the EU has the competence to make laws.

Studying the uneasy relationship between dicey style sovereignty and EU legislation (hello "Factortame" cases...) was a core component of a law degree in the UK for the past few decades, I assume this will change shortly given recent history!
Travis Kalanick is joining the real estate startup City Storage Systems as CEO
If you don't want to run your own Lively installation locally then all it needs is a web browser.

If you want to run it locally via https://github.com/LivelyKernel/lively.installer then it should run well in MacOS and Linux. On Windows you might need to use a proper bash (e.g. git bash or the Ubuntu subsystem).

There is a desktop app for mac os that wraps the installer and gives you a menu bar entry for controlling the lively server but in the end it is just a frontend for what the installer does.
Note that it isn't the case that anybody who goes into management is automatically survival-oriented as opposed to doing-good-work-oriented. It's just that the ones who prioritise their own survival tend to survive longer than those who do not. It's sort of a combination of the anthropic principle and tragedy of the commons - management is the way it is, because if it weren't, it wouldn't be where it is. Meanwhile, if your company was structured in a way that rewarded striving to produce quality product using humane practises, you will (paradoxically) make less money over the long term than sweatshops. Sadly I'm not smart enough to come up with a system that fixes this, except perhaps to run companies like democracies and do away with monarch-style CEOs. But then my employee-focused democracy would be outperformed by the money-focused kingdom next door.
I was on the subway so I couldn’t dig deep.

In short, the opening paragraph, which the article leans on struck a nerve.

The New York Times offers powerful third parties the ability to
edit away–that is, to delete from the internet–unfavorable coverage
appearing in the paper of record’s online edition.

It’s false. The editorial process is pretty rigorous. No company has a magic “edit” button.

The article goes through rounds of edits post-publish. It’s a established process and not done as-hoc.
Same here during my road biking years (I switched to Jogging and unicycle). Even though I disliked the risk, I enjoyed the wind as it allowed me to ride faster.
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As far as I remember the FH rate on the SINCGARS was 109 channels per sec, for reference Bluetooth is 2400 channels per sec.
> although I'd rather work on something actually useful, not the next Juicero or Theranos

Bay Area companies have made a lot of what we know of modern life in the 21st century possible. It's not just limited to IT either. This is the birthplace of biotech. It's a lot harder to take your comments seriously when this is what you're writing; it also shows that you're not familar with the professional side of the Bay Area. There are just a lot of companies as well as a big variety of them that give your professional life a lot more flexibilty. The concentration of companies also allow for more serendity i.e. it's not uncommon for people at Googles or FB to just meet by chance and end up working on something together. People are less risk averse and more open to new ideas. I can go on. Does this lead to ridiculous things? Of course. Mistakes are inevitable. At the same time, it's also how major breakthroughs are made.

There's a reason why a lot of things start here and not elsewhere. That said it's not totally exclusive to the valley; it's just no longer in the Midwest. Of course I could be missing something, and I've been totally wrong before and I could be wrong now or in a few years.

> For the difference in cost of living, I probably could fly myself from Chicago to Tahoe every week and still come out ahead

For SF, maybe; but the Bay Area is more than just SF. Outside of SF, Chicago is only about 20% - 30% cheaper than many other parts of the Bay Area metro.
I don't understand your comment. The UK is literally part of the European continent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe
During jury selection, the prosecutor and the defense attorney get to interview each potential juror. Both the prosecutor and the defense can eliminate potential jurors based on their answers. I believe they are allowed an unlimited number of challenges "for cause" and a limited number of challenges without cause.

If a juror stated that they believed that the word of law enforcement were always true, the defense attorney would almost certainly challenge them for cause, as that is clear bias, and they would not be selected for the jury.

In practice it's a balancing act, where the prosecution wants jurors who trust law enforcement and the defense wants jurors who are skeptical of law enforcement.

It is illegal to punish a juror for the decision they make during a trial. This is often referred to as "jury nullification" (or rather, is an important part of jury nullification).
Holy crap the US always scares me with this sort of insane stuff going on. How do regular Americans feel about this sort of thing?
Excited to see repl.it on the list. Congrats!
I don't know how they are doing it, but Google Scholar does not have an API, and scraping is against their TOS.

> Don’t misuse our Services. For example, don’t interfere with our Services or try to access them using a method other than the interface and the instructions that we provide.

Despite this, there is scholar.py [0], which can extract files from Google Scholar, though it explicitly doesn't work around the rate limits.

[0] https://github.com/ckreibich/scholar.py
Adtile MotionStack vs. Google Chrome 65
Yet, there are no sustainable cities. They still depend on vast supply chains that flow far outside their borders for resources and waste disposal.
Owning Mulesoft and having an ownership stake in IC means they win regardless of who wins.
Lying to your investors is securities fraud.

Enthusiastic about what the discovery process uncovers.
My mother-in-law is Korean (became a citizen in the 80's) and even she thinks it is stupid that anyone can come in and buy American land.
Yes, and they thought it was a good idea to make cars go at 38mph in a 30mph zone.

Edit: The limit seems to be 35mph sorry, thank all of you for pointing that out. (38 is still over the limit, why allow a robot to do that?)
You cannot move latency sensitive infrastructure easily if at all. (Most of networking infrastructure including cloud services.) At least once laws relating revenue (not income) at location to tax at location committee into play.

Otherwise everyone would already operate out of Christmas Islands etc.
Depends on the country and the type of offense(s). I'm fine with justified accesses for employers - e.g. a trucking company might be allowed to ask the state "has XYZ committed a drunk/drugged or other driving offense in the last 3 years", but I see no valid reason to (involuntarily) disclosing to any new employer that someone has been sentenced for public urination or fare dodging. AFAIK, there is no such "filtering" option available anywhere... and especially with fare dodging, people get essentially criminalized for being poor.

The state should provide an interface for employers to input the personal data of the candidate and the job the candidate is applying for, and the interface should simply give a "OK", "not OK", "no way OK" (e.g. for pedophiles applying for childcare jobs) and "OK with conditions". That would be a safeguard for privacy while also providing employers with a check that they don't hire someone totally wrong for the job.
I have a website showing all the nice features, but I make users compile it themselves, and it only works on linux. Seems to stop pretty much everyone.
One thing I've found helpful is the training I've done for freediving, which is a lot about relaxation and breathing. And while I've done a lot of "wet" training (exercises in the water), a lot of the exercises can be done "dry" (sitting or lying down) and there's a number of apps on the various app stores (search 'apnea') that will guide you through the necessary breathing exercises.

By building the techniques to do 5-8 min breath holds, you learn to almost reflexively enter a very relaxed state that lets your body use oxygen more slowly. So now when I start feeling stressed, I inhale fully, hold for 3-4 min and then do a ~30 second exhale and all my stress just melts away. As a bonus, I don't get winded as easily and I recover from exercise to a normal breathing pattern much more quickly than I used to.
Ties nicely with this story abbot stem-cell-based treatment for macular degeneration: http://www.news.ucsb.edu/2018/018812/stem-cells-treat-macula...
The law of the land says assault and murder are illegal but it's still a good idea to take self defense lessons and to avoid areas with a heightened risk. In a perfect world you can rely on the law of the land but in the real world you can't. A world where you data is traveling in and out of multiple jurisdictions around the world is even further from perfect.
> I for one am grateful that these services target me with relevant adds.

There is a very subtle distinction here, no? What you're talking about is relevancy but the criticism levied against Facebook, CA, et al, is that it's not necessarily relevant per se, but manipulating fears and emotions of people based on easily identified characteristics.

If this was purely relevant then you'd expect Facebook and Google to serve you content that challenged your opinion, rather than vying for your approval. As it stands, the technology understands you like certain things and does whatever it can to hide things it assumes you won't like.
> My point is that you could unknowningly store illegal data, without blockchain being involved.

The problem with blockchain is that a full node will be knowingly storing and distributing illegal content (or at least is likely to held to be, once the chain is widely known to be infested with such content.) The only way to.stop is to stop storing and interacting with the chain.

With a torrent, you could be unknowingly doing so, but very easily stop doing so with the particular content once you discovered it (without abandoning torrents altogether), which may or not be a complete bar to liability but would probably result in generally more lenient treatment in any situation other than the government is targeting you and the actual offense is pure pretext, in which case the content hardly matters.
If it is something else, what is it?

It's a clump of human cells that could potentially become a human. The majority of human-grown embryos do not become human.
I want something that looks this polished but to be a WireGuard client. :-)
Americans bought the lions share of farms, companies, infrastructure in Europe in the past 70 years.

Now it’s gonna be China.

It’s too profitable to worry about it, and just like we sold out to the Americans, they’ll now sell out to China, as the circle continues.
A person pushing a bike is far, far from a "weird scenario", though.
Nobody cares unless there is no tax or limits on underwater data cables. In this case French can just say no.
Glad AMD plans to patch the exploits, not that I ever expected they would't. And CTS Labs deserves all the blame they received.

But I hope this also puts to rest the claims that the vulnerabilities weren't real or that Trail of Bits were paid to fake their results. AMD is confirming that the PSP exploits could circumvent security and make persistent changes. The fact that an attacker needs to acquire admin access first doesn't mean the exploits aren't serious.

To reiterate, CTS Labs certainly over-hyped the impact, and it's understandable why people reacted as they did. But if this were an Intel ME bug (and such exploits have been found in the past), I doubt as many people would have leaped to criticize an independent auditor or downplay the vulnerability (more than it deserved, that is, since it was over-hyped initially).
ReactAF: Always Fresh (or as F&#%)
Swerving is a better way to avoid a collision, but braking would have at least reduced the severity.

Of course, this all presumes you can quickly analyze the situation and conclude that it is safe to swerve (which, in theory, the computer can do far faster than a human can).
What material fact did Facebook lie to their investors about?
Does not having an “American” accent affects an individuals career in the US?
LinkedIn isn't an exception either to predatory practicies.

One of the most shocking things I've witnessed my self is them scraping personal information from a google/YouTube profile and suggesting connections based on that data (I'm assuming they use some techniques to do so of you're signed into Google and LinkedIn in the same browser session)
The price for a reasonable amount of due diligence, market proof, and disclosure.
Good on Firefox 59.0.1, macOS 10.13.3
I was willing to tolerate Ledger's issues here (I'm a user and I've heavily recommended their products) if they fixed them -- the problems never should have happened, but they are marginally better than Trezor in a lot of other ways.

Unfortunately, the Ledger team appear to be asshats, so there's every reason to fear using them in the future, even if they've fixed this specific issue. If they're going to handle a legit issue like this (downplaying it, etc.), I'm not willing to trust them.

I'd love to see three products created:

1) Split client/server wallets (so you don't need to trust the operator or your local machine alone); some work has been done on this. Also, split PC + SGX or phone + secure element wallets. This is basically software-only in cost, but at higher security, so it would be suitable for $0+ balance accounts.

2) A low end ($20?) wallet with a cheap display and button. If you retailed them at $100 but sold them to providers at $40 they could probably give them away for a lot of accounts; basically like Yubikeys but with displays.

3) Some higher-end hardware wallets; essentially HSMs plus display/input. HSM technology basically stagnated in 1995; there's a lot of need for something better today. This could be in the $10-50k per unit range for a lot of high-value keys if actually implemented well and in a way which had no "trust us" demons. There are hundreds or thousands of potential customers, and more by the day.
You might want to take a look at dnsmasq. It's a nice choice for when you want a DNS server but BIND is overkill.